Want to boost your cognitive performance? Creatine is the answer. That comes according to Derek from the popular YouTube…
Want to boost your cognitive performance? Creatine is the answer.
That comes according to Derek from the popular YouTube channel More Plates, More Dates. During a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Derek offered some interesting details on what he believes is one of the most “slept-on” supplements readily available.
“Creatine is one of the most slept-on supplements,” Derek said. “It’s gotten more attention recently because of studies showing its cognitive benefits.”
“What’s the mechanism behind the cognitive benefits?” Rogan asked.
“It’s thought to improve local energy production in the brain,” Derek replied. “Some people, due to genetics or aging, might have deficiencies in ATP production. Creatine helps replenish those stores, bringing you back to baseline.”
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Derek schools Joe Rogan on creatine dosing for cognitive benefits
Of course, Derek did stop there. He proceeded to school the longtime UFC color commentator on creatine, including some helpful advice on how to determine the dose proper dose based on your body type.
“Another thing that’s not being tested for, which I don’t think it should be, but — creatine at adequate doses. Interestingly, for years, we’ve all been told, ‘Take your five grams, and you’re good,’ Derek added. “But what’s often not talked about is the fact that that dosage is not going to be optimal for every single person.
“You will likely achieve muscle saturation with that dose, but it doesn’t mean you’re going to get the full suite of benefits. It depends on your genetics, how much you weigh, your muscle mass, and your metabolism. Five grams for a 140-pound person versus a 240-pound person is very different.
Joe Rogan has no interest in hosting Liver King on his podcast. Just two short years ago, Brian Johnson…
Joe Rogan has no interest in hosting Liver King on his podcast.
Just two short years ago, Brian Johnson — best known by his online alias as Liver King — was all the rage on social media. Preaching his ‘ancestral lifestyle’ Johnson claimed that his absurdly jacked physique was the result of eating large amounts of raw unprocessed organs and meat that focused on a daily intake of liver.
But as fast as his rise came, so too did his downfall.
In 2022, a series of private emails were leaked, revealing that Johnson had been spending more than $11,000 per month on anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs to try and keep up with the facade. Once he was busted, Johnson released a video on YouTube and offered a half-hearted apology for misleading his millions of followers.
“I’m here now to set the record straight,” Johnson said. “Yes, I’ve done steroids, and yes, I’m on steroids, monitored and managed by a trained hormone clinician. Liver King, the public figure, was an experiment to spread the message” (h/t SportBible).
Of course, that did little to mitigate the damage, which included a $25 million class-action lawsuit filed in New York alleging that Johnson deceptively touted a primal lifestyle to promote his ancestral supplements.
“There is no way you can look like that, in your 40s… he’s preposterously jacked,” Rogan said. “Now that we know he is full of s***… we are talking about the Liver King, by the way. If you don’t know who the Liver King is, he’s a guy who walks around everywhere with no shirt on. I’ve seen him in Vegas with no shirt on. Big bushy beard. He is super jacked.
“He was telling people that he gets that away by sunning his balls… he literally lays down with his a*****e staring at the sun and eats raw liver and just lifts like a maniac, and that’s how he’s so jacked. It’s preposterous.”
Munro went on to accuse Johnson of “lying through his teeth” as they continued to discuss the topic.
“There’s too many polar extremes to have just have a unique marketing spin that was highly viral, in my opinion,” Munro added. “Most people could see through it but at the same time, lots of big names even reached out to me after that video came out. This guy, literally to my face, would say, ‘I am natural’.
“A lot of people will take a guy’s word when it’s a private conversation and when he’s straight up telling you in person…he was just lying through his teeth seemingly.”
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Rogan later revealed that he bumped into Johnson while attending a Canelo Alvarez fight.
“He was front row at one of my shows in Vegas at the MGM,” Rogan said. “Then I saw him again at the [Saul] Canelo [Alvarez] fight. He was trying real hard to get on the podcast and he’s been trying really hard to get on now. He contacted a few friends of mine and some of them, like Bert Kreischer, had him on their show. For what? Say that [apology] more? Like come on, this is dumb, man. This is a f*cking — you ran a con game and you got busted.
“It’s unfortunate that you feel terrible, I’m sorry you feel bad cause that’s just what happens when you get caught lying. But you didn’t have to lie.”
Despite being exposed as a fraud, Johnson still has 2.8 million followers on Instagram, 6.1 million followers on TikTok, and more than 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube.
Sitting down with Joe Rogan on the longtime UFC commentator’s popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, Derek of More…
Sitting down with Joe Rogan on the longtime UFC commentator’s popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, Derek of More Plates, More Dates discussed his take on the promotion’s split with USADA and the new regime that will be taking over testing duties in 2024.
In October, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced that they would be parting ways with the UFC after eight years and more than 27,000 administered tests to its athletes. The news came as quite the shock to fight fans but was largely celebrated by fighters who often slammed USADA for their frequently inconvenient testing practices.
Beginning on January 1, the UFC will begin an in-house testing program with Kansas City-based organization Drug Free Sport International taking over duties for USADA.
One of Derek’s biggest questions regarding the new switch will be the transparency between the UFC and the public when a positive test is detected.
“I guess it depends on how they document the positive test results because back in the day, depending on the organization, sometimes they’ll publish exactly what the person popped for, what happened,” Derek said. “Scrutiny is happening to them in the moment. How it’s being further reviewed. It was very negative press even before they actually confirmed and proved that this guy cheated. And then USADA took this different angle where they would be a little bit more vague about it and then they would get some scrutiny about whether or not they were covering up for certain people.
“But at the same time, they were getting scrutiny for being hyper-stringent, where they would show up to guys places in the middle of the f*cking night when they’re trying to sleep.”
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Shortly after news broke that the UFC would end its relationship with USADA, the promotion announced that it had hired George Piro, a former special agent in charge at the FBI’s Miami Field Office, who was the Team Leader of the Saddam Hussein Interrogation Team in 2004.
Jeff Novitzky, the Senior Vice President of Athlete Health and Performance for the UFC has said that Piro will make every decision in the new testing program and that the authority will be his and his alone.
“As far as the new organization, their level of scrutiny and how it’s going to play out and how private they’re going to keep the results, it’s to be determined,” Derek added. “But if they’re following the same WADA banned substance list and the same protocols, I imagine it’s going to be similar, but from what I understand, more scrutinous testing on some of the endogenous bioidenticals like EPO.
“Novitzky said they’re going to up their testing, but at the end of this day, there’s only so much budget to allocate to where it’s a viable economic thing. It’s like, are you going to EPO test every f*cking sample of every single athlete however many times per year?”
Joe Rogan Advocates for Conor McGregor’s alleged Banned Substance Use during recovery
At the center of USADA’s public break-up with the UFC is Irish megastar Conor McGregor. Travis Tygart, the CEO of USADA suggested in a statement that the pair’s relationship had become “untenable” due to the constant back-and-forth on McGregor’s long-awaited return to the Octagon.
McGregor just recently re-ented the USADA testing pool after suffering a broken leg during his trilogy bout with Dustin Poirier in July 2021. During that time, the former two-division champ had allegedly taken banned substances to help him through the healing process.
Rogan fully supports fighters taking certain substances to help them recover from a particularly devastating injury, like the ones that McGregor, Chris Weidman, and Anderson Silva have all suffered inside the Octagon.
“I imagine it’s going to be a little more lax and I certainly support that and I support guys taking things to recover from injuries like Conor did with his leg injury, 100 percent,” Rogan said. “No question about it, I’m 100 percent all in on that. That’s the only way. No one comes back from that. No one has ever come back from that catastrophic leg break. The shin break, not a single athlete has come back from it and performed at the same level.
“Anderson Silva is the only guy who came back and fought multiple times, and he was not the same guy.
As for whether or not McGregor will reap any real long-term benefits from banned substance abuse, it’s hard to say, even for an expert like Derek.
“As far as the studies go for retention of what’s called myonuclei, like how much you can actually bank up from steroid use, it doesn’t seem”to be something that’s going to sustain for… I don’t know. In perpetuity, like we once thought, it’s kind of finicky if that’s actually something that happens or not,” Derek said.
“A lot of people will shrink back down when they come off, but he’s competing pretty soon after what appeared to be a pretty f*cking full board. The guy was practically unrecognizable compared to the traditional Conor. To me, his face looked like the first time a guy takes gear. Like, ‘Oh, wow. You’ve gained like 15 pounds of water.’ It didn’t even look like it was an attempt to do it in a, ‘I’m trying to micro-dose’ way. It’s like a real cycle, seemingly. And why not, if you’re not being tested?
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