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Dr. Andy Galpin

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Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

somewhat high to none, right? So you're talking about a precursor for glutathione for the most part, right? So it has a, generally you can think of it as like a pretty potent antioxidant. Not something I would tell everyone to take. You have to be really careful, especially with timing of antioxidants, especially powerful ones like that.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

somewhat high to none, right? So you're talking about a precursor for glutathione for the most part, right? So it has a, generally you can think of it as like a pretty potent antioxidant. Not something I would tell everyone to take. You have to be really careful, especially with timing of antioxidants, especially powerful ones like that.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

somewhat high to none, right? So you're talking about a precursor for glutathione for the most part, right? So it has a, generally you can think of it as like a pretty potent antioxidant. Not something I would tell everyone to take. You have to be really careful, especially with timing of antioxidants, especially powerful ones like that.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

If you're trying to induce any physiological adaptation, this comes in response to insult. So you cause an inflammatory response when you exercise. If you then block that inflammatory response with an NSAID, with NAC, with vitamin E, vitamin C, then you will mitigate and block adaptations. Really? This has been shown many times.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

If you're trying to induce any physiological adaptation, this comes in response to insult. So you cause an inflammatory response when you exercise. If you then block that inflammatory response with an NSAID, with NAC, with vitamin E, vitamin C, then you will mitigate and block adaptations. Really? This has been shown many times.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

If you're trying to induce any physiological adaptation, this comes in response to insult. So you cause an inflammatory response when you exercise. If you then block that inflammatory response with an NSAID, with NAC, with vitamin E, vitamin C, then you will mitigate and block adaptations. Really? This has been shown many times.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

You have to take a pretty high amount, but if you're trying to cause stress and then you're stopping the stress from happening, you're stopping the physiological response. But I thought taking antioxidants is a great... Antioxidant supplements are something you should be very conscious of. High antioxidant foods are almost always okay.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

You have to take a pretty high amount, but if you're trying to cause stress and then you're stopping the stress from happening, you're stopping the physiological response. But I thought taking antioxidants is a great... Antioxidant supplements are something you should be very conscious of. High antioxidant foods are almost always okay.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

You have to take a pretty high amount, but if you're trying to cause stress and then you're stopping the stress from happening, you're stopping the physiological response. But I thought taking antioxidants is a great... Antioxidant supplements are something you should be very conscious of. High antioxidant foods are almost always okay.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

So if you're eating more quality foods that are higher in antioxidants, this is almost always a good thing. But now when you're taking them in the form of a medication of a supplement, you're getting extremely high dosage in non-natural combinations, if you will. That becomes really problematic is almost a fair word to say.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

So if you're eating more quality foods that are higher in antioxidants, this is almost always a good thing. But now when you're taking them in the form of a medication of a supplement, you're getting extremely high dosage in non-natural combinations, if you will. That becomes really problematic is almost a fair word to say.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

So if you're eating more quality foods that are higher in antioxidants, this is almost always a good thing. But now when you're taking them in the form of a medication of a supplement, you're getting extremely high dosage in non-natural combinations, if you will. That becomes really problematic is almost a fair word to say.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

What I just explained. So if you're overly suppressing inflammation, inflammation is the signal for adaptation. It is the signal for blood clotting. It is the signal for cognitive change. It is the signal for neuroplasticity. If you're going in and smashing and maximally suppressing that, then you don't have any stimuli for adaptation. Like this becomes a problem.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

What I just explained. So if you're overly suppressing inflammation, inflammation is the signal for adaptation. It is the signal for blood clotting. It is the signal for cognitive change. It is the signal for neuroplasticity. If you're going in and smashing and maximally suppressing that, then you don't have any stimuli for adaptation. Like this becomes a problem.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

What I just explained. So if you're overly suppressing inflammation, inflammation is the signal for adaptation. It is the signal for blood clotting. It is the signal for cognitive change. It is the signal for neuroplasticity. If you're going in and smashing and maximally suppressing that, then you don't have any stimuli for adaptation. Like this becomes a problem.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

So we do not just prophylactically take antioxidants of any kind. If we have a very structured reason for that, then we might put some in there. But then we're going to come off of them as soon as we've done. But we do not just put people on, especially high-powered ones like NAC, and just as like a, yeah, go take this forever thing.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

So we do not just prophylactically take antioxidants of any kind. If we have a very structured reason for that, then we might put some in there. But then we're going to come off of them as soon as we've done. But we do not just put people on, especially high-powered ones like NAC, and just as like a, yeah, go take this forever thing.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

So we do not just prophylactically take antioxidants of any kind. If we have a very structured reason for that, then we might put some in there. But then we're going to come off of them as soon as we've done. But we do not just put people on, especially high-powered ones like NAC, and just as like a, yeah, go take this forever thing.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

Astaxanthin?

Habits and Hustle
Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work

Astaxanthin?