JJ Virgin
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I mean, would you switch over, you know, would you still be using a rotary phone at this point? No, you would not. So what I kept hearing back from women, and these were some of my closest friends who are doctors who are like, I'm not going to take it. I don't like the way I feel. I feel bloated. My stomach hurts. I was like, just get through it. And they wouldn't. And I go, this is a problem.
Well, a year and a half ago, I was speaking at a medical conference and talking about powerful aging. I talked about creatine and this researcher followed me out. And he's the one who developed and patented creatine HCL and showed me all the research showing that creatine monohydrate, about 15% of it actually gets into your bloodstream.
And so that other stuff is causing some of that extracellular fluid retention, some of the GI issues. And that so he went to solve the problem and created an HCL version that all of it gets into the bloodstream. So you need a seventh of the dose and you don't get those side effects that are, you know, frustrating women. So I wouldn't have done this except I kept hearing from women and hearing.
I was like, all right. So that's what I created was a creatine HCL version. And what you'll hear out there is, well, monohydrate's the one you should take. It's the most studied and all the rest are marketing hypes and they're just more expensive. Except the reality is you need a smidge compared to the monohydrate. So BS. And I had all the research studies to show this uptake and it's significant.
So it's pretty interesting. So that's what we just launched because I want women to take it and I know how crazy we get with weight.
Yeah, they're on the rebounder.
Do you remember the rebounder? So when I was at UCLA, I still remember this in the sorority house because somewhere the idea was like you could burn 100 calories with 10 minutes of rebounding. So literally people were like pigging out and jumping on the rebounder. Totally. I mean, our body is not a bank account. I mean, come on.
You don't have to you don't have to believe it, but you'll you know, the proof is it's just it's just science, you know, and here's the big challenge is unless you're tracking your body composition, you wouldn't know anyway. And this is why we have to move off of weight and we have to go to what that weight's made up of.
Because, you know, my husband, case in point, weighs the same as he's always weighed. And he's always been athletic. He's a volleyball player. He was a baseball player. And so a couple of years ago, we go get our DEXA scans because I'm like, I'm getting in the best shape of my life for 60. So I trot him on in there. He's always like, we'll go along with whatever I come up with.
And he was a skinny fat. He was 25% body fat, which is high for a man, you know? And he was a skinny fat. I was like way lower than him. And I was like, wow. At first I was like, the machine must be wrong, except it can't be wrong. It can't be that wrong.
right yeah so we completely shifted his programming he he'd been resistant to going on testosterone he had lower t gets on testosterone therapy but also starts finally tracking his protein and getting the protein and he needed starts finally doing his creatine like he does all the things that i'd been like yakking about to do he does them all starts lifting heavier
And he goes, he drops 27 pounds of fat and puts on 24 pounds of muscle. Now, three pound change. Looks like an entirely different body. I mean, like, this is like, he looks like a high school, you know, volleyball player body now. Wow. It's a three pound change. Three pounds. He went from 25% body fat to 10% body fat.
He was never doing, he does volleyball. He'll do that for HIIT training. He was never doing, like when I met him, He was drinking smoothies with like juice and running. So we stopped that quickly. But, you know, he was not doing heavy, heavy weights and he wasn't eating enough protein and he wasn't consistent with things like creatine until he got the DEXA.
And that's why these things are so important. Because when you see it in real life, like you can't go, oh, you know, because he looked fine. You would never have thought anything of it. But the difference now is insane. Yeah.
You may get a little bit of fluid into your muscles if you're lucky. That's what you want to have happen. You might get a little bit of it. If anything, it would be a half pound to a pound that would normalize. But you want that. Like if you could get that, you should celebrate it. You didn't get that. I wish I had because that's good.
Remember, when you're doing bioimpedance scales at home to check your body composition, it looks at total body water because total body water is how we look at fat-free mass. More muscle, more water in the muscle, right? So we look at that number. You want more of that. So you might get a teensy bit of it, but that's the whole reason I switched to HCL is you don't have to take the higher doses.
The dosing is somewhere between 750 milligrams to 1.5 grams. I mean, it's tiny doses, so you don't have to take a lot. And by the way, the other cool thing with creatine, I've been like last summer, did so much international travel, jump in time zones. And I read about it for sleep deprivation. It's the best jet lag formula there ever has been. It's amazing. Really? Oh my gosh.
Like solved my problems. So does it help you fall asleep or is it just that? No, it gives you that energy. So what I do is like the minute I land, I take some and then I'll take it like two more doses throughout the day.
Your muscles will preferentially preferentially use it and you need enough to get into your brain, too. So I pop a little bit more when I'm when I'm traveling to make sure I have it.
Like some of these neurodegenerative studies, now the company that has the patent on this HCL, I turned them on to some big top, if I said their names, you would know them, brain researchers who are using it now in their brain studies because, you know, they don't have to now use 20 grams of monohydrate, which is what they were doing, which was causing GI distress. Now they can use a couple grams.
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