I see here that people are interested Ben submitted a question about my supplement stack and I like to every so often sort of give you guys an update on what I'm taking you know I I I'm constantly taking away things or putting bringing things back Etc so I'll just go ahead and sort of rapid fire that what I'm what my what my Supple my current supplements are since people are really interested in that so I am obviously taking the basics that I that I talk about a lot so omega-3 I'm taking metagenics the EPA DHA 2400 I'm taking the vitamin D K2 um I'm taking the one multivitamin by pure encapsulations I take magnesium glycinate by pure encapsulations I'm taking avmacol so I'm taking that's my sulfurane that I take I take two of those alphal lipoic acid P encapsulations um Ben Flamin I'm taking that by life extension Cova I'm taking the cardio the the heart one and I I take the do the recommended dose I'm taking at night magnesi om so that's a combination of a variety of different magnesiums I take that in addition to the Magnesium glycinate that I take and I take just a little scoop of it in my water I also take creatine I Take 5 grams a day I'm taking my hydrolyzed collagen powder um right now I'm using basa B ha it's the it's a brand that um has been thirdparty tested and is uses the patented form of collagen peptides that are smaller in molecular weight they and those are the types that have been shown to help um be absorb better particularly into into the skin so I'm taking that collagen powder and then I also take pqq by life extension during times of exposure to viral illness I also supplement in addition with those I supplement with liposomal vitamin C by pure encapsulations and I do the zinc lozenges by life extension so I suck on those and I'm probably taking between 80 milligrams to to one 1,00 sorry 80 milligrams to 100 milligrams a day possibly sometimes more than that and that's only again during exposure or very very um subtle onset of viral illness and the reason I do lozes instead of the supplements for zinc is that there is a local effect so in other words sucking on the zinc lenes has an effect in the Airways in addition to helping with the immune system so I do um sink lenes and then I also um have been supplementing I also ordered the glutamine supplement from Thorn and I am doing the glutamine on days that I've I've been training really hard recently and I've noticed that training really hard has had me a little more susceptible to respiratory illness particularly because I'm constantly being being exposed having a young child at home who was bringing it home from from from school so um I I'm I'm supplementing with with glutamine as well on training days and particularly when I know that um if like my son is sick and I know there's a possibility of me being exposed I supplement with it and then also uh way protein is another thing that I will supplement with on days where I am maybe I'm not going to eat a turkey burger or something high in protein and I need to get that extra protein and then lastly um I take some iron during U men ation um I see in the chat here so the brand of the brands that I typically might let me just start by saying the the the go-to brands that I use generally when I'm looking for supplementing with something or if there's something new I'm interested in trying I have a handful of brands that I use Thorn Pure encapsulations Life Extension metagenics for fish oil but but those are those those other three are pretty pretty much my top three in terms of Brands I Look to so creatine I'm using Thorn and then um I think I I mentioned the other brands for the stuff I was using pure encapsulations is vitamin D the vitamin D is p encapsulation the vitamin D K2 is pure encapsulations magnesium glycinates pure encapsulations alphal poic acid is pure encapsulations benine is life extension pqq is life extension and I think that you guys now have all the brands so um that's kind of that's kind of the system I I use and if I'm trying something new then I definitely go to third party testing sit so I've I've found time and time again that a lot of green powder supplements are contaminated with heavy metals it's a very very common thing if you are going to supplement with a green powder supplement I highly highly suggest looking at consumer lab and going with one of theirs because it is is definitely um high probability that it is contaminated with heavy metals and the other thing I wanted to mention is um I typically don't use green powders for that reason I do smoothies I recently bought a Vitamix stainless steel container so um I was concerned about the plastic containers because when you're when you're doing a high-speed spin the friction itself can release microplastics into the beverage and so um Vitamix makes a great tight um makes a great stainless steel container and it's like $200 it obviously only fits on the Vitamix blender so you have to have one of those as well but if you are looking for an alternative for your for your plastic blender that is a good option I think there's just also like old school blenders that don't go as high speed that have glass containers and that would be another option as well Adriana is asking what brand of collagen I use so I should mention for my skin I've been using verisol which is the patent and form and the brand is um basa be s h that's been third party tested um the other the other collagen powder that I also supplement with is from Sparkle and um they have the the the the sort of joint form of it which is called forone and fora gel and um they have like different flavors if you want to have flavors and sometimes I put that in my water as well