[00:00:00] [00:00:00] Carl Lanore: [00:00:00] be good if I open my mic up, right? Hey, welcome back to supremum radio. Today is Tuesday. Today is the day that I am joined by my co-host coach Rajesh to do the blueprint Power Hour where he answers your questions about fitness health anti-aging training supplementation, drugs and everything in between.

[00:00:19] I have a quick announcement to make I want to do this at the top of the show those of you who followed me for my entire. Career on podcasting and radio know about 12 years ago. I started talking about doing a show called open season on men because I was going through a terrible divorce that literally has destroyed me financially to this day.

[00:00:39] It's still it's still it's still burning a hole in my soul financially and but I've never done open season on man because I I met a girl that I fell in love with and I thought, you know wasn't really important but it is important today. It really is because I'm watching Men. Literally get kicked to the curb every single day [00:01:00] toxic masculinity is nonsense men are being literally abused by society today more of us are addicted to drugs and alcohol more of us in my mental institutions more of us are incarcerated in jails.

[00:01:13] We more of us commit suicide successfully than women more men commit suicide every single year than women. We are the Disposable genda. It's okay for us to go to war and die, but if a woman goes. Ward eyes. Oh, it's really a terrible thing. You should have to look at hunting you can go out and shoot as many bears as you want.

[00:01:32] But female bear's doesn't number of that you can take and so the female in every species is is regarded much more valuable than men and women have done an amazing job since suffrage gaining strength. And everything else that they need in today's society and now it's at a point where they're actually gaining it at the expense of men men are [00:02:00] not the stronger group anymore by any means and it's really time for men to push back or we're just going to become literally like wiped out we are everything about men today is like is not good.

[00:02:14] Nothing about us as good anymore. And so John Romano who has a huge following he wrote for muscular development for years and years and I are launching next week. The first episode will be a weekly podcast called open season on men. We have just launched the hashtag men to hash tag. Em, ENT 00. We want people to start using it when they share the show and we are going to do our best to give many voice again and make men just as important as women.

[00:02:41] This is not a show. This is not going to be an anti woman show. I'm going to bash women. This is not going to be a show where we promote ideas that are at the expense of women, but we are it's time for men to open their mouths and start pushing back about the unfairness of things that happen to them.

[00:03:00] [00:03:00] And and the reality is that we're hoping to mobilize opinions supremum open season on men will have a website we will be on all the podcast directories once we publish our first show. And the idea is that this show is for strong men and the women who love them because we have women who love us just like the other side says we're horrible people.

[00:03:26] There's an equal number of women that say, we're great people and we're going to start to try to change the opinion about where men are today. So with that being said, I will introduce my co-host

[00:03:38] Coach Rob Regish: [00:03:38] calling all blueprint Army fall in

[00:03:40] Carl Lanore: [00:03:40] line.

[00:03:41] Coach Rob Regish: [00:03:41] It's time for the blueprint Power Hour. With Coach Rodriguez on the Superhuman Radio Network.

[00:03:51] Carl Lanore: [00:03:51] How you doing, Rob?

[00:03:52] Coach Rob Regish: [00:03:52] I'm doing great. That is a fantastic idea for a show. I can't recall who wrote the book but there's there's one [00:04:00] out there. It's called the war on boys. Hmm, and you'll see. Yeah, it's a it's an incredible read on how Society has been progressively devaluing for boys and. Course man and it goes on at all levels of society.

[00:04:17] It's really sad,

[00:04:18] Carl Lanore: [00:04:18] you know, it's not just devaluing now men are the reason for every problem in the world today. If you live you listen to the most vocal people today toxic masculinity is nonsense this toxic femininity. There's women out there who are serving their desire to make everyone feminine men are not doing that.

[00:04:40] No men are going out there and saying, oh you got to be more manly you got to. This way, you know, but women are telling us constantly that we need to be less masculine and that's just nonsense. There's not there's no such thing as toxic masculinity. There's not there are idiots and you keep that are men and there are idiots that a women and has nothing to do with their estrogen or testosterone.

[00:05:00] [00:05:01] Coach Rob Regish: [00:05:01] Yeah, and you know, you can see the Fallout in society, you know a lot of men out there today or soft or the real soft and I'll tell you what the next time planes flying into buildings. They're going to be looking around saying weird all the real men go. Yeah,

[00:05:15] Carl Lanore: [00:05:15] exactly exactly. You

[00:05:17] Coach Rob Regish: [00:05:17] killed them all.

[00:05:18] Carl Lanore: [00:05:18] Yeah, so it's going to be a great show and we are not going to just get on and rant about things. We're going to have legitimate people. We already have ideas for our first shows with anthropologists. There's actually a person out there who created the formulary for how alimony is calculated and the an end and he came out years later and said there's a mistake in it, but the courts haven't fixed it and so it unfairly weighted.

[00:05:47] These people with alimony that they shouldn't have to pay and why is this important? Well, most of the time alimony is paid by men but there's going to be a lot of women that are going to want to hear this show too because there's a lot of women who are the Breadwinners and when they go through divorce [00:06:00] their lives are crushed to there's actually a flaw in the way all the court systems calculate alimony, they know it but they've never addressed it because they don't care that a crushes your life and we're going to that's going to be to be one of the first shows we do.

[00:06:18] Coach Rob Regish: [00:06:18] Yeah doesn't surprise me. Yeah, it's not terrible.

[00:06:21] Carl Lanore: [00:06:21] I don't want to get too deep into that. But that's that that I'm really excited about finally getting to do open season on men. How are you doing? Tell me about your training and and what's exciting in your life. 

[00:06:32] Coach Rob Regish: [00:06:32] I have started back training. I've had two more training sessions interestingly enough after the first one.

[00:06:41] They were expecting my CK levels and creatinine to be even higher than they were. By CK dropped about 500 points.

[00:06:48] Carl Lanore: [00:06:48] No kidding and you started training. 

[00:06:52] Coach Rob Regish: [00:06:52] When I started training, I know this for a fact Monday morning. I went in gave blood the results that test. I didn't find out until [00:07:00] Tuesday, but my CK was.

[00:07:04] Tuesday Morning, the doctor called me. He said if this is concerning its 1300 I said the light rain Monday afternoon. What do you want me to do is just give blood Thursday. I give blood Thursday. It's down. It's down from 1300 to 800. Wow. So it's at this point. It's a big mystery. I have a sneaking suspicion.

[00:07:25] It goes back to a prescription drug, maybe that they're giving me. We'll see ya.

[00:07:32] Carl Lanore: [00:07:32] So Mikey, no, he knows he says I got my hands on super high quality XD product its Russian with the Cyrillic letters. My question is does XD need to be cycled like other products and if so, what kind of cycle do you recommend?

[00:07:50] Coach Rob Regish: [00:07:50] Yeah, this is a it's a really interesting question. So first off I want to address of say the product that you have in hand. Now, it [00:08:00] may be legit. It might not. A lot more that are not you know than our

[00:08:05] Carl Lanore: [00:08:05] I would in fact think that a lot of the people who want to scam You on XD would absolutely produce it with all Russian language and make it look like it's from Russia,

[00:08:16] Coach Rob Regish: [00:08:16] right?

[00:08:16] And so the point that's a no. It's a great point just because it has Cyrillic lettering on it and it's Russia this and rest of that. It certainly doesn't mean it's the real deal. So over the years. I have seen a wide range of equity products out of. Which is where this guy said, he got it some good and some bad.

[00:08:36] Now there used to be an excellent product. It came out of hungry hundred milligrams in these individual foil blisters full-spectrum camera pontic. Mm. I have not seen it since unfortunately, there's another one out of Bulgaria.  That too is Rippon to come based. However, they overly standardize it [00:09:00] for what they call beta XT star.

[00:09:02] Which is a common name for 20 hydroxy at least Arrow, which I'm not a fan of at all now.  Let's see life extension at one time They Carried the legit Russian product the name of it. I think yeah, I was at the stem and and you know, just so people know a little bit on the. Equis Tehran is a prescription drug in Russia in and that started in 1961 while

[00:09:32] Carl Lanore: [00:09:32] a 12-inning and then it can't be legit if it's actually a drug in Russia.

[00:09:37] I mean, there's so many people out there still debating whether or not acting is really legit. It's really fun. Bye.

[00:09:43] Coach Rob Regish: [00:09:43] Yeah, and you know it's a lot of these companies aren't helping matters, too. Yeah, you're right calm baritone tan Vera is another company that was well known for Distributing it out of the UK.

[00:09:55] They are now only selling their cast her own which is good for [00:10:00] endurance athletes, but frankly, I don't think he's all that great for strength athletes now with respect to knowing whether or not the product is legitimate. Unfortunately without an hplc test, it's impossible to know for certain if what you have in your hand is what you order now figuring out if there's some activists are owned in there is relatively easy after you've handled it enough.

[00:10:27] It has a very distinct or call it burnt. Resin type smell to it. If you empty 250 milligrams or 500 milligrams or whatever of a pure XD product into a few ounces of water and you either shake it or mix it with a fork and it doesn't take much the powder should disperse and dissolve quickly and evenly there should be no clumps whatsoever in it given it's a very hydrophilic it coming.

[00:10:56] Lot of 08 groups. That's the easy part. The [00:11:00] hard part is did you really get R upon to come Karthik voids? What you ordered? Neither the sniff test or the taste test or the dissolving test is going to tell you whether it's repository mm or it's from sigh notice Vaga or some other cheap plant.

[00:11:18] Carl Lanore: [00:11:18] However,

[00:11:18] Coach Rob Regish: [00:11:18] you generally know I can tell anyway within three days a woman at the products which. The first thing you'll notice or that I notice is just going up and down stairs or hiking around your cardiovascular ability is much improved. You're also going to sleep much deeper. You should be sleeping much deeper by day three and you're going to find that also that you're thirsty increases why that's so frankly.

[00:11:48] I don't know further out. Let's say at the three to four week Mark you will see it. Your hair skin and nails so, you know guys typically don't watch those [00:12:00] things. But I've spoken to a fair number of women that are using it and they're hairdressers and the pedicurist always no Nails in both sexes grow at an unbelievably fast rate except mine and you'll find that your work capacity increases in the gym.

[00:12:20] Noticeably now with respect to cycles and dose. Some things like that the literature showing positive effects. And this goes back decades is fairly straightforward the best studied and most often cited effective dose is five milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day. So for a 200-pound man, you know / 2.2.

[00:12:46] I think it comes out to 90. He's going to require right around 450 milligrams a day. I would run that. For 10 weeks maybe as long as 12 or 14 before [00:13:00] coming off for about a month now having said that I have been working on a novel.  DeStorm loading and unloading protocol that I believe it will finally let people know finally let people see what a good XD product can do for them.

[00:13:21] Even though we know it works now. For the estrogen beta 2 receptor and they proved that in that study that I was speaking about a couple weeks ago not just in people but also in the test tube in that study. I still consider the plant an adaptogen with adaptogenic properties now, you know. This is going to be something a lot less complex than the blueprints famine fee screws Cycles.

[00:13:49] But you know having said that it does take advantage of that kind of phase shifting. Well, we're look these longer periods of super compensation can be [00:14:00] just milked for a long time. So that will be coming in next month's blueprint bulletin. I can't wait for feedback from subscribers. It's also going to save you.

[00:14:11] Boatload of money because you will only be taking XD at very specific times in the training cycle. So more on that soon.  Your question

[00:14:26] Carl Lanore: [00:14:26] Ricky Brown says I'm trying to convince my friends to take beta alanine or should I say stick with? I've showed him some studies, but they more or less dismiss them.

[00:14:36] What else can I do to convince them? Stop trying to convince them. Let them not benefit from it. How about that one?

[00:14:42] Coach Rob Regish: [00:14:42] Right.

[00:14:43] Carl Lanore: [00:14:43] I mean the problem with the problem with with the beta alanine is it takes a while to actually show up and then the reality is the absence of their muscles burning. On rep 6 or 10 or 15 [00:15:00] is harder to conclude then the fact that that creatine will give them two extra reps.

[00:15:07] That's easy to count. It's easy to go man. I got two extra reps I but beta alanine is is trying to like prove a negative. You know what I mean? It's like yeah, but yeah, I didn't get any more reps out of it. Oh, but but did your muscles burn as much? Yeah. I don't know. I really don't that's the real.

[00:15:23] Hard part to convince people of right would you agree with that?

[00:15:26] Coach Rob Regish: [00:15:26] Yeah. Absolutely. Right creatine's the measuring stick. You can see usually some pounds on the scale. You can see a couple extra reps maybe even lifting more weight beta alanine is a little different but but having said that, you know a lot of the points that you made.

[00:15:42] I'm gonna make two with any compound though and some are more controversial than others. But with any compound people are going to have different opinions. It's just how it is. Even creatine is many studies as it has behind it. [00:16:00] I talked to guys in the gym and more than a few of them that say it doesn't work for me.

[00:16:05] I don't know. I tried this form. I've tried that form. If it does work I get moonface I get bloated who needs. That sort of thing. But so first song I want to I want to go where you did Carl exploring this dynamic between you and your friends and trying to convince them and they don't want to be convinced or whatever the case may be.

[00:16:28] Showing your friends, I guess studies is a good start and for beta alanine there is a impressive and growing body of literature out there that you can do that. You really need to your point. Again. We really need to Define though works right in the case of beta alanine Works. What do we mean? Okay, the studies show very steady reliable increases in muscle carnosine levels, at least one study.

[00:16:58] In fact [00:17:00] has shown that at six at the six-month Mark levels were still building and these guys were taking between 33. Six grams a day. So you need to look at that in balance it against things like study design conclusions. And of course real world results. I'll caution you on this. If you really want to waste a lot of time and energy a big chunk of your life then go to bodybuilding.com or any deserving Message Board.

[00:17:34] You can debate people from today till the day they put. In the ground it is just you know, I left the boards for that. Very reason. It's a waste of time and energy beyond the study you're

[00:17:47] Carl Lanore: [00:17:47] going because people don't really want to learn they want to defend their opinion. They want to become experts and people, you know, everybody today is an expert.

[00:17:57] No one is learning. Apparently. [00:18:00] Everybody knows everything already if you go on Facebook, Instagram or any of the message boards today, there are no students. There are only teachers I am I am a Perpetual student. That's why I keep doing what I do because there's always new stuff to learn. But if you go on these boards and you put your opinion out there.

[00:18:20] To provoke interest or response you will get pushed back even if you know what you're saying is accurate because there are other people that just want to debate you so that they can uphold their expert level in the community because they're afraid that if they're still learning they're not teachers their students, but the best teachers in the world are Perpetual students.

[00:18:44] Coach Rob Regish: [00:18:44] So and it's interesting because you can you can see these people coming a mile away why they never ask a question ever asked a question. They're afraid if they ask a question that's going to take away from their

[00:18:56] Carl Lanore: [00:18:56] head expose them that they don't know everything. No one knows [00:19:00] everything fucking Google doesn't know everything.

[00:19:03] Coach Rob Regish: [00:19:03] Sorry.

[00:19:03] Carl Lanore: [00:19:03] I'm I'm sorry about

[00:19:06] Coach Rob Regish: [00:19:06] that. So there are two things beta-alanine. Does that will give them an inkling at least that it's doing? Thing the first of course is the tangles. If you take more than three grams, certainly six grams out of whack. You're going to get paresthesia. So to speak some some it's a harmless flushing similar to not deny this and flush that sort of thing or Gaba.

[00:19:30] It's less intense than gamma but some guys like it and that's why it's a big part of the reason companies put it in Pre workouts because they can quote unquote feel it between that and the caffeine the other thing that it does. If they really want to experience beta alanine have them take like 10 grams a day or more than they'll be sitting in the chair at home and their heart is going to start skipping beats, and it's really noticeable.

[00:19:56] By the way. I didn't know what was going on [00:20:00] until I looked further into it beta alanine displaces Tori. Taurine as you know was responsible for water balance electrolyte balance and it regulates heart rhythm. And when when you remove too much of it in one shot believe me, you'll feel it

[00:20:19] Carl Lanore: [00:20:19] fact, that's what you get.

[00:20:20] That's where it gets its ergogenic value from Tori and actually allows you to train harder and longer because it allows the heart to regulate its beats better and the heart is a negative feedback. To the brain to brain will never let you push yourself to a heart attack. You could push yourself to a heart attack.

[00:20:39] You could be 21 years old and you could push yourself into a heart attack, but the brain is getting data from the heart and it's actually a negative feedback that keeps you from doing that. It starts to shut down peripheral muscle blood flow in an effort to stop you. It's like putting the feet on the brakes and so Tori and actually [00:21:00] allows your heart to work harder.

[00:21:02] It's a wonderful supplement people don't even. Think about taking it as a as a pre-workout supplement most of the time

[00:21:09] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:09] right? It does so much right but especially like what you just said great Point having said all of that. I have an incredibly easy way to solve this. This is going to blow your mind.

[00:21:21] You'll never guess what it is ready.

[00:21:24] Carl Lanore: [00:21:24] I'm with him.

[00:21:26] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:26] If they don't like this supplement or the studies or what it's doing or not doing don't use it.

[00:21:32] Carl Lanore: [00:21:32] Yeah.

[00:21:33] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:33] Wow, see how simple that was ya dumb amazing

[00:21:37] Carl Lanore: [00:21:37] and don't try to and don't try to convince them to you that you just keep using it and you just keep passing them by in the gym

[00:21:43] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:43] right take your three to six grams a day with food and call it a day.

[00:21:49] You know what other people do who cares, you know, you you know, what works for you use it. Solutely.

[00:21:56] Carl Lanore: [00:21:56] All right. So the next question comes from Mike [00:22:00] Graham. He said you mentioned or symbolic a source Alec acid. I'm

[00:22:04] Coach Rob Regish: [00:22:04] sorry

[00:22:04] Carl Lanore: [00:22:04] are symbolic is the name of Pat Arnold's product. Arsala Casa de few weeks ago.

[00:22:09] What's your opinion on it? And where would you put it in your list of important supplements? Like is it a staple or something to give a whirl when looking for something new? 

[00:22:23] Coach Rob Regish: [00:22:23] Yeah, so it is it goes? Several years now. I don't know five or more maybe purrsula casted was introduced to the Sports Nutrition World by Pat Arnold.

[00:22:34] And of course coming from Pat people were naturally excited about it in the early studies in animals and some humans looked pretty solid. You know, it is found naturally. Yeah. It's a fun naturally occurring in apple peels. I think it is a rosemary. Maybe a few other places, although I think it can be synthesized to be interested to know what that does with it.

[00:22:57] Carl Lanore: [00:22:57] Pat's definitely mention that's definitely comes [00:23:00] from rosemary because Rosemary repeats on me, I taste it for hours after I eat it in like in Thanksgiving stuffing and and rosemary flavored Italian bread. Like I taste the flowers and I get that same taste exactly same taste when I use Pat's or symbolic product.

[00:23:20] But $99,000 that it's from rosemary.

[00:23:24] Coach Rob Regish: [00:23:24] Yeah well to your point. He originally did the earth symbolic which was capsules. I think and of course people bought a fair amount of it. Unfortunately, it wasn't as well received, you know, as obviously some of those other products in the general consensus was it did little which was surprising given the study showed, right it activated several.

[00:23:50] Jeans as a relates to muscle growth and fat loss Pat then took a fresh look at things I guess and he determined for whatever reason [00:24:00] that it would be much better would work better if it was put into a transfer. And I think he sells that today as a product called you are spray feedback on this version of solak acid was was better, but it is still not what I would call consistently good.

[00:24:22] It delivers 250 milligrams over solak acid a day. For every 50 spray. So once a day application of bottle last 30 days at around 50 bucks a bottle. That's what that's that's a little over a bucket day. It's not terribly expensive. But a lot of the people that I saw on the board said, you know when I double dose it, I do much better.

[00:24:48] You know now it's a hundred a month for some people that's. That's a little bit too much. I may actually use it. I mean,

[00:24:57] Carl Lanore: [00:24:57] especially when you can get real [00:25:00] testosterone for you know for $50 a bottle and that's that's what they mean. You could you could do four weeks of 500 milligrams a week with that kind of money and really see some changes in your body.

[00:25:14] Coach Rob Regish: [00:25:14] Yeah, it's tough obviously to measure up to test but

[00:25:18] Carl Lanore: [00:25:18] and you know, and now it's subcutaneous injections, which the truth of the matter is I am. Reduce the world to 10 and actually in 2010 I talked about I was starting to go Sub-Q because I was just tired of injecting in my muscles my muscles were so effed up and dr.

[00:25:36] John Criswell came on my show and actually said it was a bad idea but then wrote a book about that a couple years ago, but you know that it was actually a good idea. But now with Sub-Q testosterone you guys don't have to you know, I'm actually doing a I have a stack that a friend of mine made. Me and it's it's 66% testosterone and and [00:26:00] 33% DHT Master own and annotate that's testosterone and updated Master on anything.

[00:26:06] It's a 2/3 1/3. And I put 40 units which is just under 200 milligrams every other day under my skin and it disappears and I don't have welts and because the stuff is made perfectly and and Reynoso. So when you think about that, I'm doing around 800 milligrams a week right now Sub-Q that's insane.

[00:26:29] Right? And so you don't you don't have to stick it in your muscle anymore. And so the whole idea that people are afraid of using testosterone. That that's gone. If you if you're willing to use it transdermal you can use testosterone because the subcu injection is like boom you're done. 

[00:26:47] Coach Rob Regish: [00:26:47] So you do a 400 mg.

[00:26:48] Sub-Q test shots.

[00:26:49] Carl Lanore: [00:26:49] It's not actually 400 it's of what's what's 498. So 49.8 for every 10 units on an insulin syringe. So it's just under 200 just under [00:27:00] 200 milligrams every other day. Yeah, that's I just started doing that a couple two or three weeks ago and I got to tell you man. I feel it.

[00:27:09] Coach Rob Regish: [00:27:09] I feel it.

[00:27:10] I bet you do now. So on the your Cyrillic a said I would tell you if you're looking at big changes in muscle gain fat loss. It's probably not for you. But having said that. I did pull up more than one study showing us this stuff might be very pertinent to me because it significantly reduced levels of creatine kinase myoglobin and lactate dehydrogenase which of the three big markers that they look at online or that they are looking at on my labs and trying to get down if this stuff can help with that then hell.

[00:27:48] Yeah. I've got a bottle. Of the pills from rosemary. I'm going to run that and after I do the before-and-after labs if [00:28:00] it shows promise, you know, I may actually order the transdermal, but that's what I would tell you, you know, unless you have issues with rhabdo, you know, you're probably going to want to spend money elsewhere in terms of muscle gain fat loss product.

[00:28:16] But for me, it's getting might be a big deal. Maybe a huge. You. 

[00:28:21] Carl Lanore: [00:28:21] I want to come back and mention one thing before we take our break another benefit of taking beta alanine, especially if you're older is beta alanine has been shown to actually allow the body to remove Advanced glycation end products from tissue.

[00:28:36] Coach Rob Regish: [00:28:36] Yes event

[00:28:37] Carl Lanore: [00:28:37] Advanced guy Advanced glycation end product is a real problem as you age. You can see them on your skin their liver spots. So you see people have lots of liver spots chances are the inside of their body is. Is infested with a GES when AG he's form on the organ tissue, they cause organs to malfunction when a ge's form on heart [00:29:00] tissue.

[00:29:00] They could cause Rhythm changes if they form on the sinus node where the impulse for a heartbeat comes out of it's almost like. Dropping solder across a PC board where Bridges a bunch of lands and short stuff out and so beta alanine and you don't have to take the high doses that are used in sports performance.

[00:29:20] You can take for 600 milligrams a day over a period of time. It doesn't happen overnight. But over a period of time it will actually cause your body to start to reduce a ge's and stop your body from producing new agencies that in and of itself is. I take beta alanine. I don't even care what it does in the gym.

[00:29:39] I don't. 

[00:29:41] Coach Rob Regish: [00:29:41] Yeah, and if you are taking creatine and most people are there's a study showing that people that use both put on three times more muscle in the long run than those people using creatine alone. Think about that the most effective product in Sports Nutrition. [00:30:00] Tripled the rate of muscle gain just by adding beta-alanine.

[00:30:05] That's it. You know when you think of the anti-aging benefits to what do you got to lose its cheap as dirt? It's cheap as dirt.

[00:30:14] Carl Lanore: [00:30:14] Yep. I let's take a quick commercial break when we come back. We have more questions. You're listening to the blueprint pal our show the show Love by going to coach Rob register.com today and signing up for the blueprint bulletin so that you can get all this great information sent right into your inbox.

[00:30:30] You'll be the smartest kid in the gym. Check it out. We'll be right back. Welcome back Jeff Clifton. You've inspired me to create a memo. I'm gonna put it up on Facebook in a couple minutes and tag you in it. So when I said the best teachers in the world of Perpetual students, Jeff Clifton quoted that and I think you know, that is actually a good quote.

[00:30:49] I say stuff that I don't even pay attention. I'm I don't I don't pay attention to things I say and so I just made a ma'am. I'm going to put it on. Camera tag [00:31:00] Jeff Clifton since he inspired me to do that. So the next question comes from oops. Sorry, Eddie Gilbert. He says Rob you've talked about Kratom Carl.

[00:31:13] I think mentioned that some people think all strains of the same or at least act the same. What's your opinion?

[00:31:19] Coach Rob Regish: [00:31:19] You know, it's an interesting question, right? Because almost every crate on company out there advertisers all these different strengths right claiming that they do different things. I would tell you that there's an element of Truth to that.

[00:31:36] But also the differences between the strains assuming you're experienced enough with them are subtle or some so let's look at both sides of that coin. First all cray time that I've ever seen is green, you know the other day I ordered green white. And I think it was yellow. Okay, when you open the package up [00:32:00] don't accept don't expect to see red.

[00:32:02] Yellow hook, you know or whatever other color you ordered all crate, Tom I've seen is green now with respect to the subtle differences.  It really boils down. I think to experience the seasoned Kratom connoisseur. I'll call them he may be able to perceive white and green strains as the war. Jeddak of the bunch, but you know for most consumers of boils down to expectations.

[00:32:34] For example red string, right? It said to be mellowing. It's probably a fair statement that I could give that person a green tell them it's red and they would feel mellow. That's just how it is. You know, I mean. I don't know. I've never noticed anything dramatic between strength. So that's just me now Kratom extracts and rate resins.

[00:33:00] [00:33:00] However are a completely different ballgame. You will notice for the most part. They are almost black and because of the fact that it's an extract very concentrated. You can use a tiny amount comparatively speaking. Say one two, three CC's instead of three grams of the stuff right of regular leaf.

[00:33:26] That isn't necessarily a good thing because it makes it that much easier to overdose. If you really need to be careful speaking of which if you do you might get something called the wobbles when you walk and look it looks like you have like Parkinson's or something the worst-case scenario is you'll throw up which is a big.

[00:33:47] Bandage over prescription opioids were they shut down your breathing and you die. I have seen one pre-made liquid product. It's a 20 times x full spectrum [00:34:00] extract. It's an excellent product. It really is. What else can I tell you Craig Tom? Obviously, it's not cheap. It's not the most expensive thing in the world, but it's not cheap either you can save you can save a lot of money by ordering What's called the brickrock raisin extract of great time.

[00:34:19] And so when you open this package up, you're not going to see powder. You're not going to see a green powder what you're going to see them. They look like little chocolate chips. Very very dark solid chips. What you want to do is done. All of those chips in a little bit of water into a coffee cup you want to cover it in microwave, excuse me, microwave it on high for 20 seconds or so do not forget to cover it.

[00:34:47] Like I did once otherwise that the inside of your microwave is going to be splattered with great time. You can be on a lot of money. It's a big mess. So when you take it out of the [00:35:00] mic just gently Stir It with a fork a little. Until it dissolves into a pure liquid if it's still clumpy, you know, you probably need another 10 seconds or so in the microwave try not to overdo.

[00:35:13] It less is more repeat that process until it's been completely liquefied and then carefully put it into an empty bottle. You know the kind with right a dropper per se. If it's still too bitter for you, it's only a tiny amount though. But if it's still too bitter, you can add USP glycerin that you can get at any drugstore.

[00:35:36] Carl Lanore: [00:35:36] What about Stevia? I mean just a micro doesn't.

[00:35:41] Coach Rob Regish: [00:35:41] Yeah, but imagine you could use Stevia and

[00:35:43] Carl Lanore: [00:35:43] if you don't care about it not being natural little I mean a grain of sucralose sweetens everything up and Sucralose is like a thousand times sweeter than sugar.

[00:35:51] Coach Rob Regish: [00:35:51] Yeah. Yeah, so there are ways of getting around right to bitterness over but that's.

[00:35:56] That's how you can save a lot of money. You want to take just [00:36:00] one cc to start because this is not an exact science. Right? No more than twice a week as with regular great job. The stuff is super potent, right? So but you don't have to choke down three grams of powder, right? And let's face it. You know, unless you're masking with something strong like chocolate whey protein Hershey's chocolate or whatever.

[00:36:24] It's tough to get down. So you'll save a bunch of money to in the process That's How The Homebrew the brickrock racism go slow if I could give two words of advice go slow. 

[00:36:39] Carl Lanore: [00:36:39] So I. Like Kratom cray Tom, I mean everybody pronouncing a different tato potahto. I like I say cray Tom, but all the people in the space call it Kratom.

[00:36:50] But anyway, I like it and I actually take a half a gram less than the suggested dose of three grams. I find that twenty [00:37:00] to twenty five hundred milligrams works better for me. I don't get the motion sickness aspect that I get with 3 grams when I'm in a car. Um and that motion sick this is most likely due to the dilation of my pupils that does not happen at twenty to twenty-five hundred milligrams, ironically because I had to go to the doctor for my I and I and I and she you know, she was using the slit lamp I said, how is my pupil responding and she said yeah why and I said I took some Kratom today and usually because it acts like an opioid.

[00:37:37] It dilates the pupil. She goes. Yeah. No, it's not doing that. She goes I says, okay good. So I've determined that twenty five hundred milligrams for me is spot on and I by the OPM s Platinum, which is according to my son the strongest strain of organic Kratom Kratom. You can buy. [00:38:00] And twenty five hundred milligrams is all I need I'll take that instead of drinking if I go out to dinner and I don't want to drink I'll take 25 hundred milligrams.

[00:38:10] I'm talking of I feel good. Everything is great, but I don't feel high. I don't feel affected by it. I think I think crate Tom is an amazing amazing. And it is more and more people could enjoy it if they understood how to use it. Like you're pointing out. I really don't.

[00:38:28] Coach Rob Regish: [00:38:28] Yeah. Absolutely. He made good very good points on the organization that to keep it legal.

[00:38:35] The name of it is escaping me American Kratom Association, please if you like crate time to and you want to keep it legal and trust me, they're trying to ban it every time. Yeah,

[00:38:47] Carl Lanore: [00:38:47] because it's effective. It actually makes people's pain go away. Think about that and it's not it's not addictive because I've taken I've taken crate table for four days in a row even five [00:39:00] first thing in the morning and I run out and I'm like, I'm not like Jones in like, oh, I gotta go and pick some up today.

[00:39:07] It's like I just forget about it and I don't even use it for a week or two.

[00:39:10] Coach Rob Regish: [00:39:10] Yeah, that's another lie that they're trying to pitch like, you know, it's so addictive your Skin's gonna cross not true.

[00:39:17] Carl Lanore: [00:39:17] Jason Dow says if the magic number in studies for. See, there's two point seven, two three grams to stimulate mtor how our most EAA blends with less leucine effective.

[00:39:29] How does that factor in Cynthiana? As five caps is relatively low and wait I take six to ten at a time. Just curious are we looking to feed the muscles without mtor activation? Obviously rce plays a role lastly when stimulated. What is the. To feed is there a rate where efficiency efficacy is improved or degraded?

[00:39:55] Oh and KSM 66 ashwagandha. What's special about that? I've been taking [00:40:00] it. I have some I have some I plug it here in a minute.

[00:40:03] Coach Rob Regish: [00:40:03] He has a very insightful question because we know from studies, right it takes right around three grams 2 point 7 to 3 grams of leucine to be effective at stimulating mtor.

[00:40:17] He has also correctly observed that some pigeon essential amino acid blend doesn't contain that much. It doesn't contain Graham about it's actually milligrams. Yeah, right. Everybody knows how well it works to recover. And repair damaged after workouts many people have written to me perplexed as it were as to you know, how can some Physicians essential aminos in milligram amounts work better than 10 20 30 grams of essential amino surround the workout and I'll throw that challenge out again to anybody that wants to take it take up to 30 grams of essential aminos in the round [00:41:00] your.

[00:41:01] And then repeat that work out with Seth Jude you'll see what I'm talking about. Now. The fact is.

[00:41:11] there are many ways to activate MFA resistance training. Is probably the best along with some overfeeding but you can't think about it. You can't always be training especially for somebody like me right due to muscle tissue breakdown can get excessive. You don't want to over train. Another way to do it though is through something called the pi3 Katie.

[00:41:34] Hey, Katie, pathway pi3k phosphorylates and activates dkt which in turn activates mtor. It just so happens that the stair own wood has been shown to have this effect. And that's according to a 2015 study published in the Journal of Applied physiology nutrition and metabolism. You will also find research showing that [00:42:00] TMG trimethylglycine AKA PT and erotic acid to other ingredients in synth engine do the same thing.

[00:42:10] Sidebar the most gratifying part about this is that way back in 2009 when I wrote the blueprint and I was talking about act Estero. I speculated that it works through that pathway. Years later, it was proven that Rutgers and subsequently reconfirmed in this study. Also, if you've been paying attention, that is the second confirmed pathway through which activists are own works.

[00:42:40] And for the record, there are others such as this is similar and related but still somewhat distinct. Bhakti elicits a very rapid influx of intracellular calcium into the muscle cell that is huge and it's [00:43:00] outside the context of this discussion, but that's three. Okay three.

[00:43:04] Carl Lanore: [00:43:04] I mean I wanted to stay there for a second.

[00:43:06] So that is going to influence muscle contractile Force that's going to actually make muscles contract faster and harder. Yeah. That's what trend ballon does. Tremble own increases calcium channel activity in muscles. That's where you get the extra strength from people don't understand. They think it's they think the Androgen receptor miraculously makes the muscles stronger.

[00:43:29] No anabolic steroids work and influencing the rapid onset of muscle contraction and strength by manipulating attenuating and modulating muscle. It's so you know, that's where your that's why you have two after like four or five days on your like already stronger. 

[00:43:55] Coach Rob Regish: [00:43:55] It's interesting. And it's

[00:43:56] Carl Lanore: [00:43:56] also why your heart rate goes up on Trend ballon because [00:44:00] calcium channel activity in the heart increases.

[00:44:02] So it just takes like a nano amount of impulse to get the heart to beat. It's like the heart is on super sensitivity boom boom. Boom. So that's why the heart rate goes up on trembling because of that. That's been shown in a study tremble own influences calcium channel activity in the heart that increases both ejection fraction and heart rate.

[00:44:24] Coach Rob Regish: [00:44:24] Contractile

[00:44:25] Carl Lanore: [00:44:25] Force yeah, I keep cursing today. I'm so sorry. Yes. Yes. Yes.

[00:44:30] Coach Rob Regish: [00:44:30] That's it. Well, I didn't know they shared those two things, but how.  Be that as it may be that as it may the essential amino acids into the gym in very very tiny amounts. So the question I always get from people is. How can it work so well, the answer is simple, it's something I've been saying for years.

[00:44:49] It's something I will always tell you because it's the truth. It took me two years to develop what I thought were the optimal ratios [00:45:00] between all nine essential amino acids that and the formula was designed with wound healing in mind training. In Flex wounds there just internal. You can't see him, right it tears up muscle tissue.

[00:45:14] It's a natural part of the process. So is recovering in rebuilding from it. So repairing that damage in record time is simply Jin's Forte. There's a whole lot more to it though than the just essential aminos and activists are own TMG and all that other stuff if you scratch around enough. You will find two other compounds in Sensation that dramatically accelerate wound healing now.

[00:45:44] I'm not going to not going to give which to but I will say when you find the study and that's the one showing how fast rabbits healed after being sliced open on the outside. That is the one you be looking for in those [00:46:00] pictures, by the way. And how quickly they healed versus controls speaks a thousand words.

[00:46:07] So with respect to what's being stimulated again, we're talking about mtor. What's the window to feed? I'll be honest. I don't know. You know, I would think sooner is better than later. I would also hope that most people are getting at least a scoop of Thrive after the workout which. Right, which is going to give you the three grams of leucine actually

[00:46:31] Carl Lanore: [00:46:31] more.

[00:46:32] There's actually more than three grams. It's actually more than it's like they I think it's like three point seven grams all together because I added EAS to the blend because breast milk has some free form amino acids in them already for babies. So that the babies get something immediately that hits their stomach and gets right into their bloodstream.

[00:46:51] Well when I added that and don't forget it mine is. Is a 60/40 whey and casein [00:47:00] and casein has less leucine than way so we lost a little bit of leucine in the dairy blend but we added to it with the EAA. So we have about 3.7. I think three point four two three point seven grams of leucine and every scoop of Thrive.

[00:47:16] Yes.

[00:47:17] Coach Rob Regish: [00:47:17] Yes, that is fantastic. Not only that but what else the muscle growth right there are studies of ever least one that I'm aware. That shows that the non-essential aminos interestingly enough are also very important sure having the

[00:47:32] Carl Lanore: [00:47:32] sure you did this idea of it's almost like saying well the essential things to have in a household or a refrigerator a stove a kitchen table, you know heat but then all of a sudden it's like well what about television those are non-essential there's a lot of non Central things that also still play a role essential just means you can't do without them but not essential means you don't want to have to do without.

[00:47:55] So, yes,

[00:47:56] Coach Rob Regish: [00:47:56] absolutely. It's a great analogy. It's a great [00:48:00] analogy. So and finally this KSM 66 ashwagandha. It's an extract which is made by a company sigh Oh Real by meant I think it's not the only quality ashwagandha out there, but it has been used in over 20 medical studies. Now, what do you think about?

[00:48:24] You know, I would tell you it's one of the higher quality ones. I don't think it's the only one but again, you know, it's been used and all those clinical studies in practice.  You're looking for a product that contains at literature standardized rather for at least one point five percent with analyze which are the speculated active ingredient.

[00:48:47] I would put ashwagandha. In my top 3 of adaptogens, you know, it's in Tranquility in the there for a reason so, you know a high-quality act each their own [00:49:00] rhodiola and ashwagandha, you know, all those three would be my top picks for adaptogens.

[00:49:06] Carl Lanore: [00:49:06] So II get I'm using nutria bio. This was generously sent to me by Brandon Cruz.

[00:49:12] Thank you. And this is standardized for 5% of the what did you say they're called.

[00:49:19] Coach Rob Regish: [00:49:19] With analyze. Yeah

[00:49:21] Carl Lanore: [00:49:21] without a light. I don't want to and this is 600 mg capsule. I take two caps a day. I take it because it increases glomerular filtration rates in the kidneys. And it's one of the things that I believe helps protect your kidneys over time along with thymosin beta for and baking soda.

[00:49:42] I take it for that reason, but I take 1200 milligrams a day. Is that an excessive amount? No,

[00:49:48] Coach Rob Regish: [00:49:48] you know the literature that I've seen is between 600 I think in a thousand milligrams. So I don't think it's excessive. You know, it's something obviously that's that I'm going to be interested [00:50:00] in right at least I can until I can get the kidney issues figured out but I

[00:50:04] Carl Lanore: [00:50:04] gotta tell you I gotta say some about neutral by All rights, I smell everything.

[00:50:08] I'm an olfactory kind of person. I like to smell things. And and some things IQs don't smell good but I use them anyway, because I understand that they're not supposed to smell good but right ashwagandha from neutral.  It smells really good. It smells like fruit almost it's very very scary Grill.

[00:50:28] It's really.

[00:50:30] Coach Rob Regish: [00:50:30] Right. I was going to say it has that sweet smell to it. Yeah,

[00:50:33] Carl Lanore: [00:50:33] it almost smells like banana to me. It smells like banana like fresh banana. That's what it smells like. Maybe when a when I first smelled it. I wondered if ashwagandha was in the banana family actually because it smells like banana to me.

[00:50:46] Wow, maybe maybe Brandon. I know Brandon is a huge fan of the blueprint power. Maybe he can reply and and let us know is ashwagandha in the banana family. Could Carl actually be right.

[00:50:59] Coach Rob Regish: [00:50:59] Yeah, [00:51:00] what if you spend enough time and use enough of x y z, you know, whether the Nashville Gander at these down some of these especially the herbs have very distinct smiles to them.

[00:51:15] And if you you know, what the tip of your finger and take a little bit of it. They also have very distinctive. Now taste but but that's great news. I'm glad you're having successful. Yeah.

[00:51:25] Carl Lanore: [00:51:25] All right. So the next question and the last question before we take a break and come back with the blueprint tip of the day is from Brad Denny.

[00:51:31] He says I'm really confused when it comes to nootropics for pre-workout. There are so many and most of them aren't cheap. He's right about that. Are they really worth looking into or should I just stick with regular

[00:51:42] Coach Rob Regish: [00:51:42] pre-workouts now there is every reason to ditch your typical pre-workout, which is late.

[00:51:50] With caffeine. I'm on day 5 or 6 now of completely eliminating caffeine from my diet because of something.  [00:52:00] I came across when researching something for the blueprint bullet. That's a separate discussion. But look, I've said it before and it Bears repeating these high stimulant, you know jittery type pre workouts are not doing you any favors.

[00:52:16] I can't count the number of guys and my gym. Get all wired up. Hi Dorothy for crap in a year later. They're smaller and weaker their stringy and and they're a lot worse off for the experience everyday in your body. There's a war going on. Between anabolism the building up tissue and catabolism tearing down tissue most people exist in the very delicate, you know balance between the two they're not really gaining.

[00:52:51] They're not really losing and then they go to take am going to take a pre-workout. I'm really going to get jacked up and go into the gym and blah blah blah.  [00:53:00] Dupree workouts allow you to train harder sure, but you're digging a bigger hole for. Self

[00:53:07] Carl Lanore: [00:53:07] but I would also say sometimes they don't right. So when I use too much caffeine, I can't train harder.

[00:53:12] I actually become exacerbated by the I'm not as strong. I'm one of those people that too much caffeine and being jacked works against me and I know a lot of powerlifters that are like this to believe it or not. So it doesn't always make you stronger to get jacked on caffeine. Sometimes your you have this huge Ade adrenal dump and then and then all of a sudden.

[00:53:36] Our kind of like anxiety-ridden while you're repping out you like you don't feel I can't do this. I just can't and you back down so it doesn't always work the way people say

[00:53:46] Coach Rob Regish: [00:53:46] no and if that's you I'd recommend the following I would recommend either eliminating entirely or greatly lowering your caffeine intake.

[00:53:56] Let's say maybe somewhere between 50 and 80 [00:54:00] milligrams a day. I'm certainly not any more than. Let's call it. Let's call it 80 milligrams that 80 milligrams can be used not as your primary stimulant but provide just enough of what I call a driver for several nootropics that I want you to try because these are infinitely better for you than caffeine.

[00:54:23] So a couple of different options Option 1. This is El tiro seen three grams on an empty stomach not a cetyl l-tyrosine look into the studies. You'll find out why straight LT recinos me on that one option two is the source of cooling something likes it clean or CDP choline shoot for around a thousand milligrams of that option three.

[00:54:48] It's a little pricier, but I like the research on it and I like the what it does for me Alpha GPC. 600 to 1200 milligrams about 60 to 90 [00:55:00] minutes before the workout. It's not the cheapest of the bunch but there's research showing that it increases strength. They will also tell you that it raises growth hormone and it may very well do that.

[00:55:12] However, their ye there's no discernible benefit that I can see. I'm sure it's like anything else supplement wise is probably a transient increase in growth hormone option for is phenol paracetamol. Okay, this is kind of pure seems Big Brother. They attached a phenyl group such that it more easily crosses the blood-brain barrier last one, but maybe not least.

[00:55:37] I'm dying to try it lion's mane, right the mushroom. Thank you that you

[00:55:42] Carl Lanore: [00:55:42] can feel it. Yeah.

[00:55:43] Coach Rob Regish: [00:55:43] Yeah, you're not the only one that said that and there are I mean, these are getting is

[00:55:47] Carl Lanore: [00:55:47] not it's not a stim effect and I'm going to talk about I'm going to talk to after Rob finishes. I'm going to talk about prescription nootropics.

[00:55:55] You feel but go ahead.

[00:55:57] Coach Rob Regish: [00:55:57] Yeah, a lot of guys have written to me and said [00:56:00] hey, you know, I take this in the definitely increases my focus. It's tough to describe one guy one guy compared it to a drafyn ill which is the prodrug to modafinil. He got that kind of focus out of there which I found interesting.

[00:56:19] So all of that stuff should be taken on an empty stomach about an hour to 90 minutes 90 minutes. It's 60 minutes before trim. It may take some tweaking But ultimately you're going to hit on something a blend of something that improves your focus and concentration and that should be the bar that you're shooting for not having your heart pound out of your chest.

[00:56:43] That being all shaky and sweaty and not being scatterbrained because to your point overstimulation kills strength. It's a big difference between the two and you'll see it in your workouts either way in [00:57:00] short order. Make every effort to find good nootropic stack much better than hundreds and hundreds of milligrams of caffeine.

[00:57:09] Carl Lanore: [00:57:09] There are there are two nootropics that I use that a by prescription only.

[00:57:13] Coach Rob Regish: [00:57:13] Okay,

[00:57:14] Carl Lanore: [00:57:14] and the way I will describe how effective nootropics really make you feel is as opposed to a stimulant.  Which makes you feel like it? Pushing you.  Okay, it's pushing you you feel like it's pushing you you do you feel people say man.

[00:57:36] What did you take to do a lot of caffeine today? Oh, yeah. It's pushing right real nootropics work like this if you're sitting in a room that's dimly lit and you're reading a book. You can read the book. You probably have to read it slow because the dim lighting makes you question the letter q and the letter [00:58:00] P.

[00:58:00] The dim light makes you move the book while you're reading it. It makes you do all these things so that you can read the book that actually slow you down from reading the book and they all it also slows you down from comprehending what you read. And then all of a sudden you turn on a really bright light and you can not only see all the words clearly and discriminate spaces and letters p's and q's and all that sort of stuff but you you can read faster and as a result you can comprehend faster.

[00:58:35] And so whenever I use one of these two and I don't use them together because they both have powerful effects. I used I hexa it's a. Ace it's an Angiotensin seven and nine combination that you rub on your neck and a transdermal and it gets right into your brain. Oh, yeah, and I use it for a couple reasons.

[00:58:55] I used it because it increases blood flow to the brain dramatically. It's like somebody just opened up [00:59:00] all the spigots in your brain, but also increases bdnf and blood flow. So new nerves can Sprout and and the so vascular endothelial growth factor is Vee. GF and fibroblast growth factors fgf they to do two different things.

[00:59:22] Fibroblast growth factor create nerves to sprout new nerves to sprout and the EGF increases blood flow. It actually makes new capillaries and blood Pathways extend into. And so it's kind of like if you had this Big Field yet A Hundred Acre Farm, but you're planting seeds in the back 30 Acres, but you don't have an irrigation system out there.

[00:59:49] Your seeds aren't going to grow but if you're planting seeds and you have an irrigation system, and it's feeding them they can grow so turning on vgf and fibroblast growth factors at the same time plus some other [01:00:00] growth. With things like die. Hexa actually make the brain grow and what determines how your brain grow is grows is the activity.

[01:00:13] So after you turn all this Machinery on you have to go out and train you have to go out there and do the things walk balance the things that you want to be better at because that is what tells the brain. Oh, here's where you want to grow those brain neurons those new sprouts and water. Really good with blood because this guy is doing this all the time now so that so activity is critical in this process.

[01:00:37] But when I use cerebro license, which I take 250 milligrams 250 milligrams injected or if I use 20 to 30 milligrams of die. Hexa on my neck. I feel like the light has been turned on brighter in my brain and it can it can work faster, but it's not being pushed to work faster. I can focus on things.

[01:00:59] I can [01:01:00] use my attention in the direction. I want my attention. My attention isn't trying to get away from me which is what happens with stimulants. I think that's the best way that I could I can explain

[01:01:10] Coach Rob Regish: [01:01:10] it. But since I've thought you were going to say modafinil, but

[01:01:14] Carl Lanore: [01:01:14] I don't I don't like modafinil.

[01:01:16] In fact what that no modafinil makes me feel like a little bit like I'm being pushed. I don't like modafinil and I don't like a drafting a leader but I don't like modafinil. I think modafinil will will work. By allowing you to stay awake longer because it disrupts the accumulation of adenosine in the brain, but it doesn't it and and so so it makes you more alert because normally you'd be getting tired but it keeps you up here.

[01:01:46] So it makes you more alert for long periods of time, but I don't feel like it's a really good nootropic good neutral. Allow you to your brain to be more focused not being pushed good. Nootropics won't [01:02:00] keep you from sleeping. But the real Hallmark of a good nootropic is it turns on the construction of new brain tissue in areas that you want to turn it on and you're telling it where you want to turn up by the activities that you do when you're under the influence of these nootropics.

[01:02:19] Coach Rob Regish: [01:02:19] Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's great advice man.

[01:02:23] Carl Lanore: [01:02:23] Yeah, I love that too. But if you can get a prescription if you can get your doctor to write you a prescription for die heck so as soon as I rub it on I feel that brain brightening effect. I don't feel like there's no I'm stemmed I just feel like I feel like.

[01:02:36] Okay.

[01:02:38] Coach Rob Regish: [01:02:38] Yeah, that's my duck.

[01:02:39] Carl Lanore: [01:02:39] Yeah, and he can get if he says well, where do you get this stuff? Rob say there's a compounding pharmacy in Nicholasville. Kentucky called tailor-made. He can write a prescription for it. It's a blue cream. You rub it on your neck. You'll feel it immediately the die hexa to I mean the cerebro likes into when I inject two and 15 milligrams of that that takes a little bit longer to hit.

[01:02:59] It's [01:03:00] about 20 minutes later. I have that same feeling like the lights are brighter. I can read the book clearer. Move faster, but I'm not being pushed.

[01:03:08] Coach Rob Regish: [01:03:08] That's great info

[01:03:10] Carl Lanore: [01:03:10] those by prescription only I we're going to take a quick commercial break and when we come back we're going to have the blueprint tip of the day with Coach Rodriguez.

[01:03:16] Stay tuned. Welcome back

[01:03:21] Coach Rob Regish: [01:03:21] to the

[01:03:21] Carl Lanore: [01:03:21] blueprint Power Hour.  And this is the part of the show that everybody waits for the blueprint tip of the day. Sometimes it's about training and sometimes it's about nutrition and sometimes it's about. Life in general. Sometimes it's about investing. 

[01:03:38] Coach Rob Regish: [01:03:38] What's

[01:03:39] Carl Lanore: [01:03:39] what's it about?

[01:03:40] What's it about today?

[01:03:42] Coach Rob Regish: [01:03:42] Today's tip of the day has to do with thoughts on keeping muscle after coming off and this is as a result of a conversation that I. With a guy in the gym the other day, but look we all know when it comes to muscle, right we work incredibly hard for it. [01:04:00] So when a situation presents itself where someone using has to come off for whatever reason they approach it with a lot of dread including this guy and you know over the years.

[01:04:15] I've seen it happen many times some of them lost muscle and a lot of. Some of them didn't and some of them actually gained muscle due to.  overreaching and then backing off which is another issue. But let's look at what I'll call a sane cycle for six weeks or so Then followed by a month off and how I'd approach it.

[01:04:43] So there's this guy who came off for a month. And he lost 20 maybe 25 pounds when hit and it turns out his shorts dried up. That's that's why he came off. He was absolutely devastated and he [01:05:00] asked me he said look in the future. I don't want to go through this again, you know, imagine losing 20 pounds of muscle.

[01:05:06] Especially after working that hard for it. It's just it's not good. He said what can you do to take kind of the sting out of this if it happens in the future and to me this was kind of a great challenge because it made me think write as 2 he also said I'm sick of looking over my shoulder infections yada yada.

[01:05:27] Obviously he was doing a lot of black market gear but here's what I came up with I said to him. I said if you took 300 milligrams of test zip or a non-fatal week.  And you took anavar 25 to 50 milligrams a day.  Little bit of essential aminos during the workout that doesn't change whether you're on drugs or not and instead of carbs because he wanted to kind of, you know, get his muscle back, but he also wanted to ditch some fat.

[01:05:58] A gram for gram [01:06:00] replacement in his intra workout drunk with glutamine. So instead of 25 30 grams of dextrose or simple sugars along with the central aminos. I recommended the glutamine because you know gram for gram will raise insulin almost as much as sugar. So let's talk about this for a little bit 300 milligrams of test a week is the lowest.

[01:06:27] Heidi dos that I could find that added a significant real muscle or call it over six weeks now it is true. It will be suppressive but minimally so and certainly it's not going to result in things like water retention, but 600 milligrams or more that a lot of guys run. There's a guy my Jimmy's running up front of my grandma test away.

[01:06:53] And a guy who competes looked at him then he looked at me and he says for what he said. All he is is [01:07:00] Puffy. But anyway, low-dose testosterone 300 milligrams a week the Anna Mars, they're not because it's any, you know, tremendous muscle builder, but rather it keeps ATP levels very high in the. It will make you strong which indirectly obviously leads to muscle gains, but it's also not going to add a ton of weight to people which let's face it when you're screwing around with things like Anna draw methyl 1 Test sure you gain a pound a day, but man you lose it just as fast and you come off because it was just it was all water now the and of R2 will be suppressive, but it's minimally so compared to the other options.

[01:07:44] It's out there right like the ball and and draw eccentric cetera. The essential amino Center workout do so many things. It's outside the context of this discussion, but suffice to say whether you're using or not you should be flooding your body with a [01:08:00] sensual Minos while you train and as discussed earlier, the glutamine will raise insulin gram for gram about as much as sugar so it's an interesting thing.

[01:08:13] It wouldn't. Tell him to stay on his cycling ketogenic diet, right because Monday through Friday actually Monday through Saturday. He was doing it extremely low carbohydrates and and there again essential amino acids and glutamine. Both are very reasonably priced during his month off and he looked at me so, okay.

[01:08:37] What do I do when I come off? Well, first thing I do is create teen model hydrate at 5 grams a day. Donkey you don't need the loading dose you need you don't need to get stupid with it. Just take 5 grams a day with food. It will be absorbed best. I also recommended progenitor X2 him owing mostly to the and a cyclist pyrethrin in there, [01:09:00] which will boost.

[01:09:02] And it has the effect of storing more carbohydrates without showing on you in other words without them showing up around your waist. It's a very savvy.  Herb, I really encourage you to look at that and especially a feedback on it. You'll see he to the here again, even when coming off he's going to have the same essential amino acids interim workout.

[01:09:28] But this time instead of glutamine. I recommended he take. Between 25 and 50 grams of carb Ola. Okay bpc 157 absolutely needs to be in the mix, right? We just heard a commercial for it.  Obviously increases healing in the body, which is a big part of the reason that's there.  as far as recovery from the hypothalamus pituitary testicular axis at.

[01:10:00] [01:10:02] And because I love what I hear it does to guys and in particular their moods, otherwise if you can't get that.  It's going to it's going to take a lot longer to recover your natural production. You might want to look into a good Forskolin product like sub Menses for. Along with the high quality of Bulgarian Tribulus.

[01:10:25] Now the trim isn't there to boost test. I'll talk about that in just a second. So some commentary here. The creatine is going to help him keep cellular ATP levels High maybe not as high as they were in and out of our but you know, something is better than nothing the nothing it'll also add some lean body mass and some pounds on the scale in most people about three percent of their body weight.

[01:10:51] Which will be counterbalancing right any losses when he comes off the drugs progenitor X is going to keep his appetite pie [01:11:00] and allow him to eat more carbs when I don't showing up around the waist the essential aminos remain but now I'm pairing them with car Bolin instead of the glutamine. Why not only to replenish muscle glycogen, but more importantly antagonized cortisol, which is going to be elevated.

[01:11:21] One coming off because one of the things that steroids you that makes them work. So well is the occupied receptor sites that otherwise cortisol would be flooded recovery of the hypothalamus pituitary or testicular axis is going to be much faster with HCG the nothing, but remember again, it's a low dose of tests and anavar for six weeks.

[01:11:47] It's not a grammar done today or more. With an adrenaline Dianabol for 16 weeks. Okay Forskolin does have some data showing [01:12:00] favorable recomposition and a slight bump in test levels. I would tell you if you're not prone to the high blood pressure Force going to synergistic proven in human studies with beta-2 Agonist my favorite being offended.

[01:12:16] And Tribulus is they're not as they testosterone booster per se but more so is a limited libido and mood booster that aspect of post Psychotherapy is very important and rarely addressed because a healthy mood and sex drive that doesn't just affect you. It affects your significant other and everyone around you and let's face it.

[01:12:44] You know, who. To be down in the dumps when you can't feel better and I believe it has an effect in the brain which is how it works on libido. The bpc 157 is there it's going to do a nice job of protecting [01:13:00] tendons and connective tissue which because of some water loss when you come off the stuff they can be vulnerable right when coming off I would also recommend that the individual this guy come off as cycling key.

[01:13:14] Diet and add more carbs back in starting at around 200 grams a day and then graduating up until such time as you can see any spillover taking effect then cut back by a hundred grams and stay there for the remainder of the month carbs. Carbs are going to help him antagonize cortisol, which there will be a cortisol backlash will coming off.

[01:13:42] It won't be as bad as the heavier drugs, but it'll still be there carbs will help help him in that regard finally and maybe most importantly that stack. I just gave you including the drugs and the post Cycle Therapy drugs HCG. It is a hundred percent legal [01:14:00] and can be prescribed. By a doctor in the United States, you can get test for HRT right for low testosterone and you need only mention that you have an injury for a doctor to legally prescribed you and of are now if not in those doses certainly something very close Okay, that's important because.

[01:14:23] It was especially important to him because what does it do? It removes the risk of getting dirty and under nose gear and he had been you know, he had some he had to go to the hospital couple times for infections. So it removes that it also removes the considerable legal risk, okay of going to the black market so he doesn't have to look over your shoulder every night.

[01:14:46] Okay. So there you have it. That would be my best. Mendacious to legally.  come on and off various compounds to maximize muscle gain [01:15:00] health and performance. I don't know how many people actually do it. I do know this guy is absolutely going to try to talk to his doctor and get it. The only problem is.

[01:15:15] a doctor will not prescribe. Let's say testosterone for X number of weeks and then a. CG and then testosterone again why it looks like in the doctor is probably helping somebody cycle for performance enhancement and they're not going to

[01:15:33] Carl Lanore: [01:15:33] hide it. I disagree. There's plenty of legitimate Clement clinics out there that will do this.

[01:15:38] They're

[01:15:38] Coach Rob Regish: [01:15:38] all gone wrong. Yeah that allow you to go on. Yeah,

[01:15:42] Carl Lanore: [01:15:42] because they make they make everything. So every year the legitimate clinics make their patients come completely off and do blood work during that off period to make sure that prescribing testosterone is still under the legal guys. I know plenty of guys [01:16:00] who literally have to come off for a couple months and get blood work done and see that their testosterone levels are in the trash before their doctor renews their annual prescription.

[01:16:10] Coach Rob Regish: [01:16:10] That's interesting. Mine doesn't. 

[01:16:13] Carl Lanore: [01:16:13] Well, that's enough the ones that do it do it strictly because they don't want the DEA and the FDA and also the medical licensure board in their in their Hometown to come down on them.

[01:16:25] Coach Rob Regish: [01:16:25] Yeah. I mean don't get me wrong. They have me do blood work, but they've never said hey, you need to come off now,

[01:16:31] Carl Lanore: [01:16:31] you know know they they like if you're if you've been on testosterone for three or four years some doctors will say.

[01:16:39] I need to take you off and make sure that we still legitimately need to keep prescribing. They they don't understand the interruption of the HPT axis that long as you're on you're never going to produce your own testosterone, but they think well, if you stop using for a couple months you may bounce back because because some of them have actually been challenged in court by [01:17:00] the DEA ATF DEA and licensure boards and say.

[01:17:04] You got this guy on testosterone for eight years. How do you know he still needs it? Because they're so stupid. They're so dumb. The ones that are actually governing are so stupid that they think like how like yeah, maybe he's producing his own testosterone now.

[01:17:19] Coach Rob Regish: [01:17:19] Yeah. Well, you know what listen if if those doctors and Clinics are out there then that will assist you come on and off like this.

[01:17:27] Absolutely, you know, I would say I would say do it. Obviously. It depends on what you want. For me HRT is very simply my body doesn't make what it used to but it was tested as low my quality of life is so much better on it. And that's all I need it for. You know, this this this other guy. It's a little different.

[01:17:52] It's a little different. It's a legal way, I would say. Over limiting certain risks and [01:18:00] hopefully along the way you wind up with more muscle and and you're healthier

[01:18:04] Carl Lanore: [01:18:04] and I have to apologize to Sean concern Shield. He keeps telling me I got to say the date of the show at the beginning of the show and he's right.

[01:18:11] He said because he said 50 years from now people going to find your podcasts and go. Wow. This guy knew it was talking about this 50 years ago.

[01:18:18] Coach Rob Regish: [01:18:18] Yeah. That's a very good point.

[01:18:20] Carl Lanore: [01:18:20] I forgot to do it today. So I promise I will do it tomorrow at the beginning of every show. I'll give the date. Shawn don't be mad at me.

[01:18:29] Coach Rob Regish: [01:18:29] Yeah. Well, that's great man. I learned something today to thank you, especially those two nootropics and going to look into them and

[01:18:36] Carl Lanore: [01:18:36] a legit. I mean there by prescription only

[01:18:39] Coach Rob Regish: [01:18:39] cool a

[01:18:39] Carl Lanore: [01:18:39] legit. Hey, they really do stuff for your brain good stuff. All right. Well, that's what's up.

[01:18:46] Coach Rob Regish: [01:18:46] I see my doc Thursday.

[01:18:47] I'll be sure to ask him. But yeah,

[01:18:48] Carl Lanore: [01:18:48] and in fact tell your doctor why don't you become a member of the international peptide Society get trained in? How to prescribe peptides and add that to [01:19:00] his his offer of Therapies. 

[01:19:03] Coach Rob Regish: [01:19:03] that's a good point because I know I'm not the only strength athlete that he

[01:19:07] Carl Lanore: [01:19:07] won't forget forget about strength.

[01:19:08] I mean he could he could reverse diseases using peptides.

[01:19:12] Coach Rob Regish: [01:19:12] Yeah,

[01:19:13] Carl Lanore: [01:19:13] we know that I mean it is real therapies out there. Look at my eye. I've been putting I've been putting thymosin beta for and bpc 157 eye drops in and my eye doctor said that. My eye is healing like unbelievably the scar is going to go completely away that mean that we were talking corneal transplant up until a couple weeks ago and I saw dr.

[01:19:38] Finch and she's like, wow, you're you know, you're the scar is 3 millimeters now at this rate it's going to disappear.

[01:19:46] Coach Rob Regish: [01:19:46] That's great. I'm really glad to hear

[01:19:47] Carl Lanore: [01:19:47] that and your doctor could prescribe those once they're trained at the international peptide Society. They could prescribe those eye drops through tailor-made and offer them to their patients, by the way thymus and beta for [01:20:00] is in its second IRB trial for completely reversing dry eye dry is a huge problem today.

[01:20:10] The number one reason that corneas are transplanted. And I doctors are seen as because the population suffers from dry eye. It's an autoimmune disorder, by the way, it's coming from your gut up through into their eyes. It's a different story. But anyway, and so they're given these lubricants that don't do anything and over time the cornea dries out and they have to go for corneal transplants thymosin beta for has been already shown in one trial to completely reverse dry eye and they doing the second trial now your doctor can prescribe.

[01:20:43] Thomas and painful eye drops for you. Now if they were trained by IPS and they knew about Kayla made Pharmacy. 

[01:20:53] Coach Rob Regish: [01:20:53] I will make sure he's aware you can bet it. You better believe see the

[01:20:57] Carl Lanore: [01:20:57] stuff you learn on this show, huh?

[01:20:59] Coach Rob Regish: [01:20:59] Yeah every [01:21:00] week. I love it. That's why I love it there. I'm too

[01:21:02] Carl Lanore: [01:21:02] that's it. You need to be off the air at 1:30.

[01:21:04] Okay,

[01:21:06] Coach Rob Regish: [01:21:06] you got fired, but you

[01:21:07] Carl Lanore: [01:21:07] next week and we'll see everybody tomorrow with more supremum radio. Thank you for watching and listening today.