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In today's Instagram Q&A episode Kristine and Johan talk about supplementation, alcohol, shift work, and more. If you'd like to have any of YOUR questions answered in the next Q&A episode, feel free to drop a question here (scroll down for question box).
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Mentioned in this episode:
https://examine.com/
More from Talking Nutrition and Odyssey Coaching Systems 👇🏼
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Read the blog - https://odysseycoachingsystems.co/blog/
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we click record it gets like awkward you
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know
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i was just reading something so i didn't
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that's good maybe like whenever i see a
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what's up guys episode six already
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it's uh it's going pretty quick we just
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we're doing a little bit of
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bulk content prepping i guess
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it's good to work ahead you know
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getting plus we want to collect some
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questions
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getting things done definitely today is
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our first q a episode where we collected
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no nutrition coach is good at keeping
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things short
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no like
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that's what i try to do in my instagram
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stories as well it's like
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someone submits submits a question
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i'll try to do it within like the
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60-second thing i just can't do it like
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do it over and over you know
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all right first question want to start
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it off yeah so first question was is
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there a difference between men and women
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when it comes to nutrition
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not really
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it's not it's not really gender
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related like
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it's
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person-to-person basis right
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um
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based on their lifestyle their habits
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you know their metabolism
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so the short answer to that is no
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everyone is completely individualized
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not gender related that's a quick quick
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answer for you that's a quick answer but
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it's true like
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there's so much in online where it's
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like the best you know
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meal plan for
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men whatever or for women who you know
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it's like
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you know you know like pcos is a good
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example or
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anything that's like a condition you
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know they'll try to like put you on like
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a special tempo or meal plan but
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it's not really such thing it's all
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marketing
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it's all marketing
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and
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for example
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i have
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men who are eating the same as some my
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women
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right there are instances like that so i
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have
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female athletes
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who are eating like 3 000 calories you
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know and then some
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men who are eating the same right so it
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just it just depends on the person
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totally and what they're doing how
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active they are what their past dieting
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history is look like
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hormonal health
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all of that
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now there is a difference in terms of
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testosterone and
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that does play into muscle building but
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then if we zoom out again it does really
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come down to the same like that would be
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based on muscle mass
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but that's still not going to be
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the actual difference from like
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male to like female right so next
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question
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we'll try to keep it short like i said
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from anya one of my previous clients so
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she asked me
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what supplements do i need in quotes and
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what do you think about melatonin
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supplementation
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you don't need any supplements i'll say
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that right off the bat
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you don't need a single one of them some
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can be beneficial some can definitely
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help
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i take quite a few of them a lot of my
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clients do
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but you don't need any supplements to
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create results
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once again it's going to be individual
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right there are a few that i believe a
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lot of people could benefit from but i
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am not going to get into dosing um etc
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and supplementation on this podcast
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because it simply wouldn't be right
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i don't even do this with my clients i
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give them the information i'll tell them
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and i'll give you guys a link in a sec
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too but like i'll tell them like this is
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what i know about it this is what it's
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likely going to do
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here's a website you can check to do
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your own research
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personally this is what i would do in
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your case
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but you need to make that decision for
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yourself
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so i wouldn't ever tell someone you need
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to supplement
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right
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even a lot of people do also do that on
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instagram on tick tock and all that
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stuff and it's just simply isn't right
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you know
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now really quick in short a couple that
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i do think you can add to this christine
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but
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a couple that i do think can be
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beneficial for a lot of people first of
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all fish oil
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very seems to be very safe very well
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back to our research can help you lower
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triglyceride levels as tons of other
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health benefits um but it's mostly known
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for the anti-inflammatory effects it has
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right
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when we look at the modern diet
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i think people always say like modern
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like or standard american diet but like
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in europe it's not much better here
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so uh no judging here no but like when
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we look at that it's very
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pro-inflammatory right if we're looking
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at
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without making it too science-y if we're
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looking at omega-3 compared to omega-6s
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omega-6s would be
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pro-inflammatory which we don't really
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want if it adds up too much and then
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omega-3s will be anti-inflammatory and
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that's definitely going to be like the
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the healthier version kind of thing
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where do we get that
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cold water fish like salmon trout etc
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so first of all let me ask you
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how often do you eat that per week i
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said a couple times so you probably
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don't need fish oil
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if you don't then maybe it's a good idea
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to add some
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if you're vegan you could go with like
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algae oil but once again
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it all depends you know as always what i
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will add there too
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is
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with like omega-6
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are are like it's inflammatory
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inflammatory but the dose determines the
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poison right
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if you're having a good
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amount or a proper amount it's totally
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fine
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it's the over consumption of the omega-6
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that makes it inflammatory
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exactly it's the ratio it's not like
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just this one or that one it's kind of
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like how much omega-3s are you getting
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compared to your omega-6s right all
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right vitamin d very important one
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i don't know how far north you live but
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i live pretty far north in the arctic
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circle where we actually don't have any
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sunlight for two months straight
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which kind of sucks but it's for another
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day
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yeah
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and then in general like it's pretty
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cloudy here
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vitamin d we mostly get through
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sunlight so
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if we don't spend a lot of time actually
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being outside which these days i don't
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think a whole lot of people are doing
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that it can be a good idea to supplement
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with vitamin d
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it's going to improve immune function
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it's important for bone health
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well-being and a lot more
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and
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you can get some from your diet but it's
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it's very little you know sometimes
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you'll see like fortified milks and
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stuff
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but it's not gonna do the trick like if
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you're not spending a lot of time
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outside and you're getting actual
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sunlight
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you're very likely deficient and that
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does seem to be the case for a lot of
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people yeah you do want to take vitamin
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d with k2 because it does help the
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absorption of the vitamin d the calcium
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situation there
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situation yeah
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i could go deep into that but keep it
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short
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creatine
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the uh performance enhancing uh secret
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now
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creatine is a
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very research versus safe and um
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very beneficial my opinion i take it
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every single day i have been for a very
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long time
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um
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i feel like it's definitely like hyped
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up quite a bit on social media still and
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it has been for ages but like creatine
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can help you build muscle get a little
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bit more out of your workouts and can
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definitely help
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in particular with some more like
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explosive type of training right
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remember thinking weightlifting for
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example
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now the more studies we're getting on
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creatine
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the more reasons we find out we should
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take it for
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and there's now even some new
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studies that point out some brain
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benefits too so that's kind of cool
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so creatine
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i'd recommend that in most cases you
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know
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then a high quality whey isolate so
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protein powders can definitely help it
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shouldn't really be like your main
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source right you don't just want to rely
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on supplementation
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but it can definitely help now there's
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some
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good protein powders out there that are
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first of all very affordable it's very
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convenient to can help you get your
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proteins in
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let's be honest most people aren't
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eating enough protein from whole foods
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and you're getting all of your amino
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acids that we do need for you know
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proper function
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now i did say a quality whey protein or
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whey isolate
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because there is a lot of trash out
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there
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specifically speaking about like you
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know the meal replacements with
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a whole lot of stuff added where it's
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kind of like if you look on the label
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it's like
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fructose is like the second uh
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ingredient you know
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and i looked up another one and it was
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like
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some bean flour type of thing like i
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forgot what it was but it was crazy and
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then it had like these tiny little micro
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amounts of like vitamins and minerals
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but
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it's all marketing once again
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and it's all stuff that's not really
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going to do anything so if you're
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looking into a protein supplement go
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with a high quality whey isolate doesn't
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have to be whey iso it can be casein
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whatever but make sure that it doesn't
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have a whole bunch of added stuff
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because you're very likely just wasting
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your money there that's really it for
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the
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supplements that i would recommend to
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most people um
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i'd say maybe magnesium is a good one
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too i was just gonna say that
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right specifically
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this magnesium glycinate is my favorite
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supplement
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i take it every single night
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most of my clients are taking it
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it has
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so many benefits
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for our overall health
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but a big one for females is uh pms
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symptoms
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and so
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often times when a like we obviously
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want to get
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you know lifestyle factors in place
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first
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but often times when my female
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clients are dealing with bad cramps
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headaches you know some anxiety things
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like that prior to their cycle or during
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i will um recommend them take magnesium
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glycinate and it can help immensely if
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it helps to calm things down
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it's also really beneficial for
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sleep that's why i take it and i notice
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a difference when i don't take it at
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night
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um
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and i just love it i just love it i i
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recommend it to almost all my clients
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even my male clients who are having some
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trouble sleeping
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it's good for
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you know muscle recovery muscle
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relaxation
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um
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blood sugar regulation and we often see
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deficiencies with magnesium when we're
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super stressed
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and as a
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society we are super stressed so it can
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almost benefit everybody
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um
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my favorite brand and i'm not affiliated
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with them at all
12:49
is look organics because they have
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and they're based out of canada
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they have magnesium glycinate plus
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l-theanine
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and so alternating is really good for
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promoting restful sleep relaxation
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things like that so those two combined
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are really powerful so i've tried other
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magnesium glycine stock that they're bad
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but i noticed a significant difference
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between those and this specific
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supplement so that's the one that i
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typically recommend to my clients nice
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i actually take a similar uh combination
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but i take them separately so i also
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take magnesium ricinate and then i
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actually have zinc as well l-theanine as
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well because they can all kind of
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they just work very nicely together you
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know
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yeah so a little bit about what i take
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to to fall asleep that being said before
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i forget about melatonin uh i'll keep
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this one very short
13:42
a
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hormone that your body does produce
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itself
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supplementing
13:48
seems to be fine you know and you can
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keep doing so as well i don't believe
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that it actually affects your own
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melatonin production however
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i wouldn't start there so if you're
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struggling with sleeping
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i would first lock in the sleep schedule
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right waking up and going to bed at the
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same time every day
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making your room dark and cold etc
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really starting with those basics and
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then maybe first magnesium and stuff
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and then maybe considering like
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melatonin because i do see
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i mean i have personal experience with
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that my girlfriend and like a client as
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well
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a lot of people feel like a zombie the
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next day
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i know there are some brands out there
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which i haven't
14:30
yet experienced yet
14:32
that supposedly don't do that but in
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most cases a lot of people
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feel like [ __ ] the next day so then it's
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like is it really worth it or you know
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yeah the dose is important um
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usually like they say three milligrams
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is
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an appropriate dose
14:52
when it does start to impact your your
14:54
own productions when you're getting like
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really high
14:57
some people get into like the 10
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oh yeah there's clients like there's
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nurses you know there's just some
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instances where it they have to go
15:09
higher because they're like shift
15:10
working and stuff um
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usually three is a good area to be in
15:16
but if you but you can also work your
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way up to that
15:19
versus going like zero to three because
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then you could start feeling groggy the
15:24
next day so you'll might just
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drop it back down a little bit maybe a
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little bit less
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and then increase if needed
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cool
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yeah i think the one we have
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it has like these tiny pills and it's
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like 0.5 i believe so you can kind of
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bring it up
15:41
which is kind of cool
15:43
um
15:44
but still
15:46
it's fine it seems to be fine but it's
15:49
really once again it depends on those
15:50
like you said and then also there are a
15:52
lot of factors out there that influence
15:55
sleep including stress and all that so
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i would still
15:59
recommend first addressing your basic
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lifestyle habits
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yeah now that's it for supplements um
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and lastly i wanted to give you guys the
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best website out there examine.com i
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love that website like literally for any
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micronutrient all that good stuff like
16:16
i'll go to that website to check right
16:18
every supplement
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that's where i go to learn about this
16:21
stuff that's the stuff i send my clients
16:23
to
16:24
check it out once again examine.com i'll
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link it in the show notes too it's like
16:28
we're not affiliate or anything but
16:30
i know that we we both use that website
16:32
a whole lot it's it's great
16:34
that's where you'll see exactly what
16:36
something does
16:37
how much
16:38
the research says you probably
16:41
might want to consider taking i have to
16:43
be very careful saying that
16:45
and
16:46
it also breaks down the actual research
16:48
studies it's very cool so i definitely
16:50
suggest checking that out
16:52
all right next one
16:54
i work shift work and i'm struggling
16:56
with quality sleep suggestions slash
16:59
help
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okay so this can look different
17:04
um
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schedule wise for different people
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depending on what they're doing
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obviously
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um
17:13
if you work out
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i suggest
17:19
not working out right after your shift
17:22
so getting down your shift getting into
17:24
your sleep and then working out if that
17:27
works for you
17:28
just because
17:30
when you out increases cortisol and then
17:32
that can keep you up
17:34
right so it's
17:37
more than likely better for you to work
17:40
out after you get up
17:42
from your sleep after your shift
17:44
um
17:45
different things you can implement is
17:48
because like if you're going to sleep
17:51
when it's daylight out
17:53
you want to
17:54
make sure your room is really dark
17:57
um
17:58
so black blinds but something that i do
18:01
i do it every single night but i
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implement with clients is a sleep mask
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because it bla it really blacks
18:08
everything out so it can help a lot
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um
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the supplementation can help right so
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magnesium glycinate
18:18
um potentially melatonin like i'm not
18:21
telling you to take these things but
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they can potentially help i'll leave
18:25
that up to you
18:27
um
18:28
and then sometimes like if you live in a
18:30
noisy area
18:32
trying to if you have like a noise
18:34
machine or something like that or if
18:36
there's like traffic like the white
18:38
noise can help with that
18:40
um
18:41
but it's it's figuring out a schedule
18:44
so there's trial and error that comes
18:47
with this
18:48
right so you want to try and keep a
18:50
consistent the most consistent schedule
18:53
that you can so have these
18:56
non-negotiables of like i'm going to be
18:58
in bed by this time like shut your
19:00
electronics off because that's going to
19:02
just keep you up
19:03
um
19:04
get into your bed you know try and get
19:06
to sleep and doing that consistently um
19:10
is really important
19:12
like just trying to keep things as
19:14
consistent as possible
19:16
with an inconsistent schedule
19:19
it's difficult um
19:21
where i live too we have a big hospital
19:23
there's a lot of nurses
19:24
a lot of nurse clients um
19:27
i have someone who does
19:29
constant shift works right yeah but he's
19:31
always on different shifts
19:33
and it's been very difficult to really
19:35
create one kind of
19:37
schedule for and follow but we're just
19:39
doing our best right we're working with
19:40
what we have right still been building
19:42
muscle and losing body fat he looks
19:44
pretty shredded right now actually
19:46
but it really comes down to trying to
19:48
decide your meal structure and still
19:51
trying to at least hit your meals
19:53
roughly around the same time it's going
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to be difficult
19:56
but yeah if you can somewhat stick to a
19:59
frequent like feeding schedule that's
20:01
going to help massively too
20:03
yeah i just built out one for one of my
20:05
clients and
20:07
it's like okay let's try this and see if
20:09
it works if it doesn't we have to adjust
20:11
right you have to just like i said
20:13
there's trial and error
20:15
that goes with that and then once you
20:18
find something really sticking to it
20:21
totally
20:23
cool next question
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from at a real sea bass
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we'd love to hear more about alcohol and
20:30
diet
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now this could really be a full episode
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but we'll keep it short
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so
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people are going to think i'm biased
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here because i don't drink but
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no i drink sometimes very rarely once in
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a while which is totally cool i'm uh i'm
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all for it i don't drink personally but
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i'm all for you know people having a
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drink if you're not then so first of all
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first the bad news right then the good
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news
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so
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drinking alcohol does have
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some negative effects it does slow down
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the metabolism quite a bit alcohol gives
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you seven calories per gram but
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it doesn't really keep you full right it
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gives you quite a bit it does have a
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high thermic effect so you do burn a lot
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of calories you know digesting it
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but it's not really uh much more than
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just that right it's empty calories
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once again i'm not trying to like
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demonize alcohol here but that is how it
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is no
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does seem to influence your
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decision-making right especially once
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you get drunk you know food choices are
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kind of like less important
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and um
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it's going to be very difficult
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especially when you're in the deficit
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right to kind of stick to it then
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now it also negatively impacts
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sleep
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also muscle building etc
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so that's my list of downsides right
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because alcohol is a toxin it's
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basically poison to the body and a good
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analogy for this is a traffic accident
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where
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police comes in we have to stop traffic
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like hang on like we first have to get
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rid of this alcohol basically before the
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traffic aka like the other important
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processes like fat burning muscle
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building etc
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can actually continue
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so think about that right
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once alcohol enters the body it becomes
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the priority to get rid of it asap
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and then it'll pick up the rest
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and that metabolic slowdown by the way
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takes quite a while
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but okay
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that's all the downsides
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something that's very important that we
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have to mention as well
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is that alcohol
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gives you a good time right if people
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enjoy having a drink whether that's
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going to a party or just having a glass
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of wine with a partner or going out for
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dinner
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that's maybe one way you really like to
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de-stress
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and that's super important especially
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these days like you said everyone's
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stress out of their mind so
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so i always suggest if you really enjoy
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that keep it in you know sure there are
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some downsides
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but the solution is moderation
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yeah there's a difference between it
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being a stress reliever and having 10
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drinks versus being a stress reliever
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and having one to two
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definitely right like at that point it's
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not a stress reliever yeah there needs
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to be some other form of
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of stress management there alcohol
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inhibits
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your judgment
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which is going to affect your decision
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making so typically
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we don't make the best choices when we
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are
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drinking alcohol
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uh
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specifically with food because it
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increases our appetite now we're all
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buzzied up
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and we're like i want everything
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i want this and that like that's me i
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get the munchies for sure so i have to
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be like really careful if i
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drink
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because it can easily even if you're not
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dieting but
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more so when you are dieting
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it can easily throw you out of a deficit
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and now it's gonna hinder your
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your progress and stall it out um
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i drank
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last weekend so i had five drinks
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over the course of like six hours
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and
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i remember thinking to myself like
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the next day i'm like this is this is
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why alcohol sucks
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i was lazy
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i
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didn't want to move my activity was way
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less if i would have been feeling good i
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would have been you know out on my walks
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but my movement now is down my
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activity's down i don't want a meal prep
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i want to just go get takeout
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like that's a problem
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right so if we're having alcohol
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frequently and we're feeling like this
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frequently that's totally gonna impact
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our health as a whole
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um
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and specifically if you are in a fat
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loss phase again it's gonna it's gonna
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stall that out
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um
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and then it has a direct impact on our
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hormones so with decreasing testosterone
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increasing to stop or increasing
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estrogen
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you know it's stressful for us so it's
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gonna increase cortisol more or less
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it's inflammatory
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um so if you're d even if you're not
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dealing with hormone issues it's gonna
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affect that or can affect that if you
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are it's like fuel to the fire
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um
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and got health issues same oh yeah
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i mean the list goes wrong
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you really have to wait out if you're
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dealing with these things
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is alcohol
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really
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appropriate for you probably not
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probably not right
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i i kept my list short-ish you know
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because i don't necessarily want to
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sound like anti-alcohol because i'm not
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once again
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but like
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there's a lot of downsides you know
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i'm not anti-alcohol because i drink
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you know once in a while but like
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i had
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clients i think i talked about this on
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one of the other podcasts like
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they didn't track their alcohol you
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showed me that on the you
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asked
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yeah and i posted it actually on my
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instagram story
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and i asked you know how much alcohol
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did you have because she was taking a
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day off of tracking but she had alcohol
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so i'm like so how much alcohol did you
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have
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and she listed it out and it ended up
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being about a thousand calories just in
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alcohol and actually it was more than
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that because i had logged just her shots
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of the t of the tequila or vodka or
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whatever she had
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and uh she actually had that with
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like they were like in a juice or
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something like that so there was more
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calories on top of that so just alone
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like a night out of drinking can be
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frick
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1200 1500 calories more than that now
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you're adding the food you had before
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now you're adding the munchies and
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the food you're eating after you're all
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buzzed up
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it's kind of a recipe for disaster
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yeah it kinda is you know i hate to say
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it but i'm not gonna sugarcoat it really
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and we won't and uh
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you know we're always honest with it
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with this stuff you know and
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which is important because at the end of
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the day it is your decision you know
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like what do you want to do like
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do you really want to get as jacked as
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possible do you want to perform at the
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highest level
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or is that stuff less important like it
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all
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you know matters for how much you should
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be drinking if not any at all you know
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because
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you know depending like for example say
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you'd be still competing
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but you also want to get drunk every
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weekend
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i would have to tell you like hey maybe
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not a good idea maybe let's just stop
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doing that all together because this is
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not adding up you know
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and that's why we just have to be
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realistic
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and um
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and be okay with that too you know you
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can't have it all all the time at least
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you know right
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