Are There Best Foods For Muscle Growth And Fat Loss?

25 August 2025


Are There Best Foods For Muscle Growth And Fat Loss?



Do the specific foods you eat actually matter for best results at the gym?

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hey folks Dr Mike here for Renaissance periodization must eat Foods Foods you have to have in order to have a healthy diet they're not that's BS why so you'll hear folks say quite regularly that these are must eat foods and if you ever go to the grocery store and if you ever so much as look at the magazines in the aisle the little various uh previews of what's inside the covers almost always have like three foods your body craves when you're dieting five foods you have to eat for good health and it's like it's shock value it's like oh Adam am I missing something but is it true we have Foods you know that make the rounds of you know these are the healthy foods you have to have avocados there's been like five different resurgences of like honor avocados like so healthy like I eat avocado toast like hourly totally that's a thing kiwis kiwis the healthiest food in the world it's got all these nutrients how can you spare yourself these nutrients uh carnivore folks we'll say beef you gotta eat beef they'll eat like a 95 beef diet okay is it really true that we have to have beef right some health authority will say yes that's the case and we'll say yes kiwis and yes avocados but it's not actually true and it's so not true that there are entire food groups that we encourage you to eat as people who actually know nutrition and because they're great and nutritious and convenient and healthy and increase the variance of your diet but even these major food groups you don't have to eat and you can be healthy completely without them for example grains you can eat a totally grain-free diet and be as healthy as a clam and are clams healthy they're certainly happy because they're smiling uh uh you don't have to eat grains straight up you don't have to eat fruits you can eat veggies grains Meats or lean proteins and then just never eat fruit and be the healthiest you've ever been in your entire life and you don't even have to eat meat when you look at the kinds of folks that vegans used to be in the 90s and early 2000s before the vegan junk food industry was born they were some of the healthiest people on the planet they ate no meat ever if you take the right vitamin supplements and things like that alongside you never have to eat meat you'll be all trial for the rest of your life so these are huge groups you don't have to eat I really think that within one of these groups or another of these major food groups there's if we say it's it's true that you don't have to eat any fruits at all and still be completely healthy if you'd like is it could possibly even theoretically be true that you have to have kiwis which are one type of fruit who knows how many other fruits you also have to have what's the probability that you only have to have kiwis I mean Jesus Christ there's like like I don't know hundreds of thousands of or at least hundreds of and probably thousands of different fruits that humans eat is it really like one of them you have to eat well no we know already the entire category you don't have to eat so it's probably like oh there's a 50 that you have to eat in a category which you don't have to eat any of them how does that make any sense the nutrients you actually need can come from a huge variety of different foods and if they don't come from one side of that variety they can come from the other because your body is profoundly good at extracting the nutrients it needs from the foods that are available that doesn't mean you go on a starvation Elimination Diet of three things but if it's like 20 things your body's pretty damn good at getting it out your body is designed by Evolution you're a Survivor you are a descendant of folks that have faced intermittent starvation for six million years of human evolution so if there's nutrients in it your body will find it it digests almost everything inside of food it will grab every nutrient it needs and lots of foods have so many bases of nutrients covered you don't need to eat 50 different kinds of foods to be like this a nutrient I get from kiwis and I've got to have beef to get this there's tons of nutrients to go around you you really only need a certain amount minimum of proteins carbs and fats and if you consume most of those through healthy sources like if you have some whole grains some veggies some fruits any one of those three you're pretty good to go and if you have some kind of lean proteins and maybe take a multivitamin every day your bases are covered you get enough complete proteins from your food enough essential fats from your fats and kind of everything on top of that is BS so don't worry about Foods you have to eat next time you're walking down the grocery store aisle and you get to the cash register if there's a magazine that says like hey look you've got to eat Twinkies that'd be kind of sweet like Hey listen I'm buying one now you said enough apples I must eat Foods you know star fruit a lot of times it's like exotic fruit Foods they get you with they're like dragon fruit the new health Elixir no no it's just some shit you guys have never heard of so it looks exotic and people in the Philippines it grows in their yard and they eat it they're like that's fine and it does taste good anyway go eat something that tastes good and don't worry about that it's saving your life just eat well and you'll be totally fine everything else is bullshit then get out of here go eat dragon fruit now take a flight to the Philippines now yay so yeah

#Foods #Muscle #Growth #Fat #Loss

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44 Comments
  1. Starfruit rules tastes like candy

  2. Tried all the hacks. ice baths, preworkouts, even dopamine detoxes. none of it clicked. I felt so tired everyday. then someone dropped Testosterone Rewired by David Brooks in a comment and I checked it out. been locked in ever since. no hype, just clarity. wild how long I was running on fumes.🔥

  3. Super explained!!! I learn something new about healthy eating every time thanks to your content.

  4. Would be awesome if Dr.Mike did a whole video with his Arnold impersonation 😂

  5. Hey doc, is it true that chewing more will make you feel full faster? If so would chewing gum be good to fight cravings?

  6. A healthy varied diet. Who knew!!

  7. Vegans have never been known as the healthiest people ever, not even in the 90’s or early 2000’s. That’s bs Mike. They definitely liked to scream the loudest about their supposed healthiness, but their words and their results always showed two vastly different pictures.

  8. Horrable Advice !!! U Think U No A Lot ! I DNT listen to u long / I can't take it !!!
    But U Do Not No🚫 Nutrition I never paid attention to ur training !!! IDK!!
    But Nutrition I Hope No 1/ Listen to this Advice !!! 38 yrs Experience I No wht I'm talking about 💪🧠

  9. Exodus 20:7 KJV

    [7] Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

  10. I seem to gravitate right now toward:

    1.) Eggs 🥚
    2.) Chicken 🍗 (drumsticks)
    3.) Beef 🥩
    4.) Pork/ Bacon 🥓
    5.) Shrimp 🍤
    6.) Peanuts 🥜
    7.) Pistachios
    8.) Cashews
    9.) Oranges 🍊/Tangelos
    10.) Grapes 🍇
    11.) Apples 🍎
    12.) Cherries 🍒
    13.) Green Beans 🫛/Peas
    14.) Onions 🧅
    15.) Lettuce 🥬
    16.) Celery
    17.) Carrots 🥕
    18.) Broccoli 🥦
    19.) Cauliflower
    20.) Kale 🥬
    21.) Cilantro 🌿
    22.) Limes 🍋‍🟩
    23.) Asparagus
    24.) Spinach
    25.) Avocado 🥑
    26.) Water 💧

  11. Absolute waste of time talking in circles

  12. Kirkland frozen broccoli that comes in microwaveable steam bags is a godsend during a diet. Eat one of those a day and you’ll struggle to meet your deficit calories.

  13. With creatine I can now out-fart my dog and even better, my farts smell worse than the dog's.

    And my doctor tells me I can now live almost as long as my dog will live.

  14. I REALLY DIDN'T LIKE YOU AT ALL…

    Now that was a year and 35kg ago..

  15. Completely ignored vits and minerals and antioxidants

  16. hahahahahah i love his voice

  17. So refreshing to see sensible experts in the space.

  18. What about boneless chicken wings,chicken strips. My guilty pleasure

  19. Multivitamin everyday is the bs. I don't think you should be just blindly swallowing stuff that you do not need. As far as my understanding goes 99% of our health problems connected to nutrition are caused by over consumption of food not by lacking something.

  20. Bullshttt go eat some dragon fruit! 😂

  21. You can just eat supplements pills and powders ….. 😆🤮.

  22. That was a pretty legit Arnie impression 😅

  23. Enjoy your sense of humor! And your common sense.

  24. cheetos hagen das milkshake

  25. I been on a rice chicken and sometimes broccoli diet for two months now. Best diet I ever been on @ 1200 calories a day .

    To maintain I would need to eat 3900 just for math purposes I add that in.

  26. LOL his brainrotted TikTok voice when he talks about avocado shills

    If the avocado gives you energy you do you, just don't shill it

  27. Does anyone know what watch he’s wearing?

  28. Yeah, it was all Kale and Quinoa a few years back. I still refuse to eat those, just because they were being pushed so hard!

  29. I'm soon to turn 65 and I'm happy I discovered your channel. I had to go on a serious health recovery phase due to stress induced IBS. The intestinal issues forced a complete change of diet (pain is a hell of a motivator) and my GP put me on TRT as my test levels were in my boots. I'm 5'7" and shrinking but at my worst I was around 200 pounds and sickly. From the diet alone I'm now 165, shredded and turning heads at the gym as the old fart with muscles. This was possible only because of the diet. It's a diet that is for a lifetime, not temp. That diet is exactly as you are promoting. Simple common sense good food with no excess.
    PS: My wife of 35 years is a beautiful Filipina and …. screw the starfruit … MANGOS!!!!!

  30. People not eating meat at all does not make you healthy. Depriving yourself of meat will cause your body to develop health issues and this has been proven by vegans going without meat for many years. Your body literally starts to shut down. Humans must eat meat to survive and maintain a healthy state meat is one of the essential foods fact.

  31. High Carb in my experience is crap and does not work.

  32. To be fair he's hit the nail on the head also people saying gotta eat 250-300g of protein a day to get gains is a load of shit you only need roughy 0.7g of protein per pound of weight to optimise growth in a 24 hour window and your diet doesn't have to be spot on like it was stated your body is an absolute machine at getting all its nutrients it needs long as you eat well drink plenty of fluids and train hard you will be laughing

  33. Chicken, rice, broccoli. Got it. Was gonna do that anyway

  34. Whilst not essential like complete proteins and monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, I would consider fiber as very important,. Yes you can live without but lack of fiber and effect on gut flora never mind risk of colorectal cancer means everyone should ensure they have enough (& gradually introduced if not used to it)

  35. The must eat protein source is long pork.

  36. This guy looks like a bottle of trt ready to explode

  37. There are foods high in protein, in a nutshell

  38. top sirloin and blueberries actually ARE super foods.

  39. You don't have to eat meat, but if you don't you probably have bigger problems than a poor diet. 😂

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