Doctor Reacts To MrBeast Weight Loss Video

So Mr.

Beast trapped a guy in a circle until he lost 100 pounds.

This is gonna be a wild adventure, but we're gonna hear from Madge himself.

So stick around for that.

Let's get started.

Be whoop.

I'm not gonna lie, hearing about this concept for the very first time when I heard about it, I'm concerned because you wanna A, actually help the person get to a healthy weight in a healthy way.

You also wanna make sure you're sending the correct signal to the world about what is the healthy way to lose weight.

And we've seen with prior weight loss shows like The Biggest Loser, where people crash dieted down to a ridiculous weight only to have regained the weight because they didn't actually instill healthy habits in them.

So I'm curious how this will go.

I'm skeptical, worried, but optimistic.

This is my friend, Madge, and if he loses 100 pounds in the next year, I will give him a quarter of a million dollars.

100 pounds in one year, there are 52 weeks in a year, two pounds a week.

It's a lot, it's fast, but I wouldn't categorize this as the most extreme form of weight loss.

What do I want for breakfast?

Ooh, you know what?

Could make an omelet.

Going from PB and J's, energy drinks.

Wait, he has his own supermarket?

That's really cool.

First breakfast of many.

I wonder if he's making these choices himself because what's on the plate there looks extremely healthy.

They look like they're good choices.

but it's not just about getting the right micronutrients and macronutrients, it's also about making sure the caloric numbers are correct because the calories represent energy.

So you can eat healthy, but if you over consume calories, that's not gonna help you lose weight.

He just started working out, and I think he's already going to bed.

I mean, he's doing 135 on an incline bench.

That's not easy.

That's tough for a lot of people.

I think it's hitting him just how hard this is gonna be, which is why we got him a trainer.

I'm gonna go introduce him.

This is your personal trainer, Coach Wong.

You're about to get me shredded, huh?

Yes, sir.

About to lose this belly?

Yep.

He seems excited.

For the first time in his life, he was learning how to eat healthy.

Coach cooking today, he's teaching me how to grill.

That's good, right?

That sounds good.

The plan your trainer laid out for you, you've been completing up to 18,000 steps per day.

I have a love-hate relationship with step counters because some people take it too far.

I think locking in on the steps per day can perhaps create a toxic relationship with exercise.

Just in general, staying mobile and then

perhaps logging your miles, your weight training, things that are perhaps higher intensity, I feel like is a better strategy.

Lifting five days a week.

Correct.

And you've only been eating 2,500 calories a day?

Eating 2,500 calories a day for him and his size, I don't remember exactly his weight, is definitely at a deficit.

So he's gonna be losing weight, especially if he's exercising on top of it.

So you gotta make sure you're consuming your proteins there.

And now it's time for your first monthly weigh-in.

Single weigh-ins are not incredibly useful.

I get why Jimmy's doing this for the video, but your weight will fluctuate and it will fluctuate based on many factors, how much exercise you did, your water status, the food you consumed before, stress levels, microbiome changes.

So I like getting an average taken at the same time over the course of a couple of days or maybe several days.

That way you get a sense of where the trend is going.

You lost 20 pounds.

So 20 pounds in 30 days is quick.

That being said, he may have weighed in very bloated, very heavy after a large meal at the end of a day.

All those factors are gonna play a big role on that first weight loss.

Your first challenge is on day 60, after your second monthly weigh-in, for every pushup you can do, I will add $1,000 to the prize pool.

So if you do 100 pushups, I'll give you $100,000.

Wow, straight 100 pushups is gonna be hard at that weight.

If I'm trying to get better at pushups, I would start a progression where you're starting perhaps on your knees in order to be able to get the maximum number of reps in before muscle failure.

I mean, if you're doing 10 and you're failing, that's gonna be not only demotivating, but not allowing you to get a little bit of cardio work out there as well.

All right, first smoothie ever.

Literally first smoothie that I have ever made in my entire life.

Protein scoop.

Weight protein is a good way to increase someone's protein intake without adding calories.

The thing with smoothies, and juice is probably worse than smoothies, is you can easily over consume fruit.

Like if you're trying to make a orange juice in a glass,

It's conceivable that you use so many oranges that now your sugar intake is absolutely through the roof.

I prefer to eat the fruit.

And there is something to be said about the act of chewing.

The act of chewing impacts how your body metabolizes those ingredients.

And when you're thinking about benefits of fruits, you're thinking about fruits that have high fiber content.

So ideally you wanna shift to berries.

They have a little bit lower sugar content, better fiber profile.

So that's a direction I wanna go into.

Now pushing your body to its limits every single day isn't healthy.

So we made sure Madge took rest days and got weekly checkups from a doctor monitoring his progress.

Oh, that's awesome that they're thinking that far ahead.

I was actually kind of worried about that because rest days are absolutely crucial and you should have variations in your intensity and your training.

Like for example, if you're trying to run faster, you want to have times where you're doing tempo runs a little bit quicker.

You want to have endurance runs.

You wanna have days where you're just walking and you're having recovery days.

And then there's a day where you just shut it all off and don't do anything.

$1,000, $2,000, $3,000.

Jimmy, stop with the money.

I will say that's really motivational probably.

I would have given him that 32, or at least give him 500 bucks.

Your next challenge, every dollar you can carry for a lap around this building, I will add it to your prize pool.

How long is that circle?

You might get greedy and you might try to carry $500,000, but you can't make it all the way through and then you lose.

Oh, so there's a little bit of strategy here.

Coach wants me to emulate how it would be for me to carry duffel bags full of money.

Yeah, endurance is going to be a big factor.

When you're working out, training hard is always going to be beneficial, but you want to think about the variations in that training.

Set counts, rep counts, not allowing your body to plateau.

Even though he's on day 63, this is all new to his body.

His whole body is in a state of shock.

With Madge progressing so much in his workouts, Coach's incredible impact on his life was so great that he became a member of the family.

And because their bond was so powerful, what came next was the worst thing that's ever happened in one of my videos.

I did hear about this, and this is tough because I don't know a lot of the details, but I've seen the headlines.

Hey, how's it going?

Hello, right?

Yeah.

How you doing?

Are you talking on fire?

No.

This is bad.

No, I wish that's what I was telling you, to be honest.

But I do have really unfortunate news.

I hate to be the person to tell you this.

Coach Ball was found dead in the park yesterday.

No.

No, man, no.

No, don't lie to me, no.

I like Will's approach here, offering the hug, saw that there was huge emotion and immediately backed off and just gave a supporting hand.

Very high level there from a clinician standpoint.

Staying quiet and allowing a person to process, answering any questions is very valid here.

Very good job by Will.

You also have to take into consideration that he's been living in isolation and only seeing his coach.

That's heavy to develop that sort of bond with someone and lose a loved one.

The loss of a loved one is actually called bereavement.

Your reaction to that bereavement is called grief.

I have to really remind, not just my patients, but you at home that bereavement and the grief that comes after bereavement

is not a psychiatric condition.

It can become one in that it can create a condition known as prolonged grief disorder, but on its own, it's part of normal living and dying.

So it's not mandatory to do psychotherapy, counseling,

medications during an acute grief episode, just being surrounded by family, loved ones, if you're religious, some kind of clergy, perhaps a supportive clinician could help, but necessarily needing psychiatric or psychological support is not mandatory in the majority of cases.

We are resilient to this.

Over the next few days, visitors poured in to help process his grief while he contemplated the decision of continuing or stopping this video.

Again, I don't know his previous psychological and psychiatric history, but being alone in isolation and losing weight

is a high stress state.

Imagine you're eating at a caloric deficit.

So huge stress on the body.

You're isolated from your loved ones, huge stress on the mind and body.

And now you're going through this tremendous loss that can predispose all sorts of psychiatric conditions to flare up from PTSD, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, like generalized anxiety disorder amongst others.

We're not pulling the plug on this.

I can't let him down.

I'm doing this for myself, and now it's for coach too.

You know, I told you I saw some headlines about the death of this coach, and I actually asked Jimmy about it.

He told me that the family wanted to keep it private, but somehow Newsweek was able to find out that there was an accidental death due to a substance being found in the blood kratom, an illicit drug that people use for a variety of reasons to feel better.

It has opioid-like effects, but that's why you gotta be very careful using illicit substances

Very often, you'll hear me decry any kind of drug use on the channel.

To honor his mentor and friend, Coach Wall, Madge refused to take on another trainer for his next challenge.

I understand why he's doing that, but I would encourage him to keep a trainer because you want to make sure you're not hurting yourself.

It's very easy during an emotional time like this to actually hurt yourself.

100 days ago, Madge weighed 324 pounds.

And now... Let's see what he weighs.

You've lost over 15 pounds!

Ah, it's so awkward going from that darkness to now, this very lighthearted happiness.

Let's see how much money Madge can carry.

We have $100,000 that you can win.

You can carry as much or as little as you want.

But if you drop any of it, you walk away with nothing.

You know, I don't know the right way to have covered this video.

You want to be respectful to the family.

You want to commemorate the person.

But man, this is so heavy.

Let's go, man.

All right, he's off.

You got this.

All right, he's cooking.

Bro, he is running with that thing.

$40,000.

How much time does he have?

You need a break?

You just put the money down.

No break.

Keep going, keep going.

Three quarters of the way.

And then Jimmy's whole thing is to demotivate him and make it harder.

What role are you playing here, Jimmy?

Pick one.

You're almost there.

Less than 10 steps.

Cross it.

Your prize pool has now increased to $321,000.

In Deal or No Deal, as an example, they have the banker who's clearly the villain in this situation.

I don't know what Jimmy's role is in these videos.

Is he cheering people on to earn the most amount of money?

Is he trying to discourage them to lose?

I don't know where he fits in this whole scheme of gamifying everything.

For our next challenge, if you can do a mile in under eight minutes and 30 seconds, half of your one mile time at the start of the challenge, I'll add another $25,000 to your prize pool.

So this is strictly cardio, something that I only do two times a week, and the cardio that I do two times a week isn't even this.

Yeah, I think in a situation like this, you need to gradually work your way up, because it's really easy when you're overweight and you're starting to put pressure on your joints by doing something that's new to you.

You can get hurt very fast.

Even just the strain that you put on your bones, the bones will hurt.

When we started this video, it took you 17 minutes to run a mile.

Now, 130 days later, you must do it in under eight minutes and 30 seconds.

He's lost a tremendous amount of weight over four months in.

830 is tough for someone who's never ran before, but I think he's been consistently training.

I think he's going to be able to do it.

Go.

25 grand on the line.

Let's see if he can do it.

Yes.

Let's go.

I wonder if he has a watch on to be able to know his pace.

Oh!

Well done.

That's a great coping mechanism exhibited there.

Keeping someone alive in your memory is very important.

When you started, you were able to dead hang for six seconds.

In exactly 30 days, for every second you can hang, I will give you $1,000.

Get out of here.

Hanging is really hard.

You need to work your grip strength up and you need to be careful because it's very easy to develop golfer's elbow.

And I know hanging has nothing to do with golf.

It's just our very weird name for medial epicondylitis, which is inflammation on the interior or inside portion of your elbow.

And when I started doing dead hangs,

I actually developed really bad medial epicondylitis, so much so that I ended up going to get acupuncture, and off the first session, I got like 80% relief, which shocked me, because I didn't think it would work.

But then I was like, you know what, let me go for the second session, it's gonna get better.

Went for the second session,

my hand, every time I extended my arm, felt like it was on fire.

And then it led to a disastrous doctor's visit with this really shady doctor that I, I'm gonna link that video down below, because you need to watch it just to be careful not to fall victim to some of these shady doctors and practitioners out here.

All that is to say, dead hangs got me there.

I brought someone who literally trains bodybuilders.

This guy has a degree in biochemistry and is the smartest fitness influencer I could find, Jeff Nippard.

I mean, you gotta start slow.

Some people will just do basic cable exercises in order to get them there, but you can get attachments to the pull-up bar, like let's say resistance bands, things that can take off some of your weight to allow you to get comfortable with the motion and then work your way up from there.

Take your grip.

Okay.

Oh, there you go.

There's the resistance bands we were talking about.

And he's doing wide grip pull-ups too.

You just gotta be careful, because if that thing snaps.

In only three days, Jeff really helped match improve his dead hang.

Bend over ropes are good.

Looking good for my bank account.

This guy is an animal.

Again, you gotta be really careful to not overdo it there.

It's very easy to overdo it.

This is not a huge muscle group.

This isn't squatting.

This isn't dead lifting.

This is a very small set of muscles.

And using a chalk there is not gonna improve grip strength.

before you get mad, it's gonna improve grip performance because the chalk, A, absorbs some of that moisture, so less likely to slip, but it also improves friction.

So when you create friction, you get better grip performance, not grip strength.

I guess you could say you end up having a stronger grip, but it's really about the performance.

100 feet in the sky.

Of course he has to do it 100 feet in the sky.

He looks like he's getting in great shape.

This is real.

The zoomed out camera shots didn't get me there, but that one's real.

Oh, he just dropped.

A minute and one second.

Oh my God.

The entire platform.

Six seconds to 60 seconds.

That's 10X.

Hello?

That's 60,000.

I'm so proud of you, man.

We're not stopping there because as you'll remember, if he could do a pull-up, I'd throw in an extra 10K.

He's going to try and do the pull-up after hanging for 61 seconds.

That's really tough.

Let's go.

Oh, wow.

That's really good.

He held it too.

Oh.

I have the clothes that I wore when I first got in here.

I'm gonna try them on.

Yeah, so, you know, people looking at the scale sometimes will miss things because when you're putting on muscle and the weight is not changing on the scale, you might get sad.

But if you look at your clothing and the way clothes fit and you start seeing musculature replacing the fat, you might start realizing, oh wow, the weight might not have changed drastically, but what my body is made of has.

And that's really, really important.

I hate to be like some of these podcast bros, they're like, muscle is the longevity tool.

And like, it kind of is.

Even grip strength, obviously they're doing a kind of a jokey thing with the dead hangs, but grip strength after the age of 50 literally correlates with how long you're gonna live.

It allows you to understand how well you'll perform opening jars and holding doors and getting up from a seated position.

Grip strength matters for your livelihood as a human, and it's reflective of your general fitness.

And general fitness allows you to live a longer life, if for nothing else, a higher quality of life.

This is a bodysuit that is a one-to-one replica of Maj on day one.

No joke, we scanned your body, saw exactly where you lost fat, and created this suit.

This fat suit weighs exactly 97 pounds.

He is now back at his starting weight.

You probably forgot what life used to feel like.

Let's do a lap.

This is actually probably the most valuable thing of this video.

Some people might find this silly, but I think it's valuable to show the quality of life improvement you get with weight loss.

I've been accused of being fat phobic before on Reddit, on YouTube, because we talked about weight loss.

We talked about bariatric surgery, Ozempic.

People think it's because I'm fat phobic.

No, it's because carrying fat

to an excessive degree, like he clearly was when he started this competition, is not just shortening your lifespan, it's ruining your quality of life.

And as a result, it becomes less pleasurable to do things.

It becomes less valuable to participate in social activities.

You start feeling negatively about yourself and slowly your world starts closing in.

And we know the antithesis to happiness is loneliness.

Over these six months, Matt slashed his daily caloric intake by 600 calories, decreased his fat mass by over 50%.

I would have loved to see what his nutrition side of things was like, because we know the calories, but I would love to see what he was actually consuming.

It's just making sure that he was eating healthy.

And I think that would have been the better takeaway here.

Cause it looks like he,

exercised off these hundred pounds.

And the reality is the weight loss comes from the food or from the lack thereof, but while consuming the right amount of food and exercising, because while exercise won't be the primary driver of weight loss, it will be a primary driver of a lot of other healthy factors in your life.

According to his doctor, if he keeps this up, you have extended his lifespan by around five years.

Oh, why do we do this?

I'm not arguing that he extended his life, but the idea that we can quantify it like this, it's just not well validated enough to say he extended his life by five years, but another person who does this did six years.

Like, I don't understand how that judgment is called.

I gathered all your best friends, even David Letterman.

David Letterman!

What is David Letterman doing in this?

Reveal the results!

David Letterman's like, what has my career come to?

You know, without Coach Wall, I wouldn't have been able to do this.

And you said it would be so cool that we get to do this together.

And today's that day that we get to do this together, man.

Thank you guys for watching.

Well, that's a great ending.

How about we talk to Madge himself?

What's up, sir?

What's up, handsome?

I gotta say handsome to you, Mr.

I lost a ton of weight.

Dude, that picture of you going like this, that deserves to be in a boxing showdown poster.

You're hilarious, bro.

I always say patients are the experts in their conditions or experts of their experiences.

You being an expert in losing 100 pounds.

Tell the audience, what's one tip you would give to somebody as someone who's done it?

What should they do?

There's four pillars.

Sleep, nutrition, hydration, and physical activity.

Physical activity doesn't necessarily have to be like actual strength training, but steps.

Hydration, drinking a gallon of water a day.

That's what I was doing.

Sleep is eight to 10 hours.

And nutrition is just understanding what you're putting in your body.

It is a little pricey to be healthy, but vegetables is a good source.

you know and then just the proteins really you don't have to be super fancy even if i don't hit the gym it's just being mindful and intentional about what i'm putting into my body what's the weight at now have you stayed consistent have you lost more weight have you gained some weight back i ended at 222 um and now i'm at 219. so

just a few pounds just a few pounds down i don't think i will i will ever rebound you know like losing my dad is one of those things where you rebound and then losing coach and i had every reason to rebound i literally had every reason to get out of the circle and stop my journey and stop my challenge but he literally built me up for it he just wanted me to be the best version of myself you know and hopefully i'll continue to make him proud because it isn't just me you know without coach wall there wouldn't be this mesh standing in front of you there

What is one tip that you could give to someone that is trying to attempt to lose weight?

I think the most important thing, and this goes even further than losing weight, get a primary care doctor that you vibe with.

They can help you separate fact from fiction when you read stuff online, because there's so much BS on social media.

They can better guide you to what works best for you based on your medical history, your medical conditions, and most importantly,

they can make sure that you're doing it in a healthy, sustainable way.

So find a good primary care doctor, invest in them.

God bless you, bro.

That's awesome.

Seriously.

I mentioned it earlier, but here's a video of the worst doctor experience I ever had as a patient.

Click here, check that out.

As always, stay happy and healthy.