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What's the first product you should use for hair loss prevention? Obviously, there are a lot of drugs and chemicals on the market when it comes to hair loss prevention. There's a lot of junk, there's some stuff that works, but they vary greatly in side effect profiles, and some make much more logical sense to use as introductory methods of intervention.… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Is CB-03-01? Clascoterone, also known more commonly as its developmental code name CB-03-01 is a synthetic steroidal antiandrogen. It acts as an androgen receptor antagonist and is being developed by Cassiopea as a potential treatment of androgen-dependent conditions including acne vulgaris and androgenic alopecia (male-pattern baldness).… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are an increasing amount of bodybuilders with great genetics who are now coaches. They are often referred to as gurus, and some were even legendary bodybuilders themselves. A handful were even Mr. Olympia contenders, or champions themselves. But should we take bodybuilding advice from them?… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There have been a few videos I've done in the past on protein intake and diet hacks that will make it a lot easier to hit your daily requirements. There's always the guys who pop in on there who try to argue that you don't need that much protein to recover properly, or that a high protein diet is dangerous.… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For most of us, preventing heart disease depends largely on our lifestyle, which means there's much that's in our power to maintain cardiovascular health while bodybuilding. Despite fit looking physiques being portrayed as examples of optimized health, the reality is that bodybuilding is one of the most unhealthy things you can do from a cardiac perspective.… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Muscle Strength Vs. Muscle Size There is a very common saying, and it is, “a bigger muscle is a stronger muscle.” And I don't know where that originated from. But it has been getting passed down through the grapevine over the years.… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do Androgen Receptors Downregulate? There is a very common misconception in the bodybuilding community that androgen receptors downregulate during a steroid cycle, or during long-term steroid use. A plateau in muscle gain is commonly attributed to this “androgen receptor downregulation”. If you've ever cycled anabolics, you can also attest to the fact that during a new cycle the gains always seem to come within the first 8 weeks or so, and then the weeks following that it is typical to notice a blatant diminishing returns effect.… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Best Diet For Adherence There is a lot of controversy around intermittent fasting for bodybuilding goals, and whether or not it is a suboptimal way to gain muscle or lose fat. There are a lot of mixed opinions, and I get asked a lot what I think about it as a diet style.… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Moment I Learned That Rejections Aren't All Dead Ends This strategy can be used wherever you live, regardless of what school you are at. While some of you guys might be in fraternities, or have thriving social scenes at the schools you go to, there are a lot of colleges and universities that have no parties, no night life, and are essentially just commuter schools.… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Getting Shredded On Junk Food Obviously, trying to get shredded eating McDonalds every day is not the optimal way to diet. This post is not meant to assert that you should diet down eating McDonalds every day, it is simply meant to illustrate how the metabolism works, and how daily calorie intake relative to daily energy expenditure is ultimately what will determine if you lose fat or not.… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices