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The Rock Has Officially Responded To Steroid Allegations
In this episode, we delve into the recent steroid allegations against Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, sparked by noticeable changes in his physique. As he promotes his latest film, fans and criti...
The Rock Has Officially Responded To Steroid Allegations
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So guys Derek, we're placed on AIDS.com today we are checking out this rock situation
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He is being called a pebble now people are shocked the world is in outrage because he has lost his muscle is what people are saying
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But let's be honest. He's still a goat. It is not as big of a
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Melt as people might be suggesting because people don't understand what a baggy Hawaiian shirt is apparently
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However, like you take anybody with a sick physique and you put him in a baggy Hawaiian shirt and you're gonna
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Fuck him up in picks for sure like he's not gonna look great
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It's just how it is however he has absolutely lost a lot of size at the same time and
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It doesn't help that he just had a role and he's like out there promoting a role where he happens to be playing
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The most jacked character. He's ever played it essentially short of like the pain and gain role
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Which was over 10 years ago now and he is in his 50s
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So on an art like a
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Proportional perspective. This is like the most jacked relative to like brisk to reward profile role
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He's ever had and he's had the most significant decrease in size
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Perciprodously thereafter whereas typically he kind of like maintains
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Assemblance of what he was in the role if he played somebody who is you know a little bit more jack than what he normally walks around at
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But now he's showing up to this premiere or you know the promotion of it and looking not just like
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Typical which is like you know smaller than what he would in the movie because that's not unusual for him to you know
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Like cycle up and kind of gain a bit of mass and then kind of like you know deflate a bit
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But he actually looks more like gaunt in the face than probably ever before like this is him at peak
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There's a lot of people know him as and you know too a fault because this is what people will compare him
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to
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Unfortunately, which is not a sustainable you know physique whatsoever
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And this is what he got to in this role recently which is arguably like
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Striking distance of his best if not his best
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And then here is at the you know event in what was a
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Probably a poor strategic choice if he cared about was people judging you know the the physique and
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How much weight he's lost or if he's trying to look slimmer? I don't know, but I would imagine it's a
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Probably not given the fact that he's actually responding to comments in comments
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comments being made in videos
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critiquing his
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His you know weight loss essentially which we'll get too shortly where he actually responded to a guy who basically said he came off of
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Cycle and he's like you don't know what you're talking about and here he is at the event
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looking slim looking
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slender and
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probably the leanest face we've seen in
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I don't know like I can't remember a time when he looked this lean in the face since
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Maybe his like 30s, you know back when he actually was not the the rock as many know him as he was just like a
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Post I suppose transitioning out of wrestling if he even was but like trying to become like a
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Series actor but not yet at his transition point to like action star juicy juice rock
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He was just like rock rock whatever the fuck he would call him, but you get the point
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And then this is the one people are freaking out about too. It's like really lean
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Batista asks transformation at this point fortunately
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He didn't go dripped out in the Gucci like Batista
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Didn't look his feminine and like you know
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Accentuating his slunderness to the same degree, but it's kind of in the same vein here is and
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Man just look in a water depleted lean death face ask
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Fucking grim reaper cipher fucking ready to go buddy this guy is
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Looks like he should be stage ready if his face was an indication relative to you know
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What his face has been in previous years, which is housey like this was him you know not long ago with a lot of mass in the face
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And you show up to an event looking like this. We would assume you were like negative 10% body fat at this point
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It's pretty lean so
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he
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It's probably lost. I don't know 50 pounds. This is what a lot of people are saying. I don't know if it's that much personally
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But it's definitely a lot like the role he played he was achieving
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You know the representation of a MMA legend who was known for being a
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Sausphaned pre
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like juice
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regulation and also a guy who's a genetic freak for muscle building and
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Being jacked probably one of the most juicy guys ever in the sport and
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That guy I the craziest shit about it is the rock is doing it in his 50s playing a guy well by the way
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Like he is representing the role like
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Like a spitting image of a guy in his 20s who is a phenom on gear and then the guy who's that guy he's playing is
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Actually nearly the same age as the rock. I believe in real life
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Which is like the weirdest contrast ever you have a guy who's nearly the same age playing you when you're younger
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juiced and
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The guy is in his 50s, you know cranking his face off to get there and doing a good job at it like this is one of the
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Best for Zix he's had to date probably or at least the juiciest you could art, you know the subjective assessment of if it's the best is obviously
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Highly individual dependent, but anyway a lot of people are freaking out because this guy so slender now
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They're like what happened this guy lost it all and
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Is everything okay?
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Because it looks it's it's a pretty dramatic shift given he's literally promoting the movie as if it's something like a lot of
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People don't realize the production was filmed because this is the production schedule back in
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Filming dates were May 21st 2024 to August 1st 2024. So, you know the most I guess for recent he would have been
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mid
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Having to look like this is
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Over a year ago at this point. So it's been a minute like you're not gonna be sustaining that look
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past filming dates regardless and
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Even if there was no, you know like health concerns or anything that would have forced you to you know
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Like even guys who compete on stage at you know bodybuilding shows
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They're not gonna look like they do on stage even weeks after and they certainly haven't you know lost at all
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It's just a process of peaking for this role to look a certain way and then even if you're still you know
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Juiced out of your gourd. There's gonna be a deflation where you're not you know peaked
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You're not on camera in the prime condition
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You're also just not taking what you need to be to support it maximally
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But you could still easily be juicing your face off just proportionally less or so and not eating like you go
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You're gonna imagine the sketch is naturally gonna need a break too
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Even if he's still juicing thereafter and just by nature of taking a break which presumably he's doing to some extent
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You're gonna lose a fair bit. But this is like the territory of face mass loss is
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Almost representative of a guy who kind of like went nadi is what a lot of people in the you know fitness community even are kind of
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Perceiving because it's unusual to see him get that
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Water depleted looking to if we've ever even seen it like the last we saw him look like that is probably and obviously his age
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Is playing a factor too coupled with the fact that he's that much leaner. So it's exaggerating to an even more great
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Magnitude but this was him
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I think a lot of people don't realize that he actually used to look like this when he was younger
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He's aren't he's actually still more jack now than he was back then which you know
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Just goes to show that he definitely hasn't like gone off in my opinion or whatever you want to call it because who knows for sure
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What's going on?
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But this was him in his 20s just a fluffy, you know football player essentially who's
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Transitioning into being a pro wrestler or being a good pro wrestler and he's pretty pretty yolk here
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But they're after he transitions into you know more full-time acting I think and you kind of see it
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Play out in the face you see it here the cheekbones the
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Car V fucking jawline here and just the
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The appearance is not representative of
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Anything in recent memory of him from his 40s upwards to his recent 50s
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He played a guy in his early 30s rolls that looked more just like a well-built good
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Genetic guy who's fit, but not a guy that's actually going out of his way to enhance to look like the big like meathead
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Here is 32
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33 looking very lean 35
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Like these are if somebody saw that
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That plus like 18 years or whatever is essentially what you're seeing
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Physically at this event is like what I'm gathering like he looks more like a
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What he actually is supposed to look like pre like heavy rock juice era
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So it's not unusual for people who don't know that he actually is supposed to look like that but
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For people who know him to be
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You know the absolute behemoth that he often portrays himself to be on the big screen and shows on social media and his workouts and stuff
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You're gonna imagine where people are yeah, they're wearing some of the comments that you're seeing
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He is devolving from the rock to the stone to the people or pebble
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Watch this space 2030 trying to land Gandhi for his next film
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I'm surprised that nobody is saying he's a clone
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Maybe he realized that being juiced up the whole time wasn't doing his liver kidneys or heart any favors
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Bro looks like a turtle without a shell now lol. He is nothing without his muscles
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Jesus people is the same character in every single movie he does
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Comic-coma-coma-coma-coma that's the only unique thing he brings to the table
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He knows you can't survive being that big. He's a smart cat. He's going for preservation now
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This not at mad him to so's wax museum. Geez Tiffany fucking harshy when everyone is aging or some things our body limits us
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We have to accept the changes. It's called baggy clothes. It's not rocket science. Juan got it figured out buddy
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So I do think this was a pretty poor choice of wardrobe if he didn't want to exaggerate things it looks like almost
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Potentially like his suit hasn't been
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even
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You know tailored to his newly
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New low of body weight potentially, but the Hawaiian shirt bro like you know
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You're gonna get lit up by people who don't understand body composition when you're that lean and you're wearing a
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Biggie shirt like prepare to be told that you don't work out anymore like that is absolutely gonna happen
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Because people don't get it. It's shocking how many people don't get it too
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I guarantee you put this guy in the gym with some downloading get him a pump and he looks like
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Oh back on he's back on buddy when reality he's just still jacked
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He's just much less jacked and he was you know playing
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Mark Kerr who is an absolute house is he what he is typically in the off season?
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Probably not and that's where you're seeing the face which is unusual for him like I said
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But is it gonna be the norm? I don't know like to for him
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He's somebody who literally recently justified
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Bulking up to play what is potentially one of the biggest roles he's ever played ever and then
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In his early 50s you would imagine embarking on that when you are already like a billionaires essentially with
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You know infinite choices of things you could do with your life and you have a family relies on you
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Like are you gonna pick the most risky role you could be doing when you aren't confident that your body can sustain it like
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Probably not so I would imagine he's had some pretty in-depth
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Diagnostics to evaluate that this was you know something he could tolerate or had a high likelihood of tolerating well
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And that's what let him down this road and I imagine if he did that
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It won't be the last time you see him you know beef up a little bit for some role
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Is it gonna be to this degree? I don't know it's but there's a potential that this was such a good storyline as well for his
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Like legacy as an actor that it just coincided with the fact that it further like justified to him why he should
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Play the part extremely well, which does involve looking the part?
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So you know kudos to the commitment I suppose and he definitely nailed the look to be determined on the acting
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Which we will see you know shortly. I imagine but yeah, you know a lot of people are the expected comments
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You see left right in center on social media and this thing blew up
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Insanely big because he is a
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Prominent and outspoken I suppose well, he's not really a prominent fake natty, but he has essentially said
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Flat out that he is you know doesn't take gear or is you know
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I think the only admittance admitting he did to anything was
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You know I took something when I was in my teens and you know it was a
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Just like a random like pro hormone or something and that was it and
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Essentially has dodged it for his entire career if not outright kind of
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Said in a roundabout way that he doesn't do anything. That's where people kind of get on because it's like okay
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We're like sure this is all just you know natural of course lost 60 pounds because he's off the juice
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The internet did the same thing with Dave but he's to slim down to it's annoying
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I saw one tweet the rock is going viral after losing so much weight that he's in the early right unrecognizable
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Come on
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Dude you left out the most important thing. He stopped taking steroids not a normal 52 year old look
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He slimmed down because he had a blockage in his heart Jesus all of the years of steroids caught up to him fact
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He should come out and warn these kids of the dangers of steroids
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He doesn't appear to be this height 6.5
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His earliest and latest weight in WWE was 275 pounds and went up from there before and after juice simple explanation
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He was number 300 people didn't know the rock before he blew up in movies before fast and furious fast 5
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Duane's prime was this and this is the physique he's come
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Come back to you. That's what I'm saying man. Well look at this like he I bet you he's more jacked than he was here
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Right now in that Hawaiian shirt
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Might look a bit, you know like older age have a bit more, you know
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Sagi kind of skin and whatnot, but he's probably
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Still more jack than this you just can't really tell
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Because he's not really like doing himself justice walking around in that like this is him young rock who many would still say at the time like you're jacked
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proportionally so now they would be like wow you fucked up and lost everything but back then
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When put no one knew that he could have been this
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Absolute trucks they can have it was you know jacked by any normal person standards
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So where's that leave us it leaves the internet going ablaze with uh, you know speculation that he's dying with
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You know rumor mill goes where I is he downsizing forever because he wants to be taken seriously as an actor
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Is it a health scare is it a what it seems like there are a lot of news outlets that are kind of like coming to his defense
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I don't know if it's like a PR facilitated thing or on his just
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Buy them trying to pick up the story and have their own spin on it like one even said he slimmed down for the role
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It's like what are you talking about? He literally like gained copious amounts of muscle beyond what could ever be
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Justifiably
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Justified to do if it wasn't for you know being this character in the most pure essence like there's nothing healthy about what this is
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Like he gained insane amounts of juice muscle for sure at early 50s and
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He is tracking me actually commenting on some of it because I guess it is bothering him
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Which is interesting because typically he's never wanted to speak on these kind of matters
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But a fitness industry guy who does videos about you know harmonious and whatnot did his critique of the situation and
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The rock actually commented the rock has officially come off steroids now
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Love him or hate him this guy is on the top of the charts when it comes to fake natural
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He's right up there with my co-her however the show looks like it's finally coming to an end
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He recently found out that he had plaque built up in his circumflex artery from his decades of gear use now
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The reason why this plaque build up can be so fucking dangerous is because it can lead to heart-tacked strokes or
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Aneurysms, which is probably why he decided to hop off
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steroids in general especially when taking in high doses can't have an extremely negative effect on your cholesterol blood thickness and your blood pressure
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Which can accelerate plaque build up and obviously bro?
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You don't want this happening to you on your blast
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So that's what you're gonna do to make sure you prevent this from happening first off
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You want to make sure that your full support stack is in place in terms of your supplements
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You want to make sure that you got nati kinase caug 10 citrus bergamot all your fish oil and telmasartan as well
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You also want to make sure that you're keeping your fat under control
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Do not have a high body fat percentage when you're taking a blast and also make sure you're doing your cardio at least three times a week
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You also want to make sure that you're not combining parting with your fucking cycle
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Don't smoke excessively do not drink excessively do not combine parting with your fucking cycle bitch
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This can all accelerate plaque build up massively and you also want to make sure you're on top of your labs as frequent as possible at the bear minimum
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Get them done pre-med and post blasts, but if you can I'd get them done every couple weeks when you're starting out
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You want Jesus Christ? That's like super aggressive
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Like I get you know the
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risk a version for sure, but uh, that's that's even that's pretty frequent
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Also want to make sure you get your heart checked pre cycle get an echo and an EKG's is absolutely mandatory to make sure you don't have a
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Preexisting heart condition if all that shit's in check and you make sure you keep your dose as low
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You don't run toxic as fuck compounds like anodrol or trendy should be good to go
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But just keep in mind anything you take will come aside
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It's always be on top of your goddamn blood work and if you need help with your blossom specific
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Give me the fuck up. Let's get to work the rock is it dude. I was so fast paced. I was like trying to absorb everything and I just
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It's a holy shit. But anyway the rock. This is a hundred percent not true
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Like you imagine him just like sitting there watching this video just feeling what the fuck man
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This is bullshit. I got a comment on this one
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Of all the ones he has to comment on it and um, you know obvious obvious logical replies like no way real like why
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Why are you even here, you know? Can you smell what the rock is cooking LMFA of the rock has hurt
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Uh, so you know like what's not true?
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He's got a lot of things in here and I guess the main thing is right at the beginning
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He basically says before transitioning into you know what the precautionary measures are to avoid getting to the place that
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You know supposedly the rock is out where he's forced to cycle off because
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He's basically dying
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He is coming off because of that officially come off steroids now
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Love him or hate him this guy is on the top of the charts when he comes to fake natural
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He's right up there with my co-her however the show looks like it's finally coming to an end
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He recently found out that he had plaque built up in his circumflex artery from his decades of gear use
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So decades of hormonius
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Equal-ing plaque build up in your arteries and this is what he found out supposedly and now it's like
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He finishes this movie and now it's time to get healthy and stop uh, you know risking it for the biscuit or whatever
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The saying is is that a saying? I don't know. Just pop to my head though and
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He is
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Presumably, you know done forget you would think if this was indeed true
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He says this is 100% not true though
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And the clip he's referring to when he says the plaque build up. It's coming from I assume
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This podcast he did recently with doctor
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Mark
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Hyman and
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Basically, they talk about a preventative
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approach to
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Healthcare and staying on top of diagnostics and what you can learn from getting you know proactive blood work and a bunch of stuff that
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It's kind of odd for the rock to be doing something like this given. He is
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Typically averse to talking about anything related to something that could be like spun on him
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Like as far as I can tell he's pretty good at controlling the narrative of what he goes on like he's gonna make sure stuff doesn't come up
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Whether it's communicated beforehand or I don't know like I imagine he has a pretty
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rigorous approach to making sure he doesn't have to talk about steroids or
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Whatever but in here he's like coming on to talk about stuff that's wrong with him or he thought was wrong with him
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And it's kind of like sugar coated to whatever degree they want to do it
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Obviously because they're friends and this is supposedly his actual doctor
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But my interpretation of it is they kind of want to show that he get some value out of this
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Service that they provide which is like a typical kind of like a diagnostic service that you get some like
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You know take away as that can then be applied to optimize yourself and some people find more
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You know alarming genetic predispositions or problems. They had no way they had the ideas you if you get in front of it
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You avoid disease before you end up you know dealing with and trying to work backwards
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Which is far more difficult far more problematic and who wants to be
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You know in the dark on their health. It's best to be
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proactive and optimizing where you can to some degree obviously not to the degree of like fear mongering yourself into pursuing every little
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You know rabbit hole of you know blips that shows up
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But if you have reasonable
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Education going into and kind of know what you're looking for or have somebody educated on your side
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That you can trust that is not going to lead you astray. It can be quite a good thing
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My interpretation of this was probably that he is on here to help promote the service because I think he has an investor
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In the company. I believe they actually disclose that at some point during the show or at least they should have
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But investing in this company
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Obviously the upside for both of them mutually is to talk about his experience with it and like the value he got out of the service
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Which is fine, but it's like probably why this is the only time he's ever going to talk about this kind of stuff
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And they end up talking about his you know what they thought might have been athroes chlorosis
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being detected via
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You know what do they get like some typical kind of like proactive imaging which by the way when you are at this age like
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having a like good
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Cack score is not unusual so
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having some like
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But also to that effect having plaque
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At this age is not
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unexpected nor is it uncommon in fact it would be more
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likely that somebody would have plaque than not in their early fifties
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Just putting that pretence out there and we'll give context as to why and sick
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And I just I was never a medication guy like I wasn't taking any kind of medications or anything like that and even now
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As it relates to my heart, you know
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Oh, that was an interesting
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Intro to talking about it
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I just felt like stopping because that was a really weird
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Transition who basically says like I haven't taken any medications and then it's like for my heart. It's like
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I don't know like a is like a bit of a white lie sort of thing like how can I say I don't take medications when I'm like a literal
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Walking pharmacy for this movie I'm doing and then he just like the caveat is like for my heart
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I've actually never taken anything all of a sudden you're rolling along in life and things are good and then you reach your fifth level of life
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Like I get the sense the guy doesn't I could be wrong, but I get the sense he doesn't like to lie
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He's just very good like tactfully like almost like a politician
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maneuvering around the subjects in order to avoid lying
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That's at least my take like he gives
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Some like again, he's an actor for a living. So maybe I'm totally being you know, let us stray and by his
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impeccable acting skills, but I get the sense he doesn't want to like fly it out tell people lies
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So he just kind of like sugar coats and maneuvers very effectively
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Life and you realize that oh you're of age. Yeah, 53 now when you become 53
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And then so when you become of age, that's when all the tests start to happen, right?
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So the thing is is like typically people are not going to be doing preventative
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things for cardiovascular workups at like you know 50 years old
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Typically it's going to be
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Perceded by like an event like cardiovascular event is typically going to be what then yield at least you know
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With a reactive typical health care is going to be what then yields looking at this stuff more meticulously
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Or if you had you know family history and you kind of like new to be looking at the stuff
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But typically people are not going to be thinking I should be detecting you know like the emergence of plaque build up early on
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And seeing if I need to you know get in front of it with you know preventative medications and whatnot
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They guess on a typical approach
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So for him like this is representative of somebody who's trying to be proactive in a what I would say is a good way
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But it's a unique
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Not typical way and
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Not necessarily something that like everyone has the financial means to facilitate because he's going to be talking shortly about
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You know imaging he got done and then like as a follow-up to that subsequent like AI
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Like assessed more meticulous imaging with a new cardiologist coming into evaluate it and
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You know reinterpretations of things, but anyway, I digress and I'll let him finish her
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Okay, where's a colonoscopy line? Let's do that. Hey, here's the cardiovascular workup. And that's by the way
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That's not to say that this isn't a good idea to do a lot all the stuff he's saying is like a good idea to do
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It's just the the cardiovascular thing is like often
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quite neglected
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because people don't realize
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how
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Prevalented is and how early it starts the leading cause of death in the US is still hard disease and
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Within that the subsect of the cause of that hard disease is
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most often going to be
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Atroschlerosis so plaque build up in the arteries and this is something that manifests early in life like as early as you know
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Like teenage hood you start to stack plaque in your arteries and most people are not exempt from this
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Even metabolically fit individuals a lot of them will still have some level of plaque
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Accumulation and this will be present at some
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Small quantities likely in your fifties or significant quantities depending on how genetically
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Pronear diet model metabolic health etc exercise all the basics, but also
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there is a
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kind of inevitable component of
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The main causes of death which is essentially hard disease and cancer that you are almost certainly at some point
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Going to succumb to one of those two things and the probabilities at least in the states are
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It's going to be more than likely hard disease and as somebody who is a massive human with more stress to actually
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Facilitate heart functionality than normal person as well as
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exposing themselves to
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Hormone that do cause dyslipidemia and oxidative stress and things that are at a super like risk level and can cause
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a more problematic
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Environment for developing hard disease. It's something to be on top of
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Very early if not you know avoid entirely to avoid that extra risk layered on top of what is already the leading cause of death among
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Natural because you have to keep in mind too. This is
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Ultimately going to be the thing that kills most people even those who don't use steroids
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So although it is something that is worth calling out
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For hormone users it is something that should not be neglected or ignored by the
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Normal person who does not use their roads even people who are otherwise you know
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Exercising think they're in great health. It is not unlikely that you will still succumb to hard disease
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Later in life, you know the probabilities are in the favor of that you probably will and avoiding that can be
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Facilitated through proactive oversight of this stuff in particular
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Athrogenic burden potential and also blood pressure modulation and some of this low hanging fruit stuff
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But this that he's about to get into is it's interesting because he basically says they know his plaque in his arteries
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And a lot of people took that and ran with it and basically said the guy is dying and he's gonna have a heart attack
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And is wise getting off but there's a bit more to it
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Let's look at the heart and let's look at all the valves and things like that
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So when I was looking at the valves and this was
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A little bit before you and I met yeah, but just as we met yeah, I was looking at the valves
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And I had a complete cardiovascular work up and everything and it looked great
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Thank God knock on with and then there was what looked to be
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um
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What looked to be some what looked to be some stuff inside that like a buildup of like a buildup of what they thought was plaque
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What they thought was plaque in the circumflex valve in the artery. Yeah, in the artery right and um
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And even know what that I never even heard of that
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That sounds cool around the back of your heart. Now I know that right
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I always hear the the main two. Yeah, that's what you hear. Yeah, but for those listening like me
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I was unaware that we also have a really important one
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That goes around the back the circumflex
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There was some buildup or so they thought and then when we looked at that on the old school
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Traditional MRI and the scans it looked like I had built up and then immediately the call to action was all right
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Well, let's get you on this medication
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It's a multi-month medication and here we go. We got to get on it right away and I thought God
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And I was so hesitant because I wasn't taking in medication. So then I called you
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Yeah, and I said doc listen here's what I got. I'm not inditing anybody. I'm not throwing anybody under the bus, but
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What do you think? Yeah, and here's what their suggestion is and again, I'll never forget on that zoom
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You went okay hold on hold on
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Let's not jump to conclusions. I don't want you getting on that right now. Don't get on the medication
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Uh, there's a couple of steps here. I think that we can do that could be invaluable for it for example
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Let's get a scan done, but let's get an AI scan done. Yeah, that is incredible and I said okay
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We got the scan done you sent it to your guy and and then it came back and you know, it was almost like
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You know, when you hear a song for the first time you're like, oh, we fuck. I love that song. That sounds great
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So I remember when you told me you said hey look
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Here's the report from our cardiale our head cardiologist is a very good friend of yours. Yeah said um that he said
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Looks great. It is just an anatomical thing that's happening back there. It's not built up at all. Yeah, it's valves look great
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Come back in three years and what was amazing was you know your your cholesterol is actually
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Pretty good. I mean you had you had low HGL genetically, which is the poke good cholesterol. Mm-hmm. It's a little oversimplification, but
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You know, we did a deeper panel of your cardiopastor risk factors
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We looked at things like apob which is now being declared as this sort of the best biomarker for your heart
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Which again most doctors don't they don't do that right? No, we looked at your you know insulin metapolocal
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You know blood sugar insulin which nobody really looks at me or insulin resistance score, which was perfect
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You didn't really have any of the risk factors your inflammation level was super low
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Interesting that that is noticed. He says HDL was genetically low. It's like
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How did you determine that like the guy obviously came to you relatively recently and has been on hormones probably for years
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Like he has a low HDL because it's like the number one
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Thing that happens when you take gear that's reflected in biomarkers with exception of like the crushing of genetic opens
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You will have suppressed HDL
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So I thought that was an interesting like caveat. He's like it's genetic
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Not just you have low HDL. He probably knows that the endergenius will
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Have that on your blood work to give him a little bit of a cop out there, but
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Regardless interesting. So it's not always going to be something that is
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Incredibly like he basically got a second opinion in this guy like totally disagrees with the first guy
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It's highly likely that you could have had a third guy come in and say you know the first guy was probably right for all we know
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Interestingly though to me more so than the the HDL thing is the fact that he is
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Speaking about this anatomical
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unique like structural abnormality that is not that's getting confused for plaque accumulation
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If this was something you had done before like presumably
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This is something that would have been noticed because it wouldn't have been changing if it was an anatomical like
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Very unique structural thing inherent to your your body
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This would have been picked up before if he had ever had preventative screening done by his account
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He is suggesting that he's never had brought like screening done
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Despite the fact that he is the highest paid athlete. Oh my athlete
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Actor on the planet. I believe a guy who is one of the highest paid and
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One of the most who needs to rely on being like a big jacked
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Probably on hormones guy to be that most paid actor
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And yet at his in his 50s he had not even had the screening done like it just goes to show like a lot of people are always like
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Oh, you know these people have the best trainers and they have the best this and they have the best that they have the best access to this and that
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It's like oftentimes despite the fact that they have all this money and all these resources. They like
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There's no one in their camp that's like actually
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Properly advising how to be thorough and diligent and then it just goes unchecked because they don't even know
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They should be checking this stuff until they're you know like quote unquote old enough or whatever
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Like the guy has been exposing himself to huge risks fluctuating body weights
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Using significant amounts of hormones probably eating 6,000 to 8,000 calories today supposedly which is absolutely not
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You know going to be healthy for you ultimately the fact that he had not actually done any sort of like imaging until that point
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It's pretty fucking wild to me like there are guys now who are
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educated and being as careful as possible
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Getting imaging done as early as like their 20s to make sure that they have
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Don't have any predispositions or problems before they actually go down the route of enhancements because they're you know
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Serious about competing or what have you and you have a guy like the rock who's 50
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You know probably when he did this or whatever because relatively recently and he's you know 53 now I think
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And he still hasn't even fucking checked, you know his heart like that's crazy
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He's that basic blood work and whatnot it sounds like but not actual
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Imaging done to see it or there any structural defects have I actually caused any like you know cardiac remodeling that is going to be detrimental
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Is there anything that should preclude me from ever doing this you know like it is it's crazy to me because you would have
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Somebody would have picked that up if that was done before like it would have been identified
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Misidentified as black if that's actually what would happen or somebody would have identified that was like a weird structural thing
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So you know that was kind of baffling to me and but you know he got it done great
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And if he is indeed like plaque free as they are suggesting that would actually put him in like a rare kind of like
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Probably like a unique uncommon subsect of the population of uh, you know the the US essentially where he's actually
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More healthy from a plaque accumulation standpoint or a you know
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Athariclerosis potential standpoint
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then the majority of
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People in the country because at that point if you are getting like the most rigorous of testing done
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And you're seeing nothing at all if it was actually properly evaluated by somebody who's like not just trying to tell him what he wants to hear
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Like you would expect plaque buildup by your fifties like even if you're not on gear
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So the fact if it is indeed true like that's in my opinion would kind of lead to the conclusion that he's probably like
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I could probably do more of this shit
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I can probably you know do more of these roles in the future and maybe he just wants a break and that's why he's smaller now
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You know like he's just you might he it's possible that he is
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downsizing
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Periodically and we'll blast back up again because he's had this you know like clean bill of health
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But who knows I do think that it's overblown, you know the size loss
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I do think that it's unique though. He has definitely shot down to something that is
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oddly gaunt relative to his previous you know like off seasons
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But he is also getting older and in general
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It's also gonna be harder to hold that mass even when you're on or moan still
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I'm not saying that he's still blasting what he is the water attention or lack there of what suggests otherwise
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But I don't think it was the last of him, you know
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Beafin it up for rules and I think that if this is not just like a puff-piece slash sugar coated
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Saggment and indeed this was what his cardiovascular workup showed like if anything he's probably being
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Green lit to keep pushing. Hey, he's looking at guys like oh her and he's like this guy still fucking cranking
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And he's what going to 16 he's like not even a tenth of an actor. I am so like obviously if he justifies it
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I should do that, you know like why would you not so there's a lot of uh
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You can imagine this guy is at the prime of his life for career potential
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cementing your legacy if you get a clean bill of health for
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ASCVD potential and
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You otherwise have no concerns from like a cardiovascular
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Structural standpoint. You don't have high blood pressure. You don't have sleep apnea. It's being everything's taken care of from a
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Anatomical standpoint like this guy's like fuck. I just got to avoid cancer and I can uh
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Saus my face off again, you know, that's what I would imagine
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Even the fluctuating of body weight though in itself is unhealthy and it's gonna continue to be more difficult to push
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Up and down the way he is and I imagine is still a matter of time before he goes full bettist on us and kind of just
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Colesy quits, but even bettist that recently I think he justified going up to what like 300
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Like he got not just jack. He got like fat from what I recall
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um for a role and
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He deemed it worthwhile and then you know came back down after well he do that again
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I don't know
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But I imagine if a good enough opportunity came up and he had a clean bill of health like this supposedly
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He probably would let me know you guys think
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worthwhile stupid as the sked done for good is he now going to become a
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Method actor who relies solely on his skills or is he gonna have to sauce it up again
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