The 5 Best Supplements For Performance - 253
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2017
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
It seems like every other health article and Instagram post is trying to promote the next best supplement these days. It is very hard to get unbiased information on supplements. It is straight up confusing to feed through the hype and distinguish between clever marketing and what actual works.
Most sources? They have an agenda. Supplement companies misrepresenting science. Media sensationalizing headlines. Companies and individuals pushing unneeded supplements and other products onto you. We aren’t saying that all supplement companies are out to cheat you. There are some great brands and products out there for sure. However, it is not so simple to feed through all the noise.
That’s why we brought Kamal Patel on the show. Kamal runs Examine.com. Examine is an unbiased database of supplement and nutrition information. What is unique about Examine, is that they have no monetary agenda around selling you products. They are pulling together all the science, reading the research, and putting it online.
In this episode, we catch up with Dr Andy Galpin and Kamal at Andy’s lab and talk about what supplements you should be taking and which ones are overhyped. If you want to settle the confusion around supplements and start directing your energy towards what works, this episode is for you.
Also, if this show sparks your interest to tap into to more info, you can get access to premium Examine resources like their supplement stack guides and research digests to optimize your supplementation and stay on top of the latest supplement research. Save as much as 20% when you visit barbellshrugged.com/examine
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Mike
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| 0:00.0 | If you've ever sat there and gone like, man, I really wish there was one place I could go that just took all the science |
| 0:05.6 | So I don't have to bother to read it, put it in one place and then told me if it worked and how much to take and when to take it |
| 0:11.0 | That's exactly what your website does |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Barbell Shrug, I'm Mike Bletsow here with Doug Larson, we're at the Doctor Andy Galpin and our guest today is Kamal Patel |
| 0:51.5 | And from examine.com, we're going to be talking about supplements, research and one of the big reasons we're talking about this is because people tend to get confused about this very easily |
| 1:04.2 | A lot of magazines, online blogs, things like that are posting articles about supplements and they may or may not be very accurate and we found the examine.com to be a really great place to find that stuff |
| 1:17.8 | Can you tell us more about examine? Sure, so examine.com is just information. What I mean by that is we don't write articles about why low-carb is good or bad or whatever, we report on studies as they come out |
| 1:34.3 | So if there's a study that comes out that says low-carb diets can be used for controlling seizures and kids with this specific disorder, we report on that |
| 1:45.0 | If there's a study that comes out that says a new form of creatine is better for power athletes than we report on that |
| 1:51.7 | And that's it, we just report over and over and over and over again and that's our entire job |
| 1:57.0 | So you take the research studies and then you just still them down to something that the everyday kind of layperson who doesn't have a research background |
| 2:03.7 | It is not a nutrition scientist so to speak, can figure out and take the information and actually use to improve the health of their performance or what have you |
| 2:11.6 | Yep, so we've got both so if you look up creatine |
| 2:15.7 | Possibly even on Google well if you look up fish oil on Google |
| 2:20.0 | Hopefully we might be on the first page and when you click on the link |
| 2:24.1 | There's a summary up there that says what fish oil is good for what's not good for just in about a paragraph or two |
| 2:29.8 | But then after that is about 700 some citations worth of evidence. So we go through every system in your body |
| 2:38.1 | You know from neurological to gut health |
| 2:41.8 | muscular |
| 2:42.8 | Musculoskeletal health and we talk about all the studies have been done on that |
| 2:47.4 | And if the studies are any good or not yet |
| 2:50.0 | So that's really awesome because a lot of people though they'll see kind of like Mike said earlier |
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