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Eat your supplements cheat sheet 💊🥦🥘 - Creatine: herring, red meat - Glycine: gelatin - Magnesium: pumpkin seeds - Boron: dried fruit …

what it claims

Obtain your nutritional supplements directly from whole food sources rather than isolated supplement forms.

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Siim Land proposes a 'food-first' approach here to optimize intake of micronutrients and bioactive compounds.

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Siim Land proposes a 'food-first' approach here to optimize intake of micronutrients and bioactive compounds. From a scientific perspective, this strategy is supported by research: food matrices offer superior bioavailability and nutrient synergy often absent in capsules (meta-analysis, Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition). For example, magnesium from pumpkin seeds or omega-3s from fatty fish are indeed absorbed better and accompanied by protective cofactors. However, certain points merit nuance: although creatine is present in red meat, it is very difficult to reach the clinical doses (3-5g/day) used in RCTs (randomized controlled trials) through diet alone without a massive caloric intake. Similarly, boron or spermidine content can vary considerably depending on cultivation or processing methods. This is not to deny the utility of supplements, but to emphasize that diet is the essential foundation.

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Claimed by Siim Land. Noli grades the claim, never the person.

Decoded by Noli · July 18, 2026 · the original post

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Linked to, not proven to cause.

Measured on: general principle

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