We're at McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

When you hear the word total human optimization, what does that conjure up in your head?

Well our guest today has made it his mission in life to help people optimize themselves to the utmost.

His name is Aubrey Marcus, he's the founder and CEO of Onit.

It's a health and fitness company that's hard to describe. We'll let him describe it for you all.

But Onits focused on helping people become the best they can through sort of unconventional means,

using unconventional exercises like Indian clubs and God-a-maces,

and using supplements like neutropics to help you improve your cognition and something we've written

about on the site before. So in this podcast today we're going to talk about neutropics and how

supplements can help our brain function better. We're going to talk about why unconventional exercises

should be a part of your workout routine. I'm a big fan of the barbell. I love the barbell,

dud-lift, bench press, squat, my favorite. But I like to incorporate other stuff like Indian clubs

and kettlebells and the warrior mace. Then we'll also talk a bit about what Aubrey has learned

from mixed martial artists. For some reason or other, Onit has attracted MMA fighters and we're going

to find out what Aubrey has learned about what it means to be a man and what masculinity means by

rubbing shoulders with these really fierce fighters. And I think the answer will surprise you.

So a really fascinating, hodgepodge discussion, so stay tuned.

Aubrey Markers, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Brett. Why should we be on here?

All right, so you are the founder and CEO of a fitness company and health company called Onit.

For our listeners who aren't familiar with the company because like I've tried to describe what

Onit is because it's not like any other health and fitness company out there really. And it's hard

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