Latest / The You Project / #2220 Who Is Responsible For Our Health? - Kate Save
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Oh, g'day, team. It's Harps and Kate. What a bloody duo.
- 0:06Speaker 1: What a combination. What a pair. Fuck. How lucky are you?
- 0:12Speaker 1: He says humbly, hi, Kate.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Hi, Craig.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Are you all right?
- 0:17Speaker 2: I'm good.
- 0:19Speaker 1: What's going on over there at Planet Save?
- 0:23Speaker 2: Oh, I did get a little bit bothered the other
- 0:26Speaker 2: day to the point where I actually had to pull
- 0:29Speaker 2: over and vlog about it because it's I saw, you
- 0:34Speaker 2: would have heard the ads, you would have seen the billboard,
- 0:36Speaker 2: the Mac has run. And I just, I'm so angry
- 0:41Speaker 2: that it has been approved because to actually go on
- 0:45Speaker 2: a billboard, you need approval, right? To run ads, to
- 0:47Speaker 2: run radio ads, you need approval. Why is the word
- 0:51Speaker 2: run allowed to be associated with McDonald's? I'm actually perplexed
- 0:58Speaker 2: that it got ad approval.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
- 1:06Speaker 2: In childhood obesity, is it 27% or overweight obesity?
- 1:12Speaker 1: But I don't think they're using it in that context.
- 1:15Speaker 1: It's like you can do a print run. You know,
- 1:18Speaker 1: you can like run as a word that's used. I
- 1:20Speaker 1: get it. And when you think about it in, but
- 1:23Speaker 1: they're not correlating it to health or fitness, like because
- 1:27Speaker 1: there's a well-used term and that is we're doing a
- 1:29Speaker 1: Macca's run. Like people say, we're going out. Do you
- 1:32Speaker 1: want anything? We're doing a Macca's run. I don't think
- 1:35Speaker 1: that was actually coined by McDonald's, but I.
- 1:39Speaker 2: See the relationship. Yeah, wait until you see it on
- 1:42Speaker 2: the freeway, right? You can't see part of it. You
- 1:45Speaker 2: see Macca's and the word run, right? That's what you
- 1:49Speaker 2: see when part of it is hidden. And I just
- 1:53Speaker 2: thought young kids, so I've got two girls that are almost,
- 1:57Speaker 2: one's a teenager, the other one's not. But subliminally it
- 2:01Speaker 2: is what we see and it just surprised me that
- 2:08Speaker 2: running the McDonald's was okay. And even if you look
- 2:12Speaker 2: at the positioning of it, and obviously I'm not a
- 2:14Speaker 2: graphic designer, I'm an expert marketing person, but it is
- 2:18Speaker 2: done in a way to me very clever. It's got
- 2:24Speaker 2: this looks like almost fun run the way it's written.
- 2:28Speaker 2: There's something about it that I get it, but I
- 2:33Speaker 2: feel like it was misleading. And off the back of that, right,
- 2:37Speaker 2: I got served an ad from Australia's sort of biggest
- 2:42Speaker 2: home-delivered meals company with hands holding the biggest burger I've
- 2:46Speaker 2: ever seen and like replicating this as a Macca's burger
- 2:51Speaker 2: saying you can eat this now too on your diet.
- 2:55Speaker 2: And I'm just like what is going on that– Junk
- 3:00Speaker 2: food wants to look healthy and we're going to put
- 3:02Speaker 2: run on the billboard and health food's going to eat
- 3:04Speaker 2: this big, fat burger with almost 70 grams of carbs
- 3:09Speaker 2: in it. It's like 600 and something calories and this
- 3:12Speaker 2: is light. It's really confusing and no wonder the average
- 3:17Speaker 2: punter is confused. Like, you know.
- 3:23Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, I do not disagree with you. But I'm
- 3:28Speaker 1: going to say I think you are attributing too much
- 3:35Speaker 1: integrity and morality to companies. Companies are all sociopaths in
- 3:41Speaker 1: that their sole purpose is to make money. The majority, like,
- 3:47Speaker 1: they don't give a fuck about you or your health.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Of course not. Their mandate is to make money, is
- 3:52Speaker 1: to keep shareholders happy. It's not to create ethically acceptable money.
- 3:58Speaker 1: you know, billboards or billboards that Kate is okay with. Now,
- 4:03Speaker 1: I'm with you, right? I hate junk food. I'm blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- 4:06Speaker 1: But do I expect, I don't think the responsibility of
- 4:12Speaker 1: my health and wellness and whether or not I consume
- 4:14Speaker 1: that or that or that, that's not McDonald's responsibility. Like
- 4:19Speaker 1: the marketers and the branders and the people who build
- 4:22Speaker 1: the billboards, their entire role is is to just sell shit. Absolutely. Like,
- 4:30Speaker 1: I think, one, I get you, it's annoying and there's
- 4:34Speaker 1: maybe this tenuous relationship between the word running and the
- 4:38Speaker 1: biggest fast food brand in the world. I get that.
- 4:41Speaker 1: But also, kind of, This sounds, I don't, but so what?
- 4:46Speaker 1: Like that's just what they do. It's like people sell booze.
- 4:50Speaker 1: People sell, like everybody's selling everything. I mean, jump online.
- 4:56Speaker 1: There's so much shit being sold. Their responsibility, like did
- 5:01Speaker 1: they do anything illegal? That's a different question. But when
- 5:05Speaker 1: you start to talk about ethics and morality and it's
- 5:09Speaker 1: like it's a slippery slope because it isn't their job.
- 5:14Speaker 2: Smoking is banned, right? And so is asbestos. Alcohol is
- 5:21Speaker 2: a class one carcinogen. But now, so overweight and obesity
- 5:27Speaker 2: and obviously lifestyle related conditions have overtaken the number one
- 5:34Speaker 2: cause of death above cigarette smoking. They're worse for you
- 5:38Speaker 2: than cigarette smoking.
- 5:40Speaker 1: So.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Where does that responsibility sit? I think what's playing in
- 5:45Speaker 2: my head is that when it is cigarettes and alcohol
- 5:49Speaker 2: and asbestos, like we ban it, kids can't have it.
- 5:52Speaker 2: When it's food that has, it is actually worse for
- 5:56Speaker 2: you now than cigarette smoking, you'll die or more people
- 6:00Speaker 2: are dying from it. Where does that responsibility sit?
- 6:05Speaker 1: Well, it definitely doesn't sit with the people who sell it.
- 6:09Speaker 1: It sits with, like, they don't give a fuck. They
- 6:12Speaker 1: just want to, like, you've got to be realistic and practical.
- 6:15Speaker 1: You know, every guy or girl on the internet who's
- 6:18Speaker 1: selling coaching or 10-week programs, every one of them is
- 6:22Speaker 1: going to change your life and they're the best coach
- 6:25Speaker 1: and it's the best program and, like, this is what
- 6:31Speaker 1: people do. You're trying to sell yourself, right? Yeah.
- 6:35Speaker 2: But what if that is linked to death? Like what
- 6:37Speaker 2: if this is now the number one killer?
- 6:40Speaker 1: Yeah, but so are cars, so are motorbikes, so is
- 6:43Speaker 1: fucking bungee jumping. It's like... But to answer your question,
- 6:49Speaker 1: it's the government's responsibility, right? Now, if McDonald's were doing
- 6:54Speaker 1: something illegal, I'm with you. Do I like the billboard? No.
- 6:59Speaker 1: Do I think, like you, it's kind of shit? Yes. But...
- 7:04Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what we think. What matters is what's legal.
- 7:08Speaker 1: What matters is, you know, until it's illegal, whatever we're
- 7:11Speaker 1: talking about, then people are going to, like companies don't
- 7:16Speaker 1: operate on morality or ethics.
- 7:19Speaker 2: In Australia, but in other countries, Chile and Brazil.
- 7:23Speaker 1: I know, but this is where we are now. Like
- 7:27Speaker 1: where we are now is 2026, you know, September 3, today,
- 7:33Speaker 1: These are the things that are okay. So I'm with you.
- 7:37Speaker 1: Like if it was up to me, which it is not,
- 7:41Speaker 1: but there would so many, there'd be so many things
- 7:43Speaker 1: that weren't available or possible because I under, like we
- 7:48Speaker 1: even going back to cigarettes, right? We absolutely know 100%
- 7:54Speaker 1: that they have killed millions of people and that this drug,
- 7:59Speaker 1: nicotine and all the other drugs in the cigarettes, cause
- 8:04Speaker 1: people to die. Now, that's not a hypothesis or a
- 8:07Speaker 1: thought or an idea. How the fuck... Can any 18-year-old
- 8:13Speaker 1: just walk up to 7-Eleven and buy them? Like why
- 8:16Speaker 1: is that legal? To me, that's a bigger question. But nonetheless,
- 8:22Speaker 1: it is legal. Now, if I created a product that
- 8:25Speaker 1: was 1% as deadly as cigarettes right now, it would
- 8:29Speaker 1: never get approval, right?
- 8:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:33Speaker 1: If I created a product.
- 8:34Speaker 2: Except processed food because we are above smoking for rates
- 8:37Speaker 2: of death now.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Yeah, but that is very hard to establish and correlate
- 8:42Speaker 1: directly because there are so many variables. When you go, okay,
- 8:46Speaker 1: he eats junk food, also he doesn't sleep, also he
- 8:50Speaker 1: doesn't drink any water, also he's slumped over a desk
- 8:54Speaker 1: playing fucking games all day, also he walks less than
- 8:58Speaker 1: 1,000 steps a day, also he's stressed, also he's isolated.
- 9:03Speaker 1: It's very hard to say that this alone is the
- 9:05Speaker 1: cause when there are a multitude of factors. Like, I
- 9:10Speaker 1: don't know how they establish that. I'm with you, though.
- 9:15Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I hear.
- 9:17Speaker 1: Like, we think, what are all the things that make
- 9:19Speaker 1: people sick? So, yeah, I mean, food.
- 9:23Speaker 2: And why are we behind in Australia? Why have we
- 9:26Speaker 2: got companies like Chile and Brazil that are putting black
- 9:29Speaker 2: hazard symbols on food that will harm your health and
- 9:32Speaker 2: they can't advertise to children? Yet in Australia, we're like, cool,
- 9:36Speaker 2: advertise to our kids, sell it to our kids. Don't
- 9:39Speaker 2: tell anyone it's bad. Just assume that they know. Yeah.
- 9:43Speaker 1: But also you think about this. We, and by the way, everyone,
- 9:48Speaker 1: I am about as political as a fucking pair of moccasins.
- 9:51Speaker 2: Oh, me too.
- 9:54Speaker 1: This is on no level of political commentary. So when
- 9:58Speaker 1: I look at politicians, I don't think politically. I think
- 10:02Speaker 1: from a human behavior point of view. I think from
- 10:05Speaker 1: a psychology and a sociology point of view. I look at,
- 10:09Speaker 1: you know, the prime minister, old mate, and I can't
- 10:14Speaker 1: even say it because it would sound It would sound
- 10:19Speaker 1: not nice. And I don't want to be that person.
- 10:21Speaker 1: But I look at him and I'm like, how the
- 10:23Speaker 1: fuck are you the leader of the country? I go,
- 10:27Speaker 1: and I'm not a politician's fucking shoelace. But yeah, so
- 10:32Speaker 1: we have people in positions of power who are in
- 10:39Speaker 1: some cases, the ultimate decision makers or influencers about things
- 10:45Speaker 1: that they really do not understand. One, maybe they do,
- 10:49Speaker 1: or maybe two, they don't care about. Here's the thing.
- 10:52Speaker 1: If you think a politician's primary concern is the welfare
- 10:57Speaker 1: of the people he or she serves and not him
- 11:00Speaker 1: or herself, you don't understand human beings. Now, does that
- 11:05Speaker 1: mean no politicians care about nobody? No, it doesn't. But
- 11:10Speaker 1: I've been, you know, face-to-face with people in the real world,
- 11:14Speaker 1: like at the coalface for four decades plus. People don't
- 11:18Speaker 1: want to say this, but most people's priority is themselves,
- 11:22Speaker 1: is their health, is their career, is their bank balance,
- 11:26Speaker 1: is their– there ain't many.
- 11:28Speaker 2: I love that you put their health second because I'm
- 11:30Speaker 2: not sure that that's second for everyone. It should be first.
- 11:36Speaker 1: But that's the way you think. But also when people
- 11:40Speaker 1: get sick, all they fucking care about is being healthy.
- 11:44Speaker 2: True.
- 11:44Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Do you know what I mean?
- 11:46Speaker 2: Not until they get sick.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Correct. Oh, and that's a whole other conversation. How many people,
- 11:53Speaker 1: we're talking about human behavior, how many people, you know,
- 11:58Speaker 1: I have to be careful sometimes because I can be
- 12:00Speaker 1: too pragmatic and direct, right?
- 12:02Speaker 2: And That's why you have so many listeners.
- 12:05Speaker 1: Go for it. Look, I piss off as many people
- 12:09Speaker 1: as I endear, I'm sure. But here's the reality. Here's
- 12:13Speaker 1: just a practical example of that. So I've got 100
- 12:17Speaker 1: people in a room. I'm doing a talk. And I say,
- 12:20Speaker 1: all right, everyone, don't overthink this, but be brave and honest.
- 12:23Speaker 1: How many of you would like to change your body
- 12:26Speaker 1: to in some way significantly perhaps stronger or better posture
- 12:31Speaker 1: or lower blood pressure or more energy or better health,
- 12:35Speaker 1: whatever that means, or a more effective immune system or
- 12:38Speaker 1: lose a few kilos of fat or gain a few
- 12:40Speaker 1: kilos of muscle, change your body composition, like some of that,
- 12:45Speaker 1: all of that, or a version of that, if there's
- 12:46Speaker 1: 100 people and I just say, I'm not asking you
- 12:51Speaker 1: to commit to anything, but who would like that? Usually
- 12:54Speaker 1: it's 100 hands in the air. Then the next question
- 12:58Speaker 1: that I don't ask, or I could, is how many
- 13:04Speaker 1: of you will now go away because you've told us
- 13:07Speaker 1: what you would like? You've told us what you would
- 13:10Speaker 1: like to look or feel or function like. You've told
- 13:13Speaker 1: us that you want to change your body in some way. Now,
- 13:18Speaker 1: the bigger question is how many of you will go
- 13:20Speaker 1: and do the work to create the change that you
- 13:23Speaker 1: say you want? and this is why i am it
- 13:26Speaker 1: is people like oh it's an education issue it's not
- 13:29Speaker 1: a fucking education issue it's a this is pretty hard
- 13:33Speaker 1: and i don't like hard issue you think people that
- 13:36Speaker 1: eat junk food don't know that junk food is bad
- 13:38Speaker 1: of course they do uh look.
- 13:41Speaker 2: I do have a story uh A friend of mine, diabetes,
- 13:46Speaker 2: had had it for decades. His doctor said, you know,
- 13:49Speaker 2: diabetes is not good, try and lose some weight, walk
- 13:52Speaker 2: a bit more. So it was softly, softly. He then
- 13:55Speaker 2: got his toes chopped off, his foot chopped off and
- 13:58Speaker 2: a below the knee amputation. I will offer you as a, well,
- 14:04Speaker 2: I think the two of you could be great, you know,
- 14:06Speaker 2: podcast together. He's very outspoken now because nobody told him
- 14:12Speaker 2: it would take his leg from him. Nobody said to
- 14:16Speaker 2: him that if you don't do this, this is what's
- 14:20Speaker 2: going to happen. So he went through the next probably
- 14:23Speaker 2: six to nine months after that, absolutely raving furious at
- 14:29Speaker 2: the healthcare system to the point where he was saying
- 14:32Speaker 2: to nurses and doctors, why didn't anyone tell me? So
- 14:36Speaker 2: there is this disconnect with that. It won't happen to me.
- 14:40Speaker 2: But there's also around diabetes and pre-diabetes and insulin resistance
- 14:45Speaker 2: and high blood pressure high cholesterol we go just take
- 14:49Speaker 2: a little medication lose a little bit more weight and
- 14:51Speaker 2: try and stay active we don't actually tell them what
- 14:55Speaker 2: that looks like if they don't and you don't want
- 14:59Speaker 2: to scare people but he genuinely did not know that
- 15:03Speaker 2: was going to take his leg and he would do
- 15:05Speaker 2: anything to have his leg back And that's the true
- 15:09Speaker 2: reality of it, that our government is not putting our
- 15:12Speaker 2: health first. Prevention is 5% of the total sick care budget.
- 15:17Speaker 2: We don't even have health care. We have sick care.
- 15:20Speaker 2: And then you've got people not really being told the
- 15:24Speaker 2: dangers of this and what that means for them.
- 15:27Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. I feel like I'm very adversarial today.
- 15:33Speaker 2: Go for it.
- 15:34Speaker 1: I love it. One. No, no, no, no. One. I
- 15:37Speaker 1: totally understand that guy's mindset. However.
- 15:41Speaker 2: Same age as you, just so you know.
- 15:43Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Well, got all my toes.
- 15:46Speaker 2: Got a good life ahead, you know, very unexpected.
- 15:50Speaker 1: But why does he think it's somebody else's job to
- 15:53Speaker 1: educate him? Like, why is it not his job? I mean,
- 15:57Speaker 1: everybody's got Google. Everybody's got AI. You realize you've got diabetes,
- 16:02Speaker 1: jump online and go, what are some of the potential
- 16:05Speaker 1: outcomes of diabetes? Is he waiting for an educator to
- 16:08Speaker 1: knock on his door? I don't think, you know, when
- 16:12Speaker 1: the guy who eats or drinks or lifestyles himself into diabetes,
- 16:17Speaker 1: and I'm not making a judgment, right? Like I've been obese.
- 16:21Speaker 1: When I was obese, it was nobody's fault but mine
- 16:24Speaker 1: because I got myself fat. Wasn't mum, wasn't dad, wasn't genetics,
- 16:29Speaker 1: wasn't society, wasn't the government, wasn't the availability of vegetables.
- 16:33Speaker 1: It was all me. At some stage, we have to go,
- 16:37Speaker 1: I did this to myself. Who gave you.
- 16:40Speaker 2: The wake-up call, though? Because some people don't have you.
- 16:44Speaker 1: I gave myself the wake-up. I gave myself the wake-up
- 16:47Speaker 1: call because I went, I fucking hate the experience of
- 16:51Speaker 1: being a morbidly obese teenager. And nobody knocked on my
- 16:55Speaker 1: door and went, hey, mate, this is how you get
- 16:57Speaker 1: in shape. Now, I'm not saying that I'm special. I'm not.
- 17:00Speaker 1: I'm so the opposite of special. And while I agree
- 17:04Speaker 1: with you, there needs to be more education, but I
- 17:08Speaker 1: don't think the reason, I don't think the overarching reason
- 17:11Speaker 1: that so many people are in such terrible shape in
- 17:14Speaker 1: so many components of their reality is is because they
- 17:18Speaker 1: don't know. I don't think the alcoholic whose life is
- 17:22Speaker 1: going off the rails and who's got bloody liver disease
- 17:25Speaker 1: coming in at three o'clock and bup, I don't think
- 17:29Speaker 1: it's that he or she doesn't know that excessive drinking
- 17:32Speaker 1: is bad. They're well aware. You know, it's like, it's
- 17:36Speaker 1: just that once you're an addict or once you're on
- 17:38Speaker 1: that journey, and again, full respect, I work with people
- 17:41Speaker 1: who are addicted, but I think it's, I think it's
- 17:45Speaker 1: stunningly inadequate to just go, oh, it's an education problem.
- 17:51Speaker 1: I think it's a personal behavior problem. I think it's
- 17:54Speaker 1: a personal choice problem. Also, there are other factors. Like
- 17:59Speaker 1: if you end up in a state where let's say
- 18:03Speaker 1: you've got reasonably good genetics, but by the time you're
- 18:06Speaker 1: 40 or 50 and you are in horrible physical condition,
- 18:10Speaker 1: without pointing fingers and without blaming or without judging, but
- 18:16Speaker 1: there's probably a fair chance that you had something to
- 18:20Speaker 1: do with that, with your choices, lifestyle, diet, behaviour, exercise
- 18:24Speaker 1: or lack thereof. I feel like we're very much in
- 18:27Speaker 1: this blame mindset. We want to be mad at the
- 18:30Speaker 1: government because I got diabetes. Well, bro... Firstly, the government
- 18:35Speaker 1: doesn't give a fuck about you or your blood sugar. Secondly,
- 18:39Speaker 1: you are the boss of your life. You are the
- 18:41Speaker 1: boss of your body. As long as you are trying
- 18:44Speaker 1: to find a reason, any reason but you, I think
- 18:47Speaker 1: you're kind of outsourcing responsibility for your own outcomes. If
- 18:52Speaker 1: I do great, it's my fault. If I do shit,
- 18:55Speaker 1: it's my fault. If I'm fat, it's my fault. This
- 18:58Speaker 1: is how I think. If I'm in shape, it's my fault.
- 19:02Speaker 2: Interesting thought here. So you were obese as a teenager.
- 19:07Speaker 2: So you got to a weight where you went, I
- 19:09Speaker 2: am clearly obese and this is unacceptable. I'm thinking of
- 19:14Speaker 2: this person that did sport their whole life, finished sport
- 19:18Speaker 2: in their 20s, went to uni in their 30s, got
- 19:22Speaker 2: their full-time job in their 40s, went into management, got
- 19:26Speaker 2: off the tools, had a little bit more stress. And
- 19:29Speaker 2: every single year, They ate the equivalent of one piece
- 19:34Speaker 2: of toast extra a day, right?
- 19:37Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 19:37Speaker 2: We are then talking about two kilos a year of
- 19:43Speaker 2: weight gain. We have now hit 20 years. We're now
- 19:46Speaker 2: 40 kilos overweight, but last year it was 38, 36. counting backwards.
- 19:52Speaker 2: So when did that two kilo increment, creep up and
- 19:56Speaker 2: become a problem. And that's where I think we are,
- 19:59Speaker 2: where we've got 67% of adults who are overweight and obese,
- 20:04Speaker 2: that weight didn't, they didn't just wake up obese. There's
- 20:09Speaker 2: been this slow weight gain. And at no point in time,
- 20:15Speaker 2: yet because otherwise they would be changing or would try
- 20:18Speaker 2: to change. And I'm not saying people aren't trying to change,
- 20:21Speaker 2: but maybe they haven't had that wake-up call because it's
- 20:25Speaker 2: happened over two or three decades.
- 20:28Speaker 1: That's a beautiful point and that's a very good context
- 20:33Speaker 1: to put it in. And I think what you've described happens.
- 20:38Speaker 1: Of course it happens. And about your friend, by the way,
- 20:42Speaker 1: I'm not trying to disparage your friend who– had the amputations.
- 20:46Speaker 1: And I do think, like I said before, I'll come
- 20:49Speaker 1: back to what you just said, but I just think
- 20:51Speaker 1: at some stage with all the things that happen in
- 20:55Speaker 1: our life and to us and around us, we can't
- 20:58Speaker 1: always outsource blame. Let's not use the word blame. Let's
- 21:02Speaker 1: use responsibility. You know, I've had businesses that failed, businesses
- 21:07Speaker 1: that worked. I've done speaking gigs where I fucking blew
- 21:10Speaker 1: the roof off and I was a bit amazing and
- 21:13Speaker 1: others where I was complete dog shit. But both times
- 21:16Speaker 1: it was about me, right? Nobody made me good or bad.
- 21:21Speaker 1: Nobody made me eat anything. I think our life is
- 21:28Speaker 1: always giving us data. Our body is always giving us data.
- 21:33Speaker 1: You know, if we go, well, over the last 20 years,
- 21:35Speaker 1: I've gained 40 kilos. Well, there was a time where
- 21:37Speaker 1: you'd gained six and you knew you'd gained six. And
- 21:40Speaker 1: I'm sure you didn't want the six. And then next year,
- 21:42Speaker 1: I'm sure you didn't want the eight. And then next year,
- 21:45Speaker 1: like the signs were there.
- 21:47Speaker 2: But there would have been those little exceptional things, right?
- 21:50Speaker 2: There would have been, I just got married. We went
- 21:53Speaker 2: on a honeymoon. Two kilos, two kilos, Craig. Come on.
- 21:56Speaker 2: I went on my honeymoon and gained two kilos. Don't
- 21:58Speaker 2: blame me. Next year, I fell pregnant. So I'm pregnant
- 22:01Speaker 2: for a year, right? Maybe I've been pregnant two or
- 22:03Speaker 2: three times. I've gained two kilos every pregnancy. This is
- 22:07Speaker 2: not an issue, but that is on top of the
- 22:08Speaker 2: honeymoon weight. And that is on top of finishing sport
- 22:12Speaker 2: because I had knee injuries from netball. And now I'm
- 22:16Speaker 2: not doing sport anymore. So now I'm at 12 kilos.
- 22:19Speaker 2: Is that okay? Because I'm trying to lose the body weight,
- 22:22Speaker 2: but I have had three kids. Now it's two years more.
- 22:25Speaker 2: So I've got two more kilos, two more kilos. Now
- 22:28Speaker 2: I'm at that 18 sort of kilo mark. When does
- 22:31Speaker 2: someone help me see that this might be a problem?
- 22:37Speaker 1: All right. That is very well put also. Okay. So
- 22:40Speaker 1: let me, before anyone's, somebody's already pissed at me, that's cool.
- 22:45Speaker 1: But let me explain. When I talk about weight, I
- 22:50Speaker 1: don't give a rat's ass what people weigh. I care
- 22:53Speaker 1: about their health.
- 22:54Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 22:55Speaker 1: But we know that there is a correlation between body fat,
- 22:59Speaker 1: body weight and health, right? That's not a guess. That's
- 23:01Speaker 1: not a stab in the dark. It's not some untested hypothesis.
- 23:05Speaker 1: This is what we know. There are a lot of
- 23:09Speaker 1: obesity-related issues, challenges and diseases. So that's a fact. So
- 23:13Speaker 1: when I say I want someone to be leaner, it's
- 23:16Speaker 1: not because I don't think they look good or it's
- 23:18Speaker 1: not because I think, oh, fuck, that numbers too. It's
- 23:21Speaker 1: because I want them to be healthy. And the gateway
- 23:24Speaker 1: to health for many people is, among other things, habit change,
- 23:28Speaker 1: behaviour change, but it's also weight loss, right?
- 23:33Speaker 2: Sorry, have you had this customer that says to you, though,
- 23:37Speaker 2: so I had this one, I'm 172 kilos, I'm 29
- 23:41Speaker 2: years old, none of my joints hurt, my doctor said
- 23:46Speaker 2: my blood pressure is perfect, my cholesterol is perfect, I
- 23:49Speaker 2: don't have diabetes. Is this a problem?
- 23:53Speaker 1: Yes. So I would say, wow, well done you. You've
- 23:58Speaker 1: got amazing genetics and congratulations on being that apparently healthy
- 24:07Speaker 1: with those particular markers that you indicated.
- 24:09Speaker 2: But I'm 29.
- 24:11Speaker 1: Yes. I would say I have never worked with anyone
- 24:15Speaker 1: who's 172 kilograms who's 40 years old or 50 years old,
- 24:22Speaker 1: who's even in the wild ballpark of being healthy. That
- 24:27Speaker 1: isn't a judgment. That is my experience and observation. So
- 24:33Speaker 1: when I talk to people, I talk to them as
- 24:35Speaker 1: a scientist. I talk to them as an exercise scientist.
- 24:40Speaker 1: I talk to them as a researcher. And I talk
- 24:43Speaker 1: to them as somebody who understands the the relationship between nutrition, exercise, movement, sleep,
- 24:49Speaker 1: weight gain, body composition, change, right? Also, I talk to
- 24:53Speaker 1: them as a human being who was fat and hated
- 24:57Speaker 1: being fat. I understand the emotion and the psychology and
- 25:00Speaker 1: the sociology around it. And I want to give them
- 25:03Speaker 1: a big fucking hug. But I can say, I understand,
- 25:08Speaker 1: I empathize, I care about you. let's hug it out.
- 25:12Speaker 1: Here's a cuddle, whatever the fuck. I can do all
- 25:15Speaker 1: of that, but you're still going to die 20 years
- 25:18Speaker 1: earlier than you would have if you don't change your physiology.
- 25:22Speaker 1: So it's age.
- 25:24Speaker 2: Age is a factor with weight. So, you know, we're
- 25:27Speaker 2: talking about weight and weight gain, but that as you age,
- 25:31Speaker 2: that weight becomes more and more dangerous. There's isn't that
- 25:36Speaker 2: the point in time? Like that amount of weight that
- 25:39Speaker 2: came on in your 20s and your 30s didn't have
- 25:45Speaker 2: any maybe health effects that you could measure from a
- 25:49Speaker 2: symptom point of view. But if that weight is still
- 25:52Speaker 2: creeping on in your 50s and 60s, this is when
- 25:57Speaker 2: that underlying insulin resistance, inflammation, all of these things start
- 26:04Speaker 2: to mask or turn into symptoms.
- 26:09Speaker 1: Yeah, 100%. And I think, so we were talking about
- 26:12Speaker 1: education before. Well, you as someone who's got a master's
- 26:17Speaker 1: in nutrition and a master's in exercise physiology and is
- 26:21Speaker 1: a dietician and is a business owner and is at
- 26:23Speaker 1: the coalface of health and wellness and, you know, you're
- 26:27Speaker 1: in this space. It is your job, I think, and
- 26:30Speaker 1: it is my job as someone who has a platform
- 26:34Speaker 1: and a bit of knowledge to, you know, this, for me,
- 26:38Speaker 1: this episode is about education. So I would say to
- 26:42Speaker 1: the 29 year old who has no apparent symptoms yet,
- 26:48Speaker 1: I would say that is great. And I could be wrong,
- 26:52Speaker 1: but I don't think that will continue for you. I
- 26:56Speaker 1: do not think when you're 39 or maybe 34 in
- 26:58Speaker 1: five years that I could be wrong and I will
- 27:02Speaker 1: happily stand corrected. I think it's unlikely that your skeleton,
- 27:06Speaker 1: your joints, ligaments, tendons, heart, lungs, spine, discs, can you
- 27:15Speaker 1: maybe survive?
- 27:16Speaker 2: Sure.
- 27:17Speaker 1: Do you want to survive or do you want to thrive?
- 27:20Speaker 1: Do you want to go, oh, look, I'm not dying
- 27:22Speaker 1: and I'm this big, or do you want to be,
- 27:25Speaker 1: without mentioning a size or a shape or a weight,
- 27:29Speaker 1: Would you like to be closer towards the optimal end
- 27:32Speaker 1: of the health scale for you? We're talking about you,
- 27:35Speaker 1: not compared to Kate or Craig or anyone else, but
- 27:38Speaker 1: for you. Not many people want to fail. Not many
- 27:43Speaker 1: people want to be unhealthy. And so it's like, yes,
- 27:46Speaker 1: you are you're going okay. And I would call that
- 27:54Speaker 1: a blessing, not an outcome of intelligent behavior. I would
- 27:58Speaker 1: call that a blessing or luck or amazing genetics or
- 28:01Speaker 1: whatever it is.
- 28:03Speaker 2: And he did end up losing the weight. And he
- 28:06Speaker 2: was so much happier. He got engaged and it was
- 28:10Speaker 2: his first relationship. So it did all work out for him.
- 28:14Speaker 1: Did he have to have heaps of surgery for skin? No.
- 28:18Speaker 2: Uh, I think he was going to, I didn't see
- 28:21Speaker 2: the final result, but his first goal was to get
- 28:24Speaker 2: under 120 and he managed to get under that. And
- 28:29Speaker 2: the comment that I remember, and this is an interesting
- 28:32Speaker 2: one for you to pull apart because you've got the
- 28:34Speaker 2: knowledge here is he said, I didn't know who I
- 28:37Speaker 2: was because I wasn't the funny fat guy. Right.
- 28:42Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, so I said this this morning on a
- 28:46Speaker 1: on a podcast or maybe it was yesterday, but we're
- 28:48Speaker 1: talking about, yeah, it was last night. We're talking about,
- 28:52Speaker 1: you know, identity. And so when I was the fat
- 28:57Speaker 1: 14 year old who couldn't run fast, jump high or
- 29:00Speaker 1: get great outcomes academically, or I probably could have, but
- 29:04Speaker 1: I didn't do any fucking work. So anyway, I, I,
- 29:08Speaker 1: my go-to was to be the somewhat amusing, slightly cheeky,
- 29:13Speaker 1: slightly funny storyteller, uh, fat kid. And that became, you know, Jumbo,
- 29:21Speaker 1: my name, Jumbo's funny, Jumbo's tell a story, mate, tell
- 29:24Speaker 1: a joke, mate. I was, you know, I wasn't the funniest,
- 29:27Speaker 1: but that was my, that was about the only kind
- 29:30Speaker 1: of golf club I had in my bag. It's like
- 29:34Speaker 1: the only one I could hit, right? So you become
- 29:38Speaker 1: the version that works socially and emotionally. So when you
- 29:45Speaker 1: get external validation, because Kate, you're super smart. You're very articulate.
- 29:52Speaker 1: You've got multiple master's degrees. You're just this success story
- 29:56Speaker 1: and everyone loves you and thinks you're amazing and and
- 30:00Speaker 1: meet my friend Kate, she's this and that. And all
- 30:03Speaker 1: of a sudden you get approval and recognition and acceptance
- 30:05Speaker 1: and a form of love because of how clever you
- 30:09Speaker 1: are or because of your great results. Well, that becomes addictive,
- 30:13Speaker 1: of course, of course. Or maybe you're gorgeous, guy or girl,
- 30:18Speaker 1: maybe you're gorgeous and you've gotten approval, recognition, validation, acceptance,
- 30:23Speaker 1: all of these things for the last 20 years because
- 30:25Speaker 1: you're just this this hottie just this you know that
- 30:29Speaker 1: everyone goes oh my god how gorgeous is she how
- 30:32Speaker 1: gorgeous is he of course well then all of a
- 30:36Speaker 1: sudden you hit 45 and you ain't what you were
- 30:40Speaker 1: And what you were was basically this physical representation of
- 30:45Speaker 1: excellence or beauty. Now you're a 70% version of what
- 30:50Speaker 1: you once were. Now you're like, who the fuck am I?
- 30:53Speaker 1: I'm not getting all this attention. I'm not as beautiful
- 30:55Speaker 1: as I was. I'm not as lean as I was.
- 30:57Speaker 1: I'm not as in demand as I was. This is where,
- 31:02Speaker 1: you know, it's trying to understand who we are behind
- 31:07Speaker 1: who we think we are. Like we think... Like when
- 31:12Speaker 1: you get recognition, acceptance, approval, love for whatever it is,
- 31:15Speaker 1: being the big, fat, funny guy in your friend's place
- 31:19Speaker 1: or example, then that becomes your identity. And when now
- 31:22Speaker 1: you're not big and fat anymore, you're like, well, who
- 31:25Speaker 1: the fuck am I? And can I still be funny
- 31:28Speaker 1: if I don't look that way? And is it the
- 31:30Speaker 1: same with a skinny guy telling those jokes? Or, yeah,
- 31:35Speaker 1: so the, I mean, that's very much an Eckhart Tolle
- 31:38Speaker 1: episode or conversation, but it's like- And for me, who
- 31:42Speaker 1: very much identified with his body because that was, you know,
- 31:46Speaker 1: I went from out of shape to in shape and
- 31:49Speaker 1: unpopular to more popular and unaccepted to quite accepted and
- 31:54Speaker 1: unnoticed to quite noticed and coming last to coming close
- 31:58Speaker 1: to first and all of those things. And you're like, well,
- 32:01Speaker 1: all of this magic happened because of my body.
- 32:05Speaker 2: Go on. I was going to say, even as an example,
- 32:12Speaker 2: because I use such an extreme, but if we use
- 32:15Speaker 2: that first sort of example, so we've got this mum
- 32:17Speaker 2: now who's 45. She's, you know, five foot something, like
- 32:23Speaker 2: a pretty average height, and she's 75 kilos, right? 75 kilos,
- 32:28Speaker 2: but she was 55 kilos on her wedding day. So
- 32:33Speaker 2: that 20 kilos makes her feel very uncomfortable, right? But
- 32:39Speaker 2: only because she's hit 45 has she gone to the
- 32:41Speaker 2: doctor to have her blood tests and whatever else, her checkup,
- 32:45Speaker 2: and he said, you have high blood pressure. When does someone,
- 32:51Speaker 2: like where is that wake-up call? It's very hard for
- 32:57Speaker 2: someone to say to a woman at 45 who's a
- 33:00Speaker 2: normal weight because normal is 67% of the population, right?
- 33:06Speaker 2: How do we help people from a health point of view,
- 33:11Speaker 2: not weight, health? And this is where I want to
- 33:13Speaker 2: flip it into body composition. How do we have that
- 33:16Speaker 2: conversation about being stronger, building muscle and being healthier without
- 33:24Speaker 2: upsetting people? Because this is not a failure on their
- 33:27Speaker 2: behalf because their body fat percentage has gone up. This
- 33:30Speaker 2: is more about as you've aged, as you've had your kids,
- 33:34Speaker 2: as you've transitioned your job and your perimenopause and everything else,
- 33:38Speaker 2: your body composition has changed. So how do we help
- 33:42Speaker 2: people understand body composition and use that as a gateway
- 33:49Speaker 2: or a tool to help people actually get healthier? Because
- 33:52Speaker 2: we know body composition is directly related to health, whereas weight,
- 33:56Speaker 2: it depends what that weight is.
- 33:59Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
- 34:00Speaker 1: Okay. That's really interesting. So good questions as always. So
- 34:04Speaker 1: let me think about the 78 kilo, five foot four,
- 34:08Speaker 1: 45 year old lady. So there's two scenarios. Scenario one,
- 34:14Speaker 1: she goes to the doctor, he measures her blood pressure
- 34:16Speaker 1: and goes, all right, well, there's a problem. And the
- 34:19Speaker 1: problem is your blood pressure is high. I'm going to
- 34:22Speaker 1: put you on a medication that will lower it. Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo.
- 34:26Speaker 1: Take it once a day. Your blood pressure will come down.
- 34:29Speaker 1: You're welcome. See Donna at reception. That'll be $ 64. See
- 34:33Speaker 1: you in June. That's number one. Number two is they
- 34:37Speaker 1: go to a different doctor who goes, oh, wow, your
- 34:40Speaker 1: blood pressure is high. I wonder why that is because
- 34:43Speaker 1: it wasn't two years ago when we chatted, but also
- 34:47Speaker 1: you've put on 10 kilograms and You are carrying quite
- 34:51Speaker 1: a bit of weight for your height. And while, yes,
- 34:53Speaker 1: we can treat the symptoms right now, which we will,
- 34:56Speaker 1: we'll put you on a medication. put you on a
- 34:59Speaker 1: bit of Avapro 150, just a lower or a bit
- 35:02Speaker 1: of aspirin or whatever it is, whatever the strategy is.
- 35:05Speaker 1: But also, let's deal with the cause. Let's talk about
- 35:08Speaker 1: the problem because the high BP is the symptom. Let's
- 35:13Speaker 1: talk about what's causing, that is, the problem that is
- 35:17Speaker 1: creating this symptom. The symptom is what we see. The
- 35:21Speaker 1: cause is the underlying thing that perhaps we don't recognize
- 35:24Speaker 1: or can't see sometimes. So that's... but also the model,
- 35:29Speaker 1: the paradigm. And again, I love doctors. I've got friends
- 35:32Speaker 1: who are medical doctors and the way that people treat
- 35:36Speaker 1: and prescribe and think varies across the spectrum. I had
- 35:41Speaker 1: a guy on the other two nights ago, Dr. Matt Klein, something,
- 35:47Speaker 1: who's a medical doctor, a psychiatrist, and he's a world
- 35:52Speaker 1: leader in medicine. metabolic psychiatry. Just talking to him is like, oh, fuck,
- 35:58Speaker 1: this is firstly, I'm a dummy. Secondly, this is fascinating.
- 36:02Speaker 1: And so we're starting to think about not just managing
- 36:06Speaker 1: the symptoms of psychosis and associated conditions, but rather treating
- 36:11Speaker 1: the underlying problems. Right. What's my long winded point? My
- 36:14Speaker 1: long winded point is, you know, we don't need a
- 36:19Speaker 1: PhD to understand that being 20 kilos heavier than I
- 36:23Speaker 1: was five years ago is probably not great for me.
- 36:27Speaker 1: So there is a component of collaboration, like working with
- 36:33Speaker 1: a Kate Save, who's got all this knowledge, all this physiological, biological, clinical, nutrition, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
- 36:42Speaker 1: where you can say, hey, Craig, I think based on
- 36:48Speaker 1: where you're at, this is a good strategy for you.
- 36:50Speaker 1: Are you okay with that? Will you collaborate? And then
- 36:53Speaker 1: you give me the information, the direction and the tools,
- 36:56Speaker 1: and then I walk away and I don't do what
- 36:58Speaker 1: you've said.
- 37:00Speaker 2: And this is my man with the amputation. Blood pressure
- 37:02Speaker 2: medication at 45, high blood sugar levels, 61 amputation. This
- 37:08Speaker 2: is what I mean about the wake-up call. When does
- 37:11Speaker 2: someone actually say we need to do this now? Because
- 37:16Speaker 2: there was none of that. It was the two kilos
- 37:18Speaker 2: a year over decades. And that's the part that I
- 37:22Speaker 2: think As a society, we need to be aware of
- 37:27Speaker 2: and we can't solve for it, but we need to
- 37:29Speaker 2: talk about it because not talking about it. is how
- 37:33Speaker 2: this happened to this man without him knowing. Because the
- 37:37Speaker 2: doctor put him on the blood pressure medication, then he
- 37:39Speaker 2: went on his metformin, and then he went on his
- 37:42Speaker 2: jolly way. He was taking his medication, he kept taking it,
- 37:44Speaker 2: kept gaining two kilos a year. And you know, these
- 37:48Speaker 2: things are happening. So they say insulin resistance happens maybe
- 37:54Speaker 2: 10 to 20 years before you get type 2 diabetes.
- 37:57Speaker 2: So this was happening maybe in his mid-20s or something.
- 38:01Speaker 2: But Nobody is testing for this. And I think helping
- 38:06Speaker 2: educate people that you should know what your fasting blood
- 38:09Speaker 2: glucose is and you should know what your fasting insulin is,
- 38:13Speaker 2: that will give you a Homer index, which is your
- 38:15Speaker 2: marker of how well your metabolism is using and working
- 38:20Speaker 2: and how you are using fuel, how you are burning
- 38:23Speaker 2: fat and burning carbohydrate. If that is not working well,
- 38:28Speaker 2: you have a fuel partitioning issue, you have a metabolic
- 38:33Speaker 2: flexibility issue that you can resolve 100% with exercise and
- 38:39Speaker 2: a little bit of change to your diet. But that
- 38:42Speaker 2: script doesn't exist. With that blood pressure medication did not
- 38:46Speaker 2: come any education around actually this has been going on
- 38:52Speaker 2: for 10 to 20 years before people that blood pressure
- 38:56Speaker 2: got high and we didn't even tell you that was
- 38:59Speaker 2: happening because we didn't do the blood test because you
- 39:02Speaker 2: can't ask for a blood test unless you're sick. If
- 39:04Speaker 2: you go to most doctors and say, I want my
- 39:07Speaker 2: Homer index done, look for insulin resistance, tell me if
- 39:10Speaker 2: I don't have high blood sugar levels but might have
- 39:14Speaker 2: this thing that leads to high blood sugar levels, it
- 39:16Speaker 2: is invisible. It's, you know.
- 39:20Speaker 1: Yes. As you're talking, I'm thinking, You know, it would
- 39:27Speaker 1: be amazing. It's almost like in. Western countries anyway, the
- 39:32Speaker 1: most needed, but probably the program that would sell the worst,
- 39:37Speaker 1: the most needed, but the least in demand. You and
- 39:42Speaker 1: I could run, imagine hypothetically, like I've never said this,
- 39:45Speaker 1: Kate and I have never spoken about this. I've never
- 39:47Speaker 1: said this out loud, but Imagine if you and I
- 39:50Speaker 1: and one or two other professionals, we ran a week,
- 39:56Speaker 1: one week program, five days. And the program is called
- 40:00Speaker 1: How Your Body Works. And the sole purpose of that
- 40:03Speaker 1: week is to teach people the fundamentals about whatever it is,
- 40:09Speaker 1: blood sugar, blood pressure, Hypertension, hypotension, how food is synthesized
- 40:16Speaker 1: in your body, what's metabolism, blah, blah, blah. All of
- 40:22Speaker 1: a sudden, people know because sometimes you and I talk
- 40:25Speaker 1: about stuff and everyone should know this. Then they don't
- 40:30Speaker 1: even know what that term is, which is very understandable.
- 40:33Speaker 1: I do the same thing when I'm listening to different conversations.
- 40:36Speaker 2: Yeah, put me in a finance room and kill me
- 40:38Speaker 2: with all your ratios.
- 40:40Speaker 1: Yeah, 100%. Or I talk to Melissa about tech and
- 40:43Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't get it. You choose, right?
- 40:46Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 40:47Speaker 1: But imagine if every person had a reasonably basic understanding
- 40:54Speaker 1: of what the different variables are, you know, around sleep,
- 40:59Speaker 1: around exercise, around movement, around posture, around sitting versus standing,
- 41:04Speaker 1: around self-regulation, around reading food labels, around understanding glycemic index
- 41:13Speaker 1: or processed carbs versus not. And then where people can
- 41:18Speaker 1: start to make informed, really quite informed decisions where they
- 41:24Speaker 1: We'd never have anyone again who didn't know the potential
- 41:27Speaker 1: consequences of diabetes or the preventative things that we can
- 41:35Speaker 1: do to delay the onset of cognitive decline. or the
- 41:40Speaker 1: supplements like creatine that I heard you speak about on
- 41:42Speaker 1: the radio that some people are using and seems to
- 41:46Speaker 1: have really valid research around it, that people can take
- 41:49Speaker 1: some supplements that actually move the needle on things like
- 41:52Speaker 1: cognitive function, focus, attention, memory, and more broadly, brain health
- 41:58Speaker 1: over the long term, right? But, you know, like I've
- 42:03Speaker 1: got mates who they could tell you inside out how
- 42:07Speaker 1: their car works. Like they could pull it apart and
- 42:12Speaker 1: rebuild it and everything, everything, gearbox, motor, running gear, you know,
- 42:18Speaker 1: like everything. See, that's how little I know because I
- 42:21Speaker 1: can't even expand on that. That's how much of a
- 42:23Speaker 1: fuck we are, right? But it doesn't impact my health
- 42:27Speaker 1: if I know how to pull the motor, right? I
- 42:30Speaker 1: just think something like that would sell no tickets, but
- 42:35Speaker 1: fuck it would be a good program.
- 42:37Speaker 2: I just love, I'm jumping out of my skin that
- 42:40Speaker 2: we have done a full circle that we are back
- 42:42Speaker 2: to education matters because this is the crux of it.
- 42:47Speaker 1: Oh, fuck, you trapped me.
- 42:47Speaker 2: We are back to education matters that people actually don't know, Craig.
- 42:52Speaker 2: They don't know and they don't even know what test
- 42:55Speaker 2: to ask for. I go and do talks about health
- 42:59Speaker 2: and they say, can you work with me one-on-one? I
- 43:01Speaker 2: don't have time to work with everyone one-on-one. But they don't,
- 43:06Speaker 2: they just want to go, well, what do I ask
- 43:08Speaker 2: my doctor for? What do I ask for? They don't
- 43:10Speaker 2: know what to ask for. And their doctor doesn't offer
- 43:13Speaker 2: it up. And that is not the doctor's fault. Our
- 43:15Speaker 2: healthcare system is not funding preventative health. So the doctor
- 43:19Speaker 2: is not allowed to write the test for the things
- 43:22Speaker 2: unless you're sick.
- 43:24Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. Yeah. It's well, Let's not bitch or complain,
- 43:29Speaker 1: but it's like all of the systems, you know, the
- 43:33Speaker 1: medical system, the education system, the government, you know, like
- 43:37Speaker 1: we live in the middle of all of these different
- 43:41Speaker 1: systems and protocols and rules and laws and regulations. Understandably,
- 43:46Speaker 1: that's how a society works, but not everything that we're
- 43:50Speaker 1: subjected to or need to comply with is necessarily optimal
- 43:55Speaker 1: for us, right?
- 43:57Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 43:58Speaker 1: Now, before we go.
- 44:00Speaker 2: Very last thing, you are back to this full circle again,
- 44:03Speaker 2: that health is the most important thing and that because
- 44:06Speaker 2: the governments aren't talking about it and the Maccas run
- 44:09Speaker 2: and they're eating big burgers and whatever, we are back
- 44:12Speaker 2: to it that health actually matters because without our health,
- 44:14Speaker 2: we have nothing. you take someone's health away, there is
- 44:18Speaker 2: nothing else left. There is no money, no job, no career, nothing.
- 44:22Speaker 2: Our health is everything, yet it is not a priority
- 44:25Speaker 2: from the government. And as you said, they're not going
- 44:28Speaker 2: to do anything that's not for us. So we need
- 44:32Speaker 2: to take on that accountability and responsibility, not just Craig
- 44:36Speaker 2: and I, but we with everyone who's listening. And And Craig,
- 44:41Speaker 2: I guess we've got the knowledge and so many of
- 44:44Speaker 2: the people that we know in our circles to actually
- 44:46Speaker 2: help people with preventative health so they know what to
- 44:50Speaker 2: ask for.
- 44:51Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, if the government said to me, which is
- 44:55Speaker 1: not going to happen tomorrow, we're going to give you
- 44:57Speaker 1: $ 100, 000 to take away 100 people for a week. We're
- 45:03Speaker 1: going to pay you, Craig, $ 0, 000. but we're going to
- 45:06Speaker 1: finance it for the hunt, my hand would be straight up.
- 45:11Speaker 2: I'm there with you. That's 100 lives we would save,
- 45:15Speaker 2: and that $ 100, 000 is less than what they pay for
- 45:18Speaker 2: renal dialysis for someone who's got diabetes that has ended
- 45:22Speaker 2: up in kidney failure per year.
- 45:25Speaker 1: Now, before we go, I want you to tell everybody
- 45:27Speaker 1: how fucking amazing this My in-body scan was yesterday.
- 45:32Speaker 4: I'm so excited. Firstly, tell them what happened. I will
- 45:39Speaker 4: admit I was a little bit braggy McBragster, which I
- 45:42Speaker 4: know is not humble and I know it's not cool,
- 45:47Speaker 4: but I was very happy with the results that I got.
- 45:53Speaker 1: What did you do? What did you use? Just explain
- 45:55Speaker 1: to people.
- 45:56Speaker 2: Okay, so I've got an in-body machine, which is a
- 45:58Speaker 2: bioelectrical impedance. So it literally just sends little electrical frequencies
- 46:03Speaker 2: through your body. And then those frequencies actually go into
- 46:07Speaker 2: your cells and they measure what your cells are made of.
- 46:10Speaker 2: They can then tell us from that reading, whether that
- 46:13Speaker 2: is lean mass or bone mass or fat mass. So
- 46:18Speaker 2: then from that, we have Craig's body composition. So we
- 46:23Speaker 2: can see how much of Craig is muscle how much
- 46:26Speaker 2: is body fat and how much is estimated bone mass.
- 46:30Speaker 2: And it's not just what is fat and what is muscle,
- 46:33Speaker 2: it's where that is. So I think that the thing
- 46:36Speaker 2: that is really impressive is he's every single bit of
- 46:40Speaker 2: his body. So we analyze five parts, right arm, left arm, trunk,
- 46:44Speaker 2: right leg, left leg. His muscle on each of those
- 46:48Speaker 2: parts of his body is completely balanced and his fat
- 46:51Speaker 2: is completely balanced. But what is fantastic for Craig who, Craig,
- 46:58Speaker 2: I'm sure you've told people your age, but he's.
- 47:00Speaker 1: In his 60s. Yeah, I'm 62.
- 47:02Speaker 2: 62. His body fat percentage is unbelievable, 10.2% body fat.
- 47:08Speaker 2: That is absolutely incredible. extraordinary for your age. Now, that
- 47:16Speaker 2: wouldn't be extraordinary if you didn't have muscle. That would
- 47:19Speaker 2: actually be shameful because you would die quickly if you
- 47:22Speaker 2: fell over because you'd fracture your hip and the chance
- 47:26Speaker 2: of death after that is high. But your muscle mass,
- 47:28Speaker 2: you're actually over-muscled. You're significantly over-muscled. You've got over 40
- 47:35Speaker 2: kilos of muscle to your very small amount of body
- 47:39Speaker 2: fat of 8 kilos. So whatever you are doing is
- 47:45Speaker 2: creating the healthiest version of you with the lowest inflammation,
- 47:49Speaker 2: the lowest amount of abdominal fat. And the other thing
- 47:54Speaker 2: that Craig asked me is, so he got a score.
- 47:57Speaker 2: So out of 100, Craig scored 92. which I'm very
- 48:03Speaker 2: disappointed to say from my behalf, he beat me and
- 48:06Speaker 2: I'm much younger than Craig. So that is disappointing on my,
- 48:10Speaker 2: it's motivating for me to do a training workout with you, Craig,
- 48:15Speaker 2: and you can push me. The other thing that's really
- 48:17Speaker 2: interesting that this does is what we call phase angle. Now,
- 48:21Speaker 2: phase angle is, you can talk about it, how things
- 48:25Speaker 2: go in and out of cells, but basically it gives
- 48:27Speaker 2: you a marker of your overall health. Craig's phase angle
- 48:32Speaker 2: is the equivalent of about a 34 to 35-year-old. So
- 48:37Speaker 2: you've got something to brag about. You're doing a good job.
- 48:40Speaker 2: Whatever you're telling people to do actually works. So well done, Craig.
- 48:44Speaker 2: And now the government can give you the money to
- 48:46Speaker 2: train 100 people, save 100 lives.
- 48:50Speaker 1: Also, thank you, Kate. That made me feel happy. Visceral
- 48:55Speaker 1: fat of three.
- 48:56Speaker 2: On a scale of one to 59, under nine is healthy. Three,
- 49:00Speaker 2: Craig has abdominal fat, so around the organs, of nearly
- 49:05Speaker 2: the lowest level you could possibly have.
- 49:09Speaker 1: You're welcome, world. It does my life suck, yes, but
- 49:13Speaker 1: fuck I'm lean. Do I hate every day? Yes. But
- 49:18Speaker 1: look at that visceral fat. Yes.
- 49:20Speaker 2: It's consistent you walk every day you do your 10
- 49:24Speaker 2: 000 steps and you do your weight training you're not
- 49:27Speaker 2: obsessed like you're walking you're not out there running 20ks
- 49:30Speaker 2: trying to do marathons You're just getting your steps up.
- 49:34Speaker 2: So what you're asking people to do is reasonable, but
- 49:37Speaker 2: the payoff is extraordinary if you're consistent.
- 49:41Speaker 1: Yeah, 100%.
- 49:42Speaker 3: Well, last night I trained with my training partner, The Crab,
- 49:45Speaker 3: aka Mark Lampard, and all we did was lat pulls, fundamental,
- 49:54Speaker 3: six or seven exercises, or six or seven sets.
- 49:58Speaker 1: The last three sets were horrible and hard and made
- 50:01Speaker 1: me want to spew. Then we did seated row about
- 50:04Speaker 1: the same. So two exercises, 14 sets, and the last
- 50:09Speaker 1: three sets of each movement were to the point where
- 50:13Speaker 1: if you said, Craig, here's $ 100, do three more, I
- 50:16Speaker 1: couldn't do it, right? So my actual training, we were
- 50:21Speaker 1: at the gym for an hour. We spoke for 45 minutes.
- 50:24Speaker 1: The actual work time where I was actually lifting something
- 50:28Speaker 1: was was maybe, you know, I did 14 sets, a
- 50:32Speaker 1: minute a set, 14 minutes, right? It's definitely not over
- 50:36Speaker 1: the top. So, yeah, you need a good program. It
- 50:39Speaker 1: needs to be done the right way. It kind of
- 50:41Speaker 1: needs to be the right program for your body and needs.
- 50:43Speaker 1: All of that, yes. But what matters is that once
- 50:47Speaker 1: you have that sorted, which is really just, you know,
- 50:50Speaker 1: knowledge and planning and structure and process, but it just
- 50:54Speaker 1: matters that you get there most days of your life,
- 50:58Speaker 1: And whether or not maybe it's at the pool, maybe
- 51:00Speaker 1: it's at the running track, maybe it's the climbing wall,
- 51:02Speaker 1: maybe it's the beach. It doesn't have to be the gym.
- 51:05Speaker 1: But whatever it is that you do as an intervention
- 51:09Speaker 1: to lower your metabolic age or to improve your strength
- 51:12Speaker 1: or power or function or immune system or just be consistent.
- 51:17Speaker 2: Brain volume. Muscle mass is related to brain volume. So
- 51:21Speaker 2: the bigger your muscles, the higher your brain volume.
- 51:25Speaker 1: Yeah, 100%. And we know that, you know, we spoke
- 51:27Speaker 1: about creatine before, but yeah, just strength training is also
- 51:32Speaker 1: a mechanism for improved cognitive function other than the having
- 51:37Speaker 1: more muscle mass. Yeah, so that was fun. But you
- 51:41Speaker 1: know what it was more than anything? Because I haven't
- 51:43Speaker 1: had that done for a long time. So I was
- 51:45Speaker 1: a bit scared because I'm like, shit, what if my
- 51:47Speaker 1: results are bad?
- 51:49Speaker 2: It says you're 100 instead of 60.
- 51:51Speaker 1: Yeah, she's 112. Yeah. Yeah, but just thinking, oh, good,
- 52:00Speaker 1: it's working. So I spoke to, I was talking, am
- 52:05Speaker 1: I going to tell? Anyway, a friend of mine, her
- 52:07Speaker 1: name is Maria. She is one of the best power
- 52:11Speaker 1: lifters in the world for her age. I mean, like fucking,
- 52:16Speaker 1: I'm not even joking. She's 61. Yeah. Oh, wow. She's
- 52:20Speaker 1: literally stronger than me in most things. I mean, she's
- 52:24Speaker 1: a world champion, right? Gosh. So she's going away next
- 52:28Speaker 1: week to compete, and we're talking about the various lifts.
- 52:33Speaker 1: I said, what's your goal for deadlift? So her target
- 52:38Speaker 1: for deadlift next week is 230 kilograms, which is four
- 52:44Speaker 1: pounds under 500 pounds.
- 52:47Speaker 2: My goodness.
- 52:51Speaker 1: 230 kilograms. Now, I don't know what she weighs, but
- 52:54Speaker 1: it's not heaps. I mean, she's solid and strong, but
- 52:58Speaker 1: maybe she weighs 70. I'm not sure. But it's like,
- 53:02Speaker 1: oh my God, I'm not suggesting anyone should do that.
- 53:05Speaker 1: I'm just suggesting what's fucking amazing is when you actually
- 53:11Speaker 1: You just give your body what it needs rather than
- 53:15Speaker 1: what people might suggest is appropriate for your age, right?
- 53:20Speaker 1: If you listen to some people, they're going to have
- 53:22Speaker 1: you sitting in a circle with other old people kicking
- 53:25Speaker 1: a fucking balloon around the room. and getting older by
- 53:28Speaker 1: the minute. Whereas I'm like, well, let's get those 80
- 53:31Speaker 1: year olds and let's be really intelligent and strategic and
- 53:34Speaker 1: let's actually build muscle. Can you do that at 80? 100%.
- 53:40Speaker 1: Can you build strength and function and coordination and balance
- 53:44Speaker 1: and confidence and cognitive capacity at 80? Yes, you can.
- 53:50Speaker 1: Is that what's done in most retirement homes or whatever? No,
- 53:55Speaker 1: not most, right? And again, this is not a slight.
- 53:58Speaker 1: This is more observation. This is more awareness. I want
- 54:04Speaker 1: to build a program. If the government would give me
- 54:08Speaker 1: all the money they could, I would take zero pay
- 54:11Speaker 1: and I would work tirelessly to build a program that
- 54:17Speaker 1: can be run around Australia with different fitness professionals where
- 54:22Speaker 1: we're actually making old people strong. Strong. So it's not.
- 54:27Speaker 2: Lifespan, it's that lifespan. So let's say we're living to 82.
- 54:32Speaker 2: Apparently our health ends at about 63 was the last
- 54:36Speaker 2: number I saw. So in the past, we would have
- 54:40Speaker 2: died around 63, 64, but now we take polypharmacy, which
- 54:44Speaker 2: is lots of medication. So you can stay alive with
- 54:47Speaker 2: no quality and we just prolong your death on medication
- 54:50Speaker 2: with loss of function every year. That is not living longer.
- 54:55Speaker 1: Yeah, we should do something about that. See, this is
- 55:01Speaker 1: to me, I forget, I don't forget I'm on a podcast,
- 55:03Speaker 1: but I get excited about shit and I'm like, We
- 55:06Speaker 1: should flesh out this concept. Maybe we could do it,
- 55:09Speaker 1: maybe not. But imagine being able to create something where
- 55:13Speaker 1: there's no agenda. People go, you know, but, oh, what
- 55:17Speaker 1: about it? No, I'm not getting paid, so fuck your agenda.
- 55:21Speaker 1: I don't want anything. I don't want anything now or
- 55:24Speaker 1: in the future from that. I just want to do
- 55:27Speaker 1: that because that would be so good for so many
- 55:31Speaker 1: people And then if we could start to change the
- 55:35Speaker 1: thinking around what old people should be doing or could
- 55:39Speaker 1: be doing, and yes, we want to care. My mum's
- 55:45Speaker 1: 86 and she's in care, right? Could, and for 86
- 55:51Speaker 1: turning 87 in December, she's quite amazing. She's had cancer
- 55:55Speaker 1: twice and she's got one lung and she walks fine,
- 55:59Speaker 1: talks fine. There's a little bit of cognitive decline, but
- 56:02Speaker 1: She's kind of amazing. And she's quite atypical, you know.
- 56:09Speaker 1: And the last year, of course, has been very taxing
- 56:12Speaker 1: on her. But almost even in the last three weeks
- 56:18Speaker 1: since dad's funeral, and so she's obviously sad and grieving
- 56:24Speaker 1: and all of the things, But she's now, she doesn't
- 56:28Speaker 1: have to care for dad the way that she did
- 56:30Speaker 1: and now she's getting sleep and now she's getting a
- 56:33Speaker 1: level of social interaction that she didn't. And now there
- 56:37Speaker 1: are people making meals for her three times a day,
- 56:39Speaker 1: not the other way around. And now she doesn't have
- 56:41Speaker 1: to clean the fucking bathroom. And now, right now, all
- 56:44Speaker 1: of a sudden I'm seeing my mum come back to
- 56:49Speaker 1: life a little bit, right?
- 56:50Speaker 2: It happened to my dad. My dad's 83, same thing.
- 56:55Speaker 1: It's like somebody's just come and watered a plant that
- 56:58Speaker 1: has been screaming for some kind.
- 57:00Speaker 2: Of freedom and hydration. Yeah, that ability to put themselves
- 57:08Speaker 2: first and look after their health. My dad walks twice
- 57:12Speaker 2: a day every day and does strength training exercises at home.
- 57:17Speaker 2: I asked him to show me what he did and
- 57:18Speaker 2: I was terrified because he does walking forwards, walking backwards,
- 57:22Speaker 2: all these things that I'm like, A balance challenging, but
- 57:26Speaker 2: I'm like, can you balance well enough to do these things?
- 57:29Speaker 2: And he can. And he's so determined on doing them
- 57:33Speaker 2: every single day of his life. He would never, ever
- 57:36Speaker 2: miss his two walks. Even if there was a tornado
- 57:39Speaker 2: out there, you couldn't stop him from walking because he knows,
- 57:43Speaker 2: he watches YouTube and he's like, I've seen it. I
- 57:46Speaker 2: don't want to end up like that. I'm going to
- 57:48Speaker 2: keep doing this. But it's only since mum died that
- 57:51Speaker 2: that dad has this newfound energy because I don't know why.
- 57:57Speaker 2: I don't know why, but he does.
- 58:00Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing.
- 58:01Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 58:02Speaker 1: One quick story, then we'll jam, unless you've got another
- 58:04Speaker 1: quick story. But I used to– I trained this lady
- 58:06Speaker 1: for about 18 years when I was a trainer. Like
- 58:11Speaker 1: when she started with me, she was morbidly obese. She
- 58:15Speaker 1: got in great shape. She went from, you know, eating
- 58:18Speaker 1: cake for breakfast to– all the things. She got strong.
- 58:21Speaker 1: She got fit. She got functional. She did the first
- 58:26Speaker 1: run as in fun run type thing she'd ever done
- 58:30Speaker 1: in her life at about 55. She ran a half
- 58:32Speaker 1: marathon with me. So 21.1Ks, she didn't stop. Another half
- 58:38Speaker 1: marathon with me. And then when she was about 60,
- 58:43Speaker 1: I took her to the park. We used to leave.
- 58:46Speaker 1: We train in the gym most days, but we'd leave
- 58:48Speaker 1: the gym one or two days a week and we'd
- 58:50Speaker 1: just go outside and do shit. So at about 60,
- 58:54Speaker 1: I taught her to kick a footy. So here's this lovely,
- 58:59Speaker 1: gorgeous Jewish lady. Doesn't matter that she's Jewish. She just
- 59:02Speaker 1: is 60 years old. And she's like, this is stupid.
- 59:06Speaker 1: What am I doing this for? I go, oh my God,
- 59:09Speaker 1: so many reasons. And I taught her how to kick
- 59:11Speaker 1: a footy both feet. So left and right foot, handball,
- 59:16Speaker 1: left and right hand. And where we were at this
- 59:20Speaker 1: park near my gym, There was a child's playground and
- 59:24Speaker 1: around the playground was those, you know, those round pole timber,
- 59:28Speaker 1: it's called treated pine timber. Yep. The whole park was
- 59:33Speaker 1: boarded in these round logs. It's like a fence. When
- 59:38Speaker 1: she started, she couldn't walk one length, which is about
- 59:42Speaker 1: two metres. By the time we finished, she could walk
- 59:45Speaker 1: around the entire perimeter of the playground without falling off.
- 59:51Speaker 1: So we started working in her 60s on hand-eye coordination, dexterity, balance,
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: fine motor skills, gross motor skills, all of these things that,
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: you know, that we don't do when we're old, you know,
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: that saying.
- 1:00:10Speaker 2: Don't throw the ball in the house so then they
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: don't go outside so they don't throw the ball. There
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: is no ball anymore.
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: No, much better than that. Much better than that. We
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: because we stop playing.
- 1:00:23Speaker 2: Oh, right. Yeah, right. right?
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: It's like, oh, you know who should bounce a ball,
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: throw a basketball, maybe do a little bit of skipping,
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: maybe do a relay with some friends, maybe kick a footy,
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: maybe throw a frisbee, fucking everyone. That's who.
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: That sounds fun.
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: Imagine being, you're training with a trainer and now you're
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: using balls and you're using frisbees and you're throwing tennis balls,
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: you're throwing, you're catching, you're bouncing a ball from right
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: hand to left off the ground, left hand to right
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: off the ground. Like your body's waking up. Your body's
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: waking up.
- 1:01:04Speaker 2: It's no longer exercise and you no longer hate it.
- 1:01:07Speaker 2: You're just having fun and time passes.
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: I think you and I are going to take over
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: the world. We're going to hijack the government with this
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: fitness program. You probably can't say that. I'll probably have
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: a knock at the door tomorrow. Tell people about your business,
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: about what you do, how they can connect with you
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: and so on.
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: Yep, dietitian, exercise physiologist, diabetes educator. I founded BeFit Food,
- 1:01:35Speaker 2: a ready-made home-delivered meals company that uses everything I know
- 1:01:39Speaker 2: about food and nutrition to put it into small, convenient, high-protein, low-carb,
- 1:01:44Speaker 2: high-vegetable content meals with meat, of course. Yeah, all of
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: the good stuff, none of the sugar, low sodium. BeFitFood.com.au.
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: Now, this is not bullshit. This is not an ad, everyone.
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: I was just at IGA, which is 40 metres from
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: my home And I went over to get a few things.
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: And while I was there, I saw B-Fit food in
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: the fridge. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like,
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: I might get one of these for dinner. And I'm
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: not going to lie. Of course, I know that's your brand.
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: But for about 10 seconds, I forgot. Oh, this is
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: Kate's brand. And I bought... Chicken, it's some kind of
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: barbecue smoked chicken and mash spud and something else. And
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: it's fucking huge. And it was like 12 bucks. I'm like, yeah,
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: this is me. This is dinner. So I'm actually, I'm
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: hand on heart eating B-Fit food tonight for dinner. So
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: I'll give you a report. Amazing.
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: Thank you, Craig.
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: You're welcome. And cheap. I'm like, really?
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: Cheap and good. And I looked at the nutritional label
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: and not surprisingly, outstanding. No bullshit.
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: All right, everyone. Hope you enjoyed that. Kate and I
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: are off to reinvent the wheel and we'll talk next time.
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: Thank you, Kate.
- 1:03:10Speaker 2: Pleasure. Thanks for having me.