I slightly agree with noway55, I think gear is really underplayed in terms of potency. I think a guy fucking around in the gym 3 times a week, eating a slightly structured diet but using gear will bypass any natural training 5x a week with diet on point. It is just how it is.
Exogenous hormones is a huge deal! Also there is no such thing as DIRTY food? Does this mean you washed it? A carb is a carb, do you think your body can tell the difference bewteen 10 grams of carbs from a cookie to 10 grams of carbs from a potato? Aslong as protein requirements are set, your taking a multi than you can fit in whatever food sources for fat or carbs. I recommend nutrient dense food to meet the body's micro needs but fitting in a cookie or slice of pizza will do no HARM. We really need to stop classifying food as dirty or clean. A calorie is a calorie/
I suggest you read this; bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/hormonal-responses-to-a-fast-food-meal-compared-with-nutritionally-comparable-meals-of-different-composition-research-review.html
Yea your body can tell between 10g of carbs from a cookie from 10g of carbs from a potato, one will fuck up your insulin levels due to the fact that it is a processed sugar and make fat stick to you and the other one will help you replace depleted glycogen levels after a training without fucking up your insulin levels.
Dirty food in bodybuilder language is fatty protein
Clean food is lean protein. No bodybuilder that is serious about what he does will admit to pizzas or cookies unless it's that 1 cheat meal you are supposed to have during the week.
The amount of ignorance in this thread is tremendous.