Lead & should you track blood glucose spikes?
Hello everyone, back again with a podcast. Now let's get into lead, the hot topic of right now. First of all, let's blame the Romans. They build lead pipes, they give us plumbing, they give us sewage systems, but they made it with lead. So stupid, those boys.
Speaker 1:But ultimately, we've figured out lead's not good. Lead is not good for us. Do not consume lead is essentially the answer to that. And what's happened recently is they've tested a few protein powders which have got more lead in them than they thought is safe, which is fair enough, but what they didn't do is compare the equivalent of that protein powder in calories and protein and carbs and fat to another meal which we might eat and compare the lead content. Because if they did that, it wouldn't be so different.
Speaker 1:So, basically, there's leads in multiple foods and meals we can consume. If you're really worried about it, do obviously look into foods that don't contain lead and keep your lead content low. I'm not gonna say don't do that, but don't also don't get carried away that, like, protein powders are inherently the evil lead producers and there's nothing no lead elsewhere. That's also not true. So, yeah, you know, do your research of brands.
Speaker 1:Don't buy some stupid Amazon brands coming out of nowhere with a silly low price and you know, with some gimmicky marketing and I think it's going to be the best option. Go with brands that have been around for a while who are very open and honest. Some brands that I trust Reflex Nutrition, Ghost Lifestyle are very transparent. Optimum Nutrition are a big brand owned by Glambier, one of the biggest cheese producers in the world. You got brands like Muscle Tech that have been known for a long time.
Speaker 1:So yeah, there's a lot of brands that have been out there. So, you you can look into those. But on that note, you know, don't panic over it. You know, maybe you've learned something new here that lead is in a lot of meals, lot of foods when you actually compare them in terms of calories and protein and yeah, if lead is something you are worried about, do look at some foods that don't contain it naturally. A lot too, well, not naturally because of the soil and water and stuff but yeah, that's the answer to that, right?
Speaker 1:So do I. Next topic, get into this. Another study coming out on continuous glucose monitors for non diabetics. Guess what? Waste of time.
Speaker 1:No point doing it. Please don't fall down this path. The glucose god has annoys people. Jesus. Thing is, using technology for a specific purpose doesn't automatically mean it's going to be useful for people who don't have that problem.
Speaker 1:Do know what I mean? Like, it's for for diabetics. Yes. But for non diabetics, doesn't mean it's going to be useful. Yes.
Speaker 1:But if you track your blood glucose spikes, can make yourself healthy. That's the that's the problem comes from that. All your problems come from your blood glucose spiking is basically what they say. Now, if this were true, we'd lesser use it for blood pressure. If we're say, well, your blood pressure being high is bad, isn't it?
Speaker 1:And you go, yeah. And I go, right, okay. When you do a workout, I'm gonna measure your blood pressure right after the workout. Guess what's gonna happen? Well, it's gonna be sky high.
Speaker 1:Really? Workouts are bad. Yeah. Yeah. Your blood pressure goes up after the workout.
Speaker 1:It's really bad for you. Oh, I better not to work out then. Come on. It's that's the same logic here. You know, was on sugary foods here.
Speaker 1:Listen, there's fruits that will do it. There's some other bits of foods that will do it. There's certain meals that can spike your blood glucose, but we do eat meals as combinations. We don't just eat sugar on its own, we don't just eat the carbs also on its own typically. Fruit comes with fiber, our meals have got protein, carbs, fat, it's a mix.
Speaker 1:Like the GI scale is like quite artificial in a sense. It's like, if you consume this, it spikes your spikes your blood blood glucose a lot. Yeah, I know, but I don't eat down on its own nor do I. I don't typically just have spoonfuls of honey on its own. I'll have honey with, you know, a bowl of porridge with a whey protein maybe.
Speaker 1:I love honey on in in another type of meal. I'm not gonna just have honey. I'm not gonna just have sugar. Like, I'm not a psychopath. Okay?
Speaker 1:Well that reduces the bloods but yeah but honey's bad and so but but that's not how it's used. And also it's not bad just because it spikes your blood glucose. Transiently. The problem isn't that. The problem is over exposure to eating more calories than you need, whether it comes from carbs or fat, accumulating fat, becoming overweight and obese and not being a problem.
Speaker 1:So continuous glucose monitors. Come on now. I know it sounds pretty, know it sounds cool and the advertising is powerful. You know what really annoys me about these actually, it has impacted me. Speaking to an insurance company, because we are power power trying to expand our reach and trying to help as many people as possible, where obviously you guys if you listen to the podcast now we've been working with the University of Cambridge and we're bringing out LeanShield protection score and it's going to be very cool to bring that out because I think we're the first to simplify all the decades of research into what helps you preserve, muscle and lose fat in deficits and the combination of stuff you can do and simplify it so you guys can have an insight into a proxy score of muscle protection.
Speaker 1:Though we're not gonna say LeanShield exactly protects muscle but we're saying if your LeanShield score is higher the chances are you are doing more protective things for your muscle mass which I'm telling you is super important because if you lose muscle when you're losing fat and regain that fat back, that muscle has not been regained, it was called skinny fat, cycle, cycle, cycle. So what does I say now? University of Cambridge, yeah, we've been working with them and we're talking to some insurance companies, big ones. One of the team said, listen, we love what you're doing, but we're going down the low carb path. I said, what do mean you're going down the low carb path for your clients?
Speaker 1:And he said, by the way, their clients, this insurance company, just everyday people. It's not like a specific subset of people who are like diabetic or something. Here we're going down the lower car path. Was like, where's that? Where what?
Speaker 1:Out of curiosity, like, how have you come to that conclusion? Like, oh, we're just going down that path of continuous glucose monitors and stuff. So, the the trend right now is continuous glucose monitors, tracking blood glucose, low carb, investors are buying into it, buying into all this nonsense about it, funding all of these companies that will put this like thing into your tricep and inject your little needles so you can take some blood samples and track your blood glucose and that's where all the money's gone. So the insurance companies are following suit and this is when you realize the entire world, no offense, is just built on sheep. Following what is being given the most boost with money in the media and investors because ultimately the return is what matters.
Speaker 1:It sounds good, they've put money into it, it must be the thing that works. No, putting money into the simple fundamentals is harder because it doesn't sell, it's not sexy, that's the problem. So anyway, back to the story, they've fallen down his path. Now you've got to think about the consequence of this. This insurance company is gonna push to its clients, you need to go low carb for your health benefits, you need do a continuous glucose monitor blah blah blah.
Speaker 1:Do know what it's gonna do? It's gonna give people anxiety from eating fruit, gonna give people anxiety from everything they eat because their blood glucose might spike. It's gonna give people anxiety that they have to go low carb to get the health results they they're after. But most of our diet is carbs and carbs aren't bad. So it means everything is gonna be stressed for them.
Speaker 1:They're gonna be eating a diet that's kind of like not natural for them. And I what I mean by natural is like it's not like it's very like, oh, I gotta block a lot now. So it feels very restricting. And we know restrictive mindsets to food lead to anxiety, high risk of anxiety, high risk of depression, high risk of BMI being higher. So that's what's gonna happen with this subset of people, which is quite sad.
Speaker 1:But if they read the research, which another study's come out on continuous glucose monitor saying for non diabetics useless, two to four times blood glucose spike claimed on these devices and actually happened. And even the foods they consume, the same food, same time of day had different results. What use is this for someone who's not diabetic? It's honestly useless and pointless. So these people now are gonna be use going off that and insurance companies ignore this data.
Speaker 1:There was another study a year ago said the exact same thing. So it's not like oh it's just one study, these are like meta analyses as well looking at bunch of studies too. So anyway what's happening is there's a lot of sensationalist content, there's a lot of stuff going out there and you are being attacked every day. And like Epic Teter says, the stoic philosopher, you have to guard the mind because you let people into the mind too easily and they mess you up for the day. He says a story of if someone came now in the street to you, and I'm saying this to you, someone came to the street to you now, stole a fiver out of your pocket, you'd fight them like, give me my fiver back.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna smack it and then you fight. I give him my money back right now you defend that fiver with a lot wouldn't you a lot of effort, but when it comes to your mind you let people in easy. You don't even fight there. You don't even want to protect it. You just think girl come in Come and deliver some nonsense into my brain.
Speaker 1:Make me anxious for the day. You know what mean? We we do it. We let it happen. It's too easy.
Speaker 1:So that's really the message is like, yes, there's a lot of stuff to think. There's a lot we can think about millions million and one things. What should we do in that case? Okay. Let's focus on the fundamentals.
Speaker 1:Calorie intake, which is energy, protein steps. Okay. You can't really sell that's not too sexy, but that's the main things to focus on. Let's make that easy to track. Let's make sure we are eating higher protein and if we can do some training once or twice a week that'd be awesome too.
Speaker 1:Now if you do that, you are defending yourself against all of this nonsense because you're doing the fundamentals that are shown to help with health a lot. You know, you add in a walk and you add in one cardiovascular work of the week. Guys, there's not much else you can do. I mean, unless you wanna grow every piece of food yourself, test every single piece of content in there, you you gotta start trusting and also don't buy nonsense brands of Amazon and stuff like that, you know obviously be be more be more mindful of the brands you buy because yeah supplements is not really that regulated which I don't know why to be honest it probably should be but yeah like there'll be some brands who are buying protein from factories that are getting their raw materials from China or whatever and it's probably not checked well. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1:Some brands Reflex Nutrition are a good UK based brand. If you look at their website you can see their manufacturing facility and stuff like that. I never really liked the taste of Reflex Nutrition to be honest with you but I did like their transparency. And I think you got other brands in like Optimum Nutrition are massive. They're owned by Glambier.
Speaker 1:Ghost Lifestyle is a good brand. They do a lot of videos by the owners explaining the ingredients, how they do stuff, so you get a lot of insight into it. So yeah, there's a few of those brands you can find. But the key message here, right, is we are pulled in to what sounds right, was pulled into what marketing works well with. It's a marketers, honestly, if you were to give the current landscape to one of the OG marketers of the past, like say one of the best marketers of all time, say someone like, you know, Gary Halbert or something, and you say Gary can you sell me this product where you know you put in your arm it gets you blood glucose numbers tells you what foods spike your blood glucose there's some research to suggest that's bad for certain populations He'd be loving it, he'd be licking his lips, he'd go, can I use that?
Speaker 1:That is gold for me. Do you know why? Because there's so many touch points on the emotions there that can be pushed and twisted and make you think everything you've been doing is wrong. Now if you give him the simple stuff, well if you just focus on an energy deficit, higher protein steps, he'd go, I can try, I can try going down the angle, but it's gonna be tough to get anywhere because people don't wanna hear that. People wanna hear they've been doing something wrong, been told to do something all their life wrong, this is the new answer and if you do the new answer everything will be fixed but we know that's not nonsense right?
Speaker 1:So yeah just a word of advice for that don't catastrophize don't panic think of Epictetus' wise words guard your mind do not let people enter that easily because you'd protect your physical self a lot more than your mental self and both should be looked after, and guarded and not to let shit through so easily basically. Now have a good day. Focus from now to bedtime. If you don't have protein shakes, whatever, because the lead content is fine. Do your research before consuming more protein.
Speaker 1:That's up to you. Again, look at the meals you consume into. They might contain lead if that's what you focus on. Focus on the fundamentals. Get out in the sun.
Speaker 1:Get some walks in. You know the score, guys. Do that till bedtime. Rinse, repeat, and things will change. Have a good day.
Speaker 1:See you tomorrow.
