Fake Supplements, Glucose Spikes, Lactoferrin & Paraxanthine | Michael Antonelli | Ep. 61

You have a supplement graveyard in your pantry. Admit it. Half-used bottles you feel guilty throwing away, and no real idea if a single one of them is doing anything. This week, I sat down with Michael Antonelli, founder and CEO of Healthgevity and one of the most obsessive formulators I've ever met — and we recorded inside a biotech lab on Park Avenue South, where scientists are growing human lactoferrin from yeast. Here's what blew my mind. The lactoferrin in almost every supplement on the shelf comes from cows. Michael says your body can read that bovine protein as a foreign invader, which is why this team spent years engineering a version identical to the protein in mother's milk. Your cells recognize it instantly. He compared it to skipping the line at the club with a VIP pass. Then he dropped a bomb about how to vet a supplement company, and I've been repeating it to my friends ever since. Proprietary blends? Red flag. Can't find the ingredient list within 30 seconds of landing on the site? Red flag. He won't sell on any third-party site at all — and I've personally had clients end up with counterfeit bottles. We also cracked capsules open and drank them, talked paraxanthine versus caffeine, glucose spikes, zombie cells, and why nobody's talking about leaky vessels. After this one, you'll never buy a supplement the same way again. What we talk about: \- Why human-identical lactoferrin behaves so differently than the bovine kind \- The 340 mg dose most brands quietly can't afford to use \- Two words on a label that should make you put the bottle back \- Why he won't let his products be sold on Amazon \- Paraxanthine vs. caffeine: energy with no jitters, crash, or tolerance \- What blood sugar spikes are doing to your collagen and your skin \- Spermidine, fasting, and clearing out the zombie cells taking up space \- Leaky gut gets all the attention. Your leaky vessels don't. Listen to the full episode on all platforms — and catch the full lab walkthrough on YouTube. Episode Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healthgevity LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-antonelli-0295b548 Shop Healthgevity: https://healthgev.com Connect with Tracy: Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://tracyduhs.com/⁠⁠⁠ Hydration Shop: ⁠⁠⁠https://sanctuarysd.com/ ⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/tracyduhs/⁠ Flow FAM Community: ⁠⁠⁠https://tracyduhs.com/join-flow-fam/⁠