“Clinical Depression Isn’t Real”: Dr. Mike Israetel Responds to Andrew Tate’s Most DANGEROUS Claim | Align Podcast #576
Align Podcast
Aaron Alexander
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Dr. Mike Israetel joins Aaron to break down what actually works when it comes to testosterone, training, aging, and mental health.
They explore common misconceptions around NoFap, clinical depression, and the modern male identity. Mike shares the most effective exercises for longevity, how to train smarter, and ways to build purpose in life. This episode combines expert insight with practical tools to help you feel and perform better – mentally and physically.
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Dr. Mike Israetel holds a PhD in Sport Physiology and is currently the chief content officer at RP Strength. Mike has been a longtime professor of Sport and Exercise Science at multiple universities. He has worked as a consultant on sports nutrition to the U.S. Olympic Training Site in Johnson City, TN, and has been an invited speaker at numerous scientific, performance, and health conferences. A co-founder of RP Strength, Mike is the head designer of both the RP Hypertrophy App and the RP Diet Coach App.
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DR. MIKE ISRAETEL
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AARON ALEXANDER
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ABOUT
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Aaron Alexander is a pioneering manual therapist and movement coach with over 5 years experience. He is the founder and creator of The Align Method, author of The Align Method book, and host of The Align Podcast which has ranked #1 in Nutrition on Apple Podcasts.
Aaron has worked with some of the world’s greatest professional athletes, performers, and celebrities to help relieve pain, improve strength, better flexibility, and ease the mind and body.
On this channel, Aaron interviews renowned experts in a range of fields focused on improving the mind and body. This mind and body podcast will teach you all that you need to know to become the healthiest version of yourself by integrating simplified ancient techniques and the foundational principles of The Align Method to strengthen your body, balance the mind, and activate healing systems in daily life.
The mission? To be the best personal growth podcast about healthy habits, redefine functional movement, and make fitness who you are; not what you do.
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TOPICS
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1. Testosterone Myths
2. Male Mental Health
3. Training Mistakes
4. Purpose & Passion
5. Building Better Habits
6. Effective Exercises for Longevity
7. Social Media & Masculinity
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Mike Ezra Tal, thank you for being here. I appreciate it. |
| 0:03.0 | We started the introductory call with a joke about ejaculate and a towel over your lap right now in this video. |
| 0:14.0 | What are your thoughts on no fat, fat, testosterone, whacking it for an association to like gains and testosterone and all |
| 0:27.2 | that stuff. What do you think of fat versus no fat and all that? |
| 0:30.1 | From what I've seen from the direct literature, the cessation of ejaculation for some period of time tends to cause almost no difference in testosterone. |
| 0:46.3 | And then maybe there's a little bit of literature suggests that after five days or so, you get like a very small bump that's transient. |
| 0:56.3 | I'm not entirely sure if that's substantiated enough by multiple lines of research to really |
| 1:02.0 | say that's a real thing. |
| 1:04.0 | But it's definitely, seems unlikely that the cessation of fapping, lack of a better term is going to boost your |
| 1:14.3 | testosterone in any meaningful way that's going to result in better gains. |
| 1:18.9 | There are caveats to that. |
| 1:21.4 | One is on the plus side, if you don't skeet for a while, then you tend to be a little bit more aggressive. |
| 1:29.8 | And that can help in training. |
| 1:31.9 | It can help you train harder. |
| 1:33.7 | It can help in competitions. |
| 1:34.8 | So I totally understand why some competitive athletes, combat sport athletes won't jerk it |
| 1:40.8 | for a little while before their competitions. |
| 1:43.4 | That makes intuitive sense. |
| 1:45.0 | It definitely works to some extent. |
| 1:47.0 | On the other hand, going through the training process day to day, there has to be a balance |
| 1:53.0 | struck between stimulus and recovery. |
| 1:56.0 | And it's really good to train hard, but it's also really critical that you're able to unplug |
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