#016 | How chasing girls took me from dumb to Gigabrain

𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗣 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗣 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗣

Ya know the iPhone alarm?

It shivers down your spine?

Yep that one.

It's fucking 4:15am

One eye half open I hit snooze

'Just a quick 5 more minutes'.

I open my eyes again

Check my phone:

𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗧

Throw on my overalls and dash out the door for another 12 hour day in hell.

𝑊𝑒𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦 25𝑡ℎ 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒 2020

Stumbling into work and downing my Monster

I try to look alive.

Soon as the coast is clear I hide the toilet and go back to sleep.

Go through the day in this constant fuzz and lack of consciousness

And repeat tomorrow.

This was my life 3 years ago..

Now why do I tell ya this?

Well it was around this time I started feeling 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝘁

And noticed I had every symptom in the book:

• fatigue

• anxiety

• low libido

• timidness

• low energy

• unmotivated

• no confidence

• feeling miserable

• constant exhaustion

The worst part?

𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘺

Let alone how to fix it.

Sound familiar?

I spent a long time tryna figure out why my brain wasn't working

And just felt like a dumbass 90% of the time.

But I eventually figured out how to skyrocket my brain function, cognition, IQ, memory call

Everything.

It wasn't books.

Or courses.

It was actually doing 1 thing:

Becoming a full blown 𝙜𝙮𝙢 𝙗𝙧𝙤.

3 years later I'm convinced:

The journey I took in the last few years is the 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗦𝗧 way to transform your brain and your life.

Here's the story ↴

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Step 1: The basics

Thru 2020 I was workin' 72 hour weeks

Whilst studying for my Personal Trainer certificate.

This led me to:

• Getting sick

• Sleeping 3-5 hours

• And drinking most nights.

'What could possibly be wrong with me ??'

— Fucking dumbass exhibit A.

Whilst all this was goin on

My main focus was making those sweet gains for tha ladies.

When I say I was obsessed

It's all I thought about.

So I started wondering:

'Why haven't I got bigger in months?'

Instead of listenin to how shit I felt and my awful mental health

I went thru my Bro Troubleshooter 101:

• more protein?

• more sets?

• more reps?

It must be 1 of em..

I bumped my protein from 200g to 220g

Hit 15-20 sets on every muscle

Even started going on my rest days.

Months went by and?

Still nothing.

So outta options, I looked at some other shit.

Am I 'healthy'?

Does this even matter??

See

After needing to dirty bulk thru my teens to get any decent muscle

I'd concluded health and gains work separate.

— Fucking dumbass exhibit B.

So I thought:

Maybe I'll sleep 7 hours.

Do I drink much water?

Not really. Let's get a few litres in.

Am I fucking myself with substances?

Probably.

But I wasn't giving up booze. No way..

So I slept better and stopped being dehydrated-

What happened?

My lifts went up.

FUCK YEAH.

Ok - maybe there's something to this health thing..

The next thing I did?

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Step 2: Become an information sponge

I became obsessed with gettin healthier

.. as my small lil head translated this to more gains

And moar gains = moar girls .

• Books

• Reddit

• Studies

• Youtube

Errything I could get my hands on.

But the weirdest part?

I was finally able to digest information.

See

Right through school I had a huge problem

Where I couldn't learn.

Words blurred together

And I'd forget everything 1 hour later.

But now my brain had turned on

And what happened?

My body turned on too.

This was a phenomenon (to me):

The brain lives inside the body.

So when our brain performs

Our body performs.

This was the moment I started focussing on getting smart through health..

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At the time I'd just taken my Nutritional exam

And learnt all this stuff about food and biology..

- turns out it's all BS.

Most 'Personal Trainers' have 0 clue

I mean 0.

A 6 week course & you regurgitate the same shpiel the Govt says..

Realising we're in a fucked system

It became apparent:

I must become my own doctor.

Whatever it takes to get GENUINE male health advice

This time for my LIFE not gainz and gurlz.

Few months later I quit my oil and gas job to pursue a Master's degree.

And for once it felt like I had the advantage.

Gettin the right nutrients for the body and mind

My gym performance was still improving

And I was going Super Saiyan in my engineering degree.

But still had most of the symptoms from before..

It made no sense.

Shortly after I stumbled into a new world of pharmacology thanks to the YouTubers MorePlatesMoreDates and Greg Doucette

(2020 Greg tho..)

And then I found it:

Step 3: Testosterone

I wasn't on social media

And didn't have the swarm of @MasculineAnon69 accounts spurting stuff about 'high T males'

As far as I knew, you only got high T from steroids

But after researching how male health and hormoney stuff worked

I was shocked.

All the shit they tell ya to do, to be 'healthy'

Was actually FUCKING me.

And that's when I first considered:

I may have low testosterone.

After wanderin over to the mirror

And seeing a reasonably jacked guy

I thought:

'Nahh surely not'.

The next few months go by and I'm still performing well

But the problem?

I had 0 confidence to speak to a woman.

And by this point I hadn't had sex in 6 months.

So it was time to go see the Doc.

I explained my symptoms and asked about a Testosterone test

You know what he said?

'Men under 40 have perfectly fine Testosterone'

And sent me away.

Feeling pretty upset I started researching

Here's what the data showed:

Testosterone has plummeted AT LEAST 30% in the last 30 years.

But what was the media saying?

'Any level over 250 is average'

So I booked a private tested.

But at the time, people were askin why the hell I was getting blood tests.

'Just leave your body alone' my friends and family said

But if I learnt one thing:

It's do the complete opposite of everyone else.

2 weeks later I got my results:

340 ng/dl.

Well shit.

At this point I'd been training hard for 7 years

And was only 22 years old.

Yet I had the T levels of a 70 year old man in 2000.

Now my plan wasn't just to get smarter

It was to get more T.

So I cycled back to food

And designed a new diet for optimal T and brain health:

• Eggs

• Steak

• Spinach

• Berries

• More steak

• Shit loada veggies

• Grass-fed butter or Ghee

To name a few.

I stuck with this for a while then stumbled upon an article from Art of Manliness:

And that's when I considered:

Step 4: Supplementation

For the 7 years I trained, I only used Creatine on and off with pre-workouts

And sometimes a trash multivit.

My blood test showed low Vitamin D (made sense being from the UK)

And my cholesterol showed I had low HDLs (healthy fats).

After searching round a bit more, I had my first stack:

• Creatine

• Magnesium

• Cod Liver Oil

• Vitamin D 5k IU

(now this has developed into it's own beast and I've experimented over 50 supplements and nootropics)

Here's some of what I'm takin' right now:

But what made a HUGE difference in brain function were:

1. Creatine

Instead of me waffling the cognitive benefits, here's a good article:

2. Nootropics

Some of my favourite are:

• NAC

• L Tyrosine

• Alpha GPC

• L Theanine

• Lion’s Mane

All have their place but have profound effects on cognition and brain output.

3. Electrolytes

Not a single supplement

But they work together to get the body and brain what it needs.

Specifically I use:

• Himalayan salt (sodium)

• Magnesium Threonate

And usually get enough Potassium from diet.

Magnesium is the almighty nutrient however

Especially at night giving you a greater, deeper sleep.

4. Vitamins

Vitamin D3 - Getting out of a Vitamin D deficiency is incredible.

B Complex - gives great energy boost (get Methyl version).

EPA & DHA - great for the mind but difficult to get ‘clean’ versions.

Multivitamin - ‘Thorne Elite Multivitamin’ has great bio-availability.

Then final piece of the puzzle:

Step 5: Speaking to hot women

WAIT!!

I know what ya thinking:

‘Ima just skip this and do the other stuff’

But I promise

This brings the HIGHEST boost to you as a man.

If ya currently in that cycle of going to work

Coming home and scrollin’ Twitter

This is the cure.

Doesn’t matter if you have a GF etc

Point is you get outa your comfort zone and into social pressure.

Now I get it - shit's daunting when ya out of practice

But the biggest boost in cognition I've 'felt'

is straight after chatting with some chick

(this means OUTSIDE of work or girls you're already friends with).

Just get out there and make some lil chat with strangers

Big or small

Your T will thank you

Your brain will thank you

And your endorphins + confidence will go thru the roof.

Even from rejection - you feel masculine energy

And that's what this whole 3 year endeavour’s been about:

Gettin’ the brain + body BEAMING to become a superhuman.

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Long piece today for ya to dig into G’s.

P.S

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Love and happy Sunday G’s

Your man

Marley ‘fuckin dumbass’ McBride.

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