[00:00:00] Hey, hey, welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio. It is Tuesday the day that everybody waits for so I can be joined by my co-host coach. Rob reddish. Let's get him on holding all blueprint Army fall in line. It's time for the blueprint Power Hour with Coach Rodriguez on the Superhuman Radio Network.

[00:00:55] Rob what are you. That would be some ice [00:01:00] water with a Twist of lemon and lime nice. Okay. Yeah poor man 7 up without sugar. So anyway, it's a carbon-based. Yeah, and without carbonated water. So welcome back to all of you. I am no longer a pirate Carl. I am now slowly becoming regular Carl. I actually can see my hand in front of my face right now because we're at Mark it's Blurry its blood.

[00:01:26] But I can see it. Wow. I'm It's gotta be a scary thing. Hey, it's more of a huge inconvenience than scary. I wasn't scared. I just felt like damn everything that I need to like putting putting something on a shelf. You don't realize how important binocular vision is to put something on a shelf until you have to do it and you're not sure if am I on the shelf for my in the middle of the shell for my you know, Right.

[00:01:53] How did you injure each scratch something right scratched my cornea, and then I became a douche bag and kept [00:02:00] wearing a contact lens and gave myself an infection. Hey listen, I've done that to God doctor told me not to wear the contact lens, but you know.  Yeah, I mean if I would have if I would have suffered.

[00:02:14] six days without the contact lens.  Basically, I wouldn't have gone to all of this. I would have gone to any of this. Wow, so talk about being a jerk. You're not a jerk. No, I am actually on and I well I know it. Well, it's okay, it's good. We can laugh at least our first question comes from Jeff Peterson.

[00:02:39] He says I understand you're a fan of bodyweight. I'm skeptical if I switch from using weights to all body weight stuff. How much am I going to lose who says you're going to lose anything? Yeah. Well, not only that but his question belies, I think a fundamental misunderstanding when the topic of [00:03:00] body weight comes.

[00:03:01] People think for some reason that it's an either or proposition either. I have to continue lifting weights only or I need to switch to body weight and then I can't lift weights. I think it really it boggles my mind. Okay. So for the record, I have been a proponent. Of age-adjusted bodyweight training which I'll Define as you know, you just simply take your age if you're 50, like me 50% of your work movements, whatever you want to call and should be body weight ones and the remaining 50% being weighted ones, but I only call your attention in particular to a hybrid of sorts because this you know first I think for most people this is.

[00:03:50] How's them a much easier entry point into body weight work instead of all that bench in in, you know, pull Downs that you're doing [00:04:00] switch assuming you're strong enough switch to weighted chins and weighted dips and superset that. I absolutely guarantee you your growth will take off compared to the typical.

[00:04:14] You know, I'm going to do 4 sets of bench reset some inclines to set the declines and finish things off with two Cable Crossovers that I'm going to go over the back and I might do some rows but you know the rest of the work going to be machine work not well and then unless it's like all over machine Let's make a point here for a second just for a second.

[00:04:34] Sure doing a strict pull up or chin up. It's going to be a lot harder than you sitting with your legs underneath the padded seat holding you down and pulling the weight down to you. You're going to feel going to find out how hard it really is. So this idea that bodyweight work is somehow. No, you're right.

[00:04:56] It's not going to be a foreigner five-pound in clown and [00:05:00] climb bench press. But the body that you want to build that you want to really look good. There's a lot of people who do nothing but bodyweight work and I look at them and go man. Maybe I'm doing this all wrong. All right, right. I mean every year when the gymnast comes on for every four years to the for the Olympics these guys have upper body.

[00:05:22] So that would make anybody Builder envious, right? And what do they do all day the Rings? Punggildang horse right floor exercises Etc phenomenal upper body strength and listen, you know, if you think you're being a pansy or whatever given up weights, let me assure you everybody in the gym, who knows what they're doing understand the strength.

[00:05:46] It takes to pull off, you know heavy weighted chin-ups. Handstand push-ups which I've you know, finally gotten back into those take a prodigious amount of [00:06:00] strength. Okay, so you are likely not going to lose anything even if you switch over to just bodyweight work. You're not likely to lose much. If anything, in fact makes except except you may lose a bunch of fat that you didn't need exactly so his other the other part of his question, right?

[00:06:18] What are you going to lose? I can only tell you from my experience. The only thing you're going to lose is a bunch of fat in a bunch of body fat because assuming you make no other dietary adjustments when there's a preponderance of bodyweight work in the mix then. Your appetite is not nearly what it is when you're say squatting in fetching and dead lifting heavy.

[00:06:43] It just isn't and relative to my situation with rhabdo. It's going to be a whole lot safer. There's also a tremendous amount of good overlap in body weight work and what I mean is those chin-ups you're. [00:07:00] Or better than any curl for bicep growth, right you work you work the muscles from origin shoulders to insertion elbow and you're moving the body weight and the weight through space simultaneously, so you're getting a double hit.

[00:07:14] Okay, always remember this and I know it's tough to think about it this way because all these things have been lost to the Mists of time. But if you want strength like tearing two phone books in half strength, and yes that was done especially around the early turn of the century those guys got that way doing bodyweight work, right?

[00:07:37] So give it a shot because those of you who don't are given up one of the most effective in. Training methodology methodologies that ever came down the pike and one more word. Even if you only include the chin up and your program, you will be much better off why those 10 15 pounds that you gain to the last eight [00:08:00] to 10 weeks.

[00:08:01] You don't know. Whether they're fat muscle or some combination thereof, you will know real fast how much of it was muscle and how much was fat when you go to do chance every pound of chub will work against you. So James Potter who is a accredited. From Australia. He that's why he's not watching us live because it's the middle of night there, but he does watch a show and listen to the show and he's got an amazing physique.

[00:08:34] He's been but he's been bodybuilding and competing since a very very young man and just this morning on Instagram. He put a picture. He said I'm working. And the guys massive first of all, right, like he's he's massive. He stick his legs are thick as hamstrings and think his shoulders at thick his arms of the he's using more he's doing more push-ups for his chest routine now and he straps [00:09:00] a 45-pound plate to his chest.

[00:09:02] He said it's too hard for him to get on his back. So he made he made a little harness that he can actually put the plate on his chest. So when we talk about Body Weight Workout. Don't misunderstand you can put a weight vest on Rand and all of a sudden. Wow. Hey, you you're going to build some real mass and keep in mind laying on a bench.

[00:09:26] Is an open chain movement doing a push up as a closed chain movement. That means that your glutes are working. Your hamstrings are working. Your quads are working. Your lower back is working. Everything is working because you're you're basically doing a plank and then going up and down with it.

[00:09:40] Right? So there's so much more going on in a in a in a push-up than there is in any bench press you're going to do. Yeah, and we'll get to that there's a question later on that illustrates up. Excellent. Excellent. Okay, so let me get the next question before I get ahead of myself.  The next question comes from [00:10:00] Steve Williams.

[00:10:00] He says I hear you on the show Once talking about all the lessons. You've learned the hard way. What was the biggest and how can I capitalize on it? Because I'm only 23 years old. Okay. So this is a sensitive subject. Both on my part and I think on just about anyone's part because it involves money and any time you're talking about money, you know in a short fight men in a lot of cases is to tell people to do with their money.

[00:10:33] But if you want the benefit of experience in my biggest mistake it was this I wasted too much money on supplements. And never you know saved enough for invested as much as I should have right way back when so that was my single biggest mistake to illustrate to you. How big of a mistake that is. I'm going to give you an example.

[00:10:59] Okay [00:11:00] now I think we can all agree. That we wasted at least a thousand dollars over the years on various supplements for a lot of guys for a lot of people like me. That's a lot more for some people it might be less. But let's just use a thousand dollars if instead of spending it on supplements at age 23, if you took that thousand dollars and you invested it in pretty much what everybody knows to be the stock market a simple S&P 500 Index Fund.

[00:11:31] And you woke up at age 63 you'd have almost 46,000 dollars from my web from that 1000 from that 1000 and I'll explain how in a bit.  However, if you had waited until age 33 10 years that same thousand dollars at age 63 would only be worth 17,000. 45 [00:12:00] or almost 46 verses 17,000 that is that is an incredible amount in the numbers only get bigger right as you save and invest more.

[00:12:13] Look I'm a guy that makes supplements. I have a vested interest in coming here and telling you by seidman, right? I'm right supplements, but I don't want you to squander your retirement. To do so. There are certain Staples that are always good Investments high-quality protein Thrive intra workout formula simply gym that and maybe a couple of others right there good investment because they are long-term investments in your health.

[00:12:45] But again when it comes to money the longer you wait the more you're going to have to say. And when I say more, I mean a lot more I have friends in their 40s and 50s [00:13:00] that are just waking up to this now. Okay, what took a thousand dollars to save at age 23 is more like three to five thousand at age 40 to 50.

[00:13:14] That's that's right. That's a tripling, you know plus of what you have to invest now. What I just told you.  Is not taught in any Grade School junior high or high school? It's not even taught as a core. You have to take it in college as a matter of fact in this country. You could get your doctorate you could get multiple doctorates without anybody telling you what I just did and personally.

[00:13:50] I think that is a terrible that is a tragedy because kids coming out of college today. They're [00:14:00] in debt, you know a hundred two hundred three hundred thousand or more and you can work your and this okay. So now we get to the example of a college education for your children.  You need to start.

[00:14:14] Ideally before they were born right because that remember that's crazy because what colleges charge today for education is outright robbery without a gun, right? Oh, no question. Look if you we want to do this smart go to a community college for two years when you transfer out and graduate from whatever state or whatever University.

[00:14:40] It's not going to have the community colleges name on it. It's going to have the University's. Okay. So look, you don't want to wake up at age 40 40 or 50 hearing this for the first time some people never hear it and squandering your money unquestionable supplements is not [00:15:00] it's not a smart thing to do even assuming let's assume those supplements work like you want them to Let's assume they work.

[00:15:07] So well you get your pro card. I got two words for you. So what it doesn't it doesn't guarantee you a beer in the Corner Bar. Never mind a good living. You can count the number of people in this sport who make a good living from it on one or two hands. All right, if not, a lot of people even though it looks.

[00:15:29] Like a lot of people do and a lot of them a lot of them like Jay Cutler Jay Cutler made his money in real estate out in Las Vegas. He didn't I mean sure he want $100,000 here in $100,000 there for the Arnold and this sort of thing. But Jay is a wealthy man not because he made him his money in bodybuilding.

[00:15:49] He makes his money in real estate. They probably takes the money and make some body building and rolls it into real estate. Listen. I just talked to a guy at my gym. He's got an incredible physique. He just got his Pro [00:16:00] card. I asked him what that that got him. And he said I was sponsored by a supplement company.

[00:16:07] They gave me supplements for the money. Yeah. I said how much did you spend on this show? For you know, all of the things that you need for the Pro Show, and he said 20,000 not and not including growth hormone.  Okay, so at the end of the day, I just want you to remember this a gym membership and money are alike in that neither.

[00:16:31] One of them comes with instructions money doesn't come with instructions. You know and you can make bad mistakes that hurt you with it. So in summary, please don't make the mistake. I did. Yes user York or supplements that are good investment will be on that for God's sake save some money. You know, you're going to wake up at 40 or 50 in realized.

[00:16:54] Oh my God, I don't have to save another dime for retirement because the money will just [00:17:00] continue to grow and that's compound interest by the way. So just take the example of a credit card. Compound interest works against you. This is those payments get bigger and bigger make compound interest works for you by Saving and investing.

[00:17:16] So I had Jillian Revell on the show yesterday and Jillian competed for XI plus years. She was on the Olympia stage numerous times. She just decided to stop bodybuilding. She was a female physique competitor. That's a very expensive sport High degree of muscularity. She told me her posing suits that she used the competitions how much you think one of those bikini suits costs a competitor who's getting up on the Olympia stage hundred bucks.

[00:17:48] 1,400 bucks. Well the covered with expensive crystals and all this other stuff. Right? And she said she said she would do a competition and win. [00:18:00] And and just getting to the show not the training and the diet and everything else for months and months and months before that just to show she may have with hotel room and everything on the skinny side six to seven thousand dollars into a to win 2000 and then you do that five times a year.

[00:18:21] I mean, you're literally spending money to make the sport money. Yeah. Yeah, I mean you really and when you think about it, I mean it's really sad. I remember Arnold said he was going to change bodybuilding Arnold said that he was going to make sure that athletes made more money and they and the Arnold I think the Arnold winner gets a hundred fifty thousand dollars plus a Hummer plus a solid gold watch.

[00:18:45] I mean the Arnold winner and men's bodybuilding probably gets the equivalent of a quarter of a million dollars. I don't think the Olympia gives that kind of money away. Yeah, that that's incredible and look, you know, that's the example of a [00:19:00] guy. I think that really cares about bodybuilding right, you know, he may have taken some controversial positions here there but that speaks volumes when the winner of the Arnold Classic walks away a richer person right then the Olympia.

[00:19:16] Something is dramatically wrong with bodybuilding. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that they may be the Olympia has stepped up by now. I don't know. So the next question comes from Jeff Jen Auntie says I really like what you have to say about stems as a lifetime ephedrine user. Can you tell me which ones other than ephedrine you'd recommend?

[00:19:39] yeah, okay, so. We talked about me being a lifetime ephedrine user. I just want people to know the extent to which that is true. You and I were talking about this off there when I say on my lifetime user I mean.  Almost every day. I can [00:20:00] think of one or two exceptions. I've used the Federate for the past 30 years.

[00:20:07] Now that's interesting because the US government will tell you it's def in a bottle. It is toxic your heart's going to explode. You know, your blood pressure is going to go through the roof. Look I give you the benefit of my experience almost every day for 30 years. I have had nothing at least to this point nothing but good things to show.

[00:20:35] Okay, so when I say again, I'm a lifetime user.  Know that it's true in the in the most in the strongest sense of the word. However, we had a friend of the show email you we're going to we're going to adjust his he's a doctor. His name is going to say Adam are. Adhemar because I don't know that he wants to be named he sent us [00:21:00] a picture of and feta mean and after dream and the differences between the two molecules.

[00:21:07] Our nuanced and he said that and and I forgot about this because I used to be a big amphetamine user years and years ago because I liked being up not down and and feta means a known to cause the kidneys to blockade certain things certain metabolites such as urea kascid when you use in feta means you develop high levels of uric acid in your blood not good.

[00:21:32] It's actually becomes toxic and he said, Maybe the reason Robb is having these excessive bouts of rhabdo is because of his constant is chronic use of F adrene and he sent us to the molecules and it's like, oh wait a minute. This is interesting, right? Yeah. Yeah, and it was you know, I had always known ephedrine looks like amphetamine.

[00:21:58] I've never used amphetamine. [00:22:00] I can certainly say that ephedrine has a better track record certainly then amphetamine and honestly, if you look at the studies if it's used the way it's supposed to be used it is exceptionally safe looked at statistically in the way scientists. Look at these things.

[00:22:23] However, I am open to any one suggestion about how to. Make sure that this doesn't happen again in to get my liver and kidney or my kidney values back into an acceptable range because I'm going out of my mind right not training now as I thought about it. I thought you cheesy and it's been over a year since I've had an incidence of rhabdo and during that time like I just told you I've used a Fed hren every day.

[00:22:54] However, you Carl brought to my attention that. Um.  [00:23:00] Things might not be as rosy or work out as well as at age 50 than that even age 40 right because as my doctor pointed out and he has certainly a valid point. He said Rob you can train like you're 20, but your kidneys are 50. And there's not much that you can do to change that.

[00:23:21] So yeah, I mean, I think if you throw in what these amphetamine-like compounds do to the kidneys and then you throw in the kind of training I do on top of that. It certainly will be it's also it's also very suspicious that you've taken off for how many months and yet you're all of you still have elevated levels of creatine kinase and it makes it and I guess in creatine as well and it makes you say to yourself.

[00:23:50] Wait a minute. I'm not even training now what's going on with my kidneys that they're not flushing this out. And then when I read his emails like this really makes a lot of sense now. [00:24:00] Yeah, so long story short since since getting that advice. I called turkey to ephedrine as you pointed out. It's probably not a great idea for most people for me.

[00:24:11] I stopped feeling the stimulant effects of the federal long time ago. It would take absurd amounts a hundred milligrams or more out of whack to get me to feel those that I honestly don't need it. But I think for people that do need it, it could be underlying a bigger problem, which is you know, you can't you can't get up and go in the morning without it.

[00:24:40] And to be totally honest from age 40 to 45. I was relying on ephedrine to get a to get a lot done. I mean, I got more stuff done before 12 o'clock at work the most people did all day but after 12 o'clock. I was pretty much useless [00:25:00] really, you know, you just it would just it just wears off and then that's it.

[00:25:04] Right. It's just so round about age 45 and that was scary driving home, you know from work after a long day, but be that as it may around age 45 I got on HRT and a very modest dose of testosterone. Six, whatever energy problems. I was having well your case is dopamine. I'm betting because if that's where that's where stimulants work the best for people people who are dopamine dominant love stimulants.

[00:25:33] I'm dopamine dominant. I love stimulants, right and from a very Earth from the very first time. I tried it. I liked what it did because I was normally and with very very reserved. Quiet person and.  Ephedrine made me sociable was the first time I can you know have conversations with why her [00:26:00] first time I really felt happy in my life.

[00:26:04] But HRT was far far better because the energy lasts all day and it's not a dirty stimulant type energy. Okay. It's a very clean. Hey, this is what. Normal person feels like in my mood into your point about dopamine my mood improved dramatically. I very quickly went from the glass is half, you know empty to the glass is half full and in the biggest thing believe it or not.

[00:26:37] My energy was so poor after.

[00:26:42] Oh. His energy was so poor that he froze is we lost you for a second last thing I heard was my energy was so poor and your face froze. I thought wow, he's having an energy glitch. I say it it was so poor. I couldn't play with my [00:27:00] son that I mean you were very little Skylander toys over did Daddy Let's play Skylanders.

[00:27:06] I was on the flat on the ground and I couldn't keep my eyes open. So clearly something was wrong there and I got it fixed and you know grateful to and it's also nice not to have to depend on something like I'm loving the idea that I can get up and get out faster now because I don't have to wait for my caffeine to kick in.

[00:27:28] I don't have to wait for my coffee to brew. I mean I I get up my routine is I get up I go down and take about a half a dozen peptide shots and and I go out the door. So that's it. Yeah, and you know, that's much preferable right than dirty stimulants stimulants. Now it is question about what could he use I'll be honest.

[00:27:52] I haven't seen a lot of things that are better than a federal. Dmaa. Excuse me was close. [00:28:00] But that's going on and and now I have a supply of it because I stocked up before they banned it. But if you look at the chemical structure think it's even closer to him for the me. Probably is however.  My new pre-workout should solve almost all of that.

[00:28:21] It won't be. Dirty stimulant jittery energy. So if you're expecting that and I'll probably be a lays down on ya right now, but if you want clean clear energy and especially Focus for four hours or more at a pop it's going to do it and personally that's what I'm looking for, you know before workouts now instead of.

[00:28:45] Let's see how high and get my heart rate up and how much I can sweat without walking moving. So yeah, we're going to take a quick commercial break when we come back. We have a question from Tony Massaro in the meantime, check out Rob reddish [00:29:00] has website which is coach Rob reddish.com and there's lots of great information there.

[00:29:06] You can read learn and build more muscles stay tuned. We'll be right back. Welcome back. We have a question. We going to get to from Darcy Clark into second. I got to mention a new sponsor. So everybody knows how wonderful bpc 157 is right. It's an injectable peptide that both serious athletes and Weekend Warriors love.

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[00:29:56] But there's a lot of people out there who have no interest in [00:30:00] injecting anything whether it comes from a pharmacy like like tailor-made or whether it comes from a research peptide website like peptide Sciences. They're like no I draw the line on injecting. Well many of you know, my good friend. Dr.

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[00:33:13] But yes, when when it's ready, it should make it into every Canadian province. We've looked at that already and we're confident and stating that.  okay, so let me just turn that off and go over here and it looks like. Amen, if we get a card with a message for question to fill Berry, yes.  I do only have one eye there's this question one.

[00:33:48] Oh, it's just not highlight. Okay, Phil. Barry says I use Gaba and like it a lot. What can you tell me though about Arginine seems to be the [00:34:00] original GH releaser not the same but it does have an effect on somatostatin. Right and so it's an interesting question because oral L-Arginine was first written about way in prehistoric times the early 1980s by Dirk Pearson and shit sandie Shaw thumbs up.

[00:34:22] Eventually of the well, I guess the life extension Foundation but it basic basically said look large amounts of arginine in gram dosages will produce a. Agh, releasing effect and and and a party in the bathroom. Ha ha ha we'll get to that call it the Charmin aspect like that. That's good, but there was only one problem with this information.

[00:34:56] Actually two problems number one, all of the research [00:35:00] that they were citing was done via injection and scientists can do dazzling things in the lab and even in the field with large amounts of amino acids that are injective.  Subsequently the store shows were lined with Arginine and Arginine and ornithine supplements, right?

[00:35:22] That you know even way back then they only had I think milligram amounts. I think the heart of the most you can stuff into a capsules five or 600 milligrams Arginine also has another problem.  It it tastes like battery acid and those those of you that have tried it know exactly what I'm talking about.

[00:35:45] It is God. Awful, and it is very difficult to mask the taste now.  Gaba gamma-aminobutyric acid does not suffer from the same problem. In fact, [00:36:00] it's relatively tasteless. There's another good GH releasing Amino that glycine that is actually sweet and which is used by you if I'm not mistaken Carl and Thrive as a sweetener sweetener him.

[00:36:16] And that was a stroke of Brilliance because you don't need to start. You know, you don't need to be reviewing the literature on L glycine long to understand. It had performance-enhancing aspects to it identified a long long time ago. And one of the things that glycine does for people who have stage fright.

[00:36:36] Now or social anxiety 3 grams allowed to dissolve in the mouth and you just feel like the tension just goes away. Yep. Yep. That's true to Arginine. It really does deserve a special place. In Sports Nutrition for all that it does and it does so much more than than release [00:37:00] more growth hormone, but be that as it may you still have the same problems with oral you takes up to 10 grams out of whack sometimes more and as I alluded to earlier you better own stock in Charmin because you're going to be useful out of it.

[00:37:17] Well, the are the other problem with Arginine is it doesn't work well in elderly people and here's why what arginine. Sighs so so Gaba actually causes the pituitary to spit out growth hormone and the growth hormone production is regulated by something called somatostatin somatostatin is a hormone that tells the pituitary stop making growth hormone.

[00:37:43] Okay, so you have growth hormone releasing hormones and then you have growth hormone inhibiting hormones. Okay? Arginine suppresses somatostatin production but who cares if your pituitary is not spitting out growth hormone. [00:38:00] It's like if you're not moving and you jam on your brakes, did you do anything?

[00:38:05] No, I don't think so. Yeah, so great and that was if I was going to use Arginine at all, I would use it in conjunction with Gaba. I would take my Arginine about. Anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour before taking my Gaba so that I turn the braking system off and then I asked the pituitary to produce some growth.

[00:38:28] Very astute observation for another reason that'll to in 2002 researchers and Spain have determined that and they'll tell you this all day long. I don't entirely agree with it, but they'll say gamma is has difficulty crossing the blood-brain barrier. That's true. Unless you have a completely empty stomach but be that as it may it's still suffers from an inability to get you know, a hundred with a hundred percent efficiency cross that [00:39:00] blood-brain barrier.

[00:39:00] Well what these scientists and Spain discovered was it using L-Arginine along with it helped and helped a lot right and they further identified the. Nitric oxide production, right all of the quote-unquote and 02 products or at least a large majority of them especially early on where either straight Arginine or Arginine alpha-ketoglutarate.

[00:39:28] Okay, but if we put our critical thinking caps on if nitric oxide is the mechanism then other amino acids that don't taste nearly as bad as Arginine like l-citrulline. Should work even better right? I will I will go you one better than that if that is true. Nitric oxide is making it work better then.

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[00:40:42] I like that. That worked out perfectly. I know I know I had no idea you had a sponsor with yeah cool, you know gives people the opportunity to see whether can do for them. Yeah, and the thing I like about the thing I like about sildenafil better than to dalla Phil tadalafil works [00:41:00] for three days till down to fill works for hours.

[00:41:03] So you can sit down it still down a Phil is much stronger. It works for hours and then it's gone so you don't have that constant. Upregulation of nitric oxide unnecessarily all day long if you don't want it. Yeah, and I don't know about most people but from what from what I can tell the feedback from guys is that tadalafil is much more people seem much more prone to Vision disturbances.

[00:41:29] I had one guy called me up and he was freaking out. He's the grub. I've got double vision. You know, he thought he thought he's going to be like that for the rest of his life. As I said just relax when it wears off. It will probably go away. Well as you pointed out it takes three days to wear off completely and so, you know, you're not going to be able to drive obviously or do much in those three days.

[00:41:57] So yeah, in fact that guys who takes to [00:42:00] die laughing. Only need to take 10 milligrams or less a day to have all the sexual benefits and all the benefits of the enhanced nitric oxide production without any of The Unwanted effects and most guys are taken 30 and 40 milligrams at a time. It's like that's just too much.

[00:42:18] Right there, that's a good case of overdoing it. But that's the form 1 1 on Arginine and Arginine Alternatives that I think will probably serve you better. Tony Massaro says like you I'm around 50 and I've had Long training history recent picture. Someone took really concern me as I looked devoid of any muscle with an unusually large head.

[00:42:42] My friend then circulated the picture and joked. I looked like he T is this reason for concern and what should I do about it? Oh, man. Yeah. Well the honest answer is it might be now I do not think a single picture [00:43:00] should be necessarily cause for concern because you know, depending upon lighting and other factors.

[00:43:07] It can exaggerate one part of your Anatomy like your head and minimize the rest your body. He was really scared. He he called me and we discussed it. Did he ever use growth hormone in his career? He says no. Okay. We got to believe but where are ya you gotta believe in right? So we went a little further with it.

[00:43:32] Look usually when people see themselves in pictures, it's the opposite. Either my face looks fat. I look fat. Oh my God, I got to go. Yeah, but the void the void of any muscle means a lot of things right? Is he skinny or did he not have any separation and shape that he just looks smooth and I have no muscle.

[00:43:51] I just look, 'fat like I like devoid of any muscles and interesting self-assessment. I'm not sure what that actually means. Well, I mean, [00:44:00] that's great. So I asked him that same question. So what do you mean to is he said? Hey, what's not long ago? I was 210 with a fair degree of muscle on me. So 40 degrees 40 degrees 40 pounds of body mass loss Especial Especially if it's muscle is cause for concern if you've not consciously dieted change your workouts or change something else wholesale.

[00:44:29] I call a 40 pound loss of primarily muscle a big concern. Yeah. And I would get to the doctor immediately to figure out what it is. Now, that could be anything from right a leaky gut parasites you can have parasite you could have her some sort of nutrient deficiency. You could have cancer right HIV.

[00:44:54] Well, no, I think HIV would show some other things to he'd have some other symptoms. Did he share any other symptoms with you? Does he is he [00:45:00] weak and and and lethargic and pal and and feeling. No, you know I started to go down that road. I didn't want to panic and so I didn't use the words HIV and so I asked him about a lot of things.

[00:45:12] I think HIV I think he'd have flu-like symptoms. He'd have other symptoms that would be unignorable. If you will notice. I just like Phantom weight loss. Like wow, I didn't realize I lost all that weight. Yeah, he didn't he didn't indicate any of that would he did say though was. I have absolutely no appetite.

[00:45:35] And so I tried to go a little further with them and I asked him have there been any incidents of sickness. Have you been using stimulants which Crush appetite? Have you been using you know anything along those lines? And he said no, he said, you know, he primarily just uses a good protein powder and like thank he said digestive enzymes.

[00:46:00] [00:46:01] So it was clear to me then that what he has identified it our digestive issues. I think he was probably trying to fix those with the probiotics but listen 40 pounds, that's a lot of weight. It's a lot of weight that should have been looked into and arrested, you know, 20 pounds ago. Yeah. My unintended weight losses is something to watch for.

[00:46:26] Yeah. Yeah, so that was my counsel to him and it's not something that I think you should be using. Dr. Google right to look at Ya get out. You have some you got to have some blood work done. You gotta have some procedures done and that's what I told him. I said Tony you need blood work and and he agreed and I guess we'll find out so I was pleased though that he was at least able.

[00:46:57] Articulate what had been going on [00:47:00] because from that, you know, it's not too hard to do. So right I'm surprised you even get to that point himself. I need to get to the doctor. Well, and so here's and here's the suggestion to after you get to the doctor. Let's see your doctor says no, you're perfectly healthy.

[00:47:13] I guess you just don't have an appetite. Get the to peptide sciences.com and order these mg H RP 6 and Taylor and take about a hundred micrograms 250 micrograms at a time and wear gloves. So you don't eat your fingers and and start to start to stimulate your appetite. Again, it kind of prime the pump.

[00:47:40] This is after you've gone to the doctor and they've good looked at everything, you know. I guess your body just wants to be thinner like they say something like that go. Okay. Thanks Doc and get yourself some GH rp6 and start using it three times a day. Once in the morning eat your breakfast. Once in the afternoon, eat your lunch.

[00:47:57] Once in the evening, eat your dinner and eat as much as you [00:48:00] want and just let the stuff work. Frightened and even if it doesn't fix the underlying problem in at least will probably arrest the weight gain. Yeah the weight loss because it because cachexia cachexia people get diseases. Like cancer and they don't die from the cancer.

[00:48:17] They die from something called cachexia, which is chronic body wasting their body just waste away their organs don't work anymore. They can't stand up anymore and they die from that before the cancer kills them. So and yeah, that's that's also true for people that died from quote-unquote old age.

[00:48:33] Yeah. I saw that happened in the nursing home these these folks just could no longer digest and assimilate the amount of food that they needed to. Nor did they have any anabolic reinforcement obviously from GH rp6, but hey, that's probably something doctors need to look at while and the nice thing about ghr P6 is it not only stimulates hunger but it stimulates digestive motility, which means the food gets [00:49:00] processed faster.

[00:49:01] So you're ready to eat again sooner and that and that's valuable that mean it just turns up. It just turns up the machinery and says, hey we're back in high gear. So don't be afraid of that. You'll you can put weight back on very quickly employing and if you want to start eating six times a day just use a hundred micrograms before you know, about 15.

[00:49:23] Let's see, I take my peptide shot in the car on the way here. And by the time I get to the studio and about 10 to 15 minutes, you'll be ready to devour everything in the refrigerator. Yeah, that's a lot of shots. But hey, you got to do what you got to do. I look at once you stimulate hunger again.

[00:49:39] And once you start eating again, and once your body puts on weight again and may take a few months. You won't need the GH rp6 forever. Right? But it'll it'll work and I don't know why they don't use GH rp6 in nursing homes and and every place else because that's you know lack of appetite is is a distressful situation, especially in an aging population, right?

[00:50:00] [00:50:00] I got it. We're going to take a break. We have a question from Johnny Loudon when we come back and then we have the blueprint tip of the day. So stay tuned. We'll be right back. So this is my good friend Brian. Come on come in and out. And as his face, there he is. There he is. Okay, so my good friend.

[00:50:18] He's really a good question really is a different very lucky to have him as a friend. So today he says I got yesterday. He text eaten message me. I gotta give you what he's do protein bars. I love them. They're so good. They're so good. So he brings the thing in and it's called the perfect bar.

[00:50:34] Okay, and it's made the original refrigerated protein bar made of everything. It is natural natural this not it's got its got spinach in it. And so it's called a protein bar. It's got 28. You have 26 know what hold on a sec. I'm sure he's got 17 grams of protein. It's got 18 grams of sugar. [00:51:00] Why did they just call the damn thing as Sugar Bar which is really what it is.

[00:51:04] So I said to him. I bet you love these he goes. They're delicious. I just don't eat too many of them because you're gonna get fat if you eat too many of these. I mean, it's a novel idea. It really is made with all wholesome stuff honey and stuff like that, but it's called a protein bar. It's got 1 gram less protein than it does sugar that it that's it.

[00:51:24] It should have been. Yeah, believe it or not. There are a lot of protein powders like that. What do you know what the funny thing is? I ate one piece of it and I was like, oh I can see what happens. Once you start eating this thing. You don't want to stop it's so good because it's so sweet. It's delicious.

[00:51:37] Put it back in my French. Thank you. Brian. Brian is my buddy. He told me that joke about the pirate with the with the steering wheel in his pants that I told on the air. Yeah. Yeah one who taught me that job? Yeah, he's my guy my buddy. He's my homeboy from Kentucky. All right, so let's get this.

[00:51:57] Sorry. I gotta [00:52:00] go all the way back to where I was because I'm such a we go. Alright, so the next question comes from. It comes from Johnny loud and he says I'm curious as to your opinion about push-ups versus the bench, press I say. I say they're just as good my friend says they're a waste of time versus the bench, press who's right you are.

[00:52:29] That's it. That's the answer. You're done. Ha ha ha your friend doesn't know what he's talking about. Yeah, it's so here. We are back to body weight versus weights, right? And in this instance, I'll give you what the researchers found then I'll give you my take. But this was looked at by researchers in Spain not too long ago and what they did was they took a certain number.

[00:52:55] I don't think was Big 10 12 guys something like that. They had them bench twice a week. [00:53:00] They had 1/2 inch twice a week and they had the other half do push-ups and at the end of the study they measured two things one. EMG activity electromagnetic whatever they you know, they measure it with that machine or measure if you will, but they also looked at one and six rep max strength.

[00:53:22] They didn't come out and actually say say it but that I would think there would have to be the bench press right versus the push up right with you. Here's the caveat. They ultimately found that the push-up was just as good. Here's the one caveat to the study. The guys doing push-ups also used a resistance band right while doing their push-ups.

[00:53:49] So it added that now that's the research findings to put the what they ultimately found was that. Especially in the one in [00:54:00] six rep max group The Bench group did better but not not a lot not nothing that was statistically significant. Okay. Those are the research findings here are my hear my comments push-ups dramatically outperformed the bench press for a number of reasons.

[00:54:20] The first is push-ups will.  I don't know if power eyes is the right word. But the force a lot of oxygen into your lungs into your muscles and into your brain and there is and I want you to try this to see what I'm talking about the next time you're in the gym. I want you to slide it onto the bench press and do one warm-up set with 15 to 20 repetitions with whatever weight is like for you right that gets you in that neighborhood.

[00:54:51] I want you to then get up in observe how you feel. Just walk around a little bit not much, [00:55:00] but observe how you feel.  The next time you perform that work out. I want you to do the same thing, but do a set of 15 to 20 push-ups then get up and walk around a little bit to tell me what you feel. What you will find is that the push-ups are dramatically better at quote-unquote waking up.

[00:55:22] Not just you know, you you. But your central nervous system. Yeah, you're going to use a lot more oxygen because your whole body is involved. It's a closed chain movement. Your your abs are involved. Everything is involved. You're working you. The power grid has to go on full for you to push up right because as you pointed out, right you're not you're using all of your muscles case in point your statically Contracting your abdominals and other muscle groups.

[00:55:52] Right to perform that everything down to your toes.  So, you know, that's the I guess the [00:56:00] wake wake you up feel good Factor, but beyond that the strength gains are better and while they these researchers used a resistance band. I would suggest to you that performing push-ups even modified slightly would deliver much much better results close grip push ups for.

[00:56:22] Push-ups with your feet elevated anywhere from a few inches to is high up on a wall vertically as you can get push one arm push-ups, right? There are an infinite number of ways to scale bodyweight training, right? I would also tell you that it is much much easier on your joints and this is the big this is really the big benefit.

[00:56:48] At least. I see it as a 50 year old man. Um.  It is a very true statement in my mind that your joints only have so many heavy lifts in them. There's [00:57:00] a reason you don't see 80 and 90 year olds squatting in dead lifting heavy and gyms and it's not because they don't want to someone do they just can't anymore.

[00:57:10] Body weight movements, especially something like the bench press are much much more. I'll call authentic movements in that. They're not going to be joint Wreckers bodyweight movements will actually build up the joints the tendons the ligaments the birth of the fascia all of the underlying tissues and give you the ability to train that much harder that much longer.

[00:57:38] So for those of you that don't want to give up either I would tell you for one week bench and the next. Do your push-ups well and and it's so so if we're talking about pure strength gains, right? So the guy you're but your bench press guy is going no bench presses are better because I can put 300 pounds on this bar and I can do [00:58:00] six reps with it.

[00:58:01] I can't get that same activation from a push-up and he's right if you doing a push-up with no added weight, right? So so I would suggest this to you buddy. What is his his bench press that he can do 6 reps Max with let's say that's 315 pounds. Let's just say for the sake of this discussion. I'm I'm spitballing here.

[00:58:28] I didn't read this anywhere. I don't have a formula. So just just hang with me here. So let's say he says it's three I could do six reps with 315 pounds where the last two reps. I'm working hard. Okay. Now what is his body weight? Let's say he's 225 pounds. Okay, and let's say 50 percent of his body weight is in his waist down and 50% in his is waist up, which is probably not true.

[00:58:53] You're probably heavier in the bottom, but that's okay. So that's a hundred twenty five pounds that he's pressing [00:59:00] when he's doing 30 push-ups in a row. Okay now comfortably. 200 pounds to a weight fast or strap it to his chest like James Potter did and have him start out in the extended position and have him do six reps with 200 pounds hanging from his chest plus his additional hundred twenty five pound body weight.

[00:59:27] He's not going to be able to. You want to do it? He'll go down who may come up once or twice. He'll go down. He'll stay down. So, you know, it's really hard to compare these two exercises because they're so different. One of them is activating 80% of the muscle on your body. And the other one isn't your glutes are they may be tensed up because you're driving your feet into the ground, but you're not holding your body in a planked position while you're moving through space, [01:00:00] right?

[01:00:00] And so if you if you modify the push. If you start out doing bodyweight work and then slowly by yourself a weight vest and add that to the mix and you keep doing that and you do Progressive overload approach you add weight and Reps you add weight and Reps and you get to the point where you are doing 20 good solid push ups with.

[01:00:26] A hundred pounds in a weight vest and then you do the math and then you put that amount weight on the bar. You will blast it. You'll be doing 30 reps with it with because because most of your body is relaxed most of your central nervous system is going to be and peripheral nervous is going to be focusing just on the context and the shoulders and the forearms and the biceps and and and the lats a little bit and the rest of your body is basically relax.

[01:00:50] Yeah, I have long been of the opinion that true strength resides in the ability to contract as many muscle groups as possible. [01:01:00] Simultaneous. Yes. Yes, and the push-up does it better than the bench at all and the push-up does it and and the pull-up does it and the dip does it and the end and those are the movements because even with a dip you're trying to keep your body from swinging so you got two rigid I mean using.

[01:01:20] And I got to tell you something. I'm actually thinking about this now, you know, I'm thinking I after watching James Potter this morning that was brilliant. He strapped the way to it. And James is strong. James is massive. He's as big as any pro bodybuilder here and he said I'm he says his shoulder feels better his shoulders feel better that he's adding them and he strapped that way to his chest.

[01:01:43] So it's not cumbersome. It's not on your back getting caught as your. What am I trying to think of the.  anyway, it's not restricting your back movement. It's hanging from your chest. It's a more natural place to hang it to do better two push-ups. [01:02:00] I'm like damn man. I just need to start doing more push-ups bodyweight squats pull-ups and dips for a while.

[01:02:08] You will be best served. If you do that. I sincerely think and have advocated for bodyweight work right ever since coming across convict conditioning with him. I'm not is the Bible of bodyweight work. Yeah, and that's another thing you look at you. Look at these convicts who are in a Cell for you know, 10 12 hours a day.

[01:02:30] And what do they do? But I had Bobby Cooper on my show. What I did to show drop and give me 20 where I asked people to just start adding push-ups randomly to their day. Just dropping do 20 push-ups do it twice a day then eventually do it three times a day Bobby Cooper had to go into a confinement for a while.

[01:02:52] Right. He met a guy there. They just started doing push-ups his bench. Press went up. He said that he was doing like he was doing like [01:03:00] 500 600 700 push-ups a day eight hundred push-ups a day. It's insane. I don't know Mama Jam. It's a big difference. It really really does. Yeah, I so, what is the blueprint tip of the day coach?

[01:03:14] Tip of the day I think is probably the most profound question. I ever read I don't recall what it was that I was reading, but I came across this the other day.  And the question is if you wrote a book about your life, would anybody want to read it? That's funny and well, it's it's funny, but it can also be sober right so when I read this question.

[01:03:43] I stopped everything I was doing I put my computer down and I recline back and my lazy boy chair. I was sitting there and I really gave that a lot of thought and it wasn't the first time that I that I had that [01:04:00] thought the first time it happened. I was about age 40, I think maybe a little younger and.

[01:04:09] One of my bosses and insurance and I we went through a co-worker's funeral.  and.  at the funeral.  nobody would as as with every funeral nobody's talking about how much money that you made. Nobody talks about how big of a house you live in and what a nice car you drive and what nice jewelry and other things that you wear.

[01:04:36] It's just not there. What they do talk about is the impact that I think you've had on other people's lives. Okay, I think that is about it is about as good a benchmark as you can possibly get and as I thought about that driving home from that funeral, I was really shaken by what I came up with [01:05:00] because I'm I'm envisioning somebody eulogizing me.

[01:05:03] In saying the following words to summarize my life. He worked in insurance.  You know and while Insurance can provide a nice living for people.  It is not the stuff of writing books and people buying them and being inspired or even interested in that story.  As events happened. I was taken out of that world.

[01:05:33] And I was placed into this world and by this world, I mean the world of physical culture and by some miracle after I wrote a book. I found my way on the Superhuman radio and Carl. You know, you get the first show we were on you said you've got 20 minutes to talk. You think you look you let me go 40 and I've been on air first sentence.

[01:05:58] So, you know it [01:06:00] really looking back at it. It was amazing because I probably wouldn't have taken that jump that you know, no matter how long I thought about it because how do you walk away from a six-figure job? You know with a young son and a wife at home that are depending on you that you don't, you know, most people would but God cause certain events in my life to take place where I was able to make that transition in although I don't make nearly the amount of money that I used to I can tell you with full conviction that somebody that eulogizes me of my funeral is going to be able to talk about the good.

[01:06:45] That I was able to do that we were able to do on this show not only for the time that we've been on which I think is seven or eight years now, but also in the future long after I'm gone and you're going far [01:07:00] people are going to be able to download a blueprint power our at some future point in time and either be inspired or helped by the advice that we gave.

[01:07:13] And so to bring this full circle to you listening audience.  When we hang up here and conclude the blueprint power our for today, I want you to contemplate that question if you had to write a book about your life, would anybody want to read it? And if the answer is no and I would submit to you that one of the best things maybe the best thing you could ever do.

[01:07:40] is do something about. And write a book that people would be interested in Reading.  That's great. So that's you know, that's it. And like I said, there are some things some statements some questions that stop you cold that one did and I think for most people that would be the case too. And [01:08:00] I think answering it the right way would improve your life.

[01:08:04] That's why I brought it up. I don't want to let you go yet. Okay, I want to take one last commercial break when we come back. Several people reached out to you and to me and said that the last blueprint Power Hour where you got to interview me. Yes was interesting very and so maybe we will have people submit questions that they want to hear you ask me.

[01:08:29] So stay tuned. We'll be right back state.

[01:08:34] So people want you to interview me more often. I thought that was interesting. I've got a great question for you to okay, I'm ready.  Wait, I need I need an hour to prepare. Yeah, okay, so we all kind of know your story but. But for those that don't real quick, right you were former fat guy turn turn [01:09:00] bodybuilder for lack of a better nobody but I would think more of myself as a strength athlete.

[01:09:04] I really just don't get it. So my question to you is.  How did people treat you when you were heavy as opposed to now? Oh great question with less. And how soon can you give me an example? I was here's just one example of come see I mean definitely with less respect that people are treated with less respect people look down at them.

[01:09:28] They look at them. Like, you know, you just don't have self control and so I owned an alarm company for. Six or seven years it was very successful warm company here in Louisville, Kentucky. Oh and I had a beautiful office in an area of Louisville call st. Matthews and I was driving that one morning and I made a left turn on our street and I was literally holding a cup of coffee in my hand and turning the wheel.

[01:09:59] And [01:10:00] this guy starts beeping his horn because like I'm not going fast enough for me because I'm making a left. I'm getting ready to make a left into my my driveway where we park all the cars.  He expect me to make a left and gun it and I made a left and I just casually made another left. He's beeping his horn and beeping his horn and he yells out the window.

[01:10:19] Stop feeding your fat face and drive. Wow, and I felt bad. Yeah, I bet I felt bad. Well, you know, I felt like damn like my face was fat my head is pretty big to begin with and then would all the fat on it. It was a I had a big face. Yeah. So what year did you transition if you start your transformation?

[01:10:44] Let's see. I was 39.  And I'm 61 now. So. 21 years ago approximately. Okay. [01:11:00] Well this puts us in a very interesting time and place. What was the first supplement you took in? Did you think it was going to work? Like they said it was oh I took several of them. So the first one was created was creatine monohydrate that mostly dextrose.

[01:11:17] You're okay. Yeah, it was like it was a huge jog. I thought oh man, this is really there's a lot of good stuff in there and then and then I realize now looking back it was probably the whole jug probably had maybe.  50 grams of of creatine the rest of it was all sugar. So that's the most expensive dextrose in the World War II II II ingredient I took was methoxy isoflavone.

[01:11:47] Which was in a 100% cholesterol vehicle. It was a black black bottle and it came with a oral syringe. I thought oh this this stuff must be like really strong because they give you like you got to measure it. [01:12:00] Was it methoxy 7. Yeah, that's what I was. Yeah. Yeah. See I never use that but it's interesting your your history.

[01:12:09] Then with supplements is very interesting you started with the one that actually works. Something that delivered I'm guessing measurable, you know muscle gain or whatnot. Well what so.  after I bought that product and I started I started going on the boards and then I started reading like you don't want all that sugar.

[01:12:32] And if you do just go buy a box of Bob's Red Mill dextrose are $1 16 and buy a kilo of creatine for a back then it was probably like $60 for a curio kilo, right? All right, and then I got that and then I got my alpha lipoic acid 100 milligram capsules and I got my whey protein and I started making my post-workout drink a lot cheaper.

[01:12:57] Yeah, but but yeah, I mean. [01:13:00] I did you something that worked and it probably did work, but I was still pretty fat at that time. So I you know, did you get anything out of my foxy nice of I love the taste of the cholesterol? Is this so fatty and it's smooth on your tongue? I would I would like take two or three doses at a time.

[01:13:19] Just like a fat person would this is good I got I think I'll just drink I think I'll just drink it. Maybe this is good. You gotta hand it to that company because the right up for that product. Go ahead. Remember it sounded just like, oh they put they had a study where they gave like a they gave like, you know, Two milligrams of epoxy isoflavone two cows and the cows put on like 10 pounds of muscle in three days.

[01:13:47] It's like oh this is gonna be great. I can't wait to use this stuff. Yeah. That was I remember the explain the delivery system is the methoxy resides in like chicken wire [01:14:00] and this chicken wires kind of brings oral bioavailability from 3% 303 little ridiculous. Wow, that's interesting where you started really interesting start.

[01:14:14] Yeah, and then and then once I got turned on to probably within about two years of that that's when I got turned on to pro hormones. And then that that was a game changer boy that would grow a prohormone hormones really worked. They really worked right? And so that was that was an extremely interesting period to live through.

[01:14:35] You know so great. I used every prohormone out there the 19 or derivatives the dials the die owns metal. Try an alone. I tried I mean I was like man this stuff is great. Let's get Bring it on. I was making me and then excuse me, then I learned about Fina pellets, you know Finn aplex. Yeah. [01:15:00] Yeah. I was like, oh man, this is like real Trend ballon and then I found.

[01:15:05] Flo gel Ultra yes, and that was kind of your that is your that became my thing. Yeah. Yeah on the board. Yeah, and and so you were a member if I'm not mistaken of minded muscle cracked, right? And that was a great board to be on lot of smart people lot of smart people. You didn't have questions like, you know, he's creatine a steroid.

[01:15:26] Yeah other ridiculous things like that. But man, you know, you obviously absorbed a lot of information and then when did you come up with the idea for shr?  in the middle of 2005.  I was still married obviously, you know, and my ex-wife was working for a guy who wanted to do a radio show to build his popularity.

[01:15:55] He was a psychologist. Or psychiatrist who had written books about how [01:16:00] smiling can actually make you happier.  And so I went to a party with her it was getting close to the holidays get wasn't quite Thanksgiving yet, but it was a party. It was a party for this guy who wrote this book and I had already lost about a hundred pounds at that point in time.

[01:16:26] Wow. Yeah, and I had mentioned that I had lost a hundred pounds.  And all of a sudden I had all these people around me. Like, how did you do it? What did you take? What did you take? What did you take? And what do you do take their I said, you know, I lift weights every morning. I do cardio, you know 48 days a week.

[01:16:46] I eat chicken and broccoli just about every meal except the morning. I have eggs and and and. Don't know note meal when I'm on the road. I eat a tuna fish out of the [01:17:00] can write and that didn't appeal to them. They know that although you mean you got to work hard to do that. Yes. No. No, I just took this pill I took it every day and it all the way just I pooped all the weight out, you know, or it took him before bed and I burn fat while I slept.

[01:17:18] Yeah, exactly know the trend ballon maybe do that. But anyway, but at the end of this discussion this guy came over and said have you ever thought about doing radio because he was there at this party because they were trying to get this doctor on the radio. Right? I says no, I don't even like the sound of my own voice and he goes he gave me a card.

[01:17:39] He says go to Clear Channel and go talk to this guy. Tell him I sent you and he was actually from Florida. This guy actually did a he did. A date a morning TV show in Miami. Yeah, and he was up here coaching. This Doctor Who's going to start doing radio? And so he said go see this guy a Clear Channel.

[01:17:59] Yep. [01:18:00] I said, what do I tell him? Tell him I sent you and just tell him the story about how you lost your weight, right? That was it. That was it. Wow, that's that's I never knew that. Well, I mean I have tons of questions, but the listener questions. Anything yet? No, not yet. Nothing on board. I mean send them to on are at supremum radio dotnet and we'll work them into future will work them into future shows.

[01:18:25] That's all. Yeah that is that is a fascinating fascinating life story. Which brings us full circle where if you were to write a book man, I would want to read it how many how many people lost more than a hundred pounds? Completely changed themselves physically and then did a complete 180 in terms of career path to build this show and I use that term build very deliberately because it's a hell of a lot of work, you know, not not only [01:19:00] finding knowledgeable people, right?

[01:19:02] But the production of the production values on the constant investment in a coil just and just and just and just finding sponsors like the show stops without sponsors. So they're always finding new sponsors to come and put money behind the show to reach the audience so that your show can go on.

[01:19:19] Yeah, and not only their well related to the sponsors. I remember trying a couple things that you know for the your sponsors offered in particular one was like a natural toothpaste. Oh, yeah. I'm hoping that he comes back. Yeah, that sucks. I remember trying this and thinking or Amber Tate or MD.

[01:19:38] Yes, I said this is a greatest thing I've ever, you know tried and I called you up and I said Carl, you know, where do you find these people? And you said you said well, you know to be totally honest I bird dogging, you know and order the product use it and give it to you know, maybe some other folks to get that, you know whose opinion that you value [01:20:00] and take it from there, which is similar to the way he had a hard time Ray spots great guy.

[01:20:06] He's in Lexington, Kentucky. You know and he I he may be coming back to the show. He he went through some hard times, but those of you who remember Ray when he had or MD on my show. He introduced a Weight Loss drink.  And it was made and after he introduced it. I said Ray. I wish you would have talked to me.

[01:20:29] I would have helped you like this. This drink has way too much sugar in it, and he said. It tastes just like an old-fashioned milkshake. Well, yeah, it does because it's got a ton of sugar in it and I told him I said you're selling this as a weight like have one a day and it will help suppress hunger I said, but the problem with it is it had like I don't know like like 22 grams of sugar in us and and on top of that right baby he used.

[01:21:00] [01:21:00] A really cheap Dairy protein source, and I forget what it was and I was like Ray I wish you would have talked to and I think he sunk a lot of money into that. I don't think they sold any of it and so he went away and I just talked to him in January and he's not quite back on his feet yet, but he does want to come back on the show because he's got a great product.

[01:21:22] He has an oil-based toothpaste. It's not even a pace because they can't call it a pace that's got its. My use it as a breath freshener, but when you brush your teeth with it, like if you're somebody who's gums bleed you brush your teeth with this stuff twice a day and two weeks your gums. Don't bleed anymore.

[01:21:39] Well, I'll just tighten them up.  Okay, so so I got one question. I've been dying to ask you you used to have a sponsor that's old pro hormones unbeknownst to me on that day's blueprint Power Hour on the tip of the day I talked about. Some people need to [01:22:00] get the hell away from pro hormones and they were paying you a boatload of money every month and they left I thought you but you kept me why well because look you can have an opinion everybody out.

[01:22:14] There doesn't have the same opinions their stink. Like I don't drink I don't drink. Coffee anymore, right coffee doesn't work for me. But if somebody wants to come aboard and be a sponsor for coffee, I would take him courses a million other people do drink coffee. A lot of people in my audience loved coffee.

[01:22:29] Yeah. So the fact that they took that one discussion and like got pissed off and like like look, there's people out there who won't take pro hormones, you know, you're not going to change their mind. Yeah, and then people out there who love pro hormones and you're not going to change their mind.

[01:22:47] Yeah, they're alright, that's good. I always felt really bad about that. I'm glad we had an opportunity to hey look you and I what about what about Good Old Greg from Wade natural [01:23:00] USA? He's been out of business. Yeah for for no short amount of time. I don't know why but I saw. Um way natural somewhere the other day and I thought to myself cheesy.

[01:23:13] You must be have a pretty big operation by now because according to him anyway, when I was down there we're growing by Leaps and Bounds. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah that he had the by this new storage facility because he had so much product and yada yada, so he was such a liar about so many things. Yeah.

[01:23:31] So the first the first problem he ran into was. Way natural USA and another company.  Had the same exact patil but a different name. We're getting all their protein powder from this company.  And Mike over at what's that Rick? Kamla? No. No, no, the guy Health Ranger. I can't leave his name right now.

[01:23:59] But anyway, [01:24:00] he tested the protein powder and found out that it didn't have 21 grams of protein and 4 grams of sugar. It actually had like eight grams of protein and like 16 grams of sugar per serving and that's why everybody loved it. It tasted. So friggin good that comes right back to the protein bar that I was just talking about look people will eat sugar all day long.

[01:24:23] They don't you know, if you if you tell them it's got one gram of protein less than the sugar they'll still eat it because they're all but it's protein and so Greg got pulled into that number two. He was claiming that his was cold pasteurized remember that a prosperous and he keep he registered that that term himself.

[01:24:50] The company that was producing. Didn't claim it was called pasteurized. He came up with that himself because when I looked up his patent for [01:25:00] his time his trademark, it was his trademark that said cold pasteurize whatever the term he used. Chill some. Yeah chill right jewelry. Yeah, it was registered to him.

[01:25:11] Not to the company I was making. They never claimed so there was a lot of lot of lying and deceit going on between the sugar content what the product actually was and eventually people just and on top of that he was charging like. $175 for a 5-pound jug, it was obscene. It was obscene. And you know what I was down there.

[01:25:34] I tried to tell him look, you know do another product just for product diversification just take note wouldn't do it. But but here's the thing. I remember speaking on the phone at length with him. He seemed fairly knowledgeable about his product and whey protein in general and. It's okay, you know shortly thereafter.

[01:25:55] I flew down there and shortly after that is when things begin, you know [01:26:00] to unravel so to speak. I remember asking him on the phone. You know it do you do you work out you have weights all yeah. I got them right here in the garage. So I'm thinking wow. This guy's these can be a hardcore garage trainer I get down there.

[01:26:15] You have a power Rack or two in his garage completely unassembled instilling. Haha eventually admitted to me that he did not train and I don't think ever in his life trained. And so, you know, he's sitting down there with I'm trying to reconcile this in my mind. He's got some game changing chill right process in a protein powder that everybody loves.

[01:26:44] Yeah, he doesn't live the lifestyle right? You know, he's not walking the walk he can talk the talk, but he's not walking the walk and ultimately that the whole lab testing thing unravel the whole lot of destroyed of meth [01:27:00] and today it's gone so well and that and so another thing that I just thought of was he came on my show one time the first time we cuz he became a sponsor and he came on the show.

[01:27:14] And he used to love to say that his protein powder was the highest quality. It was the best that other protein powders would destroy your kidneys.  And I had to tell him Greg you can't say that anymore. Yeah, I remember that because he's the everybody who called him. He said oh other protein powders will destroy your kidneys some doctor told Isis.

[01:27:36] Oh I said Greg, you can't say that on the air anymore. He goes no. Well some doctor told me I said send me what the doctor said find a stud. Send it to me. All you can't say anymore. He never sent the study and he never said it again, but he just disparaged and lied about everything. His product was a complete sham and Ally and and it's why it's gone today.

[01:27:58] Yeah. Yeah, that's a [01:28:00] great point, you know, and that's for anybody wondering or about getting into this business if your product is not what you say. It is ultimately. We'll find out somebody will find out right people will find out and it doesn't necessarily by the way take a lap test. You know, it takes it might take something like like me who visited to say, you know, I'm saying these things but he doesn't even trained.

[01:28:29] How can this you know, how can this be and I can remember and many points when I was speaking with him. It's a that's a great point. I need write it down is another great point B, write it down shortly thereafter. And this is what caused me to say. Look. I'm no longer doing this anymore. He started use all that stuff in his advertising kind of pushing it off as his own, you know putting out there and listen I've had plenty of people in this business.

[01:28:59] Copy [01:29:00] my right my ad and stuff adds big ad verbiage pervade mm verbatim. They have copied my stuff. I'm like sojin in on it you stare on the probably be more of it. Now that the big study out but look this guy was a fraud and you can you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool everyone and after that after after that research came out I dropped.

[01:29:29] She wanted to keep advertising. I told no you can't not until you can show me a third-party analysis that shows that your product isn't predominately sugar.  And so a fair amount of time goes by I think years at this point and then you do Thrive was it because of your experiences with way natural that you want to do.

[01:29:50] So no, I just feel like everybody missed the boat with with dairy protein products. Yeah, you know we have mother's milk, [01:30:00] which is that is a blueprint not to steal your blueprint power, but it's a blueprint for what what milk should provide for humans. Well and nobody's dairy product. No Dairy protein pretty I was just talking to Shawn could earn she'll this morning.

[01:30:15] Yeah. I told them that you know that 5995 deal that I have going on right now where include shipping inside the United States I make six dollars on that. And people don't believe that but people it's the truth. Believe me if you want to get it to supplement this we don't start out with a protein powder Aaron singer man told me that he said, oh don't do a protein powder.

[01:30:39] They have the smallest margins. He told me he said the commodity item you going to come be competing against price. Don't do it. He told he told me not to do it and I was talking to Sean this morning and I said, I don't think I'm going to do another run of thrive. It's just not worth it. It's just if you know the money is like the money I have to do to [01:31:00] promote it six dollars a jar.

[01:31:04] You know, it's a lot of work a lot of work for very very little and Sean said no, you got to keep doing it because it's the only good protein powder out there and people need to have access to it. You know. Yeah. I know, you know, I mean is it let me ask you this why if I order now or is there still going to be anywhere?

[01:31:23] Yeah. Yeah that's plenty right now because I'm assuming within the next couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll get the green light from the dock. You know and I can in that that point I'll need it for whatever tissue breakdown of causing. So, yeah, I would just I'll text you after the show. Yeah, I mean it does I've got plenty right now.

[01:31:43] But after this is gone, I don't think I'm going to do it again. It's just not worth it. The didn't truly unfortunate because you know the webinar that I did on the drink. Yes this particular drink. Is it unbelievable what [01:32:00] it can do it's made with mostly with common grocery store items you work up to two of these a day and your muscle gain fat loss problems are over really even that one a day.

[01:32:12] I was seeing you know, I was seeing something that was way beyond. What was a typical protein powder was but.  no other protein that I could find. Fit the bill as well as Thrive and I'll tell you that because I had a lot of people use a straight way protein in that drink and they use two shakes a day for six weeks 12 weeks.

[01:32:36] Sometimes longer call me up saying, you know, you're full of it on this stuff when I got them a way miss. You lurk a seam hybrid, right like eating like Thrive is right. To say nothing of all the other things in it, but they got on that they get a whole new opinion makes a big difference and why and that's how mother's milk is [01:33:00] built.

[01:33:00] It's not it's not like, you know, we look at it Go. Wow, this works so much better. Yeah, because that's the way it's supposed to be. Yeah. That's awesome. You still get the discount code on the three pound. Yeah, it's on my website right now. If you go to Superior radio dotnet, you can click we have it's compare.

[01:33:17] The coupon code is compared. We dare you to compare our label to any protein powder you use now this that's awesome. You know what it's so that begs the question why don't work out nice to you that if they've really got the best product that they you know, say they do why not put them side-by-side and look and look I'll give the audience a very.

[01:33:38] Succinct example, you can take a cam of thrive.  And a can of most other proteins on the market be they way or anything else. You're going to notice something subtle. But distinct on the label thrives label is listed as supplement facts.  [01:34:00] Almost every other protein powder. I found out there as the label nutrition facts.

[01:34:06] Let me assure you. One word makes a huge difference. Meaning the product labeled with supplement facts has to go through over a hundred more quality check points per the FDA and their regulations than the one that says nutrition facts. And yes, that means all companies making a protein that have a nutrition facts label are out of FDA compliance.

[01:34:36] simple interest. Well, even our Reeves he ordered some we got it into Sweden where his mother-in-law lives so he could get it into the UK and he says his gut doesn't bother him anymore when he uses protein powder. He's use whey protein. He says it's got used to bother him and he said he's his Thrive and he feels great and you know what?

[01:34:58] It tastes every bit as good [01:35:00] as for way natural death, but you know again get that to compare. One uses 18 grams of sugar and Thrive uses placing well, but there is some natural the series some lactose and Thrive because we're using some whole milk proteins to yeah, but I think there's I think there's either four or six grams of sugar and a scoop of three.

[01:35:23] Yeah, but there's a world of difference between four to six grams of naturally derived sugar that any quality milk protein has worked his 18 grams of dextrose. That doesn't declare them. Well, yeah, I was just gonna say it's not even on the label. You don't even you wonder why that man that's at least and I will use it that stuff.

[01:35:40] Like I was using three scoops for Scoops a day. I was like man this stuff tastes so good the strawberry and we were getting fat we were like at least is like I don't understand why I feel like I'm getting fatter. Yeah, it was because way now. Your say should have been called way fatter us are you know, how I found out?

[01:36:00] [01:36:00] Urinary testing strips for ketones interesting soon as I got on that stuff all of a sudden there's no more ketones registering, you know, and it's not because I was taking in such few calories my body's using them all for energy right with your scenario where they might not show but yeah, that's how I found out.

[01:36:21] May's our amazing. I brother I think we'll call it a day. So if you have questions, you want Rob to ask me send them to superhuman radio. I'm sorry. On air at Super you Mario dotnet will see you by tomorrow with more superhuman radio. Thank you for watching and listening [01:37:00] today.