Dr. Rhonda Patrick

And healthy or not, they're going to lose muscle mass.

So it's kind of interesting that you take something like omega-3s, which are known to affect transporters, receptors, anything embedded in the cell membrane, and makes it better.

It makes it functional.

So when you have a deficiency of it, they're not as optimal.

So it's kind of interesting because it kind of... Super interesting.

Yeah.

For me, it's not just important for...

elderly people and perhaps a surgery or an event a disuse event you can plan for but I think just injury like in general like having having you know these omega-3s in our cell membranes built up to that level already would be important but also what about recovery have you looked at omega-3s in recovery at all not in my lab ever

interesting to say on that stuff well to be determined some other time um i i do want to get into some of these performance enhancers and this is kind of you know it's it's an area that i'm i'm interested in myself i as we were chatting earlier off camera i had i had recently had darren kando on the podcast and he's done a lot of research in the creatine world and

So I'm kind of curious, I take creatine now, but I wanted to ask you about, you know, the top sort of performance enhancing supplements, and then we can kind of get into some of those, but just kind of what, what your thoughts, I'm sure creatine is at the top of the list.

Right, so pretty much the things we've been talking about, you want to make sure you're optimizing your diet, making sure you're getting your micronutrients, your magnesium, vitamin D, I'm sure.

Yeah, some people are really into measuring and trying to, you know, quantify their deficiencies and their sufficiencies and see what's best.

But not everyone, just not everyone's going to do that, right?

Totally, yeah.

So some people, you kind of put them in that bucket of, okay...

50% of the country is not getting enough magnesium.

Most people are not getting omega-3s.

The vitamin D, again, more than half the country is not getting enough because we're spending all of our time indoors.

And so you kind of go for the biggest ones that you're like, probably going to help, right?

Yep.