Coach Rob Regish
Listener questions are answered about training, diet, supplementation, drugs and more.
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[00:00:00] Hey, welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio. Today is Tuesday. We have the blueprint pal our starting in just a second where coach Rodriguez answers your questions about training nutrition diet drugs everything. There's nothing off limits and we're also going to talk about my blood work today.
[00:00:50] I'm going to expose myself to the audience. What a dumbass. I actually am for not doing the. And we're not going to roll your music today. Rob are going to get [00:01:00] right into the show. How you doing man doing? Fantastic. How about you fantastic? I just read an article that said The more time you waste doing fluffy stuff up front in your podcast.
[00:01:10] The faster you are to lose your listeners. So we're going to get right to business and I'm going to start changing the way we do the shows in the future moving forward as well. So before we start off you have any announcements that you want to make no other than November 1st, or I'm going to have a very big announcement for the rest of the year.
[00:01:30] And so you're going to want to be listening for that but you know all things in due time. I'm opening the questions right now. I'm sorry. I'm here. I I'm learning that you're not supposed to waste a lot of time on the front end of the show and get right to the meat potatoes. But of course my computer is not cooperating here.
[00:01:49] Okay. So the first question comes from Seth Flanders. He said that was an interesting piece about beta alanine last week. I never considered it could be robbing me of my [00:02:00] gains but it makes sense. Are there other products or things we take that can work against us. Well, I'll tell you there are millions of things that can cause catabolism of muscle tissue, although.
[00:02:15] Very few of them are supplements per se right not much of a market for something that slows our works against muscle growth, but it's an undeniable fact that it happens. In fact, it happens every day. So, you know most people know catabolic refers to the breaking down of muscle anabolic refers to the building up.
[00:02:39] What they might not understand is that there's a war going inside going on inside your body every day between those two forces. So it's critical to understand it. If you take let's say a 22 year old who's just laying around on the couch. He's not going to gain or lose much muscle. Okay. [00:03:00] There's nothing going on that tilts the balance one way or another.
[00:03:06] Get him eating more and working out though until start to put on muscle. That's because both excess calories and a new training stress can Tilt The Ballad toward anabolism, especially if that stress is brand-new as time goes on though the same routine of overfeeding and is training will fail to register.
[00:03:30] So to speak and consequently. He's no longer gaining muscle tissue. The dreaded Plateau then Tipton and the typical response is to eat even more or maybe more training days every week which only sees them putting on more fat and now he's over training two steps backward and he may stay there for good.
[00:03:52] The solution ironically is to induce. Temporary state of catabolism what I call controlled [00:04:00] catabolism, whereby it will register in the brain as a stressor and the involve stressors. There are sometimes referred to as the alarm stage and Doctor hansel's gas or General Adaptation of stress model.
[00:04:16] They up there actually up regulate many if not all of the anabolic processes in the body. It just doesn't have the food recovery time right to take advantage of it in the ultimate blueprint which is as you know, really when it says it is it's everything I've ever done in a much more digestible format in that context.
[00:04:42] We take full advantage and understand how and that precisely what time to switch gears. There's no guesswork either write your body will tell you. By virtue of your resting heart rate learning how to induce those states of control catabolism to reap and [00:05:00] extend periods of hyper. Anabolism is really the the blueprints Hallmark, right?
[00:05:07] It differentiates it from almost every other Training Method. It definitely does it differently. So in short Seth, yeah, there are certainly things you can do. That work against you. It's not that black and white though as as in the example of control catabolism. I gave you the three biggest factors that will cause you to burn lots of muscle are not eating enough not sleeping enough and overtraining, you know, some guys hit that Trifecta and you can see it, you know, they lose copious amounts of weight and it's not good way to lose them.
[00:05:44] So, Yo avoid those or even better understand how to use them to your advantage. You can learn them by trial and error which is going to take you many years and truthfully most people never learn or you can take advantage of [00:06:00] someone who's been there whether that's me or someone else, you know that the latter will shave years in some cases decades.
[00:06:09] Off of your learning curve it personally. I feel it is the single best investment. A trainee can make looking back over my 30 plus year career in this it was definitely without question the best investment. I made the information every single time. Okay, the next question comes from Dave Jansen.
[00:06:32] Oh, by the way, I want to mention some in two weeks. We're going to have Mike O'Hearn on the show. Oh cool, because Michael hurt has been doing something for 19 years that everybody in the fitness Community believes is counterproductive if you want to become fitter and stronger. Yep, and he's been doing it for 19 years, and he one of the fittest strongest guys.
[00:06:53] I know period end of story. Yeah, and he's been doing something for 19 years that has now been proven [00:07:00] and research and says, oh, you know and it keeps your mitochondria from adapting don't do this because it's counter productive if you're training. Well, Mike has been doing it and getting stronger.
[00:07:11] Apparently. He's either a freak or the science is wrong and why talk about that in two weeks. I like it already and that's because some of the best most productive things. I overdid we're counterintuitive. So yeah, Dave Jansen says I really like the background you gave on AST research last week.
[00:07:31] I'm wondering if you have any insight into another company at the time cybernetics. Remember them? What was the scoop with that product? And what was it? What was it worth it? Yeah, so Circa 1988. I walked into a mom-and-pop supplement shop and spied the Cyber jennex total body building system came in a blue box with a videotape and the claim to deliver steroid like results.
[00:07:57] In fact, it was marketed as a steroid [00:08:00] replacement kit. So I had heard of steroids of course, and I knew they worked but there they were legal and illegal is not my scene then nor is it now? But somehow I scraped together the hundred dollars to buy it. So what follows are my impressions of the entire system the kit came?
[00:08:21] Most importantly with the training and diet Books Okay along with the video showing you how to perform the workouts and let me tell you when you drop a hundred bucks on something particularly in 1988. That was a lot of money you give it everything you have. So I jumped right in the supplements that came with it which were referred to as isolates one through seven or nine.
[00:08:47] I forget how many they were. They were largely amino acids, mostly Arginine and ornithine derivative. They weren't entirely useless but. Total cost of that [00:09:00] kit including the videotape that came with it was probably around $10 the training and diet info where the most useful no question about it.
[00:09:11] And in many ways they were cutting edge the CEO. Of cybernetic was the guy named Scott Henry Henry China read. Yeah, that's a general. I remember. Yeah. Okay, so he advocated that the time think of in the late 1980s training fasted using a low carb diet and let's say rather unique train acceptance.
[00:09:36] So try this on for size from time squats in the six and seven 10 rep range to failure strip the weight again. Go to failure Stripped Away the third time and go to failure again the hold on you're not done back away from the wreck and jump as high as you can over and over until your legs give [00:10:00] out now perform some extreme stretching.
[00:10:03] To finish exercise number one the fun continued like that with leg presses and curls and leg curls and leg extensions. You know, I could not walk is no exaggeration after the first workout. I could not walk for a good 15 20 minutes following that workout and you can only imagine how sore I was in the days following it was excruciating the supplements.
[00:10:32] In addition to the diet and the training they were also timed which was the first at least to me at that point in time. If you think about it cyber Genex was really the first and O2 or nitric oxide supplements. Although he didn't use those terms when describing it. He did speak of increased blood flow to the muscles.
[00:10:56] When dosing the Arginine and other like [00:11:00] nitric oxide donors pre-workout so really something to look back at long story short. I dropped a ton of fat if you follow the system you drop the tunnel fat and you've got in great shape, right, but it was the training in the diet not isolates one through whatever that were the Magic by the way Scotch Henry died of a heart attack in October.
[00:11:25] He was well known not only for his cybernetics company kit, but also for his world-class collection of guitars. He sold cyber jennex in 1996, and he retired as a millionaire but was only 40 years old when he died sad and but I'll say this he made his Mark, you know, he made his mark. So the next question comes from Andrew Davis, I'm a new listener and can't believe the Treasure Trove of info in these shows.
[00:11:58] I understand you've written the blueprint [00:12:00] you have a newsletter and a formulates and you formulate supplements. What other qualifications do you have to do what you do? Because someday I'd like to do what you do to appreciate the time comments. I really do. It's an interesting question and especially answer.
[00:12:17] So let me get into it. I don't have most of the normal qualifications people in this position do which is to say, you know, no personal training certificate the bodybuilding trophies excetera. I do have some like powerlifting trophies for quite honestly, you know, those mean little to me at this point despite all that I find myself in the enviable position.
[00:12:41] Right availing listener questions every week from all over the world. So here's how that happened in 2009. I wrote The Blueprint right? I wasn't going to do a whole lot with it was honestly just going to bring a copy to the library and leave it there, you know in the way training section hoping somebody would read it and [00:13:00] use it to better their life.
[00:13:01] I realized that although. I hold no formal designations. I had learned a lot by trial and error in those years and decades and thus that was the Genesis for my book along the way fate time they intervene. So what happened was John Drake Over F bodybuilding supplements.com. He read it. He loved it.
[00:13:24] Any farms about to local athletes in Athens, Georgia, which is a college town three weeks later. My phone rang. You said you definitely have something here. Let's do something with it. So he had a spare web domain. He wasn't using and we put it up for sale and slowly very slowly people started buying and using it and then the review started pouring in so one day they logged into my bodybuilding.com account.
[00:13:55] If I had a private message from a guy named Vince and Rich Vince was the guy who [00:14:00] co-wrote the is sports supplement review with Bill Phillips, and he bought the blueprint that led to discussions with Scott Connolly of metrics frame and ultimately to you Carl. You gave me they gave me a complete unknown 20 minutes to talk with I think it was Rob wolf.
[00:14:22] Yeah. And you and you held your own man you I was so impressed with you that day. The thing that I still remember is Rob talked about if the monkey read somehow that they trap monkeys by putting fruit in a jar the monkey reaches in grabs the fruit can't get his hand out of the jar. He's too stupid to let the fruit go so he stuck there and I remember you saying well.
[00:14:47] I don't know anything about any monkeys. That's how you started off. It was really comical. I mean you you're very polite but you stood your ground. You didn't back down you you stood you said look my opinion is just as [00:15:00] important as yours. I knew I did something like ooh, yeah. I remember you telling me you got 20 minutes to talk to me.
[00:15:05] Let us go 40. So, you know, I guess I did I took a risk and it paid off but. You don't call you didn't ask me for any credentials. I'm not away Johnson who squatted a thousand pounds. I wasn't a world-famous anything okay, or even certified personal trainer. What I was though was and still am enamoured with all things physical culture and I think I think you realize that later on.
[00:15:37] It just snowballed. Yo addition the you and John Drake Predator nutrition Sean commercial. These people are calling me up asking me to formulate various supplements for them. And in all three cases, they even foot the bill right for everything literally everything after I came up with the formula and you can't make that stuff up [00:16:00] my take on it today is this we have all been given certain gift.
[00:16:07] It's incumbent upon you to use those gifts to help other people and you know, maybe give those people breaks Etc. I don't think these people. were put in my path by accident. I really don't I think there were put there this year when I knew with others and maybe their lives can be further enriched.
[00:16:27] So that's it. You know, I had short answer to your question. I have no real formal qualification. But I gave it everything I have and I let the chips fall where they may and fortunately for me on that score. You know, I did okay, why do people listen and love to you know, still love the show two reasons that they shared with me truth and authenticity.
[00:16:55] Truth and so far as sometimes I give answers that aren't always popular [00:17:00] right like stop buying supplements and invested information buying or otherwise authenticity in that. I think people know what I describe something that I've experienced or you know, there's nothing I won't discuss because we all learn here from those things, you know it and that includes me too.
[00:17:22] So if something like this is what you really want. I just tell you follow your passion, you know, if you're like me, this is the first thing you think about when you wake up the last thing you think about before going to sleep many times you'll dream about it too. So it's 24/7 if that's the case, then you will likely succeed whatever your definition of success is because there will always in my opinion always being place.
[00:17:51] Is this field or any field for truth and authenticity and those in my opinion are by far the two most [00:18:00] important qualities that you can bring to any Endeavor because. the people can feel it and your success in large part will be determined by how sincere truthful and effective you are in helping them.
[00:18:18] So that's how it happened. Those are the key ingredients have at it. I know you're going to do well, you know, if your if your cause is just so to speak and you live it you go. We're gonna take a quick commercial break. We'll be right back with more of the blueprint Power Hour in the meantime. Go check out coach Rob register.com today.
[00:18:40] We'll be right back.
[00:18:43] Welcome back. At the end of today's show. I'm going to disclose my blood work. I got to be honest with you when I opened it this morning. I. it's a family show. I shared a [00:19:00] little okay. That's bad man. My bloodwork is bad bad. But in a good way Joey Laurentiis says, what do you think about growth hormone?
[00:19:09] Does it really build muscle beyond? What steroids do. Well, first up, I'll be honest with you and tell you I've never used Straight Up growth hormone. What I can do is give you my observations on others that I know who have along with some of the more recent studies on such so so here we go growth hormone guys.
[00:19:32] Usually call it growth in the gym to most bodybuilders. Is a coveted compound it was first written about by Dan Duchesne in the underground steroids handbook and then claimed it was the most part in this is underground steroid handbook one the original he claimed those the most powerful muscle growth substance.
[00:19:54] You could get your hands up. If you could eat enough 10,000 calories a day was the given [00:20:00] figure but it's doubtful anyone including the biggest male body builders of the time. Ever said that Mark at least with any consistency, that's an absurd absurd amount of food. Even if you're eating fats, which as you know are nine calories per gram versus for for carbs and protein Duchesne quickly admitted that that was perhaps his biggest mistake in writing the original version of the book still.
[00:20:29] Growth hormone was seen as a holy grail of sorts. So Duchesne mentioned, once that nobody was sure it was doing anything. He did a big Mia culpa on this and and despite the fact that everybody had to have it why because the competition was using it. It's use also coincided with the rise of insulin and this confounded things to an even greater degree as to what was doing.
[00:20:56] What. Today we've seen some [00:21:00] real Gonzo dosages normal replacement use is on the order right of 1 IU a day or thereabouts reportedly. I have read some pros using 10 15 even 20 IU a day. Although how they can afford that much literally afford. It is a real mystery still there's a lot of debate as to what if anything it does here is my take.
[00:21:29] growth hormone is best used with testosterone or another anabolic steroid as the feedback from people using both. If exponentially better than those that are reporting results when running it so low when added to other anabolics the feedback seems to be you can eat more and still stay lean. So the actual muscle growth of say a combination like test Debo and growth hormone is still kind of [00:22:00] fuzzy versus those anabolic.
[00:22:02] Without it the athletes just report their leader, right so fat if I talked to a couple friends in the gym on her on a couple IU a day and they tell me they can eat a lot more and they don't get fat. You know, they actually lean up a little bit. So that seems to be what's happening when added to bread and butter steroids like I would tell you though.
[00:22:28] But in the real world real unquestioned the real unquestionable benefit of GH seems to be in the area of injury repair. There is a very clear and very real Edge afforded to an athlete using growth hormone to repair injuries faster. You're at all versus not using it. So given what I know about it and based on the feedback of athletes using it injury repair is it's real unquestionable Forte but [00:23:00] because of its suspected performance-enhancing benefits the people who could benefit the most which are people that are injured athletes or otherwise.
[00:23:10] Are suffering needlessly because the doctors will prescribe it to these people should be able to get GH through their doctor instead of being prescribed whorley a horribly addictive opiates right that are killing people left and right it could actually heal some of these injuries and some is just masking the pain and no and here's an indisputable fact nobody.
[00:23:39] Never got addicted to or died from an acute overdose of growth hormone. Those are my two CC's on the subject. Maybe someday. I'll get to try must realize I use it and I've been using it for well over a decade now. Oh do tell so since 2007. I was you. I use it very [00:24:00] sparingly. I don't do the stupid 10 IU's a day for six weeks that a lot of the people within the bodybuilding Community talk about to to burn fat.
[00:24:10] I used to I use. post workout. Yep along with other peptides. I have a peptide concoction that I use let's say and what's your opinion in so far? How much is ADS to muscle growth? I know it's so I don't think it adds to muscle growth directly. I think that you recover, excuse me, you could recover faster.
[00:24:35] So you can train harder when you get back into the gym, especially for old guys like me. I'm 60 years old, you know, I keep being told that. I'm not going to recover as fast as other guys because I'm sixty, but I'm in the gym everyday and I you know. I have a motto that I say in my head. I'm doing what I can do.
[00:24:53] I do the best that I can do. So I'm not I'm not old enough now, I don't feel [00:25:00] like I have to compare myself to other people. Yep. I did lots of heavy lifting to be proud of but you know, I'm not necessarily able to do that. Now, I've got lots of broken parts. But with that being said, I don't think I'd be able to train as hard as I do Force for growth hormone.
[00:25:16] Okay, and I just had my I just had my blood work done. And my igf-1 levels are very high, which is typically you know for old guys like me. It's not that high. They did do a urinalysis and my growth hormone level in my urine analysis was low, but I've learned that that doesn't mean anything if you're pissing it out your body's not using it, right and so the fact that my igf-1 levels are high and my growth hormone levels are low, and I know my growth is real because I have a prescription for it.
[00:25:47] I get it I get it in a pharmacy. Your igf wouldn't be that high if it was if it wasn't real no and I can tell when I used you know, if I use too much growth hormone, I start to hold water. [00:26:00] Yeah, I've heard that often from guys. But yeah, but they'll tell me they can eat more without getting fat but at the same time they feel bloated.
[00:26:08] Yeah, if you hold water, there's no doubt about it. If I would imagine doing stupid stuff like taking 10 how you were more day. Yeah, there's no need. There's just no need for that there really isn't. yeah, well, like I said this guy asked about what does it contribute to muscle growth and. My two CC's were its best indiscernible.
[00:26:30] Well, it's the the Improvement in muscle growth is extrinsic. So while some things intrinsically improve muscle growth things that are truly out of baalak growth hormone isn't necessarily anabolic. But what it does do is buy you recovering faster, you know think of it this way. You're building a wall.
[00:26:54] And you're restricted by how many bricks you can put in that wall by how fast the cement dries [00:27:00] right? Because you don't want to build a wall That's so high in the cement on the bottom is still not dry because the wall will shift from the weight of the bricks above it. So you're restricted on how high you can Build That Wall by how fast the fence that the cement dries.
[00:27:14] So, theoretically if you have the ability to drive the cement faster than you can lay more bricks in a day and so. Growth hormone is kind of like making the cement dry faster. So when you get back in that gym, you're not tearing up tissue that's already been torn up that tissues been healed you're building on top of it.
[00:27:33] Now. It's a great example of an end what I refer to those sentences in direct anabolics. Yeah, I would agree with that. I would have that the next question comes from Mark bertolini. He said what German volume training? And that's a good question because we hear a lot of people throwing the term around.
[00:27:52] So what exactly is German volume training classic German volume training as brought to this country and [00:28:00] espoused by guys, like Vince gironda involves doing an exercise for 10 sets of 10 reps and interestingly when doing a gvt routine the amount of weight used only averages about 65% of your one rep max y well.
[00:28:18] It can't be so high as you can't complete all 10 sets 65% of one rep max seems to be where most can rest time between sets average just 30 to 90 seconds which promoted a greater degree of what I'll call metabolic stress and metabolic stress was in is the reason why it works. The real question is, you know, How does it work compared to other methods?
[00:28:46] So the system had never been directly compared to more conventional training right to see where what's more effective at promoting muscle growth or just simply doing a lower number of sets? Like [00:29:00] for example 5 for the same muscle group just recently though. There was a new study that compared German volume training to Conventional training for the first time and the results.
[00:29:12] Of the study after six weeks showed that although the exercise was well tolerated by all subjects the German volume training workouts as you would expect from we averaged 64 minutes compared to 46 minutes for the 5/6 group. But here's the big one lean body mass lean body mass increased for the 5 set group.
[00:29:38] Average of 2.7% why would increase in the German volume training group by only one point nine? So does it work? Yeah, it does but it doesn't work as well as other methods and that parallels my own observations about the 10 sets of 10 system when I came across [00:30:00] it. Charles poliquin was and still is a huge advocate of it.
[00:30:05] Personally. I found it was just way too much volume and I would theorize that that there's a massive cortisol response that takes place and remember your relative intensity is still fairly low, right? 65% So it's not like you're able to overload the muscle from that angle. You got to go for volume, but in order to get that volume.
[00:30:28] You're really encourage a pretty big cortisol backlash for best results. I feel Bill Stars classic five sets of five routine or variations of such are our Superior. I also feel ladders of various rep teams, you know one through five five through one Etc below German volume training away. That's just one man's opinion, but.
[00:30:58] I never did very well on it and I [00:31:00] suspect that's the reason why. Why you run it? No, but you know, I do incorporate volume training. I believe that volume helps my muscles get bigger wear a heavy loading for lower reps. I don't do anything in five reps anymore. Not because it's I've learned actually the weight that I'm handling now.
[00:31:24] I'm easy easily doing eight to ten reps. And so I don't feel like adding another, you know, 10 15 pounds to just hit 5 is really for me personally. It's not productive anymore. The five reps stuff isn't productive to me and really everything I do now is 20 down to 12 20 down to 12 and I'm using very heavyweight.
[00:31:52] I mean I trained with Rick pack recently. Oh really? Yeah. He was in Louisville. When they had the storm in North [00:32:00] Carolina, so he came to stay with his parents live literally live up the road from me a great man. I love Rick and so we went to the gym and you know, I got a bum foot. I'm relegated to using a lot of machines now and so he kind of question that idea of like doing doing everything on machines as could just just let's just do this and we're just going to do two sets of everything I said, that's it.
[00:32:23] And he was sore the next day, you know this whole idea that this is the only way you can build muscle and that's if you're challenging your body with weight and you're you're increasing the Reps or the weight as you go you're progressing. And if you really want bigger muscles then shoot for 20 reps.
[00:32:47] Yeah, dude, and don't back down on the weight like okay, I'm since I'm going to do 20 reps. I'm going to do 50. No use 85% of your one rep max. And if you have to do stuff rest pauses then rest pause, [00:33:00] but do 20 reps. I mean, I'm doing overhead seated dumbbell presses now with hundred pound dumbbells.
[00:33:09] And I got bad shoulders I got to get to people to help me get the weight up into position and then I got to get somebody to literally push my elbows. So they get my shoulders get past the sticking point and once that's done and they're up I can well with them. It's just getting them up there. I got you know from age.
[00:33:26] Everything is got loose all the parts have gotten loose. So I need a little help but the reality the reality is I use a seated machine. And I put a hundred pounds on it. It's a shoulder press machine and and I do 20 reps with that. This reminds me of some of the best advice I ever got from. My mentor Eddie is zero Eddie what works best a lot of weight or a lot of.
[00:33:54] Yeah, that's it or both a lot of weight with a lot of reps. He looked at me and I don't [00:34:00] forget I expected them to laugh or something, but he didn't he looked at me with this dead straight face and he said both and if you have a body part that doesn't grow you have calves that don't grow your biceps that don't grow like me my biceps have a hard time growing use tourniquets use a vascular occlusion training and watch you and body parts Grow Again.
[00:34:20] Yeah, that's another great man. Nobody wants to do it. Nobody wants to be seen in the gym with tourniquet around their upper arm. So wear a long sleeve shirts are nobody can see it because it will be seen A year later looking though different the difference between a bodybuilder in a guy who trains his biceps.
[00:34:36] I'm telling you that right now. Yeah. But some guys take that too far if your biceps. If your upper arms broader wider than your shoulders from the front head to the rear head. Then your priorities are messed up. Stop doing that. Stop doing the curls and start doing some overhead pressing work. I we're going to take a quick commercial break when we come back.
[00:34:57] We have a question from Tim Rodman you listening [00:35:00] to the blueprint power.
[00:35:05] Tim Rodman, he says what's your opinion on for strep? Well, the preponderance of existing research shows that Force reps actually produce better results. When used with a higher volume of training now a higher volume of training doesn't mean doing endless sets of an exercise, but rather doing three or four sets right instead of one.
[00:35:31] The first reps would best be used on the final set. I would say of an exercise since the metabolic demands that it incurs would limit the amount of sets, you know, you can actually compete or complete rather of using that method bodybuilders who use Force reps regularly like Dorian Yates and like men sir.
[00:35:56] They trained to muscular failure. Never doing [00:36:00] more than two or three work sets. Of course, you're going to have to do many warm-up sets especially as you get stronger, but Force reps will likely increase muscle growth because they encourage greater degree of muscle damage than conventional training or even training to you know, just straight failure.
[00:36:24] The increase muscle damage sets the stage. For increase muscular compensation by stem cells right known as everybody knows that uses satellite cells or at least assertable that is the basis for increased muscular growth, but the fact of force reps. You know produces more muscle damage also suggests that its use should be conservative and maybe not use right turn the every training session I in fact I would tell you it's a very quick way to over train judiciously, it's another [00:37:00] story.
[00:37:01] Keep in mind to force reps demands that more rest time between workouts is taken to endure that kind of you know, Recovery, okay what you're taking including symphysis the studies that have examined the role of forced reps in promoting muscular growth have stated that there's not enough evidence to declare that doing for you know for straps will definitely.
[00:37:29] Muscle growth on the other hand if you consider the established factors, right that are known to increase muscle mass like, you know muscular damage muscle tension in my ear earlier. I mentioned metabolic stress doing for streps increases all of those factors, you know, that's beyond beyond question bottom line if they're used judiciously that is you know, Perhaps not during every workout [00:38:00] and done only on the final set for straps Can Be an Effective training technique for those who have training experience.
[00:38:07] I forget the gentleman's name, but I'll have it next week and interesting story on forced reps one of if not the strongest lifters in the world in the early 1950s. He he was not necessarily A powerlifter either. It was a bodybuilder. It is lifts, believe it or not. We're comparable to Canada's Doug Hepburn who was a 300-pound monster and this guy wait considerably less close to 200 pounds.
[00:38:44] So that is a very interesting story. I hope to have here next week for you and it's an interesting. Story and so far as for straps and what they can do and you got to be careful with those kind of those Advanced training techniques, right? You can't do them every [00:39:00] workout, right? Yeah. I mean I once made the stupid mistake of combining.
[00:39:06] What do we just talk about? The I want the curl? No. Yeah. Oh no inclusion training. Oh, yeah. Yeah vascular occlusion training and two and four straps. I am Force roughly. Mm and static holes. Hello, Rhabdomyolysis. What I saw in the hospital not long after that. Geez, that's just that you know Lee Haney used to say you have to stimulate not annihilate you annihilating the.
[00:39:35] Well, it was beyond, you know, it was if I recall correctly. This was just I just did this for biceps and I reasoned. Hey, it's just a small muscle. Right? Right. I did a static hold with my chin above the bar forget. How much Way There Was You may be close to a hundred pound dumbbell with that was exhaustive.
[00:39:56] I went and my biceps [00:40:00] were already included and I performed. Dumbbell curls hammer curls to complete failure and then I think on top of that I added four straps or some other intensification technique. It wasn't long after that. I kind of blacked out and rhabdo starting to take hold and fortunately for me, my wife at the time was my girlfriend at the time called 9-1-1 and had she not had she not done that.
[00:40:31] I would have been unconscious for almost that entire day. And when rhabdo is when you're in rhabdo. Minutes count nevermind hours and hours and hours. So the kidneys are being overwhelmed. The dead tissue can't be excreted and you're in kidney failure. And so I want to talk about my blood work and then we'll come back and do the tip of the day.
[00:40:58] How's that sound? Cool? Let's [00:41:00] do it makes perfect sense to do it that way. So I got my blood work back this morning. And I think there's something wrong with it. To be honest with you. I don't believe these numbers. Because first of all, I'm only using 300 I'm doing 50 milligrams of Sub-Q test a day.
[00:41:18] So that's basically 350 milligrams a week seven days a week and I even forget someday. So maybe I'm only doing three hundred milligrams a week. So my total testosterone the range and see this what I think these ranges are wrong, but my testosterone is still too high anyway, so they say it's a two to forty five nanograms per deciliter and that's not right because it's usually to 280 to 1100 nanograms per deciliter.
[00:41:50] But my no matter how you look at it by testosterone is 30 105. That's either wrong or it's an incredible endorsement for [00:42:00] Sub-Q. Yeah, and and and my total testosterone which the rain says it's supposed to be point one to six point four. Which again is this cannot be right total testosterone on other lab assays that I've seen has always been like, you know, like the low is 5 and the highest 25.
[00:42:22] The low is 5 and the highest 30. This is the lowest point one in the highest 6.4. This may be for women. I don't know but still even if we go back to the a say that I'm familiar with that the lowest five in the highest 25 - 753 no need for stinging nettle and here. Yeah, and so and ironically my sex hormone-binding globulin is only 55 now, wait a minute, so.
[00:42:49] We talked about sex hormone-binding globulin with dr. Scott Stephenson on the phone. Is it stevens or Stevenson? I hope I didn't butcher his name. I'm sorry Stevenson. And [00:43:00] he says we got it all wrong about sex hormone-binding globulin sex hormone-binding globulin gobble globulin isn't binding up.
[00:43:09] Hormones and making them inactive. It's making them pick capable of passing into cells and on to receptors that it's actually a transporter not a binder if he's right then mine is low. Even though this says it's in the it's 14 273 is the range and - 55. I have a feeling - supposed to be higher. Okay.
[00:43:32] So with that being the case, let's move on to my cholesterol. My total cholesterol is 284 but I'm not worried about that because that's still too 2284. That's not a big deal to me. My HDL is only 48. It's always only 48 which they consider low. They say 50 and above is where it should be. So a little I'll start taking [00:44:00] 500 milligrams of of nicotinic acid niacin a day, and that'll that'll correct.
[00:44:07] That will go up real fast. Okay my LDL. Is very high they say that it's supposed to be below a hundred fifty - 220 but it's not terrible and I don't think that's very high. That's not terrible. But let me let me get some of the good stuff. Okay, let's so let's see here my egfr which is a is a liver enzyme is low at 56.
[00:44:34] It supposed to be higher than 60, but that's not too bad. Right? Let's get to some of the good ones. Okay, creatine, kinase we just talking about rhabdo and stuff like that 327 the high-end is supposed to be 143 but keep in mind that I probably train that day. No, I didn't train that day I train the day before I took off that morning and went straight there highest on the 48 hours after yeah.
[00:44:56] Yeah. I mean, I'm not worried about that and plus I supplement with creatine. So I'm [00:45:00] not terribly worried about that. Here's a really interesting one. Dihydrotestosterone the range is 5 246 nanograms of deciliter that does sound right to me by the way want to guess what - what - given what you heard about my total and free testosterone are only about 350 for the veil Shazam.
[00:45:22] I'm not losing any hair either. I don't understand that one at all. Yeah, that's that's great. Now this is why what so why did I go get this Blood where I haven't had blood work done. I'm ashamed to say this in two years. Because I can make all the excuses that everybody else does but I'm not supposed to because I host the show.
[00:45:40] I'm supposed to be the guy who is leading the charge for people to do the right thing. So I'm telling you I am an ass, but the reason I went and got this blood work done is because I suspect that I have very high ferritin levels. Because of some symptoms I've developed muscular my muscles hurt [00:46:00] when I cough my ribcage muscles hurt my quads hurt.
[00:46:05] I'm developing what some people would consider chronic fatigue, but because I'm an animal of sorts. I pushed through it I train anyway my muscles hurt. They really really hurt this sore all the time. Even if I didn't train legs. My my quads are sore and one of the signs of high ferrets. Is pain in the upper legs in the middle of the night when you're sleeping and what that pain is from is like you're sleeping in your motionless for three hours and all of a sudden you move your leg when your when your muscles are static and they just hang in there.
[00:46:38] You don't feel anything. But when you Flex them when you have high ferritin levels, you feel soreness throughout the entire muscle. So I started feeling this in the middle life, like what the hell's going on and then when I started to research. I suspected from my high red meat consumption my use of testosterone.
[00:46:56] I know that that I'm probably accumulating more [00:47:00] iron than the average 60 year old guy and with that a red blood cells hemoglobin and hematocrit go up to. So my red blood cells it just slightly high. The high end is supposed to be five point 10 million per let's see you g UL is microliter - 5.34. No big deal, but my hemoglobin is high.
[00:47:27] It's 17.4%. And 15 is the high-end and my hematocrit is 51 and 45 is the high-end. So this is all this all makes sense to me. I'm not surprised about this stuff. So then I look at D-dimer now. Here's an interesting thing. I take fish oil. I take a very Advanced turmeric product that I know is bioavailable because my skin actually gets yellow when I take too much D-dimer is.
[00:47:57] Clotting factors. This is the [00:48:00] propensity of your blood to form a blood clot and people who have obstructive sleep apnea. Their D-dimer goes through the roof people who have blood disorders dead D-dimer goes through the roof and the fear is that you'll stroke or you'll have an embolism of some sort of deep vein thrombosis or some like that.
[00:48:19] So my D-dimer, The Rangers point five below point five and minus point one nine which is kind of how can that be if I have so much red blood cells and my hematocrit is so high my blood is so thick. How can I have such low clotting factors? I believe that has a lot to do with anti-inflammatory diets as well because in his initial thing every.
[00:48:46] Thing everything that lowers inflammation thins your blood think about that for a second. everything that lowers inflammation thins your blood vitamin E lowers inflammation thins the blood [00:49:00] Ginger lowers inflammation thins the blood if you take cox-2 Inhibitors, they thin your blood. As part of the reduction in inflammation fish oil lowers inflammation thins the blood everything that lowers inflammation thins the blood and I use a lot of things that lower inflammation.
[00:49:17] So this makes sense to me, but I find it very interesting that against the backdrop of such thick sludgy blood. I have very little problem with with potential clotting. What does the diamond show up as a blip D-dimer? It's called d - D imer. Okay, so no abbreviations are no no and that's usually part of your CBC when they do a complete blood cell count that is one of the things that they check also everything else in my blood was great right smack in the middle.
[00:49:52] So then I did my urine test for ferritin. And [00:50:00] here's something interesting. So my the ferritin urine ferritin is between 200 and I'm sorry between 20 and 288. Mine is almost 400 my vitamin B12 was right at the low side of hi. It's a thousand Forty Nine and Eleven Hundred is the top and my serum ferritin.
[00:50:23] I'm sorry. My serum folate was. I'm sorry was in range 18.6 which was good. Dat sulfate ready for this. I take a hundred milligrams of DHEA day. Apparently it's real cause the range is 8 to 188 and I'm at 730. Imagine people take him like three four five hundred milligrams. I'm telling you. Here's his my estradiol.
[00:50:53] I didn't even look at that. My I should die and I think about this now. Wait a minute. So there are people [00:51:00] who are higher Roma tasers when they use aromatize antigens that nipples get sensitive. They grow breast tissue. They hold water. They don't feel good. You know, I'm talking about right so they have to take aromatase Inhibitors, right?
[00:51:14] Okay, my big argument with a lot of HRT docs is when they put a guy on testosterone. The immediately give them a Rhema Dax or ancestors all you know, and they say, oh you got to take this with it without even finding out if the guy is a high aromatize ER now. I know I'm a high five Alpha reducer because I have dark skin people with darker skin produce more DHT.
[00:51:37] So I it make sense that with raging Lehigh. Levels of testosterone that I would be producing a lot of DHT but I am not a higher Roma Tizer because with that high of testosterone my estradiol is only 72. Now that is high most guys would say that's really high [00:52:00] because you usually want it in the 40s, but no not when your testosterone is 3100.
[00:52:04] You're not going to see it in the. I have zero effects of highest dial. Here's a great one. So what did doctors tell guys who have prostate problems about testosterone gotta get off? Right? And PSA is supposed to be below for to have a healthy prostate when I think about this all that friggin testosterone all that DHT all that DHEA even the estradiol in my blood.
[00:52:36] Point to PSA point to so that's where a guys that's orgasms guys who have lots of orgasms their prostate to protect it from prostate cancer. That's the God's honest truth. I don't take any supplements for my prostate. Just make a lot of love. It's all right. So, let's see where there's one more here that I thought was kind of shocking I want to tell you [00:53:00] about so I'm working on a new Primal day.
[00:53:04] I've actually texted pictures of the 60 milliliter syringe with it loaded and I've been using it every single day and I've been using about the equivalent of four CC's or two pumps. When we finally make the product. Guess what my 25 hydroxy was. Now keep in mind the last blood test. I did two years ago and I wasn't supplementing with anything, but I was in the Sun a lot my 25 hydroxy was only 43.
[00:53:31] I would say considerably over 30. Yeah, it's 70 I guess smack-dab in the Middle where I want it to be. I mean at that was when I saw that I was like, oh, yeah. This makes me happy. Are you doing a pump of the morning pumping I just to win the to whenever I'm doing it just in the morning. I'm going on in the morning.
[00:53:52] Okay, so you asked me about you ask me about homocysteine and I don't have homocysteine. But I do [00:54:00] have hold on a second. Let's see something here some more testing ranges. I didn't sing. Non HDL cholesterol here CRP C-reactive protein is hi-yah - hi it's supposed to be mine is 4.8 C-reactive protein.
[00:54:17] That's very high. One of the things I can do to lower C-reactive protein starch supplement B vitamins. Yeah, that's true for almost 15 to right. Yeah, either B vitamins or even better trimethylglycine and that's you know, that's actually in centage. And so I got a good whack of it and predictably predictably my home assisting was actually low so not much information going on, which is a real good thing.
[00:54:47] Yeah, that's really good. So here's the other one that not I want to talk about this one because we were just talking about. We were just talking about rhabdo my creatinine [00:55:00] level. is. 20 is 1.2, which is considered high. It's mostly point 52.99 on this particular test not absurdly high. No. No, it's just it just interesting.
[00:55:18] Look. I know I'm a mess right now. I have symptoms that most people would say they have chronic fatigue, but I just pushed through every single day and I have pain in muscles now and my it's almost like the harder I train a given muscle the more iron it pulls in. That's the only thing I can think of because.
[00:55:38] I've been training my neck. And now I have that same soreness in my neck that I have in my quads that I have in my rib cage that I have on my rear delt and it's from high iron and I have not an I've talked about donating blood on this show for how many years and I haven't donated blood probably in close to two years.
[00:55:56] So this is this the this is the accumulative effect of not [00:56:00] taking care of my business. That's what this is. Yeah, you know what the let's look at the flipside of it. If you never got blood work done, you wouldn't know nope and you know, both medical conditions. Obviously they get worse as time goes on and you were smart you had it done.
[00:56:19] So now you know and you can take corrective action and in some cases, that's the simple. B vitamins, let me think about yeah. Yeah, I know. But anyway I go to see my doctor on the 8th. I just got this blood work back. I thought he was going to be freaked out. He's got it. He's like no we got this.
[00:56:37] But in the meantime, I do have to go donate blood today. I won't be able to donate blood at the Red Cross because my hematocrit is so high they will take it. So here's what I just discovered. In just about every city. There is a School of Phlebotomy. And during the last [00:57:00] commercial break. I called and left a message for the Kentucky School of Phlebotomy.
[00:57:04] There's an Ohio School of Phlebotomy. There's an Indiana st. Louis, Kansas Chicago everywhere you go. There's a School of Phlebotomy where they teach people how to be phlebotomist. I got to believe that they're looking for. Victims I was going to say that they looking for that that they're looking for people to come in just like the haircutting schools.
[00:57:25] They want people to come and get their hair cut. I got to believe that they're looking for people to come in to be phlebotomist. Yeah. Well, you know it's whether you have issues or not you made the point once and I thought this was brilliant frankly. Giving blood therapeutic phlebotomy, whatever the case.
[00:57:45] For changing the oil in your car. I know you know, you know what happens if you don't get the oil changed every 3,000 miles. Yep, you've all the oil in the inner workings of the guts of your [00:58:00] body. It gets all junked up and. Yeah, no and I'm living it. I'm living proof of it. I'm leaving you still have oil in there but compare you know, the oil that's been in for 10 Thousand Miles versus you know, the newly minted oil change put them side-by-side and you don't have to be a mechanic to see which one is crud.
[00:58:24] And which one is it? Yeah, so phlebotomy right away. And actually I don't have to wait. Two months when you have high ferritin, they'll actually take 500 liters of Tarif 500 milliliters of blood every week for the first two weeks. Yeah, so I'm going to get all right. So we're going to take a quick commercial break when we come back.
[00:58:49] We have the blueprint tip of the day, but don't do as I do do as I say I have to do as I do as I say now, I got to take care of my my body. I'm really been Reckless. I really have I'm [00:59:00] not making jokes about this. But this isn't really funny. God knows I could who knows what could happen to me? Who knows?
[00:59:07] I want to take a break. We'll be right back.
[00:59:15] Welcome back. So coach. What is the blueprint tip of the day of the day is thoughts on being 21 again, so I do a lot of reading. So much. So it takes up the vast majority of my time. One of the favorites that I have is when authors discuss. Format, like, you know a letter to myself at 21 and they say we you know youth is wasted on the young and there's some truth in that there's no question about it.
[00:59:50] But what follows is the kind of letter that I would have killed to receive at that tender age. So it would go like this it would say dear [01:00:00] Rob. At age 21, you've got a tremendous amount of untapped potential potential though is only a good thing if it's realized. and your biggest strength is not physical but rather psychological with here's how the psychological strength manifests.
[01:00:23] if there's something that you fear the most. It's being seen as physically unimpressive. You're not big enough not strong enough and you're woefully behind in both categories. It was that deep-rooted insecurities. That is the fuel that you will need for what is to come and what is to come is a lot of pain both physical and psychological so consider yourself fortunate.
[01:00:55] What kind of fuel you hate yourself just enough [01:01:00] to do extreme things that most people will not to get to where you feel you need to be and you can't buy that fuel in GNC also, stop doing stupid stuff like super selling squats and deadlifts to failure. You know, one of those is more than enough and in truth.
[01:01:24] I would recommend either just to train, you know trailer repre too shy of failure. You're going to gain about the same and you're going to avoid the back injury that's coming that will destroy you not just physically but psychologically to by the way, if you keep reading which fortunately I did in my life.
[01:01:45] You will find the fix for your glass back, but it's going to take a long time like 30 years long and that's what it took. If you just put more money into quality [01:02:00] information versus supplements You by you have found this out sooner, right? You would have found out the Cure sooner rather than later and think about what that would have meant to your progress.
[01:02:13] If you had discovered the fix for your back at age 22 versus age 47 with a healthy back at 22. You would have been Unstoppable speaking of those supplements for a minute. Stop being the guinea pig for everyone else. If something comes along that really truly works. You will hear about. There's one of those coming by the way, it's called creatine but outside of that in maybe three or four others.
[01:02:46] It's all wasted money. Think about that long and hard for a minute. Okay, that's almost 30 years of corn unquote new and [01:03:00] exciting products. That weren't do okay, they might have been new but they sure weren't excited that didn't they didn't pan out that's 30 years and tens of thousands of dollars down the drain now, let's talk about that for a minute.
[01:03:18] If 30 years ago. You have plunked 10 grams. Into an S&P 500 Index Fund and you let that you've got the average Market return. Of 10% you let that ride for those 30 years today, you'd be sending out almost a hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, but not not everyone is tender and lying around right fine.
[01:03:45] Let's look at this example that if you start with just a thousand dollars, right and you invest just 83 dollars a month that comes out to a thousand bucks a year. Your wind up with almost [01:04:00] 200,000. And put another way if you're spending just a hundred dollars a month on supplements today, right consider yourself fortunate that will barely cover most protein bills.
[01:04:12] You can start with nothing no money at all and instead of supplements you invest that hundred dollars a month and 30 years later. You'll be serving on $217,000 if you still like supplements then 217 Grand buys a lot of them. I took that little literary detour in the hopes that someone would listen because for a lot of people later in life.
[01:04:43] They're just hearing about this now and you know, I unfortunately have to break the bad news to them didn't last night. There's no buying back those years. They're going to have to save 10 times [01:05:00] the amount that you would have to say when you were young a month. Okay to get the same return think about that 10 times the money to get the same return and that age 40.
[01:05:13] You have a lot less disposable income waiting around. Did you do it, you know, 20 or 25 why you're going to have a mortgage likely. Possibly a family you're going to have college savings. You're gonna have a car payment the bills just don't end. Okay, these people are going to need to save on the order of two thousand dollars a month or more to have any kind of savings when they get to let's say retirement and even then it's not going to be enough, right?
[01:05:45] So at age 85, let's say. You got to go back to work question for you. Who's going to want you at age? 85? I've you can even be able to get out of bed at age 85 to go to [01:06:00] work. So can you say welcome to Walmart? Because that's the reality for a lot of people today. But let's get back to lifting a minute investing in quality training diet and supplement information is never money.
[01:06:16] Lll spend. Why because you'll learn about what really works and how to avoid things like the supplement scam of the month? Right, you'll have the money to do with what whenever you please not investing in that information absolutely means you will waste valuable time and money and as I've just shown you the time value of money is everything.
[01:06:46] Everything you still want to buy supplements are you too? I'm okay. I'm a guy I make them myself. I just buy the small number that actually work in like [01:07:00] don't drop money crazy amounts of cash on things that don't work. But you only learn that investing in quality information. So please I implore you make smart decisions about your future, you know do this right by Saving early and often investing in high quality training diet supplement information and you're going to retire.
[01:07:24] They jacked multi-millionaire at age 65 and guess what at that point. You can devote all your time and energy to training diving and supplementing. It really is an incredible possibility, but you need to harness the time value of money and information while you're still relatively Young. I have this conversation last night, but the friend that you Jutsu and he's in his mid to late 40s now like me.
[01:08:00] [01:08:01] And unfortunately, nobody ever tells you this in school. You can go through higher education. You can get a doctorate in this country and nobody's going to tell you what I just told you that by starting early. Even putting modest amounts of money every month early can give you Millions literally millions of dollars later in life.
[01:08:26] If you don't believe me punch compound interest calculator into Google go to the first link and start playing with the numbers. It is staggering to see what is possible Well, here here's something. Yeah, if you're a cigarette smoke. And you smoke one pack of cigarettes a day. Amen. Okay, you're in one month.
[01:08:50] You're spending $150 if you smoking two packs a day, that's three hundred dollars over the course of 40 Years of smoking which most people smoke [01:09:00] lifelong $73,000 you've spent on cigarettes one pack a day and a hundred forty six thousand. You've spent that two packs a day and you know, it's small right so you don't feel it.
[01:09:11] It's about $7. You know a carton or whatever. It is $12 $15 a car whatever it is. I don't even know what it is anymore five dollars a pack. I don't know but the bottom line is if you quit smoking and you took that hundred and fifty dollars or $300 a month and put it into some sort of investment vehicle that has a decent return and and did that every month for 40 years.
[01:09:32] You will have invested that hundred plus thousand dollars into something that probably would turn it into a million. Yeah, and when people lot of people right now are saying though, how can that be? It's the magic of compound interest. So so so since you were in the investment business you remember you remember ASCAP that led to the Fidelity Magellan front fund.
[01:09:53] Fidelity you know, you know, you know how well how well performing the Fidelity. Oh, yeah, my brother have a [01:10:00] lot of money in the Magellan. Well when for when Fidelity Magellan first started my parents bought stock in and unfortunately, they sold it a little too soon. But my I have two cousins that actually were Brokers and they work for a company called escap OS C AP and that was the company that that helped to launch the Fidelity Magellan fund.
[01:10:24] They and they invested small amounts of money back then and their portfolios worth millions today and it's just because of that one mutual fund. Yeah, people don't people don't understand the vast majority of wealth that ordinary people have built in the United States was accomplished by investing small amounts of money regularly over long periods of time 20 30 years.
[01:10:53] Unfortunately, there are a lot of financial services professionals who will put you in an inappropriate [01:11:00] product and you don't know any better. I mean come on at 20 years of age some slick and you know Financial Services guy pulls you aside and says hey if you put this money in an annuity when you're rich, you'll be well taken care of.
[01:11:17] Unfortunately, you know annuities are bought. Nobody wakes up and says I want to buy an annuity today somebody sells it to them. So what I'm telling you is be careful who you talk to if they have a vested interest in where you put your money probably better to stay away. So would you say that about guys who are trying to sell whole life?
[01:11:37] His whole life of worthwhile it because they always position whole life as an investment while you're you know portion of your money is being invested at some point in time. You don't have to pay for your life insurance anymore. You can actually draw down on it is whole life worth it. No for the vast majority of people term life insurance will give you what you want from life insurance, which is life insurance insofar [01:12:00] as Retirement savings, but what you're going to want to look into.
[01:12:04] My opinion number one is a Roth IRA because the money that you put in today. 30 years from now when you go to take it out and retirement. It is tax free. If you think taxes are going to be lower in the future you are you are my opinion out of your mind. This country is running how many trillion dollars of deficit?
[01:12:30] And two Wars that we need all of and in the Aging of the population. The medical care taxes are going to be way higher besides if you retire with two million dollars, would you rather pay taxes and have that become 1.5 million or would you rather have all 2 million to do with what you please?
[01:12:51] That's the benefit and the power of a Roth IRA. Yeah great stuff. There you go. Even get investment advice on the blueprint [01:13:00] power. Well, it's like I said, unless you hear this from someone along the way you can get a doctorate in this country. Nobody ever explained this to you. And by the time you find it out at age 40, like a lot of people it's too late.
[01:13:15] So. That's it, brother. That's everything. Yep. I hope in 30 years from listen to contact me and says, you know, I took your advice on that my God am I happy that I did? Yep. Yep. So that's the position. I'm in now. I went back to that person. And I said my God, thank you for pulling me aside and telling you that yeah, absolutely.
[01:13:41] Hi, brother. Alright, man. Take care next week. We'll see my out by the way tomorrow. After the after signs for humans, we have a guy coming on who is a high-level vegan of jumped the vegan ship after decades and is now a carnivore Dieter and [01:14:00] all the reasons that he started vegan which they just got worse and worse being a vegan and now he feels like amazing eating nothing but red meat and was Michael hurt.
[01:14:13] My we're going to do Mike and two weeks that's got to be a groundbreaking show because there's a lot of studies coming out. Talking about a supplement vitamin that if you take it it'll actually keep you from making gains. Keep you from making gains. We'll just leave it at that. I want to kind of leave it a little secretive until we have the show and and and and I heard somewhere that Mike has been taking high doses of this stuff and I texted him I said Mike is it true that you've been taking this?
[01:14:42] In high doses and if so how long he said that's right 19 years and I'm like, okay something's wrong here. If Mike yeah, Mike O'Hearn can be taken this stuff for 19 years and he's super fit super strong, you know, just and he's in his [01:15:00] forties now, he's not a young gay kid anymore. Then there's got to be more to the story and this is why I say critical thinking everybody critical thinking.
[01:15:09] You know when science contradicts something that you know to be true, you must abandon the science all these people out there going it's all about the science. They're wrong because the science from 50 years ago has been disproven. And now we have new science science. I said this on I said this on Tom bill you show everything looking forward is a guess.
[01:15:32] So we get scientific studies we go. This is it. This isn't what so we're looking forward but everything looking back we know to be true or not. And so, you know, you got to be careful. When you looking at signs to put too much value in it when you know T. That's not my experience in stick with your.
[01:15:52] Hope your experience. Mike has a lot of haters, which is a sure sign. He's onto something. Yeah, I know right that. I know the people always come out and [01:16:00] said so I always get emails have two mics on the show telling me you know, he uses Peds. He uses he uses anabolic steroids. It's like who freaking cares, you know one takes anabolic steroids and looks like Mike unless you get up at 4:00 a.m.
[01:16:15] Like my can train like an animal like Mike before hours a day like Mike. Yeah, so I don't even want to hear about the drugs anymore. I'm tired of hearing about that. That's just that's just people who use that. Are trying to pull a Joe Biden. Oh, I could have been a pro baseball player. If I was willing to do the drugs know you could have never been a pro baseball player.
[01:16:35] You don't have the qualities the work ethic the physical stature. You don't have anything to be a pro baseball player. So what people want to do is when they say, oh the drugs the drugs the drugs what they're really saying is I'm a lazy ass who doesn't have the willpower. To do these things so I'm going to blow I'm going to blow this guy up by saying.
[01:16:55] Yeah, the only reason why he's like that it's close to drugs. Yeah, and you know what? Everybody's got the [01:17:00] same drug. So yeah, that's right. That's right. I'll talk to you later on and we will see everybody tomorrow with more superhuman radio. Thank you for listening today.
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