SUPPLEMENTS with absurd ROI for chuds
- magnesium (sleep better, feel calmer, more motivated)
- taurine (anti-stress, pro-performance, pro-thyroid, powerful all-rounder)
- glycine (incredible for sleep, recovery, anti-inflammation)
- creatine (brain, gym, energy, actually worth it)
- coffee + l-theanine (locked-in and energetic without the negatives)
- collagen (joints, skin, beauty, recovery, easy win)
- b-complex (energy-maxxing)
- vitamin E (reduces excessive estrogen and protects against seed oils)
- vitamin D + K2 (especially if you live indoors)
- zinc (androgens, immunity, skin and hair, general competence)
- electrolytes (so many of you are under-salted and low-potassium)
- aspirin (similar to vitamin E, anti-inflammatory and strongly protective)
stop buying 34 random powders from random ads. pick a few things at a time take them consistently.
Become so locked in that it's annoying.
Take glycine through the day.
‣ anti-catabolic
‣ better skin
‣ anti-stress
‣ better sleep
‣ significantly better antioxidant production
One scoop of around 5g increases glycine levels in your blood for about 4x at 40 minutes, and clears within a couple hours.
A few well-spaced doses throughout the day gives you a continuous drip of this incredible amino acid.
- When you eat only muscle meats, you send your blood the SAME amino-acid pattern as cortisol-driven stress.
This is a tryptophan / methionine / cysteine-heavy flood, which is the signature of catabolism, the stressed phenotype.
Glycine is the counter to this pattern that rebalances the amino acids.
- It pushes back on catabolism.
In muscle cells, glycine suppressed the catabolic enzymes (atrogin-1 and MuRF1) and pushed the cell back toward low-stress pathways which promotes growth and strength.
- It increases glutathione, your master antioxidant.
Glutathione is made from glutamate, cysteine and GLYCINE.
You're almost never short on the other two, while glycine is the bottleneck.
Take glycine and you increase glutathione synthesis, and your body functions better as a result.
- It improves blood sugar.
When taken with a carb meal, a single dose blunts the
glucose spike more than 50% without raising insulin (Gannon 2002).
And 5 g/day split into three doses lowered HbA1c over three months in type 2 diabetics (Cruz 2008)
- It's a methionine buffer.
Restrict methionine and lifespan extends in animals. Muscle meat is loaded with methionine. Glycine is what balances you so your liver can clear the excess, almost a methionine-restriction mimic.
- Before bed, it improves the time to deep sleep.
Better sleep onset means less stress hormones.