Taking fitness or nutritional advice from a bodybuilder is like taking financial advice from SBF.
Even with steroids you have to know what you're doing exercise/nutrition wise to get impressive results (and still need good genetics).
But a lot of people lie about steroids, I mean look at Hollywood - The Rock claiming natural at his age is just. It's definitely setting up wrong expectations for people.
At any rate, one thing that took me a while to realize when I was starting out lifting - BB advice is specific to highly trained people/bodybuilders.
Like "you can't gain muscle and lose fat". You absolutely can if you're high body fat % and untrained. If you're getting close to 10% BF - not as efficient even with steroids - that's why they cycle bulk/lean. But if you're just getting into shape - cycling will probably mess with your metabolism.
Any professional athlete is probably a terrible role model for healthy lifestyle.
This reminded me of a pro cyclist write-up where they regretted the absence of oral hygiene… years of glucose gel being squirted into their mouths at intervals for hours and hours every day. cringe
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2018/jun/high-levels-oral-disease...
But we can be fairly sure that his transformation which looks to be a pretty center of the bell curve for people who are admittedly on steroids is in fact a far right tail case of the bell curve of people who do not take steroids, because that’s what scientists do right, assume the unlikely over the likely in cases where the prior would suggest the straight forward answer right?
What transformation are we talking about ? Due has been lifting since teens and posted pics AFAIK. Haven't followed that part of his career TBH.
Anyway the dude looks like upper limit natty - maybe he's on TRT maybe he isn't - his advice is mostly research based and he's basically the guy shitting on FOTM diets.
To get impressive results yes, but not to get results: https://fitness.stackexchange.com/a/19397
> There have been documented tests that show steroid use without weight training will still increase your muscle mass just as someone who workouts and doesn't use steroids.
The ones not promoting heavy meat diets are generally recommending (and/or shilling) supplements of nutrients you get for free on a heavy meat diet, such as protein shakes and creatine powder.
There is a solid evidence base for creatine - it's one of the only supplements that actually has a decent evidence base. It's also relatively cheap and generic brands work.
Generally with the fitness industry, the key is looking for the quality sources of information. There are some good resources out there focussed on an evidence based and naturals or being open & transparent with information about "the dark side"...
- SSD abel - Geoffrey Verity Schofield - Team 3DMJ - Dr Mike Israetel - Stronger by Science - Brains and Gains with Dr. David Maconi
Also.....one of the biggest benefits of regular exercise and lifting for me personally is the mental health side of things. Really can't overstate this.
Requiring every nutrient to come from food seems arbitrary, especially with nutrients that tend to be added to the product upstream, like supps given to animals or vitamin D in milk.