It's so therapeutic listening to a knowledgeable and intelligent person eloquently demolishing the bullshit claims that you see all over the place. Please keep doing these! It's essential for my mental health.
New YT follower here. Why did I not follow y’all on here sooner?! Love this 😂🤭. Very, very informative. I stopped reading those magazines about 15 yrs ago, thankfully. Love your IG page and the RP app. Yes, please do more of these.
Dr. Love this channel you debunk a bunch of dudes I use to follow . Question is Thai boxing combined with resistance training hood for strength training? Big fan, let’s go NYC BABY!
Dr Mike did my Perfect Bars dirty. Those aren’t candy bars at all. They are a decent meal replacement. It’s the almond butter and peanuts that jack the calories up.
Proper chai tea contains an absoloute decadent amount of milk and sugar. Plenty of calories. My recipie that that i flog to hippies at festivals. Grind up green cardamom, star anise, cloves, cinnamon and add some ginger. Boil it up, simmer for some time. Add decadent amount of milk and sugar i use milk powder for that authentic indian street vendor taste and lack of refigeration at festivals. Simmer some more. Add regular black teabag(s) for a few minutes then remove and serve.
I'd be curious what he thinks about Magic Spoon cereal. It's my one "processed" guilty pleasure. At least the protein is on point but it does have a lot of fat too. I think they sweeten it with monkfruit and allulose. I can't do stevia. Gives me stomach cramps and sucralose just tastes like ass.
As a white woman in my forties, I stopped reading Womens’ Health Mag over a decade ago. It’s only good at making women feel like crap about themselves. Thanks for the validation, Dr. Mike 😘
That’s the point. The more they can make women feel crap about themselves, the more women are going to believe that they need to buy the products the magazines are peddling in order to look pretty and fit in. It’s just that most women lack that self awareness and fall for the manipulation tactics!
@@C0d0ps Nutrition and fitness are pretty basic, well at least fitness is if you aren’t looking to take things to the extreme, that’s when things become more complicated if you are looking to train beyond just looking good at the beach. But the truth is that there isn’t much new under the sun. The same basic training principles get repackaged and resold ad nauseam. An old vehicle with a new paint job can be sold as brand new to the uninitiated, and that’s what constantly happens in the fitness industry.
@@jermaineayivoh8263 The problem with men’s health magazines is the flat out lies. - “Impossible to lose weight with diet soda, or carbs”. “How did movie stars gain 30 lbs of muscle in 8-16 weeks? Chicken broccoli rice of course” - Cosmo and other magazines for women are much worse Prescribing yoga and apple cider vinegar for a toned body. Eat loads of nuts to lose weight (one package of trail mix is 500-800 calories).
Been having cottage cheese as post-workout snacks for the past couple of weeks, tastes sublime, bonus points for being able to add fruit/jam/whatever the hell you’re craving at the moment and have it still taste heavenly
Cottage cheese protein is almost entirely casein, meaning it takes roughly 8 hours to digest (insanely long compared to most other protein types). It is an amazing product to eat before sleep but not so optimal post-workout when you want protein in your bloodstream quickly
My mom used to read these every week. She ended up giving my brother and I severe eating disorders because she would make us eat protein bars for weeks on end, put us on a keto diet, etc. We would have to walk for at least 2 hours before and after school everyday, do the weekly workouts, and not eat anything that involved processed food. That went on for about 6 years, then once we got into our teens, she decided to change up our diet to help with our ‘teenage puberty’. Went on a vegan/keto diet till I was about 17 and had to be hospitalized for malnutrition, mental illnesses and suicidal ideation. Thank you for debunking these. It really gives kid me validation I never knew I needed. 😊
I was opposite, I was allowed to eat pretty much whatever. Still ended up with an ED because I wanted to be thin and stop having my mom tell me it was okay to be the body I was, because to me she was lying and just being nice because she was my mom. Parenting is weird. Can loose no matter what you do
People really need to learn the difference between healthy eating and weight loss. Weight loss is an inherently unhealthy thing, it's something your body does not want to do, you should only be doing it if you are actually overweight.
I remember when my mitochondria went offline, I had tremendous effects like... my life flashing before my eyes and seeing a bright light at the end of a tunnel despite not being anywhere near a tunnel. -10/10, would not recommend.
This reminds me of that scene in the move _There's Something About Mary_ when Matt Dillon's character revives Puffer and says, "Stay away from the light!"
Please do more of these! Women's perception towards health and fitness is still chock full of misinformation and I'm really happy that someone like you is helping to debunk them.
I recommand training yourself to be more critical when it comes to absolute statements. Not just to women, but to everyone. ;) There is just to much BS and misinformation. Its often hidden behind false confidence or straight up manipulative reasons. There is often a huge bias between what scientists acutally tested and what media claims they discovered. IMO if you see a statement like "High glucose deactivates mitochadria" your "citation needed"/BS-alarm should ringing like crazy. The confidence and ignorance of bullshitters is scary and dangerous.
God i wish there was way the WHOLE world could see this video. SO many people actually believe the nonsense that this magazine is spitting out its ridiculous. GG Mike keep at it
Women are WAY easier to manipulate. See them put into political positions, while not having leadership skills. Look how much of that cover model is covered up!
Well it's not like this doesn't happen to men's health magazine too, the whole "fitness" and "health" industry is a joke and as long as there's still money-horny people in the world (which there will always be) nothing will change
As a 15 year old in the early 90's, I saw this weird trend with my mum's Women's Health mags. The front would always say crap like "Burn blah blah blah in time for blah blah blah" and "Lose blah blah pounds with this healthy shake you fat walrus blah blah blah" but then without fail, on the bottom right corner of the cover was a recipe for a tasty cake, or a tasty pie, or tasty cookies, or tasty tasty taste taste. Now in my late forties in 2024, I realize that Women's Health is like a cross between Men's Health and Planet Fitness, but for women and the twinks I used to pick up at Fly Nightclub, the Black Eagle and Steamworks on Church St back in 1999. God I miss those days. Now it's just Reddit this and Grindr that. Damnit now I want some tasty cake.
There’s so much garbage in the “women” focused side of the fitness industry, appreciate you taking the time to cut through the BS. Wish I could send this to every middle aged woman whose ever given me nutritional advice EVER, I’m not sure they can handle the Dr. Mike style tho😂
I love his style! But I'm not that stereotypical white woman that he so entertainingly portrays, lol - his advice is golden; his style is what got me hooked 😁
Men’s health magazines aren’t much better. I loved Muscle and Fitness when Corey Everson was Ms Olympia, but now I look at them and find they’re pretty shady too.
@@Rudi4riusIts a meme. So basically there's this RU-vidr Sam Seluk (awesome guy) and he's really strong, and in one of his videos he says : ' let's see Andrew Eubank hitting this weight' referring to Alex Eubank, as a joke .
In case you do more of these, endurance magazines (Runners World, Cycling, triathlete mags, etc) often include absolute comedic gold when they go to recommend strength training. Endurance athletes get fed some insane nonsense about what to do in the gym and how to fuel.
In a general sense, I’m curious about how Dr. Mike would say endurance athletes should fuel. To be clear, I’m talking about the people doing marathon training, and people typically averaging over 70km a week, not the people doing a slow 3k jog twice a week. I’ve seen people say everything from “distance running is about carbs, not protein, 0.8g per kg per day is totally fine” to “high end endurance training requires absolutely massive amounts of protein, 2.0g per kg per day is a baseline for the people running more than an hour a day.”
@@matthewcreelman1347 Dr. Mike doesnt look like the type of guy going long distance - but he clearly understands the effects of CNS fatigue, glycogen depletion, hormonal balances, etc. Carbs are king, yea, but he'd probably offer the nuances (and there is a massive amount of them, its complicated) of how/when to fuel and when not to. For the cutting edge of this stuff, look to the teams with money (Nike trying to burst the 2:00:00 marathon, big TdF teams like Jumbo Visma, etc) because its their entire enterprise.
I think Anita Bean is the best nutrition writer I know of who deals with endurance running, cycling, etc. For refuelling with how much carbs and protein. Like you've said though there's much more complicated stuff, especially for longer duration efforts like ultramarathons. Sorry I just wanted to add that in case there are people who need a good source, for example to clear up whether 2g per kg protein should be a baseline for a well-trained runner 😅
Dr. Mike, as a white woman in her 40s, you had me cracking up while I was trying to deliver the mail. Love the videos, educational and entertaining, thank you!
this reminds me of when I read Men's Health, and they would tell me in January that full-fat cheese is bad, then in March, full-fat cheese was the key to gains. Also my workout changed at about the same rate with every new "3 sets of 10" program that they published.
Was that back when the magazine wasn’t 2/3s adverts? Had a trial subscription a few years back and it seemed like the entire magazine was adverts with a small portion devoted to “fitness” advice
@@blind_warriorryes! I used to feel so bad because I can never do them when I attempt them. I can do a single arm row and I can plank. At the same time? Forget about it
I learnt it on my first program as a fat hunchback, Athlean-x. Immediately hated it, and just Immediately starting changing the program at whim to remove excersizes I hated, and it's hilarious coming back 6 years later to learn they are actually mostly ridiculous bullshit.
The protein bar section of that magazine was unforgivable. I'm not a nutritionist, doctor or trainer, yet even I know how to analyze the macros for a protein bar. They're clowns.
I find few experiences more painful to my soul than perusing the magazine selection at the checkout of grocery stores. Every time, it’s a battle between my morbid curiosity and my rapidly failing sense of self preservation.
This is like a gimme question on a grade 12 biology test "If you eat a lot of sugar, you can make energy without really involving your mitochondria" "False, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"
Great all the answers are wrong... Whats the question though? You can "make energy" without mitochondria via Glycolysis. But you don't need to eat any sugar for Glycolsis to take place. F.e. Carbohydrates like starch can be easily digested to glucose and many other metabolic pathways lead to it. Intake of sugars is not required. Yes, the mitochondria can be considered as the powerhouse of the cell. But IMO a better metaphor would be: Its the hypertrophy gym of the cell. The place where the real gains happen. The engery a human cell can produce is a lot higher in mitochondria than outside. Its optimized to be the best environment to squeeze out the last bit of engery out of a molecule. Similar to how weights enable you to maximise your muscle stimulation in the gym. You can still get your gains outside the gym, but they aren't comparable from what you can get from the gym and a proper diet. Gosh I really hated those multiple select questions. They are often so misleading and you might get them wrong even if you actually know the answer -.-
The part about mitochondria is hilarious😂 the way they say "without REALLY involving your mitochondria" and "KIND OF takes your mitochondria OFFLINE" talk about being vague!😂😂😂
I love how the market violently swung from "LOW FAT" to "KETO FRIENDLY". Especially when "keto friendly" just means high fat, not necessarily low carbs LOL
What? Keto can be low or high fat, but it specifically HAS to be low/no carb right? Isn’t the whole point of Keto is specifically that your body will use your own fat and ketones to lose weight instead of burning of glycogen in your liver?
I am glad the market swung that way. You can still have not enough protein density. But the work of Dr. Lustiq does a pretty good job in showing that fructose in large quantities is bad for you.
Fun fact, "Chai" tea is just a marketing term to sell their product because "Chai" simply means tea in many languages, so the literal translation is "Tea tea".
Hello Dr. Mike. I'm a 27 old female from Denmark, and I am totally choked about that muscle maker exercise for females. I'm used to group training with women at the local fitness and the more I watch your channel the more I train alone at the gym, because the group exercises are totally wrong... I'm happy that my husband found you on youtube! Thank you!
I love that you started mentioning your credentials at the start of every video, it makes it a lot easier to share your content with people who haven't seen it before.
Unfortunately, I shared his video on calories with someone claiming counting calories was completely useless, and impossible to get right, and you should just "eat healthy" and you would "naturally" lose weight. I said I do eat healthy (or useful as I like to call it) but I still have to keep an eye on calories or I wouldn't lose weight. Well apparently I just wasn't eating healthy ENOUGH, and she didn't watch the video because she decided from the thumbnail that Mike was speaking broscience. Sigh. She was a bitch about it too
Hey Dr. Mike, I've been having a very difficult year and have been using the gym as a positive outlet. I pay the bills driving a truck and your videos and your great sense of humor have been a fantastic companion to lighten up my mood and my day. Not to mention I've learned more about fixing my techniques/diet in just a month of listening to your videos than I learned in 3 years of previous training. Thank you very much for the great work that you do!
Really enjoyed this and please do more of these! What's interesting but also infuriating is that these types of magazines will give you, for example, a list of the 5 best workout bars/[enter product they're trying to sell] with each one having it's own benefits, yet in the end leaves the reader even more confused over which one to actually eat. Are you supposed to buy all 5? "Well I want the cardamom in that bar A, but I'm also supposed to *nourish* myself with the stuff in bars B and C..."
Let’s be honest, this episode was made with the only purpose to give Dr. Mike an excuse when he was caught buying one of these magazines. Nice cover up, Sir
As a biologist/neuroscientist with an appreciation of anatomy, I LOVE how accurate and logical this is! It drives me crazy seeing how many magazines and products target people who don't know better. Quercetin is studied a lot in anti-aging senescence related research, but I've never heard of it being targeted towards exercise, crazy
“A mass spectometer in the kitchen”💀 I’m an analytical chemist just running a MS while listening this. You made me laugh, I can’t stand ppl that think like that magazine.
You know what I love? All natural stuff. I can't stand any of this processed garbage. Give me all natural things like whole grains, nuts, fruits, lava, poison ivy, high intensity gamma radiation...
Please continue to debunk these ridiculous articles. Women’s Health, Cosmo, Ladies Home Journal, Women’s Day, The Woman’s World, and especially magazines targeted to teenagers like Cosmo Girl and Seventeen. What gets me is these magazines will have titles splashed across the front like “get your bikini body ready and build your abs in only 2 weeks by doing these 5 simple workouts!” And there’s some celebrity leaning up against a wall with their arms crossed and one foot behind them touching the wall. You flip through trying to find the article, but are met with not only an over abundance of ads, but recipes for chocolate cake or irresistible brownies, neither of which has healthy alternatives in the recipe. So you get to the article and it’s one column of basic shit you already know and the model already has her abs spray painted on. 🤦♀️ Oh! Or when there’s a person on the cover wearing jeans several sizes too big and she’s standing side profile and pulling out the front of the jeans so you can see how *massive* this supposed transformation is supposed to be. They love using this pose, it’s been around for decades because it works. They also will show before and afters of women who supposedly followed this diet plan and how great they look, but what they don’t tell you is the amount of editing that goes into the before’s, they make her stand in a terrible non flattering position, no makeup, workout clothes that are too small, and they photoshop her to make her look even worse. Then the after’s where she’s standing in a position that is very flattering, she’s wearing makeup, her workout clothes are super cute (which that’s another advertisement because at the bottom it will tell you what brand the model is wearing and how much each piece is) Her image has been manipulated in their favor. But the biggest piece of shit move these companies do in magazines, workout equipment ads, diet ads, etc is the “before” is a picture of someone who was already very athletic and had gotten sick or injured and therefore was unable to workout and now have about 10lbs or more of excess fat. Then, the “after” is when the same person is no longer stuck in bed and have gone back to their prior routine, which their body’s adapt to very quickly, thus making it *seem* as though this person with a paunch really did lose weight and developed a toned form in a month. 🤦♀️
16:50 my 'granola' bars i make at home are just honey, loooots of oats, crushed nuts and peanutbutter with a dash of vanilla. 1-1 ratio of honey and peanut butter then add oats till it's not too sticky or mushy. For a added bonus put some melted dark chocolate mixed in with the honey and peanut butter so it tastes chocolated and looks like poo
Men's Health put out an article on hair loss years ago and got me taking finasteride. They didn't mention any side effects in the article and it tanked my libido and indirectly destroyed a long-term relationship with my annoying girlfriend. Win some ya lose some! Thanks men's health!! 🤗
@@LadislausMarguspa It was actually a nurse that prescribed it. She had to read about what it was before she wrote the prescription and did say it can affect 'sexual function' but didn't say how etc. Men's Health made it sound like such a normal thing to do in 2010 that a doctor would've had to flat out refuse. Also the studies and scary information online that people continue to claim is bs didn't exist yet. Also should mention that creatine does cause hair loss in people that are sensitive to DHT.
@@fancyclown6863wrong. Let it be a reason to talk to a fucking doctor before taking shit like that. Random people suck at interpreting research papers. That's how we arrive at anti-vaxers
11:48 what is chai tea chai means tea in hindi it is like calling chai tea tea it is stupid and tea was first introduced to indians by british what are they saying i am offended as an indian
I'm pretty sure that first exercise is just a renegade row, something you see often in group classes where the job isn't to get improvement, it's to make people feel like they did something. I find it hilarious that they felt the need to rename it to sound like they came up with something.
Id love to see Dr. Mike critique old bodybuilders workout and diet videos. Especially Ronnie Coleman, Dorian Yates, and Rich Piana. Not like an entire video just select portions were they talk about diet and when they're lifting.
They have about 18g of protein per 100g whereas chicken breast fillets have 30g. Also those 100g of seeds are about 450 calories whereas the same amount of chicken breast is a little over 100 calories.
I’m a 50ish white woman, and I thought this was hilarious 😂😂😂. My fav protein bar is No Cow peanut butter-they’re completely disgusting to eat 😂, but have acceptable macros.
@@jasonshults368 I get what you are saying but a chicken leg won't replace a protein bar when it comes to availability, macros, taste (sweet vs savory), but it will give you protein, is tasty and its of similar size.
I used to eat no cow bars when I was an opening shift manager at a grocery store. I was the first to arrive and didn't take lunch until close to the end of my shift...that and a Celsius held me over until I was able to properly eat. But you're right...they taste atrocious
The indian in me is questioning my sanity when I saw chai TEA and fucking NUTMEG in its ingredients with MONK FRUIT being recommended as a sweetner......
dang lol, eating fat during a workout sounds like a recipe for GI distress. Why not the ol' spoonful honey or something?? I guess if it aint broke don't fix it
@@ThaKKatt I think his choice of candy bar is very little fat and a lot of sugar. I don't think he has thought about it all that much, but he swears by it, and he does get results. Although I'd wager those results are from him being the gym 5 days a week, and not the candy bar, lol.
13:25 You don't get it. I really need to exercise those parts of my cells. Whenever I'm bench pressing, I really focus on exercising my ribosomes for example. Ever got a ribosome pump? Didn't think so. Ever exercise with your vacuole? Your mitochondria? Your lysosome? Didn't think so. By the way, best way to exercise your mitochondria is by doing an upside down squat while balancing two dumbbells on the soles of your feet while your head is planted firmly in a pilates ball. The ball itself must be made of ebony wood cut from the Amazon forest for that exotic, nourishing and healthy energy boost. Not only it is healthy, it is environment-friendly. Only by bulldozing the entire Amazon rainforest and making balls out of them to stand upside down on, we can save Earth.
My wife is Yemeni. Her family absolutely loves cardamom and her mom puts in every dish she makes. Definitely not a white person only thing. Actually, come to think of it, the US census lists Arabs as white, so...
Seem like women's fitness in general is skewed towards not challenging themselves. Got my wife to start working out with me and all she wants to do is leg extensions and triceps French press. Squats, deadlifts, pushups or bench, hell to the no. She would rather do a 45min celebrity boot camp video from the early 2000s than walk for 30min on a incline treadmill while watching her favorite show. I dont get it. Immediately following the workout its straight to nachos then icecream and beer lol.
@@kramermariav one huh? Okay so I dont have 3 sisters who played softball, a mother, aunts and friends. Lol stop assuming you know anything about anyone. I just made an observation from my 43years on this earth. alot of women are in much better shape than I ever was even playing college baseball. Just 96 percent of the ones I've met are not.
The kneeing in the nuts comparison 😂😢 loved it. Also, the way you serve up shade and dismantle claims gives me chuckles start to finish on all your videos
Your def one of the most content dense channels. Your knowledge and ability to communicate it is top notch. I get a lotta good nuggets from this channel and some good laughs too
I just had to say I purchased a membership to your rp app and it is helping me make gains I've never made before! I'm working muscles that I hadn't been hitting enough. Thank you so much for making such an amazing app that makes training a breeze!
I always hated that women got marketed these shit exercises that are less effective than what men are told to do. Simultaneously holding women back, perpetuating the myth that any exercise will immediately make you super muscle-y, and the stereotype that women with muscles are unattractive. It’s the fucking jeans without pockets of the fitness world.
Made me laugh so much, critiquing the magazine was a brilliant idea, hoping you'll do more :D I enjoyed the reactions and the humour, and the way you can use your knowledge to be like 'yeah, no' and then bring us along with you on the journey of why they're wildly wrong. It's a fun way to learn more about health and exercise. Wild that healthy-branded so-called protein bars would be more accurately called fat bars-- I wish I was surprised. The bit about not eating (refined!) sugar so your mitochondria get their 'exercise', absolutely wild
I put this together for anyone curious about the protein from calories % on the protein bars Mike mentioned. For someone like me that needs 26%-27% calories from protein daily, in order to reach a gram of protein per pound of bodyweight, most of these are trash options. Don't get me wrong, they sound delicious and I could fit them into my diet, but they're ABSURDLY overpriced and just not practical for my budget. The Pure Protein Bar Mike mentions, with a 180/20 (calories/protein) ratio comes at a comparatively staggering 44.44% calories from protein, and very humbly priced. 3:18 Total Treasure - Mosh Blueberry Almond Crunch Bar 160/12 = 30% calories from protein 4:50 Morning Maker - Perfect Bar Coconut Peanut Butter Bar 350/16 = 18.28% calories from protein 6:05 Fresh-Baked Feel - 88 Acres Banana Bread Protein Bar 260/12 = 18.46% calories from protein 7:12 Chocolate Choice - Core Foods Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Plant-Based Keto Bar 160/6 = 15% calories from protein 9:14 Wild Card Win - Epic Bison Bacon Cranberry Bar 130/7 = 21.53% calories from protein Man, looking at some of these, you might as well buy a damn peanut butter CLIF bar, at 260/11 it's 16.92% and as cheap as these things get. What a sham industry full of dumbass consumers.
Been watching Mikes content for some years now since I started getting into hypertrophy training, very nice to see his videos doing well and the new forms of content :) thanks doc
