Dr. Rhonda Patrick

It's always better to measure things though, right?

Especially with things like vitamin D where you can measure it.

It's a simple test and most doctors will do it.

really careful of you have big downsides in them but yes most people the big stuff we're going to put you in a better spot and that's what to pay attention to so the minerals that are are sort of not as risky would be the magnesium now iron you said iron something that probably more focused on with male sorry females that are uh menstruating right yeah premenopausal females

Yep.

But don't you also like, as an athlete, you kind of like you're losing your, you know, tear down, like red blood cells are being torn down.

And so you're probably losing even more iron.

So you definitely want to measure your iron, your ferritin.

Like what are the main things?

Okay.

Yeah, got it.

Okay.

Well, you mentioned stimulants, cognitive enhancers, and that's something I'm interested in, starting with, of course, caffeine.

I mean, that's probably one of the most widely used stimulants globally.

Yeah.

And I've come across a few studies where caffeine, if used before exercise, seemed to enhance fat burning, like pretty significant.

And now this is not – someone that's already an athlete and doing long amounts of endurance exercise, it's not going to make a difference.

But someone like myself, I'm running like a 30-minute – doing a 30-minute run or I'm doing a 20-minute hit.

I don't know.

This might make a little bit more of a meaningful difference to me.