How Fast Should GLP-1 Weight Loss Actually Be? | Weekly Q&A #15

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Every week I get more questions than I can answer in one sitting, and the ones I skip usually get skipped for a reason, either they were too specific to one person's bloodwork to help anybody else, or they were asking something I didn't have a confident answer to off the top of my head. If that happened to you, drop it in the school community instead, because that gives me a written record and my team can go research it properly. Like I have a whole team that's dedicated to making sure that we get you those answers, okay? So a couple of these aren't about health, but we're just gonna jump into them.

Would I serve again, honestly yes, but the context matters, and the context is that I was kicked out of the Army with a general discharge after five years.

I deployed to Iraq, got promoted to sergeant fast, collected a decent pile of awards, and then PCSed to Hawaii about a year after I got back, which on paper sounds like the good life. The unit was nowhere near as sharp as the one I came from, and I got depressed.

I would say that one of the biggest challenges that guys who deploy have is when you come back after doing such a high demand impactful job, that's like really intense, to going back to stateside and doing just like a regular dumb civilian job, or in my case, like a job that didn't really feel like it had much meaning.

So I brought it to my command and told them I'd love to see if we can get moved over to somewhere like Schofield Barracks with 25th ID. And the conversation that my leadership had was like, hey man, like in your career, you're gonna spend time at duty stations that you love, and you're gonna spend time at duty stations that you hate.

Their point was that your attitude dictates the quality of the experience wherever you are, and your job is to lock in and do it anyway. In retrospect that was probably the best advice I could have gotten.

But the unfortunate part and the fact of the matter is, I was 21 years old and I was a whiny little fucking bitch who wanted their way. I told them move me or let me out, they called the bluff, and they put me out.

It was one of the best things that ever happened to me and one of the worst, because I was skilled at that job in a way that had nothing to do with how my career actually went. The downside of the military, especially at the lower enlisted level, is that promotion and growth aren't always tied to how good you are, and I watched incompetent leaders keep climbing because they showed up and kept their mouth shut.

I'm not gonna say that's a good or a bad thing, but I think for me specifically, I have more of an entrepreneurial mind. I can shut up and execute when that's the job, but something in me stays hungry and restless the whole time I'm doing it.

If I served again it wouldn't be to defend our government. It would be to defend our country, and more than that, the other men standing there with me.

And that's the big misconception people have about patriotism and the honor that comes with being in the service and deploying and fighting in wars is when you're there doing it, the last thing I'm thinking about is, oh man, like I can't wait to win this war so the US government can prevail. What I care about is the dude on my right and my left getting home to his family.

And I believe that this country, despite the fact that the politics and the corruption that we're seeing emerging over the last 10 or 20 years is becoming increasingly more disgusting, the tenets and the values that the United States were built on align with who I am as a man.

Next time around I'd go in as an officer, because I feel that my leadership ability and my capacity and the values that I align myself with would have a much more significant impact on the success of the mission and the people under me, rather than being kind of a lower enlisted type of guy, which is where I would end up going.

Someone asked about stacking IGF-1 LR3 with enclomiphene, and the logic behind the question is actually sound.

If you guys remember, historically, I talked about how enclomaphene can actually suppress the production of IGF-1 at the liver because we're basically blocking the estrogen receptors. Estrogen signaling at the liver is part of what drives growth hormone to convert into IGF-1, so when you block that receptor, the conversion step gets quieter even if growth hormone output looks fine.

And so, one of the considerations to have is when you're doing a CIRM, you're potentially wasting your money when you're doing things like CJC or Tessamerelin because your liver is going to convert less IGF-1 on that enclomaphene. You're paying for more growth hormone pulses into a liver that's been told to convert less of it.

So the fix he proposed is to skip the conversion entirely and inject the end product, which sounds clean enough sitting on paper in front of you. But one of the concerns with IGF-1-LR3 is you have to cycle it because you're creating desensitization at the receptor over time.

Which means you've now got a temporary patch on a problem you created with the first drug, and I'm not big on taking drugs to solve problems other drugs made.

So, technically, the answer is yes, but why would you go that far when, again, you could just do testosterone and skip the headaches with SHBG and the whole mess of IGF-1 conversion that comes with the other route.

Enclomiphene has a real use case, and that's secondary hypogonadism where lifestyle is the primary driver of the low T. Outside of that it's close to the last option I'd reach for.

My dad asked about the face tattoo more than anyone, so let me actually answer it properly. My dad was a tattoo artist, a drug addict, and one of the most capable entrepreneurs I've ever been around. Most of what I know about sales and building something came from him.

When I was a kid telling him I didn't know how, he'd say, fucking handle it, dude. And like, it's funny because I can picture his voice in the back of my mind to this day where if I'm at a loss or I don't know or I'm not sure, I'm uncertain about what I should do, I hear his voice, he's like, fucking handle it, right? That's exactly what he would say.

The separator between entrepreneurs who make it and the ones who don't is the ability to execute without knowing how. Take the next right step, learn from the mistake, apply the fix, and it gets very hard to fail as long as you don't quit.

He spent his final years incarcerated and died there, and I flew to California, paid for the funeral, picked up a wallet and a pair of shoes from the Sacramento County jail, and spoke the eulogy to about ten people.

And one of the realizations that I had when we went through that was that because my little sister is 15 years younger than me, she didn't get the same dad that I got. He was locked up for most of her childhood, got out, and died.

She got married earlier this year and I was the only Holyfield there besides my daughter and my stepmom, and when it came time for that walk, the space beside her at the start of the aisle just stayed empty. So I got the same tattoo on my face that he had, as a quiet thing only she and her mom understood, so I'd visibly carry the part of him that made an impact.

And that's why I have my face tattoo, all right? Probably one of the only tattoos I have outside of like my kids' names and stuff that has a ton of meaning.

Heartburn on retatrutide is something I deal with myself, and daily Pepcid is the only thing I've found that handles it.

Most of what I know about this came out of conversations in the free community, so if you want the rest of it and somewhere to ask, the men's group is here: https://www.skool.com/jh-iron-forge-brotherhood/about