Joe Rogan - Supplements - with Andrew Huberman

so I think there's no going back there's no going back now people seek advice on multiple Dimensions you know a few years ago if you said supplements people like oh that's expensive urine well that's true if you're talking about vitamins and minerals but how many people do I know who during the pandemic started taking vitamin D getting some sunshine what do you mean by that's true if you're talking about vitamins and minerals well I think when we hear the word supplements it gets confusing for people I actually am wishing for a better word because when people hear supplements they think vitamin minerals isn't that just expensive urine but it's not your body absorbs it if you take it with fat and protein and carbohydrates right and and if you over ingest uh fats excuse me water soluble vitamins you will excrete some but then there's a whole category of supplements like food supplements protein Etc and then there's an entire category of compounds that we call supplements that have nothing to do with proteins fats or carbohydrates vitamins or minerals things that are known to have very potent effects there's a reason why the National Institutes of Health has a division now simply for these types of studies right things like ashwagandha can potently reduce cortisol shouldn't be used long term but in the short term this can be very beneficial for people especially late day because late day Peaks and cortisol not good for us we know this corner with depression anxiety insomnia which then has a Cascade of negative effects things like creatine not just for we think creatine muscles and indeed it brings water into the muscles and make you stronger most of the data clinical data on Creatine are to enhance forebrain function it's one because it's a neutral it's a nootropic it post-concussion post-surgery postpartum depression headache I mean fish oils so there's this whole category of things that in theory you could get from food but the volumes that you would have to eat and the sourcing is just impractical and that's just the tip of the iceberg I mean there's rhodiola rosea which is you know reducing cortisol there's interesting data on that and then there's the stuff we've talked about before about hormone augmentation but for the typical person out there nowadays I think they're thinking about what can I do what can I eat how can I take better care of myself in my magnesium deficient or not probably not but will taking some additional magnesium help me sleep yes will it hurt me no well are you magnesium are you magnesium deficient get your blood work done right like if you want to find out that get your blood work done everyone should have their blood work but what I was curious about like why you were saying that it's just expensive urine like oh no no this this is what other people say right but they're wrong no this is what you know my you know when I was young I got into this you know training and supplementation early and people say oh it's just expensive urine you know don't spend your money on that there are certain things like within supplementation also the foundational supplementation as I call it like things like athletic greens right or I guess they call ag-1 now things that are in such combinations of herbs and plant-based compounds like you can't take them one by one and then other things like magnesiums for sleep or inositol and the date on depression or inositol and insulin sensitivity you know the number of people that are out there who are pre-diabetic or type 2 diabetes of course they need to exercise and eat right but things like like inositol can improve insulinositol inositol is it's similar to a vitamin but it works in a pathway that makes cells more insulin sensitive which is good so you can use the glucose in it insulin that that you make so you're not overproducing insulin type 2 diabetes is essentially overproduction of insulin because your cells aren't able to use the insulin that's around so you crank out more of it type 1 diabetes lack of insulin from the pancreas that's why people in Jeff inject it who have type 1 diabetes so things like inositol I mean and the list just goes on and on you know and so to me I think the view is changing I hope that you know the idea previously was that before the pandemic frankly was that supplements are just kind of like nootropic that or you know it's kind of you don't need it I'm not saying you need it but they are a powerful augment to good sleep good nutrition good training good social connection yeah if you want to optimize if you want an idea of needing it like what do you mean to exist right you don't you could eat McDonald's and just live like if you want to optimize your health yeah supplements are very beneficial very beneficial but I think for you and me it's a it's a it's a duh but I think for a lot of people out there and so they they seem to think that there's something unique about prescription drugs that is makes them better than supplements well that's good

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Length: 4min 18sec (258 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 21 2023