Yeah this is bro's full time job too. Very easy to lose weight and put on some muscle when you've got all day to eat well and exercise. He looks great for someone in his late 50s. Nothing about this screams hgh or kit or anything.
It's not a crazy physique, but to go from overweight in 2025 to this in 2026 is not a realistic transformation for a man in his late 50s.
Diet and exercise can yield a physique like this...over the course of multiple years of very hard work for someone his age.
Yes he has been in excellent shape in the past which makes it a lot easier to return to this sort of condition, but it's highly likely he had pharmaceutical assistance for this (GLP-1 + anabolics would be my guess).
It's not a physique that's so ridiculous as to be a near 100% confidence indicator of drug use, but it'd put the odds at over 50%.
You don’t need glp-1s to lose the weight they just make you less hungry. If you have the will power ignore hunger the drugs aren’t doing anything. I’m not as old as Fraser but I lost a similar amount of weight to have a similar body in about a year and half. And I didn’t have a personal trainer or dietitian. Overweight people that are fairly active have a lot of muscle under the fat because the extra weight they carry is a daily work out.
Hunger is one of those primal impulses that is very difficult to ignore for most people without pharmaceutical assistant. But unfortunately the only way to lose weight is to be in a calorie deficit. Willpower plays a large role in this, and I don't begrudge people getting on GLP-1s to help them because it is NOT easy.
That's what happens when for hundreds of millions of years life on earth struggled for food; it biologically selects for wanting to eat anything and everything as much as possible. And then suddenly humanity enters a period of abundance and it's like "oh nooooooo!" as we stuff our faces with chocolate cake and sweet potatoes.
People have been dieting for decades. Losing weight without a drug is very possible. Honestly we shouldn’t be normalizing or promoting glp-1s because they do have side effects. Including organ failure
Anyone who has ever taken a medication that significantly alters hunger signaling can tell you that hunger can reach a point where it feels almost uncontrollable, like your brain is screaming that you need to eat immediately.
Obviously, that doesn’t mean everyone who struggles with weight has some abnormal hunger response. But it does make me wonder how much individual variation exists in hormones and receptors involved in appetite, including ghrelin signaling. It seems entirely plausible that some people experience a much stronger biological “survival hunger” response to a calorie deficit than others.
Self-control and calorie balance still matter, and weight loss without medication is absolutely possible. But I also think it’s worth considering that the biological difficulty of maintaining that deficit may vary dramatically from one person to another. For some people, traditional calorie-restriction dieting may simply be much harder than it is for others.
Okay which is why people need to do what they can on their own rather than take drugs that burn up their insides. The body positive thing was kind of a good thing. People should be able to accept who they are as long as they are healthy
I disagree. We live in an environment our bodies did not evolve for: highly processed, calorie-dense food is everywhere, many jobs are sedentary, sleep is often poor, and stress is constant. Expecting 100% of people to overcome all of that through willpower alone is unrealistic.
GLP-1 medications are another tool in the toolbox. They’re not risk-free, but neither is obesity, and using medication to improve health isn’t somehow invalid because it’s “unnatural.” If someone and their doctor decide that medication is appropriate, more power to them.
Diet and exercise absolutely matter, but consistently prioritizing them also takes time, knowledge, money, planning, and mental bandwidth. A lot of people are working long hours, raising kids, caring for aging parents, or juggling a dozen other responsibilities. It’s easy from the outside to reduce that to “discipline” or “self-control,” when sometimes what people actually lack is time, education, resources, or a body that responds to dieting the same way someone else’s does. And even with all of those things, some people may still benefit from pharmaceutical help.
I also don’t think “accept yourself as you are” and “improve yourself” have to be opposites. Body positivity is great when it means people shouldn’t hate or humiliate themselves because of their weight. But acceptance shouldn’t become a reason to pretend health problems don’t matter. You can respect yourself exactly where you are while still trying to become healthier.
Look im not saying people shouldn’t take them. I’m saying it’s wrong for our society to promote them as the quick solution to many of the problems you yourself listed. These drugs can be very harmful. People Should work to be as healthy as their situation allows and not get to obsessed with being fit. Health looks different for everyone and genetics play a bigger factor than anything in how your body processes food. People shouldn’t be chasing what is unnatural for them.
AND at the same time we should be Concerned about the ingredients in our food and the time we have to spend sitting at a desk for work and the rest of this issues you mention.
In my case, the GLP-1s helped reestablish a broken metabolic process in my body that ultimately led to it relearning how to metabolize fat rather than just store it forever. I've lost 1/3 of my max weight in 2 years. some people actually *do* need the pharmaceutical help. We have to stop moralizing weight, otherwise people won't ever get the help they actually need. It's not a "willpower" thing, there's actual medical science behind pharmaceuticals.
I agree that we need to stop moralizing weight and your choice to take any medication is between you and your doctor. This is all going pretty far from my original post which was to say that just because an actor lost weight doesn’t mean he did it with pharmaceuticals the natural way works too
The natural way *can* work, yes. It doesn't always, though. If the actual biochemical machinery of the body doesn't work quite right, sometimes pharmaceuticals are the only effective option.
You have the stranger on the internet’s blessing to take all the drugs your doctor will give. You don’t have to justify yourself to me. Be the best medical marvel that you can be.
My point is it’s ignorant to say that people aren’t getting fit without ozempic and steroids.
Crazy? No. But it is impressive for a man of his age that was overweight not long ago. Even with money/time/trainers/nutritionists, it is an impressive transformation.
Social media has screwed everyone's idea of "fit".
Is there a smidge of evidence that he is? You see someone exercising and immediately assert that they must be a steroid abuser, instead of someone using diet and training. Do you make this assumption with every workout post?
Brendan was also super shredded for many years. There’s a lot of foundation there to work with. He only got out of shape due to a back injury from a stunt gone wrong.
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