[00:00:00] [00:00:00] welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio. Today is Tuesday, September 3rd 2019 were getting the month off to a great start by starting the month with a blueprint power which will begin in just a moment on today's blueprint power towards the end of the show. We'll talk about I have been inundated with messages emails Facebook messages Instagram Messengers.

[00:00:25] Asking me about my decision to go up to 1000 mg a week of testosterone, which I started doing a couple weeks ago and everybody is worried for me. I appreciate that worried. But I promise you there's nothing to worry about but I'm going to answer some questions that related to that a little bit later in the show.

[00:00:45] Of course people want to know about my hematocrit and my not worried about. Dr. George truly Altos wants to know if I'm worried about it. Dial calling all blueprint Army fall in line. It's time for the blueprint Power [00:01:00] Hour with Coach Rodriguez on the Superhuman radio network.

[00:01:07] Hey, Rob. Hey, don't Rob. Sorry. I had your my clothes. Hi, Rob. How are you? I'm doing great why we have a caring audience. Don't we I mean, you know, most of the people are very thoughtful like they're like Carl. Why are you doing this? Isn't it? Dangerous? Isn't it? Harmful? Dr. George huguely also says to me.

[00:01:26] Why are you abusing doctor Georgia? I'm gonna answer some question. George is off on testosterone. I know he calls himself, dr. Testosterone, but he thinks they're guys should be using. A hundred hundred fifty milligrams a week of testosterone and Aunt Ada's epyon a time and explain why that's a big mistake.

[00:01:43] There's actually a study that shows that's a big mistake and I have to dig it up and send it to him. But that's that's later for our banter at the end of the show. Yeah, so they're concerned about you and to this day. I still get emails from guys asking how my you know deal with rhabdo [00:02:00] is and bringing Solutions forward things that might help it's just really nice.

[00:02:05] Yeah, yeah, very nice. How's your tray? You ask me how my training is going? My training is going insanely great so much so that I'm a little too strong right now. I've got to let my body catch up which is typical when you use high doses of androgens. My strength is literally quadrupled overnight and I ended up pulling a hamstring as a result of that.

[00:02:24] How is your training going it is going exceptional. So I started back after a week off Monday yesterday did some rack pulls which I'll get into a little bit later, but everything is coming along really well including handstands shoulder presses. They can I can do one now with 18 pounds of added weight vest and I'm going for 20 this Friday.

[00:02:48] Wow, that's pretty good and from yeah from there. It's just a matter of building up the rep so very pleased I do I go see the doc again Thursday. He'll be taken blood. So I'll be able to update [00:03:00] everybody next week. But the truth is you're asymptomatic. So really what this is probably going to show is that your threshold to kidney dysfunction is higher because you train so much.

[00:03:16] It's so much harder than most people actually an interesting point there. They were using creatinine right is an indicator of kidney function, but my kidney doctor ran a secondary test an item kicking myself. I can't remember the name of it. But it measures kidney function wasn't myoglobin, right?

[00:03:37] No, okay. It measures kidney function independent of creatinine and wonder of Wonders. Even though creatinine was pretty high your kidneys are find kidneys fine. So we'll see. We'll see where I am 30. And this is why all research when they do research from an epidemiological standpoint, whether it's hormone [00:04:00] ranges, they should include a known population of athletes.

[00:04:08] I agree and science won't do that. But the reality is if they did that because the reality because the truth of the matter is when they do epidemiological research to Greek to create let's say what is the acceptable ranges for testosterone in the population? Well, 50% of the population is sick. So using them as part of the standardization of hormones is a mistake.

[00:04:35] I mean, that would be like. Let's say you manufactured parts for jet planes and let's say the authority having jurisdiction over the manufacturing of these parts to make sure that they're safe included in the safety calculations parts that were known to going to fail. [00:05:00] So they say oh, you know, The failure rate acceptable failure rate of this part is 50% What so 50% of the planes are going to fall out of the sky that's not acceptable.

[00:05:10] And but that's what they do with with human beings. They go. Oh, well 50 Senator population is sick unhealthy there on a fast track to dying. So let's include their numbers and know you shouldn't do that. You shouldn't do that. Yeah, good points all around. Yeah, but it'll never happen. It'll never happen.

[00:05:32] No, let's get on with our first question Sam munchnik.  I heard you talking about Omega-3s a few weeks ago. I take two or three softgels per day. It says for heart and brain health. I've heard fish oil thins the blood and is good for inflammation. But you say it can also build muscle and burn fat.

[00:05:55] So how come I never saw anything along those lines because modern medicine doesn't [00:06:00] care about those things. Yeah, it's an interesting question. Right? I mean people think fish oil and they think General Health, you know heart brain etcetera Etc. But as we'll see here there are performance enhancing application.

[00:06:13] So having said that the single biggest issue I think with not seeing the kind of results from fish oil that you can get is not using enough and not giving it enough time. A lot of people give up. On fish oil after a couple of months, you know, the reality is it's a it's a fatty acid it needs to be incorporated into your structure over time.

[00:06:38] So in my opinion anywhere between 6 and 10 grams of fish oil. Over a minimum of three months to really see what it can do for you. I can remember a distinct change in my opinion on fish oil when I moved from three softgels a day 29, you know, just getting out of [00:07:00] bed was noticeably easier, you know, a lot of other things were too so.

[00:07:08] With respect to the performance-enhancing stuff studies show that when taken with protein fish oil improves protein synthesis rights personally, I use Thrive which already has Omega-3s, right? But in addition to that I'll take three caps of fish oil with every Shake now given I do to add a right that brings me up to six grams not counting what's in thrive.

[00:07:35] And then my main meal at the end of the day after training is either chicken fish or steak and depending upon you know, if it wasn't fish they'll have another three capsules. So, you know that brings me up into the 9 to 10 gram a day range bear in mind that Omega-3s are research proven to have the following benefits.

[00:07:59] And this is [00:08:00] this is not nearly as an extensive list as I could have put on. Four grams a day of purified fish oil for a period of eight weeks uprated protein synthesis by increasing the subjects response to insulin and amino acids. So just realize you know, all three things need to be in order in terms of burning body fat in another study.

[00:08:27] There were 44 men and women that received either 4 grams a day of fish oil. For 4 grams a day of safflower oil at the end of six weeks. They redid All test what they found was that those who supplemented with fish oil significantly in this was their word significantly increase lean mass and decreased fat mass in addition to that.

[00:08:50] You will find studies on how fish oil benefits.  Almost everything but the big ones in my opinion [00:09:00] improved immunity. Protects the brain against traumatic injury and of course, it improves joint function. So the bottom line is this Omega-3s in my opinion need to be in your top three when it comes to supplements.

[00:09:18] Now, you could of course eat more fish and use less fish oil. But over the years because I've been getting into higher doses of it. I've come to appreciate the benefits of precise dosing right with either with the gel tabs or the liquids fish oil works, but it takes time for your body to incorporate those fatty acids into its structure over several months though at a higher dosing threshold.

[00:09:47] You should begin to appreciate the difference that they're making. So here's a couple tips on taking fish oil. So fish oil is one of those nutrients that responds to abundance [00:10:00] and scarcity instead of taking the same dose every single day stagger the dose. So if you're going to take six a day take 12 every other day or even.

[00:10:13] 18 every third day because that will speed up the incorporation you're so right, you know, you said something and you it was people may miss the Nuance when what we know and there's actually a blog post by Alex leaf on supremum radio dotnet about this when you take the same dose of fish oil day in and day out the very very valuable Omega-3s, especially the DHA become usable.

[00:10:43] As an energy substrate the body will burn it as energy. It says, oh we're getting this everyday. We don't have to save it. It's everyday we get it. We don't have to save it when you stagger your dosing, you know. Every other day every third day the body goes [00:11:00] we don't get this as often as we used to we better save it and that is when it increases the storage as opposed to the burning of these valuable omega-3 fatty acids.

[00:11:12] Number one. That's interesting. I did not know them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah metal. Did I'll send you a link to this blog post so that you can read it because to some valuable information are you could probably include in a future blueprint Bulletin? Yeah, Alex does some great work. Yeah, he's very very smart guy very very smart guy.

[00:11:30] So the other thing is that a company called meta Genex and we actually have a metagenic store on Superman radio dotnet from dr. Paul cast Auntie. They have realized the value of fish oil so much so that they have isolated. Certain molecules in fish oil that are responsible for improving brain function.

[00:11:53] They have a product called Omega Genex neuro and [00:12:00] Eliza claims that when she takes one she can feel it. Yeah, and and they also have something called SPM active. So fish oil has Pro resolving mediators what this means is they don't. Stop inflammation. They speeded up to Healing.  big difference NSAIDs stop inflammation, but they stopped the healing to Pro resolving mediators resolve the inflammation by moving it along to its conclusion, which is he.

[00:12:36] And these Pro resolve a mediators have been extracted from fish oil and super concentrated into these little tiny gel caps and I take two spms a day and I tell you that I'm training very hard right now and the fact that I'm training every single day speaks to the value of these. Yeah fish fish oil of Omega-3s are magic.

[00:12:57] You're absolutely right. [00:13:00] Absolutely, right next question comes from Ricky Price He says like, you know, I'm a big fan of fact I stare own in my search for the quality product. I came across V Mo X I stare on vem. Oh, it appears to be from Rippon to come Carter modes. Like you suggest it comes out of Europe though.

[00:13:18] And the shipping costs are very high. My question is is it worth having it shipped really interesting question. You have to scratch around to find this stuff. But the short answer to your question is I've used the product and so here are my my to Theses on the matter the mo is an extremely high quality company, especially when it comes to their herbs.

[00:13:47] They are a real company operating out of Bulgaria. They also do extensive testing on. Not only their product but other companies products, which is interesting to say [00:14:00] the least test to date on their AP product show. It's one of the best in so far as what's on the label is in the bottle. They really go the extra mile to ensure that that's the case being sourced from Rippon to come then you would think it was Top Shelf in the category, unfortunately.

[00:14:22] There's one big flaw in the product and it's this it is standardized for 95% beta XT sterile, which is simply another name for 20 hydroxy act East general which has a very poor track record in my opinion in so far as getting people results.  When I tried this I ordered several bottles. I double dosed it for a period of about eight weeks or two months run, right?

[00:14:51] The result zip zilch nada, nothing. I didn't even notice better recovery nevermind more muscle and less fat. [00:15:00] That mirrors my experience by the way with 20 hydroxy, at least Arrow the only results I ever got from it was when I made a transdermal and use that as a gram a day and then I started starting to feel some of the recovery benefits.

[00:15:18] This is something that a lot of companies do that are new to the equity Market because in all fairness if you look at the research the body of research literature on. 20 hydroxy ft. Sterile is the most commonly studied one until such time then as the VMO doesn't like a full spectrum respond to come.

[00:15:40] I leave this one alone. I will say this though while you're there poking around they do make one of the best Tribulus products on the market. You have to be careful though. They offer two or three different trim. Only one of which is really [00:16:00] tailored towards muscle building and that being called Bulgarian Tribulus.

[00:16:05] Okay, at the end of the day, there are really only three trip products that I've liked I used and I trust one of them is adaptogen em, John uses real Bulgarian driven that and a whopping amount of 1,500 milligrams per serving the most stuff. But also the original tribe esta comes in the individual, you know film tabs to guard against moisture anybody that's ever sampled bulk.

[00:16:33] Tremulous knows how hygroscopic it is my God, it gets sticky real fast, but those would be the three products if you're interested in trim the moment. Listen V. MO is a quality company. With good products. I just wish they'd redo their Equity. They have the raw materials. They have the in-house testing methods.

[00:16:57] They have, you know, everything that they [00:17:00] need to do that and I even sent him an email and encourage that we'll see we'll see where it goes but until such time as they change what they're standardizing for. I pass on the recce. If you would do want to try something get their Bulgarian trip, very good stuff, 60% 40 Snorlax happenings specifically Proto Dyess.

[00:17:24] And it's funny that you know when you get into herbals in general. Yep, there are so many things that play. You know it's and we think that oh we standardized for one thing. That's that's all we need, but there's always more going on when it comes to herbals than just that one thing. Really? Yeah, I mean Tribulus is a great example to prototype prototype iesson protag raulerson trimester own A and B.

[00:17:52] It just the list goes on and on right right Gregg Valentino. When I first saw this question, I thought it was great Valentino from muscular [00:18:00] development.com, but obviously it's not. Because he would have this question. He says I just can't get my upper back and traps to grow I perform lots of upright rows dumbbell shrugs barbell rows and pullovers, but it just isn't happening because I've injured my lower back in the past.

[00:18:16] I'm weary of deadlifts. I was going to tell him just start deadlifting. Do you have any other suggestions? Yes and in a nutshell. The top range reckful before we get there though a word as to what you know what you're currently doing. I get nothing out of upright rows and I've only seen people hurt their shoulders with yes.

[00:18:39] Yes, and and so I steer far clear of that dumbbell shrugs. They Don't Really allow for the overload that you can get with the barbell when you think about it even a very well-equipped gym with 200 pound dumbbells, right that's a total of 400 pounds 400 pounds of the barbell shrugs our top range rack pull is [00:19:00] warm up wait you're just getting started.

[00:19:03] Barbell rows are a fine lift, but I have yet to see people have yet to see people doing what without significantly cheating when the weight gets heavy if they lighten up then yeah, you know, it's it's good. It's not a good thing when you're going to be especially if you already have lower back issues pullovers are one of the best exercises.

[00:19:28] But I don't feel they target the upper back and traps like you're you're looking to do which brings me to the top range rectal. So to perform the lift simply set a barbell up in a power rack just under waist height. Okay, you should be able to bend your knees and get your legs into the movement and then standing erect pull the bar.

[00:19:52] It may be an inch or so off the pins. Okay. Due to that shortened range of motion. You can lift [00:20:00] an ungodly amount of weight. Okay and using an ungodly amount of weight equals an ungodly amount of overload muscle muscles don't necessarily know range of motion. They know tension and this stuff dilute this lifted livers tension, like no other so the amount of beef that you can pack onto your upper back and traps follow suit do not please do not.

[00:20:25] Roll the shoulders as you see some people right now you do do that. If you want to have shoulder problems, that's another good way to develop short rounds, but simply you don't get the bar off the pins and hold it there off the pins for.  If I want you can ya know? You know, what if you get if you can hold it for 30 seconds, if you 32 seconds 36 seconds, whatever you can do hold it there until you can't hold it anymore.

[00:20:54] And if you look around at the pins are set high enough, you should just your grip may give out and you just let it go, [00:21:00] right? Oh other no make sure to use straps obviously, right? I mean your grip is going to be your weak point on the left now in terms of how much weight to use you should be able to use around double the amount of your one rep max on the deadlift.

[00:21:18] That's right. I said double contrary to popular belief. This is a very safe lift due to the fact that it doesn't involve much if any trunk flexion.  To such holes using a maximal weight you can play around with how the duration of the holds are really all that's necessary on your heavy days. I do them every other week and early on you may be able to do them more frequently.

[00:21:48] But you're going to see the amount of weight that you're able to jump from session to session is dramatic 50 pounds is not out of the question for a while. You can do that [00:22:00] now another variation when you might not feel like yulin for such a heavy weight you can use less weight. But and do more repetitions, you know, like let's say.

[00:22:14] I don't know five sets of 10, you know, I'm not a fan of 10 sets of 10 and just think it's too much but five sets of 10 is a nice change of it of nice change of pace.  This lift lights up your central nervous system like a Christmas tree. It builds obscene amounts of muscle in the upper back and traps and it in.

[00:22:36] This is the really important part it teaches your central nervous system to simultaneously contract all of the muscle groups in the body at once. This is not just a trap or upper back exercise. You cannot help. But maximally contract every single muscle in your body to get that enormous weight off the [00:23:00] pins.

[00:23:01] In fact, if you perform any full range left after doing the top range rectal, you will find that you are much much stronger. Here's a great example. This happened not all that long ago one guy I train he had a personal best of eight weighted dips with 50 pounds of added weight. Okay. Pretty respectable right begin.

[00:23:25] He was you know over 200 pounds to so he was no light weight after performing his rack pulls he blew past his previous PR and got 13 reps, which is an enormous increase even picking plates up to load them on the bar Fielding it. Hey, yo lighter try it and see all about our Collective. Yeah, try it and see you will know when you will not believe what you are able to accomplish with this lens.

[00:23:55] So I hope that helps. Okay, and when you're done with those, here's what I want you [00:24:00] to do. I want you to walk over to the standing calf machine and set it up like you're going to train calves but instead of putting the balls of your feet on the machine put your heels or the middle of your feet because you're not going to be using your calves.

[00:24:14] Once your planted here stand up you probably raise the weight 5 or 6 inches pull the pin and now just use your traps to shrug the wait up. And you could probably go real heavy with these. So I used to use these as a finishing movement after deadlifts to hit my traps and I really do attribute the fact that I have really really high traps to this movement.

[00:24:40] The weight is on your shoulders. You will get black and blues on your shoulders from this I guarantee it because the weight is on your shoulders, but you are exclusively using your traps to raise that 400 pounds or whatever. You have the pin in that stack for your calves your just using your shoulders to do it.

[00:24:58] And when you get to the [00:25:00] top make sure that you squeeze where you could feel it in the base of your skull you'll feel the muscles in the base of your skull pulling do 10 of those three sets after Rob. Movement and walk out of the gym and you go home. You'll look in the mirror go man. I can't believe how swollen my traps.

[00:25:17] All right. Now, it sounds similar to The Hive shrug. Have you heard of that? The high-strung I have but the difference is this right? So if you're holding a bar in your hands and you're shrugging there's a lot of. There's a lot of jangle material in between your track. See I see people shrugging their their traps are really not moving.

[00:25:36] But their shoulders are moving. Their elbows are moving at everything's moving. But when you take this whole arm out of the mix and you put the weight right there on the shoulder. There's nothing to help the Trap move the weight, but the Trap and you start shrugging that weight and I'm telling you you'll you'll feel this like you've never felt anything you're trapped before and you can also if you want to.

[00:25:58] You got to be careful about [00:26:00] this one. I'm warning you now, so I don't want people say I tried what you said and I hurt my lower back. But if you instead of putting the pads right on the top of the shoulders, you put them on the rear delts to where you're leaning forward just gently and and shrug it that way.

[00:26:14] You'll hit the top center of the back of the Trap the top seller. I've never tried that I can't wait to try it now. Oh, it's in say I used to do them back in the day when I first started deadlifting and squatting I wanted. Like you I thought you know traps say to somebody this guy lift something because he's got huge trap that going all the way up behind his ears and I started doing those and my traps changed forever.

[00:26:40] Yeah. That's awesome. I'm going to give that a whirl. Yes, I'd like to know what you think about them. Yeah, I love learning to and I can't wait to do that. Yeah, I need to start doing them again. You want to know something when I have conversations like this? I think to myself why why am I not the doing those things?

[00:26:54] No it right. So, let's see here. The next question comes from Matt Lawrence. He says I [00:27:00] know you're a fan. I know you're no fan of hmb. But some of these studies are compelling the one where guys added 16 pounds of muscle and 12 weeks by Plus. They lost a lot of fat then I saw another showing free hmb plus ATP added even more muscle.

[00:27:19] These studies were peer-reviewed and published in reputable journals, even if people gain half that in the real world, it would be a huge step up from creatine. Why do you maintain its junk then? Well a couple of weeks because it's junk now because it's been junk they want but there is a unfortunately there is a large and growing body of studies that are bought and paid for literally by right by supplement companies.

[00:27:51] now certainly studies are a lot better than where we used to be 25-30 years ago, which was just anecdotal feedback, but the fact is. [00:28:00] Along with science comes junk science.  So along with the money coming from these companies to perform. These studies is usually something in the form of an agreement that says the supplement company.

[00:28:15] Reserves the right to publish or not publish the information depending on the results. And as you can imagine more than a few studies showing no results for XYZ product never get published. Also as you can imagine, there's a lot of pressure on researchers, you know at XYZ University to show favorable results.

[00:28:41] No favorable results no more grant money. In some cases it's as simple as that if you look at the available body of literature, okay on hmb, the only studies showing that it works.  Usually have two names [00:29:00] associated with them number one. Dr. Steven Nissen and number two MTI Technologies. And or Iowa State University who just so happen to hold the patents not on hmb and free-agent more objective studies looking at all of the available literature.

[00:29:22] These are referred to as a meta analysis shows that hmb does nothing for experienced weight trainers zero zip NADA. There may be some benefit. Two newbies just starting out. But even that I would I would question and in the real world, you know, what do we see? I'll tell you what, I see. I see a whole lot of nothing in terms of results now.

[00:29:50] I did see a lot of kitties snapping up muscle text. I think they called it clear. Which was [00:30:00] free hmb. Now this is the one that was going to work. Right? This is the one that's supposed to die. Let's be honest. They use that name clear muscle because the anabolic steroid that Pat Arnold made for the Olympic athletes was called the clear.

[00:30:14] Yeah, let's be honest.

[00:30:19] Yeah, but even those kids they never bought it again. Because they figure it out probably halfway through the bottle that they got burnt now. I want you to compare and contrast the hmb body of literature with that of XD sterile just to draw a comparison.  You already know about the recent study done on humans that was funded by water that showed favorable results what you might not be aware of are the studies done in Russia.

[00:30:52] Japan Brazil Germany Hungary and the United States which go back at least [00:31:00] three decades.  To show that it works either in the test tube in furry little creatures and now in humans, in fact, all three have been demonstrated. So but think about this now. If all of these researchers were fetching their results, then it would have to be a worldwide conspiracy going back at least three decades and then half a dozen or more countries the likelihood of that being the case in my opinion is about as good as hm be working zero zip NADA, so by creatine.

[00:31:41] Buy your essential amino acids. Buy fish oil or even that D if you want to Decades of research in multiple countries at major universities back those products up every single one. I just. But for God's sake stay the hell away from [00:32:00] hmb in all of its forms, you will get better results frankly bumping up the leucine content of your meals or shit or shakes or simply eating more high quality protein.

[00:32:11] It's as simple as that and it's a lot cheaper when you when you look at who's doing the studies, you know, you know, all these different countries doing studies on at least Arrow. They don't have any vested interest in its success because they're not selling it. Why does not trying to sell it but then when you have universities that have patents on these things and they're the ones doing the research.

[00:32:37] You got it. You got to take it with a grain of salt you have to you have no choice and you know, the Russian studies were the first to get panned by the Western world, but if you look at it objectively who is studying it. The government initially was studying it for soldiers, you know at work during World War II [00:33:00] with the front and better survive the Russian Winters.

[00:33:02] I mean, basically that's where it started. They had heard from local farmers in Siberia that the deer that dug up and ate that route a hell of a lot more of them made it through winter than those that didn't get it and that's where the research started and ultimately in 1961. At least their own became a prescription item in Russia, and I think it still is to this day.

[00:33:28] That's pretty cool. Yeah, let's take a quick commercial break. We'll be right back with more of your questions you listening to the blueprint power brought to you by coach. Roberts.com. Stay tuned. Welcome back to the blueprint cauliflower.  I just noticed how the three-point 3.6 grams of leucine and thrive.

[00:33:48] Yeah, that's cool. That's combined. What's in the dairy protein itself plus added EAS. Awesome. Yeah. Yeah, you know we want to stimulate muscle growth right [00:34:00] Steve Kerr husband says. I need more information on your Salah Cassidy. Like it looks pretty good in the studies. I've seen supposedly researchers were looking for ways to keep elderly people from losing muscle.

[00:34:15] They screen dozens of compounds and when the dust settled your Sonic acid was the most promising.  Is it going to help me gain muscle or should I look elsewhere?  Yeah, you know we've discussed I've discussed or show like acid. I think I'm a past two or three shows but. His question really has an interesting twist notice the wording used to describe how researchers screened and came across it.

[00:34:42] They were looking for something that stopped, you know help stop elderly people from losing muscle. Now. Look at his question. Is it going to help me gain muscle.  these are two distinct. Different [00:35:00] scenarios one speaks to an anti catabolic action the other speaks to an anabolic action. Let me be frank up until this point.

[00:35:13] These passive anti catabolic have failed miserably fostered. It'll searing Okay g. Glutamine hmb even prescription anti catabolic slyke Citron. I don't know if the guys are still using it. But all of those things fail to add any meaningful amounts of muscle tissue. I'm not saying they didn't act in some way to stop muscle loss.

[00:35:43] But in terms of actually adding new muscle it never happened in my opinion the best anti catabolic. Our anabolics right 200 milligrams of test a week is going to preserve a lot more [00:36:00] muscle in the face of say a severe diet then any anti catabolic you can name and it so it's a lot cheaper to and it belongs in your body.

[00:36:10] The list just keeps going on the best studies on her solo. Show some muscle gain but it's marginal and not considered statistically significant the translation there is in the real world from the best. I can tell gaining 10 pounds of muscle would be considered anabolic. If you took something that cause you to gain 10 pounds of muscle in most people's minds that be like hell yeah, you know, that's anabolic that made a difference.

[00:36:45] So like acid wouldn't build anywhere near this amount of muscle. So if those are your expectations then I see you're going to be disappointed. It does I will say this it does seem to switch on [00:37:00] various genes favorable to muscle building and that's where the initial excitement came in, but think about it you can activate mtor.

[00:37:12] With 3.6 grams of leucine right in Thrive. You can Elevate growth hormone by four hundred four hundred percent or more with Gaba granted. It's a transient increase but the fact remains you can and you can Elevate igf-1 levels about 20% with things like Tribulus and trimethylglycine and dairy full-fat dairy.

[00:37:37] Right. Now do any of these things add 10 pounds of muscle. No, you know not even close where I will say this we're so like acid does shine seems to be in bringing markers of muscle muscle tissue damage down. So in studies, they have found significantly lower levels [00:38:00] of creatine kinase lactate dehydrogenase.

[00:38:05] And my book, okay, so don't think those markers of muscle damage. Don't apply to you, right? Everyone listening is susceptible to wrap it up and the older you get the more likely it is rhabdo or not. Those markers being elevated delay recovery, which ultimately delays muscle growth so I wouldn't say per se.

[00:38:32] That or solak acid is anabolic.  On the other hand it may turn out to have some you know, end of life or you know long-duration spaceflight applications in so far as not losing muscle we ever get our act together and send people to Mars.  Not losing muscle on that trip is a huge win and they're going to have to find something that does [00:39:00] that.

[00:39:01] Because in the absence of it.  those poor folks they get back their Earth and I can be able to walk for a long time. We see that just by guys who go up in the space the space shuttle for a while. I mean they come back there. They lose a lot of muscle strength because of the lack of gravity.  If you're ever unfortunate enough to be in the ER or the hospital watch how fast you lose your leg strength after just a day or two of bed rest.

[00:39:29] Huge difference the legs growing. So here's a good analogy. Right you work you earn money money, right? You put that money in the bank you save money. Right? Right, and then obviously you spend money.  and the net.  between the money you earn the money you save in the money you spend is your savings, right?

[00:39:57] So. Earning money [00:40:00] is anabolic monetary. Anabolic right saving money is monetary anti catabolic and spending money is monetary catabolism. Catabolism yeah, so and know you can so if you're not constantly earning money than the money you have saved you want to protect it from eroding from disappearing by not spending as much but you're not adding to your wealth unless you're earning money.

[00:40:28] So anabolism is the king. In fact before we lost contact with dr. Depasquale. He started to coin a new term. And it was because everybody thought the microbiome and how it affects he started to use the word the Antebellum the net health effects that anabolism has on the body and it can't be denied because we see people with more muscle as they aged people that are stronger as they age they live longer they do better.

[00:40:59] They [00:41:00] resist disease better. So he was onto something when he started talking about the Antebellum. Yeah, dr. Dee was ahead of his time and many different areas. I wish I wish he'd answer an email. I'm worried about him. I mean last couple emails I said I said, just just let me know you're okay.

[00:41:16] Yeah, great guy great interview to I'll wrap up were so like acid but this if you do want to try it, I would encourage you to try Pat Arnold's you are spray. He has put it into a transdermal form which by almost all accounts guys get better results with. It can be pricey the guys that do the best seem to double dose it for whatever reason and I think a bottle lasts a month.

[00:41:44] So if you're double dosing obviously you're going to need two bottles to last a month, but look Pat brought it to Market. There are a lot of copycats right now reward the innovators. He deserves it.  I think his oral [00:42:00] stuff.  It comes from rosemary. Yeah, most of the products on the market do I noticed and I am one of these people who just Rosemary gives gives me constant.

[00:42:12] I constantly burp up that taste of Rosemary realized to take that Ursa bollock and the Black Bottle I could I would burp up Rosemary all day long. Yeah, I noticed AST researchers. Orsola casted product came from rosemary. There's derived. I think it's easy to get because it also comes from apple skin, but maybe it's harder to get.

[00:42:32] Yes apple skin without the Apple. Yeah, Matt. Rinaldi says I think I had a mild case of rhabdo.  Which I know you've had issues with after a few heavy workouts. My muscles were sore to the touch and I was really really weak for a few days. I don't want to end up in the ER. What can I do to lower my chances of getting it?

[00:42:53] Okay. So first things first the word he used was interesting. I think I have a mild case of [00:43:00] rhabdo. Um, there are not always overt warning signs. Like I had blood in the urine other times. I was completely out of it, you know upstairs, but one of the one of the signs is related to muscular soreness and pain everyone.

[00:43:19] I'm sure is familiar with Dom's delayed onset muscular soreness. So if you train chest, you know a day or two before and you lift your arm or you make any movement. You'll feel it. Right you'll feel the dance with ram dough. You will not have to move you can simply touch touch whatever muscle and they you're going to feel if you feel pain.

[00:43:43] I would get to the ER be rapping, you know, rather be safe than sorry, right?  Be that as it may after substantial research on the matter. These are my Cliff Notes on rhabdo. The single most important [00:44:00] thing is not to make sudden and severe changes to your training. The literature is very clear. If you're doing something brand new and it's a lot of something brand-new bad bad idea.

[00:44:16] They specified two triggers, which I found interesting one. Was mechanical load in other words heavy weights and to metabolic stress, which would be huffing and puffing along with those heavy weights. So you would think a great way to get rhabdo is to launch into a 20 rep breathing squat or deadlift program with no breaking-in period another great way to get it is to stack two or more intensification techniques on top of each other.

[00:44:49] I really screwed up one of the times I got rhabdo when I combine static holes.  Supersets partials [00:45:00] and occluding the muscle right trapping its blood supply all in the same workout. And I wonder why I get it right training too frequently can also be a trigger given you have less time to repair the damage from your last workout, right?

[00:45:17] It's worse than overtraining. You know, you're you're damaging damaging damaging and a lot of no time for your body to repair itself now.  Contrary to what? I was told by the doctors. There are things in the literature that lower creatine kinase myoglobin and lactate dehydrogenase which are the three markers that they're looking at.

[00:45:42] They include / solek acid. We just spoke about it. Essential amino acids essential fatty acids antioxidants and full-spectrum rce. Now. I'm going to tell you that backed up [00:46:00] that last one was backed up on my latest round of blood work, okay.  Although I don't have blood work on this it would make sense to me.

[00:46:13] Then anabolic steroids are also going to limit the tissue damage due to the accelerated repair and Recovery like the theme part and so along those lines. I would guess probably high high high dose testosterone and moderate moderate doses of deca. Probably would be best in that rule. Although that that's just a guess on my part.

[00:46:40] The literature shows also interestingly the upper body workouts are far more likely to trigger rhabdo than lower body workouts, which is kind of intuitive, right? You think if you're squatting and deadlifting you use it a lot more muscle mass not according to the studies the studies also [00:47:00] show that short rest intervals between sets of a minute or less.

[00:47:05] Are more likely to trigger rhabdo than than longer rest periods there also appears to be a genetic component meaning if you have or prone to sickle cell. Anemia, you're at higher risk. They know that they know that from from studies primarily that seen in let's say black athletes versus white although it can happen both races as of yet.

[00:47:32] There is no home diagnostic test for rhabdo. Only a blood test from your doctor can track the levels of those three indicators that I mentioned. However.  I suspect urinary testing strips that include blood in the urine may be a pretty good indicator. You shouldn't have any blood in your urine. And if you do it's not a good time sidebar.

[00:47:58] It's not [00:48:00] always visible. I maybe can vividly recall submitting a urine sample to my PC doc.  And there was no reddish tint there is you know, nothing and it came back microscopic blood and in fact, he went and got a bottle of testing strips and he dipped in the sample and there was you know, the indicator for blood in the urine turn color.

[00:48:25] I think it turned from pink to purple. Anyway, in my opinion you need to be aware of this stuff. Okay, superhuman listeners don't train like normal people.  You know, you might not use all the intensification techniques I mentioned but let's be honest in one workout, right but you probably use them.

[00:48:50] You just don't use them all in one session. You are also more vulnerable as you age. So as my doctor put it. [00:49:00] He said you can train like you're 25, put your kidneys or 50, you know, there's nothing I can do to change that. They simply don't clear metabolic waste like they used to or go. I'm using a lot of those things now to limit the damage.

[00:49:17] So please do not dismiss this advice. Rhabdo is no badge of honor. It's no sign. You know that that you train hard. It's a sign you don't know when to stop and that's coming from the guy whose head it five or six times. Okay, so your body will shut down on you primarily your kidneys, but ultimate, you know, if you do not get medical attention in fast.

[00:49:44] You can go into kidney failure and die and trust me on this.  Laying in a hospital bed wondering if your kidneys will come back. This time is a very scary experience, you [00:50:00] know, the word dialysis will stop you in your tracks and especially if you come to understand what dialysis really means so.

[00:50:11] That's a little cautionary Tale on rhabdo. And some of the things that that you can do to hedge your bets against it. I wish I knew all this stuff before it happened. I didn't even know what rhabdo was first time. It happened to me. But listen, you know be prepared you've been forewarned. So be prepared take a little baking soda before you train.

[00:50:34] Nothing crazy of quarter teaspoons. All you need that's about 1/4. Teaspoon is about 1.1 grams of baking soda 1 Point 2 grams of baking soda only about 50% of that is sodium unless the record is chloride. I'm in charge on carbon. Yeah bicarbonate chloride, right? Good. I was just gonna say the last time I was in the ER [00:51:00] for.

[00:51:01] They didn't just give me IV fluids. They gave me IV fluids with sodium bicarbonate. Yeah, so take take a quarter of a million a quarter teaspoon of baking soda before you train and you can even take a quarter teaspoon later in the day, depending on how much you sweat because you sweat a lot of sodium out.

[00:51:17] Mostly sodium that comes out in your sweat. Yeah, and the other thing is if you think you've had it, well you've been told you have. You've had it then thymosin beta for the peptide thymosin beta for should be something you use periodically, you don't use it. Regularly. You'll get a 5 milligram vial of it use that whole five milligrams in a week.

[00:51:38] And then that's it. If no you don't use it again for a few months and then you do it again, but the thymosin beta for has been shown to actually reverse the fibrotic buildup in kidneys that's found in chronic kidney disease. And sodium bicarbonate has been shown to keep chronic kidney disease from progressing when people [00:52:00] have CKD they give them they prescribe them if you can believe there are six hundred milligram.

[00:52:06] So baking soda tablets the pharmacy sell them. They wanted to give me those. Yeah, they give you take one or two to three times a day and that keeps your chronic kidney disease from progressing now. Think about this for a. There's a study out there.  That chose sodium chloride does the same thing for the kidneys what's sodium chloride table salt?

[00:52:30] What does every doctor tell every patient don't use a table saw so these people are damaging their kidneys because the kidneys work harder when there's not enough. New influx of electrolytes the kidneys. So think of your kidneys as a damn. When is Hoover Dam working the hardest when it's keeping the water from rushing through a when it opens wide up and just lets the [00:53:00] water go.

[00:53:00] When is it working the hardest when it's keeping the water from rushing through. Well, when you are getting regular intake of electrolytes, calcium magnesium potassium sodium chloride bicarbonate. These are all very important minerals for your body when you're getting regular intake of. The kidneys don't have to work.

[00:53:23] They can let everything go the globular filtration rate isn't an issue because they're not filtering anything. They're letting everything go because they go. Wow, we have so much of this Upstream. We don't have to worry about getting caught. With not having enough, but when you don't salt your food and you train hard and you sweat a lot your kidneys go.

[00:53:45] Holy F. We got no sodium coming in. We got all sodium going out in the sweat. We got to keep every single Milli Milli mole of sodium in this guy's blood or he's gonna he's gonna die his heart's going to [00:54:00] stop. Yeah, they have to learn they have to work. So freaking hard stop making your kidneys work hard and and start Salt in your food.

[00:54:09] How ironic is it? Something is cheap as baking soda can stop chronic kidney disease, which every doctor that I've seen when they speak to the topic of CKD. It says it only gets worse. It never gets better. Yeah, but you could completely stop its progression with baking soda something as simple as baking soda and your chronic kidney disease won't reverse but it won't get worse what can actually help reverse it is thymus and beta for there's lots of good research on thymosin beta for and kidney function.

[00:54:41] So here we actually have someone listening to the show Riverview health professional. Especially I've been their coach Rob and some of I've had total well operations between all my knee surgeries and abdominal hernia all [00:55:00] of the combined. With some genetic issues. I had kidney damage from being under a nested under anesthesia.

[00:55:08] Yes. Oh too many times. This is why I don't people said to me Carl. Why do you why you putting this foot surgery or for two years? I don't want to be anesthetized not only does it damage kidneys, but it has the same effect on the brain as blunt-force trauma. I think about that. It's like getting hit in the head and laying and laying unconscious for four hours.

[00:55:28] Why why I don't want to have surgery. He said anesthesia for too many times ended up with poor renal function. It took me a few years, but I was able to miraculously reverse some of the damage. Yes, of course and I never knew there was a peptide that can help with this jetzt. I'm is in beta for very very effective.

[00:55:50] I have some in waiting in the wings if necessary. Oh I got so I use thymosin beta for once a month. One week a month. [00:56:00] I Take 5 milligrams over the course of a few days, but the other thing is that I always keep some in the freezer because we have lots of elderly people in our family now that are getting to that age where heart attack and stroke is common the research on thymosin beta for just two milligrams within four hours of an ischemic event completely eliminates any of the necrotic tissue or or Damage Done from an ischemia reperfusion.

[00:56:29] Remember a stroke is a blood vessel bursting in your brain and there's a loss of oxygen and then all of a sudden there's an inrush of oxygen and that transition is what causes the damage to the nerves in the brain thymosin beta for completely reverses that damage in the course of six months just from one two milligram shot within four hours of the event.

[00:56:53] I'm looking at my better half and hoping I can show her how to shoot [00:57:00] peptides if that's how it's so easy. Tell her to just stick it in stick it in your belly. You don't have to ask for rate. I mean you're talking about a tiny little needle. But yeah, I mean I keep I keep Thomas and beta for I never run out of when I'm getting down to my last two bottles.

[00:57:13] I order more from peptide Sciences.com, by the way, I order more because I don't want to be without it not because of me but because Elise. Stepdad, he's been a bladed twice. I mean, we have people in our family that you know, one of these days we're gonna get a call and they going to say so and so had a heart attack today.

[00:57:32] I'm going right to the I'm going to reconstitute it. I'm going to fill a syringe up. I'm going to put it in my pocket. I'm going to write them and say you give me permission to give you the shot. Boom give him a shot and then then walk away and let's see what happens. Wow, yeah, that's great.

[00:57:44] That's great. I have some like I said in the fridge just in case so you do five milligrams or the course over the course of one week once a month. Okay, you got to be careful with diamonds and beta for it's not all good too much of it is not a good [00:58:00] idea because it actually causes an increase our dramatic increase in vascular endothelial growth factors.

[00:58:08] So it builds new blood pathways. It's great for neuropathies for that reason, but it also is not good. If you are if you have unknown tumor growth or cancer, it will actually cause New Blood Pathways into the Cantor remember cancer leverages anything that's good for healthy cells cancer leverages it as well.

[00:58:32] That's why it's stupid to blame igf-1 on a cancer on igf-1 because igf-1 is important for healthy cells to cancer is an evolutionarily advanced cell. Designed to survive at all costs so it gobbles up all of the glucose and gobbles up all of the leucine. It gobbles up all gobbles up all of them with Ian Ian.

[00:58:55] It has a lot of different ways. It can stay alive. It's a hybrid it can live with with oxygen [00:59:00] without oxygen and it can grow it actually produces its own telomerase. So it's telling me your stay long. So it's DNA could keep replicating faster and faster. So when we stop blaming. Things that help the body stay healthy as feeding cancer.

[00:59:18] It's misguided. Yes. It's helping cancer, but it's also important for the rest of the body. You can't kill the rest of the body just to kill cancer and that's a chemotherapy does can't chemotherapy poisons the whole body and poisons cancer at the same time and my humble opinion chemotherapy is tantamount to burning down your house because you have a stain on your carpet.

[00:59:39] It amazes me that how many years after Nixon lost to the war on cancer that chemotherapy is still you know, one of them there is a lobbying group for chemotherapy. There's a group that goes up to Capitol Hill and pays politicians to keep chemotherapy as the standard of [01:00:00] care. That explains a lot doesn't she I mean it back in the day if we had if the people who farm-raised leeches, they would be a lobbying group that says no you got to keep using leeches to cure diseases.

[01:00:13] Thank God they didn't have that kind of money and power back then but yeah, I know no, right. I we're gonna take a quick commercial break when we come back. We have the blueprint tip of the day and then we have our little banter. I will talk about. All the people had to worry about my increase testosterone use after this break.

[01:00:30] Stay tuned. Welcome back.  So what is the blueprint tip of the day Rob?  tip of the day is. Sleep underpins everything. So since I'm in a bit of a crush sleep deficit nothing too bad. I thought it would be interesting to talk about and the more I thought about it the more I question why I [01:01:00] hadn't spoken to it before.

[01:01:02] Whenever I attempt to troubleshoot somebody's issues, you know is people will come up to me in the gym. And so I'm not gaining. I'm not losing things like that. But whenever I do that.  I look for their biggest capacity block. And this is the capacity block was something frankly that doctor dipasquale talked about in his supplements review.

[01:01:28] And so. It's an area of of your training or diet or rest where you know, the pipe Narrows and considerably and therefore you don't get results like you should for some people it's over training for other people don't train frequently enough for many others. It's diet, you know, they don't eat enough when they're trying to put on muscle and they eat too much of the wrong kind of stuff from there trying to lose fat.

[01:01:59] The most [01:02:00] common capacity block though by far is this lack of sleep? It is so bad. I can usually count on that least. I would say 75% of people that I speak. You will tell me that they do not get enough rest or sleep on a regular basis worse. It seems to be some kind of badge of honor that people hold on to you know, when they say.

[01:02:28] Well I only stood up to three or four hours and then I went to work today and I still function. Yeah great, but let me be very clear about this if that's you you will never reach your potential never. It's not even going to be close sleep underpins everything that we do. So let's review. What a lack of it will do to you.

[01:02:55] First off sleep deprivation was a factor in some of the biggest [01:03:00] disasters in recent history, including the 1979 nuclear, you know meltdown at Three Mile Island the massive Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill and the 19 was an 86 or 96 nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl among others. But sleep loss is also a big public safety hazard today, especially on the road.

[01:03:27] They've done studies and they show conclusively that drowsiness can slow reaction time as much as driving drunk. Think about that.  Your reaction time is slowed as much as driving drunk the national highway safety administration. Estimates that fatigue is a cause causative factor in a hundred thousand auto crashes every year and fifth over 1,500 crash-related [01:04:00] deaths a year in the United States alone, believe it or not.

[01:04:05] And I was shocked to read this. The problem is greatest among people under 25 years old right there young. You know it these are the people that should be sleeping the most soundly, you know, they age and stress has not yet conspired to Rob them of sleep. But there they are, you know burning the candle at both ends Sleep disorders and chronic sleep loss can put you at greater risk for the following and by no means is this an all-inclusive list heart disease heart attack heart failure.

[01:04:41] Irregular heartbeat arrhythmias high blood pressure stroke and diabetes and if all of that isn't enough to convince you it cripples fat loss and makes muscle gain all but impossible. There was a study published in the journal of [01:05:00] clinical endocrinology and Metabolism. This was way back in 2002. It showed that men with sleep apnea.

[01:05:08] Also have much lower testosterone levels ditto for growth hormone. Why the first 90 minutes of sleep is the biggest burst of growth hormone, you know in a 24-hour period and regularly giving that up along with the impaired testosterone is like. It's like taking steroids and growth hormone to increase protein synthesis and then not eating any protein.

[01:05:37] It makes no sense whatsoever. Now it gets worse lack of sleep Rex immune function putting you at risk for all sorts of maladies from the common cold to the flu to more serious stuff it also. Ages your skin and somewhat dramatically if you're [01:06:00] chronically in the Sleep deficit most people have experienced, you know, kind of sallow skin and puffy eyes after a night or two of missed sleep, but it turns out that chronic sleep sleep loss can lead to.

[01:06:17] Lackluster skin Fine Lines dark certainly dark circles under the eyes. Now. You've seen these people dragging themselves into work. They will they look like The Walking Dead. They're getting no sleep. So that's the problem. What's the solution? I would steer clear of common medications prescribed for sleep.

[01:06:40] I'm not saying all of them were bad, but I'm just going to give you two examples of the most frequently prescribed ones and their consequences Xanax, right? All of those that class of drugs. It is dementia in a bottle. I remember being prescribed Xanax [01:07:00] going to the grocery store. Coming out and not being able to find my car.

[01:07:07] My wife is laughing at me. All right, and you know, I'm 50 now. My memory isn't what it used to be but that stuff is literally Dementia in a bottle and the drug companies knew it. Look at the studies. They did on rats it absolutely obliterated their memory and God forbid you get prescribed and use ambient.

[01:07:31] Multiple studies now have shown an association between the use of Ambien and the increased risk of cancer and or deaf.  This increased risk that they found with other. They also found that with other sleep aids kind of in the same category the association with cancer. Appeared even in patients that will get this who took an Ambien at a rate of [01:08:00] less than 18 doses per year over two and a half year period let that really sink in especially the next time your doctor wants to write you a prescription for a 30 day supply.

[01:08:15] I can also add this little anecdote when I was kind of bouncing around during my divorce and living in different places.  There was a guy who I came back. I came back from using the restroom. This guy was laying in my bed looking at my computer in his underwear.  I looked at my see Craig. What the hell are you doing?

[01:08:41] And he was like, you know, you could I couldn't even understand them. It turns out he was on Ambien and more than a few people have pretty scary episodes of sleepwalking and not remembering a damn thing and doing some stupid shit. Like I [01:09:00] just described so, you know, it begs the question. What is the solution in the past?

[01:09:06] I found all of the following. Effective to varying degrees number one Gaba took some of that last night gamma in the amount of 3 to 5 grams on an empty stomach you get a nice growth hormone boost, but more importantly it really relaxes you you will also have some of the most vivid dreams of your life, especially if you combine it with ingredient number two.

[01:09:28] Zma GMA is simply zinc magnesium aspirate. If they happen to be covalently bonded that may or may not be a selling point. But look most people are deficient in zinc and magnesium. It's inexpensive in my opinion. It's it's a goodbye mineral should be taken at night as they naturally relax the body melatonin.

[01:09:55] A transdermal if you can get it too many benefits to list here. [01:10:00] Bottom line is if you're I would say north of 30. You should be taking it l-theanine which is the common amino acid in green tea. I've used that a couple times by itself. I didn't find it to be very effective. But in combination with the next item on the list L-tryptophan.

[01:10:19] I found it quite effective its back on the market after being removed after contaminated Beth came over from Japan, but it is back on the market and it's pretty effective in my opinion on an empty stomach.  next one glycine the sweetener in Thrive, right it is. The one amino acid that is sweet.

[01:10:43] Tasting Gaba has relatively no tasted. It doesn't really taste like much glycine on the other hand is so sweet. You can use it to sweeten other things right? What most people don't know about glycine in addition to a better night's sleep. Is there a three search [01:11:00] sewing more growth hormone better sleep and more endogenous creatine production.

[01:11:06] It's honestly a performance enhancer and multi Graham amounts. Valerian root smells like rotten eggs rolled in your old dirty gym shorts, but it does the job nicely of letting you fall asleep. And then finally a tip of the hat to my wife who introduced me to this a glass of red wine after dinner unquestionably relaxes me, relax his most people we know alcohols a central nervous system depressant.

[01:11:37] More is obviously not better, you know one glass or so at night. I do that about five days a week and you try to track your sleep at all.  Yes, because I have a Fitbit. Although I haven't worn it in a while does it does your Fitbit track REM sleep deep sleep and all that sort of stuff. Yeah. Do you ever wear it with the nights [01:12:00] that you have your glass of wine?

[01:12:03] Yes, although I never made the distinction between where I'd like it. I'd like you to take a look at it talk about in a future show what it does to REM sleep or deep sleep or both the nights that you don't have a glass of wine versus some people like Eliza can have a glass of wine and it doesn't affect her sleep at all.

[01:12:24] I have a glass of wine and a totally screws my sleep up. So people are different levels of response to alcohol. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, beautiful.  It's interesting. I will do that and report back. Yeah be it's just like a self experiment just to see what it does right now. I have been working on a sleep product for many years.

[01:12:46] Now one that both allows you to fall asleep, but more importantly stay asleep, right? There are a lot of things you can take knock yourself out but actually staying asleep is the trick. The [01:13:00] trick with this product is in the dosage of a novel ingredients that I've been using.  If I take enough of it.

[01:13:08] I can fall asleep. Midday and sleep 4 hours. I did that once and that never happens. Trust me. Never.  I think it's going to be unfortunately an. With a wide variation of dose response curve some people take 30 milligrams. Boom puts them out other people take 90 milligrams. They don't feel a thing.

[01:13:34] So I need to either need to find.  The ideal dosage for most of the population or start combining it with other things but it really is sharp. Hopefully, it'll be here in a reasonable time frame. Now if I take enough of it I can like I said fall asleep. Midday the best part of that product is this there's no hangover, [01:14:00] right?

[01:14:01] There's no grogginess the next morning as with the heaviest hitter that I'll give you now and that's finna boot. Okay, you need to make sure to start slow with this stuff very slow gradually up your dose until. It puts you to sleep and it will do a good job of keeping you asleep to in my experience.

[01:14:25] Using it only when you really need it or once or twice a week, it's pure gold. The only Downer is it makes like I said people some people very drowsy upon wakening, which I think is one more reason God created ephedrine, but that's just me. Yeah. So yeah. Strong stuff no question about it. So you can't get it on I mean if the FDA is is demanding that company stopped selling it.

[01:14:55] The pharmacies can still sell [01:15:00] supplements that have been abused in them. So it's really is interesting. What's going to happen here with fun of you for shortly. Yeah. So so there it is there you have it for a good 75 percent of you listening. In my experience lack of sleep is your is your biggest capacity glad solutely getting it right will do more for you than any supplement changing your diet or tweak to your train get on it and stay on it until you find something that works for you, you know.

[01:15:35] It's very it. Only underpins everything literally everything that you do every morsel of food that you shovel into your mouth every rep every set. It has to be there now, I agree.  Real quick and then we'll end the show. This is the banter portion. So I've received a lot of messages emails. For many of you [01:16:00] who when I admitted that I was using a grammar week of testosterone who were concerned for me.

[01:16:06] And dr. George truly Otto's message me and said that it's Reckless. And so I said, you know, I was using 250 milligrams a week for my HRT dose and he said that Steven too much.  And he recommends a hundred 250 milligrams a week for HRT dose. And there's a study I will have to find it was sent to me by Anthony Roberts and we actually talked about it on this show probably about two thousand eight or so that showed that men that were given a hundred 50 milligrams of testosterone sippy innate a week after three weeks became hypo gonadal.

[01:16:46] You'd say to yourself. How could that be? It's just enough to shut you down, right? Yeah, it's also what people don't understand about. These Esters like an end date and sipping a two almost identical is that [01:17:00] first of all a hundred fifty milligrams of testosterone. Sippy Nate is only 86 percent testosterone.

[01:17:08] Okay, the other 14 percent is the sippy innate Esther number one, so and I'm horrible with. Off the top of my head math, but so let's just do this real quick. So a hundred fifty milligrams X .86 is a hundred twenty twenty-nine milligrams of testosterone actual testosterone and. If you look at the pharmaco Dynamics of testosterone sipping eight fifty percent of that injection, first of all, it peaks in 12 hours after the intramuscular injection and then 55 0 half of it is released within the first three days.

[01:17:51] So let's take a hundred twenty-nine and divide it by 2. That's sixty four milligrams you divide that by three you basically getting 21 [01:18:00] milligrams. And this is this is not accurate because it's not it's not this even it's it's probably 30 milligrams day one and and twenty eight milligrams a day to and 19 milligrams a day three, but just for the sake of this discussion you get 21 milligrams into your into your body in the first three days now.

[01:18:22] You the balance of it? Hold on a

[01:18:28] second.  / to the balance of it 64.5 milligrams is released over the next 28 days. Yeah, well, it's amazing. And again, it's not a linear thing. Right? It's not like it's really two and two and a half milligrams a day for 28 days. It's probably 9 milligrams, you know on day four and seven milligrams and it continually trickles down to where the last day.

[01:18:55] You're probably getting a quarter of a milligram Okay, [01:19:00] so. You divide that 64 by 28 just for the sake of this discussion. That's two point three milligrams a day. As I said, it's probably more like 11 milligrams on day for you know, 10 milligrams. I'm on day 5 and so on it just keeps but still so and and some doctors want to do this once every two weeks, by the way.

[01:19:24] So what happens in this type of dosing protocol is when you first go on. Your body still producing its own testosterone. So this is no consequence. This is like yeah, sure two-and-a-half milligrams a day. No big deal, but after its but after two weeks of being on HRT, the body goes. Man, we have an unusual amount of testosterone.

[01:19:46] Let's tell the testes to start producing less and less and less in as raw pointed out. This is called the negative feedback loop and this is going to then when the body stops producing its own testosterone, then you're just getting the [01:20:00] testosterone in the injection. Then when they do your blood work after a couple months of being on this protocol they find out.

[01:20:06] Oh my God your testosterone 3270. How could that be? So this idea that HRT and a hundred fifty milligrams of a sippy NATO and an thate Esther a week is all you need is complete hogwash hogwash 200 milligrams is the least anybody should be doing a week 250 is the standard today for therapy and that gets guys like so what they'll do is they'll.

[01:20:36] Put you on 200 to 250 a week for three months every week. You're getting this shoddy administering it yourself and then you give yourself a shot on on Monday. Yeah, and you're not due to give yourself another shot until the next Monday so that Friday they have you go give blood. So you're not in that three-day Peak, you're already leveled out and they go.

[01:20:59] Oh, you're great. You're [01:21:00] 700 nanograms. Perfect. That's where you belong you good you do that with a hundred 250 milligrams a week. You're going to be hypo. Gonadal. I guarantee it and there's a study that shows this and I have to find. What is a study that elucidated that that was way too low of a dose to be used for HRT?

[01:21:21] Well, I'll go you one better. The first doctor that I saw put me put me on 80 milligrams a week of test Sip and to your point. It's not all testosterone and I'm never getting the blood work back and my testosterone. 3:26. Yeah. Yeah. So in the first three days you would basically getting a normal dose you get off 14 milligrams a day for the first three days, which is they say the average man produces between 11 and 15 milligrams a day.

[01:21:56] But then after that after that then you will getting [01:22:00] 40 3/28 you'll getting a one point five milligrams a day moving forward after day three. Yeah, and and even worse. All it was shutting me down, you know levels of luteinizing hormone follicle-stimulating hormone. All that stuff was in the tag, so I'm sitting there and I said wait I've got.

[01:22:22] Testosterone levels in the cellar and it's shutting me down my God. It doesn't get any worse than that. Now it doesn't and then for those of you who have emailed me and said am I not worried about my estradiol. I'm not a high aromatize. Even when I was doing two grams a week. I think the highest my estradiol ever was was 54.

[01:22:42] I'm very fortunate that way I am. Fairly high five Alpha producer. I do produce a lot more DHT from testosterone than probably the average fair-skinned guy and my hematocrit has never been a big deal. Even when I was on two grams a week. [01:23:00] It just wasn't my hematocrit didn't go that high, but I do donate blood but I do that for other reasons to get iron out of my body not to lower my hematocrit, and I appreciate everybody's concern.

[01:23:12] I really do but you have oh God, I'm sorry. I was gonna ask. How did you determine that you were had, you know greater than normal issues with DHT like the 81 when I'm on cycle when I was on when I was on two grams a week. My DHT was very high. Okay, and even even on 250 milligrams a week the HRT dose.

[01:23:37] My DHT levels are on the high end of the range. Okay, so I you know, I can kind of see you know, you'd be able to tell if you aromatized much or not. But DHT well, dat you can too. So I do get oily, you know sebaceous production and my skin that's from DHT. I do have the receding hairline, which is [01:24:00] common with DHT.

[01:24:02] Fierce 60 years old, right? Yeah, but I mean my hair started really thinning when I went up to when I was doing more than a gram of week. That's when it started to really and that's it from the DHD. I would never do finasteride. It's horrible drug. I would never never ever do it. And so so I normal - I'm a five high five Alpha reducer because my blood work shows that my DHT goes up high.

[01:24:26] Right, but my estradiol doesn't go up high. I never I've never ever ever experienced Tender nipples or you know, any of those fat storage in the butt and the hips from from estrogen. I mean I've ever experienced any of that. So I'm not I'm not a high aromatize ER and. Even when I was using High degrees of androgens, the most I've ever used is 36 hundred milligrams a week of injectable androgens.

[01:24:53] My hematocrit is never been off. My mat occurred has never been above the unacceptable level. I've always been able [01:25:00] to donate blood. Where would you where would you put that let's discuss that because you know, that's something that I do every couple months ago and and give blood.  my hematocrit. I would say when I go to give blood it's usually between.

[01:25:19] 16 and 8. Yeah, my hematocrit has never been higher than 17 never ever ever ever even on that amount of yes, huh? Yeah. Wow, isn't that interesting? Jeez? Because I think the high like if you go donate blood, I think if it's 21, that's when they say no, you can't donate blood and I've never been turned away.

[01:25:38] Because it has to be here. It has to be effective therapeutic for botany at the right. Then you have to have a prescription. They they supposedly throw your blood away. But I found out that they don't they do sell your blood. Anyway,

[01:25:55] well, that's all I did. Let's talk about hematocrit for a second. Right? We're talking about blood viscosity. We're talking about [01:26:00] your blood is so thick it's harder for your heart to pump. But that doesn't mean that clots more clotting and viscosity of very very different things so you can have people whose hematocrit is 12 and they can and they can end up with a.

[01:26:19] Thrombosis, you know blood clot in their lung a blood clot in her leg. And you say well, how could that be there? The hematocrit is so low because hematocrit does not mean clot. There are proteins like D-dimer that indicate the clotting factor of your blood. They are mutually mutually exclusive from from from hematocrit.

[01:26:42] That's why you have a thrombotic index test. Separate of him out of him at equipment blood clots. They wouldn't do it thrombotic index. They wouldn't care about thrombotic index thrombotic index means how easy your blood clots and hematocrit speak to the viscosity of your [01:27:00] blood how watery it is or how thick and sludge like it is but that doesn't mean clotting.

[01:27:07] Has anybody worked out the answer to that occurs in older males, but not younger ones. What does. Elevated hematocrit.  I don't know. I don't know. I don't know that to be completely true. But I have a funny feeling it's a result of compromised liver function over time. You know, I think really yeah, you liver gets dirty.

[01:27:29] It doesn't do as good of a job. Yeah, I always found that interesting. I wanted to know you know, why why is it the old guys in their 20s can shoot up a gram or more not have an issue with him adequate. But boom they turned 40, you know, I take that back. I take that back. It's probably more spleen function.

[01:27:46] So your spleen is responsible for taking red blood cells out of circulation. Hmm.  So it's probably compromised spleen function as you age. It also could [01:28:00] be lack of movement. You know, the more cardio you do the lower your hematocrit goes.  Right long distance Runners. They're all anemic no matter how much iron they get no matter how much red meat they eat their always anemic and there is some evidence that.

[01:28:20] red blood cells rupture. In these people from the the Striking the body violently striking the ground thousands of times, you know, every 10 minutes and more red blood cells rupture and then the spleen gets them out. Well, that's really interesting. Yeah. There's there's a lot to it, you know, and so some of it is individual variation, but.

[01:28:46] Boy, the big thing I learned was, you know, doctors attitudes and and frankly the amount that so prescribed varies greatly. I mean you go to doctor in the Northeast and you're going to find more than one that [01:29:00] says, you know, 80 milligrams a week. We're not going any higher. That's just a that just shows that they don't even understand the pharmacodynamics of that drug.

[01:29:08] I asked him if you're going to get a kick out of this I said, why don't we do a hundred? And he looked at me and he said you do realize these are drugs of abuse.  And he said he said, you know, I wish then you knew what you know, now you could have said to him you do realize that this drug releases over 28 days just because you're giving me a shot every week does it mean that whole shot is being utilized in the week?

[01:29:39] Yeah, you know what? I did say to him. Well I said hey Doc you and I both know I could shoot that entire vial. It doesn't speed me up. It doesn't Slow Me Down. It doesn't change my you don't get high. Yeah, you don't feel anything. In fact, if Joe Biden hadn't stuck his stupid head into the [01:30:00] issue, you know, the AMA and the DEA if I'm not mistaken, they didn't want the da never wanted to enforce.

[01:30:08] Right testosterone as a as a drug for them to go after people. They never wanted to be in that fight, you know, so then that's that's part of the sad history of the government demonizing these drugs and frankly athletes are a lot worse off for it because they're you know, there's so many half truths and myths and rumors.

[01:30:30] It's crap, but you got to remember that Joe Biden would have been a pro baseball player if he would have been willing to take drugs. That's what he said to Congress. Can you imagine God somebody at the highest levels of government to come out and say something that's that stupid look look if anything if.

[01:30:51] Anything is anything today. It just shows that Joe Biden just make stuff up as he goes along. He doesn't I mean it whatever comes to taste what you [01:31:00] eat. Oh, yeah. I yeah, I fought the Civil War. I was there Robert ei5. I looked why Robert E Lee in the face when I told him you're not gonna do that mister.

[01:31:11] It'd be funny if he wasn't causing huge problems like he did with this class of drugs face it, you know so high that's it for today, man. And thank you for your concern for promise. I'm not going to die from my testosterone fact. I'm down at 750 a week now because. Just because I don't want to have to inject twice a week.

[01:31:31] So now I'm doing three ccs and one shot one week this leg one week that leg. So each leg gets two weeks off cool. So I don't have to start doing Sub-Q again, but I feel great. I'm strong in the gym. I'm fact I pulled my hamstring because I'm stronger than I'm ready to be right now. I gotta be careful.

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