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before I get into the ones that I

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think really make a big difference, I'm gonna

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talk foundational because there's three things that I

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think are super important. for foundation

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and they are vitamin

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with K2, magnesium,

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and omega-3-ficials. So.

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for the fish oil, What

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I like to is an omega -3

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index test because that will help

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you dose your fish oil correctly. because on

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how much fish you eat, that will help

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vary how much fish oil you need to

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take. And then then you

4:49

can do a red cell magnesium

4:51

test. So that's how I

4:53

look at the foundation and this is

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one that I wish I'd thought

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of as foundational. fact, this is one

4:59

that I would have started in

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my teens and twenties 20s because it

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turns out like, and you've heard me

5:05

say this, starting around age 30, we are

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losing muscle, we're losing strength and

5:09

we're losing power, as we can

5:11

lose 5-8% of 8 % of our muscle

5:13

every decade. And

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we also know is that when

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we are working out, it's a

5:20

lot harder to recover. In In fact,

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one of the first signs that

5:25

I was in perimenopause I just couldn't.

5:27

recover from my workouts like

5:29

I used to. I

5:31

just had this overall inflammatory

5:33

effect. The other thing that

5:35

starts to happen, especially in perimenopause and when

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estrogen goes down is start to lose

5:39

bone. In fact, it to come and

5:41

fall off the cliff really. And And

5:43

also start to lose it bit,

5:45

meaning our cognition. You

5:48

know that feeling you walk into a room. you're

5:50

like, why am I in this room? What was I

5:52

coming in here for? Hopefully that's

5:54

not just me. But But got the

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solution for that. And, by the

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6:01

and your bones

6:03

your cognition, skin.

6:05

I still remember doing a downward dog in

6:08

my 30s going, whose skin is that? What is

6:10

going on with that creepiness on my

6:12

thighs? So So

6:14

all of these things, believe it or not,

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there is one supplement that we can

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also get from our food that helps with

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all of this. Now, you can get

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this from fish, you can get this from

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meat, although about 30 to 40 % of

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it's degraded depending on how you cook

6:29

it, because heat degrades it. And

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by the way, I'm talking creatine.

6:33

You can get two grams

6:35

per each pound of beef or pork,

6:37

pork and one gram per

6:39

pound of chicken and 1 .8

6:41

grams per pound of tuna. And

6:43

I'm stressing that because order

6:46

for you to get what you need,

6:48

you would be having to eat a lot

6:50

of protein. And I eat a lot

6:52

of protein and I can't possibly get enough

6:54

Plus, you know, the cooking, you're not even getting

6:56

half of that. So, I I'm

6:58

talking about creatine and the deal

7:00

is for us women, we tend

7:02

to have less tissue 80 % less

7:04

tissue stores of creatine than men. Now,

7:06

maybe it's due to our diet, maybe

7:09

it's because we have less muscle

7:11

mass than either

7:13

which way, we have lower creatine

7:15

stores to begin with and this

7:17

is problematic because creatine helps regenerate

7:19

ATP, that's our energy currency. That's

7:21

what's gonna help you work out

7:23

harder, that's gonna help you work

7:25

out longer and it's gonna help

7:27

you recover faster. What's that

7:29

mean? That means that you're gonna have

7:31

better muscle development and you're gonna have

7:33

better bone mass Plus, been

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shown to help preserve muscle and

7:38

because it helps with muscle recovery,

7:40

you know what else that means?

7:42

It can help with that muscle

7:44

soreness. What's cool about this supplement

7:46

because, you know, be honest, you

7:48

might feel magnesium a little bit,

7:50

it can help with you know, sleep relaxation,

7:53

et cetera. And

7:55

omega-3s, you might be able to feel them with your

7:57

mood but I highly doubt you're gonna feel vitamin D. with

8:00

K, right? Most of the things that

8:02

I'm gonna say to take, you're not

8:04

gonna go, wow, I feel amazing. But

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this one, oh oh my gosh, you

8:09

will actually notice the ability to

8:11

work out harder and recover better. And

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this is another cool use for

8:15

it because that energy that I'm talking

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about, the energy in your brain, the

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energy in your body, this can

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also help if you're low in sleep,

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either because you had a crappy night's

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sleep the night before or jet lag.

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Last summer, I I had a crazy

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travel schedule. It super fun, but it

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was a little bit nuts because

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I literally went from Florida to

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London, to Boston, to

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Spain, to Lisbon, to

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Florida, to British Columbia, to

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to Florida. I was like jet lag

8:45

back and forth. And I used

8:48

to have this whole story in

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my head that I suffered from

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jet lag. And this time I

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used creating zero issues, like easy peasy.

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peasy. Creating helps with better

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energy and stamina overall. So it's not just

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in the gym. And I

9:02

talked about most of this is in our

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muscles, like 95 % in our muscles, but

9:06

there's 5 % in our brains. So

9:08

I So I mentioned that it can

9:11

help with cognition. Remember, you need optimal

9:13

amounts. If you don't have enough creatine in

9:15

your muscles, you're not having in your

9:17

brain. But if you do have

9:19

enough creatine, and ideally you have optimal

9:21

creatine levels, then you can notice what

9:24

it's doing for your brain, better cognition,

9:26

better mood. They did a study on

9:28

post -menopausal women finding that it was great

9:31

-depressive benefits too. So

9:34

So hopefully convinced you creatine

9:36

for the win. Now,

9:39

I have two different types of creatine

9:41

that I use and recommend. Creatine

9:43

is the one that you've heard about,

9:45

it's the most study been around the longest.

9:48

And because of that, everyone's like, this is the

9:50

one you use. It's the most studied it's been around

9:53

the longest. But it's kind of like saying, well,

9:55

you should continue to use your rotary dial phone

9:57

it's been around the longest. There's

9:59

another... type of creatine. Now creatine monohydrate

10:01

is one I've been recommending,

10:03

having people use, but what

10:05

I got back was about, gosh,

10:09

I don't know. of of the

10:11

people complained about. about GI

10:13

issues, and fluid

10:15

retention. And it turns out that

10:18

while creatine monohydrate is most

10:20

studied, what's misinformation out there

10:22

is that completely absorbed. It actually isn't,

10:24

only about 15 % of it's

10:27

absorbed. And the rest of

10:29

it is what's causing the the issues in

10:31

that extracellular fluid

10:33

retention. So if that's you, if you're

10:35

struggling, if you've tried creatine, you

10:37

went, oh, nope, I got... I

10:39

gained weight and I you

10:42

know, I had all this gut stuff,

10:44

forget it, I'm out, and I kept hearing

10:46

from people, I've got another solution for

10:48

you. And it's the new product I just

10:50

made called creatine, non-bloating creatine

10:53

women and it

10:55

is creatine HCL with

10:57

torene and magnesium. and

10:59

you need a seventh of

11:01

what you'd need from creatine monohydrate because

11:03

it is all absorbed, so you won't

11:05

get those other issues Now, For a

11:07

lot of people they don't get those issues and it's

11:09

no biggie and they can take three to five grams

11:11

of creatine each day, no problem. If

11:14

that's not you then

11:16

try my sheatine. what

11:18

I like to do. with creatine is I like

11:20

to take two doses a day. I'll take my

11:22

foundational. dose, and then I'll take

11:25

another dose with me when I'm going

11:27

to work out. Or if I've got jet

11:29

lag, or I had a a poor night's sleep,

11:31

then I use additional creatine

11:33

there too. And again, you

11:35

will totally notice a difference. Next

11:38

up, collagen. Now, as we age,

11:40

collagen production is naturally declining. I

11:42

talked about the downward dog and

11:44

the weird, crepey skin, that's

11:47

it. It's things like the wrinkles and

11:49

the dryness and the sagging skin. So

11:51

collagen is the most abundant

11:53

protein in our body. This is

11:55

what helps us maintain our skinny

11:57

elasticity our skin moisture and helps reduce all

11:59

those visible signs of aging, but what

12:01

you can't see is what it

12:03

does for your joint health. It

12:06

acts as a cushion between bones,

12:08

and for women over collagen, collagen,

12:11

supplemental collagen, can help reduce joint

12:13

discomfort and improve mobility. It It can

12:16

also help with muscle repair and

12:18

maintenance, so it can help support

12:20

muscle strength and recovery. Plus, of

12:22

course, it's a major component of

12:24

bones. Now as we age, we

12:27

know that we are losing

12:29

bone mineral density, especially if

12:31

you are post-menopausal and taking hormones,

12:33

your bone density can fall

12:35

off the cliff, and collagen can

12:37

help support bone structure and

12:39

help reduce the risk of

12:41

osteoporosis. And on a

12:43

more superficial thing, but hey, this

12:45

is important, it's also good for your

12:47

hair and your skin and your nails

12:49

because it boosts keratin production, which

12:51

means stronger hair and stronger nails. In

12:53

In fact, in taking collagen, what

12:55

I hear most often is that people's

12:57

nails aren't breaking, their hair isn't breaking,

12:59

and they've got better hair growth and

13:01

thickness. But I'll tell you, my

13:03

favorite of all reason to take collagen, and I

13:05

and I take twice a day, is is

13:08

for gut health. Now,

13:11

my very first book I wrote was

13:13

The Virgin Diet. and it was all

13:15

about leaky gut how

13:18

you know gut can happen due to

13:20

a variety of factors like stress

13:22

and diet and gluten and fructose. And

13:24

And when it does, food can

13:26

get out into circulation, can hit

13:28

your immune system and get out

13:30

and wreak havoc and create a a

13:32

lot of inflammation, weight gain,

13:34

all sorts of problems. One

13:37

of the fastest ways to start

13:39

to heal your gut is collagen.

13:41

In fact, if I write Virgin 2 .0,

13:43

which I'm tempted to do, this will

13:45

be a huge part of the healing plan.

13:48

So there's two different ways, actually three different

13:50

ways that I get collagen into my

13:52

diet. First of all, whenever I can,

13:54

I I use real broth, and I'll cook

13:56

with it. If I'm making a soup or

13:58

a stew, if I'm making raw I will use

14:00

broth, but I don't do that all

14:02

the time and I want to make

14:05

sure that I'm getting collagen in day So

14:07

I do collagen intake different ways one

14:09

in my all -one paleo shake,

14:11

which is a bone broth shake,

14:13

which is about 80% collagen. % collagen So

14:15

that's one way I get it

14:17

But then I also do supplemental

14:19

collagen with my collagen peptides powder. that's

14:22

something that I add in I'll add

14:24

it into my coffee or my Greek

14:26

yogurt So like to get in minimally a scoop

14:28

day, but I really like to get

14:30

in more like two scoops a day

14:32

super important Now,

14:36

now I been for the

14:38

last decade struggling

14:41

with leg cramps. I don't know if

14:43

you've ever had anything like this. These are

14:45

these things that will wake me up

14:47

It's like your cap is a rock and

14:50

you have to get up and walk it

14:52

out It is the worst feeling at all I've

14:54

tried to mentally kind of walk myself through

14:56

it and relax and it just nothing would

14:58

cut it And you know

15:00

I I was taking magnesium and

15:02

I would take Epsom bath. I was

15:05

even using a magnesium cream It's

15:07

just like nothing was working and

15:09

then year, year, I don't know

15:11

why this took me so long

15:13

darn it, but at least I

15:15

know now So now you know too,

15:18

This is you. I

15:20

started taking electrolytes I started, I

15:22

created a product called electro

15:24

replenish and I started

15:26

taking it and you know when you don't

15:28

have something horrible happening and hurting, you about it And then

15:30

all of a a sudden one day I went

15:32

I was somewhere and I forgotten to bring

15:34

my electrolytes and it came back and I

15:36

was like, oh, yeah electrolytes.

15:40

So electrolytes are things like sodium potassium,

15:42

magnesium they help regulate fluid balance. that

15:44

is so important for women over

15:46

40 because we are prone to

15:48

dehydration due to hormonal changes Plus

15:50

was drinking a lot of different

15:53

fluids and maybe I was actually

15:55

creating more of an because I

15:57

didn't have those If you're drinking

15:59

a lot of fluid and not

16:01

doing any electrolytes, you might actually

16:03

create a problem as well. So

16:05

what I do is go

16:07

to the gym and I take in my

16:10

little gym bottle, actually

16:12

big gym bottle is

16:14

64 ounces with green tea.

16:16

I use my electro replenish.

16:18

I put in some creatine

16:20

or I'll use my shea-tine.

16:24

I use my amino acids. I

16:26

put all of this into

16:28

my gym bottle. And really

16:30

important when you're working out because

16:32

electrolytes play a big role in muscle

16:34

contraction and help you replenish what's lost sweat.

16:37

know, I live in Florida. I

16:39

don't know why I wasn't thinking, you

16:41

know, when I first moved here, oh,

16:43

a lot more than usual. Now there's

16:45

another place that they can help

16:47

and that is with adrenal function

16:49

which can help balance hormones like cortisol

16:52

and prevent stress -related fatigue. So taking them

16:54

with me to the gym, I

16:56

usually do a second dose too, especially

16:58

if like I had a little wine the

17:00

night before or anything else that was

17:02

dehydrated. Now I

17:04

mentioned that I put essential amino

17:07

acids into my gym concoction. As

17:09

we age, we start

17:11

to have something called anabolic

17:13

resistance. Anabolic resistance is the

17:15

reduced stimulation of muscle protein

17:17

synthesis to a given dose

17:19

of protein or amino acids

17:21

and And contributes to loss of

17:24

skeletal muscle mass. Now couple

17:26

with that with the fact

17:28

that often women struggle to

17:30

get in the optimal amount

17:32

of quality protein. This

17:35

is why, which by the way,

17:37

optimal amount of quality protein for

17:39

a woman, 0 0.7 to one per pound

17:41

of target body weight and also

17:43

having challenges digesting it, which by

17:45

the way is why I created protein

17:47

first enzymes. This is

17:49

where essential amino acids

17:52

can help. Now notice I

17:54

said essential amino acids and

17:56

not branched chain amino acids.

17:58

Branched chain amino acids

18:00

are leucine. isoleucine and valine. They are

18:02

the most anabolic, or thought to be

18:05

the most anabolic of the nine essentials,

18:07

but they're only three. And what

18:09

we now know is that we need

18:11

all nine of them. So don't

18:13

just take the branch change, take all

18:15

nine of these essential amino acids. And

18:17

what it's gonna do, when you're eating

18:19

protein, you're eating it for those essential

18:21

amino acids, these are the building blocks

18:23

of protein that your body can't produce

18:26

on its own. You have to get

18:28

this through diet. And... and supplementation. Here's why

18:30

you need them. They're going to

18:32

help preserve muscle mass.

18:34

Remember talked about leucine.

18:36

essential amino acids and especially leucine

18:38

help stimulate muscle protein synthesis

18:40

and this is vital for

18:42

maintaining and rebuilding muscle tissue

18:45

especially when you're doing resistance

18:47

training. And after

18:49

exercise or after a big

18:51

heavy day of lots of

18:53

movement the body needs essential

18:55

amino acids to repair tissue

18:57

and recover efficiently. Muscle

18:59

mass plays a key role

19:01

in in metabolism. When you

19:03

preserve muscle mass through adequate

19:05

essential amino acid intake, That

19:07

means you're going to have a a better metabolism. And

19:10

remember, if you're losing

19:12

muscle, your Stabilism is slowing

19:14

down. So you want

19:16

to avoid this. So this can help you

19:18

with maintaining that body composition and

19:21

preventing that weight gain because

19:23

if you're losing muscle and

19:25

your gaining weights, you're shifting and gaining

19:28

more fat and slowing down your metabolism.

19:31

Plus, essential amino acids critical for

19:33

producing energy at the cellular level. they

19:36

can actually enhance endurance during

19:38

workouts help with quicker recovery,

19:40

reducing fatigue and muscle soreness.

19:44

And I just talked about collagen.

19:46

Essential amino acids are involved in

19:48

producing collagen and you need that collagen

19:50

for those strong bones and strong joints. And

19:53

also you you need essential amino

19:55

acids to support the synthesis of

19:57

hormones. And of course, we need

19:59

those hormones. for for good energy,

20:01

mood, and sleep. And of

20:03

course, all that goes

20:05

sideways during perimenopause. Beyond

20:08

that, there are some

20:10

essential amino acids like tryptophan and tyrosine

20:12

that are precursors to neurotransmitters,

20:14

serotonin and dopamine that

20:16

are critical for your mood, for your

20:18

cognitive function, and for your mental clarity,

20:20

and can help with that brain fog the

20:22

mood swings that you might get as

20:24

you're getting into perimenopause. So, essential amino

20:26

acids, here's the thing too. If you're in

20:28

caloric restriction at all, if you're doing

20:30

any kind of a restrictive diet, you're

20:32

gonna need more, not less. I take

20:34

them at least once a day, sometimes

20:36

twice, and they're also my travel insurance.

20:38

Like I'm out on the road, I'm gonna

20:40

out first thing in the morning, I

20:42

haven't been able to eat yet, this

20:44

is definitely something that I do. Or

20:47

if I know that maybe I'm somewhere where

20:49

I'm not gonna get what I need in terms

20:51

of protein at breakfast and I can supplement with

20:53

my essential amino acid. So it's something I

20:55

travel with, It's great post-surgery, so

20:57

they are a great tool to

21:00

have. Speaking

21:02

of exercise, I'm

21:04

gonna talk about something that when

21:06

I first heard about it, I called

21:08

it exercise a bottle. Now, I'm just

21:10

saying this, don't think that this

21:12

is exercise in a bottle and you can

21:14

take this and not exercise, okay, deal. What

21:16

I'm talking about is might

21:18

appear from timeline. Now, this

21:21

is the science-backed urolithin A product that

21:23

I've literally been taking for

21:25

years now. years now. If

21:27

you are a lucky

21:30

human and you've got the

21:32

gut bacteria that can

21:34

produce urolithin A from the metabolism

21:36

of these Elijah tannins that

21:38

you can get from foods

21:40

like pomegranates and raspberry and walnuts,

21:42

yay for you. However,

21:45

only about 40 % of us

21:47

can actually do this and have

21:49

to be eating a lot of

21:52

pomegranates and walnuts and raspberries, which

21:54

don't tend to be big

21:56

of the diet. So I'm not one of

21:58

those 40%. I'm betting you. You're

22:00

probably not either. And I'm also not

22:02

a big pomegranate eater. So I supplement because

22:04

I want to make sure I'm

22:06

getting all that urolithin has to do.

22:08

Now, what is it that urolithin -A

22:10

does? Well, the biggest thing that it

22:13

does is something called mitophagy. You've been

22:15

hearing about autophagy. last couple of years.

22:17

All the intermittent fasting conversation was about

22:19

autophagy, where your body is taking

22:21

out the cellular trash. Well,

22:24

mitophagy is doing that

22:26

in the mitochondria. So mitophagy

22:28

clearing out damaged mitochondria

22:31

and new healthier ones, recycling some of those

22:33

old ones, getting rid of some of

22:35

the old ones, recycling some of the old

22:37

ones to produce new ones. Here's

22:39

the deal. As we age, our

22:42

mitochondrial function tends to

22:44

decline. This, when you look

22:46

at all those hallmarks of aging that they

22:48

talk about, mitochondria is kind of

22:50

like in the center of all of

22:52

this. Urolithin A

22:55

support cellular energy and vitality.

22:57

It slows the aging

22:59

process at the cellular

23:02

level. Timeline's

23:04

been doing a lot of

23:06

research, and what the studies

23:08

are suggesting is that urolithin

23:10

can improve muscle function by

23:12

enhancing mitochondrial health. That means

23:14

it is easier to stay

23:16

active, recover from workouts, and

23:18

maintain or build strength as

23:20

you age. Plus, urolithin -A may

23:22

enhance endurance by improving the

23:24

efficiency of mitochondria, which means

23:26

your cells produce energy more

23:28

efficiently and effectively. And

23:31

is super important if you're looking like, how do

23:33

I manage to improve my exercise performance as I

23:35

age? This a big question I I was asking

23:37

myself as I was turning 60. I'm like, I

23:39

want to get in the best shape of my

23:41

life. I don't want to, you know, just kind

23:43

of hang in there. Urolithin

23:45

A also been shown to reduce

23:47

inflammation and oxidative stress, and

23:49

both of these contribute to age,

23:51

all the aging and age -related

23:53

diseases. Now, when I talked

23:55

about creatine earlier, I said, this is when

23:57

you'll feel, Well, same same with you. your erylithin A.

23:59

It's one of those ones that you

24:01

feel. You go to the gym, you're like, wow.

24:04

Like felt like I could work out

24:06

about 30 % harder because of it.

24:08

And it's also one that I

24:10

credit with being lean and strong after

24:13

60. Creatine and urolithin A have me

24:15

to really go and kick it at

24:17

the gym. So I take it

24:19

every single day. I I travel with

24:21

the capsules and there's also

24:23

these little sachets that you can put

24:25

into like a Greek style yogurt or

24:28

add into a smoothie. So This

24:31

really easy to take. And

24:33

again, you're going to feel

24:35

this one. Now the final

24:37

one, you you only have to take

24:39

twice a month. So I

24:41

think it was about two years ago, my

24:43

husband heard about this. We were at at

24:45

a conference. He saw it. I'd

24:48

been buddies with the founders of Qualia

24:50

it started when it was NeuroHacker Collective.

24:52

So he brings it home and I'm like,

24:54

oh, I love these guides. Let's try

24:56

it. And here's what I'll

24:58

tell you. This

25:00

is, it's called Qualia Cinelitic. And what

25:02

so often is when you get rid

25:05

of something that's been nagging at you,

25:07

you often forget that you ever

25:09

had it, right? So Tim

25:11

and I, I you used to like about this

25:13

because we'd sit down or get

25:15

up from like a chair or couch

25:17

and go oomph, know that noise

25:19

when you like are like sore or achy.

25:23

And, you know, the

25:25

deal was when I was in

25:27

my teens, I was I call an inappropriate

25:29

athlete because I did all the

25:31

wrong sports for someone who's six tall.

25:33

I did acrobatics, point

25:35

ballet, gymnastics, and I

25:38

blew out my knee, blew

25:40

out my ACL, I

25:42

broke a foot, like all sorts of

25:44

stuff. So I mean, I I got all

25:46

this old athlete stuff. so I was

25:48

always aching. And not

25:50

aching is a big deal.

25:53

And I'm not aching because

25:55

Qualia literally goes out

25:57

and and eliminates these

25:59

synapses. - And cells that

26:01

tend to, they call them cells

26:04

actually, accumulate as we

26:06

age. And these

26:08

cells can actually contribute to

26:10

things like osteoarthritis. These are the cells

26:12

that no longer function properly and they

26:14

just contribute to aging age related

26:16

diseases by releasing inflammatory factors And of

26:18

course one of the places is

26:21

your joint and muscle tissues, so means

26:23

stiffness and pain and mobility. So

26:26

I start these. And

26:28

about three months in, more oomph. So

26:33

again, you take them every two months,

26:35

they go in, clear out these cells that

26:37

are accumulating with age, and they're improving

26:39

your cellular function. They have better, now your

26:41

tissue is repairing better, you have better

26:43

energy production, better. overall, sinulus, a

26:46

better overall cellular longevity, like

26:48

all this stuff at the

26:50

cool is that you can actually tell

26:52

the difference. Now I mentioned that

26:54

cells pro -inflammatory signals that

26:57

contribute to all this chronic

26:59

inflammation that's linked to many

27:01

age -related diseases. And again, heart

27:03

disease, diabetes, arthritis, well, of senolytics

27:05

helps lower the inflammation and

27:07

improves your immune function and

27:09

it reduces the risk of developing

27:11

chronic diseases. And

27:13

here's what's cool. Besides that, it it

27:16

can help your skin too. Because

27:19

cells in the skin lead to

27:21

reduced collagen production, which then of course,

27:23

leads to skin aging. So when

27:25

you remove these zombie cells, which

27:28

know, these zombie cells can go. create

27:30

more problems throughout your body and

27:32

make good cells bad. by removing

27:34

these cells, you support skin

27:36

regeneration and help maintain

27:39

elasticity and firmness. And

27:41

the great part? You only have to take

27:43

it twice a a month. We literally do it

27:45

every month. the first two days of the month,

27:47

we take our sinolytic so we don't forget. Now,

27:50

I know I've gone through

27:52

a bunch of different supplements. so

27:54

I created a guide for you

27:56

at JJ.com forward slash over 40.

27:58

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28:01

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28:04

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28:14

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