296. PEDs, Dieting & Hormones With Coach Kolton
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Thank you for listening to the Boost Your Biology podcast. My name is Lucas Owen. I uncover the most cutting edge health information on the planet, ranging from hormones, nutrition, supplementation, fat loss, biohacking, longevity, wellness, and a whole lot more. Welcome to the Boost Your Biology podcast.

What's up, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome back to the Boost Your Biology podcast. Today, I have a special guest joining me on the show, who's also a fellow, I would say, biohacker, loves experimenting and also educating and also entertaining. We have Coach Colton. Welcome to the podcast, man. Thank you, man. I appreciate being here. Thanks for the invite.

Awesome. Maybe Colton, let my audience know a little bit about your journey. How did you get into the fitness industry? Talk to us about your story.

Yeah, it's a it's kind of a lengthy one. I started out when I was a young kid. So a lot of stuff there, right? So like, my parents weren't the best people. I never knew my dad, my mom was an alcoholic. So I was taken from the home from child protection services basically left kind of on my own accord. So what I got really into, needless to say, is like after school weight training programs, because I had nothing else to do with my time. And

And the weight trainer there happened to be a bodybuilder. So I got really integrated into sort of the bodybuilding training when I was like 13, 14. And that sort of accelerated into me really always pursuing kind of physical optimal states, I guess you could say looking good, feeling good, generally being strong. I always used to like arm wrestle kids and like think I was like the shit, you know, I was like, man, I'm the toughest.

That transitioned into me going into the military as like sort of an evolution of being tough, which asserted more of physical fitness in a way. And then that furthermore, after, you know, kind of

And finishing up there, transitioned into completely just going into bodybuilding and researching as much as I can. While I was in the military, they pay for school. So I went to get my degree in science nutrition. That didn't really help me much with anything. It just kind of garnered me the ability to research and like actually be able to interpret studies.

And then just kind of using that I became an autodidact taught myself everything I know when my PNBA pro card and natural bodybuilding, and then went into the NPC and became a coach and kind of just accelerated from there.

Interesting, man. So maybe what would you say to young men nowadays? I mean, obviously, they're bombarded by lots of information online, lots of influencers, health coaches. I mean, looking back now, if you were to sort of just start getting into it, what would you do? Where would you go for health information and what would you do differently?

Yeah, you know, it's a really tough question because the dynamics are so different now compared to what they used to be. I think before, and you could probably agree with this, is that there wasn't a mass amount of information available. There was a very small amount and it didn't have, we didn't have the easy to access stuff where you could go to a YouTube channel, you could go on TikTok, you could go on Instagram and find somebody talking about something in regards to what you're interested in.

And the problem is now that there's almost too much information. You have this analysis by paralysis. So you have to be careful with who you accept information from, which becomes a tricky endeavor. So what I often would tell people is first,

maybe listen to people, try to see if they have an established background in research and not just opinion, because there's a lot of people who base their claims on just opinion, new real research or foundation to their ideas, besides what's been just sort of perpetually told within the lore of whatever industry it might be. And so I've found kind of the most important

determining factor, whether it consuming content and getting advice is a good idea from someone is just how well versed is that person actually, can they speak good and influence well? Or do they actually have a background on top of doing those things? And that's a difficult task. You have, you know, yourself, which is a great establishment, you have vigorous Steve, a

I think the large degree of people are picked up by other influencers who's

um habits and and decision making isn't necessarily the most favorable um so it's tough but i think having to you know be willing to do the research and into who's worth listening to and then taking their ideas and being a skeptic you know trying to formulate your own hypothesis and then prove yourself wrong i think that's really critical too through research and obviously like going through and and looking at the pmids and all these things that's really important

Now, what about your journey through like experimenting with novel compounds, you know, performance enhancing drugs, things like that. Was there anything in particular like you read about, but then when you actually physically tried a compound, it was like completely not what you were expecting? Was there any scenario there? Yeah, there's a lot like that. When I really got into this stuff, it was, man, it was like 20...

2019, right? And this is like the peak of, I should say before the peak of Derek, more plates, more dates. And the subreddit with it was like r slash steroids was a big thing. So I used to just kind of hover around there. Never really listened to anyone never really involved myself in anything, but just sort of watched what Derek was saying about Trent and what everyone was saying about trying. They're like, this is just the most craziest compound in the world.

And I got to a point where I took it and I was just underwhelmed with the effects physically it gave me and overwhelmed with the, the,

absolute precipitous decline of my mental well-being. So that was one. I think there's the novel compounds that really shocked me though were the sort of exercise memetic compounds that I got kind of into early. I think the first one that most people get exposed to is GW, but then getting into things like methylene blue and those various compounds were exceedingly

good experiences for me personally because i think i'm erring more on the side of realizing that if i can enhance like metabolic function as well as cognitive function i think i perform better as opposed to just going for brute force with something like trend balloon for instance yeah i'm glad you uh glad you brought that up i mean the gw 501 56 or something so that's a carterine

Yeah, do you want to, because I've also used that myself and noticed massive improvements in aerobic conditioning and also just general like day-to-day energy, which was welcomed. Did you want to sort of maybe share your experience using Carterine?

Yeah, cardering is great. To be completely transparent, it's something I used in the military, we would have to do these PT tests. And as I was transitioning out of the military, they turned into combat fitness tests. And I was in the army. This was something that was standardized in the Marines already, but it wasn't facilitated in the army yet, nor Air Force, Navy, etc.

But in the army, we had just started adopting it. And it was a much more rigorous test, at least in terms of being able to max out the test. And I was someone who always really tried to max out my scores because it's very advantageous in the military. Really, they look at brawn over mental prowess. So if you can get really good physical fitness scores,

You're pretty much guaranteed positions and promotions and all this great stuff. So for me, yeah, I started taking it right around the times I needed to essentially compete in a physical sense. And I was absolutely delighted with how well it would work. I could certainly get away with under training for events and then outperform people who had been training for quite some time for the same event, which was great.

granted unfair, but a, you know, a wise advantage on my part. And I also noticed quite notably, I was always someone who took blood work. Like I,

I was super freaky about that stuff. I always really, really cared about my health. And so Steve, I was in his, he had this Facebook group way back in the day since like 2018. And I was in that thing. And he always talked about what labs to get. And every 10 ish weeks, 12 ish weeks, I would go get labs. This is like, I'm 18, 19 years old. And I would find that taking GW would massively impact my lipids.

My HDLC would usually increase and my overall lipid count would decrease.

I liked to see that, but I also found it was kind of transient, which was interesting. So as soon as it was stopped, it wouldn't be but a few weeks later that those numbers would sort of resume their normal baselines. Was this whilst you were running like testosterone as a base as well? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I shouldn't say that. So initially I started GW before testosterone. I didn't start testosterone up until probably I competed in the PNBA when I was 20 years old.

And I started around 21. So I've been using GW for maybe a year before that. Yeah. Well, let's, I mean, the mechanism is pretty interesting. I mean, they say it's a PIPA alpha agonist or something like that. So working on the liver to mobilize free fatty acids, things like that. You said on the blood work, you saw improvements in cholesterol parameters. Do you think the cancer risk for Carterin is a bit overblown as well?

So that's so interesting. It's very likely that that could be the case. It is something that caused me to stop using it though, because I have this weird kind of thing for myself and my clients where if something isn't well-versed in human clinical trials, or at least approved for human clinical use, I typically try to stay away from it for the lack of just knowing what long-term exposure might do to someone.

When we're working with things like growth hormone, you have decades of literature. When you're working with testosterone, you have decades of literature. But when we're talking about these novel compounds, some of like, for instance, like SARMs or other compounds, selective antireceptor modulators, you don't necessarily have that depth of research to support any direct research.

Sometimes even just mechanism in that sort of unaware, not being able to determine what's going to happen as an endpoint, a little concerning for me. So with GW, I would say that it is a concern, but it's not something that's actually...

caused any sort of culmination of a particular result. I don't think anyone's taken GW and then immediately like been bombarded with cancer, you know? So. Yeah. Yeah. No, I take a similar, similar stance with a lot of these compounds. So GW was profound from your experience from an, from specifically like a fitness aerobic VO2 max sort of pathway. Yeah.

What else did you sort of, any other compounds you've used over the years where you've been like, damn, this is incredible stuff. Like, you know, really blew you away. Man, I'll be honest. A lot of what I've used is quite underwhelming. I would say that the most is the basic stuff. It's like,

Unfortunately, it's like dopaminergic compounds. You have Adderall, which is amazing for certain times. You have modafinil. You have your testosterone, which in abundance is definitely a certain form of euphoria, which I can't quite describe nor find anywhere else, as well as you have things like growth hormone, which for me at least precipitate this

amazing effect of really deep sleep and then sort of an ability to recover without having to expose myself to higher degrees of androgens, but also getting this substantial effect with my body composition seemingly changing over a span of a couple days. Those are really the

box checkers for me in a sense where for myself, like I've always been someone who's very savvy with entrepreneurship and building a physique. So it's like testosterone, growth hormone, a small degree of stimulants. If I can manage them, I try to keep my like cardiac function to a absolute tip top shape. If anything's exceeding my heart rate, my resting heart rate beyond anywhere near 70 beats per minute, I'm usually like, okay, let's pump the brakes and take whatever that might be out.

But some kind of stimulant in that sense. And then, I mean, that's really it. I'm pretty simple. You know, I've never found something that's like so extraordinarily profound that has blown me away.

I will say like cerebral lysine was something I thoroughly enjoyed. That was a compound that really shocked me in terms of my ability to create like a sort of CNS depression reversal and come right out of a state of sort of having been over-trained or underfed and also being able to work productively for hours on end seemingly without having like those drops or troughs in like productivity.

That was really impressive as well as new peps. I like to new pep quite a bit for the same reasons. It would kind of create this level playing field. Usually I find that like my productivity goes extremely high when I wake up in the morning around like one to two o'clock in the evening, it really dips down and then it kind of peaks up again right around like 5 p.m. all the way to like 9 p.m. and then it dips down again.

So when I take Nupept, same thing with Cerebroicin, it just had this even heel across the entire day where there wasn't necessarily dips. It was just like constant production all day without really any issues. What do you think when it comes to guys looking to experiment, what would you say are some of the biggest mistakes that you see guys making nowadays when it comes to like wanting to dive into nootropics or performance enhancing compounds?

Such a great question because there's a lot of mistakes that can be made super easily, even if it doesn't seem inherently bad. I would say one of the biggest things is you need a measuring stick to determine how something is working for you. A lot of people will pick five things and start them all at once. And when you start implementing polypharmacy, it gets to be

So unstable of an environment, you don't know, you know, which sip enzymes this compounds possibly inhibiting versus another one. You don't know how they're interacting in and of themselves in your body. Maybe you're taking, you know, an SSRI in something else that's serotonergic and then causing a lot of issues there. So I usually would say for most people, they need to be starting with like one measurable dose.

or at least using one compound, looking for a measurable outcome, not starting three or four compounds, trying to find a single measurable outcome because you don't really know it's working for you or against you in some capacity. A great example of this is, you know, when people use like they'll stack albuterol, clenbuterol, and then, you know, green tea extract, and then you'll him mine. And it's like, well, geez I,

I don't think that's really a good option. I think we could just accumulate a great deal of fat loss with clenbuterol. And instead of keeping all these things in play that are stimulating and also causing your heart to likely hypertrophy, we could just remove them and stick with the one thing. There's situations like that. The other thing is that people don't look for measurements. They look for sort of an emotional outcome. And so I think...

especially me when I got started, it is very easy to seek the magic pill or the silver bullet per se, where you think that, and you get to tell yourself this stuff where this compound is going to change my life. It's going to completely revolutionize how I am as a human being. I thought like Cialis when I was a kid, I thought it was like this amazing thing, right? Like my dick is going to grow huge and I'm going to be horny all the time. And it's going to like all these things that had no correlation to with what Cialis does.

But you tell yourself these things and then you keep seeking them. So maybe the compound doesn't do it for you. So you keep seeking the results. So you keep taking that one and then you add another one in. And then by the time you're done, you have six different compounds in trying to accomplish one thing.

you're no better for it. So yeah, I think having realistic measurable results and then using a single compound, basically monotherapy is a first to eight different compounds at one time. I'll definitely second that, man. And also as part of that principle is like,

med so minimum effective dosage yeah like when when starting these compounds because um it's always better to work your way up than to go up than to start high experience side effects and drop it down because you can end up basically like start low see whether or not you get the result you're looking for or like you're you know you're noticing some positive effects and then you can always go up but to go from high to low it's a bit of a

you know, you could have you started with side effects, it's, it's made you think, this is a dirty drug, I don't like it, you know, so going back to the growth hormone, you know, let's get a discussion going there. Like, have you seen other compounds, growth hormone secreted dogs like MK 677, potentially being able to be used as an alternative to growth hormone? What are your thoughts there? So my myself, I'm

openly and extremely bullish on growth hormone in comparison to other forms of, of like growth hormone secretogogs. Um, I find that for one, I just don't seem the measurable outcomes that growth hormone can produce with those secretogogs. So when I have people in, in terms of at least a physique, I don't see the same outcome where, you know, with growth hormone,

You can start someone on a reasonable dose of it, and you usually see a pretty immediate effect in terms of the fullness of their muscle. You get feedback that they're generally able to achieve exceptional pumps in the gym. You see very clearly that it's obvious there's partitioning happening in their body where fat stores are being mobilized to some capacity and they're getting leaner. But in an interesting sense, their calories have stayed isocaloric. And so the only variable being growth hormone is causing them to be leaner.

I don't see that with MK-677. In fact, I see more deleterious effects of blood glucose elevation quite quickly with using the MK as well as especially if someone's in a calorie surplus, they're going to lead themselves to having a really high blood glucose and therefore fasting insulin, which I'm not in favor of, at least perpetually. So, and then like CJC and these other various peptides, I've tried them myself.

I get the appeal to them, but I don't necessarily see a one-to-one with growth hormone in any case. I find that usually just growth hormone is more superior. And at this point in our current day and age with accessibility to these things, I think most people would find that growth hormone is far more affordable than some of these other variations of peptides in certain cases. Yeah. The affordability aspect, I know at least in Australia,

growth hormone is extremely expensive. Yeah, unfortunately. Is it like in the US? Is it the same? No.

No, it's very affordable. A lot of people might say, well, he doesn't know what he's talking about. If you have the right kind of circle, you can definitely find it for an extremely affordable price and running, again, a reasonable dose. Something like if you were to say three, four, five IUs per day of growth hormone, you could manage that for a little over 50 bucks a month if you really wanted to.

And so let's look at, I guess, like a lot of guys that are probably jumping onto testosterone. What are you seeing is like if they were to do the ascension, like stacking in another compound on top of just testosterone, what would you suggest to guys when they're looking at like adding in another compound to amplify the effects on top of testosterone? Yeah.

I mean, these are phenomenal questions. I would, so in a perfect world, you're going to have someone who can vacuum seal their protocol, meaning they don't give into temptation and they can just stay with testosterone and do it long enough to where they can measure its effects. So let's say you have some guy start on 200 milligrams of testosterone. You would like to wait, you know, a good eight ish weeks to see

the representation of that in serum, get a measurement, see where estradiol is progesterone prolactin and get a good awareness of essentially what hormones might be predisposition to become elevated if we're to increase doses or add certain compounds in. So usually in a case where I have someone who has a pretty sensitive, uh,

or maybe an overproduction of aromatase enzyme, and we find that their estradiol is exceedingly high on a relatively minimal dose in terms of bodybuilding and physique enhancement of testosterone, the next step for them, if they were to add a concurrent compound, would be something like a DHT derivative, as it won't have the deleterious outcomes of increasing estradiol. Something like a primobolin or a mastron would be phenomenal choices.

If the individual themselves was really not prone to estradiol conversion, this is who I am basically. I can take a lot of testosterone without having any representative estradiol issues. Then maybe looking at other compounds, equipoise is a great one. Neandrolones are okay. I'm typically straying away from them due to the proclivity to have mental side effects.

But I would say for the most part, the next step in the process, if you're going to that next tier, it would be to avoid 17 alkylated steroids. So the oral steroids, those are more deleterious long-term. And if you're really trying to build muscle, you want long-term architectural changes, not like an eight-week cycle of some kind of oral steroid. So getting a testosterone dose and then a DHT derivative to manage estrogen is probably the best path moving forward.

In terms of a lot of guys' misconceptions around DHT, what are your thoughts on its potential impact on hair loss? Do you think there's more to it? What are your thoughts there? Oh, yeah. It's a really good question. And there's a lot of contention around this, which is interesting. So my thoughts are it's very clear that oxidative stress plays a large role in intelligent effluvium and just

potentiating hair loss in some degree. You see this in male nourished people. You see this in obese people that they'll have this sort of abnormal loss of hair. You see this in disease states too, very often in people that will lose massive amounts of hair, sometimes permanently so. In males, I think

It's really genetically predetermined how your hair or scalp is going to act. But I think it's almost like a 25, 75. So like 25% of what's happening to someone's scalp and hair is due to oxidative stress from the things that they're using. As well as the training and the food and the large degree of carbohydrates, these things all contribute to greater degrees of oxidative stress. If we're to contribute 75% of it to androgens, I think what most people are experiencing is

is actual DHT conversion from testosterone causing hair loss. And then what is at least a anecdotal experience for me is that primobolin, which is a very fancied DHT derivative, seems to potentiate more hair loss than other compounds would. So for instance, mastron in, again, personal anecdote here, seems to cause less hair loss in my field of clients as well as in myself.

So I don't know why that necessarily is because theoretically the net outcome of using a DHT derivative is generally the same thing, but it does seem that primable and potentiates hair loss more. Whereas Mastron doesn't. Now these two compounds are not DHT. They're DHT derivatives. And I think a lot of people kind of,

blend those two things together. The DHT molecules, what's causing hair follicle miniaturization, which is basically like shriveling up the follicle, which hair grows out of making it not able to sustain life of a hair.

But DHT derivatives are not that, that compound. So are they acting on the same receptor site? Are they doing the same thing? I don't think anyone really knows, but I think it's pretty clear that something's happening because people lose hair when they're on large doses of androgens. So I think, I think premobon clearly does more damage to someone's scalp than for say master on. Um, but I also think at some point oxidative stress plays a large role in that equation. Yeah, I do agree. I think, um,

multifactorial also nutrient deficiencies cortisol prolactin yeah that's another great one yeah yeah like did you want to sort of expand upon the prolactin side of things even because i'd imagine like you still you still consult and see guys that are natural right and they just want to optimize naturally as well um you've seen prolactin be elevated in individuals has that been a roadblock for them

Yeah, it has. You see it often. It's kind of interesting in men that have children, their prolactin levels or have at least recently had children, their prolactin levels are usually elevated quite a bit. And that's substantiated by research, which is super fascinating. But I do find that that actually impedes sexual function and often in a sense of

you know, strength outcomes in the gym, it does seem to infect how they're performing in the gym. So the simple solution, especially for guys who are natural is like taking P5P, uh, just to, to at least simmer that down. But it does seem transient. I've never actually seen prolactin in an individual who doesn't have like a prolactinoma or something. Uh, I haven't seen it like elevated for a prolonged period of time. Hmm.

Yeah, interesting. With the prolactin side, I definitely have seen also like thyroid deficiencies elevating prolactin and also like guys that are using antidepressants. So anything serotonergic, any sort of serotonin-based compounds, yeah, really driving up that prolactin, which is, yeah, something I think a lot of guys need to be careful and cautious of when they're looking at selecting nootropics because there's a lot of nootropics that are actually

Like they say they enhance mood and cognition, but they can have a side effect of raising serotonin or you've seen the lion's mane craziness that's going on.

So, yeah. Yeah. And it's such an important topic. Like you'll have people combining two very serotonergic based compounds and, you know, introducing themselves to like serotonergic syndrome and serotonin syndrome. And that's a horrible, horrible outcome. I can't even imagine. And it is interesting you state that because a lot of marketing is placed around

This is going to enhance your cognition. And it's not really explained as to how that's going to work because there's many different ways. Is it, you know, is it a central nervous system based like norepinephrine kind of thing? Or is it a true dopamine or serotonin? Or, you know, what are we working with? And yeah, you're absolutely right.

Now switching gears from a nutrition standpoint, I'd imagine over the years you have probably tried all sorts of different dietary models and you played around with high fat, high carb, low fat, high carb, all that sort of stuff. Talk to us about that. I mean, like what personally, from your personal perspective, what have you responded well to from a nutrition standpoint? Yeah. Wow. That's a really good question. So

to be honest uh i think the best i've ever responded to anything is what i'm doing now which is probably indicative of like you know graduating several different failures or iterations of diets that didn't work for me um i you know i was at my heaviest when i was like really actively competing in bodybuilding i was like 260 pounds and

And I was eating so, so much carbohydrates. It was, it was stupid. It was over a thousand grams of carbohydrates a day or more depending on the day.

And I have a really quick metabolism. Was that fun at the start? No, no, no. It was not fun. It was awful. I mean, you probably know when you overeat that feeling of sort of being full and sort of oversaturated with food, you're just like, oh, my God. You know, it's like you just walk through the day. You're grudging through it. It is not fun.

So I've done that. I've done ketogenic diets before, especially when I was a natural bodybuilder. I thought that was like, you know, unexperienced and unaware. I thought that was the way to get significantly lean, which I won my pro cards. And maybe there's something to that. But I really learned that over time.

what works best for me is sort of, I don't like to say I eat in a carnivore style because I certainly don't, but I do eat a lot of animal meats. So I'm very big on, we, we talked previously about, you know, eggs, uh, red meats. I eat a lot of salmon, salmon roe. If I can find it, uh, mackerels, sardines, I eat a plethora of, of yogurts. I love yogurts. And when I feel hungry or, uh,

Like I need a little bit of boost in the gym, I'll eat carbohydrates. And that's really about it. I mostly, I would say 80% of my day, 85% of my day consists of proteins and then the fat rich proteins. And then the kind of session where I'm training, whether that's Muay Thai or actual bodybuilding training, that's where I'm eating carbohydrates.

And I find for me that that at least works the best to have a massive amount of productivity throughout the day without a crash. And also I can balance that with having effective training stimulus because if I just go no carbohydrates, it's crazy.

quite evident that training is just not, it's not productive. I'm there, but I'm flat. I'm not producing as much strength as I clearly could. And I'm much slower, especially in Muay Thai. Like when you don't have carbohydrates, your cognitive reactions become delayed in a really noticeable sense. So I usually have like white rice or literally as simple as it gets around training windows and that's it.

Yeah, so your dietary model would almost be like a modified carnivore diet. So like you're being strategic when you're introducing the carbohydrates, which is literally just like around training where you need that anaerobic performance. And that's like minimizing the fact that if you were to be purely keto, like let's say you had no carbohydrates, right?

you'd probably start to notice then your sleep quality would go to shit like your just stress hormones feel like they're you're just running on stress hormones because cortisol goes goes high um but yeah makes a lot of sense and i've also sort of found that if i really wanted to get in amazing shape like or my best shape knowing you're obviously your level but like good shape for my for my physique um it'll be yeah

and fats for all the meals and then just carbohydrates around training and then the rest is, yeah, the exact same. You mentioned yogurt. Are you doing the low-fat yogurt? What's your thoughts there? I do a mix. I really like yogurt, so I have to be careful with how much I eat because I can easily overeat yogurt. It's like this weird thing. I just love it. So I do a mix. I'll have some –

higher fats yogurt, usually in the evening or in the morning. And I find that that's pretty satiating. And then sort of, um, whenever I'm like intraday, like somewhere in the day, I'll usually have like lower fat yogurt. If I do, um, I just, I think it's pretty unparalleled for if, especially if it's Greek yogurt for the amount of protein, but also calcium that you're getting, it's pretty undeniable that there's a clear benefit there. Um, and

And I should clarify too that I also eat fruits throughout the day, like starting the day, ending the day, whatever. Usually, evidently, blueberries and kiwis and papaya, things like this. But yeah, that's as simple as it gets. Yeah. With the calcium, I'm glad you mentioned that because a lot of guys, particularly guys that lift weights, they need to understand that calcium –

calcium release into the muscle cell is important for muscular contraction so like i feel like if if you front load your workouts with a shitload of calcium do you also believe in this yes that's what i do as well yeah yeah i usually have people take like a calcium supplement or have a large if let's say they're working out in the first thing in the morning i'll usually have them have a large calcium containing meal in the the evening prior or in the morning of

And absolutely agree with that entirely. And you'll find that most guys who are interested in lifting weights, building muscle under consume calcium because everyone says like dairy is really bad and sure it could be for you, but there's, you know, many ways to get calcium in. And it just so often like guys are getting 300 or 400 milligrams of calcium a day. And that's just,

So inadequate, it's crazy. And the thing is, man, like I've been able to reverse guys that say they can't stomach like dairy, like cheese, yogurt, milk, those three, by literally using like BPC-157 for like two months and a few gut healing compounds and bang, they can have dairy again. That's so cool. Yeah. That's so cool. Any guys that are like complaining, oh, you know, I can't stomach dairy,

Like, cause obviously a lot of these guys would love to be able to eat these foods. Milk is tastes fricking awesome with, with whey protein. Yeah. Like, or add some banana or whatever. You got like cheese, which means you can eat pizza. And then it's like yogurt, Greek yogurt with some honey and blue and berries. Like unreal. What about, um, like fiber thoughts on fiber?

Yeah. So also a very contentious topic. I think the benefits to short chain fatty acid production is pretty undeniable. I think the

at least from my perspective, it's pretty undeniable in terms of the large sum of research that has been collected. Um, and I do think that there's benefits to, you know, having some of insoluble fibers in your diet. Um, I think it is overblown though. I think sometimes people can often think of fiber as this all healing nutrient, uh, or non-nutrient, but it,

doesn't really have a direct correlation to that. I think if you get enough for you, that's perfect. For me, I might have, I try to watch out for oxalic acids or oxalate content in my food. So I generally have

my green leafies, if you will, cooked or sauteed, uh, if I do have them, but I'm not eating an abundance of vegetables. Um, not that I think they're inherently bad, but it's just that I don't really find a need. Like my judge digestion has always been fine. And more often than not, I feel like you can typically pull certain vegetables from people's diets and they generally find that their digestion gets rapidly better, um, versus putting more in gets quite a bit worse. Yeah.

Yeah, no, I'd agree there, man. I think a lot of veggies are completely overrated. Like if we're trying to extract and utilize nutrients, then...

you know, your organ meats and things like that are going to be trumping kale, like 100 to 1. Yeah, people try to argue this a lot. And I'm not like, you know, I'm certainly not a carnivore guy. I'm not any of that. But what I do admit is facts, you know, like, if you took a gram of each food, and you're like, okay, what is the most nutrient dense gram of food we could get? It's organ, it's specifically liver.

Uh, the next is eggs. You know, the next is a steak. The next is a salmon, like vegetables come so far down the line that you, you can't even compare them. Um, they have qualities that are good, but they're not so significant to say that they're an absolute necessity in most people's diets. Yeah, no, dude, I totally agree. What about from a hydration perspective? Um,

Do you have principles that you recommend to guys or have you found certain ratios of water intake and salt intake to be useful over the years?

Yeah, that's a phenomenal question too. I've really become a fan of having people use in America. I don't know if it's in Australia, but we call it no salt, which is like a potassium based sodium. Basically, it's like a false sodium and I'll mix. I'll have them get like a salt shaker and mix, you know, two to one ratio, basically a two part salt, one part, no salt or potassium and then use that to sweeten or season their foods.

And I just think that that's kind of a good ratio to get a balance of potassium and sodium and optimize hydration. Again, oftentimes, I think a lot of people can under consume potassium and over consume sodium, not that sodium is inherently bad. It's just that when you under consume potassium, it can be.

Um, so to balance that out, that's one thing I do, but then, you know, making sure that people are having, I like to use multiple forms of magnesium throughout the day. So like usually in the mornings I'll use, um, magnesium trinate, and then in the evenings I'll use something like magnesium, um, bisglycinate or, or something similar. And that I think is.

beneficial in many different ways, as well as just consuming water. That's pretty inherent. You know, I try to wake up and have people in the morning, like if I'm waking up, for instance, I'll drink at least a good liter of water before I kind of get started doing anything else, you know, just pound a liter and then get on with my day. And I think precisely, and I think that most people undervalue their, their water consumption and

I know at least I can, if I'm in like a tunnel vision mode, I can tend to under consume water. And then by the end of the day, I'm just like slamming it down. The problem with that is as you chug water, you tend to urinate more water. It becomes more of a diuretic versus a hydrating product. Whereas if you sip water throughout the day, it's much more hydrating in terms of you not just literally peeing it all out right away.

And if we look at the consequences of being low, like being dehydrated in general is going to lead to elevations in cortisol, brain fog. I've also read some studies that protein synthesis can't even really occur in an individual that's dehydrated, like chronically dehydrated. It sort of makes sense. I mean, the blood's made up of majority proteins.

The water, I mean, it's super critical. I think a lot of guys underestimate the importance of just adequate hydration. And also, at least here in Australia, the tap water is absolute shithouse. Like it's terrible. So we have to make sure we use a water filter here. That's crazy. Yeah. Is it the same where you are?

No, you can just drink straight from the tap. No fluoride in your taps. I'm sure there is. I'm sure there is. There's probably lots of fluoride, to be honest. There's probably lots of compounds that shouldn't be in there.

What about in terms of liver protection, things like that? I know you mentioned cholesterol markers being potentially out of whack, guys that are on androgens. Anything else you've seen in blood work that might indicate toxicity anywhere else?

Yeah. Um, well it's kind of blood works tricky because it's never just like this very clear. You probably know that it's not like a very clear answer all the time. Usually it's a triangulation. So you'll see one, two, or maybe three things off and they kind of correlate back to another thing. Um, but in general, when I'm working with people who are using performance, dancing drugs, trying to really be athletes, I'm thinking about sort of

multiple things, but a relatively simple process. I'm looking at the hepatic system, the renal system and the cardiac system. And I'm trying to determine

Are all those functional at their highest capacity? So usually when I'm getting labs, I'm getting lipoproteins tested, not just like HDLC, LDLC, which aren't actually representative in serum. Like that is not a component of our blood. It's just a calculation. However, like a apolipoprotein is or lipoprotein B is like these are real things, particles that we can measure.

And so getting those measurable outcomes, seeing like a lipoprotein over, you know, 80, I believe it's milligrams over a milliliter. It might be deciliters. I can't necessarily remember, but apolipoprotein B.

Over that, it's like, okay, hey, there's some clear indications here that we're at some pretty high risk for a cardiovascular disease potential event down the road. Let's maybe titrate back doses. Let's look at things that we can do. Usually, if I need to, especially with someone who's enhanced, it's like using something very innocuous like a zetamide to kind of lower that, and it does fairly well at that. Other things, it's like looking at

inflammation to, especially for the circulatory system. It's like if there's high degrees of C-reactive protein, homocysteine, these markers, I'm pretty concerned and generally want to make some changes. And then as far as the renal system, like a urinalysis, and I typically recommend people get a cystatin C as opposed to just trusting a generic EGFR.

And I would also really prefer people get a ultrasound of their liver, kidney, and heart echocardiogram at least once per year. If they're taking this very seriously, I think most people, if they're recreationally using these compounds at a very minimal dose, sometimes these things aren't things you need to be checking up on yearly or even in a three-year span. But doing these is really important because

as you know men most often can die from kidney failure from high blood pressure which causes downstream kidney failure and other things and it's just really good to have a head start on that before it's too late because you can't regenerate that kind of stuff yeah no awesome awesome um sort of switching gears a little bit uh if we had to look at like a fitness resource or some sort of

um sort of rate like book or resource that you've come across over the years that you would definitely recommend guys check out is there any anything in particular where you're like damn this is a really useful resource that's a tough one um i've i've never really had oh man i've never really had anything that's like a complete resource which kind of is an interesting point of

It's something I would love to fulfill in the industry. It's just like that's such a big undertaking. I think, you know, Renaissance periodization does very well at general exercise guidance in terms of how to structure a split, how to do certain exercises themselves. I think J3U by John Jewett does a great job of piecing together some of the pharmacology side of things that have very

surface level, very surface level, but it does the job. And then I think people like Steve, in terms of bodybuilding and performance enhancing, does a very good job at displaying some of the more depths of pharmacology and going way, way further than other resources do. But there's nothing that really combines them all together so perfectly fit that it's like a very clear

it's like, it's not a one-stop shop per se. Like usually you have to go multiple places to fulfill your information. I would say for, for me, honestly, like just in general, I always give props to Steve because when I was like a kid, he helped me out a lot, you know, like I was talking to him before I won my natural pro card and I ended up moving to Thailand because of him and going all around the world. So like, he really helped me out. I think the best thing you can do is as a resource is just finding somebody who has a

some answers to the problems that you're having and follow them around. And that's sometimes it's a hard answer, but it's probably the one that works best. I guess getting a coach, well, I'm not promoting myself as a coach or anything, but I think that is critical in terms of having guidance in any capacity. If it's for business, if it's for bodybuilding, if it's for just about anything, I think having some form of a mentor is critical.

I agree, man. And also you mentioning like there's no one-stop shop for as like a resource for guys. I think with the help of AI, that wouldn't be too difficult to like merge the best of the best and say like create a massive resource kit that encapsulates like these guys you mentioned. It's doable. I'm excited. I'm excited to see what comes out over the next like year or two.

But I'm actually really curious to know about, like, what do you want to achieve in the next, let's say, two to three years? Like, what's your trajectory that you want to go on? And what does your legacy look like? Yeah, it's a really good. It's a tough question. I have a lot of goals and they're sort of multifactorial and in different industries.

So if I was to lay it out, it's like become exceptionally good at YouTube, which I'm still trying to hack. Right. So like figuring out YouTube to a point where, uh, I become relatively mainstream, not mainstream, but relatively. And then from there, um,

I would like to also have a, my like coaching system right now, which is, you know, great. And it works awesome. We have a private discord group. We coach people one-on-one. I have assistant coaches. They're amazing people. I would like to have that in a sort of a different avenue of approach. I don't know necessarily what that looks like, but yeah,

I want it to be different than what's done before essentially and more personalized. It's just very hard to do that when you, you have sort of like this cost threshold, right? You can't charge someone necessarily like multiple thousands of dollars for fitness coaching, but it would be really nice to get to a point where it's super personalized, like extremely personalized. And you could be with someone hand in hand virtually all day. I would like to get to something like that. The,

I don't know what the likelihood of that is happening, but it would be awesome. And then real estate, I love investing. I love, you know, like I'm pretty savvy with money. I like to, you know, be aware of kind of what I'm doing and spending and all of these things.

Right now, I just bought this house. Like I'm flipping it as we speak and then, you know, likely selling it in a couple of months, if not like next month. And so that's like the stuff I love doing all whilst I'm doing YouTube and coaching and all this stuff. So it's kind of hard. In a perfect world, I would say in a very clear sense, it would be awesome. So cool to be like wildly successful on YouTube, not because I need the fame or anything, just because I think it's fun. Like I love YouTube. I've been watching it since I was a kid.

And then on top of that, having a really successful coaching model that is completely abstract compared to what's currently possible. We'll say that just don't have a blueprint for that yet, but there's ideas. It's just like how to piece those together is a bit difficult.

That's awesome, man. Well, that would definitely keep your hands full. And then you add in like training and then like personal life and like all that sort of stuff, dude, that, that would definitely be keeping you busy. Cause I know like, like real estate by itself, renovate, are you renovating the property you're in now? Yeah. Yep. Like literally right now. Yeah. I just had like all the trees around the house chopped out so we can like repave the ground and make it change everything. It's yeah.

It's a big, big job, man. Big, big job. And like probably running off like six, seven hours of sleep because you're creating a lot of content as well. So yeah, man, we'll make the most of the energy that you have and you're doing, you know, your YouTube channel is really starting to kick off and I'm definitely, definitely a subscriber and, you know, enjoy watching your videos. And yeah, man, I believe in, I believe in you. I think you're going to crush it, man. So yeah,

It was awesome getting on the podcast. If my audience wants to connect with you, Colton, where can they best find you?

Yeah, you could just type in Coach Colton right here on YouTube and it'll pop up my channel. On Instagram, it's Colton Fitness and I'm on there as well posting content pretty regularly. That's the best way. And there's going to be links in each of the descriptions of the videos that'll lead you to anything else I do, which is like coaching, the Discord group, whatever. And then same thing with Instagram, there'll be links to, you know, coaching offer as well as the Discord group and all that cool stuff.

Awesome, man. Well, I'll make sure to leave those linked in the podcast show notes, but otherwise, yeah, Colton, great to connect, man. And yeah, we'll be in touch. Thanks for coming on the podcast. Yeah, thank you so much. I appreciate it. And guys, don't forget to leave a five-star review on this episode if you did enjoy it. And as always, thank you for tuning in to the Boost Your Biology podcast.

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