Thirty minutes into the ADCC final, Gavin Corbe was running on nothing. Watching the clip back, he says his eyes looked like he was in REM sleep. The only thing keeping him in the match was his brother DeAndre and Greg yelling from the corner, like someone mashing a button on a controller until it finally went through. He'd already decided the match was ending in that overtime, one way or another.

He came out the other side with silver and a new limit. As he jokes, he unlocked his third lung. Anything under 30 minutes is easy now.

Gavin and I break down the whole run: getting in through trials, cutting from 162 to 145 in under three weeks, why he attacks the legs in sub only, and the pacing mistake he'll only make once. They also get into toughness being relative to what you've already survived, why combat sports expose a kind of hunger and fatigue most athletes never feel, and why he's not chasing a strength program anytime soon.

Plus Black Box, coaching alongside DeAndre, the falling out that made them closer, and a weight cut story from a Polish sauna house that has to be heard to be believed.

He closes on something more athletes need to hear: grappling is what he does, not who he is.

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Dr. Anthony Beck is back for round two, and this one runs even longer than the first. He opens with the litmus test he uses to separate real medicine from what he calls "a story wearing a lab coat": can the claim be proven wrong? From there he and I work through why individualized care isn't an excuse to throw out population data, what it means when a patient's story and the lab data disagree, and why he doesn't care about a person's credentials if the information they're sharing is actually good.

The back half is a full GLP 1 breakdown: the real differences between semaglutide, tirzepatide, and the triple agonist retatrutide (receptor targets, weight loss percentages, and who tends to do better on which), plus the four things he insists anyone on these drugs needs to be doing (protein, fiber, hydration, and resistance training) even though none of it was tested in the original trials. We also get into whether obesity qualifies as a disease, how to calculate protein off lean body mass instead of total weight or some made up "ideal" number, and my own story of dialing back a five day lifting split for jiu jitsu, then watching my Dexa scan show a lean mass drop I had to learn not to panic about.

Then it turns candid: why Dr. Beck was one of the first in functional medicine to publicly question the COVID vaccine rollout, the FDA, Lancet, and JAMA Cardiology documents he points to now, the citations that quietly disappeared from his own graduate research, and the Commerce Clause argument behind why he thinks the mandates were never really about health. He closes on why "biological age" tests are mostly theater and his own philosophy on choosing which pain is worth living with.

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Dr. Anthony Beck (ND, DOM) has spent three decades working in nutrition, biochemistry, and functional medicine with the special operations community, including the late Navy SEAL Mike Day. He's the author of Beyond the Scale and the nearly 800 page Borrowed Signals, and he built Balance Protocol GPS, a self directed lab and coaching program built around his 150 biomarker Neutral Core X panel.

This one goes deep on peptides and GLP-1 medications: what a peptide actually is (a "borrowed signal," not a molecule with a mechanism of action like aspirin), why so many people run them with zero baseline testing and get nothing out of it, and why sourcing, almost everything traces back to China regardless of the label, is the real risk rather than the peptide itself. Dr. Beck breaks down the frameworks he uses to cut through health misinformation, "category of one," "context cubed," and "Q squared M squared," and applies them to LDL cholesterol, hemoglobin A1C, and the four non negotiables (protein, fiber, hydration, and resistance training) anyone on a GLP-1 needs to hit to avoid losing muscle along with the weight.

We also get into why he was one of the first doctors to publicly question the COVID vaccine timeline back in March 2020 and the backlash that followed, his myth busting take on glyphosate, and why he thinks the carnivore and vegan camps are equally dogmatic.

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