Boron
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Nov 2, 2026
Tom RosenbauerHOST
Here's an email from Gary from Florida.
Tom RosenbauerHOST
What can you tell me about the Orvis Boron rods of the 80s? I built an 8 foot 9 inch 7 weight from an Orvis blank and used it for years on Michigan steelhead with a slinky rig and a running line with a yellow fluorescent butt section for the tippet.
Tom RosenbauerHOST
Looking back, that rigging was pretty near to being a heavily weighted version of Euro nymphing and the yellow fluorescent leader section a cider.
Tom RosenbauerHOST
Why did Orvis issue those rods and why were they withdrawn? Well, that's a good question, Gary.
Alex SchmidtHOST
Yeah.
Katie GoldinHOST
Boron, actually.
Katie GoldinHOST
Boron, they discovered.
Alex SchmidtHOST
And these beverages got invented many, many centuries ago and people had all sorts of different cups for them, often small little cups.
Alex SchmidtHOST
And we think there's two major influences on what became a mug, like a large flat bottom thing with a handle.
Jennifer StaggHOST
And then you also have the benefit of like more of a mineral complex that you're getting some other minerals in there as well.
Jennifer StaggHOST
Boron, magnesium.
Jennifer StaggHOST
Minerals that are also important.
Jennifer StaggHOST
So if you're going to invest in taking a calcium supplement, you got to take these pills anyway, then why not? I know it can be a little bit more expensive, but why not? You know, if you're really focused on this, take something that's more, a little bit more comprehensive.
Mitch GalloHOST
Ready to give away this beautiful Pulse 2 stick.
Mitch GalloHOST
Made of boron.
Keith PogueHOST
Boron, what a great buzzword.
Mitch GalloHOST
It's going to last.
Mitch GalloHOST
514-790-1690.
John KempfHOST
You can essentially desiccate a crop.
John KempfHOST
You can speed up the senescence and maturity of a crop dramatically by providing flow-mobile boron.
John KempfHOST
Boron accelerates sugar movement out of the leaves into the fruits or seeds, and you can eliminate the need for desiccant there's no money to be made in selling boron which is why this is not more widely known and not more popular but you can eliminate the need for a desiccant or maybe a better way to say is you can use boron as a maturity enhancer as a senescence enhancer and it will do the same crop same job as a desiccant but You get higher quality grain, higher sugar content, test weight, protein content, nutrient density.
John KempfHOST
You get this long list of positive benefits from using boron, and it will solve the same problem.
Chuck BenbrookGUEST
Yeah.
Eric BachHOST
However, you can't expect massive changes from just changing a training protocol because to being able to substantially improve testosterone because these short transient increases that we have as a result of training don't necessarily change our physiology and the underlying production quality of what happens when we're trying to boost testosterone.
Eric BachHOST
Number two is boron.
Eric BachHOST
Boron is a popular supplement because it's been shown to actually help improve free testosterone.
Eric BachHOST
Will you have a small bump in free testosterone? Potentially, but just adding boron into your diet isn't going to make a monumental shift in terms of what actually is going to move the needle.
Eric BachHOST
So if you have testosterone levels that are within range where your free testosterone is low, you could do a couple cycles of boron, just a mineral, right? And you could test where things are, say six months down the road, but typically you're going to have an increase of maybe five or 10%.
Michael RussellHOST
Okay, so when you get past beryllium, you go to boron, all right? And boron through neon, this is the 2p block, if you remember.
Michael RussellHOST
And what we would write is you'd write two, there'd like three orbitals.
Michael RussellHOST
Boron would be 2p1 in its own orbital.
Michael RussellHOST
Carbon would be 2p2, et cetera.
Michael RussellHOST
So when you mix the p orbitals in a molecular orbital diagram, there are three 2p orbitals from the first atom and three 2p orbitals from the second atom.
Brian GowerHOST
Yeah.
Brian GowerHOST
So it's like boron.
Brian GowerHOST
Boron, yeah.
Brian GowerHOST
I've been trying the ashwagandha, stuff like that.
Johnny RayGUEST
You know, that kills roaches.
Nigel BraunHOST
I looked it up.
Nigel BraunHOST
Boron is a neutron absorber.
Kevin KohlerHOST
Oh, okay.
Nigel BraunHOST
Yeah, so it says it blocks neutrons.
Michael RussellHOST
But what goes into that? So how many electrons, how many 2p electrons does boron have? I would do that by looking at the periodic table and counting the valence electrons.
Michael RussellHOST
Well, what I would do, let's go the whole thing.
Michael RussellHOST
Boron is 1s2, 2s2, 2p1.
Michael RussellHOST
So I didn't show the 1s down here because they're boring.
Michael RussellHOST
2s, that would be full, but there would be one electron right there.
Michael RussellHOST
We wouldn't expect it from the Lewis structure.
Michael RussellHOST
Trevor and I talked about how you can find it.
Michael RussellHOST
Boron's 1s2, 2s2, 2p1.
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