The Michael J-show.

Because you can't and you don't stop.

Because you can and you don't stop.

Or when you can't, you don't stop.

Mike.

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I'm looking at a good of the video.

Get on.

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What's up, everybody?

In the studio with Dr. Bo, Hightower. We're already deep in the conversation. Shit. Early in the morning. Yeah. Good to see you, Doc, number one. Good to see you, my friend, with the man, the legend, the myth in no particular order of those three. I was going to say, keep going. I like this. 8 a.m. every morning. 100% success rate with all fighters ever.

Thank you, sorry.

I appreciate that.

That's a big deal, right?

Results matter.

Fuck, results matter. Thank you. The proof is in the pudding. Fuck, you get all these trolls out there talking so much shit, so much shit. And I don't talk shit, right? Yep. We just, we toil away, we do the job, we do the work.

And we do have 100% success rate in the work that we do.

Hey man, that's, that's, I mean, really, I don't have 100% success rate. You know, I really can't think of any other specialty or anything else in this profession or around fighters that have anywhere near that. So, I mean, like I said, you've been in the game a long time. The proofs in the pudding man, I don't know what you can say about, you know, real world results. Thank you. I appreciate that. It's, yeah, oh, I just bring you on the show more. This is the best intro ever. But people don't know. In 2004, I was hired by Team Quest, Portland, Oregon, when Randy Gattour was still holding the UFC World Title to be the head strength coach of that facility. Matt Linlin was there. Evan Tanner was still there.

I'm Chale Son and Eddie Herman, Chris Levin, they were just babies. Nate Quarry. I mean, they were just kind of kids getting into it. And I was working as the head strength coach for that team. And that's just kind of me going a little bit back. People don't know that shit. But that was New York Yankees, right? Yes, sir. Of that time. Yeah, absolutely. If I'm not a dunce, yeah. And I just observe, I'll be decent, right? And then you dig in and you have a little bit of natural talent and some, you know, a high IQ, and you start those things on top of each other. The layering effect gives a sum that is greater than an individual hole. Yeah. And then you get 100% man. There we go. Brother, thank you so much. Means a lot. Absolutely. It means a lot. So that's funny that you talk about that because I was literally just having this conversation with one of my physician friends, uh, orthopedic surgeon, like two days ago, about, you know, balancing statistics on real-world results. So, you know, like, here's a good example. Now, my gut is unique. I may have talked about this last time. I have an autoimmune disease, ulcered colitis, have had, you know, whatever you want to define that as. medically, you don't get rid of it. I'm pretty well controlled. I don't have problems with it. It was caused by antibiotics, which, you know, that's a whole different... A whole another conversation. Yeah, yeah. I might touch on that in vaccines a little bit, too. But what we were talking about is, you know, this obsession, and we talked about this last time a little bit with specific research, and we have to acknowledge it, but we have to also acknowledge the fallacies in a lot of these studies. So would you rather listen? And I was talking about this about bodybuilding nutrition, actually, in particular. I said, listen, you know, I would rather listen to somebody who's been in the trenches, who's cut weight, who has gotten ready for a bodybuilding show, who is aware of some of the science and some of the research, but their ideas haven't necessarily been tested in peer-reviewed journals. I'm not saying that that is an important too. But these people have, they've done this. They have succeeded on their own, and they've been able to test it on multiple people. So they're running real-life science experiments. So there's something to that as well Now, might the reason why it works not be what they think it is? That's certainly plausible. But I'm going to have a hard time just listening to somebody only because they have an academic credential that hasn't actually done it. Now we're just talking theory because they did a study in rats. So the combination is helpful, right? Like you want to listen to somebody who has some sort of baseline education, you know, preferably something that's licensed, you know, but that's also not the end-all be-all either. So they're, you know, the common sense, the logic portion, I don't think people do a good job of incorporating that into it and they just want to read an abstract of a cohort study that doesn't control any variables, and now that's black and white. Absolutely. And you hit it on the head. Number one, you said, results matter. Results are everything. Results. When we talk about our system, we have our nutrition conference this weekend, and I actually do a talk on what matters, because everybody comes in, they want to be a better coach, better trainer, they want to be the next Dr. Boit Hightower, they want to be the next Nick Kerson or, you know, somebody else in the industry. They come here and I go through, or here's the hierarchy, here's the system of how to become successful, specifically in this type of business, which is you're the business. You're not selling a widget. You're selling yourself. So that being said, number one is research. Research. You have to know the fucking topic. Before you even talk about, shut up and listen, study, open books, crack, walk, train, test, test, right? Research. Research is number one. And let me clarify something. When we say research, that term has taken on a different meaning over time in our society. You know, Googling stuff isn't necessarily research. You can use Google

as a tool to find information, but there's a lot of misinformation. So baseline, like, let's

go back to our basic understanding of what we know now, because that can't change, but of physiology. So you have to know what macros and micros are. You have to understand how the liver works. You have to know how the large intestine and small intestine work. So just digging into a Guyton and Hall textbook and understanding basic physiology, you have to have that basic understanding. Before we start looking at abstracts, before we start looking and piling on the higher level research. Yeah. Like that research, you have to do the groundwork. You have to read those books. You have to be able to understand how the human body works at a baseline. And then we kind of tear off from there based on, you know, disease states or specific goals or whatever else. So how many, you know, how many calories in a gram of carbs?

How many grams of calories in a gram of fat?

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