#308 Q&A Best Plant Based Protein, How Much Water to Drink When Taking Creatine and More

Siim Land (0:00)

Hey, welcome back to the channel, my name is Siim Land, and today we're doing another Q&A from my Instagram. And this one is actually a few weeks old, March 2022 is the one where I posted it, but I'm going to be answering some questions about any kind of things that you asked me on Instagram. This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens, your all-in-one daily greens powder. I started taking Athletic Greens because I like to include various binders, chelators and herbs into my diet for their micronutrient and phytonutrient content. The taste is super nice and a good way to help boost the body's autophagy pathway in the morning. One scoop of Athletic Greens has 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, probiotics and adaptogens from whole food sources. The travel pouches also make it convenient to take on the road with when you may not get access to all the healthy foods you can eat at home. Athletic Greens contains less than one gram of sugar, it's keto, paleo, vegan, dairy-free, no GMOs, no gluten or artificial sweeteners. Athletic Greens has over 7,005 star reviews and the company is climate neutral certified. As a special offer, Athletic Greens is going to give you a free one year supply of immune-supporting vitamin D and five free travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit atheticgreens.com forward slash Siim Land. Again, that's atheticgreens.com forward slash Siim Land to take ownership over your health and pick up the ultimate daily nutritional insurance. All right, number one, are seared meats bad because of the age? So age, I think they're referring to advanced glycation end products. So I don't think that the meat, if you overcook it, causes ages or these advanced glycation end products. They're mostly coming from if the glucose or the sugar, fructose, whatever reacts with protein and you don't really get that from just searing the meat. The searing of the meat causes different kinds of carcinogens like heterocyclic amines and those things, which I think in large amounts would be problematic for over health and a cause like or maybe carcinogenic. And for that reason, like I wouldn't, you know, sear the meat or I wouldn't eat like all the time this massive dark seared meat. There is like ways to like reduce it. If you marinate the meat before cooking it, then that has been shown to reduce the heterocyclic amines by up to like 90 percent and making it almost like very safe in that sense. And then there's also different kinds of binders you can eat with the meat to bind to those carcinogens like just regular fiber vegetables will do that spirulina, charcoal, yeah, different binders that will negate these carcinogenic effects in that. But even then some people also think that these carcinogens aren't going to be an issue because they will like boost glutathione levels or things of that, which may be true to a certain extent, but I mean, too much glutathione isn't good either. And I don't think that you will produce that much glutathione if you're just, you know, searing or if you're just getting those carcinogens to be perfectly safe. You would just want to marinate the meat and also, yeah, just eat these fiber and plants and binders with the meat so you wouldn't get directly those carcinogens in large amounts. That's just the safest bet. I wouldn't like try to rationalize it or make it seem so that it's not actually unhealthy for you because, yeah, just, you know, those are good for you. They boost glutathione and whatever. I wouldn't like to place my bet or I wouldn't take the risk. I would much rather just be on the safe side and just eat some binders and fiber with the charred and seared meats.

Best supplements to take before drinking alcohol or when hangover? I know it's not healthy. Well, yeah, like alcohol does, you know, reduce the oxidation of fat and it does lower blood sugar levels. So but ideally you would want to have like, yeah, things that boost your antioxidant defenses and boost detoxification of the alcohol. So just regular protein, amino acids, that's going to be the most important building block. So NSE, N-acetylcysteine, carnitine, protein generally, just eat protein before you drink the alcohol. And that will help to reduce the toxic effects of the alcohol.

With an hangover, kind of similar applies. You can take some binders to bind to those toxins and alcohol.

But NSE is one of the main ones, amino acids, just eat protein.

Siim, could you please repost your supplement list link? Well, yes, I did. I posted it on the Instagram and you can find it on siimland.com, unfortunately, as supplements.