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John and Nathan, CBD Triathlete.
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Episode #44.
We welcome John and Nathan, founders of CBD Triathlete to talk all things CBD.
We cover:
Cannabis, cannabinoids, CBD vs THC, benefits and risks of taking CBD, types of products available and more!
You can connect with CBD Triathlete and check out their website on the links below.
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Overview
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Welcome to episode 44 of the UK Sports Chat podcast.
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I'm Joe Williams and in today's episode I speak with John and Nathan who are the founders of CBD triathletes.
Cannabis, CBD, and Audience Engagement
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We chat about cannabis, cannabinoids, the endocannabinoid system, how CBD can benefit you and more. Please do ask any questions you may have to us on this one via any of our social channels or directly to CBD triathlete. They give us all of their contact details towards the end of the podcast.
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Also, please get in touch if you would like to feature on the podcast or host a UK run chat hour on Twitter. Have a great rest of your week and see you on next week's episode.
John's Journey: From Addiction to Triathlons
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Welcome John. Welcome Nathan. Thanks for coming on the podcast. Hi. How are you both? Very well, yeah. Very well. Good. Yeah. British, British summers let us down again, but you know, other than that, old bull hunky-dory.
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Good, good. Would you like to, as I said in the introduction, you're the founders of CBD Triathlete, but would you like to give an introduction, please, both of you, and tell us a bit more about yourselves? Sure, yeah. Shall I go first, Nathan? Sure. So I'm John Conquest, one of the founders of CBD Triathlete, and husband to Anna, and I've got three children as well, under five, and I'm also director of
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Um, so I'll brush over a little bit as sort of quick as I can. Yeah. I'll go back. Um, talking about really, I suppose I've always been into sports, um, and at school predominantly, um, played rugby. Um, but, um, running's always been in the family for me because my dad, um, he picked up running when he was about, um, in his forties and he ended up being a really good runner. You know, he's got, um,
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you know, 30 plus marathons under his belt and all the sort of big ones, you know, Berlin, New York, you know, plenty of London's. And so running was always there. Sport was always around in the family. And he was a member of a running club, Haveri 90 joggers, and every year they would go on this, like,
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I was a young boy then, but there we go in this camp too, you know, clubber centre. I'm sure a lot of people know that. It lands probably. So I would join them on their training camps there.
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So yeah, so in and around fitness, but being a young man, I found the party scene. And if we fast forward 10 years from school days, I found myself at my lowest point and I've become a drug addict and an alcoholic. Okay.
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So I don't really know what happened, how it happened or where that line was, that invisible line where I crossed over it. So not to digress from the chat too much, but it is relevant considering what the subject, what we're going to be talking about. Thank God there is a fellowship
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He's AA and CA and it's a 12-step program and I've been cleaning sober over six and a half years now. So if anyone's listening or struggling with that, direct mail me through Facebook or Twitter or get in touch with Joe and he can give you some details and if you needed to be pointed in the right direction and I can help you there as well. Yeah, that's really good of you, John.
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So, did you go back into, you know, your sporting activities as part of your recovery? No, well, not really, because it's, you can't, you know, if you're going to get clean and sober, post that programme,
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Throughout my drinking news, I was still signing up to all sorts of events, like I was doing half marathons, triathlons, 100 mile bike rides, and I was hoping that it would slow down my drug and alcohol consumption, but it didn't work. It actually made my life 10 times worse, and stressful, because I had this problem of addiction, and also I had this big pride and ego, it wouldn't let me pull out all the events I'd signed up to.
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and probably youth was on my side. But if we fast forward to more recent years as a sober adult, becoming sober allows you to do more because you're just 10 times more productive, you're never hungover.
Discovering CBD for Recovery
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you know, you spring out. I personally do spring out of bed in the morning, you know, I'm never buzzing the alarm clock or anything like that. So it certainly gives you a life beyond your wildest dreams and the freedom to do more. So yeah. So coming back to recent, more recent years, I've, you know, I've dabbled in some boxing and I do weight training and cycle I run.
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completed the London Marathon and other large events. But I do think, to answer your question, I do think that being an addict and that addictive personality, I certainly would agree that a lot of people that I know in fellowship would certainly, you know, once they got sober, start looking at challenges like things like marathons and, you know, and things that they wasn't able to do,
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So as I've participated, like I said, a number of triathlons in recent years, from Olympic distance to full distance. And there's a lot of training involved, as you can imagine. I'm quite injury prone. This is particularly from the running for me. I'm quite heavy step. So yeah, the running
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imagine with three children under five. Yeah. So it doesn't help with more recovery. So yeah, so talking about CBD triathlete, I suppose, where it come about is, although I spend a lot of money on physio and massage and, you know, recovery, things like that,
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po-fin all the time, you know? Yeah. So CBD was, it was continually popping up on my searches. But being uneducated about it, and being a recovered addict, it was like a complete no for me, because, you know, I thought of it the same way as most people do, which was, namely, it was cannabis, it's illegal when it would intoxicate me. Yeah. So it was just like, well, I'm not doing that. I'm not jeopardizing my sobriety. You know, I'm
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put everything into getting sober. There's no way I'm putting that in my body. But bringing it back to more present day, a couple of years ago, normally I would say by chance, but I don't believe anything happens by chance anymore. I met Nathan on holiday. That's how we met a few years ago. We got talking and he noticed that my
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had bilateral telepathies or otherwise known as clubfoot as it's referred to something which Nathan was born with and Nathan
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was really, we got chatting and as the, you know, we talked more, he's very knowledgeable about CBD and the types of CBD and the products available because having found it to be most effective remedy for the pain he was experiencing, the pain in the AT experiences through his telepathies. So, yeah. But perhaps I'll chip in and just take the opportunity to introduce myself. I'm Nathan and as,
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partner and co-founder of CBD triathlete alongside John. And I think as he, as he mentioned, it was kind of a, well, a chance meeting that perhaps isn't so charmed, but I suffer from this, from the condition that he just referenced, which is this bilateral telepedes and club feet, which is basically where your feet are from, from birth in terms and then
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myself 35 years old, went through kind of a very rudimentary kind of surgical procedures way back when. And really, although I was kind of fine through my teenage years and early 20s, as I started hitting 30 plus my
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legs and the muscles were really causing big issues and I actually had to really look at a career change from kind of a property agent and property developer and a friend had introduced CBD to me as a more kind of ingredient. So I was kind of really
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similar to John, albeit not so much from the elite athlete level, but I was also very conscious of THC and kind of the taboos that went along with kind of, I suppose weed smoking. And it kind of really took me a long time in my own discoveries, again with young children and for me really kind of
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I suppose I was more concerned as to what my friends would think more than anything else. It took me a long time to really try and understand CBD and then really, once I got my head around what CBD actually is, it then took me quite a while to hone in and understanding potency and what products are right for me and why do some people smoke it? Why do some people rub it on their skid? Why do some people take capsules? It was a lot of trial and tribulation that really got me to the point of understanding
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what it was and kind of there we were sitting in we actually met on holiday in Dubai with like his child with club feet who I've never I've never had the opportunity to meeting anyone else with club feet in Dubai where CBD is completely banned and here we are creating a business quite quite amazing really yes it is so let's let's dig into this a little bit then because you've both put up you know about cannabis now obviously now
Understanding Cannabis, CBD, and THC
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So I've done a little bit of reading. I said this to you before, didn't I, John, before I actually recorded. So the reason I've done some reading on it is because my youngest son is epileptic and CBD is used as a treatment. But let's dig into cannabis and CBD. And you mentioned THC there, Nathan. Can you explain what is CBD? What is THC?
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Absolutely. And look, it's kind of, I make no bones about it. Cannabis is the same thing as hemp. Hemp is cannabis. The difference being the levels of cannabinoids that exist within the plant and cannabinoids really are, are, is really the
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If you were to cold press a plant, it would give you an oil. And within that oil, there's a whole host of different cannabinoids. Two that are the most famous are CBD and THC. THC is the psychoactive compounds, the element that would make you high.
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And in the interest of this discussion is the banned cannabinoids in active sport. And really that's the thing that makes you high. CBD is another cannabinoid which is known for its medicinal benefits. We can't talk about the medicinal benefits because then you are in fact promoting or selling a medicine and need a whole host of different licenses. So there is a kind of a
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a real difficulty in being able to promote or talk about what CBD does, but that's perhaps a slightly different conversation. So in essence of the question, CBD is seen as the health and wellness cannabinoid, which is known for its benefits, particularly in recovery and repair of muscles. That's why CBD is so good. And without straying too much into
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another conversation, but people that have epilepsy or other issues that they may have heard that cannabis helps relieve. It's not CBD on its own that has the strength of that medicinal, that what's known as an entourage effect, which is the mix of different cannabinoids.
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There are many advocates for cannabis or medical cannabis and the distal properties that this full extract plant gives you with the myriad of cannabinoids sort of within a melting pot. Yes.
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isolated products so a really refined product gone through lots of different scientific processes to take it from this cold press oil extract full of fats, lipids, lots of different uncontrollable levels of cannabinoids right down into a isolated pure as pure can be
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CBD isolate so it's kind of 99.99 and a bit of change percent pure the only reason it's not 100% is because it contains kind of natural fats and and lipids so yeah I suppose get off my soapbox a little bit but John or our range of products are pure CBD one of many different cannabinoids this cannabinoid is well known for its
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recovery and benefits and helping sleep. There's lots of different benefits that seem to be specific. And we have ensured that we're using an isolated form that one would argue contains no nasties and to exaggerate to make the point is I wouldn't quite say actively encouraged, but sits within the World Anti-Doping Agency guidelines of being a particular supplement that is allowed to be used in active sport and competition.
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Yeah.
CBD vs. Homeopathic Solutions
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Okay. Because all of that is very interesting because some of the reason that I had done, but again, this is away from sport and more for treatment of epilepsy and things is that some of the products do have small amounts of THC and the other in them don't know. So that's interesting. So these products are pure CBD.
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Yeah, I isolate the compound being fully isolated to the point that the certificates that we always apply alongside the product. So they call, it's called a certificate of authenticity. And that certificate will confirm in each and every batch that we make.
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Exactly the amount of CBD that is present in the product, which would you think about, you know, the fact that it's, it's plant based, the varying, you know, therefore in the, in the pure form, the CBD concentration moves from batch to batch. This is the way to ensure mathematical accuracy each and every, every time.
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Okay, great. So for people out there who may see, like John alluded to before, you know, the CBD as a drug, what would you say to them? You know, perhaps they see it as a performance enhancing drug. What are the things that you say to people to help educate them on what CBD is and how it can help them?
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Yeah, I was just going to chip in and say that I think it's kind of it's the reality is it's a plant based extract, which has been proven over time to have medicinal benefits. So the way that I look at that is not dissimilar to that of lavender, which is known for its calming, sleeping, sleep based benefits alongside many other kind of homeopathic
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solutions so i think it's from from my perspective i think people people it's very hard to get the educational piece across but i think once people and and from my perspective without trying to sound too much like a hippie
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But the body has an endocannabinoid system in it. And CBD is the thing that tops up that endocannabinoid system. And the frustration is, of course, as I alluded to before, because we can't sell a medicine, it's difficult to direct people into understanding what their correct doses are. And therefore, there's a lot of people that feel the product is
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snake oil almost. And so I say that in as much as once you understand why you are taking CBD, once you've gone through the journey of self discovery in as much as understanding the correct dose for you is extremely effective.
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And from my perspective, and we've touched on it earlier when we talked about the other cannabinoid, CBD itself is well known specifically for reducing inflammation, specifically with stress and anxiety, and it's known to improve sleep quality. So ultimately, if a user is experiencing those key call outs, ultimately, it improves focus and improves quality of life.
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I found that when I did my bit of reading, the endocannabinoid system, I was, I found it quite amazing to think that that was actually in your body. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's fascinating. And like I say, I probably, my last little hippy bit for the moment, but I can't, I can't help it. But there's kind of, it's well-documented that hemp as a weed in the truest sense of the word was growing.
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You know, right at the beginning of the 19th, 20th century, the cows were eating it. It was going into the milk and people drinking the milk. And arguably there's a whole kind of belief that hemp being pulled out of the food network has correlated with the health conditions that seem to be on the rise now. It really is quite fascinating. I suppose to jump in,
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particularly because it comes from the hemp plant. Everyone's got that taboo thing about it, but no one's got any issue going into Holland and Barrett and pumping tens of different types of pills into themselves every morning because
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you know, ibuprofen and paracetamols and cod live oils and all this sort of stuff. So once you understand, like I say, once you're educating it, you understand that we have an endocannabinoid system, that network of receptors in us, you know, it's just topping up your CBD levels, it becomes more, well, I don't take any other tablets now, although I use CBD.
Benefits of CBD for Training and Recovery
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Did you do a lot of training, John? As you said at the start, you went to a lot of different events. When do you take it and what are the specific benefits that you get from it?
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I take it, I use all the products, every morning I take my tincture, I take 150 ml of tincture a day, so I take 75 in the morning, I take 75 before bed. I always, in and around training, I'm using the muscle
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when I'm massaging my areas but the you know the tinctures the one what is without shadow of a doubt I use morning or night and I use it pre you know to settle my nerves I use it pre swim pre pre race always doing it pre race and to when I was chucking in numbers out there like 150 milligram you know the recommended allowance on the
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And that is just a recommendation. But as an athlete or any sort of individual who exerts themselves more than the normal person, it's again to to compare it to, you know, give you an example that, you know, I suppose if you put a Baraka in your drink in the morning, it would take you over your daily allowance of vitamin C. So it is a recommendation. And I suppose going back to the fact that
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I treat it now, I'm educated on it and I know that it doesn't intoxicate me as no addictive properties is already in my system. Using it daily as a supplement is the only way I do benefit from it
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take one ibuprofen in the morning and expect your inflammation to go down the next day. So the benefits for me, obviously, you know, all the training I do, touchwood,
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and stuff like that so I do everything possibly to try and stay injury free and I've had it really good you know I've just done an Ironman and I've got another Ironman in three weeks time and I've managed to stay injury free in the last couple of years but to just touch on the you know for me sleep like yeah I don't get a lot of sleep because I have three young children yeah a couple of businesses however
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I've realised over time that I can operate quite well on six-hour sleep, but it's six hours straight quality sleep, not broken sleep. And as a parent yourself, and same as Nathan, I think, you know, if you have that unbroken quality sleep where you shut your eyes and then you open them, that can just, you know, make the whole difference to training, your day, everything. So that's
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which is my sleep, you know, turn the lights off, 10, 10.30, whatever, and it's just a nice quality sleep. And in terms of just to hit on the fact that, you know, with the tinctures, with the muscle bones, with the lotions, is that like continued juice and that is a bit like Nathan said, it's if you, you know, it's like that trial and error. It's like you've got to use something continuously for two weeks, three weeks, four weeks,
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Oh, I feel good there. Well, you know, my, my, my knees stopped hurting now. Yeah. So it's not like a, an overnight process. Oh, it's quite a weird feeling as well, John, isn't it? As much as like, um, you know, it's not like this, like a juice that makes you superhuman. It's just like for me in particular, and I'm pleased we're not on video because to associate myself with a triathlete brand or even feeling a runner.
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from this podcast is somewhat embarrassing for myself so I'm pleased there's no video but what I would say is like for me who uses that that muscle lotion that we've worked very hard to kind of make sure that the everything that's within that that product is there for a purpose there's no kind of filler and I think when I when I'm using those products and I suppose using them in a different way to John it's not like my club fee or the feeling of
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pain goes away, but it's more like at the end of the day or when I wake up in the morning, it's just, I think, oh, didn't actually moan about that yesterday. It's a very weird kind of thing. Again, I'm no mean athletic in any way, shape or form, but I think it's just important to say that it's not like it doesn't
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Not saying you're going to run faster, jump quicker, or whatever it may be. It just aids greasing the wheels, don't they, John? Yeah. I think a good example as well, like my mum and all her friends, my mum moved to North Norfolk in a cultural way.
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my mum and dad are in their 70s and she's always had a terrible knee and oh I'll try that too. So obviously she's got the tincture, she's got the balms, she's got the lotions, you know, she's been using them continually and you know and a few of her friends up there as well and it's great getting, you know, they're not triathletes or runners or athletes or anything so it's just hitting on the point that it is for everyone but and then you know I love phoning up after a few weeks and saying
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hasn't hurt and I'm just like I'm waking up in his bit like Nathan said I'm thinking oh my god I didn't wake up last night with my knee from it or it didn't hurt me after I'd done that 5k walk through the forest with him and you know and he's noticing it in your daily but it did take you as well John like probably first two or three weeks I was giving you some of the products that I use bitch bitch shit this night or it's not really working or I think I need something stronger then all of a sudden it like they've
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kicks in. Okay, I mean, yeah, we're not really talking in most technical terms, but your body starts a point of having a deficiency in your body and it takes time to Yeah.
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to work up. And it's like I say, it almost comes on to a point, and it's so marginable and not noticeable. There is no real like Eureka moment. It's bizarre. It just kind of... Funnily enough, there was a thread yesterday on Twitter, totally separate to us. We got tagged in it, it was what it was a runner. And it said, CBD oils, what are people's thoughts, experiences, recommended brands, et cetera, and with the question mark. And one of the questions were, one of the answers was,
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I didn't believe the hype around it, but it seemed to help some foot pain and my sciatica. The next one was been using it for a year now. It's been great for anxiety, sleep, recovery and loads more. So these are regular runners who, like you say, I didn't believe the hype about it. This is the first comment, but it's helped me. One question I did have is if it's
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I know you spoke when you hosted the Hour John as well, you spoke about CBD for sleep quality. Does it in any way keep you groggy the next morning or anything? Because it helps your sleep? It's a really good question. And as a triathlete, currently training for my second Ironman in Switzerland in three weeks, I take, as I said,
00:28:31
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150ml of CBD a day, which is twice the recommended allowance on my bottle, which we sell. And so I've never experienced
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or using the products, no grogginess, no tiredness. And if you think about me getting up at training at like, you know, sometimes I'll go for like an hour run at 4am to get a session in there. You know, if this product made me groggy in any way, shape or form, there's no way that I would use it. And that's me from my personal experience. I suppose I'll let Nathan
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jumping on these expertise on whether there is again, I need to catch myself from sounding too, too out there. But I think the CBD is not psychoactive. So there should be no feeling within your body or mind of grogginess at all. I think we're there. And again, John, we haven't actually discussed this before be interested in to get your view. But as I
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take a edible product or a tincture in the evening before I go to sleep. There is definitely a feeling as if my body is physically relaxing. People talk about it like a feeling of just sort of having a, I don't know, like a heavy warm blanket put over your legs. And there is definitely a feeling of forced relaxation in the evening. And I am also again,
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young children energetic and have always found it difficult to just kind of wind down. So I think although I say it's not psychoactive, you don't get that kind of high or feeling of grogginess, but there is certainly an activation of something within the body that just
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that gives you what you need. Okay. So in that case, tell us about your products and I'm interested in, should they be taken at a specific time then? Is there a different type of product that if you were more wanting this to help you with your sleep versus recovery, for example, as a sports person or does it all do the same? I mean, the tincture, if you were using the products for sleep, then you would just
00:31:01
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frog in your Achilles or knee then like me I mean I use all three of mine every day like literally I use the synchre as I say I use the balms in and around the areas what are specifically
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I'm targeting what might be sore, like I say, my lower left back, my left knee, two little hotspots, what sort of for me. But the lotion is a transdermal cream, so it soaks in. So it's more, it allows you to use it more, you know, before you go out the shower, apply it to your area and then it will soak in and then you can put your workshop or
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day. So products themselves, I personally like to combine all three. But if it was around sleep and anxiety, then obviously the main product we'd probably say was best for that is the tincture. It's also it's what we try to do when we when we create this range of products is to offer, I think we want what we've started calling a category solution. So really,
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Again, there are, there are two main receptor groups, which, which we are looking to, to target and the CBD helps with CB, CB1 receptors and CB2 receptors and CB2 receptors are.
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In my case, for example, what I'm looking to target, which are the muscle, known for muscle and body receptors, as opposed to more brain or psychoactive things, which are CB1. So with that in mind, and to answer the question, when it comes to sleep, you really want to access CB1 receptors. So that's where the tincture comes into
00:32:48
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really good effect, although it does obviously supplement the other things. And then CD2 receptors, your muscles, your aches and pains and ailments, you can access those either by way of a hard balm that John mentioned or a lotion. So again, although they absolutely operate on their own targeting specific receptors for different ailments, the idea is that we are trying to produce a kind of a full category solution so that somebody would be able to use a different product
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to relieve or help a different ailment at a different type of the day. So that's not too much of a politician answer, but can you talk more into why we created these three products in this particular form factor? Yeah, no, it's interesting. People would like to hear this level of detail, I'm sure. So in my mind, the reason I was asking, you know, when do you use it? So a very
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a trick that a lot of guys use, especially on long events, is they'll pop a couple of ibuprofen halfway around a marathon. You know, is this something that, you know, you'd take these each day so that you don't have to do things like that, is what it seems to be saying. It's, you know, I 100% use my products pre and post race all the time, you know, and the Ironman, I just did, you know, like up at 3.30 in the morning
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The first thing I did was take my tincture and I was close to it. How much training are you doing a week, John? Currently, because of the Ironman, I'm up to about anywhere between 13 to 16 hours a week. But as I don't train for an Ironman, I'll scale that back to sort of, you know, seven or eight hours, which it does sound like a lot. But if you think about a long cycle in here, taking up about four
00:34:50
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got tons of running and swimming, maybe, you know, a few hour run sessions and a few hours swim sessions, and you've got a big bike session in there. But I like to use the, as I say, I like to use the balm in and around my achilles and my ankles pre-race to warm them through mid-race, to answer your question. I haven't tried yet, but it's definitely one you could, you know, I had it in my bag, a transition, thinking I was going to have it, but I
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about it, I was in good form over race it on, but I suppose in the scenario that you've given, then we don't sell gummies, but CBDs come in all sorts of different products. We do the tincture, but if you was going to use it mid race, I suppose you would have CBD gummies maybe in your race belt or something like that.
00:35:49
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I think personally, if you were using the products daily and you had a good dose of the tincture before you raced anyway, was running applied to topicals, then unless you were doing an ultra run or something like that, if it was a shorter run for a few hours, then I would
00:36:14
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But certainly had it in my bag, a transition on my last one, but didn't need to use it. But going out on long cycles and stuff like that, you can put the tincture in your saddle bag and stuff like that. But personally, I just use them religiously in and around training day and night, and that seems to work well for me. Okay. I'm going to ask this one for people.
Risks and Regulations of CBD
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Are there any risks to taking CBD?
00:36:41
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Well, there are, well, there is a studies going on that are suggesting that women who are pregnant, CBD seems to have an adverse effect to, and I'm no doctor and I really don't know the finer detail of it, but I've read that there are supposedly issues with
00:37:05
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lining of the womb and presenters. I think like with most supplements, we don't recommend that they should be used on pregnant women. And other than that, and we haven't actually discussed it on the call, which is somewhat refreshing, but there is a
00:37:20
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CBD in pure form is something which has not been available in supermarkets before a date in, I think it's 1997. So we're currently going through a process of novel food, although the industry is going through a process of novel food authorization, which basically means that the products have gone through the correct levels of regulatory assurance and everybody knows their products are safe and have been extracted correctly because
00:37:49
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You know, it goes without saying, obviously, we work very hard to wiggle down and find the supplier of CBD that we're hugely confident in their level of compliance. But given the industry and where it's come from, there are negative connotations. So there's wonderful things going on in the background for the industry to ensure that they're fully, regulatory really sort of compliant, if that is a word. And that's something that we are subscribed to.
00:38:13
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and part of the process of it. So, you know, watch this space, but it's soon, see if it is an ingredient will soon be as comfortable sitting on the supermarket shelf in the same way any other ingredient is. Yeah. Cool. Okay.
Connecting with CBD Triathlete
00:38:31
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Well, where can everyone connect with you and learn more and give us your web address and your social media handles in that place?
00:38:42
Speaker
Yeah, we've got, we're on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. You can find us at CBD triathlete, across all three of them and our website is www.cbdtriathlete.co.uk and on there we've got
00:39:02
Speaker
We've got the FA&Q page, which could answer a lot of questions. We've also got an article page in there with some articles around different types of training with CBD. I've got a new article coming, actually, from a guy who's been using our products. He's just completed a 130-mile ultra run. So I'm looking forward to reading that. And you can drop me a line, personally, through the
00:39:31
Speaker
email on the website or for our socials. And, you know, I'm always happy to answer lots of questions. There's so many questions that people have about it, that it's, you know, you're updating, updating the page with them, because, you know, people
00:39:53
Speaker
How can I put it? They don't really like to navigate through a website. Sometimes it's weird. It can be there right in front of you on a question page.
00:40:05
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through Instagram or Facebook and have you sort of answered directly which I'm quite disappointed at the minute because obviously it's about educating people and hopefully they come round to the idea. Yeah great well yeah so if anyone else got any questions or comments on the podcast or would like a little bit more information about anything that's been said on the podcast today please
00:40:28
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either ask us on UK run chat, ask CBD triathlete via their social channels. Nathan and John, thanks so much for coming on and chatting to us. And John, best of luck with your Ironman Switzerland in three weeks. Yeah, thanks a lot. Thanks for having us. Thanks, James. It's been great. Thanks, both. Cheers. Bye bye.