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GLP-1 Agonists are "Depression in a Syringe"
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Intro
Introduction to GLP-1 Agonists and Appetite Suppression
00:00:52
Christian Yordanov
Hey, it's Christian Yordanoff. Let's talk about the GLP-1 agonists, Ozympic, Wigovi and Monjaro, whatever, semaglutides, the retrotutides and whatever other new chemicals they have.
Challenges and Dangers of Dieting
00:01:10
Christian Yordanov
So very effective, very effective at suppressing the appetite. So basically... what what are What do these things do? they All they do is they create a chemically induced caloric deficit, right?
00:01:28
Christian Yordanov
So you you'd think, oh, great, you know, because a lot of people, they try to diet, they try to lose the weight, and...
00:01:38
Christian Yordanov
It's very difficult to do that. It's very difficult to diet because of course, when you diet, your cortisol, your stress hormones go up, you feel horrible, you can some people can't sleep, have yours you lethargic, you don't have energy because there's less energy potential coming into the body.
00:01:58
Christian Yordanov
And, you know, you lose your libido. So, of course, people hate dieting because they don't do it right. Most people don't do it right. And therefore, they cannot sustain the diets that they do. with People maybe create too much of a caloric deficit.
00:02:14
Christian Yordanov
They have no plan. They have no plan for refeeds or diet breaks. and it just It's just most people think a diet is a linear sort of endeavor where your x weight here you want to be y weight there and all you do is you cut calories you just eat less until you go from x to y in a linear fashion that but but if you look at for example contest bodybuilders and physique competitors and stuff like that they have at least nowadays their are methods to getting super lean and shredded without losing muscle and stuff are very sophisticated in terms of the deficit how much of a deficit uh taking breaks and you know having days where you're eating and maintenance and stuff like that if you don't
00:03:07
Christian Yordanov
do that, if you just do a linear sort of caloric deficit where you don't, you take a drug, it suppresses your appetite and you just don't eat. You just eat tiny amounts of food for weeks and months.
00:03:19
Christian Yordanov
But what does that do? Here's what that does. So it wrecks you. It wrecks your hormones. So, For example, your your leptin, which is like a satiety hormone, that will drop very quickly and the dopamine will drop. So a lot of bad things are going to happen in terms of the more the the more beneficial hormones in your transmitters. At the same time, lot of bad things are going to happen in terms of the degenerative hormones, so cortisol, adrenaline, norepinephrine.
00:03:55
Christian Yordanov
serotonin will will increase. A lot of these hormones and neurotransmitters and signaling molecules that are actually basically elevated in during times of trouble, of stress, of famine, right? So that is the kind of hormonal environment that dieting creates.
00:04:15
Christian Yordanov
And that's the whole point of using things like diet breaks and plant maintenance and all of this stuff that you know more advanced folks are are using because if you don't do those things, you don't give your body a chance to sort of reset those leptin signals, the dopamine a system, right?
00:04:35
Christian Yordanov
If you don't allow dopamine levels to rise and your body to think things are okay, it will continue doing things that but basically batten down the hatchet, the hatchets or whatever that phrase was in
Impact of Caloric Deficits on Health
00:04:51
Christian Yordanov
in the body.
00:04:51
Christian Yordanov
So think about it this way. Let's say you don't eat for a week or eat, let's say, 500 calories for a week. You'll survive that. You feel horrible. But let's say you go back to eating normally after that, right?
00:05:05
Christian Yordanov
the body will very quickly recover from that hormonally speaking. But let's say you did that for a month, the adaptations the body makes are going to be a lot more extreme than after a week because it was kept getting that signal of famine, lack and starvation, emergency.
00:05:27
Christian Yordanov
For four weeks instead of one week. So when you go back to eating normally at that point it will take longer for the body to sort of reset those adaptations and to kind of Assume things are going to be okay, right?
00:05:41
Christian Yordanov
So that's what this is the problem with these TLP1 agonists this chemically induced caloric deficit is that most people are not doing anything other than taking the drug, as in they're not thinking about diet quality, they're thinking about getting enough protein, they're not thinking about nutrient nutrient density, right?
00:06:06
Christian Yordanov
Because think about it this way, most people's diets are woefully inadequate in terms of vitamins, minerals, and so on, protein, so on, right? If they just eat less of the same bad diet that they're eating,
00:06:19
Christian Yordanov
they're going to get even less nutrition. Now, in some cases, they're going to get less bad stuff like oils and, you know, wheat and gluten and crap and pesticides.
00:06:30
Christian Yordanov
So that' that is a positive thing. But the problem is, here's what happens is, if you go from, let's say, 2,500 to 3,000 calories down to calories calories,
00:06:41
Christian Yordanov
oh you're losing out on a lot of nutrition. And where does the deficit come from? Because you have to remember, you still have needs in the body that must be met.
00:06:53
Christian Yordanov
And the way the the reason here's the thing the reason you lose weight when you cut calories is because there's an energy deficit that is made up by the body using its not only its fat stores but also protein stores. And where do you have a lot of protein?
00:07:11
Christian Yordanov
The bones. So you have the bone is about 35% collagen protein. Okay, so there's a lot of minerals, kind of of course calcium but other other minerals too.
00:07:26
Christian Yordanov
And of course there's a lot of collagen protein and that collagen protein It's very handy to have because it can be turned some of those amino acids can be turned into Glucose, others can be turned into ketones, they can be repurposed for other uses in the body, repair and regeneration of very important things which will continue even at a deficit in calories.
00:07:52
Christian Yordanov
You know, the the brain, the heart, the lungs, kidneys, stuff like that. But the problem longer term is that you're robbing Peter to pay Paul, as it were,
00:08:04
Christian Yordanov
in the body and what does that happen? Well you're degenerating your body. So if you don't have a plan, when you have a caloric deficit, if you don't have a plan on actually covering nutritional bases, the vitamins, the fat-soluble vitamins, the minerals, protein, then you are literally degenerating your body.
00:08:27
Christian Yordanov
The problem, yeah, sure, some people lose muscle mass, but if you if you do exercise, you do a little bit of resistance training, you can maintain most of your muscle mass. But here's the thing. That's because you're putting a little bit of a stressor a lot of a stressor on the body.
00:08:40
Christian Yordanov
so So the muscle mass is preserved because of a stress demand put on it, which adds to the bucket of stress that you're already in because you're look at a caloric deficit.
00:08:52
Christian Yordanov
So let's say you're smart enough to do some exercise whilst on a GLP-1 agonist or dieting really hard. What happens?
00:09:03
Christian Yordanov
Your bones, the invisible stuff in your body, would then get degenerated more preferentially. So your muscles might not atrophy as much, but your bones gonna take the hit. And but this is another thing is, oh, I can't see my bones, so who gives a damn? But here's the thing.
00:09:21
Christian Yordanov
This is the kind of thing where when you're like 60 plus, it's going to matter a lot because a lot of more many people, they figure out they have osteoporosis or osteopenia.
00:09:33
Christian Yordanov
When they have some kind of a stress fracture or other fracture, they break your hip or, you know, a vertebra gets sort of damaged in some way.
00:09:42
Christian Yordanov
and At that point, there's very little you can do. So if if you're losing weight, it's probably be because you want to be healthier. It's probably because you want to increase your longevity.
00:09:55
Christian Yordanov
So it's the the weight loss itself, there's nothing magical about it. In fact, most people... The way they do it, especially with a GLP-1 agonist where you just chemically induce this caloric deficit.
Psychiatric Effects of GLP-1 Agonists
00:10:07
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, okay, you don't want to eat, but what happened what happens? Okay, sure, you don't want to eat. That makes it easier to cut the calories and lose the weight. But what about the hormonal adaptations? lein The the lower dopamine.
00:10:22
Christian Yordanov
All of these things can have horrific, horrific health consequences. So, which actually brings, sorry, that was a massive ramble. but Okay, nine minutes, not too bad. So what I wanted to actually talk about is this paper, a couple of papers here, right? So basically, so this was an article in Zero Hedge, RFK Jr. smeared as fat phobic for questioning weight loss drugs.
00:10:47
Christian Yordanov
This was a Zero Hedge article, December 12, 2024.
00:10:53
Christian Yordanov
and So RFK accused the fat phobia for questioning Osampic. mean, this is the state of the world, right? So here's the thing. so in this article, in the New York Times, they said that experts say GLP-1 agonist drugs have potential use beyond weight loss, right? So here's what they're saying.
00:11:14
Christian Yordanov
So apparently... the do-gooder Christ-like philanthropist CEO who runs the Eli Lilly company, that's the you know a pharmaceutical company, in his infinite altruism, wants to spread the gospel that his company's diabetes drugs are aren't just good for losing weight and getting turbo cancer.
00:11:36
Christian Yordanov
They're also a cure-all for all sorts of desires and addictions. So they're going on. start studying its obesity products, the GLP-1 agonists, like ZEP-bound, as treatments for alcohol and drug abuse, right?
00:11:54
Christian Yordanov
So here's the question.
00:11:58
Christian Yordanov
Why? So the emerging evidence is that research suggests that GLP-1 drugs, like ZEP-bound, Wigovie, whatever, Zempick, excuse me, not only reduce food cravings, but may also suppress desires for other substances.
00:12:18
Christian Yordanov
So why? Why is the question. And then the the quote in Zero Hedge continues, These medicines, we think, and we've aimed to prove, can be useful for other things we don't think about connected to weight.
00:12:36
Christian Yordanov
These are often called antichedonics. So they're reducing that desire cycle, said Ricks. I think that's the Eli Lilly CEO, David Ricks.
00:12:46
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, so anti-hedonics. So hedonia is, you know, hedonic desires, want to have sex, want eat nice food, want to drink, whatever, have fun.
00:12:57
Christian Yordanov
Anti-hedonics are things that make you not want to do those things. And here's the thing. depression that's a massive sign of depression, anhedonia, right? You don't want to eat sweet things. You don't want to like engage in any, you know, fun activities. That is a sign of depression.
00:13:13
Christian Yordanov
So basically the, the article that I read that, pointed to the Zero Hedge article. Basically, the the researcher said, titled his article is, these GLP-1 agonist drugs are nothing but depression in a syringe, right? So they may reduce food cravings and reduce appetite, but they may also
00:13:41
Christian Yordanov
basically reduce desire for living. In fact, they have found that there was a community-based cohort study that investigated the impact of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, specifically liraglutide and semaglutide, on the risk of developing psychiatric conditions such as depression, anxiety, and pseudo suicidal behaviors in patients with obesity.
00:14:09
Christian Yordanov
utilizing post-marketing data. This research compares patients prescribed GLP-1 agonists with those not taking medications as controls. And the analysis spanned data from January 1st, 2015 31st, 2023. So it's quite a long time.
00:14:27
Christian Yordanov
To minimize selection bias, we employed one-to-one propensity score matching, blah, blah, blah. And basically... They had 162,000 case and control patients in the in the study, and the study showed a significant association between GLP-1 receptor agonist treatment and a 98% increased risk of any psychiatric disorders.
00:14:55
Christian Yordanov
Notably, patients on GLP-1s exhibited 195% risk of major depression, elevated risk for suicidal behavior. percent risk increased risk for anxiety and a hundred and six percent elevated risk for suicidal behavior These findings underscore the critical need for physicians to thoroughly assess patient history before prescribing GLP-1 RAs and highlight the urgent requirement for further prospective clinical trials to fully understand the implications of GLP-1 receptor agonists' use on mental health and in the obese patient population.
00:15:32
Christian Yordanov
So...
00:15:35
Christian Yordanov
When they say that GLP-1 agonist drug is depression in a syringe, it kind of makes sense, you know, because... If you don't eat food, it's not it's not just that life sucks, right?
00:15:51
Christian Yordanov
Anyone that's been on a diet, you know it sucks. Why? Cortisol goes up. Adrenaline goes up. Stress hormones go up. But over time, as the body adapts, there's some unfavorable adaptations as kind of explained earlier. So your dopamine will be lowered. your dopamine is low, that is...
00:16:14
Christian Yordanov
easily enough to make a person have sort of the phenotype of depression. But not only that, they will not want to have sex, so anhedonia in terms of they will not want engage in hedonic activity, they will not want to have sex, you know, because if you're starving, your body naturally lowers your libido.
00:16:35
Christian Yordanov
If your dopamine is low, you will not be motivated to do much. right This is actually another survival mechanism because you don't want to be motivated to do a bunch of stuff if you're starving to death, which is how the body perceives these huge caloric deficits induced by these chemicals.
00:16:55
Christian Yordanov
right And the other thing is if you don't have enough energy to go around for all the processes in the body, which is how you lose weight, it's because your body is cannibalizing itself, it's fatty tissue, it's protein tissue, it's bones, it's organs, it's connective tissue.
00:17:12
Christian Yordanov
If you have a sufficient amount of energy being produced and and you're at a deficit, but there's not enough energy to go around for all the processes, including the brain, right? And it's kind of well known in the person that there's...
00:17:28
Christian Yordanov
at least there's many ways of developing depression but one is low dopamine, one higher serotonin but also and a lack of energy production, lack of a ATP, adenosine triphosphate production in the brain, that's another way, right? So these drugs, the again, this is yet another example of the scam pushed on the people where, yeah, you take a thing and for a few months things are great, for a few weeks, for a few days, for whatever, short, short, relatively short period of time, things are great.
00:18:03
Christian Yordanov
You're getting results. Your headache goes away. You know, your you can get an erection with the, you know, the Viagra and all those things. Great. You know, you you feel less depressed maybe.
00:18:19
Christian Yordanov
you lose a bunch of weight quickly, but at the cost
Long-term Health Risks of Pharmaceuticals
00:18:22
Christian Yordanov
of what? And here's the thing. If something is coming from pharmaceutical company, I'm not saying all the drugs are bad, all the chemicals are bad. There's plenty of good ones that are actually very useful that can really be employed in certain situations.
00:18:38
Christian Yordanov
But 99.9% of them are straight up harmful. We know that. Many have been taken off the market. Hundreds, if not thousands, have been taken off the market.
00:18:50
Christian Yordanov
And millions and millions of people have been maimed and killed from these things. So when when they come up with something like this, that's a blockbuster, like, what do you what do you really think is going to happen? what Do you think...
00:19:06
Christian Yordanov
they They lied about everything. They poisoned us with everything else. And no, but this is totally fine because I'm getting the results I want. But what happens? Just here's the thing.
00:19:18
Christian Yordanov
What happens when you get off the drug? if you don't If you just take the drug and you lose a bunch of weight because of a chemically induced caloric deficit, what happens when you get off the drug and your appetite returns to normal?
00:19:31
Christian Yordanov
but youre your metabolism is destroyed because none of these most of these doctors are not going do anything about actually like improving the person's diet, healthy habits, you know cooking more meals from home, understanding food quality and which foods are you know really bad for you, and and and making sure you get enough protein, making sure you're getting enough vitamins and minerals and Who's doing that?
00:19:57
Christian Yordanov
Nobody. And what happens when you when you, again, when you go from, let's say, 3,000 to 1,000, 1,500 calories a day, you're just cutting down the vitamins and minerals and whatever and protein that you normally would get, which for most people...
00:20:13
Christian Yordanov
isn't even adequate. ba It's barely even adequate for most people in the first place. you're going from bad to worse in terms of nutrient density, covering nutritional gaps. So what can I tell you?
00:20:27
Christian Yordanov
But the stuff around increased suicide, increased depression risk, this This is really scary because yeah this is another way sort of the pharmaceutical industry works says they...
00:20:48
Christian Yordanov
They almost, if they had a chemical to lobotomize a person that was, you know, like, let's say, not happy with their life, or they had had ADHD and, you know, so some kind of hyperactivity or psychosis,
00:21:07
Christian Yordanov
they they If they had like a chemical that would just lobotomize the person, they would be happy to push it onto the people. and And that's what, you know, a lot of these SSRI drugs, they basically they are kind of chemicals that kind of lobotomize people. And a lot of these anti antipsychotics that are also very serotonergic, basically lobotomize people.
00:21:28
Christian Yordanov
So this is kind of their modus operandi. And, you know, if to me, it's kind of crazy that people are not seeing through this. Of course, I'm not talking about your regular normie out there that doesn't know what the hell is going on at all.
00:21:43
Christian Yordanov
Zero idea. They think, you know, Trump, RFK is going to save them or even Biden is going to, say you know what i mean? Like, not talking about that kind of person. i'm talking about awake people. Aware individuals that still fall for the scam.
00:21:56
Christian Yordanov
They think, oh, this time it has to be different because why? Why because? Because it's an injection? Why? It doesn't make any sense because the celebrities got got good results.
00:22:07
Christian Yordanov
It doesn't make any sense why you would trust these drugs right now, you know? Because at the end of day, you have to understand when it comes to losing weight, if all it took was a caloric deficit, you know, people, people at least some people would be getting some results that would stick. The problem isn't losing the weight.
00:22:31
Christian Yordanov
The problem isn't losing the weight. The problem is keeping the weight off. And that's what these drugs do nothing to help the people. Because again, you're not you not being taught about nutrient quality.
00:22:45
Christian Yordanov
You're not being taught about how to... yeah Something that is super important when you're doing a diet is, for example, you need to, during the diet, when you're taking a break from like deficit days, you need to actually practice maintenance.
00:23:04
Christian Yordanov
So that's why these sort of juice fasts and various other, you know, liquid-based diets, they're not effective. They're effective for losing the weight, right, at the cost of lot of pain and suffering, of course.
00:23:17
Christian Yordanov
But they're not effective for keeping the weight off because the people that undertake this kind of, let's say a fast or a juice fast or liquid, some sort of protein-sparing, modified fast, whatever the case may be,
00:23:30
Christian Yordanov
Great. the The deficit is created. You're maybe in a facility and you know you can't run away and sneak in food. So it works in terms of losing the weight. But because you have not been taught anything about how to maintain the weight, how to maintain but look caloric maintenance, let's say 2,000 calories, 3,000 calories, whatever,
00:23:53
Christian Yordanov
you don't know how to make what that looks like if there's a three, four meals or two two, three meals and a snack. If you don't know what that's like. if you know if you don't know how much food needs to be on your plate so that you're approximating, let's say, a quarter to a third of your calories for the day. If you don't learn any of these things, all you're doing is you're wrecking your body, you're wrecking your hormones, your neurotransmitters, your metabolism.
00:24:18
Christian Yordanov
potentially inviting serious anhedonia depression and and or worse. And then but if you ever stop the drug, which I mean, its I don't see how someone could honestly see themselves being on a drug like this for life. you know I mean, I'm sure some people probably won't mind.
00:24:41
Christian Yordanov
God knows what the side effects will be long term. But if you get off the drug or if you stop the intervention, If you don't have a plan, you're screwed. You're kind of screwed.
00:24:51
Christian Yordanov
And that's what a lot of these people are going to find in the next couple of years, in the next five, ten years. A lot of people are going to be, again, as is... pretty much always the case when it's a pharmaceutical, just you have to remember the P is silent when you read the word pharmaceutical, you have to remember it's a silent P like pterodactyl, right?
00:25:14
Christian Yordanov
It's pharmaceuticals, it's in the name, from the very inception they told us hidden in plain sight silent p like pterodactyl they are there to harm you, pharmaceuticals.
00:25:29
Christian Yordanov
So anyone falling for this, I genuinely genuinely feel sorry for you. the the the worst The worst is that there's short-term, that's the biggest problem is that when there's short-term benefits Because like like a plant-based diet, like a low-carb diet, you get short-term benefits.
00:25:51
Christian Yordanov
So you feel like... this This must be it. I have found the holy grail. And of course, you're going to have the honeymoon period. And then as the metabolic adaptation start occurring, as horrible stuff starts, you know, leptin signaling goes down, dopamine goes down, serotonin goes up, cortisol degenerates you, sleep starts to suffer, you can't get a boner.
00:26:19
Christian Yordanov
you you know You hate yourself. You hate the world. but's like thats People that fast, they they know if you've ever done like three, four day fast, you feel horrible.
00:26:30
Christian Yordanov
If you've done longer term diet, you feel horrible. Why? Because when you have a low energy state in the body, you're going to feel like garbage because the stress hormones are in control. They're the ones making up the energetic deficit.
00:26:45
Christian Yordanov
And that is a very degenerative process. you know So depression in a syringe is a good way to to frame these drugs.
00:26:56
Christian Yordanov
And as always, you get a little bit of a boost, a benefit. And then the long-term horrific effects are just basically creating they're creating more business for themselves, right?
00:27:11
Christian Yordanov
It's such a, that's the best, if you're evil, of course, that's the best business model where the person gets some benefit. So they're like, okay, great, false sense of security.
00:27:24
Christian Yordanov
Over time, things start to go wrong, but because they've been on the thing for months or years, They could never correlate it back to, oh my God, it's it's that thing.
00:27:36
Christian Yordanov
Because the effects are slow and insidious. It's like, you know, I sometimes kind of tell clients that are very reactive to a food. Sometimes tell them, you know, kind of count yourself lucky that you're reacting to this food immediately after eating it.
00:27:51
Christian Yordanov
Because that is an immediate signal from your body. Don't touch this damn thing ever. Whereas some people may, in in fact, I think more but much more people than, They might have an inflammatory response to a food and like a sensitivity type thing that the immune system is triggered, but they don't get symptoms immediately. They might get like headaches the next day or they might get joint pain the next day.
00:28:16
Christian Yordanov
And it's like, how how are you going correlate this food that you ate yesterday as the thing causing your symptoms today, you know? So this is again, the insidious nature of of of this industry where they, they want to suppress the symptoms. They want to give you some relief so that you're like, okay, great. I got my, my money's worth going to the doc and the pharmacy.
00:28:43
Christian Yordanov
But over time, they want to make sure you you don't actually get better because if you get better and you never come back, that's a bad, bad, bad business model, right? So they want to make sure that very slowly under the surface stuff, bad things are happening.
00:28:58
Christian Yordanov
I think I honestly believe that's why a lot of these pills and things they have, like if you look at American aspirin, I've seen, I forgot the name of the website. But they they show you like the worst offenders in terms of additives.
00:29:13
Christian Yordanov
And some of them have literally like two dozen plus ingredients from colors and titanium dioxide, polysorbate 80, which increases intestinal permeability, leaky gut.
00:29:29
Christian Yordanov
So I honestly think a lot of the times they're just adding these things to kind of Just make do a little bit of damage to the gut a little bit of damage if you take the thing daily or twice a day or three times a day, whatever the case may be No, you're getting relief from the active ingredient But the other stuff it's causing a bit of damage in the gut and what does that do? Well, I mean, you know it's gonna cause a little bit of something to leak into the gut and cause it trigger the immune system and bit of inflammation will very slowly get worse and not for all people that's another very nice thing is more resilient people people that eat cleaner stuff like that they won't feel it people that are not doing as well or they have some kind of a vulnerability in the gut or they get sick or whatever they might be immunocompromised they will get so not everybody gets the same side effects and the same sort of adverse effects so it's another beautiful sort of scam evil scam that they're perpetrating on so
00:30:27
Christian Yordanov
Buyer beware caveat emptor with these things just because celebrities and doctors and everybody's recommending it and and whatever.
00:30:41
Christian Yordanov
doesn't mean it's good. In fact, it probably means the opposite. And and here's the thing. if How do you know something is really bad for you? If bodybuilders are starting to embrace it, you know it's friggin' bad for you, right? Because what... I mean, look at what... what but what are the What's the kind of stuff that bodybuilders embrace? So...
00:31:00
Christian Yordanov
damaging their muscles through horrific amounts of volume, right? Fasted cardio, super low calorie diets to get into contest prep while still doing exercise, adding additional stress.
00:31:15
Christian Yordanov
Steroids, not just steroids. that are bioidentical but just horrific steroids like horse steroids, like Trenbolone, like that stuff that was literally made for to make cattle big and and a bunch of other stuff that is with an estrogenic base.
00:31:36
Christian Yordanov
And then their blood pressure will go up and they they will use whilst prepping for the contest and all these tremble on another uh steroids their blood pressure goes up so they'll take blood pressure meds uh their thyroid hormones tank so they will add thyroid hormone they just replace everything that tanks with so some kind of drug or or or chemical then of course the
00:32:05
Christian Yordanov
you know, prior prior to the the actual contest, they'll use things like anti-diuretics. So just to kind of lose body. So anything that a bodybuilder does is just horrifically bad for for them, just so that on one day, maybe two, three times out of the year, they can look really, really good on stage
Sustainable Weight Management
00:32:29
Christian Yordanov
and be very, very close to death. so If they're using bunch of stuff, we probably shouldn't be using most of that stuff.
00:32:37
Christian Yordanov
And what are they doing? a lot of them are getting into the GLP-1 agonists because they one of the hardest things for them is that the dieting down to get context lean. It's horrible because it's one thing to get down to 15% body fat, but it's a whole other kettle of fish to diet down to 7, 5, or even lower in terms body fat percentage.
00:33:01
Christian Yordanov
So they're really loving the GLP-1 agonists. So if the but point being there, If the bodybuilders are embracing something, you know, you know it's really freaking bad.
00:33:13
Christian Yordanov
Of course, pro bodybuilder gets paid for the the horrific crap they put their body through, but most people... like us are not getting paid to be that lean so I think it's safe to say that you're much better off doing things right getting the diet right making sure that you don't just make it a linear process of dieting that will destroy your hormones and then you're going to rebound and and the appetite sort of the ravenous appetite that you develop from such a huge deficit in a linear fashion
00:33:49
Christian Yordanov
For many people, it just causes them to go off the rails. They lose all their progress that they took them weeks to or months to achieve. They can lose that in a weekend. you know So that's extremely demoralizing and and another another reason why people sort of rebound harder.
00:34:07
Christian Yordanov
So the idea this the way we do it with clients. is you have to focus on the diet quality first. You have to focus on red reducing stress, just creating an optimal hormonal environment, the gut, liver, all of these things are involved in weight loss in in some way, shape or form. the but But the diet quality, what you eat on a daily basis, if you don't get that dialed in first,
00:34:33
Christian Yordanov
If that becomes an afterthought, it's like I'm going to lose the weight and then I'll figure out what to eat. that That's straight up setting oneself up for failure.
00:34:44
Christian Yordanov
You have to really do it the other way around because as you start to, here's the thing, as you start to dial in the diet, and you stop eating mo so much of the glorified toxic slob that people call food nowadays, as you start doing that, you naturally start to lose weight.
00:35:03
Christian Yordanov
just yeah Just the other day, a client of mine, I hadn't seen him on a coaching call in quite a few weeks, and he hadn't asked me anything in the chat that I have with my client.
00:35:14
Christian Yordanov
with each client. So just pinged I was like, how are you? How's it going? Haven't heard from you in a while. How you been? So a few days later, he he responds back. He's like, sorry, everything has been like super busy with me.
00:35:29
Christian Yordanov
have lost 10 pounds. and you know And, you know, implementing the the dietary changes, feeling better, sleeping better, and starting the to take the supplements more regularly and stuff like that. So this is just like he didn't even try to lose weight.
00:35:48
Christian Yordanov
We haven't even begun having the conversation with that particular client about actually losing weight. We are just at the moment, like with most clients, one of the major first things we do is is just getting the diet right, getting the the the initial supplement stack incorporated where it's easy for you and becomes a habit to take the stuff so so you improve sleep and energy production and detox and hormonal health and lowering cortisol and filling in any nutritional gaps.
00:36:19
Christian Yordanov
So just very basic, fundamental not basic, but fundamental stuff. So this client just lost 10 pounds just by virtue of cleaning up the diet. So here's the thing.
00:36:31
Christian Yordanov
A person like that working with me six months, no GLP-1 agonist, They're going to clean up the diet. They're going to get a lot of low-hanging fruit, a lot of easy weight loss. And then if they ever want to actually lose weight intentionally, that point, all we have to do is the diet is cleaned up. They're already eating the foods they're supposed to be eating and they it has become a habit for them at this point.
00:36:57
Christian Yordanov
right At that point, all we have to do is we can just get a little bit more scientific, track track the calories they're they're eating. It doesn't even have to be for too long. Even a week is plenty to kind of understand how far above maintenance or below maintenance or whatever they are where we need to go.
00:37:16
Christian Yordanov
And then it's just making small tweaks. And then, of course, you know depending on how much weight a person has, and if it's if it's, let's say, 50 pounds or more, And you have to be very strategic. You can't just linearly do it. If it's, if it's okay, if it's 20 pounds, you could do it probably just linearly. Three months, whatever, six months, does depending on how much you're willing to suffer, how busy you are, stuff like that, how much time you have to devote to it. But,
00:37:42
Christian Yordanov
you can lose 20 pounds in a linear fashion without too much trouble, you know, but if it's something higher than that, we have to, at that point, have to get a little bit more strategic plan for those diet breaks, maintenance periods, refeeds, and stuff like that. So,
00:37:58
Christian Yordanov
Each person has a different sort of ways they respond to a diet. Some people need very rigid rules and guidelines. Other people need a little bit more flexibility. Other people need a lot more flexibility. So knowing who you... And this is the the other this is the other sort of important thing that the drugs, the GOP ones, they don't teach you is you need to know who you are, how you respond to this whole thing, how you mess up. If you don't...
00:38:26
Christian Yordanov
If you go in there and you just lose the weight and you just go back and you have no idea what the hell is going on, you're gonna you're goingnna screw most people will screw themselves over and regain it all and and possibly more.
00:38:39
Christian Yordanov
But if you, over the few months, if you have actually tried some things, maybe made some mistakes, maybe sort of tried slightly different things, by the end of the period when you've actually lost the weight,
00:38:53
Christian Yordanov
you've made enough mistakes and you've learned enough lessons where you now know what are your triggers, what are your weak points. Like for example, you know you might do really well during the week.
00:39:04
Christian Yordanov
And then on the weekend, you meet you meet your buddies, you have a couple of beers, that turns into shots, a Jaeger, you know lines of coke, hookers. Nevermind, nevermind that, went too far.
00:39:16
Christian Yordanov
But you know, so, and and then let's say, That sort of lowers your inhibitions and then you might go off the rails and eat two pizzas. So if you're that kind of person, you need to sort of plan and make that mistake once, maybe twice, and then put in a plan on how to deal with it.
00:39:35
Christian Yordanov
So this is the whole process of actually becoming more intentional with the diet and doing the whole thing of planning, you know understanding what is your maintenance calories.
00:39:47
Christian Yordanov
Making sure you know how to get all your protein, your carbs, you have how much fat, all the vitamins and minerals, any gaps. And then you want to to make make the deficit so it you don't want to eat, go to a buffet and pick out. you know It has to be bearable.
00:40:05
Christian Yordanov
Some people can tolerate more. Other people can tolerate less. Some people want to see fast results to stay motivat motivated. Other people don't mind slower results because it's less stressful on them.
00:40:17
Christian Yordanov
But all through this time, when you take those breaks and you practice the maintenance, This is so beneficial because once you've reached your goal, mean whether that's 20 or 50 or 80 pounds, you have already practiced what it would be like to just maintain your weight.
00:40:37
Christian Yordanov
And that is what these GLP ones are not doing. They're just giving you the, you know, three, six, whatever month, sometimes more is needed. You get the result, but because you didn't actually work for that result, you don't know what... It's like when you... If you win the lottery, you have no idea what the hell it is like to be rich, to build wealth and manage wealth.
00:41:00
Christian Yordanov
That's why a lot of people, they go bananas. but as Someone that's been broke once, twice, three times, but they clawed their way back and rebuild their wealth.
00:41:11
Christian Yordanov
They know how to manage it. They've made mistakes and they know how to maintain their wealth. So similarly, if you just lose a bunch of weight, it could be like, let's say, okay, in the case of bariatric surgery, you can't eat as much, so it's a different story, whatever, but you just lose the weight because of a chemically induced deficit, and you have no plan Then, and you get off the drug, you're kind of screwed. Most people would be screwed. they don't know what it's like They don't know what to do.
00:41:39
Christian Yordanov
So never mind the the risk of, you know, the major depression and anhedonia and other stuff that... could potentially cause the problem and and let's not even talk about the potential for just the degenerative potential of just cutting calories of a very suboptimal diet to begin with and basically inviting osteoporosis, osteopenia, sarcopenia, loss of muscle mass and strength
00:42:12
Christian Yordanov
joints wearing out because there's a lot of collagen in the joints of protein that can be utilized for many processes in the body. Just a degeneration and then you lose the weight but you're a shadow of your former self and then 5, 10, 20 years down the line you're regretting becoming this decrepit sort of degenerated mess and that's, they love that because they have a bunch of other treatments treatments and drugs to then Hook you up on.
00:42:43
Christian Yordanov
So. Let's not play into these. Evil evil people's. Hands. Folks. Anyway. Ending it here. Thanks for watching or listening. And I'll see you in the next episode.