Human body weight

yes of course because everyone thinks oh if i have too much salt i'm gonna bloat You know, because you eat a salty meal, you weigh yourself the next morning, you're heavier and you immediately think, oh, gained all the weight back but you haven't suddenly gained a kilo of body fat from having sushi that's just not how it works right so changes in sodium can change how much water your body retains yes but that's water weight that's not like body fat which links

perfectly back to our previous conversation about why body weight fluctuates the scale reflects for than just your body fat.

And I also just want to mention that also just on the salt topic, we're always saying to you how everybody is different and how our body responds to different things differently.

So maybe the person who actually made the whole salt thing go viral in the first place had a bad response to her natural or his natural body.

It's the one that most people use.

So let's just say I'm 80 kilos body weight for equation's sake so I don't get some weird numbers to divide with.

80 kg and I squat 160 kg.

that's a 2x body weight squat, right? So 2x is a pretty decent number, especially if you're a jumping athlete to go for.

And to track that, you obviously would want that number to keep going up.

So either you get stronger at the same body weight or you keep the same squat strength and you decrease your body weight.

So maybe you have a little bit of excess fat.

You're like, okay, if I can get rid of some of this fat, even if you keep your squat the same, your relative will go up because one part of the equation is changing.

Diet.

Touched on body fat, um, body weight earlier on.

Yes.

Does it matter what you're eating? Does it matter how it impacts you? W- w- how should we come to think about diet from a longevity standpoint?

By a long shot.

Let's put this in perspective with some characters that we make up in our heads.

If a vegan or carnivore, doesn't matter, uh, say, you know, they're 350 pounds and five-foot-seven, and they're like, "Well, I'm vegan, so it's not a big deal," you're gonna be like, "Bro, that ain't it." Now, if you eat mostly healthy foods, lean proteins, veggies, fruits, whole grains, healthy fats, and mostly unprocessed foods, if you do that, whatever body weight you're at, it absolutely matters for longevity, but it matters a little bit, and that means you should do it, but the biggest thing that you get out of those foods is the ability to do weight control.

Because if you are grotesquely overweight, you could be eating fuck all.

I'm gonna change the subject and get to, talks about supplements here for a second.

You know, there's some data that suggests that the higher, higher protein intake, so we talk about one gram of protein per pound of body weight.

Even higher amounts may be even more beneficial for, uh, people who wanna build even more muscle.

I thought I'd seen-

Yeah.

So what I was gonna say is this may be why.

'Cause I always hit one gram of protein per pound of body weight.

I almost never go over that.