Cognitive Effects of Creatine, Nasal Breathing, and Current Trends in Science (Ep 91)

[@BodyworksPrime]

Another amazing episode. Thanks both for taking the time to make these :)

[@thebarbellbackpacker]

Came for the current trends. Stayed for the Wild Kingdom segment. Thanks Greg Fruitadino.

[@TeresaSanches]

Greg, your giggles make my day. Thank you both for this amazing podcast. Much love from Portugal ❤️🤗

[@moltar49able]

Although Greg and Eric are shills for Macrofactor©; their banter about other species this episode is on point.

[@SLouiss]

Just started MacroFactor! I hope to take my unimpressive total as a 275lb competitor to a somewhat impressive total as a 220lb competitor

[@cristiansharp6541]

To expand on what Greg said about the smell of cat urine, the decomposition of cat urea by bacteria produces mercaptans. Mercaptans are the family of chemicals responsible for the pungency of skunk spray and added to natural gas (which is naturally colorless and odorless) so that humans can more easily detect leaks. The concentration of their urine may be a factor in the way cat urine smells (both as fresh piss and as it decomposes), but I think it might be more accurate to point to the production of mercaptans as the reason for the foul smell of cat piss. I appreciate the cat facts! I listened to How to Fight Loneliness off the Summerteeth album and now I've lost the motivation to brush my teeth and self-care in general including exercise. More like Weaker by Wilco. In all seriousness, I appreciate the music suggestions

[@PeteMcQueeny]

Not a Bill Hicks reference! That was a Mitch Hedberg joke! "I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too"

[@greglnuckols]

oh fuck. yes, you're right.

[@xHaRm51]

Bruhs, I published an original research study a couple years ago. Just last week I got an email saying that my article had been cited. I check out the article and it's a meta analysis. Very surprising, cause I know this topic doesn't have enough presence in the literature to warrant a meta analysis (it's about a very specific aspect of suicidality). I open up the paper and to my amazement, 6 whole studies. 6 studies in this meta analysis. Wow, okay.

[@azulsimmons1040]

According to Liver King and his Ancient Fitness Religion, we need only eat gorillas and elephants and we will become uber jacked. And we must pray to the Liver King's gods I imagine too.

[@MichaelWarrenPerform]

And liver.

[@AdamGell]

Great conversation! Any information on asthma and creatine.. took it over 20 years ago and seemed to aggravate it. Any insight would be appreciated! Ty

[@CrimsonStrider]

7:27 Yeah people seem very disappointed when I respond with “nothing”. I do wash my face more in summer because my sweat is very sticky. That more recent. Typically I've never washed my face.

[@doctordoggo1090]

I switched to lose it it from my fitness pal. Loving it so far. It works quicker and the barcode scanning function is a lot more accurate.

[@WhopperCheeseDota]

Nice video macro factor guys

[@zachhardman6937]

The first degree-granting university was not Bologna. There was one established by the Abbasid Caliphate in the 9th or 10th century.

[@LifesHarlequin]

Question: Recently broke my finger (shattered bone & near amputation) and gripping with my hand is not possible due to a forearm length brace. But, I still want to train and this injury comes 1wk in on my cutting phase. Is cutting still advisable during a serious injury, or should I just try to maintain while the bone and tissues heal? Will a 250-500 kcal deficit impact my ability to knit the bone back together? I'm currently doing a 5/wk - Legs/Push/Legs/Pull/Cardio & Core Split with high volume (10-20 rep range) just to keep everything moving vice my previous OWL style training.

[@un0rth0docs]

Move to maintenance calories when recovering from a serious injury, absolutely.

[@nicole7431]

This week on the podcast, Greg transforms into Freelee the Banana Girl.

[@catalinciora3185]

An idea to expand the database for a specific individual/specific region would be to give the users the ability to add specific foods that can be seen only by themselves. Don't know if that makes sense but might give more flexibility on an individual basis.

[@greglnuckols]

You can already do that

[@LorenzKamo]

I breathe through my mouth most of the time because my nose is constantly clogged - bad nasal path

[@jonjones5092]

Greg wishing to be a catboy is the kind of intro segment you can only get at Stronger by Science. Sadly, cats need more water per pound of body weight than humans, so the desired effect isn't gonna work out. Feed your cats wet food! Those badass kidneys can end up overworked if they're dehydrated.

[@greglnuckols]

To be clear, not a catboy. I just want cat kidneys.

[@jonjones5092]

@@greglnuckols I dunno Greg, "Wish I was a cat" is pretty unambiguous phrasing. /j

[@Vastlee]

Wanna remove even more steps? Tell your developers to add Home/Alexa integration in so that I can just say "Hey Google, Log 2 Strawberry Pop Tarts".

[@Yupppi]

The thing confusing about macrofactor is that if you got half the screen filled with your search/keyboard and you perhaps click something, back button throws you out of the adding to the dashboard completely, instead of let's say undo the last action like focusing on a field. Like I just wanted to get the massive another window out of the way. Also the tab bar with search, custom, recipes etc is really really small. Commonly when you add a meal, it's your recipe that you add, then you'd like to search for a food item that either is your custom added foods or pre-existing in the database so you have to get some screen out of the way, reach your thumb ~6 inches up at the top of the screen at a tiny bar to scroll sideways, but when you tried to scroll sideways the app thought you just wanted to hide the big on top screen and you need to roll the tab bar again. Then you get confused where exactly the app requests your usual dose (let's say 2,5 dl/255 grams of milk instead of default 1 dl) instead of the amount that is added. Like you get some of the same items in search and custom, but the values for the portion are different and you're always surprised by what happened this time. Also you can't search with the name of the manufacturer, you can't start typing the manufacturer and the product name to distinguish between similar products. So basically I want to be able to easily predict what I should be doing and what the app should be doing when I think it should be doing this or that for me, and I want to end up in predictable places that make it easy to put everything together in my head so it's like the extension of my arm and therefore my brain. It's not as critical if it saves one or two clicks if it makes my brain go "why did this happen, I have to start the whole process from the beginning after adding one of the recipes, a couple of custom food items, a general database item and adjusting the portions of everything, just because I used the back button once trying to defocus a field" for example. Technically it is a shorter process, but now I have to do double what I'd do everywhere else because the app didn't behave as expected and furthermore it did the worst possible action in relation to all the actions that happened before and it didn't even try to confirm if I truly want to delete 2 minutes worth of work with one button and wipe out the choices even if you return to the food logging screen. Especially in cases where you're not sure if "done" button on the keyboard behaves as logging everything or just confirms the value. And sometimes the back button does nothing and you're stuck until you reach for the arrow at the top, sometimes it throws you to the dashboard, the main view, in the middle of doing stuff and wipes all out, and sometimes it just throws you straight out the app instead of dashboard. In the end macrofactor might be the fastest once you get to know its gimmicks, but I think apps like myfitnesspal is more intuitive in visual design for the first timer DESPITE having unnecessary stuff (well the latest update of myfitnesspal actually changed its design worse when you have to go through more hoops and some of the commonly useful views are behind odd menus). The common theme for both is that even if you find the exact food item you're looking for and you didn't add it yourself, it very, very likely still has completely wrong nutrition information. Even when the barcode scan resulted in the correct food item in macrofactor, the name didn't match what it said on the product (my assumption is that it's because the product has a slightly different name on the markets that macrofactor barcode scanning database is currently supporting). So this might become an annoyance in the future unless your local area database is supported AND prioritized over other areas. I've found that more often than not it's more effective to ignore barcode scanning and the existing database and just add all the items yourself, that saves you the time of crosschecking between the existing database entries and realizing that it's just not right, and you can just right away input the info. The good part about myfitnesspal logging was that finnish people had created the majority of your market food items and they used 100g serving to log the info (because the nutrient information is per 100g in every single item) so you didn't have to guess like with macrofactor's barcode entry of say "Trader Joe's 100% pure organic maple syrup" (that's sold as maple joe's pure maple syrup here) what on earth would be 0,3 cups of maple syrup servings ratio when you added 8 grams on your bowl of fruits. As if 0,3 cups was such an intuitive basic portion of maple syrup to add, or to quickly gauge by eye. Like it becomes a completely unnecessary math test or iteration (except quick math/trial doesn't work with the maple syrup entry because the trader joe's entry doesn't list grams at all so you have to calculate what is 8/100 grams from the nutrition information and then compare the calories by iterating until it matches and then you know what the ratio of 0,3 cups is to 8 grams so you can log your 8 grams as some fraction of 0,3 cups). Technically you could also pour the syrup in a let's say tablespoon measure or desilitre measure and convert that, but maybe you just want to pour it on your food while on the scale. Big shoutout to macrofactor having common raw foods like bananas for example in the database and having all the information down to last nutrient and very comparable to the info I found though, that was a pain in something like myfitnesspal. Myfitnesspal had a big button for "copy the last meal" that copied your dinner log from yesterday and that made using it so fast, I barely even used the app daily at that point and still got the logging complete. This said I still think that the main function of the macrofactor, the dynamic calorie balance plan, the estimation and the updated values and progress logging is so good that it overcomes any currently existing UI or logging inconsistency or annoying detail, like the inconsistent and unintuitive back button behavior inside the app. It's THE selling point of the app and I trust that the future updates will only improve the UI and user experience, it's already worth paying for (you get pretty fair discounts for longer subscriptions too).

[@giuliam2531]

Geology is the Kardashians of science as Sheldon Cooper said😂

[@gokukakarot1855]

For the algorithm

[@angelvenegas6143]

Empanadas aren’t a thing in Mexico 🤣

[@Shabanezloth]

You never soap? Are you the type of person we can smell coming before we see coming? I need an answer, for science.

[@greglnuckols]

I've never been told I smell bad. I mean, I do still shower daily and use shampoo and deoderant

[@Shabanezloth]

Alright thanks :)