@Anthony Castore thouhjts on taking Fox 04 dri same day as GHRH/GHRP .. couple hours apart ??? Is there any sense to that or is better to just wait till I’m done with GHRH/GHRP before getting into Fox 04 dri … thanks As always for you input and anyone else 🙏

Hello, gang! Just a short video giving the breakdown on @Anthony Castore's upcoming optimization course.

Most people judge a fat loss plan by what happens on the scale. I understand that. You want your clothes to fit, your waist to come down, and the work you are putting in to show up somewhere besides your calendar. Those are legitimate goals. But there is another question worth asking along the way: how well is your body handling the energy moving through it? A new review in Science, "When fat adapts," brings that question into focus. Karima Drareni and Patrick Seale describe fat as a responsive organ whose function depends on its cells and their surroundings. My practical interpretation is that a good plan should improve both body composition and the body's ability to manage fuel. The scale can help us follow the first part. It cannot explain the whole story. Think of healthy fat tissue as a fuel depot. After a meal, it stores energy. Between meals and during activity, it releases some of that energy for other tissues to use. Having somewhere appropriate to put fuel is protective. Human genetic research links limited peripheral fat storage capacity with insulin resistance and cardiometabolic disease. Someone can therefore carry less visible fat while still having significant metabolic problems. Appearance gives us information, but it does not replace an assessment. The depot also needs infrastructure. Blood vessels deliver oxygen and nutrients. A supporting matrix gives the tissue structure. Immune cells help maintain and repair it. In human exercise research, regular exercisers had differences in these features compared with similar people who were sedentary, including more capillaries and fewer macrophages in abdominal fat beneath the skin. That is a much more interesting story than counting the calories displayed on a treadmill. Here is another useful distinction, removing fat and improving metabolism are different interventions. In a small human study, substantial abdominal liposuction did not significantly improve insulin sensitivity or the measured cardiovascular risk factors. That does not mean losing excess weight is unhelpful. It means we cannot assume every way of making a body smaller produces the same biological result. A cosmetic change should be evaluated as a cosmetic change unless broader benefits have actually been demonstrated.

Would love a breakdown of HRV (heart rate variable ). How to read it , know how to use it in practice when putting together a mitochondria stack, peptide stack and training. Thanks @Anthony Castore

I am having trouble deciding if I should upgrade to a paid subscription. Can anyone put their input if there is a difference between the paid and free subscription in terms on content ? Much appreciated