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All right, here comes a show New study shows that taurine may be the key to longevity.

Actually, there's a study on multiple animal models and found that taurine concentration was a predictor of aging.

So they increased taurine concentrations in animals like rats and some worms and some other animal models.

They found that the lifespans increased by 10 to 12 percent.

It's known as a conditionally essential amino acid, meaning your body can produce taurine, but under times of stress or illness, you probably need to consume more of it.

Really what the study is showing is that you probably need more protein as you age, and this totally corresponds with studies on humans.

As humans get older they do better with higher protein diet.

You want to live longer, eat more protein.

Has our friend Lane got a hold of it yet?

So it'll be interesting to see how Lane talks about it, because this is like 1 of those ones that you could totally try and shit on it because of it, 1, being done in animal, And then 2, your point about protein.

I hope that he highlights that's probably the key fact here.

Like, they'll do studies on like branched amino acids, arginine, proline, whatever, all these amino acids show all these benefits.

But if you get a good amount of protein, what would be considered optimal, right, for muscle building, you're getting a lot of all the amino acids.

So really what these animal models is like, if these animals ate more protein, they'd get the taurine.

And again, that corresponds with the data on humans where they find that as humans get older, having higher protein intake, especially when you combine it with strength training.

You combine it with strength training, it's like, it's as close as you can get to the fountain of youth.

So what's the motivation to study something like taurine by itself like that?

Because they identify what amino acids, they know what different amino acids do in the body.

And amino acid taurine is important for energy production.

It's not technically an essential amino acid because your body can make it, but when you're stressed or sick, you can deplete yourself very quickly.

So they call it a conditionally essential amino acid.

But, you know, I mean, how many grams of taurine is in, you know, 30 grams of whey protein, right?

Like plenty, more than you'll get from just supplementing with taurine.

Now, was that the class, like the energy drink class?

Because that wasn't a thing for us growing up, but then it became a thing and it was like, they have like B vitamins, taurine, and they smashed all these vitamins in there and like called it an energy drink

well, I think that the classic move there was just that Caffeine is the energy is the main

then the selling point is that oh it has creatine Oh, it has vitamin B.

Oh it has KD It has all these other things that they throw in it to make it more superior than the other caffeine drink.

But really, at the end of the day, everybody who compares all these energy drinks, which is better and stuff like that, it's really the dose of caffeine is really what's making the biggest difference as far as what you feel.

And then all the other stuff is just a bunch of filler bullshit to make you sound like yours is better or taste better.

Well, so B vitamins have been touted for a long time for energy, but really it's if you're deficient, then it makes a huge difference.

Some people have a tough time absorbing like B12 because they have gut issues.

So you give somebody, or I think there's some genetic mutations in some people too, or some genetic variances, I should say, in people where they just don't absorb a lot of B, you give them a shot of vitamin B12, it's life changing.

I had a client like that who had chronic fatigue, couldn't figure out what happened, worked with a functional medicine practitioner, was supplementing with B12, it just wasn't absorbing.

So the functional medicine practitioner was like, do a shot of B12 once every, I don't remember what it was, 3, 4 days.

And she's like, bro, she's like, I took, I did the shot.

And she's like, hours later, I felt like a new person.

This is why we talk about, you know, when it comes to the supplement game, nothing is more impactful than supplementing something that you're deficient

I mean, I remember when we first got the Mellow product from Ned and the magnesium, it was like...

And that's why too, it's like, so why some people are like, Oh, it's not that big of a deal.

and then somebody who does thinks it's amazing.

It's like well, yeah, because you're now you're getting what you need You

know, yeah, I that's why I think in the future and you're starting to see this a little bit um But I think you're going to see more in the future that like whey protein, okay, which is used to be just for bodybuilders.

Now it's making its way into somewhat health and wellness.

Um, I think that's going to be a longevity supplement.

Um, cause you see this, you see that as people get older, their requirements for protein go up and with strength training, it really does make a significant improvement on quality of life and on aging.

And again, protein is chains of way, a gram of whey protein is all the amino acids.

It's a complete protein, meaning it has all the amino acids.

And it has high amounts of all of the amino acids you hear about, the branch amino acids, glutamine, which is the most abundant amino acid in muscle, taurine, which we just talked about.

So whey protein, like give yourself, make sure you hit your protein targets with food And if you can't you know like get yourself a good whey protein a legions got a great 1

We work with your bases with that yeah, and remind me again because Legion specifically because I believe they it's stavia that they sweeten it with, right, instead of like a-

It's not an artificial sweetener, but also too, don't they have like enzymes and digestible enzymes?

Well, they use, I know the 1 thing about legion that I like is it's whey protein isolate.

Do you know what else Mike carries that I didn't know that he carried?

Which I love for, because I mix a lot of like whey like in food, like if I'm making pancakes or waffles or back before we had Creatures of Habit, I'd mix it in my oatmeal.

And like finding a good whey protein, like the flavor that mixed with it, he has the flavorless whey.

And not a lot of companies carry also, he has all kinds of crazy flavors that all are amazing, but then he has a flavorist.

So if you mix whey protein in pancakes, waffles, oatmeal, in food.

Yes, it is the best to get flavorless whey protein.

If you're gonna drink it, yeah, if you're a person who shakes it up with water or almond milk or whatever your thing is and then drinks it, well then yeah, get your fruity pebble flavor, caramel, salted crunch, whatever.

He's got a real flavor It's a it's like yeah fruity pebble or fruity cereal fruity cereal is the the name of his that and it's bomb But I don't I tend to mix whey protein in food.

I mean, we make homemade cookies that way, we do pancakes that way, we do waffles that way.

Like I said, we used to do the oatmeal that way.

So if you wanna do that, the best is to do a flavorless so it doesn't change the flavor of the food that you're already currently eating.

They have all types of interesting flavors.

Cocoa cereal, apple pie, banana bread, Dutch chocolate, birthday cake, chocolate peanut butter, cookies and cream, French vanilla, fruity cereal, honey cereal, mocha cappuccino, pumpkin pie, salted caramel.

Fruity cereal tastes like after you've had Fruity Pebbles.

When I had it, I was like, oh my God, that brought me back

I went to Italy when I was 12 and my cousin, I mean, I'd never tried this before.

Cocoa Krispies or whatever, the chocolate cereal.

It's like when I used to make nachos, nacho Doritos,

He'd buy chocolate milk and he'd mix it in there and I remember him being like, as a 12 year old, pfft, Oh, you can combine everything?

Then I went later on when I was 19, so at this point he's in college, and he goes, you ever have super espresso?

Because you know, in college you gotta stay up and whatever.

So they would make espresso, then they would use the espresso as the water for another espresso.

That's gotta be like chewing on like the coffee bean.

Doug likes, he's such an espresso aficionado.

How, are you consistently using your, you know, million dollar espresso machine you

You push a button and it picks the organic beans in Columbia for your brains It's gorgeous Have it back I have a $90 special machine home.

Hey, listen, I'm Italian, I can say what I want

You know Doug is so good, remember, I don't know if I brought it up on the show or not, when, and this was like, I think it was before playoffs, when Jimmy Butler, which by the way, made it all the way to the, the Heat made it all the way to the heat made it all the way to the end right and he was flying on his private jet with his expresso machine and it was the same express

that I think I showed you that yeah, I saw that yeah Exact same 1 as I have

Yes, he's flying on his he gets off the plane I don't remember what city they're in playing another team obviously and he is carrying an espresso machine.

And I remember I was looking at it and explaining how ridiculous it was and Doug's like, that's the same espresso machine I have.

then I was like, now I know that thing must be that good.

Well, no, he had to grab the suitcase and in her suitcase was this huge hair dryer.

Doug, do you have a particular water that you use for espresso?

You know what makes a big difference too?

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