Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Glutton. Outside of acting, my two favorite things

to do are diet and eat. I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast,

we're going to talk about all of it. Food is entertainment, food is sport, food as fuel.

I'll talk to experts and the average person, just like you and me.

Dr. Mike Israel, welcome to American Glutton podcast. Thanks for having me again. Thanks for

being here. By the way, this is the first time we've done it while we're in the same room. We're

not on phones, which is really nice. We've dead it over the phone or more than a handful of times.

Yeah, which is kind of creepy the way you're sitting at. Exactly. I really wanted to talk to you

about two things today. And one is I just had this idea hit me and I wanted to ask you about it

for anyone who's considering massive weight loss. It's probably a bad idea. Right, don't do that.

How jacked would I have been had I gotten on the program I'm on now when I weighed 550 pounds?

That's a good question. Can I give a caveat to that? Of course. Yes, listen, I don't know what

I'm talking about really me neither. Yeah. This is like cool hypothetical stuff. It gets the

brain going and for people that are currently in the heavier body weights, it's probably good for

them to hear this. But there's a big caveat to like I wouldn't worry about that a ton if I was in

your position or other folks that have lost considered a lot of weight because we don't have time

machines and regaining the 500s. That's a really good option. Yes. So just just throwing that out there

that like you know, okay, bygones or bygones. So there's one big factor that has to be mentioned

as age. Your ability to gain new muscle tissue is better when you're younger. So when you were in

your 20s, if you had started lifting then when you were already quite heavy and you had continued

to lift through your 20s and through your 30s, you would be considerably more jacked. Then you

could ever hope to achieve now that you're in your later years. Right. I've seen your citizens.

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