Supplements Won't Fix Your Gut. Here's Why.

Just a few years ago, I thought supplements was the thing that was going to fix all my issues. I was dealing with getting bloated after I was after eating, gassy. I had very low energy levels despite being in my young twenties. Libido was nowhere to be seen. I was stressed. Recovery was shit. I was training super super hard without really getting any results. And like probably you watching this as well, I I thought that. As long as I just have to find this one magic pill and then all my issues or these things that I'm dealing with will improve and will get fixed. So for the bloating, I tried every single digestive enzyme and probiotic and prebiotic and all these things in order to try to find the right pill, right? Digestive enzymes, bitters, butyrate, DAO enzymes for the histamine, whatever, tried everything. For the stress, ashwagandha, you know, as long as I supplement with ashwagandha, my stress is gonna be managed better. L-theanine, all these things, literally tried it all. For the libido, Tongkat Ali, Fadogia Agrestis, all these things that are supposed to be beneficial for your libido and for your hormones, right? Long story short, I've tried everything, but None of these things that I was dealing with improved. Maybe significantly, or not significantly, sorry, just a tiny, tiny bit, right? And then I thought maybe I just need more, maybe I just need to find another one because this wasn't a good one, and constantly searching for this like magic, the magic pill, right? And this is the trend that I see in the whole fitness industry and in the whole health industry, because everyone is always looking for a solution in a pill form. And I'm gonna explain in this video exactly why this is the complete wrong way and why this is backfiring you and backfiring your health and will actually cause more problems than good. Just also, if I give some more context, if you're new to the channel, first of all, welcome. My name is Lucas. I'm just a regular guy from Stockholm, Sweden. And over the last 6 years, I've dedicated all my time and effort to try to solve this complex thing called And all I do on this channel is just break all the lessons down so that you have clear implementations and action steps going forward. So without further ado, let's go into this. So the first thing that I need you to understand here is if we have a downregulated process in our body, let's say, let's take an example. This is actually something I chatted with a client yesterday. So if we have a downregulated butyrate production in our body, in our body, right? What a lot of people do is like, oh, maybe I supplement with butyrate and then all my problems is gonna fix. That is solving backwards because what you're doing then by taking this as a supplement is you're giving your body a signal that it doesn't need to fix the actual issue. We don't have to solve and upregulate this issue that we have and this downregulated production chain that we have because here I just magically got it. Right? This is the signal and what is happening when you're supplementing. And it's the same thing with the big P trend that is going on right now. Everyone is just like, oh, take this peptide for— and it's gonna fix all your issues and this and that and whatnot, right? Which, this is also a naturally occurring process in our body, right? If our system is working how it's supposed to. If you are putting a syringe in your body with a chain of amino acids, What do you think— what's the signal that you're sending to your body? You're sending the signal that we don't need to fix this ourselves because we get it externally. This is what becomes problematic. Because what you're doing now is you're creating an environment in your body where you're going to continue to downregulate your internal processes because they now think that they don't need to work, right? So it's gonna— all these internal processes are gonna get worse and worse and worse and worse over time instead of improve, which is the thing that you initially wanted. Right. And this is happening because your microbiome is messed up. Because your microbiome and the bacteria in your gut is the first layer and the first domino in every single function of your body. Every single function. That bacteria is what sends signals and triggers different processes and different chains of processes and things and external, internal supply chains, whatever, however you wanna view it inside your body, right? So if the bacteria that is in charge of creating BPC-157 is downregulated and it's not working how it's supposed, it's not gonna send out that proper signaling and send to your tissues where you, where it needs to to repair, right? Or if the bacteria that is supposed to trigger the butyrate production is downregulated and is not active, it's not working how it's supposed to, it's not gonna send enough signals to produce that specific thing in your body. It's the same thing if we talk DAO enzymes. Like, a lot of people are sensitive towards histamine-rich foods, right? Sauerkraut and all these things that are fantastic for you if your gut is working properly. But? If the bacteria responsible for triggering your DAO enzyme production is downregulated, you're gonna have massive issues eating histamine-rich food because you're putting a lot of stuff in that your body don't have a mechanism active to handle right now, right? And as a byproduct, you're gonna get massive symptoms. And if we spin this further, you know, if your butyrate production is downregulated, that means that your your gut lining is not gonna get as well repaired as it's supposed to, which means that you're not gonna have this internal filter change that's supposed to happen every 4 or 5 days, which means that some of the nutrients is gonna be leaked out to your bloodstream, some of the toxins is gonna be leaked out into your bloodstream, and that is gonna leave you with brain fog, that is gonna leave you with depression, it can leave you with joint pain, and this is where genetics come into the picture, right? Everyone that says that, oh, genetics is what dictates if you're building muscle or this and that, Bullshit. In my opinion, genetics is what's gonna play— like, you and me can have the same problem, right? Let's say we have a leaky gut. My symptoms might be purely brain fog. Your symptoms might be joint pain. This is where genetics plays in, right? 2 people can have the same root, but it's manifesting in different ways. And this is what we have to understand as well. And this is why it's so important instead of just always slapping on a band-aid to the issue, to solve from the actual root. Because if you continue to also just put supplement, supplement, supplement, supplement, what you're doing is you're masking the symptoms. So you don't really know like what's happening and what you need to do to actually fix it in the first place. And this is also why with majority of our clients that comes to me and starts working with me, One of the first things I do is get them off all the supplements that they're taking. Off. Because if you have 20, 10 to 20 different pills that you're taking every single day, we're never gonna understand what is working, first of all, but also what the actual issue is. Issue is because all of these things are just gonna mask and hide the actual root. So strip those away and then we see behind the curtains, right? Then we can start to see what is the actual issue? And all of these processes that I just went over are things that you actually can support and progressive overload and expand and increase and get better internally, right? The butyrate production, the dopamine production. You can do that naturally, you don't need supplements. And if you apply the kind of standard progressive overload approach and you actually fix your microbiome and you continue to broaden the bacterial profile and it gets better and better and healthier and healthier and broader and broader, all of these internal processes is going to work how they're supposed to. And as a byproduct of that, you're never gonna You don't need any supplements. And the supplements comes in later in that equation as what it's called or what it's supposed to be, supplements. It should amplify something that is already working. That's how we need to see it. It shouldn't be the solution. And this is why I think like the trend right now in the industry is so messed up because everyone is a snake oil salesman. They're trying to sell you, take this supplement, take that, take this, and it's gonna fix all your issues. Or take— This syringe and it's gonna fix all your stuff, right? Which is so messed up. Because the only thing you're doing is you're taking the problem you have right now and then you're just pushing it to the future. And you have to understand that every single time you do that, you're gonna make it just worse for yourself in the future. You're just gonna make it worse and worse and worse. Because nothing in this life is neutral. Everything is either positive or negative, right? So you're either improving or you're going in the right direction, right? And what you're doing is that you're hiding, you're putting a band-aid, but internally it's getting worse and worse and worse by taking that approach as the solution approach. So this is why I don't like supplements and why supplements are— or don't get me wrong, I think supplements can be good, but it should be used strategically and it should be used when everything else is already working. It should be an amplifier. Right, it should not be what you rely on. It's the same thing with caffeine. A lot of people are relying on caffeine to get through the day and for energy and whatnot. That's not how it's supposed to be. If I drink coffee, I wanna feel like fucking Tony Stark, you know? I should be flying. That's how I should feel. It should amplify me, right? And that's exactly the takeaway that I want you to get from this video. Supplements Will not fix your stuff. I thought that that was going to fix all my stuff and all my issues because that's what every single guy on the internet says, you know, take this detox supplement, take this and that, take this binder to cleanse your liver and jump on this crazy protocol, whatever. It's always, always, always surface-level things. Pill, sell you something, right? That's what it is. I'm not trying to sit here and sell you something magic. Like literally, I've said this so many times in all videos, I'm not an alien, it's not like I have some information from another planet that no one else has, right? I work with people that wanna take off all that thinking from their plate and they just wanna have a strategic, systematic, step-by-step game plan to get to their goal and to fix all their issues, right? And they just, they're sick and tired of just constantly thinking about it and trying to solve it and doing all the research themselves and seeing people without getting anywhere, right? It's not like I'm sitting here with some snake oil, like that's never what I say. And it's literally just strategic based on all the patterns that I've seen with over hundreds of clients so far that has been struggling with all these issues and also fixing them for them, right? And then taking that, applying a simple framework, taking all the thinking off your plate. So the only thing you need to worry about is just executing and your issues will get rid of, and you will get rid of your issues, right? No snake oil, no supplements, strategic framework. That is what I'm selling, right? Let's see if I missed something. No. Once again, the general kind of just takeaway I want you, if you've listened so far, stop looking at— it's all the videos that are, that is going viral as well, like this supplement helped me Fix my anxiety and blah blah blah blah blah. And then there's all this research, and then people don't understand that there's there's financial benefits behind this, right? There's someone selling some big company selling this specific supplement. That's why they're they're they're doing all these studies and taking all of them or bringing them up so they can have something to support their support their product. Like this is this is this is how the world works, unfortunately. That's just how it is. Yeah, stop looking and thinking that a supplement will fix all your issues. I have so many examples with clients that have— just a recent one, John, 20 years going to naturopaths, functional medicine doctors, practitioners, just supplements protocol, detox protocols, absolutely everything. Nothing had been able to fix his bloating or— His bowel movements and he had inconsistency always, always, always, right? And now a couple months into working with me, everything is fixed basically. No supplements. So if you're interested in that, once again, there's no— it's no magic, it's systematic framework. It's taking all the thinking off your plate so you can do your best and And focus your energy on your business and life or whatever it is and just outsource this problem. So that is what it is. If so, check the link below. If not, I hope you enjoyed and yeah, throw away all your supplements. It's just hiding the actual problem and it's not making you healthier. Implement when everything is actually working super, super good and your gut is healthy and your stress is under control. And your nervous system is good, and your libido is good, and your energy is good. That's when you can have the coffee and caffeine, right? This is how we need to think about it. I'm on zero supplements right now, for the record. Zero. Thanks for watching. That's today's rant. I'll see you in the next one.