171: How to Lose Fat, Smash Weight Loss Plateaus, and Age-Proof Your Body | Sal di Stefano

I believe the last statistic I saw showed that... a 26-year-old male today, on average, has the testosterone levels of a 60-year-old male in the 80s ... No form of exercise reliably raises testosterone like resistance training. In fact, resistance training not only raises low testosterone, but it raises high testosterone. So, no matter where your testosterone levels are, you're going to get higher levels typically if you train with resistance properly.

What form of exercise teaches my body to burn more calories? ... Through the adaptation process, what form of exercise directly combats all these modern health issues that we're all going to be running into? And when you look at it that way, there's one form of exercise that stands head and shoulders above the rest—and that's resistance training.

Telling a person with obesity that a calorie deficit is the way to a healthier weight is the same thing to me, identical, to telling somebody who's stuck in poverty that the way to get out of poverty is with a money surplus.

We often give infants starches as some of their first foods, but they actually break down meats better than starches. Proteins and fats, so like pureed meats or fats [and] avocados, are probably better for infants.

Proper full range of motion resistance training is the best form of exercise... for improving functional flexibility.

A simple strength test is one of the best single metrics that can predict all-cause mortality.

It doesn't matter what form of exercise I recommend to you; the one that you like is the one that you'd be most consistent at.

Two days a week of traditional resistance training for the average person is plenty to give the kind of results and benefits that were talking about it.

There's no form of exercise that will stop or reverse osteopenia like resistance training. There's just nothing like it.