JJ Virgin
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 1 Mar
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But creatine, I think every woman, I think every woman period should be on it. Now, the other cool thing about creatine HCL as opposed to monohydrate And some people feel fine on monohydrate. It's like, great, use five grams of it. It's fine. But I just, when I started pushing it out into the world, I got so much kickback from people saying, I tried that, I gained weight.
And I was like, okay, no woman ever is going to take something if they gain weight. It's just the reality of it. But it also crosses the blood-brain barrier. So that's a huge thing. In fact, when I learned about this, I turned another friend on to it who's doing a bunch of neurodegenerative disease research so that she could use it in her studies. So I am super fired up about the HCL version.
And I gave you some, didn't I? No. The one I created? No, I need them. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Give me your address and I'll send it to you. So when I learned all this stuff, I went, all right, what could we do to make this work even better? And if you look at like, there's research out there showing that creatine and magnesium together work better than either one on its own.
It's an exponential, not additive effect. Then you look at taurine. Taurine can help pheatine kinase. So then it's going to work, make creatine phosphate work better. So I put together a taurine creatine magnesium product called sheatine. Really? Sheatine.
Isn't that great?
Oh, yeah. Sweet. My husband named it. I know. Well, I was parroting. I really started to really try to pay attention to what I'm saying, going, did I look at the research on that? Because... Like, you know, now I've looked at all the research and I go, where are they getting this? Then you'll hear, oh, no, you should only use CreaPure creatine. Yes. And I'm like, because it's it's done with water.
I'm like, no, they're all like it's just the BS out there. And it's smart people saying this stuff. So that's where it gets even more confusing, you know.
You know, again, it's going to depend on your diet. Another thing I'm really a big fan of are essential amino acids. I think that it makes a ton of sense, especially for women, just to add that into your regimen. And so if someone is eating protein first, they're optimizing their protein, they're augmenting with some essential amino acids,
750 to, you know, milligrams to a gram for say someone 140, 150 pounds, maybe. Now I will, if I am traveling or like if I'm going to go do a really hard workout, maybe I'll do 1.5 grams, but you know, two grams at the most. But I also, and I also eat a lot of I eat a lot of meat and fish. Me too. Like these people that say, I can't figure out how to get that protein in.
I'm like, what are you talking about? Thank you. Just eat it first. Eat it. Like,
So I was like looking at it going, where am I at today? Because I'm just like a little like I hear this. I go, I understand. I'm at 140, 136 grams of protein already and I haven't had dinner. me too. Like, what is hard? It's not hard. Just eat it first. The reason you're not eating, like, here's the thing, Dylan, this drove me nuts.
I was doing a talk very similar to the eudaimonia, powerful aging talk. And then I went out to dinner with a lot of the people from the talk. And I watched this woman sit down. She was at the talk in the front row. Okay. So I'm like, now I'm just curious. We all order. I order a steak.
And I'm now sitting down watching her and she has an appetizer, which is like, you know, I don't know, some breaded terrible thing. Then she has a salad, which she's turned into a sundae because it's got like candy garbage on it. And then she's going to have eggplant because she's full and she's having a glass of wine. And I'm looking at her and she's looking at me looking at her.
And she goes, you're going to protein shame me, aren't you? And I go, absolutely. Like, I absolutely am going to protein shame you. Good Lord. I go, actually, what I'm just going to do is give you part of my steak. She goes, oh, but I'm so full. I go, what she didn't realize is like that breaded eggplant garbage that she was going to eat, which eggplant. Eggplant's just a nasty tasting thing.
Let's be honest. The only way to make eggplant taste great is if you soak it in olive oil, bread it, throw some cheese on it. So by the time you're eating it, you're getting like, I don't know, a thousand calories of fat.
Right.
And five calories of eggplant. So she somehow thinks she's going to eat light with this, you know, fat bomb on her plate instead of her four ounces of steak.
I get that little dose that. those Sprouts cage-free egg whites. So today I had like two eggs, poured a bunch of egg whites in. Easy peasy. It's so simple. Oh my gosh.
First of all, everybody should be trying to build muscle. Right. Well, I agree. And everybody should be trying to build quality muscle. So I also think there's, you know, because if you look at training, what was interesting when I was in grad school and I was doing this project that I was testing, if your quad strength was bigger, would you have better spinal lifting biomechanics?
Seems obvious, right? But that was the thesis. And so I had to build strength quickly. But it's interesting, building strength is actually different than building muscle. And so I like to kind of hit the middle because we do want to build strength, power, and muscle. So do heavy things fast. Remember the ultra slow training? I'm like, this is not good. You do not want to train slow. This is bad.
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