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How you doing, Rob? Well [00:03:00] other than my voice, I'm very good. Thank you, and I'm turning up your volume so you can talk more gently. You don't have to push yourself. Uh, and I'm gonna cut you up as they say. So there you go. What's new over at coach everything, you know, we don't have anything new right now, but I will say this the first show of next month.

I'll be. Announcing something big so I'm going to be listening to that. Okay. All right. So that's the first show of next month. So people have to tune into that. Um before we get started talkin about the topics we want to talk about especially ginseng. Um, I want to mention something you asked me during the break about my foot.

So the surgery didn't work for hours on the table. A skilled orthopedic surgeon and I've been to two foot surgeons now. They don't know anything about me and who did the surgery all they know is that the [00:04:00] correction didn't take place. So I'm scheduled for another surgery and uh in November. Uh, I thought I had the flu last week, but it turns out that I had another infection in my foot because one of the metatarsals, uh, the third toe was not corrected at all.

And it's pushing through the sole of my foot again, just like before yada yada yada. It's like a bad effing dream man. I mean because I paid for surgery. I got surgery but it didn't fix anything. Um, so lesson to be learned. There you go. Uh also want to make a quick announcement. So after Today's Show immediately after Today's show this entire show will be transcribed and we will have transcript for every single show moving forward up at superhuman radio on the show page.

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So there you go exciting stuff happening trying to try to make the show more accessible for more people. Very cool. So what do you want to talk about first? You know, I thought we could review a few research studies one on ginseng that really caught my eye. Um, Ginseng roots, they contain a dozen steroid like substances and one of them is something called G rg1, uh athletes who got just five milligrams of it before intensive exercise performed a lot better while their muscle suffered less damage and afterwards they recovered faster so in another.

The researchers gave 12. Untrained male students or capsule with five milligrams of this genocide rg1, they gave it to him an hour before they [00:06:00] started cycling, uh with an intensity of 80% of their VO2 max. The students had to continue until you lost and on another occasion. The research is repeated that same experiment but gave him a placebo.

Here's what. For most um, the ginseng steroid extended the time Rob.

Hey, Rob, your phone is breaking up. I don't know if you're on a cordless or a headset or anything any better. Yeah. Yeah. So so you just the students got the ginseng it extended their their time to the cycling, right? Right, okay the researchers and the people that got the gentle found more cd68 than macrophages in their muscles after that workout and what those are the cells that clean up damaged muscles and they encourage themselves to grow.

Wow. Yeah, so, you know in [00:07:00] all Candor finding quality ginseng is difficult. Um, it's got a bad rap because of the gas station stuff out there, you know, the product used in this study is something called active. So if you can find it I'd say have at it. I think there's definitely something to ginseng ginseng has been around for a very long time and while there are.

Asian variations of ginseng, um, the American Panax Ginseng apparently is just as effective and interestingly enough Kentucky is one of the states that has now ginseng grows wild. Uh, they have tried farming it but it doesn't grow as good. It doesn't have as much of the genocides when they grow it in a controlled environment.

It likes to grow at the roots of bigger trees and it's it's uh in the [00:08:00] United States. People are shot dead over, uh, taking ginseng off of somebody else's property in the United States. It's kind of like truffles is in France. Um people make entire yearly livings going around their property and Gathering what they call man.

And the reason they call man route because if you ever see a ginseng root, it's shaped like a man. It looks like as two arms two legs of the body and then the plant grows out of the head. Um, so the American ginseng has been proven to be just as effective as uh, the more desirable for whatever reason Korean ginseng so don't get caught up in that you're looking for a standardization of these genocides, right?

Yes, the active ingredient. Um and like I said in this one, they're using something called rg1 genocide. So other than this product, I don't know that I've ever seen one [00:09:00] that standardized for that particular, you know ginseng is an adaptogen. It's a very powerful adaptogen that's been around and much more popular than rhodiola rosea and some of these other ashwagandha.

Um, It makes me want to take a second look at it. Actually. I haven't taken ginseng in a long long time. There is something to it. Um, you know, as you pointed out it's been around for a long time. How long the American Indians were using at? Okay before before the white folk got here. So, um, you know, it's it's one of those things that it's not going to be a miracle.

But anything that is, you know, contributing to faster recovery mopping-up cellular damage and health stem cells. Don't take that all day long. That's pretty cool. You know, I have forgotten all about ginseng. It wasn't even on my radar anymore because I kind of felt like, oh it's old and. And and [00:10:00] it's not doing anything exciting anymore.

But here you are bringing it back to the Forefront making me want to try using it again. Yeah, and if you're having difficulty finding this product, I would recommend ginseng from Gaia Herbs GA. They make some excellent, uh herbal extracts. So I would look there if you can't find this active gym, okay.

Uh, very very good advice. Um, let's go on to the next topic and then we'll take a break. So you are a big fan of society quadrangular and have been for a long time but more so for joint health, right, correct, but now you have some new information on it. Yeah. I came across a study where csis quadrangular was used as a weight loss Aid.

Um, it was an article that recently appeared in the Journal of alternative. And complementary medicine where these test subjects took a capsule just one capsule 300 [00:11:00] milligrams every day before breakfast. They lost more than seven kilograms in less than two months. That is a whopping 15 pounds and change.

Um, so here's what they did the researchers divided. 52 kind of chubby participants BMI 25 to 30 into 2 groups and for eight weeks one group took a placebo the other got the 300 milligram capsules of this thesis. It's a special extract called CQ 300 and so just before breakfast before and after the supplementation period.

The researchers analyzed the blood of the test subjects and determine their body composition and what they found was supplementation with this particular season secrect reduced body weight. Like I said by more than seven kilos and according to dexa scans, [00:12:00] um, the you know, they had significant significant, uh, um, not just weight loss, but also, Thirteen percent body fat um, and that's huge.

Yeah and nine centimeters around the waist so and and they will actually went one further than that the supplement Also may be subjects healthier. Well, they didn't see any changes in the placebo group one the systolic and diastolic blood pressure LDL bad cholesterol triglyceride and glucose levels.

Those all decreased and HDL good cholesterol increased. Here's my take on this thing. This must be some real special csis, if you know, you know because I've taken tons of it, um and upwards of two [00:13:00] sometimes three grams, but I never saw weight loss like this. I in my opinion you can really take this study with a big grain of salt.

Yeah. Yeah. I know they're trying to revive their trying to revive csis sales maybe because because weight loss is much sexier than joint health. Let's be. Yeah, although you know, I would say after weight loss certainly but the Aging population, um joint health is a big deal and csis has worked a lot of other products of fail.

So if you have some aches and pains and your you know, they're keeping you down or keeping you out of the gym by all means if you haven't already try ceases I think you'll find it. Excellent about 1600 milligrams a day two in the morning with food to in the afternoon with food. I'm going to take a quick commercial break.

We'll be right back with more of the blueprint power stay tuned. [00:14:00] This is the Superhuman Chapel where we use oxygen for the power of good. I don't know why that's okay. Hi. Nice hangfire. That's called Hang Fire. Welcome back to the booth. We're talkin with Coach right now. Just got some good news.

Let me hear it. One of the ingredients in Santa is something called Elevate to ATP. Yeah, I've heard of. Yeah, it's um, it's got a least two or three now, um, peer-reviewed published studies showing in one of them anyway performance enhancement, but um, it has just been recognized as the ingredient of the year.

Um, bye, I forget the name of the organization. I'm just getting the information now, that's cool. Yeah, we switched from pkt to elevate. [00:15:00] Oh, maybe a year ago now and uh, it's been all good. It's part of the reason why X2 works better than the old formula interesting. Very interesting. Yeah. Yeah.

I've heard of it. I've seen some research on it as well. Make me make me want to take it to be honest. Yeah interesting. It's incentive. So that's good to know. Yeah, okay. So, uh, what is next on the list here more junk food. Yeah. This probably won't surprise surprise folks, but I wanted to get it out there because it seems like um, people should know given the DraStic increase in uh, and I'll get to it cancer.

But in essence the more junk food that you eat the greater your chance of cancer. Um, French researchers concluded that in a recent study. And they followed 100 4980 adults from [00:16:00] 2009 to 2013 and they knew the diet pretty much of the study participants. And therefore, you know, how many processed foods they consume so processed foods, you're probably all familiar with them.

They're in packages are usually on the inside shelves of the supermarket, um in the number of European countries such as England, Ireland. Maybe half of their diet now consists of those groups. Um, and the biggest offenders are sugary sugary products sugary drinks and processed breakfast cereals.

Here's what happened what they found the more calories from junk food the greater the chance that they were diagnosed with cancer if the proportion of this processed foods in the diet increased by 10%. The chance of developing cancer increased by 12% That is a scary. That's huge [00:17:00] figure, you know greater than one to one just look at it that way.

Um now they didn't go into it, but if I were to guess. Many of these kind of ultra processed food stuffs result in unhealthy, uh, what's called Advanced glycation then products. So AG age are you know, our formed the more junkie we the more, you know flood your body. I thought they just aged you faster and they certainly do um, according to this study there may in fact.

Be a link to cancer cancer itself. So I don't know you tell me how much processed food do you be? I don't need any well, um technically ground beef is processed, but it's not it's not adulterated with a bunch of chemicals and additives and stuff like that so correct, but really none. I mean, I don't need any [00:18:00] processed food Raw.

At this point, I'm lucky too. I mean Jen is so good about making sure I have the freshest home-cooked food and and you know the story and leftovers you can cut here I seem weak response by 50% So by eating leftovers by eating leftovers, you did a show on that. I think well we talked about we talked about.

Um, Refrigerating uh starches and then eating them the next day after they've been cooked you refrigerate them because it turns more of the uh, the starch into fiber, correct, correct? And that's huge. You know, I mean if you can slow down, um or lower the glycemic index of those Meals by God, you know, the implications for your health not just in the future, but right now profound and who would have thought from leftovers, right?

You know, I have added carbs back into my diet. Um, but very selectively I'm [00:19:00] eating uh organic oatmeal by the way, uh-oh. Well one of the foods that tested the highest for glyphosate. So you must buy organic oats to stay away from the glyphosate Roundup. But anyway, um, I'm eating I'm eating raw oatmeal not even cooked.

Oh my God, we did a show about it. Um with Joe Greene a couple weeks ago. Um, it's harder to digest your body has to work harder to and also the fiber isn't saturated already with water like boiling it and cooking it. So it actually can pick up stuff and carry it out like you want it to. Um, but I have added a couple times a day.

I've added oatmeal. I have a bag oatmeal on my just rolled one roll. It's just flattened out and I just throw it in my mouth and chew it. Um, but I am I am out adding carbon back in and I'm actually adding a pre-workout meal. I am having [00:20:00] oatmeal and uh Thrive protein powder before I train in the morning.

Are you also using carbon not right now? Not right now, that's later. I mean, I'm not ready to use. I'm not training hard enough to justify karbolyn. Not really not yet. And how many grams of carbs a day I'm staying under 150. I'll tell you that. Okay, so I'm probably more like, uh, 60 to 100 right now a couple servings of oatmeal and then some vegetables, you know, Brock, I love broccoli.

I like broccoli. People still lose fat on that doesn't you don't have to go all the way to Quito. Um, you know, you bring your carbs down around 100 a day and most of those folks are going to lose fat. Well, you know, and as I as I have indicated in many shows that I've done in the past few months, especially the ones with Joel green, you know the idea of being full on keto if you're not treating brain cancer or.

You're not treating a form of cancer or you're not uh, eating a therapeutic diet because you have seizures, [00:21:00] um being full on high-fat very little protein. Very little carbohydrates kedo carries a variety of risks that shouldn't really be in your repertoire. If you're not battling cancer, like like if you're battling cancer the things that a full on keto diet.

Where you're producing 2 3 4 millimoles of ketones at a time, um, you know, when you look at the things that it could be doing to your liver, there is new research that shows that being full on keto high fat no carbs and low protein causes the liver to become insulin resistant. Well, well insulin resistant livers are what produce uh, hepatic fat, you know, uh fat infiltrates deliver.

Uh, so, you know for me a low-carb diet [00:22:00] doesn't mean I don't eat carbs. It means I eat. Uh, I eat intelligent carbs that have a slow release in the bloodstream a slow a low glycemic index and I don't eat them in such large loads that the glycemic load somehow overpowers. I always eat my protein first.

Because that slows gastric emptying that has an impact on glycemic index and uh, I I've said this just recently I talked about, you know, the fact that a sensible diet is in the middle, you know Quito is this extreme carnivores that extreme vegan is that extreme, you know, the reality is unfortunately because the name paleo has attributes of its own.

Uh, some of us do well with dairy so our paleo can be with dairy. Uh, but the reality is that the really healthy diets are plant-based, but they include they include animal protein [00:23:00] plant-based should not mean meatless second that I'll second, you know, I invited Brooks cubic to come back on the show and I want to have him back on the show.

Um Brooks is full on vegan again, and he said well, I don't know that your audience. Uh is the Right audience for me right now because of you know, I'm I'm back on the vegan diet and I'm sorry. I I think it's wise to eat lots of vegetables. I think it's wise to eat fruits and sparing amounts and maybe take off in the winter time when they wouldn't have been growing anyway, but the exclusion of um, animal protein is is just not necessary to achieve Optimal Health.

It's just not. Yeah, I would agree based on all the data that I've seen, you know, a reasonable amount of meat is put it this way. It certainly makes building muscle hell of a lot easier [00:24:00] absolutely absolutely and it makes vitamin and mineral deficiencies a lot harder to acquire because when you cut animal protein out of your diet, you cut a lot of really important and now.

Let me take it a step further. If you're full-on vegan. And then also you're one of these people who says I don't supplement your absolutely going to become deficient in B12. Absolutely if you're not taking a B12 supplement. Absolutely you're going to become. Um, you're gonna become overburdened with copper and deficient in zinc.

Uh, you're absolutely going to become deficient in creatine because your body will produce it but not to the amounts that you can get by eating beef. Um, you're going to become deficient in uh in heme Iron the iron that's bonded to blood which is the one that's absorbable because the iron and plants is an absorbable.

So when you look at this diet and you go. Um, I am going to eliminate all animal protein [00:25:00] and I refuse to supplement I can absolutely guarantee you whether it's a day a month a year or ten years you are going to have to abandon that diet because your body is not going to be able to work around the deficiencies that you are creating you're creating these deficiencies.

Um, So, you know, it's just said I the vegan the vegans are the worst offenders of this and because they take the moral High Ground that they're being kind to animals, but they don't realize that animals are killed and displaced in commercial agriculture. They don't want to even talk about that.

They don't want to acknowledge. Yeah, you know back in the day I used to argument and I just don't have the time around her so I don't argue with anybody you do what you want to do. I mean if that would that's what works for you then then you believe it works for you and sometimes things work for a while and then that changes, you know you age your body changes you have gut problems.

Um, [00:26:00] but yeah if I said the other day if your dietary template. Allows you to belong to a club or go on a cruise. You're choosing your diet for the wrong reasons. Your diet shouldn't be membership into a group of people. It shouldn't uh, because because diet is not a social event. Uh, you know, it's it's what is required by your body to thrive and if it comes with a membership to a group.

You know, you're picking it for the wrong reason. That's the God's honest truth. I agree 100% I want to take a quick commercial break. We're going to talk about um. Intermittent fasting a little bit because there's some new research that Rob is going to bring to us. You can learn more about Rob shift as your first time tuning in by going to coach Rob.

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It's a bit fast thing is still a very popular thing to do. I do it. I'm fasting today actually because I didn't I didn't train I took off from the gym today. So I fasted kid man. Yeah, so I came across a study showing how fasting activate stem cells to regenerate tissues. And this was an animal study that was done by biologists from MIT.

Um and published in the Journal shows how fasting rejuvenates tissues. And so if during a period of fasting the body no longer uses glucose for fuel and start to use fatty acids instead these stem cells get an incentive to regenerate old and damaged tissues. [00:28:00] So what they say is look fasting has many effects in the intestine which include boosting regeneration.

As well as the potential uses in any type of ailment, um of the intestine such as infections and even cancers and now take note now. This is why sometimes when you get really really sick, Your body shuts down and you can't eat you just have no appetite if you grew up on a farm, um to turn farmers will often use his if the animal is sick.

We'll save the animal went off. Its food off its feet. Yeah, right, you know saying same principle. Um, so what they did was the researchers had a group of mice fast for one day. Well another group of lab mice were given feed. Then the research is extracted some cells from the animals and look at the extent to which those cells were able to form new intestinal tissue.

[00:29:00] These new pieces of tissue are called the something called organoids. The more organoids form form stem cells the greater the body's ability to repair and rejuvenate tissues and the interestingly enough the longer the animals that fasted. The stronger the stimulus from the stem cells, um to form these organoids.

So it appears the increase in regenerative capacity by fasting uh is related to the burning of fatty acids and not carbohydrates or sugar and given the mechanism of action that was described here these scientists kind of pointed to ppar uh, type products remember assessment. Yep, and an Associated products to try to maybe accelerate the process, but I would like good money that training fasted produces even better results.

[00:30:00] So here's my take on things. This is a significant study and a great reason to train fast in my opinion. It also lends Credence to my mixing of intermittent fasting and Mauro di Pasquale anabolic diet which calls for under 30 grams of carbs a day Monday through Friday. Okay, after reading this it's clear to me.

Um why it works so well, so I would tell you, you know, if you're looking for a diet you can live with look into intermittent fasting the benefit just keep coming, you know, unfortunately calling it intermittent fasting is a misnomer and it's because of the industrialization of this country. Um, You know, uh people fasted without thinking about it thousands of years ago you woke up in the morning.

Maybe you had a handful of nuts. Maybe you had some dried [00:31:00] fruit from the day before that you could eat but by and large you had to go out and find your food again every morning just like the deer my backyard every morning they get up they start looking for food. And this is what we did and then we pretty much lived that way.

Uh, we ate when we wanted we ate when we were hungry, we could go long periods of time without food before the ice box which led to the refrigerator and the freezer. Uh, we didn't always have food available to us. And if we did it would usually dried stuff grains and cereal grains and stuff like that.

Maybe some fruit maybe some hunting um industrialization of the country. With factories, um being opened up like Ford the the owners of the company didn't want to pay for people to eat on the job. So they created this structure this [00:32:00] breakfast lunch and dinner structure, which is actually pretty artificial when you think about it and obviously.

It goes back even further, right we had supper we had all these different meals. Um, but they created artificial structure. They said hey, we're only paying for one meal that's lunch time in the middle of the day you eat breakfast and dinner at home. So if you had to be at work at eight o'clock in the morning that meant you had to have breakfast before that.

So people would wake up and they would eat a meal whether they were hungry or not because they knew they weren't going to be able to eat until noon. And then they usually Brown bagged and brought their lunch with them and they ate a sandwich or something small then they went home for dinner and they had a big meal in the evening.

This is counter to the way we ate when we won hunter-gatherers, right? We ate the majority of our food early in the day late in the evening if we did our job, right if we were good hunters and gatherers. We weren't still hungry. [00:33:00] Like we are when we come home from work at five o'clock. Actually, it's actually upside down when you look at us metabolically and you look at insulin sensitivity diurnal insulin sensitivity changes from morning tonight, because the influences of thyroid hormone and corticosteroids and all these other things that are diurnal that happened they change from day to night.

And so the reality is that we're really designed to eat the bulk of our food during the day. And then small meals as the day winds on and in the evening of very small wheel meal and we would sleep better and we would be less insulin resistant but because of industrialization of countries and the fabrication of breakfast lunch and dinner again, these are all diseases of modernity.

You know, we just I guess actually the reason I was thinking about Brooks because I just sent him a study that shows that. Glaucoma actually is an autoimmune disorder [00:34:00] has nothing to do with the pressure in the eye and and all of these autoimmune disorder everything that we're suffering from today from arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and even cancers.

If you look at total immunologists, they'll tell you that your immune system is capable of eradicating and getting rid of brand-new tumor cells. Except when the immune system goes Haywire. So all these diseases of modernity, uh, arise from an overactive immune system and that overactive immune system is directly related to diet what we eat and when we eat.

I mean it's what's gonna happen is two hundred years from now. They're going to figure this out and I think wow, you know, we had it all backwards. And and now this is what we need to do differently, but we're living it. Unfortunately in our lives are being affected by um, what what dietary templates artificial dietary templates have done to this population and [00:35:00] populations around the world really wholeheartedly agree with that.

We've got it just backwards. You know, we would we would I mean people people didn't have to call it fasting because no one ate at ten o'clock at night watching Jimmy Kimmel. I mean it was dark out you had done eating if you didn't eat if you didn't get your food and eat during the day you were a poor Hunter better try harder tomorrow.

Yeah, I mean this notion that people are eating at ten o'clock at night eleven o'clock at night going to bed waking up in the morning, you know, it's like we from an ancestral and evolutionary perspective we were able to go for long periods of time without eating. This is something that's completely lost on this population today because most people if they don't need every couple hours because there's so insulin resistant.

There's so metabolically and flexible that they actually start to get the shakes. Uh, you know, they they start to develop us all these worrisome symptoms. It's [00:36:00] it we would have never survived a thousand a couple 40,000 years ago. You wouldn't have survived you would have become food because at ten o'clock at night you would have went out to the Jungle going God.

I'm starving. I'm getting the shakes. I gotta eat something I have anxiety and you know and Anna night dwelling, uh Hunter like a bear would grab your ass and eat you. Yes, good point. Well think about it. Right we have we have we have animals we have creatures that like rabbits. You don't see rabbits out in the daytime often in in busy areas.

I mean, I'm sure in the countryside with there's no one around you'll see them but by and large rabbits come out late in the evening. Because as it gets dark, they're less likely to become prey for Hawks and Eagles and ferrets and and foxes and all these other things. Uh, you know, you take a rabbit and you start screwing with his diet where he's got to come out in the daytime to eat because he's insulin resistant and he can't wait all [00:37:00] day until it's safe to come out.

He becomes food for a hawk. Yep, 100% spot-on. So, you know, it's going to come down someday that we you know, we've acted like oh if we can eat and it doesn't kill us it must be okay for us and really it's going to come down someday that we're going to realize that nutrition is really at the root of just about every disease of modernity today, and it's just unnecessary really is people need to get their diets tree now, we're gonna take a quick commercial break when we come back on the talk about Synthol.

Something that I hope no one in this audience has any experience with whatsoever, but stay tuned donate.

Welcome back. Would you ever consider using Synthol? Seriously never I think I I think I'd shoot heroin before I used in though. I'm serious. Well, you're gonna [00:38:00] dislike it even more after you hear this. Um, there were recent, um case studies showing how longer-term. Um, since absolutely demolishes muscle tissue makes perfect sense.

It's got to be so inflammatory to the muscle. Right, and so for those unfamiliar, um since was created in the 90s by a guy named Chris Clark, it's a quote-unquote site enhancement oil and it consists of fatty acids that accumulate in muscle group, you know direct excuse me, you injected directly into the you know muscle of choice.

It's also no longer a novelty. Somebody Builders have been shooting themselves, you know for decades now, uh mixtures usually 85% MCT oil 7 and 1/2 percent lidocaine and seven and half percent alcohol, uh and users. We usually shoot it [00:39:00] into a muscle group. That's not you know, quote-unquote performing like arms, but I've seen it everywhere.

As a result, you know the muscles growing at an incredible rate bodybuilders like Gregg Valentino, uh developed a very in my opinion unnatural looking and grotesque physique using the substance and he became world famous or inFAMOUS depend. Oh, you look at it Peter - followed his example and became very ill so you can go to websites like since all freaks and you can see the pictures of Valentino and highsinger and others and believe me is a picture really is worth a thousand words, but more recently case studies have started to appear um and describe the long-term effects.

On people who shoot themselves with this stuff, uh, you know one study has shown [00:40:00] causes of information that decimate muscle over time, you know from sinful case and point. There was a 40 year old body builder who was injecting himself with sesame oil for eight years. Okay his arms became so painful.

He could no longer train and doctors asked for an MRI scan and check this out. They found over a hundred in the muscles spread throughout the body not just in the muscle, you know, these guys were shooting spread throughout the body when doctors operated on this guy's arms, they discovered to their amazement that the man had almost no muscle tissue his arms were full of only.

Puff and fat so, you know the doctors remove that but when they did an MRI scan a year later, they saw hardly any muscle tissue had been restored three years after the operation. [00:41:00] This guy was still stuff suffering from Pain and he could you know, he could no longer train at all. Think about that.

Here's my take. From what I can tell since is more of a self America thing, but don't kid yourself some gym rats here use it to um a good friend of mine used it in his arms around a decade ago said it was the most painful shot. He ever experienced led to you know, some lumpy looking arms and he quickly and smartly discontinued you look if you're tempted by this stuff.

Just remember this. Sinful idiot is the proper name for the condition for people who take this stuff. It's a one-way ticket to I think body dysmorphia abscesses and in some cases, uh amputations and death. So look this stuff is really bad news. Don't tell yourself. You're [00:42:00] just going to take a little bit.

And nobody will notice any any amount of this stuff is bad really bad and think about that guy who uh, his arm was filled with just pus and fat and he never regrew his bicep, you know, imagine that. Says right here never trained again. So that's what can happen if you dabble in since if you ever known anyone who used it.

No, but I know a lot of I knew a lot of different people who used to buy very very low dose androgens. Um, they would buy so most testosterone subpoena preparations are 250. Milligrams per milliliter, they would buy stuff that was 50 milligrams per milliliter. And the reason they would do it is because they would use it as a quasi site injection, uh / antigen, so [00:43:00] instead of doing one CeCe three times a week, uh, you know to get 750 milligrams of testosterone.

They would actually have three. And three CC's every day and they would place it into different muscles because that oil basically creates volume and you know, I you know, I had to switch exclusively to Sub-Q for my HRT. Just because sticking a needle in your quad, you know, even though it's like, you know, even if you're doing one shot a week every other week, you're sticking a needle into that quad that's 25 times a year.

Uh my hips I couldn't inject in anymore because that was where I was really doing most of the injection and they just became so sore. And so painful, they're not they're not sure in painful anymore. It can go away. Um, but I wasn't shooting, you know, 60 milliliters of fluid. I was you know doing a [00:44:00] cc here in SEC there but it's it's really the jury is still out.

We just don't know what the just the effects of the long-term injections. You know, this is the first generation that we've had guys that are going on HRT at 40. We have to see what their muscles look like when they're 80, you know, can they keep injecting I'm a big proponent of Sub-Q and I'm working with a pharmacy to come out with a very unique form of testosterone that I predict will be the future of HRT, but I love sub cute.

I love so cute. But there's some things that you have to watch out. If you using just regular oil that's designed for intramuscular for Sub-Q. Like some of these doctors are prescribing today and they're saying oh well just you know, just use, you know, a quarter of a cc every other day or something like that.

You're not getting enough testosterone number one and more importantly. It's causing terrible inflammation in the fat Under the Skin and guys are [00:45:00] getting bumps and well, I mean. We actually had somebody on I think it was Scott Stevens that Stevenson who came on my show and talked about a guy he was working with a bodybuilder who was doing Sub-Q and the guy was lean lean lean lean and then right to the left and the right of his navel he had these two large whelps that looked like like hunks of roast beef.

Yeah, uh, you know, so so this what people are doing today with Sub-Q and using the normal that are made for intramuscular. It's a big mistake in doctors who are prescribing it while being well-meaning. They're making a big mistake by using that stuff. But there is a solution there is a solution there's some research that Sub-Q you don't need to use as much know the research is that it releases slower.

So if you if you do an interim, if you do 1 [00:46:00] cc 250 milligrams of testosterone, sippy NN into a quad or shoulder or hip muscle, uh within 12 hours, you hit a peak. Uh, and that Peak stays that way for three days and almost 50% of the entire Depot is delivered within the first three days the balance of 50%.

Is delivered over the next 25 days so you get this big spike three days, it starts to come down and then it's just a trickle and that's why the rule of thumb was twice a week injections, right every third or fourth day. So you that you have that Peak every three or four days and so steady for the whole week when you use a subcu injection.

You don't get a 12-hour Peak. The peak is more like. Two days later. Yep, it gradually Rises slowly slowly slowly and then it stays that way for a longer [00:47:00] period of time because quite frankly it's due to hemodynamics. You just don't have the blood embracing the oil bubble sub q that as you do in roll muscle.

In Rome muscle that there's blood in contact with that damn Depo all the time. Sub-Q. You just don't have that much blood you have fat cells you have capillaries. You have small blood vessels. You just don't have that much blood touching the the oil bubble. So it just dissipates slower. And anybody who does a subcu injection that's listening to the show that has had a bad subcu injection.

I mean one. Like two days later you had this huge red. Well, you know that it takes four weeks five weeks for that thing to go away. That's four to five weeks at that oil is still sitting there. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting stuff. Very interesting. So you're doing just subcu injection. That's all I'm doing is [00:48:00] Sub-Q.

I have a special preparation that I've had made at a at a lab. Then I'm experimenting with now and I have no well, I have no irritation. I don't get itchy. And and I'm doing them daily. I'm doing them every morning. That's huge. Yeah, it's really the way to start should be prescribed and you know, someone will steal my idea, you know, don't forget.

Dr. Chris came on my show and when I told him I was doing Sub-Q back in 2012. He told me it was a horrible idea that I shouldn't do it and then he wrote a book telling people to do Sub-Q. Yes, I was going to say didn't dr. Chris Advocates up to you and Jackson know I I've had more people ask me about this.

I have to find the show. It's from 2012 where he told me not to do Sub-Q because a it would aromatize to a high degree of estrogen and be that it was equivalent to dropping a hot. Oil filter into a plastic garbage bag that it would just melt through that somehow the oil that I was [00:49:00] putting in. My skin was going to melt through the fat melt through the skin and he warned me that don't do it and then and then he's applauded because he's writing books about using it and I got nothing against them.

I love dr. Chris. He's my buddy. But I mean what's going to happen with my new preparation and there's nothing I can do about it. Is that once it gets out of the people going to steal it and say it's there. Did you what being that Alexis I introduced bulbing Natalie as well as Fado G aggressive to the United States.

It was the same. It was the same scientist his name was dr. Toy. He was on my show in December of 2005. We did the show about Fado aggressive that ended up becoming a a supplement, uh raw material and a lot of supplements years after that. Oh, and then that Alexis was an aromatase inhibitor sofa aggress.

This actually raised testosterone levels [00:50:00] in rats by increasing testicular cholesterol. That's how it works. So the more cholesterol getting forced into the gonads the more of it could be converted to testosterone. And then four then ended up being uh, a plant-based molecule that looked very very much like an aromatase inhibitor.

So yes, I introduced both of those the United States and just the other day. I had somebody say that Anthony Roberts and I love Anthony Anthony's My Pal but said Anthony Roberts introduced Fado G aggresses to the United States. And I actually posted a replay of the original show that happened in 2005.

Uh, but dr. Twain yakubu saying it was me it was me. Wow. I hope you get your do every day. I get my just getting people to listen to the show. I'm gonna take one last commercial break when we come back. We have the blueprint tip of the day. [00:51:00] Stay tuned.

Welcome back to super human radio. Rob what is the blueprint tip of the day of the day is about Dan Duchesne the original steroid Guru. So way back when I was a real student of Bill Phillips. Uh Dan Duchesne and everyone really muscle medium magazine. It was an incredible publication people will be at the bookstore may be lined up outside waiting for this month's issue.

Um, and it almost always sold out the same day and I you know, I was interested to understand why there were any number of reasons but. I think it's straightforward discussion about training supplements and drugs was the reason in other words. It was the first magazine to really acknowledge the fact that most bodybuilders use drugs and when it came to drugs [00:52:00] nobody wrote a more riveting calm than Dan Duchesne now, the current generation might not be familiar.

So allow me to set the table. Dan was the original steroid. He co-wrote the first underground steroid handbook. I think he he was the sole author uh of the second rendition and he also wrote another book called body Opus. He was an absolute genius when it came to All Things bodybuilding and here is the best part.

He wasn't a doctor. It wasn't a chemist. He had no formal schooling in the subject of pharmacology are any of that but I will also tell you that dance contributions are still with us today 18 years after his untimely passing. So if you use whey protein that was dance baby, in fact, he was stopped by two FBI agents that were taking his place [00:53:00] out one night after they observed him.

Cheering two mysterious bags of white powder and you guessed it. That was the original whey protein, uh, if you use testosterone and take a remedy to control estrogen that was the contribution as well. So it was post Psychotherapy and the seemingly bizarre recommendation to take Clomid, right which was used at that point only friends were fertility drug and women, uh to get the testicles working again.

Glucose disposal agent those were pioneered by Dan as well, you know early on he experimented with things like vanadyl sulfate, um lipoic acid and later with the drug metformin and other you know, tedious glucose disposal agent. He was also a major player in popularizing GHB albiet. He had one elephant addiction at one point.

He also came out with the very first pre workout. [00:54:00] Ultimate orange if you're old enough to remember that remember it it was an herbal version of ephedrine caffeine, but also some very um, high-end protein and carb synergist that went along with it his apartment in Venice was a veritable circus sideshow.

Right. So on any given day bodybuilders track athletes strippers doctors and even morticians, you know could be found discussing. Various topics with him. Um, he really had a knack for knowing which drugs to use how to mitigate their side effects and he contributed mightily to the field of supplementation as well.

Now Dan wasn't always right, but who. Uh, he certainly was wrong in the eyes of the law, you know, he did time twice once for steroid distribution and I think another time for GHB interesting [00:55:00] anecdote though during his federal trial his lawyer cross-reference, one of the government scientists testifying against when he was asked by Duchesne defense attorney.

How he knew so much about steroids. He pointed that damn Duchesne and said I read his books. You could almost hear the prosecutors had hit the table after that one interestingly enough, uh doing even doing time struck down as an experience worth having, you know, it's safe to say he looked at life through a different lens than most of us do.

Damn passed away around the year 2000 from polycystic kidney disease. It was hereditary had nothing to do with steroids or any of the other drugs that he took. Um, and neither before nor sent has someone come along to fill his shoes [00:56:00] and I'm not sure anyone ever will may he rest in peace, you know.

He contributed a lot of good things as you point out, but he also heard a lot of people to up his Cavalier attitude about getting women on estrogen blockers and uh thyroid hormone, which is still done today. Um really ruined a lot of girls. I've heard I've heard stories from people who hung out with him like John Romano used to tell stories.

Yep. He's also. Responsible for bringing the uh, narcotic ngubane into bodybuilding and powerlifting turned a lot of strong athletes into junkies. I mean, look, I'm just want to be fair contributed a lot to our understanding of anabolic steroids, uh at a variety of other drugs that are still used today in sports.

[00:57:00] But he had a dark side. He liked he liked you know, he had the fact that he introduced people of GHB and said o makes growth hormone Spike, uh, you know, when really it destroyed people's brains and John Romano talked about it on my show and we did off-topic but eight nine years ago that uh that the Dan got him hooked on ngubane.

Yeah, that's a. Dan also had a girlfriend who he was trying to prep for a show and said you need calf implants. So he took her to Mexico and after the surgery there was a terrible infection and they tried to get her back to a hospital in the United States. But ultimately they had to amputate both, uh both legs.

So, you know, yes Stan. There was a lot of Carnage around and [00:58:00] if you're really interested in learning about him his contributions and his life the good and the bad, um, the book steroid Nation by Sean a cell isn't I think it's pretty good rendition. Have you ever read it? No, I have not. Oh, you will be you read it in one sitting it tells about everything that was going on behind the scenes, you know the rise of what was going on with Shane how John Romano met him.

He actually met in jail. They met in jail. So, uh, yeah, I mean that book is really really insightful and you would devour it. Absolutely. Yeah, you know, uh, we've actually done shows about Dan Duchesne. I did a show about Dan either the anniversary of his death or his birthday with uh with um, Anthony Roberts probably [00:59:00] five years ago.

So yeah. No, it's undoubtable look, You can't you can't break new ground without effing up. Sometimes you can't be a success without complete failures and unfortunately and Dan's case those failures led to other people, uh, being their lives being derailed. I didn't even know about the calf implant story.

I didn't know that basically any woman that he got involved with. Bad things happen to them. That's what I and that's what I've heard. I've heard that when women went to him for prep. Like he got them on drugs that just messed them up that even like after their competitions years later. They were all messed up right and damn more than anything else.

Dan wanted to have children. Really? Yeah. So as the year 2000 approached he invited um, [01:00:00] The invited some girl maybe it was an ex-girlfriend two windows on the world at the top of the world trying to you know, rekindle that romance and get married and have kids but it was never in the cards. Shane is brilliant as he was he never made the kind of money that Phillips or.

You know anybody else that was actually following him. So, you know, he himself also had a stroke so I didn't know that. Yes, is that what he died of no, he died of kidney failure, right? Probably kidney disease. Um, he had a stroke, um to the best I can recall he explained how he had very high blood pressure and it was related to the polycystic kidney disease.

Um, but yeah one day his girl. I don't know if it's a girlfriend or friend Shelley. Yeah, I actually [01:01:00] interviewed her on off-topic years ago. Yeah. Apparently she walked in to the living room and Dan was sitting there kind of Frozen and you know, she said something to the effect of you know, what do you doing?

And he never responded and she just chalked it up to oh Dan Dan's in one of his moves and then he had a stroke which by the way really negatively impacted his ability to write because everything that he wrote he was still writing in prison. He was writing for the muscle media account and someone at uh, Yeah, yes or muscle media would take his chicken scratching and transcribe it into uh, you know, something legible understandable.

Well, so yeah, we're still talkin about them today, isn't it? Amazing? I think people will still be [01:02:00] talkin about him, you know, 50 100 years from now, I think about it the first pre-workout ultimate art. Nobody had come up even with the concept wasn't that that was the kitchen sink first kitchen sink product, right?

I wasn't ultimate orange. The one that changed every like every time they found a new ingredient that was efficacious. They added it to it. Although I was great stuff great stuff Hot Stuff hot stuff. Yeah, um ultimate orange was verbal ephedra verbal caffeine. A small amount of whey protein and branched chain amino acids and also something called Quadra carp.

It was the first four stage release carbohydrate that he felt, you know, positively impacted training and boy, I remember I went through canister after canister that stuff. Uh, it was fantastic. It was just it was so head and [01:03:00] shoulders over everything else out there. Um and it still would be today if you could use the ephedra that would still be the best pre-workout today and there are a lot of out there.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm glad that you made the show today. I know you didn't feel like doing it because your throat is hurting but I think we covered a lot of really interesting ground. I know that I'm gonna go buy ginseng later today. Well, yeah to keep us posted. I'm such a douche bag when it comes to supplements.

It's unbelievable. Well, ginseng shouldn't set your back so bad. No, but I just you know, I'm always looking for something to give me an edge and I can tell if it's going to give me an edge right now. I can absolutely tell we all are that's why we're here. Hey and listen search keep in mind that the transcript of today's show will be posted along with today's show.

Uh, as soon as we get it up on the website from now on every show we do there will be a transcript. How cool is that? I am the raddest. [01:04:00] I'm a one-man show baby. I do it all now. I even have to transcribe my own shows. How do you like that? Very cool. Very cool. Well, that's all we have for today tomorrow.

We have a great show. Dr. Jeff is joining me the Thursday you must tune in if you have a dog Rob, yes. Thursday show we're going to revisit the pet food Wars that are going on right now. There's some amazing stuff happening. Uh, we're gonna have Daniel on who is the uh top guy at epigenetics Foundation, which is the group that has been curing cancer in dogs.

He's been working with Rodney Habib and dr. Karen Becker, Karen Becker has been on my show. She was yeah. She was featured in the movie pet fooled the documentary, so. A year later their big things happening in Pet Food. The big players are scared because their pet food is now linked to developing cancer in dogs and diabetes.

They're trying to change the message as well [01:05:00] as their products, but they're not doing it fast enough and what do they moving to vegan pet food? Yeah, and hey there even supplements for dogs. Yeah. So we're gonna be talkin about the new pet food Wars. If you have a dog that you love you must listen to this show.

You must be like like the young kids like to say you will be woke and if you think that your dog should be vegan. You got to listen to this show you have got to listen to the show. So that's Thursday and the next week on Tuesday following next week's blueprint power. We will be joined by dr. Sadick who published the study.

That shows that a high preponderance of lactobacillus. Um microbes in the small intestine is leading to metabolic acidosis. And I'm going to ask him to powerful question that no one has covered yet. Where are people getting all of these, uh, lactobacillus [01:06:00] microbes in their small intestine and I'm hoping his answer is it's from all the probiotics people are taking willy-nilly today.

Yeah, well, you know, you'll have to do it without me. I'm taking Maximus to Disney next week. Okay, good. So we'll book something for the first hour then thanks for telling me now. That's good. Okay. Well, that's it for today. We'll see her about it tomorrow with more. Superhuman radio. Thank you for listening.