778_YT – My Exact Supplement Routine to Stay Strong, Lean, and Energized After 50
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[00:00:00] JJ Virgin: I get asked all the time, which supplements do I take? So I’m pulling back the kimono, I’m opening up my pantry, which full disclosure, my pantry is half supplements and I’m gonna share what I’m taking now. And I will tell you that what I’m taking now has shifted from say what I was taking in my twenties and thirties.

[00:00:19] JJ Virgin: And yes, I have been taking supplements for that long, so. As you listen to this, remember, this is what I’m taking. This is not necessarily what you need to be taking, and that’s what’s most important, and I’ll talk about at the end of this video, why I’m taking what I’m taking, but how you can think about what you would need to take as well.

[00:00:40] JJ Virgin: So hope this serves. When I wake up in the morning, the first thing that I take is my desiccated thyroid and my T three. These are dosed based on a complete thyroid panel, including. Not just a TSH, but also a free T three. And that’s what shows that I, even though I’m getting desiccated thyroid, I’m still a little low in T three.

[00:01:01] JJ Virgin: So I take some extra T three. Then I also take something else that I’m excited about. I go to a lot of conferences. I will tell you the big challenge with going to a conference is not coming outta the conference, taking 20 more supplements. So again, at the end of this video, I’ll give you a thought process as to how I go through what I should be taking.

[00:01:19] JJ Virgin: One of the conferences that I went to, I met. The founder of Health Jevity. I thought this was really exciting and I’d heard about this from another supplement company owner who told me about a specific, uh, ingredient that they use called Pep Strong. And Pep Strong is this really cool peptide. So Health Jevity uses all of these different oral peptides, bioactives, and these are.

[00:01:46] JJ Virgin: Really amazing ’cause they can do a variety of different things. And when you go to the site, which I’ll include in the show notes, you’ll see things like something for inflammation, something for fat loss, something for brain health. So I of course, was very excited about the one that was called Pep Strong.

[00:02:05] JJ Virgin: And Pep Strong is. There to support muscle health. And so it does it in a variety of ways, and it actually has clinical research to show all of this as well, which is even more exciting. And again, I’d heard about this. I’d heard that they were using AI to put together these peptides that could do these things.

[00:02:23] JJ Virgin: And I was. Excited about it ’cause I don’t have to take an injection. So what Pep Strong does is increases muscle protein synthesis because it supports mTOR. It reduces muscle loss by downregulating muscle atrophy related genes, and improves muscle health by reducing inflammation. And again, there were two peer reviewed clinical studies about this that showed promoting muscle strength, improving recovery after intense exercise boosting energy.

[00:02:50] JJ Virgin: And supporting muscle protein synthesis. It also addresses muscle homeostasis, so it helps kind of with the control between muscle breakdown and muscle buildup. So I take that in the morning as well. And then I. I have my coffee now. If I’m going to go work out fasted, I put some collagen or some of my bone broth protein in my coffee.

[00:03:12] JJ Virgin: Otherwise I do it black. And my favorite coffees clean coffee when I’m traveling. I’ve been traveling with purity, has craved the sacred cups, and these actually are powdered coffees that do not taste like, remember the old powdered coffee and you still get it in Europe sometimes that you put in water and it’s absolutely vile.

[00:03:30] JJ Virgin: It doesn’t taste like that. It tastes amazing. Um, I just met the founder of Purity Coffee, so, and she is obsessed with purity, hence the name. And so I’ve been using that and that has been my travel solution. We generally have been traveling with a coffee pot, and now I found a way to do it, especially when I’m not traveling with Tim, where I can travel with these little sacred cups packets.

[00:03:54] JJ Virgin: Wow. The other coffees I love and mainly ’cause I now I know the founders so I know how crazy they are about quality. I love Happy Gut by my buddy Dr. Vincent Pedre, and I love Danger Coffee by none other than Dave Asprey. I don’t use Bulletproof Coffee anymore because it’s no longer Dave’s domain. So I really use coffees.

[00:04:14] JJ Virgin: From people I trust who I know are testing them for mold, because coffee can tends to be a very, very moldy crop. And also one that’s sprayed with a lot of pesticide. So that is my coffee, and again, I do it black unless I am going to the gym fast, in which case I throw in some collagen. If not, I then go and have my, I do my sauna, uh, generally in the sauna, I’m drinking electrolytes in the sauna, and then I have my smoothie.

[00:04:43] JJ Virgin: I like to do my smoothie. I like to do either a combo of my plant-based and my bone broth proteins, or I do my plant-based with my collagen. I throw in my extra fiber and then I throw in something else that I am really fired up about, kind of obsessed with. So yet, at another medical conference where I was speaking about muscle and it’s role in metabolic health, I got contacted by someone because everyone went to his booth and said, you need to talk to jj.

[00:05:08] JJ Virgin: And I’d heard about this. And actually even before I talked to him, I started trying this product. And this product is, is, um, for Atropin and for Atropin is fertilized egg yolk protein. And the, they have clinical research showing that it increases muscle protein since this 18%. In three weeks. Crazy. Okay, so I’ll have information on this one on the show notes too.

[00:05:34] JJ Virgin: But here’s the reality. Now I like to do one thing at a time and I don’t change other stuff. I just was listening to a podcast where they talked about how to hack your deck set. It’ll look like you have more muscle mass. I go, what is the point? The point to do what you normally do and see where you’re at.

[00:05:48] JJ Virgin: Not to do the things you know are gonna jack up your, you know, make you look like you have more than what you do. Come on. So I didn’t change a thing and I went in to do a DEXA. We did a DEXA fairly quickly, two fairly quickly, mainly because Tim had lost some muscle when he had his hip replacement a little bit, and we wanted to make sure he was getting it back.

[00:06:09] JJ Virgin: And so what I discovered is over two months, I put on. 2.5 pounds of fat-free mass. So most of that would’ve been skeletal muscle mass, and I lost a pound of fat. I call that a major win, especially with how much I’ve worked out for how long to be able to make a change like that, like I was beyond excited.

[00:06:29] JJ Virgin: So that’s what I do with my smoothie. I will put in my extra fiber. I generally do two scoops of that, by the way. But build up to that. And then I put, and the reason I use my extra fiber supplement is ’cause of the variety that I’m getting there. And then I use my pea protein shake plus either my bone broth shake or collagen, and then that yolked.

[00:06:49] JJ Virgin: And this yolked stuff’s amazing, by the way, so it’s called myos. Um, there’s a professional one and a consumer one, and we’ll put the info on that in the show notes. So if you’re a practitioner looking for ways to support your patients and help them not be sarcopenic amazing, I also have one for your pet.

[00:07:06] JJ Virgin: So we have our 19-year-old chihuahua daisy on it as well. Then I take my supplements. So the supplements that I take, I take mire by timeline. Sometimes I’ll do the gummies. Usually I take the capsules. Every once in a while I’ll use the powder and put it into my smoothie. And again, I’m doing that to trigger autophagy to keep my mitochondria.

[00:07:23] JJ Virgin: Healthy. I take two Qualia, NAD plus I make sure I take that in the morning. I’ve learned my lesson. Super energizing. I really like to do that before I go to the gym. I take quaia joint. That has been a game changer for me with severe osteoarthritis from an old broken foot. I take one to two of my Omega plus really depends on how much fish I’ve actually been eating.

[00:07:44] JJ Virgin: And then I take one of my vitamin D plus that’s a vitamin D three with K two product and I take three INE caps ’cause I do two servings of that. A day usually. Plus I take something called phosphatidylcholine and I do the one by Body Bio because Body Bio has a phospholipid complex. It’s got pc, P, PI and PS, all sorts of phospholipids in this nice complex that are the building blocks of your cell membranes.

[00:08:10] JJ Virgin: They protect your cell membranes, they facilitate cell to cell communication. And I’m taking this, and this is a new one because I did a vibrant wellness toxicity test. Showed some issues, which we then discovered, um, what they were with some mold in the house. So I am doing what I can big time to support the detox pathways.

[00:08:28] JJ Virgin: And one of those things is really supporting my cell membranes with that body bio pc. Then I go to the gym, I put my INE powder. My amino acid power powder, my electro replenish, and then I use peak tea. Either their matcha or their fermented pure green tea. I love doing green tea. I used to just fill it up from like, you know, wherever I was getting it.

[00:08:50] JJ Virgin: But I like the peak tea. I’ll tell you why. And I’m gonna do it for the thine, the EGCG, all the polyphenols. Um. So I try to get in one to two servings of green TH day, and I do it from peak because I fell in love with the founders, Simon Chang and Amanda. We, I met them early in their peak tea journey and they are like obsessive.

[00:09:11] JJ Virgin: They’re exactly who you want to buy your your tea from because they’re too totally obsessive with the quality. And then they use this patented cold extraction technology. To, so as it extracts the tea, it preserves all the active compounds and phytonutrients, which is super important ’cause that’s why we’re doing it, right?

[00:09:29] JJ Virgin: And then it also uses, uh, this full spectrum isolate synthesis to synthesize the most bioactive isolates so that you get all of those polyphenols that you’re looking to get. From your green tea. And what’s cool is just a little powder, just kind of like I was talking about with the purity coffees, um, new Sacred Cups.

[00:09:49] JJ Virgin: It’s a little powder. You just, I just pour into my big water bottle. Plus it’s triple toxin screened for purity and bioactivity. ’cause I’m sure you’ve heard about like teas and plastics and pesticides. So. You’re safe. Come back from the gym. Have lunch. By the way, with both lunch and dinner, I’m having two of my protein first digestive enzymes.

[00:10:10] JJ Virgin: I don’t do it with my shake, but I do it with food, with not food, I mean shakes or food. But with like when I’m eating animal protein like that in the afternoon, I do generally do another electro replenish. Really depends on if what I’ve done with saunas and sweating. I may do a little quality of mind if I’m like.

[00:10:27] JJ Virgin: Need a little extra brain power then before bed. I’ve been really working on this. I admit, I’ve been kind of forgetting this, but what I’ve been trying to do is a little amino acid power powder before bed. I’ll tell you why in a moment. Then it’s three magnesium body calm, three sleep candy. And then one week outta the month, I take progesterone.

[00:10:46] JJ Virgin: Two weeks. Two days outta the month, I do the lytic. That helps you get rid of those zombie cells. Every week I do a testosterone shot, and twice a week I change an estradiol patch. I said, I would tell you why I was doing that little essential aminos at night. I’m really testing out what they do with athletes, which is give ’em a little extra hit of protein at night to help with muscle protein synthesis as they sleep.

[00:11:09] JJ Virgin: So I’m just testing it out, but here’s my philosophy overall. Number one, I. You wanna first fix the deficiencies? Where would your deficiencies be? Your enzymes? D three and K two, your omega threes. That’s fish oil, creatine, magnesium, and of course. Hormone replacement therapy and N Ad plus. Those are the ones that you’d really see having some deficiencies in.

[00:11:32] JJ Virgin: And of course, things like the essential amino acids come into play there as well. Protein powder and electrolytes. So my very first thing, and you heard me talk about it, was I take my enzymes, I do D three with K two, I do fish oil, and I kind of dose it around how much fish I’m eating. They say if you’re eating three servings of fish a week, you’re probably getting what you need.

[00:11:50] JJ Virgin: But when you really look at what. Fish oil helps with in terms of brain, anti-inflammation, et cetera. I think the best way to deal with your omega threes is to do an Omega-3 index test. It’s called an Omega quant. We will put the info in the show notes and find out your omega six to three ratio. You want it four to one, and find out your Omega-3 index and then dose it based on that.

[00:12:12] JJ Virgin: As far as as enzymes go, if you feel that kind of full feeling when you eat, where you just feel like. Food sitting around. That’s where enzymes come to the rescue. So I always say, start with two of the protein digestive enzymes. See how you feel. You might have to pump it up a little bit more from that for a little bit, and then bring it back down.

[00:12:31] JJ Virgin: Stress aging are big hits to your ability to digest well into your stomach acid. So this can be really important. Of course, women have less creatine stores than men, especially if you’re more plant-based. So that’s why creatine’s on my like. The basics, correct. The deficiencies. First way you can test for magnesium is something called a red blood cell magnesium.

[00:12:53] JJ Virgin: Don’t do just a regular blood test. It’s a red blood cell test and see where you’re at. That’s one of the ones people tend to be deficient in. And as far as NAD. Plus levels go. We plummet as we age. It’s like something like when you’re 50, your NAD plus levels are half of what they were when you were 20, which means your energy is, you’ll feel it in your energy.

[00:13:12] JJ Virgin: Then of course, hormone replacement therapy, I’m using that to bring my hormones. To a i I believe with hormone replacement therapy, that you optimize everything and then you use the least amount that you need to feel great and get your numbers, like your cardiovascular health numbers, uh, bone mineral density, et cetera, in good shape, essential aminos.

[00:13:34] JJ Virgin: If you are not getting what you need in terms of your protein, that’s a little hack to help you get to where you need to be. Protein powder’s another one that you can use there. And again, with electrolytes. Think about it. If you are filtering your water, which I would. Hope you are right. One of the things that I’ve made a promise to myself is no more plastic bottles.

[00:13:54] JJ Virgin: It’s a rare case now where I will drink out of a plastic bottle. Like I’d have to be really stuck somewhere. So I’m drinking filtered water and usually it’s filtered reverse osmosis, so the minerals are out too. So this is where, um, electrolytes come into handy. Plus, I also sown every day I am home and sweat a lot with a workout.

[00:14:12] JJ Virgin: So that’s where electrolytes can come in. Really well. So first I think of what do I need to replete? What can I be deficient in, right? And then I think, all right, what are the things that I really want to do to support aging powerfully? I mean, obviously sleep’s probably one of the single most important things there.

[00:14:31] JJ Virgin: So that’s where my. Sleep candy fits in. In order to age parly, your joints have to feel good. So that’s where quality of joint comes in. You wanna be able to think well. So if I’m struggling with that at all, I do another dose of shein. If I’ve got any sleep deprivation, I do qua of mind. And then Qua Alytic also falls into there because it helps get rid of the zombie cells.

[00:14:51] JJ Virgin: Same with Mighty. Pure is super helpful there because it helps with autophagy and also can help with OA with osteoarthritis. So. I look at all of those as the ways that I support my longevity, along with that Health Jevity longevity supplement and the for atropin for muscle mass. So those, those are how I think of it.

[00:15:11] JJ Virgin: First, let’s fix the deficiencies. I. So always think of that first. Like if you’re thinking about, well I can only, I’m only gonna take three things ’cause that’s often what I’ll ask. Okay. You know, what are your top priorities? If your top priority was like you had sarcopenia, I might say, you know, the, for atropin from myo was the most important, but likely the place you’re gonna look first is fish, oil, magnesium, vitamin D three was K, right?

[00:15:35] JJ Virgin: And then you start to look at, okay, what do I want to do to really optimize my. Health span and strength span. I’m not convinced anything’s helping our lifespan at this point. Like I haven’t seen anything except, you know, not eating a lot. I think it used to be called caloric restriction with optimal nutrition.

[00:15:52] JJ Virgin: So I don’t know that one. And I don’t know how we really do the studies with humans. We only really have it with rats, but with health span and it’s more importantly strengths span, I think these are the things I’m focusing on. And I’d say strengths span, most of all, like feeling great as we age and aging powerfully.

[00:16:09] JJ Virgin: Not gracefully, and here’s the reality. I like the term test. Don’t guess. I will periodically do something I like. I like the Vibrant labs. Vibrant Wellness has some great tests. I just did their GI test and their tox test and their basic panel. I also like the organic acids test, so I will look through those along with some lab tests for things like D and RBC, magnesium.

[00:16:31] JJ Virgin: And then I will modify based on that. So, you know, with a lot of these things, it, it actually is cheaper in the long run to test rather than to just throw a bunch of supplements at it. And that new function health test, which will put info on the show notes on that one as well. ’cause I have the skip the line code from my buddy Dr.

[00:16:51] JJ Virgin: Mark Hyman. I mean $499 a year to get. Two rounds of very extensive lab testing can be super duper helpful as well. So we have all of that information in the show notes along with a link to my. Over 40 powerful aging supplement guides. So where I went through a lot of the things I just shared with you.

[00:17:11] JJ Virgin: So that is all in there as well to help you get started on your path, not my path, I just shared with you. I pulled back the kimono on everything that I’m taking. But what’s really important is what? What are the things that work best for you? And a little hint, I really like to start with a. Just one to two things at a time, not throw in a bunch of stuff.

[00:17:29] JJ Virgin: ’cause then if something, if you don’t feel well, you have no clue what happened. But if things are working, you also don’t know what was going on. So I like to kind of start with repleting. Like I would start fish oil, vitamin D three with K and magnesium right away. And then maybe add in the creatine, then add in another thing, right?

[00:17:46] JJ Virgin: And just start adding, adding, adding. Okay. If you loved this information. Be sure to subscribe. It helps so much. It also, if you’re listening on a podcast player, it helps a ton to leave a review too, and I really appreciate that. And of course, if you’ve got a friend who’s wondering what the heck to take supplement wise, feel free to share this with them too.

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