The Dangerous Advice of Alex Hormozi

0:00 That's something I kind of have an issue with. 0:03 We all love Alex Hermoza. Some of the guidance he has really is uniquely perspective from his own journey. But it could be possibly dangerous if all entrepreneurs followed it. This is the Alex from Rosie diet revealed video, and we're gonna take a look at it. I've eaten dessert virtually every night for 20 years, I have never skipped dessert. And I've been able to maintain a six pack for that entire period of time. I have done a lot of different diets, keto stuff, I've done high carb and low carb and high fat I've done intermittent fasting, alternate day fasting, carnivore style, eating whatever many of the offers that I know who've seen me eat and have been around me a long time end up adopting this and they never go back. What I'm not saying is this is the most scientifically researched, whatever I'm just sharing work for me. Well, I can tell from the start is Alex's recognizing may not work for everyone, so at least he puts it out there. And that's good. Number one, is you have to figure out what your goal is you're trying to get bigger, you're trying to get smaller. From there, you start at number seven, all the way up to 21. All you have to do is multiply your body weight. So let's say I'm a 200 pound guy, and I want to get leaner, I'm gonna go to moderate cut, and so I'm gonna multiply 200, which is my weight times 10, which is this coefficient, which gives me drumroll, please. 2000 calories. This actually is something that works pretty well, you can go ahead and take your weight and multiply it by a particular number. However, it's probably better to adjust this for someone's lean body weight. In the case of the weight that Alex mentioned, if you're 200 pounds, and you say that you're 20% body fat, 200 times 20% is 40 pounds, that means you're 40 pounds and your body weight is that 200 minus 40 is 116. So that would mean that you're 160 pounds Lean is your lean body mass, and then multiply it by one of these numbers, because you can be 200 pounds and 10% body fat and have a much different metabolism than someone who's 200 pounds and 40% body fat. I just don't want individuals gaining a lot of weight, thinking well, hey, you know, Alex said I just need to multiply my weight times this number. And it's not working 1120 That's how many calories I have a protein that I eat my day. So I subtract my calories associated with those meals from my 2000 In this example, and I'd have 880 calories leftover, those 880 calories. Here's the magic of how this works. You can do whatever you want with them. If you need to go out to a business dinner, you want to have drinks, you could just stay at home and have an entire pint of ice cream, that's 880 calories. That's something I kind of have a little bit of an issue. And it's really important to choose foods that are healthy. If you were to eat 800 calories of highly processed foods that are inflammatory versus 800 calories of lean protein or foods that are much less processed like fruits, vegetables, greens, your body would have wild a totally different response, particularly in terms of insulin release. Yeah, that's true calorie restriction does work and you do get leaner but from like an inflammation standpoint, from a glycation standpoint, from an oxidation standpoint, these are all important factors for overall health. Like I learned that I can't eat beef, for example, like I need it once every three months. And if I eat it, I have pretty bad inflammation, I get really hot at night can't sleep as well. If I were to eat 150 calories, a Snickers bars, for example, I'm pre diabetic, I would die like I literally would not do so well is a genetic freak in many ways. Like he can deal with a lot of different diets and probably look fine. And some individuals are like that. But the vast majority of the patients that come to my clinic have trouble with weight loss, you have to kind of make the assumption on some level, they're insulin resistant. And if you throw a bunch of carbs, what Alex is suggesting is not going to be the best for them. In fact, it probably can be quite harmful. And if I were to basically be like, hey, look, I'm gonna go have you know, two pounds of turkey and for the rest of my diet in and out cheese burgers, right that the macro goal is what would you say to me? You know, what are my blind spots? Can I do that? What's going to happen to me if I kind of follow through that for the next 90 days, assuming that you just came into the clinic JD and I don't know your physiology. And assuming that you don't have issues with weight? We could try it right, would you feel your absolute best on it? I don't think so. Because in an hour, there's a lot of saturated fat and those meals, the carbohydrate load is pretty high, there might be gluten and you might be gluten sensitive. If you have pretty good genetics, your metabolism is high, you might lose weight, you may not be doing the best thing for your body long term. Now, if you were overweight, though, and you had evidence of diabetes and high blood pressure, I would definitely say this is not a good idea would really need to do what we can to quickly shed off those unwanted pounds of body fat into maybe incorporate like a cheat meal with in and out if you enjoy it but use healthier choices. Whereas Alex talked about fueling your body with energy sources from your diet. Another aspect of improving your energy stores is excellent sleep making sure that you have certain items in place that maximize your deep sleep. Your REM sleep is really key and I talked about this in another video.