Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast. I'm going to start with something I was just reading about that is called. Oh, I don't know exactly how to say this because I'm pretty sure it's German or Austrian or something. But I want to say like Arnold, Aunt Schultz rule. I think that's how you pronounce it. Anyway, the rule states,

for every substance, small doses stimulate, moderate doses inhibit, and large doses kill.

And this is meant for, I guess like the laws of pharmacology and to some extent

physiology. But the example of this that just rings true so much in our age of just pushing supplements

so much within the health and fitness industry is supplements.

Like essentially it's saying in a small dose is probably a good thing.

In a moderate dose it's probably a bad thing and in a very high dose it could be a really, really bad thing.

And that's true for most things really.

And I guess if you're even thinking about exercise, I wouldn't say moderate doses inhibit

here, but you do have like small doses are enough to stimulate the benefits of exercise.

And then moderate doses, like, okay, probably still going to get some extra benefit,

but nowhere near as big a bang for your buck as the smaller doses and then in large doses can

actually be a negative and most people most people most things in life generally fall

on this inverted u curve where some of something is like exponentially good and then you get to a point

where that does actually just kind of plateau towards the top exponentially is not the right word then is a

sum of something is just a huge gradient of good right you're just like wow the benefit you're

getting for that first 30 minutes

of exercise a week or that first, like, bit of water that you drink in the morning or something. Like,

yes, the benefit is huge. And then it kind of saturates. And then actually it starts to get to

a negative thing, right? Even if you take something which is generally

inherently quite positive and you need it to live, like water, having some of it when you don't

have any is just the most important thing ever. And then there gets to a point where it's like,

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