#305 Q&A Benefits of Creatine, Do You Need NAD Boosters, How to Improve Digestion

Siim Land (0:00)

Hey, welcome back to the channel, my name is Siim Land, and today we're going to be doing a Q&A. So I basically did a Q&A on my Instagram, and I just decided to also record me answering to some of the questions live, and yeah, give some additional maybe comments on that. So yeah, just let's get straight into it. This episode is brought to you by BluBlox, my favorite light and sleep optimization companies. Artificial light at night exposure is associated with diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer's. BluBlox provides the highest quality blue blocking glasses that filter out the specific wavelengths that have been shown to suppress melatonin in studies. Melatonin is more than the sleep hormone, it's also vital for longevity, anti-aging, and immunity. Artificial light exposure suppresses melatonin up to 99% and makes your brain think that it's daytime before bed. That's why I love using BluBlox, to guarantee my body is making high amounts of melatonin prior to sleep. They also have daytime lenses that you can use to reduce digital eye strain and retinal damage when working in front of a computer all day. You can get a sweet 15% discount of all the BluBlox glasses, red light light bulbs, red light devices, and sleep masks if you head over to blublox.com forward slash siimland and use the code siim15. That's blublox.com forward slash siimland and the code is siim15. Alright, the first question. Do you really need NAD boosters when you're young and you have a healthy lifestyle? So, you know, the amount of NAD you have, there is a decline in your NAD when you get older, but, you know, it doesn't mean that you necessarily will have always high levels of NAD when you're young. Many things that deplete it also like inflammation, just new bad lifestyle habits, not sleeping enough, not exercising, mitochondrial dysfunction, some other metabolic disorders, they can deplete the NAD faster and, you know, it depends on the person whether or not they need it. By default, most young people don't really need it if they're, you know, decently healthy, but, yeah, like some chronic fatigue conditions or those kind of things, you know, people may need it, but, yeah, other than that, not really, but it doesn't mean that the NAD boosters may not have additional benefit, they may still improve some aspects of, you know, athletic performance or metabolic health. We don't really know that yet. I personally would much rather, yeah, like focus on the things that keep your NAD levels elevated, like the, you know, exercise and tire sheet eating and proper diet, getting enough NAD boosters from that, and also like the circadian alignment, I think that's kind of the crucial part. That's which I talk about in my, the circadian NAD activation system guide, which is gonna tell you exactly what to do. So you will need to focus on those kinds of things. But in some cases, the NAD boosters do have a benefit. I take them. So yeah, whether or not you need it depends on the actual objective amount of NAD that you have in a particular moment. Next question, tips for increasing testosterone.

So for that, I would say usually, let's say the biggest reason for low testosterone nowadays in men is like exposure to, I mean, obesity, obviously, is the biggest one. And basically being sick, metabolically sick, those kinds of things will be the biggest reason. Then the second one, at least what a lot of people think is the exposure to different kinds of plastics and the chemicals, these Xenoestrogens that mimic estrogen in the body, those are considered to be also quite, or at least they're one of the biggest shifts in our recent, let's say, evolution that has also been correlated to the decline in testosterone levels in a lot of men. So besides that, I think that actually boost testosterone would be lifting weights, eating a good diet, not becoming diabetic and obese. From the macro perspective, then like low carb diets may lower testosterone. They have been found to do that. Whereas like high carb intake can boost testosterone levels and thyroid levels from the amount, but low fat diets are also bad for testosterone. So there are some studies that find the, if you increase the fat intake from like, you know, 15% to 20% or 25% or something, then the testosterone also increases, but you don't see like an additional increase after 35% of calories as fat, or maybe it was 45% I can't remember off the top of my head. But yeah, like you don't need to be on a full ketogenic diet. It can actually be harmful for testosterone levels, but you do want to get at least like, you know, 35, 40, 40% of your calories as fat. And obviously the best fats for that, for testosterone tend to be like saturated fat and cholesterol from eggs is also quite beneficial for that. But also like, you know, the omega threes and basically poof out some fish, those can also be beneficial for that. You want to avoid, you know, trans fats and those kinds of things. And lastly, sleep, like not sleeping enough is kind of also quite bad for testosterone. What's the reason for burps after having meal and after drinking water? So that's mostly like indigestion, not enough stomach acid. So you're probably not chewing the food properly. You may be, you know, having some gut issues with that particular type of food. Maybe some allergic response. You could also be just, you know, drinking too much water with the meal. That can be harmful. And the way you can deal with that would be to chew it properly and maybe get some apples out of vinegar or digestive enzymes. What do you think about master amino acid pattern? So I'm not particularly like aware of what it is, this map master amino acid pattern. And when I did a Google search, then I found that it's some sort of like a patented amino acid blend of eight amino acids. So I don't think we think that it doesn't matter that it's some sort of special formula. I think regular essential amino acids are good enough and yeah, they're maybe even better. Your thoughts on turkesterone for muscle building? So, turkesterone is something that I've tried, I've started to experiment with. I haven't used it for that long to see or make like conclusive statements. I do think that it does help a little bit of like strength, not muscle building straight per se, but strength. I do think that it does help my strength a little bit, but I think also like from the studies, I haven't looked into a lot of the studies, but I know that there are some evidence that it does help with muscle building and strength, but it's like debunked or it's not always the case, so it's not conclusive. So it may have some benefits and I do think that you may be needing to get like a super large dose of it to see like an actual benefit for most people. Depends on your training status as well, if you're super advanced, you'll probably see less effect if you're a beginner, then you're going to see some benefit maybe, but you do would need maybe like a larger dose to see those effects as well. Do skip leg day? Not really. Like I actually have quite thick quads and legs, although I'm not like training them like every day or something. I did this squat everyday challenge in college for one month where I squatted heavy every day and that like exploded my legs quite a lot and I haven't like needed to train my legs that frequently to maintain that basically mass. But generally I do train legs maybe like currently like my focus has been on like calisthenic movements like planches, front levers and those kinds of things and having like super thick legs is going to be much more difficult for that. And I think that's one of the biggest like my obstacles in like getting the planche and stuff is also just my legs are pretty heavy and thick or muscular. So I don't really skip leg day but I do have it like only like at the moment like once a week I train my legs plus I do like a lot of cycling which is like massive in terms of the quads so you do like sprints with cycling it's like amazing for the quad muscles. Would you recommend creatine if most of the activities are cross-country skiing? Yes, like creatine benefits any sport. It just improves more things than just sport. It improves your brain function, it improves your energy, improves your sleep, improves your longevity and yeah, I think anyone can benefit from creatine. How to fix constipation?