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Speaker 1: supplements has been so rudimentary for so long, and even today,

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Speaker 1: I think, as you rightly said, there's so much being

430
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Speaker 1: marketed at us that you kind of follow the latest

431
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,919
Speaker 1: trend or the latest diet or the latest fad, only

432
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 1: to find that it's not sustainable or that it doesn't

433
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,160
Speaker 1: really cure how you're feeling. And I think we've started

434
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:17,479
Speaker 1: to realize that food can change how you feel. And

435
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,200
Speaker 1: I don't think we thought about it. We thought food

436
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 1: is energy and you just keep putting it and I

437
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:25,200
Speaker 1: love the idea of how we're building ourselves through bad

438
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:30,159
Speaker 1: materials or good materials. Why is it important, as you

439
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,160
Speaker 1: talk about in the book, to use power of food

440
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:37,360
Speaker 1: to reboot your metabolism? What are the benefits of rebooting

441
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:41,200
Speaker 1: your metabolism? And what are methods through diet and nutrition

442
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,719
Speaker 1: that boost our metabolism? For everyone listening, it should always

443
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,640
Speaker 1: be what is the thing? Right, So when we hear

444
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: these terms like metabolism, we often have a certain association

445
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 1: with it, that's my point. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, So it's

446
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: usually going to be tied to weight loss, and it's

447
00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 1: a huge mistake because metabolism is really every thing. There's

448
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 1: a whole field of immunometabolism. You know, your immune system

449
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 1: has its own metabolism, where it's building new immune cells,

450
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 1: where it's functioning at a certain level, where there's cellular

451
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 1: waste products, and the list goes on and on. All

452
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,840
Speaker 1: these things are metabolism. So life itself is driven by metabolism.

453
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: But this is a huge mistake, even in the weight

454
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:25,160
Speaker 1: loss domain, when we're just thinking about food and nutrition

455
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 1: and diet in terms of changing our metabolism. And this

456
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 1: is why with the book, I gave people what they want,

457
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:35,160
Speaker 1: which again that's the on ramp, right, But food controls

458
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 1: so much more than just our metabolism. It also controls

459
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: our cognitive function. Our emotional intelligence is highly influenced by

460
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 1: our nutrition. That's one of the main things I wanted

461
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,639
Speaker 1: to talk with you about as well. And also it

462
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 1: affects our relationships and how we relate to other people.

463
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 1: The list goes on and on. Food isn't just food,

464
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,879
Speaker 1: it's information, you know. And so as far as the

465
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 1: metabolism side is concerned, what I wanted to do was

466
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 1: break down how the process of metabolism actually works. How

467
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 1: does weight loss work right? How does fat loss work?

468
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: Where does fat go? Like when I quote lose weight,

469
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: where the hell's the weight go? You know what I mean?

470
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,640
Speaker 1: So I'm taking people through that process and I use

471
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,440
Speaker 1: analogies to make it make sense. Because one of the

472
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,879
Speaker 1: things I learned from Tony was one of the fastest

473
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 1: ways of learning, which I was doing this but I

474
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 1: didn't realize it. It takes something that you don't know

475
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 1: and connected to something that you do know, right, And

476
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 1: so I use this analogy of going to the movies

477
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: and using it as a cellular movie theater and how

478
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 1: the process of fat loss actually works. And so we've

479
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,439
Speaker 1: got these key ushers that are making things happen. You know,

480
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: you come into the movie theater and you've got these

481
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: specific enzymes. So we've got hormone sensitive light paise for example,

482
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,919
Speaker 1: and hormone sensitive light paise is the enzyme required to

483
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: actually open up your cell so that it releases stored energy.

484
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: You know, try to list arise stored fat to be

485
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: used for fuel. Nothing's happening without this usher, all right,

486
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: So that's required. Then we've got another usher who's putting

487
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,639
Speaker 1: fat in the seats right, lightboprotein lightpase right, and so

488
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 1: but then we've got the managers of the ushers, which

489
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,199
Speaker 1: are insulin and glucagon. Which there's so much more, but

490
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,679
Speaker 1: I'm just giving a little snapshot. This is great. I

491
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:20,160
Speaker 1: love this analogy. It's a brilliant analogy. So it's making

492
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 1: it makes sense to me. So that's a good thing.

493
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 1: I'm the dummy in the room, is Yeah. So insulin

494
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 1: and glucagon they're actually brothers, right, So they're both from

495
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:34,679
Speaker 1: their loving mother, miss Pancreas. All right, So insulin is

496
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: really about management and always looking for the worst possible scenario, right,

497
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 1: So they're all about saving up for a rainy day,

498
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 1: gets storing as much as possible so we're all safe

499
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,360
Speaker 1: and we're all good. Glucagon is more of a free thinker,

500
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: more of a you know, go with the flow type

501
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: of vibe, and it's cool with letting go of some

502
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 1: of this store and energy, and so glucagon to make

503
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 1: a summation of the So insulin is the biggest hormonal

504
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 1: driver of us storing fat in our cells or storing

505
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 1: energy in our cells. When people hear the word insulin,

506
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: we often think about diabetes, right because a lack type

507
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: one diabetes is a lack of producing insulin. The mother

508
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: pancrea is the beta cells are not producing insulin, which

509
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,919
Speaker 1: is absolutely horrendous. This means your cells can't get energy

510
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: and you'll literally just wither away. It's a terrible way

511
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: to die. Type two diabetes, which is most prevalent here

512
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 1: the United States. Right now in the United States, about

513
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty million citizens here in the US

514
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: have type two diabetes or pre diabetes. It's insane. But

515
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 1: this is not a condition where you're no longer producing insulin.

516
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: This is a condition where your insulin sensitivity, the ability

517
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: of that cell to get the signal has been tampered down,

518
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,159
Speaker 1: right because insulin has been so abundant, because the blood

519
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: sugar has been so abundant, right, And so it's but

520
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: here's the thing, and it's a really beautiful thing that

521
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: even a condition like that, it's the body adapting to

522
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: keep you alive. So type two diabetes and we get

523
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: this label that you have this chronic disease and you're

524
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: no good or you know, you're tainted or you're broken,

525
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: it's actually this really intelligent adaptation by the human body

526
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: because it's adapting the way that your metabolism works under

527
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: unideal circumstances. Right. So it's beautiful, it's amazing. The problem, however,

528
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: is that we've been led to believe that that is

529
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: the end story, that your body is stupid and it

530
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: can't shift and create another expression. And so now it's

531
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: common knowledge back in the day. I've been in this

532
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 1: field almost twenty years. I'm about to hit my twenty

533
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: year anniversary, and we couldn't publicly say even another friend

534
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: Mark Hyman, like, you've got to be very careful saying

535
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,719
Speaker 1: cure diabetes. Right today, it's common knowledge that you can

536
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 1: reverse this condition. So we've got insulin driving people into

537
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: the seats, right, keeping the theater full, and we got

538
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,919
Speaker 1: gluca open up the doors to allow people to go

539
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: out and kick it at an afterparty. Right. So these

540
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: are two big hormonal drivers of metabolism. We've got some

541
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: enzymatic ones I hit a little bit, but then we've

542
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: got the internal cashier as well, which is your liver

543
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 1: in many ways, so people don't think about these things,

544
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 1: and this beautiful dance has taken place, like we just

545
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,199
Speaker 1: want to get that fat off, right, and oftentimes we

546
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:30,439
Speaker 1: associate that with like really working hard, right, restricting, cutting

547
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 1: things away. You can't have deprivation, right, all those things.

548
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: Those terms don't feel good, right, It's very against human nature.

549
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: And on the other side, you have to abuse yourself.

550
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: You have to exercise your face off, you've got to

551
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: just you know this tenant that I was taught in

552
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: my universe. I paid for this education Jay at a

553
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 1: private at a private university. The first day of school

554
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: in this big auditorium nutritional science class, the teacher told

555
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: us that if you want to manage your metabolism, if

556
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: you want to manage your body weight, just manage your calories.

557
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: That's all you have to do is control the calories. Right,

558
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: he was overweighted as well, by the way, all right,

559
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: and now again it's not that he's trying to be

560
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: in a fais. This is what he learned. And at

561
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: the time, we were in the food pyramid, all right.

562
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: So this is when I went to school back in

563
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: this was ninety seven. It's changed a little bit, like

564
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: we went from like the food pyramid to my plate,

565
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: but still really the same principles. But to say that

566
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: calories control everything about you or your metabolism or your

567
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: ability to lose weight is very myopic. It's tunnel vision

568
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: and people don't really realize. And that's what I spent

569
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: the nice segment of the book really diving into the

570
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: beautiful history behind calories and like, how is that a

571
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: thing that people plant this flag? And I know this.

572
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: I was one of them, right, being a nutritional scientist

573
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: and also somebody who's working as a strength and conditioning

574
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: coach at the university. I was just replicating and regurgitating

575
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: what I was taught, and it worked for some people

576
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: not for others. And so what I did was I

577
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: brought to bear this new term. It's called epichloric right. So,

578
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: and this was a pivot from my friend Bruce Lipton,

579
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: doctor Bruce Lipton. I don't know if you've talked to

580
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: him before, the biology of belief, right, So epigenetics, right,

581
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: So this is he's the person more than anybody's pushing

582
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: into popular culture. That means above genetic control, right, but

583
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: epichloric control, it's above caloric control. There are certain principles

584
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 1: that control your what your body does with the calories

585
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: you consume. And this would be so logical if we

586
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: think about it. And so just a couple of those.

587
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: One of those is the quality of food itself. All right,

588
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: So we hear this that not all calories are created equal,

589
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: but we have really sound science on this. Now I

590
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: share one of the studies in the book, and again

591
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: this was a peer reviewed study, And what they did

592
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: was they took test subjects and they wanted to see

593
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: what would happen with their metabolism when they eat a

594
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: meal of processed foods versus a meal of whole foods. Right,

595
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: and so the process food they're both sandwiches, by the way,

596
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: all right, So it's not like superglorified process versus. But

597
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: the whole food sandwich was whole grain bread and cheddar cheese.

598
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: The processed food sandwich was white bread and cheese product.

599
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: And cheese product is what most people are eating. That's

600
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: like craft. They can't legally call it cheese. It's called

601
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: Kraft singles. There's not enough cheese and the cheese, you know,

602
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: which is really messed up. Wow. Yeah. And so they

603
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: consume each of these sandwiches and they track their caloric expenditure. Right. So,

604
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: and this is something to get to just the end

605
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: part of like where does the weight go? We breathe.

606
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: Most of the weight that we lose out, we expel

607
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: it through our lungs. Our lungs are on also excretion

608
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: organ as well. We don't really think about that, but

609
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: they are. And so anyways, so they're tracking the outgo

610
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: of energy after eating these two sandwiches. And what they

611
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: found was that people eating when they eat the processed

612
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: food sandwich, there's a fifty percent reduction in their body's

613
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: expenditure of calories. Something happened by eating that food that

614
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: made their body hold onto more of the energy they

615
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: just consumed. And what it really was a hormonal clog.

616
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: To put it in a simple term, it changed the

617
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: hormonal cascade, neurotransmitter cascade organ function in a way that

618
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: made the body more stingy and holding onto this very

619
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: abnormal energy that was coming in. And so again, fifty

620
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: percent reduction is massive. And how often are people trying

621
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: to lose weight counting calories but eating processed foods, counting

622
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: the point system and all these things which can be wonderful,

623
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: but we have to address the food quality. So this

624
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: was publishing food and nutrition research. By the way, if yeah,

625
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: that's fascinating, I'm so glad you shared that with me,

626
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: because yeah, it's easy to be like this is healthy food,

627
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: this is unhealthy food. But it's even deeper than that.

628
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: And I think the gold standard, which I think you set,

629
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: which I really identify with, is I just know I

630
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: want to be healthier. Like what I've been saying is

631
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: I want to be healthier. I want to be more

632
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: informed because if something happens to me, I don't want

633
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: it to be something that I can and will continue

634
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: to want it to because I want to be as

635
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: healthy as I can continue to do my service in

636
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: the world. Likes that's where my past, my intention goes.

637
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: I know, one of the things that people are struggling

638
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: with a lot right now is inflammation. Right, And you

639
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: talk about the microbiome in the book as well in

640
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: the Connection, But walk me through where inflammation is created

641
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: from and how it connects to the microbiome in the book. Yeah,

642
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: the term again, what is it? Yeah, inflammation? The term

643
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: itself is derived from the word essentially meaning to set

644
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: on fire. Right, So there's this fire taking place in

645
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: the human body. And just to lean and connect inflammation

646
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: to metabolism, let's do that. One of the studies that

647
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: I referred to as well was looking at and this

648
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: was published in the Annals of the New York Academy

649
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: of Sciences, and they were looking at what was happening

650
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: with inflammation in the brain leading to accelerated weight gain.

651
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: Right now, this is another thing when people are trying

652
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: to lose weight, nobody's telling them, we need to deal

653
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: with the inflammation in your brain. And so what the

654
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: researchers uncovered was that essentially inflammation in the brain was

655
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: leading to more belly fhat accumulation and more disruption to

656
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: their metabolism. But the key was more belly fat accumulation

657
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: and obesity. Once people were venturing into obesity, it was

658
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: leading to more brain inflammation. So this becomes this vicious circle, right,

659
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: and again we're not looking at we need to address

660
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: the inflammation in your brain. Why is this happening when

661
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 1: your brain is controlling your body far more than anything else,

662
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: and there's an internal thermostat that's even controlling your metabolic rate,

663
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 1: which is based in your hypothalamus, which kind of considered

664
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: the master gland of the body. And the hypothalamus not

665
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: only is kind of like a thermostat for your metabolism,

666
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,320
Speaker 1: but also it's a thermostat for your body temperature, for

667
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: your sleep cycles, and the list goes on. It's like

668
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: a circadian controller, right, Circadian medicine is popping right out too,

669
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: and so paying attention and so specifically the researchers were

670
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 1: denoting hypothalamic inflammation leading to all these problems. So what's

671
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: causing that brain inflammation. Obesity in and of itself is

672
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: increasing the rate of inflammation. So right now in the

673
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: United States, we're knocking on the door of two hundred

674
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: and fifty million of our citizens being overweight or obese. Right,

675
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: it's beyond epidemic. It's it's insane, rest assured. If we're

676
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: venturing into obesity, your brain is suffering because of it.

677
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: And I also noted in another study where we're seeing

678
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: this correlation. I talked to Daniel Aman who wrote that,

679
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: you know, keep it on the podcast twice. Yeah, I

680
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: love him so much, but he's accumulated so much data.

681
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 1: But there's also some period studies as well, looking at

682
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: once our waist size is increasing is correlated with a

683
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: decrease in our brain size. So as our wat circumference

684
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: goes up, our brain size goes down the volume of

685
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: our brain, which is not good at all. And so

686
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: there's this huge connection with these two. But also what's

687
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 1: driving this inflammation is the foods that we're eating obviously

688
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 1: as well an obesity self. Just to give a little snapshot, like,

689
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: how's that work? How's obesity creating more information? Our fat

690
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: cells are pretty they're pretty damn amazing. If without our

691
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: fat cells being as intelligent as they are, we wouldn't

692
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: have made it as humanity. It enabled us to go

693
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: through times of famine and still survive. But here's the thing.

694
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: We live in a very different time now where more

695
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: people are dying from excess than from deprivation, right, and

696
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: so during this time of excess, our fat cells can

697
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 1: actually grow. When thousand times their size rights it gets crazy.

698
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: They're like, Wow, I don't want to disrespect them by

699
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: calling little trash cans, but they're kind of like these

700
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: internal trash cans that can keep collecting. Yeah, it's like

701
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: these halfty, halfty cent sacks, like really good trash bags

702
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: that are filling up. And as that happens, it's sending

703
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: out a distress signal because the fat cells were never

704
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: made to contain that much stored energy, and so it's

705
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: sending out a kind of a false distress signal to

706
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: your immune system thinking that you're infected. You know, your

707
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: fat cells are chronically infected. This is why we see

708
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: epidemic levels of inflammation measured by things like C reactive

709
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: protein and folks as we venture into obesity. So the

710
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: fat cells themselves are a big contributor to inflammation. But

711
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: to lean into food a little bit one of the

712
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: biggest culprits as being highlighted today. And there's with any

713
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,240
Speaker 1: of the stuff I talk about, Jay, there's always conflicting

714
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: it from that and the average person doesn't though, you know,

715
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: it's just like this is the end all be all.

716
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: What I do is, I'm a research scientist. Primarily, I'll

717
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: go and proactively look for things that rebuke what I believe,

718
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: that prove what I'm saying other otherwise or other than.

719
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: And you have it takes a lot of courage to

720
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: go and look for things to prove you wrong. But

721
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: what I'll do is I'll look at the variety of

722
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 1: information and what is the majority of data that we

723
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: have say that's a better place for us to stand

724
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: on and educate from right. But one of the biggest culprits,

725
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: and this is what the majority of data says is

726
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: these highly refined mind oxidized seed oils that have become

727
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,879
Speaker 1: so prevalent in our food system. And again, I get

728
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 1: to work with the best people in the world in

729
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: these subjects, like doctor Kate Shanahan. It's really a pioneering

730
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: voice in this field. And she's you know, she worked

731
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: with the Lakers and help with Kobe Bryant, got him

732
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: all these protocols, extending his career, all these great things,

733
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: and so she has that fame and credibility there. But

734
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: she's also a brilliant scientist and somebody who's very versed

735
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: in metabolism. But one of the things that she shared

736
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,280
Speaker 1: with me was that this particular study, which was crazy,

737
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: they looked at the biopsies, right, so you can actually

738
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: go and look inside of what a fat cell contains

739
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: back in the earlier part of the nineteen hundreds and

740
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: saw what is the makeup of the average person's fat cell.

741
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: And about two percent of our fat cells back then

742
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 1: were made of these polyunsaturated fatty acids or poofaus. Right today,

743
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: the amount of polyunsaturated fatty acids that make up the

744
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: average person's fat cell is up to twenty five or

745
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 1: even thirty percent. Went from two percent to twenty so

746
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: literally the ingredients that make us as a species has

747
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: changed dramatically. And what is it about these particular facts,

748
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: Like how is so much of it making up the

749
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 1: ingredients that make us up? And it's because they're in everything.

750
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: They're very cheap, they're rancid oxidized oil, they have no

751
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: choice but to be those things like getting the oil

752
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: from corn, Like there's so little and if people saw

753
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: the process, which I highly encourage people to do, there's

754
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: lots of videos you could see the processing of canola

755
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 1: oil or quote vegetable oil. I remember when my mom

756
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: started using vegetable oil trying to get healthy because my family, again,

757
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,760
Speaker 1: I was the skinny kid in the family. Everybody pretty

758
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 1: much everybody else in my family at least about eighty

759
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 1: percent of folks world beats, and so she started using

760
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: vegetable oil. Sounds healthy, but it's not asparagus oil or

761
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: broccoli oil. These are highly refined seed oils, corn oil,

762
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: soy oil, canola oil. And to extract those oils there,

763
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 1: it kind of looks like just mud. It just looks disgusting.

764
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: It looks like this um like kind of like almost

765
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: like gasoline type vibe to it. And it has to

766
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: use bleaching agents and deodorizers. And I cited a study

767
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 1: in my book, and this was publishing the journal Inhalation Toxicology,

768
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: and they found that just smelling those oils while cooking

769
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: can damage your DNA. Crazy stuff smell, just inhaling the

770
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: fumes from it let alone actually pretty head. Yes, yes,

771
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: so it's crazy. It's so crazy. And so for me,

772
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:37,919
Speaker 1: it's just looking like this specific component your body has

773
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: to go into this kind of pro inflammatory state to

774
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: try to manage any insult. Inflammation is one of the

775
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 1: most important things for our survival. It's kind of been

776
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: given a bad name right now because we're dealing with

777
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: chronic inflammation, but we need inflammation in order to to

778
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: just heal for stuff you don't even know what's going on.

779
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 1: There are cells right now in your body that are

780
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: dying off and recycling. There's always an inflammatory component catabolic component,

781
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: and that's okay. But once we venture into chronic inflamation,

782
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: where these things are getting out of hand, that's where

783
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 1: we start to see all manner of things go wrong. Wow,

784
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,800
Speaker 1: I mean you know what I've I find it so

785
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: useful to be having this conversation with you because, and

786
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: I hope everyone who's listening and watching, I'm trying to

787
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: ask the questions that I think we skip. What does

788
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: this actually mean? How does it actually affect us? Because

789
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: right now we hear all these buzzwords and we look

790
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 1: for the quick fix, or I have go inflammation, or

791
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: I do this to you know, alcoholize it, I've got this,

792
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: do this, it's like, and we're always looking at that

793
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: quick fix, that quick when the quick solve, and actually,

794
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: when I'm sitting here listening to you, I'm going, wow,

795
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 1: there is just of course, naturally there's so much more

796
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: to it, but we have to be so much more

797
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 1: alert and vigilant, which is where we struggle because it's

798
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 1: almost like there is no veniance now because there's all

799
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: this information. Like you said, there's conflicting information. So if

800
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: I'm listening to this show right now and I want

801
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 1: to create more energy in my life, I want to

802
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: create more vibrancy in how I feel. What are some

803
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: of the things that were likely missing or that we're

804
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 1: likely struggling with in our diet or nutritionally that we

805
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:28,919
Speaker 1: could add to help start that process of at least

806
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: feeling a bit more positive, like we have a bit

807
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: more control. We could stay right in the same lane

808
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: and just swap out the oils that we're using with

809
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: some intention. Researchers at Auburn found that olive oil OIO

810
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 1: canthal rich extra virgin olive oil is one of the

811
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: few things that's been found to be highly effective at

812
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,399
Speaker 1: reducing information of the brain right and also being able

813
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: to help to heal the blood brain barrier. So what

814
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: does this mean? The blood brain barrier is kind of

815
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: like Matiokaku's kind of like a modern day Einstein, right.

816
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: He was like, the human brain is the most complicated

817
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 1: object in the known universe. That's big for him to

818
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: say something like that. That's really remarkable. The human brain

819
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: is the most complicated object in the known universe, right,

820
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: And the cool thing is we all have one. We're

821
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: never very good at using it, but we all have

822
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: this really miraculous organ and your body is very protective

823
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: of it because again, it's controlling everything about She's controlling

824
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: your metabolism. For example. It's the only major organ is

825
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: fully encased in hard in hard bone, right, So it's

826
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: we've got this built in helmet to try to protect it.

827
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: We've got the blood brain barrier, because everything that we eat.

828
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 1: The last place to actually allow nutrient sane, it's going

829
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: to be your brain, right, because it has a blood

830
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: brain Barrier's kind of like an internal security system, or

831
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: I like to think about it like a toll boot. Right,

832
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: So certain certain nutrients get express pass. Right, if anybody

833
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: ever has lived where they have tolls, and you get

834
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 1: an express pass that can go right into the brain.

835
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: Most other things they're going to meet the toll booth

836
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: and they're not going to be able to get through

837
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: because the guard there's like you know, Dwayne the Rock Johnson,

838
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: it's like clones of him and Vin Diesel or whatever.

839
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: So it's just like highly unlikely that you can get

840
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: into the brain. It's very it's like an exclusive club.

841
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: It's very exclusive. And so to make it into the brain,

842
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: only specific things are able to do that. One of

843
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 1: the big issues today leading to more information is the degradation.

844
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 1: We're breaking down our own blood brain barrier, this internal

845
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: security system by eating all these abnormal foods. The blood

846
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: brain barrier, a big aspect of its regulation is through

847
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: the fast that we consume, right and so again eating

848
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: these really low quality oils and making ourselves out of

849
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: these things, we're degrading how our body functions. And so

850
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: what the researchers found again was that extra virgin oleocanthal

851
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,760
Speaker 1: rich olive oil is one of those foods that's really

852
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 1: healing and anti inflammatory and also can help to heal

853
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: the blood brain barrier. That's crazy because for me, again,

854
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: like I don't have a dog in the fight. I

855
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 1: don't care if olive oil is cool or not. I

856
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: it's I don't care. It's so miraculous. But then you

857
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: just look at what if humans been doing the longest,

858
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: and how do you make olive oil? You crush olives.

859
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: That's it. It's not like the process that these other oils,

860
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,240
Speaker 1: these seed oils have to go through again with the

861
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: deodor risers and the bleaching agents and the high heat.

862
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, extra virgin olive oil that

863
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 1: means that it's not heat processed all right, So it's

864
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: even paying attention to the very volatile nature of those

865
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: fats and it's stored in dark glass bottles because it's

866
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:53,720
Speaker 1: even photosensitive. It's light sensitive, can break down and degrade

867
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: those oils, right. So and humans, we have documentation for

868
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: thousands of years have been consuming olive oil, right, And

869
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,399
Speaker 1: so that's one of the great principles to lean back into,

870
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,280
Speaker 1: which is like, what if human's been doing the longest,

871
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 1: let's do that, you know what got us here, because

872
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,439
Speaker 1: what we're doing now is not working. Right, So that's

873
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: one of the great foods that can help to reduce inflammation.

874
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 1: So swapping out those oils being intentional about it, the

875
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: best way to consume these oils is going to be

876
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: through like finishing dishes, like adding some olive oil on

877
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: top or using it to make solids. Cooking with it,

878
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 1: you can moderate heat is okay, But for cooking we

879
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: need things that have more saturation, that are more stable

880
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: so they're not giving off all of these these kind

881
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: of pro inflammatory oxidative compounds. Right, So that would be

882
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: like coconut oil or gee or grass fed butter Avocado

883
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: oil is also rising in popularity now as well. But

884
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: just to throw a couple more for reducing information, the

885
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: cruciferous family of vegetables have been found to reduce information

886
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: specifically in the brain. Broccoli. You know again, I put

887
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: peer of viewed data to show that this food that's

888
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: just like super common can help to reduce brain information. Right,

889
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, I can go on and on, but those

890
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: are things. No, No, this is fantastic. And I want

891
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: everyone who's listening and watching to know that all these reviews,

892
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: the research is in the book Eat Smarter, which is

893
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: what Sean's referencing. If you are listening and you don't

894
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:23,839
Speaker 1: see me holding the cover and holding the book, you

895
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: can order it right now. And I deeply recommend that

896
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: because the level of detail of insight that Sean has

897
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: is so powerful it should not be underestimated. This isn't

898
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: a new diet book or a fad book on like,

899
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,479
Speaker 1: you know, here's what you need to do, three things

900
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:43,439
Speaker 1: you need to do tomorrow. It's not like that. There

901
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 1: is like deep research, reflection, introspection that Sean's done and

902
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: study he's done, and so you know, I'm going in

903
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: and allowing him to share depth on certain parts. But

904
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 1: the book is full of these insights. Shan. I want

905
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: to talk a bit about stress and the brain and

906
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: then diet because you also talk about the impact of

907
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: food on the brain. Brain on food, but also our

908
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: emotional states. We all know what emotional eating is. We've

909
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 1: all picked up a tub of ice cream or picked

910
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,839
Speaker 1: up sugars when we're lowing energy or you know, we've

911
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: been there. We may even get drawn in that direction

912
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: still today. One thing I find intriguing that I'd love

913
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: to learn from you is how much is stress in

914
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 1: the brain causing some of these challenges within the body,

915
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: And can food be used to work backwards almost or

916
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: distress need to be dealt with in different ways. Yeah,

917
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: that's such a great question. Again, what is stress? We

918
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: have to look at that, and we tend to put

919
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: stress in this one box. Cognitively, most times people associated

920
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: with like life, stress work, stress work is stressing me out,

921
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: our relationship is stressing me out. But those are just

922
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 1: a couple of factors that go into your overall stress

923
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: load as a human being. So all of these inputs

924
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: are stressors. And for example, exercise is a stressor, and

925
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: it's known as a hermitic stressor, which that means that

926
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 1: if you're able to recover from said exercise, you get benefit,

927
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: right kind of like what doesn't kill me makes me

928
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 1: stronger principle. Right. But if you put on intense exercise

929
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:34,439
Speaker 1: on top of relationship stress, work, stress, spiritual stress, right,

930
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: feeling not on purpose or cut adrift or disconnected, you

931
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: add that onto diet stress, the stress coming from the

932
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 1: abnormal food you may be consuming. The environmental stress right

933
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: right now, this is dope, Like we can record, We

934
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 1: got all this technology, but all of these energies are

935
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 1: just running in and out of ourselves at paces and

936
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 1: degrees that we just don't it then yet, right, So

937
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 1: we're all intermingling with these energies that we've never been

938
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 1: exposed to again as humans. So the environment itself is

939
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: going to be adding an additional stress. Gravity. Gravity's trying

940
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: to kill you, like you literally is trying to weigh

941
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:15,359
Speaker 1: us down, you know in a sense if you want

942
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 1: to look at it like that. But we are resilient.

943
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: We've adapted to it, you know. But the John Carter,

944
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know about that. That that book,

945
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 1: and that's that movie Disney. It didn't do very well,

946
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: but I think it's on Disney plus John Carter. So

947
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:33,800
Speaker 1: this guy teleports accidentally, like from Civil War Vibes to

948
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: being on Mars. And on Mars, he's like superhuman because

949
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,839
Speaker 1: gravity is different, so he's like jumping around, you know,

950
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:44,839
Speaker 1: like it's it's really cool to think about. Gravity has

951
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: conditioned us in a certain way, and we were resilient

952
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: against it. So environmental stress goes on there, and I

953
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 1: can go on and on. All of these stress inputs

954
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: create your overall stress load as a human being. Now,

955
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 1: the issue is that, man, I've had to coortunity to

956
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,320
Speaker 1: work with so many people in a one on one context,

957
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,800
Speaker 1: but you know, groups and the books and all the stuff.

958
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: But the most overlooked thing that I've seen when people

959
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 1: are wanting to, you know, get off of their blood

960
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 1: press pressure medication that the centepreals or the statins or

961
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: you know, metform it for diabetes or their antidepressants, whatever

962
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: it might be. The nutrition and the exercise can only

963
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: go so far. The number one thing that I've seen

964
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: that people overlook is the impact of stress. Because you

965
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: can over eat your way into disease, you can undermove

966
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: your way into disease. You can undersleep your way into

967
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,720
Speaker 1: these disease. You can also overstress your way into disease.

968
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: The problem is that stress is invisible, you know, in

969
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: a sense, like exercise, we know what that is, like,

970
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: it's physical, we're interacting with it. Food is like you're

971
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,919
Speaker 1: putting stuff in like it's it's it's visceral, it's something

972
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: you could touch. Because stress doesn't have that aspect, we

973
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:56,839
Speaker 1: negate it. But truly, and just to kind of loop

974
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:01,760
Speaker 1: back to the story with that physician and then bolt wow.

975
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:05,240
Speaker 1: So everybody's heard at this point of the placebo effect,

976
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: you know, to some degree, I was going to come

977
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: back to this. I'm glad you've gone and this it's amazing, right,

978
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 1: it's amazing. So just on average, if we look at

979
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: the breadth of pre viewed data that we have on average,

980
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: placebos are about thirty percent effective in clinical trials. So

981
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: fake drugs, sham surgeries, fake treatments are about thirty percent

982
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:33,320
Speaker 1: effective on average. Studies much higher, like eighty percent effective

983
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: in some studies on antidepressants. People are not actually getting

984
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: something that has a real treatment. They just believe that

985
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: they're taking the drug. Now, this is very important. It

986
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 1: has to becoming No, it doesn't. He doesn't have to.

987
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 1: But in these trials are coming from an authority figure. Right.

988
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: And so one of the things that I talk about

989
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 1: in the book is the impact that your thoughts have

990
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,359
Speaker 1: on your body's metabolism. Right. So this was done by

991
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: doctor Alia Crumb and her team at Stanford at the time,

992
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: and it was the Milkshake Study. And so they blended

993
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: up these milkshakes and they labeled them different different amounts

994
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 1: of calories even though they were all the same. So

995
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: some of them were the indulgent milkshakes they labeled like

996
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: seven hundred calories, some were you the smart shakes, where

997
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: they labeled they like two hundred calories, but all of

998
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: them were really like four hundred and fifty calories or

999
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: something like that. And so what they found was that

1000
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: people who believed they were having the indulgent milkshake, they

1001
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 1: had a much greater secretion or suppression of grillan, the

1002
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 1: hunger hormone. Right, so they're more satiated because they believe

1003
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: they're consuming something it has a lot more caloric energy.

1004
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: And on the other side, the people who thought they

1005
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: were eating the sense of Shake, the sensible milkshake, their

1006
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: grillan levels didn't budge at all, which means they're going

1007
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:56,839
Speaker 1: to be hungry again very soon after having that milkshake. Right.

1008
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 1: So that's the power of the mind to literally manipulate

1009
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: your metabolit just in that one snapshot. And I've got

1010
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:06,399
Speaker 1: so much more data, right, so your thoughts determine what's

1011
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: happening with your metabolism. So going back to the placebo effect,

1012
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 1: so placebo's being again, we've got data. A great book

1013
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 1: is Mind over Medicine doctor Lissa Rankin. So many studies

1014
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: in there, but we've got data on placebo's being effective

1015
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:25,280
Speaker 1: and cancer treatments in surgeries for knees like MCL repair

1016
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 1: like we've got there's there's so many crazy studies where

1017
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 1: you know they'll because now you could even watch your

1018
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: surgery where there's somebody will be watching their own surgery,

1019
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 1: but what they're doing is they're playing a different video, right,

1020
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 1: So they'll cut the person's knee open and just seal

1021
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 1: it back up without doing any actual you know, a

1022
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: therapeutic change, and their knee problem will heal right, oftentimes

1023
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: better than the people who had the actual surgery, you know,

1024
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 1: the surgical change and intervention. So I know this sounds crazy,

1025
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: and these are things for me. I'm a very analytical,

1026
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 1: logical person, so I wouldn't believe it unless I saw

1027
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:02,319
Speaker 1: the data myself. So that's the power of the human mind,

1028
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 1: just a snapshot. Now here's the other thing. I don't

1029
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: want to call them evil, but there's a there's an

1030
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: evil twin to the placebo effect. It's called a no

1031
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: cebo effect. This is when you get a negative injunction

1032
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:16,360
Speaker 1: that something bad is going to happen. So Placebo is

1033
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: saying you're gonna get this therapeutic benefit. You're gonna take this,

1034
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 1: and your blood pressure is going to normalize, your depression

1035
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:25,720
Speaker 1: is going to go away, your cancer is going to dissolve.

1036
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: A no Cbo effect is saying this is incurable. You

1037
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: have six weeks to live. You'll never walk again, right,

1038
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 1: So these injunctions from an authority figure. And there's another

1039
00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: study I excited from Alia CROM's team. They did a

1040
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 1: skin prick test where they used a histamine, you know,

1041
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 1: a histamine stimulator to create a rash on people's skin,

1042
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 1: and then they had an inert cream and they told

1043
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:55,319
Speaker 1: the test subjects either this cream is going to make

1044
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: your rash worse or this cream is going to make

1045
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: your rash better. It's different, people told different things. Now,

1046
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 1: what happened was and this was true for like ninety

1047
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: percent of the test subjects when they received that inert

1048
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: cream that had no therapeutic benefit and they told their

1049
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:12,399
Speaker 1: rash would get worse. Within ten minutes, the rash got

1050
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: worse and spread. For other people within ten minutes, the

1051
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 1: rash got better and nearly went away from most people

1052
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 1: just within ten minutes of them getting this cream that

1053
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:25,280
Speaker 1: does nothing. The biggest part of this was the benefit

1054
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 1: depended directly with how the person believed in the competence

1055
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: of the physician. Their rapport and belief in the person

1056
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:41,760
Speaker 1: telling them about the thing impacted their physical response the most.

1057
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: So again, who are you listening to? You know? And

1058
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: so for me, I had that nicebo effect injunction, Like

1059
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 1: he told me this was incurable. I'll be in paying

1060
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: the rest of my life, you know, I'll never walk

1061
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: normally again, all these things, and I believed him. But

1062
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: thankfully again, just like sometimes going through these things and

1063
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: hitting rock bottom is a good place to stand up from,

1064
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:12,359
Speaker 1: you know, and being able to access this is why

1065
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 1: people are such a gift, you know, Like my grandmother

1066
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: was like a guiding light, like a north star for me.

1067
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it at the time. I just thought

1068
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 1: she was being annoying. But just knowing that there's somebody

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00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 1: who believes in me, man, it just made the process

1070
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 1: so much easier. But the thing is, you don't need

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00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: anybody else to believe in You can believe in yourself,

1072
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 1: you know. But it does take it does take some revelation.

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00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 1: It does take a lot of work to be able

1074
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: to do that. But anyways, but just to put the

1075
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: icing on the cake with this, with stress and the

1076
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 1: impact that it can have on our bodies and our relationships.

1077
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 1: The reason that I don't talk about this off the jay,

1078
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: but the reason I wrote this book was to address

1079
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: how food is affecting how we communicate with each other

1080
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: because you probably have noticed we're living at a very

1081
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 1: divisive time right now. You know, there's so much divisiveness,

1082
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:02,919
Speaker 1: there's so much agitation, there's so much in fighting, when

1083
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 1: on paper, we should be more connected than ever, Like

1084
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 1: we all have the same access to the same data.

1085
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: Why is there so much arguing about it? Right? And

1086
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: also people are becoming so polarized, like they're going and

1087
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 1: planting their flag at one end of the other end.

1088
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: But truth truthfully, most people are here in the middle,

1089
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 1: but they're listening to people at these outer ends. But

1090
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 1: what's not being talked about is the fact that, for example,

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00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: there was a study done at the Ohio State University

1092
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 1: and it was looking at couples, you know, like I

1093
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 1: love my wife, she's my best friend, and but we also,

1094
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, we have you know. And

1095
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 1: the thing is like we know our stuff now because

1096
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: we often attribute it to the person. But what they

1097
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 1: did was they use glucose monitors to see what happens

1098
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 1: when the person in the relationship when they have abnormal

1099
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 1: blood sugar, how they respond to their partner, yes, all right,

1100
00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 1: And so what they found was when people have when

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00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: their blood sugar was abnormal, you know, when they experienced

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00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 1: a blood sugar crash for example, which is normal because

1103
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 1: again we're going hypoglycemic and then crashing because the way

1104
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: we eat today, the test subjects became much more aggressive

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00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: towards their partner. Keyword aggressive. Right, And here's the biggest thing,

1106
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 1: because for me, it's just like okay, that's a quality.

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00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 1: But what's the end result. End result is they were

1108
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 1: far less likely to resolve their relationship conflicts. So that's

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00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 1: the outcome because your blood sugar's messed up. Now, we

1110
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 1: think about this with kids, like you know they're hyper

1111
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: or whatever, they're cranky. You're just a big adult baby,

1112
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 1: you know, you get the same hard wiring. And so

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00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 1: when we tend to be in conflict is when we

1114
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 1: when our biological needs are off, you know, when we're tired,

1115
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 1: when we're hungry. These things we attribute to kids acting

1116
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: up like that, but we do that to each other, right,

1117
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:50,680
Speaker 1: And so that was just one little glimpse into it,

1118
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 1: like this is somebody that you love. And so with

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00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: the just a little sidebar in the study, they use

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00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: like these dolls and poking pins in the doll. How

1121
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 1: if you are a madic or partner you are. So

1122
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 1: it's just kind of creepy like some people. So, but

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01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 1: now here's how we branched this out globally. Researchers at

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01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 1: Oxford University. They wanted to see what would happen by

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Speaker 1: improving the nutrition of prison inmates. Right, so we have

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01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:23,439
Speaker 1: a certain psychological view of people who are in these conditions. Yeah, right,

1127
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 1: But for me, I have an experience with this because

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Speaker 1: of the environment that I come from. You know, many

1129
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:32,000
Speaker 1: of my friends and family end up in that situation.

1130
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 1: I could have been in that situation. And so what

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01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: they did was and this is a randomized, placebo controlled trial,

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01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:42,880
Speaker 1: gold standard. This isn't just guessing. This isn't like the

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01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:45,959
Speaker 1: oh this thing, gold standard of clinical trial. They took

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Speaker 1: a group of these prison inmates and they improved their

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01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:51,840
Speaker 1: nutrition just through getting in from Omega three fatti ascid supplements,

1136
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: which we've got to talk about that by the way,

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01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:56,320
Speaker 1: and then just increasing their amount of vitamins and minerals

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01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 1: that they're consuming, right, so very rudimentary stuff. And then

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01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:02,600
Speaker 1: they have the cebo group who gets nothing. It's a

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01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:05,320
Speaker 1: four and a half month study and after compiling all

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01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: the data, the test subjects. The prison inmates who received

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01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:12,840
Speaker 1: the improved nutrition had a thirty five percent drop in

1143
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: behavioral offenses versus the PACEBO group, and most notably, a

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01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 1: thirty seven percent drop overall in violent offenses. Their proclivity

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01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 1: towards hurting another person dropped by thirty seven percent by

1146
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:33,000
Speaker 1: increasing their nutrition. What was in that nutrition, dude, basic vitamins, minerals,

1147
01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 1: multi vitamin type stuff, omega threes, but the megathrees are critical.

1148
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: That's why I want to specifically talk about this. But

1149
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 1: that sounds so crazy because the very best programs in

1150
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 1: prison for rehabilitation come nowhere near those types of results.

1151
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 1: So some other researchers saw it and they were just like,

1152
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:52,720
Speaker 1: that's impossible, and they replicated the study and almost got

1153
01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 1: the exact same numbers. This was published in the journal

1154
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 1: Aggressive Behavior. There's so many journals that cover these things,

1155
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: and the data is available by getting people healthier, by

1156
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 1: giving them the basic The question should be how just

1157
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: your cells, your brain cells specifically, being able to talk

1158
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: to each other, you require key nutrients, and so one

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01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 1: of those nutrients is omega three, fatty acids DHA and

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01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 1: EPA specifically. The cool thing is that blood brain barrier.

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01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: They got to express pass so they're able to cross

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01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 1: the blood brain barrier because it's one of those essentials

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01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: for the brain. Now, this is so crazy, but without

1164
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: these specific omega three's, your brain cells can't really efficiently

1165
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 1: talk to each other. It's something called they enable something

1166
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 1: called signal transduction, so your cells being able to talk.

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01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:43,160
Speaker 1: And also they're part of all of your cell membrains,

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01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 1: so just the cell being sustainable itself. If you're deficient

1169
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 1: in these things, again, your body will try to do

1170
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 1: what it has to do, but it just degrades the

1171
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 1: way that your body works so much. And so a

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Speaker 1: study this was published in the journal Neurology, one of

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01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 1: the top journals looking at the brain, and they found

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01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,800
Speaker 1: that test subjects who consume less than two grams of

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01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:10,080
Speaker 1: omega threees per day had the highest rate of brain shrinkage. Yeah,

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01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 1: and where are we getting omega threes from naturally? If

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01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,840
Speaker 1: we're even getting this. Yeah, this is so important because

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01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 1: for years I made this mistake, all right, working in

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01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 1: a clinical practice, seeing people every day and wanted to

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01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 1: invoke more plants into people's diets. I would tell people,

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01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 1: make sure you getting your cheese seeds, and you know

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01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 1: your flax seeds. You got flax seeds or flax seed

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01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 1: oil in a refrigerated section because it's volatile. But I

1184
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:39,520
Speaker 1: was missing the mark because that's a LA. It's a

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01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 1: different form of omega threees. It's the plant version, and

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01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 1: it's not what your brain uses, all right, So your

1187
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 1: brain uses epa and dha. These are only found in

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01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:51,240
Speaker 1: animal foods. And we do have an option for people

1189
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:54,920
Speaker 1: doing a vegan protocol, which is algae oil. All right,

1190
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 1: So we'll come back to that in just a second.

1191
01:03:56,840 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 1: But this is very important because your body can the

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01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 1: plant omega three ala and converted into dha and epa,

1193
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 1: but you're gonna lose at least seventy five percent the

1194
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:10,760
Speaker 1: conversion process, all right, So this is going to depend

1195
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 1: on your microbiome, your other metabolic factors, on who's efficient

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01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 1: in converting this. So to say, for somebody that is

1197
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 1: doing a vegan or vegetarian protocol to just have chia

1198
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:24,480
Speaker 1: seeds are cool, it's not. It's not cool. Literally, we're

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01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 1: talking about your brain shrinking. This is not a joke.

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01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 1: You need to make sure you're getting these dha and

1201
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 1: epa the whole food versions or sources that we've evolved

1202
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 1: having is going to be coming from fatty fish. Again,

1203
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 1: humans have been eating these foods for thousands of years.

1204
01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into religiosity about our nutrition

1205
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 1: and it creates all this divisiveness. I just want to

1206
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 1: talk about principles, right, and so fatty fish, grass fed beef, eggs.

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01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:54,640
Speaker 1: And then we've got as far as what most of

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01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 1: the peer view studies are done on, it's done on

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01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: fish oil, right, and it's just it is what it

1210
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,720
Speaker 1: is now with I said, I believe that there are

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01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:04,840
Speaker 1: some other means for this. One of them, depending on

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01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:07,800
Speaker 1: where your ethics lie, could be krill oil. All right.

1213
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 1: So krill oil is one of the richest sources of astaxanthin,

1214
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:15,640
Speaker 1: which is protective of those Omega three's, which is huge

1215
01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 1: and of itself. But this is a microscopic keyword, microscopic shrimp.

1216
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:22,560
Speaker 1: All right, you're probably just even like if you lick

1217
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: the air, you're going to be killing more sentient beings

1218
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 1: than you know what I mean, this microscopic shrimp. But

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01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:30,560
Speaker 1: it's a concentrated form of omega three's dha and epa.

1220
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 1: If that's where you sit, then we have algae oil,

1221
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: which is a plant source. The caveat here is that

1222
01:05:37,840 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 1: we don't have much period viewed data on its efficacy.

1223
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 1: We know the DHA and EPA is there, so I

1224
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:46,480
Speaker 1: don't want everybody to wait. If you're doing a vegan protocol,

1225
01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:50,040
Speaker 1: please get yourself an algae oil today, Like today, get

1226
01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:53,800
Speaker 1: a specific so algae oil is going to be encapsulated,

1227
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 1: so which again I would love people to do food first,

1228
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 1: but in this situation, it's essential. It is absolutely essential.

1229
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: So we can still do our chia and our flax

1230
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 1: and our hemp seeds. Those are those are great for

1231
01:06:06,920 --> 01:06:10,840
Speaker 1: other things, but please don't mistake the fact that we

1232
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:13,360
Speaker 1: need a mega threes for cognitive function. And again in

1233
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:16,040
Speaker 1: this clinical trial they're using fish oil, So this is

1234
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:19,480
Speaker 1: not a joke. Being able to reduce your proclivity towards violence,

1235
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:24,040
Speaker 1: to improve your ability to perspective, take, and to be

1236
01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:27,960
Speaker 1: able to have more compassion and patience. We know this

1237
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 1: when we're when we're nutrient deprived, when we're even just hungry,

1238
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:33,600
Speaker 1: we tend to be more irritable and less patient towards

1239
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:36,160
Speaker 1: people we love, let alone people we don't know. So

1240
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:40,400
Speaker 1: the biggest issue I believe Jay. And this isn't because

1241
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 1: I'm a nutritionist, Like I really examine this, Like I

1242
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 1: sat with this for a while. I was like, is

1243
01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:46,400
Speaker 1: this because my life has just been revolved around health?

1244
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:50,440
Speaker 1: Like truly, I feel that the biggest underlying issue for

1245
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:55,680
Speaker 1: our epidemic levels of divisiveness and very illogical behavior and

1246
01:06:56,520 --> 01:07:01,720
Speaker 1: the ability to see another human being and to want

1247
01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 1: to do them harm, it's because we are unhealthy, you know.

1248
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:10,040
Speaker 1: And the data indicates this, but my real my life

1249
01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:12,880
Speaker 1: indicates this, you know. Like I grew up in an

1250
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:16,600
Speaker 1: environment man Like it was just it's an environment. It's

1251
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: so volatile. There's so much violence, you know, outside my

1252
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 1: door and in my own household. And to see how

1253
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:29,760
Speaker 1: I've changed because I was a reflection of that environment.

1254
01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 1: Something I didn't tell you about when I went to

1255
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,680
Speaker 1: that private university. I got kicked out of that university

1256
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 1: for fighting. I got kicked out of high school for

1257
01:07:38,200 --> 01:07:41,600
Speaker 1: my entire junior year for fighting. And I I was

1258
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 1: in student advisory. I was teenage Health Consultant, which was

1259
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:49,280
Speaker 1: this little health program. I was in in Roads, which

1260
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 1: I was able to take college credit. You know. It

1261
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 1: was the first year that it was popping off with

1262
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 1: Saint Louis University. I was a scholar, athlete, I was

1263
01:07:57,960 --> 01:08:00,960
Speaker 1: all these things. It didn't matter, you know. I got

1264
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:04,040
Speaker 1: in this situation where I felt threatened, and I resorted

1265
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:08,760
Speaker 1: to that behavior, you know. And every day in the morning,

1266
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: you know, going in getting the cereal and getting the

1267
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 1: you know, the pasteurized orange juice. I'm eating pizza pretty

1268
01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 1: much every day of lunch with the oppressor with cheese,

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Speaker 1: you know, and just like I'm making my body out

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01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:22,600
Speaker 1: of this really low quality material, right. And so the

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01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 1: crazy thing was, once I got physically healthier, I started

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01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:30,840
Speaker 1: to see people differently, and I started to have so

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01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 1: much more patience because I was replicating those behaviors. Like,

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01:08:35,720 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 1: you know, my daughter is my oldest I have three kids,

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01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:43,160
Speaker 1: and my mother, like she would say something once and

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01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:46,479
Speaker 1: then five seconds later, she's pissed off. Right, she doesn't

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01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:49,559
Speaker 1: want to repeat herself. She's just ready on fire, to

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01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:51,960
Speaker 1: be mad, to be irritated, to be aggressive towards you,

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01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:55,760
Speaker 1: and to have such a lack of patience. And so

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01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 1: I was being that with my daughter. You know what,

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01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 1: for me, I wanted her to be. Of course, most

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01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:03,040
Speaker 1: people want their children to be better than them, and

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01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:04,920
Speaker 1: so when she was in kindergarten, I was getting her

1284
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:07,559
Speaker 1: like second and third grade work and we would sit

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01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 1: around a table and all this stuff and just imagine

1286
01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:12,360
Speaker 1: like the lack of patience that I had. And she

1287
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:15,559
Speaker 1: graduated with honors all that stuff, but you know, just

1288
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:17,800
Speaker 1: what she had to deal with. And I'm even then

1289
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 1: of still it wasn't like bad, but still just like

1290
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:24,160
Speaker 1: the level of patience that I have now from like

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01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 1: my youngest son is ten, it's night and day. It

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01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:31,080
Speaker 1: is night and day because I'm physically healthier, and it's

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01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:33,960
Speaker 1: not a struggle. It's not a reach for me. Now

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01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:38,520
Speaker 1: here's the rub. It's not that we can't express compassion

1295
01:09:39,280 --> 01:09:42,679
Speaker 1: or the perspective take or to express patience when we're unhealthy.

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01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:46,000
Speaker 1: It's just harder. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And I think

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01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:48,639
Speaker 1: we've all experienced that, right, Like I think we all

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01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:54,160
Speaker 1: know that that when you're hungry, you react differently to everything.

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01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:56,720
Speaker 1: And I think we've all experienced the irritability when you

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01:09:56,720 --> 01:10:00,920
Speaker 1: feel like your body's like exhausted or you're going to

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01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:03,200
Speaker 1: be more irritable, you're going to be more agitated. I

1302
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:06,160
Speaker 1: think we know that. Most people would say, yeah, I

1303
01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:09,559
Speaker 1: know exactly, what that feels like. And this is where

1304
01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 1: I like the connection you're making and I agree with

1305
01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:14,679
Speaker 1: you even more is I've spent so long with people

1306
01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:17,599
Speaker 1: where they keep trying to solve the issue in their head.

1307
01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:21,479
Speaker 1: They're wondering why their energy is not right, they're wondering

1308
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:25,760
Speaker 1: why they don't feel positive, they're wondering why they don't

1309
01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:29,280
Speaker 1: feel clear, and so much of it is diet related.

1310
01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 1: Of course, there's meditation, and there's mindfulness and these beautiful practices.

1311
01:10:35,360 --> 01:10:37,120
Speaker 1: But if you're doing all of those but you're not

1312
01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:41,639
Speaker 1: solving your gut, you're making life harder, like you're working

1313
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 1: harder without using all the resources. And that's why at

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01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:49,040
Speaker 1: the beginning, when you said it's your diet, your sleep,

1315
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 1: and your movement, and then you have your mindset and

1316
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 1: your meditation and your mindful us, we've got to use

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01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:57,400
Speaker 1: all fours. Like you can't just use one. Like you

1318
01:10:57,439 --> 01:10:59,439
Speaker 1: can't just work out and say, oh, it doesn't matter

1319
01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:01,720
Speaker 1: what I eat, And you can't just eat right and say,

1320
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:03,599
Speaker 1: oh it doesn't matter if I don't work out, and

1321
01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:06,120
Speaker 1: you can't just sleep right. And you're right, it's not

1322
01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:08,559
Speaker 1: about choosing either raw it's it's all of them. And

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01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:11,320
Speaker 1: that's what you present in this book about the connection

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01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:16,679
Speaker 1: between them. Yeah. Sure, you're such a wise, insightful twenty

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01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:19,000
Speaker 1: years studied. I mean when you mentioned them, like, I

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01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:22,120
Speaker 1: can tell it's it's phenomenal, and you can tell what

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01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 1: a passion you have for this. If someone's listening today

1328
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:30,280
Speaker 1: and you could simplify for them three things that they

1329
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 1: should try and learn more about and three things they

1330
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,120
Speaker 1: should be very aware of that they may need to

1331
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:40,320
Speaker 1: put aside, what would you say for each of those?

1332
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:43,360
Speaker 1: For someone who's today going, wow, I need to read

1333
01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:45,360
Speaker 1: this book, Eat Smart, So I'm going to order that,

1334
01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:48,120
Speaker 1: But it's like, what are three things that I need

1335
01:11:48,840 --> 01:11:52,200
Speaker 1: to add and think about and research and learn more about,

1336
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:53,960
Speaker 1: and what are three things that it maybe need to

1337
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 1: avoid and set aside. You know, this is a tenant

1338
01:11:57,360 --> 01:12:00,600
Speaker 1: throughout history. The number one thing for me is to

1339
01:12:00,720 --> 01:12:07,200
Speaker 1: know thyself, you know, really do a self assessment because oftentimes,

1340
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:10,640
Speaker 1: you know, working as somebody who's I'm sitting across the

1341
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:14,920
Speaker 1: table from a person and they've got twelve medications that

1342
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:17,240
Speaker 1: they're on and they're wanting to make a change, and

1343
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:19,320
Speaker 1: I have to be there and to look them in

1344
01:12:19,320 --> 01:12:20,800
Speaker 1: the eyes and say I got you, We're going to

1345
01:12:20,840 --> 01:12:24,800
Speaker 1: figure this out, and actually know with every five of

1346
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:27,559
Speaker 1: my being that we're going to figure it out. To

1347
01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:33,040
Speaker 1: be able to do that, I have to evoke within

1348
01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:35,920
Speaker 1: that person and find what is a leverage point and

1349
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 1: help them to get honest about what landed them in

1350
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:41,120
Speaker 1: this place that they're in to begin with. Right, So

1351
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:43,800
Speaker 1: what I would find is that and this is a

1352
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:46,840
Speaker 1: great secret for all the coaches out there, many people

1353
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:48,719
Speaker 1: already probably know this who are doing this type of work.

1354
01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 1: If you allow a person to speak, just ask them questions,

1355
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 1: they will often tell you the cause and the cure

1356
01:12:57,400 --> 01:13:01,400
Speaker 1: of what is ailing them they're being. They know it already,

1357
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:06,559
Speaker 1: it's already within their mental and you know, cellular records.

1358
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:10,080
Speaker 1: They know better than anybody, right, But you have to

1359
01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:13,080
Speaker 1: give people space to be able to speak. And so

1360
01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:17,120
Speaker 1: but oftentimes coaches, you know, we want to help people,

1361
01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:19,200
Speaker 1: and so we just want to give them our thing, right,

1362
01:13:19,280 --> 01:13:22,240
Speaker 1: but just actually be there, listen, be a space for

1363
01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:25,559
Speaker 1: this person. It's probably nobody's ever really listened to them, Like,

1364
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:28,080
Speaker 1: just actually shut everything down to listen to them. Be

1365
01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 1: that person, and they'll tell you the cause in cure.

1366
01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:35,479
Speaker 1: So know thyself is the tenant self assess, and there's

1367
01:13:35,479 --> 01:13:38,200
Speaker 1: different personality types that we can put people in. But

1368
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:41,439
Speaker 1: we're infinite, you know, we really are. But there are

1369
01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:45,160
Speaker 1: people who tend to be people start things and stop

1370
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 1: things very quickly. You're right, they meet a little bit

1371
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:50,479
Speaker 1: of resistance in there. That's okay. Then there are people

1372
01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:54,240
Speaker 1: who you know, swing for the fences. They go and

1373
01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 1: they do so much like they go, they get all

1374
01:13:56,960 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 1: the things, they get all the equipment, They go so

1375
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:03,040
Speaker 1: hard and they on themselves into the ground, right. And

1376
01:14:03,280 --> 01:14:05,559
Speaker 1: there are people who are just more balanced. Like there's

1377
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 1: different personality types and so really honing in on what

1378
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:11,960
Speaker 1: your personality types is are And I talk about this

1379
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:14,120
Speaker 1: a little bit in the book as well, So know

1380
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:16,840
Speaker 1: thyself so you know what to shore up. And I

1381
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:19,519
Speaker 1: don't like to talk in terms of strength and strength

1382
01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:22,360
Speaker 1: and weaknesses. You know, you have strengths and then you

1383
01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:26,200
Speaker 1: often have things that are foreign to you, right, And

1384
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 1: that's okay because like my strength is I know a

1385
01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:31,599
Speaker 1: lot about the human body. I don't know about cars,

1386
01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:34,080
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I know Danna Kapatrick,

1387
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:37,760
Speaker 1: Like I feel disrespected even saying car around. You know

1388
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:40,800
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? And So it's just like being able

1389
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:45,160
Speaker 1: to understand, like that's not my domain of excellence, or

1390
01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 1: but I could learn I might, you know, because of

1391
01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:51,720
Speaker 1: my experience come into the car game, and like I

1392
01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:54,160
Speaker 1: can start seeing stuff other people aren't saying, you know, like,

1393
01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:57,080
Speaker 1: but that's not for me. So I understand my strengths

1394
01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 1: and also where I don't have any credibility or experience, right.

1395
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:05,200
Speaker 1: Number one is just a principle to know yourself and

1396
01:15:05,240 --> 01:15:09,719
Speaker 1: to know what things tend to hinder you. And I'll

1397
01:15:09,720 --> 01:15:11,680
Speaker 1: just share one little quick one because I saw it

1398
01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:15,880
Speaker 1: as a big consistent in my clinical practice. One of

1399
01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:18,559
Speaker 1: the biggest things that hinders people in getting in the

1400
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:22,200
Speaker 1: progress that they want is blaming others. All right. I

1401
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:24,600
Speaker 1: was literally I was right there listening to them, and

1402
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:26,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can see after a while, I can

1403
01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:28,599
Speaker 1: see it coming out here. It comes you know, if

1404
01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:32,920
Speaker 1: my kids would just abid us, right, if my husband would,

1405
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 1: just if my wife would, just if my mom would

1406
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:39,280
Speaker 1: just you know, like everybody else in their life is

1407
01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:42,280
Speaker 1: making it harder. Right, So they have this story and

1408
01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:45,320
Speaker 1: they're going to live and die by it, right, and

1409
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:47,800
Speaker 1: so but the thing is, it's just a story, and

1410
01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:50,639
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that it's not true. It doesn't mean

1411
01:15:50,680 --> 01:15:55,160
Speaker 1: that you don't experience more, you know, conflict or curveballs

1412
01:15:55,160 --> 01:15:58,000
Speaker 1: in your life because of your life experience. But listen,

1413
01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:01,360
Speaker 1: like it's all about perspective, you know. I've been through

1414
01:16:01,360 --> 01:16:03,479
Speaker 1: some crazy stuff in my life and to be here

1415
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:07,760
Speaker 1: where I am, like the number one thing besides that

1416
01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:12,040
Speaker 1: moment of decision is taking responsibility for my life one

1417
01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:16,200
Speaker 1: hundred percent responsibility. Again, this is one of those things

1418
01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 1: that you might you don't really do that, you know,

1419
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:21,920
Speaker 1: And so that's without any wiggle room. I had to

1420
01:16:21,920 --> 01:16:24,880
Speaker 1: stop pointing the fingers. I had to stop blaming and

1421
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 1: catch myself whenever I do it and understand even if

1422
01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 1: in a relationship conflict, it's not fifty fifty, it's one

1423
01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:34,719
Speaker 1: hundred one hundred, because if there's a miscommunication taking place,

1424
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:36,479
Speaker 1: instead of me being like, why don't you understand this?

1425
01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:39,800
Speaker 1: I can think about how am I communicating this? Because

1426
01:16:39,840 --> 01:16:42,479
Speaker 1: there is a way to get through, right. But that's

1427
01:16:42,520 --> 01:16:45,840
Speaker 1: me taking responsibility. But sometimes we don't feel like it,

1428
01:16:46,240 --> 01:16:50,679
Speaker 1: you know. But also again, if you're physically unwell, it's harder, right,

1429
01:16:51,400 --> 01:16:55,400
Speaker 1: So being able to help people with that piece of

1430
01:16:55,439 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 1: like you've got to take responsibility here, stop blaming other people.

1431
01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:01,559
Speaker 1: There as a way, right, and what we do is

1432
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:03,240
Speaker 1: and this is where I can answer more the question.

1433
01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:06,160
Speaker 1: It starts stacking conditions in your favor to make it easier,

1434
01:17:06,280 --> 01:17:10,599
Speaker 1: make it automatic. So the biggest issue today with people

1435
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:12,400
Speaker 1: being able to go from where they are with their health,

1436
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:16,040
Speaker 1: where we are severely sick society. I mentioned two hundred

1437
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:19,040
Speaker 1: fifty million Americans overweight or obese, one hundred and thirty

1438
01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:22,919
Speaker 1: million Americans diabetic or pre diabetic. Sixty percent of Americans

1439
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 1: have some degree of heart disease right now. One hundred

1440
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:29,559
Speaker 1: fifteen million Americans are regularly sleep deprived. Uppers of fifty

1441
01:17:29,600 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 1: million Americans experience in autommunic condition. I can go on

1442
01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:34,479
Speaker 1: and on and on. These are things that have never

1443
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:38,480
Speaker 1: happened before. But if skyrocketed, depression, all time high ADHD,

1444
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:42,400
Speaker 1: the list goes on and on, everything is worse. And

1445
01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 1: here we are again on paper, we're supposed to be

1446
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:48,160
Speaker 1: more evolved and intelligent than we've ever been. And people

1447
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:51,679
Speaker 1: were like, well, we're living longer though, No, No, we're

1448
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:54,920
Speaker 1: the first generation in recorded human history that is not

1449
01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:57,919
Speaker 1: going to outlive the generation before us. It is now reversed,

1450
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 1: which doesn't make sense. It should be continuing increase. But

1451
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:03,679
Speaker 1: we've hit a threshold, you know, our quality of life

1452
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:08,519
Speaker 1: is suffering because by treating symptoms, we can keep people alive.

1453
01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 1: And what's happening is we're not really living longer, we're

1454
01:18:11,479 --> 01:18:15,920
Speaker 1: dying longer. We're extending the suffering, you know. So how

1455
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:18,519
Speaker 1: do we get into this state? And the solution here?

1456
01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:21,040
Speaker 1: The number one thing is we live in a severely

1457
01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:24,400
Speaker 1: sick culture and so we're automatically going to pick up

1458
01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:27,360
Speaker 1: what's happening in our environment to be healthy. And a

1459
01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:32,040
Speaker 1: severely sick society is very it's weird, you know. So

1460
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:34,360
Speaker 1: today you and your wife are weird as hell, Like

1461
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:36,879
Speaker 1: you guys are super weird, and shout out to everybody

1462
01:18:36,880 --> 01:18:40,200
Speaker 1: else that's you're weird, you know, And that's okay. It's

1463
01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:45,080
Speaker 1: abnormal because normal right now is being unwell. And so

1464
01:18:45,439 --> 01:18:48,040
Speaker 1: a solution here is and this is my goal and

1465
01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:50,040
Speaker 1: it's what I do. This is what I dedicate my

1466
01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:51,519
Speaker 1: life to, is what gets me up in the morning,

1467
01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:54,360
Speaker 1: is to help to make a shift to where health

1468
01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 1: is normalized, right to where it's easy to have access

1469
01:18:59,120 --> 01:19:02,240
Speaker 1: to the things that healthy. Right now, we have ease

1470
01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:07,040
Speaker 1: of access to things that make you sick, that degrade

1471
01:19:07,040 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 1: your health, that degrade your mental health. These are all

1472
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:15,639
Speaker 1: close closely accessible, right, and so one of those things

1473
01:19:15,720 --> 01:19:20,560
Speaker 1: you know, again, being from Ferguson, Missouri, I was surrounded

1474
01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:23,760
Speaker 1: by fast food like absolutely, you name the place within

1475
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 1: a mile radius, all of them are just some surrounded

1476
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 1: by it. And the question is why is this so cheap? Right,

1477
01:19:31,920 --> 01:19:37,240
Speaker 1: because that's why I bought it? Yeah, the accessibility, the price,

1478
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 1: and the taste. Of course they got food scientists or

1479
01:19:40,520 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 1: brilliant at making you addicted to the foods. But the

1480
01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 1: cost that the economies of scale here, and so how

1481
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,880
Speaker 1: is it that I can go to McDonald's and get

1482
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:54,000
Speaker 1: three cheeseburgers for the same amount that would cost me

1483
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:57,719
Speaker 1: to buy one avocado? This avocado falls off the tree,

1484
01:19:57,840 --> 01:20:01,320
Speaker 1: like literally, this this cheese was are so cost intensive

1485
01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:04,479
Speaker 1: to make it makes no sense, right, the bread and

1486
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:08,880
Speaker 1: the processing, the meat, the cheese, the condiments. Not to mention,

1487
01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:11,200
Speaker 1: even if we use an avocado versus a happy meal,

1488
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:14,880
Speaker 1: there's even a toy the packaging, right, all of these

1489
01:20:14,920 --> 01:20:17,960
Speaker 1: things are so pros intensive, right, the market, all of that,

1490
01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:21,280
Speaker 1: there's we don't have like Beyonce doing a thing for

1491
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:24,599
Speaker 1: you know, avocados, Like if you could imagine that, you know,

1492
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:28,120
Speaker 1: but you know what I'm saying, it's a really good point.

1493
01:20:28,280 --> 01:20:30,920
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. If you think about this, like

1494
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:34,600
Speaker 1: how is this possible? And I answered this question because

1495
01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:37,280
Speaker 1: I had to, Like, not only did I answer the question,

1496
01:20:37,479 --> 01:20:41,080
Speaker 1: but I looked at what is the outcome? So a

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01:20:41,160 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: big driver of this is government subsidies. Right, So from

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01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:49,080
Speaker 1: the year nineteen ninety five to two ten alone, the

1499
01:20:49,200 --> 01:20:53,080
Speaker 1: United States government doled out almost two hundred million dollars

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01:20:53,120 --> 01:20:56,679
Speaker 1: in government subsidies to farmers who are growing these commodity

1501
01:20:56,720 --> 01:20:59,280
Speaker 1: crops that largely show up through the draft, through window

1502
01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:03,880
Speaker 1: and in process foods. Right, So corn, soy, various forms

1503
01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:06,640
Speaker 1: of where sugar we can extract some sugar. Wheat of

1504
01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:08,160
Speaker 1: course is big. And by the way, like if you

1505
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 1: look at a grocery store, most of the foods are

1506
01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:13,840
Speaker 1: made of those ingredients, right, some forms or versions of

1507
01:21:13,880 --> 01:21:18,360
Speaker 1: those things. So what happened was by giving this investment,

1508
01:21:18,760 --> 01:21:21,839
Speaker 1: almost nothing went to the pharmers who growing fruits and vegetables.

1509
01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:25,679
Speaker 1: Now here's the bottom line. I came across the studying

1510
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:27,400
Speaker 1: and I dug I had to find what is the

1511
01:21:27,439 --> 01:21:29,880
Speaker 1: outcome from this. There's got to be somebody asking this question,

1512
01:21:29,880 --> 01:21:33,120
Speaker 1: because I'm asking it. And I found it in the

1513
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:35,280
Speaker 1: Journal of the American Medical Association, one of the most

1514
01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:39,120
Speaker 1: prestigious journals in the world, and they looked at the

1515
01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 1: consumption of government subsidized food and the outcomes of health

1516
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:45,600
Speaker 1: and humans. Right, So, the people who are consuming the

1517
01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:49,759
Speaker 1: most government subsidized foods had almost a forty percent greater

1518
01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:54,960
Speaker 1: incidents of being obese. They had far higher waste circumference,

1519
01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:59,320
Speaker 1: so belly fat, and higher levels of blood sugar, and

1520
01:21:59,439 --> 01:22:04,400
Speaker 1: also depradations to their inflammation so measure they use see

1521
01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:07,360
Speaker 1: reactive protein to measure they had higher rates of inflammation. Right,

1522
01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:11,040
Speaker 1: So all of these terrible things, but key thing, almost

1523
01:22:11,040 --> 01:22:14,679
Speaker 1: a forty percent greater incidents of being obese. By consuming

1524
01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:17,280
Speaker 1: the food that our government is literally paying for to

1525
01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:20,519
Speaker 1: put into our society, we're literally feeding the problem. And

1526
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: it's not okay. And when I say the government, I

1527
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:27,800
Speaker 1: mean us because that money is coming from us, but

1528
01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:30,240
Speaker 1: we don't understand our authority. We've outsourced it to other

1529
01:22:30,240 --> 01:22:32,599
Speaker 1: people who don't have our best interests at heart. And

1530
01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:37,960
Speaker 1: so I'm in an environment where sixty percent greater incidents

1531
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:42,400
Speaker 1: of my aunts, you know, my family members, Black women

1532
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:47,719
Speaker 1: sixty percent greater incidents of being obese than a Caucasian woman.

1533
01:22:48,280 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 1: That's the society that we're living in, and it's the environment, right.

1534
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 1: It's not that any of us are just by nature

1535
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:59,280
Speaker 1: more likely to be unhealthy. Right, And so we can

1536
01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:01,920
Speaker 1: help the stack in aditions to unify each other, you know,

1537
01:23:02,040 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 1: unify our communities. But we've got to stand up for

1538
01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:07,320
Speaker 1: each other and not allow this insanity to happen. Because

1539
01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:10,160
Speaker 1: what's happening when we're feeding this problem is the higher

1540
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:15,320
Speaker 1: rates of mental issues, of poverty. It's driving more crime,

1541
01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:20,120
Speaker 1: it's driving more divisiveness. Right, It's not our fault. I

1542
01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:23,160
Speaker 1: didn't want to be a quote bad person. I'm an

1543
01:23:23,240 --> 01:23:25,640
Speaker 1: environment where it is a bigger risk for me to

1544
01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:29,040
Speaker 1: go outside and play than for another kid because I

1545
01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:31,800
Speaker 1: literally might die, a bullet might hit me, you know.

1546
01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:34,320
Speaker 1: And that's again, it's it's not like this is a

1547
01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:37,280
Speaker 1: daily thing, but that stuff did happen, you know, and

1548
01:23:37,320 --> 01:23:39,240
Speaker 1: people don't understand that. So you look at people and

1549
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:44,200
Speaker 1: they're like, just work harder. My mother worked overnight at

1550
01:23:44,240 --> 01:23:46,840
Speaker 1: a convenience store just to again, trying to make ends meet,

1551
01:23:47,479 --> 01:23:50,720
Speaker 1: and she was stabbed eight times by somebody trying to

1552
01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:53,599
Speaker 1: rob the convenience store. These are things people often again,

1553
01:23:53,600 --> 01:23:57,000
Speaker 1: they don't they're not subjected to. And she, my mother's

1554
01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:00,360
Speaker 1: a really tough human being. Like it's crazy, you know

1555
01:24:00,360 --> 01:24:01,760
Speaker 1: if you hears some of these stories about my mom.

1556
01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:06,880
Speaker 1: But when she she subdued the guy, the police came. Right,

1557
01:24:06,920 --> 01:24:09,519
Speaker 1: she's just man, she's she's kind of a badass. But

1558
01:24:09,720 --> 01:24:12,719
Speaker 1: when she survived and subdued that, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

1559
01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:17,040
Speaker 1: So when she got to the hospital and got the stitches,

1560
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:22,600
Speaker 1: the physician told her that if you weren't overweight, you

1561
01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:29,760
Speaker 1: would have died. Your your body fat saved you. What

1562
01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:32,760
Speaker 1: do you think she's gonna do that cognitive association? My

1563
01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:36,639
Speaker 1: fat is my savior, it's protecting me. You think she's

1564
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:39,320
Speaker 1: gonna do anything to lose his weight. She's she's going

1565
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:41,040
Speaker 1: to be more acclimated to having more of it. It's

1566
01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:44,799
Speaker 1: my protection, it's my safety. Right, She sold her blood

1567
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:47,519
Speaker 1: to put food on the table. You know, all these

1568
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:51,040
Speaker 1: different things, you know. So, but it's a perpetual. It's

1569
01:24:51,040 --> 01:24:54,000
Speaker 1: the environment, it's the culture, and there is a way

1570
01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:57,720
Speaker 1: to transition out of that. But I'm I'm really the

1571
01:24:57,760 --> 01:25:00,519
Speaker 1: exception and not the rule, Like it took so many

1572
01:25:01,080 --> 01:25:04,400
Speaker 1: minor miracles for this to happen, But I look back

1573
01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:07,240
Speaker 1: in my life, it's just like, is there something remarkable

1574
01:25:07,280 --> 01:25:11,200
Speaker 1: about me? Like how did all of this happen? And

1575
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:14,760
Speaker 1: the thing is, we're all remarkable. I just realized that

1576
01:25:14,800 --> 01:25:19,040
Speaker 1: I have some power. I realized that I have I

1577
01:25:19,120 --> 01:25:23,280
Speaker 1: have the ability to decide, to think what I want

1578
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:26,840
Speaker 1: to think, and to respond the way that I want

1579
01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:30,200
Speaker 1: to respond, and to make choices in the world when

1580
01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:33,360
Speaker 1: I had just been outsourcing all of my choices to

1581
01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:35,719
Speaker 1: the environment around me, and I had this story about

1582
01:25:35,760 --> 01:25:38,720
Speaker 1: like I can't, I can't do it. So, you know,

1583
01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:42,000
Speaker 1: to drive that point home, a big solution here is

1584
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:44,519
Speaker 1: for us to create conditions, and we can do that.

1585
01:25:44,560 --> 01:25:47,000
Speaker 1: We can start with our own culture, in our own household.

1586
01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:50,639
Speaker 1: If people see my son, for example, my son Jordan

1587
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:53,640
Speaker 1: twenty one years old right now, he just launched a

1588
01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:58,120
Speaker 1: new fitness program yesterday, and you know, I never told

1589
01:25:58,160 --> 01:26:00,200
Speaker 1: him to work in this field, but he's just in

1590
01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:04,160
Speaker 1: the environment, right and so he's been personal training and serving.

1591
01:26:04,320 --> 01:26:07,679
Speaker 1: I get messages from people who their kids have bought

1592
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:11,080
Speaker 1: his program, like in tears, just like your son helped myself.

1593
01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:13,800
Speaker 1: I didn't sign up for that. I had no idea.

1594
01:26:13,880 --> 01:26:18,880
Speaker 1: But we created a culture of fitness, of health, of

1595
01:26:18,920 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 1: connection intentionally. And it doesn't matter where you start. Because

1596
01:26:24,439 --> 01:26:26,679
Speaker 1: my son Jordan was there with me and Ferguson sleeping

1597
01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:31,000
Speaker 1: on an air mattress. He knows what it's like. He

1598
01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:34,599
Speaker 1: was there with me through all of it, and so

1599
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:37,439
Speaker 1: he has that perspective. No matter where you are right now,

1600
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:40,240
Speaker 1: where no matter where your kids are at, we can

1601
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:42,880
Speaker 1: create conditions. And nobody said it's gonna be easy, though

1602
01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:45,320
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna there's gonna be resistance, especially if

1603
01:26:45,320 --> 01:26:47,720
Speaker 1: you've been just on the iPad all the time or

1604
01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:51,360
Speaker 1: watching TV all the time. But a solution is this

1605
01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:53,760
Speaker 1: is to add to a solution. We need to fill

1606
01:26:53,760 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 1: that space with something of greater or equal value. That's

1607
01:26:57,200 --> 01:26:59,559
Speaker 1: the trick, right, So if you can find a way

1608
01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:03,120
Speaker 1: to supplant the need to you know, for them to

1609
01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 1: watch another show with something that is you know, involves movement,

1610
01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:10,080
Speaker 1: you know, maybe again like and you can recruit other people.

1611
01:27:10,320 --> 01:27:12,840
Speaker 1: You probably got friends in your network, you know, like

1612
01:27:13,040 --> 01:27:15,680
Speaker 1: maybe there's a dance class or maybe there's you know,

1613
01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:18,160
Speaker 1: feeling the blank. You Like, the greatest gift that I

1614
01:27:18,200 --> 01:27:22,040
Speaker 1: have in my life today is the resources and the

1615
01:27:22,080 --> 01:27:26,960
Speaker 1: people that I have, right, And I'm I'm a self

1616
01:27:27,120 --> 01:27:30,120
Speaker 1: professed lone wolf for sure. Like I definitely had that

1617
01:27:30,240 --> 01:27:33,960
Speaker 1: lone wolf energy. But now like every day in my

1618
01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:36,920
Speaker 1: meditation practice, I have a little segment where I do

1619
01:27:36,960 --> 01:27:39,559
Speaker 1: with gratitude and I run through all the you know,

1620
01:27:39,600 --> 01:27:42,559
Speaker 1: people I'm grateful for, and it's just like it blows

1621
01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:47,160
Speaker 1: my mind. Oftentimes, I you know, I go into tears,

1622
01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:50,200
Speaker 1: you know, thinking about it all the wonderful people. But

1623
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:53,760
Speaker 1: that even that happens by you becoming the type of

1624
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:57,080
Speaker 1: person that can invite in that kind of energy. Right.

1625
01:27:57,200 --> 01:27:59,760
Speaker 1: And so one of the big tricks that I've learned

1626
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:02,920
Speaker 1: over the years too for people who are wanting you

1627
01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:05,200
Speaker 1: know who's blaming other people and wanting them to change,

1628
01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:08,640
Speaker 1: it's very difficult. There's a statement that you can't be

1629
01:28:08,680 --> 01:28:11,719
Speaker 1: a prophet in your own land. Yeah, invite and find

1630
01:28:11,760 --> 01:28:14,439
Speaker 1: other voices to do the thing. So I just came

1631
01:28:14,439 --> 01:28:17,479
Speaker 1: back on Sunday from speaking at an event in Mexico.

1632
01:28:18,479 --> 01:28:21,599
Speaker 1: Every year it's called Phenomenal Life, and it's Eric Thomas

1633
01:28:22,240 --> 01:28:24,960
Speaker 1: often considered like top motivational speaker in the world. So

1634
01:28:24,960 --> 01:28:29,680
Speaker 1: it's him, myself, CJ, this guy named Jamal who's just

1635
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:32,200
Speaker 1: a brilliant guy as well. So we do this event.

1636
01:28:33,439 --> 01:28:35,679
Speaker 1: I'm not just gonna go to the event. I'm gonna

1637
01:28:35,720 --> 01:28:38,040
Speaker 1: bring my family so they can hear it from them

1638
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:41,000
Speaker 1: rather than from me. Yeah. Right, So that's one of

1639
01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:43,920
Speaker 1: the things I realized. It's just like, if I have

1640
01:28:43,920 --> 01:28:47,200
Speaker 1: the opportunity, let me get the kids in this place.

1641
01:28:47,320 --> 01:28:50,960
Speaker 1: Even with fitness, what tends to happen is if somebody's

1642
01:28:50,960 --> 01:28:54,360
Speaker 1: working on their fitness, they leave their kids. They never

1643
01:28:54,360 --> 01:28:57,840
Speaker 1: really see them. Like Mom goes to this mystical place

1644
01:28:57,880 --> 01:29:01,360
Speaker 1: called the Gem and she comes back happier, sweaty like

1645
01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:03,800
Speaker 1: even that it's kind of freaky, actually, the thing like

1646
01:29:03,800 --> 01:29:07,559
Speaker 1: where are you going? Mom? But anyways, give your kids

1647
01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:09,960
Speaker 1: some of these inputs, like let them see you work out,

1648
01:29:10,200 --> 01:29:13,000
Speaker 1: invite them in, do some stuff with them. Right as

1649
01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:15,320
Speaker 1: soon as my oldest son was old enough to go

1650
01:29:15,439 --> 01:29:18,639
Speaker 1: to golds back in Saint Louis, he's twelve years old,

1651
01:29:18,680 --> 01:29:20,600
Speaker 1: and you know, he let twelve year olds in. I

1652
01:29:20,920 --> 01:29:23,040
Speaker 1: brought him to the gym with me and now like this,

1653
01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:27,240
Speaker 1: he's a beast like it's crazy, you know, it's just yeah,

1654
01:29:27,320 --> 01:29:31,920
Speaker 1: So start with your own household, creative culture intentionally. It

1655
01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:34,600
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be perfect. It's just about progress, you know.

1656
01:29:34,640 --> 01:29:38,080
Speaker 1: I know you ask for three things, but they're beautiful. Man.

1657
01:29:38,200 --> 01:29:41,800
Speaker 1: Sure you could drop the mic. Was that was so

1658
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:45,960
Speaker 1: beautiful on so many levels because what I really appreciated

1659
01:29:45,960 --> 01:29:49,560
Speaker 1: about you is you're able to put the emphasis on

1660
01:29:49,760 --> 01:29:56,480
Speaker 1: taking responsibility. I'm designing your own destiny in and amongst

1661
01:29:56,520 --> 01:30:01,200
Speaker 1: all of the chaos, all of the divisive, all of

1662
01:30:01,280 --> 01:30:05,439
Speaker 1: the pain and challenges that you've experienced personally that you

1663
01:30:05,560 --> 01:30:08,800
Speaker 1: see around you, and you're saying, well, I've taken my

1664
01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:12,080
Speaker 1: own learning into my own hands. And I think that's empowering.

1665
01:30:12,200 --> 01:30:15,400
Speaker 1: I think it's encouraging and I think it's enlivening for

1666
01:30:15,439 --> 01:30:17,360
Speaker 1: everyone who's been listening and watching because we can hear

1667
01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:20,840
Speaker 1: your heart and I love today how you've connected the

1668
01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:24,400
Speaker 1: gut to the heart to the brain. You know, to

1669
01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:29,760
Speaker 1: see that three sixty degree approach to life through your

1670
01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:34,240
Speaker 1: truth is truly powerful to experience. To just sit in

1671
01:30:34,280 --> 01:30:38,120
Speaker 1: the presence of that and that just like flies off

1672
01:30:38,160 --> 01:30:41,080
Speaker 1: of you, like it just exudes from who you are,

1673
01:30:41,120 --> 01:30:43,160
Speaker 1: your eyes, your face, your body, your mind, your whole

1674
01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:47,200
Speaker 1: entire presence, like I've just been feeling it. So I

1675
01:30:47,240 --> 01:30:49,800
Speaker 1: want you to know that I see that, I feel that,

1676
01:30:50,720 --> 01:30:52,640
Speaker 1: and I want everyone who's listening and watching. If you

1677
01:30:52,680 --> 01:30:54,840
Speaker 1: haven't been able to see it because you're not in

1678
01:30:54,880 --> 01:30:57,559
Speaker 1: the room, I'm sure you can hear it. And I

1679
01:30:57,600 --> 01:31:01,080
Speaker 1: want everyone to go, you know, subscribe to Sean Show,

1680
01:31:02,160 --> 01:31:06,040
Speaker 1: grab the book, eats Smarter, follow Sean on social media

1681
01:31:06,240 --> 01:31:10,720
Speaker 1: because he's talking about the guy, but it's a way

1682
01:31:10,720 --> 01:31:13,439
Speaker 1: through to the heart and the soul as well. So Sean,

1683
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Speaker 1: I want to thank you from the bottom of my

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Speaker 1: heart for joining us as a guest on our purpose,

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Speaker 1: for putting your heart into this book and the work

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Speaker 1: that you continue to do. And I know this would

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Speaker 1: be the first of many more conversations. Thank you, James

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Speaker 1: than I received that. Thank you so much. I want

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Speaker 1: to make sure everyone's been listening and watching. What I'd

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Speaker 1: love you to do is tag me and Sean to

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Speaker 1: let us know what you learned, what you took away.

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Speaker 1: There were so many phenomenal insights today on so many

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Speaker 1: different levels, right whether it's mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, family, societal, economical,

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Speaker 1: Like we've really went everywhere, and what we discovered, ultimately

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Speaker 1: Sean said was we've got to take charge. We can't outsourcepiness,

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Speaker 1: can't outsource our health. Got to take that charge, just

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Speaker 1: as he has, just as he continues to try to

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Speaker 1: do and serve and support us as well. So I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see what you've learned. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see your feedback. Big thank you to Shan again,

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Speaker 1: and a big thank you to each and every one

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Speaker 1: of you that are investing in your health and happiness

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Speaker 1: as you listen to on purpose. Thanks everyone, Thank you

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Speaker 1: Shan