7 Supplements You Should NEVER Take (Can be Dangerous)

there are supplements that you should never ever take they can be dangerous or they can just be a flat out waste of money there are other supplements that you should never ever take at specific times but they're okay at other times so we're going to go through this in detail I'm going to tell you which ones you should avoid but then I'm also going to tell you when you should take them because it really doesn't matter what time you take something makes a huge huge difference so without further Ado let's jump into this first one which is very interesting it's the world of antioxidants so we're talking things like vitamin C vitamin E echinacea all these things that arguably are great but when they're taken at the wrong time they can be detrimental you see what we have to understand is that antioxidants are heavily marketed to be helpful with your workouts they're in pre-workouts all the time they're in post-workout shakes we're told we should be bombarding our body with them when muscles contract okay you have actin and you have myosin and what happens is calcium binds to a protein on a muscle cell okay this is a very simple way of explaining it that binding of calcium to troponin is what allows the contraction of a muscle what we've seen in some of the literature is that high amounts of oxidative stress can impede the ability for those to bind thereby reducing your muscle contraction so that leads us to believe that we should be loading ourselves up with antioxidants because it rids the body of these reactive oxygen species allowing the muscle to contract makes sense right right but it's wrong there was a study published in Journal of physiology gave subjects a thousand milligrams of vitamin C and 235 milligrams of vitamin E daily for 11 weeks and they did resistance training they did high intensity interval training they did endurance training three to four days per week their results overall as far as performance were concerned were similar but when they did muscle biopsies this is where things got interesting they found that there was a 19 and a 59 percent increase in overall mitochondrial biogenesis muscle adaptation ability for the muscle to get stronger in the placebo group and a 13 decrease in these adaptations in the antioxidant vitamin C vitamin E Group whoa so we're talking a 60 Improvement by not taking antioxidants why because we need a certain level of oxidative stress to actually be a signal to the brain to trigger adaptation mitochondrial biogenesis all these things that is the adaptation okay so don't take antioxidants well no antioxidants are actually quite powerful and they do have a huge impact you just do not want to take them pre or post-workout or into a workout so look at your pre-workout drinks and make sure that there's not like an antioxidant blend in there because that's detrimental now on race day or competition day or a day where you want to perform better you might want to consider taking in antioxidants just know that you're going to have terrible recovery and not get a good adaptation from it but it might actually make you perform better but if you did that every day you trained you would actually be breaking your body down as far as days you're not competing things like that stack your antioxidants towards the end of the day with meals away from your workouts at least by three or four hours now for those of you that are wondering there was another study that took a look at antioxidant supplements versus antioxidant Rich diet and they found that an antioxidant-rich diet did not have the same negative impact as antioxidant supplements so your post-workout meal can be rich in berries and polyphenol-rich food and you're not going to have the same problem as you would with a direct concentrated vitamin C or something like that okay this next one is one that is really really really important and although it's still in somewhat of the exercise workout spear I want you to pay attention because it applies anytime your body's under stress not just necessarily from a workout that is taking things that are anti-inflammatory okay that's gonna be things like ibuprofen but in the supplement World things like coenzyme Q10 pqq even turmeric you don't want these right around periods of time when you're stressed or post-workout so it's fairly common knowledge that when you work out you trigger an inflammatory response okay a il-6 interleukin-6 is what's really responsible for Recovery if il-6 goes out of control or is chronically stimulated it's a problem what's interesting is a study published in nature demonstrated that when subjects suppressed il-6 it decreased the ability to create what's called glute for so by suppressing inflammation the cells were not able to soak up glucose because glute 4 is what sucks up glucose into the cell so thereby glycogen replenishment was diminished but also just overall recovery was poor and blood sugar could remain high being metabolically detrimental as well the other thing we have to remember is that il-6 is required for muscle growth for satellite cells which basically are cells that donate a nuclei to muscle cells to ultimately allow them to fuse and grow it's complicated but just take my word for it interleukin-6 is important for that so you don't want to take ibuprofen because it blocks one pathway the prostaglandin pathway you don't want to take turmeric you don't want to take pqq coenzyme Q10 you don't want to take hydroxy tyrosol you don't want to take potent anti-inflammatory compounds at all within like a two hour window of your workout if you do take them you want to make them part of a normal lifestyle routine and have them be with like your lunch or your dinner with a meal again two or three hours away but one of the things that you may want to consider doing is focusing on the microbiome instead because the microbiome is going to be one of the larger Regulators of the inflammatory response within your body that way your body can dictate when inflammation needs to go up and when inflammation needs to be quelled and the microbiome seems to be playing a critical role in that balance that homeostasis of inflammation within the body so one thing you could add in instead of these things is a good probiotic and I popped a link down below for the one I recommend you can skip through this section if you don't want to watch but I definitely recommend this one for people that are trying to change their microbiome it's called seed it's a symbiotic that has a capsule inside of a capsule so it's uniquely designed to have the Prebiotic formula but also the probiotic the actual bacterial component in one capsule so you're getting a multi-stage delivery for potential proper colonization for the microbiome to really get the maximum benefit so that link down below saves you 15 off if you want to try them out it's only probiotic that I actually recommend because a lot of them quite literally along the trash this next one is dangerous it's dangerous because it is a shortcut that can absolutely mess you up now with this we're talking about iron oh you're tired you feel weak you must be anemic I literally myself can probably think of over a hundred other reasons why you're tired clinically there's probably thousands of reasons that I don't know why is it that we default to iron well because a lot of times where your iron levels are in one state is not the way they are in another state you your serum iron levels might be different than your actual stored iron levels and whatnot so you might not be deficient in Iron you're just having a inability to utilize it transport it and get the right kinds of irons but additionally I would almost guarantee now almost guaranteed I'm just a guy on the internet that if you're iron deficient you're probably copper deficient in fact there's a study published in journal nutrition it was done in mice but it found that iron deficient mice more often than not were actually deficient in Copper which was why they're deficient in Iron because copper AIDS in the proper absorption of iron so if you were to take iron supplementation without copper you actually impede the absorption of iron further you need copper to increase that absorption without copper iron can't really do its job so okay I'll take an iron supplement but I'll also take a copper supplement then you're walking yourself down this very funky line of having to always balance how much copper you're taking in how much iron you're taking in because they balance and counterbalance each other so what am I saying well I'm unless you have severe anemia you probably don't have a need for an iron supplement you're getting enough from the diet everything is fortified most foods have either heme iron or non-heme iron you're probably fine but again I'm just some dude on the internet so what do I know the other thing we have to remember why iron can become dangerous is that iron helps us carry oxygen if you leave iron out in the elements what happens it turns Rusty right yes okay well essentially iron oxidizes very heavily so when you have high amounts of extra iron a it oxidizes but B it carries more oxygen we think more oxygen that means that I'm going to be doing great things in oxygenating cells not quite more oxygen also means more exposure to the elements right so more potential oxygenation and oxidation leading to higher levels of oxidative stress there is a study that took a look at 117 anemics put them on a hundred milligrams of iron for 100 days and they found that it didn't make a whole lot of a change to their iron levels but it did increase reactive oxygen species in overall total oxidative stress within their body leading to other damaging things later on down the line now the archives of internal medicine also published a paper looking at correlation between lots of like multivitamins magnesiums potassium different vitamins and all of them had interesting correlations with all cause mortality but the one that had the strongest correlation with all cos mortality was iron supplementation and here's Food For Thought shift Theory what I've heard it talked about before in the medical community and that's the world of like women live longer right that's kind of a simply known fact right we see that in epidemiological data that women live longer well women lose blood every month perhaps they're getting rid of some of this extra iron that could be a problem just noodle on that for a little bit so what do you do I don't know eat a steak cook up some spinach eat some meat get some iron the natural way and move your body so that you can actually clear out oxidative stress and develop the ability to deal with it that's the best solution there this next one is going to take the cake when it comes down to over marketed overpriced BS candidly okay it's something that we see in muscle building magazines all the time we see it Nutrishop GNC and they charge like 50 for a jug of stuff it probably costs them less than 50 cents to make we're talking about glutamine first of all glutamine as far as a muscle building supplement that's like quack work that's a joke glutamine is non-essential your body can make it that doesn't mean it's not important okay but it does not contribute to muscle synthesis at all there's a study published in the European Journal of Applied physiology took a look at six weeks of resistance training with glutamine or Placebo okay they found that there was no difference in strength no difference in total muscle mass no different in torque and really just nothing at all no difference whatsoever there's no increase in muscle protein synthesis with glutamine supplementation there is also no decrease in muscle protein breakdown so it wasn't preventing you from breaking down muscle during your workout so it's a waste of money if you're trying to build muscle that's not going to work but what about the other side okay as someone that's an endurance athlete myself I used to think of glutamine as a really powerful thing because it is important for the immune system it's very important and when you train hard specifically with endurance work you suppress your immune system it's pretty prevalent and it happens a lot right so what do we have to do here well you take glutamine and it fixes the issue well when you look at the data not the case journal of clinical nutrition published a paper looking at various papers they found that there was pretty much no effect with the immune system of glutamine there was no change in natural killer cells no change in B cell function there is no change in various immunoglobulins but more importantly no increase in IGA immunoglobulin a which supports gut barrier Integrity supports the mucosal membranes mucus all these things that are our first line of defense that supposedly get weakened when we do endurance work so glutamine is supposed to help us there evidently no dice as a matter of fact there was a study published in parenteral and internal nutrition that demonstrated that long-term glutamine usage could actually impair protein absorption and could impair glutamine synthesis within our body impairing our body to actually create it itself so not only is it a waste of money but it actually could be this issue it could be an encumbrance later on to your synthesis of protein so it may not be the best thing to take and it's definitely a waste of money then we have another interesting one I'm going to Rattle off a few more here raspberry ketones they are not ketones they are literally like nothing they do nothing okay so don't ever fall into that trap of taking a raspberry ketone because you think it's like a a ketone supplement or B a fat burner okay over 90 percent of it is excreted in the urine in mammals larger than rabbits and the larger the animal the larger the man animal the more you excrete so a you're probably not even getting any n b it doesn't really do anything C it's actually been demonstrated to increase your glucose by impeding the ability to absorb glucose into the cell so it's more of a detriment than anything the next one that's just going to list off quickly here because I've talked about it in other videos no need to be taking a calcium supplement we do not have a calcium problem in this country especially the United States okay calcium is excitatory if anything it's going to make you more stressed if anything it's going to counterbalance magnesium it's going to cause more of an issue and potentially lead to calcification of the arteries we don't need to add it in there are studies even published by the American Heart Association that demonstrated that when you add more calcium via supplementation you increase the risk of calcium in your arteries or calcification right so just for cardiovascular disease no go pretty much all fat burning supplements are a no-go they're just caffeine you're going to get a similar effect by having green tea or having coffee so just go that route it's more pleasurable it's more fun it's way cheaper and probably even works better because you'll be able to afford it for a longer period of time the only fat burner that I would somewhat recommend is if you're training hard carnitine can actually be beneficial very cheap and it works very well as far as the molecular science is concerned if you're deficient in carnitine you become deficient in carnitine when you train hard so if you're training hard you might be deficient the simple cheap supplementation of carnitine might be a decent fat burner in conjunction with caffeine so as always keep it locked in here on my channel I'll see you tomorrow

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Length: 14min 21sec (861 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 08 2023