 Next question is from Heather Kovacs what supplements are worth spending big money on and which ones can I save on okay? So I did I went full circle with this as a supplement fanatic as a kid I you know taking supplements for a long time At some point I started to just look at the ingredient and then the lowest price and I'm like it's the same This one's way that one says way this one says Creatine this one says whatever that one says so I'm just gonna go with the cheapest price Here's a deal with the supplement market. It is largely market regulated Okay, so there's very few regulations in the supplement market for standards. I'm not complaining by the way. I love this I love market regulations We get we get to pick what we want to buy and what we like it also And it really helps with innovation in supplements. So my supplement market is constantly changing and evolving that being said if you're Number one priority with supplements is the cheapest price. You're gonna end up with shitty products for sure and consider this Here's what you should spend them the money on or worth spend money on Supplements you take daily if you take it daily then go for quality. Here's why this happened recently by us It was like a couple years ago there was a huge consumer report that came out where they actually took a bunch of protein powders and they found a Bunch of them were like exceptionally high in in heavy metals. Yeah heavy metals build up in your system or way low on the protein That it said it had a lot and that happened. Yeah protein spiking was a big thing They did or actually companies were putting it's a it's 25 grams of protein per serving But in reality, it's like 10 grams of protein But then they add the amino acids that get tested later to show that it has more So you think you're taking 30 grams of protein. You're only taking 10 or 15 Oh, but I spent, you know, you know, I say $5 on this bucket of protein right quality is super important number one You want to make sure that it has what it says it has good companies will have third-party testing Number two, you definitely don't want to be taking something You don't know because like the heavy metals, you know problem that can become neurotoxic So here you are you're healthy you're fit you're taking your supplements You think you're doing everything and then you start getting weird symptoms. You can't figure out what's going on Why do I feel like shit at work out? Yeah, I eat right Why am I getting tingling in my fingers or why am I why am I anxious all of a sudden? You have no idea that your your health supplement weren't they finding a lot of that With fillings from like the dentist like the using like specific types of metals. Oh mercury. Yeah Yeah, but yeah, the protein powder one was a big one and guess what the ones that were the worst Were the vegan organic ones that they found a lot of them because of the the pesticides they use were The other thing you could save money on I think that's I think that's been blown out of proportion right now is the creatines The creatine market because so much research has come around that and we all agree that it's the best if not created all these Different versions exactly now everybody's adding all because it drove the price down which is great Right, so it's made basic old playing creatine pretty cheap to get a hold of but because of that There's terrible margins in it. So supplement companies. Oh, okay. Let's add this now to say it's better It's faster absorbing or let's add this this creatine fizzes when you put in your water Yeah, do this one so you get recovery added with it So they start adding all these other things and then selling the added benefits or why their creatine is better So one of the ways you could save a ton of money is don't go Don't buy into all the hype around other types of creating get plain-ass creating monohydrate. Yes That's the one that has all the studies. It's the one that shows that it's works the best It's the one in comparison with others has the greatest absorption all the other creatine versions are a waste of extra money Some of them are fine and it's really and it's hard to pixie dust, right? So there's a lot of like pixie dusting in the supplement industry where you add Because you have so much stuff and you don't realize how much of this stuff that you want in that supplement Isn't really in there when it's just purely creatine monohydrate. That's all there is That's what's in there. So what you get what you read on it is what you get Yeah, there was a supplement back in the day. I'm gonna talk to all the all the older lifters listening right now There was a supplement called hot stuff back in the day. Do you remember hot stuff? You remember that bottle vaguely remember, okay? So it was called hot stuff and the reason why it was popular Apparently they changed the formula apparently the original one was people loved it But anyway hot stuff was popular because in the ingredients it had every single new and cool Supplement in the Bob. I just threw it all in everything So you hope you buy it and you'd be like, oh my god. This has it's got you know, Smilax It's got yo him be it's got saw Paul Meadow. It's got, you know, it's got ecti sterone It's got and literally would be this ingredient list that was like a hundred things long But what you don't realize is it's they put like, you know, it's like, you know two particles of it sprinkle Yeah in there and then they can say that they have it in there If they actually did really was just an expensive protein powder. Yes, spend money on quality food