The 5 most important supplements

what are the five best supplements that you should always have on hand okay so the first one is my sorry George and I have a joke about his Vitamin cstone vitamin C um I think you should bring an intervenous bottle with you um no all right oh kidding aside um so number one okay and this is where I this is where I would start with anyone in any condition doing anything is you must have at least a good highquality multivitamin multi-mineral supplement okay and then that's going to cover a good amount of bases uh for you okay because that's going to give you your your B vitamins vitamin C it's going to give you selenium and and vitamin A and all this so that's going to just kind of cover pretty much all your Essentials all right we all we all need vitamins and minerals that's just part of what we need and usually if you have a good multivitamin um that'll at least give you that remember it's an adjunct to what you're eating so it's a supplement to what you're eating okay so you definitely need a multivitamin period I would say you need that for the rest of your life if if there was one thing to take that would be it okay um so that's number one um second thing and we if we're going with let's say we're going with top five okay second thing I would take is I would add a vitamin D supplement to that okay vitamin D now vitamin D is responsible for I think it's probably 2,000 to 3,000 enzyme reactions in your body and vitamin D we know that it boosts your immune system we know that it's an immune system modulator it really kind of gets it up there to the high level but it does so many other things that I can't there's just too many to name but again if you're traveling you're out there you're traveling in the winter right you've got um you've got you know whether it's covid or flu and coals out there right and you don't want to be caught let's say you're going to be on stage and you're you're feeling crappy right you're feeling sick you don't want to be on stage with a cold if you can help it okay well vitamin D if you get that high enough is going to help uh to alleviate that Andor prevent that okay or something that would have turned into a flu may just have been a a small cold but if you get the vitamin D high enough so I would recommend a vitamin D anywhere from 2,000 units to 5,000 units depending on how big of a person you are yes body weight makes a difference okay so the if you're heavier person you're going to need more vitamin D so let's just say you take 4,000 units you know sometimes that come in just that pill I would take that every single day you can take that with your multibind and you take that with I'm sorry I would need just 20 units in little dropper um yeah so I would I would I would take that and I would and by the way any supplements that I talk about I I would take them with the meal okay um but yeah vitamin D is extremely important because it's really going to help you get through the winter time and all that stuff that's going on especially again if you're on tour and with crowds and with people and all that type of stuff okay um number three would be a good fish oil supplement or omega-3 okay now the reason for that is and again keep in mind that the Omega-3 supplements or fish oil um is something is essential it's called the essential fatty acid okay it's essential because your body needs it the body cannot make it so you have have to take it in and if you're not taking it in you're you're you know there's all kinds of stuff that can happen now just so you know the reason why that's that helps is because you're again you're on the road you're out there you're dealing with constant stress you're dealing with physical chemical and emotional stress right it could be from gear it could be from the crowds it could be from playing it could be from not sleeping right sleeping on a bus or whatever the case may be well that's actually going to raise cortisol that's actually gonna raise inflammation because again it's a lot of stress happening on the body night after night after night okay so what fish oil is going to do the Omega is are going to do is going to kind of bring down any any and all inflammation that you're dealing with okay it's going to kind of keep it down number one and number two your your cells your cells your all your cells are actually made of fat okay and the the the omegas actually help coat your cells and make them pliable they make them work better and you have these little things that the these little things on top of the cells called receptors so anytime let's say you're getting nutrients in the fish oil makes the receptor more pliable therefore it can take whatever it is and turn and bring it into the cell so if you don't have enough of the omegas this the receptor gets stiff and it doesn't work properly so you don't get the nutrients in okay so fish oil is very important for that for the brain as well for Focus fish oil is very good for focus it gives um and it it is a little bit of a blood thinner okay but it gets the blood to your brain and uh it can help you focus any anyone on any kind of blood thinners by the way just keep that in mind make sure if you're going to do that you talk to your doctor first to make sure it's safe for you to take a fish oil supplement because it is again going to thin the blood if you get the dose high enough okay fish oil very very important it also makes something called prostaglandins again that helps to squash the uh inflammation so that's number three number four I would say uh a some kind of probiotic supplement okay now we have an epidemic of gut problems in society and that is a I mean it's I I would say probably more than 50% of of the diseases that we are dealing with today um are due to gut problems it could be uh an over growth of candida in the gut it can be disbiosis it can be a Le what's called a leaky gut okay that's when your gut the the the barrier of your gut gets kind of penetrated because it becomes weak and you get leaky proteins that actually go through into your bloodstream so what ends up happening is your body thinks it's a foreign protein and attacks it and then this is where you can start to get autoimmune problems and I would say that a good majority of autoimmune problems like lupus or like um rheumatoid arthritis those types of things are started from a leaky gut so probiotics what they're going to do is they're going to recolonize your gut they're going to make your gut barrier um you know tighter they're going to give you good bacteria and they're going to help you with digestion okay if you have any digestive problems or whatever so you that that's the only one that you take on an empty stomach first thing before your meal okay because this way it gets it goes all the way through into the gut and does whatever it needs to do before the food actually gets in there so but that's going to help clean up so if you have any kind of gas and bloating after you eat again on the road you're feeling you know horrible sluggish after you eat and you or you've just been going on the road with any kind of you know those kind of problems definitely take some kind of probiotic with you and take that in um it's absolutely fantastic to do that and number five I'm going to throw this in there because it's just one of my favorite things to take um it's an it's a supplement called co-enzyme Q10 and why coenzyme coenzyme I you could just put CoQ10 okay coqen they call it also the reason why this one is very very important is because coenzyme Q10 it's made in the liver okay your body makes it in the liver it's the same pathway that is actually made um uh the same pathway that is made with cholesterol okay so if somebody's on a Statin drug for example and they st stop their cholesterol being made it also stops your CoQ10 being made so just keep that in mind if you're on a a Statin drug that's why a lot of doctors actually put people on CoQ10 if they put them on a stat but what CoQ10 does is it goes through what's called an electron transfer chain in your body so you know your body is made of electrons right that's what gives you your energy right that's basic you know high school biology so it goes through this electron transfer chain it actually gives your your cells energy so your cells have what's called um mitochondria inside your cells except for your red blood cells you have what's called mitochondria like little cell engines that's what gives you your energy those cell engines okay if those cell engines are not working properly you're going to feel tired you're going to feel sluggish you're going to feel you know just not right bringing fog all these types of things but what co-enzyme Q10 does it actually helps to create what's called ATP which is the helps your mitochondria make energy okay helps oil your cell goes into your muscles but what one of the big things it does it goes into your heart muscle and it makes your heart muscle not only beat it gives your heart muscle the energy to beat but it also gives it the energy to beat in rhythm in the proper Rhythm as well okay some of that yeah it's really really it's really really good um it's it's and this there's huge stud I mean literally this is one of the only supplements actually with fish oil that is actually like that mainstream actually says is a good thing to take okay it's one of the few yes it's one of the few things that that they say and again I think part of the reason is because of the Statin thing because because they what ends up happening is and again if you're a musician and you're on a Statin or or you're on some kind of medication keep in mind that medications do deplete a lot of that stuff that's why it's important to take some of that stuff in that's proba why they put it okay yeah it's a depletion of that longer but part of the problem is let's say you let's say you're on a Statin drug you stop your your cholesterol to being made of course you're stopping your CoQ10 being made well your your heart over a long period of time is not getting enough CoQ10 what's going to happen it's going to start to weaken that's why one of the side effects of statin drugs and again this is science you can look all this up one of the side effects is actually a weakening of the heart because there's no CoQ10 there giving it the energy to do what it needs to do okay wow so so Co so yeah so co-enzyme Q10 extremely and it's going to help you with your energy so the multivitamin the CoQ10 and the vitamin D are going to be really all good for bringing up the ATP and the energy and then the fish oil and the probiotics are going to be for clamping down on the um on the uh inflammation and keeping your system in good check and that type of thing so those are my five recommendations