Ep. 178 - In Search of Supplements: An Examination

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Examine is arguably one of the most important resources to the supplement consumer in existence. Haven’t heard of it? Imagine a third-party, expert-informed, wiki page on human research on nearly every supplement in existence, organized in a clear, logical, and informative manner, and you’ve imagined Examine. Today, we sat down with one of its founders, Sol Orwell, to learn about how and why it started, and where its future lies. Given people are still falling for insincere supplement marketing today, this is a conversation that’s just as important as ever.

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0:00.0	Eric.
0:01.8	Omar.
0:03.1	Little do we know how relevant this podcast would be because we booked this what?
0:08.8	This is a busy man.
0:10.1	How long ago did we book this?
0:11.7	Two months ago, a year ago?
0:13.8	I want to say early 2012.
0:17.1	2012, yeah.
0:18.2	It's been a day, folks.
0:19.3	This has been a decade in the making um and such is the overall
0:23.8	supplement space and so many things that occur in the fitness industry where really is cyclical
0:28.3	that it couldn't have come at a better time the guests that we have the topic that we're talking
0:33.3	about uh it's going to be far reaching i want to share want to share a personal story, if I may, Eric.
0:39.5	You know, this is just as much your podcast as mine. So you share away.
0:44.0	Eric, we're like this. So it's 2018, Saul. I was in Eric's bed. No, okay. The...
0:51.3	That's a very personal story. That's a very... I said I was going to be a person.
0:54.1	I feel like you should get sense before we share this. Less personal, but still personal story. That's a very, yeah, I said I was going to be a person. But less personal but still personal story.
0:57.2	No, the landscape of the fitness space, and I'm being serious here, 2014, Eric was there.
1:01.6	We could go even a decade back and we do say things are cyclical because we notice these patterns of something emerging, people making bold, unsubstantiated claims, people willfully believing
1:12.5	it because they want to believe in the magic. Everyone wants to believe in the magic that
1:16.4	there's a newfangled supplement. It really doesn't matter. There's something that's going to
1:19.9	provide the panacea of what they want. And so in 2014, I was fortunate enough, this is when
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