56 Supplements

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Episode Transcript

Kevin Tejada: Okay, let's talk about supplements. Now, as the name implies, (00:28):
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Kevin Tejada: these things are supposed to supplement your current nutrition, (00:32):
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Kevin Tejada: your current lifestyle, whatever. (00:37):
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Kevin Tejada: It's going to be in terms of nutrients, vitamins, minerals. (00:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, the implication, though, is that on a day-to-day basis, (00:42):
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Kevin Tejada: you're trying pretty decently to get what you can from food in real life. (00:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Supplementation is if it's unreasonable for you to get that much from food to daily life. (00:52):
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Speaker2: And you need that help. (00:57):
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Kevin Tejada: For example, you live in Alaska, the sun doesn't, where is it that the sun doesn't (00:59):
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Kevin Tejada: come out for like six months? (01:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Wherever that place is, you probably need some vitamin D supplementation. (01:05):
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Speaker3: Which is fine. (01:12):
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Kevin Tejada: Let's say you need a bunch of protein, but you can't be cooking chicken every single day or whatever. (01:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Then protein powder, whatever it is, that can be helpful for you. (01:20):
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Kevin Tejada: But there's some crazy stuff going on in the supplement industry, (01:23):
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Kevin Tejada: and it can sometimes feel like black market drug industry or the wild west or something. (01:27):
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Kevin Tejada: The supplement industry itself is really, it's pretty unregulated by the FDA. (01:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Not that being regulated by the FDA means it's good to begin with, (01:40):
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Kevin Tejada: but it's, uh, there's, there's not, there's not a lot of oversight. (01:43):
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Kevin Tejada: You can kind of just say, Hey, this pill has a bunch of goat semen in it. (01:47):
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Kevin Tejada: I think that exists actually. or maybe the bull semen, eat this and you'll have (01:51):
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Kevin Tejada: bigger, bigger muscles and higher sex drive or whatever. (01:55):
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Speaker3: And whatever. (01:59):
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Kevin Tejada: They can just say at the bottom, these, these statements have not been verified (02:00):
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Kevin Tejada: by the FDA and then you're good, whatever. (02:03):
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Kevin Tejada: And a lot of times, as I said, they can just put the disclaimer on there and (02:06):
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Kevin Tejada: they don't need to really have a bunch of science backing the supplement at all. (02:10):
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Speaker3: Which is super cool. (02:13):
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Kevin Tejada: And since they're not that regulated, sometimes the suggested serving size or (02:16):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever it is might be totally off or it only applies to certain people because (02:21):
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Kevin Tejada: supplementation is supposed to add to what you are missing which means there's (02:24):
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Kevin Tejada: not one serving for all which means it can be easy to over consume certain supplementation or. (02:28):
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Speaker3: Just not understand it because the labeling (02:35):
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Kevin Tejada: Is dog shit such as a lot of fat burning supplements i think i've. (02:38):
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Speaker1: Did I? (02:43):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know if I went over this in a previous episode, but basically fat-burning (02:44):
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Kevin Tejada: supplements are kind of like, they're kind of like coffee. (02:47):
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Speaker2: They have a (02:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Bunch of caffeine and they get your body ready to expend a bit more energy. (02:51):
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Kevin Tejada: If you use it to actually exercise, which is kind of what pre-workout is, (02:55):
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Kevin Tejada: pre-workout fat-burning supplements are very similar, at least in function. (02:59):
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Kevin Tejada: they get you really ready to work out and if you do well (03:03):
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Kevin Tejada: it can help you exercise more and then that can facilitate a (03:06):
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Kevin Tejada: body that would have less body fat on it (03:11):
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Kevin Tejada: over time but some people are like oh fat burning i take this and fat is burned (03:14):
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Kevin Tejada: off holy shit that's not how it works you can't just take that and sit down (03:19):
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Kevin Tejada: and expect something to happen that's how physics works it's those specifically (03:22):
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Kevin Tejada: are meant to kind of activate you into being fit but given that most people don't know that. (03:27):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't think it's being communicated very well on the supplements itself. (03:34):
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Speaker3: And even besides the bad information, (03:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Sometimes these supplements can be as weird as an off-market fucking drug from (03:42):
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Kevin Tejada: around the corner, meaning that it can have effects on your body that you wouldn't (03:48):
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Kevin Tejada: expect. It can interact with other things that are going on in your body. (03:52):
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Kevin Tejada: If you have certain health conditions, this could fuck you up as well. (03:56):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, yeah, supplementation is kind of a a weird thing. And it's not medication. (03:59):
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Speaker1: So you have to choose (04:06):
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Kevin Tejada: Yourself if you want it, but you have to be knowledgeable enough to understand your own deficiencies. (04:07):
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Kevin Tejada: Most people don't understand anything. So that's a big ask. (04:13):
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Kevin Tejada: And if I sound mean when I say most people don't understand anything, (04:18):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm saying most people understand move more, eat less calories in and out. (04:21):
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Kevin Tejada: That's a very, it's a very easy to find out fact yet was like 70% of the United States is overweight. (04:28):
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Kevin Tejada: So in terms of putting stuff in your mouth, I don't think the understanding is very high. (04:35):
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Kevin Tejada: A lot of people use these for quick fixes too. Just like the fat burning thing. (04:40):
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Kevin Tejada: They think, Oh my God, I take this, this protein supplement. (04:43):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't just gain thick ass biceps, right? (04:46):
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Speaker2: No, that's not how that works. (04:48):
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Kevin Tejada: Sometimes the marketing plays a role. Marketing can be pretty aggressive They (04:52):
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Kevin Tejada: just choose some person who's fit Or looks the way that you want And then say (04:56):
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Kevin Tejada: yeah I totally use this and only this To accomplish, (05:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Whatever the fuck the advertising says So trust my appearance Take it And then (05:05):
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Kevin Tejada: people just take it And then you know. (05:10):
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Speaker1: Don't have the (05:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Mental context or their body can't handle it. (05:14):
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Kevin Tejada: And then they get fucked up or, you know, don't get results. Devil's advocate. (05:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Supplements are natural and safe, unlike synthetic medications. (05:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Just because something's natural doesn't mean it's safe. So I want to point (05:28):
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Kevin Tejada: that out, that there are a lot of plants that would kill you if you ate them. Same. (05:31):
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Kevin Tejada: Some of these things can be as bad for you as medication or as dangerous anyway. (05:37):
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Kevin Tejada: So that's stupid. They provide necessary nutrients that modern diets lack. (05:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Well, the modern diet, the modern American diet, yeah, it does lack a lot of (05:46):
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Kevin Tejada: nutrients, but that's not something your diet has to lack. (05:51):
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Kevin Tejada: And I know certain locations maybe have harder access to certain foods and blah, (05:55):
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Kevin Tejada: blah, blah. They might be lacking a certain thing. (05:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe you're vegan, you're lacking B12, whatever it is. (06:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Whatever the deficiencies are for whatever your situation is, (06:04):
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Kevin Tejada: aside from those, you can control your diet pretty well. (06:08):
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Kevin Tejada: so these aren't necessary supplements aren't necessary to get those nutrients (06:11):
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Kevin Tejada: not all the time anyway so if you're if you're if your modern diet lacks certain things try. (06:16):
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Speaker3: To fix it (06:24):
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Kevin Tejada: With food possible next devil using supplements proactively can prevent chronic diseases i. (06:24):
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Speaker3: Don't know maybe (06:32):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean if we're talking for preventable diseases i mean you can prevent obesity, (06:33):
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Kevin Tejada: but most people don't do it. (06:38):
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Kevin Tejada: So do you honestly think people intelligently use supplements to know which (06:39):
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Kevin Tejada: disease they can sidestep? (06:44):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, a lot of faith in people here. I suppose it's a true thing, though. (06:46):
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Speaker1: It's kind of like (06:51):
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Kevin Tejada: Saying a knife can help you lose weight because you can chop your finger off. (06:51):
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Speaker3: I mean, sure, it's technically true. (06:55):
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Kevin Tejada: It's not a statement I would put out there, though. Experts who dismiss supplements (06:59):
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Kevin Tejada: are influenced by pharmaceutical queen trees. (07:04):
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Speaker2: Joke's on you. (07:06):
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Speaker3: I'm not a (07:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Fan of unnecessary supplements or big farm. (07:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Taking is something your body doesn't need for no reason. I don't like, (07:13):
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Kevin Tejada: regardless of where it comes from, personally. (07:16):
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Speaker1: And am I an expert? (07:20):
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Speaker2: I don't know. (07:22):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know about that, man. All right, let's get into a bit of numbers here. (07:23):
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Kevin Tejada: Apparently, 57% of American adults report using dietary supplements. (07:28):
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Speaker2: At least in 2018. (07:33):
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Speaker3: That's over half. (07:36):
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Kevin Tejada: I wonder what it is now, probably with advertising and shit. (07:37):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe it's more, or maybe because of inflation and people being broke. (07:39):
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Kevin Tejada: It beats less. I don't know. (07:42):
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Kevin Tejada: But about half of people take dietary supplements, which is. (07:44):
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Speaker3: Funny because most (07:48):
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Kevin Tejada: Americans eat like complete dog shit. So if they just kind of alter the way (07:49):
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Kevin Tejada: that they already eat, I don't know if the supplementation would be super necessary, to be honest. (07:52):
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Speaker1: I didn't know this one. (07:59):
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Kevin Tejada: This is funny. About 23,000 emergency room visits every year in America are (08:01):
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Kevin Tejada: linked to supplement related side effects. (08:06):
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Kevin Tejada: Most often the weight loss supplements The sexual enhancement supplements Or (08:10):
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Kevin Tejada: bodybuilding products Whatever the hell that means But you have thousands of people going in, (08:16):
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Kevin Tejada: to the emergency room because their viagra fucked. (08:22):
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Speaker3: Them up that's wild (08:25):
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Kevin Tejada: Or the bull the bull semen shit i was talking about whatever it is i don't know (08:26):
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Kevin Tejada: viagra counts as a supplement i. (08:31):
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Speaker3: Don't think so (08:33):
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Kevin Tejada: But i think that bull semen thing is uh it's meant (08:34):
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Kevin Tejada: to do the same thing if you don't if you don't believe me like (08:37):
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Kevin Tejada: look it up there's there's a supplement out there i think (08:40):
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Kevin Tejada: i'm pretty damn sure there's one that involves something about bull testicles (08:44):
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Kevin Tejada: or bull semen look it up i'm serious anyway from (08:47):
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Kevin Tejada: 2007 to 2016 there's close (08:51):
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Kevin Tejada: to 800 dietary supplements that were just (08:55):
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Kevin Tejada: kind of not really looked over very well about 150 (08:58):
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Kevin Tejada: companies are to blame for that and yeah many (09:01):
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Kevin Tejada: of those contain more than one unapproved drug so (09:05):
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Kevin Tejada: that's cool less than 10 percent of people taking supplements actually have (09:09):
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Kevin Tejada: a nutritional deficiency shocker i know personally for me if you're of a certain (09:13):
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Kevin Tejada: level of activity then well in general eating a lot of protein is pretty good (09:20):
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Kevin Tejada: for you and for your body but if you're at a certain. (09:24):
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Speaker2: Level you need more (09:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Protein than average and that's kind of where i'm at right now so getting. (09:30):
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Speaker3: A lot of that (09:35):
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Kevin Tejada: In can be kind of challenging so So I do supplement, I use protein powders sometimes. (09:36):
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Kevin Tejada: I use cachava, which is awesome. It's basically a meal replacement, (09:41):
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Kevin Tejada: but the protein amount is fucking high. (09:46):
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Kevin Tejada: I also use metabolic protein powder from Blueprint. (09:49):
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Kevin Tejada: That one, by the way, is sick as fuck because you know how a lot of protein, (09:55):
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Kevin Tejada: you mix it up and it's kind of chunky or chalky or whatever it is. (09:58):
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Kevin Tejada: this one the the one from blueprint. (10:01):
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Speaker3: This blends the (10:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Best i've ever fucking seen it turns into straight up liquid you know sometimes (10:05):
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Kevin Tejada: you have to put in a bunch of extra milk or water whatever it is you're using (10:10):
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Kevin Tejada: to make sure it's liquidy and not you know a very thick shape this one. (10:14):
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Speaker3: I put in the same amount (10:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Of of milk at the end of it i'm (10:20):
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Kevin Tejada: like okay i use too much almond milk because this is just straight up (10:22):
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Kevin Tejada: liquid the the protein just it mixes absolutely (10:25):
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Kevin Tejada: perfectly in there so you can use less liquid to (10:29):
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Kevin Tejada: make that so i recommend that one too there's one (10:32):
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Kevin Tejada: i would recommend maybe if you want there's a protein that's (10:35):
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Kevin Tejada: a protein powder that is called space milk it has like it's just like pure protein (10:38):
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Kevin Tejada: basically and everything i mentioned so far is there's no dairy in it or anything (10:44):
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Kevin Tejada: like that and the space milk has like nothing if you're like oh i can't take (10:48):
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Kevin Tejada: a pea protein or whatever whatever space milk i don't know what the fuck it's made It's got like, (10:52):
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Kevin Tejada: it's just protein. It's just that. (10:57):
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Kevin Tejada: Thing is that it doesn't taste very good. And it's not like it tastes bad. (11:00):
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Kevin Tejada: It has that unflavored flavor. (11:04):
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Kevin Tejada: That kind of overpowers a lot of what I put in there. (11:07):
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Kevin Tejada: So not a big fan of that one. But if you want one of the purest ones you can get, space milk is good. (11:10):
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Kevin Tejada: I'd probably recommend cachava maybe overall for taste. (11:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Metabolic protein from Blueprint is one I'd recommend if you want really effective (11:20):
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Kevin Tejada: protein because the guy behind it, Brian Johnson, is fucking insane and he's (11:25):
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Kevin Tejada: trying to optimize living. (11:29):
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Kevin Tejada: So that protein is probably pretty optimal for you. (11:31):
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Speaker3: And yeah, honestly, for (11:35):
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Kevin Tejada: Supplementation beyond kind of dietary stuff, you're talking about minerals (11:36):
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Kevin Tejada: or stuff for your balls or whatever the fuck it is. (11:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe ask your doctor about what, look at your blood tests. What are you actually lacking? (11:44):
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Kevin Tejada: If you see a blood test and you're lacking vitamin D or iron, (11:49):
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Kevin Tejada: then maybe you should supplement those. And then the other stuff, (11:52):
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Kevin Tejada: don't worry about it right now. (11:56):
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Kevin Tejada: Because there is such a thing of taking too many vitamins and minerals, and that's also bad. (11:57):
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Kevin Tejada: so what i say is get some data and do that and also for supplements as well (12:02):
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Kevin Tejada: this this should be common knowledge i guess but don't get the fucking candy (12:07):
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Kevin Tejada: pro uh candy supplements what i mean by that is you're getting oh man i'm getting (12:11):
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Kevin Tejada: protein supplementation and it's fucking banana pancake, (12:15):
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Kevin Tejada: shit i say this from experience i got this there's a really popular brand called (12:21):
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Kevin Tejada: ghost protein which I've, I've only had their, their vegan banana protein powder, which it just, (12:26):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, a lot of stuff just adding up to something that's probably not great, (12:33):
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Kevin Tejada: but that was probably my least favorite I've ever had in my life. (12:36):
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Kevin Tejada: I would mix just even like half a scoop of that with a bunch of other stuff. (12:40):
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Kevin Tejada: And that flavor would overpower. (12:44):
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Kevin Tejada: It's just like corrupted sugar is what it tasted like. I was not a fan of that (12:47):
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Kevin Tejada: whatsoever. I had to throw it out. It just was. (12:52):
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Speaker3: Not good it's it (12:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Felt like trash you know in the candy-ish protein (12:56):
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Kevin Tejada: bars where it's borderline just a chocolate (12:59):
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Kevin Tejada: bar or something just obviously don't fucking go for that (13:02):
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Kevin Tejada: if you're trying to supplement your health make it better don't use (13:05):
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Kevin Tejada: the fucking candy options all right first of all it's fucking candy that you're (13:08):
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Kevin Tejada: doing secondly to get that candy in and you it's probably replacing stuff that (13:12):
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Kevin Tejada: is actually helpful for you so it just seems obvious but it's gotta say don't (13:17):
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Kevin Tejada: fucking do it just eat better. Just eat better. (13:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Get the data. Look at what you lack. (13:25):
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Kevin Tejada: Get more of that as naturally as you can. For things that are unreasonable, (13:27):
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Kevin Tejada: then supplement. Does that sound fair? (13:32):
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Speaker2: All right. (13:35):
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Kevin Tejada: Take your blood tests before you supplement. And yeah, I hope you make it. See you next time. (13:36):
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