Energy Drink Bad, Redbull Zyns, AI Fitness Trackers

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The latest YouTube video also covers these topics if you’d rather watch:

At a Glance:

Entertainment

• Alex Eubank Scams Cooking for Gains

Science & Business

• Study: “Energy Drinks Reduce Muscle Growth Up to 90%”

• Redbull Zyns

• Tyson Foods to Remove Synthetic Dyes

• AI Trackers in Fitness

• Ghost x Sour Patch Kids Partnership Cancelled

Let’s get into it.

Entertainment

Alex Eubank Scams Cooking for Gains

Cooking for Gains, a popular fitness influencer known for excessively slurping in all of his videos, went to his IG story to tell his story about recently getting scammed by Alex Eubank.

The scam? He bought Alex’s modded Audi R8 and it blew up after he tried to race a few people. Aaron Endres explains what happened and includes the story videos for context.

Overall, it sucks that this happened, but like Aaron said, should’ve been more due diligence on this one before he bought it. Even without knowing much about cars, it doesn’t take much to guess that a modded performance Audi owned by a young guy could be on its last leg.

Science & Business

Study: Energy Drinks Reduce Muscle Growth Up to 90%

BREAKING NEWS: “ENERGY DRINK BAD”

A study from 2 years ago has resurfaced due to a viral post from Instagram account Gain Goat claiming that energy drinks stunt myogenesis, which is the process where myoblasts (immature muscle cells) develop into skeletal muscle tissue.

The study exposed myoblasts to diluted solutions of energy drinks, and recorded the affects using various energy drinks including Redbull and Celsius.

What they found was that exposure to these energy drinks severely inhibited myogenesis, but where I think it gets weird is that it seems like they essentially dumped energy drinks directly onto muscle cells; that’s at least how I’m interpreting it. Which goes without saying, that is not how the human body processes drinks unless you’re injecting White Monster directly into your muscles like synthol.

One could assume that the liver, pancreas, and whatever else is going to filter out at least some of the ingredients before it makes contact with muscle tissue, which would not result in the same “solution” as diluting straight energy drinks.

Read the study for yourself here, and let me know what you think in the YouTube comments.

Via | Nature.com

Redbull Zyns

Great strides are being made in crafting the most efficacious, hard hitting lifter fuel, this time by Instagram user @pouchbrah and his latest creation, Redbull Zyns.

This innovation was crafted by emptying the powder from 6mg Zyn nicotine pouches into a test tube, then combining it with a Redbull drink, throwing it in an unbalanced centrifuge, and using edible glue to reassemble the pouches containing the new mix.

No word on what these feel like, but something interesting came up in the comments from the science crowd.

When used properly, centrifuges are used to separate substances, not combine them. Pouchbrah seemed to do the opposite by not balancing the weight in the centrifuge.

There were some questions in the comments on how/if this would work, so I looked up if that’s what happens when you rip an unbalanced centrifuge. This was what I found:

Thank you for risking your life for lifter science @pouchbrah.

Tyson Foods to Remove Synthetic Dyes

Following one month after RFK Jr’s statement declaring that The Department of Health and Human Services plans to remove synthetic food dyes from the U.S food supply through revoking authorizations of using some and working with companies to voluntarily remove other dyes, Tyson Foods seems to be getting ahead of it.

Reuters reported at the beginning of May that Tyson Foods has been “proactively reformulating” food products containing petroleum-based synthetic dyes and plans to finish work to eliminate them from its production process by the end of May.

Kennedy’s push for this is meant to address chronic disease in children and suggested that it would also address rising rates of conditions ranging from ADHD to food allergies, which Reuters states that these relationships are made without evidence.

Via | Reuters

AI Trackers in Fitness

AI has found its way into just about every industry, creative space, and job in the last few years, and fitness seems to be blowing up in it too. From AI content slop, calorie trackers, and even workout generators, it’s everywhere.

Some notable apps coming on to the scene recently have been Cal AI, Dr. Cal, and Supphead.

Alex Eubank and the Tren Twins both have/are currently promoting the Cal AI app that allows you to track your macros by just snapping a photo and it will automatically track it and show how it’s building towards the food/weight goals that you set in the beginning. Dr. Cal works the same way, you’ve probably seen it promoted on a few meme pages (Mine included, see this timestamp for an explanation).

Very cool stuff, but it’s hard to fully automate something like that because while these apps are very good at identifying specific foods, the actual measurements and macros prove to not always be reliable.

Supphead is a little different, they started out as an app that used AI to break down and compare different supplements like preworkout, protein, etc. More recently, they have developed a feature that also tracks macros/food with a simple picture. Only difference I found was that Supphead was up front about the shortcomings of AI macro tracking.

Aside from putting products head to head, I found that this would’ve been useful when I was trying to buy raw ingredients to copy other preworkout formulas minus the flavoring to save some money.

None of this was paid promo, they’re not a direct partner, I just like the app and how they were up front about the macro-tracking. Definitely would like to figure something out to work them in the future though.

GHOST x Sour Patch Kids Partnership Cancelled

GHOST Lifestyle CEO Dan Lourenco announced on X/Twitter that Mondelez Foods (Oreo, Chips Ahoy, Sour Patch Kids, Swedish Fish) “has decided to not move forward with us in this next chapter of Ghost Lifestyle".”

This will affect their protein, preworkout, and RTD energy drink products now found on store shelves. I’ve seen other companies make a close copy of a previously branded flavor and just call it something else, and it wouldn’t surprise me if GHOST decided to do the same.

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