 First question is from Ansari, Jr. My joints always seem to be hurting. I work out four to five times a day, take fish oil, and stay hydrated throughout the day. Am I doing something wrong? Four to five times a day? That's what it says. I'm sure he was a typo, I hope so. Maybe that's why your joints hurt. That explains everything right there. You might be working out too much. Back off the workouts. Here's the places that I would look with clients who had pain, kind of chronic pain in their joints. By the way, there's two general types of pain. There's the chronic variety. This is where like, oh, my knee's been hurting. It's been bothering me on and off for the last five years. And there's the acute variety where it's like, my knee hurts, why does it hurt? Yesterday I twisted it, so I'm actually injured. So I'm going to assume that this person, and they says always seem to be hurting. Yeah, chronic. Has the chronic variety. So the first place I would look is movement. Always. Your joints will last you your lifetime, and they'll feel relatively good your whole life if they're moving optimally. There is an optimal way. And they're supported. That's right. If they're moving an optimal way, then they should be doing pretty well. It's like, this reminds me of a story. So years ago when I bought my first house, there were some doors that were hung already. I had remodeled the whole house, but there were some old doors that didn't change. And the doors just kept making sounds and noises every time I'd open and close them. I'd grease them up and they'd keep doing it. Finally, I had my dad come over to look at it, and he goes, well, the way that these things are hung, the joints, the hinges are being stressed more than they should be. And this is the reason why they're grinding and making all this noise and why the door isn't opening and closing. The way it is, we have to set this up so that the hinges work optimally. Okay, so that's like your joints. If your joints are moving in suboptimal ways, they are gonna cause, they are gonna have pain over time. So poor mobility is usually, it's always the first place that I look when I would have a client. And to that point, taking supplements for it is like oiling it. So it's fixing the squeak for the moment, but it's still not fixing the root cause. So if you're gonna use supplements to help aid that, which I think is there's definitely value in that, but you can't stop there. You can't just take your fish oil, take your turmeric, take something like that. And then that thing that resolves the problem. The problem is in the way your body is moving. And this is where Maps Prime Pro came from. I mean, this is why we created this. It's designed to address every major joint in the body. There's a test for it to see if, how you do. And then there's movements connected to it that you should do to perform better mechanics and to support that joint. Yeah, this is where the conversation of posture really comes into play. And really understanding how to line yourself up and stack your spine properly to where everything is in an optimal position. So what does that even look like to start? A lot of times people don't even put that kind of work in before then trying to go through these movements and put stress on them by adding weight. So it is one of those things. Or over time, it's something that was very subtle, very, very subtle angle or something that was a little less optimal that over time, the volume of it has created this pain and created this signal of your body of wear and tear. And so to be able to come back and address it, you really need to dive into that specific joint, how it's functioning, what your end ranges are, like how much strength you can connect to. So how connected are you in rotating it, moving it, getting flexion extension and seeing what the quality of that is and then really staying there and trying to express that even further? Think of it this way. So think of a sliding screen door or a sliding glass door and when you look under the door, there's a track and then there's the door glides along that track and typically there's like a little wheel that it glides on and if the door is balanced, it'll slide back and forth on that track and it'll do pretty well for a while. Now imagine if that door, there was pressure on that sliding door pushing it back. There's just enough pressure to push it back to where rather than balancing right on the track, it's grinding a little bit on the side because there's a little bit of pressure there. Now initially you might not notice the problem. You slide the sliding glass door or the screen on and on. You don't notice the problem but over time because that door is not balanced and moving perfectly or optimally on that track, over time you start to create problems. The wheel starts to grind. It starts to roll improperly and over time you start to cause problems. This is what happens to your joints. Now oftentimes it's not the joint itself that's the problem. Oftentimes if your knee hurts, it's not because the muscles on the round the knee aren't doing what they're supposed to. Oftentimes it's because surrounding joints aren't moving properly and your knee joint is just compensating. It's just doing more than it should, more than it needs to and this can cause lots of issues. So that's the first place that I would always look and I had a lot of success with this. I would say 70% or 80% of the time I could successfully get someone's joint pain to get a lot better just through working mobility. There is a diet component too though. I noticed this with myself when my diet is poor and it's in an inflammatory diet. If I drink a lot of alcohol or eat a lot of processed foods or I'm not well hydrated, I can also start to feel stiff and start to feel pain. It restricts movement and causes more pain and I think that lowering that inflammation is something to consider. Right, and then you have this feedback loop where it's like, okay, I'm stiff because I'm eating foods that promote inflammation in my body. Sometimes it's a food intolerance. Other times it's just a general overall bad diet. Now because I'm stiff because of that, I'm moving in a way to try to avoid that pain but now I'm creating movement patterns that are also not ideal. So now I'm actually causing joint pain. So then you get this kind of spiraling effect that causes more and more pain over time. Well, that's the value of the supplements, right? That's the value of using something to help aid, bring down inflammation so you then can go put in the work. It's like foam rolling like we talked about too. It's like, you're alleviating something temporarily right now but it doesn't mean you're not fixing the problem. So in order to fix the problem, you have to go to the movement but there is value in using tools like that to bring down. Yes, now when it comes to working with inflammation, trying to bring it down through taking something, you have the really strong over-the-counter drug options which are the non-steroidal anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen is a good example. Aleve, naproxen is another good example. Now the problem with those is that they block inflammation. They don't modulate inflammation. Blocking inflammation, very strong anti-inflammatory effect, very strong. My pain is, wow, it's way better. You taking Aleve or you taking- Isn't that hard on the liver too over time? It is. It's not only that though. Blocking inflammation can actually promote problems in the future. Studies now show that the chronic use of anti-inflammatory drugs causes joint degeneration or joints to degenerate faster because inflammation is essential to send a signal to your body or as part of the process of the body to repair and heal. For example, as other studies that show, taking anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen post-workout reduces the muscle-building effect because you're blocking the signal. You're not modulating it. So inflammation, you want appropriate levels. You don't want it to be gone. I like supplements for this because if you take a supplement, for example, Organifize Move supplement is a phenomenal for this. I've been using that and I love the way it works. So it has ingredients like high-potency turmeric. It's got holy basil in there. Pine bark. Pine bark, which contains pycnogenol. All of these things have been shown to modulate inflammation. So they don't hammer inflammation like ibuprofen would, but they help your body produce a more appropriate inflammatory response. Now, that being said, if you're not drinking enough water, you're not getting good sleep and you have a really shitty diet. It's like you're putting a Band-Aid on a problem. It'll help, but it's not going to help enough to overcome your poor diet and all that stuff. But if you do work on your diet, if you work on mobility, I do think supplements like Organifize Move, maybe throw some fish oil on top of that at high doses if that's appropriate for you. Boy, they can make a pretty substantial difference. I've noticed huge differences in myself. And then my clients, that's usually, that's my approach typically is like, okay, we're going to go mobility. We're going to look at diet, hydration, sleep, and then we're going to throw some supplements that can help with this kind of temporary, high inflammatory state so that we can move better in our workouts.