70. Why You're Not Losing Fat (And What Actually Works) with Ben Azadi

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The average person was eating 17 to 23 times per day.
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We're not designed to snack and graze all day long.
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One of the things that I was taught was that when you eat every two to three hours,
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you know, boost your metabolism and it's good for digestion,
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balance your blood sugar, not necessarily constant glucose and insulin hits.
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And that's not really going to be supporting your metabolism.
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It's actually going to make you more of a sugar burner to rely on food every, every few hours.
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So when my health was at its worst, I didn't tell you this,
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but I thought about food all the time and like there's my age and I was just thinking about the next meal.
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So now when I work with my clients, I can really like, oh, yeah, I was there.
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This can pass.
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The goal is to lower it and have it within eating window and no snacking in between those meals.
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Okay, so before we begin, we're kind of talking about this.
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This entire podcast is really about ancient wisdom in our modern world and ultimately how we can all become more rooted in our health,
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in our capacity to heal our inner wisdom and also just like an overall sensation of just like living a great life.
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So if I had to ask you, what are like three things that you practice that help you feel really rooted in who you are in your health?
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The first one would be to live on purpose with your purpose.
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And I think once you find that that purpose and passion and align yourself to live on purpose with that purpose,
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you have all the energy in the world, you have all the vitality in the world.
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I really believe a lot of people who are tired are really just uninspired.
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They have nothing to look forward to and when you find that and it's cool because it's unique to you.
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It could be being the best author, the best mom, the best whatever it is.
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But once you find out what's important to you and live in congruent with that and line up your calendar with that,
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you have all the energy and vitality.
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I think that's so important and missed in our health space because we talk about like macros and fasting and all the great things.
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But what about if you're hating your job or hating your relationships, you're going to only go so far.
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So that would be the first one.
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And you asked me for three, huh?
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Second one would be kind of aligned with that.
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And it's a supplement that I call vitamin G in chapter 10 of metabolic freedom, which is anti-inflammatory.
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It's great for any condition you're dealing with great for fat loss.
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It's great for chronically high levels of stress.
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C. Davis has a study showing that those those who take vitamin G have healthier blood pressure levels help their blood sugar levels.
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There was a study published from JAMA Harvard published in JAMA that looked at 49,275 nurses.
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What a study.
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And it showed the nurses who took vitamin G every day had around a 9% reduction in dying from all cause mortality versus the nurses who didn't.
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Okay, so you're watching this or listening to this and thinking, okay, where can I get vitamin G?
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Yeah, I'm already on Amazon looking for it.
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It's vitamin and gratitude.
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It's the feeling of gratitude, not the practice, but the feeling.
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It's not an intellectual practice gratitude.
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It's an emotional feeling.
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And those are studies on gratitude.
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When you feel gratitude, it's like a strain training for your soul is what I call it.
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And you get all these amazing benefits.
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It supports your immune system at lower levels.
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It supports your immune system at lower levels because it raises oxytosis and our dear friend Mindy's favorite hormone when we're favorite hormone.
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So vitamin G is number two.
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And then number three would be to find that customized approach that works for you.
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Because when you could talk about like this supplement or ketosis and fasting the carnivore diet.
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But does it apply to you like where you actually benefit?
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I mean, looking at labs will help you kind of identify what works for you or works against you.
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When you pay attention to your body and symptoms or lack thereof, you could find an approach that works for you.
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So that their answer would be finding a customized approach.
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And that's going to be unique to you.
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These are amazing.
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So believe you're not even as a nutritionist.
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I don't want to start with like what was the supplements, the food, the diet, the protocol, everyone wants the best protocol.
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But I'm a big believer that the power of our thoughts have the most massive impact on our physiology because it drives your choices.
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And I want to just call it so having purpose we're all familiar with.
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But the purpose of having purpose being intentional with that every day is a game changer because that will literally drive your decisions.
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That's right.
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Thank you.
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That is beautiful.
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Okay, so we're obviously going to dive into all the metabolic truths.
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It is such a hot topic today.
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It's one that causes a lot of people overwhelm.
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I think a lot of the women that I work with tend to be pretty stressed out because they're hearing about these fasting marathons that they have to go on.
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And they just don't know that they can do it.
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And then they're left with a sense of failure.
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So let's dive into the meat of it and really address the state of metabolic health today.
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I know that this is part of your purpose.
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The rising numbers.
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Can you just give us a picture of the one, the lens of metabolic, the lens of metabolic health, but also the impact of metabolic health.
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Absolutely.
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Yeah, I know here in the United States, we spend $4.6 trillion on health care every year, which would be the fourth largest GDP in the world if it was a GDP.
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And you would think, okay, we spend that much money on health care.
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We should be top five in health.
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All right, no, we're not top five.
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What about top 10?
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Nope.
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Top 20? No.
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We're like 37 in the world.
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Yet pharmaceutical companies are richer than ever before.
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And we are sicker than ever before.
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And what's really interesting about that amount that we spend every year on health care is that one out of every $4 is spent on diabetes primarily type two.
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Which, as you know, is it's a metabolic disease that's preventable and preventable and also reversible.
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And it's a lot of money we're spending because we're chasing symptoms and we're not getting to the cause of why we have those symptoms.
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You were sharing a little bit of your story with me before we hit record here.
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You were having a lot of symptoms in your 20s.
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And we have been brainwashed to believe that those symptoms are the problem.
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Your headache, your migraine, your high resting heart rate.
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These are all your problems.
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We need to have a surgery or a medication to mask it.
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And of course, there's always a time and place for these things.
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But in general, and most of the time, it's not the symptom that's the issue.
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It's something underneath.
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The symptom could be far removed from the actual cause.
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And in my space and the people that I work with is a lot of obesity, overweight individuals, diabetics, also PCOS.
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And one of the things that I always reframe and I changed their paradigm when it comes to being overweight,
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because I used to be obese, is that they don't have a weight problem.
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I don't have a weight problem.
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There's no such thing. It's a weight symptom.
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And by doing something like cutting calories or following a fat diet, you're treating the symptom of being overweight.
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But when you focus on the root cause of why you have extra weight, hormones and inflammation,
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then the weight comes off the side effect.
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In other words, we don't lose weight to get healthy.
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We get healthy to lose weight.
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So it's a different shift to what we've been taught or the mainstream has taught us.
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But it's a huge impact here in the United States and across the world.
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Because we are seeing Harvard as saying by 2030, which is just a few years away,
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50% of the entire United States population will be obese according to their projection.
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Not just overweight, but actually obese.
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And that is a huge toll because it increases your chances of all these metabolic diseases.
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And I believe God didn't design us to have all the sickness and the symptoms.
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We have this inner physician, this innate intelligence within the cells.
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And the body is not broken. It's just being interfered with.
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And if we could identify that interference, where is that interference coming from?
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We work on removing it.
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Then this inner physician, which is within every cell, starts to heal the body and go to work.
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So that's a paradigm shift, though, then what you've been taught, a big one.
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But I know you preach the message as well.
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Yeah, this illusion of fat loss that it's required to take something to come back into balance
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or to do something extremely challenging to come back into balance.
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But just the simple reflection that you gave of thinking of our ancestors, right?
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Or there was no issues with obesity when we think back.
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Even in the 1930, Mona, it was around one to two percent here in the United States.
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Now it's going to be 50 percent.
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And they'll say it's our genetics, but our genetics don't change that fast.
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Genetics are a small percentage of that equation.
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You got it. And it's frightening, right?
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Like I walk on to my kids' school ground.
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And I'm seeing children who are now obese.
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And to a point where you probably feel this and see this, it's becoming normalized.
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And doctors are now getting even more prescriptive about what to do.
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So the message really needs to change.
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The landscape needs to change.
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And unfortunately, it's not coming from the top.
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And I think that we're a really long way from doing that.
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So this is why your message is so important.
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You have a beautiful way of speaking to this, too.
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So when we think about people getting fat loss all wrong, what's the,
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what's something that you wish they understood more of?
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You know, when you think about fat loss is not just stepping on the scale every day.
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It's not going on a diet.
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What do people need to understand when it comes to fat loss?
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Yeah, really important question was a lot of people trying to lose weight trying to burn some fat, which is fine.
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But I'm really getting tired of the old calories and versus calories out model.
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The body is not a calculator or a math equation or a bank account.
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It's a very complex chemistry lab.
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And a calorie is not a calorie out.
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You know, the body could do so many different things with that calorie or calories,
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which will determine whether or not you're going to store fat burn fat or produce energy.
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I'll give you an example.
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There's a study I put in the book because I was talking about these fat loss shifts and failures that you just mentioned.
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One of them is the calories and versus calories out approach.
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And I was referencing two studies.
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One study was from the TV show The Biggest Loser, which we all remember, right?
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These obese individuals, they were put on this extreme killer deficit, extreme exercise.
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And a lot of them lost weight and they celebrated them in the final episode.
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But yeah, they were miserable the whole time.
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Correct.
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Then there was a study that looked at 14 of them after the show ended.
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And it showed that 13 out of the 14 gained all the way back in a six of them gained even more weight.
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And they also measured their hormones.
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So lept in plummeted, which is we know their satiety hormone,
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growing their hunger hormone was through the roof and their metabolic rate slowed down.
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Because the metabolism will match the calories, the energy coming in over time.
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So if you're in a chronic deficit, your body is not going to continue to produce the same amount of energy.
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It'll lower the metabolic rate to deal with that coming in.
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So you destroy the metabolism and it's not, it's not the solution.
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You know, the body is really sophisticated and smart.
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It's about the quality of the food we eat, not the quantity.
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And hopefully that's inspiring to people because you don't have to measure everything counter calories.
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You just focus on real whole food.
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I know that's kind of the thing we say, but it's true.
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Single ingredient, double ingredient foods, and worry about quality, not quantity.
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I have to pause this episode to share something that's completely transformed how I feel every single day.
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And it all starts in my gut.
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I'm talking about pendulum's metabolic daily and I'm genuinely obsessed.
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88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy.
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And so much of that comes down to our gut microbiome.
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If you're constantly battling afternoon energy crashes, sugar cravings,
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and that sluggish feeling after meals, metabolic daily can change everything.
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This isn't your typical probiotic.
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It contains live acrimansia, moones of phila.
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It's an incredible next generation strain that most of us are deficient in.
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It literally strengthens your gut lining and helps your body metabolize sugars and carbs so much more efficiently.
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What I love most is how it makes me feel.
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My energy is sustained throughout the day.
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I'm not constantly thinking about my next snack.
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And I actually feel a little bit more full faster.
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It's like my body finally learned how to work with the food instead of against it.
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Plus, my digestion has never been better.
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What sets pendulum apart is the science.
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They were founded by PhD scientists and doctors with the myoclinic as their first investor.
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They're the first company in the US to bring live acrimansia to market using DNA sequencing in an oxygen-free facility.
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If you heard in your community, like the resistance that comes up with this yet, this I am like an eye roll.
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Eat all foods.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Now eat just whole foods.
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Give me 30 days on a whole food diet and watch the magic that happens.
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Not only the way your pants fit, your sleep, your energy, your mood, your hormones, your bowel movements.
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Just give me 30 days.
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You probably have to dive into your book.
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But this is such a big misconception.
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And I think it's because, and maybe again, this is coming from the top because of the dollars that go into food marketing.
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And even around your world, like I went through this anti keto movement because I was looking at like keto cups and keto snacks and keto this.
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And it's like, but it's still boxed dead food.
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Like how is this healthy for us?
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It's true.
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We take a keto you know, we can get into it.
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But yeah, keto has been adopted by like big food now.
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And just because it's keto friendly, it does not make it health friendly.
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You got it.
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We'll get into it in a little bit.
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Let's really understand like when we think about things that can sabotage your metabolism and things that you see people doing every day.
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What are some of those things?
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One of them is snacking and grazing.
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And one of the things that I was taught when I was a personal trainer many years ago was that when you eat every two to three hours, you know, boost your metabolism.
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And it's good for digestion, balanced your blood sugar.
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Not necessarily so.
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Not necessarily so.
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We're not designed to snack and graze all day long.
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It's constant glucose and insulin hits.
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And that's not really going to be supporting your metabolism.
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It's actually going to make you more of a sugar burner to rely on food every few hours.
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And there's a study that my colleague, Dr. Don Clam published that I referenced in the book.
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Dr. Don Clam with the sea.
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He simply asked them every time you eat something, put it in a journal and mark it down.
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So it could be a snack or a full meal, but it was all every time it was considered you were eating.
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So it could be handful of almonds.
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It could be a protein shake or a full on meal.
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And the average person was eating 17 to 23 times per day.
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Oh my gosh.
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I know.
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Non stop.
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Pretty much every waking hour.
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And that's constant glucose and insulin glucose and insulin teaching your body to be a sugar burner.
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And over time, it leads to prediabetes and diabetes is all those glucose and insulin spikes.
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So we're not really designed to snack in grace.
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Now, if you have a certain eating window and you snack in grace within that eating window, not a big deal.
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But when you're doing it throughout your entire waking window, that's when it becomes a problem.
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You just maybe connect a dot that I haven't ever done before.
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So when my health was at its worst, I didn't tell you this, but my PCOS was so bad that doctors told me that I would have a hard time having kids.
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In the corporate world, we didn't have time to stop and eats.
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We're constantly just grazing out meetings, grazing on the go, grazing on the car.
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And like, ah, this makes a lot of sense now.
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Absolutely.
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On top of all the caffeine and all that stuff.
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But there's also like the aspect you talk about mitochondria a lot.
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So let's talk about some of the killers and maybe the connection between mitochondrial health and metabolic health.
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You know, the mitochondria are interesting because there's a lot of disagreement in our space, right?
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Do keto, do carnivore, do plant based, there's a lot of disagreement.
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But one thing I think all of us in our space, the health space could agree to is that the mitochondria are very important to support.
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How you get there, that's where we kind of argue and disagree with the mitochondria.
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We know that through biology class and in high school, it's like the powerhouse of the cell, which is true.
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It is the primary energy source of our body produces energy called ATP, which is the currency of the cell energy currency.
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But it does weigh more than that, the mitochondria.
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There's an intelligence to the mitochondria.
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And we actually get all of our mitochondria from our mother, exclusively from the mom.
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So depending on the health of your mom, it's going to depend on the health of your mitochondria when you're born into this world, which is interesting.
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But there's an intelligence to the mitochondria.
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They move around, they communicate with other mitochondria and other cells.
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And it's important to support it.
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The best way is, well, I'll talk about what damages the mitochondria.
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What damages the mitochondria is going to be anything that causes inflammation at this mitochondrial membrane level and the cell membrane level.
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So high fructose corn syrup is like mitochondrial poison.
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And we find that in a lot of packaged process, ultra-process food.
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So when you just eliminate that and go to the whole foods, like you mentioned, you get rid of a lot of the high fructose corn syrup.
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Damaged fats like seed oils, the processed variety, not all seed oils, but the processed variety, damaged the mitochondria as well.
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Glyphosate, foods that have glyphosate all like GMO foods, corn, soy, wheat, even coffee.
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And in some cases have glyphosate, that's the mitochondrial poison.
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And when that happens, you're kind of depleting this battery within your cells.
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Then it produces less energy.
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And the less energy you produce, that means it slows down your metabolism and you start to gain weight.
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It's a mitochondrial issue.
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Like diabetes is a mitochondrial dysfunction issue, ADD, ADHD, yeah.
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And what's really interesting, Mona, is that the cells inside of the body that have the most mitochondria are the cells that are most required for survival.
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Like for example, the average cell has a few hundred mitochondria.
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But when we think about the brain, there are regions in the brain that have over a million mitochondria.
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Well, the brain is really important to survive. You have to be alert.
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You're, you know, who's chasing you, you need to run away from, find your prey.
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So it's really important that the eyes are loaded with mitochondria.
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You need to be able to see your predator run away.
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The heart is loaded with the mitochondria, the ovaries, the testicles loaded with the mitochondria.
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There's like a hundred thousand mitochondria in a single ovary cell.
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So to me, that shows that God put mitochondria in the cells that are most required for survival.
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So that's how important it is to support the mitochondria.
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So how do you support the mitochondria?
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Movement is great, you know, moving your body, screen training, getting in steps,
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great for the mitochondria.
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Because you create a, uh, a hermetic stress when you move your body.
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And that, a hermetic, it's a positive stress that creates mitochondrial duplication.
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That's great.
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Um, sauna, cold plunge, great for the mitochondria, gratitude.
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Uh, great.
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Actually, as a matter of fact, gratitude, there's a study that I also put in chapter 10 of the book
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that looked at caregivers.
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And, you know, as a caregiver, you live a very stressful life.
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That's a very difficult job, you know, working in a hospice, caring for somebody's on their deathbed.
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And they measured the mitochondrial health of these caregivers.
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It was called the MHI, mitochondrial health index.
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And they measured the mitochondria health in the morning.
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And what they found is that the caregivers that took vitamin G,
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so essentially practice, felt gratitude at night, had healthier mitochondria,
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the following morning compared to the nurses who didn't.
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So gratitude supports the mitochondria.
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Do we need any more science on this?
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I know, right?
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You know, some people do, the left brainers do.
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The left brainers do.
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They're like, they'd all analytical.
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They need it.
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Uh, but you're correct.
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I mean, it's like, like once you start feeling gratitude, like you notice it.
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Like it's just an amazing thing.
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Uh, yeah.
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And ketosis is great for the mitochondria too.
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Fasting is great for the mitochondria, cold exposure.
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So there's a lot of things we can do, uh, getting quality sleep, right?
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Living on purpose with the purpose, the things we already spoke about.
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So yeah, to answer your question, the mitochondria, very important to support.
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I think it's so important to, that's beautifully described because people,
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they need to get in touch with something that's so much deeper within them.
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We can see our organs.
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A lot of people aren't doing their blood labs or any type of assessment to check in.
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I really recommend that people do at least once a year.
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Um, but they don't understand the concept of, you know, mitochondrial dysfunction
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or how poor energy or fat loss or even cellulite or brain function are all connected, right?
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And you do something really beautiful by putting a lens of aging on that because, you know,
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when I can get a client to shift from here now, the number on the scale, the size of the pants,
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you know, getting in shape for a role or an event to thinking about,
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I don't want to feel when I'm 80, 90, 100 or 110.
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And the practice that I have with them is to step into feeling what that feels like then.
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Most people we resist to extra like, oh my god, old, I don't want to get there.
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But when we can feel a sense of health and optimization at that age,
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it's almost like experiencing gratitude like, wow, that's going to be really amazing.
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And I'm kind of hovering on this for a second because I've shared with my community,
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my mom had major surgery and here I am at a hospital with her.
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And every single bed on the floor due to fracture, Alzheimer's, dementia,
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the amount of obese seniors that I saw in one hospital floor.
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And doctors were just not prepared to take care of so many people who were aging longer,
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but not aging well longer.
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Good point.
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And that goes back to mitochondrial health.
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Yeah. And you just made an important point because life,
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extending your lifespan is one thing, but also having the health spend is, you want both.
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What's the point of extending your years when you're miserable or in a bed or in a wheelchair, right?
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So you're right. We want health spent and lifespan.
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And we could do both in mitochondria or the key.
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You got it. I love that.
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I used to be a big believer that my metabolism was broken.
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Yeah.
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Like up.
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This is it. This is just the way that I'm built.
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Yes.
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So talk to us about that. Is it a myth?
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Yeah. It's not broken. It's being interfered with.
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And I used to think the same thing with my metabolism.
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You know what's interesting about the metabolism? When I was writing the book,
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I was really digging into the science and the research on the metabolism.
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I wanted to kind of present the best of the best papers out there.
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When I came to the metabolism and I found, I think the best one so far,
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which is a Duke University study that came out in 2022.
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And it had a 6,600 people in the study.
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And it was a worldwide study.
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So it involved the United States and several other countries.
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And it took the 6,600 people and it had the age ranges of these individuals were age one.
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So a baby all the way to age 95 and everybody in between.
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What a study, right? And they used the gold standard of measuring the metabolism,
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which was a urine test to measure what changes happen.
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What are the average changes that happen throughout our lifespan?
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So what it said at the conclusion of the study that between ages 20 and 60 years old,
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there are no significant changes in the metabolism.
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Come on.
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None at all. So when we hear about, I'm 40, my metabolism slowed down.
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Uh-uh, science is showing that it isn't happened.
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It's not about speed. It's about efficient or being inefficient.
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The study also said, okay, once the person reached age 60,
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we've noticed a 0.7 percent decline in the metabolism every year after age 60.
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That might sound like a bad thing.
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But it's the reason why that happens is because loss of muscle mass.
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So if you work on building lean muscle or if you're over 16,
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you work on building lean muscle, you could be 95 years old with the same metabolism
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as when you are 25 years old, which is, I think, super cool.
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That's incredible.
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Yes.
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But even that reflection, Ben, honestly, that's what people need to hear more of.
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Yeah.
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Because what we're hearing right now in the protein muscle world is the doom and gloom,
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the posture, the aging faster.
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But we don't think about it from a metabolism or youth standard point of view.
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So that is important.
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So for listeners who are curious, okay, so they're in this 20 to 60 range.
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Great. Good for them. But they want to tune into maybe like the micro symptoms
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that they might be feeling that are significant of their metabolism kind of downward.
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What would those be?
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Yeah.
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So there were a few of them.
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And in chapter two, I have this what I call sugar burner quiz.
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And it kind of identifies if your metabolism is being interviewed with.
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So number one would be you feel tired after eating meals.
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If that's happening after all of your meals or most meals,
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there's some signs that your metabolism is in your digestive system is just not working properly.
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Number two would actually be skin tags because skin tags are a result of insulin resistance.
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And when you have it because insulin is a growth, it's a growth hormone.
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It's an energy sensor.
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It's not a bad hormone.
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There's no bad hormones.
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But when it's chronically elevated signals growth and that growth could create skin tags.
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And skin tags are usually found around the eyelids, the neck, the armpit area and the back.
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Those are signs of a metabolism that's been interfered with.
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The third one would be brown patches on the neck and the armpit area also sign of insulin resistance and a metabolism that needs some work.
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The fourth one would be that you have more than 20 or 30 pounds of extra weight on your body.
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That could be a sign, of course, that there's some weight loss resistance and hormonal things going on.
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And then the next one would be if you skip a meal, do you get hangry?
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Hungry and hangry.
450
00:26:26.800 --> 00:26:32.800
Or you can't focus your energy levels drop also a sign of a metabolism that's being interfered with.
451
00:26:32.800 --> 00:26:37.800
So if you're answering yes to like all of those or a few of those to sign, there's some work to do.
452
00:26:37.800 --> 00:26:41.800
And the cool thing, as I mentioned, doesn't matter if you're 25 or 95, your body will adapt.
453
00:26:41.800 --> 00:26:44.800
Your body will heal as long as you remove the interference.
454
00:26:44.800 --> 00:26:49.800
It's so interesting to know what we know now, thinking back to maybe when we were suffering.
455
00:26:49.800 --> 00:26:52.800
There were so many signs that I was just ignoring.
456
00:26:52.800 --> 00:26:54.800
I was the hangry person.
457
00:26:54.800 --> 00:26:55.800
Oh, yeah.
458
00:26:55.800 --> 00:26:57.800
I thought about food all the time.
459
00:26:57.800 --> 00:27:00.800
And like there's the white age and I was just thinking about the next meal.
460
00:27:00.800 --> 00:27:04.800
So now when I work with my clients, I can really like, oh, yeah, I was there.
461
00:27:04.800 --> 00:27:08.800
This can pass because you identify so much with those symptoms, right?
462
00:27:08.800 --> 00:27:09.800
And what that feels like.
463
00:27:09.800 --> 00:27:10.800
Yes.
464
00:27:10.800 --> 00:27:14.800
Can you share a little bit about your story and like what took you into that journey?
465
00:27:14.800 --> 00:27:15.800
Yeah, of course.
466
00:27:15.800 --> 00:27:20.800
I mean, obviously being obese is something that's a big enough driver, but you made the change.
467
00:27:20.800 --> 00:27:21.800
What was it?
468
00:27:21.800 --> 00:27:22.800
I did. Yeah.
469
00:27:22.800 --> 00:27:25.800
So, you know, for most of my life as a kid, I was very unhealthy.
470
00:27:25.800 --> 00:27:28.800
I was actually obese as a kid and even as a young adult.
471
00:27:28.800 --> 00:27:34.800
And I, at age 23 back in 2007, when most people at age 23, they're graduating college,
472
00:27:34.800 --> 00:27:37.800
starting their career, maybe building a family.
473
00:27:37.800 --> 00:27:38.800
That was not me.
474
00:27:38.800 --> 00:27:41.800
I was on the internet looking for ways to end it.
475
00:27:41.800 --> 00:27:42.800
I was depressed.
476
00:27:42.800 --> 00:27:45.800
So I was physical, physically obese, mentally obese.
477
00:27:45.800 --> 00:27:47.800
I would have taken my life.
478
00:27:47.800 --> 00:27:49.800
The only reason I didn't do it is because of my mom.
479
00:27:49.800 --> 00:27:52.800
She didn't know I was going through it, but I was thinking about her.
480
00:27:52.800 --> 00:27:54.800
And I didn't want to cause the devastation.
481
00:27:54.800 --> 00:27:55.800
She's, I love her.
482
00:27:55.800 --> 00:27:56.800
And she was like my superhero.
483
00:27:56.800 --> 00:27:57.800
She still is.
484
00:27:57.800 --> 00:28:00.800
So I didn't want to cause that pain to her for her.
485
00:28:00.800 --> 00:28:02.800
So it stopped me from taking my life.
486
00:28:02.800 --> 00:28:04.800
And I, it forced me to figure things out.
487
00:28:04.800 --> 00:28:07.800
You know, rock bottom could be a blessing when you get out of it, right?
488
00:28:07.800 --> 00:28:09.800
Because it forces you to figure things out for.
489
00:28:09.800 --> 00:28:12.800
So for me, it wasn't even a dietary change at first.
490
00:28:12.800 --> 00:28:15.800
It wasn't anything that had to do with nutrition or fitness.
491
00:28:15.800 --> 00:28:16.800
It was self-development.
492
00:28:16.800 --> 00:28:18.800
I started to study Dr. Wayne Dyer.
493
00:28:18.800 --> 00:28:19.800
Yes.
494
00:28:19.800 --> 00:28:20.800
And he changed my life.
495
00:28:20.800 --> 00:28:23.800
He would say, he would talk about the word responsibility.
496
00:28:23.800 --> 00:28:26.800
And he would use it in a way that I didn't really understand before.
497
00:28:26.800 --> 00:28:29.800
I heard the word responsible obviously, but I didn't get it.
498
00:28:29.800 --> 00:28:30.800
And he would say,
499
00:28:30.800 --> 00:28:33.800
Responsibility is your ability to respond to life.
500
00:28:33.800 --> 00:28:34.800
That's your responsibility.
501
00:28:34.800 --> 00:28:37.800
So if your ability to respond to life is poor,
502
00:28:37.800 --> 00:28:39.800
you're the victim blaming other people,
503
00:28:39.800 --> 00:28:41.800
you're genetics, which is what I was doing.
504
00:28:41.800 --> 00:28:42.800
Your results are going to be poor.
505
00:28:42.800 --> 00:28:44.800
But when you take ownership and responsibility,
506
00:28:44.800 --> 00:28:46.800
you're going to get better results.
507
00:28:46.800 --> 00:28:49.800
So it helped me just create a different thought around responsibility.
508
00:28:49.800 --> 00:28:52.800
And I took ownership and was the first step towards great change.
509
00:28:52.800 --> 00:28:54.800
And then I started to get into Bob Proctor's work,
510
00:28:54.800 --> 00:28:58.800
talking about the subconscious mind and the paradigm and these habits
511
00:28:58.800 --> 00:29:00.800
that are embedded into the subconscious mind,
512
00:29:00.800 --> 00:29:02.800
which is on autopilot every single day.
513
00:29:02.800 --> 00:29:05.800
So then I started to create these little behavior changes
514
00:29:05.800 --> 00:29:07.800
where I started to do what I call, do a tweak a week.
515
00:29:07.800 --> 00:29:09.800
I'm going to build a habit,
516
00:29:09.800 --> 00:29:11.800
master that habit, move on to the next one.
517
00:29:11.800 --> 00:29:13.800
Then I started moving my body, eating real food.
518
00:29:13.800 --> 00:29:16.800
And I went through this nine month transformation.
519
00:29:16.800 --> 00:29:18.800
I lost 80 pounds in nine months,
520
00:29:18.800 --> 00:29:21.800
went from being obese to being very physically fit.
521
00:29:21.800 --> 00:29:23.800
And yeah, physical six back great,
522
00:29:23.800 --> 00:29:25.800
but mental six back is what I achieved.
523
00:29:25.800 --> 00:29:27.800
And that's even more important.
524
00:29:27.800 --> 00:29:29.800
And Mona, I was 17 years ago.
525
00:29:29.800 --> 00:29:31.800
You know, I've been in the space ever since.
526
00:29:31.800 --> 00:29:32.800
And I've kept the weight off.
527
00:29:32.800 --> 00:29:34.800
Obviously, I'm still pretty lean to this day.
528
00:29:34.800 --> 00:29:36.800
And like you said earlier,
529
00:29:36.800 --> 00:29:41.800
you could relate to your clients that you work with
530
00:29:41.800 --> 00:29:42.800
because you've been through it.
531
00:29:42.800 --> 00:29:43.800
A sugar burner, you said,
532
00:29:43.800 --> 00:29:46.800
you were PCOS and I know the issues you were talking about
533
00:29:46.800 --> 00:29:47.800
with your heart.
534
00:29:47.800 --> 00:29:49.800
For me, it's very similar.
535
00:29:49.800 --> 00:29:51.800
Like I'm working with somebody who's diabetic
536
00:29:51.800 --> 00:29:53.800
or metabolic or metabolic unhealthy.
537
00:29:53.800 --> 00:29:55.800
Like that was my life for a very long time.
538
00:29:55.800 --> 00:29:57.800
So those stress things are really blessings
539
00:29:57.800 --> 00:30:00.800
because now we can relate to the people that we're working with.
540
00:30:00.800 --> 00:30:02.800
Yeah, I'm always fascinated by the story
541
00:30:02.800 --> 00:30:04.800
that people who sit in that chair have.
542
00:30:04.800 --> 00:30:06.800
For better or for worse,
543
00:30:06.800 --> 00:30:08.800
we had to hit the rock bottom,
544
00:30:08.800 --> 00:30:10.800
but it really paved the path for where we are today.
545
00:30:11.800 --> 00:30:13.800
It was essential in that level of empathy
546
00:30:13.800 --> 00:30:15.800
that really comes off in your voice and your podcasts
547
00:30:15.800 --> 00:30:16.800
and stuff like that too.
548
00:30:16.800 --> 00:30:19.800
It's really special because it doesn't feel like you're talking
549
00:30:19.800 --> 00:30:21.800
at people with another protocol.
550
00:30:21.800 --> 00:30:24.800
There's a level of empathy that make people want to be part
551
00:30:24.800 --> 00:30:26.800
of what you're doing and listen to as an educator.
552
00:30:26.800 --> 00:30:27.800
So I just wanted to say that.
553
00:30:27.800 --> 00:30:28.800
Thank you.
554
00:30:28.800 --> 00:30:31.800
And you look like someone who has slim your entire life.
555
00:30:31.800 --> 00:30:32.800
I get that all the time.
556
00:30:32.800 --> 00:30:34.800
Yeah, you just look like you've got that feel.
557
00:30:34.800 --> 00:30:35.800
I know.
558
00:30:35.800 --> 00:30:36.800
No, I don't.
559
00:30:36.800 --> 00:30:37.800
I've done my genetics.
560
00:30:37.800 --> 00:30:38.800
I don't have the genes from that either.
561
00:30:38.800 --> 00:30:39.800
It's my lifestyle.
562
00:30:39.800 --> 00:30:40.800
It's your lifestyle.
563
00:30:40.800 --> 00:30:41.800
Yeah.
564
00:30:41.800 --> 00:30:42.800
But I wonder, you know, for the listener,
565
00:30:42.800 --> 00:30:45.800
as you were going to listen to this now and in the future,
566
00:30:45.800 --> 00:30:48.800
how many of us, when you think back to when health felt
567
00:30:48.800 --> 00:30:49.800
the most challenging,
568
00:30:49.800 --> 00:30:51.800
was it more than mental health?
569
00:30:51.800 --> 00:30:53.800
That was the obstacle behind it,
570
00:30:53.800 --> 00:30:55.800
because it was the exact same for me.
571
00:30:55.800 --> 00:30:56.800
It wasn't until my mom,
572
00:30:56.800 --> 00:30:58.800
she had a book by Dr. Andrew Wile,
573
00:30:58.800 --> 00:31:00.800
that showed up that was like a game changer.
574
00:31:00.800 --> 00:31:03.800
And I understood the concept of like an inflamed mind
575
00:31:03.800 --> 00:31:05.800
from the foods that I was eating.
576
00:31:05.800 --> 00:31:07.800
And that was echoed at the Ashram as well.
577
00:31:07.800 --> 00:31:08.800
I love it.
578
00:31:08.800 --> 00:31:10.800
For people to understand, like maybe, maybe,
579
00:31:10.800 --> 00:31:13.800
just focus on the quality of your mind before you embark
580
00:31:13.800 --> 00:31:17.800
on any type of healing journey so that when you do that practice
581
00:31:17.800 --> 00:31:19.800
or eat that food or whatever it is,
582
00:31:19.800 --> 00:31:20.800
you just know it's aligned.
583
00:31:20.800 --> 00:31:22.800
It's not you just grasping at something
584
00:31:22.800 --> 00:31:24.800
to try to make your mind feel better.
585
00:31:24.800 --> 00:31:27.800
You're mentally set up to kind of have success to begin with.
586
00:31:27.800 --> 00:31:28.800
I love it.
587
00:31:28.800 --> 00:31:29.800
I agree.
588
00:31:29.800 --> 00:31:30.800
That's not maybe like that for sure.
589
00:31:30.800 --> 00:31:31.800
Starts there.
590
00:31:31.800 --> 00:31:34.800
I think like I think 95% of our results come from that.
591
00:31:34.800 --> 00:31:37.800
Our thoughts, our mindset, our feelings and actions.
592
00:31:37.800 --> 00:31:38.800
You know, that's attitude.
593
00:31:38.800 --> 00:31:40.800
Our attitude is our thoughts, feelings and actions.
594
00:31:40.800 --> 00:31:41.800
The combination of all of that.
595
00:31:41.800 --> 00:31:43.800
So your attitude determines your altitude.
596
00:31:43.800 --> 00:31:44.800
Right?
597
00:31:44.800 --> 00:31:45.800
I used to hear Zixie say that all the time.
598
00:31:45.800 --> 00:31:46.800
Your attitude is your altitude.
599
00:31:46.800 --> 00:31:48.800
Or maybe it was Jim Rowan, one of those guys.
600
00:31:48.800 --> 00:31:49.800
But it's true.
601
00:31:49.800 --> 00:31:51.800
And your attitude is your thoughts,
602
00:31:51.800 --> 00:31:52.800
your feelings and your actions.
603
00:31:52.800 --> 00:31:55.800
So we have 60,000 thoughts every day.
604
00:31:55.800 --> 00:31:57.800
Like have the best conversation ever.
605
00:31:57.800 --> 00:32:00.800
Like the most influential person you're going to speak to
606
00:32:00.800 --> 00:32:01.800
is yourself.
607
00:32:01.800 --> 00:32:02.800
Yeah, is yourself.
608
00:32:02.800 --> 00:32:03.800
Right?
609
00:32:03.800 --> 00:32:05.800
So those thoughts just come in every single,
610
00:32:05.800 --> 00:32:07.800
in your environment are determining those thoughts.
611
00:32:07.800 --> 00:32:08.800
So when you clean up your environment,
612
00:32:08.800 --> 00:32:09.800
you'll have better thoughts as well.
613
00:32:09.800 --> 00:32:10.800
It makes it a lot easier.
614
00:32:10.800 --> 00:32:14.800
That really puts a lens on vitamin G and why that's so important to you.
615
00:32:14.800 --> 00:32:15.800
Exactly.
616
00:32:15.800 --> 00:32:16.800
Makes sense now.
617
00:32:16.800 --> 00:32:17.800
Yes.
618
00:32:17.800 --> 00:32:18.800
Okay.
619
00:32:18.800 --> 00:32:20.800
So something really important then is that sugar burner phase for people.
620
00:32:20.800 --> 00:32:21.800
Yeah.
621
00:32:21.800 --> 00:32:22.800
So you mentioned the symptoms.
622
00:32:22.800 --> 00:32:24.800
How do we make the shift?
623
00:32:24.800 --> 00:32:27.800
Is it different for some people than it is for others?
624
00:32:27.800 --> 00:32:29.800
Let's start with that.
625
00:32:29.800 --> 00:32:31.800
How do you make the shift of being a sugar burner to a
626
00:32:31.800 --> 00:32:32.800
fact burner?
627
00:32:32.800 --> 00:32:34.800
That for most people, that is the starting point.
628
00:32:34.800 --> 00:32:36.800
Because 93% of Americans are sugar burners.
629
00:32:36.800 --> 00:32:37.800
They're metabolically unhealthy.
630
00:32:37.800 --> 00:32:40.800
According to the 2022 study that I put in the book here.
631
00:32:40.800 --> 00:32:41.800
It's a high percentage.
632
00:32:41.800 --> 00:32:43.800
I mean, so you know, we're here in beautiful California.
633
00:32:43.800 --> 00:32:44.800
We're looking.
634
00:32:44.800 --> 00:32:46.800
Let's say that there's a hundred hikers out here.
635
00:32:46.800 --> 00:32:50.800
93 out of those 100 hikers would be considered metabolically unhealthy.
636
00:32:50.800 --> 00:32:52.800
Well, probably a bad example because if you're hiking,
637
00:32:52.800 --> 00:32:53.800
you're probably not unhealthy.
638
00:32:53.800 --> 00:32:55.800
But if we look at downtown LA, you would see that.
639
00:32:55.800 --> 00:32:56.800
You would see that the airport.
640
00:32:56.800 --> 00:32:57.800
I see it everywhere I go.
641
00:32:57.800 --> 00:32:58.800
People are not healthy.
642
00:32:58.800 --> 00:32:59.800
We weren't designed that way.
643
00:32:59.800 --> 00:33:00.800
So they're sugar burners.
644
00:33:00.800 --> 00:33:01.800
Damn, true question.
645
00:33:01.800 --> 00:33:03.800
They're stuck burning sugar and glucose.
646
00:33:03.800 --> 00:33:06.800
There's nothing wrong using glucose and sugar as an energy source.
647
00:33:06.800 --> 00:33:08.800
Unless you're always using sugar and glucose.
648
00:33:08.800 --> 00:33:10.800
And you can't tap into body fat.
649
00:33:10.800 --> 00:33:12.800
What determines that is the hormone insulin.
650
00:33:12.800 --> 00:33:14.800
And most people are insulin resistant.
651
00:33:14.800 --> 00:33:15.800
They have no idea.
652
00:33:15.800 --> 00:33:20.800
So I really believe the most important test, blood test that we can get done.
653
00:33:20.800 --> 00:33:23.800
For our metabolism is a fasting insulin blood test.
654
00:33:23.800 --> 00:33:27.800
And a lot of people don't get that test because they'll get a fasting glucose,
655
00:33:27.800 --> 00:33:30.800
which is great or an A1C, which is the three month average of your glucose.
656
00:33:30.800 --> 00:33:31.800
Great.
657
00:33:31.800 --> 00:33:34.800
But in fasting insulin is not being ordered by most conventional doctors.
658
00:33:34.800 --> 00:33:38.800
And the reason why I believe that is because there's not a medication to prescribe
659
00:33:38.800 --> 00:33:40.800
for a high insulin, only for a high glucose.
660
00:33:40.800 --> 00:33:41.800
So why should we order that test?
661
00:33:41.800 --> 00:33:44.800
But here's what the interesting thing about the insulin piece.
662
00:33:44.800 --> 00:33:48.800
When you are when you have high levels of insulin,
663
00:33:48.800 --> 00:33:53.800
your blood sugars won't change on average for six to 14 years.
664
00:33:53.800 --> 00:33:57.800
In other words, you could have insulin resistance for six to 14 years
665
00:33:57.800 --> 00:34:00.800
and have perfect blood sugar levels because you're not looking at the fasting insulin.
666
00:34:00.800 --> 00:34:04.800
So I make the case in chapter two that we want to test fasting insulin seed
667
00:34:04.800 --> 00:34:05.800
between three and six.
668
00:34:05.800 --> 00:34:06.800
Very sensitive.
669
00:34:06.800 --> 00:34:07.800
That's where I want to see my levels.
670
00:34:07.800 --> 00:34:10.800
And anything above that means you're burning sugar.
671
00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:12.800
And you're going to, here's the thing.
672
00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:15.800
When you burn sugar from a longevity antidepressant,
673
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:18.800
when you have high levels of sugar in your bloodstream,
674
00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:20.800
it strips nitric oxide.
675
00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:24.800
And nitric oxide is a very important molecule that we know opens up our blood vessels,
676
00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:29.800
allows us to deliver oxygen, nutrients, and blood flow to tissues for healing.
677
00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:32.800
When you have high glucose, you strip nitric oxide,
678
00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:34.800
which creates vasoconstriction.
679
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:39.800
Now your heart has to pump harder to deliver the same nutrients and oxygen blood flow,
680
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:40.800
which raises your blood pressure.
681
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:41.800
That's what that's the most important thing.
682
00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:44.800
The nutrients and oxygen blood flow, which raises your blood pressure.
683
00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:46.800
That's what that's the number one cause of high blood pressure.
684
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:50.800
And high blood pressure is the number one cause for the number one killer heart disease.
685
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:51.800
So you can see how it's tied here.
686
00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:53.800
And so we don't want to be a sugar burner.
687
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:55.800
We want to be able to burn sugar when we need to.
688
00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:57.800
Then burn fat and go back and forth.
689
00:34:57.800 --> 00:34:59.800
That's what metabolic freedom is.
690
00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:04.800
So talk to us about the people who you've supported from shifting from sugar burner to fat burner.
691
00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:08.800
From my understanding, there's like an aha moment where it's like,
692
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:11.800
oh, I don't need carbohydrates, sugars or starches anymore.
693
00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:12.800
I feel okay.
694
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:14.800
I'm not going to eat for another two hours.
695
00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:18.800
There's a sense of calm that comes over you because your body can utilize its fat.
696
00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:19.800
Am I?
697
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:20.800
Yes.
698
00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:22.800
Do you see it taking longer for women than it is for men?
699
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:23.800
It can.
700
00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:24.800
It can.
701
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:25.800
Sometimes.
702
00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:29.800
So on average, about seven to ten days for most both men and women,
703
00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:31.800
they'll start to shift into fat burning.
704
00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:36.800
And there's a 30 day plan on here that kind of guides them through that for the first week.
705
00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:41.800
But there's some personalities, men and women that like the whole
706
00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:44.800
cold turkey approach, like I'm going to take my I'm going to go to zero carbs.
707
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:45.800
I'm not a fan of that.
708
00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:48.800
Now, men, typically I've seen men do that for women.
709
00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:49.800
Women are different.
710
00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:54.800
Of course, you have different fluctuations in hormones and there's going to be different men typically have faster results.
711
00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:56.800
They could be a little bit more aggressive.
712
00:35:56.800 --> 00:35:59.800
And that's why I went a man and a woman who are married do the same plan.
713
00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:03.800
It's usually the man who gets faster results on average, not all the time, but on average.
714
00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:04.800
I'm sure you've seen that.
715
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:05.800
Yeah.
716
00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:08.800
That's why we don't want to compare to our partner or anybody else.
717
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:12.800
We're really comparing against ourselves and what we did yesterday and we're just trying to beat yesterday.
718
00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:13.800
That's the goal.
719
00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:17.800
But the goal is to shift from sugar burning to fat burning in seven to ten days.
720
00:36:17.800 --> 00:36:22.800
And you do that simply by lowering your carbohydrate intake slowly, gradually lower your carbohydrates.
721
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:25.800
At the same time, increase your protein and fats.
722
00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:27.800
And then you eliminate snacks in between meals.
723
00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:29.800
You have your three meals a day as a good starting point.
724
00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:33.800
And you start to keep your electrolytes and minerals up because as you lower insulin,
725
00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:34.800
you shed extra water weight.
726
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:35.800
You lose electrolytes.
727
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:37.800
So you keep that up so you don't get any symptoms.
728
00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:41.800
And then by day seven or day ten, you should be in fat burning mode now for both men and women.
729
00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:43.800
Now there's always exceptions there.
730
00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:46.800
But for both men and women, we've seen them shift into fat burning mode.
731
00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:49.800
And I've taken a few about 10,000 people through this protocol, men and women.
732
00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:51.800
And you know, that's kind of the data that I've seen.
733
00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:52.800
Oh, beautiful.
734
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:53.800
Okay.
735
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:56.800
So again, just thinking for our listeners, they're going to get your book.
736
00:36:56.800 --> 00:36:58.800
They're going to look at this protocol.
737
00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:01.800
Mentally, they're going to prepare for what it's going to take.
738
00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:04.800
You mentioned scaling back on carbohydrates.
739
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:09.800
Can you just for the sake of having it, the types of carbohydrates that you love?
740
00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:10.800
Yeah.
741
00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:12.800
Single ingredient carbs are the best, right?
742
00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:13.800
You mentioned whole foods.
743
00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:17.800
And the example that's a perfect example, I think that could relate to people is when we go to supermarket,
744
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:21.800
the grocery store, and we look at a carbohydrate that's a whole food like potato.
745
00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:23.800
And we look at the ingredients list of potato.
746
00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:26.800
It says potato because that's what you see, right?
747
00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:27.800
Avocado.
748
00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:28.800
You see avocado.
749
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:29.800
No less needed.
750
00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:30.800
Exactly.
751
00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:33.800
When you go to the inner aisle by the potato chip, you see a whole bunch of ingredients.
752
00:37:33.800 --> 00:37:35.800
So that's a process version of the potato.
753
00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:39.800
So single ingredient carbohydrates is what we want to look for.
754
00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:43.800
Potatoes, fruit, even white rice, you know, I can be considered minimally processed,
755
00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:47.800
but it's still not a process ultra-process packaged food.
756
00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:52.800
Now, that's a good starting point to switch from processed carbs to whole food carbs.
757
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:58.800
Depending on where you're at in the spectrum of an insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction,
758
00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:03.800
you might need to remove most of your carbohydrates, even whole food carbs in the beginning,
759
00:38:03.800 --> 00:38:06.800
so you could really lower insulin and shift into fat burning mode.
760
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:08.800
And that's why it's different for everyone.
761
00:38:08.800 --> 00:38:12.800
So if you want to get into ketosis, and that's just the byproduct of burning fat,
762
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:16.800
then most people, men and women, need to be under 50 total grams of carbs per day.
763
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:20.800
But if your goal is not ketosis, but just lower insulin and do more low carbs,
764
00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.800
you could have up to 150 grams of carbs per day.
765
00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:25.800
The average Americans having 300 grams of carbs per day.
766
00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:30.800
So the goal is to lower it and have it within eating window and no snacking in between those meals.
767
00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:33.800
I'm not a huge fan of doing macros and stuff like that.
768
00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:38.800
However, when it comes to looking at grams of sugar and grams of carbohydrates that you're having every day,
769
00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:44.800
it's like pretty wow factor for people to really acknowledge the amount of carbs that they're taking in every day,
770
00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:49.800
when their level of activity and output doesn't really match the level of carbs that they're taking in.
771
00:38:49.800 --> 00:38:53.800
So for that place alone, I think it's worthwhile just looking into.
772
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:57.800
Again, do the investigation for yourself so that you know,
773
00:38:57.800 --> 00:39:02.800
because once you have the information of what you're consuming, you'll be able to fine-tune your diet yourself
774
00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:05.800
and understand the amount of protein and fat that actually feels good for you.
775
00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:07.800
Well said, and you're not doing it forever.
776
00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:08.800
And you're not doing it forever.
777
00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:10.800
Like you just said, it's just fine-tune and get a handle over it.
778
00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:11.800
That's it.
779
00:39:11.800 --> 00:39:15.800
Yeah. And what about, I've heard you talk about food combining before.
780
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:16.800
Yeah.
781
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:18.800
So can you talk about that in the benefits as you're leading into this,
782
00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:20.800
and then we'll get to ketosis after?
783
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:21.800
Yeah, for sure.
784
00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:25.800
So yeah, there's some cool things you can do if you're having like a mixed meal of protein fat and carbohydrates.
785
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:30.800
Well, in general, we don't want to have a high carbohydrate meal with a higher fat meal.
786
00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:32.800
That will cause some inflammation.
787
00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:37.800
So if you're going to do a higher carb meal, having it with protein is better than having it with fat.
788
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:43.800
But there's some things you can do in terms of food combining that will help to mitigate that blood sugar spike from the meal.
789
00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:45.800
It's called post-prone dog glucose, right?
790
00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:52.800
If you're going to have, let's say, protein and fat and carbs, then you want to have the protein and fat first and the carbohydrates after.
791
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:59.800
Because it's going to slow digestion and it's going to blunt that, mitigate that glucose response versus having the carbs before.
792
00:39:59.800 --> 00:40:01.800
So what does that look like on your plate?
793
00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:06.800
So if you had, let's say like a piece of steak with butter on top and then you had like a sweet potato or rice,
794
00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:10.800
you would eat the steak and the butter first, then the sweet potato or the rice.
795
00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:15.800
You would have whatever carb source is last if you choose to have that combination of meals.
796
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:21.800
The fiber, depending on the carb source too, because like broccoli is not that high in carbs.
797
00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:26.800
But if it's a higher carb source like rice, sweet potato, french fries, hopefully it's not.
798
00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:28.800
Then you want to have that towards the end.
799
00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:31.800
You're going to see a better post-prone dog glucose response.
800
00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:36.800
And I imagine you are recommending a continuous glucose monitor for people in your audience.
801
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:37.800
Yeah.
802
00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:38.800
Yeah. Are you a fan of those as well?
803
00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:39.800
Or what are your thoughts?
804
00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:43.800
Really big fan. I actually, when I start working with someone, I love for them to throw it on for three months.
805
00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:48.800
Let's just take a glimpse so that you can understand how your body is metabolizing carbs.
806
00:40:48.800 --> 00:40:50.800
Especially for a lot of the starches that you're recommending.
807
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:56.800
I think when work with people who, they can have a white potato and their spike is like minimal.
808
00:40:56.800 --> 00:41:00.800
But they'll have a sweet potato or a purple potato and it's like five chocolate bars.
809
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:01.800
It's wild.
810
00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:04.800
So then they know they need to walk and do other modalities to bring that down.
811
00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:06.800
But it's just information about your metabolism.
812
00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:07.800
It is. It's great.
813
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:09.800
It's a great thing to do.
814
00:41:09.800 --> 00:41:10.800
I recommend it as well.
815
00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:11.800
I think it's a great tool.
816
00:41:11.800 --> 00:41:15.800
It's one of my favorite tools that you can use that and, you know, or a ring or whatever is tracking
817
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:17.800
like heart rate variability, sleep steps and all that.
818
00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:18.800
I like those as well.
819
00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:22.800
But with the continuous glucose monitor, you're right because it's so different for everyone.
820
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:28.800
I was just sharing with Darshan that when I first put on a continuous glucose monitor back in like,
821
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:32.800
I think 2018, 2019 and I was eating coconut whipped cream.
822
00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:34.800
I didn't think it was an issue for me.
823
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:38.800
It jacked up my glucose to 160 milligrams per day.
824
00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:39.800
Well, this is a problem.
825
00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:41.800
So I didn't eat the coconut whipped cream.
826
00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:42.800
But who would have thought, right?
827
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:48.800
It shows you what food, how food impacts your blood sugar, stress, sleep, exercise.
828
00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:52.800
And then you don't wear forever to your point, you know, a couple of months, three months, you said.
829
00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:58.800
Then you have enough data and you now understand what your lifestyle is doing to positively impact your glucose.
830
00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:01.800
Or is it actually creating a glucose mass?
831
00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:02.800
It's a great tool.
832
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:03.800
That's so true.
833
00:42:03.800 --> 00:42:08.800
Yeah, even looking at your fasting glucose first thing in the morning is going to give you so much insight, right?
834
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:09.800
Your metabolism.
835
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:10.800
Okay.
836
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:12.800
So people are now they're engaged.
837
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:13.800
They're eating more whole foods.
838
00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:15.800
They're just keeping an eye on their carb.
839
00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:17.800
They're focusing on food, combining and stuff like that.
840
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:19.800
They go back to the doctor.
841
00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:22.800
They check their fasting insulin.
842
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:26.800
Do you notice that for some people, if it's not within that beautiful three to six range,
843
00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:32.800
that it can also go low over time and that also be a sign of dysfunction or inflammation in the body.
844
00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:33.800
What a great question.
845
00:42:33.800 --> 00:42:39.800
You know, I've seen that mostly in those who do chronic ketosis, carnivore fasting.
846
00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:40.800
Yeah.
847
00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:46.800
It's like a different version of insulin resistance, the different type of insulin resistance.
848
00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:51.800
Not common if you're a sugar burner, but more of those in my keto carnivore fasting space.
849
00:42:51.800 --> 00:42:56.800
If you're chronically doing that, you're going to notice chronically low levels of insulin.
850
00:42:56.800 --> 00:42:57.800
And that's not a good thing.
851
00:42:57.800 --> 00:43:01.800
I would order a CPAP time and see how your pancreas is doing at producing insulin.
852
00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:03.800
But that's also a bad thing too.
853
00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:04.800
Exactly.
854
00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:05.800
Yeah.
855
00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:06.800
Yeah.
856
00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:07.800
Yeah.
857
00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:08.800
Yeah.
858
00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:09.800
Yeah.
859
00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:10.800
Yeah.
860
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:11.800
Yeah.
861
00:43:11.800 --> 00:43:12.800
Yeah.
862
00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:13.800
Yeah.
863
00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:16.800
So how often do you think people should look at their fasting insulin?
864
00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:17.800
At least once a year.
865
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:18.800
Yeah.
866
00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:19.800
Like a general protocol.
867
00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:23.800
And there's some things you want to, I'm glad you brought back to the fasting insulin piece
868
00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:25.800
because there was some things I didn't finish about that.
869
00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:28.800
I mentioned doctors don't order it because they won't prescribe a medication.
870
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:34.800
But the other problem is that the reference range that comes back is between three and 28 on that insulin.
871
00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:37.800
So when you have a 21, I know it's crazy.
872
00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:42.800
If it comes back as 21, 17, 11, it won't be flagged by the lab.
873
00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:43.800
But that is insulin resistance.
874
00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:44.800
I want to be clear.
875
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:47.800
If you're over 10, you've got insulin resistance.
876
00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:51.800
Even if your doctor says it's fine or even if the lab doesn't flag it, know that that is insulin resistance.
877
00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:59.800
And you could see that your blood sugars are perfect, even with the insulin resistance and your A1C is perfect until it's not.
878
00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:00.800
You have children.
879
00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:01.800
I don't.
880
00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:04.800
But what will happen if you scream that your children go clean your room.
881
00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:05.800
They'll listen the first time.
882
00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:07.800
You scream at them every day for years.
883
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:08.800
They stop listening.
884
00:44:08.800 --> 00:44:09.800
Same thing with the insulin.
885
00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:12.800
You produce it once from a high carbohydrate meal.
886
00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:14.800
And you get the job done.
887
00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:15.800
But you keep screaming at yourselves.
888
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:16.800
They stop listening.
889
00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:19.800
And it happens six to 14 years later where you become deaf to the screams.
890
00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:21.800
So every once a year is important.
891
00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:25.800
If you have insulin resistance and you know it, then every three to six months.
892
00:44:25.800 --> 00:44:27.800
If you tested it,
893
00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:31.800
elevated every three to six months to make sure you're getting into that three to six range.
894
00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:33.800
It's a transient marker.
895
00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:37.800
So don't put all of your value into one marker.
896
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:40.800
You want to see what it looks like over time.
897
00:44:41.800 --> 00:44:43.800
And you want to be about 12 to 14 hours.
898
00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:44.800
Fasted.
899
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:45.800
Take the test.
900
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:46.800
Get the result.
901
00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:48.800
Mine's always 3.2, 3.4.
902
00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:49.800
I'm always around the three range.
903
00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:50.800
And I like that.
904
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:52.800
I feel really good there.
905
00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:54.800
So yeah, every every once a year.
906
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:56.800
But at least if you're once a year at least.
907
00:44:56.800 --> 00:44:57.800
But if you're overweight,
908
00:44:57.800 --> 00:44:59.800
if you have some metabolic dysfunction,
909
00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:02.800
every three to six months is what I would recommend.
910
00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:05.800
I love that you hovered on that because most people don't ask.
911
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:08.800
Or if they're within range, they're like, oh, see any year.
912
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:10.800
It's like the worst response that I get from a doctor.
913
00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:11.800
See any?
914
00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:12.800
I know.
915
00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:14.800
It's like, no, you're doing this for prevention, right?
916
00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:15.800
We get this one vessel.
917
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:17.800
Get as much information as you possibly can.
918
00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:20.800
Find a doctor that will like really support you.
919
00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:22.800
And what's this on your arm that you're wearing?
920
00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:25.800
These are phototherapy patches.
921
00:45:25.800 --> 00:45:28.800
And they people think they're a CGM because they kind of look like it.
922
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:29.800
But they're not.
923
00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:30.800
They're phototherapy patches.
924
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:32.800
The company is called Life Wave.
925
00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:34.800
And what it does is it takes your own body heat,
926
00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:35.800
which we're naturally emitting heat.
927
00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:38.800
And it delivers back to you in low-dose phototherapy.
928
00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:42.800
And then they infuse amino acids and sugars in the patch.
929
00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:45.800
It's non-transjournal, so it's not going into your body.
930
00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:47.800
But you put it on acupuncture pressure points.
931
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:49.800
And then it signals a certain response.
932
00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:51.800
So these two are called the energy patches.
933
00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:53.800
And it helps with bed oxidation.
934
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:55.800
It helps the mitochondria burn fat, which is important.
935
00:45:55.800 --> 00:45:59.800
I have one by my neck that helps with stimulates copper peptide
936
00:45:59.800 --> 00:46:00.800
and then stem cells.
937
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:02.800
So it helps you by reduce stem cells.
938
00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:04.800
And I have all over my body.
939
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:06.800
But my dogs all patched up to you.
940
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:09.800
And I was really skeptical about these patches in the beginning.
941
00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:11.800
And then they have 92 clinical studies.
942
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:13.800
And then I decided I'm going to just buy all them and test them out.
943
00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:14.800
And I noticed a difference.
944
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:15.800
I was about a year and a half ago.
945
00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:16.800
So I use it.
946
00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:17.800
A lot of my clients use it.
947
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:18.800
My dog uses it.
948
00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:20.800
And yeah, it's pretty cool.
949
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:22.800
Even a part of it is placebo.
950
00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:24.800
I still don't negate the placebo.
951
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:25.800
It's such a powerful thing.
952
00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:28.800
So whatever I do to make me feel better, I'll continue doing.
953
00:46:28.800 --> 00:46:30.800
There are these patches on his arms.
954
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:31.800
And we mentioned CGM.
955
00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:33.800
I'm like, is this the new updated solution?
956
00:46:33.800 --> 00:46:34.800
It's cool, right?
957
00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:35.800
Like peel it off CGM.
958
00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:37.800
I can't wait until they have.
959
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:40.800
I know they're launching these continuous ketone monitors, which is cool.
960
00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:44.800
I cannot wait if there is ever going to be a time where they do this,
961
00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:46.800
but a continuous insulin monitor.
962
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:47.800
Oh, my gosh.
963
00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:48.800
Yeah.
964
00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:49.800
That would be amazing.
965
00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:50.800
Yeah.
966
00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:51.800
I don't know if they can do that, but that would be awesome.
967
00:46:51.800 --> 00:46:53.800
My niece says type one diabetes also.
968
00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:56.800
So anything, the faster we can bring the science, the better.
969
00:46:56.800 --> 00:46:58.800
Will she born with it or does she get it later in life?
970
00:46:58.800 --> 00:46:59.800
Okay.
971
00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:00.800
That's most common.
972
00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:01.800
Yeah, exactly.
973
00:47:01.800 --> 00:47:02.800
She's a rock star.
974
00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:03.800
Okay.
975
00:47:03.800 --> 00:47:05.800
Let's continue with this healing side of things.
976
00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:09.800
So one, something that I acknowledge all the time is just like the wisdom that comes with
977
00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:10.800
fasting, right?
978
00:47:10.800 --> 00:47:15.800
So can you break down fasting, whether it's some time restricted eating or shorter fasting
979
00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:18.800
windows also, and I would choose.
980
00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:19.800
Yeah.
981
00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:21.800
You know, it's fasting is a nature's reset button.
982
00:47:21.800 --> 00:47:25.800
It's such a great way to remove the interference and just let your cells heal.
983
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:28.800
Let the innate intelligence go to work.
984
00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:33.800
I like to get the person more metabolically flexible before I do much fasting.
985
00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:38.800
So that could mean keto or not, but it means you first increase protein fat and lower your
986
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:42.800
carbs, whether that's really lowering your carbs or just lowering them like 50%.
987
00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:46.600
But I like to get them familiar with burning fat and being more metabolically flexible before
988
00:47:46.600 --> 00:47:49.800
I do too much fasting, which could be about seven or ten days.
989
00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:51.800
It's not a, not a big deal.
990
00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:53.800
And then the fasting is like a muscle.
991
00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:56.800
And then he does a great job explaining this, of course, but fasting is like a muscle.
992
00:47:56.800 --> 00:47:59.800
And the thing about fasting, I was compared to a chainsaw.
993
00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:04.800
If we used a chainsaw, we would have to read the user manual to understand how it works.
994
00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:05.800
And then we get some great results.
995
00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:10.800
But if we just skip the user manual and just sort of wielding that chainsaw, we could hurt ourselves, right?
996
00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:11.800
Fasting is like that chainsaw.
997
00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:13.800
You got to read the user manual.
998
00:48:13.800 --> 00:48:14.800
Like understand how to do it.
999
00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:16.800
Men do it differently than women.
1000
00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:21.800
And you don't just go right into a 24 hour fast or a 36 hour fast if you've never done a 12 hour fast, right?
1001
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:24.800
So we do 12 hours and then 14 hours.
1002
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:27.800
You kind of start building up that window, see how you feel.
1003
00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:31.800
You could check glucose and ketones if you want, but how do you feel during that fast?
1004
00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:33.800
You should feel more energized, more focused, better.
1005
00:48:33.800 --> 00:48:39.800
If you don't, you still have to kind of maybe reduce the fasting window and kind of build it back up.
1006
00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:42.800
I like early time restricted feeding to answer your question.
1007
00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:45.800
And I wasn't always like that.
1008
00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:48.800
I used to say breakfast is a dumbest meal of the day.
1009
00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:53.800
You know, skip it and, but actually it's better for us to eat when the sun is up.
1010
00:48:53.800 --> 00:48:54.800
Thank you.
1011
00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:55.800
Yes.
1012
00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:56.800
Especially for women too.
1013
00:48:56.800 --> 00:48:57.800
Yeah.
1014
00:48:57.800 --> 00:49:01.800
So having breakfast because we're more insulin sensitive in the morning than we are later in the day at night.
1015
00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:03.800
And food is information for energy.
1016
00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:04.800
Yes.
1017
00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:07.800
We don't need more energy when we go to bed.
1018
00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:08.800
That's correct.
1019
00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:09.800
Yeah. We need the opposite.
1020
00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:10.800
We don't give energy.
1021
00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:12.800
We need to start detoxifying and going through a topology.
1022
00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:13.800
For saying that?
1023
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:14.800
Yeah.
1024
00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:15.800
Yeah.
1025
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:16.800
That's back.
1026
00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:17.800
Let's bring breakfast back.
1027
00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:18.800
Let's make breakfast.
1028
00:49:18.800 --> 00:49:19.800
I don't know.
1029
00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:20.800
I'll sexy again.
1030
00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:21.800
Whatever the term is.
1031
00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:22.800
Yeah.
1032
00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:25.800
Because what happens is when you eat too close to bed, it's the disaster.
1033
00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:27.800
For men, women, all body types, health, history.
1034
00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:28.800
I don't care.
1035
00:49:28.800 --> 00:49:31.800
Every human that eats too close to bed, you're giving yourself energy.
1036
00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:33.800
And they're not using the energy.
1037
00:49:33.800 --> 00:49:34.800
And it's a mess.
1038
00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:35.800
It's a mess.
1039
00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:38.800
And melatonin, which is in chapter 11, I talk about melatonin.
1040
00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:43.800
Not as a sleep agent, but as an antioxidant from the mitochondria.
1041
00:49:43.800 --> 00:49:46.800
Melatonin has an inverted relationship with glucose and insulin.
1042
00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:49.800
Meaning when you eat before bed, you spike glucose and insulin.
1043
00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:51.800
And you deplete melatonin.
1044
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:55.800
So it'll interrupt your sleep and also all the benefits you get from melatonin.
1045
00:49:55.800 --> 00:50:00.800
It's the melatonin is the mitochondria's most important antioxidant.
1046
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:01.800
It's incredible for you.
1047
00:50:01.800 --> 00:50:04.800
It's more than just a hormone and antioxidant for sleep.
1048
00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:05.800
It's just so incredible.
1049
00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:07.800
So yeah, you don't want to eat too close to bed.
1050
00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:10.800
Give yourself at least three hours of fasting before bed.
1051
00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:13.800
I usually do five hours of fasting before bed and I feel really great.
1052
00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:14.800
I'm the same.
1053
00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:15.800
I'm with you.
1054
00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:16.800
You do?
1055
00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:17.800
Yeah, those late dinner.
1056
00:50:17.800 --> 00:50:18.800
So tonight we have a dinner.
1057
00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:19.800
And we're going to struggle tonight.
1058
00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:20.800
Yeah.
1059
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:21.800
Well, let's force everyone to go for a walk after.
1060
00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:22.800
Okay.
1061
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:23.800
We'll be fine.
1062
00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:24.800
I'm with you.
1063
00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:25.800
Yeah.
1064
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:26.800
You and I will be out doing hills.
1065
00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:27.800
I'm down.
1066
00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:28.800
Let's go.
1067
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:29.800
All right.
1068
00:50:29.800 --> 00:50:30.800
So thank you.
1069
00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:31.800
Yeah.
1070
00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:32.800
Breakfast is so key.
1071
00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:33.800
It's information.
1072
00:50:33.800 --> 00:50:35.800
And just from when I, when my health came back into balance,
1073
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:37.800
I was just like focusing on just my biggest meal in the middle of the day.
1074
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:38.800
That's just what made me feel great.
1075
00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:39.800
Great.
1076
00:50:39.800 --> 00:50:42.800
I'm thinking of when you went through that weight loss is your lymphatic system,
1077
00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:46.800
was your body prepared to unleash all that weight?
1078
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:48.800
Because I'm thinking of listeners who were like, okay, you know,
1079
00:50:48.800 --> 00:50:51.800
I tried fasting before, but I felt like shit.
1080
00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:54.800
And the first time that I ever did a three day water fast,
1081
00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:58.800
it's like all the toxins were just unleashed and they had nowhere to go.
1082
00:50:58.800 --> 00:50:59.800
Yeah.
1083
00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:02.800
So I was the person in this big group that I was gaining weight.
1084
00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:03.800
I couldn't sleep.
1085
00:51:03.800 --> 00:51:04.800
I felt uncomfortable.
1086
00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:05.800
I felt shaky the whole time.
1087
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:07.800
But my lymphatic system was a hot mess.
1088
00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:08.800
Yeah.
1089
00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:12.800
No, that's important because your body stores toxins in your fat cells, right?
1090
00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.800
So when you start burning fat, you start dumping those toxins.
1091
00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:16.800
You can burn fat.
1092
00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:17.800
You can't burn these toxins.
1093
00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:20.800
Then you auto intoxicate and you get those symptoms like you just mentioned.
1094
00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:21.800
Yeah.
1095
00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:22.800
I've seen it a lot.
1096
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:26.800
Thankfully, I was fairly young when I went through that 23 years old.
1097
00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:31.800
So I didn't have as many toxins as, as most people at that age.
1098
00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:34.800
And I was exercising a lot, which helped with the lymphatic system.
1099
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:37.800
I was doing a lot of basketball and cycling and you have sweating.
1100
00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:38.800
So that helped a lot.
1101
00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:41.800
So I didn't have that issue, but I see a lot with people.
1102
00:51:41.800 --> 00:51:44.800
And the lymphatic system, like you mentioned, is very, very important.
1103
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:46.800
It's the body's like a drainage system, gutter system.
1104
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:48.800
And a lot of people have stagnant lymph.
1105
00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:52.800
I remember I was on, I was in my, I have an infrared zone, which is, which is great.
1106
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:55.800
And I was doing an Instagram story from there a couple of months ago.
1107
00:51:55.800 --> 00:51:58.800
And I asked the question, how many of you sweat and how often do you sweat?
1108
00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:00.800
And I just didn't like an Instagram story poll.
1109
00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:04.800
And there was a good percentage of people who said, I never sweat.
1110
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:05.800
And that's an issue.
1111
00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:10.800
You have to, I know it's easy for me to say that living in Miami.
1112
00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:14.800
You're sweating in the winter, but you could find ways to sweat.
1113
00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:16.800
And the lymphatic system is important.
1114
00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:21.800
You know, we talk about armpits as a way to measure if your lymphatic system is working or not.
1115
00:52:21.800 --> 00:52:23.800
And there's armpits and there's arm puffs.
1116
00:52:23.800 --> 00:52:29.800
So if you look at your armpit and you see it puffy, that's a sign your lymphatic system is clogged up.
1117
00:52:29.800 --> 00:52:31.800
You want a pit, not a puff.
1118
00:52:31.800 --> 00:52:36.800
And a lot of people have stagnant lymph and they don't feel great.
1119
00:52:36.800 --> 00:52:37.800
So it is important.
1120
00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:38.800
And you can move your body.
1121
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:39.800
There's dry brushing.
1122
00:52:39.800 --> 00:52:40.800
There's rebound.
1123
00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:42.800
There's many things you can do for the lymphatic system.
1124
00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:46.800
I love that we hovered on that because that could deter someone completely from fast.
1125
00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:47.800
I do all these things right.
1126
00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:48.800
I'm losing weight, but I feel awful.
1127
00:52:48.800 --> 00:52:49.800
I feel awful.
1128
00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:50.800
Yeah.
1129
00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:51.800
You could slow it down.
1130
00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:54.800
You could take binders, focus on sleep and the lymphatic system too.
1131
00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:55.800
So there's things you can do.
1132
00:52:55.800 --> 00:52:56.800
But don't give up.
1133
00:52:56.800 --> 00:52:57.800
That's the point you're trying to make here.
1134
00:52:57.800 --> 00:52:58.800
You got it.
1135
00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:02.800
So let's take people through, especially how this kind of ties into your journey.
1136
00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:06.800
For people who now have tried time restricted eating,
1137
00:53:06.800 --> 00:53:09.800
they're maybe eating one or two meals a day and feeling fantastic.
1138
00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:11.800
They're eating fewer carbs or moving their bodies.
1139
00:53:11.800 --> 00:53:15.800
The two things we need to assess, talk about is one, the vegans.
1140
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:16.800
Yes.
1141
00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:18.800
Also, how to make them happy.
1142
00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:21.800
And even for the vegans, shifting into keto.
1143
00:53:21.800 --> 00:53:25.800
For those that want to experiment with it, what's the safest way to do it to start?
1144
00:53:26.800 --> 00:53:27.800
Okay.
1145
00:53:27.800 --> 00:53:28.800
Yeah.
1146
00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:29.800
So ketosis.
1147
00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:32.800
So the way that I view keto is not as a diet, more of a metabolic process.
1148
00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:34.800
I feel like there's therapeutic ketosis.
1149
00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:36.800
And then there's like Instagram buzzworthy TikTok ketosis.
1150
00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:37.800
Yeah.
1151
00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:38.800
Yeah.
1152
00:53:38.800 --> 00:53:39.800
Yeah.
1153
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:40.800
You're right.
1154
00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:41.800
You're right.
1155
00:53:41.800 --> 00:53:42.800
I mean, 100%.
1156
00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:43.800
Mezzan, everything up.
1157
00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:44.800
Yeah.
1158
00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:45.800
I know.
1159
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:46.800
That's the problem with it.
1160
00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:47.800
It's so popular that it's been like muddled.
1161
00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:48.800
What's the word muddied water or whatever the term is?
1162
00:53:48.800 --> 00:53:51.800
It's just like it's, it's taken over by big food and big pharma.
1163
00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:52.800
And that's the problem.
1164
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:57.800
So when we think about ketosis, ketosis is a metabolic process.
1165
00:53:57.800 --> 00:53:59.800
There's nothing new about keto.
1166
00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:02.800
It's just new wants or new to some people.
1167
00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:05.800
But it's been around for as long as our humans have existed.
1168
00:54:05.800 --> 00:54:07.800
It's a metabolic process.
1169
00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:12.800
It's simply when you're in ketosis, it simply means you're burning stored fat for energy.
1170
00:54:12.800 --> 00:54:14.800
You're burning body fat.
1171
00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:17.800
Your love handles all the things you want to burn.
1172
00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:19.800
An insulin is the key that allows you to do that.
1173
00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:23.800
So when you restrict your carbohydrates, we just establish you lower insulin.
1174
00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:25.800
And then you start burning body fat.
1175
00:54:25.800 --> 00:54:29.800
Your body fat is then sent to your liver and your liver uses that for fuel.
1176
00:54:29.800 --> 00:54:32.800
Then the liver produces ketones, which then fuels the brain.
1177
00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:34.800
And that's where you feel good.
1178
00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:36.800
And ketones are anti-inflammatory.
1179
00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:40.800
It upregulates glutathione within the cells when you start to get into ketosis.
1180
00:54:40.800 --> 00:54:44.800
It stimulates the mitochondria to reproduce.
1181
00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:48.800
You actually get about 400% more energy when you're using ketones as an energy source
1182
00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:51.800
versus sugar. Well, that's pretty cool.
1183
00:54:51.800 --> 00:54:54.800
But the thing is, it's also a stress to the body, like fasting.
1184
00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:57.800
Ketosis is a stress to the body, just like fasting.
1185
00:54:57.800 --> 00:55:00.800
And you use it, but you use it cyclically if you choose to use it.
1186
00:55:00.800 --> 00:55:02.800
And women do it differently than men as well.
1187
00:55:02.800 --> 00:55:03.800
So you don't stay in it.
1188
00:55:03.800 --> 00:55:05.800
And how do you get there?
1189
00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:07.800
You simply just restrict carbohydrates.
1190
00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:08.800
You can do it through fasting.
1191
00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:10.800
I don't recommend doing that.
1192
00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:12.800
I don't recommend fasting to get into ketosis.
1193
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:16.800
I recommend low carb or keto to get into fasting kind of the opposite way.
1194
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But you don't want to do this dirty keto approach that you mentioned on Instagram, TikTok,
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where you're just going to McDonald's without the bun and you're calling it keto.
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You want to eat quality fats, quality protein.
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You want to lower your carbohydrates to 50 grams total per day if you're tracking that from non-starchy, green leafy vegetables, things in that variety.
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And what it does for the body is incredible.
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It supports the cells that have the most mitochondras mentioned earlier.
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So the brain, you get just clarity.
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I'm fasted today because I just accidentally I just didn't have time in my schedule to eat.
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So I'm in ketosis right now.
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So it helps with like mental clarity, helps with anybody struggling with brain fog.
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Really, really important for those who have PCOS, diabetes, insulin resistance, high blood pressure.
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Very important for those individuals.
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But it's a tool.
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It's not the only tool in the shed.
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You use it cyclically.
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And this is I'm in the keto space.
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My company's keto camp.
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But I don't recommend long-term ketosis.
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Thank you.
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I recommend using it responsibly.
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I love these said that I worked with someone who is a male who had like tremendous success with keto.
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So obviously he lost all this weight.
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It was feeling really good.
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He became addicted.
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He was out of a really long time, though, but the time I saw him.
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He also was having a bowel movement maybe every four days if he was lucky.
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And then I just thought, okay, so think about the number of animals that you're eating every day
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from the pork to the chicken to the turkey bacon to the burgers to the steak to the chicken.
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It's like by that four day mark how many animals were just like putrifying in your body, right?
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And so we really need to just I love that you said that it should be something that is therapeutic
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because there's a really healthy way to do it.
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Yes.
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And if that's the tool for metabolic freedom, then I think it's worth experimenting with.
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Yeah. Thank you.
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It is.
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You know, in every so different, so the length that you stay in is different than somebody else.
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But it's very, really powerful when done right.
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It's really powerful.
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Yeah.
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And would you say like if you were to put a lens of ancient wisdom on that, have you found it?
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You know, like, you know, we all come from so many different cultures and backgrounds and stuff like that.
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We know that there's some cultures that do a lot better with higher fat versus others with higher carbs.
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Historically, we think about ancient culture cultures who would thrive on grains and veggies and stuff like that, right?
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But we live in a different world today.
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We do.
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And I also know that doesn't matter where your answers that are from in the culture is they always didn't have food available.
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So they always fast it.
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And when you fast, you enter ketosis.
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So that's why I know that our ancestors all did keto, whether it was intentional or not.
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Because it grains, even if they ate a lot of grains, it wasn't year round.
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If it was, it wasn't year round.
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So it's, it's, it's when there was no food available, they had to fast, whether it was a day, days or weeks.
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And when you fast, you get into ketosis.
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So they all use it as a tool to stay alive as well.
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Thank you for putting such a therapeutic lens on this.
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You're welcome.
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Yeah.
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A lot of confusion around it.
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That's why I was glancing through your book.
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You have so much content in here that's around so much more than just the food that you eat.
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How your thoughts influence that loss.
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That's my favorite chapter, chapter 10.
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It's the first thing open.
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I put this back.
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I love it.
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You did.
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That's my favorite chapter.
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Tell me about that.
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Yeah.
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I'm writing my next book and it's all about chapter 10.
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It's called mental freedom.
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I'll be on a couple of years, but I got inspired to expand that.
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There's a story that I started the chapter off with to illustrate how powerful our minds are thoughts are.
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And I'll share it's a quick story.
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Just so I could illustrate to your audience how powerful the thoughts are.
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So there's a true story from the 1960s.
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It was in the newspaper.
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Bob Proctor shared this with me and it was about a railroad employee who worked inside of a train.
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And he worked inside of the refrigerator card inside of this train.
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And one night he was working late and he didn't look at the clock.
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He realized all of his co-workers left and he said, all right, I got to get out of here too.
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So he tried to exit that refrigerator card and it was locked.
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His co-workers locked them in.
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They didn't know he was still working.
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And it was cold and he knew that nobody was going to be around until the next morning.
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So his thoughts started to get the best of him as it naturally would.
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Right.
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So he started to kind of panic and freak out.
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He didn't know what to do.
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So he ended up writing on the wall and kind of documenting his journey.
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He threw up the night.
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The newspapers caught this on camera the next day.
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So I run midnight.
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He wrote the words, I'm stuck.
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It's midnight.
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Nobody's going to come for hours.
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I don't know how I'm going to survive.
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2am he wrote the words, I'm freezing.
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Cannot keep myself warm.
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Temperature keeps dropping.
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4am he wrote the words, I am shivering to death.
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I'm not going to survive.
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7am rolls around.
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His co-workers clock in.
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They open up that refrigerator card and they look on the floor and they see the guy died.
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Hypothermia.
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He froze to death.
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But here's the interesting thing about the story.
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Mona, when they investigated the temperature apparatus in that refrigerator card, it had been
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malfunctioning for weeks and never dropped below 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Oh my gosh.
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His mind.
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His mind literally created his demise.
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Yes.
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Freeze to death.
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Freeze to death.
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Unreal.
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So if your thoughts can do that, do you think it could heal you as well?
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100%.
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So that's the no-cebo effect, right?
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The placebo effect is where we use it for us.
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And Dr. Bruce Lipton has shown through his incredible work that your thoughts are frequency
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that have the ability to communicate with your DNA nucleus.
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How cool is that?
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And if it's a hateful thought, angry thought, resentful thought, bitter thought, signal that
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is being sent to your DNA.
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It's to produce inflammatory proteins, damage to your DNA, shortening your lifespan with
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a single thought.
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It's a healthy thought, loving thought, grateful thought, abundant thought.
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Now the single is to create anti-inflammatory proteins to protect your DNAs with a single
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thought.
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So my favorite biohack in the world is understanding that you have 60,000 thoughts today according
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to psychiatrists and studies.
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That means you have 60,000 opportunities to put your body in an anti-inflammatory healing
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state every single day.
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You just gave me so much inspiration.
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I love it.
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Yeah.
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No mind your thoughts, right?
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It's such a simple practice that we drift from.
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And I think when we even think about my, you know, mastering our mornings or our evenings,
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it's the first thing to go, right?
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We'll always try to get something done with our recognizing that power.
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I can't wait to have you back on to really amplify that.
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And I hope that everyone listening, one, first go and get your book, metabolic freedom,
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the 30-day guide.
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And I believe that you get something when you sign up.
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Yes.
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Thank you, Moda.
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Yeah.
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Amazing.
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Working people find you.
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01:01:55.160 --> 01:01:56.640
You've got an incredible podcast.
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01:01:56.640 --> 01:01:57.640
Yeah.
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Oh, sure.
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You're going to come on.
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Yeah.
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Benazotti.com is my website and it has my podcast, which is the metabolic freedom podcast,
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the socials and everything.
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So Benazotti.com.
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Beautiful.
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Just imagine the power of your body to heal if you set the stage with its inputs and
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on the power of your mind.
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Last two questions for some rapid fire.
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Are you cool?
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I'm cool.
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Let's go.
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Cool.
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Let's do it.
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What's one way that people are making healing and health too complicated?
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Focusing on the miners instead of the majors.
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I love biohacking and all these different supplements and gadgets and all that, but those
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are additions to doing the fundamental.
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So instead of doing the son on the coal plunge, hey, why don't you work on your sleep and
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eat real food first and add the other stuff because it's not going to work if you focus
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on those miners versus the majors.
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I love it.
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What's your favorite ancient healing remedy?
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It's got to be gratitude.
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It's got to be, but here's the thing with the gratitude.
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It's the feeling of it.
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Gratitude is not a practice gratitude is a feeling.
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So the feeling of gratitude, the universal law states whatever you feed energy to expand.
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So in other words, what you appreciate appreciates and what you think about and think about you
1383
01:03:04.080 --> 01:03:05.080
bring about in your life.
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And that is an ancient wisdom right there.
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I love that.
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And I love that you didn't just say fasting because that could have been easy for you.
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If you had to think about something about modern medicine that's really exciting you,
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what would it be?
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I love all the technology that's coming out in terms of like there's going to be continuous
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ketone monitor, different monitors, things we can measure.
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The lab testing is getting more sophisticated as well and then AI integrating AI into all
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that.
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It's interesting.
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It's kind of a double-edged sword, but it's really exciting as well.
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Very cool.
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So many good nuggets today.
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Thank you so much.
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I can't wait to have you back and I'll see you tonight.
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Yes.
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Thank you, man.
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It's been an absolute honor.
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Thank you.