The Real Reason I Got Banned From YouTube | Weekly Q&A #11

Most people think of YouTube bans as some kind of algorithmic accident, a video that got flagged by a bot or a community guidelines strike that came out of nowhere. And sometimes that is exactly what happens. But what unfolded over the last few weeks in the peptide and health content space is not that, and understanding why requires knowing what retatrutide actually is, who owns it, and why a pharmaceutical company would care enough about online creators to get involved with federal agencies and tech platforms at the same time.

Q&A number 10? 11? Fuck, I don't know, but we're gonna go ahead and start this video today by saying Fuck YouTube We are officially banned from YouTube along with several other we'll say health fitness peptide related creators we went through the appeal process and Bottom line is Eli Lilly Eat can eat shit so a little bit of context on what has happened over the last few weeks if you guys don't know and you haven't been following me is Eli Lilly is Pursuing several lawsuits against some compounding pharmacies as well as peptide distributors for selling Read a true time

To understand why this matters you need to understand what retatrutide actually is at a molecular level. So what they're doing is they're building a custom a custom strand Or series of amino acids in a specific order that do a specific thing That's what read a true tide is in this case. It's a GLP 1 G I P glucagon agonist drug This is something that they developed now one of the biggest problems when you're doing this and you're you know We'll say Frankensteining amino acids together like this is obviously the testing the clinical trials And also making it stable. And Willard and colleagues published a paper in JCI Insight breaking down how these dual and triple agonist peptides actually work at the receptor level, showing that even tirzepatide, which is a simpler version of this concept with only two targets, acts as an imbalanced and biased agonist, meaning it doesn't activate each receptor equally but instead preferentially signals through certain pathways. Retatrutide takes that one step further by adding a third receptor target, glucagon, which means the complexity of getting it right, getting the binding affinities tuned so it works without creating dangerous off target effects, is enormous. Eli Lilly invested hundreds of millions into clinical trials to get there.

So what happens when compounding pharmacies start selling knockoff versions of a molecule that hasn't even received FDA approval yet? Eli Lilly doesn't sue for patent infringement. They sue for selling unapproved drugs. And then something else happens.

So Maybe it's an ace they want to have in their pocket But what I do know is that along with these Six people that they're suing they also passed over hundreds of names I'm assuming one of mine was included where they're talking about people teaching how to use Prescribe sell or distribute these drugs as well as you guys know Mike channel has always been about teaching the biology But after doing some research of my own there are some situations where I've failed to comply with the community guidelines and The we'll say science piece where I'm just teaching how it works Where some of my videos went into how to use it, and I think that's really the line and So if you are a creator You're looking to move on to YouTube Instagram some of these mainstream platforms You have to be aware that when it comes to these drugs when it comes to these will say sensitive drugs These will say sensitive things.

These are the things that you need to consider Right, like how it works the science the development the nerd shit That's okay But once you cross the line of reconstitution dosing Anecdotal experiences what you could expect Titration stacks protocols anything in between Now you're implying human use and you're promoting an illegal or a will say Regulated drug and in that case you immediately fall outside of the community guidelines for that platform so my opinion on this whole matter is Unique, you know fuck censorship.

Like you can't let people say that That's where I draw the line right there should not be a relationship behind closed doors that exists between these big corporations big pharma big tech and The Justice Department or the executive branch of the government that should never exist right These guys have their privately owned platforms that they built that people are agreeing to use following the terms And as long as I create content that follows the terms of use I Should be able to post whatever I want talk about whatever subject matter I want as long as it follows their terms You can't come back after the fact and change the fucking rules and the government can't use a backdoor relationship to influence these organizations to censor or adjust their community guidelines to fit their narrative and So in this case what I believe happened is Eli Lilly came to the table and they said hey We're gonna hang these six companies From their fucking necks and we're gonna put them before all the other research chemical companies and compounding pharmacies out there selling our shit and then we're gonna take this list of 200 names, which we're not gonna make public and we're gonna give it to the Court and we're gonna say by the way These people are also doing exactly this So heads up that information was then passed the state attorney general for the state of Texas in California as well as The Justice Department federal government So, what do I think happened well they took that list of names 200 people I'm certain that I was on that and they said hey YouTube hey Facebook.

This is not a coincidence This in my opinion is a coordinated effort influenced by a private organization Where they leveraged government? resources To influence a tech industry or maybe there was just a handshake deal that took place between Eli Lilly and in YouTube But either way when this is happening to meet the best interest of these people That's where in my opinion the problem lies Okay, I've done my best to stay within the scope of the community guidelines on YouTube Been very respectful No warning No, hey, we're pulling these videos down because these specific ones fall outside of the scope of the guideline Because these specific ones fall outside of the scope of the guideline No, hey, like your content is like infringing.

There is a real distinction between teaching biology and promoting use. The science of how a triple agonist peptide binds to GLP1, GIP, and glucagon receptors is education. Walking someone through reconstitution volumes and titration schedules is a protocol. Platforms don't care whether the information is accurate. They care whether it crosses the line into implied human use. And the honest truth is that some of the content did cross that line, not intentionally, but functionally.

I have to learn to play by YouTube's rules Which means that I need to make sure that I'm putting the community guidelines at the forefront of the process of us creating content for the future Okay This is exactly why it's going to become even more imperative if you are a viewer For you to be taking advantage of our school community because this is a private space that I own We're not subject to this type of infringement because I pay for this platform access. It's mine everything there is mine and the community guidelines are much will say less stringent on those types of things and This will give me the ability to offer the type of health and advice that you guys are looking for Without getting my asshole rammed without loop Okay, so Join the school if you haven't already Follow me on the new platform on rumble Look out for the new channel on YouTube Basically the major platforms where you're gonna find me are gonna be X. We're moving all of our content there Instagram YouTube for as long as we can stay and then rumble those will be the places you can find me now am I upset Yeah, but I'm also grateful Because YouTube has been a tool that I've been able to employ for the last year to grow our audience And it helped me scale my business from you know, half a million a year to 15 million a year So Coaching is out of control.

Now onto the actual Q&A, because the science doesn't stop just because a platform decided it doesn't want you talking about it.

The first question that comes up constantly is about low testosterone in overweight men, and the answer starts with a mechanism most people get backwards. You have a high Aromatization problem which is creating your low T Okay So if we have a lot of body fat what that means is most of the testosterone that I'm producing is getting converted into estradiol By the excess aromatase in our body fat which creates an excess of feedback to the hypothalamus telling it to stop producing more testosterone so Being fat and having low T is actually kind of an indication that your HPG axis works The way it's supposed to be working.

Think of it like a thermostat. Your brain measures the total estrogenic signal in the blood and when it sees too much, it dials down production of the hormones that would lead to more testosterone. The system is doing exactly what it was designed to do. It is protecting you from excess estrogen by reducing the upstream signal. The problem is not that the thermostat is broken. The problem is that the room is on fire because of the excess aromatase enzyme sitting in your adipose tissue.

Okay, so the solution to that problem Is lose the weight the more body fat you lose The less aromatase conversion that you know, the less e2 conversion you have which means That frees up a lot of that testosterone to a bind of the androgen receptors and then you start feeling good now I've said in the past I say hey look like if you want to go on to TRT you You have low testosterone your numbers are within range and you're obese, you know We'll say above 25 30 percent body fat you absolutely can but just understand that like testosterone replacement is typically a lifetime Lifetime decision and if you get in within normal range body fat It's very likely you won't need the TRT But there's no way of knowing that until you come unless you come off of it Right So by going on to TRT you create this suppression that essentially shuts down your natural production It's very likely that while you're on that TRT you will have to use an aromatase inhibitor To prevent you from producing an excess but long story short if you are excessively overweight adding more testosterone Most likely will not fix your problem in My opinion the better approach to doing this is instead of doing the TRT route as somebody who's overweight Go on to something like an clomophene Help to manage your estrogen increase the production of testosterone naturally and then focus on losing the body fat with a GLP like Rather true tide right once you get within a normal body fat range your Testosterone production will start to kind of take over on its own and clomophene is much better You can take it for as long as you want.

Well, what is the threshold? I Don't think there's like a magic threshold of like once you're below this percent body fat, then you can go on to TRT I think that you should be looking at your labs from an objective standpoint Right typically when you look at somebody who's excessively overweight, they're gonna have normal LH They're gonna have Low testosterone, but their e2 will be slightly elevated is typically what's gonna happen with somebody like that You know as you lose the weight the e2 will go down You'll see this testosterone numbers start to creep back up But to answer your question if I was to give a range I would say around 20% would be a good place to start Anything before that do the in clomophene you could even add something like kiss pepton to help boost things But honestly the biggest lever for progress for you is very likely It's gonna be fixing your diet getting your sleep on track staying consistent with your exercise and Then you can go forth and add like the iron forge baseline stack, which is partially available on anvil now the multivitamin zinc d3 k2 Magnesium you can also add fish oil Which we don't have quite yet, but we're in the process of getting that And one thing that I did miss is a lot of times guys who have a weight induced low Testosterone the most of the time the way that you can see that is if they have low shBG All right, this is an interesting one question number two can type 1 diabetics use peptides like growth hormone testamerelin or retitrutide So understand that when you're a type 1 diabetic It's a lot different than somebody who's type 2 diabetic type 2 diabetes is typically something that's driven by insulin resistance This is a curable disease for most people and a lot of times it has to do with a lifestyle more so than anything Where type 1 diabetes is Significantly different because your body just doesn't produce the insulin which is why we have to supplement with insulin itself And so because of that it kind of changes everything about how all these compounds interact with your body Okay, so rather than talking about like the growth hormone stuff because I Don't really think that's a major concern for people who have diabetes Just because the only time insulin resistance becomes a problem for people using growth hormone is when they're using an excess of it But the real question is can you use it with like the GLP one type drugs? There's good news here.

They actually already did a study on this It's called the adjust t1d trial and it was published in any GM Where they took 72 type 1 adults with a BMI over 30 and gave half of them semiglutide for 1 milligram weekly alongside their insulin pumps and after 26 weeks 36% of the semiglutide group hit the composite target of good glucose control plus meaningful weight loss Compared to 0% on placebo and the really good thing about this trial was that when they did that There were zero cases of diabetic ketoacidosis and the rate of severe Hypoglycemia was the same in both groups and what? Hypoglycemia is is when your blood sugar is significantly low and it caused problems, right? They also did another study on terzepotide in 62 type 1 diabetic adults And they saw a eighteen point five average weight loss over a year with zero hospitalizations for hypoglycemia or DKA and the largest study they did a target trial emulation using national health records of 174,000 type 1 diabetic patients and they found that GLP one use was associated with lower Cardiovascular events and lower kidney disease with no increased DKA or severe hypoglycemia risk So bottom line for this is if you're type 1 diabetic and you're overweight and you're considering using a GOP one type drug This is absolutely something that is viable for you.

There are studies that are proven that it's safe What I would suggest if you don't have one and you should would be like a continuous glucose monitor to make sure that you don't go hypoglycemic But other than that, that's fine. The last thing I want to do is have a viewer or A client say well Josh's video said that it was safe to use growth hormone related peptides For type 1 diabetics, so I used it and now I'm in the hospital if using growth hormone is something that you are 100% sold on in your type 1 diabetic. GLP1 drugs have the data. Growth hormone peptides in type 1 diabetes do not have the same quality of evidence, and that distinction matters.

Now onto injection timing, which is a question that comes up all the time from nightshift workers. I hope you guys can honor that alright question number three nightshift workers How do you time your TRT injections? So testosterone sipping ain't which is what? 99% of people in the US who are on TRT use and what I typically refer to as TRT whenever I'm talking about it Has a half-life of a week.

So what does that mean for you? Well, you know, I've talked about this ad nauseum on previous videos where I say like the best way to have the most stable Testosterone level for somebody on TRT is to try to do your injections as frequently as possible Okay, if we're at 250 milligrams per milliliter most people are gonna start at about 0.6 Okay, so if you're at 0.6 milliliters per week You can do, you know 0.3 twice per week, you know 0.2 two times per week 0.1 six times per week with one day off However, you want to do it My opinion is that you should do it as frequently as it's realistic for you to stay consistent with For me, I inject about three times per week.

So every other day is typically what I go with It's what I can stay consistent with when I try to do a daily regimen I usually forget and then I fuck up my dosing So I just kind of try to stick to a three day per week just because that's what I feel most confident I can do plus I travel frequently for work and business and stuff So I don't want to have to like travel with all these needles in this vial and answer a bunch of questions if they decide To go through my bags, right? I've only got three pre-filled, you know Syringes in my hygiene kit that I can bring with me and if it gets lost it's whatever it's no big deal Okay, so for me three days a week works Do what you can do Do what you can stay consistent with now with that said once you have that dosing frequency that you're happy with and that you've nailed down Ideally, you're just gonna want to do it at the same time every day not so much because it's gonna affect the effectiveness or the efficacy of the Testosterone but more so because you want to have that predictability in your routine so you don't miss a shot Right so things with longer half-lives unless they're associated as something like sleep or You need to be fasted It doesn't really matter when you take it.

The principle is simple. With a week long half life, whether you inject at 6 AM or 10 PM makes essentially no difference to your blood levels. What matters is that you don't forget. So pick a time that anchors to something you already do every day and stick with it.

Understanding why these systems work the way they do requires understanding feedback loops, because every hormonal axis in your body operates on the same basic architecture. This is how we create balance, right? Every hormonal system in your body has some type of feedback loop like this with growth hormone You have somatostatin which goes back to the brain With your thyroid it's the level it's your t3 So we have all this detection that occurs on the top of the system to tell it to hit the brakes on more production Okay This is why ipomerelin is so effective when you pair it with a GHRH analogous because ipomerelin is a somatostatin Inhibitor partially. When you block that brake signal and simultaneously press the gas with a growth hormone releasing hormone analogue, you get a much larger pulse of growth hormone than either compound would produce alone. It is the combination of removing the inhibition and adding the stimulation that makes the pairing so effective.

The same feedback principle explains what happens to your testicles on TRT. When you replace testosterone from outside, the brain sees the elevated level and stops sending something called LH, which is the signal that tells the testes to produce testosterone. Without that signal, the Leydig cells in the testicles have no reason to work. It's like the it's like the workers at McDonald's They're like fuck So what do they do they go on strike? The atrophy is what we call Okay, so They're still there But they're like weak dudes like you who've been skipping the gym for the last 10 years and can't do 135 on bench You ask them to produce a testosterone They're gonna be like, yeah, I'm good, bro Like I think I'm gonna have another beer Okay, so what do we do? Well, there's a couple things that we can do When we go on to testosterone rather than just like hard stopping that LH signal That's coming to the balls to tell it to produce testosterone We can replace it. That is what HCG does. It mimics LH so the testicles continue to receive a production signal even while you are on exogenous testosterone, which keeps them functional and prevents the atrophy that makes coming off TRT so difficult.

And for those who choose the enclomiphene route instead, there is something you need to understand about the tradeoff. So if you do come off of it Your body will just kind of kick in to a regular production on its own So in clomophene in my opinion is one of the safer approaches when it comes to trying to improve your Secondary hypogonadism, especially if you're overweight But there is one thing to know about in clomophene that you should probably keep in mind Okay In clomophene is known for increasing your shbg So let's say as an example you are You know testosterone level 400 And you have normal shbg You might end up going on doing clomophene for a few months and you get your labs back and your testosterone level is 900 But your shbg tripled Your free testosterone is basically the same This happens very frequently There are some things that we could look to do to try to lower The shbg such as adding anivar or like mastron But then now you're getting into something a little bit more advanced and if you're going to do anivar and mastron Within clomophene that's kind of gay like you might as well just do the testosterone in which case you won't have an shbg problem anyway right So in my mind it's like the only time in clomophene is really viable for somebody is if they don't have these abnormally high shbg levels because to be quite frank with you there isn't really much that you can do to Minimize shbg increase caused by in clomophene other than add other drugs to try to lower it And most of those other drugs are better paired with testosterone anyway, so it's kind of a move point So in clomophene is very niche specific use I think the big reason why the trt clinics are pushing in clomophene so much is because We have just like apex medical group my company. We have all these telemedicine companies that popped up since covet A lot of which have gotten the ability to prescribe things like testosterone Which is technically a schedule two class drug Meaning that you need to have an in-person visit from a doctor in order to get it prescribed But they waived this because of the covet So then because of that you created this brand new industry of all these telemedicine clinics prescribing testosterone and now that those Uh Waivers are going away at the end of 2026. Enclomiphene doesn't carry the same scheduling restrictions, which means telemedicine clinics can continue prescribing it without the in person visit requirement, and that financial incentive is a big part of why you are seeing it pushed so aggressively right now regardless of whether it is actually the best option for a given patient.

The last piece worth going deep on is the liquid calories question, because the answer reveals something about how your body processes food that most people never think about. Are they metabolized the same? I think there's an important distinction here Is it okay to drink a protein shake to try to hate your protein target? Yes, absolutely Is it okay to try to replace your meals with liquid because you're a lazy piece of shit probably not Okay Um, so the answer really depends on what the liquid is And so in this case what i'm going to do is i'm going to kind of explain some concepts The first thing is a calorie is a calorie the amount of energy that your body can extract from a 200 Calorie protein shake is the same as it can extract from a 200 calorie steak The amount of work that it needs to do in order to extract that energy from that steak is significantly more That's the first thing to consider Right because it has to digest this there's a there's a thermic effect of food occurrence that's happening with this So i'm not really going to get the full 200 calories Because by the time it's actually converted into a source of energy that I can leverage I've already burnt calories doing that say so that's the first consideration The second consideration is is when we liquefy something, especially when we remove the fiber from it we're significantly Increasing the glycemic index Meaning if I chug a soda with no fiber Just straight dextrose to the dome sucralose to the dome And i'm like all hopped up on mountain dew and getting ready to come at you like a fucking spider monkey Like those calories are right now What I don't use of those calories are typically going to be stored But more importantly what happens is when I drink that soda my insulin is going To the ceiling, okay That's not good Because that's the type of shit that creates insulin resistance because we created this huge spike of insulin And what happens over time? This is where you get those cravings you get like after like Perfect examples after you just stopped at the gas station snacked on a bunch of pogey bait And you got the soda and the chips and the candy and the gummy worms and you're over here like Right, it's cheeto dust is all over your fingers 45 minutes later, you're hungry again Why your insulin went? And then it came down really just as fast All that got stored We didn't actually use the energy that we just consumed like fucking psychopaths And now your body's telling you it's hungry again because your insulin fell below that normal threshold This is the problem that exists with like 90 percent of americans who are eating this type of shit diet It's not the fact that they're hungry.

Research has shown that removing fiber from solid food accelerated gastric emptying by 25 percent, increased the blood glucose response by 41 percent, and brought hunger back faster. That is a massive difference from the same food simply by changing its physical form.

So by drinking most of your calories You're actually less full Is basically the idea Which means that what's going to happen big back? You're going to passively eat more calories because you're going to be hungrier later This is very important for you to try to leave the fiber in or add fiber If you're going to do that if you're on a glp1 and you can barely eat A protein shake is just not acceptable.

But here is where it gets complicated, because for people on GLP1 medications, not eating is worse than drinking your calories. It may be medically necessary Clinical trial data shows that participants on glp1 medications lost 10 or more of their muscle mass during 68 to 72 weeks of treatment Roughly equivalent to 20 years of age-related muscle loss Meaning you fucking retards who aren't eating while you're on these glp1 meds because you're not hungry You're losing the same amount of muscle From your weight loss That it would take you 20 years to lose due to age That's a big deal, okay So it makes it increasingly more important for you to eat get your calories in even if they are liquid so How about some practical advice here instead of me throwing a bunch of nerd studies at you? Okay Eat the whole food when you can that should be the priority the foundation that you build your entire nutrition from Whole foods Right.

If you are on a GLP1 and you physically cannot eat enough solid food, adding a protein shake with fiber mixed in, something like oatmeal blended in, is better than eating nothing and watching your muscle disappear at 20 times the normal rate of aging. The shake is the backup plan, not the primary strategy. And if you can eat the chicken and the rice and the vegetables, you should, because your body will extract less net energy from them, stay fuller longer, and maintain a more stable insulin profile doing it.

The thread that connects all of this, the platform bans, the aromatization problem, the injection timing, the liquid calories question, is the same thread. Systems have rules. Hormonal systems have feedback loops. Platforms have community guidelines. Metabolic systems have insulin responses. You can either understand how those systems work and operate within them intelligently, or you can ignore them and deal with the consequences. The rules don't change just because you didn't know they existed.

References:

Willard FS, Douros JD, Gabe MB et al.. Tirzepatide is an imbalanced and biased dual GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist. JCI Insight. 2020. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32730231/