Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Muscle Intelligence Podcast.

I am your host, Ben Pocoski.

As always, we're searching the world to bring you the brightest people to ultimately assist you in building the body of your dreams, whether that's building muscle, losing fat,

connecting deeply with your body, through your breath, through your meditations, through any

type of movement that you're already participating in. Our objective is turning the exercise you

already do into the most effective exercise possible. So ultimately, efficiency is your friend. You can get the most

out of the time and effort you're already investing in the gym and outside the gym. So thank you for

being here. Today's podcast is brought to you by bi optimizers. By optimizers, if you're anyone who's

interested in optimizing health and fitness and ultimately building muscle, you want to get the most

out of what

you eat, not just about what you eat, it's about what your body does with what you eat.

And enzymes have become a massive part of my morning routine, of my post-workout routine.

Ultimately, every time I have a meal that consumes any larger amount of animal protein,

I want to make sure my body has what it needs

to break it down.

Now that I'm over 40, I'm going to let that slip.

Actually, 41.

I know that my digestion is suffering.

I know that as we age, our digestion, our ability to break down protein because of the

diminishing amount of acid and enzymes in our stomach,

becomes harder. That's why you see a lot of men who have these bloated distended bellies.

Oftentimes that's a microbiome issue. That's also digestion issue, obviously visceral fat as well.

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