Kris Gethin
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
They own the place, but their clinic is in Tijuana, again, because of the restrictions that we have here in the US.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
I know him, yeah. He's also got a clinic in Dubai as well, I believe.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
I believe so, but I think he also does a lot of focus on your own stem cells as well. I don't know if he does the fat deposit stem cells, but I think he does the bone marrow.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Mu cells. Okay. No, that's different. That's different to the mesenchymal then.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
I believe, I believe so because every client that I've told to go there and a lot of time, you know, a client has taken their father who's, you know, in their late eighties, early nineties that have, you know, debilitating diseases. They've all come back and said six months later, because it takes about six months for the efficacy to kick in, you know, that they feel so much better.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
You know, you always second guess it about three months later, like, did I waste my money? Did I waste my time? Things aren't feeling better. It just takes time to kick in. But you have to be very, very conscious of the post-stem cell phase. So for three months, you cannot train. Because if you cause inflammation or a breakdown of muscle, that's where the stem cells are going to go.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
You need them to stay in a localized area. that you've had them. You can't do ice baths. You can't do sauna. Of course you can't drink alcohol or anything. It could be pro-inflammatory. So I do ice baths every single day, mostly twice a day. I've got a Morosco Forge out back. I got a Clearlight sauna. I can't use them for the next three months.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
You can do endurance, like cardio, non-impact. So I've been spending a lot of time on the bike over the past week because it was only last week I had the stem cells. And I've been doing a lot of yoga. I'll do more aerial yoga. So at this time, I will just focus on something else. Otherwise, I'll go a little bit insane.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
It's my pleasure. Thank you very much for having me on.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Yeah, it is different. There's not many of us out there. There are a few other people that do it. You know, if you look at CrossFitters, a lot of those guys, you know, they're jacked, but they're extremely fit. So I'd say, you know, there's definitely more prevalent there. But I come from a background of like extreme sports. I raced motocross, downhill mountain biking.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
So a lot of endurance was associated with that. And I love doing cardio. I just love it. Always have. So then when I got into bodybuilding, because I had to retire from these sports because I was just getting so, so many injuries, you know, I still wanted to keep up the fitness. So that's why I kind of thought I'd challenge myself because people will tell me that you can't do something.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
And I'm like, well, sign me up then. And I just want to open the doors for other people to see that these things can be done. Because a lot of people will come up to me and say, hey, I gave up running to get into bodybuilding or vice versa. And, you know, I've written books on this. I've done a video series on this to show people the way that they can do it and enjoy both.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
You know, the most important muscle at the end of the day is our heart. So I think it's rude not to work it.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Well, it's a yes and no answer to that because it all depends what you're putting in your body to prevent catabolism.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
So if I go out, for instance, on a hundred mile bike ride with a couple of my friends that are really, really good triathletes, pro triathletes, they're not eating a third of what I'm eating when we're out on the bike because I'm trying to support my muscle growth or muscle maintenance, I should say. And I require the more muscle that you have, the more calories is required to ensure that you don't
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
you know, hit a wall. So it's like a rolling buffet when I'm riding compared to them having a couple of gels or a little bar. So, you know, and ensuring that you are getting plenty of essential amino acids, you know, again, that can be anti-catabolic, easily to assimilate to ensure that you do strave off catabolism. So it all comes down to the modalities of what you have to support that cardio.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Of course, you do have to go long and slow when you're doing endurance. But a lot of the training that I do is a lot of shorter, intense bursts. When I say shorter, intense, maybe 45 minutes of some hill sprints. as opposed to spending two to three hours on a run.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
But, you know, I do understand if you're doing things like an Ironman, you have to have time in the saddle when you're on the bike, for instance, and, you know, when you're swimming. So I would always preserve that for one day a week, maybe a Sunday to go out for the long and slow aspects.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Yeah, it comes down to two things, the quality of those calories and the amount of those calories. You know, you'd be astonished with how a lot of triathletes and long distance runners eat, you know, pizza, you'll have like candy. You know, when you stop at some of these aid stations, there is nothing healthy there. So these people are obviously inflamed.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
as it is when they're, you know, running or doing an endurance event, they've got higher cortisol levels. And now you're going to add more cortisol and more inflammation with these inflammatory foods or seed oils, whatever it may be. That's not going to be good.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
So I think it's very important that, of course, you are feeding the mitochondria, but you're feeding your muscles with the quality that it requires to prevent catabolism. So that's why I said, you know, taking like a whey protein isolate when you're out there, taking your essential amino acids and whenever possible, you're eating healthy, real foods.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
That's higher and dense in calories, but clean calories.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Right. Good question. So when a lot of clients come to me, they're usually shocked with the advice that I give them to begin with, because they're like, tell me what the supplements are, what I've got to eat, how heavy I got a lift, how often do I need a lift, et cetera.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
A lot of the time I put that at the end, I will focus on their sleep first because we know, you know, sleep is kind of by-product of people's lives these days. And I think that's the most essential kind of biohack out there. You know, you could get into your H spot. You can, Get under the red lights, but it's the sleep is where the ultimate hack is. Because obviously you recover.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Your recovery dictates your performance. If you're not going to recover, you're not going to perform. You may think that you are, but physically you just can't. Some of us are very mentally strong, dopamine-filled, dopamine-driven. We're like, go, go, go. I'm still strong. I'm still good. But you're not. If you actually took a week off...
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
and then maybe come back, you could potentially be stronger, but you've got to get that rest and recovery in. The other thing that kind of coincides with that is doing whatever you can to stay in a parasympathetic state. So meditation, groundwork, you know, maybe tone that vagal nerve with cold thermogenesis or contrast thermogenesis.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Things like that that will really put you into that parasympathetic state will drastically lower your cortisol levels to make you a little bit more metabolically active so you can consume more food without adding on body fat as well and doing whatever you can to stabilize your blood sugar levels.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Because if you are absorbing a lot more food, you want to ensure that you don't get massive spikes that could spill over into fat stores or then a crash that leads to fatigue and now you're not energetic to train at all. So we know that ice baths in the morning help stabilize blood sugar levels.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
There are obviously supplements out there like dihydroberberine or GDA, things like that, that help stabilize the blood sugar levels, making sure that you're eating your protein, your fiber first and leaving your carbohydrates last. You know, obviously you have your fats in there as well. Carbohydrates last, so you don't have that much of a spike. And once you've had that larger meal,
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Just go for like a 10, 15 minute walk as well. You know, just so you're assimilating. I believe that cardio actually helps with the recovery in order for you to put on muscle. If you are transporting the nutrients to the localized area that you've just trained through movement, then of course that area is going to recover so much quicker.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
So you're going to be able to hit it so much harder the following day.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Yeah, to stabilize your blood sugar levels throughout the day. So if somebody was to wear a 24-hour blood glucose monitor, measure your blood sugar throughout the day, then eat the exact same thing the following week, but start your day with a three-minute ice bath, you know, and check your blood sugar level again throughout the day. I guarantee it'll be lower.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
But of course, everything else has to be aligned. You have to make sure that you are getting your sleep the same as you did the previous week as well, because lack of sleep can lead to insulin resistance too.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Good question. The most overrated. Hmm. Let me see. I'm looking around my office because I'm looking at my pulsator. I'm looking at my brain tap. I'd say a reliance on too much technology. You know, here I am in Boise, I don't need to rely on technology too much. But, you know, of course, if you're in the city or in a built up area, you know, maybe it's winter and you're not going to get sun.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
then you're going to rely on those biohacks a little bit more, such as the red light, because you're not going to get the red frequencies from the sun during the winter as much in some parts of the world. You know, you're not going to go outside and ground yourself because it's too cold outside or there's snow on the ground.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
So then you rely on like some Bahi trainers or a grounding mat or grounding sheets. But I think people just take it a little bit too far. They will have sun outside, but they'll still use the red light instead. They'll be able to go out and earth themselves, but instead they'll rely on an earthen mat. And I think it's just a little bit too much over-reliance.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Like when you go to a biohacking event, you know, there seems to be a lot of disposable income there as opposed to more of an athletic event. And people just want to buy their health. And it can't be purchased. You know, you can be a student of learning and learn about all these amazing biohacks and technology, and they do have a use. But you have to be a student of application as well.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
And that application usually comes from what our ancestors did, those ancestral tenants. But if you can mix them with a balance of today's technology, that's great. But you can't do one without the other.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
I'd say meditation. Meditation. If you want to call that a biohack, would you consider that a biohack?
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Okay. Another one that is underrated, you said. Underrated. That's a good question. I don't know. Stem cells still seem to be a little bit fringe. I've been doing stem cells every couple of years since 2017. And I try to get so many people to utilize it. You know, I try to get my father to do it. He should have had a hip replacement like 15 years ago.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
You can have a much better quality of life when you have obviously the right stem cells. Because not only is it helping, let's say, if you've got connective issue joints, now your quality of life goes down. And when people's quality of life goes down, then their health span, their lifespan usually shortens as well.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
But if you can have a better quality of life by fixing some issues or ailments that could be causing you pain, then do it. Yes, it's an investment, but you can't put a price on your health.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
But not only that, if you're not only doing the stem cells to acute areas, such as your shoulders, elbows, et cetera, by having an IV as well can help with the restoration of organs like your liver, kidney, pineal gland, things like that, that may be that
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
you know in your previous years you know as a youngster maybe you abused alcohol or whatever and you've caused inflammation and damage to that liver then stem cells can actually help with the recuperation because i guaranteed if you were lacking in sleep if you were doing drugs if you were drinking alcohol if you left lived a very stressful life you have withdrawn a lot of your own stem cells so your ability to recuperate recover regenerate is uh happened happened and um
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
You know, stem cells, I believe, is still a bit fringe in the athletic community, in the biohacking community. Yeah, it's there. A lot of people take part of that, but a lot of the mainstream people do not. And I think more and more people should. Unfortunately, we don't have the same. We have bigger restrictions here in the U.S. compared to going to Mexico or Panama or Costa Rica, Colombia.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
But unfortunately, you know, we go there, but we're going to get the harvested stem cells that have been expanded and it's going to be a lot cheaper. So, you know, take a trip and make a holiday out of it.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
Yeah, I'd say you don't have to do it every couple of years, but I'm still doing silly extreme sports and I'm 50 years old now and I do not bounce back as I used to, you know, and I've had so many injuries from many, many years of, like I said, from the age of six participating in extreme sports that come and rear their ugly head a little bit later.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
So I had surgery on my shoulder in 2017, had stem cells put in there. I tore my tricep off the bone in 2020, had stem cells put in there. I just knocked a big chunk of cartilage out of my shoulder. I've actually got a call with a surgeon tomorrow that does 3D printing of cartilage in New York, but stem cells are not going to hurt. I've had a torn meniscus in my knee.
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Episode 428: Kris Gethin: Biohacking Myths, Stem Cell Therapy + The Truth About Cardio
For like two years, I want to avoid surgery. So I get topped up with stem cells there. It's the mesenchymal stem cells that I get. I've had them in Colombia, but the best place that I believe I have no association with this company is CPI in Tijuana. They're basically the official sponsor of the UFC. Ed Clay from Nashville and Scotty from Vegas.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
And the other one thing that I mentioned before is the blood sugar stabilizer to ensure that you're taking like a GD aid, for instance, to stabilize your blood sugar levels. A lot of people are hungry and they eat unwavering amounts of foods, usually because their blood sugar levels have crashed.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
Okay. Well, that's a very open-ended question. So the one thing that I really focus on is, uh, you know, there's a lot of estrogenics in our society, you know, estrogen mimickers, you know, we could be cooking with Teflon. We could be utilizing the microwave. We could be open ourselves to a lot of EMF. Some people are more electrosensitive than others. You know, there's plastics.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
People are utilizing plastics all the time. They're eating out of plastics. And then obviously it can be in our water. So always look at people's air, water, and their environment to ensure that, okay, the skincare products that you're using, the hair products, the laundry detergents, Is it natural or is it synthetic? Have they got estrogen mimickers in there?
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
You know, because obviously that's all going to lower your testosterone levels. The one thing that I say is the big, big thing. People knock out fat from their diet and they knock out their sleep and their testosterone levels are obviously got a tank and then they go on TRT, but they haven't fixed the root cause. Now they're just putting a bandaid on it. So I always look at the root cause first.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
Are they getting asleep? Are they getting sunlight? Maybe there are testosterone precursors that they need to take, such as vitamin D with K2, obviously, and creatine, progesterone, DHEA. There's so many things that you can do to help elevate your testosterone levels, number one.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
And then when it comes to maintaining that muscle, obviously testosterone helps with that, you may need to, as you're getting a little bit older, decrease the frequency of your training and the volume of your training. So I used to train like six days a week. I recover very, very well, fortunately, for my age. So I brought it down to five times a week now. But some people that may have a...
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
a higher biological age than myself, may need to bring it down to four days a week, possibly three days a week. Again, focusing on the quality, taking larger, longer rests between sets to ensure that you're pushing heavy. And then maybe you are focusing a little bit more on your compound moves.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
to ensure that you are releasing your testosterone because testosterone in that respect is released more on compounds. And then as we know, things like the sunlight or red light therapy can help with testosterone as well. So can sauna and ice baths. Ice baths have been shown to really elevate testosterone levels in more and more studies as of recent.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
Thomas over at Morosco Forge is leading the charge with that.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
I've got them all, I think. I know. Yeah. So I've got, yeah, I've got the panels that I'll use in the morning. I've also got what's called a serothrive on my head and I use it for the belly as well for gut health. And I have a Lumaflex that is specifically for joints, you know, so I use them all. I'm a big fan of a red light.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
No, the serothrive is two different modalities. One is like a band that goes around the head and that's focused specifically on brain health. And then you have another one that's like a pad so big that you have on your belly that is specifically targeting for gut health. And then I have another one.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
That's a small one that I usually take when I'm traveling for joints, but maybe I'll use that to help set my circadian rhythm in the morning when in, uh, or yeah, wherever I'm traveling to, I have the panels at home that I'll get under naked because I want to make sure that I am shining it on my balls as well for my testosterone production.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
And of course, for my collagen and help set the circadian rhythm and skin health, et cetera.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
Okay, I'll check that out. Please send me a link. I'll check that out. I don't know if I've ever seen that one.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
I appreciate that. Thank you very much.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
The other thing that I was going to say, and maybe this person would be a great guest for you in the future, is Dr. Dome from Germany. He's like the world's leading biodentist. And the one thing that I noticed when I got long COVID, my testosterone levels really, really dropped and I had difficulty getting them back up. I had two metal implants in my mouth. He removed those implants.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
I also had a gold tooth because it looked cool and I got it knocked out years ago by a donkey of all things. But when I had this donkey, my sister owned a donkey and I was stroking the donkey one day and it decided to headbutt me. So not a real cool story.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
But nonetheless, when I had this dental intervention, and Domi talks a lot about this, he's got a great book out called Health Starts in Your Mouth. It's quite common for people's testosterone levels to be drawn down from, you know, maybe they've got mercury in the mouth from amalgams from years ago, or maybe they've got implants. And I noticed two things when I had this dental intervention.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
It may sound very woo-woo. My testosterone went up and my liver enzymes came right down like almost immediately. So I think there's something to be said there, but Domi would be able to explain that a lot better than I can because he's got a plethora... of professional athletes and people that have had the same, and it's fixed them.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
Maybe they had a molar here that was connected to the knee, for instance, because it's all interconnected from our mouth. And now they fixed that molar, and now that professional footballer's knee is better. It's so bizarre. It's beyond me.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
Well, no, he kicked, he hit my tooth out of my mouth. I put a gold tooth in there just to replace it to look cool, you know?
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
No, no, no. That gold tooth. Basically, he said that's acting like an antenna, you know, because I have the mobile phone. We're exposed to Wi-Fi. But the implants were leaching into my body. And of course, they were in a place where they shouldn't have been. So he replaced them with ceramics. He does ceramic implants.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
Yeah. A lot of it is hidden because like, if you look at the history of our testosterone levels, you know, most of your listeners will know that it's been plummeting, plummeting year after year. Well, our DNA hasn't changed. What has? Our environment, our air, our food, obviously satellite, EMF, et cetera, et cetera. I could go on.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
And then obviously, you know, we could talk about, like I said, the hygiene products that we use on a daily basis, the deodorants etc you know they all have a negative effect so we can do a lot to manage it of course we can't completely avoid it but we can definitely keep our heads afloat
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
Dihydroburberry. Yeah, there's a product that I use. It's called GDAID. Dihydroberberine is one of those ingredients in there. Sean Wells, as I'm sure you know, was the guy behind that ingredient. And it's a lot more powerful than berberine itself. But then you have other ingredients like chromate.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
There's just a lot of blood sugar stabilizing ingredients out there that you can take, particularly before a carb-heavy meal. You know, like a lot of people in the biohacking industry, they'll take metformin before bed, which is fine, you know, but I just take the dihydroberberine.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
Oh, okay. He's good friends with Darshan. He's known as the world's leading formulator, but he speaks at a lot of biohacking conferences as well. And yeah, he's a great guy. Good friend of mine. I'm actually hosting a retreat with him in April in Mexico.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
It'll be a retreat. It'll be myself, Jay Campbell. I don't know if you know Jay. He's like the peptide guru. I met him. Okay. So you know Jay. Yeah. So we're hosting a retreat there specifically for people who want to kind of get away from the busy lifestyle that they deal with all the time.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
and learn about you know proper nutrition training stabilizing your blood sugar levels staying in a parasympathetic state so we'll be doing like ice baths and sound baths and mezcals right on the beach there we'll go cenote hopping but we'll also have educational seminars every day and we'll be hitting the jungle gym there on a daily basis it's gonna it's gonna be a good time
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's become very prevalent. You know, you were at A4M. There were so many booths there that had GLPs there exhibiting.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
Yeah. Yeah, that again, that again. Hopefully that doesn't recycle ourselves. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But yeah, I have an issue of the way that it's prescribed because it's never prescribed with an outcome. It's always basically you're on this forever, regardless of what that person's doing or what that person's eating. There's never a nutritional protocol or a training protocol that accompanies it.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
As we know, if you are slowing down the gastric emptying process and you're now eating less, then of course you're going to lose a lot of muscle as well. That is not going to be good for mobilizing fatty acids. It's not going to be good for your metabolism. If you do eat something, the chances of you storing that as body fat is going much higher.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
So you're changing your body composition as well as losing weight. And we should be focusing a little bit more on losing fat. But if you're losing fat and muscle that helps you burn fat... then obviously we're going against the grain. You know, there's never a talk of how many amino acids or how much protein that you should be consuming.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
And there definitely needs to be some sort of weight bearing workout that's associated with it as well so you don't lose muscle. Further from that... I'm not a doctor, I'm not a physician, but I can't talk about certain things that I've heard from people that I know. Someone said they got a cancerous tumor from it. Whether that's true or not, I don't know.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
But I think there needs to be a lot more studies done on it to ensure the safety and efficacy. But that aside... It just needs to be prescribed in the right manner. Like I know somebody that's been on it for over a year. Doesn't really look any different. They just look softer to me because they're still eating crap, just less of it. But now they've lost their muscle as well. So it just looks bad.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
I don't know if anyone personally is microdosing, but the most people that I know are microdosing psilocybin or LSD.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
Yeah. So there are a lot of like probiotics out there, like Acumencia has been shown to sedate your appetite a little bit. You know, there is something, you know, it's called immunoglobulins that you'd get from colostrum. That has been shown to help to be as a GLP. And then fiber. just making sure that you get a lot of fiber in your diet. That is one thing that people usually ignore.
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Episode 432: Kris Gethin: The Natural Blueprint for Building Muscle After 40
And I don't mean just getting fiber from vegetables, but actually supplementing with it as well. Something that's going to bind and expand. That could be like a psyllium husk, just as an example. But a combination of those things usually help a lot of people.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
I just find the metabolism tends to slow down a lot quicker.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
Yeah, for sure. Good question. So one thing that I do suggest is what I suggested earlier is having essential amino acids. Having essential amino acids that's going to feed you. Of course, it's not going to be filling, but it will help feed you and stabilize your blood sugar levels from dropping too much. And then when it does come to your food,
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
then make sure that you're eating as much volume as possible without having a density of the calories. So it could be a vegetables, it could be a salad, you could throw, you know, some fruits in there if you want, mix it up and make sure that you eat that first before you consume anything else.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
The one thing that I found has been very, very helpful for me is there's a book called The Slow Down Diet.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
phenomenal book there's a lot of science that is associated when you're eating the meal that you are in contact with your senses your smell your taste the sight the feel the texture being grateful for the food of where it came from to get in front of your plate because a lot of people look at a meal and go god boring bland chicken and rice again i'm bored of it
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
Well, you have to be very thankful because there's a lot of people in this world that don't even have that opportunity to choose what they can eat. But make sure that you're putting the fork down between bites. You're not distracted. You're not scrolling on your phone. You're not in that sympathetic state.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
you're in your parasympathetic rest and digest, and the chances are people get more fulfilled than they would if they were distracted or just wolfing down that food and without the fiber first. The other thing I was going to add is having carbonated water. Had some electrolytes in a carbonated water That is filling. You know, usually when I go to bed, I'm really, really hungry.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
I'm like, God, how am I going to sleep? I'll usually have like a carbonated drink. You know, that could be carbonated water with electrolytes. You know, I'm not associated with this company. I've got an update here. You probably know about this company through Sean Wells. You know, I don't like taking in artificial sugars.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
Anything that has some soda, some carbonation, it could be a Zevia really, really helps the cause as well.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
Yeah. Yeah. It's that carbonation. It just keeps, it keeps you fulfilled. And to a certain extent, it keeps you distracted as well. So I was watching a TV show last night. I was like, God, I feel like chewing on something. I just went and got myself an apple. Would that be fulfilling or attracted to a lot of people? No, but that distraction can help you go, okay, I've even forgotten about it now.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
That's a lot of the things that we require is just distraction.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
Yeah. Yeah. Like I have that typical meathead jug with me right now. Yeah. I got to keep up appearances, you know?
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
Overrated, I'd say squats, you know, because, you know, typical for men, they'll say you've got to do your bread and butter lifts, your bench press, your deadlift. And of course, the squats come in there. You know, am I saying it's bad? No, it's not bad, but it is overrated. Everybody says you must get... squat to get big legs. It's not the case.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
When you are squatting, you are using a lot of stability muscles. Of course, you're going to be exerting a lot of energy just to hold it with stability because you're using your core, you're using pretty much all your upper body as well, where you could potentially get a lot more out of those leg workouts, those glute workouts, et cetera, just doing a leg press, like a 45 degree leg press.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
There are obviously a lot of other exercises, but I'd say that is the one that is probably most overrated. A lot of people don't have the structure for it. Maybe you've got narrow hips or maybe you've got really, really tight Achilles tendons. So you tend to bend forward when you get to the bottom when your hamstrings are parallel. Well, that's obviously not going to be good for you.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
You know, I've got very tight Achilles tendons, so it's not good for me. I'll stick to leg press and, you know, my legs are probably my largest muscle group, you know. I'd say that that's probably one. Did you have something that is really funny?
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
So it all depends on the individual, but I'd have to look at their program. So are they potentially overtraining? A lot of people think more is going to, you know, more activity is going to lead to less body fat. It isn't always the case because especially with females, the thyroid can downregulate very, very quickly. So maybe what we do is throw in some refeed days.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
Yeah, exactly. You know, you've got people like down in LA, a good friend of mine, Mike O'Hearn, he is phenomenal at squatting and you can see he's built Freud. He'll go ass to the grass as it were, and with an extreme amount of weight, but then he'll have other people like six times Mr. Olympia, Dorian Yates, never squatted because it just didn't suit his structure.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
So of course, like we all have different personalities, different characteristics. Some people may respond better to keto, other people carnivore, other people just a plain balanced diet. You have to kind of figure out specifically what works for you, or at least your trainer should.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
Hip thrust. Yeah. Okay. You know, I understand there's a lot of females doing it because it's trendy to get a bigger butt and more developed glutes these days. It works again. It's the same sort of thing. Some people feel it.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
Some people don't, you know, so you have to kind of see what works, you know, like there's a lot of exercises that for instance, Sybil, who just spoke to on here earlier that she does for her glutes that, you know, if she does squats, she doesn't feel anything. So that's an exercise she'll put to the shelf.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, you wouldn't catch me doing a hip thrust. I guess I'm a little bit too manly for something like that. And it's an embarrassing looking exercise, so I couldn't do it.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
I'd say isolation movements. A lot of people focus on compounds where they're using multi joints assisting movements, you know, like, you know, your bench press, your shoulder press, leg press, things like that. But I think it's very important, especially as you are thinking long-term for your long-term health span is doing isolation exercises first to pre-fatigue the muscle.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
So you don't have to go as heavy on your compounds and place a lot of stress on your joints or your connective tissue, such as your tendons and ligaments. So I think overall isolation. So as an example, if I'm going to train chest, I'm going to maybe do some cable crossovers. I'm going to do some pec deck.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
And then maybe I will work on, go onto the dumbbell press because now I don't have to train as hard. Like I don't want to go really heavy on the dumbbell press because that's going to put a lot of strain on my elbows and your tendons can be like an elastic band in the sun. It kind of dries out over time and then it becomes very vulnerable.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
Healthy foods, like a lot of people think a refeed day is a cheat meal that turns into a cheat day, but it'd be like higher glycemic foods. It could be breads. It could be pastas. It could be sushi, for instance. Just to really upregulate the thyroid, speed the metabolism up a little bit through having extra calories and then bring it back down. You're kind of shocking the system a little bit.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
So, uh, you know, I'm always thinking forward because, you know, I'm 50 years old now. I want to be doing this when I'm 70. I want to do this when I'm 80, because it is very therapeutic. It isn't just for aesthetics. It's for emotional release. It makes you feel good. So, you know, a lot of people, when they go through different ups and downs in life, maybe they've lost a loved one.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
Maybe they've, you know, they've got gone through a business deal. They've got sued, whatever. They will leave the gym because they're thinking too much about the aesthetics and they're thinking, well, I can get that back. It really helps your lifespan and obviously the health span of your brain. You know, you need to ensure that you're doing some sort of activity.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
And then, of course, there's the longevity aspects with it as well. We know that grip strength and, you know, squatting strength, we'll call it that. It could be leg press is associated with longevity, but it helps with your bone density. There's so many aspects of it that people are amiss. You know, it helps with emotional stability. I've gone to prisons before where we've done talks where
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
on the utilization of the weights area that they've got there to help them. Because a lot of these people have anger issues and now they're confined and sometimes they just get worse. But that generally works out to be therapeutic in a release.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
So for the most part, let's say if you're training four or five times a week, it shouldn't last any more than 45 to 60 minutes, depending on that body part. So if it's legs, for instance, and you require more oxygen to rest between the sets, then maybe it's 60 minutes, but 45 minutes is usually the sweet spot. That could be four or five days a week.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
I generally, especially for the larger muscle groups, I generally only ask a client to train it once a week. It's all about quality and breaking down the muscle tissue. So I'll challenge people, look, come and train legs with me. See if you want to train legs again four days later. You probably won't. So you really want to break that muscle tissue down.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
No distraction, not on your phone, not conversing with other people when you're in the gym and really focus as if it's your job on breaking that tissue down. and do quality. Don't think about the quantity, do quality.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
But now if we're talking about smaller muscle groups or stubborn muscle groups, we could be talking about calves, we could be talking about arms, then maybe we can do that twice a week. You know, you could do it on a Monday and a Thursday, for instance, just to make sure that you're focusing more of your efforts there. Maybe that's your higher calorie days to really force and push growth.
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Episode 430: Kris Gethin: Why Squats Are Overrated and How to Lose the Last 5 Pounds
I'll usually do that on a non-training day so there's no inflammation there. you do no cardio on that day. It's very difficult for some people to think like that, but that generally works. When I've had a male and female, let's say their husband and wife, and they're both at the same sort of stage, I'd usually get a guy to do a refeed every 12 to 14 days. A female could be every six to seven days.