197. Chris Bumstead: 6X Mr. Olympia’s Peptide Stack, Supplement Guide and Recovery Protocols
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
Gary Brecka
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bodybuilding is not a healthy sport. There's a lot you put your body through. |
| 0:03.0 | Anabolic steroid use, cutting weight, bulking up weight. This is hard on your organs. The vast majority of bodybuilders say that exchange is worth it. I'm willing to borrow for my future for the gain today. Before I ever won Olympia, I got really sick. I had this insane amount of inflammation. Even myself, I'm sure I was still ignorant to what I was doing at the time, but I knew that the more stress on my body, the worse it would push me back. You put guard rails on the amount of risk that you were willing to take, but you still achieve the top spot in the world multiple times. There's only so much you can really learn about bodybuilding. Once you have good form, you get your protein in and you train hard but to do that every day for 10 years that's what makes it hard you know i was expecting |
| 0:40.8 | you to give this laundry list of supplements and you basically said i had my nutrition dial then i was |
| 0:45.7 | taking creatine and protein powders the greatest longevity science and anti-aging experts now have come |
| 0:51.0 | full circle sometimes you got to boil back to just training hard, |
| 0:58.6 | eating right, and doing consistently. Lots of people want to enjoy the view, but they don't want to climb. How did you keep that very myopic view of being the best bodybuilder from spilling over |
| 1:03.7 | into every other aspect of your life? It's a great question. And I mean the very nuanced answer |
| 1:08.7 | and it's the honest answer is a lot of it is probably like. |
| 1:25.3 | Hey guys, welcome back to the ultimate human podcast. I'm your host, human biologist Gary Brecker, |
| 1:30.1 | where we go down the road of everything, anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. |
| 1:36.7 | As you know, my heroes are the movers, the shakers, the game changers in all forms of industry, |
| 1:42.8 | whether they're PhDs, MDs, biohackers, researchers, |
| 1:45.7 | or just people that have solved a major problem in their life. And today's guest is no stranger |
| 1:52.2 | to that six-time Mr. Olympia champion in the physique division. You know who he is. A lot of you |
| 1:59.0 | have been anticipating this podcast. |
| 2:03.1 | Welcome to the podcast, Chris Bonstead. |
| 2:03.8 | Thank you, sir. |
| 2:15.9 | It's an honor. It's an honor to be on here. It's an honor to be sitting with you. Intimidating, given the guests you've had, but. Really? Excited to be on here talking about my journey. Yeah, it's just my guess. I'm not intimidating. They're, Well, you too. You're exciting to talk to. |
| 2:18.6 | I feel like I need to be the one interviewing you so I can learn a little thing too. Well, we can go back and forth, you know? |
| 2:20.6 | We actually, like all my podcast guests, you know, when we get here early, we run half the podcast before the podcast. I'm like, we should talk about this on the pod. But, you know, one of the things we talked about, which is a common theme on my podcast, |
| 2:35.1 | and I really want to unpack this a little bit with you, is that I feel like the most impactful |
| 2:40.4 | people, like the most inspiring, passionate, purpose-driven people are people that solve the major |
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