SNR #83: Shawn Wells - Supplement Quality: Fish Oil, Whey Protein, Probiotics & Prebiotics

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Danny Lennon

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4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Episode 83: Shawn Wells discusses the good and bad of the supplement industry, red flags when it comes to selecting supplements, markers of good products and the importance of gut health.

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0:00.0	Because there's a lot of labs out there that are where you can just pay to get the results you want.
0:12.0	Literally it's just a guy in a laptop, you can send them off your sample and he'll send it back and it says within normal limits here you go you know
0:22.4	that leucine is obviously a key trigger for muscle protein synthesis and if you're adding
0:28.6	these ingredients you're getting less lucine some of these products that are supposed to be 25
0:35.2	grams of protein you should be getting about 2.8 grams.
0:39.5	Instead, you're seeing 1.8 grams or something like that.
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