#274 Why I Love Essential Amino Acids - Tim Gray and Siim Land

Tim Gray (0:00)

You know, a lot of these manufacturers say, oh, our aminos are clean and lovely, but they don't even know that the people that manufacture it for the brand actually are using poor sources, whereas a lot of aminos actually come from bird feathers.

Siim Land (0:11)

Welcome to the Siim Land Podcast. I'm your host, Siim Land, and our guest today is Tim Gray. Tim is the founder and CEO of the Health Optimisation Summit. He also came out with the Health Optimisation Supplements that have one of the cleanest ingredients for products like collagen, protein powder and essential amino acids or EAAs.

Using essential amino acids has been one of the biggest game changers in my muscle growth and strength development over the past year. Besides body composition, EAAs also help with neurotransmitters, digestion, energy production and mood.

If you want to try out Health Optimisation EAAs, then you can get a 15% discount of all their products if you head over to siimland.com forward slash aminos and use the code SIIM15. Or you can find a link in the show notes of this episode at siimland.com forward slash 274 Tim, welcome back to the show.

Tim Gray (0:56)

Thanks for having me back again, mate.

Siim Land (0:57)

Yeah, it's been actually quite a long time since we saw each other face to face, but yeah, glad to talk with you again.

Tim Gray (1:05)

Yeah, it's good to keep in contact.

Siim Land (1:07)

Yeah, but before we get into the topics, maybe let's talk a little bit about what you've been doing for the past few months. I've seen you've been travelling across Europe.

What's it like on the road with all these restrictions and stuff?

Tim Gray (1:19)

It's amazing. I went for surgery in Germany and I was expecting to go for three weeks and then ended up being five months. So once I was on mainland Europe, being on this prison island, the UK, that wasn't letting us out, I thought I might as well explore and make the most of it. So I went from Germany, all around Germany, from Italy to Croatia, from Croatia to Greece, back to Germany, back to Greece, and then back to the UK.

And really, the restrictions were OK. I have a recovery certificate because I recovered earlier on in the year, which made it a lot easier to get around. But also, you know, I think I did three tests in total during the whole time, and I did 27 cities in multiple countries. So it wasn't too much of an issue, but I think things in Italy now are getting a little bit tougher.

My cousin said that he couldn't get into a restaurant because he hadn't had his vaccine yet.

Siim Land (2:20)

Yeah, it's interesting to see like how the things kind of go in circles almost every year. Like with all the every year, there's going to be like a certain months that the kind of restrictions are strengthened and then they loosen again, etc.

Tim Gray (2:34)

So anyone would think we need vitamin D or our immune system to to improve from the sun. And it's just funny that.

Siim Land (2:43)

Yeah, for sure.

But during this time, you also basically launched a supplement brand, the Health Optimisation Supplements. So talk about the why did you do it?

And what's the kind of reason behind that?

Tim Gray (2:56)

Well, really, I think there's a lack of being a biohacker. I'm really careful about what I put in my body. Ninety five percent of the time, five percent of the time, I let my hair down.

But really, I think with supplements, it's such a dodgy industry because everyone uses fillers. And even if they don't use fillers, a lot of the products, the manufacturers, or should I say, the people that do the branding on the products don't necessarily know what their manufacturers are putting in it. And the processes that they they go through, even, you know, so, for instance, powdered MCT has to be bonded to something and I hear that that can be sucralose, even though it's an MCT powder, for instance, that's in the manufacturing process. So, you know, I was really fed up with putting supplements in my body that I just didn't trust enough. And there was a few key ones that I really wanted. So I decided to go about putting those together.

So I've done them in collaboration with Dr. Dom Nitschwitz, who's a naturopathic doctor as well as a, you know, a biological dentist and things. And he's a bodybuilder as well as a health optimiser through and through. So it's kind of like synergistic. It was really good. So, yeah, so I brought them out just so that people could trust a brand and I could have the best supplements that were tailored.