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so a few people have asked me why am I taking a multi and creatin again these days and I think that’s a great question given my stance on supplements uh so hey everybody it’s Jason Bla here i thought I would answer this for you guys please drop me a like down below uh please subscribe or follow if you aren’t already and I would love to hear your thoughts on this of whether you take either of these or not whether you think they’re a good idea you think they’re a bad idea uh let me know down below in the comments so honestly for these it’s not about gains in the case of both of these it is purely a longevity and a health consideration now I’m going to briefly discuss uh the creatin then I’ll go to the multi so on creatin it’s one of those supplements where I’ve always been like sometimes I take it sometimes I don’t uh it’s one of those where I have always said I’m a non-responder there were early studies even a decade ago or more 20 years ago that noted about a third of people in the studies it didn’t do anything at all like in terms of the performance the muscle growth like a third of test subjects literally creatin did nothing they gained no water weight they gained no muscle no strength nothing and only twothirds of people seem to do it so they were called nonresponders and that’s a pretty significant group um I always thought I was one of those because I used I tried the loading dose from a few different brands where you do the whole 20 grams a day all these people like I gained weight i didn’t gain a single pound ever when I did that not once 20 grams for a whole day weight the exact same as it was at the start of the week not even a pound i think in one of the cases I even was down like half a pound uh so I’m like look I’m a non-responder however more and more data has come out over the years showing benefits towards cognition Alzheimer’s things like that and I look at it this way creatin is fairly cheap and I’ve seen plenty of longevity experts point out look it may it may be useful here and a lot of them take it themselves and by longevity experts I mean researchers with biology advanced biology or biochemistry PhDs who specialize in in human longevity research um you know so I’m going to cover the same thing with the multivitamin all right uh so what does this mean in this case the cognition thing and here’s here’s me being vulnerable people like that when you’re vulnerable my grandfather was my mentor he was around a lot my dad was working on the road a lot during certain points and and my my adolescence a late childhood uh we had moved over to Houston of the country and and you know over to the city into the suburbs and my grandpa had just retired he was my mentor he taught me a lot of things taught me good stuff about being a man taught me a lot of skills a lot of values um he was a very good man very well respected in the community in the neighborhood uh international traveler u had been on the the Navy shooting team was a sportsman so a businessman uh good man i watched him deteriorate with Alzheimer’s and I had to watch it because when they put him in the home he wouldn’t talk to my mom or his sisters and so I was the first family member to go visit him um and I had to watch him deteriorate from Alzheimer’s and the dementia that scares the hell out of me you know because I know that I probably have that same gene so for me when I see something like creatin that may have potential to stave off Alzheimer’s and dementia in addition to possibly helping build a tiny amount of muscle do you see where I’m going with this that’s of interest to me you know and it’s relatively cheap it’s very available like you can get it with nothing in it you don’t have to have all these fillers you can just buy creatine monohydrate powder it’s one of the cheapest supplements you can get okay it’s got promising data on memory cognition uh dementia Alzheimer’s i watched you know one of my ancestors deteriorate from that so to me it’s like okay that’s a little bit of a possible insurance policy so you know I’m willing to use it off and on i’m currently using it at five grams a day uh because I look at that and say all right this is potentially worthwhile and if it helps me gain a tiny amount of muscle along the way also hey great even better but I’m looking at really that that cognition and memory and and uh dementia like that’s a big deal to me you know for me personally uh based on my life experience my genetics and stuff so I think about stuff like that uh so so that’s why on that one now as far as multivitamins go I’ve always had mixed views on multivitamins i’ve always said look there’s a potential for overdose of of metals um there’s li there’s the best experts in the world argue as to whether they’re necessary or they help they argue whether they’re an insurance policy you know the leading experts PhDs have argued about this and I’ve always said if they don’t know there’s a big debate in the community whether they’re helpful harmful or just flat useless okay as time has gone on you know I mean it’s been what 10 years 12 years 13 years since I’ve said some of that in videos well science has evolved more research has evolved more data is collected and here’s what we’re seeing i’ve seen stuff where they showed that in elderly people even who had fairly good diets I’ve seen some studies that showed uh taking a multivitamin a quality one reduced oxidative stress it’s like okay I mean oxidative stress something we’re all worried about improved antioxidant status right so and reduce oxidative stress possibly reduce cancer rates a little bit well that’s significant that’s meaningful and then the other thing that gets my attention I’ve seen multiple researchers in longevity who let’s let’s look at it this way when you have people who this is what they do right longevity is their field of study and they’ve said there are several supplements that they personally take now I’m I’ve always messed with fish oil extra strength fish oils off and on that’s always on the list creatin’s always on the list right all right so we’re already there and then you know I’ve seen multiple of them say they personally take a multivitamin a quality multivitamin and they give it to their families all right and they’re not necessarily pimping individual brands or making money or kickbacks when you have the leading researchers who their field of study is longevity and they’re like just looking at the overall data I just personally feel it’s a good idea for me and my family okay this is not necessarily about what they can prove absolutely going off the data they have available they’re like I take one and I give it to my family see where I’m going with this these people are probably let’s just be realistic someone who’s got a PhD in an advanced biology of some type who their field of research is longevity who feels that it probably helps enough longevity that they take on themselves are we going to venture and say the risk versus reward analysis that is probably safe probably beneficial these people are willing to gamble on it with their own lives and with their own families that’s kind of the Pepsi challenge if you guys are old enough to remember the Pepsi challenge okay so for me I look at that and go maybe maybe it would be uh you know a good idea if I do the same thing so I’ve started doing so so I take a multi even though I’m probably not deficient in anything my diet is really good i track stuff most of my stuff I’m way way way above the RDA on my vitamins and minerals on most of them but they’re just saying “Hey it’s a good potential insurance policy.” And you know what fairly inexpensive one so I do it
