[00:00:00] [00:00:00] Carl Lanore: [00:00:00] welcome back to another episode of super human radio. This is the second show of 2020. Today is January 7th, 2020 for those of you listening to the show a hundred years from now, and you're going to learn things, even though it's a hundred years later, because we were way ahead of the game. I, you know, it amazes me, uh.

[00:00:19] When I listened to a, I have to listen to old shows because I picked best of to run. If I'm out of town or for whatever reason. And, uh, I find shows that, uh, are still relevant and pertinent and actually, uh, still, uh, you know, top of the line stories. Out there amongst the fitness and anti-aging community that you know, we did seven years ago.

[00:00:41] It's just . Part of the frustration is that people don't even know some of these shows are out there, so I, that's why I've been doing a lot more best of. But today is Tuesday and today is the first

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[00:01:09] How are you doing, Rob? I am doing great. It's hard to believe it's 2020 right. Dude, man,

[00:01:15] Carl Lanore: [00:01:15] I can't believe your mom. I can't believe how old I am. I wanna know the truth.

[00:01:20] Coach Rob Regish: [00:01:20] I think this is the eighth year for the show. And what is it, 15 years for you?

[00:01:25] Carl Lanore: [00:01:25] 14 years. 14. It's a matter of fact. I was just communicating with somebody.

[00:01:28] I'm having a press release done, done because superhuman radio was officially no BS, the oldest, longest running and continuous production, uh, fitness, health and anti aging podcast in the world. Wow. I think I told this story before, but the word podcasts didn't come up until mid to late 2006 when a VJ on MTV conjoined the words [00:02:00] a pod because of iPod, because that was the original MP three player and cast because of broadcast, uh, and came up with the word.

[00:02:13] Podcasts, and it wasn't until late 2006, early 2007 that it became part of the common vernacular.

[00:02:19] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:19] That's interesting. I didn't know that that's where it came from, but I guess it's here to stay, huh?

[00:02:24] Carl Lanore: [00:02:24] Yeah. I mean, I had to do all the research for the, for the press release. It's like, so I'm leaning, I'm thinking like, who had a podcast 14 years ago?

[00:02:31] Right. And, uh, and there were people that, you know, I, I think Adam Corolla was around back then, but he's doing, you know, um. News, comedy, more of a Howard stern type show. Um, but, uh, but when it comes to fitness, health, and then anti-aging, you know, because I included that after the first year, I started focusing more on anti-aging than bodybuilding.

[00:02:56] That, well, well that would, it wasn't even a move. It was [00:03:00] like, it was an evolution. It was just like, wow, you know, these things lead to longer life. Why don't I just start doing more about anti-Asian. Right. So it's, yeah, it's, it's, it's really a big deal. It really is a big

[00:03:12] Coach Rob Regish: [00:03:12] deal.

[00:03:14] Carl Lanore: [00:03:14] He was saying they can't, they can't hear us.

[00:03:16] Really. I can't. Who else? Oh, I guess they can, cause Darcy Clark can hear us. So Darcy, it looks like, um, so, Ooh, Tom, who is, uh, over in India, he's my social media guy is saying he cannot hear us. Uh, and Darcy Clark apparently can hear us because he's answering the question. Uh, never knew where the term podcast came from, so he had to get general here.

[00:03:42] So, Oh, Tom, I think it might be your connection. You may want to check that.

[00:03:45] Coach Rob Regish: [00:03:45] So there you go. Alright. But thank you. Thank you.

[00:03:48] Carl Lanore: [00:03:48] So anyway, Ooh, Tom got me good. The other day he posted something on Facebook. That was one of those things where they say, copy and paste this on your on your feed.

[00:03:58] Coach Rob Regish: [00:03:58] And

[00:03:59] Carl Lanore: [00:03:59] it started out with, [00:04:00] he's moving to New York and I'm thinking, Oh my God, this guy's going to move to New York.

[00:04:04] Is it still going to be able to do social media for me? And then he messaged me and said, don't get mad at me. It was one of those prank posts. I didn't read it. I obviously didn't read the whole thing.

[00:04:15] Coach Rob Regish: [00:04:15] Oh, that's too bad. I'm sure you love to meet him in person, right?

[00:04:18] Carl Lanore: [00:04:18] Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, the dude is working out now.

[00:04:21] Look, look, Jeff Clifton send a Clifton says that the audio is fine where he is. So yeah, with Tom, I think it might be a, your connection.

[00:04:28] Coach Rob Regish: [00:04:28] So check that out. So before

[00:04:30] Carl Lanore: [00:04:30] we get into the show, you have a big sale going on right.

[00:04:34] Coach Rob Regish: [00:04:34] Yeah, actually we have a presale, um, and it's on  and recognizing that people have been waiting at least four months.

[00:04:43] It's been out of stock that long. Um, and part of the reason for that is, you know, we weighed on nature, so to speak. Reposit comes only harvested once a year in August. And, uh, and that's when the good stuff, you know, that's when you get it or don't get it as the [00:05:00] case may be. But, uh, the bottom line is this.

[00:05:03] I talked to John Drake this morning. Mass is expecting it in mid January. Uh, so figure a few days, you know, before or after the 15th. Currently running a presale and he has huge savings on multiple bottles specials. So you can save anywhere, I think from 10 bucks on a. On a twin pack, it's a 50 bucks on a case or more.

[00:05:26] So, uh, you know, if for those folks that have been waiting to stock up, now is the time since  dot com uh, and you can read more about it.

[00:05:36] Carl Lanore: [00:05:36] Is it a funny, none of the other companies that have  in their capsule seem to ever run out?

[00:05:43] Coach Rob Regish: [00:05:43] How would they never run? Isn't that incredible?

[00:05:46] Carl Lanore: [00:05:46] What is that? You think they've grown it themselves.

[00:05:49] Coach Rob Regish: [00:05:49] No, you know what it is. It's just, you know, uh, you know, this isn't proof to at least some people that we have the real deal in there. I don't know what it is. There's [00:06:00] very little real response come on the market and from time to time, it's on a stock. So get it while it's good. Yeah.

[00:06:08] Carl Lanore: [00:06:08] All right. So a little added features since we have this new interface that I'm still learning about.

[00:06:13] Coach Rob Regish: [00:06:13] Let me make sure my phone is turned off.

[00:06:16] Carl Lanore: [00:06:16] Uh, we will start with the first question, which is, uh, from a guy who wants to remain anonymous and is complaining about you. He says, you know, I heard one of your answers on steroids and I have to tell you that you've got it all wrong. All steroids are dangerous, deadly and drugs.

[00:06:34] They're deadly and they are drugs of abuse. There is no quote, unquote safe steroid and certainly none that are safer than any others. I think your advice was harmful and you should do a retraction.

[00:06:49] Coach Rob Regish: [00:06:49] You know, I've been sitting on the seed mill for over a week now and, and I almost jumped it, you know, I almost deleted it when I saw it.

[00:06:57] Thinking that these people are always going to [00:07:00] be out there and they are. Um, but it's also helpful to illustrate my main bone of contention, um, with most of the general public and especially the media when it comes to these drugs. They've been painted with a very broad brush. So, so John Q public here.

[00:07:21] He's the exact kind of person that has made steroids analogous to joining the Nazi party. You know, if you're on them. Um, and that's because the media has very little to no concern for particular. They know that simple ideas and headlines are easily grasped. And it's even better if you know, you can get people worked up and this guy's living proof, John here would have us believe that all steroids are poison.

[00:07:50] Equal, there's not a good one. There's, there's none that are less harsh or more harsh than, than the other. It's just ridiculous. Um, this [00:08:00] is the kind of ignorance that leads people to make. Um. Bad decisions when they decide, you know, to use steroids. One of the things that you, you need to do is you need to educate yourself on how these drugs work in the real world, okay.

[00:08:20] Which this author here, uh, the email, his, his first name was John. Uh, you know, he's got no grasp. Certainly. Of what goes on in the real world when, um, when these drugs are used, even though the main steroids testosterone has been coursing through his veins, right. Since he was a teenager.

[00:08:44] Carl Lanore: [00:08:44] Yeah. So that can't be safe.

[00:08:45] Have, what we need to do is, as soon as boys are born, we need to take their testicles so that they had done testosterone. Does it hurt them.

[00:08:54] Coach Rob Regish: [00:08:54] Right. Right. So, so this kind of, this kind of ignorance really is what leads [00:09:00] some people to conclude that. Uh, you know, I'm good to, you can do a second cycle of test and they bombs are a trend and a bombs instead of testosterone and Debo.

[00:09:11] But one of the things I would love to do is put him on a cycle of each and then he can come tell us which one is more toxic than the others, or is not as the case may be. Um, I also found an interesting, and I've heard doctors say this, believe it or not. They think steroids are quote unquote, drugs of abuse, and as if they produce some type of high, uh, you know, after swallowing you're injecting.

[00:09:42] Well,

[00:09:42] Carl Lanore: [00:09:42] wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, but wait a minute. You know, I want to, I want to intervene here just for one second.

[00:09:47] Coach Rob Regish: [00:09:47] Yup.

[00:09:49] Carl Lanore: [00:09:49] Everything that we consume. How has the potential for abuse, everything. People abuse coffee, people abuse, food, people abuse, alcohol, [00:10:00] people abuse. So this whole idea that anabolic steroids are any different than anything else that we set our sights on is just stupid now.

[00:10:08] And, and keep in mind is a huge difference between abuse or dependence. We'll call those two the same and addiction, because addiction actually rewires the brain where you can't stop. And anabolic steroids. Don't do that.

[00:10:23] Coach Rob Regish: [00:10:23] Right? That's a great point. Drugs of abuse versus, you know, something of that causes a physical need for it.

[00:10:31] A dependency. And, and certainly these are, these are not those type of drugs. Um, I contend what is really dangerous is ignorance like this. Uh, because this much is very true. What you do not know. Can hurt you and really hurt you bad. It's a, you know, telling facts that 30 years after steroids were made a schedule three substance.

[00:10:56] The black market for them now is bigger than ever. [00:11:00] So steroids today as I see it, and, and as I talk to guys in gyms about it, I honestly think they are poised to play an even bigger role in American society because. Of that legislation outlawing them because it instantly gave you the drugs, greater credibility and appeal, while at the same time making the opinion of mainstream doctors, the government, uh, and, and other so-called authorities circumspect.

[00:11:34] Nobody today that's interested in using anabolic steroids is consulting with the government, is saying, um,

[00:11:42] Carl Lanore: [00:11:42] most of them aren't even telling their doctors.

[00:11:45] Coach Rob Regish: [00:11:45] Yeah, exactly that, you know, the, the government's even worse off than the medical community in that regard, but, and the phone that doesn't convince you, just consider this the biggest push in the history of law enforcement to contain [00:12:00] these drugs has come and gone.

[00:12:02] Okay. It's, it's over. The biggest push in the history of law enforcement, there will never be more federal funding. On that level ever again for this issue. Uh, and steroid use has not alone, not only continued, but it's bigger than ever. Yeah. So, so here's the bottom line. There's going to be no, no retraction or apology here on my part for speaking the truth.

[00:12:28] Okay. Steroids today are out there more than ever, and hopefully moving towards a more mainstream acceptance. Along with more common sense laws. For example, legal for anyone over 21 look, I'm not saying these drugs, you know, you should be able to walk into a seven 11 and buy them if you're 10 years old.

[00:12:54] What I am saying is much like, um, I guess much like I see [00:13:00] marijuana today, there's been a fundamental shift in American society where we're starting. You make common sense decisions like, wait a minute, why have we outlawed these drugs? And is that re, is that legislation really working? Let's look at our kids and look at the general population and ask ourselves, is that truly the right prescription sort of speech?

[00:13:27] Right. And, and I would contend. That is, it's not so far from any retraction. Uh, I'm going to double down on my original advice. You know, it comes down to

[00:13:37] Carl Lanore: [00:13:37] education and we have entire countries that prove this point. So, so there, there, there are a dozen countries out there that, uh, that anabolic steroids are not a scheduled drug.

[00:13:50] Uh, Mexico for instance, you know, everybody goes to Mexico to get their gear and come back. Because you can walk into any pharmacy. Hell, when I, when I was in [00:14:00] port of Bayada all those years ago, eight years ago, I actually did a live show, a couple of live shows from the beach there. Um, when I was in PV, uh, eight, nine years ago, I walked into a Sam's club pharmacy and bought testosterone, uh, as an annotate.

[00:14:16] Uh, well, I would imagine there probably is. I gotta believe they're not going to let a 15 year old kid walk in and buy. But I was a grown man and they, they, they did ask me for ID and I showed them my USA driver's license and maybe they will look up for my age. I never thought about it, but there were entire countries.

[00:14:35] Like Greece, let George , uh, uh, operates from their entire countries, were getting anabolic steroids and using anabolic stories not only doesn't carry any legal ramification, it doesn't carry the stigma, uh, that, that it carries here in the United States. And there's no dead bodies there from anabolic steroid use.

[00:14:56] So his assertion that there is no such thing as a [00:15:00] safe anabolic steroid  and I don't, I, I look. This is the nature of our population today. Today, if you don't feel outraged about something, you are not part of the active population that you have to be outraged about something. And the problem with that is when you don't have something valid to be outraged about, you will become outraged about something that makes you look stupid and sound stupid.

[00:15:26] Right? And we have a great number of people in our population who expose themselves daily about how stupid they are. My my, my thought process today is what are we going to do with these people? These people are threatening the stability of this country. I mean, do we, do we put IQ tests on the handle before you pull it in vote?

[00:15:47] I mean, I don't know,

[00:15:49] Coach Rob Regish: [00:15:49] but really that's a great point. I'm glad you brought that up. That's a really even better question. What are we going to do with these people?

[00:15:57] Carl Lanore: [00:15:57] Did anybody see that? I don't. I did not [00:16:00] watch the golden Globes. I have no interest in what. Any celebrity does, period. And the story, my life is my life.

[00:16:06] I try to focus on my life. God blessed them for their success. Go. Go on with yourself. But did anybody see Ricky Gervais' his monologue at the golden globe? Gliss like the guy is brilliant. He said what? Everybody in America is thinking. Basically you people make movies. Keep your opinions to yourself.

[00:16:26] Coach Rob Regish: [00:16:26] Right. Exactly.

[00:16:27] Carl Lanore: [00:16:27] You know, it's like, it's like, and, and that, and that is the same fervor, uh, that is affecting decisions like this comment. Oh, anabolic steroids, all dangerous. They're not all dangerous. They, they use them today in medicine and they have less side effects than your, your Cymbalta or your Lipitor or your Xanax.

[00:16:46] They have less side effects than any of those things.

[00:16:48] Coach Rob Regish: [00:16:48] Right? Xanax is not naturally occurring in the body. Testosterone is

[00:16:52] Carl Lanore: [00:16:52] not low in Xanax. Let's go. Let's get Mike bear's question up here. I got to ask people who post their live questions. The new [00:17:00] interface uses gray colored. Uh, fonts combined with the fact that I desperately need new contact lenses.

[00:17:07] I feel you, if you've listened to my show, uh, for the past five or six years, there are intimate and times throughout the year where I go, I feel like I'm looking through a dirty windshield. Today is one of those days. Okay.

[00:17:20] Coach Rob Regish: [00:17:20] So,

[00:17:20] Carl Lanore: [00:17:20] so he says, and I'll have to read it, he says, Rob, he said, so I'm often running with a 3.2 pound weight loss in the first week of 2020.

[00:17:29] Great. They average about 50 pounds per year. Talk about dedication, you know what I mean? Everybody wants to lose 50 pounds in six weeks so they can go to their, their 20th reunion. It's guys doing it the right way. I average about 50 pound loss each year. Uh, I'm shooting for 100 pound loss this year. Is it doable?

[00:17:51] And how much muscle weight would I expect to gain once my weight lifting season. [00:18:00] Has increased or sessions have increased by lifting heavier weights? I dunno. You think he's going to gain weight, muscle weight if he's trying to lose muscle weight.

[00:18:09] Coach Rob Regish: [00:18:09] And did he say you lose a hundred pounds in a year?

[00:18:12] Carl Lanore: [00:18:12] He typically loses 50.

[00:18:14] And by the way, those of you posting questions try to keep them short. I'm sorry, Bridget, we'll get your question in a second. But, uh, it's, I'm telling you, I can't see, I'm literally blind right now because I feel like I've bugged splatter all over my eyes. Um, what do you think? He loses 50 pounds a year anyway, that's what he's doing now.

[00:18:34] Coach Rob Regish: [00:18:34] Yeah. You know what? There's nothing wrong with 50 pounds a year. Um, the, the real answer,

[00:18:40] Carl Lanore: [00:18:40] that's a pound a week. And that's what people say you should shoot for if you want to maintain muscle mass. Right? That's a pound a week,

[00:18:46] Coach Rob Regish: [00:18:46] right? Can you lose faster? Well, certainly if you take more drastic measures, you can.

[00:18:51] However, to your point, um, you risk losing muscle mass, which is the primary right [00:19:00] engine that burns calories. So even sitting here at rest, my Fitbit. Has told me that I burned almost 1400 calories today. Right. Okay. I have not left the house. I haven't done anything strenuous, but because I have a decent amount of muscle on me, it's telling me I'm burning quite a bit now.

[00:19:20] Is it actually that much? I don't know. What I do know is, um, I have no problem. Dropping weight probably for the reason that I, uh, I have a lot of muscle. So when it comes to you, you know, I would tell you, keep doing what you're doing. You know, it sounds like it's all coming up roses for you. So. You know, you can try to lose faster, but I would, I would really, really feel good, much better if you would get a body comp analysis at least once a month to make sure you're not losing too much muscle

[00:19:57] Carl Lanore: [00:19:57] and don't depend on one of those, uh, uh, [00:20:00] biometric impedance scales to tell you, you either got to go, excuse me to a bod pod.

[00:20:06] You've got to find somebody who does that thing where they immerse you in water or calipers. That's it. That's it. Those scales for people who want to guess. It changes by the day because of your water content in your body, your level of hydration. It's not accurate

[00:20:22] Coach Rob Regish: [00:20:22] and it can screw you up emotionally.

[00:20:24] Carl Lanore: [00:20:24] Yeah, because you go, Oh my God, I'm not making any progress. I, this just happened. I have a dear, dear friend, and she went to orange theory. And so the first thing they did was they, you know, they got all of our measurements and they put her on one of those scales and they told us she's 45% body fat. I said, you absolutely are not.

[00:20:42] Coach Rob Regish: [00:20:42] Yeah. So those scales will tell me something similar. Um, what I tell people is, if that's all you have to work with, just make sure it's consistent, you know, and it's also worth remembering. Most of those scales are not geared. Towards athletes. [00:21:00] Certainly not strength athletes. They're geared to the general population.

[00:21:03] Yeah. So

[00:21:04] Carl Lanore: [00:21:04] let's go, let, let, I just want to jump over and get Bridget's question cause she's listening live and uh, and it's going to take me a while to read it too because I have to get close to the, it says a, I can't afford a trainer, so I'm downloading my fitness pal, considering full version to get an idea of how to play with calories and macros.

[00:21:23] Is there any way to know. How many calories you are burning from lifting weights. I know many, uh, women have. I got to blink to get the sludge off my, I, uh, have a hard time with low fat diets. Is there a way to count. Macros. Damages moved, incorporating higher fats without being kettle and still eating enough vegetables.

[00:21:49] I want to be able to eat as much as possible while staying lean and gaining muscle.

[00:21:56] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:56] That's a smart woman because of what she's saying [00:22:00] about I want to eat as much as possible. Right. While still losing fat. And in fact, um, you can certainly do that. What I have seen work for most people that do not want to be or cannot be on a straight ketogenic diet is a daily limit of a hundred grams of carbs a day.

[00:22:19] That is, that is a great place to start. And from there. You know, you can make small adjustments as time goes on. Yeah. So, yeah. You know, I get it. Not everybody can do straight KIDO and you can't stay on on, you know, all the time, a hundred grams a day works for a lot of people.

[00:22:37] Carl Lanore: [00:22:37] You know what? You could stay at a hundred grams of carbohydrates a day for the rest of your life.

[00:22:44] Coach Rob Regish: [00:22:44] Yeah. And timing those timing those, for example, with exercise is another powerful tool to make sure that those hundred grams, uh, actually do your good instead of hurt you. Yeah.

[00:22:57] Carl Lanore: [00:22:57] And, and, uh, to answer the other question about, [00:23:00] uh, how can you tell, um, about calories and stuff? Like there is a, uh, there's a device called the breezing, B.

[00:23:07] R. E. E. Z. I. N. G. now this is an old device. For all. I know there could be a half a dozen of these, but a breezing is a handheld calorimeter. You blow into it and it measures through expelled gases. Uh, how much, uh, carbohydrates, so glucose, how much, uh, fats and or ketones and free fatty acids, your body is using.

[00:23:30] At the moment and it also tells you what your basal metabolic rate is and it's very accurate. Uh, Ron Penna compared it to a, uh, true, uh, bomb calorimeter and he said it's almost exact lead the same. It's called the breezing unit. I don't like the company anymore cause they stiffed me out of money and that's okay.

[00:23:53] I'm telling you that it's still a good unit for you to get you buy the unit. It hooks up to an iPhone or an iPad. And you have to [00:24:00] buy the little mouthpieces because there are only, once you, once you use them, you throw them away because they're no good anymore, and you can actually start out in the morning testing your basal metabolic rate, and then you know that if you laid at home all day long and did nothing, you'd need 2000 calories to stay at the weight you're at.

[00:24:19] Then when you factor in your exercise, and keep in mind, you don't burn a lot of calories while you're lifting heavy, but there's a lot of evidence that. Your basal metabolic rate goes up for hours after you lift heavy. And that is, that can be, uh, uh, challenged and you can see your heart rate goes up after you train heavy, your heart rate stays up for the rest of the day.

[00:24:43] Your, your, your pulse rate goes up. So that's an, that's an example of changes in metabolic rate. And then you just take those numbers and you put them together and you kind of guesstimate, you go. My basal metabolic rate is 1500 calories. It says here that from my lifting on burning 500 calories, so that's [00:25:00] 2000 calories.

[00:25:01] If I want to put on muscle, I'm going to eat 200 calories more a day. I'm going to make it protein. Uh, and that would probably help you get lean as well, believe it or not. Um, and you're going to have to play and you're going to give everything two weeks. Bridget. Try something. Stick with it for two weeks.

[00:25:17] At the end of two weeks, look at what's happened. If you see you're getting leaner, the numbers are going up in the gym. You're sleeping good, you feel good. Your period is not getting women have something men don't have. If your period stays normal, you're good. If all of a sudden you notice, gee, my period was a, you know, uh, came, came too soon, last month, and this month, it's not showing up at all.

[00:25:41] You're training too hard. You're not eating enough. Right? So you have that extra mechanism to kind of gauge your success, but give everything two weeks and then decide more calories, less calories. And if you're eating frequently enough, every three hours is the magic. Because Layne Norton before he was Dr.

[00:25:59] Lane Norton [00:26:00] over at the university of Illinois, uh, at Don layman's lab showed that the optimal timing for protein pulse to get the maximum anabolic response. Is every three hours have a meal every three hours, every three hours. Cause you want that, you want that amino acid pool to drop to a certain point before you introduce another spike.

[00:26:22] Coach Rob Regish: [00:26:22] Go ahead. Right. It's very interesting. You know, the amino acid pool needs some refractory period before you reintroduce another bolus. But uh, you know, that's, that's the way to do it. Every three, three hours, I've heard up to four. I suppose it depends on the individual, but that's great advice.

[00:26:43] Carl Lanore: [00:26:43] And during the break, I'm going to go on the app store and look and see if there's other calorimeters besides, um, uh, the breezing unit.

[00:26:51] But the breathing unit works. It's, it's a good unit. Thank you, Mike. That's very, very nice of you to say. Thank you very much. Okay, so let's see. The next question [00:27:00] was, here we go. This is good though. The next question comes from Raleigh wood. He said, uh. Yeah. I'm doing six things now at one time instead of three.

[00:27:11] He said some time ago on SHR  the conversation turned to micro-dosing LSD. I am considering this. Could you please talk about the pros and cons of this in a future episode of BP a BPR or SHR? Thanks, coach.

[00:27:28] Coach Rob Regish: [00:27:28] Yeah. That's a great question. The only problem is I'm probably the worst guy on the planet to answer it.

[00:27:34] However, in the course of researching it, I learned some very interesting stuff. Um, so let's try to do what I did and put our critical thinking caps on for a moment and try to form a reasonable opinion. Microdosing of psychedelics, as I understand it, is the practice of consuming a very low, let's call it a sub hallucinogenic dose of a [00:28:00] psychedelic substance.

[00:28:01] It can be either LSD or magic mushrooms, right? According to media reports, this microdosing has grown in popularity tremendously, yet there's no scientific literature on it because. You know, minimal research on that practice is the status quo. There have been, uh, some limited reporting on adverse events associated with it and the experiences of micro dosers right.

[00:28:31] In community samples. Um, unfortunately that's not been categorized. I don't know that I would trust what I'm hearing from. You know, the powers that be about microdosing, even microdosing is dangerous. I've been questioned that. Um, and, and rightfully so. The study I found just scrub described some rather novel findings.

[00:28:54] Um, both in terms of beneficial outcomes such as improved mood over co, [00:29:00] over 25% of people found that much better focus, 14.8%

[00:29:05] Carl Lanore: [00:29:05] mitigate mitigation of depression. That's a big one.

[00:29:08] Coach Rob Regish: [00:29:08] Yup.

[00:29:09] Carl Lanore: [00:29:09] And I, and I had a guy that I, so, so I had a guy on my show who listened to a show on microdosing that I had done and started microdosing and he had been, he was a lifelong sufferer of horrible depression, and he was a different person once he started microdosing.

[00:29:26] Coach Rob Regish: [00:29:26] Yeah. And it's, it's, it's also there for anxiety. So look, depression and anxiety, people hopefully know by now what big problems those are, and they've been problems for me. So, you know, anything that provides relief would be very welcome. Now, interestingly, there were some substance dependent differences.

[00:29:48] Um. One of those findings was that magic mushrooms only, uh, those users reported benefits of microdosing were more important than other [00:30:00] users report. And I couldn't figure out what they were talking about that, but with respect to it, to getting a lot more popular. Online, most microdosing communities have exploded.

[00:30:13] Um, especially, I guess on the Reddit forums. I'm not over there. I'm not part of that group. I don't know. Um, but I'm told that's the place to be. Now, here's something interesting. More than a thousand early studies link psychedelic use with beneficial effects. Let's, let's consider that again, more than a thousand early studies.

[00:30:36] From beneficial effects. And then there was this 40 year pause in psychedelic research following what the prohibition of these substances. So I'm familiar. Same thing. We just went over with anabolics. Now, despite continued prohibition, modern research has revealed, uh, some promising potential of the LSD, [00:31:00] Agnes rooms for treating among other things, alcohol and tobacco dependency.

[00:31:06] So they could the money that can save depression and anxiety and specifically end of life things.

[00:31:13] Carl Lanore: [00:31:13] Well, and I'm gonna make a prediction. Yep. I'm gonna make a prediction. Dementia. I'm going to make a prediction. I'm going to make a prediction that they're going to find out that microdosing actually helps with dementia because one of the things that micro dosing, so I microdosed.

[00:31:33] Two D 2018 and a little bit of 2019 and I'm going to microdose again. And for those of you who want to experiment with microdosing, there is a website, a company in Canada, and they're called Lai surgey, daikon.com L Y S E R, G, I. Dot C O. M. C, the play on words lysergic LDI, S. E R, G, I. Dot. [00:32:00] Com so you can buy one P LSD, you can buy DMT, you can buy all of these, uh, wonderful, uh, uh, uh, psychedelics there and the precursors to them.

[00:32:16] One P LSD takes a little bit longer to hit you than LSD because it converts in the liver to LSD. So. That you go there and the magic to micro-dosing. If you've never ever, ever, ever tripped in your life, you'll want to start out with 20 micrograms and ease your way up to maybe 40 micrograms and just see how that feels, if what you should experience when microdosing is a.

[00:32:44] A sense of newness about the day. Gee, you know, so beautiful. I never noticed that tree was so beautiful. The colors are better. I feel good. I feel optimistic. I don't know why, but I just feel good. If that's how you feel when you microdose, [00:33:00] that's your dose. If you start to feel like you're grinding your teeth, you feel a little anxious and a little edgy, uh, that's a little bit too high back down.

[00:33:12] Uh, but that's the magic of finding your personal micro dose.

[00:33:17] Coach Rob Regish: [00:33:17] And, and you know what, assuming those qualifiers and everything else I learned in red, you know, if these things can help these various conditions, why the hell not, you know, why would you not? I've never heard of, maybe this is me. I've never heard of anyone.

[00:33:34] Um, you know, dying from an LSD or magic mushroom overdose. Uh, and, and certainly

[00:33:41] Carl Lanore: [00:33:41] not from mushrooms, a lot. And plenty of people throw up from mushrooms. Mushrooms will make me nauseous and most people will throw up.

[00:33:48] Coach Rob Regish: [00:33:48] Yeah. But I wouldn't, I wouldn't imagine that this microdosing is a heck of a lot safer than what the doses that people normally take

[00:33:56] Carl Lanore: [00:33:56] trip to trip to trip.

[00:33:58] You've got to be well above [00:34:00] 250 micrograms.

[00:34:01] Coach Rob Regish: [00:34:01] Yeah.

[00:34:02] Carl Lanore: [00:34:02] Well above 250. And I mean, there's some, like when I was a kid, I did orange sunshine. Double barrel. It was a, it was a double hit of orange sunshine, and, uh, that was estimated to be about 750 micrograms of LSD. And I, I tripped for about two and a half days.

[00:34:21] Coach Rob Regish: [00:34:21] And that's what orange sunshine is.

[00:34:24] Carl Lanore: [00:34:24] Yeah. Orange sunshine is LSD. And when I was a kid, I didn't get it this way, but when I was a kid back in the 60s, LSD came on a sugar cube. They took the LSD and they dropped it on a sugar Cuban, so it had a little Brown dot on it. Yeah. And so people used to take it that way too.

[00:34:39] Right.

[00:34:39] Coach Rob Regish: [00:34:39] So, so considering the fact that, you know, I've never heard any way event and, but he dying from an LSD or Shroom overdose, which is not unlike, again, in a bollix, nobody's ever died from a, an overdose of him. Um, absolutely. Go ahead and go for it. Now the big, the big [00:35:00] problem here of course, is big pharma.

[00:35:04] Is it cut in on the deal? And therein lies the rub. You can expect plenty of scare tactics and horror stories is, especially if this gets, gets, uh, you know, gains a lot of ground. Um, because much like with Cray Tom, they're not cut in. So I would tell you this, if you're doing this on your own and it's helping.

[00:35:32] I have zero objections. In fact, I would say go for it. Proceed cautiously, but go for it. Look, there's no reason people should suffer when there are compounds that are available that can ease that suffering. I'll never forget this, and somebody told me said at once, and it's true, the DEA is terrified.

[00:35:57] That's somewhere. Someone is [00:36:00] using something to feel better.

[00:36:02] Carl Lanore: [00:36:02] That's good. I like that.

[00:36:04] Coach Rob Regish: [00:36:04] That's a compony truth,

[00:36:07] Carl Lanore: [00:36:07] but it's true. Uh, I want to, I just want to mention something to Tom Cox. Tom, you need to go and find out about the research that the college of London has been doing in both microdosing LSD and microdosing MTMA.

[00:36:21] That's another MTMA is going to be prescribed some day in the near future. Low, low, low, low doses to mitigate major depressive disorder, but the college of London is doing some groundbreaking work in microdosed LSD. They're treating people with anxiety that treating people with depression and having great results, and I predict that they're going to be one of the, the the leaders and the research that takes the

[00:36:47] Coach Rob Regish: [00:36:47] stigma off of

[00:36:49] Carl Lanore: [00:36:49] using LSD for legitimate reasons.

[00:36:51] Coach Rob Regish: [00:36:51] Cool.

[00:36:52] Carl Lanore: [00:36:52] I'll check that out. The only problem with psilocybin is it's just like grapes crate Tom weed. You know you have crop, you have [00:37:00] differences from crop to crop, from strain to strain. The nice thing about LSD that's made in the lab is they can make it specifically the same over and over again, and they can produce it.

[00:37:10] They can say, quantify it. They can say, this is 40 micrograms.

[00:37:14] Coach Rob Regish: [00:37:14] Good.

[00:37:14] Carl Lanore: [00:37:14] Yeah, you don't, you really don't know what you're getting with shrooms. We're going to take one quick commercial break here. Yup. Pay some bills. Stay tuned. You're listening to the blueprint. Pow. We're right back.

[00:37:24] Coach Rob Regish: [00:37:24] We're ready.

[00:37:29] Carl Lanore: [00:37:29] welcome back.

[00:37:33] Okay, so the next question is, uh, let's see if I got

[00:37:40] Coach Rob Regish: [00:37:40] the right one.

[00:37:41] Carl Lanore: [00:37:41] Jack Patterson. So his question is actually about a product adaptogen end.

[00:37:48] Coach Rob Regish: [00:37:48] And

[00:37:48] Carl Lanore: [00:37:48] he says, uh, he got some adapted Jeanette and he tried it and he's really impressed. He sleeping better, recovering faster, and has a stronger libido. Uh, can you tell him [00:38:00] what ingredient is doing that so he could just focus on that ingredient and get that instead?

[00:38:05] Save some money?

[00:38:07] Coach Rob Regish: [00:38:07] Yeah. And you know what? There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, I tried to do it myself, so you know, for me to tell, to tell somebody else not to, you know, and not telling the whole story. However, there are certain formulas and products that you cannot do that with. And adaptive , in my opinion, is one of those.

[00:38:31] Or if you do, you're not going to wind up saving any money. So. So for those unfamiliar though, what is adapted Chanel? It's a really a clever combination of Bulgarian tribulus, the long Jax brand of URI coma. Longer folia a accustomed 25 to one Summa extract, a little bit of DHA and a little bit of melatonin.

[00:38:57] And a big part of its appeal, I [00:39:00] think just despite the fact that it has some tangible effects is it's ease of use. You know, you just take two to three caps, 45 minutes before bed, uh, and, and it works with your body, right to do a number of things. One of those is get a better night's sleep. Another one is to improve hormone production.

[00:39:23] These things that you, that are benefits from the product. Um, you can notice in the weight room and also out of it, you know, in the, in the bedroom, you know, to be blunt, like a lot of masses formulas, you can feel there's something to it. You're just not sure. You know what it is. Where's the horsepower coming from?

[00:39:44] I would tell you that in that product, um, 1500 milligrams of Trib. Tribulus terrestris is a lot. Okay. That's, that's the, um, that's the amount in three capsules, which is the full [00:40:00] dose. So that's a lot of trips, especially when it's the good stuff and it's full of the active ingredient, which are fruits and roll, like sappiness of one is pro Dyess.

[00:40:11] And there are others such as product grassland, um, try Beulah sides a, and, B, et cetera, et cetera. It's why he uses. A full spectrum extract in most of his products versus over standardizing for one ingredients such as the diocese. So, um, frankly, therein lies your bedroom horsepower, uh, although faster recovery is also noticed outside of it.

[00:40:41] And so what's doing that well for us to know, like sapping is our, um. Precursor, so to speak, to nitric oxide release. So nitric oxide, as we know, is the same mechanism by which Viagara or so  citrate works. The [00:41:00] bottom line is few other tribulus products contain as much, right? You really have to look hard to find one and nowhere could I find that much trim in a three cap dose.

[00:41:14] Most commonly you will find it a 250 milligrams. Per tablet, which isn't a bad dose. Um, but that's, it'll give you some reference point, right? Adaptogen is double that. So, um, as far as the trip goes, there are one or two other brands that I would recommend if you want to just try the trip. The first is tried best in, that was the original product by, so pharma, uh, out of Bulgaria.

[00:41:44] And the other is, uh, Vimo herbs. They also make a good tribulus, although it's, if I'm not mistaken, that standardized for 60% for roast and all except onions, a pro to the diocese and being the big one. Here's the [00:42:00] important thing to understand about trip. If you're trip shopping, you cannot standardize for more than 60% for roasting or like sapping in a product.

[00:42:11] And the reason I'm telling you that is that there are many companies that. Are screaming on their label about 90% for us to know, except, and it's no, you know, it cannot, it literally cannot be done unless there's, they're adding more, um, which upsets the balance of it, of everything else in the plant, which again, is why we get back to a full spectrum extract.

[00:42:36] The other ingredient in there, URI coma, log Forleo or long jacks, uh, that's the patented brand that mass fields. Works the best. It has some research saying that it can boost test in men over 50 for the rest of you. Rest of us. Uh, there is some research showing it preferentially [00:43:00] converts the AGA into testosterone.

[00:43:03] So those are the, the corn unquote test booster, uh, herbs in it.

[00:43:08] Carl Lanore: [00:43:08] I, I can't take it because I won't take DHE at night. 

[00:43:13] Coach Rob Regish: [00:43:13] before bed.

[00:43:16] Carl Lanore: [00:43:16] I mean the adrenal, it keeps in it so your adrenals shut off. Your adrenals are antagonists to melatonin production. So when melatonin starts to come up, you adrenal shut down, your body's not producing DHE at night.

[00:43:30] Coach Rob Regish: [00:43:30] That's probably why it's included in a very small dose. Most people would be surprised. Yeah. You know, we're not talking about 102 hundred 300 milligrams at a pump here. So moving beyond that. Uh, the other heavy hitter in the plant is the neck, the sterile source, and it is, uh, one of the two that I consider to be optimal.

[00:43:53] This one being Suma, uh, the Suma root from South America is [00:44:00] particularly rich, uh, inactive steroids. Now. He has, to my knowledge, the only 25 to one custom Summa on the market. The most you will find in most other instances is five to one. If somebody else has something better than five to one or even, you know, or 25 to one, by all means I'm, I'm all ears.

[00:44:24] Right? So, um. You know, these are, these are the actives, so to speak. Is it going to make you feel like you're on steroids? No. Um, however, most people notice a distinct uptick in their feelings of wellbeing, let's call it. Um, and those things are noted as well as the sexual benefits. If it was me and I was trying to replicate it with, you know, individual ingredients, and I, I did, I've tried, um, I would look for a place where I could get.

[00:44:57] Pure bill Gary and trip and 250 [00:45:00] milligram film tabs. I buy trimester. Okay. Um, I would also, I would skip the long jacks. I just don't feel the cost of benefit ratio is there, especially if you're under 50. Uh, instead. I would put my money into a good  product such as Korean, a Bolan. That's probably the best given the milligram amount per cap, along with the fact that it has some other ingredients such as McCain appearings, which is a source for L dopa.

[00:45:34] Right, natural source for L-DOPA, which has some other effects that most people feel a little bit. Um, the melatonin caps, obviously you can get that anywhere. Same deal with the HEA. At the end of the day though, what I found, what I found is that you're going to spend as much, we're more running around buying those individual ingredients than you are getting in that in the finished [00:46:00] product.

[00:46:00] Right? And that's just the straight up truth. You know, the results. Wellbeing, similar won't be noticed. You know, they're not going to be noticeably better or even better to each his own though. Okay. So I've, I've always said though, adapting Jeanette is a great product, either standalone by itself or in combination with some other, uh, different equity products.

[00:46:23] There was a reason. It is, is top selling product and has been for two decades. People like it. Yeah, I mean, PE people don't buy stuff over and over that they don't get a tangible effect from.

[00:46:37] Carl Lanore: [00:46:37] So Jeff Clifton has a question and it's a really interesting question to me, and I have a question. So Jeff, while we talk about this, please comment.

[00:46:46] Do you know that you are a high aromatized. Have you had lab work done that says, Oh yeah, you seem to convert a lot of testosterone and estrogen dial. With that being said, he says, what type of aromatase inhibitor [00:47:00] should you look for to go with the tribulus? Why take an aromatase inhibitor? You're not shooting a gram attest here, brother.

[00:47:08] This is not a gram test. What? Why? Why take an aromatase inhibitor? You want that estrogen. Estrogen is good for men. It actually makes you leaner. It protects your brain. You like the amount of. Testosterone stimulation from an herb is never going to require an aromatase inhibitor to go with it unless you happen to be one of these people who like if you look at testosterone, your estrogen goes up.

[00:47:36] Coach Rob Regish: [00:47:36] Yeah. And if that's the case and he's asking about an herbal, you don't solution. I would tell you two different things. One, dim Dianne Dole, methane, um, and two,  indole. Three carbinol. Uh, which is a component, both are components of cruciferous vegetables. Uh, but again, you know, there's, there's, unless you're shooting 500 or more [00:48:00] milligrams per week of tests, and you're, you know, inclined to, to convert that to estrogen, uh, it's not going to be an issue on, on most natural products.

[00:48:13] Certainly not with a adapted

[00:48:15] Carl Lanore: [00:48:15] that so. I agree with you that hormonal imbalances can have mood changing effects. But first question I would ask you is, how do you know where your extra dial is right now without using any products at all?

[00:48:29] Coach Rob Regish: [00:48:29] That's

[00:48:29] Carl Lanore: [00:48:29] the first question I'd ask you. Where is your extra dial right now?

[00:48:33] And then how much are we talking about increasing it by taking a test booster? Is it going to go up six 12 P uh, uh, uh, I think they measured that and Pico grams a milliliter or is it, I mean, again. Your estrogen levels fluctuate from day to day anyway, naturally. So what are we talking about here now if you absolutely he and he's saying his, his, his extra dial is [00:49:00] normal.

[00:49:01] So do you, do you have numbers? I'm just curious. I'm not putting you on the spot, but I want to give you a legitimate answer. Um, I like when I was on two grams a test a week, my Esther dial only ever got up to 56. Uh, Pico grams a milliliter, which is nothing. I mean, that's like, that's like, I think they think the high end is 46 for men.

[00:49:23] So I was like just barely above the high end. I'm not a high aromatase it, but I'm a high five alpha reducer. I produce a lot of DHT, not a lot of lifestyle. And if you do, absolutely want to take something to control extra dial on demand. And what I mean by that is. Not using a strong aromatase inhibitor that is going to crush your, your estradiol levels, but one that only will lower it if it starts to get too high, eat more zinc containing foods and take a thousand milligrams of vitamin C a day, because those two will [00:50:00] naturally reduce aromatase biogenesis.

[00:50:04] And the other thing is reduce inflammation, because when you look at the P four 50 cascade right. Before cycle. I'm sorry. Right after cycle, oxygenase is aromatase. So as cycle oxygen, ACE goes up in the body from, from inflammation. The next it's, it's the precursor to aromatase. So the more cycle oxygenase you have, the more Roman taste you're going to have.

[00:50:29] So get your, get your inflammation on the control. Use things like zinc and vitamin C to be natural. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, natural agents to stop the conversion of testosterone to estradiol. Despotic acid. Christen, uh, has to pretend these will all, uh, you know, used for, for decades and they're safe. But again. You know, extra dial is so important for men.

[00:50:58] Lowering it too [00:51:00] low puts you at risk of developing Parkinson's disease and other neurological disorders. Men don't understand that we need estrogen to the bodybuilding community has done us a great disservice there with this attitude that estrogen is bad. It's not bad. It's actually anabolic. It's anabolic.

[00:51:19] Coach Rob Regish: [00:51:19] And generally what I tell people is, unless you've got gyno. Enjoy the estrogen. It's gonna. It's gonna help your blood lipids. It's going to improve muscle growth. You know, people have made it this boogeyman that's just, I don't know, to me it's, it's not matching reality.

[00:51:39] Carl Lanore: [00:51:39] No, it's not. It's not. And I never, I never take aromatase that I'm on 500 milligrams of tests a week.

[00:51:44] Right now. I don't. I got no estrogen related issues when I do have my blood work done. I think the last time I had blood work done wasn't. Uh, last year was the year before, cause I missed last year. I didn't have all my stuff done. Um, I'm supposed to have blood work [00:52:00] done in two weeks, but I think it was like 43 and I've always, I've always stayed above 250 milligrams a week of test except for a short period of time, a few months where I just went down to two 50 for awhile.

[00:52:12] So I, I don't, I don't, I don't think you should worry about a Jeff unless. You go to any lab test now and pull an extra dial test on yourself and go, Holy crap, it's really getting high. Then do something about it.

[00:52:25] Coach Rob Regish: [00:52:25] I agree 100%.

[00:52:27] Carl Lanore: [00:52:27] Uh, let's see. So the next question comes from . Let's see here. This one comes from a Mark Barber, he says, would use, was Dushane working on any exciting products right before he died?

[00:52:41] Coach Rob Regish: [00:52:41] It's a really good question. Um, he was always involved in something, uh, because he was somebody that liked to tinker a lot. Uh, just for reference sake. In addition to steroids and supplements, he worked on very advanced theories about diet and exercise too. Oh, he [00:53:00] loved refurbishing stereo equipment and recumbent bicycle.

[00:53:03] So he was somebody, he was somebody that tanker. You wanted to go into a break?

[00:53:09] Carl Lanore: [00:53:09] Yes.

[00:53:10] Coach Rob Regish: [00:53:10] That's going to be going on.

[00:53:12] Carl Lanore: [00:53:12] Hold on a second. Let me, I wasn't prepared for that. So just give me one second. Okay, here we go. Be right back.

[00:53:19] Coach Rob Regish: [00:53:19] This is the superhuman channel doing reps with the weight of the world.

[00:53:31] welcome back.

[00:53:32] Carl Lanore: [00:53:32] Okay. We're picking up where we left off. Was Dan just Shane working on a, any product before he died? You were talking about how varied his interests were.

[00:53:41] Coach Rob Regish: [00:53:41] Yeah. And you know, I guess for better or for worse, one of those was GHB. Right. So, um, he had been sent a sample of this stuff, and after writing just a few lines about it in a defunct California, you know, bodybuilding newsletter, it's popularity [00:54:00] really took off.

[00:54:02] The main distributors in the United States at that time were, uh, a guy by the name of Mark Thurman, who also worked making custom EQ D products as well as a guy, I forget his name. Um, but Fairman was the brains behind Zo discovery. Zeb, tall, uh, heck, Sandra alone and anabolic if people remember those products.

[00:54:27] It was the GHB though. That he sold the most of, and some of it made his way, made its way to Dan DuChene, who filled an order one day him, mr bill sands. Unfortunately, sands was actually an undercover DEA. Uh, that had ordered both GHB and Clenbuterol that dam properly shipped, unfortunately, across state lines.

[00:54:55] And that's all the feds needed to raid his apartment. [00:55:00] Right. And the connection would be made there to Fearman Stearman believe, leave it or not in the process of outfitting a new lab. Uh. He mopped the floors with tear gas when he got tipped off that the feds were about to raid them. So he was that kinda guy.

[00:55:20] Meanwhile, um, Dan did his time, did his times for the second time. I know in prison. Uh, and when he got out. He promptly went into supplements, including the first whey protein, the very first pre-workout, ultimate orange, and he was also working on something called super glue, which was his trade. Yeah, it was, it was his trade name for a glutamine product that would actually work.

[00:55:48] You know, we'd make it past the stomach and two of the muscles, super glue, never quite made it to market. Um, so we retooled and he began [00:56:00] work on what we know today as high molecular weight modified starches, something called Emelio. Pectins is what, how he referred to them. Uh, they were the very first.

[00:56:12] Modified starches or, or design a carbohydrate. He had a version of those in ultimate orange, which was called quadric carb, and the idea was to go to market with a pure version of it. He shopped that around, and as I understand it, both weeder, champion nutrition and some other big line Twinlab just turned it down.

[00:56:39] So, you know, you look at the popularity of that, those kinds of products today, and you think, wow, he really was ahead of his time. So otherwise, at the time of Dan's death, which was around the year 2000 I think he was supplement wise, enamored with some of the pro form loans [00:57:00] that were making the rounds right.

[00:57:01] And thinking about, it's like, why not. Right? Why wouldn't he be several of them? As we know, we're honest to goodness steroids, not requiring no conversion whatsoever. That do Shane's plan, as I understand it, was to market, uh, vials of sterile Jack, quote unquote, quote unquote transdermals Oh,

[00:57:25] Carl Lanore: [00:57:25] because there were injectables for a while too.

[00:57:27] You remember that they weren't, they weren't sold as injectables. But they had a, they had a multi injection stopper on them.

[00:57:36] Coach Rob Regish: [00:57:36] Right. So, so that's what he was, you know, working on when he died. Unfortunately, he was one of the kind, you know, nobody would contest that. And I'd even his most ardent critics at the end of the day, I think when he gave the bodybuilding community, what would he gave us was exactly what we wanted.

[00:57:58] And needed it. [00:58:00] Okay. Dan died in 2000 of polycystic kidneys, kidney disease, which is a condition hereditary that was not, that was not brought about by steroid use. It was something he inherited from his biological mother. Um, and I, as I understand it, he also had a sister who he found later in life and in the process of exchanging letters.

[00:58:27] She told him this is Dan was adopted. So she dropped a whole bunch of heavy stuff on him, you know, hurt his sister's telling him about who their ma, you know, who his mother is and what she's like. And um, and then she said, and there's one more thing. I have polycystic kidney disease. Mom had it too. You might have it.

[00:58:48] And that he went to get checked out and that's how he found out. Wow. Yeah. Amazing. Interesting story. Very amazing.

[00:58:56] Carl Lanore: [00:58:56] Okay, here's the next question. Let me get it up

[00:58:58] Coach Rob Regish: [00:58:58] here.

[00:59:02] [00:59:00] Carl Lanore: [00:59:02] Craig leper, he says, what was the stack that you wrote about in the blueprint bulletin that added 14 pounds in 17 days? I w I guess it was a sup supplement over the counter supplement and also, uh, perhaps an over the counter drug.

[00:59:20] Coach Rob Regish: [00:59:20] It was actually a prescription drug, or let me put it this way. It is scheduled by the FDA, DEA, whatever you want to call it.

[00:59:30] Um, and you can't buy it over the counter, but what this study showed, the one he's referencing it showed is incredible. 14 pounds a muscle in 17 weeks.

[00:59:44] Carl Lanore: [00:59:44] Oh, 17 weeks. Wait, I put 17 days. I was like, I want to know what that is too.

[00:59:51] Coach Rob Regish: [00:59:51] Don't know.

[00:59:51] Carl Lanore: [00:59:51] Yeah. Let me, let me, let me, let me change that on the fly here. Hold on a second.

[00:59:55] Coach Rob Regish: [00:59:55] Right? But what, 1414 pounds a muscle [01:00:00] in 17

[01:00:00] Carl Lanore: [01:00:00] weeks. Yeah. It's still amazing. It's

[01:00:02] Coach Rob Regish: [01:00:02] still amazing. Right? And if you think about it, it's pretty much the optimal rate, right? Which real muscle. Can be built, but I want people to consider this and go take that one step farther. Neither one of these are steroids.

[01:00:21] Neither one of them are involved with hormone production, testosterone, estrogen, you know what, insulin, what have you? No, neither one of them. So he's asking, you know, the supplement. Frankly, was L-DOPA. You heard me mention earlier about helping you, CUNA curings or sometimes it's called red velvet bean.

[01:00:45] I've seen them, uh, standardized extracts up to 98%, uh, for L-DOPA. So he's right. I came across this and freaking research about these two items that, you know, by [01:01:00] themselves. They were so, so there was some research. But man, when you put them together, it was something special. It was so incredible. I had to read the study three times to make sure I wasn't seeing things or misinterpreting things.

[01:01:13] You know, it's, it was crazy. Um, again, both of these are. Fairly potent on their own, but you put them together, and it's one of those things where one, it's like a veteran of caffeine, right? Ephedrine by itself doesn't do a lot. Veteran and caffeine, one plus one equals three. Right? So, um, I'm going to caution people though, because one of my guys went out and he took way too much L-DOPA.

[01:01:45] Too much. L-DOPA is not pleasant. You will Twitch, you will sweat, your palms will be clamming, and you'll feel sick to your stomach. You feel like throwing up. Um, do not [01:02:00] overdo it. I'm the L dopa and try to compensate. Now, as far as the other item, um, it's a prescription drug. I don't know if I want to necessarily mention it.

[01:02:10] Carl Lanore: [01:02:10] Um, well, you had mentioned it. If it's a prescription drug, people have to get a prescription for it. How they obtain it is not, you're not, you're not recommending that they go out and, and use it illegally.

[01:02:21] Coach Rob Regish: [01:02:21] Yeah, well, there was a time when it was difficult to get, but, uh, let's just say it's. It wouldn't be a doctor's first choice for a drug in its class.

[01:02:34] Uh, so getting it prescribed was nearly impossible. Thankfully, I found it on some research chemical sites, which if you know anything about the current SARMs legislation that's going through. It looks like it's good, but really put a cramp in, in not just SARMs, but in the style of various things. I'm reading like Modafinil and a beta two, you know, androgenic ripe [01:03:00] or agonist rather.

[01:03:01] Um, and so, you know, there's this, I feel this is limited window now. Okay. Um, for the moment. Both items are 100% legal, so to speak. There are some precautions I have people take when they're using that,

[01:03:18] Carl Lanore: [01:03:18] you know, how, so how can people find out what it is they'd have to subscribe to the Bulletproof or,

[01:03:24] Coach Rob Regish: [01:03:24] yeah, the bulletin has a full write up on it, and this goes back some time ago.

[01:03:30] Um, you really need to understand though, what both items do and how much to take of each, if you do not. And you just start Willy nilly, you know, experiment. And I'll take this much of one and this much of the other, no, I mean, the side effects that I just described to you about El Joba look like a walk in the park to taking too much of this other thing.

[01:03:55] Okay. Um, so. [01:04:00] Yes. If you'd like to subscribe to the bulletin, it's all there. It's one of the, one of the 85 back issues that you can This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. um, you know, for 20 bucks a month, you get a current issue every month. And I have no problem saying this, the single biggest repository of bodybuilding information, tips and tricks like this that's available anywhere.

[01:04:27] Um, and those are the kinds of things that you read about amongst others.

[01:04:32] Carl Lanore: [01:04:32] The next question comes from, uh, I'm getting feedback. Hold on a second. Ricky Sheehan, he says, uh, I have a bad back. What's the best squat alternative? Because I still want to build big, strong legs.

[01:04:47] Coach Rob Regish: [01:04:47] Yeah. You know, there's a lot of, there are a lot of different things, um, that you can do.

[01:04:53] And so if we run through, you know. We run through those, those things. [01:05:00] Off the top of my head, there are belts, Watts, there are leverage. Squats are horizontal machines, squats, goblet squats, body weight squats. Well, Gary and split squats, you know, lunges,

[01:05:11] Carl Lanore: [01:05:11] but he can't, he can't squat, right? But he cannot squat well.

[01:05:17] Coach Rob Regish: [01:05:17] He what he's, what he's talking about, I think is the traditional back squat. Okay? So yes, you cannot do a barbell back squat with a bad back. You can do belt squats with a bad back.

[01:05:29] Carl Lanore: [01:05:29] Right. I like the belt squat the best because your back's not involved at all. Your hips. Exactly. It's your hips and your everything below your hips.

[01:05:38] Right.

[01:05:38] Coach Rob Regish: [01:05:38] And you know, there are a plethora of other exercises. Uh, different ways. You can train your legs. There are glued ham races. There are a reverse hyper extensions. If you're fortunate enough to have one regular 45 degree hypers, there are glued him bridges, and of course, the leg extension of the leg curl, which [01:06:00] would be last on my list, but it's just a, you know, an illustration of you can still.

[01:06:06] Work your legs. So that was what, eight different types of squats and half a dozen type of supplemental movements right there. You can also. Really get into pushing and pulling away. Did sled and believe you, me, if you your work your way up and weight, your legs are going to get plenty of work and overlook, move with that sled.

[01:06:29] That I think is dynamite for the hams. Um, it's just looping, looping the straps around your ankles and walking backwards. Um, you, it takes away

[01:06:39] Carl Lanore: [01:06:39] waste looping the straps around your ankle. So you're pulling the weight with your lower leg. In other words, your entirely, I mean that, that sounds a little dangerous when you fall.

[01:06:51] Coach Rob Regish: [01:06:51] You know what the maybe the first time or two that you try it, but once you get the hang of it, it is by far [01:07:00] the best hamstring pump. I have ever had in my life, and it be the best one that you've ever had to, there is simply no better movement, um, in my opinion, to flush them with blood right in place, a major new demand on them.

[01:07:16] And that's one of the things that sometimes people have a blown lower back that's so bad. They can't even push and pull a sled right heavily. Right. That particular movement, you can am. It brings blood into the lower back, almost like the reverse hyper. So I would tell you work those movements while hard, while you're recovering.

[01:07:42] Okay? They're going to keep your mind and your body busy while your back heals. And by the way, your back will you, you know, get with the program. I'm fixing it though. And be your own. Best advocate, you [01:08:00] know, I don't know what the, what the issue is, but, um, I would tell you this, don't assume, get an accurate diagnosis and then tackle it with chiropractic.

[01:08:11] Reverse hypers heavy AB work. I've talked a million times about how bridging is fixed. My back, you know, you're talking about me, a 50 year old guy who for 15 years couldn't put a barbell on his back. I'm Deb lifting 500 plus pounds down almost as much as when I was young and my lower back feels fine.

[01:08:36] It's incredible. And I attribute that to bridging. So here's the bottom line. Back injuries are no fun. I get it. Been there, you know, took 45 minutes to put my socks on in the morning. I almost. Threw the towel land on my back, injuries after trying different things for 1520 years almost. I kept trying and [01:09:00] eventually, as I just described, you found bridging and a few other things and boom, there it was a real fix.

[01:09:06] The two

[01:09:07] Carl Lanore: [01:09:07] strongest thing, the two strongest things you can do for your back if you have very little time bridging as you point out and just turn it into a pushup if you want to, and yeah, walking. You have no idea. When I, when I crushed my, uh, my lumbar spine that gave me sciatic nerve pain and made my right foot drop, I lost my car at the same time in my divorce.

[01:09:34] So I was forced to walk everywhere

[01:09:37] Coach Rob Regish: [01:09:37] in Arizona.

[01:09:39] Carl Lanore: [01:09:39] That turned out to be a blessing in disguise because my leg, my lower back and leg healed. In a, in a couple months. I, I just took it for granted. I just thought everybody heals like that. I have had chiropractice told me no, there were people who the drop foot never goes away.

[01:09:54] And I had bad drop foot. I had trouble moving my foot from the gas pedal to the brake.

[01:10:00] [01:10:00] Coach Rob Regish: [01:10:00] I remember you telling me about that.

[01:10:01] Carl Lanore: [01:10:01] Yeah. I mean, I was in trouble and, and, and then, um. We did a show on how to fix your own back with Dr. Stuart McGill and he confirmed walking is the best thing you can do for your lower back and walking with a backpack with a small amount of weight, because it literally kind of pulls you into a position where you end up with that perfect curve in your spine.

[01:10:25] Coach Rob Regish: [01:10:25] So then, you know what, I've, I've heard of those things before. You know, Lincoln knee injury, push, push a weeded wheelbarrow up a Hill with a small amount of weight. But that's really interesting. You know, there you were, they took your car away from you, but it's

[01:10:41] Carl Lanore: [01:10:41] exactly what I got it. I gotta thank my ex wife because she healed my back by having the judge take my car because I walked, I walked 30 minutes to the gym.

[01:10:50] I walked 30 minutes home. I walked to the my studio, my makeshift studio, makeshift studio that was at my sister's house. I walked back home every day. Every day I walk. I [01:11:00] didn't have a fit Fitbit or a tracking device, but I bet I was doing 15,000 steps a day just because I had no other choice.

[01:11:08] Coach Rob Regish: [01:11:08] Yeah. God works in mysterious ways.

[01:11:11] Carl Lanore: [01:11:11] Yes. Yes. God works in mysterious ways. Okay, I'll, we'll leave it at that. We got the blueprint tip of the day when we come back, so we're going to take our last commercial break. Hold on one second. I've got to get

[01:11:23] Coach Rob Regish: [01:11:23] back in position here,

[01:11:24] Carl Lanore: [01:11:24] and when we come back, we have the blueprint. Tip of the day. If you still have any other questions and you're watching live, please post them just to make them short.

[01:11:29] That's all I ask. Okay.

[01:11:32] Coach Rob Regish: [01:11:32] This is this superhuman channel.

[01:11:38] Carl Lanore: [01:11:38] Welcome back.

[01:11:43] Just real quick, I promised Bridget that I would find out about a bar a calorimeter. Device for the iPhone. The only one is the breezing unit. They have the breathing pro. They are the world's only handheld [01:12:00] metabolism tracker, and then you don't have to guess how many calories a day you need to lose weight to gain muscle.

[01:12:06] It's a very, very worthwhile investment. In fact, I'm going to contact them and try to put our differences behind us and get them come to come back on the show. Okay. Cool. Okay. So the blueprint tip of the day, rightfully so,

[01:12:23] Coach Rob Regish: [01:12:23] is the tip of the day. Is one new year's resolution worth keeping? So I don't know about you, but as a general rule, I do not make new year's resolutions.

[01:12:37] Um, and my thinking there is that most are broken. Anyway, you know, you, you need to look any further than our industry to see the proof. Uh, so as we speak, thousands and thousands of people with, you know, new year's resolution to quote unquote, get in shape or lose weight, [01:13:00] they are slogging to the gym every day, let's call it every morning.

[01:13:05] Um, and some people have those people. Some will go every day. And some of those that are there every day, we'll work hard. But at the end of, let's say, take your pick 30 60 or 90 days, we know what's coming. It's all over. And it's like the top of the tide going out. Um, when these folks leave. So, you know, we need to ask the question, why, why does that happen and what, what can we do, you know, to better our lot.

[01:13:36] It's all over. For those people because the miracle body that was promised in those infomercials never manifested and worse, you know, due to their zeal and, and, and resulting over-training. Many of them get hurt in that time period, 30 60 or 90 days. So let me ask you, you [01:14:00] know, who wants to keep going to the gym.

[01:14:03] Especially early on, let's say before the work, when you look the same, your knees hurt and you're out of breath, still drank, trying to tie your shoes and you're probably, you know, hurting both physically and emotionally. So it's back to eating cupcakes, taking your Metformin and just buying bigger clothes.

[01:14:25] I mean, that's how it literally goes for most people. So, so the question is what went wrong and, and, and what can we do again to make it better? There were a couple of things. So let's take a look. First. Your goal needs to be specific, lose weight, or get in shape. Those aren't even close to being specific and they can leave someone in worse shape than when they started.

[01:14:51] So here's why many folks who want to quote unquote lose weight. We'll do just that. They will lose [01:15:00] 20 let's call it 20 pounds, but when 15 a more of that 15 or more of that is muscle. They have only succeeded in becoming smaller fat people. That's just the reality of the situation now. Likewise. Getting in shape isn't very specific, you know, in, in shape for what you're going to run a marathon or you're going to bench your body weight.

[01:15:25] Those are two very different, right. Training modalities for some people getting in shape would constitute being able to walk up a flight of stairs without getting winded. And you were there once, right, Carl? So

[01:15:39] Carl Lanore: [01:15:39] I was.

[01:15:40] Coach Rob Regish: [01:15:40] Yeah. And, and, and look, my, my heart goes out to those people and good for them for, for trying.

[01:15:48] But here's the reality. For most people, they'll never achieve their goal without more specificity. I'm going to make an assumption that the vast majority of people listening [01:16:00] are going to the gym regularly. You're doing the best you can with diet and you keep reasonable hours, right? For sleep and rest.

[01:16:08] If that's the case, then there's one new year's resolution I want you to make and it is so simple, yet powerful. Keep a training journal. Of all the things that you can do to help you get better results, faster buying, using a training journal or a little black book, or recording it on your phone, you know, whatever it takes.

[01:16:33] The point here is documenting your progress or lack thereof is an incredibly powerful tool, and 90% of people that I see in the gym don't even use one. So, let me give you a great example of this. Last week, my son, who's taller than I am now, when he's 14, uh, he was really discouraged when he could not [01:17:00] quite manage eight depths with a 25 pound weight Vista.

[01:17:05] He got right. He got seven last time. What do you, he just missed locking out that eight rep during this workout, and so he obviously was dejected. He sat down afterwards and he kind of slumped forward and he mumbled something. I didn't catch what it was, but it was obviously negative. Um, so I sat down right next to him.

[01:17:30] I pulled out his little training journal and I showed him where just five months ago, he couldn't manage a single dip with just his body weight and kiddo remembered that day. It really sticks in his mind because. He, he was bitter. He was bitter about the fact that he had put a lot of hard work in on the gravitron.

[01:17:54] I don't know when other people call it, but it takes a percentage right of, of your body weight off [01:18:00] so that you can work up to a full chin up or tip. Uh, and he was expecting to be able to do a bodyweight dip without it, but he couldn't at least on that particular day. And. He was likewise, you know, similarly dejected.

[01:18:19] But I showed him, um, in that time, those five months, he had Jane almost 13 pounds of body weight, which I explained to him, makes the lift even harder. Right? Yet, here he was five months later, and he's doing reps now with cumulatively 38 more pounds. Some, you know, some of that being body weight, but more of it being stuff he's strapping around his waist or wearing the wait list on.

[01:18:50] That changed his whole outlook and in fact he went on to smash a PR later in that same [01:19:00] workout on weighted chin ups. That's something else he could not manage a single rep on. Not that long ago. So he was able to see for himself right there in black and white, how far he had come. And it also did something else.

[01:19:16] It validated the fact that the work that he was doing twice a week every week, but I have them doing is working okay, but here's the issue. He would have never seen that had we not documented his progress somewhere. Okay. Because he's a, you know, like all kids today, he's on, on his phone, you know, they do everything on their phone.

[01:19:45] He's keeping it now on his phone, which I told him, I said, fine. You know, dad likes pen and paper. Because it can't get deleted or you know, you know, Chad can't retrieve it, whatever. But I told him, I said, the important part is [01:20:00] you're keeping records. So you've heard me say a million times here. Information is power.

[01:20:07] And that is certainly true. Had his dips and chins flatline for successive workouts, I would have had a half dozen other methods, right. Waiting in the wings to break that plateau. That's a powerful, and let me make this point. That is very powerful and reassuring feeling, but it only came to me after decades and decades of, you know, trial and error.

[01:20:33] Very expensive. Trial and error. I think. I, I think personally it is madness not to avail yourself to that kind of information, but step one will always be documenting your progress. That little black book, what I'm asking you to do, costs virtually nothing and it gives you almost everything. [01:21:00] Now, if you're still not convinced.

[01:21:03] That's the best year new year's resolution to make. Consider this. 90% of the training population, as I mentioned, will look and perform no different. A year from now, and 90% of the training population fails to document their training. I would submit to you those numbers are no coincidence.

[01:21:28] Carl Lanore: [01:21:28] Right. There's an old saying, excuse me, in order to manage something, you have to be able to measure it.

[01:21:35] Coach Rob Regish: [01:21:35] Yeah, exactly.

[01:21:36] Carl Lanore: [01:21:36] And if you're not keeping notes, you really don't know. If you're making progress,

[01:21:40] Coach Rob Regish: [01:21:40] you really don't. Yeah, and I know you document your training too, and

[01:21:46] Carl Lanore: [01:21:46] I haven't been, I haven't been to past since I had my two surgeries in 2018 to the all of 2019 I didn't document anything because. I just wanted it to keep training.

[01:21:58] I just wanted to, I was like, I [01:22:00] can't, I'm not worried about progress. But now I am now. Now I'm ready to stop progressing now. Right?

[01:22:04] Coach Rob Regish: [01:22:04] So another very, very powerful tool is pictures. Everybody's got a camera on their smartphone, and I just need to make sure that conditions are the same, meaning lighting time of day, you know what you've been doing with your diet.

[01:22:23] Whether or not you're pumped or not, but being consistent with those pictures is a real reality check. And I'll tell you, it goes beyond just the, um, you know, just the vanity of it, I suppose you'd say. I noticed very prominently in every picture, my head was tailing off to the right like this. And sure enough, I stood on two scales.

[01:22:53] And I was carrying 12 more pounds, 12 more pounds on my right foot. Then on my [01:23:00] left foot. If that doesn't tell you you have some sort of imbalance that needs to be addressed by chiropractic, chiropractic, I would. I would argue, I don't know what will and I, when I only learned that from pictures. And I, I take that back.

[01:23:18] There was one other source my wife had been telling me for the longest time, you're crooked, but I never understood

[01:23:28] Carl Lanore: [01:23:28] how, but wait a minute, wait a minute. That's me. Cause when she was waking up in the morning, there was money missing from her purse. Be clear about that.

[01:23:36] Coach Rob Regish: [01:23:36] Yeah. It's a different, different situation.

[01:23:40] But, you know, the, the point remains, um. The more, the more ways to measure, the better your ability is going to be to determine am I making progress and if not, what do I need to do to, to make progress? And the measurements will start to [01:24:00] turn around. Yeah. Yup. And it's free. It's free or close to it.

[01:24:06] Carl Lanore: [01:24:06] And I like the book better.

[01:24:07] I like to be able to write things down. I use my phone for a couple of years. But it's a pain in the neck cause I was using the notepad and sometimes I would make an entry and didn't realize it. I deleted everything like every, luckily it was fresh in my mind, so I had it, but then I had to stop and go and reenter it.

[01:24:24] I like a book just nice and easy. Just write it down

[01:24:27] Coach Rob Regish: [01:24:27] however you record it, do it. The mind is a very fickle thing and something as seemingly small as a one rep or a few pound increase versus. Last week or two weeks ago or a month ago is still significant. It's still significant, but you'll never know whether that's the case unless you write it down.

[01:24:52] That's it. Otherwise, record it. So

[01:24:54] Carl Lanore: [01:24:54] get your, get your training diary and make it a commitment this year to use it every single time you train.

[01:25:00] [01:25:00] Coach Rob Regish: [01:25:00] Amen.

[01:25:01] Carl Lanore: [01:25:01] I think we covered a lot of good stuff today.

[01:25:03] Coach Rob Regish: [01:25:03] Yeah,

[01:25:04] Carl Lanore: [01:25:04] great. Great. Interaction from the audience. A live audience.

[01:25:07] Coach Rob Regish: [01:25:07] Yeah.

[01:25:07] Carl Lanore: [01:25:07] Thank you for that. Tomorrow is the first open season on men for 2020 we're going to talk about strategies to improve your life in 2020 with John Romano so that I'll be tomorrow.

[01:25:19] Thursday we have a renew life RX. I was going to have a peptide, a pep talk show on Friday, but we have to move it to next week, but next week we're going to blow your mind with a peptide that. It's absolutely golden when it comes to fat loss. In fact, I'm talking about 3% body fat reduction in just two weeks.

[01:25:48] Nothing else changed except this pep. Yeah. This is exciting

[01:25:51] Coach Rob Regish: [01:25:51] stuff. Is John a semi regular guests though?

[01:25:55] Carl Lanore: [01:25:55] Who's John? John

[01:25:57] Coach Rob Regish: [01:25:57] Romano.

[01:25:58] Carl Lanore: [01:25:58] Well, he and I are [01:26:00] doing open season on men now as a regular thing.

[01:26:01] Coach Rob Regish: [01:26:01] Yeah. Yeah, that's great. Now he's one of my favorite writers. Really great. Great writer. Yeah. Great. Very, very good.

[01:26:10] Carl Lanore: [01:26:10] So that's it for today. Thank you for watching. Don't forget to visit coach rob.com often and we will see everybody tomorrow with more a

[01:26:18] Coach Rob Regish: [01:26:18] superhuman radio.

[01:26:20] Carl Lanore: [01:26:20] Happy new year. It's still a new year age. Technically I can still wish people happy. New year, Addy, like that. I will see you tomorrow.

[01:26:28] Coach Rob Regish: [01:26:28] Okay. [01:27:00] .