If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

Mind Pump.

Mind Pump with your hosts.

Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

You just found the most downloaded fitness health and entertainment podcast.

This is Mind Pump.

But today's episode, we answered questions from people who wrote them in on Instagram at Mind Pump Media.

You can write your questions there.

We might pick them.

But this was after an intro.

Today's intro was 63 minutes long.

In the intro, we talked about fat loss, muscle gains, supplements, family life, current events.

It's a good time.

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company in the world. Go check them out. Go to our link at 20% off. Go to Viori Clothing.com. That's V-U-O-R-I-Cloathing.com forward slash mind pump. All right, here comes a show. All right, let's talk about carbs, carbohydrates. Do they make you fat? No, they can actually help you build muscle and through that process burn body fat, but you should

leverage them the right way. We're going to talk carbs today, how to eat them, when to eat them, what to eat, to maximize their effect. Let's go. Don't be scared. Have you ever tried to build without them? Yes. It's incredibly difficult. It's much harder. Yeah. It's much harder. So I think first we should start with some of the myths around carbohydrates and maybe

there's some facts before we kind of get into breaking down how to leverage them in the right way.

First thing is that carbs don't make you fat.

I think a lot of people believe that carbohydrates have this special ability to cause fat gain.

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