[00:00:00] Carl Lanore: [00:00:00] hey, Hey, welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio. Today is Tuesday, which means we have the blueprint power hour scheduled for you, which is going to start in just a moment with my cohost, coach, Rob ruggish.

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[00:01:50] Carl Lanore: [00:01:50] It's time for the blueprint power hour with coach Rob Gish on the superhuman radio network.

[00:01:59] How are [00:02:00] you doing, Robin?

[00:02:01] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:01] I am doing well. Um, I would ask though for the audience to say some prayers. Both for my wife who continues to battle her skin cancer as well as my friend Billy, who was hospitalized this morning. Um, we, we just need to send some good vibes out to both of them and hope for the best.

[00:02:21] Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah.

[00:02:22] Carl Lanore: [00:02:22] What's new with you, Rob?

[00:02:25] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:25] Um, you know, not a whole lot actually. There, there is, there is something new. Um, the ginger suggestion that you gave me for Jen skin cancer. Oh, we should talk about that maybe a little bit later in the show. Just phenomenal. I must admit, I vastly underestimated ginger and I just figured, you know, it's a spice.

[00:02:50] It's so much more than that crazy grace.

[00:02:54] Carl Lanore: [00:02:54] How are you seeing, um, a reduction in the size and [00:03:00] changes of the borders of the skin cancer lesions.

[00:03:04] Coach Rob Regish: [00:03:04] Very first time I applied it the next day, or it might've been two days that she took the bandage off. She herself remarked, my God, it, it looks a lot smaller and you know better.

[00:03:18] And I, and of course I don't look at it enough to be able to make that assertion, but she certainly did. So, you know, we're going to keep doing it. It is some really dynamite stuff. And like I said. I did not realize just how potent it is and whether you're taking a whiff of it or putting just a little bit on your tongue, uh, you quickly realize just how powerful it is.

[00:03:44] Just phenomenal stuff.

[00:03:46] Carl Lanore: [00:03:46] You know, it's funny, over the years I've probably told a hundred different people who told me that they went to the doctor and had a biopsy done because they have a skin lesion. And the [00:04:00] doctor said, it's, you know, it's a

[00:04:03] Coach Rob Regish: [00:04:03] suspicious, suspicious.

[00:04:05] Carl Lanore: [00:04:05] They like, this is suspicious. And, uh, I've said to him, look, get yourself a really high quality ginger extract that has a minimum of 5% ginger rolls,

[00:04:16] Coach Rob Regish: [00:04:16] right?

[00:04:17] Carl Lanore: [00:04:17] Put a little distilled water, purified water in a shot glass, put the powder, and they mix it up until it's like mud. Apply it to directly to the lesion in question or lesions in question. Cover them with bandages. Leave it there, change it every couple of days with a fresh one. Put the, it's called a poultice.

[00:04:39] When you take a root powder or even mud, and you mix it with a liquid to make up a therapeutic mud. Um, that's called the poultice. Poultices had been used in. In medicine for thousands of years. A mustard plaster for any of you [00:05:00] old enough to remember what that is. People are like, what the hell is that?

[00:05:02] When, when we were kids and we got sick and we had a chest cold or something where we were coffin and, um, very congested. Our mothers used to go to the pharmacy and get something called a mustard plaster, and basically this was mustard seed. I think in, um, I think it was actually mustard seed in vinegar, believe it or not, and it was on a sheet of paper and they would peel it and stick it to your chest and then peel the paper off and they would be on your chest and it would burn.

[00:05:37] Oh my God. It would burn just to what you think mustard should burn. But guess what? The next day you'd wake up and your cold would be gone.

[00:05:49] Coach Rob Regish: [00:05:49] Yes. It's too bad that we've kind of lost our way with that. The moms knew, the grandmothers knew, and it's like every successive generation loses [00:06:00] more and more touch with that.

[00:06:02] Carl Lanore: [00:06:02] But I gotta I gotta be honest. So the whole ginger thing, it's not like, Ooh, do this actual science. If you, if you have skin cancer or worried about skin cancer, if you Google the following words

[00:06:16] Coach Rob Regish: [00:06:16] six,

[00:06:16] Carl Lanore: [00:06:16] the number six. Ginger, , G, I, N, G, R, O, L, skin cancer rats, and I. H you will find two or three different studies that show that they took rats, injected them with a drug that causes spontaneous development of skin cancer in the form of tumors and the control rats, they just put, I don't know what they put on their skin.

[00:06:45] Uh, but the, the, the test subjects, they actually did what I told you to do with gen skin. They made a poultice out of pure ginger extract. Yup. And just put it in contact with the tumors. And in six, it was either six days or six weeks. I can't remember [00:07:00] now. The tumors were all gone.

[00:07:03] Coach Rob Regish: [00:07:03] Yeah. I read those studies and what I was reading, I couldn't believe because of the way the researchers were talking, they were talking.

[00:07:14] In very definitive terms, our researchers almost never, do you know how all those studies in, but more studies are needed? No, that's not what they're saying in these studies. They're saying this is a definitive treatment and a pretty damn potent one, um, for various cancers and certainly skin cancer. Is it, is it off the top of that

[00:07:35] Carl Lanore: [00:07:35] list?

[00:07:36] Ask yourself why. A dermatologist doesn't know about that or add or tell their patients about it. Why don't they do it?

[00:07:47] Coach Rob Regish: [00:07:47] You know? I don't know. And it's frustrating, right, because it's in the medical literature. Are they not reading it or are they simply dismissing it? That's my, that would be my assumption.

[00:07:59] Carl Lanore: [00:07:59] John, are you [00:08:00] driving through Louisville? Through Kentucky, man, come on, brother. Hang a dog leg North and then go down to Georgia. Oh, wait, no, wait a minute. We have to social distance, John, you'll have to stay in the cab of your truck if you lose it. But yeah. You know, it baffles me because I, and I know I'm kind of belaboring this, but there are so many people who develop skin cancer and they ended up going to horrible treatments to get rid of it because it's a very deadly form of cancer, and it could be treated.

[00:08:33] Obviously, if you have it in large areas, you can paint this stuff on, you know, just paint it on, leave it on your skin, paint a new stuff on every single day.

[00:08:41] Coach Rob Regish: [00:08:41] Yeah. And they were very, very specific. They said that, um, unlike those conventional treatments, ginger leaves the healthy cells alone and creates cell death amongst the cancerous.

[00:08:56] So

[00:08:56] Carl Lanore: [00:08:56] it really establishes, so here's what happens. [00:09:00] Uh, ginger, all six and eight, ginger roll plus some of the show goals, but the ones that have been studied the most is six and eight. Ginger roll re-establish the a pop tonic landscape of cancer cells, meaning that the cancer cells are, are, are no longer able to live forever.

[00:09:19] They actually start to die because, because cancer cells actually become a . Excuse me. Cancer cells actually become resistant to dying. That's why. That's why they keep growing and growing and growing. Well, the ginger re-establishes the a pop tonic landscape of the ginger shells that the cancer cells and they die and when they die.

[00:09:45] The body through its metabolic process discards the waste product, the dead skin or whatever, and little by little, the tumor gets smaller and smaller and smaller, and there isn't a single dermatologist that I know of who's ever said [00:10:00] to a patient. Who has worried about skin cancer or, you know, Hey, before we, before we remove this and send it off for a biopsy and put you into that whole downward spiral of, Oh, you've got skin cancer, let's stop putting ginger extract on it.

[00:10:14] See if we can make it go away first.

[00:10:17] Coach Rob Regish: [00:10:17] Yeah. Well, especially now, you know, like the quandary my wife is in is they need to have surgery to tear it out, but. With the cobot epidemic, there's no end in sight on when that might happen. Right. So what are you doing? What are you doing in the interim? Why not? What do you got to lose with ginger?

[00:10:36] Carl Lanore: [00:10:36] And I would take it orally too, if I was her cap it for her and let her take it orally as well.

[00:10:42] Coach Rob Regish: [00:10:42] Yeah. We're, we're going to make sure we get plenty of it. Their

[00:10:45] Carl Lanore: [00:10:45] work from the inside out. Absolutely. Yep. Okay. Um, so let's go ahead and get our first

[00:10:51] Coach Rob Regish: [00:10:51] question up here.

[00:10:57] Carl Lanore: [00:10:57] Jack Patterson and I'm going to, I may have to go to [00:11:00] his actual question cause it's a long one. So let me, let me just give me one second here. So Jack Patterson says, uh, in terms of boosting immune function, what products would you put at the top of the list? If you had to buy one, what would it be?

[00:11:17] Vitamin C or better? Is that better than vitamin D? There are so many, and I'm not sure what forms to buy either. Is transdermal better than oral? And should I get a B12 shot from my doctor? Any tips at all?

[00:11:33] Coach Rob Regish: [00:11:33] Yeah, so a bunch of questions here. Um, first things first though, boosting immune function is, it's the same as let's say, building muscle and stripping fat.

[00:11:47] If you do not have the fundamentals in order. Like a good night's sleep, a good diet, and you're exercising, it's not gonna. You know, it's not going to do you much good to take pills, powders, and [00:12:00] potions to boost immune function. It's a little bit like, um, uh, doing your laundry with no laundry detergent.

[00:12:07] It's, it's not going to end well. So, um, you really need those three fundamentals. The sleep, the good food. Uh, and the exercise, because I, and I've listened to some of your other shows, Carlin, on just how beneficial the right amount of exercise is, especially in fighting these viruses. Right? Right.

[00:12:30] Carl Lanore: [00:12:30] So you don't want to start running marathons right now.

[00:12:33] You're right. That'll just make you more prone to getting sick. Right.

[00:12:38] Coach Rob Regish: [00:12:38] So, uh, I would highly recommend those shows. Obviously the type of exercise you do, but also how much has, has quite a bearing on it. With all of that said, I'll try to take his questions one by one. The compounds that I would put at the top of the list for immune function are vitamin D, um, vitamin C and E.

[00:13:00] [00:13:00] I like alpha lipoic acid because it works as both a fat and soluble fat and water-soluble environment regenerating vitamin CNE, uh, along with. Various mushrooms strains. You've got Shataki, cordyceps, and reishi that I've all seen data that they boost the immune system. I think that along with getting your glutathione levels topped off, uh, is paramount, and that's, the ladder is probably easiest to do with an NAC util Sistine product.

[00:13:36] If I had to buy one. This is a tough one, but if I had to buy one, it would probably be vitamin D. just given the amount of stuff that it's tied to, you know, we know, for example, magnesium is responsible for over 300 enzymatic reactions in the body. I'm pretty sure vitamin D is tied to even more than that.

[00:14:00] [00:14:00] Um, now having said that, I would also have vitamin C on hand. And probably if you can't get, um, lyposomal vitamin C than powdered vitamin C for acute loading in the event of sickness, that would be a close second for me. Um, so if you don't already have some on hand, I would pick some up. And, and I say that because, um, I just got done reviewing a two hour presentation on vitamin C and the immune system.

[00:14:38] And it is just staggering the number over 20 different ways. It enhances your immune immunity. And you know, it's funny, I, I kind of saw this when I, I had used powdered see before. Normally if I'm not sick or not fighting something off, I could use up to 20 grams a day, right? Five gram amounts, [00:15:00] you know, four times a day without having that putting me in the bathroom, which is when you assign the sign that you reached saturation.

[00:15:10] However, um, when I'm fighting something off or really sick, I was doubling that and. I was not in the math room. So, you know, it's clear to me that yes, when you're fighting something off, your body uses a ton more ton more vitamin C. um, now when it comes to different forms of, of these vitamins in terms of vitamin D, uh, I know it's not around anymore, but your product called primal D was the best I had ever used.

[00:15:43] And that. As measured by my blood tests. My, my levels went from 35 to 70 and I knew it even before then. Cause I called you a couple of days after and I said, Hey, I got this. Like really? Like feeling, feel good energy. [00:16:00] Not like a stimulant energy, but you know, just how you feel after you've gotten maybe a half hour hour of sunshine, you feel better.

[00:16:08] And that's exactly how I felt. There are some people. That they'll take D and they'll take a lot of it. Um, but for some reason their vitamin D levels don't budge. In that instance, I would double check to make sure that your magnesium intake is adequate. Uh, the people that I've spoken to that have been in that situation, once they get, you know, they're, once they're using magnesium citrate, their D levels.

[00:16:37] Finally go up. Uh, lastly, I have yet to see anything dramatic in people getting vitamin B12 shots. I've never had them myself. My wife has, um, many other people. I know Jeff, them from their doctors. I can't say that I've seen anything dramatic

[00:16:56] Carl Lanore: [00:16:56] big, if you're a big consumer of alcohol. Yeah. And [00:17:00] on top of that, you don't eat a lot of meat.

[00:17:03] Coach Rob Regish: [00:17:03] Yup.

[00:17:03] Carl Lanore: [00:17:03] Then it may be worthwhile. Supplementing would be 12, but you can go to Costco or Sam's club and buy, um, sublingual methyl B12, cheap, cheap, cheap, and it comes in a five milligram tabs, 5,000 micrograms. You take one of those a day, you just let it dissolve under your tongue. You don't need to go for the injections.

[00:17:25] You really don't.

[00:17:27] Coach Rob Regish: [00:17:27] Yeah.

[00:17:28] Carl Lanore: [00:17:28] Well, one of the guys, especially because. Your doctor will inject you with an inferior form of B12, KOL, cyan O cabal Amin, which is actually B12 attached to cyanide. Um, but it is not bioavailable. You end up excluding most of it, and so it's, it's not a good form, the methyl or the hydroxy forms of cobalamine or superior.

[00:17:54] And so whatever you take should be either methylcobalamin or hydroxocobalamin. [00:18:00] Hydroxocobalamin is the way the liver stores it. When you eat liver calves, liver, chicken livers, you're getting hydroxy cobalamine from that. That's a superior form and it's easily stored in the body. Okay. Sorry about that.

[00:18:13] Coach Rob Regish: [00:18:13] Great. No, I can't add anything to that. But, uh, those would be my picks. And, and again, don't underestimate the good night's sleep, the training and the food.

[00:18:24] Carl Lanore: [00:18:24] So these are, these are followup comments and questions from the ginger. So, so Tim, Bruce Watson, Oh, what are the best brands? What did you end up buying a Rob?

[00:18:32] You bought a bulk ginger extract, right?

[00:18:35] Coach Rob Regish: [00:18:35] I did a standardized for 5% ginger rolls. And I have bought from this company before, so I knew at least some of their herbs were, were good. Um. I could tell you from opening the bag and sniffing it, it was strong stuff. Uh, I'll see whether or not I can get the name of that place a little bit later.

[00:18:58] But yeah, I mean, it was a [00:19:00] bolt ginger extract, standardized for 5% ginger oil.

[00:19:03] Carl Lanore: [00:19:03] Yeah, I was just gonna say, if you Google a bulk powder ginger extract, 5% ginger, all G, I. N. G. E. R. O. L. you'll find a bunch of companies that sell it and you can. The, the key is it's gotta be fresh. When it's fresh, it's oily, it's dark Brown.

[00:19:20] When it's old, it gets a, almost a light khaki color, like army, army clothes. But when it's that dark Brown, almost muddy color, and it's got a lot of, of the volatile oils in it, it's very, very spicy and it smells strong.

[00:19:36] Coach Rob Regish: [00:19:36] You're going to ginger product at one time, didn't you?

[00:19:39] Carl Lanore: [00:19:39] I did, but it was a pain in the neck.

[00:19:40] You know, when you don't have a lot of time. You have to choose your fights. And I did have a high quality, a ginger extract that I was buying from India that was actually, um, higher than 5% ginger wall, but we just labeled it as 5% ginger roll. It was very, very good. Um, Jason [00:20:00] pointed, uh, says I got rid of my dogs cancer, not skin, but tumor.

[00:20:05] She lived for like four more years, originally. Got the advice from you, uh, on casual Friday. Yeah. Yeah. I've been talking about ginger forever. I did a show, my first show I did about ginger was in either late 2005 early 2006 it cured my brother-in-law's lymphoma.

[00:20:21] Coach Rob Regish: [00:20:21] Wow.

[00:20:22] Carl Lanore: [00:20:22] He had, he had a two and a half centimeter mass in his stomach that's one inch around, and they had already put the port in him to give him chemotherapy.

[00:20:35] Coach Rob Regish: [00:20:35] Right.

[00:20:36] Carl Lanore: [00:20:36] But before he did the chemo, I had him taking. Uh, three grams of pure ginger extract. The stuff I used to get, I actually started getting it for him. That's how I found it. And he would take three grams on an empty stomach, two to three times a day, and we cut his carbs back to at the same time. And when he went back in to have the last CT scan, of course, then he would have the surgery the next day.

[00:21:00] [00:20:59] They couldn't find the mass any longer.

[00:21:02] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:02] How long has he been using it?

[00:21:03] Carl Lanore: [00:21:03] He only used it for about a, I think it was six or seven weeks. Wow. Yeah. Because, because he had the port put in and then he was due to go back in six weeks to have the, have the chemo.

[00:21:15] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:15] Jeez.

[00:21:16] Carl Lanore: [00:21:16] And then I'm going to answer these, and not in the order that they were asked, but they're all pertinent to what we're talking about.

[00:21:24] I keep threatening to come back with primal D and maybe I will, I keep threatening to do it, but maybe I will. Um, here's an interesting question. Is it olive oil dense with ALA alpha lipoic acid? I don't know that

[00:21:40] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:40] it is. It's one of the many different foods that alpha lipoic acid, I guess is in, but it is in such small amounts that it is very, very, and again, this is almost like getting a vitamin C from an arms.

[00:21:56] You know, one might have, you know, 10 grams of C, the [00:22:00] other one might have two. All of it. It depends where it's grown. You know, what kind of fertilizer was used, how long it, you know, when it was picked for optimal antioxidant action from alpha lipoic acid, you need the very lowest threshold needs to be 50 milligrams a day.

[00:22:21] Uh, fortunately most pills are 100 to 200 milligrams now. And if you get the R isomer there, there are two of the R and the S. if you get the RI somewhere, I think it's half of what you need for the, the, uh, R and the S. but again, I've also read conflicting things about which isomer works. You know, I would just tell you get it and, uh, make sure it's more than 50 milligrams.

[00:22:51] Carl Lanore: [00:22:51] Steven rushing says, what about a standard organic ginger powder? I use that for spice at home. I think that's what he's talking about, this stuff for the spice bottles. Sometimes I get it [00:23:00] on a regimen where I throw back a heaping teaspoon of that, but I never know what kind of ginger oil content I'm getting.

[00:23:06] I remember you saying it's nature's, sorry. Can you expound on it? Yes. It's a phyto androgen. It has, um. A weak affinity, but no less. It stimulates the engine receptor and it does have a androgenic effects. Um, you know, is it going to be stronger than testosterone? Nah, but it is. It is a phyto androgen.

[00:23:29] There's no doubt about it.

[00:23:30] Coach Rob Regish: [00:23:30] Yeah. Every little bit. Oh yeah.

[00:23:32] Carl Lanore: [00:23:32] And then Dave McCool says, good to see you guys teamed up again. It's been a while. Yeah, we're here every week, man. Come every Tuesday, the blueprint power hour. Come in and visit us and ask questions. If you have any good questions, just throw them up there as we move on to our next question.

[00:23:47] That is, so this one comes from a. Barry, is it Dorson? Darcell I'm sorry, Barry. Darcy says, I'm on the heavier side and always trying to [00:24:00] lose weight. It's tough and I'm almost pure. Endomorph what are the most important things I need to know? I've got 90 days or so before a big family reunion. I'd like to lose as much weight as possible while maintaining muscle.

[00:24:16] Coach Rob Regish: [00:24:16] Yeah. You know, answering this question. I need to keep the audience in mind. Right? So for most SHR listeners, it is no real mystery what needs to be done for fat loss. Right? At least it shouldn't be. Um, most people know what they need to do. It's just a matter of actually doing it right. And not getting derail, uh, and or otherwise discouraged.

[00:24:44] The first thing that I would do, honestly, is take some measurements with a tape measure. Uh, go around the chest or right around the nipples, the waist around the navel. Uh, your arms flex to your mid thighs as well as your calves. [00:25:00] And that is going to be your primary measure of how your, your diet and training are going.

[00:25:07] You can weigh yourself too, but I want you to get the idea of weight loss cause I noticed you used that in his question. Get weight loss out of your vocabulary and your mind and instead replace it with fat loss. The next thing you need to do, I think is understand that most of it, most of this is diet.

[00:25:28] Okay. Some people approach the problem by eating fewer calories. Other people, uh, fewer carbs. Some people do both that restrict both. Some people still believe low fat is the way to go. I've seen people on almost all protein diets. Whatever your strategy is, there is one and one and only one that I can see common denominator.

[00:25:56] Uh, to success. And that is keeping [00:26:00] insulin low and or steady. And so when you, when you keep insulin low, it leads to much better and more efficient fat loss, uh, be that through a caloric deficit or, you know, a greater energy demand or both. Right. Which brings us, um, to training that energy demand. Should come, in my opinion, uh, not from cardio cardiovascular, you know, work well.

[00:26:34] Instead, it should come from weight training done very quickly. So meaning something, you know, you've heard me refer to it before as lactic acid tolerance training. It is. Um, so, you know, picture five to six compound exercises. Back to back to back to back with no rest. You rifle through five of those, you [00:27:00] rest a minute and that's one round, and then you try to go for another and another.

[00:27:05] That type of training dramatically increases your natural growth hormone levels, which builds, you know, which builds muscle, which, which burns fat 24, seven. Um, not just an hour or two for when you're doing cardio. You know, it's infinitely more efficient. Not only that, it improves your conditioning manyful you know, you can go out and run long distance after several weeks of performing these lactic acid tolerance training workouts, and there'll be a breeze.

[00:27:40] So in terms of frequency, what I've seen work, it's, it depends, right? I think at a minimum, two of those sessions a week will work. In all candor, I seen people do better on three or four. Um, some of that goes back to somatize, right? If you're an ectomorph, two [00:28:00] sessions are probably going to work well. If you're a pure endomorph, three or four probably recommended.

[00:28:08] Um, so you perform five to six of those exercises, rest them in it. The ideal is to build up to five rounds. Okay. But understand when you start, that's probably not going to be happening. You know, start with two, maybe three. That's a much more realistic goal. You, because the blood starts to become very acidic.

[00:28:34] Uh, you can get to a point where you throw up, we do not want to get to that point. That's not productive. That's no badge of honor. It's just, you know, you need to. You need to stay within yourself, but also push yourself. It's a very fine line, right? But the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's not easy.

[00:28:58] As far as supplements [00:29:00] go, there is nothing with a better cost to efficiency ratio that I have seen and safety. Then the good old ephedrine caffeine stack. Which I've gone over a million times. This is close as your local pharmacy, you know, you can add, um, ECG epi, Gallo, catechin Galle from green tea extract that has been shown to result in greater fat oxidation when added to that mix as is, um, forskolin as eSports.

[00:29:33] Golan. You in terms of the other supplements that are out there, you know, steer clear of things like CLA, conjugated linoleic acid, you know, green coffee bean, that was popular awhile ago. Hydroxy citric acid. That was another one. I don't know what the current current darling is, but look, you know, the mall come and gone, and frankly, they haven't done much of anything.

[00:29:59] Uh, [00:30:00] if they did. They'd still, you know, they'd stick around. Fact is they don't, they all go in and out of fashion. You know, the bottom line is, if a Phaedra, the herb was legal again and put back into fat burners, nobody would even bother with any of this other crap. Right. Um. And so the final word on this is similar to boosting immune function.

[00:30:26] You can't just take the fat burners, you know, they're, you gotta go mobilize fat and it'll circulate around. But unless there's an energy demand or caloric deficit, there's just going to get redeposit is deposited into your fat tissue. So the training, the diet, and the sleep are one, two, and three, and then the supplements.

[00:30:49] Very good.

[00:30:51] Carl Lanore: [00:30:51] Next question comes from Kevin O'Malley. He says, how do I increase my bench press? I'm stuck at 300 pounds. That's a really good place to be stuck at. By the way, I want to hit three [00:31:00] 15 I think it's a mental block. How do I get past my sticking point, which is a sticking point is coming off the chest.

[00:31:08] Coach Rob Regish: [00:31:08] Okay, so a couple things for all of it's reverence. I honestly feel bench presses. Uh, or poor bargain, if you will, in terms of building the upper body. I'm not saying they don't work. They clearly do. Um, but if you're not competing, let's say in power lifting, I think the way to dip or pullovers or a far superior movement and so far as building not just the chest, but the entire upper body.

[00:31:40] Um. Those two movements, quite frankly, they work a lot more muscle than just the bench press. Having said that, let's say you're competing, uh, and, and the benches and necessity, or are you otherwise just just want to do it and you're young and you've still got good shoulders

[00:31:58] Carl Lanore: [00:31:58] going to say, and your shoulders [00:32:00] don't hurt you, so you want them to hurt you.

[00:32:03] Coach Rob Regish: [00:32:03] Right?

[00:32:03] Carl Lanore: [00:32:03] You know, I wish I could complain about my shoulder's hurting me because all these a seasoned lifters always complain. I know. I'll just go hurt them. Bench pressing.

[00:32:13] Coach Rob Regish: [00:32:13] Yeah. I mean, the sad thing is by their, by their early thirties, a lot of heavy benchers are out of the game. Um, but, but be that as it may, you want a bench, um, a sticking point off the chest that can be addressed in a couple of different ways.

[00:32:30] Some gyms have so-called Cambridge Cambridge bars, or a bar that is, uh, bent in the middle, kind of looks like you, for lack of a better term. And so what that means is when you lower it to the chest, your hands sink an inch or two farther right past where the bar otherwise would, um. And so you're benching, I guess you call it from, from a deficit,

[00:32:57] Carl Lanore: [00:32:57] I would want to say it's kinda like, it's kinda like a [00:33:00] deficit.

[00:33:00] Debt is dead. Lift of dead lifting off of a plate or platform is to the dead lift. This is to the chest.

[00:33:07] Coach Rob Regish: [00:33:07] Right? Right. Um, and so that's one possible solution. Now, a lot of people are going to tell you that dumbbell of benching is going to help here, especially out of the bottom. But I think they're wrong on several counts.

[00:33:22] One of which is, first off, when you were using dumbbells because of the greater stabilization and so forth, you are using less weight than you otherwise would. You would be able to on a barbell. The other thing is people mistakenly think dumbbells result and the greater range of motion when in fact. The opposite is actually true because if you think about it, you are lowering the dumbbells, right?

[00:33:49] Until they touch your chest or very close to it because of effectness of the dumbbells. It's actually a shorter range of motion versus greater. And the bigger the [00:34:00] dumbbells you use, the shorter range. Um, I'm not saying they're, they don't have merit, but it's not going to be, and getting your bench, you know, from, from here to here, from the bottom up.

[00:34:14] Um, it now, if you do not have a cambered bar, you can do what I did for years. You can approximate, uh, approximately recreate that, that, uh, dynamical call it by performing wide grip benches. Now. When I say wide grip, for some reason people want to throw their hands as far out as possible and use this ultra wide grip you are begging for for a, a Peck Del tear.

[00:34:43] Somewhere in there by using such an extreme rep, all that in fact is necessary is to go out maybe one hand links past your normal grip. And so once you've [00:35:00] established that, and that's okay, that's my white grip. Um, reps of five to six seem to work best for whatever reason. Uh, I think that goes a long way to making sure you don't make mistake number two, which is try doing heavy singles or doubles.

[00:35:19] With wide grip bench press, you know, you instead, you want to keep the percentages somewhere between, let's call it 75 and 80% and let the rep range dictate your weight. Uh, also you do not need to train to failure or otherwise do anything crazy, especially with that movement. Practically, I found that one to two work sets were all that were necessary, uh, and within three weeks anyway, I saw a major difference.

[00:35:54] My sticking point was no longer off the chest. It was either halfway up [00:36:00] or locking out, which is another topic for another time. So, um, you know, even though the bottom is the further point away from lockout. Always remember this, the primary mover in the bench press or the triceps, it's not the, the, the chest per se.

[00:36:21] It's not the shoulders. It is the tricep. So as such, if you're going to perform extra work, then extra tricep work is what's going to benefit you. And personally for me, that was, um, close grip. Uh, three, four, or five board presses, right? And again, when I say close grip, I don't, you know, she, some people, they're using the grip like this.

[00:36:48] Now it's pretty much where the knurling starts on the bar. At least that's where I used it. Um, and so

[00:36:55] Carl Lanore: [00:36:55] barely close grip should be just about shoulder width. Like right at your hands [00:37:00] should be right above your shoulders on the bar when your hand, when your arms are extended.

[00:37:04] Coach Rob Regish: [00:37:04] That's what I, what I tell people is, you know, if this is your normal grip on the bench press and one work wide grip, one handout, if this is your normal grip and you want to work close grip one, one hand land with it.

[00:37:17] Carl Lanore: [00:37:17] Right.

[00:37:18] Coach Rob Regish: [00:37:18] Um, and, and, you know, that keeps things consistent no matter. What your body type is cause it's you, um, that you're adjusting to. Now, alternatively, you can't perform close grip work with doubled up many bands, which offer plenty of resistance for the triceps. Um, because as you, as you can imagine, the resistance is greater, right?

[00:37:43] The, the higher you push, the further you push away. Um, and so you will be teaching your triceps to strain. Through that range of the movement bans are hard on the body, so don't use them. I would say for any more than three weeks [00:38:00] before giving yourself a break or switching to another method. So I hope that helps.

[00:38:06] Carl Lanore: [00:38:06] Uh, I wanna I want to put up, uh, another, uh, so John Walsh says to try Mark Bell's Slingshot. I like the product. It's a great product, but I don't know. That it will make you stronger at the bottom of the bench press. That's the only question I have. Are you familiar with the Slingshot, Rob?

[00:38:22] Coach Rob Regish: [00:38:22] I am. I've never used one.

[00:38:24] Carl Lanore: [00:38:24] I've got, I've got a couple here actually. Uh, Mark sent me a couple of, not too long ago. Um, it's a, it's really a great, uh, you know, um, it does, what a shirt does for you without having a, uh, uh, a bench press shirt on. And what I mean by that is it keeps your elbows in and it protects your shoulders. That's what it does.

[00:38:45] The problem that I have with it is if you're trying to get stronger at the bottom of the bench press, this is actually doing some of the work. This is like magic fingers. We all know what magic fingers are, right? So when that band [00:39:00] hits your chest, when you come down with it, that band hits your chest, is now starting to take some of the load off of your muscles.

[00:39:06] Now, even though the load may be minuscule, it may only be pounds. It's still. Taking some of the workload off of you, and so when you push out, it's helping you push out until it's get, until it's not really a wrapped around your chest anymore and now you're taking it from there. If you're trying to get stronger down here, I think it would pay to lighten up and focus on the bottom half of the movement from your chest.

[00:39:38] Up, maybe a couple of inches, like the opposite of board pressing. So op board pressing helps you get stronger at the top end by gradually making you go deeper and deeper and deeper. The  I would go lighter and I would start at my chest and I would just push off a couple inches and I would just get that strength going with very, very lightweight and then [00:40:00] slowly graduate the weight.

[00:40:02] Uh, from the bottom up, the way you do it from the top down with the board pressing, and then maybe start to try a full press and see if you can get down further. And, but it all comes down here. The important thing about down here that people have a hard time doing is keeping your elbows in. You are so much stronger when your elbows end, when you're like, this.

[00:40:26] You're not strong because now it's just your shoulders that are holding you together. And that's it. When you're like this, it's your lats and your shoulders that are holding you together. And so that's the magic. And that's one of the things that the Slingshot does for you. It literally pulls your arms in like this.

[00:40:42] When it hits your chest, it goes, whoop.

[00:40:44] Coach Rob Regish: [00:40:44] Yes, yes. But I

[00:40:47] Carl Lanore: [00:40:47] like the product is fantastic and it's really, I'll tell you who it's really good for. If you're not looking to win a bench press contest, but you do have problems shoulders from years of benching, there's [00:41:00] nothing better than the Slingshot to get you through a workout.

[00:41:02] I mean, you can get a really good workout and, and, and save yourself from hitting those danger points. It's a brilliant product. It's so simple. He's made billions of dollars with it. It's so simple. It's just brilliant.

[00:41:13] Coach Rob Regish: [00:41:13] I really, really,

[00:41:16] Carl Lanore: [00:41:16] uh, let's see where we are. So that's, um. Yup. That was Kevin, right? Yeah.

[00:41:22] Okay, so we have a, we're going to take a quick commercial break is what we're going to do now, and then we come back. We have plenty more questions and of course those of you in the audience that are watching live, feel free to ask your questions. We shall return. Stay tuned.

[00:41:35] Coach Rob Regish: [00:41:35] This is the superhuman channel

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[00:42:45] Coach Rob Regish: [00:42:45] Yeah.

[00:42:45] Carl Lanore: [00:42:45] What's the, so the Piedmontese breed is an Italian breed of cattle known as double muscle cows and bowls.

[00:42:57] Why? Because they have [00:43:00] myostatin null cows and bowls, and we've seen pictures of these animals there. They look like bodybuilder

[00:43:09] Coach Rob Regish: [00:43:09] cows.

[00:43:10] Carl Lanore: [00:43:10] That's what they look like. They have rippling muscle. They're huge at muscle. On muscle. They called them double muscle for a reason. So from an aesthetic standpoint, they're fascinating.

[00:43:22] Like, Oh my God, you know, Oh, the double muscle animals, they get so muscular. But we also know a couple other things about animals that have the myostatin know gene type number one, they don't produce a lot of collagen. In fact, these animals are known like there, there's actually myostatin no greyhounds, but they can't race because they always tear muscles off the bones.

[00:43:49] And even the research done by Cezanne Lee's group on the fullest Staten and myostatin rodents, they discovered that the tendons of these rodents are very [00:44:00] weak. Now. Why does that mean anything? We're talking about eating beef, Carl. Well, what makes meat tough, Rob? Do you know what makes me tough? No. The infiltration of collagen and to muscle, the muscles that cows use to stand the shoulder muscles tend to be the toughest cuts of beef for a reason, because.

[00:44:27] Holding that animal up year in and year out makes the muscle gain more collagen in the tissue, and this tends to be the cheapest cuts of meat. That's what they turned them into. Cube steaks. They'd run them through the machine to cube them so that they're tenderized. Well, this cow doesn't have a lot of collagen in its muscles.

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[00:45:14] Why? Because butter is basically fat from cows and butter makes beef tastes better. This beef tastes like it's already got butter in it. It's got a buttery rich taste. I've had the chop meat, I've had the New York strip steaks. I've had the, uh, the, the, uh, uh, not the prime, but the, uh, what's the other one?

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[00:47:06] I know Rob wants for dinner. No, he wants a Piedmontese steak. Matt Rinaldi says. Do you have any insights into antioxidant formulas? I'm looking for a good all-in-one, but haven't found one that I'm happy with yet. Also, what's your take on using them? Do you really think they work or am I better off just eating a balanced diet like my doctor tells me

[00:47:31] Coach Rob Regish: [00:47:31] to.

[00:47:32] Yeah. You know, this is a timely topic, right? Because not that long ago, we had some study come out that antioxidants, uh, actually worked against training adaptations, if I'm not mistaken, that was, um, for cardio conditioning. But, but be that as it may, right. The baby kinda got thrown out with the bath water.

[00:47:54] And I think that's really, really unfortunate because [00:48:00] personally, I believe a lot in antioxidants and I've used a lot of them. Um, but one thing I wanted to address upfront was this notion, uh, of the so-called balanced diet, right? That you hear from many doctors and nutritionists and authorities, you can file it up there.

[00:48:21] Right. With the three square meals a day, I'd been hearing about this stuff since grade school and I've been asking pretty much anyone, fennel, entertain the question, all these authorities, what exactly do you mean when you say, you know, a balanced diet, three square meals a day, and the best answer that anyone has ever come up with is they pointed to the food pyramid.

[00:48:48] Sharp, right? And you know, the whole six to 11 servings of grunt and cereals a day. That one, I don't know if that's the current [00:49:00] thinking, but, um, suffice it to say I never got a decent answer.

[00:49:04] Carl Lanore: [00:49:04] Now they have the, my plate, I think it's called. It's a little different, you know, but it's still, it's still very low on protein.

[00:49:10] They always tell you like the smallest amount that you eat is up the protein.

[00:49:13] Coach Rob Regish: [00:49:13] Right. And, and the fact of the matter is this, right? The right diet for you? Depends. It depends on a lot of things. And I'll give you just one very pertinent example. I can eat mixed nuts till the cows come home. I have a friend who is definitely allergic to them.

[00:49:33] Matter of fact, I watched this happen in high school, I think it was Hazel nut that was in some of these mixed nuts. He took a handful and his air passages closed up. Was one of the scariest things I've ever seen. I had to call the ambulance. The paramedics came in, I cleared his airway somehow. I don't

[00:49:51] Carl Lanore: [00:49:51] know.

[00:49:51] They give them an Epic, uh, an a epinephrin shot. Yeah,

[00:49:54] Coach Rob Regish: [00:49:54] that's right. So, um, so right. Suffice it to say what, [00:50:00] what's one person's ideal is another person's poison. So when it comes to antioxidant intake intake, though, I do not. Think that you can just get everything that you need from food, from the so-called, you know, three square meals a day, balanced diet.

[00:50:16] And here's why. A, again, one example, 60 milligrams of vitamin C might prevent scurvy. You need gram amounts in order for it to act as an antioxidant in most cases. And to do that. To get that just from your diet, you would need to eat crate loads of oranges. Right. And even if that was practical, which it's not.

[00:50:46] I gave you the example earlier about, you know, the vitamin C and this orange is going to be a lot different than this one based on where it was grown, how, you know, when it was packed in that stuff. The situation is similar [00:51:00] for alpha lipoic acid. We discussed that. You know, I, as you look at natural sources, you see organ meats like liver and kidneys.

[00:51:09] You see broccoli, spinach, potatoes. But honestly, how are you going to get a consistent amount. You know, so, good luck. I just don't think it's practical. Long story short, um, I do think you need to supplement some of these antioxidants for them to work effectively. I have yet to find an all in one formula that I'm happy with.

[00:51:34] Uh, although there are a couple that are close and, and from a practical perspective, right, you can't afford all of them. I mean, if there's just, there are so many. And they're key. They keep identifying new substances in fruits and vegetables and other places. Uh, and you know, you can go broke real fast. So, uh, to put a stick in the mud, this is what I do.

[00:51:58] It might not be right for you, but this is what [00:52:00] I do every single day. Three grams of vitamin C, 800 I, you have natural vitamin E mixed  for Rawls and took Katrina Alz. The natural form being D alpha, Toca Sifrol, the synthetic being D L be very careful when you go to buy it because it's easy to mess. I also, along with that, take 200 milligrams of alpha lipoic acid, the R isomer, 15 milligrams of ASTO xantham.

[00:52:36] I get that in Frank Quilligan. Uh, of course, the curcumin that's also in there, uh, is chock full of antioxidants and 1500 milligrams a day, sometimes 2000 of NaCl 60. Um, and that, again, to boost your, your body's most prolific indogenous antioxidant, that being glued a file. Right? [00:53:00] Uh, let's see. C and, D, those are the ones that most people.

[00:53:04] Are familiar with, they are well established. I think in the literature. Uh, I think they work better together than either one does alone in our alpha lipoic acid, again, is complimentary, especially given the fact that it's both fat and water. Solubles one of the very few that that's the case as the Zam fin is, is one of the newer kids on the block.

[00:53:29] Uh. It is many times, according to the studies, many times more powerful than vitamin C and D. a and furthermore provides excellent protection, antioxidant protection any way in the skin and the eyes from UV radiation, not as good as cam thousand fin for that purpose, although I think it's likely a better overall antioxidant.

[00:53:55] Um, Tim , and if you're, if you're just looking, you know, throughout the body, [00:54:00] I would be remiss not to mention two other things. One. People know, right? Wrong or indifferent. I'm the EC D heck D stare on guy. And EQ D does in fact has have very profound antioxidant effects in addition to the other stuff that we discuss on here, which is everything from lowering your blood sugar to, you know, building muscle at an accelerated rate.

[00:54:26] And also ginger. I frankly, I was, I dismissed this stuff. That was a huge mistake. If you look up what is actually in ginger, I think it's going to blow your mind. And in fact, if you look at the literature, a gram a day of it pretty much provides protection against everything that you can imagine. Imagine.

[00:54:51] So that's what I do, Matt. And it served me well for the better part of the last, let's say 15 years. Uh, because I, when I, [00:55:00] once I turned 35, I really ratcheted up my, my, um, research into antioxidants and started using different ones. And no, you know, noting that the different benefits and so forth. Uh, I first, and this is one last point, when I was 25 years old, I used an antioxidant formula.

[00:55:26] By AST research. The name of it was a site late and it was a powder, and it was just, you know, a lot of very strong high dose antioxidants. And I'll tell you, I took that immediately after training and I saw a big difference in how I recovered. So we didn't have any of the data then on whether it was good or bad or what it was going to do.

[00:55:49] But I very consistently noticed that it made a difference. And so far as my recovery. Uh, and that kinda got the ball rolling. You know, where it goes from [00:56:00] here. You can go on a million different directions, but you know, those are a half a dozen or so that I think a lot of, and that I personally use.

[00:56:08] Carl Lanore: [00:56:08] You know, the, the whole antioxidant, um, subject to me is a little baffling.

[00:56:14] And I'll tell you why. First of all, we know that too much of a good thing is no good antioxidants and high levels can actually help cancers grow if it doesn't cause cancer. But cancer leverages everything that's good for healthy cells and having high levels of antioxidants actually like ROS, reactive reactive oxygen species, which is a nasty.

[00:56:38] Uh, oxidant, uh, pro-oxidant. It's a form of oxidative stress. Uh, it actually kills tumor cells.

[00:56:46] Coach Rob Regish: [00:56:46] So

[00:56:47] Carl Lanore: [00:56:47] it's, um, the whole antioxidant thing is interesting to me. I take vitamin C, I do take our alpha lipoic acid.

[00:56:56] Coach Rob Regish: [00:56:56] Um,

[00:56:57] Carl Lanore: [00:56:57] I do take glutathione. [00:57:00] And I also take an acetyl cystine, which also helps to produce more glutathione.

[00:57:04] But the, the, the thing I want to say about antioxidants is the reality is that nobody knows if they're really working for them. Everything is subjective. You know, we think it's working. Oh, I think it's working. I think I feel better. I think, you know, um, I have not done the deep dive. Into looking at research about taking this much of an antioxidant and what it does inside your body.

[00:57:29] If you ask people like Aubrey de grey, he'll tell you that it's critical because the mitochondrial theory of aging is that the mitochondria produces oxidative stress, and he's not even, he's against exercise. He says, Oh, if you exercise, all you're doing is spinning off more, uh, oxidative stress, you know?

[00:57:49] And so, uh. You know, it's an interesting discussion. It's not one that I've spent much time on. I do take [00:58:00] antioxidants as a precaution, but I just, I, it's one of those things that it's just not that sexy to me. I don't know why. Why is the primary antioxidant. And cow. What is the primary antioxidant? Cocoa cacau I get a few teaspoons a day.

[00:58:15] Usually. It's got a lot of things. It doesn't, it has the Indian edit. It's a cook. If I cough up

[00:58:21] Coach Rob Regish: [00:58:21] poly phenols I think there are a lot of things, but I think the polyphenols, uh, are the big ones. Yeah. Or the big ones. And he's absolutely right. That's another great, you know, dark, dark chocolate. Um, in cocoa.

[00:58:38] You know, that's another great antioxidant, but you know, where do you start and where do you end? I don't know.

[00:58:45] Carl Lanore: [00:58:45] You know, I am completely 100% I haven't talked about it cause I don't want people to be like, Oh yeah, call, give it two more months. But I am completely caffeine free now for going on two months.

[00:58:56] And when I say completely, I mean not even chocolate. [00:59:00] Wow. I've given up and I finally feel great. My brain is working. There was a period of time where I couldn't think straight, like on the show. I'd forget what I was talking about, and it's not totally 100% yet. I just ordered some one P LSD. It's called micro dosing again.

[00:59:18] Um, but, uh. I am completely 100% caffeine free and I can't, I'm not eating chocolate anymore because there are trace amounts of caffeine and I'm not even drinking tea. I mean, I'm a hundred percent caffeine free. If a supplement has like coffee bean extract in it, not for me. I'm not using it.

[00:59:39] Coach Rob Regish: [00:59:39] Wow. Good for you.

[00:59:41] Carl Lanore: [00:59:41] Yeah. And I, and I feel fine. I really do. Um, but it's not for everybody. I know a lot of people depend on caffeine. Uh, the next question comes from.

[00:59:52] Coach Rob Regish: [00:59:52] Let's see here.

[00:59:54] Carl Lanore: [00:59:54] Patrick O'Connor. He says, uh, did you hear fi Eric Ferrel? Oh, he heard, ER, [01:00:00] Eric Fiorello died. Uh, weren't you on his show years ago? Why didn't you stop?

[01:00:04] Why did you stop doing it? Don't you know, do you know what he died from? What killed him?

[01:00:10] Coach Rob Regish: [01:00:10] Yeah. And you know, uh, it's kind of, it's sad, but for those unfamiliar, Eric ran a podcast that was similar to SHR. No, uh, w it was, it was narrower in scope. Okay. So, so it was really rude when he got down to it. It was power lifting.

[01:00:27] It was stone lifts. It was strong, man.

[01:00:29] Carl Lanore: [01:00:29] And it was called motivation and muscle or muscle motivation or something like that.

[01:00:33] Coach Rob Regish: [01:00:33] Right, right. And so, um, so per his obituary, it sounds like he died on the ninth of the 10th from what was reported to be a massive stroke. And whatever, whatever it was, it must've been sudden because I went back and listened.

[01:00:51] And you know, he was podcasting up until the day or two before. Um, and then it went on to say that, uh, I think he [01:01:00] had it the ninth you have the stroke, the ninth, and he died the next morning and an end of care or end of life care facility. Uh, so it sounds like he just, he never recovered. Yeah. The, the obit further said he was 61 at the time of his passing, which I thought might've been a misprint because he had told me, you know, and several others.

[01:01:21] He was considerably younger. Frankly, I don't know what to believe at this point, but, um, yeah, I was a frequent guest on this show years ago. Unfortunately because of a misunderstanding I was never, never on again.

[01:01:37] Carl Lanore: [01:01:37] That seems to be the situation with a lot of people. He had a lot of misunderstandings. I guess.

[01:01:42] People are just calling them misunderstandings.

[01:01:45] Coach Rob Regish: [01:01:45] Yeah. And, and you know, you look, but you look back and. You know, you think, Oh, that was stupid. You know, we should, we should have gotten past that, but, but be that as it may, right. Eric really did love all things strengths, [01:02:00] his guest list and that arena was pretty darn impressive too.

[01:02:04] He had many of the greats on, and you can really tell he loved what he did. Um, I remember talking to him, uh, off air many times. Apparently he worked in it. Services for most of his adult life, but, but he started this podcast around seven years ago. Um, I did read something really cool about the way he started with weights, and so he had a younger brother, Jimmy, who unfortunately was struck down at an early age with muscular dystrophy.

[01:02:37] And, um. Despite his parents' assurances that, that he wouldn't quote unquote catch it. Eric was terrified that he would be next, and the, his muscles would wither away to the point of his brothers. You know, who, who was wheelchair bound, uh, at the time of his death. I forget his exact age, but it wasn't very old.

[01:02:57] You know, maybe, maybe even [01:03:00] before he was a teenager. Um, by his own account. Eric was reading comic books one day and he came across the incredible Hulk and he resolved to get as big and strong as the Hulk to be impervious to muscular dystrophy and whatever else came along. I would tell you that in a sense he succeeded and he probably did inspire many other people to take their strength training to the next level.

[01:03:32] Uh, in his, in his later years, he was, he was very focused on, um, money. He was, he was very influenced by the book, think and grow rich, which is not a bad book. It's actually an excellent book. Um, Oh no, it was totally Napoleon Hill. Yeah.

[01:03:51] Carl Lanore: [01:03:51] Everybody would read it at least

[01:03:52] Coach Rob Regish: [01:03:52] once. Yeah. You know, T to each his own.

[01:03:55] But I guess I, I had always looked at that. It was kind of odd because. [01:04:00] If you think about it, the things he valued the most were the things that I, and we value a lot too, which, right? Strengthen health. Even if you had $1 million, you can't buy those, right? There's no gym in the world you can walk into and say, yeah, I want to be a big, strong jacked up dude that's healthy.

[01:04:22] You know, that's your, you don't do that with money. 1 million, 10 million, 10 billion. It doesn't happen. You know, it does happen through hard work, discipline and sacrifice. And I would tell you to, to sum that up, then he had those in spades that was pretty clear. So I hope wherever he is now, he's happy. And, and you can say a lot of things about the man, but I like to remember him like this.

[01:04:48] He may not have. Been a millionaire, but he made his Mark on the world I think in the way he wanted to. And I do think he left it a better place, [01:05:00] a better place.

[01:05:01] Carl Lanore: [01:05:01] Did he have a, like a cohost? Is anybody going to carry on with the podcast?

[01:05:05] Coach Rob Regish: [01:05:05] No, he, he was pretty much from what I've seen a one man show, he had tons of guests.

[01:05:12] Carl Lanore: [01:05:12] I could throw some names cause maybe people will go there and listen to some of his old

[01:05:16] Coach Rob Regish: [01:05:16] shows. Uh, well, I think Wade was on more than one. Um, I think was on Brooks, uh, some of the Highland strength games, guys that their mind escapes me. I don't, I don't, I don't follow it. But, um, he had old and young, you know, strong man, um, stone lifting.

[01:05:39] He actually made a trip to, if I'm not mistaken, to Iceland to lift the HUSA felt stone. Yeah. Um, which is no small accomplishment. I don't know if he actually got to do it or not. Um, but he was there, you know, and, and, and that's rarefied air if you're going up there [01:06:00] to lift that thing or even think you can lift it, you know, you've pretty much arrived in the strength world.

[01:06:06] Right, right. Yeah. That's no small feat. So. I just hope you rest in peace in his, his contribution was made and it was made while he was here. There you go.

[01:06:17] Carl Lanore: [01:06:17] Yeah, I kind of said, yeah, he was on my show once and I was on his show. Yeah. Even Elisa was on his show. He had Elise on the show and he did, they did a podcast for women training,

[01:06:28] Coach Rob Regish: [01:06:28] so.

[01:06:29] Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of sad already. So,

[01:06:32] Carl Lanore: [01:06:32] uh, we're going to take a quick commercial break, and when we come back, we have the blueprint tip of the day. Can you give us a peak under the tent? What's the blueprint tip of the day? About tonight?

[01:06:41] Coach Rob Regish: [01:06:41] Yeah. I'll just give you the title. It is a tip of the day is the last days of black Sojourner.

[01:06:48] Oh, we're saying,

[01:06:50] Carl Lanore: [01:06:50] Hey, we're going to see it. Okay. Stay tuned. We'll be right back with more of supreme-a radio. Let me see. I can't get my. Wake up, computer, wake up over. I [01:07:00] go where we use

[01:07:02] Coach Rob Regish: [01:07:02] oxygen for the power of good.

[01:07:14] Carl Lanore: [01:07:14] Welcome back.

[01:07:18] So the blueprint tip of

[01:07:20] Coach Rob Regish: [01:07:20] the day. Here we go. The tip of the day again. Uh, last days of lack xoJane and I think, uh, we are in them and I have to give credit to you, Carl, uh, for bringing this to my attention. It's been years since I finished, right? My lack Sojun and product. Uh, and I missed this piece of valuable info.

[01:07:42] So, so here's what's happening and how you might be affected if you use it. So just a few days ago, the 15th to be exact, there was a new study published. Uh, in the journal of the American medical association regarding black Sojun and [01:08:00] products, and what is really in them. So here's some background. In October of last year, the U S F food and drug administration, the FDA, they, the good old FDA placed, um, five alpha hydroxylase Exogen, which is, has a ton of different synonyms.

[01:08:21] On the something called the dietary supplement ingredient advisory list, which supposedly alerts the public that it does not appear to be a lawful supplemental ingredient.

[01:08:34] Carl Lanore: [01:08:34] You know, just this without segwaying. You know what else? They're trying to do that too. Right now,

[01:08:41] Coach Rob Regish: [01:08:41] I don't remember. Great town Stevia right.

[01:08:44] Oh, they tried

[01:08:46] Carl Lanore: [01:08:46] to say that  has never been approved to be, it's not generally regarded as safe, and it's never been approved as a sweetener, and people using it right now in their products are breaking the law.

[01:08:57] Coach Rob Regish: [01:08:57] Yeah. We can't have, we can't have a [01:09:00] nontoxic natural sweetener.

[01:09:01] Carl Lanore: [01:09:01] Yeah. But you know what? You know what's really funny about the FDA?

[01:09:04] 1 million people a year die in the United States due to tobacco use, but that's cool. Yeah. Don't take Stevia.

[01:09:13] Coach Rob Regish: [01:09:13] God. So, um, so what they did was they decided to test a few products that were said to contain like Sochi. And this, I want you to take note of this. This is part of the established FDA modus operandi that is designed to an establish an ingredient as quote unquote, dangerous or.

[01:09:37] Otherwise, something fishy going on with it to ultimately ban it. So they looked at a total of six supplements, categorized them, the national Institute of health database as containing Lex xoJane, and four of those six were available for purchase. A one was out of stock, one was discontinued. Why they [01:10:00] limited their study.

[01:10:01] The four. I don't know, because there are a lot more than four products with Lex Sojun in them that are on the market and you don't believe it. Just Google it. So in total, uh, there were 16 different ingredients that were declared on the four product labels. So, you know, issue number one in my mind is why are they testing products with things with more than Lexagene in them, but be that as it may compared to their actual chemical contents.

[01:10:32] No product was accurately labeled. Of the 16 ingredients, six were not detected in the supplements. Only four or 14 ingredients with quantities provided on the label were present in their specified amounts. Quantities detected range from, uh, less than 5% to 109%. Which was listed on the label. Two products [01:11:00] contained an ingredient that were not declared on the label, and only one product contained the five alpha hydroxy religion.

[01:11:10] Um, so a couple of things. First, uh, it's quite curious that the FDA has decided to go after less photogenic. And I'd like to know. I guess why they think I'd say not or not rather a lawful dietary ingredient or supplement, because generally speaking, if, if it occurs in nature and it's been for sale on the market, right since the mid to late nineties it should be DSH GA compliant and Lexo Junin fits that criteria because it is found that's really occurring.

[01:11:50] In two different plants. My Lexi boldly and tribulus terrestris. It was also first for sale in this country [01:12:00] as a product name Meza blin by amino discounters in 1992 amino discounters was a, uh, it was a company run by the eccentric chemist, Mark Spearman, uh, who has since passed. So God rest his soul.

[01:12:15] That's another story for another time. But nevertheless. They've got it. They've got like Sojun in their sites, so they set out to establish that products that are said that contain it don't, it would be even better if they found other, quote unquote dangerous and unapproved compounds not declared on the label.

[01:12:38] And of course that's exactly what they found. It is also quite convenient. That they chose to only test for products when, like I said before, you can easily find a dozen or more, uh, for sale here just in the United States. So, but back to the testing for a minute, they're finding rains range [01:13:00] from no lactogen at all, uh, to those containing a lot of it.

[01:13:06] Alright. Excuse me. A lot of diocesan in it. Which is what you would expect from a company that doesn't know how to synthesize lactogen and from diocesan diocesan, and by the way, is used as starter material for a lot of different steroids, including testosterone. Uh, so you may be wondering, why do these companies synthesize it versus extractive from smilax or tribulus?

[01:13:35] Well, the answer is it is prohibitively expensive. To do the ladder. And maybe, maybe that's why the FDA is after it. I'm guessing, maybe because these companies are synthesizing it, um, versus extract and, but, but again, I, you know, I don't know. Let me be very clear about a few things. Uh, [01:14:00] these companies products that they tested with no lactogen in them or, or very little or other ingredients.

[01:14:08] They're giving Lexagene and a bad name. They're giving the FDA more ammunition to ban it and ultimately make it almost impossible for people like me to bring you true to label products that actually work. But most people unfortunately buy on price, so they'll fill these company's coffers with money, you know?

[01:14:32] Well, while my products and other high quality companies, products remain comparatively unknown, right? Me collecting dust on the shelves, am I venting here? You betcha. Because it's all been impossible to make money in this business. Okay. When you've got these other companies that are flooding the market with products that don't contain [01:15:00] what they're labeled claims or in some cases, nothing at all, what do you think the cost of raw ingredients is when you put a product out with nothing at all on it, it's 100% profit, so you know it, it drives me nuts.

[01:15:16] These idiots have gone as far. As to steal my postings off of public forums. And, or in the case of one company, use my, uh, ad copy word for word. So, so let's get back on point here. It'll be interesting to see if this JAMA study influences companies that are selling AxoGen and, and if not, whether the FDA will take a more heavy hand.

[01:15:48] To ban it. Um, as I said before, you know, you search for yourself. There's plenty of these products out there, most of which I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole. Why? Because half these [01:16:00] companies are doing more than half likely are doing what you see here. There's nothing in it. Mmm. And it's crap, you know, that, you know, and they don't even know how to synthesize it.

[01:16:15] You wind up when when you find diocesan, then it means they started with dialysis and then, and either tried to do it and failed miserably or didn't even try it all, you know? And then you wind up with a product like that and you wonder why, Hey, this actually stair on analog stuff. Why does it suck? You know, whatever the case, here's the real for one one.

[01:16:39] Um, Exogen real exogenous. Is about as toxic as lemonade. I have used up to 250 milligrams a day with no side effects. The chemist that's synthesize Lex xoJane and first in this country and probably have the most successful product stay, has [01:17:00] stated that he has used grams of it with no adverse side.

[01:17:04] Carl Lanore: [01:17:04] Who first synthesize it?

[01:17:06] Coach Rob Regish: [01:17:06] Mark Fairman. Okay. Number two, it is nothing. Like Andover. And so if you read something like that in the ads, understand that is it's BS and run.

[01:17:19] Carl Lanore: [01:17:19] I don't know why I couldn't. Comparing comparing a product to Anna VAR is like, who, only people who take anniver. Uh, women generally as a rule because it's not androgenic at all, but it provides very, very, very small gains.

[01:17:35] Like why compare it to Anna VAR? Like you're basically saying, Hey, this is just as weak as anniver. Not just as strong as anamar.

[01:17:45] Coach Rob Regish: [01:17:45] Yeah. But because it's a steroid, most people think, Oh wow. They get, you know, they get all excited or worse. And I love

[01:17:50] Carl Lanore: [01:17:50] it when they had the, on the board, they call it VAR, like, it's cool.

[01:17:53] Oh yeah. Using VAR. It's like, Oh, you kidding me?

[01:17:57] Coach Rob Regish: [01:17:57] Right.

[01:17:58] Carl Lanore: [01:17:58] Let level up. Try some

[01:18:00] [01:17:59] Coach Rob Regish: [01:17:59] test. Yeah. It's nothing like Anna bar. It is quite effective. However, as an anti-inflammatory slash recovery type agent. Um, and that was first found in 1976 by dr sear off in Russia actually funded. Quite effective for that purpose of a mere 25 milligrams a day.

[01:18:24] The former owner of beyond a century, Warren, uh, who God rest his soul, he's passed too. He told me in conversation once that he sold, um, caseload of lactogen into both lupus and chronic fatigue patients. Really? Yeah. Which gave them great relief. And so, so that didn't surprise me, nor does the fact that most of these products have just die osteogenic on them.

[01:18:52] As a matter of fact. 15 years ago, I sent Pat Arnold three four, maybe more ALEKS, [01:19:00] Sojun and products, and had him test them and he found the same thing. He said, this is some of the shoddiest work I've ever seen. There's no lack xoJane in here. It's just I oxygen. So you know. So certain extent, none of this surprised me.

[01:19:18] Here's the bottom line. If you are interested in January . It's in progenitor directs, which is sold This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. I took every scrap of info that I knew about that compound, which is 25 years worth, and I tweaked it for you, some of in the lean bulking type formula. And I'm happy to say for the years and years of it's been over there, it's gotten nothing but five star ratings.

[01:19:46] Um, it actually outsells synth agenda, if you can believe that. Anyway, after the FDA, I have a bad feeling after they exploit this study. It may be one of your last [01:20:00] opportunities to try this compound and, and it's a great compound and to say nothing of the fact that it's incredibly safe. Yep. You know, they're going after that instead of via Cray, Tom and all these other things that are just.

[01:20:17] Peanuts compared to what the real health problems that the FDA needs to address are? Well, the

[01:20:24] Carl Lanore: [01:20:24] FDA can't address any health problems. The FDA is an organization, uh, who poses as being the firewall. She Twain companies and citizens, but they're not. They're, they're the indoctrination company and the gateway company of.

[01:20:40] Of, of, uh, food products and pharmaceutical companies that they actually are supposed to provide oversight to, but actually are in cahoots with, when you think about it, I mean, it, the, the FDA. Look there are, there are good things that the FDA does. Don't get me wrong, and there's good people at the FDA and there's real scientists [01:21:00] at the FDA, but as an organization, it really should have been gutted a long time ago, and something should have been put in its place and whatever was put in this place should have received 100% funding from the government and zero funding from industry.

[01:21:16] Because, because, think about it. Imagine how, imagine how. Uh, the crack sales in your city would be effective if local police departments payroll

[01:21:32] Coach Rob Regish: [01:21:32] came

[01:21:32] Carl Lanore: [01:21:32] from crack dealers. Like the crack deal is put money in a pool and that's how they paid the cops. Are the cops going to want to put themselves out of a job by shutting down all the crack deals?

[01:21:44] Of course, not that we should never, they've FDA shouldn't be able to get. Fees for, you know, like, like every time a company submits a new drug, they pay millions of dollars directly to the FDA. And people say, yeah, but the FDA [01:22:00] doesn't approve everything. Oh no. Maybe they don't approve everything, but they approve a lot of things that are horrible.

[01:22:04] And when you're getting money from the industry that you're supposed to be providing oversight, you can't help but become corrupt. You just can't help

[01:22:12] Coach Rob Regish: [01:22:12] it. You know? Even better. Take a look at where the. CEOs, CFOs, and other  farmer, when they retire, notice where they go. They go to work for the FDA.

[01:22:28] Carl Lanore: [01:22:28] Yeah.

[01:22:29] That's a revolving door. We were getting some really, we're getting some really great comments and I can't put them up. I don't know why. What's wrong? Oh, here they come here. They call. No. So hit Jordan, France is, thank you for the insights into Eric, uh, and his in his life, who he was and his life. And Robert SA, uh, Sadler just put up a great comment and it won't allow me to put it up there.

[01:22:53] He said, great. Show you guys. I'm tuning in again from London, England. Thank you so much for tuning in.

[01:22:59] Coach Rob Regish: [01:22:59] Thank you. [01:23:00] Thank you.

[01:23:01] Carl Lanore: [01:23:01] I'm sorry I can't put your. I don't understand what the problem is. Let me try something real quick cause I want him to get this. This interface has gone wacky ever since. The whole covert 19 thing,

[01:23:12] Coach Rob Regish: [01:23:12] like it's just a new thing to me.

[01:23:14] A lot more people on the internet.

[01:23:15] Carl Lanore: [01:23:15] Yeah. And so we're getting, I mean, I'm looking at our, our connectivity and it's like down in the yellow and it's never down in the yellow, which means that the bandwidth between the platform and me at least, is not that great. But thank you for, for watching today, Robert.

[01:23:31] And, uh, next time, I hope I'll be able to put your comment up there, but yeah, the FDA has to go the way it's done now. It has to go.

[01:23:38] Coach Rob Regish: [01:23:38] Really? Yeah.

[01:23:40] Carl Lanore: [01:23:40] Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, but anyway, that, that's it. That's it. Oh, so would you ever come out with a pure lactogen and product

[01:23:51] Coach Rob Regish: [01:23:51] knowing this information today? You know, why?

[01:23:54] You know, the, they are. For some, for whatever reason, they are dead set against it [01:24:00] and they will, if anything, a successful product will just make them more rabid in terms of going after, I don't think they're interested in products that help build muscle. As a matter of fact, if you look at the. Designer, anabolic steroid control, active two one 2014 the great 

[01:24:26] Carl Lanore: [01:24:26] otherwise known as why Joe Biden never became a pro baseball

[01:24:30] Coach Rob Regish: [01:24:30] player.

[01:24:31] But

[01:24:31] Carl Lanore: [01:24:31] go ahead. I'm sorry.

[01:24:34] Coach Rob Regish: [01:24:34] But boot, if you read that the grid, it's sin. Is something that builds muscle it, and it's written very, very craftily to encompass any compound. It doesn't have to be, it doesn't have to look like walk, like talk like testosterone. It just has to build muscle. We can't have that, can we?

[01:24:58] Yeah. What a [01:25:00] messed up world.

[01:25:00] Carl Lanore: [01:25:00] It really is bizarre. How, how, how people are afraid of muscle. So, you know, when you look at government, the government doesn't want you to be strong. They don't want you to have guns. They don't want you to be well-informed. You know, when you really look at what the government is, is doing, and th and it's very obvious to me what they're doing.

[01:25:21] They really want a docile population that goes to work, pays their taxes, and shuts the F up.

[01:25:30] Coach Rob Regish: [01:25:30] Yup.

[01:25:30] Carl Lanore: [01:25:30] And to them muscle guns or anything that would allow you to assert yourself in this life. No. Good.

[01:25:37] Coach Rob Regish: [01:25:37] No good. That's independence and we can't have that. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:25:42] Carl Lanore: [01:25:42] I guess they forgot about the constitution.

[01:25:44] It's amazing. All right. That's it for today, I guess. A great show. Thanks for all you do, coach Rob, and thanks to all of you who watch, and those of you who. I've been participating on the live show today. I thank you for being here for the whole hour and a half is what it is right

[01:25:59] Coach Rob Regish: [01:25:59] now.

[01:26:00] [01:26:00] Carl Lanore: [01:26:00] And, uh, we'll see you tomorrow with more superhuman radio.

[01:26:03] Go to coach Rob  dot com after the show, uh, and you will find things that will make you stronger even though you don't have a gym. To train at right now. Um,

[01:26:14] Coach Rob Regish: [01:26:14] there you go.

[01:26:15] Carl Lanore: [01:26:15] All right. We'll see everybody tomorrow. Thanks so much. Uh, that's all I got and nothing is working. Here we go. I can put that image up.

[01:26:21] That's the only thing. It's crazy. It's crazy. Okay. Manyana Anjana bye. [01:27:00]