MASSIVE Q&A on Human Optimization, Training, Peptides, and Lifestyle Strategies (10k Followers Gift)

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🧠 TIMESTAMPS 
00:00 - Celebrating growth and introducing the massive QA session

02:17 - The role of music and ritualization in gym performance

03:36 - Diverse music choices and their effects on workout energy

04:57 - Insights on nicotine, dosage, and buzz effects

06:24 - How to structure gym playlists depending on session goals

07:49 - Peptide logistics, compatibility, and injection tips

08:45 - Nutritional strategies with high protein intake and meal planning

09:14 - Managing T3, thyroid protocols, and hormone balancing

11:07 - Reversing IBS and gut health protocols with innovative methods

12:27 - Building mental resilience, cognitive enhancements, and long-term optimization

14:23 - Protocols for heart health, supplements, and risk mitigation

16:42 - Use of bioregulators for aging, tissue repair, and injury recovery

18:25 - Client-coach communication, what makes a good client

19:43 - The importance of consistency, patience, and identity shifts in fat loss and muscle gain

22:00 - Building sustainable training and nutrition routines

26:03 - Long-term approaches to cycles, hormone optimization, and health

30:00 - Nootropics, cognitive protocols, and mental performance tools

37:00 - Important considerations for drug use, side effects, and long-term risks

44:00 - Innovating with peptides, supplements, and biohacking for aging and recovery

54:00 - Psychedelic insights, set and setting, and responsible use of experiential tools

58:00 - Strategies for hypertrophy, deloads, and injury prevention

60:49 - Nutritional planning, calorie cycling, and long-term lifestyle changes

70:36 - Optimizing mitochondrial function and metabolic health in weight management

78:00 - The significance of enjoyment, passion, and identity in training

86:33 - Personal reflections on past mistakes, regrets, and learnings in fitness and life

92:00 - Cutting-edge research, new peptides, and future potential topics

100:00 - The importance of a personalized, nuanced approach to health and performance

107:00 - Final thoughts: long-term vision, community, and ongoing learning

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome, you guys, to another episode of The Opticast, the only god ordained podcast on the internet when it comes to human optimization. You guys already know everything about it, but guys, this is fucking massive, y'all. In January, I believe I have like a thousand followers. And right now, I was gonna celebrate 10,000, but we're also like at 10.2k already, something like that. Like it just keeps fucking growing. The support that you guys have been giving is absolutely amazing. So I thought, how can I give you guys something back, right? What can I do for you guys to give you even more back than what I already tried to do? And uh, we you you I put out some options of things that you guys wanted, and uh this was unanimous. Like everybody wanted a fucking massive QA. So that's what we're doing today. Aubrey is joining me here today. I am your host, Aubrey's your co-host. We're just gonna be answering all of these questions that you guys sent. This is gonna be a massive one, so you guys need to fucking chill, listen to all of this stuff because it's gonna be pretty cool. I actually don't know what the questions are. I haven't even opened it. I I know that there are some questions that I don't know like what it is or the answer for, and I thought, should I like look it up or like at least give you guys something or something? But you guys know I'm all about fucking authenticity. If I don't know the answer to something, I'm just gonna fucking tell you flat out. Okay, so that's how we're gonna roll. I am also eating my meal because today is it's a no training day, which means it's zero carbs until the last meal as it comes to uh to my program uh that I have now because now I am working with a coach. I don't know if you guys heard of it, but yeah, I am working with a coach. I I I uh I uh should I say what the coach is?

SPEAKER_02 1:23

People will find out.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

People will find out. Yeah, you guys will find out. Um, but yeah, I'm working with a coach now, so I have a program that I'm following. I don't have to figure anything out on my own anymore. This is absolutely fucking amazing. I I love the feeling that I have is just fucking execution. Every single day, just fucking execution. I know what I gotta do, and I'm just fucking executing. So uh it's time for my meal, which means I have to take a couple of bites here and there.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

But this is not gonna be a boring one where I just fucking talk with my mouth full of food. I also got the full package. I got zinzies, I got the energy drink, I got water because health. I got you know, weed. I got water, that's all I got. You want nicotine? No. So many people love to use struggling with nicotine. It was fucking hilarious. It was fucking awesome.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Why? Why do people do this? Is that how it feels?

SPEAKER_01 2:13

No.

SPEAKER_02 2:14

How does it feel once it feels good?

SPEAKER_01 2:16

It just feels like a little buzz that you get for like five fucking days.

SPEAKER_00 2:22

Five days? No, it doesn't even last five days. Like, like the the the amount of times that you get to do it and get a buzz, it's probably maxed out in like five days. After that, you just don't feel anything at all.

SPEAKER_02 2:32

So five days, man, that sounds terrible.

SPEAKER_00 2:36

Well, five days that you get the buzz, not the bad side effect.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

In order to okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

So the the bad side effect usually just means the dose is too high. So like if I gave you a two milligram pouch, you're probably fine, but I gave you a six. So a two milligram, you'll probably be totally fine. Three milligram, you'll probably be totally fine.

SPEAKER_02 2:52

It just you then the buzz was unpleasant.

SPEAKER_00 2:54

Because the dose is too high. Okay. It's kind of like when you do too much weed and just like fucks you up.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Yeah, it it's it's it's kind of like that. So, what is your gym playlist depending on gym session, body part, mood for the gym? Okay, I'm gonna put this in the description of the video, but I have a playlist that's like 16 hours, I have a playlist that's like 40 hours, and I have a playlist that's like 20 hours of just fucking banger after banger. I just listen to this shit on repeat, and then I just pick before my set what song I'm gonna listen to. Now, I started a process of ritualization, which I believe is super fucking important. So for my my like while I'm warming up for the gym, I listen to the same playlist that I used to listen to when I was getting ready for uh competition matches, like uh shooting matches. So it basically just like puts me in the right place as I'm warming up and I'm activating and priming the muscles, so then my mind doesn't drift away and I'm not just like moving weight around. That's not the goal. The goal is to actually activate the muscles with this new program that I have in place. So being a little bit more intentional about the ritual that I follow. I also am having like the same fucking uh meal and the same fucking like pre-workout and intra-workout shake and all this stuff, and the music is pretty much the same all the time as well. I find that to be very, very important. Now, uh, when it comes to like music choice, oh dude, you're gonna see it. There's a variety, bro. There's fucking Christian rap, there is like Hebrew EDM, there is fucking Portuguese funk, there is like literally everything. There's like System of a Down, there is MM, there is like it's just all over the place. So like whatever gets me going, that's what I'm gonna fucking play. Literally, she sees it. Like, I'll I'll step on the leg press and I'll sometimes just like he'll just say they'll tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, just fucking tap it until I actually get the the song that I it's gonna pull the demons out of me. I find that to be very important.

SPEAKER_02 4:37

So one time he forgot his earbuds and it was brutal.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

It was so brutal. I couldn't do my.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

I let him borrow mine because I'm a good person.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Now I know people are gonna be like if you can't uh if you can't like train without earbuds, you just don't have it in you. Yeah, bro, I don't. I'm healed.

SPEAKER_00 4:54

I gone through therapy. I don't have big like fucking demons. I don't have people that I'm trying to prove wrong. I don't have uh like any of this like narrative going on in the back of my head about like fuck these people and all this type of shit. I don't have that.

SPEAKER_01 5:06

I have cues that are very helpful, but in the same way that taking a pre-workout is gonna help me perform better, you don't need it, but why not take it if it's gonna help it perform better, you know? So that's my idea. What about you for music?

SPEAKER_02 5:22

It depends. It depends the day. Sometimes I get if I'm like pretty overwhelmed, then I'll just listen to something that doesn't have lyrics. Or okay, I've even listened to classical music.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

Fucking retarded.

SPEAKER_02 5:37

Or it's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

It's like movie themes and stuff, so you feel like you know how the fuck do you pull like another rep when you don't want to do another rep playing fucking Mozart?

SPEAKER_02 5:47

It's I don't know if it's Mozart that I'm listening to.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

Holy shit, dog She's not autistic. She's not autistic. But talk about literal, right?

SPEAKER_02 5:55

Get me tested. I've literally said this. No, I'm saying like you're very literal.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

It's your ADHD.

SPEAKER_02 6:01

But Well, yeah, so I don't know. I just do it because that's what you do. You just do another rep and you do it until the weight doesn't move anymore.

SPEAKER_00 6:09

That's a good mindset. Yeah. You'd you I you'd I do it until the weight doesn't move anymore. Well, now I actually have reps that I need to hit.

SPEAKER_02 6:15

But I do like rap.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

I like Actually don't like rap as much for training.

SPEAKER_02 6:20

I like rap, hip-hop.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

What's the difference between rap rap and hip hop?

SPEAKER_02 6:26

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

Hip hop is. Hip hop is a movement. Hip hop is a movement made up of four elements. Rap is a music style.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

Oh, you were actually gonna tell us the answer.

SPEAKER_00 6:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

Yeah. But I like Brazilian funk, although it makes me it gets me in the mood to dance, and then I don't wanna I'm not really in the mood to train. But I think we like a lot of similar music styles.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

Yeah, for sure. Hi, next one. Let's read people's names as well. First one was from Morpsey. Shout out Morpsey. Tons of messages from you guys.

SPEAKER_00 6:58

Okay, so Rob TM56. Yosing using multiple injection peptides, can you take them simultaneously as long as you're using different injection sites? Yeah, as long as you're using different injection sites, you're totally gonna be fine. Now, if you're gonna be loading them all in the same syringe, you gotta make sure that the pH of the peptide it actually matches, otherwise it's gonna crash. So, for instance, DSIP, you always take it separate from everything else because the pH is different. If like any GLP1, you have to take it separate from everything else, otherwise you inhibit the absorption of it. So, like you you just you just gotta know what the pH is. Um, I'm I'm working on a on a on a resource for this, but finding the pH even on these things, like on the data, is super fucking hard. Like it's not super straightforward. So the the way that I do it is if I load it on the syringe and it crashes, I just don't mix that thing anymore. So that's how I found about the SIP that it just doesn't mix with anything else. And if it does crashes, what does that mean? Is like it just gets a little bit clouded and stuff. The the compound is useless. Like you don't even have to inject it, like if you're not gonna get an infection, but there's just no reason to like actually try it. I'm gonna have to double up on my next meal because this is fucking too much. Bro, I'm eating so much food, guys. Well, I'm eating so much protein. Like my protein went from like 180 grams of protein to 380, like almost 400 grams of protein. Like that was a big bump. Yeah. Quite. One of my meals, one of my meals on the program is like 15 ounces of cottage cheese. And I was like, excuse me? Well, you mean over half a tub of cotta cheese? So I try to eat like I try to eat five ounces mixed with a bunch of other shit. It was okay as long as I had rice. But then today it was just like 15 ounces and then like 10 grams of nuts. And I was like, holy shit, I tried eight ounces, I almost threw up. It was disgust- I felt like I was drinking someone else's cum, dude. It was fucking disgusting. Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_02 8:45

Someone else's.

SPEAKER_00 8:46

Or my own. I don't know, man. That shit was fucking disgusting. Okay. Mo I can't even read your full name, bro, but it says Mohammed Faisa. Faisa N M something. Okay. So possible to preserve muscle mass on trend test, TQ, insulin, and gH while taking 200 micrograms of T3. 200 micrograms of T. That's that's uh, dude, very likely that is way too much. Like, very likely. You guys see me talking about like how you're not gonna lose muscle and all this type of shit. You need to pull your bloods and see what the effect that this is having on you. Also, cardiac issues are like a thing when it comes to T3 overdose, okay? Like we talk about like people, I talk about T3 the same the same way that I talk about water. Drink a fuck ton of water, but don't drown, right? Like it's the same thing with T3. Like bring it up as about as high as you can tolerate, as high as your body wants, but don't bring it any higher. Like you literally get no benefit out of that. Like if you're trying to just lose body fat, dude, you're taking GH, you're taking Tren, right? I don't know why you're taking insulin on a on a phallos phase. I wouldn't take insulin on a phallos phase at all. I would replace that with MOTC or RETTA for insulin sensitivity. And then just carb cycling, absolutely. But 200 micrograms of T3, man, that's that is way too fucking much. Just being completely honest here. I I doubt that you need that much. Now, on the research that we have that they it goes up to like 150 micrograms that they've tested uh without seeing adverse effects on people. So I'm not like, holy shit, I need to message this guy because he's about to die. I I've known of people that have done a high dose like that. I just don't think it's healthy. I don't think it's wise, and I don't think you gain anything. I think you I'd much rather like use your himbean, clambuterol, nicotine, you know, like ephedrin and like other other burners. Oh, making sure that you have your heart health in place, right? With nabivalol and things like that, like beta blockers and cardiovascular capacity, and also like uh you the carb cycling, the sleep and recovery and all this stuff. Um, but I wouldn't I wouldn't push one lever so high. I I normally like you're not gonna find a program from me that I'm pushing one single lever super fucking high. Like that doesn't exist. We we utilize multiple levers, very, very like little bit of it, so that it creates a compound effect. But like if we're if we're gonna find a side effect whenever we reach level 10, like do we get a side effect if we reach level six? No. So we're gonna go all the way from level one to level six on six different compounds as opposed to going with two and pushing level ten. That makes sense, right? So, musaibi gut issues, IBS, D and C, bloating, malabsorption of food. Nobody talks about it. I feel like people I feel like people talk about it. Um, it's it's definitely definitely sucks to have rotating diarrhea and constipation. I know because I had diarrhea IBS. But you know what, dog? I don't even know if I fucking said this, but I've had IBS for 10 fucking years. And you know what? I reversed my IBS. I officially have a protocol for reversing IBS. This is something that's gonna be part of our GI course that's coming up soon. It's uh as of now, it's already bigger than the thyroid course because I'm learning like as I'm creating the course, so I have everything so fresh in my head, it's absolutely fucking insane how much more like powerful that is as a methodology for creating course material. So I'm very, I'm very much enjoying that. Now I may take a little bit of detour, do an adrenal course before then. I know a lot of people have been asking for a sleep course, and I already have a sleep course that is client exclusive, but transforming that into something that's applicable for everybody. Like, yeah, I also have like five courses for clients that are that are due. And I made one that I finished this week that is like over like almost 200 lessons long. It's a 90-day protocol that's like super fucking intense and in depth here for rebuilding a new identity, which I'm super fucking pumped about. It's literally the biggest change that we've had at OptLab and the best change that we've had at OptLab since Optolab was launched. I uh when Optolab was launched, I I I I, you know, basically I found that the biggest bottleneck for people, it's never the program ever. It's their identity. So I wrote this book here called The Unfuckable Path. Okay. This isn't that's this is basically a 90 devotional, so to speak, where there is like a reflection on like what you are what what we are thinking about and covering in that day. Then there is uh, you know, the text, there's uh something for you to think about, and then there's an action step. And now we actually moved this into a proper course with a graduation and everything, like a ceremony, properly speaking, everything is like super fucking, I'm super fucking stoked for the stuff that we're producing for our clients. So because of that, I haven't been putting like as much focus on the stuff for non-clients because clients are always gonna come first, right? But the GI course is gonna be coming next, and we're gonna be talking about reversing IBS because if this is replicable and I need to try on on a couple of people, so if you if you are listening to this and you have IBS and you're like, hey, I wanna I wanna try out this protocol and stuff, talk to me, let's figure something out and let's give it a try. Because I need now replicability. I need to see if this works on other people as well. Because if it does work, it's fucking true and it's gonna work 100% of the time. So I need like three people or so, five people would be even better to try this out, especially if they have different types of IBS and different uh expressions of it, like you get different uh like different reactions with different foods. Uh, that would be even better. But uh yeah, I think we cracked the code because I literally couldn't tolerate like even uh sm like large amounts of uh like powdered garlic, which is already like almost pre-digested, so to speak. Now I'm eating legit fucking garlic.

SPEAKER_02 13:54

Garlic.

SPEAKER_00 13:54

Like in onions in onions every single meal. Like I can eat, I can eat whatever the fuck I want, guys. I can eat whatever the fuck I want. My IBS has been completely reversed, and that's uh that's great news because it means that your IBS could very soon be reversed as well through fucking Optolab. Let's fucking go. So, yeah, people are gonna talk about it. People are gonna talk about it. Uh, okay, SD29.underscore. Pinealon was amazing, but epitolon was quite mediocre. 22-year-old athlete. Okay, what dose did you use uh epitolon in? In what schedule? Was it a 10-day course, 20 day course? Did you micro dose? Did you pair it with the SIP? Did you pair it with SR9009? Did you pair it with circadian function because the uh did you measure, did you measure your telomeres? Like, if we don't have any of this data, we just don't know if it worked or not, right? So we we need to be able to assess whether something worked or not, right? Like when I when I'm asking, like, does my wife love me? I need to like just look at like how do I assess that? Do I assess that by like how she fucking like plays with her friends when she's out and about? Like, no, I assess that based on how she acts with me, based on like how she provides for the house, right? On how she's involved in my relationship. So you gotta figure out exactly how to measure this thing to be able to know whether it worked or not. But yeah, for a lot of people, it's not gonna work. You gotta remember, guys, when you're looking at these studies for these compounds and stuff, dude, a lot of these are gonna be like uh rat studies, right? Where they purposefully fucking make them hypertensive, or they like beat them the fuck up, or like they remove a limb, they sever their fucking joints and their connective tissue and all this stuff. They give them cancer, they give they give them the most fucked up shit ever. And then you see like a 20% improvement. But in a lot of times, when you give them to a healthy animal, nothing fucking changes. So especially when it comes to bioregulators, the biggest changes are always going to come from like the people who are the most fucked up. Those who need the most help are the ones who are helped the most. That's the rule that you can take from for uh with regards to peptides, especially bioregulators. If you're very healthy, listen to the QA episode that I had with uh fuck uh what was the name of the episode? Let me uh let me look this up because it was a very important episode here. It was a QA episode. A lot of people didn't watch it because for the first uh hour we just talked about uh, you know, uh fucking uh religion and stuff. But it's called How Human Optimization Connects Religion, Philosophy, and Self-Development. And one of the things that he mentioned was, you know, like the the if you're very healthy, you're gonna be very disappointed with peptides. It's just not gonna make a big like moving for you because you already have the fundamentals in place and those are gonna be the biggest level lever movers, which is why, like, whenever I start working with someone, especially if they're already on a bunch of peptides and stuff like that, usually we don't hammer more peptides. We just give them a little bit more clarity on how the programming and everything is going. I'm gonna have to move through these a little bit faster because otherwise we're never gonna fucking finish them. But okay, bioregulators for young athletes for SD um29.underscore. So this is gonna be like again to the same question here. It just depends on what your needs are, right? But it's also gonna depend on like what are you most fucked up on. So, like, for instance, I would want to utilize bioregulators for connective tissue because that's something that you're gonna be beating up progressively for the rest of your life. We know that the thymus starts shrinking whenever when you're 12 years old and it becomes mostly fat by the time that you're 60. I would want to be supplementing thymic peptides on on a yearly rotation to make sure that our immune system is working uh very, very well. Um, you know, with our uh us using screens and all the time and all this stuff, you being an athlete, your reaction speed has to be really good and your visually processing has to be very good. So, retinalamine, because of your health of your eyes, is also gonna be uh something that I would think is very, very useful. Depending on whether you're enhanced or not, then you should follow my PED like an enhancement stack for bioregulators and peptides because we pair both of them. We don't just do bioregulators, we pair them also with supplementation. Supplementation is super fucking ignored, but it's one of the biggest levers that you can pull, even though it's not as flashy and shiny as like an injection or something like that. But yeah, that's how I would that's how I would think about it. Not really. You can read it.

SPEAKER_02 17:45

So I'm not sitting here.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

Uh MF Strong.

SPEAKER_02 17:48

MF Understore Strong. Source for SS31. Biolongevity doesn't carry it.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

Yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't do sources publicly. So yeah. The Caroline Fry Show. What are some green flags in clients and what are some red flags? So if you go to the very first episode of the Opticast, so go to the Opticast, go to the very first episode. There's an episode called How to Be a Good Client. Watch that. Become that person. Okay. That's that's it's literally all that I can give you. When it comes to like a green flag, always I think the most important thing, and I hammer on this like so fucking much, especially when we're starting working together, and before we actually like decide to work together, I ask people this question. But it's like, can you communicate? Like, are you gonna fucking hide? Because as your coach, I'm a data analyst. If you don't give me the data, I have nothing to analyze, I'm just flying blind. And guess what? I know the route, I know how to get there, but if you don't fucking give me the actual like data, I'm gonna fly us into a fucking mountain, and you're not gonna get the results, and you're gonna think that I'm a shitty coach just because you are just a poor fucking communicator. So communication is gonna sit at the absolute fucking like best. Now, the people who focus on the process instead of the outcome, that the, as I say, they're patient with the outcome but relentless on the day-to-day, these are always gonna be the people that like get the best results. So think about it. Like, I my I set it as a goal, and this is something that I've been repeating in my head throughout the day, every single fucking day. I am a uh an heavyweight, uh, open level bodybuilder. That's who I am, right? Like I'm not there yet, but that's who I fucking am. So I don't I don't try to force that to happen by eating more food, by taking more drugs, by like trying different fucking strategies and all deception. No, I'm patient when it comes to the outcome, but I'm relentless on the day-to-day. So I am drinking five 40-ounce bottles of water every single fucking day. I'm peeing like every 10 minutes. It's it's it's fucking insane. I am taking out time to actually put myself in a parasympathetic state so that I can relax and actually properly grow, right? Like I am limiting my caffeine intake. I am pushing myself hard on my sets because just one left, one rep left in the tank over the course of a year, it's gonna be like 150 cents. That's like two weeks worth of like fucking missing the gym right there, right? So I I'm I'm I'm I'm you have to be very focused on the executables on the day-to-day. That's gonna be the main thing. The people that focus on the outcome so much, they don't they usually don't have what it takes to actually get that outcome because they're not that person. You have to first become that person, which is why we created a 90-day protocol for people to go through whenever they join the Opti Lab so that we can actually become that person, and then the process becomes fucking easier. So I'm just hacking this whole thing for you. Literally, like we make your programs in the way that everything works in such a way that you have to try to fail because it's just impossible for you to fucking fail. The program is so easy to follow that it's just like there's so much clarity, you have to intentionally want to fail to be able to fail. Red flags are gonna be the opposite of all of those things, right? So communication, I think, is gonna be the most important one. Anything you'd like to add here? But there's a whole episode on that, and I'm actually thinking about doing a series for that, uh, because it's uh it's very important. Like, no one, no one teaches you how to be a client. Like, you get taught how to be a coach by some people if you if you if you even done your homework, but like no one teaches you how to be a client, which is why I created the the 90-day protocol as well, and I've inserted in there a bunch of lessons on how to become a good client. And I also have that episode that I have everybody watch, which is what is a good client, okay?

SPEAKER_02 21:00

Coaching in any capacity is a partnership. So you're not, they're not a hundred percent responsible for your outcome or how things go for you. It's a partnership. So you have to show up just as much as they have to show up. And you're both investing different things, you're both bringing different capabilities to the table, but view it as a partnership, and that's going to clarify your communication. That's gonna clarify your expectations around what's ex how much you're gonna have to put into this, those two things, and then you have to be intentional and plan ahead. You just have to be intentional and plan ahead.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

Yeah, if you have no logistics skills whatsoever, you're fucked.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

You gotta learn them. That's all you're not gonna do.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

You gotta learn them, which is why I created that as part of the 90 day protocol, literally teaching you how to make this shit fit in your life. Like all the support that, like, when you get when you join a coaching program in general, you get a spreadsheet or a PDF and it and a good fucking luck, and we'll talk again in two weeks or so whenever I stop ghosting you. Uh, what I do at Optalab is I actually create an entire support. For these things to be possible. So like, yeah, you can get your macros right, but how am I gonna fit these meals in? I have a busy schedule. What if I can't get my meal in? What if what if I'm traveling? Like, what what if I'm what if like uh I'm super fucking stressed and I have no appetite? Like, what if we have to replace something here? What if I start feeling sick with my food? What if I don't have time to eat at all whatsoever? What if I have a big day coming up and I have to eat a bunch of fucking calories on one day? Like, there's just so many open questions. What time am I gonna cook? Should I meal prep? Should I not meal prep? Like, what's the best option for me and all this stuff? I teach you all of these things so that you can execute. Like, because it's so fucking important. These supporting things are are probably the most important part of the program because any idiot can give you a fucking training program and a and a fucking diet, but that's not what makes it or breaks it. It's your identity and it's the support of all of these actions. It's that at that is actually what's gonna get you to the next level. Let's take a fucking hit of the leaf.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

I'll read the next one. Nathan Peliz, best protocol for heart health, please.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

So I would like to know like what specifically are we talking about in heart health? Because like if you already have something like left ventricular hypertrophy going on, one thing that I would pull out of your program and that would be part of your protocol would be pulling out hit cardio. Why? Because hit cardio tends to overstress the left ventricle, it biases the left ventricle as opposed to the the rest of your heart. So like it already starts being like very person-dependent there, right? But there's also some supplements that are gonna be a staple for everybody. So, for instance, like taking care of your lipid is gonna have an immediate effect on your heart. Taking care of your endothelial health with bioregulators is also gonna have an immediate effect on your heart, right? Taking care of your blood pressure is gonna have an immediate effect on your heart. Limiting your uh your uh exposure to stimulants is going to have a massive impact on heart health. Limiting your exposure to fat burners is gonna really, really have an impact on your heart. On top of that, then it's like, okay, once we remove the things, which are is the most important part of this whole thing, it's removing shit, not adding shit. Addition always loses to subtraction when it comes to actually getting a good result. I believe that, which is wild because people think that when they start working with me, they're just gonna get like this a hundred-page protocol with like super intricate shit. And it's like that's not really how your body works, which is gonna overwhelm the system, which is why we go face by face so that we can focus on all this stuff. But something like CoQ10 is gonna be very, very helpful. And uh, I believe mega dosing fish oil is super underrated, super fucking underrated. Like, and I'm talking like six to ten grams a day, like not like one to two grams a day. Like that, that is super fucking helpful in terms of heart health. And I think bioregulators for the heart are good, but the problem is specifically for the heart, the evidence is really, really fucking slim. And you start facing what I call the sequence sharing problem, which for some bioregulators, they are sold as if they're targeting different tissues. But when you look at the actual molecular sequence, it is the same fucking sequence. So KE, for instance, is the same fucking sequence as six different bioregulators. So you could have bought six different bioregulators, and guess what? You just spend six times for the same exact fucking thing. It's not gonna target multiple tissues. We don't have any data comproving that. So you have to be very smart when you're buying by buying by buying bioregulators. God fucking damn it, shit. Cunt. I just God, fucking Tourette's. Okay, which is why I actually created the the rating of like how to organize the these uh bioregulators so that you know which ones to put the most value on. So everything that's robust evidence is just epitolon, it's super worth taking it. Everything that's just gonna be a moderate level of evidence, which is gonna include things like cortexin, because of the outcome of the cochrane review, because it does have multicontinential replication, so it's very, very good, but it loses to uh epitolon because of that uh conclusion to the cochrane review in 2023, if I'm not mistaken. And you're gonna have other other uh peptides in there as well. And then you have preliminary evidence, and then you have just clinical evidence, which is like some of these don't even have fucking papers. So, like about 15. No, 22 bioregulators have pretty much no fucking evidence whatsoever. So you have to be very careful, which is why I added that to my course. And if you're curious on like which ones are worth worth using, which ones are not worth using, I would actually go that route there. Um, now I was trying to remember like off the top of my head, because I have a heart protocol, but I don't remember exactly because I I don't put so much emphasis on things to take for your heart. I put a lot of emphasis on things to not do for your heart health. Like you can't combat cardiac remodeling that comes from PEDs, stimulants, hit cardio, and fuck like just it you can't combat that with fish oil or citrus bergamot for your cholesterol or some shit like that. It just doesn't work that way. So I find it like having zone two cardio is actually one of the best additions that you can have to the actual like uh protocol that you're gonna have in, right? So I have pretty much everybody doing zone two cardio in my program. Uh, pretty much everyone. Staying active is also gonna be a big one. Not taking more drugs than you actually need is gonna be a big one, right? Not using, not getting fat is gonna be a massive one, not letting water retention get to you, not using compounds that create a lot of water retention. You know, when you get that feeling of like being hard to breathe, that's literally the water around your heart that's causing a lot of heart problems. So, like, I I want to be very particular with how we structure your program, not so much with like what shit can I take to prevent bad shit from happening. No, no, no. It's like think about how to actually build a program in a way that avoids even needing to take a bunch of shit. Because if you're gonna be taking a bunch of shit, bro, you're also gonna take a bunch of shit for your kidneys and for your blood pressure and for your heart and for your insulin and for your fucking like uh joints and for your fucking thyroid and for your fucking like kidneys and for your fuck like it doesn't stop. That's how you end up with the protocol of a hundred different things that all speak against one another and you don't get any results. So uh just just be smarter in how you actually make it.

SPEAKER_02 27:27

JF Rhett, if you could design the ultimate no-budget brain cognition stack, what would it be? Meditation, sleep.

SPEAKER_00 27:38

Okay, let's start with the fundamentals here.

SPEAKER_02 27:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:40

I would want to I would want you to be sensory deprived a little bit every single day so that you're sensitive to the stuff that you're taking. So, like before you're gonna take a stimulant, I would have you do like a five to ten minutes uh deep breath work, just like in darkness, completely darkness. One thing that uh Phil Viz told me that is interesting is that he actually like sits in the bathroom and he will just like turn off the lights, turn off the sound, put on earplugs, keep his eyes open, and then just basically sit in that fucking hell for like 20 minutes. Uh that resets you a lot. And I found that like when I did that, which was miserable. I I hate sitting with my thoughts, like everybody does, right? It's super uncomfortable. Uh I found that like once my my Adderall hit, it was super fucking strong. So I would want to have some meditation in there. I would also have some journaling because journaling helps you organize your thoughts, and organizing your thoughts is going to be very useful in terms of like how you process and your cognition. And I would want to be at least like reading, but reading according to Mortimer Adler's uh method of reading. So, like, um, when when you look at like how to read, there is a book called How to Read. And you can read that book to learn how to actually get the most out of the books. So I use that methodology whenever I'm preparing a course material and stuff like that. And I find it super fucking useful. I read it in college and it changed my life because it transformed me from being like the person who was reading like a hundred thousand papers to just being the person who is reading like 20 papers, but being able to fucking recall absolutely everything, right? Um, and I believe that especially now with the age of AI, like we have been having to change a couple of things because people are so much more drawn to you if you're able to recall things from memory than if you're able to give them precise information, which I find it, I find it a little bit backwards because we should be after precision and accuracy regardless of the means of delivery. Um, you know, even if the devil says something that is true, I'm gonna fucking quote it and cite him. Uh I wouldn't be like, oh, but the devil did this, did, you know, this person used this tool that I dislike. It's like, you sound like someone in the fucking 90s talking about Google, just just FYI, you know, when people are talking about AI. So those are those are a couple of things that I would want to have in place. I would want to have water consumption very fucking high, staying hydrated. And I would want to have your macros very well structured so that we're not having so many carbohydrates, but we're gonna be having mostly fats. Most of these fats I want to be coming from like krill oil, fish oil, DHA, right? Like because of your brain, lots of lots of VPA as well. And then when it comes to supplementation, I want to be have like your cognition completely optimized from the ground up. So that would be like supplementing with your thyroid, uh, getting all the cofactors in place. And if you need T3 replacement as well, monotherapy, because you know how I fucking roll. T3 alone has huge cognitive benefits. I had a consult with someone last week that was like they they start, they bumped the T3 dose according to the way that I described it in the consult. And then very next day, he was like, holy fucking shit, I've never felt like this in my entire life. This is crazy. It feels like Adderall, and it does. It really, really does. So it's very, very powerful. I would want to have like your testosterone optimized because it gives you a lot of drive, and that drive actually can like get you to a good spot when it comes to cognition. Uh, I would not want to have my insulin super fucking high. I would actually have no insulin whatsoever if possible. And I would keep my calories low, preferably in a deficit, with just one refeed on the days that are not very heavy cognition. Now, when it comes to the actual enhancements, one that I found very useful is um I'm I'm okay, I'm gonna start with a fucking hammer here. That nothing else can compare to Vivance. Okay, like literally there's nothing else that can compare to Vivance. I don't care what people say, there are ways to substitute with like multiple things, right? So I have a protocol that has like eight different compounds in order to replace Adderall, but you're still gonna be getting like 25-40% of the effect of Adderall. The thing is, like, the reason why people say it works so much is because a lot of people don't need as much stimulation because they're not doing a lot of mentally demanding tasks. So you do this based on need. So like I don't take Vivance every day, I just take them on the days that are very heavy, workloaded days. And this goes for pretty much every nootropic. Like, I haven't taken anything besides Sumax and Celenc today. So, uh, well, and Vivance. So uh when it when it comes to the other ones, Sumax is gonna be good, right? So Sumax gives you a little bit of a of a of a sharp focus, um, but it's not stimulatory. And to counteract a little bit of this over-stimulatory effects of uh Vivance and some of the other compounds that we're gonna add in now, I like to have uh Cselenc as well. So I pair Celinc at a pretty high dose and I add propranolol as well because it calms the beta uh receptors, just makes you a little bit more calm. You don't get that agitation, you don't get that anxiety coming through. I believe THC can be very beneficial at small doses. I have a protocol on how to leverage THC for what I call associative thinking inside of the Optoleb engine. You guys can check it out. The link is in the description here. But basically, like I find it to be super useful to be able to connect thoughts that I normally would not connect were I not on THC. The thing is, you have to do it in a way that does not get you high, which is why I built the protocol. If you get high, you lose control of the threads. So you're gonna start seeing connections, but you're gonna lose your train of thought. You're not gonna be able to connect these things and so forth. So, like you, you guys saw me taking a puff here. I took one puff and I can already feel that I'm like drawing connections between things. I think it could be a little bit better, so I'm gonna take another one, but I'm not gonna take it so much that I'm just gonna start being like, oh, what the fuck? Like, that's that you you went overboard. Now, for uh your uh day-to-day here as well, if you are needing a little bit more mental clarity, not in terms of focus and drive, but just like removing a little bit of that fog, methylene blue is gonna be absolutely amazing. And I find people to be very much pussies when it comes to methylene blue dosing. At lower doses, yes, it's gonna start, it's gonna give you that alternative like ETC routing um in your mitochondria, which is great. But at higher doses, I find that the really like powerful effects are like you get a very like stimulatory effect out of it, but it's not a stimulatory effect like caffeine or vivance. I just find it to be useful whenever I need a little bit more mental clarity. So, like when I'm doing check-ins and then you have a very clear mind, I do that. Or if I wake up and you know when you wake up and your brain is just like foggy, that's when methylene blue is very useful. Also, I have protocols for uh recovering from benders. So the Bendery recovery, the bender recovery framework, it's in the it's one of the peptide, it's one of the uh protocols that I teach inside of the Optolet engine on how to structure a protocol for your bender. I I find methylene blue to be almost like a recovery signal, like immediate. It's fucking crazy. Like I give it to my friends with some other stuff as well, which I won't get in detail, you guys can check it out. But like it's almost like you are ready for another drink right after that. It's absolutely fucking crazy how it works. In terms of like, if you're gonna be using cognition for the purpose of communication, any Racetam, so like not just any Racetam and I NI, but also any of the Racetams is going to be really fucking useful. I'm not even gonna show this brand because they fucking owe me money and they ghost me and they also owe a bunch of other creatives. So fuck this brand that has fucking blue logos on it and shit like that. You guys know. So I just took 800 milligrams of uh any Racetam. So this helps give it a little bit more like verbal fluency in how you communicate. And the prepranol also does a pretty good heavy lifting there, so they pair very, very well because you're acting through different systems. Now you also have to think in okay, caffeine is gonna be useful when you actually are feeling tired. So, not in terms of energizing you because the vivance is gonna do a lot of that, but if you're feeling very tired, I think that uh having a little bit of caffeine is gonna be helpful because it's gonna counteract some of the adenosine receptors. Um, the problem is you're the way that caffeine uh you lose sensitivity to caffeine is by creating new adenosine receptors. So your body literally starts creating more and then you start feeling more and more tired. That's when you need more and more caffeine. So one way to counteract that and not to need as much caffeine is to pair caffeine with perizenthin. So you're adding perizentine in place in order to give you that sharp cognition without the stimulatory effect. So I find that it basically like uh it's a multiplier of the caffeine and it pairs very well. Also, when you look at the data for uh uh strength, the athletes that performed without caffeine uh were last. Then it was the athletes that performed with caffeine with uh perizentine, then it was the athletes who performed with caffeine, and then the best athletes were the ones that took parazentine with caffeine. So the evidence is also very good for in terms of pre-workouts. I hope that people uh start putting the both of this combination in a pre-workout eventually. Now, you also need to think these are all like things that are acting on a date, like immediately, but you also have to take care of your health long term. So, like one of the things that people talk about, and it's like, oh, do sudoku, do like uh like uh crosswords, do puzzles and things like that. It's like that gets you to be very good in puzzles. So we measure that because like it's a very objective way of measuring. But what I use when I'm working with someone under cognition, I actually have certain tests, cognitive cognitive tests, that are very, very fucking hard and very tricky to do that we can measure, like, oh, your scoring went up by like 20%, by 30% with this protocol. Let's try this because when it comes to like memory formation, you're not very good. When it comes to reaction speed, you're very good, right? So, like I map out exactly like where the issue is, and then we continue refining your protocol based on need, which is why like it just sounds like I'm throwing a bunch of shit at it, but it's not, it's just like different tools for different jobs. It's just I'm just giving you a generalized idea of the tools that are available, not building a protocol here. Okay, so you have to think about your long-term here. So I find that new PEPT is very good because the BDNF factors. I know that some people shit on Nupept, but I found the effects to be very good when they calm down over time. So I take 30 milligrams a day, regardless of what day it is, especially if you are on benzos. Uh, the effect is very, very good. And then I would also pair that with uh dihexa courses. Now, people take dihexa and they're like, oh, I felt so much. No, you didn't. That's placebo. Dyehexa literally takes weeks for it to build up over time. So I would continue taking these things over time as they go. Now, uh cephinamide, zidago, I believe is the name of the other one. These two are very useful in terms of counteracting some of the euphoria that you get from the methamphetamines, so from the amphetamine, sorry. Uh so I would uh have those in place here just in case you're feeling like too much of an excitement. Like if you're feeling like so fucking excited and pumped about like random shit and stuff like that, usually is that excitatory, like you feeling so good usually is a sign of euphoria, which is literally a sign of brain toxicity taking place. So I would just want to monitor these things and adjust the dose so that we're not creating problems with glutamate X excess over time because that's gonna start creating problems for you in terms of your cognition long term. Obviously, don't fucking do drugs, don't smoke, and also more importantly, don't really do PDs. PDs fuck up your brain. Like people talk about oh, trend is like neurotoxic, EQ is nephrotoxic. Like, they're all fucking equally toxic, I believe. It's just that we don't measure all of these, we don't have studies on all of these to compare, so we just don't fucking know. But when we measure it, guess what? The one that gets measured shows that it's pretty fucked up. So Nandrolone's 19 noors and stuff like that, like it's gonna be pretty bad, but it's because we measured. Maybe Primo does the same fucking thing. Maybe MASA does the same fucking thing, maybe DHB does the same, maybe Boldono is we just don't fucking know. So I would limit all of these types of things as much as possible, and that's how I would think about this protocol. Some people feel an uptick of uh of energy and focus and cognition when it comes to nicotine. It can help, it can be useful. If you if you feel like you're someone who needs a lot of like dopamine to be able to get tasks started in terms of task initiation, 9MEBC is going to be a very useful one. You can flood your system with 9MEBC and also pair it with allopregnolone, especially if it's injectable, it's really, really good. It's gonna be very, very solid choice here. Lastly, I would also pay attention to progesterone to counteract some of the estrodiol uh effects that can have uh the negative effects that it can have on cognition through your mood, because you need to be in a good uh mental space to be able to perform cognitively speaking very, very well. But if you want more detail on cognitive uh uh protocols, bro, inside of the ops lab engine, we have a bunch. We do have a bunch because that's the thing that I actually came out of. I came out of building cognition protocols and reaction speed protocols and memory formation protocols and things like that. So there's a lot of stuff that I'm not covering here because we're already at a 40-minute mark and uh we have like 40 more questions. So we're gonna keep rolling.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

Goose Groove 004. What's the top three things to do or take for Hashimoto's?

SPEAKER_00 39:19

Selenium and iodine are gonna be the biggest needle movers of paired with vitamin D3, and then I would want to have myoinocitol in place as well for the conversion of uh T4 to T3. It enhances that conversion. So uh selenium at 200 micrograms, iodine at 150, and myoinocetol at two grams twice a day, fasted, and uh also your iron storage because your T3 depends on that. So I want to have like lactoferrin in place, and then if needed, after we already are cooking with the iron skillet and after we're already eating steak um uh several times a uh uh a week, especially preferably every single day, then I would have iron supplementation, but every other day because of hepsidin. Hepsadin goes up and it starts inhibiting the absorption of iron when you take it every single day. Um, those are the supplements that I would have in place. Now, when it comes to like peptides and all this stuff, there's also a lot of stuff that we can do there. There's a there's a lot because like you can think of in terms of like, okay, we can take thyreogen, which is gonna act directly in the thyroid tissue, which is gonna be uh eaten up by the by the autoimmune side of things. Um, you can take uh a TB500 in order to counteract a little bit of that fibrotic tissue that has already been formed. You can take uh cortexin because it's gonna enhance that communication between the hypothalamus and the pituitary, something that people don't think about. Also super useful for the cognition protocol. I just uh didn't mention it there. Having something like uh thymusin alpha one in order to regulate your actual immune system is gonna be very helpful in our thymogen uh long term here when we're using it like several courses throughout the year with other bioregulators in place. Uh that's basically how I would think about a starting point. But there's literally a video on my channel here. Uh, you can go to the playlist that is called the Optalet Engine. There's only one video there right now, but it's a full video on how to reverse Hashimoto's. I'm literally teaching you everything. The the thyroid course culminates in you being able to do that shit on your own. So I'm just teaching you exactly like what to do, and you already know because it just pairs out to all of the other lectures.

SPEAKER_02 41:02

M8 underscore king. Got a rare heart condition. Loise dyes.

SPEAKER_00 41:07

Loise diets too.

SPEAKER_02 41:09

Okay. Anything I can take that will help strengthen my veins.

SPEAKER_00 41:12

Endothelial, uh, you know, like vesigen support, I think is gonna be useful for you. Also, TB500 and GHK copper, I think, is gonna be very useful. But uh primarily I would focus on doing a lot of cardio so you create a lot of like pliability. And I would focus a lot on like a high dose fish oil and uh just make just making sure that your cardio modalities are varied. So I would do I would do everything that I talk about in the cardio episode of the QA for the clients. Uh it's it's in it's on YouTube. You can just look for cardio and how cardio maximizes your gains. I would follow that protocol. I would do steps, I would do hit, I would do zone two, and I would do lifting uh pretty intensely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:44

Andrew war underscore 06. Thoughts on Nandrolone only cycles?

SPEAKER_00 41:50

Garbage, suck my nuts. It's disgusting. Just fucking do tests and be a normal person.

SPEAKER_02 41:55

Wilfred O'Morales, how can you resensitize the GLP receptor for someone already near the max dose?

SPEAKER_00 42:03

Yeah, sadly, you have to come off. Yeah, you either have to come off or you have to use a higher dose. I would not pair two of uh GLP ones. I think that's just side effect maxing. So what I would do is I would uh I would, as I'm I would titrate it down over the course of several weeks, going down like half to one milligram a week max. And as I'm doing that, I would progressively increasing fiber and protein very, very radically. So you so you guys heard how I talk about doubling my protein just at once. I think that's fine. So just doing that, but just make sure you also have fiber because otherwise your ammonia production is gonna be too much, and that's how you get candida and other gut issues. So uh I would be doing that. I would be having like fiber tortillas, you know, conjac rice, salad bowls, and all this stuff to make sure that your hunger is stable while you are not taking a GLP1. I would stay off for at least eight weeks, preferably 12 weeks, and then hop back on. Okay. And uh, if you're like, man, I'm gonna have to eat more, pair that with a growth phase. So start reversing your calories and raising your calories slightly by 100 calories a week until you are out of your deficit, and then just bump it up slightly higher. Stay on a growth phase for like 12 weeks or so, and then hop back on on the Reddit to continue back on the work. Sorry, and if you're having struggles with like your appetite and stuff like that, having test offencing in hand is super helpful because it doesn't desensitize to you. It's very stimulatory and it causes diarrhea on some people. Heh, myself, but uh it's also it's also very useful because it's like a something that you can do on a single day. So if you're going out with your friends to go on a restaurant, you can just pop it today and it's gonna help you not be so tempted by dose foods.

SPEAKER_02 43:24

Season underscore Charlie's underscore daddy SS31, one milligram for starters.

SPEAKER_00 43:31

Look, I've seen people talk about low dose SS31, like micro dosing, because that's what this dose would be. It would be micro dosing SS31. I've seen people talk about it. I'm just not overly convinced that it does shit when it comes to like microdosing. I know that at higher dose it does because we have trials and data on that. So like I usually have people taking a minimum of five milligrams every single day. Uh, but I prefer to keep it at 10 because of budgetary reasons. But if we can't afford like if you have kidney issues, we're definitely gonna be pushing over like to 40 milligrams or so because that's the clinical dose. Um so uh it's important that you have a good source in hand because otherwise it's just completely unaffordable.

SPEAKER_02 44:06

Pins protocol T three mono downregs T four, are you not concerned with loss of T four activity at whatever that no, no, no?

SPEAKER_00 44:17

I'm not, I'm not. I'm not. For the reason being that if you are like you having a pool worth of of T4 but not T3 is useless. So like if you have the T3 active, you don't need the pool. So like you your T4 is literally not as important anymore. And your TSH becomes literally irrelevant. The only marker that matters is your T3 and your reverse T3 and then your uh your other markers, right? Your TPO and antibodies and stuff. So um, no, I'm not concerned. That's kind of like, are you concerned about shutting down your uh your axes whenever you're on testosterone? Shouldn't you take HCG? No, I also don't do that. I also don't think you need to take HCG, especially when I measure the virality on guys. Like I usually see fertility being in very good spots. Like for myself, my uh motility is 300% above what's needed for pregnancy. And I've been blasting gear for a minute now. So yeah, I I don't I don't think so. I don't think it's relevant. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:03

J. Michael C29. T3, T4 dose ratio do you like for replacement? Deficit or surplus matter?

SPEAKER_00 45:12

Because of reverse T3, yes. It does matter. Good question. So I don't do T4 to T3 ratios because I don't take T4. So I don't think you should take T4. I don't think it's necessary. And I actually think it could be detrimental, uh, especially if like we're having like uh uh TBG going up because you're gonna have less free T3 available to actually enter the cells. But I I like a dose that I like to start is about the minimum dose that you can start split in twice a day. So like let's say five milligrams, five micrograms twice a day. That's usually the starting point. And then I would use my biofeedback, like using your body temperature and your post and pre- and post-meal temperatures as well as your blood work to be able to see like and and nail down exactly like the timing as well as the dose for you. So just don't rely overly heavily on the body temperatures because they're very deceiving. Like I had someone recently that wakes up every day at like 98.6, but their fucking free T3 was 2.6. So it just you have to use like more tools. I I find that people in the in the functional health space, they put too much emphasis on body temperature because it feels like a hack. It feels like they know something that you don't. And I think it's just a business strategy. I don't think it's actually something that's like that relevant. Now, that being said, I do teach you how to use it to the best of your ability because it is a proxy, it's still useful, and I still have my clients track it. Um, but uh yeah, I think the the whole the whole the whole backlash that Wilson got in his hypothesis when it comes to body temperature and metabolism, I think it's very important to uh be aware of, at least. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:30

Watcher of fading light. Is there a safe way to take dihexa? Seems to only work with DMSO, which I don't want to.

SPEAKER_00 46:38

Just take it as a just take it as a pill. Just take dihexa as a pill. You don't need DMSO for that. Yeah, don't take injectionable dihexa.

SPEAKER_02 46:44

Watcher of fading light. Second question: What is the proper neuroprotocol for brain? EPI, pin, cortexin, and cortigen?

SPEAKER_00 46:53

Pinolon, pineolone, cortexin, and cortogen, 10 milligrams each a day. I don't remember the doses off the top of my head. I believe some of these are like only micrograms, like 100 to 200 micrograms, and you're also doing them just a few times a year. But going back to our question there, I like it. I think that goes back to the question that we talked about uh neuro, uh like cognition and stuff. So the same, the same would apply here. But we would focus a little bit more on long term with the bioregulators, like you mentioned. I think that's a pretty good starting point for uh where we would go with uh with bioregulators. But the dose, you gotta you gotta be precise with those because I find that people take way too fucking much for no reason. It's not like it's gonna be bad, but it's like you're wasting money for no reason. You could just take like that money and use it for something useful.

SPEAKER_02 47:30

RCL 1437, start a new week, a new 12-week cut with five milligrams SLU or wait to see how effective nutrition is.

SPEAKER_00 47:40

It depends, man. Like, what's your goal, right? Like, can you can you get to your goal without needing to spend money on SLU? Plus, I don't think five milligrams does much. I I usually see like the effects really like happening around like 100 milligrams. So I wouldn't really like pledge so much emphasis on the SLU with that. Like if it was like 20 micrograms of clenbury, then yeah, like I would I would have it in place. Now, I also think it's useful to think about this in terms of uh wait, where is it? Uh in terms of like if you want to wait to see the response from nutrition, like if you don't know how your body responds to nutrition alone, I would prioritize that because that data is gonna be useful for you forever. So I would have that data in place in the same way that I encourage people to do one anabolic steroid at a time so that you know what your body's response is to that. And then that's gonna make you much more effective in knowing which changes to make whenever you're making changes to yourself or to a client in the future. So doing one thing at a time is always always the way to go. That's actually how I run my system. My the system that I have developed, it prevents me from making too many actions and have a lot of justification to make a lot of changes at the same time and be able to accurately predict with a prediction model that I've created whether those changes are gonna take place or not.

SPEAKER_02 48:44

Galexis 101, any evidence, KY 19382, how is your hair restoration?

SPEAKER_00 48:52

Just being honest, I have no idea. I've never looked into this compound, so I don't know. Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 48:56

Crypto Papi. Top five books, any subject, top five drugs, PEDs, any format, psychedelics, nootropics, roids.

SPEAKER_00 49:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 49:06

What a great question.

SPEAKER_00 49:07

Great question. I love this one. Thank you so much for asking me this question, brother. So, Crypto Papi. My favorite book of all time is Charles Taylor's A Secular Age. I believe that book is uh is in it's almost impossible to read. It's like a 900-page dome. There are books written on to on like how to read this book because of how complex it is, but it's super useful in terms of understanding how we did we go from religion just being like water in the terms of like we we are surrounded by it, we exist in it, we are not even aware that it exists outside of it. Like there's no such thing as secularity, there's no such thing as atheism in the ancient world. Like, how do we go from that to pretty much like God not being the default anymore and just being something that exists outside of our reality that we have to reach out for as opposed to something that's already embedded in how we exist? So that's a really complex question. And Charles Taylor, I believe, has absolutely nailed that with his porous uh reading of uh of reality. Now, second one that I think is super useful here, that would be um how to read a book. How to read a book, Mortimer Adler's uh very, very incredible book here on uh that just helps you understand how to actually like read. But since we already read that, I don't want to count it, but let's let's keep it in place in case I don't remember a five. Another book that I find is super useful to uh read is uh well a religious book. So like actually like the Bible or the Quran or like the Mahatma Gavi, like uh any anything like you're you're actually like are reading that's like outside of your comfort zone, I think it's useful. Now you have to interpret it, you have to understand that these things were not written for you, they're not a love letter that fell from the sky written to you to be handed to you on how to make your life choices and your business choices and who you should date and what type of job you should take and whether or not you should buy these clothes or not. That's not the fucking purpose of these books. These books were written as a way of like these people under recording their understanding of reality and trying to convince you that they knew what the reality actually is. So you can understand it in that way, understand the language that they speak, understand the culture that they speak, the social aspect, the religious uh and uh environment of that world, the the the zeitgeist uh as it's called. Um, and then from that I would actually read the book. So I would always read it with a companion. So like the New Testament, I would read it with a Jewish uh uh commentary, the Jewish commentary on the New Testament. I believe that's a very good way of doing it. If you're reading the uh the uh Hebrew Bible, I would read uh fuck, what is his tra what is his name? Translation of the Old Testament here. Yeah, this this book is fucking it's fucking incredible. It's literally the best translation. Hebrew Bible. Yes, Robert Alter, the Hebrew Bible, a translation and commentary. It's three volumes for the Hebrew Bible. I think that book is absolutely fucking fascinating. So I'm gonna leave these two here for you as the uh second book here for us, uh, for that being the Bible. I think it's uh uh very, very important. Well, third book. Uh next book, I think it's very uh cool to read is uh Forged by Bart Ehrman. Uh now Bart Ehrman, I could cite every single book, uh, but Bart Bart Ehrman, Forged is the book in which he basically explains how, uh, like something his scholars have always understood. It's just like this is just news for people who are not in the academ in the academic environment, but this has been true for the past like hundreds of years. As soon as academic thought became a thing of like critically analyzing things, not just taking them for granted because Paul said so, we have always pretty much agreed with this. Um, so like people didn't write these books as individuals. Like we think of like an individual writing a letter and then sending out and stuff like that as like, no, people wrote in names of other people. Like people changed letters in order to adapt for their communities and stuff like that. How did this process happen? Because when you look at the Bible, it's like we do have more errors in the Bible than we have words in the Bible, which that's insane. But are those errors significant? Like it says he hopped on the horse and he hopped in the horse. You understand the fucking difference. One spelled horse with two S's, one spelled horse with an S. Those are four errors there already. And it's like they're completely fucking meaningless. So the so also understanding the balance view is very useful, but I think that book's very, very nice. And um, that one, fuck, what is what is the name? It's uh he was a Yale scholar. Fuck biblical truths. Okay, biblical truths, the meaning of the Bible, the meaning of scripture in the 21st century by Dale B. Martin, especially the introduction, because it just explains how theology is not actually talking about God. It's actually talking about our conversation dialogue about God. God is actually not reachable through language, so to speak. The way that God presents himself is not someone that's reachable through language, actually through a different capacity entirely. So just that how we understand the Bible in the 21st century, I think it's equally as important as understanding how they understood these texts back in the day, because it allows you to be out like create some distance between your own biases and between the natural way, the default way that your brain is gonna want to read these texts, I think it's gonna be very, very useful. So those are the those are the five books that I would recommend. They're all uh they're all religious books. I I I find that the most important thing in your in in your life is to actually understand the meaning of life uh and to actually live the good life. So I would I would start there. Top five drugs, PDs, any formats, psychedelics, nootropics, and roids. Okay. THC is fucking great. I love it. Great for appetite, uh, you know, helps you sleep very easily, great for associative thinking, great for relaxing and toning down a little bit. So weed is gonna be in there in the top five. Alcohol sucks, it's very bad for you, but goddamn it, it's fun. Like getting absolutely fucking hammered, like just blacking a fuck out. It's so much fun. So uh kids don't do that. Please, people don't do that. But uh, if you do, uh do it for the glory of God. And uh yeah, so that's gonna be another one. Molly was absolutely fucking dope. Molly was really fucking fun. Actually, like I just felt so connected to the, to the to like whatever I was doing. It was so intense and immersive that I really enjoyed it. LSD was also fucking incredible, like really, really fucking great. Uh, it was uh like it just it just a lot it just organized my thoughts for me in in such a way. It was such a nice experience and pleasant experience. And then Ibogain changed my life. So, you know, you guys heard me with the episode with uh Tom Montgomery talking about uh DMT and Ibogain. I I Ibogain changed my life entirely, so I I need to credit it uh to it and I need to have it in place, but it's not a fun experience at all. It's not something that I would do again unless I really need it, but it's not, it's not. I actually don't think these drugs are recreational drugs. Like I think psychedelics should not be approached as recreational drugs because you're giving too much power to chance. They make you so susceptible to whatever the fuck happens to you at the time. So the set in the setting, and it's as it's called in psychology and psychiatry, where we analyze how to utilize these tools is super important because you become very suggestive. Like doing with someone that's actually gonna guide you through a path that's gonna make you a better person is very, very important.

SPEAKER_02 55:27

There's a really good book on this. It's called How to Change Your Mind, I think.

SPEAKER_00 55:30

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:33

But how to change your mind. They talk a lot about this set and setting and psychedelics and a lot of stuff. It's really interesting.

SPEAKER_01 55:41

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:42

Okay, the family learn. How does nicotine use affect Retta? How do they interact?

SPEAKER_00 55:48

Um, as far as I know, they don't interact at all. I mean, maybe there's a overlapping mechanism or something, but I don't I don't really see it like fucking doing anything. I don't see an enhancing or making anything. Now, if you get appetite suppression from nicotine, then I mean, props to you, bro. That's fucking awesome because I don't, but you would be getting more uh out of that, and it'll be a compounding effect with RETA.

SPEAKER_02 56:07

Coach underscore mush stock underscore and clomethine versus cispeptin on TRT to preserve fertility.

SPEAKER_00 56:16

Yeah, I don't think you need to try to preserve fertility actively. I I think that you can restore fertility very effectively as soon as you need it. I've never I've never had someone come off of TRT, and usually I don't even have people stop blasting whenever we're working on fertility protocol. So um, I just don't think it's that that important. I think that if testosterone could be used as male contraceptive, it would be used, but it is not, therefore it cannot.

SPEAKER_02 56:40

So TIF underscore gloss works. What can be done for excessive loose skin post-fat loss?

SPEAKER_00 56:47

Depends how much skin you have, but in general, putting on a fuck ton of tissue is gonna be helpful because it's gonna the the muscle is gonna push against the skin, it's gonna create more of a of a cohesive look there. You know, having uh something like uh uh GHK copper is also gonna be useful for production of elastin and collagen. Uh, but ultimately, if you have too much, it's just gonna have to be surgery. Um, and I know it's very expensive, but fly to South America, fly to fly to fucking to fucking like Asia, just get it done. It's it's so fucking cheap if you just do it like that. You're not that person anymore, man. I'm now if you want to carry the scars of the battle that you went through, I think that's super fucking respectable as well. I actually had someone one time ask me, like, would you be proud of someone on stage with a lot of loose skin? And I was like, I absolutely fucking would. They're literally carrying in their body the proof that they used to be someone that does not remotely resemble this person. That's dope as fuck. I find that super fucking nice.

SPEAKER_02 57:35

Next dot level nick. Do you consider T4 to be obsolete and prefer your clients to just run T3 mono?

SPEAKER_01 57:43

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 57:43

Uh C H underscore Galvis, biggest diet tip slash simple ROI.

SPEAKER_00 57:49

If you're trying to get a fuck ton of calories in, don't forget of things like orange juice and milk, as well as dried fruit. Uh, if you also pasta. If you are not trying to get a lot of calories in, uh, calorie-free dressing, calorie-free sauces, uh, diet sodas, and uh conjak. Conjak is huge. And also saladables like lettuce, not tomatoes because they're high in calories, but uh mushrooms maybe for the fiber, conjac, spinach, some pickles. I and I think I think you're gonna be pretty covered there. You can eat like a pound of that for like 150 calories. It's it's super fucking worth it. Yeah. Also, become proficient in knowing what the fuck you're eating as fast as humanly possible, because that's gonna allow you to swap things around so fucking easily. You know, so just make sure that you're being smart with that. I think that's a that's a really good choice here. So, like when I when I was struggling to eat the cottage with cottage, which my coach already sent me a message, let's swap it out. But I at least tried. So at least fucking try to do what your coach says, okay? Even even if I even though I knew that it was like this is not gonna work, I still fucking tried to do that, okay? So uh we already swapped that. So uh like being able to just do that, I I I just I knew that I was not gonna be able to eat it. I know that like I'm struggling to eat this food, so what am I gonna do? I'm gonna measure like how much there is left. I'm assuming it's like halfway gone. So I'm just gonna drink half of a fair life shake for the remaining like 20 grams of protein that I need. Cool. Just basically got like the fucking work done, and I don't even need to think about it. I'm not even gonna change that. I'm just gonna like log the change real quick because it's just what I do, like brushing my teeth, just like I do my budget. Just like you just have to do that. Uh otherwise you're you're gonna lose control. Maybe maybe that's an episode because I used to not track my calories, I stopped tracking my calories and then went back to tracking my calories. So maybe that's something we can talk about. There's a there's times there, there's a time for each thing under the sun, Ecclesiastes three.

SPEAKER_02 59:29

There you go.

SPEAKER_00 59:29

Uh, but yeah, I think those are the biggest ones. What do you think?

SPEAKER_02 59:32

Plan ahead.

unknown 59:33

Ooh.

SPEAKER_02 59:34

Don't be dumb, don't wait till the last minute. I'm gonna hold on.

SPEAKER_00 59:38

You keep talking, giving the the the heads up. Oh my god, I'm gonna pee. I'll be right back.

SPEAKER_02 59:42

Oh wow. Okay, so biggest ROI on the biggest ROI. Plan ahead. Don't wait till the last minute and be like, oh, I have five minutes to figure out what the fuck I'm supposed to eat. Or not scheduling your meals into your calendar and then get to 2 p.m. and be like, whoops, I've only eaten 200 calories and I have 2800 left. That's me sometimes. Buy enough options so that you have stuff to choose from if you're trying to hit your calories. So I will buy a variety of carb sources so that if I'm stuffed or if I do have, you know, a super long busy work day and I need to pack in more, I have the juice, I have the dried fruit, I have things to reach for. On I typically am just trying to hit my calories and not necessarily restrict my calories that much. But when I was having things like conjac, having tons of vegetables available, yeah, low calorie options. But the biggest thing is I managed to keep talking until I got back. Yes, dude. The biggest thing is to plan ahead. Don't be dumb. Don't think that you can be the one person that doesn't have to plan ahead out of everyone. So just plan ahead. Log it.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:51

Andy Zalvidow 969.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:55

300 tests, 200 masks, lean arms, legs, but pot belly, fasted, way to drop.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:01

Yo, can we actually write the questions as questions, not as code? Yeah, just write the whole question and say rewrite this in 15 words. It's gonna get it wrong so fucking bad. ChatGPT is off way county characters. Just ask it like how many, how many like E's are in strawberry? It's gonna say three or some stupid shit like that. It literally doesn't fucking know. Okay, so 300 tests, 200 mast. That's fine. Lean arms, legs, the pop belt. You just need to lose more fat, bro. Uh, fastest way to drop, cut your calories. Cut your calories, add in some fat burners, and do some fucking cardio. There you go. You're gonna fucking do it. Just make sure you're nailing your recovery and that your T3 is not gonna be tanked. So make sure to include T3 because it down regulates within 36 hours of starting your issue. Is it gonna come back? Is it gonna bounce back? Am I gonna lose my T3 forever? No, it comes back at a maximum of five weeks, usually two weeks when I see it. Uh to but though, you can use a protocol. There's a till eight-week protocol that I've created that is for the people who are a little bit more resistant to bouncing back that actually makes them come back. And it's part of the protocol that we use to remove people from T3 therapy when they do not want to continue on it. So, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:58

John Gilman, what's a good standard melanotan 2 protocol for overall skin care?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:05

Overall skin care. I would go with GHK Copper on melanotan. I would only use melanotan, dude, I would only use melanotan if you want to get like some random erections, or if you want to uh if you want to blunt your appetite, or if you want to get darker skin, but I wouldn't use melanitan for skincare. I mean, it has the risk of melanoma. Like, yeah, I get it. The evidence is just one person and it's like tricky, right? It's not like direct cause because they also had sunlight and stuff, but are you monitoring that? Like, are you are you limiting that? Because it's uh like cancer risk is pretty fucking real. So I would not use it so much. Like I use Okay, I swear on my grandmother.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:36

MF underscore strong peptides for cerebral palsy.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:41

Man, I would have to look this one up. Yeah. Off the top of my head. I'm not as familiar with cerebral palsy. I've never I've never had a client with cerebral palsy, so I don't I don't know. Yeah. But I assume anything that's gonna improve brain communication and nerve function, I think it's gonna be useful.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:55

Yeah, because it's due to lack of oxygen.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:58

When when during development or during key developmental stages, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:02

So I I think I think that whatever whatever it's it's working on, like nerve function, whatever it's working on, like brain communication and stuff, it's gonna be useful.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:08

Isn't there a bioregulator that like helps rebuild tissue?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:12

Yeah, there is. Um now I'm trying to remember because the the bioregulators that actually was the best for nerve is actually not a nerve bioregulator. It's uh it's something completely different. And also, there's some of the brain bioregulators that seem to have effects on other parts of the body, and I don't remember off the top of my head. You gotta remember, dude, there's 53 different bioregulators. 54 if you count cerebral line, which is also a preparation that is not the cerebral line that you guys are thinking about. Um, so it's it's a lot to uh to keep in mind. So I don't remember off the top of my head, but there are some things. Maybe, maybe if you're really looking into this, ask me later because I can I can look it up. But yeah, I think that I don't I'm I'm very uh unsure about saying things like methylene blue to improve oxygenation, N plus and stuff, just because I don't know about the interactions with the medications that people with on cerebral palsy take. So I just don't feel comfortable like saying anything so until I actually understand a little bit better. I like to have a very like complete understanding of of the situation that the person is in before I can say that I can help them or not. Um, which is why a lot of people just get a lot of messages from me and they're and I'm like, I don't know. I'm not gonna pretend that I know a fucking answer to something when it comes to someone's health. Because it's not cookie cutter, because it's never cookie cutter, bro. It's never just like finding one thing and then just like roll rolling with like you can ask ChatGPT, like theoretically, based on everything you know, like what are the best ones for this? Yeah, dude. Uh then create then use like a counter uh uh a counter uh skill on Claude. Go put that in and just ask it to debunk the fuck out of it. And you're gonna you're gonna get an answer and you're gonna like get to the end of it and you still don't know what is true because it could have just fabricated information. So I don't I don't think that's helpful. Like I would actually have to study this shit to be able to give you an answer. So sorry.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:46

Mf underscore strong. Tell us about TP508.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:50

No idea what that is.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:52

Fit underscore geek underscore. What are you going to add asset photos for when you for your new website?

SPEAKER_00 1:05:00

Yeah, that's our web developer. Uh we're working on a fucking dope uh new website for you guys. So um, yeah, I'm I'm working on it. Sorry, I've been busy with client work. Selenos salsa. Ever use Lantis to drive down cortisol? No, no, bro. No, not really. I just use the uh the my protocol for adrenal fatigue and that that works very, very well. I would not, I would not uh use Lantis for that. Also, um, I can just read these. Um Carterine best use case when not in a fat loss phase, not using it because of the risk of cancer. Will Frida Morales is it true that ARA290 needs BPS or sodium bicarbonate to reconstitute? I am not sure. I haven't looked into RA29 uh oh uh in detail. I've looked into it like just because clients wanted to take it. I don't think it's like negative, but I I don't I didn't look into like this for reconstitution at all. I would be curious as to why. J. Michael C29, already on T3 replacement. Free T3 is 3.5, is my goal. But is that a peak or thrott? So if that is your goal of what you want to have like uh in between doses, then I would measure it at thrott, which means I would scale. Get my morning dose to see if you have it. If you want to see that's the maximum that you are willing to go, then I would take my dose and then go take my blood uh take uh drawn like two hours after that to get to get the peak. So just figure out which level you're comfortable for the peak, uh and then your your thrott is just gonna be something that you're gonna uh uh fix according to timing.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:17

Troth.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:18

Troth.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:19

Code Legnon is ultra low TSH irrelevant if th T3 and T and R T4 are in range and you feel good with no sign of hyperthyroid.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:33

Yeah, TSH becomes irrelevant when you are on uh on on T3 replacement. So uh yeah, it just it's just not a signal that's relevant anymore.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:42

Johnson Fit FR F L G R 242 dosing. Worth running it at 2.5 milligrams per week or go straight to five milligrams?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:51

Dog, if you're if you're trying to get the max growth and you're and you don't have an issue with your budget, I would just go straight of five, even ten milligrams uh every single week. Uh I would dose it twice a week and just run it like that. I know that they also talk about like lower doses, but I haven't seen any reports of people that I that I trust that like actually had got anything out of running lower doses. So I would uh I think that you're gonna get more out of running like a month on 10 milligrams than running, you know, six months on two milligrams or some shit like that. Yeah. I could be wrong. I believe they actually preach the opposite, but I I I don't know. We just don't have data on it, so it's just just all hypothetical.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:26

Fontana Creative. Can you run MOT C injections all year long?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:30

You can. Is that a good idea? I don't think so. Uh yeah, I I don't think so, but you can if you want to. I I know of people who do that. I I I would just pick a phase to at least resensitize your receptors, man. Because like it with Mod C, you don't feel a lot of the effects. So like if we can like I don't I wouldn't want to have like because it's a signal, it works a little bit differently than like the receptor cascade, but I don't know. I'm a little bit like we don't know enough about these things to to know whether it's safe to be taking it like year-round. So I just don't want to be doing that. Now, if you want to do it and that's okay with your risk tolerance and we're working together, yeah, we're gonna do that. Okay. That I don't I don't have a pro I don't I don't judge you for what you do. I just figure out ways to do that uh in the way that's not gonna get you killed or like gonna get you killed too fast uh if you're okay with uh the the end result being whatever it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:15

Guillermi Morais underscore 91. I have Hashimoto's. I'm on T4 and T3. Does that mean my body is working properly? What am I missing?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:26

Fuck. That's a question for a full podcast. Jesus Christ. I think I need to do a podcast. I actually have uh Seth Markham that I want to do a podcast on Hashimoto, so I think we're gonna save this one for a deep dive uh because Hashimoto is a very intricate condition. Uh it's also super fucking interesting. But just to give you a little bit now, right? But in case that podcast takes three months to come out. First thing is I would take the T4 out because of TBG and there's no need for us to have it in place, so we don't want to overwhelm your system. Uh, we just have the T3 and I would make sure your body temperatures look good and your pre to post meal, like you're not crashing and stuff like that. I would space it out throughout the day so you have energy throughout the day. I would have those peptides that I mentioned earlier in the episode uh in place on a rotation to ensure that you are getting like the the covering all of the basis of the things that are being robbed from you in terms of the Hashimotos. Uh I wouldn't want to have all of the cofactors in place as well, you know, that we covered before on and in this episode here as well, uh, with the supplementation. And uh I would want to have my nutrition to make sure that I have as least inflammation as possible because inflammation is a very good environment for gut problems to be uh created. And a lot of the Hashimoto cases come from gut issues. So sometimes the cause of Hashimoto's is actually the gut. So I haven't had someone that I fixed the gut and then they they didn't have Hashimoto's anymore, but I haven't had someone that we successfully reverse Hashimoto's without having to deal with the gut. So uh that's just something that I would add in there as well. But yeah, I think we're gonna do a full episode on Hashis. If you guys want to see a full episode on Hashis, leave a comment saying full episode on Hashis or full episode on whatever the fuck you want to hear. Because uh, yeah, give us something to work with here.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:59

Jig jerk. Two months on in on TRT, still working on fat loss, need to wait for mito proto to help weight loss?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:08

Hey, nice question. I'm glad you're thinking about this. So, two months in on TRT, still uh working on fat loss, need to wait for mitofhoto to help with fat loss. No, like if it if you're still like if the fat loss is still going, like keep fucking pushing, but you can support your mitochondria as you're doing it, right? So make sure you have all of the all of the mitochondria enhancement uh uh options in place, right? You're taking care of autophagy, you're uh mitophagy, you're taking care of uh communication in the mitochondria, you're taking care of uh actual production of ATP uh and uh and minimizing reactive oxygen species without uh creating a problem in the redox balance. And I would have all of the cofactors of the mitochondria. You can find all of the cofactors for that for mitochondria enhancement in the book that is for free in my website. You just basically put your info there, grab the book, and uh if you need any help, just fucking reach out to me. But yeah, that's uh that's basically how I would think about it. Like I I have a client right now that I'm probably not going to put him in a mitochondria phase because he is in a phal loss phase and shit's working. So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say like we can enhance this a little bit better because what if his mitochondria isn't a good place, right? Like I can't go off of the assumption that everyone's mitochondria is fucked. I think that's how you end up with these fucking like rigid rules that you can sell these fucking programs that are super fucking easy and easy for you to scale as a business because it's just like copy and paste for everybody else. But I don't believe in that. I believe every person is an individual and needs a different approach entirely, which is why I build everyone's program like from the ground up, like you know? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:30

So the same person, can bioregulators be run in the background while continuing to work and on protocol for weight loss?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:37

Yeah, absolutely. So the way that I do it, I I have a lecture explaining how to uh organize bioregulators in your year. So you're getting a full schedule for the covering all of your bases that is in my course. And uh it's basically like laying out like when you're gonna be focusing on each part of the body and we're pairing them together, like cardiac tissue with endothelial tissue, right? Like uh like creating systems and then supporting those systems, right? I I think that's a useful way of thinking about it, regardless of where you're at. Now, if you are enhanced or something like that, then I think you should also put that support when it's most needed. And I also also think that certain bioregulators like epitolon could be used uh like microdose, they have an uh an applicability there maybe for like uh helping with sleep whenever you're deep in the fat loss phase or something like that. Like I I've been playing with that right now. I'm trying to see if microdosing DSIP and micro-dosing epitolon is actually can actually have a positive effect on my sleep. So uh, yeah, I don't think it's enough to counteract stress. Um, I can preliminarily say that, but that's basically how I would think about it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:30

Andy dot zaledivar.969. If you're deep in cut, what would be good T3, T4 dose to prevent down regulation?

SPEAKER_00 1:12:40

As much as it's needed to maintain an optimal level of uh T4, uh of T3 in your uh free T3 blood work. So I like to see a four to five, honestly. I know people are like, oh my god, that's too much. That's fucking hyperthyroidism. No, hyperthyroidism is like fucking grave's disease, like like 12. But yeah, technically sure, it's hypothyroidism, like, but like it's it's not. For a short period of time for a phal loss phase, there's no fucking issue with that. So I I would want to keep my dose like somewhere there to keep me there. So like I've had people that I've had to bump them up to like 75 micrograms. I have people that actually do pretty well on 25 micrograms for that.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:12

LMCK underscore 05. Have you ever regretted anything you've done in regards to cycles or the gym?

SPEAKER_00 1:13:19

Yeah, I uh my first coach, I I trusted him way too much because I was very naive. I just thought that because he was a coach, he knew what he was doing, and that's uh clearly not the case uh for the uh a good chunk of cases. So I almost fucking died, and there are coaches that have a lot of deaths in their roster, uh, which not always is the coach's fault, but I think it's something that is uh, you know, I kind of like the fact that no one died on me. That's uh that's pretty cool to know. I feel like that should be a good baseline to have. But I'm not saying please don't hear me saying that, you know, if a coach had someone that died because of a protocol or something like that, that it is the coach's fault. I do not believe that. I think that's a very new uh there there's some nuance here, and usually this comes from people who are doing things that their coaches did not know about.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:00

Because they didn't fucking communicate.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:01

Because they didn't fucking communicate on on purpose. So I I I would want to think I I would want to uh just have a more nuanced view here. Now, uh, what if I regretted done in terms of like uh cycles? Uh I also regretted doing I regretted matching my uh dose of testosterone in EQ because that crushed my estrogen. And I've regretted using uh Nandrolone because it just fucks up my brain every single time I use it. I don't remember these effects negatively from when I was a teenager, but also like I didn't have a functioning brain. I was just a fucking teenager. So I don't remember, I I probably wouldn't be able to catch these effects. I would just think it's somewhat being a dick. It's like just part of life, right? But like now I'm able to tell, like, oh no, something changed, and it's like I don't love it. So that's something that I would uh go back in time, I wouldn't do it. And uh also uh like in relation to that, I would not have done it because I think it made my gyne worse. I had gyneo as a natural, but I think it made my gyne worse. I think it was anandrolone that made my gyne worse, not testosterone, because I don't get a lot of estrodiol from testosterone. Uh now, could it be that I have more uh receptors in the breast tissue so that it doesn't show up on blood work, but it does elevate it there? Yeah, that's also an equally plausible explanation, I think. Now, recently have I regretted anything? No. Like since I since I started this the the right way, like three years ago, two and a half years ago, something like that, like for myself, I haven't made any mistakes. Sorry. Everything that I run runs very smoothly, which is why like I'm like asking my coach, like, okay, do we really want to do this? Because this is pretty new. Like, I I want I want to know I want to know that we're heading in the right path here, because uh I kind of know how this shit works in terms of my body. Like I tried everything already. Now, in terms of the gym, I deeply, deeply, deeply fucking regret. I I know this is bad, but I deeply fucking regret following the Renaissance spiritization model in the way that I did. I'm not shitting on the RP model, okay? They are very explicit that as you go up in volume, you cannot go up in intensity as well. Problem is, I did not, the problem was the terrain that that landed on. I do not know how to control my intensity very well. I don't, I don't, I'm not a highly level uh uh skilled lifter that's able to like go like 99% intensity, 95%. Like if I drop from 99, it goes down to 75. Like it's so fucking hard to maintain that. It doesn't drop to 75, maybe it drops to like 80 or so. But it's like it's super easy to cheat on myself. So I my big my rule of thumb, it's kind of like you keep fucking doing the reps until they don't move anymore. And when you do that paired with high volume, especially as the volume is escalating every week, it's it's fucking impossible. It's like your joints break. So I was having to delode every three weeks, man. This isn't like I was getting sick all the time. I was just literally running myself into the ground uh because it just it was just way too fucking much for me to recover. So I deeply regret doing that. What else I deeply regret? I deeply regret trying to do exercises that just didn't match my anatomy whatsoever. So like I did fucking squats and uh deadlifts and rows and uh fucking uh pull-ups and things like that for so long, it just fucked up my joints. It didn't develop a good physique, it gave me a nice ass, it gave me a lot of back pain, and uh it gave me a fuck ton of elbow problems that took a long time to correct. So I don't do anything that's not neutral grip. But you're missing out on so much, yeah, bro. Then I'm fucking missing out on it. But I'm not gonna hurt myself because of some stupid rule that's like, oh, you get more growth if you do this. Exercise, see I science is so fucking new and so like we have we just got our first study on side delts, fucking ever. We don't understand how the lats work. Like we're taking assumptions out of like one calf study or one tricep study and applying to like everyone's like all this shit. When we know, like when we are doing these studies, it's already like way more complicated than that and they don't all behave the same way. So I yeah, I just I just regret like trying to force this rule of like what is optimal or something like that. And I think as of recent, I regret focusing too much on what the the best option is for a program because I think enjoyment is a crucial part of your development because it's gonna dictate how much you're pushing in that. Like I think like if you enjoy a workout, you're gonna you're gonna perform better in that workout. Uh so like I spend too much emphasis on like well, I need to I need to like um this is for you personally. For me personally, yeah. Uh I I uh I I did certain things that I just don't enjoy doing. And now that I have a new uh program that is very much like it has like drop sets, it has intensifiers, it has like pairing sets, it has activation, it has squeeze sets and uh and top sets and and rest pause and myoreps, like I fucking love that. I really, really, really enjoy that. So like I'm getting like super fired up for training, I'm getting sore again and all these things. So I uh I I think that the enjoyment factor should be something that you should be keeping in mind.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:32

Yeah, but balance that because you of course.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:35

I as I'm talking about all of these things, I already have it in my head, like, yes, but okay, so what is the but? The the balance here is that you have a job to do, bro. You made a choice. You you you even if you didn't make a choice, you know the person that you ought to be. So there is a there is some dissonance between who you ought to be and who you are right now. Basically, the your beliefs minus your actions is who you actually are, okay? When you are thinking about like like pushing at the gym and stuff, you don't do that because you like it, okay? You do that because that is the way to get you to the life that you know that you owe to yourself to live. So you don't get to choose, like, oh, I don't have my music, so I can't push. Like, I still fucking push to the best of my ability. Am I able to get one more rep with music? Yes, I will. I it is that a problem that needs correction? Yes, it is, but that's where I fucking am right now, so I'm not gonna lie to y'all. And and also, like, you you need to think about this in terms of like the obstacle is the way. So, like the burn, you need to chase that shit. You need to chase the pain, you need to chase that regardless of how you're feeling. Like, we've had so many workouts that we're literally like crying in the middle of the workout because we're like, I'm tapping the fuck out. Like, I literally don't have anything left in the tank. That's when you tap out. You don't tap out like when you're like, I don't know about going to the gym, I'm not feeling it, and stuff like that. Like, fuck that. Like, don't that's the that's the butt here part of everything that I'm saying here. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:53

Everything is nuanced. Everything is nuanced.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:56

Yeah, what about you? Have you regretted anything besides doing masks?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:59

That was okay. I don't regret doing that though, because now I know I'm never gonna take that shit again in my life. Yeah, same with Angelone. It's just not, yeah, it was not great. Um, but it also wasn't detrimental. Like I didn't I didn't crash out because of it. It was just we realized like it wasn't good for me.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:16

I regret not taking it.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:19

I think I think sorry, I think it because it still had like positive effects, right? Like you when we were in Brazil, you were still having a great time. Like you were like, like, like like sexuality libido was very, very good. Uh like how you were feeling was very good. Like we were able to like correct, like and and talk through like difficult issues and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:33

Like I remember Yeah, but I think I think it made put me in a really anxious place.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:38

Maybe that's not the result of masks, maybe that's just a result of your maturity and how you deal with the things. Maybe that's like the 95% that matters, which is your response to your environment versus the five percent of your environment.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:48

I would say so.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:49

What else?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:50

But I think I've regretted not taking my nutrition as seriously. I still take it seriously, but I I haven't been taking it as seriously. And just seeing the amount of results that I've gotten, I'm like I was blown away by my one-year transformation. I was like, what? I didn't even realize. But then just thinking, damn, what if I had like been even more dialed in and more intentional and purposeful with my nutrition?

SPEAKER_03 1:21:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:18

Because I'm not the type of person that will see a ton of change if I like don't dial that shit in perfectly. You know, it's just my body's, I don't know, my genetics, whatever. I can get away with stuff. But if I dial it in, the amount of additional growth that I can have is so much bigger. And so I regret not taking every day, like a day at a time, nutrition-wise, and not letting myself skip a meal or just, you know, too stressful, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:48

I regret same, same, dude, same. Like I I I one of the reasons I hired a coach is because I don't believe that I am living according to my standards, just being completely honest with you guys. And and uh I realized that when uh when when when I was like basically contrast and doing an audit of my life, which is something that I do, it's something that I have my with the protocol, sorry, that's basically like I I realize that there's a big gap in between who I want to be and who I say that I am and who what what I do. So I had to correct a couple of things, and one of those things that really stood out to me was like, oh, my adherence to nutrition as it should be, it's really not there. Like it's really, really not there. So it needs to be better. Now, does that mean that I've been eating like a fucking idiot? No, dude, I'm I'm fucking lean on fucking like growing and it's like it's it's fucking working. But it's about like the level of commitment, the level of determination. Like yesterday we went out. I had to uh give my meals, so what did I do? I ate, I just figured out on an app like fast food, what is the easiest way to get the majority of protein, the least amount of fat as possible? Got some grilled sandwiches, fucking slammed three of those because I don't have time to cook because in two hours I need to eat. Two hours I'm fucking eating again, two hours I'm fucking eating again, two hours I'm fucking eating again. I literally brought a backpack with four fucking meals to just hang out with friends for a couple of hours because I had to eat all of my meals. That's the level of commitment that I am taking myself to. This is not at the level of commitment that I expect for my clients. Like it depends on your goals, right? If you're prepping for a show, I fucking sure hope so that you're doing it this way. But if you are not and you just want to lose some weight and shit, like if we're focused on longevity, sometimes I don't even fucking look at the right.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:15

The point is, yeah, the point is like against our own standard. So comparing myself to myself, I regret because I know what I'm capable of. Yeah and I know and I see how good the results are with me doing kind of the minimum or whatever I can do, which I didn't have.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:32

So like sorry, sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:34

Which I did have like work and life and stress and stuff going on. So I'm proud of what I did to a certain extent, but just I know that there were days when I could have, but I didn't, you know? And those are the days that I those are the choices that I regret.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:52

Yeah, yeah. So like for myself, I did a I did some very simple math, like the one that I talked about for 140 sets. That's just uh you losing one rep leaving one rep in the tank every single uh workout uh that you do with for it for each exercise, which is insane, right? Because we all we all like struggle with like leaving just one rep in the tank. Like sometimes like we're like saying, Oh, failure, bullshit. Your mind stopped you, not your muscles. So true muscle or failure, just one rep away from failure, which is a very high standard. Um, you're already leaving 140 sets left at the end of the year that you left on the table of worth of gains. So I thought, like, okay, what if you miss meals? So I heard Phil Viz talking about this as like if you miss one meal a week, just one meal, just 500 calories, right? That is 26,000 calories a year that you lost. You spread that out and you basically lost like fucking three and a half weeks of dieting. Dude, you lost three and a half weeks of growth because you skipped one meal a week. That is insane, right? So it raised your level of execution. And then I saw it, well, but my problem is not skipping a meal. Usually my problem is actually having more than I'm supposed to. So I thought, okay, let's get a best case scenario here because you just measure shit a little bit inconsistently, right? Like 110 grams of rice, 100 grams, same fucking thing, right? Like that nine to fucking 11 grams of olive oil, uh, it's just spilled over. It's just the same fucking thing, right? You just you can get 100 calories like that. It's very easy to get 100 calories. On a 3,000 calorie diet, you can get 100 calories like that very easily. So, what happens at the end of the year if you ate 100 calories over every single day? That equals to 10 pounds of fat. 10 pounds of unnecessary fat that you accrued. Dude, the difference between you having a half a year growth phase versus a 12-week growth phase is that like 13 versus 26 weeks? It's like the 10 pounds that you gained over the course of that, you now gained during that time. Like it's just not worth it. But then I thought, like, okay, but that's actually like I've had weeks that I did significantly worse than that. And I pushed like 700 calories over like three days of the week. I just, I just have that done that. It was like, why don't it show in my body? Because I take uh the everything very seriously. So like you, you, you end up building some slack, so to speak. I'm also enhanced. Also, it's way less detrimental in terms of like your body composition for you to have a cheap meal on a fat loss phase than it is for you to have it during a growth phase, because in a growth phase, there is no slack. You're already in a surplus. So anything that you eat is literally just going towards fat. So also like when I eat it is usually not on a surplus because I'm fucking full. So uh I realize like, oh, 700, 700 calories three times a week over the course of a year. That is actually 30 pounds of fat, dude. 30 pounds of fucking that's insane. I have to fucking change my life here, dude. I need, I need a, I need a new work. I need a I need I need to talk to my mentors, I need to, I need to talk to a mindset coach, I need to like actually fix this shit. And uh that's where a lot of the work uh with the new coach and uh with the mindset stuff that I've been doing with my clients has been coming from. It's a lot of the I realize a revamp in myself is needed, and with that, I'm bringing everyone together and raising the standard for the bar for absolutely fucking everyone at the same time. So we all win this shit together. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:47

Awesome.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:48

Anything at the gym specifically that you regret?

SPEAKER_02 1:26:50

I don't think so. I I don't really regret like I I push myself at the gym. I I guess I could push myself a little bit harder sometimes, but I feel like I I feel like I push myself harder, you know? I don't there literally have been times when I am in the middle of a set and I'm going as hard as I can and I burst into tears because but that's more to do with like, you know, stress and fatigue and all of these things. I think that I regret not resting well. So a lot of my stuff has to do with recovery because I can just go, go, go, go. But I regret the sixth or seventh or eighth cup of coffee that I would drink in a day to just because I just had to produce whatever the fuck I had to produce for someone else's goals. And instead of saying, nah, I'm gonna clock out early because I need to go home and like take a nap or lay down and do nothing or whatever. And there are times in your life when you have to you know, push through and all of these things, but just doing it mindlessly, like just not even deciding to that I'm gonna sacrifice my rest. And my recovery for someone else and just doing it, that's what I regret. If I'm gonna do it, I wanna choose to do it for a reason.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:08

You know what else I regret? I think to piggyback off of that is like letting go of my uh long-term goals because of momentary wants, you know. Like like yesterday we were hanging out with friends and it's like 8 p.m., I'm fucking leaving. Because 8 p.m. I'm getting ready to go to bed. So like they're like, it's so early and everything. I was like, yeah, it's early, but tomorrow I'm gonna be up at fucking 4 a.m. or 5 a.m. anyways, if my body wakes me up and then I can't go back to sleep. So I need to prioritize my recovery because it's it's never the big choices that rob you of your ultimate of you becoming the person that you ought yourself to be. It's always the small daily things that just rob you of that without you realizing you don't even feel like you're you're you're you're you're budgeting against yourself, but you actually are. Uh, because your brain is running by default, and uh your brain by default wants to protect your old identity because it's comfortable, because it is familiar. So, in order to do something different, you need to force that new identity into place via some actions. And the way that you force that identity is through things like this, like just saying, like, I'm going fucking sleep. Like, I don't I don't care how good the hangout is, like, we just have to do it. I don't care like what we are doing in the middle of the hangout, I'm pulling my meal out and I'm fucking eating. Uh like I don't care what you guys are eating at the restaurant, where you guys are going is irrelevant because I'm bringing my own shit. Uh, right, like let's fucking hang out. Let me let me let me learn how to love people without having to be consuming fucking pizzas and burgers, right? Like, I I I so I regret the times that I don't do that. And uh, I going back to like the execution of like the person that I ought to be, I think all of these ties into the same thing. So it's not really like gym and drugs. I think I think that's the minority of the things, man. I think the the how you approach everything, your environment is the most important thing because your environment is your identity. Uh, you are just the sum of your actions. So when you when it when it when I think about like uh overall, like I look at like what is the big gap that I have here? It's sleep in terms of my routine, right? Like, like my I'm literally like gave my wife authorization to beat me up, uh, to like fucking get me out of bed to actually go get ready to go to bed because I tend to just snuggle with my dog. It's very good, it calms me a lot, but then I get startled to like take a shower and I start waking up again, and then it disrupts my sleep, and then I stay on my phone and then I can't go to sleep. It's just not good. So I I I have been working on that a lot to the point of uh accepting violence. Uh just whatever the fuck it's gonna help me get there, that's what I'm doing. So uh I regret that. But all of these things that are regrets are things that I am fucking miserably working to uh fix right now. These are none none of none of these things are like protocol choices and stuff because we do things very carefully here. So yeah, in terms of our own choices for drugs and in the gym now, I haven't been injured in years. And uh I haven't felt side effects from drugs in years, and my blood work always looks perfect. My protocol for health mitigation is absolutely fucking impeccable for me. Uh literally, I get a client, we get all their blood markers, they're all looking shit. We put them on a supplement program that rarely includes peptides, and I have fixes everything.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:52

Yeah, and I have scoliosis, I have rods in my back, my entire back and skeletal system, and the way my ribs connect, and all of it's all screwed up.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:00

And we found how to get you big. Because we we developed a way to do that for you. Like very, very personalized. Um yeah. It's like myself, I had five herniated discs, and I corrected that as I was getting back to the gym. You know, I have a broken, I have two broken shoulders and I have a dislocated clavicle, and I dislocated my femur as well. Uh, I've had knee issues before and I still have them every now and then. Elbows issues are very, very big. Like I had to work around all of these things, and I learned how to do that with my training philosophy. So yeah, just uh n none of these things are the big picture. I think the biggest picture is always gonna boil down to your identity because that's ultimately like where everything stems from. There's no such thing as self-sabotage. Everything is coming from the person that you believe you are in your core, you know? So it's coming, you it's the choices are always made in alignment to your default.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:47

This is such a good question. We should have saved it for the end.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:50

It is towards the end.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:52

Okay. Wilfred uh uh Wilfred O'Morales. Uh again, welcome back. What's your take on VD11?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:00

I don't know what VD11 is. Let me let me let me pull this up. VD11. New peptide promotes structure and functional recovery or the ability to regenerate the spinal cord. Few studies I investigated for amphibian spinal cord peptides on uh spinal cord injury. Interesting. Yeah, this one is interesting. I'll have to uh I'll have to look deep into this one, but uh, I'm not familiar with it, so I can't say.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:20

Andrew underscore Bradley1991. What's your thoughts on NPP? Do you think it's beneficial to help with joints strength on a fat loss?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:31

Yeah, I would wanna, I would wanna yeah, I mean joints, I would want to work around that usually, not like uh use injectable knee sleeves and and elbow wraps. Uh yeah, I would uh I would want to work around that instead. But uh for uh now if you do have joint issues, it can be helpful, but I rather correct it as opposed to just like numbing it. In terms of like losing strength on a fat loss, I'd much rather use trend on a fat loss uh because you're gonna look better and you're gonna get more strength out of that, or anadrol because you're also gonna look full, it's gonna preserve some of that fullness. So NPP in this context, I don't know. I ran in my in my in the fat loss that I got the leanest, actually they got to like 6%. I actually ran DECA and I was looking really fucking lean, but you could see that film of water, so I never looked as lean as I actually was. So I I just like it because you're going for a look here, right? You're not just going for uh insulin sensitivity. If you did, you don't have to dig as deep. But like if you are going for the look, then prioritize the look. Like, what do you need? Do you need more dryness, trend? You need more fullness, and a draw. That's how I would think in terms of strength here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:31

Sean Lochran coaching, knowing what you know and how you would structure a growth cycle to pack on mass. Knowing what you know now, how would you structure a growth cycle to pack on mass?

SPEAKER_00 1:33:44

So fuck, let me see how I can take this question to make it useful for you guys. So, how I structure my previous growth phase, okay? Basically, I I start with an assessment of the person. This is how I do it for clients as well. I started with assessment of their of where they are. So this is a uh let's start with uh training, right? So uh first we see where they're uh uh where where they're weak. I I basically rate everyone's bodies and uh like up, like like middle of the road, high priority, and uh low priority, meaning the strongest body part, worst body part. I'm gonna allocate more volume and more frequency towards the parts that need more priority. So like I wanted to bring on my side delts, I brought on my side delts. I wanted to bring in my arms, I did that too. I prioritized frequency for side delts, and then I prioritized volume for arms. I prioritize volume means frequency for both, but uh shoulders I was doing every single day, and then uh arms I was doing three times a week, and then chest I was doing three times a week as well. I was able to bring all of those parts up. I know that people say you can't, but I fucking did it. Um now I'm also not like 290 pounds and doing this for like 10 years, right? So don't don't don't fucking assume that that's gonna be you if that is who you are when you're listening. So, but that's the that's the basically the structure. First, I'm gonna map out their them where they are like physically. Then I'm gonna look at like what exercises they are doing, and I'm gonna try to keep them as close to what they currently are as possible. I don't like full revamps, you have to learn these movement patterns. Takes about like six to eight weeks if you're very experienced, and then it's gonna be six to eight weeks of actual like strength adaptation, and then you're gonna start getting the growth benefit. So I try to not swap things out too much. I encourage people to stick with the same shit forever. Uh, like we all do the same exercises pretty much always. Um, and if there's a tweak, it's just gonna be like, okay, we need a tweak because of an injury, or we need a tweak because of like a body part that actually needs more attention in a different way, right? Like maybe we need to bring like your media, your glutes medius, right? Not your glute max or something like that. Like we maybe we need lower lats as opposed to just like the upper part of the lats where it like it gets a little bit closer to your serratus. So uh then I would uh structure the training program that way. And uh I would make sure that volume is progressively increasing via intensity, via frequency, via uh spending more time in a stretch position, via putting more tension on the like higher pegs when you're doing it, like uh like on to bias the stretch, or by increasing more sets or decreasing recovery time or utilizing some other different techniques. It depends on the person, their level of experience, and how they have been training, because we don't need to throw all of these things at someone if they're adapting to like a regular base like standard, right? So I have very few people doing these things because I just don't see the necessity of all of this. So that's basically like the start for training. In terms of nutrition, I would want to see like where we're gonna start reversing this person out of this fat loss phase. So adding a little bit of calories until we get the point that is uh we reach homeostasis. Once we reach homeostasis, I'm gonna add a little bit of calories to get the weight moving. And once the weight starts moving, we're gonna, as we're doing that, we're increasing drugs as well. So let's say that weight stagnated now for like two weeks and maintain this or 10 days and maintain this. Cool. Next week we're gonna we're gonna ramp up calories by like say 150 calories a day. And because that's the increases that we made before, theoretically speaking, and now we're gonna increase 150 more calories a day, or we're gonna do some different distribution depending on how your nutrition is set up, right? If you have like high, low, medium days, or dig days and stuff like that, it depends. Uh, but generally, like the easiest way that I reverse people is just taking all of the low and dig days and just putting them all to match the same like highest day that they have during the week. And that usually like maintains their weight. Usually jump, jump like six to eight pounds in weight, and then it just holds there. So um that's that's how it's structured in nutrition. I would want to like look into like the timing of the nutrition and how we're structuring that to make sure that we have a good bolus of protein hitting up uh hitting us up as many times during the day as possible. I would want to be training while I'm consuming electrolytes and uh uh some like highly brand cyclic dextrin or something like that, some uh EAs potentially, uh potentially if you need it, just making sure that you're covering all of your bases there. I would want to structure recovery very well. So I would want to have at least one day off that you're not doing pretty much anything, not even cardio, just like steps uh and just like laying day in bed. I would want to have like things like uh red light therapy, breath work, make sure that your circadian rhythm is regulated and all this stuff. I would want to cover like all of your bases before starting this growth phase, like you're not dealing with any injuries, you're not dealing with any gut issues, you're not dealing with any metabolic issues and stuff. Like all of these things need to be corrected beforehand. We're basically adjusting the car to start this race. So we're about to ask the body to do some really hard shit. We need to prep it for that, right? One second. Then I would look at this person's blood work here as well, and that's when I will start making some precise adjustments to nutrition, but also the supplement program would be coming out of that. So a lot of people that they ask me questions like, hey, I don't have any supplements to take. And I'm like, yeah, we're waiting on your stuff. Now, there's there's usually a baseline of stuff that we're taking just because we we know what to expect. If you tell me your symptoms, I'm kind of like, I know what this is. I don't need to wait for blood work for this. Uh before a lot of things, like it's gonna be coming out of that. And I deal with some very advanced clients. So I have some some that are coming like with mitochondrial tests, some are coming with telomere tests, and some are coming with like genetic tests and all of these things. So it's all based off of that. And then the peptide strategy is gonna be coming out of that assessment as well on what this person needs based on past experience. If it's not based on past on past experience, it's gonna be based on my prediction model, uh, on like what we are going to face, right? Like seeing that you responded this way to this amount of testosterone, I am working under the assumption that you're gonna respond this way. And if I see a red flag in under these three conditions, then I know that the proper intervention is this. If I see these other two conditions, I know that the proper intervention is this. So that's why I map everything out and I actually create a map of decisions to make for this person so that it's easier and just like automatic to make. It's like, yep, I know I'm coming and just fucking make the adjustments right there. So uh then when it comes to like the actual compound choice, I would choose the compounds that give me the least side effects, and I would progressively go from a low dose to a higher dose. So, like, let's say that you know that you can tolerate two grams of total anabolics a week without getting side effects for a total of 16 weeks. Awesome. There's a question, right? Could we do 26 weeks for 1.7 grams instead? Right? Like that's a good thing to think about. So I would want to get to that peak dose over the last like eight weeks or so. So like I would start, let's say, on like 500 tests, 200 maths, right? Uh for myself. That would that would be my growth phase. Well, actually, let's say I start at what I start, right? Like 100 milligrams of tests a day and uh 40 milligrams uh, well, 20 milligrams of EQ. After you know, five weeks, uh, I'm gonna be escalating the testosterone alone. And then once I titrate the testosterone to my maximum dose, that's when I'm gonna start titrating the EQ up to my maximum dose. And then towards the tail end, if I need to, I'm gonna be adding a short ester, like uh a trenbilone acetate or an NPP or uh NPP not for me, but you could theoretically, and uh, or perhaps an oral because I can tolerate orals for a really long period of time. I've run an anodol for 16 weeks before with no detriment to my liver or my appetite or anything whatsoever. So uh that's basically how I would map this out. Am I uh am I forgetting anything here? But it's all based on data, pretty much.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:31

Sounds good to me.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:32

Yeah. Now, like when I say about the correcting the issues beforehand before like you start the race, that means that like we we might have to do like a mitochondria phase first. We might have to do a gut phase first, we might have to like work on your uh repair and integration system, right? Your your central nervous system or something like that. Like you we might need to do that. Part of your growth phase might start with the fat loss phase. As we're titrating drugs up when you don't need as many drugs to hold tissue, uh, we could be doing a fat loss phase to get you like sensitized and ready for the next push, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:40:59

So yeah, and I think yeah, being patient, going into it almost like a lot of people are like, I just want to you know get started, just go, go, go, you know, but sometimes you do.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:10

Relentless on the day-to-day execution. Yeah. Good question.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:15

Be brasser19, apart from yourself, who are some of the most underrated voices in bodybuilding.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:22

Oh man, I've been meaning to make a video about this, but I uh I uh this is why I script all of my shit. I don't know. I don't remember. I have so many people that I that I that I can think of for this shit, but I can't remember a single one of them right now. So I'm sorry to everyone, but I can't fucking remember. Uh fuck. Like I don't remember names and shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:39

To be continued.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:40

To be continued, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:42

R steel 437. How many calories would you remove when starting a cut? One to two pounds loss per week goal. Depends the person.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:53

First, I would want to not, I want to push back on the one to two pounds a week loss. Yeah, it's a pretty good margin, but I would want to go by rate of loss, and I would want to go by the mirror. So also like if you're like I want to aim for like a 1.5% out of the gate, uh, maybe 2% depending on how much we need to lose. And then like uh aiming to like bring it down to like 0.5 uh towards the tail end because it's gonna downregulate anyways. So just using that whenever I'm structuring like peoples that have like a target weight for a week, assuming that this rate is gonna slow down progressively. So that's my that's the only pushback here. Now the second one is like the whole like 3,500 calories, you cut 3,500 calories, you're gonna lose one pound of fat a week, right? Fucking no. Like theoretically, yes, in a perfect world, yes, but in reality, it doesn't work that way. Literally, the guy who asked the previous question, we brought his calories down like 1,500 calories a day, and he was still not losing 1% body weight a week. Like, it just depends, man. It just like people change so much. Like for myself, I was growing on almost 5,000 calories. When I was dropping body fat, I went down to like 1700 calories on my dig days. Like, some people have to dig more. Other people, like Aubrey, if I bring her calories down like 200 calories, she's gonna start losing weight. Like very, very fast. So it just depends. It's not like, oh, my metabolism is fast, my metabolism is slow. Like, no, just measure the metabolic markers and and like actually see there's like very little difference. It's not that she has more insulin sensitivity or a thyroid that's operating better. It really isn't. It's just like just the way her body is. Like, we don't have an answer for that yet. Maybe it is like what people mean by metabolism, but no one can put a fucking name on it. Like, no one can fucking define exactly what it is when they're not referring to marker specifically. Uh, I I hope that makes sense. So I would uh it would be different depending on like what the person is and stuff. Uh and I like I like to be a little bit more aggressive out the gate because you have more energy, you're more like psyched up and you can see bigger changes, like especially the first week. Food volume drops a lot. Like, man, like just going from like 4,500 calories to 1,700 calories in a week, it's super easy because you're still like kind of like tired of eating so much food. So you can do that for like three weeks out the gate, then start bringing your calories up a little bit and just hold that at a at a pace that's pretty accessible.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:00

It really depends on the person.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:01

Some people you need to drop them very slow, otherwise they don't notice. Otherwise, they freak the fuck out and then they they can't they can't they can't be adherent at all. So it just it just depends. Like for myself, both approaches work, but I tend to do better with like dropping it very slowly in terms of adherence. So it it it it's it's different, right? And then in terms of like the length, I would I would do based on also like what works for you. Like for me, mini cuts, no, don't even fucking try. Like, uh not right now, like because right now I don't have the the skill level to be able to execute so intensely for a short period of time. Like as soon as I'm done, I'm like, I can breathe. All the habits come back, right? For me, it needs to be a slowly progressed thing. I just responded so much better to that. What's like like it's crazy, like not even a diet break. A diet break is not good for me. Like it's just continue me on that fucking deficit. Just let me fucking do this thing slow, and uh, it's gonna be very, very successful. Yeah. Anything to add for a fat loss?

SPEAKER_02 1:44:58

For fat loss, yeah, not specifically. I was telling them when you went to the bathroom that I I don't know, I don't have as much to say about fat loss. Because uh the way that I do my fat loss, I don't really notice a difference because it's it's slower, it's over time, and my body responds very well if you increase my activity and you know, plus I am hyperactive and I forget to eat anyway, so I'm just you know, it's a blessing and a curse. I've gotta really, really plan when I want to eat all my food, and then if I don't need to eat as much, it's fairly easy for me. But so from personal experience, no, but from you, I I definitely think that the gradual approach is so helpful in so many ways. It's not these drastic changes and stuff, they can be fun and and it can be beneficial to somebody.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:47

But they're not sustained, they're not sustainable, you're not gonna hold that long term because it takes a long time to develop your identity. So you need to become the person that doesn't eat like an idiot like an asshole that needs to cut in the first place. So, like once we get to a deep falos phase, like that should be the last deep falloff phase that you need if you're unless you're like going for the stage or something like that, right? If you're like trying to become a bodybuilder or whatever. But if you're just a normal person, like man, like we should do this for the last time. And then like we have to develop this new person so that this is sustainable for you long term and you know how to do you know how to utilize these tools and to develop all of them together so that you can do this on your own in the future and not have to rely on these like drastic changes all the time. Make no mistake, like these detoxes, 75 hard, fucking all this shit, it's just a quick fix being sold to you. It's the same thing that the supplement industry and the peptides are doing to you. It's literally the same fucking thing. It's just like a quick fix that's gonna unwind years of fucking work that you did. Like it's it's not the actions that you took, it's the problem that those actions were your default and they're gonna come back to being your default once you're done with this fat loss phase because you don't have a new identity. So you have to develop that new identity first.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:50

I think that like sprints or whatever you want to call these things, resets, sprints, all these things can be helpful if they are paired with a more comprehensive long-term plan for changing your identity. So, like, get for someone like me, if I need time to okay, you're gonna become the person that thinks deeply about stuff and is c contemplative and all of this, then okay, having a week of not having noise constantly in my ears from a TV show or music or whatever, yeah, that's really helpful for me as long as I have a plan for actually, okay, moving forward in normal life.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:29

Why did I become overwhelmed to the point that I needed to take like a break entirely in the first place?

SPEAKER_02 1:47:34

Exactly. And what am I gonna do when I do start watching TV and listening to my music again? Like, what's the difference gonna be? The reset itself doesn't fix the problem. It just provides you the environment where you can then think about how to fix the pro problem long term. I think it can be helpful to kind of prove to yourself that you can do something. So, like for bodybuilding, I'm not gonna like be bodybuilding and trying to compete for my entire life. It's for a short period of my life to kind of show, okay, I can do this and I want to do this. So I don't think it's bad to do things in short periods, but you have to recognize them for what they are. And if you're trying to get a quick fix, well, yeah, you're just gonna keep spinning your wheels.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:18

Yeah, I believe so too. Uh Goopta 222, I have hypothyroidism. Kindly help me with the daily supplements I should take. All the ones that I mentioned uh for fucking Hashimoto's and stuff. All the ones that I mentioned here. So, those are all the questions we fucking got to him. Guys, thank you so much for answering these questions. I had a blast. Let's get it to 20k and get this guy something fucking awesome here. Not just a QA, let's fucking do something dope or you know, let's fucking go to the beach together, fucking smoke some weed and fucking, you know, go to a strip club and fucking have some fun here.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:49

To be determined.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:50

Yeah, the dates to be decided whenever we hit 20. Let's fucking do it. Strip club with Nathan, make it into a vlog. Dude, I've never been to a strip club. I just don't see the point of going to a strip club. It's literally you're just going there to bleed money and have like pain in your balls because you want to fuck, but you can't. What's the fun in that?

SPEAKER_02 1:49:08

Do the people even look good?

SPEAKER_00 1:49:09

Yeah, are they even hot? Or is it like uh an American like six out of ten? Because an American six out of ten is a rough Brazilian. That's a rough Brazilian, bro. That's a fucking homeless person. Just saying, man. Um, that's not good. Um yeah. Uh now if it's like an eight Brazilian, maybe. Problem is eight Brazilians are just walking around grocery stores and fucking you don't need to pay to see them.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:30

It's tough.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:31

It's tough, man. It's a tough world out there. Yeah. But yeah, dude. Uh yeah, thank you so much for these questions. Anything you want to add?

SPEAKER_02 1:49:39

Really appreciate you guys and love getting to interact and having everybody along for the ride.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:45

It's an absolute blast and grateful to be here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:49

Absolutely. I'll see you guys inside of the Opt Lab engine. Let's continue fucking talking. Anything you guys need support, fucking reach out and we'll fucking keep going. Peace the fuck out, guys. See you until the next one.