As a white woman in my forties, I stopped reading Womens’ Health Mag over a decade ago. It’s only good at making women feel like crap about themselves. Thanks for the validation, Dr. Mike 😘
That’s the point. The more they can make women feel crap about themselves, the more women are going to believe that they need to buy the products the magazines are peddling in order to look pretty and fit in. It’s just that most women lack that self awareness and fall for the manipulation tactics!
@@C0d0ps Nutrition and fitness are pretty basic, well at least fitness is if you aren’t looking to take things to the extreme, that’s when things become more complicated if you are looking to train beyond just looking good at the beach. But the truth is that there isn’t much new under the sun. The same basic training principles get repackaged and resold ad nauseam. An old vehicle with a new paint job can be sold as brand new to the uninitiated, and that’s what constantly happens in the fitness industry.
@@jermaineayivoh8263 The problem with men’s health magazines is the flat out lies. - “Impossible to lose weight with diet soda, or carbs”. “How did movie stars gain 30 lbs of muscle in 8-16 weeks? Chicken broccoli rice of course” - Cosmo and other magazines for women are much worse Prescribing yoga and apple cider vinegar for a toned body. Eat loads of nuts to lose weight (one package of trail mix is 500-800 calories).
My mom used to read these every week. She ended up giving my brother and I severe eating disorders because she would make us eat protein bars for weeks on end, put us on a keto diet, etc. We would have to walk for at least 2 hours before and after school everyday, do the weekly workouts, and not eat anything that involved processed food. That went on for about 6 years, then once we got into our teens, she decided to change up our diet to help with our ‘teenage puberty’. Went on a vegan/keto diet till I was about 17 and had to be hospitalized for malnutrition, mental illnesses and suicidal ideation. Thank you for debunking these. It really gives kid me validation I never knew I needed. 😊
I was opposite, I was allowed to eat pretty much whatever. Still ended up with an ED because I wanted to be thin and stop having my mom tell me it was okay to be the body I was, because to me she was lying and just being nice because she was my mom. Parenting is weird. Can loose no matter what you do
People really need to learn the difference between healthy eating and weight loss. Weight loss is an inherently unhealthy thing, it's something your body does not want to do, you should only be doing it if you are actually overweight.
Please do more of these! Women's perception towards health and fitness is still chock full of misinformation and I'm really happy that someone like you is helping to debunk them.
I recommand training yourself to be more critical when it comes to absolute statements. Not just to women, but to everyone. ;) There is just to much BS and misinformation. Its often hidden behind false confidence or straight up manipulative reasons. There is often a huge bias between what scientists acutally tested and what media claims they discovered. IMO if you see a statement like "High glucose deactivates mitochadria" your "citation needed"/BS-alarm should ringing like crazy. The confidence and ignorance of bullshitters is scary and dangerous.
It's so therapeutic listening to a knowledgeable and intelligent person eloquently demolishing the bullshit claims that you see all over the place. Please keep doing these! It's essential for my mental health.
Been having cottage cheese as post-workout snacks for the past couple of weeks, tastes sublime, bonus points for being able to add fruit/jam/whatever the hell you’re craving at the moment and have it still taste heavenly
Cottage cheese protein is almost entirely casein, meaning it takes roughly 8 hours to digest (insanely long compared to most other protein types). It is an amazing product to eat before sleep but not so optimal post-workout when you want protein in your bloodstream quickly
As a 15 year old in the early 90's, I saw this weird trend with my mum's Women's Health mags. The front would always say crap like "Burn blah blah blah in time for blah blah blah" and "Lose blah blah pounds with this healthy shake you fat walrus blah blah blah" but then without fail, on the bottom right corner of the cover was a recipe for a tasty cake, or a tasty pie, or tasty cookies, or tasty tasty taste taste. Now in my late forties in 2024, I realize that Women's Health is like a cross between Men's Health and Planet Fitness, but for women and the twinks I used to pick up at Fly Nightclub, the Black Eagle and Steamworks on Church St back in 1999. God I miss those days. Now it's just Reddit this and Grindr that. Damnit now I want some tasty cake.
I remember when my mitochondria went offline, I had tremendous effects like... my life flashing before my eyes and seeing a bright light at the end of a tunnel despite not being anywhere near a tunnel. -10/10, would not recommend.
This reminds me of that scene in the move _There's Something About Mary_ when Matt Dillon's character revives Puffer and says, "Stay away from the light!"
Hey Dr. Mike, I've been having a very difficult year and have been using the gym as a positive outlet. I pay the bills driving a truck and your videos and your great sense of humor have been a fantastic companion to lighten up my mood and my day. Not to mention I've learned more about fixing my techniques/diet in just a month of listening to your videos than I learned in 3 years of previous training. Thank you very much for the great work that you do!
God i wish there was way the WHOLE world could see this video. SO many people actually believe the nonsense that this magazine is spitting out its ridiculous. GG Mike keep at it
Women are WAY easier to manipulate. See them put into political positions, while not having leadership skills. Look how much of that cover model is covered up!
Well it's not like this doesn't happen to men's health magazine too, the whole "fitness" and "health" industry is a joke and as long as there's still money-horny people in the world (which there will always be) nothing will change
Dr. Mike, as a white woman in her 40s, you had me cracking up while I was trying to deliver the mail. Love the videos, educational and entertaining, thank you!
In case you do more of these, endurance magazines (Runners World, Cycling, triathlete mags, etc) often include absolute comedic gold when they go to recommend strength training. Endurance athletes get fed some insane nonsense about what to do in the gym and how to fuel.
In a general sense, I’m curious about how Dr. Mike would say endurance athletes should fuel. To be clear, I’m talking about the people doing marathon training, and people typically averaging over 70km a week, not the people doing a slow 3k jog twice a week. I’ve seen people say everything from “distance running is about carbs, not protein, 0.8g per kg per day is totally fine” to “high end endurance training requires absolutely massive amounts of protein, 2.0g per kg per day is a baseline for the people running more than an hour a day.”
@@matthewcreelman1347 Dr. Mike doesnt look like the type of guy going long distance - but he clearly understands the effects of CNS fatigue, glycogen depletion, hormonal balances, etc. Carbs are king, yea, but he'd probably offer the nuances (and there is a massive amount of them, its complicated) of how/when to fuel and when not to. For the cutting edge of this stuff, look to the teams with money (Nike trying to burst the 2:00:00 marathon, big TdF teams like Jumbo Visma, etc) because its their entire enterprise.
I think Anita Bean is the best nutrition writer I know of who deals with endurance running, cycling, etc. For refuelling with how much carbs and protein. Like you've said though there's much more complicated stuff, especially for longer duration efforts like ultramarathons. Sorry I just wanted to add that in case there are people who need a good source, for example to clear up whether 2g per kg protein should be a baseline for a well-trained runner 😅
There’s so much garbage in the “women” focused side of the fitness industry, appreciate you taking the time to cut through the BS. Wish I could send this to every middle aged woman whose ever given me nutritional advice EVER, I’m not sure they can handle the Dr. Mike style tho😂
I love his style! But I'm not that stereotypical white woman that he so entertainingly portrays, lol - his advice is golden; his style is what got me hooked 😁
Men’s health magazines aren’t much better. I loved Muscle and Fitness when Corey Everson was Ms Olympia, but now I look at them and find they’re pretty shady too.
this reminds me of when I read Men's Health, and they would tell me in January that full-fat cheese is bad, then in March, full-fat cheese was the key to gains. Also my workout changed at about the same rate with every new "3 sets of 10" program that they published.
Was that back when the magazine wasn’t 2/3s adverts? Had a trial subscription a few years back and it seemed like the entire magazine was adverts with a small portion devoted to “fitness” advice
Hello Dr. Mike. I'm a 27 old female from Denmark, and I am totally choked about that muscle maker exercise for females. I'm used to group training with women at the local fitness and the more I watch your channel the more I train alone at the gym, because the group exercises are totally wrong... I'm happy that my husband found you on youtube! Thank you!
I find few experiences more painful to my soul than perusing the magazine selection at the checkout of grocery stores. Every time, it’s a battle between my morbid curiosity and my rapidly failing sense of self preservation.
@@blind_warriorryes! I used to feel so bad because I can never do them when I attempt them. I can do a single arm row and I can plank. At the same time? Forget about it
I learnt it on my first program as a fat hunchback, Athlean-x. Immediately hated it, and just Immediately starting changing the program at whim to remove excersizes I hated, and it's hilarious coming back 6 years later to learn they are actually mostly ridiculous bullshit.
The protein bar section of that magazine was unforgivable. I'm not a nutritionist, doctor or trainer, yet even I know how to analyze the macros for a protein bar. They're clowns.
I love that you started mentioning your credentials at the start of every video, it makes it a lot easier to share your content with people who haven't seen it before.
@@Rudi4riusIts a meme. So basically there's this UA-camr Sam Seluk (awesome guy) and he's really strong, and in one of his videos he says : ' let's see Andrew Eubank hitting this weight' referring to Alex Eubank, as a joke .
The kneeing in the nuts comparison 😂😢 loved it. Also, the way you serve up shade and dismantle claims gives me chuckles start to finish on all your videos
This is like a gimme question on a grade 12 biology test "If you eat a lot of sugar, you can make energy without really involving your mitochondria" "False, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"
Great all the answers are wrong... Whats the question though? You can "make energy" without mitochondria via Glycolysis. But you don't need to eat any sugar for Glycolsis to take place. F.e. Carbohydrates like starch can be easily digested to glucose and many other metabolic pathways lead to it. Intake of sugars is not required. Yes, the mitochondria can be considered as the powerhouse of the cell. But IMO a better metaphor would be: Its the hypertrophy gym of the cell. The place where the real gains happen. The engery a human cell can produce is a lot higher in mitochondria than outside. Its optimized to be the best environment to squeeze out the last bit of engery out of a molecule. Similar to how weights enable you to maximise your muscle stimulation in the gym. You can still get your gains outside the gym, but they aren't comparable from what you can get from the gym and a proper diet. Gosh I really hated those multiple select questions. They are often so misleading and you might get them wrong even if you actually know the answer -.-
As a biologist/neuroscientist with an appreciation of anatomy, I LOVE how accurate and logical this is! It drives me crazy seeing how many magazines and products target people who don't know better. Quercetin is studied a lot in anti-aging senescence related research, but I've never heard of it being targeted towards exercise, crazy
I started to follow Mike very recently and I am loving it. My friend was having yogurt ice cream of course with blueberries flavoring and was telling me that was full of protein. Well it has 4 g of protein and 16 g of sugar . I feel sad for folks picking processed food and calling it healthy.
“A mass spectometer in the kitchen”💀 I’m an analytical chemist just running a MS while listening this. You made me laugh, I can’t stand ppl that think like that magazine.
Really enjoyed this and please do more of these! What's interesting but also infuriating is that these types of magazines will give you, for example, a list of the 5 best workout bars/[enter product they're trying to sell] with each one having it's own benefits, yet in the end leaves the reader even more confused over which one to actually eat. Are you supposed to buy all 5? "Well I want the cardamom in that bar A, but I'm also supposed to *nourish* myself with the stuff in bars B and C..."
The part about mitochondria is hilarious😂 the way they say "without REALLY involving your mitochondria" and "KIND OF takes your mitochondria OFFLINE" talk about being vague!😂😂😂
I’ve recently experienced unwanted weight gain from following high fat diet I heard would keep me satiated in women’s health. Didn’t work, I was satiated for a regular amount of hours but was consuming way more calories than need be for my ideal size. I also don’t possess a lot of muscle currently as I had stopped working out for over 5-6months and as a girl you lose pretty much all of the muscle you built. However I’m working to stay consistent and building a new health and workout routine, your videos bring me info, comfort and make me laugh my freakin ass off! Thanks to you Dr. mike!
It's so weird how this stuff becomes corrupted. All the original "high fat" research was really "low carb, high protein" and to get enough energy on a low carb, high protein diet, you need a good amount of fat, whether that's body fat or dietary fat. It's the combination of protein and fat that keeps you satiated. Why people started eating butter and "fat bombs" is beyond me. And now people are gaining weight on "keto" because of all the junk they're being pushed, just like how vegan went from meaning eating only whole foods out of a garden to eating "plant-based" cookies, crackers, and other junk food made up of refined grains and sugar. At the end of the day it comes down to your body getting the nutrients it needs without excess energy in the form of carbs and fats, and an eating pattern that is hormonally healthy. For me that's prioritizing protein and eating pretty low carb, moderate fat for my first meal, and then eating a ton of carbs with low-moderate fat and high protein for my second meal that I eat right after my workout. And only eating whole foods that actually have vitamins and minerals in them. So I end up eating a lot of red meat and easily digested vegetables, a ton of eggs, occasional fish and chicken, a little bit of whole grains, a little bit of fruit, and because I'm a descendant of dairy farmers, a crap ton of dairy products because I tolerate them well and they're rich in protein and certain vitamins.
Been watching Mikes content for some years now since I started getting into hypertrophy training, very nice to see his videos doing well and the new forms of content :) thanks doc
Made me laugh so much, critiquing the magazine was a brilliant idea, hoping you'll do more :D I enjoyed the reactions and the humour, and the way you can use your knowledge to be like 'yeah, no' and then bring us along with you on the journey of why they're wildly wrong. It's a fun way to learn more about health and exercise. Wild that healthy-branded so-called protein bars would be more accurately called fat bars-- I wish I was surprised. The bit about not eating (refined!) sugar so your mitochondria get their 'exercise', absolutely wild
I love how the market violently swung from "LOW FAT" to "KETO FRIENDLY". Especially when "keto friendly" just means high fat, not necessarily low carbs LOL
What? Keto can be low or high fat, but it specifically HAS to be low/no carb right? Isn’t the whole point of Keto is specifically that your body will use your own fat and ketones to lose weight instead of burning of glycogen in your liver?
I am glad the market swung that way. You can still have not enough protein density. But the work of Dr. Lustiq does a pretty good job in showing that fructose in large quantities is bad for you.
Just because of these reviews I subscribed to watch these and the workout break down lol. You are so funny, yet so knowledgeable. Make learning fun with Dr Mike
I just had to say I purchased a membership to your rp app and it is helping me make gains I've never made before! I'm working muscles that I hadn't been hitting enough. Thank you so much for making such an amazing app that makes training a breeze!
New YT follower here. Why did I not follow y’all on here sooner?! Love this 😂🤭. Very, very informative. I stopped reading those magazines about 15 yrs ago, thankfully. Love your IG page and the RP app. Yes, please do more of these.
Your def one of the most content dense channels. Your knowledge and ability to communicate it is top notch. I get a lotta good nuggets from this channel and some good laughs too
Id love to see Dr. Mike critique old bodybuilders workout and diet videos. Especially Ronnie Coleman, Dorian Yates, and Rich Piana. Not like an entire video just select portions were they talk about diet and when they're lifting.
I'm pretty sure that first exercise is just a renegade row, something you see often in group classes where the job isn't to get improvement, it's to make people feel like they did something. I find it hilarious that they felt the need to rename it to sound like they came up with something.
dang lol, eating fat during a workout sounds like a recipe for GI distress. Why not the ol' spoonful honey or something?? I guess if it aint broke don't fix it
@@ThaKKatt I think his choice of candy bar is very little fat and a lot of sugar. I don't think he has thought about it all that much, but he swears by it, and he does get results. Although I'd wager those results are from him being the gym 5 days a week, and not the candy bar, lol.
OMG!!! YAAAS!!! This was one of your funniest yet most relatable, as I used to devour these stupid magazines back in the day. Now I just nick the odd copy from the dentist’s waiting room just for the thrill of stealing something. Excellent and hilarious Dr Mike!
I ❤ Dr. Meathead. Stumbling onto these videos is one the best thing that has ever happened to me. This one is my favorite, so far. Have you heard of the MAF method? What is the science on it? Can you really increase your body's ability to burn fat *rather than sugar* for energy? Or is this the wrongest way to think of cardio?
Thank you for debunking the “man makers” row thing. I used to do a boot camp training years ago and I hated these. I love doing either a row or a plank/stability exercise and not trying to do a combo of both. Like you said it just feels like you’re doing both poorly and not getting any results.
I’m a 50ish white woman, and I thought this was hilarious 😂😂😂. My fav protein bar is No Cow peanut butter-they’re completely disgusting to eat 😂, but have acceptable macros.
@@jasonshults368 I get what you are saying but a chicken leg won't replace a protein bar when it comes to availability, macros, taste (sweet vs savory), but it will give you protein, is tasty and its of similar size.
I used to eat no cow bars when I was an opening shift manager at a grocery store. I was the first to arrive and didn't take lunch until close to the end of my shift...that and a Celsius held me over until I was able to properly eat. But you're right...they taste atrocious
Fun fact, "Chai" tea is just a marketing term to sell their product because "Chai" simply means tea in many languages, so the literal translation is "Tea tea".
Please continue to debunk these ridiculous articles. Women’s Health, Cosmo, Ladies Home Journal, Women’s Day, The Woman’s World, and especially magazines targeted to teenagers like Cosmo Girl and Seventeen. What gets me is these magazines will have titles splashed across the front like “get your bikini body ready and build your abs in only 2 weeks by doing these 5 simple workouts!” And there’s some celebrity leaning up against a wall with their arms crossed and one foot behind them touching the wall. You flip through trying to find the article, but are met with not only an over abundance of ads, but recipes for chocolate cake or irresistible brownies, neither of which has healthy alternatives in the recipe. So you get to the article and it’s one column of basic shit you already know and the model already has her abs spray painted on. 🤦♀️ Oh! Or when there’s a person on the cover wearing jeans several sizes too big and she’s standing side profile and pulling out the front of the jeans so you can see how *massive* this supposed transformation is supposed to be. They love using this pose, it’s been around for decades because it works. They also will show before and afters of women who supposedly followed this diet plan and how great they look, but what they don’t tell you is the amount of editing that goes into the before’s, they make her stand in a terrible non flattering position, no makeup, workout clothes that are too small, and they photoshop her to make her look even worse. Then the after’s where she’s standing in a position that is very flattering, she’s wearing makeup, her workout clothes are super cute (which that’s another advertisement because at the bottom it will tell you what brand the model is wearing and how much each piece is) Her image has been manipulated in their favor. But the biggest piece of shit move these companies do in magazines, workout equipment ads, diet ads, etc is the “before” is a picture of someone who was already very athletic and had gotten sick or injured and therefore was unable to workout and now have about 10lbs or more of excess fat. Then, the “after” is when the same person is no longer stuck in bed and have gone back to their prior routine, which their body’s adapt to very quickly, thus making it *seem* as though this person with a paunch really did lose weight and developed a toned form in a month. 🤦♀️
Men's Health put out an article on hair loss years ago and got me taking finasteride. They didn't mention any side effects in the article and it tanked my libido and indirectly destroyed a long-term relationship with my annoying girlfriend. Win some ya lose some! Thanks men's health!! 🤗
@@user-tg7pi6lu6v It was actually a nurse that prescribed it. She had to read about what it was before she wrote the prescription and did say it can affect 'sexual function' but didn't say how etc. Men's Health made it sound like such a normal thing to do in 2010 that a doctor would've had to flat out refuse. Also the studies and scary information online that people continue to claim is bs didn't exist yet. Also should mention that creatine does cause hair loss in people that are sensitive to DHT.
@@fancyclown6863wrong. Let it be a reason to talk to a fucking doctor before taking shit like that. Random people suck at interpreting research papers. That's how we arrive at anti-vaxers
I put this together for anyone curious about the protein from calories % on the protein bars Mike mentioned. For someone like me that needs 26%-27% calories from protein daily, in order to reach a gram of protein per pound of bodyweight, most of these are trash options. Don't get me wrong, they sound delicious and I could fit them into my diet, but they're ABSURDLY overpriced and just not practical for my budget. The Pure Protein Bar Mike mentions, with a 180/20 (calories/protein) ratio comes at a comparatively staggering 44.44% calories from protein, and very humbly priced. 3:18 Total Treasure - Mosh Blueberry Almond Crunch Bar 160/12 = 30% calories from protein 4:50 Morning Maker - Perfect Bar Coconut Peanut Butter Bar 350/16 = 18.28% calories from protein 6:05 Fresh-Baked Feel - 88 Acres Banana Bread Protein Bar 260/12 = 18.46% calories from protein 7:12 Chocolate Choice - Core Foods Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Plant-Based Keto Bar 160/6 = 15% calories from protein 9:14 Wild Card Win - Epic Bison Bacon Cranberry Bar 130/7 = 21.53% calories from protein Man, looking at some of these, you might as well buy a damn peanut butter CLIF bar, at 260/11 it's 16.92% and as cheap as these things get. What a sham industry full of dumbass consumers.
Seem like women's fitness in general is skewed towards not challenging themselves. Got my wife to start working out with me and all she wants to do is leg extensions and triceps French press. Squats, deadlifts, pushups or bench, hell to the no. She would rather do a 45min celebrity boot camp video from the early 2000s than walk for 30min on a incline treadmill while watching her favorite show. I dont get it. Immediately following the workout its straight to nachos then icecream and beer lol.
@@kramermariav one huh? Okay so I dont have 3 sisters who played softball, a mother, aunts and friends. Lol stop assuming you know anything about anyone. I just made an observation from my 43years on this earth. alot of women are in much better shape than I ever was even playing college baseball. Just 96 percent of the ones I've met are not.
15:03 you can 'make' all of the spices (black pepper, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger) in your kitchen. You can even make coconut milk if you want to. Provided you have access to all those plants. You got carried away in "roasting the article" mode. All of those spices are dried or dehydrated or roasted. That's like arguing that you cant make a raisin at home, or roast your own coffee. You could, but you probably dont want to, unless you dont have a job and have time to make everything from scratch. You dont need special equipment either, even though it's a lot easier if you have a coffee roaster, or an airfryer with a fruit-leather option, etc.
Lol, bro, Core Bar is not a protein bar, so it is wrong to analyze its nutrition facts with reference to that standard. Core Bars are keto bars, meaning they are for folks who like to eat a high fat, low carb diet, which is why it is higher in fat and lower in carbs. I am not Keto, by the way. I am just paying attention to details. Did the magazine even place all of those bars into the "Protein Bar" category? Or were they just all lumped together as "Health Bars"? And I take issue with the notion that because a bar is higher in fat and lower in carbs and protein that it is unhealthy, or on/approximately on the same level as a candy bar. Macros aren't the only level of analysis here: ingredients and micros matter, too. A Core Bar is actually good for your body, whereas a Snikers bar is not.
but the article was called "protein bar obsessions" on the cover. if a bar has 5g of protein and 20g of fat and carbs it is unequivocally a really bad protein bar.
I completely agree. It shouldn't have been called a protein bar at all, because it isn't, and it doesn't market itself as one. The folks responsible for writing that article are just confused, and Dr. Mike and camera guy missed that fact. But, I'd have to actually read the mag's article myself to see if it really is confused, or if we just don't have sufficient data.@@jasonbaijens3378
Huge fan here in the middle of my fitness journey. Would be awesome to see a video on or get some advice on fitness that’s beneficial for someone like me with back issues. I have been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease (passed down from my mom who has it) and I have days where it’s hard to move, let alone do a workout. What can I do to get stronger without potentially making my pain worse??? Anyone who’d like to respond, please feel free. I want to get fit so badly but I’m always in so much pain in my lower back lol
I would highly recommend looking into reverse hyperextensions and other spinal work that louie simmons pioneered, they wont prevent the disease but they may help reduce the pain and make working out less painful and help you do some exercise
I normally love your content and learn so much from this fitness explained stuff. Here I kept thinking about my sensitive mother who has just started getting into fitness and how terrible watching this video would make her feel.
I agree. Of course it is entertaining if you already know the basics; this video is for RP subscribers rather than Women's Health magazine readers. Whether that is strategically the best plan of action if you are trying to educate people, I am not sure. It will definitely get more traction though, so I understand why they'd make this video
People generally don't react very logically. Imagine showing, say, a flat earther a video dismantling and making fun of flat earthers. That's not going to change their belief.@@carolynmogan2609
Your mother needs to become less sensitive, then; especially if she's interested in reasonably fast progress in terms of her training instead of a lot of wasted time due to the bad advice found in these rags. Over-sensitivity is a weakness and, as all weaknesses, should be worked on and minimized.
@@DarkVeghetta I'd say in an ideal world, yup, absolutely. Is that actually going to happen? I don't think so, and telling someone what they should be doing isn't going to get them to do that.
The best exercise I have found for being “leaner and more muscular” is pulling back on a 2ml syringe plugged into a vial that says Trenbolone acetate and then changing the needle to a 29 gauge. Superset with wiping my thigh with an alcohol pad and then pushing the needle into my muscle, slowly injecting the contents. For proper form, and key tips: make sure to slightly pull back on the plunger to make sure you are not in a vein. I can’t figure out why this workout is so effective, but it’ll have you leaner and more muscular pretty quick.
As a white woman in my forties, I stopped reading Womens’ Health Mag over a decade ago. It’s only good at making women feel like crap about themselves. Thanks for the validation, Dr. Mike 😘
I feel the same as a man.
It’s just full of six pack dudes talking about selling their nutrition/fitness programs.
“Stop sugar, diet sodas” etc.
We stan white woman in her 40s 💅
That’s the point. The more they can make women feel crap about themselves, the more women are going to believe that they need to buy the products the magazines are peddling in order to look pretty and fit in. It’s just that most women lack that self awareness and fall for the manipulation tactics!
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Nutrition and fitness are pretty basic, well at least fitness is if you aren’t looking to take things to the extreme, that’s when things become more complicated if you are looking to train beyond just looking good at the beach.
But the truth is that there isn’t much new under the sun. The same basic training principles get repackaged and resold ad nauseam.
An old vehicle with a new paint job can be sold as brand new to the uninitiated, and that’s what constantly happens in the fitness industry.
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The problem with men’s health magazines is the flat out lies.
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“Impossible to lose weight with diet soda, or carbs”.
“How did movie stars gain 30 lbs of muscle in 8-16 weeks? Chicken broccoli rice of course”
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Cosmo and other magazines for women are much worse
Prescribing yoga and apple cider vinegar for a toned body.
Eat loads of nuts to lose weight (one package of trail mix is 500-800 calories).
My mom used to read these every week. She ended up giving my brother and I severe eating disorders because she would make us eat protein bars for weeks on end, put us on a keto diet, etc. We would have to walk for at least 2 hours before and after school everyday, do the weekly workouts, and not eat anything that involved processed food. That went on for about 6 years, then once we got into our teens, she decided to change up our diet to help with our ‘teenage puberty’. Went on a vegan/keto diet till I was about 17 and had to be hospitalized for malnutrition, mental illnesses and suicidal ideation. Thank you for debunking these. It really gives kid me validation I never knew I needed. 😊
I'm Sorry for what you had to go through. Hope you're doing better now.
I was opposite, I was allowed to eat pretty much whatever. Still ended up with an ED because I wanted to be thin and stop having my mom tell me it was okay to be the body I was, because to me she was lying and just being nice because she was my mom. Parenting is weird. Can loose no matter what you do
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take this with a grain of salt but you're mom seems like a really crazy person i wish none of the kids ever grow up with a mom like you're☺
People really need to learn the difference between healthy eating and weight loss. Weight loss is an inherently unhealthy thing, it's something your body does not want to do, you should only be doing it if you are actually overweight.
I have 2 bananas before bed every night religiously to turn off my mitochondria. That electron transport chain really keeps me up at night
I don't want to know what you do with two bananas to turn your mitochondria back on again. "Doctor" ;)
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I stop breathing oxygen to stop the final step of the ETC!!! Has really helped me stop aging!
Please do more of these! Women's perception towards health and fitness is still chock full of misinformation and I'm really happy that someone like you is helping to debunk them.
And the best part is, a lot of this is passed down from mother to daughter. Generational misinformation posing as sound health advice.
I recommand training yourself to be more critical when it comes to absolute statements. Not just to women, but to everyone. ;)
There is just to much BS and misinformation. Its often hidden behind false confidence or straight up manipulative reasons. There is often a huge bias between what scientists acutally tested and what media claims they discovered.
IMO if you see a statement like "High glucose deactivates mitochadria" your "citation needed"/BS-alarm should ringing like crazy. The confidence and ignorance of bullshitters is scary and dangerous.
It's so therapeutic listening to a knowledgeable and intelligent person eloquently demolishing the bullshit claims that you see all over the place. Please keep doing these! It's essential for my mental health.
An expert on more than bullshit is rare anymore 😂
Women don't want the truth, they want to be lied to, & continue there delusion.
So true.
Bro...
@@user-he4ef9br7zWhat?
A cup of cottage cheese (200g) has 24-25g of protein for 120-130kcal. There you have it, people, the perfect protein bar
Been having cottage cheese as post-workout snacks for the past couple of weeks, tastes sublime, bonus points for being able to add fruit/jam/whatever the hell you’re craving at the moment and have it still taste heavenly
@@albinocroc exactly 😋
I would do that if it didn't wreck my stomach
@@ezzylopez7286 RIP
Cottage cheese protein is almost entirely casein, meaning it takes roughly 8 hours to digest (insanely long compared to most other protein types).
It is an amazing product to eat before sleep but not so optimal post-workout when you want protein in your bloodstream quickly
11:25 "if you eat walnut, you're going to f*cking die."
Me, allergic to walnuts: "Preach it, brother!"
Eating walnuts doesn't make you die.
It just makes you want to.
Lol same here
As a 15 year old in the early 90's, I saw this weird trend with my mum's Women's Health mags. The front would always say crap like "Burn blah blah blah in time for blah blah blah" and "Lose blah blah pounds with this healthy shake you fat walrus blah blah blah" but then without fail, on the bottom right corner of the cover was a recipe for a tasty cake, or a tasty pie, or tasty cookies, or tasty tasty taste taste.
Now in my late forties in 2024, I realize that Women's Health is like a cross between Men's Health and Planet Fitness, but for women and the twinks I used to pick up at Fly Nightclub, the Black Eagle and Steamworks on Church St back in 1999. God I miss those days. Now it's just Reddit this and Grindr that. Damnit now I want some tasty cake.
I remember when my mitochondria went offline, I had tremendous effects like... my life flashing before my eyes and seeing a bright light at the end of a tunnel despite not being anywhere near a tunnel.
-10/10, would not recommend.
My mitochondria didn't go offline but they really could have used a better wi fi connection
...but most important question is, did it spike your cortisol?
This reminds me of that scene in the move _There's Something About Mary_ when Matt Dillon's character revives Puffer and says, "Stay away from the light!"
LOLLL
What is the recommended data plan for mitochondria, I don't want mine to go offline :(
Look, if Jean Luc Picard tells me that my mitochondria isn't energized, I'm gonna believe him.
Especially if he is built like a klingon
Strong Luc Picard?
A kitchen is literally a complete food processing room in our homes.
yeah technically cutting up an onion makes it processed...
Hey Dr. Mike, I've been having a very difficult year and have been using the gym as a positive outlet. I pay the bills driving a truck and your videos and your great sense of humor have been a fantastic companion to lighten up my mood and my day. Not to mention I've learned more about fixing my techniques/diet in just a month of listening to your videos than I learned in 3 years of previous training. Thank you very much for the great work that you do!
God i wish there was way the WHOLE world could see this video. SO many people actually believe the nonsense that this magazine is spitting out its ridiculous.
GG Mike keep at it
Women are WAY easier to manipulate. See them put into political positions, while not having leadership skills. Look how much of that cover model is covered up!
Absolutely. These are the same type of magazines that say lose 30lbs in 30 days with our special Hollywood diet.
If it says it’s for women, by women … it must be good!
Well it's not like this doesn't happen to men's health magazine too, the whole "fitness" and "health" industry is a joke and as long as there's still money-horny people in the world (which there will always be) nothing will change
You wanna explain your profile picture there, kemosabe 😏
Dr. Mike, as a white woman in her 40s, you had me cracking up while I was trying to deliver the mail. Love the videos, educational and entertaining, thank you!
Same here, this is how I felt when I re-read the same magazines I used to read (and trust!) in my 20s. 😅
By the way the third thing I need is something anti aging 😂
I feel nourished. Listening to this was decadent
I suppose as a black woman you would have been crying
@@angelalynn1979 And the fourth is age-reversing.
In case you do more of these, endurance magazines (Runners World, Cycling, triathlete mags, etc) often include absolute comedic gold when they go to recommend strength training. Endurance athletes get fed some insane nonsense about what to do in the gym and how to fuel.
Yes, I’d also love to see runners world.
In a general sense, I’m curious about how Dr. Mike would say endurance athletes should fuel. To be clear, I’m talking about the people doing marathon training, and people typically averaging over 70km a week, not the people doing a slow 3k jog twice a week.
I’ve seen people say everything from “distance running is about carbs, not protein, 0.8g per kg per day is totally fine” to “high end endurance training requires absolutely massive amounts of protein, 2.0g per kg per day is a baseline for the people running more than an hour a day.”
@@matthewcreelman1347 Dr. Mike doesnt look like the type of guy going long distance - but he clearly understands the effects of CNS fatigue, glycogen depletion, hormonal balances, etc. Carbs are king, yea, but he'd probably offer the nuances (and there is a massive amount of them, its complicated) of how/when to fuel and when not to. For the cutting edge of this stuff, look to the teams with money (Nike trying to burst the 2:00:00 marathon, big TdF teams like Jumbo Visma, etc) because its their entire enterprise.
@@ZachTheExcitedViper Dr. Mike looks like a natural sprinter, very dangerous over short distances!
I think Anita Bean is the best nutrition writer I know of who deals with endurance running, cycling, etc. For refuelling with how much carbs and protein. Like you've said though there's much more complicated stuff, especially for longer duration efforts like ultramarathons. Sorry I just wanted to add that in case there are people who need a good source, for example to clear up whether 2g per kg protein should be a baseline for a well-trained runner 😅
There’s so much garbage in the “women” focused side of the fitness industry, appreciate you taking the time to cut through the BS. Wish I could send this to every middle aged woman whose ever given me nutritional advice EVER, I’m not sure they can handle the Dr. Mike style tho😂
I love his style! But I'm not that stereotypical white woman that he so entertainingly portrays, lol - his advice is golden; his style is what got me hooked 😁
To be fair, men's health magazines are probably just as bad. The BS they're peddling might be a different brand, but it's still BS.
Men’s health magazines aren’t much better. I loved Muscle and Fitness when Corey Everson was Ms Olympia, but now I look at them and find they’re pretty shady too.
Loved it. Do more of these. If love to see your reaction to men's health and the body building magazines
Half of the celebrity series were Men's Health videos to be fair.
I was going to suggest the same thing! Loved this so much.
Can we get a “White Chicks 2” with Dr. Mike?
Men's Health is equally awful. I mean Greg Gutfield was a former editor. I like Gutfield - but super healthy..nah.
@@TheGreektrojanTrue but those were more like men's health-celebrity trainer crossover specials. Gotta go to the source for the best stuff.
This was fantastic...Men's Health or Bodybuilding needs to be next!
WURD!!! One of my coworkers wonders why I don’t do planks.
@@TheStraightShooter500why don't you do planks?
this reminds me of when I read Men's Health, and they would tell me in January that full-fat cheese is bad, then in March, full-fat cheese was the key to gains. Also my workout changed at about the same rate with every new "3 sets of 10" program that they published.
Was that back when the magazine wasn’t 2/3s adverts? Had a trial subscription a few years back and it seemed like the entire magazine was adverts with a small portion devoted to “fitness” advice
@@nicholaspauly5934 idk, this was about 2008-ish
Hello Dr. Mike. I'm a 27 old female from Denmark, and I am totally choked about that muscle maker exercise for females. I'm used to group training with women at the local fitness and the more I watch your channel the more I train alone at the gym, because the group exercises are totally wrong... I'm happy that my husband found you on youtube! Thank you!
I find few experiences more painful to my soul than perusing the magazine selection at the checkout of grocery stores. Every time, it’s a battle between my morbid curiosity and my rapidly failing sense of self preservation.
That perfectly describes my relationship with hoping on a streaming platform and resisting the urge to put on reality tv.
@@allenjohns5715 it's awful how addicting absolute trash content is
I think you would be an entertaining author.
@@Hawksbii I appreciate those words more than you know
Genuine question, how does mindless entertainment cause your sense of self preservation to fail?
I’ve ALWAYS hated that “Muscle Maker” move you just roasted and it makes me feel 1000% more validated lol
It’s called a Renegade Row if I’m not mistaken.
@@blind_warriorryes! I used to feel so bad because I can never do them when I attempt them. I can do a single arm row and I can plank. At the same time? Forget about it
@@blind_warriorr that's the puss-ified version, much like the 'burpee' is 'just a plank and stand up'.
If anything, it's more of a 'energy burner' or a hybrid cardio workout.
I learnt it on my first program as a fat hunchback, Athlean-x. Immediately hated it, and just Immediately starting changing the program at whim to remove excersizes I hated, and it's hilarious coming back 6 years later to learn they are actually mostly ridiculous bullshit.
These are my absolute favorite Dr. Mike videos. Informative and downright hilarious 😆
The protein bar section of that magazine was unforgivable. I'm not a nutritionist, doctor or trainer, yet even I know how to analyze the macros for a protein bar. They're clowns.
I love that you started mentioning your credentials at the start of every video, it makes it a lot easier to share your content with people who haven't seen it before.
Let's see Andrew Eubank debunk myths.
Who is Andrew eubank? Isn't it alex? Why do people say Andrew
Shut up with your tired ass meme
@@Rudi4riusIts a meme. So basically there's this UA-camr Sam Seluk (awesome guy) and he's really strong, and in one of his videos he says : ' let's see Andrew Eubank hitting this weight' referring to Alex Eubank, as a joke .
@@Rudi4rius sam sulek fucked it up and now it's a running joke
@BostjanBavcon exactly a joke, a meme... you've heard of those before right ?
The kneeing in the nuts comparison 😂😢 loved it. Also, the way you serve up shade and dismantle claims gives me chuckles start to finish on all your videos
Those “Perfect Bar peanut butter bar.” Are really good. The macros are not great but it’s peanut butter so, yea.
This is like a gimme question on a grade 12 biology test
"If you eat a lot of sugar, you can make energy without really involving your mitochondria"
"False, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"
Great all the answers are wrong...
Whats the question though?
You can "make energy" without mitochondria via Glycolysis. But you don't need to eat any sugar for Glycolsis to take place. F.e. Carbohydrates like starch can be easily digested to glucose and many other metabolic pathways lead to it. Intake of sugars is not required.
Yes, the mitochondria can be considered as the powerhouse of the cell. But IMO a better metaphor would be: Its the hypertrophy gym of the cell. The place where the real gains happen. The engery a human cell can produce is a lot higher in mitochondria than outside. Its optimized to be the best environment to squeeze out the last bit of engery out of a molecule. Similar to how weights enable you to maximise your muscle stimulation in the gym. You can still get your gains outside the gym, but they aren't comparable from what you can get from the gym and a proper diet.
Gosh I really hated those multiple select questions. They are often so misleading and you might get them wrong even if you actually know the answer -.-
As a biologist/neuroscientist with an appreciation of anatomy, I LOVE how accurate and logical this is! It drives me crazy seeing how many magazines and products target people who don't know better. Quercetin is studied a lot in anti-aging senescence related research, but I've never heard of it being targeted towards exercise, crazy
same! biochemist over here and the damn mitochondria thing had me laughing out loud
It seemed to get popular during a certain recent pan de mic. Quercetin helps with Rona symptoms.
I started to follow Mike very recently and I am loving it. My friend was having yogurt ice cream of course with blueberries flavoring and was telling me that was full of protein. Well it has 4 g of protein and 16 g of sugar . I feel sad for folks picking processed food and calling it healthy.
“A mass spectometer in the kitchen”💀 I’m an analytical chemist just running a MS while listening this.
You made me laugh, I can’t stand ppl that think like that magazine.
Really enjoyed this and please do more of these! What's interesting but also infuriating is that these types of magazines will give you, for example, a list of the 5 best workout bars/[enter product they're trying to sell] with each one having it's own benefits, yet in the end leaves the reader even more confused over which one to actually eat. Are you supposed to buy all 5? "Well I want the cardamom in that bar A, but I'm also supposed to *nourish* myself with the stuff in bars B and C..."
The part about mitochondria is hilarious😂 the way they say "without REALLY involving your mitochondria" and "KIND OF takes your mitochondria OFFLINE" talk about being vague!😂😂😂
I’ve recently experienced unwanted weight gain from following high fat diet I heard would keep me satiated in women’s health. Didn’t work, I was satiated for a regular amount of hours but was consuming way more calories than need be for my ideal size. I also don’t possess a lot of muscle currently as I had stopped working out for over 5-6months and as a girl you lose pretty much all of the muscle you built. However I’m working to stay consistent and building a new health and workout routine, your videos bring me info, comfort and make me laugh my freakin ass off! Thanks to you Dr. mike!
It's so weird how this stuff becomes corrupted. All the original "high fat" research was really "low carb, high protein" and to get enough energy on a low carb, high protein diet, you need a good amount of fat, whether that's body fat or dietary fat. It's the combination of protein and fat that keeps you satiated. Why people started eating butter and "fat bombs" is beyond me. And now people are gaining weight on "keto" because of all the junk they're being pushed, just like how vegan went from meaning eating only whole foods out of a garden to eating "plant-based" cookies, crackers, and other junk food made up of refined grains and sugar. At the end of the day it comes down to your body getting the nutrients it needs without excess energy in the form of carbs and fats, and an eating pattern that is hormonally healthy.
For me that's prioritizing protein and eating pretty low carb, moderate fat for my first meal, and then eating a ton of carbs with low-moderate fat and high protein for my second meal that I eat right after my workout. And only eating whole foods that actually have vitamins and minerals in them. So I end up eating a lot of red meat and easily digested vegetables, a ton of eggs, occasional fish and chicken, a little bit of whole grains, a little bit of fruit, and because I'm a descendant of dairy farmers, a crap ton of dairy products because I tolerate them well and they're rich in protein and certain vitamins.
Been watching Mikes content for some years now since I started getting into hypertrophy training, very nice to see his videos doing well and the new forms of content :) thanks doc
Dude this content is not only educational but hilariously entertaining and engaging love the content Mike
Chai also means tea, so you'd be filling up on tea tea, it's a double win!
Not in America. Chai is a type of tea here.
Made me laugh so much, critiquing the magazine was a brilliant idea, hoping you'll do more :D I enjoyed the reactions and the humour, and the way you can use your knowledge to be like 'yeah, no' and then bring us along with you on the journey of why they're wildly wrong. It's a fun way to learn more about health and exercise. Wild that healthy-branded so-called protein bars would be more accurately called fat bars-- I wish I was surprised. The bit about not eating (refined!) sugar so your mitochondria get their 'exercise', absolutely wild
This is the third Doctor Mike on UA-cam that I've found! And I haven't been looking!
These are your best videos imo. The whole influencers coaching up and now this. Keep em coming doc !
I love how the market violently swung from "LOW FAT" to "KETO FRIENDLY". Especially when "keto friendly" just means high fat, not necessarily low carbs LOL
What? Keto can be low or high fat, but it specifically HAS to be low/no carb right? Isn’t the whole point of Keto is specifically that your body will use your own fat and ketones to lose weight instead of burning of glycogen in your liver?
So is Keto just a rebranding of the Atkins Diet?
@@HeliRyyes!
@@HeliRy Nah they are a bit different. Atkins was more focused on protein. Keto is more focused on fats.
I am glad the market swung that way. You can still have not enough protein density. But the work of Dr. Lustiq does a pretty good job in showing that fructose in large quantities is bad for you.
Just because of these reviews I subscribed to watch these and the workout break down lol. You are so funny, yet so knowledgeable. Make learning fun with Dr Mike
Sarcasm on point, entertaining and educational af! please do more of these! So many magazines to "review"
I just had to say I purchased a membership to your rp app and it is helping me make gains I've never made before! I'm working muscles that I hadn't been hitting enough. Thank you so much for making such an amazing app that makes training a breeze!
Just finished lifting and cycling, and this "info" is pure hilarity for me as a woman. 😂
This is serious stuff and nothing to be amused about😅
@@friendlyfire4178 😂😇
Cycling? I hope you mean it as in cardio.
@@anonymousman4419 TREN HARD ANAVAR GIVE UP
@@cocainedealer9037 Based name
The first portion of the video is exactly why I want Dr. Mike to take on pilates.
New YT follower here. Why did I not follow y’all on here sooner?! Love this 😂🤭. Very, very informative. I stopped reading those magazines about 15 yrs ago, thankfully. Love your IG page and the RP app. Yes, please do more of these.
Honestly these are my favorite videos. I love all your content but the sass you bring is so decadent and nourishing
Your def one of the most content dense channels. Your knowledge and ability to communicate it is top notch. I get a lotta good nuggets from this channel and some good laughs too
This was a decadent, nourishing video that immediately sustained me throughout the day
Love your content! Would love another video like this one. Thank you for all you do!
Id love to see Dr. Mike critique old bodybuilders workout and diet videos. Especially Ronnie Coleman, Dorian Yates, and Rich Piana. Not like an entire video just select portions were they talk about diet and when they're lifting.
God I love how sassy Dr. Mike is
As a current white woman and a former fitness/health-naive white woman, I concur. We do exactly that.
What's your race /skin color got to do with it?
@@azabujuban-hito8085Watch the video.
"As a current wht wmn" what does that mean? You have to file paperwork to keep from going out of date or stay up to date or something?
@@azabujuban-hito8085it has to do with the *joke* Dr sus ripped guy kept making
@@seventhkeyomegasghost8233you don't file such paper work? Where are you from where this isn't required
“… Let’s find out…”
Had me rolling. Idk why but it did.
YES PLEASE... Can we have more of this, that will be really nice. Think most of us here know what works by now, but its always fun to see :D
Please do more of these. It's too funny😂 and educational at the same time
I'd be down to hear your critiques on Men's Health and other men's fitness mags.
We have decades of stuff to go through!
Men's Health doesn't even have men anymore.
I was wondering where did Picard go after being a captain of Enterprise. 'Data! Our mitochondria went offline! add more sugar to the system stat!'
I'm pretty sure that first exercise is just a renegade row, something you see often in group classes where the job isn't to get improvement, it's to make people feel like they did something. I find it hilarious that they felt the need to rename it to sound like they came up with something.
I've seen people do this without weights even. The ONLY thing you are overloading is the smile lines of everyone watching. Absolutely bollocks.
Dr.Mike, I so love your sarcasm I sssoooo needed this today I had to stop the treadmill or risk injury from laughing so hard love Doc LOVE IT
Thanks for setting us straight. I saw the V-Shred video. Will you do one for Warrior Babe? Is she just another V-Shred?
Love all these new bits your and reviews doing Dr.Mike. Keep it coming!
This debunk series is the best.
This one goes out to my gym bro, who just straight up eats a regular candy bar during workout for extra carbs. Seems to work great for him though!
i think your bro is just hungry
dang lol, eating fat during a workout sounds like a recipe for GI distress. Why not the ol' spoonful honey or something?? I guess if it aint broke don't fix it
@@ThaKKatt
I think his choice of candy bar is very little fat and a lot of sugar. I don't think he has thought about it all that much, but he swears by it, and he does get results. Although I'd wager those results are from him being the gym 5 days a week, and not the candy bar, lol.
He does correct if his goal is just simple fast acting carbs.
He could instead eat 2 bananas though.
@@WW-nk7wg For some of us those 2 bananas would cause... immediate and explosive... problems.
Please make more of these! Love it
How about combining the plank exercise with the both arm row? Now that's a challenge!
"Nuts, specifically peanuts" ... oh jesus
Thank you for this decadent and nourishing video. This gave me the most incredible dopamine hit.
“Justified with wrong things that are wrong” that should be a shirt lol
Pause "Dr shah you gotta go back to school" best line 😂😂😂😂
I am a certified sports fitness nutritionist and that was hilarious 😂 the mitochondria going off line - that’s called death 😅
OMG!!! YAAAS!!! This was one of your funniest yet most relatable, as I used to devour these stupid magazines back in the day. Now I just nick the odd copy from the dentist’s waiting room just for the thrill of stealing something. Excellent and hilarious Dr Mike!
I ❤ Dr. Meathead. Stumbling onto these videos is one the best thing that has ever happened to me. This one is my favorite, so far. Have you heard of the MAF method? What is the science on it? Can you really increase your body's ability to burn fat *rather than sugar* for energy? Or is this the wrongest way to think of cardio?
You should do a protein bar blind taste test and try and tell which bar is best
Thank you for debunking the “man makers” row thing. I used to do a boot camp training years ago and I hated these. I love doing either a row or a plank/stability exercise and not trying to do a combo of both. Like you said it just feels like you’re doing both poorly and not getting any results.
I’m a 50ish white woman, and I thought this was hilarious 😂😂😂. My fav protein bar is No Cow peanut butter-they’re completely disgusting to eat 😂, but have acceptable macros.
Interesting. My favorite protein bar is a chicken leg.
@@jasonshults368 I get what you are saying but a chicken leg won't replace a protein bar when it comes to availability, macros, taste (sweet vs savory), but it will give you protein, is tasty and its of similar size.
Lmao I tried one of these once, never again.
I used to eat no cow bars when I was an opening shift manager at a grocery store. I was the first to arrive and didn't take lunch until close to the end of my shift...that and a Celsius held me over until I was able to properly eat. But you're right...they taste atrocious
@@Eustressweet and protein are two things that usually don't go together. Unless it's a chicken leg with bbq sauce
Please never stop these. I laugh and learn so much.
Fun fact, "Chai" tea is just a marketing term to sell their product because "Chai" simply means tea in many languages, so the literal translation is "Tea tea".
Please continue to debunk these ridiculous articles. Women’s Health, Cosmo, Ladies Home Journal, Women’s Day, The Woman’s World, and especially magazines targeted to teenagers like Cosmo Girl and Seventeen. What gets me is these magazines will have titles splashed across the front like “get your bikini body ready and build your abs in only 2 weeks by doing these 5 simple workouts!” And there’s some celebrity leaning up against a wall with their arms crossed and one foot behind them touching the wall. You flip through trying to find the article, but are met with not only an over abundance of ads, but recipes for chocolate cake or irresistible brownies, neither of which has healthy alternatives in the recipe. So you get to the article and it’s one column of basic shit you already know and the model already has her abs spray painted on. 🤦♀️ Oh! Or when there’s a person on the cover wearing jeans several sizes too big and she’s standing side profile and pulling out the front of the jeans so you can see how *massive* this supposed transformation is supposed to be. They love using this pose, it’s been around for decades because it works. They also will show before and afters of women who supposedly followed this diet plan and how great they look, but what they don’t tell you is the amount of editing that goes into the before’s, they make her stand in a terrible non flattering position, no makeup, workout clothes that are too small, and they photoshop her to make her look even worse. Then the after’s where she’s standing in a position that is very flattering, she’s wearing makeup, her workout clothes are super cute (which that’s another advertisement because at the bottom it will tell you what brand the model is wearing and how much each piece is) Her image has been manipulated in their favor. But the biggest piece of shit move these companies do in magazines, workout equipment ads, diet ads, etc is the “before” is a picture of someone who was already very athletic and had gotten sick or injured and therefore was unable to workout and now have about 10lbs or more of excess fat. Then, the “after” is when the same person is no longer stuck in bed and have gone back to their prior routine, which their body’s adapt to very quickly, thus making it *seem* as though this person with a paunch really did lose weight and developed a toned form in a month. 🤦♀️
Men's Health put out an article on hair loss years ago and got me taking finasteride. They didn't mention any side effects in the article and it tanked my libido and indirectly destroyed a long-term relationship with my annoying girlfriend. Win some ya lose some! Thanks men's health!! 🤗
did the doctor who prescribed this to you not mention anything about that?
@@user-tg7pi6lu6v It was actually a nurse that prescribed it. She had to read about what it was before she wrote the prescription and did say it can affect 'sexual function' but didn't say how etc. Men's Health made it sound like such a normal thing to do in 2010 that a doctor would've had to flat out refuse. Also the studies and scary information online that people continue to claim is bs didn't exist yet. Also should mention that creatine does cause hair loss in people that are sensitive to DHT.
Bet your hair looks great though!!
let it be a lesson to do research
@@fancyclown6863wrong. Let it be a reason to talk to a fucking doctor before taking shit like that. Random people suck at interpreting research papers. That's how we arrive at anti-vaxers
I put this together for anyone curious about the protein from calories % on the protein bars Mike mentioned. For someone like me that needs 26%-27% calories from protein daily, in order to reach a gram of protein per pound of bodyweight, most of these are trash options. Don't get me wrong, they sound delicious and I could fit them into my diet, but they're ABSURDLY overpriced and just not practical for my budget. The Pure Protein Bar Mike mentions, with a 180/20 (calories/protein) ratio comes at a comparatively staggering 44.44% calories from protein, and very humbly priced.
3:18 Total Treasure - Mosh Blueberry Almond Crunch Bar
160/12 = 30% calories from protein
4:50 Morning Maker - Perfect Bar Coconut Peanut Butter Bar
350/16 = 18.28% calories from protein
6:05 Fresh-Baked Feel - 88 Acres Banana Bread Protein Bar
260/12 = 18.46% calories from protein
7:12 Chocolate Choice - Core Foods Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Plant-Based Keto Bar
160/6 = 15% calories from protein
9:14 Wild Card Win - Epic Bison Bacon Cranberry Bar
130/7 = 21.53% calories from protein
Man, looking at some of these, you might as well buy a damn peanut butter CLIF bar, at 260/11 it's 16.92% and as cheap as these things get. What a sham industry full of dumbass consumers.
If you’re annoyed by just this one magazine; imagine what if feels like to have spent 30 years actually believing this bs.
Dude do more I saw one on the stand awhile back claiming how women can get the body of their dreams with an 8,000 cal diet 🤣
Seem like women's fitness in general is skewed towards not challenging themselves. Got my wife to start working out with me and all she wants to do is leg extensions and triceps French press. Squats, deadlifts, pushups or bench, hell to the no. She would rather do a 45min celebrity boot camp video from the early 2000s than walk for 30min on a incline treadmill while watching her favorite show. I dont get it. Immediately following the workout its straight to nachos then icecream and beer lol.
Women don't have to work very hard to have a desirable physique. That's just kind of the default for the first 30 years or so and then poof it's gone
Ummmm...what womens fitness sources are you looking at with your sample size of one? 😂
@@kramermariav one huh? Okay so I dont have 3 sisters who played softball, a mother, aunts and friends. Lol stop assuming you know anything about anyone. I just made an observation from my 43years on this earth. alot of women are in much better shape than I ever was even playing college baseball. Just 96 percent of the ones I've met are not.
15:03 you can 'make' all of the spices (black pepper, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger) in your kitchen. You can even make coconut milk if you want to. Provided you have access to all those plants.
You got carried away in "roasting the article" mode.
All of those spices are dried or dehydrated or roasted. That's like arguing that you cant make a raisin at home, or roast your own coffee.
You could, but you probably dont want to, unless you dont have a job and have time to make everything from scratch. You dont need special equipment either, even though it's a lot easier if you have a coffee roaster, or an airfryer with a fruit-leather option, etc.
Be careful when you get to the go easy section because i almost fell off the bench as a result of laughing so hard 😂.
Dr. Mike, the way you crush these absurd health fallacies are so funny. Love it!
At this point I’m just here for the comedy 🤣
I could watch vids like this one all day. Thank you for this nourishing analysis. I’m absolutely obbbbsessssed
Haha these debunk videos are hilarious, informative and entertaining. Love em!
Lol, bro, Core Bar is not a protein bar, so it is wrong to analyze its nutrition facts with reference to that standard. Core Bars are keto bars, meaning they are for folks who like to eat a high fat, low carb diet, which is why it is higher in fat and lower in carbs. I am not Keto, by the way. I am just paying attention to details. Did the magazine even place all of those bars into the "Protein Bar" category? Or were they just all lumped together as "Health Bars"?
And I take issue with the notion that because a bar is higher in fat and lower in carbs and protein that it is unhealthy, or on/approximately on the same level as a candy bar. Macros aren't the only level of analysis here: ingredients and micros matter, too. A Core Bar is actually good for your body, whereas a Snikers bar is not.
@@luping1879 I thought the same things. I feel he can get carried away tearing things down sometimes, and insodoing oversimplify his analyses.
but the article was called "protein bar obsessions" on the cover. if a bar has 5g of protein and 20g of fat and carbs it is unequivocally a really bad protein bar.
I completely agree. It shouldn't have been called a protein bar at all, because it isn't, and it doesn't market itself as one. The folks responsible for writing that article are just confused, and Dr. Mike and camera guy missed that fact. But, I'd have to actually read the mag's article myself to see if it really is confused, or if we just don't have sufficient data.@@jasonbaijens3378
Men's health next pls :).
Really enjoying your videos - please keep 'em coming! =)
This video has me dying. Funniest one yet. Can you critique Dr. Mercola’s vitamins and theories?
Huge fan here in the middle of my fitness journey. Would be awesome to see a video on or get some advice on fitness that’s beneficial for someone like me with back issues. I have been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease (passed down from my mom who has it) and I have days where it’s hard to move, let alone do a workout. What can I do to get stronger without potentially making my pain worse??? Anyone who’d like to respond, please feel free. I want to get fit so badly but I’m always in so much pain in my lower back lol
I would highly recommend looking into reverse hyperextensions and other spinal work that louie simmons pioneered, they wont prevent the disease but they may help reduce the pain and make working out less painful and help you do some exercise
@@topkekm8817 got it! Thanks for the advice!!
I normally love your content and learn so much from this fitness explained stuff.
Here I kept thinking about my sensitive mother who has just started getting into fitness and how terrible watching this video would make her feel.
I agree. Of course it is entertaining if you already know the basics; this video is for RP subscribers rather than Women's Health magazine readers. Whether that is strategically the best plan of action if you are trying to educate people, I am not sure. It will definitely get more traction though, so I understand why they'd make this video
Really? Sensitive to the truth? One would think if she is just starting out she’d be thrilled because she will go forth with correct information.
People generally don't react very logically. Imagine showing, say, a flat earther a video dismantling and making fun of flat earthers. That's not going to change their belief.@@carolynmogan2609
Your mother needs to become less sensitive, then; especially if she's interested in reasonably fast progress in terms of her training instead of a lot of wasted time due to the bad advice found in these rags.
Over-sensitivity is a weakness and, as all weaknesses, should be worked on and minimized.
@@DarkVeghetta I'd say in an ideal world, yup, absolutely. Is that actually going to happen? I don't think so, and telling someone what they should be doing isn't going to get them to do that.
The best exercise I have found for being “leaner and more muscular” is pulling back on a 2ml syringe plugged into a vial that says Trenbolone acetate and then changing the needle to a 29 gauge. Superset with wiping my thigh with an alcohol pad and then pushing the needle into my muscle, slowly injecting the contents. For proper form, and key tips: make sure to slightly pull back on the plunger to make sure you are not in a vein. I can’t figure out why this workout is so effective, but it’ll have you leaner and more muscular pretty quick.
"It could make you marginally better at getting hit in the nuts" 😂