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Russell Crowe looks and feels better than ever after losing more than 50 lbs. “I was 126 kilos [277 lbs.] when I finished Nuremberg,” Crowe, 61, said during his appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast on Wednesday, November 5. “I’m 100.9 [kilos, or 222.4 lbs.] now.” The Gladiator star revealed that he focused on diet and exercise in order to lose the weight, in addition to joining a platform that Rogan, 58, introduced him to, called Ways2Well. According to the platform’s website, Ways2Well focuses on “whole-body wellness” by providing bloodwork, hormone optimization, stem cell therapy, peptide therapy and more. Crowe, who said that he is carrying injuries in his body from various film roles over the years, admitted to getting injections from Ways2Well. “I’m not really across the science, but the real benefit I’m getting from these into my shoulders, my knees, and also IVs, is that it’s calmed down my body’s inflammation,” he explained. ”I think we talked before about just how many old injuries I carry, and how the injuries in my shoulders are deeply arthritic.” Crowe continued, “But we can now see in an ultrasound that a year ago I had big thick bands of arthritis, and now it’s lessened by about 70 percent. On one area in my right shoulder, probably by about 90 percent. It’s all going good, and I’m just feeling the musculature starting to build and everything.” Additionally, Crowe said he has cut back on his alcohol intake. “I’m a big proponent for having a drink — it’s my cultural heritage and as a working class man, it’s my goddamn right, Joe,” he said. “But as you get older, there are certain things you start to learn about your capacities.” Crowe said he’s much more mindful of what he drinks now. “If I decide to have a glass of wine with dinner, it’s going to be a really nice wine,” he continued. “I try not to have casual drinks, now. [As in] having a drink for the sake of it.” Crowe told Rogan that he’s taking his weight loss “really slowly” because he knows he will get burnt out if he overdoes it. “That was one of the things I was worried about with [working on the upcoming remake of 1986’s Highlander], because jumping into that role with the shoot date coming, I was thinking that I’ve got to do three workouts a day,” he said. “That’s a bad recipe for me because I can do that for X amount of time, but once I stop, I’m going to stop completely.” For now, he hopes to make his progress “long-term” with help from the injections. “What I want to do is make all these changes and make it a long-term situation,” Crowe concluded. “[The injections] was a great call for me, because it’s calmed down a bunch of stuff and it’s taking a bunch of pain away, so I can go and work out and not have to suffer for two or three hours afterwards.” Crowe previously showed off his slimmer physique while stepping out at Wimbledon with girlfriend Britney Theriot in July. In a recent interview with Karl Stefanovic, Crowe revealed that he and Theriot, 33, have no plans to tie the knot after his previous marriage to Danielle Spencer, with whom he shares two kids. “All these reports coming out that Britney and I are engaged and I’m going to get married again? No,” he said. “My life is joyous and happy, why ruin that with a wedding?”
