 Next question is from spread soul 28. Is there any benefit in taking a non-stem pre-workout? So pre-workout that doesn't include stimulant. I'll tell you what try you do that more often than not right? Well, no, I do these days because of the sleep the stuff Before your son, I would say I'm on a Fedger now. Yeah before your son. I'd say you almost always did non-stop Yeah, so now I dug I know is is also a Doug probably to the most now Yeah, he requests that every time we try legion non-stem Pulse and tell me that you don't notice something now. Is it gonna be the same as taking caffeine? No, but The compounds in there you definitely notice a difference in performance There's other things you can do by the way to improve your performance that don't are not stimulant like drink more water Yeah, yeah, like before you work out drink more water if you're somebody who has a low carb diet or a low-processed food diet Drink a nice big glass a bottle of element. I was just gonna say I was gonna push to the oh, yeah Yeah, drink element get that sodium in you because you're probably need it and then go work out Is it technically how to say because you say it all the time on the podcast? I wonder how many people go online and go EL E M&T It's LMNT, but element is what I'm trying to say LMNT is the company So and but that reminds me why we're talking about this because we have a large YouTube audience YouTube audience now that didn't know about the show before One of the easiest things so we talk about so many things that we work with and partners if you go to Google and go and Google Mind pump partners a link will pop up with every partner that we work with all the discount codes on anything So for the audience that doesn't know that one of the easiest ways to find it's on our website But you have to kind of dig and look for it Easiest thing to do is Google mind pump partners and any company that we work with or talk about pops I think some of the benefit by the way of taking something before you work out So I'll tell you guys a story when I was a kid and I started working out. I was into supplements immediately I always thought it was this cool thing that could you know improve my performance and build muscle and I was always Studying and looking for ways anyway back in those days the only supplement is on time on a 15 The only thing I had access to was in my parents cupboard and it was what was it was a vitamin C packet? Emergency I think it was called you guys remember those like a thousand milligrams of vitamin C And I would take it before I work out So and I would definitely notice improvements in my performance now It's not because vitamin C improves your performance. It doesn't but it was the ritual of it There's a lot there's a lot to be said about ritualizing your actions before you work out taking something like a pre-workout or Glasses of water with sodium those actually have some benefits But part of the benefit is also the ritual like I'm preparing for I would almost make the case their argument that Majority of the benefits of a lot of supplements is placebo is simply that mm-hmm is and I know this I know for my for myself my clients like oh, I'm spending two hundred and some dollars a month on all these supplements If I'm taking all of them, I'm gonna be yeah, I don't want to waste them So I want to make sure I'm working out. I want to make sure I'm eating better and stuff like that So I I think that a lot of the benefits that you see from a lot. Well, that's how I feel especially if you're asking about non-stem To me. It's it's really it's a belief system. We're talking about now Like I believe this is gonna work for me Unless you're like super deficient in some of those nutrients I don't understand like what that really does. Well, did you and now are have you noticed? I know Adam did it, but have you noticed the element T? Are you taking? Oh, they're sure because well That should be deficient you can be very deficient in sodium and also yeah Retaining a good amount of water to help. I mean we've talked about this on the show promote By the way by the way real quick sodium with creatine Increases its absorption and utilization. You guys know that I just learned that so sodium is a sodium with creatine We'll make you utilize more of the creatine. Oh, you don't have to do sugar. You could use sodium That's interesting. I mean we've talked about this on the show for a long time that you know Number one thing always is diet first with with before supplements supplements are such a small percentage of of your results And then before you get into performance supplements build muscle burn body fat whatever type of someone's Always addressing all the things the essential things that you need right and non-essential even like your macro micro nutrients If you're deficient anywhere and by the way, those are the cheapest ones Okay, I know to go pick up some vitamin D if you're lacking that or C or or B B vitamins That stuff is cheap as fuck So it's super cheap to get that stuff and that that will do more for most people just by getting Getting what you need that your body was wanting from you to operate optimally You'll get great muscle building but fat burning health energy all those benefits from getting all that Balanced then you will taking the latest greatest fat burner muscle builders supplement. That's on the market So, you know, I always say there for food first then after you are consistent with your food Where is it that I lack, you know, and the so that's why I think the sodium is such a game changer So you know the point you make that so true is that if you go from somebody who eats out And then you go on to a diet and you make a new lifestyle change to eating healthier Just by you switching from eating fast food Which is crazy the amount of sodium that you get from from fast food And that's all all fast food even healthy like Chipotle and stuff like that if you eat out a lot Super high in sodium and then all sudden you decide you're gonna start making your meals and making healthier better choices Even if you salt the shit out of it, it doesn't come close to the amount of sodium they pack in it So real quick you can become somebody who's eating healthy exercising really well But not getting enough sodium and you feel that stuff I think that's why so why it's doing so well with us I mean element is like for sure one of the the number one things are which we would I would have never thought I know But again, you probably take it and you feel it, you know I would so so funny too is that I'm sure you guys have experienced this I've always recommended to my endurance athletes to add a little bit of salt to the water because they all know And yeah, pink salt. Yes. And what's funny is I never applied it to myself. Yeah, you know and now that I deal Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah, because I always associated it with like endurance running Yeah, you know some kind of long-winded to work out But like yeah If if you're eating that way like clean and you're trying to like focus on whole foods that aren't like processed or anything It's it's a massive difference between what you're eating before to now and speaking of micro nutrients I supplement with you know, five to ten thousand. I use a vitamin D a day I get my blood tested relatively regularly and my vitamin D right in the middle So it's very interesting where as some people we need more vitamin D and others not as much I thought taking so much vitamin D at some point to have to reduce it now I'm right in the middle and I take a shit ton of it all the time and that's because I do, you know, blood tests