Nah, ive done so research on intermittent fasting, high intensity workouts, dopamine and cortisol, and they are bang on about that.
PhD's Mike Israetel and Menno Hanselmans, and literally any other PhD of kinesiology, say that intermittent fasting doesn't do a damn thing for growth hormone, just so ya know, just another trend, and the preponderance of peer reviewed macro studies support that intermittent fasting has identical health benefits to simple caloric restriction. It doesn't matter when you eat, at all, literally not a tiny bit, just so long as your calories and macronutrients match up and you're getting your micronutrients, omega fatty acids, and probiotics in as well. My wife's a registered dietician by the way, and I used to be a certified nutritionist a million years ago, (I let my certs expire and I don't care for the industry, but I still keep up with the recent papers), so I'm not just another grifter saying that. I truly wish there was some nutritional silver bullet, but it doesn't exist. Calories matter more than literally anything else when it comes to nutrition, that's the cornerstone of nutritional sciences and always will be. I definitely agree that eating mostly fruits, veggies, with adequate lean protein for your activity level, and lots of fiber, are crucial pillars of your absolute health.
The rest of the points are fine, except for the fact that training actually doesn't raise resting testosterone levels at all, big myth there. Again, I wish, as weightlifting has been a big part of my life for over twenty years now, it's why I got a degree in Exercise Science, but it's just not true. Training hard causes a temporary raise in testosterone post training that precedes a major drop just a little while later, and then a consequent raise in estrogen to balance it out. Remember that, as a rule, the body is always striving towards homeostasis. If you raise testosterone momentarily, estrogen will raise later as testosterone drops, so any benefits you think you get to natural test levels from training are purely placebo. There is no way to raise your natural test levels, none, nada, however there is a way to drop resting test levels, and that's simply by being obese and drinking too much alcohol, those two will do it for absolutely certain. Gotta take TRT or other forms of steroids to cause more than a short raise in testosterone levels, and if you ever stop supplementing test then estrogen levels will skyrocket. As someone who has had gynecomastia, and the subsequent surgery to reduce/remove the excess tissue, I can personally attest to the fact that test levels are a tricky thing to toy with, and yet, with all that still said, I still say that TRT is mostly healthy and that most people of low test, like myself, should consider it, but one must simply beware the consequences of supplementing your hormone levels at all.
Big agreement on cortisol though, that is the killer guys. Sex, hobbies, fitness, time with friends, great healthy food, hell even weed, whatever it takes to get you to fuckin chill out and relax will do more for your general health than literally anything else you can do.
