Peter Attia

I reached out to the founder of the company and made a small investment.

And I want to be clear, I don't think there's anything magical about any electrolyte drink.

What you're really trying to do is identify a way that you can easily deliver something on a frequent basis.

And so what you're titrating towards is compliance at the lowest cost.

If I were to drink more water and put more salt on my food, I could achieve a similar benefit.

Yeah, so why not do that?

It's just going to be much harder to be compliant than to take a little simple pack, throw it in my bottle every time I go to the gym, which is every day.

Same thing.

How'd you get involved in it?

And what does it do for you?

AG1 is effectively a slightly overkilled multivitamin that combines a whole bunch of nutrients that you would otherwise be getting if you're eating a great diet that's well-balanced.

So I think of it as kind of a belt and suspenders for me because, I don't know, maybe four days a week, Stephen, I can hit the metrics and I'm eating a really great diet.

And on the days I don't, I'm totally fine eating

overdoing it a little bit and making sure I have a little bit more.

I think it entirely depends on which supplement we're talking about, and therefore it's case by case.

For sodium, I don't think it matters if you're putting salt on your food versus consuming sodium in something else, provided you're not consuming a

for the fruits and vegetables and the phytochemicals and things like that that you're trying to replace, I would say you are assuredly better off getting it in food because by definition, if you're consuming it in food, you're getting a ton of fiber and you're getting water as well.

And you can't replace the fiber in a supplement at nearly the same efficacy.

If we were going to talk about protein, I would say the same thing.

I think you're always better off getting your protein in food, but I'm sitting here supplementing protein with a protein shake or a protein bar most days because otherwise I'm just not going to hit my protein target.