Stop Wasting Your Money On Green Powders
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I’m not writing this because I want to trash local companies. Instead I write this because I want people to know what they’re putting in their bodies and whether they’re wasting their money or not.
I can safely speak about this from personal experience having turned my body into a well of alcohol and having blood readings forged in the fires of hell where I belong. Funny enough during all my time drinking, I was continually keeping up with the latest in nutrition from the likes of Dave Asprey, Darin Olien, Bryan Johnson and a few other key figures in the longevity space.
I don’t want to be the sober person who continues to go on about how good I feel and how good it is for you to not drink so we won’t speak about that here because if you can drink like a normal person, go for it. Do your thing and live your life. Have a fucking jol.
What this is about is this trend of selling green powders in South Africa as a cure all. Wherever you look these days, supplements will be talking about gut health and they rightly should. Gut health is where your entire body and mind are centered. But having a wonky gut and simply drinking kombucha or chucking in a green powder won’t solve it miraculously. Neither will the greens in many of the green powders on the market add anything of value to your health unless we can measure specific ingredients in them.
Gut health starts first with eliminating any bad bacteria. You could have a candida overgrowth (Which I had in my 20’s) or any number of issues. Throwing supplements at the problem probably won’t help. An imbalanced gut will make absorption of nutrients suboptimal so you first want to fix that. You might take garlic, caprylic acid, curcumin and a bunch of other supplements to kill these bad organisms. Then you’ll heal your gut lining with byturate, aloe, glutamine, collagen, zinc and throw in probiotics to restore the balance. This can be a complicated process if you’ve never done it before. I was lucky enough to see a brilliant nutritional healer in my early 20’s and we did all the tests. Yip, they’ll even test your shit! Ask anyone I know, I’m full of it. The foundation of my learning came from Janine Dobson and over the years (Well, besides alcohol abuse) I added to this by keeping up through a variety of wellbeing specialists. It’s become easier nowadays as supplements are easily available. Back when I was being treated I would pick up special probiotics made for me, in these little tubes that I kept in the fridge.
If you’re serious about optimising your health, get in touch with Janine here.
Now that won’t be cheap, but it’s a lifelong setup and will stop you wasting hundreds of rands a month on supplements that will more than likely do nothing for you.
Now that Rhonda Patrick and Bryan Johnson have called out AG1 from Athletic Greens, I think we need to look at our local products.
https://twitter.com/bryan_johnson/status/1786442553535148093
The most notable one being advertised on social media is Blast Vitality Daily Greens. Now I’m sure some people have used it saying their gut health has improved. Probiotics and some digestive enzymes in the product could do this. The greens though? There are some 50 ingredients in their product, with each serving only containing 2.5 grams of this mix. They don’t identify specific amounts of each ingredient but there is little chance that there are meaningful amounts of any of them to make a difference to your health. If AG1 is being called out by the most tested person in history, I don’t think Blast Vitality has a chance. Now I love small business and again this isn’t to attack anyone specifically, but I’ve turned around from being…well, fucked health wise to losing 13kg’s and reversing my blood markers in around 3 months. No booze and a healthy diet is number one but I supplement on top of that with Green Vibrance and some specific products from Natroceutics and Coyne. I like thes products because I can see what ingredients are in them and if I stack Natroceutics up against Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint mix, we get roughly the same numbers.
This isn’t about weight loss though. This is about being your best and not wasting your money. However, because numbers don’t mean a lot to many people without some visual representation of change, here is me before and after, around 3 months apart.
I can’t get a nutritional breakdown as Blast Vitality haven’t replied to my email. I just ask myself, why would they not provide this information to the consumer and when I email them, why wouldn’t they immediately provide this information? Is there something to hide?
It’s important to know what is in your products. I use a superfood protein powder from My Wellness but again, they don’t provide a specific breakdown of how much of each superfood is in the mix so I’m guessing the numbers are pretty shit and meaningless. I choose my supplements based on specifics though and I chose this one simply for the protein content and the taste. The superfoods in it probably do fuck all but at the price point for a tasty protein powder I made my own decision.
Anyway, hopefully my health transformation can help you make better choices and be aware of what you’re paying for. If I could only help one person with this, that would be a badge of honour I’ll happily wear. If you have any questions you want to hit me with, get me on X at seandlloyd
We’ll end off with this because I like these lyrics
“I been to hell and back
I can show you vouchers”