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Charles Poliquin

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“Of course, because there's two rules about warming up. The brain should know what the range of motion is. And two, the weight is going to get heavier. So, for example, you want to do 5x5 at 100 kilos at 220 pounds. So you go to the gym If it squats, well, there's a lot of research that shows that mobility in the ankle is what decreases the probability of any lower extremity injuries, whether it's ACL tear or hamstring pull or growing tear, whatever. So the first thing I would do is I would go on a calf machine and stretch the calves and then go down all the statically the stretch for eight seconds. Then I finish off with voluntary contraction because it resets the pattern for strength. Research is clear. If you do static stretching, you don't finish with a contraction, you're more likely to get injured.”
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“One of them that leads to education is a student of mine and he just won a bodybuilding contest. Is physics changed completely and even now the owners of it changed by wow, what changes do you make? He said, well, I start to do real strength training. And then one of the biggest chains in England, I was also asking me to revamp that system because the rule is it's like the basics of the basics and you can't beat the basics. My first mentor told me there's three rules of success in strength training. One is artwork. Two is artwork. Three is hard work. So you can't replace quality hard work.”
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“If you look at the actual research, we'll find about six weeks, but after that, there's no added benefit. And the best way to strengthen your course or compound XL squats, deadlift, chin-ups, dips, and so on. So what drives me crazy is the gyms where I go and everything is done. Like you'll see a woman do on a bosu ball on one leg doing a contralateral dumbbell curl and switch legs and arms. What does that do? Fuck all. That would bring more heat shock proteins which have been associated with fat loss and muscle building. So A trend now there's two gym chains around the world that have ironed me to develop educational seminars to get rid of all those balanced exercises.”
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“That is such a waste of time. And plus, it leads to more scar tissue. So I only like the foam roller to distract vertebrae. That's about it. The warm-ups, okay, there's very good evidence by Magda Addis, but warming up on a treadmill or using a treadmill precipitates insulin resistance by 46%. So all electronic cardio equipment, in my opinion, should be banned. So let's say tomorrow you name me Emperor of all galaxies and I've got all power. I would take all that cardio stuff and throw out gems. I would just replace it with strongman equipment. The cards have train your core using unstable surfaces.”
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“Good quality but in England, it is a challenge but still feasible. I've educated enough students that they've dug out the best places. Even when I was in Manchester two weeks ago, I could find some good food. So the Europeans are catching on quicker to this and the Southwest of the US. So for example, if you go to Phoenix, it's pretty easy to eat organic. You go to Rhode Island or Boston.”
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“Benefit is you're far more productive. The food, the quality of food, you could say I'm quite Enthusiastic about so what you put in your mouth is a stressor and what you say that comes out of your mouth is also a stressor. So at least you have control on both. So when I'm here in the US, it's very easy for me to have the best food. But when I travel overseas, actually where I teach is dictated by the quality of the food. So for example, partnered up Nick Mitchell for his ultimate performance gym in Marbea because A, I don't mind sunshine. I'd rather teach in the sunshine. So I do most of my European seminars now in Spain. But in Spain, I found this guy, Michael Antonio, who finds me, boar and deer, and the quality of fish is very good. So if I teach six weeks in Spain, I got the best food. If I teach in Northern Europe, I'll either go to Denmark or Sweden. The same thing because it's VGD.”
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“Things like dopamine, you know what I call phantom message watching. So a lot of people will look at their iPhone, for example, to see if they've got a message. They don't batch it, so they're obsessed with or they want to see who posted what on Facebook. They found in Korea that it actually messes up with dopamine receptor site location and it puts people into a state of vigilantism. So they always They're basically like a Navy SEAL in the middle of Iraq hanging by their toes on a clothesline with an American flag on their back you know so they're always ready for battle and there's no need for it so I found one of the best ways to actually manage stress which I learned from the four hour week was to batch my emails, batch my cell phone work and I found it's a great stress reducer and of course big excited”
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“So I only buy organic certified organic products for body care. Actually, the house is very conscious of that stuff, so she only uses the best products and everything that's verified with ew.org, and it's free. And it's high quality. I've donated that to them in the past. I think it's a great organization. So I batch my email work, I batch my cell phone work. So I try to minimize all radiation forms as much as possible. Over the last three years, I always take the month of July off, and that's when I have time to read stuff in my upcoming classes. And three years ago, I start to look at the research, peer-reviewed research on electromagnetic pollution and it was quite a bit staggering. A lot of the leading work has been done in”
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“Well, the thing is that there's quite a few estrogens that come in form of cosmetics shampoos and so on. So a very simple tool is to go to ewg.org and they rank in quality all the common oscill products, shampoos, moisturizers, whatever. So for example, this one that comes to mind that is given for free in Canada's biggest health chain, it has five types of parabens, and parabens is linked to all forms of cancer, but it got five isomers of parabene in it. I'm not going to name the company, but it's a very well-known company. So people go get buffed at the gym in Toronto. They take a shower, and winter is dry, so you've got dry skin, they put that thing in, and they're basically lathering on crushed forms of oral contraceptives.”
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“I mean, okay, again, you have clinical versus anecdotal evidence, but many old time powerlifters will tell you that when the self-administered nandroowned drugs, they did see a decrease in joint pain. But I do know there's at least one Swedish study on the benefits of nandrolone in joint health.”
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“Actually, there is a paper on that. It's about five years old. I dug it on actually PumMed. After we do the call, I'm pretty sure I got it in an email because a medical doctor asked me the question. And out of interest, I did find the paper this According to urban legend, you have more fluid in a joint, which decohabs the joint, which allows the cartilage to regenerate blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This particular study was on the regeneration of connective tissue, and they did find a positive influence from, I think, this study was Nanderlome phenylpropionate, if my memory serves me right.”
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“I mean So, you know, and maybe that's one of your goals in life, I don't know. But the point is that HRT is a viable tool that has to be done properly. And if the guy just comes in and tests your test and he wants to give you a prescription, run out of there because he needs to look a lot at things.”
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“And I find the best endocrinologist I've studied under him because he has a very Eagle's view of the hormonal system. It's not like looking at the world. Oh, yeah, your lone test air. Take a gram of tests a week. Take a gram of tests a week and you don't control estrogens. Bigger tits than Pamela Anderson within a month”
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“Yeah, but he's easily found on the, he teaches all over the world. He's probably teaching three weekends out of four, always to endocrinologists or the anti-aging circle. But, you know, he'll talk about, for example, balancing things like oxytocin with your testosterone. So he has a very good approach and he's big on monitoring where you store your body fat as it relates to hormones. Yes, I mean, his books are very expensive, but they're really worth the investment, but he'll explain how hormone deficiencies manifest in physically outward symptoms. Like what happens when you G8, this is what happens to you. If you have too much GH, this is what happens to you. If you don't have T3, too much T3. He has made a lot of links between physical medicine and endocrinology. And that's why he's very well respected.”
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“Well, for example, Every molecule can be linked to an emotion and you really think about Candace or old book on that. But DHA sulfate is the molecule, I think, for me of motivation or one of them. And if you take so much test that you don't have enough DHA sulfate, you're just a big lug with no drive. So you have to keep the DHA sulfate. And also you have to balance that with how much celivary cortisol you make. When you look at hormone therapy, you can't look at a world through a straw. In other words, taking a shitload of testosterone is not going to solve your problems. The best educator on HRT is Thierry Ertog from Belgium. He lectures all over the world.”
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“The strength world was waiting for an appointment. So obviously his clinical experience was very good. But he was really, really far ahead. But for example, for repairing joints, this two peptides are getting a lot of, and they work very well. Now they're just for research purposes. But I think that HRT, if it's done properly, it's quite validated. As long as you're not in a drug-tested sport, if you're a 40-year-old stockbroker and you have zero sex drive and you've shaped like a peri water bottle, then yeah, go get some testosterone therapy. Underestimated is the balance between DHA sulfate and the testosterone. And that has to be kept in balance because DHA sulfate is the mother of all androgens. And if you don't take care of it, That at the same time, you can get into a lot of trouble.”
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“It takes monitoring, you have to monitor your estrogens, you have to monitor your cardiovascular risk factors and so on. But if it's done properly, it's very good. I think the more exciting realm now is actually the use of peptides. But the peptides, it's the frontier right now. But I've met a guy in Australia recently who probably has done the most clinical research on it. When he explained to me how to use them, his view on how to use them was diametrically opposite to what the cowboys on internet recommend. But when I was in the waiting room,”
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“Concept and he said like attitude towards drugs is very different. For example in La South American countries they think that putting stenelisol in multivitamins for kids is good so they can gain weight. But the thing with HRT, what I see is that a lot of people jump on a bandwagon because they can make money and charge a random price with testosterone and then which is cost $2 a CC to make and they charge you $150 a cc. But the therapies, I would say in the US it's probably three guys that know how to do it properly. If I have an executive that says to me, you know, my testosterone is the same as a Catholic church mouse, what could I do? Well, I sent them to these three dogs and they do a good job, but they”
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“So tremble in bodybuilding world, the crafting rules are one of the most poet and drugs, right? But the attitude was very different. There's a friend of mine who's a pharmacist. Has actually studied that”
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“So basically they said the answer was different. The kid has low muscle mass, low self-esteem, put him on tremble. Oh my God. But an American doctor that would do that would get castrated and sent to jail for 40 years, right?”
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“One thing we'll also notice you have 100 times more stress than your grandparents or grandparents didn't have iPhones, they didn't have to answer 70 emails an hour, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's also the radiation, which is more and more well documented and all these things suppress testosterone. So HRT, I think is viable, but it's like your carburetor, you need to deserve it. So for example, I see a lot of kids who go on growth hormone and they're still making plenty. And by doing growth thermal too early, they're actually shutting down their production. Same thing with testosterone. But the attitude varies a lot from country to country. For example, there used to be a drug in France called Parabone, which is Trembolm. I forget the exact extra. But if you look in the companium in the 80s, they would encourage doctors to give the kids away.”
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“1.9 you consider to have high elevated androgens, but in Canada the norms are 3 to 10. So if you're a British male at 1.9, you don't exist in the medical norms in Canada, okay? So you don't qualify as a male. You may be a male in the UK, but you're not a male in Canada. So the reality is that, okay, we've softened up on the norms, but we should look at optimal versus normal, right? So with hormone therapy,”
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“Well, I think that there's a stronger place for them ever before People ask you, well, it's not natural, blah, blah, blah. Okay. All right Go back a second here. One thing that distinguishes humans from animals is goal setting and progress. So I don't think e-goals gather up together in January and say, okay, this year let's eat 78% more rats and I want to expand, right? So I mean, animals that do what they do, but whoever you want to blame for, we're blessed with a brain that can learn and evolve. And then the reality is, and this is the World Health Organization statistics, just average testosterone level as decreased 1% per year since 1950. So what was considered good testosterone levels and then the norms tend to change per country. So for example, DHA sulfate in the UK, if you have between 1.6 to 1.8, it's good.”
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“This is the most commonly used name in English, but you have to look under the different indie names for it to find all the research because a lot of research clinically was done in India or done in Thailand. And it's peer reviewed, but they only use Ole Basil as a key word. So, you know, the natural medical database is a good tool for finding out the synonyms if you're looking at a nutrient. Nobody beats PubMed in my opinion.”
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“Actually, my top source is PumMed, but the thing is that you have to learn a few things about how to search. For example, Shishander Berry, which is a great herb to treat too much oxidation in the liver, right? Well, there's 88 synonyms for it in the literature. If you look at Oli Basil, it has so many different names. So what I use is a pro called a natural database, and then they give you all the synonyms for each natural compound. And then I search under the different ones. Because, for example, for Oly Basal, you can find a lot of research, but the...”
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“One of the most common comments is there's no research on that dude, DG even tried to look at it. Then, for example, there was some guy on arping on that my doses are loosen were too high. They were not backed up by research well. The two best research papers on leucine and really hard training people were then by the same group of researchers in France. They only published the results in French. So I can't blame for the guy to say he didn't read, he could say, because I didn't read anything on it, but to say that it doesn't exist is a lie because it did exist.”
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“Bless the one of the intestinal pathogen, according to the most recent book on Parasitology, it's not bad for you. You should not be treated. But this good study is done on Iraq war veterans that show that that intestinal pathogen leads to degeneration of eyesight because it blocks the absorption of vitamin A and it also leads to degeneration of joints. There's two good papers that are published in 1994 that are not in the book of Persitology. But so we're looking 2015 and the research was done in 94 and it's not even in the current books that medical students read. So a lot of people could have bad eyesight or osteoarthritis from untreated intestinal pathogen. And then they tell me there's no research on that. There is research. I mean the thing.”
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“Thing though is that it's not the doctor's fault. Like you say, P equals MD. So the thing is that they're not forced to keep up with the literature. And we know that the books they study in metaphysical school are already 90 years outdated. For example, if you look at Blastys' Aminish, I'm sorry.”
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“It's very true because. Alcov, for example, I used to train a lot of pro-athletes, but they would say a stag party in Vegas, what goes on in Vegas stays in Vegas, but by Monday when he gave blood work, I could tell they were in Vegas. And there's things like, for example, a massage could throw you CPK through the roof if it was fairly aggressive. And then people say, well, you know, you have a kidney issue, whatever their bias is. For example, in the liver enzymes, I get this one all the time. My liver enzymes are elevated. So then I send this study from Sweden. People lift weights three days a week have chronically 20% higher than normal elevations in liver enzymes and it's non-pathological. So I say show that to your doctor before they put you on some liver drug, you know.”
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“I agree with you 100%, Tim. There's some basic questions that we should ask to eliminate error. You know, one thing that I insist on is that they always do a 12, exactly 12 hours after the last bite. Why? Because I want pre and post measures that are valid. Because, you know, morning glucose could be all over the place because it...”
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“Well, I would truly agree with you. Here's a classic example. Someone that you and I both know sends me an email freaking out. He's been diagnosed with cardiovascular disease, blah, blah, blah. I said, send me your blood work. So he sent it to me. And again, I'm not a doctor, but I asked him, hey, let me guess. You ate before the test and he had a 36 set 12 reps per workout exercise before you did the test. And he goes, how'd you know? Well, because of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I said, that test is not valid. Redo the test 12 hour fast and then send it to me and I'll find you the right doctor. So the point is that the doctor read the test told me he was going to die. And I said, no, because you've biased the test by doing these two stupid things. And the doctor should have asked you, did you exercise? Did you eat before the meal was set up, you know, whatever? So...”
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“Know somebody here, and I say, yeah, I know a guy. So in most large American cities, I find some of them. But for example, recently I had a student of mine from Luxembourg who was an MD, and I got talking to him, and I realized way ahead of the curve he was. So there was a lot of students in the class from 14 different European countries that say, hey, you guys are looking for a good doctor, go see him. And then a female doctor from the Netherlands, and she was very open-minded. And, you know, she really was looking a different way to treat her patients. So I found somebody in Holland then. So there's a lot of good people, but the best is to ask around. But one of the key points is that if they don't do a two-hour medical history, you're not at the right place.”
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“I think the best way to find them over the years is I go to ACAM.org. So it's the American College for the Advancement of Medicine. It's the college that certifies people do chelation therapy to treat vascular disease. What I found is that the guys who have an interest for that therapy tend to have an interest in functional medicine. So it's a good cross-reference. It's not a 100%. When I tell my students, we're asking the exact same question as you to do that in more than nine out of ten cases, they report that they're very happy with that new doctor. The thing is that the length of time they spent with you on the first visit is probably your best indicator. I found the best doctors out there take about two hours to do a medical history. Another way to find a good one is just ask around. I mean, when people ask me, they said,”
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“You could have normal morning insulin. But the problem is that normal morning insulin is like having a normal ECG. It's quite possible that you have a normal ECG at rest, but you exercise for 10 seconds and your ECG is all over the place, right? So an organ, you can only see if it's really healthy if you stress it. So when you give a dose of really fast carbohydrate rates in the morning and your insulin goes through the roof, it means that you don't have a good pancreatic health and your insulin resistance is horrendous. So I like that test. But we found, for example, in a lot of physique competitors, they got great morning glucose and insulin, but when you do the reactive test, they fail miserably. So, you know, so what the, a lot of things that make them lean is not actually so healthy for them. So I think the reactive insulin test is”
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“And he shows up at 6.1 six weeks later while he's a bullshit artist because You cannot fake that test. So one thing that I found over the years is that actually the amount of magnesium, supplemental magnesium you consume is the fastest way to drop that value. So magnesium is probably one of the best anti-aging minerals. And they say that basically you age at the rate you produce insulin. So the HB1AC will tell me what was the average insulin over the last three months. So that's a good key. Another test I really like is the reactive insulin test. So you come at blood for the morning draw and then you eat two rice cakes. with jam on it, let's say a tablespoon of jam. And then you wait one hour and you measure your post-perennial insulin. So after the meal. And then that value should be about between 12 and 17. If it's above that,”
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“So there's a difference between normal and optimal. So I'd rather you have 70 than to be between 70 and 99. The next value I like to check is HB1ac, which is basically measures how much your imoglobin, which is your oxygen carrying molecule, has been damaged by glucose. And then depending on the country, the alarm point is set differently some people's 5.9, some people set 6.9. But the truth of the matter is the lower your score is, the better it is. That means you have less damage done to your imoglobin. But what's interesting is that when you cut, it's a lie detector test for carbohydrate intake. In other words, you come to see me, let's say you bring a friend who's obese and you say, Charles, take care of him. And I do that test. And he's 5.9 and he goes on low carb diet.”
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“Well, morning glucose, morning, and swim, you know, are basal tests. So it gives you a reference value. But one thing you have to be wary of is what we call the norms. When you think norms, you should think of Omer Simpson. So for example, morning glucose, the norms, according to most American labs, is 70 to 99 in the morning. Okay, that's after a 12-hour fast. The problem is that your risk of cardiovascular disease increases five percent after every single digit above 70. So in other words, you could have 99 and be in a normal range, but your cardiovascular risk is actually”
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“But I think that the most important thing I learned from Mauro is that I remember asking Mauro this question. He's one of the best people I've ever had the chance and the honor to talk to. And he told me, he says, in nutrition, this is what we call a 70% rule. And I find that to be true in training. 70% of the advice is good for 70%. I mean, 70%, the advice is only good for 70% of the population and you got 15% on each side are outliers. So the 70% rule for carburetor rates should be 40% if URL And then some of the guys do very well on 70%. So I think that you have to monitor yourself. Things like your morning insulin, your morning glucose, your reactive insulin test, your HB1EC, you do those four tests and you start with a starting point and you do these tests footy.”
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“Insulin sensitive, blah, blah, blah. A lot of muscle mass. But some athletes, you know, they are allowed 10 licks of a dry prune every six months. That's all they deserve and that's all they'll get. And after six months, they're actually allowed to look at calendar pictures of cakes once a week.”
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“LT carburetorate intake firm is probably 2% because it eats whale blubber, narval, seal, and so on. So I had a guy who played in the HL, he was fat, and I said, you know, you're a native Inuit. Why don't you eat like a native Inuit when you go back home? And he went and he went from something like a 21% body fat to a 6% body fat eating 70% fat and 30% protein and zero carbon rates, right? I find that you have to figure out what your set point for carbohydrates, but most people eat too many carbohydrates actually drink too many carbohydrates and then they eat carbohydrates, but eat the wrong type. People perceive me as a carboyrate Nazi and not or anti-carboard Nazi. The thing is that I've got some of my athletes who do best on 70% carbs, 20% protein, 10% fat, but they deserve their carbohydrates. They got a great pancreas.”
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“The most important thing that I've learned about nutrition is you need to deserve your carbs. So if you look at the world average carboid rate intake should be about 40%. That would be healthy carboidin. But it's the average. It's not the individual. So if you're dealing with an Inuit from tuk-tuck-tuck-tuck in the Kenyan north,”
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“But I read the test two years ago and the minimum amount of studies I found was the beneficial outcome with omega-3 therapy was 14. For any disease I could punch in. So, you know, D3 omega-3 and thyroid are necessary for every gene in the human genome. That's what we know so far. It's probably more. As far as intestinal bleeding, clinically I've used very high dosages like 60 grams and never seen it, but maybe it's the whoever you work with. I tend to work with healthier than average population. But then again, according to Dr. Rakowski, only two to three percent of Americans would be considered healthy.”
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“When I am on a fish oil program, it's two grams a day, which is nothing, right? But every single gene in a human genome as a researcher site for omega-3s. So my organ pass quality taught me this in 94. He says, if you look at any medical scientific database, it is impossible not to find a study where omega-3 alleviates symptoms of all disease known to man. And I said, that's bullshit. So his own database, he had 8 million scientific references. He says, punch in whatever you want. So punch pre-clamps. I try to come up with anything like ADD, ADHD, Trisomic Children, whatever. And then in every single ailment I punched in with the keyword omega-3, I found at least one study.”
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“I've never seen it, but when I use the Fish off in high dosages. I never use it more than six months. The reason why I found that I don't need to go longer than six months is in six months I should have attained their body composition goal. But if you do free fatty acid profiles on a regular basis, you find that after six months everything is pretty well set and then you only need a maintenance. And if the person eats a lot of wild meat, a lot of sea products, I give them no fish oil. So for example, myself from May to October, I don't take any fish oil because I'm back home. I eat the wild meat I like to eat. I eat the fish, blah, blah, blah. But of course, if I go to England where the concept of a steak is more like a hockey puck, you won't have good omega-3 supply. But even, you know, I get regular blood work and I found that for me at age 54.”
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“Just on that furthermore, I think it should be a required reading to have a Facebook account because this way you would stop making those dumb comments if you read that book and understood it because I agree 100% with you. The other thing too is that we don't know if one of the subjects did ecstasy on a weekend and stayed up, you know, there's a lot of shit we can't control. Yes, you do have to have a scientific basis to what you do. And I'm in full agreement”
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“evolve most dramatically once we got a omega-3s to 300 to 400 grams per week. You know, we used to eat animal brains and we used to suck on femurs of antelopes and stuff like that. And when the humans start to ingest a lot of omega-3s, perfectly DHA, our brains develop very fast. We're able to develop tools and so on. So a lot of the stuff I do may not be peer-reviewed based, but in essence, basic science is basic science, you know, and then if your principles are sound, then to be frank, I don't really give a shit about the detractors because research always backed me up, but sometimes 20, 40 years after I've done it. So clinical experience, you can't beat that.”
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“Clinicians are always ahead of the curve, and he says, I don't know if you read a study, and he showed it to me. And then the interesting thing was that why did I come up with 30 of the 45 grams of fish oil? Okay, I did not have peer-reviewed studies, but the human genome”
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“30 to 45 grams. And then the biggest amount of research official used in research at the time was seven grams with med school students. And then I convinced Mark Houston, who's an MD to use high dosages. And then he says, wow, it's really good for dyslopidemia, high blood pressure, cardiovascular risk. And it doubled my business. I said, why did it double your business, Mark? Well, because my patients are zin fat and now people are coming in from fat loss and not for treating vascular disorders. And seven years after I convinced them, there was a Kenyan research paper that came out that said to treat obesity, the best dose of fish oil was 60 grams. And Mark sent me an email. And the title was,”
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“Paris. And I said, okay, where do you think it came from? And we did some background research and we think it was first developed by a Bulgarian coach in 1948. Okay, so then we have about 60 years between when the clinician developed the method and when the research was actually done, right? So for example, I used to early on I've been recommending high doses of fish oil.”
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“Okay, that's February 2008. I learned how to do cluster training in 1975 when I was 14 years old. So if I use cluster training with all the sports where I needed relative strength, I started to be a strength coach in 78. So if you look at it, the difference between 78 and 2008 is very big. Quite a few Olympics in between, right? Do you agree? So if you look at that, if I waited for research to do the right type of training that produced something like Medalist, what I wasted about a few dozen Olympics, right? So the thing is that if you include winter and summer. So the point is that when the article came out, I said, that's interesting. It's novel 2008. So I asked my coach, where did you learn about cluster training? He says, I learned it in 68.”
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