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Biblio Diet: Healing Secrets from The Bible · To Your Good Health

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David Friedman, BS: Hello, this is Dr.
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David Friedman, host of To Your Good Health Radio.
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What if the oldest health book in the world has been sitting
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on your shelf the whole time?
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No app, no biohacking gadget that costs more than your car payment,
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just a few thousand years of wisdom from the Bible that modern
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science is finally catching up to.
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Joining us is returning guest Jordan Rubin, who went from a healthy teenager
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to 104 pounds knocking on death's door.
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Written off by the medical system, he clawed his way back the old-fashioned
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way, through food, faith, and dirt.
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And he did it decades before gut health became that f-- hashtag that we see.
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And today he's planted nearly a million fruit trees, runs regenerative farms,
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and his new book, The Biblio Diet became an instant New York Times bestseller.
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In it, he asked a simple question: If Moses walked into your
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kitchen, what would he throw out?
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Don't go anywhere.
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Jordan Rubin is in the house to answer that question and
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more, and it all starts now.
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Our next guest is known as America's Biblical Health Coach.
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He's the New York Times bestselling author of 31 books, including the
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international hit, The Maker's Diet.
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His latest book, The Biblio Diet, was co-written with his friend Dr.
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Josh Axe, who's been on the show.
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And Jordan's the founder of Garden of Life, Beyond
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Organic, and Ancient Nutrition.
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All great products.
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I highly recommend them.
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And diagnosed with advanced Crohn's disease at 19 and given little hope,
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he recovered through a return to ancient biblically rooted nutrition,
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a journey that became his life's work.
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And he holds degrees in naturopathic medicine and certifications in
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nutrition and fitness, and he also has multiple patents in natural
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pharmaceuticals and supplements.
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He's a leader in the regenerative farming movement, operating Heal the
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Planet Farms in Tennessee and Missouri.
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Welcome back to the show, Jordan Rubin
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Jordan Rubin: Dr.
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Friedman, it is great to be here
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David Friedman, BS: Oh, it's so great to have you.
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Briefly take us back, I know some people didn't hear the last time.
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Talk to us real briefly, 19 years old, 104 pounds, what was the moment
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you stopped trusting the system and started literally trusting your gut?
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Jordan Rubin: Well, similar to you, I grew up in a health-aware home.
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As you know, you met my father probably, gosh, 30 years ago now.
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And so I understood a little bit about health principles, but I didn't
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own them, so to speak, until I went through my near-death experience.
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But in terms of conventional medicine as a family, we were not, I'll
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say, hospital or medication-minded.
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And so initially, when I experienced symptoms of digestive disease, we
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wanted to treat it naturally, but my situation was so advanced and
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acute that I did, undergo multiple hospitalizations, medications, et cetera.
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But in a way, I guess I'm blessed that those interventions didn't work
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because it caused me to look elsewhere.
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And I did visit 70 medical experts trying to get well.
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Ultimately, was only getting worse and worse with each
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international clinic I would visit.
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But, one man told me in 1996 that if I follow a health plan based on
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the Bible, proven through history, and confirmed by science, I can
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be well, and I had enough faith.
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He infused enough hope in me, and I went from Florida to
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California in a wheelchair.
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And three months later, sure enough, just like this man Bud Keith
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told me, I was working out on the beach in San Diego, California.
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I didn't have my old life back.
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I had a new life and a new passion to see the health of this nation and
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world transformed one life at a time.
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And that was approximately 30 years ago, which blows my mind.
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But yes.
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David Friedman, BS: definitely turned your mess into your message.
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I love it.
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And as I shared last time, I battled late, late onset Crohn's myself, so your
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story holds a special place in my heart.
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And, I remember asking my doctor how somebody perfectly healthy develops
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advanced Crohn's in their 50s.
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I was healthy, never been sick a day.
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And his answer floored me, Jordan.
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He said, "We don't care why.
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You'll need to get your colon removed and a lifetime on biologic infusions."
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And Jordan, when a doctor looks at patients in the eye and says,
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"We don't care why you're sick," isn't that the very definition of
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what's broken in modern medicine?
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Shouldn't the why be the primary focus?
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Jordan Rubin: yes, and I remember, similarly, David, as I lay
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in hospital beds or examine-- exam rooms, tables, etc.,
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I would look on the walls, and I'd see lots of degrees and diplomas,
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and I would hear things like, "This doctor is the number one
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gastroenterologist in this county," which I don't even know what that means.
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But I didn't care how much a particular doctor knew or how credentialed they were.
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All I cared about was someone saying, "Jordan, I've been where you are, and
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I have now conquered said condition."
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And I didn't find that, David, so I decided to become the first
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expert that I wish I could have spoken to instead of the seventieth.
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And so I've kind of lived my life since then trying to find solutions, creating
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content, information, but most of all, hope in people that have been diagnosed
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with quote-unquote, "incurable diseases."
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But, because God takes us from glory to glory His way, my battle with
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inflammatory bowel disease was not my only near-death experience, as
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I talk about in "The Biblio Diet."
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after being healed from Crohn's disease, starting companies, writing
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lots of books, I was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2008.
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And so, God got the chance to show off again, and really for the first time,
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even though this happened some 18 years ago, the first time I'm sharing my
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cancer-conquering journey is in "The Biblio Diet," which launched, last year.
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So it's been a exciting journey to help bring hope to an audience
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that is really the most hopeless.
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I would say having battled Crohn's colitis, that has
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become much more prevalent.
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You now know full well how debilitating a gut disease is.
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But there's something different about being diagnosed with
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cancer than any other illness.
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It's as much an emotional and spiritual disease as it is physical.
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And so a, a new part of my mission is to help give people hope that
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despite a diagnosis that the world considers terminal, you can be healed.
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And I'm proof of that, and so are many, who, by the way, are not counted in
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all the medical statistics that they espouse when you're diagnosed what I
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would call it, a prognosis of cursing
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David Friedman, BS: Yeah.
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You know, you hear that word incurable.
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I was told the same thing, and it's like, I love that you're saying that, "Hey,
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just put your hand, finger in your ears.
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Don't listen."
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The body is powerful, especially, you know, God created
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this, magnificent machine.
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We don't understand it, but God does.
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And if you just kind of look at the, the Bible and say, "H- here's what it says.
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Here's the blueprints," which you're doing, which is great.
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And you know, it's so funny, we look at the Physicians Desk
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Reference, Gray's Anatomy.
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Look in the Bible.
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I love that.
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And let's answer the question I started in the beginning of the show.
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If Moses were here today, what would the food laws look like?
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Jordan Rubin: Well, first and foremost, I'll call it the, deadly
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dozen, according to God's plan.
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And I'll give you the top three and one will not surprise you, one may.
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So, pork and shellfish and other detestable animals are not on the menu.
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That's based on Leviticus 11, Deuteronomy 14.
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Now, I know that there are arguments that there are portions of the New
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Testament where Peter had a dream and where Jesus declared all foods clean.
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But I can tell you that there is no evidence that Jesus or the
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disciples ever consumed any of this filth that we call food.
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And I'm also part of the regenerative farming movement, and I know
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people out there say, "Well, I raise my pigs regeneratively, and
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we catch shrimp in the ocean."
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But bottom line, God created these things to clean up the waste.
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And if you date back prior to Moses to Noah, there was a reason why seven pairs
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of quote-unquote clean animals went into the ark and one pair of unclean.
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God knew that we would be eating the clean animals, and those detestable
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animals were there to clean up the waste, and they are part of the ecosystem.
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They shouldn't be part of our diet.
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And one thing I like to say, David, to help people remember this, Biblical
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eating rule number one: thou shalt not eat anything that Jesus cast demons into.
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Now, if you're a Bible reader, you'll know that Jesus cast demons into a, I
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guess, herd of thousands of pigs, that they were then drowned in the water.
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us Jews, we don't like to waste food or money, so I don't
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think Jesus would have either.
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But these things can contribute to poor health.
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And if you're someone who has an unexplained illness or has not
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figured out all the pieces of the puzzle to be healed, I believe it's
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worthwhile to stop consuming bacon, ham, any pork products, any shellfish.
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I know that they are prized on fine dining menus, but God is the same
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yesterday and for- today and forever.
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I would highly recommend avoiding what the Bible calls in the
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ancient Hebrew filth or trash
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David Friedman, BS: Yeah.
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Yeah, one thing that people avoid is salt.
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I know it's been vilified for years as a driver of high blood pressure,
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heart disease, yet scripture treats it as something sacred.
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Why has modern medicine turned on salt, and what's the real difference
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between refined and the mineral-rich sea salt that you recommend?
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Jordan Rubin: Well, I think many people out there are subclinically
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dehydrated, and hydration doesn't simply involve water consumption.
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In fact, if you're consuming a low mineral water in high quantities, you could
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actually be diluting your body's minerals.
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Salt is very important.
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The Bible says great things about salt.
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He compares his people to the salt of the earth, a city on
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a hill, et cetera, et cetera.
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And he even says, "If salt loses its saltiness, it is no good, only
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useful to be thrown into manure pile."
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And David, I take every word of the Bible and try to interpret it.
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And what I hear from that is, number one, salt is good for you.
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Number two, even if you have old salt, it can still help build soil and have
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plants flourish, and it's absolutely true.
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Salt is important.
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I'm guessing you read this book or some of the work from Dr.
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Fereydoon Batmanghelij, otherwise known as Dr.
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Batman, who cured prisoners, as he was a prisoner of war himself, from
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peptic ulcer disease and other health conditions from simply drinking
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water with a little bit of salt.
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Yes, high mineral salt is better, but salt is absolutely important.
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Sodium chloride and other electrolytes, such as potassium,
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magnesium, are absolutely awesome.
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And so we could stand to consume a little more salt in our diet.
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And by the way, if you're wondering how much, if you have a taste for
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salt, if you're eating food that's bland, that may mean you actually
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need to salt your food more, and now you have permission to do it.
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The Bible prized salt so much, David, in ancient history, that the word salary
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was originally coined based on the Roman term where someone would be paid
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in salt, and that's where we get the expression, "He's not worth his salt."
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Folks, there's a lot of truth in old expressions, and we need to get our
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heads out of the sand or somewhere else and start realizing that this
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ancient wisdom, even one hundred, two hundred years ago, is far greater than,
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quote-unquote, some modern science
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David Friedman, BS: Yeah, so true.
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Yeah, I always say the human body is 70% saltwater.
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How can it be bad for us?
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It's what we're made out of.
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Without it, we would die.
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and when you have a heart attack and the paramedic comes and he puts that
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IV in you, guess what he's putting in you when you have a heart attack?
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Sodium.
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It's saline.
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So it makes no sense.
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I'm glad you cleared that up.
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I 100% agree.
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Is there a certain salt, by the way?
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People say, "Well, what kind?"
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They're confused.
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Black lava, Redmond, Himalayan, Celtic, or is just any one good to reach for?
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Jordan Rubin: I am a fan of Celtic Sea Salt for quite some time.
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I think Himalayan can be good.
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What you wanna do is get a salt that is unprocessed.
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Different people believe different salts have more or less benefits.
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If you had to pin me down, David, my favorite salt in the world is
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a Makai sea salt under the Celtic Sea Salt brand from Kona, Hawaii.
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That is this-- You're gonna love this, 2,000 feet deep, reservoir.
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I remember learning about it 20 years ago.
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It is outstanding
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David Friedman, BS: Yes, and filled with minerals too as well.
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That's great.
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Talk to us about fasting.
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You know, the heart of your book, and it's a practice with deep spiritual roots,
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yet so many people find it intimidating.
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For someone just starting out, how do they step into that with faith instead of fear?
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Jordan Rubin: Fasting is essential, and the Bible says certain
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terminology such as when you fast.
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So when Jesus talked to his followers, he didn't say if you
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fast, he said when you fast.
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Fasting is critical.
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We all do it for a period of time a day because nobody eats for 24 hours.
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But I believe if the average person would spend a shorter window of the day
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eating and a longer window of the day resting or cleansing, they'd be healthier.
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David, you're gonna love this.
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A recent study published on those diagnosed with Crohn's disease,
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inflammatory bowel disease, compared those who were intermittent fasting
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or in a time-restricted eating window of eight hours a day versus the other
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group that ate a normal amount of hours a day approximating 14 to 16.
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So this is the great part of the study.
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The food intake was controlled, so both groups ate the exact amount of food.
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One group consumed the food in a shorter window, one in a longer.
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The group that consumed food following an intermittent fasting protocol,
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eating eight hours a day, they had lower inflammation, better digestive comfort.
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If they needed to lose fat, they lost visceral fat, and
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they felt better in general.
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This is the first study that I'm aware of on a disease population
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studying intermittent fasting with the exact food composition between
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the group that ate in a restricted period versus those that ate all day.
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Because, David, I don't know if you've heard this, but some, health influencers
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say the only reason fasting is beneficial is because you consume less food.
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Well, this proved fasting is beneficial not only because of the decrease in
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food consumption, but because you are allowing the body to heal itself,
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a process called autophagy, where the body is cleansing what doesn't
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belong and is building resilience.
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Isaiah 58, starting in verse six, talks about God's chosen fast and how
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it basically unlocks your physical and emotional health potential
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and can even break addictions.
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Fasting was originally called by Hippocrates and other fathers of
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medicine as the healer within.
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It's a no-brainer, and if you wanna start simply, just eat your
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breakfast or break fast one hour later each week and eventually get
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down to a smaller eating window.
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It works miraculously for those who need to lose a few pounds or
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for those who want better digestion
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David Friedman, BS: Yeah, I've heard the, 8-8-8.
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Yeah, you sleep eight hours, work eight hours, and have that
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eight-hour window of eating.
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Simple.
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Jordan Rubin: That's awesome.
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And it's, it's, it is simple to do.
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Most people, David, don't wake up hungry, so we kind of force ourselves
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with the nonsense, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, eat
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cereal and some kind of, skim milk.
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All that is, is diabetes by lunch in a bowl
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David Friedman, BS: Wow.
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Talk to us about autoimmune conditions.
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It's exploded.
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It's an epidemic now.
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Is your opinion that the body is actually turning on itself, or is there some
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underlying trigger, something maybe in our food environment provoking
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the immune system to react like that?
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Or is our bodies after millions of years just going after each other?
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Jordan Rubin: I really do not have a belief in the traditional autoimmune
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theory, and I know that this is controversial, and it's easy to say
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that there are hundreds of diseases where the body's attacking itself.
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The truth is the body is attacking itself because it is mistakenly
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trying to attack something else.
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The body was not meant to attack itself.
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This is pretty simple, and I know, I'm gonna be criticized for saying this.
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All nutrition and all disease is based on two things: a lack of nutrients in the
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cells and an overabundance of toxicity in the organs and systems of the body.
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The reason that someone is experiencing an autoimmune disease is because
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there is a malfunction in the internal environment, and it's often caused
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externally, and I'm sure you see this with individuals you work with.
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It could be a mold trigger.
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It could be a mercury heavy metal trigger.
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It could be a microbial trigger, whether it's a fungal overgrowth, parasitic.
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We're hearing about a mass outbreak of parasites now across America.
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I do not believe that autoimmune disease is because you were created
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wrong and you're attacking yourself.
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I think it is much different than that, and I believe that God can heal you
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if you put the right nutrients in your body and you change your environment
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and even aid in detoxification
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David Friedman, BS: Yeah, I agree 100%.
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Like when I get Crohn's in my, 50s, it's like, "Oh, so 50 years I was fine,
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now it's deciding to attack itself?"
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No, I was poisoned by DuPont.
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It was a chemical called GenX, a PFAS chemical.
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And there you go, your environmental toxin.
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And then of course then that affects your nutritional content.
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So I agree with you.
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All right, enough of this G-rated stuff.
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Let's talk dirty.
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We live in this age of germ phobia.
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We got hand sanitizers on every counter.
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Kids, now they're trading their backyard for video games.
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Dirt's kind of like a disease waiting to happen in everyone's eyes now.
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You're a fan of dirt, though.
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Tell us why dirt does so many great things and holds such
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a special place in your heart
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Jordan Rubin: first of all, it sounds cool to say dirt, but as a farmer,
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I'm gonna correct you and say soil.
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Dirt is-- Dirt is what the farms we drive by on our countryside are
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planting genetically modified corn and soy in where there's no nutrition.
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But soil is so alive with everything we need.
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In fact, the Bible says that man came from the dust of the earth, but the real
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translation is man came from the soil.
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And David, if you've never heard this before, I wanna tell you something that
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God revealed to me that's just amazing.
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So first of all, we call topsoil, that's the top part of our soil, which is
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responsible for nutrients in our food, it's responsible for filtering our water.
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It is our inheritance on this earth.
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And America was so amazing in its foundations because it was
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a, an incredible fertile land.
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Listen to some of our songs that we sing about our country and
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understand how fertile it was.
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So topsoil in Latin is called humus.
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Humus is super similar to the word human, which they were
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both derived from the same word.
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And in Hebrew, if I ask anybody who was the first man in
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the Bible, they'll say Adam.
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Well, guess what?
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The Hebrew word for soil is adamah.
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It is Adam with one more letter in Hebrew, two letters in English, which
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literally means everything that we are is made from the soil, and when we die,
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our physical body goes back to the soil.
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I quote the Bible mostly, David, but then I'm tempted to quote The Lion King
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when Mufasa explains the circle of life because he says, "When the lions die,
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they become the ground that becomes the grass, and the antelope eat the grass.
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It's all part of the circle of life."
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But getting back to health, our minerals are depleted.
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We have microbes in our soil that we should be interacting on a regular
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basis with, but our over-sanitized, triple-washed lettuce world, where we
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used to be duped into, especially in 2020 and 2021, using, hand sanitizer
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that's alcohol-based that kills everything, we are less healthy.
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There is research that shows that people who interact with the outside
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world, either physically outside or even having a pet in the house that
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goes outside and brings some of that in, they have healthier immune systems.
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It is nature's immunizations.
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And this helps us get healthy.
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If you're gardening, if you're farming, if you're outside forest bathing,
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you are going to be much healthier.
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Our immune systems were designed to be developed in
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concert with the outside world
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David Friedman, BS: Yeah, it's so true.
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I saw a TikTok influence I follow.
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He goes to these street food places and overseas and people nasty and
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they're cutting it with utensils that are rust and dirty and filthy
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and he drinks it and all that.
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And there's one of them, it would look like fresh produce and he's
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about to eat it and he looked, he says, "Oh, there's dirt on the bottom.
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Oh, God, ugh, I'm throwing it out."
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I'm like, "Are you kidding me?
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You eat from all this junk and you're worried about dirt, soil?"
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It's like, you and me, we played in the sandbox when we were younger.
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we got our hands dirty and that's part of growing up.
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And I think nowadays kids don't go out and play.
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Moms are washing their hands 50 times a day.
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You agree?
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I mean, we're such a clean people now but we're getting dirty germ-wise
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Jordan Rubin: Yeah, it is really sad.
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In fact, I believe throughout history, farmers and farmers'
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children were the healthiest people.
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Now, because farms are laden with very harmful toxic chemicals,
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it's quite the opposite.
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We're seeing farmers that spray these chemicals or use nitrate-based
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fertilizers are having major, major health issues, suing different companies.
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it's so, so sad.
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But, when I started out in the natural products industry, I had this saying, "If
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you wanna be clean, you gotta get dirty."
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And it has been proven years ago, and someone asked me this recently and I said
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it: "Are you afraid of eating fruit now or berries because of the parasites?"
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And I said, "Listen, 10 people will eat at a restaurant, and they could all eat
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the same, quote-unquote, infected fish.
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Say that there's a parasite or, there's some bacteria in there.
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Maybe three out of the 10 have symptoms of food poisoning.
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Why did the other seven do just fine?
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Because their internal milieu, as they called it in French, their terrain,
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their overall health was stronger."
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And there's been crazy experiments of regenerative farmers drinking out of the
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trough of their livestock and being fine.
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Even, over 100 years ago, a scientist opened up a surgical window to his
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gut and injected toxins, bacterial toxins, and ended up being just
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fine because his body dealt with it.
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David, we are dealing with an insufficient immune system due to a lack of nutrition
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and an overabundance of toxicity.
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It sounds simple, but it is simple, and the Biblio Diet's really
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intending to get people back to the way God created us to eat.
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It's the only diet that not only allows, but recommends red meat, dairy,
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bread, fat, and salt, and will tell you the best types of each to consume.
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This is a diet your family will love.
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You're not gonna be restricted, you're not gonna be deprived, and you're not
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gonna say 10 or 20 years later, "Wow, I can't believe I fell for that diet," the
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way some of us do with the fat-free craze in the 90s before we were enlightened
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David Friedman, BS: So true.
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And you mentioned, we talked in the beginning of the hour you've built
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some major nutritional companies.
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What's the one thing about supplement industry that you could
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share with somebody that you wish people understood before they buy?
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Jordan Rubin: first of all, I want people to know dietary supplements are regulated.
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This idea that it's an unregulated industry is a bunch of nonsense.
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I can tell you, I've battled regulators, the FDA and the FTC in my time, and
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they very much regulate our industry.
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I think for us, we strive to be vertically integrated.
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We wanna have products that contain ingredients that we grow or raise
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on our own farm, and we wanna make sure that each product has an
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ingredient or more that is backed by a human randomized controlled trial.
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It's the best way to combine ancient wisdom with modern science.
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And, there are certain supplement categories that make sense
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because we simply don't consume said nutrients in our diet.
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I don't think we need redundant nutrients, but if you're not going
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to consume bone broth or you're not gonna eat chicken skins, you should
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be getting collagen as a supplement.
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If you're not going to consume high-quality dairy protein,
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maybe a whey protein or an A2 protein supplement makes sense.
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Here's another big one.
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If you won't eat liver, heart, and kidney, which were part of our ancestors'
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diets, you probably will benefit greatly from an organ supplement.
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I know my family does.
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And I'll add another one.
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If you're not getting enough fiber from fruits and vegetables,
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maybe consume a fiber that comes from healthy organic plants.
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Those are just examples of how supplementing your
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diet can make an impact.
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Last, last one I'll say, and people often look for the miracle supplement.
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You know what a miracle supplement is?
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Vitamin D when you live in Washington State and it's February.
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But is it a miracle or is it because it's missing because you
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don't have the sun's UV rays?
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These are reasons to supplement and, I think America has never been friendlier
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to the idea that supplementing can make an impact on your health, but it only works
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if your diet and lifestyle is on point.
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Supplements will not replace exercise.
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They won't replace forgiving someone who hurts you, and they
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won't replace a healthy diet
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David Friedman, BS: Well said.
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Well said.
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in the couple minutes we have left, talk about the, uh,
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controversial topic, alcohol.
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For years we've been told glass of wine is heart healthy, and hey, Jesus
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drank wine, so how bad can it be?
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But the latest research says even moderate drinking takes a toll on the body.
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What's your view on wine or even alcohol in general?
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Jordan Rubin: Thank you for bringing that study up.
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I am a zero tolerance policy for alcohol in its modern form.
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That doesn't mean a glass of biodynamic or organic sulfite-free
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wine is gonna kill you, but don't do it in the name of health.
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Jesus consumed wine that was fermented in the skins or intestinal sacs of animals.
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They didn't add sugar.
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They didn't add extra yeast.
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There was alcohol, but much milder.
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Think of like a kombucha/wine cooler, if they even have wine coolers anymore.
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But bottom line, David, I think many people in the name of health are
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consuming one, two, or three drinks a day.
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And if you will cease that, your body, including your
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liver, will be thankful you did
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David Friedman, BS: And last question, Jabba, what's your views on coffee?
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I know a fellow Crohn's and I've got Crohn's and, some people it bothers the
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gut, some people say it's gut healthy.
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What's your views?
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Jordan Rubin: Yeah, I'm not a coffee drinker and I never have been.
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I think coffee can be healthy.
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There are a lot of pitfalls though.
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You wanna make sure to consume coffee from beans that are not rancid.
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So grind your own beans, or if you wanna pre-grind them, put
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the grounds in the freezer.
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Look for organic or regenerative.
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Some people like to cold brew for less, quote unquote, "acidity."
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And I think coffee is as important as what you put in it than
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how the coffee behaves itself.
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And you wanna make sure to use healthy fats.
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I like adding collagen or protein to coffee because it gives you a
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good boost, but I do not recommend people drink coffee if they don't.
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I think herbal infusions, teas, et cetera, are a better route.
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And in "The BiblioDiet," David, chapter 14, I introduce a biblically based
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tea I call Healing Leaves, which comes from Ezekiel 47 and Revelation 22
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that God calls healing and medicine.
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It will blow your mind.
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I'll tell you how to make it.
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You can pick leaves in your backyard or order them online.
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This is absolutely amazing.
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I do think warm drinks can be excellent.
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Coffee can be fine, but it's not something I recommend to people
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if you're not a coffee drinker.
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And most people need to consume a little less because too much caffeine
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can hurt your adrenals over time
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David Friedman, BS: Yeah, so true.
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So true.
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And the minute we have left, is there anything else you'd like to share?
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There's so many things we could chat about.
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What did we not cover today that you'd like to leave with the listeners?
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Jordan Rubin: I just want to say this.
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No matter what you've been diagnosed with, no matter what you've
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told, what you've heard, or what you've read, you can overcome.
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You can be more than a conqueror according to the God that lives inside of you.
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So if you call on the name of the Lord and you want to be healed,
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first you have to have faith, then have hope, and then take action.
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You will be rewarded in the future for the decisions you make with your
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diet and your lifestyle, and you can glorify God by the way you eat
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and you live, which is absolutely amazing, and it's our responsibility
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David Friedman, BS: Bravo, bravo.
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I wanna thank you again for being here.
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You always s-share such, helpful insights, and it's, great having you here.
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Hope to have you back soon.
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the book is called The BiblioDiet: Live Long, Master Metabolism, Reduce Pain,
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Fight Depression, and Conquer Cancer with Healing Secrets from the Bible.
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It's available everywhere books are sold, or you can go to jordanrubin.com.
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And while there, and be sure and check out his free BiblioDiet course, and resource
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hub, and informative articles, and a bunch of other resources that he has available
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