KHC 033 - Dr. Rhonda Patrick

There's a really good fish oil brand called— It's Metagenics, and they make something called OmegaGenics, and it's a liquid. And you do like 1 teaspoon of that, and that already gets you above 2 grams.

The took this cohort of people, and there were smokers in there ... They looked at their omega-3 index, and they found that the smokers that had a high omega-3 index of 8%... they had the same life expectancy as the smokers with the low omega-3 index.

People are still holding on. I really think some people are still like, 'Okay, vaccines are preventing transmission; we need to get vaccinated,' but they don't at all ... And it's not that severe. COVID's not that severe.

You see all these publications where [the COVID vaccine is] changing women's menstrual periods. Something's happening, and I don't think we understand what. So, I don't think we can say it's not affecting fertility ... It's made women that were in menopause start menstruating again.

You lose magnesium in sweat, and you lose it in urine. And so people that are sweating, if they're physically active, using the sauna, endurance training, they're losing a lot of magnesium. And so, athletes can require between 10-20% more than the RDA, depending on their physical activity.

How do you go from a 4% omega-3 index to an 8%? Well, those studies have been done, and it takes about, on average, 2g of omega-3 a day, supplementation, to go from 4% to 8%.

I personally think there's enough data....that makes me believe that this, SARS-CoV-2, was made in a lab.

Age is important, because as we get older, like 65-year-olds and older, your body isn't as sensitive to amino acids. So, muscle protein synthesis isn't stimulated as much as when you're younger, so at least at a higher dose. So, you need to take in more protein, and it needs to be spread throughout the day.

The thing that I got wrong, and looking back on it, really, was myocarditis risk. And it wasn't that, necessarily, I got it wrong; I was actually reading data that was preprint data. So, the data was saying that even young men had a higher risk of myocarditis, inflammation of the heart, from SARS-CoV-2 virus—and again, this was the delta at the time—versus the mRNA vaccines.

Some universities still require the COVID vaccine ... That is the population of people that are most affected, at least with respect to myocarditis risk. And they're also the population that is least affected by COVID, which isn't the same COVID as it was when it came from Wuhan, China. It's evolved in such a way now that is so much less virulent.

There's been studies in younger people looking at... taking 4 meals of 20 grams of protein each versus 2 meals of 40 grams of protein each, and the 4 of the 20 grams of protein each was better at stimulating muscle protein synthesis in young, healthy, trained men.

I don't know that there's anything that's more powerful than exercise for improving health, for improving muscle health, bone health, your immune health, brain health, and also mood, how you feel.

I call myself a sort of cautious vaxxer. With respect to doing the childhood vaccines, I do think that vaccines are important. I mean, smallpox was eliminated, and children do get infectious diseases, and they can be devastating for a young child if they're spreading. With that said, I think there's a more cautious way of giving children vaccines.

I was never for the mandates. It was one of the biggest mistakes, I think, that our government made was trying to mandate a medical intervention.

There's two major signals for muscle mass: protein intake (amino acids) and mechanical work or forces. So, both of those two things stimulate muscle protein synthesis.

I think omega-3 has... the pharmacological potential to act like drugs but it's the safety profile of a nutrient.