AMA 3: Fasting for Fat Loss, Optimal Protein Intake for Health and Muscle, Creatine With Coffee, and More
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this holiday AMA, I break down how to use fasting and optimal protein intake for fat loss, why coffee doesn’t cancel out creatine, and which supplements actually make sense when money—and time—are tight.
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| 0:00.0 | What up everybody? Welcome to an Ask Me Anything episode of The Genius Life. Let's go. |
| 0:07.6 | The genius Abolman |
| 0:08.6 | Max, look at me |
| 0:11.5 | What is the year? |
| 0:14.5 | The genius life |
| 0:16.8 | The genius life |
| 0:19.0 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 0:24.6 | I'm your host Life. The Genius Life. |
| 0:24.5 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 0:28.5 | I'm your host, Max Lugavir, and welcome back to The Genius Life, a show where we cut through the health noise so that you don't have to live on protein shakes and |
| 0:31.8 | discipline alone. |
| 0:33.4 | This is AMA number three, and since it's a holiday week, I'm especially grateful that you're |
| 0:37.7 | spending a little of your time here. |
| 0:40.1 | Whether you're traveling, cooking, recovering from too much time with relatives, or sneaking |
| 0:43.9 | in a walk to earn dessert, I'm just kidding, you don't have to earn dessert. |
| 0:47.7 | Thank you so much for being a part of this community. |
| 0:50.1 | In today's AMA, I'm answering some of the most common and surprisingly controversial questions I get. |
| 0:55.0 | How much protein you actually need and why eating your body weight in grams isn't as crazy as it sounds, whether intermittent fasting is doing anything magical at all, why creatine monohydrate still beats the new and improved versions, and why coffee doesn't cancel out creatine no matter what TikTok says. We'll also talk |
| 1:12.6 | soy and men's health, whether excess protein really fuels cancer, and the few supplements that |
| 1:18.1 | actually make sense, especially as we get older. My attempt here was to provide answers that were |
| 1:23.5 | neither absolutist nor internet hot takes. They're grounded in the science and the reality |
| 1:28.2 | of how people actually eat and live. |
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