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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
Athletes can be up to 20% more.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
What kind of dose do you typically, and, and, and have you noticed, um,
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
it affect performance or are they already supplementing with it?
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
It's not really.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
That was my next question.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
What about, so omega-3s, and I do want to talk about, we're going to get into recovery and supplements for performance as well, but omega-3s is another one.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
I mean, I personally, as you probably know, think that most people are not getting enough omega-3.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
In fact, if you look at data on the omega-3 index, people are mostly not.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
They're in the low range, and there's a lot of longevity reasons, cardiovascular health, inflammation, why getting up to a higher omega-3 index would be ideal.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
And most people, there's been studies showing that taking around,
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
1.5 to 2 grams a day will get you there from a 4% omega-3 index, which is low, to an 8% omega-3 index, which is high.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
And how do you approach omega-3s from a performance perspective?
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
Yeah, on the AFib thing, there's, you know, it seems to be at a four gram, super high dose range, four grams, ethyl ester form.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
Yeah.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
And also the recent paper that came out, it was a correlation paper.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
It wasn't a randomized control trial.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
Bill Harris is publishing a response to that.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
It was like terrible statistics and all this stuff done.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
So anyways, stay tuned for that.
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#101 Dr. Andy Galpin: The Optimal Diet, Supplement, & Recovery Protocol for Peak Performance
Did you see the absolute effect, by the way?