1227: The 5 Most Important Supplements to Take
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin discuss the five kinds of supplements many people need to take if nutrients are lacking in their whole food diet.
- What are supplements? (4:24)
- Why do certain segments of the population NEED supplements? (6:43)
- The importance of testing to track the changing of your nutrient demands. (15:15)
- Why whole foods are the ideal source. (18:40)
- The 5 Most Important Supplements to Take. (24:00)
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- Vitamins and minerals to fill nutrient deficiencies. (26:41)
- Protein. (41:19)
- Creatine. (47:11)
- Caffeine. (53:15)
- Adaptogens. (1:00:46)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.3 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.2 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.7 | In this episode of Mind Pump, we tackle a topic that a lot of people approach us on a |
| 0:20.8 | regular basis. |
| 0:22.8 | People want to know what are the best supplements, what should I take, what is worth investing |
| 0:28.8 | in, and what is a total waste of money. |
| 0:32.3 | What we did is we made it easy for you. |
| 0:34.6 | We actually listed the top five most important supplements to take. |
| 0:41.6 | We broke them all down for you. |
| 0:43.6 | We broke them down into vitamins and minerals, common deficiencies. |
| 0:47.7 | Feeling vitamin and mineral deficiencies, easily the most important thing you could possibly |
| 0:51.4 | do with supplements with profound effects on your health, performance, fat loss, and muscle |
| 0:56.2 | building. |
| 0:57.2 | We talk about protein and protein supplements, creatine and its effects. |
| 1:01.6 | Talk about caffeine. |
| 1:03.2 | Then we mentioned adaptogens. |
| 1:04.9 | Adaptogens is a category of compounds that help the body deal with stress. |
| 1:12.4 | Cortiseps, for example, is an adaptogenic mushroom that helps the body deal with stress. |
| 1:18.3 | What does that mean? |
| 1:19.3 | It means you burn more body fat, build more muscle, you improve your performance because |
| 1:23.2 | your body adapts better to the stress of exercise and of course to the stresses of everyday |
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