Ben Greenfield
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So if you see me at a party and I've got a glass in my hand, usually it's bitters and soda water and lemon, and I'm not actually.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, bitters have like a little bit of alcohol, but it's not very much at all.
Like an ingredient to a drink, yeah.
No.
That's how bad โ But something like that could work.
I guess.
But like bitters are like the actual concentrated bitters liquid that they use.
ginseng there's chromium there's vanadium there are a whole bunch i think probably the most powerful that you could just like get as an over-the-counter besides like metformin which is the diabetic drug is dihydrobarbarine the only downside to it is that like it's so potent that either a can cause a little bit of hypoglycemia and it gives a lot of people a little bit of stomach upset
And then I have to sound like the fox guarding the hen house because, like, I own a supplements company, and one of the products we have is, like, a blood sugar stabilizer, and it's bitter melon.
Oh, it is?
It's, like, the primary ingredient in that one, and it's called Lean.
Do you take it?
I do, yeah.
And bitter melon actually also helps with gas and bloating.
Yeah, so you get some extra effects.
Yeah.
Yep.
So what is like your- So there's like the 28 different pills you can take before you go out to a restaurant.
Yeah.