Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 2377: The 4 Most Valuable Supplements Everyone Should Take

Episode Date: July 11, 2024

The 4 Most Valuable Supplements Everyone Should Take Supplements DON’T come close to what proper diet, sleep, and lifestyle can do for you. (1:18) Personal stories and experiences. (3:57) The ...4 Most Valuable Supplements Everyone Should Take #1 - Multivitamin. (8:13) #2 - Protein powder. (13:27) #3 - Electrolytes (if you consume whole food/low carb diet) (16:52) #4 – Creatine. (22:06) Related Links/Products Mentioned Visit Legion Athletics for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! ** Code MINDPUMP for 20% off your first order (new customers) and double rewards points for existing customers. ** July Promotion: MAPS Split | Sexy Athlete Bundle 50% off! ** Code JULY50 at checkout ** Dietary Supplements Market Size And Share Report, 2030 Vitamin D Deficiency in Adults: When to Test and How to Treat Visit NED for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! ** Code MINDPUMP at checkout for 20% off ** Get your free Sample Pack with any “drink mix” purchase! Also try the new LMNT Sparkling — a bold, 16-ounce can of sparkling electrolyte water: Visit DrinkLMNT.com/MindPump Creatine benefits, dosage, and side effects – Examine Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources  

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Starting point is 00:00:00 If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mind Pump with your hosts, Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. You just found the most downloaded fitness, health, and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump. Today's episode, the top four most valuable supplements everybody should take. We almost never say that, but in today today's episode we do make that statement and we stand behind it. Now this episode is brought to you by a sponsor Legion. Speaking of supplements they make some of the best high-performance muscle building, fat burning, sleep encouraging supplements you'll find anywhere. We know the owner
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Starting point is 00:01:11 If you're interested, go to MAPSFitnessProducts.com and then use the code JULY50 for that discount. All right, here comes the show. The supplement industry is over $100 billion. Last estimates bring it over $ hundred and eighty billion dollars. Today's episode we're going to talk about the four supplements everybody should be taking. By the way, most people shouldn't be taking most supplements. So that's what you're going to learn in today's episode.
Starting point is 00:01:35 All right, let's talk about everybody always... A hundred and eighty billion? Is that what you said? Big industry. Wow. It's huge. Now I want to say this first, that supplements don't even come close.
Starting point is 00:01:48 And when I mean close, I mean the difference between a snail and a cheetah, okay? They don't even come close to what proper diet, exercise, sleep, and lifestyle can do for you. It's not even the same universe. And I want to say that because we have a warped perception of the value of supplements and what they can do for us.
Starting point is 00:02:09 And I get why, right? It's a- It's how it's been marketed to us. It's a big, it's a moneymaker. So because it's a moneymaker, it's a consumable product, most of the information that's going to be put out by the industry, the fitness industry, is going to be geared towards things that can at least give them some profit.
Starting point is 00:02:27 And so we have the disproportionate amount of information that's coming out geared towards supplements versus lifestyle, sleep, and exercise, which are not nearly as profitable. So it creates the illusion that supplements are far more important than they are. I'm so glad you said that, Sal, because one of the things that I'm
Starting point is 00:02:45 always trying to be cognizant of when we do these episodes, especially one like this, where we're tiling the four most valuable supplements is that all times we have hundreds, if not thousands of first time listeners listening to this one episode, and I would never want somebody who just found us to think that this is like kind of the way, I mean, we've been presenting for a very long time the information around what you just said, which is, you know, address diet, address sleep, address programming, address stress. There's so many other factors in your lifestyle that is going to move the needle further and better than any supplement or any combination of supplements that exists in the world.
Starting point is 00:03:24 And so we still stand by that. This is cool because we're gonna dive into the supplements a little bit and make the case or argument for why we think these are the four best. But I just wanna make that clear that like you, don't take this as like, if this is your first episode listening to the show, like. It's not magic pills.
Starting point is 00:03:41 Yeah, and we've been presenting that. This is not us switching sides now or someone pushing supplements. It's, this will. Yeah, and we've been presenting that. This is not us switching sides now, or someone pushing supplements. No. This will be a fun discussion, but at the same time, you want to check the big boxes, or the big rocks first, and then these types of things can add to that.
Starting point is 00:03:57 Yeah, I mean, as a kid growing up, as a consumer, a big-time consumer of the industry, and then somebody who worked in the industry, I believed supplements played a bigger role than they do. as a consumer, a big time consumer of the industry, and then somebody who worked in the industry, I believed supplements played a bigger role than they do. And I lost a lot of time and energy moving in that direction, or thinking that that would do it for me.
Starting point is 00:04:14 I remember having a conversation with an ex-bodybuilder as a kid, he was a family friend, and taking him aside and asking him the secrets. Like, how do you build so much muscle? And I was a kid, I must have been 15 or 16 years old. And he said, all right, eat a lot of protein, chicken, steak, eggs, fish, lift weights three days a week,
Starting point is 00:04:32 full body, get good sleep. And I thought he was lying to me. I thought this guy doesn't want to tell me what the real deal is. Now looking back, he was giving me the best possible advice that I didn't take. Because I thought it was something else. And as a kid, I had a job really early, right? My first job was at 14, so I was making money and I spent my money on supplements,
Starting point is 00:04:52 supplement stacks and packs, and I'd read the latest articles and tried everything. And it wasn't until I did the basics that I saw this incredible progress in my body. Now supplements are valuable when they're needed. They can be very valuable when needed, but for, to be very clear, everything you can get from supplements and everything you can do with supplements, for the most part, you could do with your diet or your lifestyle. So any nutrient or something that you can get, or you get from a supplement that does something for you, at least the valuable ones ones you can get from your diet. So they're not
Starting point is 00:05:28 Necessary is the place there's probably more of a misconception in terms of when somebody just gets started that they need these supplements Go alongside that versus somebody who is just impatient and you know, they've been going through the process They don't realize that consistency really is that biggest factor that they're lacking. I think the first one that you said, Justin, I think there's a major misconception, at least this has been my experience, I'm thinking back to conversations I've had recently with family members that are getting ready to get started,
Starting point is 00:05:54 and they always ask like, well, what supplements should I be taking? And I think that goes to the point that Sal made, which is because this is $180 billion industry, unfortunately, so much of the conversation that's being had in our space is geared around the arguments of what supplement is better or, you know, so I think that a lot of people hear that noise
Starting point is 00:06:15 and then they're like, okay, I'm gonna do- It's important. Yeah, I'm gonna do this thing now. You buy these products and get ready. Give me the list of things I need to get in order to do that. And so I think that, and you know, when I think about it, I like to use like an analogy, like around like a race team, because this is getting like, supplements is getting really granular to me.
Starting point is 00:06:34 And if you're familiar with like, man, the professional level of like race cars is crazy. Like they are measuring the amount of downforce that's getting put on a car. They're, they are measuring how the amount of air that's going through the intake. They're measuring the weight of the car down to like a half a pound. They're measuring the tire pressure in each car and like, yeah. I mean, it is like, and it's, and they're tweaking all that to get a, you know, a half a second, you know, faster lap or less, you know? And so, you know, that's how I think of like, you're tweaking the body with supplements by, ooh, making sure you're getting this creatine
Starting point is 00:07:10 or this supplement or this multivitamin or this performance supplement. Like you're doing that and it's like, it's not that they don't work, it's just that you're getting so granular, but then you're sleeping four hours. So that's like literally like the race car. It's like, imagine a Red Bull comes out with their Indy car and they get ready to start the race and then the front
Starting point is 00:07:27 left tire is flat. But they got everything else, but they got everything else all dialed in. It's super fine tuned. Yeah. They find there and they're arguing over, you know, the downforce or something like that. It's like, you know, you have a flat tire, right? Like if you just fix that, you're going to have a better chance of winning this race than you arguing over the downforce or the fuel, whatever. So like, that's kind of how I look at supplements. Now that being said, there are some supplements that have some value and a lot of the value comes from the fact that they may be filling a nutrient need that you might not be filling
Starting point is 00:08:01 with your diet, in which case it makes a big difference. Or they help you with your workouts or they help you with the things that make the big differences in how your body looks and feels and your athletic performance. So the first supplement is just the multivitamin. That's not a sexy supplement. They have the lowest margins, I think, some of the lowest margins in supplement sales. But the reason why a multivitamin can be valuable is if you are lacking a key nutrient, your body can't function properly. So if you're deficient in calcium or vitamin D or magnesium or vitamin C or one
Starting point is 00:08:36 of these essential micronutrients, then the biochemical processes of the body can't happen the way they're supposed to. And you are not either functioning optimally or in bad cases, you actually develop disease as a result of it. And nutrient deficiencies can cause disease. If you're too low in iron, you'll have this terrible fatigue and a blood test will show that you're anemic. If your vitamin C is too low, then your blood vessels get weak and you'll bruise and bleed through your gums and all kinds of weird stuff can happen.
Starting point is 00:09:08 And a vitamin C supplement can cure you, right? Low vitamin D can cause brittle bones. Scurvy at the worst part. Yes. Yeah. So, so a multivitamin, what a multivitamin does is it, it kind of fills nutrient gaps. Now there's a lot of studies on multivitamins
Starting point is 00:09:24 and they're kind of mixed, but for the most part what you find is people who take a multivitamin are less likely, obviously, to suffer from a nutrient deficiency. And in older populations it's shown to slow decline in brain function, probably because of the fact that they're not lacking particular nutrients. I'm glad you picked this as the first one because
Starting point is 00:09:46 this is one of the supplements I've changed my opinion on. Early on as a young trainer, I would have kind of poo-pooed the multivitamins. Yeah, same. For a combination of reasons. One, because of how we started this saying that supplements barely move the needle as it is. And then I would make the case of like, in a multivitamin
Starting point is 00:10:03 it's come on, like you're not going to see a major performance. And so I would have made this argument in case that like of all the different supplements that are out there, this is not going to move the needle very much. But my philosophy has changed on that for the reasons that you just brought up is that almost everybody is lacking somewhere. Like I have yet to have a client that they did a full blood panel, came back and found out that, oh, we weren't low on vitamin C or magnesium or vitamin D, which 65% of the population is low on vitamin D. These are all magnesiums up there also. This second has another comment.
Starting point is 00:10:36 Yeah. I mean, you're talking about more than half the people without me even knowing through a test. So 50-50 chance, you're low on that. And what I have learned over all these years of training people is like, man, if the body isn't healthy, it's really hard to optimize. It's really hard to gain extra pounds of muscle or shred extra pounds of body fat, get the body to work for you when you're not giving it the bare bones things that it needs and
Starting point is 00:11:04 wants because then it looks like a check engine light is on. It's going, there's something not right, we're not balanced, we're not getting enough, and so it's always important to address that first. And oftentimes, people will identify a nutrient deficiency when it gets so bad. Yeah, that it's screaming at you. That they start to present disease, chronic disease,
Starting point is 00:11:21 right, like bone weakness or hormone issues or depression and then, you know, through a bunch of testing, oh, my vitamin D is low, right? But there is an optimal level of nutrients and then there's a suboptimal level, which won't present itself as disease, just suboptimal, right? So you can be within a range, but you'd be better off if the levels will higher, versus I'm outside of range, below that range, and now I'm starting to present myself with disease. Yeah, and this just kind of covers the basis. Yes.
Starting point is 00:11:50 You know, at that point, so it's expensive to go get testing and really fine tune exactly, because sometimes it's pretty elusive. You don't really know what that micronutrient or that nutrient deficiency might be, and so to be able to kind of do this in a preventative way, uh, you know, makes sense to me. And to, I mean, you're going to piss out if you're overdoing it.
Starting point is 00:12:11 To, to some of them you can build up a lot, but a good multivitamin isn't going to put dangerous doses of dangerous doses. Yeah. So, you know, like an example, my father, he was experiencing lots of kind of pain, back pain and stuff. And he was just like, Oh, I'm older. I've got arthritis.
Starting point is 00:12:24 It must be that. And they tested his vitamin D and it pain, back pain and stuff. And he was just like, oh, I'm older. I've got arthritis. It must be that. And they tested his vitamin D and it was really low. Started taking vitamin D and it cured his pain because that's where- Right, you really feel the difference. Yeah, magnesium is another common one where someone's like, you know, I just don't sleep well, I'm kind of anxious, you know, kind of like these subtle signs. Then they take a magnesium supplement before bed and all of a sudden it's like, oh my God, I'm sleeping so well.
Starting point is 00:12:43 I mean, that was life changing for me. Right. I mean, you've heard me, I mean, I've been pushing the Ned product for so long, not because Ned is so magical, more so because I had no idea I was lacking in magnesium that bad that it like was an instant, oh my God, once I started addressing that,
Starting point is 00:13:00 my sleep was in dramatic improvement. And that, see, and to me, because we do talk about the power of sleep. And how much of that's a big rock. And so if you can tell me that this cheap supplement, like a multivitamin, may feel a gap in something that could impact that, now you're talking about very, very valuable.
Starting point is 00:13:20 So that's a huge difference. And so that's where a lot of my philosophy has changed around the multivitamin because of those exact reasons. Next up is a protein powder. Now, there's nothing magical about a protein powder. There's nothing special about the protein that's in the protein powder.
Starting point is 00:13:37 But rather, this helps you hit a high protein diet because to hit a high protein diet, to eat the amount of protein that you find that benefits you in studies, regardless of your goal. So whether your goal is fat loss, muscle gain, athletic performance, high protein, about 0.6 to 1 gram of protein per pound of let's say target body weight, okay so that's high. So that means if you're a 130 pound person, about 100 grams to 130 grams, okay? Most people have a tough time hitting this number on a consistent basis.
Starting point is 00:14:11 Now you might be watching this and listening, and go, no, I can do that, I like meat. Try it, try it. Eight out of 10 people that I've worked with have trouble consistently hitting those types of numbers for protein. Because it's so satiating, It requires more preparation. It's eight ounces of meat three times a day or whatever. A lot of people just think high protein when they eat three
Starting point is 00:14:31 slices of cheese or two eggs when it's like that doesn't even come close to what high protein is. A protein powder is just convenient and what it does is it allows you to hit those targets, those numbers, which again studies have shown quite consistently, whether you wanna lose fat, improve athletic performance, or build muscle, regardless, a high protein diet for the vast majority of people is beneficial. Well, and this supplement kind of falls in line. The similar conversation is the multivitamin, is I would say north of 80%, maybe 90% of every single client I've ever trained.
Starting point is 00:15:07 Doesn't eat that mouth. Doesn't eat enough of the protein. It's almost always the very first thing that I adjust in somebody's diet before I tell them, don't eat this or do this. It's almost always, we need to bump your protein intake. Now, the way I talk about it is, hey, I would like to see you get this all from Whole Foods. I would love to see you eat four meals with a steak or chicken breast in it. The reality of that is that most people have a really hard time eating that much protein. Which is why a high protein diet is also great for fat loss. It makes you eat less.
Starting point is 00:15:41 Exactly. So I'm always going to encourage them in that direction. But I definitely want to make sure that we have a protein shake for those days that you can't do that. That's how I like to use it, as insurance. At the end of the day, oops, I missed by 40 grams. Boom, easy shake. And that's why this becomes a, for sure, top four for me supplements that you should have in your,
Starting point is 00:16:00 because I don't care how good you are. I consider myself a very high protein, high steak, high meat eater, but I still go through these bouts of like, Oh my God, that was a really low day. All it takes, all you need is one of your breakfasts, either you skipped your breakfast or it was a muffin or a carb heavy type of breakfast. And now you're behind the eight ball and hitting your protein targets for the day becomes very difficult and how nice it is to have that shake. And what hitting your protein intake does for building muscle, building the metabolism, ultimately helping you shred body fat trumps a lot of other things.
Starting point is 00:16:36 So even though indirectly the protein shake isn't doing anything magical, what it is doing in order to hit your protein intake consistently, that will feel magical because if you do that consistently paired with good strength training, it will change your physique. Absolutely. All right, next up, electrolytes. Now I do want to be clear who I think this will benefit. If you eat a diet that is high in processed foods, you don't need to take electrolytes.
Starting point is 00:17:03 Your sodium is high enough. You might benefit from a little bit of potassium and magnesium, but there's not enough in electrolyte powders of those that make a big difference. Really, it's the sodium and electrolyte powders that makes the big difference. If you eat a heavy processed food diet, you got plenty of sodium. This supplement is important for people who eat a diet that is almost entirely whole foods or a and, or a low carb diet. When you eat a whole food diet, these are foods that you prepare yourself. You make your own steak and chicken.
Starting point is 00:17:31 You make your own rice. You make your own vegetables. You eat fruits. You eat nuts. You're sodium into it and you work out, right? Your electrolyte levels are low. Your sodium is low and you need electrolytes to perform your best.
Starting point is 00:17:44 In fact, most of the time people who eat a whole food based diet, unless other, unless they're otherwise recommended by their doctor, right? When they add electrolytes, get improvements in performance and they feel better. The intramuscular hydration. It's, it's something that I always scoffed at like the electrolyte supplement category in general, other than I looked at it as an athlete, like when I needed the most was like these days of humidity and heat, uh,
Starting point is 00:18:11 and you know, where I was sweating a lot, uh, in general, it's like the only value I saw with that, but never even considered the fact that like having a low carb, um, or whole foods based diet, like how much of an impact that would make performance wise and feel the energy difference with that. Because this is also too, one of those things, some people have gone through carnivore diet or they've tried these like ketogenic diets and they found, you know, oh my God, I bonk and I don't have any of that like energy and I feel like garbage, almost like
Starting point is 00:18:43 flu like symptoms. And it's like, you know, if you can maintain, you know, a good amount of sodium to kind of, you know, keep all that at bay, like it makes a huge difference. That's what it is. It's the fact that when you go low carb or keto or carnivore, your body gets rid of a lot of water and you lose a lot of electrolytes. If you're on a low carb diet, if you were working with me as a client and you're on a low carb or carnivore diet or keto diet, electrolytes is a must. It is absolute must. They blamed keto flu, what you're talking about, on the low carb. Oh, your body's just transitioning from carbs to fats. No, no, no. Your electrolytes are off and you feel like garbage. And here's
Starting point is 00:19:23 how you know. You'll drink. And you'll feel it right away. You'll feel it 10 minutes later. Whoa, what's going on? My flu is gone. I mean, I love that you picked two supplements. Obviously, I didn't see when you first started to put this episode together and you picked two supplements that I've completely changed my tune on. Same. And so I love that you did that instead of like some of the obvious ones that are probably out there that we've agreed upon forever. So I like that, because it creates a good discussion around that.
Starting point is 00:19:46 Because this is something maybe just six, seven years ago, I would have shit all over. 100%. I really would. So it's a- I'm pretty sure we did when we first came to the phone. No, it is. It's a really good conversation.
Starting point is 00:19:56 And you know, it's one of the, it's probably the last supplement epiphany I had. I'm trying to think if there's been something more recent than that. Maybe if you put my epiphany around peptides, that one was a big opener for me. That's not a supplement. But it's not like a supplement like this, right? So I would say electrolytes, but yeah, I would say electrolytes was even adaptogens. We started talking about stuff
Starting point is 00:20:16 like that even before. It's not going to be ahead of any of these. It's not huge. Yeah. And that really blew my mind. And it really, and I guess part of it was because I've always salted my food up. And I would suffer from headaches every once in a while, not knowing why it was. Thinking that I was totally fine, my diet's good, I was strange, I have this headache. And realizing that I was not hydrated, I wasn't getting enough sodium. And even though I was salting my foods, I didn't realize how low it was because I was just coming from a processed type of diet
Starting point is 00:20:46 and then going over there. And I think that's the part too that's important to, I know you said it, but to reiterate how important this is, this becomes really important when you take a client on who is used to eating a very high processed, eating out type of diet, and then you shift them into a whole food type of diet. They just cut their soles down by a third, down to a third of what it was.
Starting point is 00:21:07 That's right. So you got to understand the way the body adapts. This is what makes our body so amazing. If they've been eating that their body is adapted to that number. You know, they say we've been eating that for years. It is now used to these high, high levels of processed foods and sodiums and it'll do what it needs to do to adjust and adapt to that. And then if you go all the way to a whole food diet, even if you salt the shit out of
Starting point is 00:21:27 every whole whole meal, whole food meal you have, it is nowhere near even close to what, what are two meals eating out is like. And so that shift, that dramatic shift in someone could cause a lot of these things. You would tell them low energy headaches, bad pumps, poor sleep. Look, if you ate French fries from McDonald's or you made french fries at home yourself and salted them, even if they tasted similar in terms of saltiness, it's less sodium. That's how much sodium is in processed foods. But if you work out and you sweat, especially if you have a job where you sweat a lot, but
Starting point is 00:22:00 if you work out and you eat a whole food diet or a low carb diet, electrolytes will probably be a game changer for you. All right. Last is what I like to call the king of all supplements. Okay. This is not a, although I can make the argument it's essential, but your body can make this from certain amino acids. So it's not like you have to take this type of deal, but this is the one supplement where, where if you want to burn fat, if you want to build muscle,
Starting point is 00:22:25 if you want to improve cognitive function, if you want to live longer, if you want better organ function, if you want better bone density, I mean, I can go down the list. This is the king of all supplements. It is probably, if not the best wellness and performance and muscle building supplement that there is in all those categories. And that's creatine. Creatine is also simultaneously one of the most studied. There's literally over a thousand or more probably probably in the thousands of peer-reviewed studies,
Starting point is 00:22:55 placebo controlled studies on creatine and when it first came out it was a great muscle building supplement and performance. Why? Because you take creatine and you get stronger and then you build more muscle. And then everybody was like, uh oh, it's performance enhancing, it must be bad for you. So they did tons of study. No, not only is it not bad for you,
Starting point is 00:23:13 it's good for you. Not only is it good for you, but it's probably gonna contribute to longevity. Now you see all these longevity experts talking about how creatine is a great supplement to take. And you know, some nursing homes are now giving this to, uh, their aging population because they're not, because of the benefits to, for dementia, antidepressant, Creighten's got antidepressant, uh, benefits,
Starting point is 00:23:34 anti-anxiety benefits. Now what is Creighten for people who don't know? Creighten, your body takes Creighten and uses it to make more ATP. ATP is a type of energy that every single cell in your body uses. And the capacity for them to store more ATP is so much higher than what we typically have. So when you increase the amount of energy that these cells can use, they function better.
Starting point is 00:23:59 Now for strength, that means most people, if you just start taking creatine within a week or two, you can expect to add about five pounds or two reps to every lift. That's basically the number most people will see, purely from the creatine itself. You will gain a little bit of weight on the scale. I want to correct the myth right now. First off, it is water weight. Second, it is not bloat. So this is where people get freaked out.
Starting point is 00:24:22 And I hate this because women have been the most afraid to take crepe. It's a big barrier to it, yeah. But this is not bloat. Ladies, it's not the same thing as being bloat. Water weight in the muscle. This means your muscles are better. Rounder.
Starting point is 00:24:35 More shapely. Fuller, more shapely, your butt feels tighter. All your muscles feel more quote unquote toned or sculpted because they're more hydrated. So you've gained a couple pounds of hydration, not bloat. Bloat is under the skin. It's what makes you look smooth and puffy. Creatine doesn't do that.
Starting point is 00:24:51 It doesn't make you puffy. It makes your muscles tighter and fuller because now they're able to hold a little bit more water. This also helps with muscle building, which then indirectly helps with fat loss. And yes, creatine indirectly is also a great fat loss supplement. My favorite part about talking about this is not the aha for people. Cause I'm pretty sure if we took a big vote on what supplements on here, this would probably be on almost everybody's list, I would guess, especially as much
Starting point is 00:25:21 as we thought my favorite part about talking is, is honestly to give you your flowers, Sal, is because if you've been listening long enough and you go all the way back to the very beginning of this podcast when we first started, you had been predicting this for a long time. That creatine is going to make its way into the wellness.
Starting point is 00:25:40 It's become a wellness. Right, it's been known for a long time on the performance, athletes, strength athletes as the go-to supplement to take that every athlete takes. And we've known that for a really long time. There's thousands of studies to support and back all these great benefits. But what you were reading and what you were most interested in were all the new stuff that was coming out around all these other benefits that were more for longevity and health and bone density and muscle mass as you age
Starting point is 00:26:10 and cognitive benefits. And you were like, this is gonna be something that we're gonna give your grandma, we're probably gonna give your kids, that we're gonna start giving to everybody like a multivitamin. And we're starting to see it now. We're starting to see multivitamins adding creatine,
Starting point is 00:26:24 you're starting to see protein powders adding creatine, and we're starting to see it now. We're starting to see multivitamins adding creatine. You're starting to see protein powders adding creatine and you're starting to hear the communication on the hippie crunchy side of the space talking about creatine. And so my favorite part about talking about this, because I don't think it's wowing anybody that creatines on this, is that if you don't know it, you've been calling this, Sal's been calling this for almost 10 years now that we'd be here. And it feels like, at least to me, it feels like we're starting to arrive there where it's becoming way more popular for everybody to take. Very few supplements that you can say are a great and ultimate performance boosting, muscle building, and longevity boosting supplement.
Starting point is 00:27:03 Usually there's a little bit of a trade here or there with that. But by the way, when it comes to building muscle and strength and performance, creatine is the most guaranteed to work for you. There's no supplement that is as consistent as creatine. So in other words, if you're watching this and listening to this, you should be taking creatine for sure. And or the other supplements that we mentioned. That's why we gave you those four. Now the other ones are more like insurance,
Starting point is 00:27:30 but like protein powder just in case you don't eat enough protein, multivitamin just in case you don't hit your nutrients, electrolytes. Well, if you eat a whole foods diet, probably a good idea, but creatine is the one that everybody could take and will benefit from. Look, if you love the show, check out our How to Squat Like a Pro Guide. It's a guide that teaches you how to squat perfectly so you can develop an incredible lower body. You can find that at mindpumpfree.com. You can also find all of us on Instagram. Justin is at Mind Pump. Justin, I'm at Mind Pump with Stefano and Adam's at Mind Pump. Thank you for listening to Mind Pump. If your goal is to build and shape your body,
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