There was a rider in group rides that was pushing people to buy one. Sounds far too much like Amway, which is another bizarre legal mess. The only legal pyramid scheme in America. (At the time) People openly groaned whenever he started on his spiel.
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FYI: They think they know where the contaminated cinnamon came from, if this is what you are referring to - We may now know who’s behind the lead-tainted cinnamon in toddler fruit pouches | Ars Technica
It was perfect timing seeing my kids have been seeing the ads and asking for AG1. I mean why eat vegetables if you can drink them? We all watch together. Good production value and saved me a ton of money.
Like you pointed out the dosage of each ingredient is not enough to do anything besides take your money.
But to be fair, Ag1 doesn’t claim any performance enhancing benefits. It’s supposedly support for a healthy life and anti aging. Depends on which ad you get.
If your favorite influencer is pushing AG1 question their diet.
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It’s pretty shocking with the ads if you actively look for them while watching tv.
I don’t envy doctors having to deal with patients asking for specific drugs just because they see them on tv or just having conversations with patients about their weight and eating habits which many people don’t want to have those conversations
I often think about the endless pill commercials and how quickly it took over. My grandparents would have had a heart attack if a commercial came on at 5pm talking about erections.
Not if they were taking the right pills 
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Agreed it is complex, but Zoe reports advice to create and maintain a healthy gut biome based on scientific research. They report what is currently known, with an understanding that there is more to come.
I’ve listened to quite a few different podcasts on the subject of gut biome and the message is that eating the actual food is the best option, rather than the supplement.
Herbs and spices are considered to be helpful to the gut and using a range of them supports diversity. I have struggled to figure out what to use in what dish. I’ve recently bought a curry spice and recipe box set from The Spicery. It comes in a great box set, perfect for a gift, the recipes are easy and the spice blends take all the guess work out of it.
They haven’t been through rigorous testing, but they taste better than the underside of a lawn mower 
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How understaffed the FDA is should be criminal. I work in a regulated industry, we’re supposed to be inspected every two years. We’re on year four…
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Inspections can be expensive for the inspected parties. I heard that the meat packing companies are responsible for ‘inspecting’ their own meats. (Like I said before about Boeing being responsible for inspecting their own planes and look how well that worked out) If that doesn’t make one want to be vegetarian/vegan, nothing likely will. I don’t know of Europe is accepting American beef after that prion crisis years ago. Yuck… 
I would bet conditions are far worse than I imagine.
Hearing how awful conditions were at meat packing plants especially at start of Covid was shocking even though it probably shouldn’t have been a shock to me
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HAH!!
And wow, was he SKINNY!! Wow… (What drugs was he on?) I’m stunned still watching ‘old TV shows’, and everyone is so skinny/trim/fit. We are so doomed…
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Just read an article that had a blurb about AG1 in it. Completely in agreement with Johnathan’s findings.
Gotta say it again…I really appreciate the team at Trainerroad!
On every episode of his “zero-cost” podcast, Huberman gives a lengthy endorsement of a powder formerly known as Athletic Greens and now as AG1. It is one thing to hear Athletic Greens promoted by Joe Rogan; it is perhaps another to hear someone who sells himself as a Stanford University scientist just back from the lab proclaim that this $79-a-month powder “covers all of your foundational nutritional needs.” In an industry not noted for its integrity, AG1 is, according to writer and professional debunker Derek Beres, “one of the most egregious players in the space.” Here we have a powder that contains, according to its own marketing, 75 active ingredients, far more than the typical supplement, which would seem a selling point but for the inconveniences of mass. As performance nutritionist Adam McDonald points out, the vast number of ingredients indicates that each ingredient, which may or may not promote good health in a certain dose, is likely included in minuscule amounts, though consumers are left to do the math themselves; the company keeps many of the numbers proprietary. “We can be almost guaranteed that literally every supplement or ingredient within this proprietary blend is underdosed,” explains McDonald; the numbers, he says, don’t appear to add up to anything research has shown to be meaningful in terms of human health outcomes. And indeed, “the problem with most of the probiotics is they’re typically not concentrated enough to actually colonize,” one learns from Dr. Layne Norton in a November 2022 episode of Huberman Lab. (AG1 argues that probiotics are effective and that the 75 ingredients are “included not only for their individual benefit, but for the synergy between them — how ingredients interact in complex ways, and how combinations can lead to additive effects.”) “That’s the good news about podcasts,” Huberman said when Wendy Zukerman of Science Vs pointed out that her podcast would never make recommendations based on such tenuous research. “People can choose which podcast they want to listen to.”
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Folks, the prettier the packaging, the less likely it enhances health or performance.
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What upsets me about the whole AG thing is how many people take their money. I hate it when I hear someone I enjoy listening to promote their product. OTOH, I guess it’s a good reminder to take everything they say with a grain of salt.
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Was saddening to hear Ted King shilling this rubbish on his podcast when I listened to the Derek Teel story
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Me too
They have blown up in so many parts of youtube completely unrelated to health/fitness. At least a half dozen car related youtubers I follow are promoting it. I’ll give them a break on stuff like hello fresh, they are busy building cars, editing, etc meal replacement is one thing. But AG1? what? no reason for it to be in that space.
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I became disenfranchised from Huberman’s podcast for this reason.
Most youtubers and podcasters don’t really check their sponsorships to much, it’s worse when they promote services like better help that can be actively harmful… AG1 and a lot of other suplement powders are just useless and often either contain not enough of an ingredient or low quality stuff.
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