#351 Is Touching Receipts Dangerous, How Much Magnesium Is Too Much - Siim Land Q&A

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Hey, welcome back to the channel. My name is Siim Land, and today we're doing another Instagram Q&A. If you want to ask me a question, then make sure you follow me on Instagram at Siim Land. All right, first question. Where do you buy your glycine and which brand? So I don't have any specific glycine brand that I could recommend, and I don't think that it really matters that much because glycine is such a generic supplement, so it's hard to mess it up. It's like creatine monohydrate, like just the most generic, the most regular run-in-the-mill kind of creatine monohydrate, as well as glycine is pretty much good, and you don't have to worry about that much in terms of... Of course, yeah, some brands are kind of with worse reputation, but like the most general brands, like Life Extension, Ostrovit, there's things like No Foods, whatever, like these very... Whatever supplement brands are out there that have a good reputation, then those are pretty much good enough, because it's such a generic supplement that it doesn't require any extra effort in terms of selling, because if the only ingredient is glycine, then yeah, it's pretty good in that sense. This episode is brought to you by ZBiotics. ZBiotics is a probiotic drink that breaks down the byproduct of alcohol, which is most responsible for rough mornings after drinking. It's commonly thought that dehydration causes a horrible feeling in the morning after drinking. However, it's actually the buildup of a toxic byproduct of alcohol in the gut called acetylaldehyde. ZBiotics break down acetylaldehyde by producing an enzyme in the gut. ZBiotics doesn't make you feel less intoxicated or prevent a bad night's sleep, but it does prevent the sluggish feeling after drinking. ZBiotics is FDA compliant and tested. The only ingredients are water, patented probiotic blend, and natural flavoring. It's available only in the United States and comes with 100% money back guarantee. Get 15% off your first order of ZBiotics Pre-Alcohol Probiotic by clicking the link in the description box and use my code SIIM at checkout. Go to zbiotics.com forward slash siim or scan the QR code on the screen right now and get 15% off on your first order. Best intra workout drink.

So intra workout means doing the workout.

Personally, I don't think that you really need anything intra workout. Most people are fine without drinking anything even. And yeah, maybe like a small sip of water. If you get thirsty, that's a good strategy. But generally, you don't really need anything if you have hydrated before. So pre-hydration is significantly more important for the workout performance as well as just how you feel. And for that, you need pretty much, you need to boost blood plasma volume. And for that, you need large amounts of liquid, water, as well as salt to boost the blood plasma volume. And generally, the best pre-workout sodium intake is going to be around 1,000 or even 2,000 milligrams of sodium if you're really interested in pushing the envelope in terms of aerobic and anaerobic performance. In studies, they do find that larger doses of sodium mixed with one liter of water even, that provides a significantly more performance-enhancing effect compared to getting only 300 or 500 milligrams of sodium. But besides that, if you're not an athlete, you're not really super into maximizing your performance at the gym, which you generally don't need to do that. You don't need to micromanage your workouts, and you don't need to micromanage your nutrition to see great results.

And even for the average person, then it's going to be just a little bit of salt, maybe like one teaspoon of salt mixed with 200 milliliters of water. That's a pretty good pre-workout hydration drink. But for a longer session, if you work out for over an hour and it's pretty intense and you sweat a lot, then a thousand milligrams is probably a better way to kind of pre-hydrate yourself and that's also going to improve your aerobic performance. Next question. 10 grams of glycine, exclamation mark and question mark, that makes me glycine scarface before bed.

So I guess it means that scarface reference is that, you know, you're like, you're doing white powder, snorting in white powder, like a scarface, but, you know, of course you shouldn't snort or inhale glycine. Glycine, you take it with a spoon and you can mix it into some tea or water or just put it into some yogurt or cottage cheese, that's a very good sweetener as well. But yeah, like you shouldn't snort or inhale glycine. But 10 grams of oral glycine supplementation is very good. And, you know, in 10 gram amounts, it's maybe pushing too much, like three grams is kind of the optimal dose in one sitting. But if you divide it into multiple times a day, then 10 grams overall over the course of an entire day is a good amount. Next question, how often do you eat and how many calories per meal to stay as lean as you stay?