Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show - 192. Does Beer Actually Kill Your Gains? (The Answer Might Surprise You) | Ep. 0192

Episode Date: June 2, 2026

42% OFF - Get your Digital Man Up book + Audiobook + 2 Exclusive MASTERCLASSES https://bit.ly/manuptribeOPEN A FIT BODY LOCATIONA High-Profit, Scalable Gym Franchise Opportunity Driven By Impacthttps://bit.ly/bedrosfbbDoes Beer Actually Kill Your Gains? (The Answer Might Surprise You) | Ep. 0192I rarely do reaction videos, but when this dude showed claiming he got stronger and leaner drinking beer every single day for 90 days straight, I had to jump on it. Today I’m breaking down the brutal truth about alcohol, muscle building, discipline, and why this “one or two beers a day” copium is destroying men. If you’re serious about your body, your mind, and your future, you need to watch this right now.

Welcome to the Bedroes Coolian show Back when Q was rolling with Lorenzo and a Benzo I was banging with a gang of instrumental. It is rare that I do a reaction video. However, I got no less than 12 people sending me this video right here. I'm going to show you. And they told me, Beidros, I'd love to see a reaction video and love to know what you think about this. Can you really build muscle while drinking alcohol for 90 days straight? So let's watch this video and see what it's about.

Science says there is no safe amount of alcohol. No, God, please no! So actually, I drink every day for 90 straight days to see if these eggheads actually know what they're talking about. All right, so this dude is saying that he drank every day for 90 days to see if science that says that drinking alcohol is bad for you, there's no amount of alcohol that's good for you. And he's saying, look, I think I can prove them wrong. I think that I can drink alcohol every day for 90 days and actually improve my fitness. You know what? Let's take a look.

I'm an open-minded person. Here's what happened. I am the perfect candidate for this test because I really like beer. I actually own a company that makes home brewing equipment. So you could say that my literal job is brewing and drinking alcohol. However. Aha. So there's motive already.

And listen, I don't begrudge him. many, many years ago, about 15 years ago, I bought myself a Mr. Beer kit. And I would actually make, many of you don't know this, I would actually make my own home brew when I used to drink alcohol. Now, it's been almost four years that I stopped drinking all alcohol. But I used to actually make my own home brew. So he's got motive. His motive is, look, I own Clawhammer Supply Company, which is, you know, your own home brew kit

the system and he's saying I could actually prove that I can get leaner and stronger while drinking beer on a daily basis. So let's keep watching, but we already know there's motive and we already know where there's motive. There's usually a plan where we can execute. And I'll tell you more about that in a moment. I also like working out so much so that I put a shipping container in my backyard and I filled it with weights and of course beer. I decided to do both at the same time drink while continuing my normal fitness routine every single day for 90 days straight. The question is, what happened?

Did my strength go down or up or did it stay exactly the same? Did drinking hurt my progress or did it not matter at all? What changed in my body after 90 straight days of drinking alcohol and working out? Did I gain fat? Did I lose muscle? Did I just maintain? How is my energy? How is my sleep?

And so on. Let's start with the results. I've never actually drank and lifted this consistently simultaneously. And I was actually quite surprised by the results. I've never been stronger that I got after these 90 days of drinking and lifting weights. I gain muscle mass. All right. So let's stop right there. You heard him say it.

I've never been this consistent in my lifting and drinking as I was in these 90 days. So anytime you decide to fully commit to something, business, relationship, in his case, fitness or lifting, you're going to see results, right? I mean, I could argue that I could start taking meth. I could take a modest amount of meth every single day. I could take a modest amount of fentanyl every single day and get consistent, have a plan, eat my macros, train hard, get after it every day for 90 days, and I could probably see muscle gains and get leaner while on meth or while on fentanyl.

Does that mean the daily modest use of fentanyl or me? meth is good for me? Probably not. So already our friend here is debunking what he's suggesting, which is you can drink beer on a regular basis and still get fit. Now remember, look, man, I don't begrudge anyone who's trying to build their business. And I'm not saying he's a bad dude. I'm not saying his company sucks. In fact, I think if you're into home brewing and you want to buy a home brew kit, you should probably buy it from his company. But you should also know that beer is poison. Alcohol is poison. There's no amount. of alcohol ever, ever, ever that is good for you.

I'm going to tell you something else about that, too, by the way. Guys, quick interruption to the Bedrose-Coolian show. I want to tell you about the Man Up bundle that I have for you for $29, and 100% of it goes to Shriners Children's Hospital where we're going to do a lot of good and you're going to build an awesome business and have a great life because of it. You not only get the digital version of my international best-selling book,

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money to Shrinas Children's Hospital where they do a lot of good and give a lot of surgeries and medical services to kids whose families can't afford that. So go to manuptribe.com and get the Bedros-Colian man-up bundle before it all sells out. Peace. Most of you out there can't even get on a consistent nutrition and training program while you're fully sober. So to think that you could have a beer or two a day and have your judgment impaired and your willpower lowered and that you're going to become even more consistent lifting and eating clean, let's not fool anybody. That ain't going to happen. I lowered my overall percentage of body fat.

I felt great and it was easier than I expected. Here are my strength numbers at the end of the experiment. I ended up at a 315 by 5 back squat, a 225 by 5 bench, a 4.05 by 1 deadlift. And of course, let's not forget about the most important part, 90 plus beers. With the exception of the beers, these are all lifetime PR. for me. To clarify, though, I'm not trying to say that alcohol is healthy. It's not. I'm a big believer in science, and I think the science is probably right on this one. But I don't know anyone who actually drinks alcohol for its health benefits, first of all. And second of all, I'm just saying that I think

there's a way to drink and stay healthy. And I think you do that by offsetting the negative effects of alcohol with positive effects of other activities. Sure enough, maybe you can offset the negative effects of alcohol with the positive effects of lifting and eating clean, right? So you would get a net zero. But wouldn't you want to get a net plus one instead of a net negative? In other words, if you didn't drink and you lifted and you ate clean, you would actually get healthier. Does that make sense? Instead of just maintaining the same level?

And to his credit, man, good for him. Like the dude actually improved his personal bests, right? His PR's improved in the bench, deadlift, and squat, which is awesome. But you could even hear the discomfort in what he's saying because soon as he started talking about, look, you know, you can drink beer on a daily basis. And I'm not saying that it's good for you, but no one ever drink beer for health reasons. And he's implying people drink beer to take the edge off, to forget their day, to escape from their reality. And so you can hear the discomfort in his voice. Like he knows the truth within.

But he's also like, dude, I own a fucking beer supply company, right? And so because of that, I need you to buy my shit. And so I'm going to prove to you through working out. I think this is his conscience might be gnawing at him a bit, but let's keep watching. Which I'm going to tell you about right now. Here is a list of some of the problems associated with alcohol. And I'll follow this list with my solutions for each of these problems. Number one, beer is high in empty calories and offers little to no nutritional value.

Agreed, but it tastes great. It's hard on your liver. Most definitely. Three, it disrupts sleep. This is actually my least favorite thing about alcohol. Four, it can slightly lower testosterone. Five, it's dehydrating. Sure feels like it.

Six, it slows muscle growth and recovery time. Yep, I've heard and experienced this. My solution to all of these problems can be summed up in one sentence. If you drink alcohol and you want to stay healthy, you also need to work out, eat healthy food, stay hydrated, get good sleep, and limit your overall alcohol intake. Yeah, that all sounds good, but he said he was going to address all the problems, which he listed off, liver, cirrhosis, damage to the liver, low testosterone, poor sleep, right? Dehydration.

He didn't list off poor mental capacity, the increased chance of dementia. But there's a lot more that you can go look up and see yourself, the high levels of inflammation in your body and your joints and your brain. And then he says, but if you want to reduce that or eliminate that, just get better. Better sleep, stay more hydrated, eat clean, and lift. Well, that doesn't take away the liver cirrhosis. It doesn't take away the negative impact on your brain. It doesn't take away the inflammation in your gut and your joints, right? And so, hey guys, quick interruption to the Vedderos-Coolian show.

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fitbody bootcamp.com I want you to click the franchising link fill out the application to see if there's a territory available in your town in your area and who knows if you're a good fit we will invite you to the the Fit Body Boot Camp family. Now back to the show. What do you do? What do you do? Do you continue to drink beer and lift and eat clean? Or do you actually continue to get disciplined and structure your life and deal with the problems in your life through addressing them, handling them, problem solving through them instead of trying to escape with alcohol? Now I get what you're saying. Dude, it's just one beer, maybe two beers a night. What's the big deal?

And maybe it's like every other night. What's the big deal? The big deal is it compounds over time, number one. Number two is that the compounding effect of the negative effects of beer, all alcohol, in fact, also reduces your desire to take action, right? It numbs you. It takes the edge off. Like literally, people say it, I drink to take the edge off.

So if you're drinking to take the edge off and you no longer have the edge, you're not as interested in solving your problems. This is why it's called an escape. But let's keep watching. This is best done by number one, limiting your calorie intake in the form of beer. Keep in mind, though, that the amount of calories in beer can be quite high, and it varies from beer to beer. You can actually figure this out roughly by multiplying the number of ounces, so say a pint, which is 16 ounces, by the ABV, say 5% times 2.5 is 200 calories. Two of these, and you've just consumed almost 25% of your daily 2,000 calorie intake. There you go, he just nailed it.

You drink two average beers, and you've pretty much had a quarter, 25% of your daily caloric intake. And so those of you out there are saying, man, I can't reach my protein goals, I can't reach my carbohydrate goals? All of you can reach your fat goals, though, can't you, in terms of what your intake is? This is it.

You're not reaching your goals because you're filling yourself up with empty calories. Number one. Number two, it's so easy to drink calories versus consume it, eating calories, right? And so you don't think about it, but just two beers very quickly increase that calorie intake. And you realize it's massively easy to burn through those calories. So think about it, 500 calories, just to give you an idea, two beers, 500 calories, that is one slice of Domino's pizza. Now, if you were to go into the gym and try and burn 500 calories, you'd have to be in there

working out hard, not just being in the gym. You'd have to be in the gym working hard consistently for about two and a half hours for the average dude, right? You're not in there every day for two and a half hours to burn off those 500 calories. So it's easier to consume those calories and to take those calories off. Secondly, as he's telling you how to do the math to figure out exactly how many calories you might be taking in when you multiply, you know, the alcohol value in the, in the beer, and you multiply that by whatever the calories were on the bottle.

Think about this. Y'all can't even factor your own macros. You don't know how much protein you need to eat. You don't know how much carbs you need to take in. You don't know how much fat you need to take in to achieve your desired goals in terms of fat loss and muscle building. I don't think you're going to go out and do this math. Instead, you're just going to wing it and end up getting fat.

right which is not what I want for you guys this becomes a problem when working out because you really need to prioritize protein intake when you're working out really hard and consistently so if you drink two beers 100% skip that side of fries 100% skip the ice cream cone for dessert and have a protein shake instead number two because alcohol is definitely hard on your liver there's no doubt about that you definitely want to limit your overall intake if you were a binge drinker my advice is to stop doing that entirely. For this experiment, I drank no more than two beers a day, and most often it was only just one. That's what I recommend, one to two beers a day. You're going on vacation or you're having a night out with your friends, you know, it is what it is. But other than

that, no, no, no, no. He said, you're going on vacation or you're at with your friends. It is what it is. In other words, don't just have the average one or two beers a day that he's recommending. You're out with your friends. It's a night out. You're on vacation. It is what it is. It is not what it is. It's the people that say it is what it is that end up stacking those it is what it is days and end up overconsuming beer, making a string of bad decisions, DUIs, getting in fights with their honey, completely ruining their brains and their livers, their kidney. It is not what it is. Like, I respect the fact that this guy's an entrepreneur. I respect that the team got together, like my team gets together and says, let's make content that's going to sell product and add value to people's lives.

but this one, I see why all of you sent this to me and we're like, dude, you got to do a reaction video and give us your opinion on are one to two beers a day okay like he's recommending. No, they are absolutely not okay in any way. I'm not your dad, you can do whatever you want, but I'm telling you right now, sober, bone sober, most of you can't be consistent and disciplined and structured enough to get to the gym and eat clean throughout the day. How do you think one to two beers a day? The same evening at the end of the day when your willpower is the lowest, you've got a beer or two in you.

And now you want to start plowing on extra calories because, well, discipline is out the door when you have alcohol in you. You're a little buzzed. You're feeling good. You've got the edge off. The willpower is lower. Come on, no inhibitions. I can have some ice cream after this. I could have a little slice of cake.

I could have some dessert. And that's how those calories stack on. That's how you get fatter over those 90 days. Now, like I said, he structured his time probably for this video specifically to get results in 90 days while drinking beer on a daily basis. You and I can do that as well. I can do that on fentanyl, I can do that on meth, I can do that on crack cocaine, I can do that on a lot of things, right?

Look, I'm 51 years old. I should not be putting on any more muscle and I'm fighting like hell to maintain as much muscle as I can on my body, right? But if I said, if I wanted to make a video where, hey, guys, in 90 days, I put on 15 pounds of muscle, I could. You know how? Because right now, I'm just on TRT. 200 milligrams of testosterone on a weekly basis. That's it. My doctor's got me on TRT because of all the testosterone abuse I did in my 20s and early 30s. So at 51, I'm on TRT, which is a healthy level of testosterone for me and I'm maintaining the best I can eating super clean training hard. However, if I wanted to put on muscle, even though my body right now was not able to, I could say

I did it in 90 days and I did it using, you know, drinking this protein shake every single day for 90 days. But behind the scenes, I would also need to increase my growth hormone intake, right? So now I would have to get on growth hormone, maybe squirt a little bit of trend in there. Take a little bit of prima ballin as well. Why not? Increase. the testosterone from 200 to maybe 400 milligrams a week. And now after 90 days, hey, using this protein drink, I ended up putting on 15 pounds of muscle. Yeah, and also taking Tren and Primo and adding growth hormone

and doubling my testosterone intake. So you see, if I go into it with a 90-day intention, at 51, I can put on muscle. But what is the cost to my body, to my health, in taking all those additional things by hardening my arteries, negatively impacting my heart, my liver, my kidney, right? And so you've got to think about this. This is a ad.

This is a promotion. I don't think, if you fed this guy truth serum, I don't think his intention is to necessarily care about your health. His intention is to sell more of his beer-making kits. And again, if you're into that, go buy it. Try to keep it to one or two beers a day. Number three, because alcohol absolutely. does disrupt sleep. I tried to drink earlier in the day. So I generally drink a beer when I

got home from work as opposed to having one right before bed. And I thought that that strategy increased my sleep quality or minimize the disruption. There you go. He was honest. He's like, hey, so I drink, since I'm going to drink one or two beers a day, I'm going to drink earlier in the day. Somebody, you go, you go drinking at lunch because he gave you the okay. Or as he said, as soon as you get home, you drink. So now you're not even fully present for your family, for your kids. And he says, and that helps my quality of sleep a little bit better. He goes, it doesn't fully make it better, but it helps it a little bit better.

Knowing that it's going to be any level of damage to your body, to your brain, to the quality of sleep and rest you're going to get, especially if you're a high performer. Is it even worth it? I don't think so, right? I don't think so. I know there's a million ways to try and justify alcohol. Oh, but it's, you know, I can taste the nuttiness and the oak wood from the wine barrel. Oh, shut the fuck up.

You can't. You can't. It's all in your head. And even if you can't, who cares? But you've never tried a great whiskey bee. You know what? It doesn't matter. I have.

And it doesn't do anything for me because I know, even if I like how it tastes and I like how I feel. And trust me, man, I like how alcohol makes me feel. But I also realize I'm not looking to take on the damage to my brain, my body, and my organs. and have a lifetime of regret on the back end when I'm dying sooner, diseased, because I chose to have a few beers a day, all right? Let's keep watching. Next, high amounts of alcohol, I guess, can lower testosterone.

I just learned this. But again, lower amounts of alcohol, not so much. It might have a minor impact, though. However, if you limit your intake, this minimizes the effect. And working out, getting good sleep, and lowering your body fat actually increases testosterone. So you can more than make up for it, but you need to do those other things for that to work. As far as hydration goes, one beer a day should have a minimum.

By the way, here's a little bit of science for you. He just realized he didn't know this, even though the science has been around for at least a decade. But that's cool. He didn't know this that alcohol reduces testosterone. Not only does it reduce testosterone, it actually increases estrogen. That's the part that he missed. Alcohol increases estrogen. And in fact, in Belgium, when they, when, when,

they discovered beer, they realized by adding hops to beer, this is why a lot of beer has hops in it, the estrogen increasing factor goes up even higher. And what they realized is, if they can give men higher doses of estrogen, they're going to be less rowdy because testosterone also does what? Makes us ambitious, makes us driven, makes us a little bit rowdy if we allow ourselves to be, right? And so in Belgium, hundreds of years ago, they discovered that, all right, beer kind of takes the edge off of men. And we don't want these men to be so rowdy. I get it.

Maybe they don't have as much order and discipline as they do today. And then they discover that when they add hops to beer, it increases the estrogen factor even more. So when you have higher levels of estrogen in your body, you're more docile. You're not as driven. So not only does alcohol lower testosterone, it increases estrogen. estrogen. And now the mammary glands that you have, because as a man, you have titty glands, mammary glands, they're just not activated until your estrogen goes up in your body. And then, all of a sudden, you start developing those pointy, soft gelatinous titties that many of you dudes

with dad bods have out there. Dude, do you really want that? Then you start losing your sex drive. Then you start losing your ability to get an erection. Next thing you know, you're hung like a light switch? Is that really worth a beer or two just to take the edge off? I don't think so. Let's keep watching. It should have a minimal impact on hydration levels, but as a rule of thumb, if you drink a glass of beer,

drink a glass of water after that. And if you still feel dehydrated, add half an electrolyte tablet to some water and drink some more. Alcohol definitely slows recovery time and muscle growth, but you can make up for this by increasing your protein content. So as a general rule, if you're going to do something like I've done, where you're working out and you're drinking beer every day for 90 straight days, you're going to

need to consume a lot of protein. And in my opinion, one beer a day didn't really impact my recovery much. But if you're trying something like this and you feel that your recovery is sluggish, you're drinking two or three beers a day, just dial it back. The actual lifting program I use is free. It's open source, you could say. It's called Mad Cow. What's it? All right. So the bottom line is this, guys. He's got a product to sell, and I respect that. respect an entrepreneur and I respect that he's being very open and honest about what the negative drawbacks are of alcohol, right? And I also believe had he done more research, he would have told you some of the things that I just told you when he says, hey, it reduces, it slows down your

recovery and you're not as hydrated, but just drink more water. And if you need to, take more electrolytes. Well, that's great. You can take more electrolytes and drink more water. However, beer is a diuretic, not beer itself, but alcohol is a diuretic, which means you're going to pee, out a lot of water anyway. So no matter how much you take in with or without electrolytes, you're going to pee a lot of that out with that additional pee that comes out because you're basically taken in a diuretic, you're also losing very essential minerals. And then when we talk about recovery, when you're working out in the gym, you're tearing down muscles. You're not building muscle. You're tearing down muscles. So if you're going to recover and you've slowed down

your recovery, now, no matter how much protein you take, if you're not recovering in time, because you're also not getting enough sleep, because all of recovery happens during your deepest sleep. And alcohol, even the tiny amount of alcohol, takes you out of REM sleep. Go do the research yourself. And so if you're not getting the deep sleep because you had a beer or two, and therefore your body's not recovering and recovery has slowed down, and you go back and train that muscle again, you're constantly breaking it down. Now, what did he do?

He made a plan for 90 days. He's stuck to it. He's never trained that hard. So when you take an untrained body or a body that maybe just trains kind of recreationally and then get serious for 90 days, anyone can see results, like I said. And I was being obviously humorous about it. But you could even get results on fentanyl, right? But the long term, you're not going to be able to take fentanyl, meth, or beer, in this case, alcohol, long term,

and think that you're still going to continue to get results. There will be diminishing returns. And the tax that your brain, your body, and your future will pay is far too much if you ask me. So, guys, that's my insight on this. If you like the show and you like this reaction video, you want me to do more of it. Just let me know in the comments below. Peace out. Remember this, that averages the enemy.

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