So up guys. This is Derek from more plates, more dates.com. Today we're going to be talking about Stan Effortings Vertical Diet. So I've, I started the vertical diet mid 2018 and there was a few goals. Some of them were basically cognitive based in terms of maximizing mental acuity and sharpness.

Secondary goals, well, not necessarily secondary.

They were actually primary goals at the time.

Maximizing thyroid hormone output as that was suboptimal due to T3 abuse in the past. Some other goals included, uh,

improving my bloods, improving, uh, my health in general.

Not that I wasn't healthy, but it's just, I'm a lot more longevity based now than I used to be.

And, you know, the diet fills a lot of micronutrient needs

which are otherwise left unmet by the standard you know traditional bodybuilding type diet

it's been almost a year now uh I did a mid 2018 I started it's approaching mid-ish 2019 now and uh i just want to do an updated video on my thoughts

as far as like elaborate details on how exactly how the foods in the vertical diet affected my

blood work you know like my inflammation levels how my cholesterol levels were affected you can go

look at my logs i did where I literally do

a new round of blood work per every, you know, four weeks or so to show what little changes in the

diet did to my blood work and my health markers. But I just wanted to do a kind of general

overview and kind of like a review of the diet itself.

So some takeaways I got from it.

Mainly quality of life and energy levels.

Those went up fairly noticeably.

So typically getting out of bed used to be a big, big struggle. So I'm sure you've had

those mornings where your alarm goes off and you have to set like 15 alarms to get out of bed and

you hit snooze a million times. And no matter what you do, that, you know, the eight hours you get,

you wish if you could, you would stay in bed for nine or ten and you do that you know the eight hours you get you wish if you could you would stay in bed for

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