Hello everyone, welcome to Mind Pump. If you've followed the show for any time, you know, Sal is a supplement fiend. Well, he had a dream experience here recently. He helped formulate a product for Organifi. In this episode, we speak with Chennai, who is a nutritionist, herbalist, health expert and formulator of products for Organifi. And she has a very interesting backstory. So please enjoy the show. Finally, finally, finally. Sal, we can finally talk about this. I am so pumped. Yeah, we've been alluding to it for what, maybe three, four more months? I don't know, it's been quite a while. It's been a while. One of my, as you guys know, one of my passions is supplements. I love supplements. I love formulations. We know. I use the word passion instead of addiction. But anyway, it's a lot of fun. Organifi, who's, and we have someone here, we're gonna ask some questions because this was really fun for me.  Do you guys have any ideas? And you guys, I mean, yeah, I was like, oh yeah, I have a lot of ideas. I jumped out of my chair super excited for a couple of reasons. One, because I've always wanted to do that. And also I don't have to source the product and buy the all the stuff. So it's really great. I get to do the fun part. And then two, Organifi's, we just respect the hell out. It's like the super integrity with this company. And as I've complained about before on the podcast, the supplement industry can be really tough because there's a lot of just bad integrity companies out there and stuff like that. Organifi's not one of them. Like they're incredible. So I said, yes, I got some ideas. And one of the main ideas I had was I wanted to come up with something and I'm gonna loosely, you could loosely put it in this category but so much more than that, right? I know the pre-workout category of supplements is super popular. And I like some of the value that pre-workouts provide like focus, energy, performance. I don't like how pre-workouts are typically designed. They're like super stimulant heavy. They're not very healthy. They'll hammer your cortisol through the roof. They're just not great for you. So I'm like, I wanna come up with something that gives people energy, improves creative thought, improves productivity, that also handles all the negative stuff that we get from pre-workouts and why, I'm not a fan of lots of pre-workouts. So what I do is I got on the phone with Organifi and they introduced me to Shanai who does and works with formulations and stuff. So we have Shanai here. Now, before we get into why you and I decided to put, you know, the ingredients that we put into this product, it's called peak power, by the way. Peak power is what's gonna be called. What's your background? So how do you know what you know?  Not the case with you, you're like amazing. So what's your back? Tell us a little bit about your background and, you know, what you do with Organifi. Thank you so much. First of all, it's great to be here. I am the head of R&D for Organifi. So I create all the formulas. I help with, you know, claims, education, marketing as well and sourcing. And I have been formulating supplements for about 20 years now. I am super passionate as well. I got into this industry because in my early 20s, I planned to go to med school. So I was studying pre-med, really passionate about medicine in general. And I thought that that was the way that, you know, I could help people. And then, you know, my life took some changes. I ended up having children at a really young age. So when I was still in undergrad, I had my first and I didn't want to leave to go to med school. And I really struggled for many years until I happened upon holistic nutrition. I started working on my master's in nutrition and herbology. And around the same time, I actually got really sick from a pharmaceutical. I took Zithromax, which is an antibiotic that people take all the time. And I came down with what's called idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura, known as ITP.  It sucks, yeah. Is that a blood clotting issue? Yeah, so I took my first dose and I was at a roller skating party with my kids. Didn't fall or anything, woke up with bruises all over my body. Oh, wow. And I thought, wow, maybe I'm low in iron or low in vitamin K. Took my second dose, woke up in the morning and had blood coming out of my tongue and out of my nose. And that's when I had to go to the hospital. I ended up on a cancer ward. They were checking me for leukemia and everything that could cause this. Turns out I had zero platelets when normally you need to be at least over 150,000, preferably around 250,000. And I would have died if I would have fallen. So that was the scariest moment of my life and the hematologist said, we don't know exactly how to cure this and the only way that we can possibly cure it is by taking your spleen out. I was like, okay, well, I have no platelets right now. I have a bleeding problem and you want to take my spleen out. And do surgery. I mean, that's crazy. Yeah, and do surgery and then I would have to, and then he informed me that I'd be on antibiotics for the rest of my life because I'd have no spleen. I was just diving into herbs at that point. I didn't really understand how to keep myself healthy with herbs. So I left the hospital. I declined treatment, left the hospital, got on a whole bunch of Chinese and Ayurvedic herbs and within two weeks, my platelets went from zero to 100,000. Then I added more to my regimen and my platelets went to 275,000. And that was just that acknowledgement that we have everything on this planet that we need to heal ourselves. It's just about maybe taking the time and figuring it out and our bodies are innate healing machines. So we can get ourselves back in balance. And throughout that time period, I did suffer from adrenal fatigue. I actually wasn't making enough cortisol. Most people make too much chronically because we're so stressed out, but I wasn't making enough and it was a key reminder to me that cortisol is necessary for life because I didn't even have the energy to walk up the stairs at the age of 27. And so I started having panic attacks and coming down with pneumonia. And that's when I realized, okay, I have to heal my body. Like I have to go with the root cause of what's going on and my adrenal glands were not balanced. And so I created my first formula, which was an adaptogen formula. And I always say to this day, Ashwagandha saved my life. Wow, that's remarkable. So you took all your creative passion because I've worked with people in pre-med and doctors. And one thing that they all had in common was they were just so driven to learn about their specialty. And so you took your creative drive and just shifted it to, let me look at Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine, plants, herbs, things that we could do naturally to help our bodies heal versus where we're going, which was the Western medicine approach. Yeah, definitely. And I realized at that time that everything was meant to, everything was meant to be as it was, because if I had just gone the traditional med school route, I probably wouldn't have known how to heal myself or maybe I wouldn't have even been open-minded enough to delve into that herbal regimen that I took to heal myself. Well, now I can see why you work with OrganiFi because that's really their, I mean, that's like part of their core, really, is I remember years ago, when we first started working with OrganiFi, there was this report that came out on heavy metals in plant proteins. And some organic proteins were super high in it. Many of the big brands. Yeah, and OrganiFi, right away we saw this report and we're like, oh, shit, okay, let's talk to OrganiFi, see what's going on. And they were like on top of it, like right away. We're testing right now. We'll let you know what the, and they came out, of course, cleaning everything. And that was like a moment where we're like, okay, this company's got a tremendous integrity. Today's episode giveaway is the RGB bundle, MAPS metabolic mass performance and MAPS aesthetic. You can win for free. Here's how you win. Leave a comment below in the first 24 hours that we dropped this episode. Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications. Do all those things. And if we like your comment and declare you the winner, we'll let you know in the comment section that you got free access to the RGB bundle. By the way, this episode is all about a new product that I helped design with OrganiFi. You can use it as a pre-workout. I think you'll love it. Go check it out. Go to organifi.com forward slash mine pump. The product is called Peak Power. One more thing, we have a sale going on this month on two workout programs. MAPS OCR and MAPS Cardio, both 50% off. If you're interested, click on the link at the top of the description below to get yourself set up. All right, here comes the show. Okay, so let's talk about this particular product. So I get introduced to you. I'm like, I wanna create something. Wait, before you get into that, I actually wanna know how did you get to OrganiFi? How did that relationship happen? Oh gosh, you know- And how long ago is it now? Yeah, I've been with OrganiFi for three and a half years now and I never thought I would, I own my own company and I've always been really entrepreneur, like I had the entrepreneur spirit. And I, you know, I don't know, it was, I had just merged with another company. I owned a nutrition bar company. The whole thing went under four months later after we did the merge and I needed to just get away for a little while. So I was in Costa Rica with my kids, healing a little bit. And I was on the plane with one of my daughters. We were going back to California for the Expo West, Natural Products Expo, my favorite event. And I was like, you know, I'm gonna look for a job. And if I find the most perfect job, then we'll leave Costa Rica and come back to California and OrganiFi popped up. And I was like, there couldn't be, you know, any more perfect alignment from an integrity standpoint. Did you know who they were beforehand? I did. And then, you know, just, just loosely, I actually had never tried any of OrganiFi's products but I did that, that I did do a deep dive and you know, as far as quality standards go and the right kind of mushrooms, the right kind of adaptogens. And I was so thankful that I found OrganiFi. So somebody with your background, were you able like pretty quickly to piece that together?  Like can you see that like instantly? Generally speaking, sometimes labels can be a little deceiving, which is why I'm skeptical of certain brands that I don't know a lot about. But yeah, I could definitely tell and I could tell immediately from the mushrooms that OrganiFi sourced because most people use mushrooms that are grown on grain and they don't even get to form a fruiting body. And so they are mostly alpha-glucans and not beta-glucans. And beta-glucans is what you actually need from the mushrooms. It's the active constituents that actually make a difference with like immunomodulation and cognitive and adaptogenic properties. And so I knew right off the bat that they were using the best quality mushrooms grown on wood, grown exactly outside the way that they're supposed to be grown. And that is usually a key indicator that a brand is doing things right. Yeah, a lot of people don't know that. Mushrooms basically are like, they absorb whatever they grow on. I mean, it's so important. I know all plants kind of do that, but mushrooms really are like sponges, right? They are what they eat, just like we are. Their DNA is very similar to us because they're not plants. So we're like fungus. Yeah, and they don't make their own food. So yeah, if you're gonna grow mushrooms on something that's low quality, then the mushrooms are gonna be low quality as well. And it's not even about, it is about that, but when you think about, I've seen some of the mushroom plants in the US where there's just a big plastic bag with a big ball of grain in it, and then the mushrooms are inoculated and it becomes kind of like a tempeh product and the mushrooms never form a fruiting body. And the fruiting body is the mushroom itself. So here you have this like tempeh looking product and then they take the whole thing and they dry it and they grind it. So you're obviously, they don't remove the starch. That's why a lot of the mushrooms, you're getting alpha-glucans and not the beta-glucans, so you might as well just be eating starch. This is interesting. Okay, so let me ask you about one of the ingredients in the product we put together because I did, I mentioned that I did want some caffeine in it. I want a ton of caffeine, but I wanted some caffeine because caffeine in the right doses and in the right context has got some pretty cool benefits. And you wanted, and I hope I'm saying it right, Gwaiosa, did I say that right? Gwaiusa. Gwaiusa, you wanted Gwaiusa. That's where you wanted to source the caffeine from. Why not your regular caffeine, synthetic caffeine like you find in so many of the products? Why from there? That's a great question. Honestly, I fell in love with Gwaiusa, probably 10 years ago. Gwaiusa comes from Ecuador, from the Amazonian region. It has a rich history since really around the year 500 with the tribal people there would use it as part of ritual and they would also use it for hunting. So it's called Night Watchmen because it gives you what's called still focused energy. So people would consume these tribal people, the Kichwa tribe would consume Gwaiusa and they would be able to stay awake all night, yet stay focused and non-jittery. And so Gwaiusa is a really special ingredient that I love to have Gwaiusa in teas and this is an even more special Gwaiusa extract because it's standardized to 20% caffeine. What does that mean? So it means that if you take 100 milligrams of Gwaiusa then you're gonna get 20 milligrams of caffeine. So 100% of it? Yeah, yeah, so you know exactly how much caffeine is in it. And what's really special about Gwaiusa is that it contains these really amazing antioxidants known as polyphenols and chlorogenic acid is one of them. And this product has a beneficial effect on your neurotransmitters that affect focus and motivation and energy, yet without the bad that can come from consuming too much caffeine, like the jittery, the increased cortisol response, the increased epinephrine and adrenaline that gives you the jittery feeling and then the crash after. So what's the theory on why you don't get the jittery feeling? What's in it that's countering that? Like I know a common thing that we like to do is take regular caffeine and then we take theanine with it to kind of counter some of those effects. Is it naturally found in that? Is that what we're, okay. It's the theanine and the chlorogenic acid, yeah. And it's all in one like organic compound. So when she explained this to me, I was like, oh, well, this is great. It's way better than having. So it's not like adding extra ingredients. This is a holistic ingredient. Yeah, so it would be like getting all the individual ingredients to like an apple and being like, here take all this. This is what an apple is and it's versus eating an apple, which we all know. And it's natural form and the way that things tend to, the way that we evolve consuming things and the way that things evolve, they tend to be balanced more naturally in nature. Like white willow bark versus aspirin, for example, is a good example. Like white willow bark, that's where they got aspirin from but white willow bark comes with a lot of other compounds in it that make it less likely to overdose and more likely to have other beneficial effects. A hundred percent. I mean, nature is so much intelligence and we haven't even begun to understand. And I love that white willow bark explanation or example, because it's the same with berberine. You can take Oregon grape root and it has a small amount of berberine in it but there's so many other active constituents that we haven't even begun to understand that is part of that plant. That's why I still prefer to take an Oregon grape root to get the whole thing rather than just the berberine by itself. Yeah, so what Western medicine does well is also its weakness is it's very good at diving really, really deep in specific areas, right? And so what they tend to do is like, oh, this plant has this effect. Let's do a study. Oh, the study shows it does have an effect. What is it in the plant that's doing it? And then let's take that, let's synthesize it and concentrate it, not realizing that there's often this kind of synergistic effect with all the compounds being together. And we often screw up by trying to take one thing out and not considering that there may be a balancing effect with other things. And this is something I've talked about on the show before. There was another ingredient you wanted in there that I didn't mention, but you brought up and you made a great case for, which was Bacopa. Why add Bacopa to this? I love Bacopa. Well, the way I see this, this is a focused energy product. And Bacopa has been used, Bacopa Leaf has been used for thousands of years in Ayurvedic medicine for memory, concentration, mood, and focus. And so I felt like this would be a perfect pairing with the Guayusa and the other in utropic ingredients that are in this product. Yeah, Bacopa's got, I mean, for people who want to see clinical trials, it's got data, real-world data showing that it does help with that. Well, sorry, Sal, but I just know that someone's thinking this because I'm looking at the list of all the things that are in here and everything's so far sounding really cool. How do you get some, like, okay, what we're talking about right now, how do you get the right dosage for the biggest bang for your buck for a product like this when you have that many things in it? Like, so are we getting enough of that product in there to get the benefits from it? And is there, is a higher dose better? Is it like, how do you, was that formulated by you guys? Oh yeah, no, she's like, in fact, I don't remember specifically what it was, but she's like, if we can't put an efficacious dose, then it's a waste of time. That's efficacious was the word I was looking for, right? That's what I feel like you see sometimes in supplements there, like, because they have some support of our claim, why it's so great. And it's like, oh, let's sprinkle a little bit of that in there, and then we'll tell everybody how amazing this is is the dosage of all these things we're talking about. I'll let her answer, because we had this conversation. Yeah, it's called fairy dusting. And that's one of my biggest pet peeves when somebody has like 70 ingredients and you're like, okay, well, I know I'm not getting enough of any of these ingredients, you know? So that's why I focused on really these, you know, a handful of key ingredients and I didn't throw 20 ingredients in because I could have thrown 20 ingredients in. This is a standardized Bacopa, so it's stronger than just a powder. So it's 20% standardized for the active constituent that has been studied for cognition, which is the baccosides, so it's 20%. And so you still have the other active constituents within this Bacopa powder, but then you also have a standardization for what we know really helps with focus. So there is enough ingredient in this to really make you feel a difference, but I also formulated this so that you could take double the dose. I know that we mentioned, some people are gonna wanna take double the dose. Some people might wanna take this three times a day and this is totally fine. Yeah, so that was a big deal for me. So I want it, because I know with like- Right, because I know we wanted to be able to, if I want a little more caffeine, I wanna be able to go to and not feel like I'm overdoing it. Correct, right, because what a lot of these products do is they, there's a huge individual variance when it comes to compounds that are quote unquote, tropics or stimulant and the individual variance is huge. Like with one person, it's too much with another person, they don't necessarily notice anything. So I wanted a dose so that you could add more and it would be great or you could do a small dose and get a great effect. My goal with this was to, I wanted to make it so that I would just take a small dose and not overdo the stimulant. So I didn't want like 300 milligrams of caffeine in a single dose type of deal. So another compound I wanted in there and I'm so glad we were able to source this and find a good source of this was lion's mane. I've used lion's mane before. I love its effects, especially its cumulative effects. I noticed when I take it for weeks and weeks and weeks, I just seem to be able to recall words better. I have better fluency. It just, I feel sharper. Can we talk about lion's mane a little bit? And it also has some adaptogenic properties, right? Yeah, yeah, I love that you brought up lion's mane. Again, this is one of our best sources for lion's mane. So it is grown on wood. It does get time to form a fruiting body. So you've got all of the active constituents that you get from the fruiting body. This is also a concentrated extract. And what's great about lion's mane is it, you mentioned that it is stronger over time. So it does fall into the adaptogen category to where you might not tell a difference from the first time you use it, but as you use it daily, it balances, it creates this homeostasis in the body and then you feel more and more benefits from it. So it will definitely helps with digestion. It helps with immune function. Lion's mane is really known for focus and cognition and just being really neuroprotective. Yeah, now here's why, something I like about this. One of the drawbacks or negatives with the whole like energy, pre-workout energy, whatever you want to call it, market, is that because the way they formulate them, these are compounds that get worse over time as you use them on a daily basis. Either A, you build up a tolerance. So it's like, I got one scoop, I need two scoops, I need three scoops. Side effects tend to ramp up and it just, it goes from like, I had a great workout or I feel great too, I feel like shit or I ignore the way I feel and my hormones are off or whatever, which we used to see in the fat burning space back in the day. Lion's mane balances that out a little bit because lion's mane gets better over time. See what I'm saying? If you take this on four or five days a week, you'll get the longer term effects of the lion's mane.  Definitely, yeah, I like to think of our adaptogens and adaptogens are really my favorite class of herbs and mushrooms, but I like to think of them as like the thermostat that keeps the body temperature exactly where it's supposed to be within the body and it keeps the body within homeostasis. Yeah, I love that. Okay, so let's talk about, okay, green tea's in there. Green tea, we know it's health benefits. You didn't use the green tea for the caffeine, right? You used it for something else. No, the caffeine is coming from a combination of the Guayusa and the green tea. Okay, but there were other things in the green tea that you said, this is why I want this in there. You know, really great polyphenols that we know about in green tea. This whole product is loaded with antioxidants. Okay, is there any other compound, because there's a few other ingredients, but I want to talk about the most important ones. Was there any others that you think we should mention? Yeah, so we have a clinical dose of coffee berry known as neurofactor, which has been clinically proven to support healthy BDNF levels, which is a key neuro protein that protects the brain and helps with healthy cognition and focus. And that has a really wonderful ingredient story as well. It's grown on these family farms in India and they're actually using the leftover pulp to power their farm. This company is doing great things. They're supplying water to people who need it. They're supplying books and desks and computers and bathrooms to schools for children. So in addition to, or again, if I, we always want to not only source the best efficacious ingredients, but also ingredients where the farmers are actually doing good for the community. That's cool. Now one more thing, I do want to add this, because this was really cool to me. So it was, and you brought this up, you said we want to make sure that we let people know that this is glyphosate residue free. Now I was not aware, I wasn't fully aware that organic products could also have glyphosate residues in them, because organic would mean you wouldn't use necessarily glyphosates. And yet that can definitely happen. So can you explain that? Like, first let's talk about glyphosates and then how is it that we can find glyphosate residues in organic products sometimes? Yeah, it's really upsetting because normally you think that you're safe from getting any of these herbicides in your products, but I think, well there is cross-contamination from neighboring farms and then also from rainwater because glyphosate is water soluble, so it comes down in rain. But also what some farmers are doing now is they're using it as a desiccating agent. So post-production and they want their crops to dry faster, they do this a lot with like peas and oats and different grains, but it happens with all ingredients and they're spraying it with glyphosate so it dries it faster. And that's how certified organic products, especially when ingredients are coming from certain countries like China, will be contaminated with glyphosate. And that's why I am, we at Organifi and myself as well, we're all so passionate about this glyphosate residue free certification. Also something that we were talking about earlier is that glyphosate is used as an herbicide, but it also was never patented as an herbicide. It was patented as an antibiotic. This is crazy. Now I know it had antimicrobial effects. I did not know it was patented as an antibiotic. Yeah, so basically when we're consuming food that is contaminated with glyphosate, we are killing our microbiome, which is so essential for our hormone balance, our digestion, our overall energy, health, mental focus and immunity. So if it was patented as an antibody, how were we originally using this then? So it was created for what intent and how long did we use it like that? Can I speculate real quick? Because I know you know the answer to this, but I feel like this is almost like the Viagra story where they're like, we got a drug that lowers blood pressure and then they do the test and like, we're getting erections. That's what we're gonna sell it for. Was it like that? Like, ooh, it's an antibiotic. Oh wow, it kills weeds really easily. Let's use that instead. Yeah, what they found is that it actually inhibits the chikamate pathway within the different microbes and plants. And they were like, oh, well humans don't have the chikamate pathway, but they didn't realize how humans have more micro, like more cells that are not human than human cells.  So basically this way they can spray this on, so well also it's usually sprayed on GMO crops. So within a genetically modified crop, they might be genetically modified to be glyphosate resistant. So roundup resistant because roundup is the same. That's the brand name. Yeah, it's the brand name. So then you can grow this plant with all these weeds around it and you can spray the heck out of the plant and the weeds and only the weeds die, but not the plant. But it definitely causes a disease state within the soil and within the plants and the plant might live, but it is very weak and the plant no longer has a strong immune system and then you just have to keep spraying more and more.  I like talking about this too because one of the things that I know that Sal talks a lot about is the glyphosates because people tend to give GMO products a bad name and GMO in general isn't necessarily bad. It's more so the glyphosates that are found on these plants that are worse. That's what we know. That's the part that we know that is bad. The plant itself, there's arguments about the plant itself, but we know glyphosates are disrupting the bacteria and the soil and in our bodies.  So would you take a small dose of antibiotics that isn't considered efficacious dose but take it every single day? Of course not. So that's the big issue. Yeah, definitely. And not only to think about the health of our bodies, but also to think of just the health of our soil and our environment in general. If we stopped spraying glyphosate today, it would take 50 years for it to get out of our environment because it's water soluble. So you can't just sequester it with fat. It's just there. It gets up in our clouds and our rainwater and it's easy to have contamination all over the place even if you eat organic, but I don't want to be a doomsday, you know? I mean, we do what we can and that's why it's really important that we support farmers that are not using glyphosate whether in the growing process or the spraying process.  So the more and more important this is to people, you know, I see glyphosate phasing out and I feel good about this because people are finally starting to understand the importance. How many supplement companies actually have that certification? You know, it's a lot now. I think like a few years ago when we first started, it wasn't, there weren't very many. I want to say around 2000. I might be wrong, I don't quote me, but the organization is called the Detox Project and you can go on their website and you can look up all the brands that go above and beyond with this certification. Now, do we have tools to measure how much of this is in our soil and atmosphere right now and are we going up or down? Like, do we have that ability? I know Dr. Bush talks about this stuff. Yeah, Dr. Bush talks a lot. Yeah, I mean, we can test it. I think there are definitely home test kits. I tested my spring water on the farm for glyphosate because that was my one non-negotiable. I was like, I am not gonna buy this farm if I have glyphosate on my property and there wasn't thinkin' this. You can definitely get a test kit to test your own levels. I think it's only around $100. So you can definitely test water. I don't know, I'm sure there's a soil test but I just don't know specifically of one. And there was a study where they actually took a family and had them eat organic and whatever and they measured them before and after to see if they'd lower the amounts of things like pesticides and glyphosate and they did.  But I like this because it's another step. So yeah, certified organic, also glyphosate, residue free, tested third party. So we know for sure, this is legit. And we always have to, we have to test our recorders. So it's not like you can just get this certification once and then kind of bait and switch the ingredients. You know, you always have to test. So we always know. Yeah. Well, I tell you, I love this product. I feel very like calm and focused on it and the good kind of energy, you know, not the jittery, you know, anxiety, energy or irritable. I also don't get the irritable crash afterwards. It seems to be this real smooth kind of feel good product. So I'm excited about this because this is actually the first one that Sal's ever had the opportunity to truly formulate. Like we have co-signed for a few products for some of our partners in the past that we really like, but he wasn't part of the actual process of developing it. And I know this has been like a lifelong dream of his. So it's so cool. Yeah, that's a good time. I'm so happy to be able to make this dream come true.  Like that's it. Sal's was not gonna formulate my supplement. Like he got to do this. So I'm really excited to see how the audience receives it and what everybody thinks about it. Yeah, it was fun to do. So yeah, thanks for coming on tonight. Yeah, thanks for having me. Awesome. This one's really important and that is to phase your training. If somebody trains for a full year doing a bench press and they're always aiming for five reps, if you compared that person to a person who did bench press where they did three or four weeks of five reps, but then they did three or four weeks of 12 reps and three or four weeks of let's say 15 to 20 reps and then they'll throw in some supersets. At the end of that year, you're gonna see more consistent progress from the person who's moving in and out and less injury. That's another thing. You'll see less injury as well.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspeaskasebrakes.com coming at you with fantasy sports breaks football six box Random team break number seven from jaspeaskasebrakes.com Looks like it's a series six by the way, I don't know if that makes any difference to you guys, but series six So some pretty interesting stuff in here a very big. Thank you to all of these folks who are getting into the action I appreciate that I grabbed the right list this time just double check that Yeah, we got some Anthony's we got some Francis's and Sean last spot mojo Daniel got the first couple spots. Okay, there you go all 32 teams are in let's roll it Let's randomize it six and a four ten times for each list one and 10th and final time after ten times we've got Francis All the way down to Anthony Now for repack products like this there are no checklists or anything like that So trade at your own risk six and a four ten times for the teams and 10th and final yeah, no Vanessa would not like that at all Ryan S if we have to do those randomizers like that Broncos down to Broncos out of Dallas after ten Alright, so Francis with the Broncos David with the Titans Mike tower with the Patriots Edwin with the Redskins Daniel with the Packers Francis with the Panthers Kurt with the 49ers Greg with the with my Raiders David Duffy with the Chargers Stephen Green with the Jets Jimmy Connell with the Ravens Sean last spot mojo rams Travis with the Texans Joe with the Seahawks Kevin with the Jags Tony with the Giants David Ivers with the Bills and Steelers Asa with the Cardinals Daniel with the Bengals Alan with the Lions Travis with the Dolphins Jarell with the Browns Sean with the Chiefs Francis with the Fly Eagles Fly Anthony with the Blue Horse Shoes David with the Bucks Corey with the Saints Nick with the Falcons Joe with the Vikings Tony with the Bears and Anthony with the Dallas Cowboys All right, I'm gonna sort this by team Center that up right here. We're gonna pause the video allow for some for some trading time And when we come back, we'll see if there's any trades and then the break stick around All right, welcome back folks little tiny bit of trade chatter, but no deals were done here on a Saturday Saturday The eighth six box Ram team seven. There's the final printout right there hot off the presses Thanks, everyone for getting into the action really appreciate. I think there's six spots. I think it's a full case in here So let's pop this baby open And let's see what's inside Yes, that's a blank box right there one two three four five six. All right, perfect. There you go That's what they're all about Going with Romans 10. I think they use the same the same verse for each for each product I think maybe mix it up. It's all good. If that's their favorite one. So there we go. There it is So there's packs inside they which is I think a unique sort of sort of deal They put packs from old products inside there, too And then to like in case cards some of them can be graded Let's have a little notch right here where I can tear no just have to dive in there Right see pack pack and in the middle of the two encased cards So we're gonna do the packs first set that over there.  Let's see if we find a rookie my homes in here There's a Rayquan McMillan All right, so no nothing there dolphins. You'll get this Travis Dowell. You'll get this Rayquan card right there And we've got what is this old tops 28 2008? 2008 top scone football So TJ. Yeah, I would love to move that last optic break today All right, so Marshawn lint bill's edition of this is rookie Marshawn Lynch. No, I think he was 07. Yeah, there it is It's still pretty cool though You don't see a lot of Marshawn Lynch cards in his bills gear David Iris. All right now your hits We've got a DK Metcalf nice 93 out of 99 Rookie signs out of illusions football It's a nice hit for Joe H with the Seahawks nice and the second one here is Attired athletes Michael Thomas Jersey and Otto from Spectra 29 out of 50 From 2017 Spectra football Saints that goes to Corey nice one Corey Just living dangerously folks living dangerous. All right, we've got 2013 panini contenders football If we're lucky enough to get an autograph out of here, I'll stick with that be Sam Bradford Alex Smith. Oh We do have an autograph out of this Nile Davis rookie auto for the Chiefs Sean Maddock, and we got a luminaries packed to the most recent one Sterling I love the photography look at that the snow kicking up right here. It's pretty nice Mike Kasicki to 299 and a Rayquan Davis autograph. Oh, we had a different Rayquan nevermind dolphins. I saw Rayquan and Dolphin. That's out of 299 This is Rayquan Davis Not Rayquan McMillan Dolphins will get that one. That'll be for Travis All right, some good packs in here, too. I know Joe Burrow out of here. That's nice bangles If you're Daniel Graham We've got another QB right here to Jordan love for the Packers. That's gonna go to Daniel Graham These rookie cards, believe it or not. We'll do Kerry. It's just like basketball We're like just the rookie card non-autos Have still still have gained a Decent amount of leverage in the secondary market. They're gaining All right now you're in case cards. We have Will Greer Nice from NT 92 out of 99 two-color rookie patch and autograph Nice, we do have a couple box of 2019 NT football in the shop right now Jaspiescasebreaks.com check it out This one will go to Francis and the Panthers and this one is Nick Bosa more NT jersey and autograph 8 out of 49 great one for the Niners Kurt With San Francisco feels like a pretty thick one right there Oh a book. I think there's a book in here. Yeah, look at that Book it and a plate. I think All right, we've got some 2020 Chronicles and 2012 SP authentic football. There's nice to uh, there's my guy Henry rugs.  Is that a hidden there or a blank? Let's see. Oh It's a hit It's Isaiah peed 340 out of 425. I do nice and old Cincinnati Bearcat. I do not remember Where he went back in 2012? Is it Rams Ray is saying let's find out. He's a former running back now Yep, back in 2012 played with the Rams for a few years second round at pick. All right, Sean Maddock last bot Mojo So we'll go to the LA Rams Went to the Steelers for a year Dolphins for a year before he hung them up What's he doing? Oh, that's not good. It's not good when you have when you have car accident in your Wikipedia 2016 he was involved in a serious car. Where are your seatbelt folks? He wasn't wearing a seatbelt 2 30 in the morning on a Saturday was driving his 2011 kind of like a CTS eastbound lost control of the vehicle drove off the right side of the roadway hit a metal rail guard continued through it Became airborne struck several trees down the embankment 95 feet from the roadway witnesses stopped provided assistance blah blah blah Oh his belt Wow Emerging surgery Pete's injuries were career-ending. Wow Cincinnati football coach Tommy Tuberville says Pete lost his left leg in the accident Yeah, you're right Ray. Yeah, Adam Isaiah Pete is now working out with a prosthetic leg to try out as a 200 meter sprinter in the Paralympic Games in 2020 Oh, what a story It's also reportedly started a trucking company started a trucking company nice and has a son Wow There you go.  All right, so there you go Rams there you go Sean Maddock Yeah, all over saying Rams he might be lagging behind a little bit All right, let's see what we got here And that might be a sneaky good auto two color patch and autograph DJ shark do do do do do that's a one-of-one for the Jaguars Kevin All aboard the big hit Express Nice one for the Jags and the book It's a rookie jumbo from NT for the bear. That's gonna be Tony. It's a Riley Ridley Let's take a look. I'm glad we took a look. Look at that a piece of the pigskin You got Godel's Godel's auto right there. Godel Godel Wow That's out of ten.  Thanks fantasy sports Next box three more to go. We're halfway through Another 15 minutes to go on this one Schedules in the chat we got more breaks coming up No worries. All right. I think you're caught up now Always make sure you're watching live boys and girls sometimes YouTube has a tendency to to kick the stream back a little bit What do we got here? We've got rookies and stars from 2012 it looks like I like that I like how they put yeah 20. I like that how they put these old packs in here, too. That's kind of fun There you go. Nothing too crazy there. We got more 2012 another SP authentic pack From upper deck. I think that's just a no hit on this one I thought I thought you said I was all right that you were all right spider. No, I thought No, I thought you were saying I was all right spider All right next hit is to a tag of viola from downtown University of Alabama downtown card. I dig it There's an does that elephant really exist on the campus a hedge elephant Maybe in a hedge maze Over there Nice dolphins That will be for Travis Dow nice those downtown cards do pretty pretty well I don't know if that I was channeling NBA Jam more than Marv Albert or was Marv Albert in NBA Jam. I don't remember that All right, and the next one card number one. It's Patrick Mahomes Mahomes what year? 2018 so second-year Patrick Mahomes 69 out of 99 Building blocks triple relic. I was hoping autograph, but building blocks triple relic nice one for Shawn Matic and the chiefs Are those downtown's 200 bucks? That's not bad Has teeth nice Yes, he's got a good yes Yes, I got to work on that. Yes, but Marv Albert has a great. Yes. Oh, I feel like there's a graded card Be careful with the knife on this one packs get a little tricky, but see there's the graded card up there There's a pack there. There's a pack up there second card right there 2019 Donner's optic football Tyrell Williams hollow and we've got Tavon Austin right here from little tops chrome football. What year are you? It's too shiny Does it say on the front and anyone know just by oh 2013 done down here 2013 Ed Reed Robert Woods rookie Mike Glenon and Gavin Escobar rookie card Nice for the Cowboys Anthony Mike Len will go to David Ivers and the Bucks and Robert Woods will go to David Ivers and the bills Some rookie cards there All right, no no more of this Adam. I'm sure we'll try to get some more though. We always get this every once in a while We've got some Eagles Nice Brian Dawkins Hall of Fame autograph 39 out of 50 for the fly Eagles fly Francis day a cat with that one nice and the graded card whoo PSA 9 mint 9 from 2018 Panini Donner's optic football It is a purple bird. It's Lamar Jackson That's a fun one Now Lamar Jackson from his first year to his second year made such a leap in Just his game his progression second to third year What can we expect Jimmy Connell with that one already graded for you Jimmy nice All right, and the final box coming up. Oh Wow Look at that. That's a really thick one Went to what's in here What do we got? What is happening here? Yeah, it's like a brick. We've got a brick here. We've got in two cards here. Oh, okay It's cuz of that score pack sneaky Sneaky and fancy sports breaks He's sticking out of the encased cards here.  All right, we got some 2020 score football. I got Josh Allen Breakthrough Josh Allen fantasy stars Under the radar Celebration to 100 and And a bunch of rookies right here. You have the big quarterback names. No Sleep all those up in a second All right the encased card. It's Jared's hit them Jersey and autograph from illusions to 299 140 out of 299 first impressions Jersey and Otto nice From 2019 illusions football going to Mike Tower and the Pat riots the Patriots and the last one here. Good luck. It's a rated rookie Justin Herbert nice for the Bolts Jason Jaspy might be interested in this one. He's a big organ fan David Duffy with the future quarterback of the Los Angeles football Chargers and there you have it ladies and gentlemen a great break that was six box random team seven Fantasy sports breaks football series six big. Thanks for to everyone for getting in for watching. I'm Joe for jasky's case breaks calm I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


Watch out for the crypto projects that build in the bear because they will crush it in the bull And I gotta tell you there is no better time than right now because I know some people will say that This is a this is just a very prolonged bull market doesn't feel like a bull market And I got to tell you some of the things that are going on behind the scenes Makes me quite bullish even though the sentiment itself is not too great And I'm gonna talk about three different projects, of course We're gonna talk about Solana, which I know some of you absolutely despise But it is what it is talk about a theorem and then everybody's favorite get into Bitcoin So the first piece I think people can talk about it lately Especially on YouTube is the Twitterverse and all those different places, but I am right now in South Korea So my time frame is a little bit messed up But this is what I've learned and how things are progressing. This is from business wire It looks like Visa is expanding stablecoin settlement capabilities to merchant Accrivers and on top of that it's gonna be using Solana So this is what we have visas expanding its stablecoin settlement capabilities to the high Performing Solana blockchain and it's working with merchant acquirers world pay and new V VISA's already moved millions of USDC between its partners over the Solana and Ethereum blockchain networks the settle fiat denominated payments authorized over vSNET and This would be to meet this was a big story anyhow but it really hit home today as I was Taking different taxi cabs and paying for things here in South Korea fantastic food fantastic people and One of the things about that you have to understand about payments And somebody I really considered there's when you actually purchase a pick you want to actually purchase a product or a service Or a good or whatever else and settlement when I purchase something Let's just take a taxi cab driver when I purchase something it's instantaneous, right? I give him my card they run it through boom everybody's paid from what we think it is but there's actually another layer of that that's the settlement and Settlement is expensive and it takes a lot of time for the money from my account in my bank USAA To go over to the merchants account who will be here. That's gonna take a lot of work and effort and cost So to actually reduce that would actually be a great thing and what visa is doing which is you know lion's share of what's people are using for for payment processors is they're going to use Crypto behind the scenes and one of the ones that they picked On top of USDC the stablecoin and of course me a theorem network is Solana and what this says to me is I know people like I said they hate Solana because Bro, it's a it's a totally Centralized network and it always goes down all the time and just awful. Well Visa must have done it's a homework because they picked it So I know people may say that they you know, they hate it and whatnot and it's just awful But you have to look behind the scenes to go which ones are winning in the background Which ones are building and I don't really care. I'm agnostic I'm not here to change the world here to change my bank account And if Solana is gonna be the one one of the ones that are there so much the better Now does this this is mean that's long gonna take over the world? No But it's a step in the right direction to pay attention to what's going on I think so this was actually from quote from Kai Sheffield Nailed it head of crypto VC says by leveraging stable coins like USDC and global blockchain now works like Solana and Ethereum We're helping to approve the speed of cross-border settlement And providing a modern option for our clients to easily send or receive funds from visas Treasury visas Commended to being on the forefront of digital currency and blockchain innovation and leveraging these new texts to help improve The way we move money now Does this mean that this is the only thing moving forward now This is just one of the different of the many options that are out there I know people are gonna ask me about cross-border payments. That's only some XRP should do look XRP can't do it all That's what you're into So with these companies moving forward with different places and different projects like Solana I think it's something to sit up and pay attention to and say you know what if it can Produce this settlement if it can actually have the the TPS that is high and if it can stay up And it's a begins to actually, you know, pick up these partners This might be something to take a really harder look at as far as investing and again I don't care if if you if you hate it or not It's it's up to you to take a look at this information and to me I think it's a step in where things should go and on top of that Solana I just this is from coin shares year-to-date inflows Suggest it's the most loved altcoin now. Let's be honest a lot of altcoins including Solana are down massive, so It's not like this is you know, this is gonna turn things around I think Solana is down over 93 94% for the year and we took a look yesterday at Some of the biggest bag holders and unfortunately Solana is way down from its high of two hundred and twelve dollars That mean we can't rally Just take a look so Solana and this is from coin shares report trading volumes for crypto investment products Just products in general for the week ending September 1st were 90% Above the year-to-date average it marks a seven week run of negative sentiment that's seen 342 million leave Crypto products over that time but year-to-date investment products remain net inflow positive 165 million and We want to take a look at which ones are net positive Outflows haven't affected Solana products. However The saw weekly inflows of seven hundred thousand dollars. I guess that's somewhat positive direction Ninth straight week in a row with inflows of a hundred of fourteen point one million over that time and white year-to-date inflows of twenty six million dollars Bitcoin products for the only other assets to see weekly inflows besides Solana towing three point million Short bitcoin polygon and ETH products all recorded weekly outflows So why is it such a big thing? Again There are narratives out there. It's not just all about ta. There's actually, you know Some narratives and some positivity of people that are building September 1st maker Dow co-founder rune christiansen submitted a proposal to build the project's upcoming native chain off a fork of Solana's code base despite its long-held Relationship and ties do Ethereum August 23rd is reported that Shopify Added Solana based payment network Solana pay starting with the stablecoin USD coin Solana network has also seen some performance reliability improvements with only one outage in 2023 so far. It's pretty good Again, people will say but it's it's outages all the time I think that's the narrative that we've seen before now. We'll see if it can keep up as people use it more and more and more But so far in 2023 has only been down one one time. I like this last sentence Take this with a grain of skull Solana's price is up around 95.5 percent year-to-date 95 almost 100 solana's price is up almost 95 But it's traded mostly sideways around 20 to 25 dollars since mid january However, Solana is down 92 percent from its 2021 all-time high I'm nearly wow is wrong 260 bucks So right now you're looking at a price of around uh 15 20 dollars somewhere around there for Solana Just remember that from its all-time high to where it's at right now It's a pretty undervalued asset. Does that mean that you should uh funnel into it? No, but I will just tell you this Solana is one of those projects that I dollar-cost average every day Now does that mean that uh, it's going to be the end all be all no But again, I think it's time to take a look at so Let me know what you think about that in the comment section. I'm sure it'll be uh spicy for what you say and on top of that I think this is more good news Just optionality metamask Is going to have a cell feature Which are going to be able to turn ethereum and ethereum based products and l2s in the cash Right within metamask Here's what we got so metamask wallet owners can now cash out of their ether With the press of a button conveying their holdings into into straight cash fiat currency For now, it's only us dollars euros and the british pound are supported, which is pretty good And we get three different fiat's Initially only ether Or ethereum may not could be cashed out but metamask does have plans To expand the other layer two networks and assets layer twos Maybe an arbitrum Maybe a polygon all that's a sidechain. So we'll see Metamask didn't elaborate on which layer two than tokens it plans to support or what timetable, but it is in the network There are four known crypto fiat off-ramps that metamask is working with including moon pay Transacts rd and banks out. These are the ones that can allow that for you to Turn your crypto into cash if you so choose. So I don't know why you do that, but uh, everybody's got their own thing Each of these services will offer real-time quotes to users like to who like to sell ether once the user selects providers They'll be redirected to a website And they'll have to link to their bank account. So again, if you're into that That's not my thing, but if you're like, hey, I want to link my bank account to my ethereum mallet or metamask Go right ahead and it looks like that's going to be Optionality for people moving forward. So that takes care of the solana that takes care of the ethereum news Let's go to everybody's favorite bitcoin and There's good news in the horizon. It looks like the sec. This is from gray scale They have no grounds to reject the bitcoin etf conversion. This is just a quick little snippet story that uh gray scale's legal team wrote in a letter to the sec yesterday And it states after the commission has had the opportunity to fully analyze the court's opinion in light of the record Including the reasons for rejection set forth We believe the commission should conclude that there are no grounds for treating the trust differently from etps that invest in bitcoin futures contracts and again This was a decision going in gray scale's favor, which I thought was pretty enormous that they said look There's no difference between futures etf and a spot etf. So you should allow this to do that And and what people are saying is that because of the court has Has decided in that way that the sec will only move towards a bitcoin etf and it it is inevitable I personally think it just gives the sec a little bit more time to Give a reason as to another point of why they'll reject this bitcoin etf, but I could be wrong and uh We'll see how it all works out and it's not just Random people that think this this etf is going to go through Actually, everybody's favorite sec commissioner or former sec commissioner j. Clayton Was actually on record saying that the etf approval is inevitable I don't know why that he couldn't do it beforehand, but uh, here's j saying that it's going to actually happen This is a quote from cnbc and he states that it's clear that bitcoin's not a security I think even gary gunzara said that It's clear that bitcoin is something that retail investors want access to institutional investors want access to importantly Some trusted providers who are fiduciaries or have duties of best interest want to provide this product to the retail public. So I think The bitcoin etf is inevitable. The thing is with j and he knows is very true What the sec is saying is that the problem with the spot etf is the ability for manipulation And that's why they want monitoring and that's why black rock came out and all the different ones Bitwise arc fidelity came out and said okay, we're going to choose coinbase to use as to actually to absolutely cover this for monitoring Which will reduce manipulation. However, I doesn't make much sense to me of why they're going to approve a futures etf Why they can't approve a spot etf other than the fact that gary gunzara doesn't want to do it And the white house who he works for they'll say the same thing So I am in the minority. I don't think it's going to be approved, but we'll see everybody's against me. Even j clayton So We'll see how it works Hopefully it does but it does to me again. It doesn't really matter because I think the narrative is there he got some pretty big players who who say it And I will say that I think this is uh from looking at bitcoin There's a link in the description. It's 100 free. I mean there's some upgrades if you want to use it now But uh, there's this thing called the the rainbow chart The rainbow price chart indicator And this is just a logarithmic growth curve and just kind of takes a look at sentiment across across the board So when things are it's it makes things very simple of where you think that potentially you could sell or where you should buy And I just was perusing the different Charts and it's it's pretty good. It shows you like when things are way massively overheated 2011 It did great job. It doesn't 11 2013 17 it nails it perfectly But it could be looking retroactively Didn't do such a good job in 2021 when we had that double top But I will tell you what it really is good at is for when things are bottoming And a good time to accumulate over time now. I can't tell you what to do. I'm not a financial advisor But you can just see that When it's cold and cooling off This is in 2015 it was uh You know, you had a high and of in 2013 of gosh, almost over a thousand dollars And it dropped over 80% now you're like 229 218 great time to accumulate And then 2017 overheated and then figured out that hey a great time to accumulate was Around march 18th march march 2020 and that thing called coronavirus came about and bitcoin was only 5,400 And now again, let me zoom in There's been very few times when it's gone below the blue level and That just happened in december and november On the bitcoin christ was 16,510 now does that mean it can't go lower? No, but I think we're pretty darn close to what it is And unless it drops off the cliff and we talked about this and video a couple of days ago We took a look at the macro factors the difference with the sec What could potentially happen with the etf, but I mean if we're looking at the bottoms Maybe the bottom is in I still think it could go lower, but I mean if we're taking a look at different charts We're can see that things are pretty cool off. Does that mean it couldn't drop below 16 again? No, it could happen again, but This is why I dollar cost average. I think that q4 can be pretty bad if we go into recession, but things are looking I mean reasonable for dollar cost averages like myself But there is some things that concern me and lastly Coinbase I I don't know why they're doing this other than it's a nice way to make money Coinbase creates a new crypto lending service geared towards large investors. You know, we also did lending services Blockfi and celsius so This just is uh, it's concerning to me because I thought coinbase was going in the right direction and uh, just doing different services like coinbase one where you could sign up and Reduce the amount of fees that you have for a for a monthly fee works great now. They're gonna lending. I just think it's too much But here's what we got So coinbase created a new crypto lending service in the u.s for institutional clients helping to fill the void Left by blow-ups affirms like genesis and blockfi and workouts are great for them Platform was quietly revealed in a u.s And the sdc commission filing on september 1st which showed 57 million and already been raised for the program again Money's a powerful drug and when you have that much and people want to buy it you're like sure come on in So clients can lend coinbase money predominantly crypto assets and get collateral Exceeding the value of the loan that's exactly what celsius did celsius. I still believe was a Ponzi scheme, but whatever Such over collateralization acts as a safeguard from disaster Same thing happened with celsius block fi. I think that was also the same thing Point coinbase can then turn around to make secured loans to institutional trading clients I came to the prime broker services banks providing traditional finance Of course, this was an issue also with three arrows capital. So maybe we learned our lesson It's not going to go back the same way, but who am I to say? new service differs from the controversial lend program that coin coinbase cancelled in 2021 That was pitched at retail customers sdc didn't like that at forts and of course there wasn't enough Disclosures and gary wanted to protect everybody harder. So that's what we have. Good luck to coinbase. I think that's a mistake But what do I know? And that's there for today. So look everybody Thanks for stopping by and if you like today's video, give it a thumbs up consider subscribing if you talk about his time sensitive And now if you're so akin to stick around I'll answer all your questions the best of my abilities And we'll go from there, but that's it if you got to take off. Thanks for stopping by. See you guys in the next one