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Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Where do supplements, pills, powders and the like fit in the spectrum of your performance evolution? Are they a key catalyst to performance, or a bunch of voodoo and empty promises designed only to drain your wallet?

Today, Matt dives into the nooks and crannies of performance trickery and supplementation - the big promises of maximizing performance gains through supplements, treatments, and interventions.

There is a veritable gray zone between medicine and coaching, and this episode bridges that murky gap to provide an information filter and appropriate lens when it comes to supplementation. He details:

Factors to consider when taking supplements
How and when to supplement
Which supplements may actually be useful and beneficial in your daily life

The mission of this episode is to simplify and help you focus on what is important. At most, the supplements you take should be a shelf in your cabinet and not the whole cabinet.

If you want performance, health, longevity, sex drive and all of the other promised results from charlatans — it is not coming in a pill. The bedrock of success sits in the fundamentals and, as always, nailing the basics.

Referenced Podcast in Question of the Week: Purple Patch Podcast Episode 47: Child's Play - FUNdamental Lessons from Youth Development in Sport

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:03.5	The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential.
0:09.3	Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential.
0:13.3	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life.
0:20.1	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:22.8	This is, as ever, your host, Matt Dixon.
0:25.1	And today we go into the nooks and crannies of performance trickery, supplementation,
0:31.1	and even a little bit of dose of charlatans.
0:33.5	The big promises of performance gains and maximising training through supplements, treatments and interventions.
0:40.1	What many were called life hacks.
0:42.4	Today, we're going to have a particular emphasis on supplements.
0:46.2	But in order to get there, we have to take a step back.
0:49.2	We have to think about the lens that you should apply in your performance world on how and when to take supplements
0:55.9	and what are the appropriate supplements to take. Now, guess what? Before we start this show,
1:02.4	most of the big promises are nonsense. To be all American on you, bullshit. But the mission of today is to simplify and to help you focus.
1:14.9	And so we're going to discuss the grey zone between medicine and coaching, the void in which
1:20.1	quacks can exploit and sell your stuff. I'm also going to help develop an information filter
1:26.0	for you. And finally, we're going to put
1:28.7	into some actions some of the components or supplements that you might actually want to think about
1:33.9	taking. And as you might have guessed by now, it's really pretty simple and it's not going to
1:38.6	consume a whole cabinet in your kitchen. And so we're going to dive in today and we're not going to deliver a
1:46.2	quick fit to performance, but instead we're going to aim to help you find solutions that go in
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