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Who I am, and why a chef is grading supplements
Le Cordon Bleu-trained. Fifteen years cooking in private estate kitchens in Los Angeles — daily service for people whose job performance depends on how they feel. Licensed strength coach and personal trainer. Internationally licensed massage therapist. Thirty years of strength training. That combination is why the supplement guide has a food-first field on every single entry. I came at this from the kitchen, not the lab. Where a nutrient is available from food at a meaningful dose, that is nearly always the better route. My first cookbook came out in 2013.
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Start here — what this group is, and what to do first
Four things get treated as separate problems by four different people who never talk to each other: what you eat, how you train, how you recover, and what you swallow. They are one system. Everything here comes from that view. DO THESE FIVE THINGS 1. Read The Overhyped Ten. It’s free, it’s in the classroom, and it takes about fifteen minutes. Ten supplements the industry sells hard and what the research actually shows. Start there — it’s the fastest way to see how I grade things, and it costs you nothing. 2. Get the Skool app on your phone. The classroom reads properly on it and you’ll actually see replies. 3. Have a look at the three paid courses. They’re the three books, restructured so you can find things: the supplement guide, the performance system, and the cookbook. Buy one or none — the free course is not bait. 4. Comment below. Tell me: - Your name and roughly where you are - What you train, and how often - The one thing about your food, sleep or supplements you’d most like sorted I read every one of these and I answer them. 5. Set up your profile. Add a photo. It makes the group feel like a room rather than a feed. WHAT THIS GROUP IS NOT It’s not a coaching program and I’m not going to write you a protocol. I’d rather you understood the reasoning well enough to argue with me about it. TWO RULES No selling — not in posts, not in DMs. And if something is working for you, say so. The whole point of a group is that you don’t each have to find out the hard way. ONE ASK When you post a question, say what you’re actually trying to solve, not just which compound you’re asking about. “Is magnesium worth it” is hard to answer. “I wake at 3am most nights and I train five days a week” is easy to answer.
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Weigh one chicken breast. It is probably not the number you think
Recipes and macro trackers assume a portion of about 4 oz, 113 g. Supermarket chicken breasts now routinely run 8 to 12 oz raw — one and a half to two of those portions in a single piece. Then there is cooking loss. Poultry sheds roughly 20 to 25 percent of its weight in water in the pan, so a 10 oz raw breast comes out near 7.5 oz cooked. Which means “one chicken breast” logged in an app is a guess built on top of another guess. The fix is one piece of equipment and about a week of using it. Weigh raw, before it goes in, until you can eyeball it. After that you will not need the scale. Go weigh the next one you cook. What did it come out at?
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The sleep aid that absorbs worse than tea
Chamomile tea makes you sleepy. Somebody worked out which compound was doing it, pulled that compound out, put it in a capsule, and sold it as a natural sleep aid. It's called apigenin, and over the last few years it has become one of the most popular sleep supplements on the shelf. The pitch is always the same: skip the weak tea, take the real dose. One study ran both forms through the same seventeen men, same method, same lab. The capsule came back at 0.5% of the dose recovered. The same compound, drunk as chamomile tea, came back at 34%. The capsule is the worst-absorbed form of the thing. The tea everyone treats as a token gesture is the strong one. Two more things while you're looking at the label. There is no randomized trial of apigenin on its own for sleep — not one. And the 50 mg on the bottle doesn't come from a trial either. The two chamomile trials that exist used roughly 13 mg and 23 mg, and both sets of authors wrote plainly that they chose their dose without any dose-finding study. The one trial in people with diagnosed insomnia was null on both primary outcomes, and placebo did better on total sleep time. So go and look. Is yours a capsule, or a box of tea? And what dose does the capsule say?
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The sleep aid that absorbs worse than tea
Your protein powder is probably two scoops
Pick up the tub and find the serving size, not the protein number. On a lot of products one serving is two scoops. So the "25g protein per serving" on the front is two scoops of powder. If you have been using one, you have been getting half of what you think, and the tub is lasting twice as long as the label says it should — which is the tell. This is the cheapest mistake in the category, and it is not a scam. The number is accurate. It is just not the number most people read. Go and look. How many scoops is one serving on yours, and how many do you actually use?
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Your protein powder is probably two scoops
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