Oli Patrick
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C, was there any of the active ingredient in that product?
If there isn't five grams in the gummy, then the whole thing's a mute process anyway.
Then I've got D, how much did I absorb?
If I've got a dodgy gut, it doesn't get in.
So if I don't absorb it properly, if I just crap it all out or pee it all out, it doesn't work.
Then I've got E, which is what was my genetic requirement for it?
I might be a genetic beast, I might be a genetic flower.
Newt.
Newt or beast.
So I've got a component that says some people need more than others.
Then I've got F, how much did I use?
So I need more creatine if I'm doing reps and sets of training or if I'm sitting in bed all day.
So here's the variables that goes, right, I'm not going to go out and go, you need 13 grams of creatine because the variables in play are so multifactorial.
Who doesn't care about this?
Supplement companies because they'll go, our product is going to solve your problem without recognizing the nuance into this scenario.
And all of those things won't be as effective, unfortunately, as actual food because my body was never designed to encounter these nutrients individually.
in isolated forms.
We have something called the food matrix, which means if I eat vitamin C, it's in a format that my body recognising goes, I know vitamin C, I'll go and put it over there.
If I take ascorbic acid, my body's like, what's this?
I've never met ascorbic acid in nature.