What makes you fat and sick VS. What makes you lean and healthy

A short thread about the most powerful levers to look good, feel good and live a long healthy life

There’s a big overlap between the things that make you lean and the thing that affect your health markers
If you take action to look good, a happy “side effect” is that your health markers improve

-insulin resistance
-blood pressure
-inflammation
-testosterone
-cholesterol
Vanity is healthy

Nothing wrong with wanting to look good. But even if you don’t care about how you look, it impacts how you feel.

Get leaner = more energy and libido.

Plenty of mental health benefits such as stress and anxiety reduction.
Longevity

You don’t get chronic disease. While you can’t put your risk of cancer at zero, type 2 diabetes and other metabolic conditions are completely avoidable. And they’re reversible.

You don’t see a lot of overweight people 70-80+ with good quality of life…
Muscle

No, you don’t need to be a bodybuilder. You don’t need to spend multiple hours in the gym. But know that we all lose muscle as we age… unless you’re strategic about it.

You don’t need big bulging biceps. But you want to be relatively muscular.
Cardio

Any exercise is better than no exercise.

The thing about cardio is that it’s inefficient, doesn’t build muscle, and tends to make you hungrier.

If you nail the muscle-building piece… you get the cardiovascular exercise with it
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Jul 28
The cholesterol hypothesis has been wreaking havoc on human health for 75 years.

This is the idea that higher cholesterol levels, especially LDL, are causally linked to “clogged arteries” and heart disease.

Let’s debunk once again:
Optimal total cholesterol levels are higher in than what current medical dogma states.
Lowering cholesterol is a bad idea if you care about brain health:
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Jul 23
The two words that matter most for those who want to improve their health, mood, energy levels and quality of life:

Body composition.

Let’s define it:
Body composition refers to the components that make up your total weight.

There are a few ways to think about the components, the best one in my view being the three-compartment model which includes:

Bone
Fat
Fat-free mass
Fat free mass includes both muscle and organs.

When we talk about getting to and maintaining a low body fat %, it’s generally calculated as:

Fat mass divided by total weight (all three components).
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Jul 9
The most common reason older men have lower testosterone levels?

It’s not because they’re older.

It’s because they’re fat.
25% of men over 75 have T levels on par with high T young men.

What's stopping all men from having T levels that high?

Carrying excess body fat, and not training correctly.
I think a lot of men (and their doctors) are too quick to jump on the TRT wagon.

Get rid of excess body fat and build a little muscle…

And odds are good you could have naturally high T levels.
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Jun 17
If you’re going to take away one core idea from reading my posts, it should be this:

Metabolic health = controllable health.
A second core idea is that WHAT you can control by getting in, and staying in good metabolic health is… a lot.

We’re talking about obesity, diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver, visceral fat and many types of cancer.
A third idea:

Your body composition, meaning the relative degree to which you’re lean and muscular, is highly linked to your metabolic health.

If you’re lean (not skinny-fat, overweight or obese) and have some muscle, it’s highly unlikely that you’re in poor metabolic health.
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Apr 16
A friend asked ChatGPT what were the most important non-consensus things it has picked up in health, longevity, and healthspan.

First 4 are things I've been talking about a long time.

I'm kinda stunned.

In the follow up, the Chat gave me credit.Image
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ChatGPT references

1. Iron as a longevity target

The fine control of body iron stores would be a wise strategy for chemoprevention of several diseases. Image
Glycine and aging: glycine extends lifespan. Image
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Apr 14
More muscle means lower risk of diabetes

Every 1% decrease in appendicular (legs and arms) muscle mass in proportion to body weight is associated with 30% increased risk of diabetes.

Build muscle and stay healthy. Image
In reality, the increased risk of prediabetes and diabetes with age is almost entirely due to

*increased body fat
*less muscle
*less exercise

Don't gain body fat, build muscle with resistance training, and stay physically active.
You lose muscle as you age.

In old age, someone can have lost 50% of the muscle they had when young.

You can prevent this through resistance training.

Get plenty of protein too. Image
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