 Next question is from point blank strength. Do smelling salts actually do anything physically to help you lift? I heard one power lifter say it opens up your sinuses for easier breathing, but is that accurate? Ooh, did you guys ever use smelling salts at all in your journey? Yeah, and I picked this question because I actually had one of my best PRs of all time, bench pressing, I did smelling salts right before that. And I don't know, it really, to me, it was more of a alertness like I've never had before. Like I was very, just like, very clear. Everything was like around me, I was just very focused on just one thing. And so I could kind of, I could kind of see the benefit to that to where I'm just literally, I'm so present that everything was actually working in unison at once. I don't know, you know, the science behind all that, but I know it definitely, I felt the effects of it. Yeah, I discovered smelling salts. So I knew that power lifters sniff something and then would do a lift. Didn't know what it was. I knew boxers, they used to use in boxing, you know, the boxer goes in between rounds and then I saw that in Rocky, right? In Rocky, you know, Mickey gives them the smelling salts to wake them up or whatever. But I'd never tried them or anything, right? So fast forward, I'm managing 24 fitness. I'm probably 21 years old, so I'm young. And we had the first aid kit at the front desk. Every gym has one. And in the first aid kit, there are smelling salts. Oh, really? Yeah, all of them have it, right? I didn't know that. If someone passes out, you could, you know, help wake them up. I didn't know that those were in there. Yeah, and so the way they work, the way that those ones work, is they're like these little packets and there's like a little, You break it open, right? It's like a glass ampoule inside, and you just crush it. And then, all right, so, and then you smell it. Ammonia or whatever comes out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and you smell it. And so, let's see Doug pulling up a picture of them. No. So anyway, so I had these at the front desk. I saw that they were smelling salts, didn't know what they were, or how they worked. And I thought, huh, there's like 15 in here. I'm just gonna take one out. Let's do a couple, yeah. I'm just gonna take one out and see what it does, right? Right. And I had no idea. So I crashed it and I made the mistake of just going for a big. Oh, big huff? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And it knocked me on my ass. Good, I went back and went, oh. So then what I did is there's that CVS or whatever. That's like two stores down from the 24 fitness. I went in there and I bought a bunch of smelling salts. So I'm like, this is gonna be the best thing. I didn't even know CVS carried that. Yeah, you can get in there. No kidding. So I got that what I would do with my sales guys is when they were on the phone making phone calls or whatever, when I noticed that they weren't making calls or they were lethargic, I would have one in my hand and crack it and I'd put it right in front of their face. Get down and wake them up and then they go, ah, stop it. We had this blast with smelling salts. So that was my experience with them. Then I never used them to lift until later on when I really, really got into heavy dead lifting and wanted to see what I can go to. So I bought the same ones. And before I would do a heavy, heavy lift, I would sniff it and then I'd go and I'd lift the weight. And yes, anecdotally, it definitely worked. It definitely gave me a new sense of alertness. I felt like I can rip with more strength and a lot of stuff. And so anecdotally, they definitely worked. Boxing now banned smelling salts. I don't know if you guys know this. Because the belief was if someone has a concussion, then we don't want to artificially wake them up and go get beat down more. So they banned smelling salts because they thought it would motivate fighters to keep going out even when they were hurt. Yeah, get more head trauma. Now the science behind them is interesting. It does irritate the membranes in your nose and in your lungs causing you to inhale and increase oxygen intake. So it does give you that kind of, and it does stimulate a central nervous system response so you do feel like you're kind of more awake. It also, the smelling salts also increase nitric oxide. Believe it or not, there's this paradoxical effect with smelling salts where it stimulates the central nervous system, but blood pressure drops because your blood vessels open up. So for those reasons, yeah, it probably does help with your heavy lifts, but here's the thing. You don't want to overdo it. Unless you're, yeah, if you're a competitive lifter, it's fun, go for it. If you're not, waste your time, waste your money. And don't play it, it's not something to be played with. If you've never taken a sniff of smelling salts, you are gonna be in for a rude awakening. It can't be good long-term. I've known some power lifters that like use it all the time. Like almost in every workout session, and I'm like, dude, this cannot be good. You know, for your health, like later on, I'm sure like there's no studies out there. There's gotta be some brain cells getting killed. Yeah, like a lot of brain cells. Hey Doug, did I ever have you smelling salts when I trained you? Never. Never did, okay. So I'm glad I didn't do that to one of my clients. Let me check real quick. It definitely works. I mean, there's something to it. Didn't I have you guys use it once when we were all done? I've used it plenty of times. I just thought it was, I thought it was like waking the CNS up. That's what I figured. I figured it just amplifies it. It's very temporary, but it really kicks in. Right, almost like, what is it? A post-activation, potentiation, or whatever it's called. Looks like we're getting slapped in the face. Yeah, we're getting slapped really quick. Kind of wakes you up. They do that too, yeah. I feel like it's more like that. I didn't know that it, I actually didn't know that it increases nitric oxide. Yeah, a little bit. That's interesting to me. But it's not enough to make a difference. So before everybody go buy a bunch of small salts for the new lift or whatever, it's not gonna make a difference for you. But if you're a strength athlete and you compete, user beware. You need to practice using them. Yeah, are they allowed to use it in a lift, in a meet? Powerlifting, yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. So I see value in it for that person. If you're competing. Yeah, if you're competing and it gets you that extra five or 10 pounds out, but I mean, for the average lifter who's just trying to get stronger and bigger and more. And I don't think it's beneficial for bodybuilders or people trying to connect. If anything, it'll probably prevent you from connecting to a muscle because your instinct when you smell it is just lift. You're not like, oh, I'm gonna just- It's almost fight or flight. Just blah. Yeah, it's not like you smell it and you're like, I'm gonna connect to my glutes more. It's like you smell it and you just, ah! You know, you go after it. Oh, I'm trying to connect to the glutes. But you do build up a tolerance. This is how, this is to back up what you're saying, Justin. It's probably not good for you. I mean, they'll start with the little ampoules of smelling salts. Next thing you know, they go to nose torque and then the strongest versions of like- I love that nose torque. What a great name. Yeah, it's literally so strong that you open the bottle and you hold it like a foot or two from your face and then do one of these with your hand. You're kind of wafted it. You wafted it, yeah. Yeah, you can't like- Oh my God, if you smelled it right up your nose, oh, you're so bleeding. Unless you have a high tolerance. What is it, ammonia? Is it ammonia salts? Is that what it is? Oh wow.