tags: 📥️/📰/🟥️ publish: true aliases: - Jujimufu on Nutrition cover: '' general_subject: specific_subject: source: raindrop isbn: doi: url: 'https://jujimufu.com/blogs/health/jujimufu-on-nutrition' author: "[[@jujimufu.com]]" guest: publish_date: reviewed_date: ---  ## Highlights - 95. The niacin experience actually taught me something valuable about digestion too.  Answer me this riddle: how come I can eat a giant breakfast, knock back a niacin pill, and within 6 minutes I have a niacin flush? Isn't that pill just sitting on top of a bolus of food?  Doesn't that niacin need hours to hit the bloodstream? Doesn't it take hours for the energy of a normal meal to be released? No. It doesn't. Digestion happens quicker than I once thought. I've always imagined a big carb + protein meal takes hours to digest before the energy is realized from such a meal. No that's not true. It begins digesting immediately and releasing energy immediately.  And it continues to do this until it's "digested" ... When it's digested that's the end of the road. You will begin reaping the benefits of a meal the minute it hits your stomach.  I don't care how "fast" or "slow" digesting your particular food is, you're getting energy from it the moment you swallow it.  So don't worry about eating too close to a workout. Just eat and go right away. Now... back to vitamins. - 98. But there's something to be said about the idea of "dynamic flow," (IE, maintaining consistently high levels of certain nutrients in the body at all times). There is a performance enhancing benefit of not relying on the limited release output from our vitamin reserves when intake is low. In other words: in a dynamic flow situation, you could maintain a maximum blood concentration of 200 ug/L of Vitamin X because you just keep popping vitamins. The point of this is not to restore reserves, because they're already saturated and you're pissing out a lot. The point of this consistenly higher intake is to raise the blood concentrations to a higher threshold than would be possible from relying on the limited output from drawing on your reserves. When you draw on your reserves, there is a maximum release rate from any given tissue. So ultimately you may be limited to maintaining a maximum blood concentration of 6 ug/L of vitamin X in this example when drawing on tissue reserves: the body can and will only release so much from the reserves so fast. So 6 ug/L may be enough to get you through your squat workout, but 200 ug/L may have been what you needed to feel good enough to go through with your stretching routine after your squatting.99. So, when someone says you don't "need" multivitamins, don't listen to them. Of course they're most likely correct, but they're missing out on an important perspective: you probably don't "need" them if your goal is to stave off pelegra or rickets, but we're looking for maximum human performance. I don't care how much I need to prevent debilitating diseases and death.  I want to know how much I can get away with taking that would induce a performance enhancement for tricking and lifting heavy things and moving quickly and looking great. I want to know how much I need to become psychic and teleport. I want to know how much I should take to feel incredible! These different goals produce different needs. Is your goal merely to survive, or do you want to thrive? Make sure your vitamin intake is consistent with your goal.