The Key To Eliminating Inflammation, Supplement Quality, & How To Perform As Your Best Self Ft. Angelo Keely CEO of Kion

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34:56And if you're going to go the cheap route, I would just say you're maybe better off not spending the money at all. I would agree with that, especially if it's a daily supplement you're going to take for a long time. Like I'd say, save your money because maybe it's not the right formula. Maybe it's not as healthy. And listen, there's all these scams on Amazon now. If you're buying stuff that's even from the company, you have to really like make sure you're going to like the company's store and not just like getting a random label. People take advantage. I guess what I'm saying is cheap companies take advantage of consumers in the supplement space and provide them in many cases, products that aren't doing what they're saying they're going to do.

35:26Or they have such low potency that like maybe you're better off saving your money. Yeah. And I think on that same point, brands that are not really trying to even be a brand, like they're not going on podcasts and trying to educate people about, you know, like a whole, you know, domain of nutrition, etc. Or they're not really in the long game. There's a lot of bad actors on Amazon and other spaces where literally they're just trying to make a quick buck. Do you die when you see it? Oh man, it's tough. It's tough because it's like, I've literally, so one thing like for a long time, I was like, man, it'd be really cool if we can make aminos gummies.

35:59And I was like, I want to do it. And I spent a lot of time and money on it personally, like R &Ding it and trying to get samples, et cetera. And the tough thing is like, it's just a lot of raw material and it tastes strong. Like aminos, it's hard to flavor. It's hard to get the mango flavor to taste so good, truly. And so trying to do like the gummies, it was like, it was turning into so many gummies and it was just hard to flavor. And I was like, we're gonna have to use sugar to get it to taste good. And so at some point I was like, this is just like, this is not worth it for mass market for maybe like bodybuilders would do it or something, but it's not like I wouldn't do it even, you know?

36:30And then I went online and I started looking and there's like all these aminos gummies about a year later. And I went and I just bought them all and literally none of them even tasted like amino acids. And the amounts that they were saying in it was more than what it even weighed on the scale. So there's, it would be impossible for it to have the quantity of the amino acids that it's saying it has because it doesn't even weigh that much on the scale so like and they have like a thousand reviews so everybody's lying i'm not saying everyone's lying but i would just say like i would definitely look for trusted well that's like trusted brands and to clarify i don't want people to be like oh easy for you like you have money you can buy supplements what i'm saying is if take the money aside you don't want to end up spending any money on a bad supplement that is poor quality that is not going to work you're better off saving so when i look at supplements i look for trust and quality and if it's a little bit more expensive i understand maybe because it costs more to produce and it's like i'm looking for that if i'm going to go into a supplement as opposed to like oh there's the cheap one or the amazon or whatever version because i feel like it's just like kind of pissing money down the drain it's pissing money down the drain or it could potentially even be harmful.

37:43I think one point I would just make, and I agree, I think fundamentally what I would encourage people to do is move your body every day, hang out with people you love, find people that you really love and like and try to spend time with them and then eat real foods, like eat fruits and vegetables. And I would advise animal proteins, but if you want to do something different than that, do something different. It's like, and smile a lot and be in the sun. That is fundamental. then you start looking at supplements and what i would say is it is hard sometimes to if you really want to live like the longest life and you want to be as healthy as possible to get the amount of let's just go back to the omega thing the amount of like omega-3 in your blood the level you'd want it to be in order to be at these higher levels you'd be eating like at least eight servings of fish fatty fish per week that's oh that's a lot of fish that's a lot of fish that's a lot also like Here's the problem with the fish thing.

38:38I started eating tuna all the time. I started eating tuna fish. Yeah, but tuna's not really what we're... Put a little chopped cornish in it, a little chopped apple. Sounds delicious. Sea salt, a little black pepper, a little mustard. Guess what? Can't eat too much tuna because of mercury. Yeah, but tuna's not really the right profile we're looking for. They've got to be salmon, sardines. You like sardines. I love sardines, but like anchovy. I'm a big anchovy person. There are issues and concerns around though, like mercury toxicity, even from all these, less from like the small fish, like less from anchovies, sardines, but even from like salmon and other types of freshwater, larger fatty fish.

39:13But yeah, there's these other risks from that as well, which you avoid when you get the supplementation, but even from a pure like cost, like the cost of taking a quality omega supplement and taking two capsules a day is, which is the equivalent of eating like this eight servings, even more than eight servings of fish per week. Like it's a lot cheaper. Like fish is expensive, you know? So I think it's also just about understanding all these like costs, you know, and rather than, it's funny that things we'll spend money on sometimes. It's like, I'll spend money on these certain clothes or a car or alcohol or whatever versus like what's actually going to create them, you know, the best life for you.

39:54And maybe it is, maybe if you'd like love, I don't know cars or going out to concerts or whatever the thing is that makes you happy like do that but i would just say like on the supplement front again it's one of those things like if you're going to put it in your body every single day like don't go cheap on it either just like don't do it or like do it do it well i just looked at my credit card statement and guess what i spend the most money on i actually don't know what is it what is it yes i don't know yes you know well Say what our family is. Yeah, go. It's shocking. It's food. Food. That's good though.

40:27Yeah. Because food, you have good quality food. Yeah, but it's like so much. I mean, yeah. I'm like, how do we see it? That's what it might is. It's probably like wellness services or something? Just, yes, you're in the right. You're getting hot. I don't know. Craniosacral. Really? I told you. I told you. Does it make you feel great though? I'm having a moment. It's not just for me. It's for my kids. It's for the baby. It's amazing. So there you go. Yeah. It's worth it then. have you tried it i have not done it in probably like 20 years you got to try it yeah i mean when i like growing up in austin and being part of having super hippie parents and actually like my girlfriend in high school her mom had a massage school and so i was like i grew up being exposed to all of it so i had craniosacral like in my early 20s but i haven't had it in like 20 years this is your sign to go get i'll give you i'll give you who i go to okay you know spending money on health and wellness and yourself is always going to pay dividends nobody's i'm going to pay that clip.

41:21This is why I wanted to bring it up. I'm going to play that clip when he sees the cry card bell. I don't think, to your point earlier, nobody at the end of their life is going to get to the end, especially if they end up being sick and unhealthy and saying, man, I wish I would have like, I'm glad I have more money, but I'm glad I didn't spend money on the wellness. Everyone would spend money on taking care of themselves. Quick question. With people that have dementia and Alzheimer's in their family, should they really consider taking Omegas more than most people? Absolutely. What I would say is that, And again, it's kind of hard to go through.

41:48Omega-3 is so fundamental of a supplement, like one that I would so highly advise for so many cases, but specifically the correlation with lower incidence of dementia is significant with the more omega-3 that you have specifically in your red blood cells. So it's like, yes. But I would say regardless of that, because here's the other point I make. So maybe there's a genetic predisposition in someone's family, but what I would say is overall, all of us are exposed to so much more of this kind of chronic systemic inflammation in our bodies that we're all at higher risk of all these types of diseases.

42:22And as we get to live longer, because we have other good forms of Western medicine that prevent us from dying in other ways, many of us will get to be 70, right? We'll get to be 80. And if you want to avoid the risk of that occurring, then I'd say to everyone as like kind of a preventative measure, it makes a lot of sense to start omega-3s early in the life. This is not just the kind of thing where it's like, oh, I don't want this to happen to my mom who's 60, so I'm going to get her on it now. It's like, no, when you're 30, start it. When you're 20, start it. So regardless, everyone should do it, but if you have somebody that's affected in your family, it should be an indication to really jump on it right away.

42:57I think in general, if it seems like there's a genetic predisposition for anything in your family, take it more seriously. Why is it so important to take fish oil supplements that are cold water fish? So the big idea is that there's all different places where you could get the fish from and the types of fish. And basically when you get these small cold water fish like anchovies, sardines, you get a much smaller fish that has less exposure to pollutants from human beings and they've had less time to absorb those pollutants. so when you take the oils out of them, you don't get any of the pollutants.

43:39See, Michael, this is why I order extra anchovies on my salad at Jeffrey's. She does. She doubles them up. They're like, do you want us to remove some of the sauce? She's like, no, double them. And you're getting your omega-3s and your natural electrolytes. All the salts. I have four of your omegas when I take it. Is that okay? Yeah, it's great. That's actually ideal. Yeah, that's ideal. What happened to us as a species that we need to supplement with omegas now? Do we just not get them in our normal day-to-day diet anymore? It's a great question. So what I would say is some societies still do.

44:12So when you look at Americans, the mean average, meaning if you average everyone together, it's about 125 milligrams of omega-3s that we get in our diet. But when you look at the median average, so you don't just blend the people who use a ton and the people who don't use much. You're just like, what's the most common frequency? It's less than one. It's like basically zero. People don't consume any. If you compare that to the Japanese, the Japanese on average are 950 milligrams, almost a gram. Wow. That is a big, from like zero. Not a lot of inflammation going on. Almost a gram. And on average, they live five years longer.

44:47And guess what else? They have higher hypertension because they are just kind of more stressed out. They smoke more than we do significantly and they still live five years longer. So it's not that all societies have less, but societies that typically are further away, basically the only place you get these omega-3s, EPA and DHA is from like marine animals and plants. It's from fish, from fatty fish, and you can get it from algae. But historically we didn't get it from algae because it's a lot of processing to get that. So societies that eat more fish have more of them. So I think it's less that like we were getting a bunch before and now we're not getting them.

45:21I mean, if you probably looked a hundred years ago, people living in Kansas, they weren't getting enough, but they weren't living to be 65, 70, et cetera. They had much harder lives. They were dying from even other causes. So I think it's more of this thing that we've uncovered over time that if you want to live a long time and you want to avoid these types of very common chronic illnesses, you can avoid it by increasing the amount of EPA and DHA that you have in your blood, increasing these omega-3s. It's not that we used to have a bunch and now we don't. Some societies have, like the Eskimos have, the Japanese have, and they have amazing health outcomes from it.

46:00So it's less that like something dramatically changed and it's more that we never were getting them. On the flip side of that, what I would say though is a hundred years ago, you also didn't have people over consuming the amount of calories every day that they do now, because you didn't have the amount of processed foods with all these added sugars and added fats that made people become addicted and eat so much more. And when you eat that much more food, your body is that much more inflamed in general and you have maybe an even greater need to try to overcome it with these anti-inflammatory these natural anti-inflammatories that are omega-3s yeah i mean like it's i mean it's it's such an issue in the world now i mean i watched this video today on instagram or it was in the news and it was a it was a guy and i feel terrible for the guy it's like it's horrible you could get to this point but he was literally being crammed out of his house because he was sick and so obese that they couldn't move.

46:55They had to bring a crane to move this guy. I'm like, how do you get to that point in your life where your diet has enabled you to get into that position? And I think that's a very extreme example. But I think for humans in general, it's like we have so much access and there's so much abundance to so many terrible products and terrible foods that you slowly move in this direction where all of a sudden one day you wake up and you're like, holy shit, I'm so inflamed. I'm so unhealthy. I don't know what to do. It's like, that's why I think talking about the foundational stuff is so important because it's, listen, not everyone's going to be craned out of a window, but we're moving in a direction where that is becoming more common than it ever used to be.

47:36Like if you would have looked at that 200 years ago, that would have been like - It didn't exist. It didn't exist. It was impossible. But there weren't the same inputs. There weren't the same inputs of like food availability, the processed foods. Like someone couldn't have gotten in that situation where now there's like just this overabundance of this hyper-processed food. Yeah. Have you ever seen that like video? It was like that record set. It was like the most, the heaviest guy in the world. It's like that old photo. I don't know. Oh, it's like comparing to the past. Well, no, it was like, he like set the record and now it's like, unfortunately, it's like, it's that, that would be like a very common photo of what's happened to our population.

48:08And it just speaks to like the food supply and the, in the way that we eat now compared to how we used to. What I would just say though too, it's like, and this is not just for someone who, I don't know, who's like morbidly obese. This is like for normal people who every day are just consuming even like a little bit more food than you're what you're supposed to be eating before. And again, like, I mean, I suffer from this, like in my own family where it's like, if I go to work at our office, at the camp office, it's like, I make sure it's like the food's like super clean. So it's like, I'm kind of only eating vegetables, eggs, you know, meats, things like that.

48:40And I get home and I have kids that are like eight and 10. And it's like, we have fudge bars in the freezer, you know, and like, they're going to have a fudge bar after dinner. I was like, I want a fudge bar after dinner. You know, it's like, it's hard to not want to eat that fudge bar. And what I would just say is the fudge bar is not bad. Like it's not bad on its own. Right. But that concentrated sugar totally removed from the plant that it originally came from. Right. And the concentrated amount of like dairy fat that's combined with it. and it being this perfect, super, really easy thing for me to eat, it didn't exist before.

49:16Right. And it is, it is, again, it's not like the thing that's going to make me more inflamed, like that one, that one little thing, but it's a little spark. And if one night I'm like, I want two of these fudge bars. Oh, and my wife wanted to have wine that night. And so I had a glass of wine. And like, if I go to like, suddenly I had two glasses of wine and two fudge bars, like that is actually pretty, that's not good for me. I'm not saying it's bad. It's not, I'm not saying like I'm, you know, I'm not living healthy anymore, et cetera, but I'm introducing an amount of inflammation into my body that I wouldn't have done probably like 50, a hundred years ago.

49:51You know, I mean, maybe if I was like smoking tobacco, but there wasn't industrialized cigarettes at that point either. Right. So it's like, rather than just like these cases, that's a whole nother rabbit hole. If I go down, like tobacco is actually maybe not so bad if you don't have industrialized cigarettes. Omega-3s and cigarette smoking is ridiculous science too. So when they did these studies, they've done these like - Together, you mean? Yeah. So basically, I want to make sure I get this right. They do these studies where, large population studies, where people are consuming, they look at people's omega-3 levels and then they're aware of whether or not they smoked or not.

50:25And across the board, if you have these lower omega-3 levels, you have a 15 % higher rate of dying between the ages of 65 and 75. On average, it made people live about five years shorter. That's people below 4%. If you're up towards the 8 % and you have these higher levels of omega, you would live on average about five years longer. That's the core set of data. Then you look at who was smoking and not taking omegas versus who was smoking and taking omegas versus people who were not taking omegas. And in general, like obviously the people smoking cigarettes and having a lower amount of omega threes in their blood had the worst case.

51:06They're 50 % of them died. So no omegas and cigarettes. And cigarettes, 50 % of them died between 65 and 75. When I got back together with Michael, he was smoking cigarettes with no omegas. Well, keep going, keep going. And since he's, and since he got with you, he stopped smoking cigarettes when he takes omegas. his life. Well, no, I'm wondering if the stat now with the omegas is going to get me back on the cigarette train. Well, check the stat though. Yeah. So it's basically about the same percentage of people, people who smoked and took omegas as people who did not take omegas. So if you, if you smoked, but you also have this higher level of omega-3 index in your blood, you are about as healthy and have the same risk profile of dying from all cause mortality as someone who just didn't take the omega-3s.

51:54So it's interesting. The omega-3s literally kind of helped overcome some of that. Kind of cancel out. Yeah, I'm not trying to endorse it. Now, obviously, the people who didn't smoke - And took omegas as well. And took omegas had the best outcomes. And they lived five years longer than everyone. So, I mean, the best solution is don't smoke. But it just shows you like - All the smokers that are out there are like, great. Give me that pack of marbles. No, I'm just kidding. But no, but it's really interesting to show how increasing the omega profile negates some of the effects that you wouldn't have without.

52:24Because it's so anti-inflammatory. It's so anti-inflammatory. It basically just throughout the whole body, it doesn't just like stop the inflammation. It like resolves it more quickly, wherever it's occurring. And it makes your red blood vessels that much more flexible. Again, the more omega-3s, here's actually a really simple way of getting it. When you think about saturated fat that's like butter lard like they're the things that are like solid at room temperature they're thick when you consume that and put that in your body it's thick in your body that's like the basic underlying idea of like why you maybe don't want as much saturated fat i'm not i'm not i think there's this is i'm not anti-saturated fat but i'm just naming like you get the basic idea something like olive oil it's a monounsaturated fat it is it's it's very at room temperature, it's fluid, right?

53:12But if you put it in the fridge, it starts to get cloudy and get kind of hard. Omega-3s, you can refrigerate them and they stay super fluid. It's at some crazy low temperature where they finally condense and become hard. So when you think about your cell walls or these red blood vessels, if they're made of more saturated fats, they're stiffer and they're harder. And the more that they're made of these more fluid molecules, these omega-3s, the more fluid they are. So by increasing the proportion, like the little building blocks that literally make up every single one of your red blood vessels, right?

53:44If it has more omega-3s, it's more flexible. It's like, I don't know, you're making a shirt and you're adding in like spandex or rayon. I mean, that's a bad example because those are synthetic, but like it makes it more flexible and stretchy. It's like a stretchy material that you add into your red blood vessels. And that's why it seems to be why you also have way lower incidence of stroke, way lower incidence of heart attack, way lower incidence of all these things because your red blood vessels are much more fluid. damn angelo this is like it's like talking to chat gpt man does it help with blood pressure that's an interesting question in terms of it's exact i would assume it's very it's strongly correlated to blood pressure yeah because it's again it's it's the the flexibility of it there is this bomb it's called miracle bomb and jones road beauty sent it to me and it absolutely blew my mind.

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58:51And this is one of the only candles that I use. If you want to grab our non-toxic candle for 20 % off, just go to shopskinnyconfidential.com and you'll automatically get the discount. It's 20 % off at shopskinnyconfidential.com to November 1st. I would be crazy not to ask you about kids. I've told you on this podcast that I take your mango aminos. I put a scoop in each of their waters. I froth it up and I've rebranded it as candy water. We also have cookie water, which is electrolyte water. We also have watermelon water, which is your other aminos. That one's just watermelon. So like mango gets candy and watermelon actually guess which one they go for every time candy but they have it every day they love it he asked me my son asked me to put it in his water bottle at school what are the things that we can be doing for our kids with supplementation because my kids right now cannot swallow a pill and they can't swallow these omegas so what can i do to support them so i think the aminos is a great solution it's like immediately up being their like the equivalent of their daily protein intake i throw some creatine in there too.

1:00:03People might come for me, but that's... No, creatine's great. I'd throw it in there. Creatine's great for them. I think it's like... Give me two or three grams. Creatine's maybe more optional. I would say in this way, on a fundamental level, increasing the amount of amino acids they get every day and increasing the amount of omega-3s they get every day are a more fundamental thing for their age. How do we get the omega-3s? Well, that's actually one thing I'd say. I would try breaking a capsule and mix it in something. it doesn't taste gross. I think you're going to be shocked. That's a good idea.

1:00:34Like if you give it to me right now, I'll chew one right now and I'll show you. It's like, it's not. You have to chew one on air. Chew one. I'll do it. Okay, you guys, go watch the YouTube. He's chewing omegas. You could put it on top of their food easily or their yogurt or whatever. Yeah, I think you just mix it into something. Yeah, watch. Okay, he's going to eat it. I'll do it. And you're going to be surprised. It's like, you're going to think, oh, it's got to be some gross fish thing. It's not. Okay. It's super purified and clean. I've already had five today. I have to ask you this question.

1:01:02I'm going to mess up how to say this. What is the difference between ethyl Easter? Is that how you say it? Ethyl ester. Okay. And triglyceride? Triglyceride form. Form fish oils. And does it matter which one we take? It matters greatly. Okay. Ethyl ester is an older school, more chemical process. It's 70 % less bioavailable than if you get the triglyceride form. Triglyceride form is literally the format that fish oils occur in fish. So you want to definitely get it in a triglyceride format. It's cheaper to get in the ethyl ester. And honestly, when they originally did a lot of studies on omega and they actually created these, there's actually tech, there's drug forms of omega-3s.

1:01:47Omega-3s are so potent, so powerful that pharmaceutical companies created two drug forms of them. And when they did it, they did it in this ethyl ester form. And then a lot of copycat supplement companies followed that, but it's a very deficient form. You do not want ethyl ester. There's so much to do with this fish oil. You can't fuck around. You have to get the right fish oil. You really do have to get the right fish oil. I mean, geez, it's like a list of things that you can and can't do. You have to make sure. This is why it's so important to do your own research and talk to Chad. we have some true and false questions but first i have i have my own selfish question for you okay i want to tell you what times and how i take your products and i want you to rip it to shreds if it's wrong okay okay so this is how i use your products i just want to start by saying first of all i think i've said this to you before but like adherence and consistency is the most important thing.

1:02:41Okay. So it doesn't matter. No, I'll give you tips on how to make it better. I just want to say like for any, like if you do it every day, you're doing it better than 99 % of most people, right? And the fact you're doing it every day is awesome, but let's go. The only reason I do it every day is because I attach it to another habit. So I don't go to the gym until I make my two scoops of mango aminos with a scoop of creatine with ice frothed with water. So like I've associated that as like a dog whistle that I get that drink and I go to the gym. I don't know if you really want to be drinking ice, better room temperature, but see, see, oh, oh, he's going to rip me.

1:03:18It tastes way better if it's ice cold. I take the omegas first on an empty stomach with my electrolyte water. And then I make my aminos, like I told you with the creatine and take it to the gym. And then later in the day, I have the amino pills and I have seven. And then I also drink your coffee because I don't like mold in my coffee and you're very specific about that. For omegas and creatine, all that matters is you take it every day. Okay. And if you take the aminos before and with exercise, the blood flow from the exercise actually makes the aminos work even better. Okay. So long as you're just taking them every day.

1:03:54I think the only concern I sometimes have for people who like only associate it with exercise is like, oh, I'm not exercising today, so I'm not taking it. Like for sure, take aminos on the days that you're not exercising because you are literally stimulating protein synthesis you're telling your muscles to rebuild even when you're not working out funny enough i take actually more when i'm not working out like i just i think it makes sense i like what's your favorite flavor i like the mango but i do like the water the other day i traveled with the water like so i had to go to new york and back and i brought three of the packs with me and was drinking that throughout the day because i was like i'm not getting any exercise i'm sitting on a plane all day long you know like so i actually like did more what are the other flavors that's how i think about it too there's berry there's berry and there's lime and what i would say it's like i know you guys love mango always i think it's kind of like a spectrum of what you're into i think watermelon is like the most sweet mango is kind of this this kind of like sweet spot like not quite as sweet and i really like the flavor berries like a little bit less and lime is like the least sweet and kind of the most tart i don't think i've tried the line you have it really it's the yellow and green one.

1:04:57It's the yellow and green one. You haven't tried it? No. I really like it. I think that some people are like, ah, it's like not, people that like sweeter things don't like it as much, but I think it's great. It's the only one my wife drinks. My wife is obsessed with the lime. The watermelon has a little bit of like a spicy aftertaste to it. I know. Isn't that weird? It's got a little spicy aftertaste, but people like it. You know what I don't do? We don't do the berry. I do the, but the berry's not. I'm going to get the berry. Don't mess with my mango. Yeah. Ready? True or false? All fish oils are the same.

1:05:24I know this answer. False. False. So they're very different. Even people who eat a lot of fish should be using an omega formula. I think it depends on like what a lot of fish is. Again, like going back to it, I think I would be advising people to be trying to get at least a gram per day in their diet. Like you look at like what the Japanese are doing and you look at like how to get this higher omega-3 index. It's about a gram a day. That would be the equivalent of eating over eight servings of fish per week. Like fatty fish, like eight servings of salmon per week. So, I mean, if you're eating 10 servings of, you're like a fisherman or something, I don't know, and you're like - Sushi connoisseur?

1:05:59Yeah, I don't know. Maybe you're living in the Mediterranean or you're living in Cabo or something. You just eat tons of fatty fish. Like, yeah, maybe not. But otherwise, I would advise it. Fish oil helps hair growth. Yes. You can get enough omega-3s from plants such as flax and chia. Definitely not. This is an important, I think this is an important point. So, there's this third omega-3 we didn't talk about. It's called ALA. Okay. and it is what you find more in plants it's like in chia and flaxseed etc and this actually goes back to the old debate around the question of whether you need like omega-6 versus omega-3 like how much because basically if you have more omega-6s in your diet which is what comes from like seed oils but it also comes from like arachidonic acid comes from meats etc but like if you eat that and you have more of that in your system it competes for the ala to convert into the good omega-3s we really want, the EPA and the DHA, the things we've been talking about all show.

1:06:54So the concern was, gosh, if you eat too much of these omega-6s, you can't get enough EPA, DHA. But the thing is, ALA, only 2 % of it gets converted into this EPA and DHA. I feel like maybe we got a little heading on this one, but the big idea is the ALA is not the secret sauce that we're looking for, the much higher levels of ALA don't really, they do not have these outcomes that we're talking about. It's the EPA and the DHA and it doesn't convert to EPA and DHA. And a lot of plant-based people will say like, well, I get plenty of the ALA that I need from eating chia seeds and et cetera. And that's going to convert into EPA and DHA.

1:07:31It's not like 2 % of it's going to convert. So it's just, it's not even close to important. Like you got to either eat fish, eat some kind of, you know, fish oil supplement or some kind of very highly concentrated marine algae supplement. Last question. All fish oils cause you to burp. Absolutely not. That's the cheap, rancid, gross fish oil. I would say too, like some of these fish oils too, they have to have like lemon flavoring or like other weird things. It's because they're like not quality. Imagine going on a date with a guy and he just had like a bad fish oil and he's burping. Or a girl.

1:08:08I think that's a red flag. I don't really want to imagine myself on a date with a guy with fish burps but but yeah i get i get the sentiment yeah it's pretty good yeah so that would be my tinder bio yeah so another quick another quick tip on like why that may be happening is if you look at on the back of a label the concentration of the amount of the omega-3s relative to the total fat like omega-3s are fat they're literally like fat right and if you look at that on our label, it's going to be approximately 80%, right? About 80 % of the total fat is actually this, are these omega threes. That's a very high concentration.

1:08:45If you actually looked at like our COAs, like what we actually get when we test it independently, it's closer to like 85%. We just, we underrepresent what it is. So we, so we're always positive. It's more of that. And I promise it's even more than what's listed on there. A lot of brands, if you were to do the division, you were doing the omega-3 content divided by the total fat, even like legit brands, brands that like in the past, I was like, oh, that's a good brand. It's like 70%. If you look at like a cheap CVS brand, it could be 50%. So literally you're taking this thing that you think is omega-3s and it's a bunch of, half of it is not even omega-3s.

1:09:21It's other oil from the fish. It's like omega-6s even. Yeah. Yeah. So, and that's what tastes gross is what I'm trying to say. Can we do a giveaway? Let's do it. Can we do a big giveaway of all my favorites from your brand? Let's do it. Okay. Lots of mango aminos and creatine. All you have to do is follow at Keon on Instagram and tell us your favorite takeaway from this episode on my latest post on at Lauren Bostic. You guys also gave us 20 % off. You guys have been a long partner for forever. You know, it's like, again, your fourth time on here. We love your stuff. To save 20 % off, go to getkeon.com slash skinny.

1:09:56You guys have been nice enough to keep that code for us for years now. Thank you. We use our own code. Thank you. Angela, you're the best. It's so many things to talk about. Thank you so, so much for coming back on the show.