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Fuel Your Fierce: The Truth About Diets, Detox & Metabolism with Food as Medicine · The Diva Details

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Well, hello. This is Diva Mia. Today, we're going to talk a little bit about your health.
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I know that for a long time, people have thought, well, if you just work out
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more, you'll get in shape. Or if you just work out more, you'll get healthy.
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Well, working out is part of the equation, but technically about 80% of what
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you do is related to your diet.
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Your diet is more important than how many hours you spend at the gym.
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I know sometimes it's easy to say, okay, well, I worked out for two hours.
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I can go and have a treat. No, not really.
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Because what matters is the other 22 or the 23 hours you don't spend in the gym a day.
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That's the most important part of your health, what you do on a daily basis.
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One hour of working out only equates to about 400 to 600 calories,
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depending on how big you are. One meal is 800 to 1,000 calories or more,
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depending on what you eat.
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Some people go and they splurge, and you could eat 2,000 calories in a meal.
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So remember that if you are not working out, if you're not building muscle,
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that helps, but you also have to watch what you eat.
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For the longest time, they used to say that, you know, calories in,
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calories out, but that's not true.
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More and more research is showing it's the quality of what you eat,
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not just the quantity. There are people that say, well, I ate a thousand calories
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of Doritos, so it'll be okay.
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No, because those thousand calories of Doritos are completely empty calories
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and they're going to go right on your hips.
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Whereas if you had a thousand calories of pure protein, say chicken or fish,
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that turns into muscle mass.
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That gets utilized by the body to build things. It's a building block.
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It doesn't just get stored as fat. So it is not just calories in, calories out.
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I wish people would stop saying that because it's totally not true.
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It matters the quality of the food you're eating, not just the calorie count.
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Because if you ate a thousand calories of broccoli, it would take you a whole
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day, and you're going to hardly gain any weight from the broccoli.
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So remember, it's not calories in, calories out. Today we're going to talk a
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little bit about your metabolism.
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There's a reason why in your 20s you could get away with eating a little bit
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more than you can in your 40s and 50s.
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It's not just muscle mass, it's also hormones. And then there's the issue of
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inflammation. When you eat inflammatory-causing foods, you're going to have more weight gain.
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And it's going to drive, it's going to make it harder for you to lose weight.
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So if you are overeating, if you're eating unhealthy foods, you're going to stall your own fat loss.
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Even overeating healthy foods can stall your fat loss. Because if you eat too
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much fruit, fruit is great for the antioxidants components. But if you eat too
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much fruit, that's a lot of sugar on the body.
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Sugar triggers your insulin. And when you trigger insulin, that tells your body to store fat.
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It's going to store that fruit away just like as if it was a candy bar.
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So the quality of the food matters too.
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So we're going to talk a little bit more about that today and different types
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of diets depending on what you're looking to do.
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Because different diets mean different things to people.
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So some people may be wanting to gain muscle mass. Every single person here
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will be on a different type of diet depending on what their goals are.
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The first part that you need to do when you're trying to change your health,
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is figure out your goals. So if you haven't lifted weights before and you have
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very little muscle mass and you're getting older, say you're in your 50s or
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60s, one of your goals may be to increase muscle mass.
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But the question is, how do you track it? How do you know?
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Well, there's a scan that can test for muscle mass. They also have many scales
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out there that can give you a rough estimate on your muscle mass.
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But you're going to have to find out where you're at now and then set a goal for where you want to be.
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Now, muscle doesn't appear overnight. Typically, you're going to have to work
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it over time. That's why it takes time in the gym.
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So if you want to increase muscle mass as one of your goals,
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and say you want to add five pounds of muscle mass in a year or whatever it is, you need to track it.
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Find out where you're at now. Find out what your body fat percentage is.
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Find out what if you want to get your body fat percentage down to.
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Say, for a guy for 10 to 12 percent or a woman 15 to 20, you need to know where
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your body fat percentage is.
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If you want to, so we're talking about gain muscle, lose body fat.
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What about your cardio health? What about training for a marathon?
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There's a lot of things that people want to do. People that train for a marathon
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are going to eat higher carbs than someone training to build muscle mass.
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Make sure you're clear on your goals and set those goals because most people,
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they go out weight loss kind of crazy.
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At the beginning of the year, they all set a goal and they finally,
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they go to the gym for a month and then they all quit because they don't have
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clearly defined goals and clearly defined whys.
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You need to have a why behind it. Why are you getting in shape?
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Do you not feel well? Document that. Write down how painful your life is when you're not in shape.
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Detail every ache and pain and say, I want to get rid of this pain.
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So then when it gets hard, you can look back and say, oh, I remember that,
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oh, I used to have knee pain or I used to have ankle pain, etc.
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So let's go ahead and jump right into talking about different types of diets. One of the things that
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should be off of everybody's plate is processed foods.
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You need to eat mindfully when you're eating because when you eat processed
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foods and you have no portion control, it's going to get out of control.
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No matter what diet you're on, in order to be healthy, you need to swap your
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processed foods for more whole foods.
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Replace your soda drinks with lemon and water or sparkling water if you need
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the little fizz because the reality is that all that soda and all that sugar,
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you're not getting any value out of that.
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Yeah, it's sweet and it gives you a rush for a quick minute,
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but then it goes right to your hips because soda has zero nutritional value.
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We think about food as medicine many times, but food can be toxic too.
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And when you're eating a ton of sugar that causes a lot of inflammation,
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you're going to have a lot of problems.
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Now, last, a couple weeks ago, we talked to a person that works with functional
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medicine and she talked about food sensitivities.
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You should also go get a food sensitivity test. Now, you could go through her
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if you want to. Even if you're not in the state of Texas, you can go and talk
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to her because she does online food sensitivity screenings.
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She can order one for you. It's a blood test. When you find out your food sensitivities,
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if you're eating things that you're sensitive to, it's going to cause inflammation.
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Now, a lot of people say go on the Mediterranean diet because it's anti-inflammatory.
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Great, but what if you're allergic to olive oil? Or what if you're allergic
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or have a sensitivity to tomatoes or have a sensitivity to certain kinds of
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things that are in the Mediterranean diet?
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If you go on the Mediterranean diet, you're just going to cause inflammation,
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which is going to hinder or slow down your weight progress.
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So find out your food sensitivities first. That's step one or step two,
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actually. Setting the goals are number one.
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So then the next step is to go find your food sensitivities and figure out what
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foods you can eat and what foods you can't.
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OK, so if in general, though, the meta-training diet is really good for people
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that have have issues with their heart, it's very heart healthy,
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it's it's anti-inflammatory.
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It focuses on fish, olive oil, fruits, and vegetables. Now, some people say,
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oh, in Mediterranean they eat pasta.
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Well, yes, but it's a different kind of pasta. The pasta in the United States
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has been refined down to almost no nutritional value, and they also spray it
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with different types of insecticides and herbicides, which stay in the wheat.
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So you're getting a little bit more toxic pasta than you would get in Italy.
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That's why a lot of people that go to Italy or Greece, they say they lose weight.
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Well, yeah, because in those countries, they don't have all the chemicals.
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Whenever there's chemicals in your food, your body's fat will wrap around it.
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Basically, your fat is just protecting the organs from toxicity.
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So when there's extra calories and extra toxins, you create fat.
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So that's why sometimes when people lose weight quickly, they get sick or they
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have an ill feeling because you're processing those toxins a second time.
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Realize that. There is some toxicity in the wheats and the breads and the pastas
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that we get in this country. If you go on a Mediterranean diet,
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focus on olive oil, fish, fruit, vegetables.
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You can have a salad with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, those types of things.
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Those are anti-inflammatory. Mediterranean diet is wonderful.
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It's a nice longevity diet, and it's great for your heart health.
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Now, if you're wanting to go and gain...
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Muscle mass. One thing that's been really popular lately is keto.
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Now, it's a low-carb diet. It's great for rapid fat loss as well,
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and it stabilizes your blood sugar.
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Keto, I hear people talk about a lot in the gym, and keto is new for people
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that, I guess it's very similar to the Atkins diet, because it was high fat, high meat.
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You got to avoid it long term because there are people that do get heart issues,
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because you need to balance it with micronutrients once in a while as well.
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You need more vegetables. You need more fruits once in a while.
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So you got to balance out keto. Don't go 100% keto and not balance it out with
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other types of diets because the keto can get to you over time.
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Be careful with the keto, but it is good for, you know, decreasing fat loss,
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also increasing muscle mass.
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It's nice if you're cutting for a competition or if you're just trying to drop
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your fat to a lower percentage, but cycle it with some other diets.
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You could cycle it with the Mediterranean diet.
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That would be fine. All of these diets need to be cycled.
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I think a lot of people think, I go on a diet, I'm on that diet for the rest
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of my life. There was a thought process like that for the longest time.
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But now what we're finding is you need to cycle through different diets.
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Because if your body adapts, and once your body adapts to whatever calorie content
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you usually intake or a specific diet, traditionally, still store fat.
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If your goal is to constantly challenge your body to grow and to improve,
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you're going to have to cycle diets.
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The next thing is intermittent fasting. Now, intermittent fasting has been all the rage lately.
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I know that a lot of people have done long-term fasting, which is called prolonged
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fasting or intermittent fasting. But intermittent fasting, a lot of people are trying.
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And the one thing is it does great things for your insulin sensitivity,
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and it's great for fat burning.
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So again, you can do this during a cutting stage, and you also want to combine
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it with lower carb eating.
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Now, it doesn't have to be as low as carb as keto, but it's going to be lower carbs.
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You're going to cycle it with 16 hours of no eating to 8 hours of eating.
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Now, I think that's a lot of eating, personally. I think it'd be better if you
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wanted to do intermittent fasting,
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to do 20 hours of no eating and then a four-hour window of eating.
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So then what would happen is you'd go to bed. Now, I recommend if you're doing
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the intermittent fasting to not to skip dinner because dinner is one of those
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things if you eat it too late at night, you just store all that as fat anyway.
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So skip dinner, go to bed, and you don't eat until the next day.
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And say you eat at 10 o'clock. Maybe you're eating from 10 to 2 or you're eating from 8 to noon.
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So you're eating two meals in that 24 cycle. So 20 hours off, four cycles on.
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As long as well as intermittent fasting, there's also a diet called OMAD,
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which means you only eat one meal a day.
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Basically, what's happening with OMAD is when you eat one meal a day.
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You're decreasing the amount of time you're triggering your insulin.
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Insulin, as most people know, if you've listened to any of my other podcasts, it's going to store fat.
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So when you trigger your insulin, you're going right into fat storage.
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So OMAD is a great alternative. If you can just eat one meal a day,
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Now, again, you're going to cycle this.
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Don't do OMAD for your whole life. You're going to cycle this.
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You might do OMAD for a little bit, and then maybe you cycle it back to a 20-40
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for a little bit, and then maybe you do low-carb keto, and go for like 30 to
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60-day cycles on these and see how you do.
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You're going to see that the weight comes off easier when you're cycling than
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instead of just doing a grind of a year or one meal a day, your cycles will
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actually help you lose weight because your body will need to adapt to the new changes.
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So intermittent fasting is great for people, especially it helps you control your cravings,
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The snacking through the day is really unhealthy for people.
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It used to be when I was growing up, they told us that we should eat five to six meals a day.
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That's great if you're running a marathon and you're constantly working out
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and you're up on your feet all day.
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But if you're eating five to six meals a day and you have a desk job,
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you're just basically saying, I'm going to consume and then I'm going to trigger
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my insulin to store the fat because it's not getting used.
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And I'm going to eat some more and I'm going to trigger my insulin to store
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the fat because I'm not up working out and running around and doing stuff all day long.
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If you're walking all day long, yeah, you might get away with three or four
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meals a day, but five or six is way too much.
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There's a reason why people keep getting larger and gaining weight.
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They're eating way too much processed foods and they're eating way too often.
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So decrease your insulin by doing some type of intermittent or OMAD fasting type of diet.
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All right, that was a mouthful. So I'm going to move on to the next one.
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So that is next is plant-based diets or whole food diets.
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There are people that it's kind of a vegan or a vegetarian style diet where
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plant-based is all you eat is things that come from plants.
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It could be fruits and vegetables and it's nonstop.
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It's great for cleansing out your digestive system.
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There's different types of plants that will help get rid of parasites,
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plants and herbs anyway.
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It's great for cleansing, for longevity, for skin health.
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It's going to focus on greens, legumes and natural proteins.
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Now, the whole food diet is the natural proteins.
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You can get protein from plants, though, guys. You can get protein from broccoli.
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There's a lot of protein in vegetables.
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People don't realize how much protein there is across the board in plants and vegetables.
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Then the whole food diet just says, I'm only going to eat foods that came from
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the ground, like from a plant, or...
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Are from protein sources of like whole
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food meats like beef and chicken but
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they focus on non-steroidal non-antibotic ridden
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animals and this is a healthy way of eating so you're going to go organic typically
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with a plant or whole food diet you're going to make sure that there's no extra
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steroids or hormones which quite frankly guys even on keto and all the other
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diets you should try to make sure you're as clean as possible because if you're
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eating cows that were jacked full of steroids,
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if you're eating chickens that were on antibiotics and all that stuff,
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that stuff stays in the meat.
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And then it's like a toxin that your body has to try to eliminate.
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I know that if I'm allergic actually to meat that has antibiotics in it,
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if the antibiotics are there, I can't eat chicken that has antibiotics in it.
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It will make me very sick.
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I've learned a long time ago, I can eat, you know, free range chickens,
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but I can't eat chickens that are grown in factories because I get really sick.
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Just realize if people are getting sick from those things, it's probably a sign
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that you may be experiencing inflammation or something like that and not even realize it.
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Try to go organic as much as possible. And then the paleo.
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So paleo is great for, you know, inflammation.
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It's going to get rid of all your grains, first of all, and dairy and any processed foods.
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It's great for energy balance. it's going to focus on, again,
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natural things that come from the earth, natural things that come from animal product.
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So the paleo diet is based off of the Paleolithic or the Stone Age. That's where it's from.
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It's a diet that it aims to mimic the eating paths of our prehistoric ancestors.
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So you're going to focus on fruits, vegetables, very lean meats,
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some seafood and eggs, nuts and seeds, a lot of nuts and seeds,
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and grains are going to be eliminated.
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Refined sugar is going to be gone. A paleo diet's not bad either,
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and it's more of a natural diet.
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Just anything that can't, you can eat anything that basically our ancestors
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would have eaten is paleo.
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Again, these are five really popular diets right now that are lifestyle diets
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that you can cycle through.
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And all of these diets, honestly, guys, they don't interfere with your social
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calendar much. I know a lot of people say, I don't want to diet because I'm not
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Oh my goodness, I'm going to have to go on a diet and then I'm not going to
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be able to go out with friends. But the reality is, is Mediterranean diet,
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you can go out with friends.
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You just choose a restaurant that has more Mediterranean food.
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Even keto, you just go somewhere that has more meat. You know,
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low carbs, stay away from the carbs. Don't go for Mexican if you're on keto.
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Even intermittent fasting, if you're doing intermittent fasting,
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you could go for Mexican. Have one of your meals at a Mexican restaurant.
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All of these diets you can cycle through and still have a social calendar.
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And a lot of people, they just don't want to die because they're, oh, I'm going to have.
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No, 30, 60 days, try a diet out.
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See how it works. Some of them won't work for you, especially if you haven't
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done the food sensitivity test, because you're still going to get inflamed from some of the foods.
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Give it 30 days. If it's not working, switch to a different diet.
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That's the way to go. That's what you need to do if you want to get in shape and lose weight.
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The next one is to focus on muscle gain. And there's different diets that focus on muscle gain.
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The biggest one, though, is to make sure you are getting enough protein.
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And most people recommend that you get one to one and a half grams of protein
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per pound of body weight.
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Now, if you're 500 pounds, you're not going to be eating 500 grams of protein.
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It's per pound of body weight that you want to get to.
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So if you're a man and you weigh 500 pounds, hopefully you don't,
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and you want to get down to say 250 pounds or 200 pounds,
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you're a big tall man and you want to get down to 200 pounds,
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you would be eating 200 to about 300 grams of.
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Protein per day. So that's a lot of protein.
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You may eat like four meals a day in order to get all that protein in.
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Intermittent fasting, when you're trying to gain muscle, not the best idea for
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a diet, but you could go, you could definitely go keto, but you're going to have to eat a lot.
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Now, if you're a woman, let's say you want to weigh 120, 115,
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120 pounds, so you'd be eating about 115 grams of protein per day.
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So just realize now, if you get less than that, it's not going to hurt once
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in a while, but that's the goal. This is muscle gain.
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This is not for the faint of heart. This is somebody that wants to build muscle.
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Now, if you don't want to compete or if you're not trying to gain super amounts
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of muscle, you're still going to want to get more protein as you get older because
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we tend to cut back on our protein and then we start to lose even more muscle mass.
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We can lose several pounds of muscle a year if we don't get enough protein and
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if we don't lift weights.
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Remember that you can do more protein as you get older just so to help out your body.
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Now, again, make sure it's non-steroidal, non-antibiotic meat so that it's healthy.
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Now, when you go out to eat, you don't really have that much of an option.
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I recommend when you're dieting, try to eat out less.
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Maybe go out once a month or once a week, but don't go out more than that because
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you're going to have unclean food, honestly.
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When you eat out, you don't know where they actually got the food from.
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So a high-protein diet, you're going to focus on chicken. Chicken is.
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It's easy to make. Salmon. You can have some rice. Eggs are a big one.
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And light on the vegetables.
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So you're going to have vegetables, but they go long. Now, no sugar.
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You're not going to go eat some candy. You're not going to go have soda.
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On your high-protein diet, you're not eating that stuff.
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You're not having pasta. You're not having pizza. That's not on a high-protein
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diet. You've got to have flexible eating, too.
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They say if it fits your macros. These are macro diets.
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You're going to be working on athletics or bodybuilding. That's typically the
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people that want to focus on the muscle gain. I think we all need to focus on more muscle gain.
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There's a bulking stage. So even when you're gaining muscle,
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this is a bulking stage. You're going to increase your caloric protein and maybe
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even go higher on protein and carbohydrates when you're trying to bulk.
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And then when you cut back, you're going to cut out the carbs.
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Carbs are what cause fat, guys. And carbs come from sugar.
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It comes from pasta, breads, those types of things. So if you want to lean up,
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you're going to cut that out.
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And you're going to keep the high protein and any healthy fats like avocado,
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olive oil. Get rid of the seed oils. Just no.
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No more seed oils. So protein, healthy fats.
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You can have olive oil. That's a healthy fat. You can have avocado oil.
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Those are types of things that you can eat. There's no reason to eat seed oil anymore.
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It's been documented over and over. It's very carcinogenic. So stop eating the seed oils.
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Then you're going to carb cycle. so you're going to have high carb days to fuel
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and train. When you're not training, you're going to have low carb days.
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Unless you're training six days a week, which unless you're getting ready for
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a bodybuilding competition, you probably aren't.
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But if you are training that much, you might cycle like four days of high carb,
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three days of low carb, or vice versa, depending on how much fat you need to lose.
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Low carb days are going to burn your fat for fuel. The other thing is,
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is you don't want to have any
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type of carbs first thing in the morning. Because when you wake up in the morning,
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you have cycled through a night of fasting.
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So the longer you can go and not eat until after your first workout,
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the better and the more fats you're going to burn. That's just a little insider tip.
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Wait to eat until after your morning workout.
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Okay, next is carbs. Now carbs is completely dependent on your activity.
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Some people say keep it to a half to one grab per pound of of body weight. Some people say go less.
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Some people say eliminate them. This is going to be completely dependent on
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where you're at in a cycle.
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But it can be two grams of as high as two grams if you're bulking.
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So two grams of carbs per pound when you're bulking may be a thing.
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It depends on what you're looking for.
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And then fats are about 0.3 to 0.5 grams per pound.
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I really don't track fats because I don't eat a ton of fat. I eat it along with.
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It's like more of a supplement.
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So I'll have olive oil and I'll have avocado.
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So those are things you can do as far as muscle gaining goes.
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Muscle gaining is very important, especially when you're training.
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Again, make sure you're eliminating anything that causes inflammation.
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Inflammation in your body is really toxic. It leads to all kinds of body breakdown and diseases.
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And inflammation is the root cause of a lot of diseases. So be careful with
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anything you're putting in your body. The next thing is water,
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and water is so important.
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So if you currently weigh...
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200 pounds, you should be drinking 100 ounces of water a day.
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The whole fallacy of eight ounces, eight cups of eight ounce glasses per day
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is a fallacy because a lot of people are walking around dehydrated.
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When you're dehydrated, you don't flush fat, you don't flush out toxins.
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And you don't feel very well.
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You might get some brain fog, you might not feel good, you might get sick more often.
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So if any of that speaks to you, make sure you're getting enough water.
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So take your body weight and divide it by two. So it's about half an ounce per pound of body weights.
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Again, 200 pounds, you get 100 ounces of water a day.
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If you weigh 120 and you're a woman, you're getting 60 ounces,
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maybe even a little bit more of water per day. So just remember that.
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Eight glasses of eight ounces is 64 ounces.
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That's for somebody that weighs 128 pounds, right?
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So you need to get more water than someone that weighs 128 pounds if you're an adult male, okay?
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When you drink a lot of water, you're going to increase how much fat you burn,
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and it also supports detoxification.
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And we want to easily, if you can just add water to your diet,
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now don't add soda, but add water and you will greatly increase fat metabolism.
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That's a huge thing that people don't realize.
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Again, I'm going to repeat the protein. So 0.8 to one and a half grams of protein
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per pound of body weight is just one of the macros people should do.
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It's essential for tissue repair, for your metabolism, and to keep muscle mass.
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I mean, you want to keep muscle mass as you get older, and you want to keep
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your metabolism high and repair connective tissues.
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If you're having problems with your joints or you keep getting injured,
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it's because you're not getting enough protein.
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It may be because you're clumsy too. That totally may be. I tend to be a little
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on the clumsy side myself, but.
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If you're not getting enough protein, it's definitely probably part of the issue as well.
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You want to keep protein up. So, you know, it depends on what your goal is,
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but you should probably be eating about 60% of your diet in protein and 30%
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in fat and keep it down to 10% in carbs when you're trying to gain muscle and
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adjust it for your goals.
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Now, it may change. There's times where you need 40% of your body weight in
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carbs or 40% of your diet is going to be carbs and 30% protein and 30% fat or
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vice versa. but you just need to keep it going depending on what your goal is.
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Are you trying to lose fat? Are you trying to gain muscle mass?
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Are you trying to build? Are you trying to do endurance?
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I can't see anyone needing to do 40% in carbs unless they're training for something,
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unless they're extremely active, unless they're working out quite a bit.
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So just try to watch the carbs, guys. And most people eat most of their diet
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in carbs, and that's the problem.
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The other thing is juicing and water. There's a new movement.
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I don't know if you guys have seen it online. Dr. Fung is one of the proponents
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of prolonged fasting and long-term fasting and extended fasting.
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If you're obese or morbidly obese and you get yourself stuck and you find that
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you've tried every diet and you have not been able to lose weight,
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a lot of people are going on GLPs or semi-glutides or trisepitides.
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And they're creating new health
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issues and inflammation that they didn't realize that they had. Now...
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I'm not your doctor, so you do need to talk to your doctor and find out what's best for you.
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But prolonged fasting has been taking root, and it's a possible alternative.
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Now, most doctors won't like it. I'm just going to let you know,
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heads up, because most doctors don't know anything about it.
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So do your own research and look online, and then go talk to your doctor.
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That way you can answer questions your doctor may have as well.
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Water fasting is not for the faint of heart. Now, prolonged water fasting is a minimum of 24 hours.
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A lot of people will do three-day fast, five-day fast.
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I've even done a 40-day fast of water. The longest ever done was by Angus Barbieri,
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and his was a Scottish man.
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And this was done back in 1938 into 1939.
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And this Scottish man fasted water only for 382 days. Now, when I say water
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only, he did have some tea with no sugar, coffee, and some vitamins.
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And then he did some yeast extract.
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So there were some supplementations that you did. You...
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Should not be fasting without electrolytes for more than three days.
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Honestly, you're going to feel the pain. And some people recommend taking electrolytes
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every single day. You're doing a prolonged fast.
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So there's fasting salts you can take in pill form, or you can just put some
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salt in a water and drink that.
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But electrolytes, you do not want to mess around with that.
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And you do need to get blood work done, and you do need to be medically supervised
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if you're doing more than two or three days. That's the truth.
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And if you're really small and you don't have much fat, you You really should
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be medically supervised if you're just doing 24 hours.
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The long-term water fasting, I've seen people that they're very skinny and they
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try to do a 30-day water fast and then they have major problems.
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It's not for people that are super skinny.
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The 40-day water fast is for somebody that is overweight or they're having major
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health concerns like cancer or autoimmune disease or problems that need to be fixed.
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That's what the prolonged water fasting is for. Now, if you're doing it,
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I honestly think that everybody should be able to do a five-day water fast once
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a month or once a quarter.
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But that's, again, you should be talking to your doctor. But it's a good way
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to clean you out. It gives your body a break. It will detox.
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It does, after about day two, you're going to get into autophagy where you're
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getting rid of bad cells your body doesn't need.
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People are doing water fasting now when they're going into chemo because it
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helps with the chemo. It helps with chemo treatment.
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They also do, well, they're also doing acupuncture during that,
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but acupuncture along with water fasting during chemo has been doing great things for people.
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Again, this is not for the faint of heart. This should be medically supervised,
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especially if you have any health conditions.
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You should make sure that you're taking care when you're doing this.
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Now, there's a company called True North.
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It's based out of California. They have a place that you can go to.
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Now, they're not the only company.
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There's a lot of companies now out there doing supervised water fasting.
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Through North is a company you can go to, and you can water fast for up to 40 days with them.
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They will do your vitals every single day.
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You stay there for 40 days. Now, you have to have the time to stay there.
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It does not cost a ton of money.
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People are like, oh, it is a couple thousand. It's not. It's only a few hundred dollars a day.
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I'm sure that will change, and I'm not going to quote a price. You can talk to them.
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But you go there for 30 or 40 or sometimes 20, depending on who you are,
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and you get sort of supervised water fast. Now they're going to give you tea.
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They're going to have you do exercises. You're not just going to be sitting there for 40 days.
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They're going to have you walk because you're going to be walking while you're water fasting.
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You'll be amazed that after day two, if you can make it to day two, how good you feel.
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A lot of people will stop the first day in water fasting because they feel like
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crap. They get a headache.
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They're grouchy. They can't do it. And they quit. And then they go binge somewhere. But that's not
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It's not true water fasting. I honestly feel like to do a prolonged water fasting,
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right, it has to be more than 18 to 24 hours.
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Just because by day two, the end of day two, you're feeling great.
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By day three, you feel amazing.
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I mean, that's why people can go for so long is because the body switches from
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burning glucose that's in your bloodstream.
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First, what happens is the body goes through the bloodstream and burns up the glucose.
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Then it goes into the liver and it burns up stored glucose there.
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Then once the liver has depleted those stores, then it switches into what's called ketosis.
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It starts burning ketones, and ketones get burned by burning your fat.
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So it's going to go and it's going to burn your fat.
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Now, one thing I will say, when I water fast, I still work out.
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I have noticed that I can lift heavier when I'm water fasting than normal because
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there's no inflammation in my joints. I feel good.
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However, I can't go for an hour when I lift weights.
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I can only go for about 30 minutes, and then I run out of steam because ketosis
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takes a little bit longer to generate those ketones. Well, I run out of steam
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at 30 minutes and then I have to take a break and I get some water. My body recovers.
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Don't think that you can go on water fast and work out heavy and hard because you can't.
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It's going to slow you down a little bit. But mentally, clarity.
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The mental clarity that comes with water fasting and spiritual clarity that
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comes with water fasting is amazing, I must say.
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Think about water fasting as a possible something to do maybe once a quarter,
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once a month, depending on where you're at.
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If you're morbidly obese or obese or have cancer, autoimmune,
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you might want to talk to True North.
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I believe they have an online version too if you can't go and stay,
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but there's different types of cycles you can do. The next one is juice fasting.
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I don't know if you guys have seen Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead.
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It was about a guy from Australia that had gone through a lot of different cycles
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of trying to lose weight, and he got chronic uticaria.
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It's an autoimmune disease which caused him to itch and get rashes, and he was miserable.
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He was on prednisone and all kinds of other medications, and he decided to juice
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fast. Now, he wanted to juice fast for 60 days, and
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He went on the juice fast and met another guy that had the same disease.
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And he incorporated him into the Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead movie.
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Now, he's got Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead 1 and Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead 2,
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both movies. I recommend watching them both. They're amazing.
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Anyway, so the Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead movie will take you through how to do a proper juice fast.
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Now, juice fasting is great because you still get nutrients during a juice fast.
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I still recommend getting medically supervised because if you're on medications,
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which a lot of people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s are, As you juice fast,
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you're going to drop weight pretty quickly, just like water fasting.
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Both of these need to be medically supervised. And they may need to decrease
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whatever doses of medications you're on.
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You're going to have to get blood work done probably every two weeks,
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maybe every week, because you're going to significantly drop weight.
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It's going to detox your liver and your gut.
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You're going to make sure you use organic vegetables, by the way.
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No chemicals on your vegetables. You don't want the insecticides or the pesticides
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or any of that stuff for any fruits and vegetables that you're juicing.
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You're going to use organic vegetables and fruits. It's just going to clean you out.
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Beets, great for the liver, great for blood. It cleans out your blood.
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Cucumbers, oh my gosh, celery. All of these things you're going to juice on a daily basis.
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It's a great way to clean yourself out and get yourself back into a clean eating mindset.
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If you've been eating junk food for a long time, juice fasting,
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forcing yourself into this process will reset your whole mindset regarding food.
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It's not for everybody either.
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So this is not for the faint of heart. I don't say you have to do a 60-day,
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but maybe you do a seven-day day or see what you can do.
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Maybe after seven, you decide to go longer. It's up to you.
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This is your life, but you have the ability to be and look the way you want,
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but you gotta own it and take responsibility for it.
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I'm just giving you options now. you've got to figure out what you need to do.
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I think that juice fasting is great because it's amazing to clean out your body, to repair your body.
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You can even cycle juice fasting with a couple days of water fasting a week.
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So it's something that you can do, but you got to take control.
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One of the things with water fasting and juice fasting that I love is that it
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resets any type of food cravings or food addictions that you have.
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Food is medicine, and food can also be poison.
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And I think we eat poison and toxins all day long and then wonder why later we get sick.
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We wonder why we get cancer or we're obese or we have growths or we have our
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hair falling out or we're premature aging. I have people tell me all the time
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how young I look because I eat clean.
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If you're not going to eat clean, you're going to age faster.
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All those chemicals, they're aging you. So when you're eating food dyes and
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food additives and food flavorings, all that stuff is chemicals.
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It's not good. It's going to age you faster.
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Juicing is nature's pharmacy. It has vitamins. It's got minerals. It's got enzymes.
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It's got essential elements in there. And it's an antioxidant.
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Most of the fruits and vegetables are antioxidants. So when you juice in liquid
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form, you're flushing all that bad stuff out and replacing it with a bunch of
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good stuff. I think juicing is phenomenal.
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Food is medicine. Food behaves just like medicine.
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In fact, a lot of the medicines are based off of food. They're based off of
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food that we eat. For instance, anti-inflammatory.
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If you eat turmeric and ginger, it's an anti-inflammatory.
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Now, companies are selling it in pill form, but I always think by the time they've
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processed it and put it in pill form, it would have been better just to eat
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it. But turmeric and ginger and garlic, oh, those things are great anti-inflammatory.
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You can even eat garlic at night.
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I have taken to doing garlic with onions.
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This may not sound great to everybody, but I do garlic with onions,
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a little bit of mozzarella to calm down the bite that the garlic and the onions
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has, with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
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And I chop it up in this fine piece and I turn into like a little salad and it is really good.
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And I do it at night because it helps your liver flush out. I do it like five o'clock.
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I don't like to eat too late because I think that you need to have like three
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or four hour break before you go to bed before.
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Anyway, so if you can get a three or four hour break before you sleep.
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But this is great for cleaning out your liver. It's great for decreasing inflammation.
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And you can throw some beets in there too once in a while if you like.
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Berries and salmon, great anti-inflammatory. Any type of omega-3s that you have,
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whitefish, all that stuff is great for inflammation. Remember,
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these things are medicine.
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They're going to help you feel better. Every time I go to the doctor,
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what medications are you on? I'm like, none. I'm on no medication.
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And I don't know why it's assumed that once you get into your 50s and 60s that
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you have to be on medication. I think that's a scary place to be in our world,
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that people just assume you are on medications.
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We should not be on so much medicine. Try to get to the point where you're using
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food to do what the medicine did, and maybe eventually you can get off some of those medicines.
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Again, talk to your doctor. I'm not going to be medical advice,
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but think about it. What if you could?
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How would life be if you felt better by the food you ate instead of just eating anything at a whim?
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No food is worth your life, guys. No food is worth living in pain and suffering.
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No food is worth that. There's also some immune boosters.
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Citrus is big. Kiwi is phenomenal. I love kiwi, but I found that kiwi is one
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of my food sensitivities. I don't eat kiwi anymore, but...
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Citrus is great kiwi garlic oh my
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gosh garlic is just like overall good it's good for your immune system
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it's good for inflammation it helps your liver all
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of these things are great mushrooms are great to boost your
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immunity if you're sick there's a lot of different mushroom cocktails you
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can make and elderberry elderberry echinacea those
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types of things different herbs are great too so great
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immune boosters out there with different types of fruits and vegetables
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and foods and don't forget to support your
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liver beets and arugula are fantastic for your
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liver if you're juicing and you have a problem with your
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liver or you have a problem detoxing liver or kidneys take
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eating beets arugula dandelion greens they sell
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those now at some of the health food stores lemon milk thistle milk thistle
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tea is phenomenal if you're if you've got a liver liver issue milk thistle tudca
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all those types of things are necessary lemon you should have lemon water at
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every meal lemon water is great everybody should have lemon water because everybody's
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liver in this country If you have any weight around your belly,
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you probably have fatty liver.
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And you need to clear out your liver. Get your liver cleaned out.
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Lemon water, milk thistle. It depends on how bad it is, but everyone should
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be trying to constantly cleanse their liver. It's like a filter.
38:20
Think about your liver as the filter in a fish tank.
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If it gets dirty or damaged, your fish water is going to get dirty.
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What happens, eventually, the whole fish tank goes bad.
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The liver is one of the most important organs you have in your body.
38:36
Then there's gut health. So a lot of people now, I'm one of them,
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are making their own yogurt because a lot of the yogurts and the kefirs we have
38:44
have very little probiotics, even though they say, oh, I eat yogurt,
38:47
so I'm getting enough probiotics.
38:49
But honestly, you're probably not.
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Even when you take probiotics, you don't know how much is live culture and how
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much we'll actually take.
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So a lot of people now have started making their own yogurt on kefir.
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And they eat fermented foods, but you can make your own yogurt at home.
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There's yogurt makers you can get for under $40 or $50 on Amazon.
39:10
And then you buy cultures.
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And you can use pills and put the pills, like live culture pills.
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Or you can buy different types to get it started. And every time,
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you're going to make your own yogurt.
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Now, this yogurt is a little tart or bitter. I add fruit into my yogurt to make
39:28
it better with a little bit of honey, and it tastes much better.
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But you can make your own yogurt at home. You can do sauerkraut.
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Those types of fermented things, they're going to help your gut,
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and your gut is so important.
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Your gut helps regulate your immune system. Your gut helps you lose weight.
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If your gut does not have the right amount of bacteria and the right balance
39:47
of bacteria, it's going to be really hard to lose weight.
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And have you ever met one of those people that can eat anything they want,
39:54
and they never seem to gain weight? they eat junk food.
39:57
They eat all kinds of food. Now, I'm not saying they're healthy by any means, but they eat.
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A lot of food. Well, they have probably a better gut biome than someone that's,
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say, 50 pounds overweight.
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Because what they're doing is, even the 50 pound overweight person may eat way
40:14
less and gain more weight because their gut biome is messed up.
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And if you were on a lot of antibiotics, or maybe you were born C-section,
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your gut biome may not be as healthy as someone that was born naturally or hasn't been on antibiotics.
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Just remember that you constantly have to be working on improving your gut.
40:31
When your gut gets overrun by the wrong bacteria or bad bacteria,
40:36
it can also be susceptible to parasites.
40:39
So if the parasite comes through, it might take hold. There's a lot of parasites
40:42
out there, especially if you travel internationally.
40:45
Remember that you don't want to get ridden with parasites because your gut biome is low as well.
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Detoxing with parasites, that was a whole conversation we had with the functional
40:53
doctor as well. Those are some things you need to work on.
40:57
Functional medicine is becoming more and more popular because we
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are having so many health issues related to our
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food so let's really work on our food and
41:06
our gut and apple cider vinegar there's another one it's good for
41:08
the liver it's good for your gut health some people recommend just taking a
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teaspoon or a tablespoon every morning with some water it helps you wake up
41:15
throw a little bit of turmeric and maybe ginger in there that's a nice with
41:19
lemon and that's a nice little morning cocktail it'll just kind of clean you
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out you can do that before you work out or after those are just healthy things
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let's get healthy together, everyone.
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Let's make sure that we live not just a quantity of life, but a quality of life.
41:33
Some people say, oh, I need my wine or my alcohol or I need my bad food. No, you don't.
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You need your life because you need to live a high quality where you're not
41:42
in a nursing home, where you don't need help all the time.
41:45
Let's talk about our brains because I know a lot of people have been working on brain technology.
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There's a lot more information coming out about brain health and brain focus.
41:57
Now, let's talk foods first. Avocados are wonderful. It's a
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It's got really good healthy fats
42:03
in it. Fish oil, anything that's got omega-3s are going to be amazing.
42:07
Walnuts, blueberries, green tea. Green tea is great for the brain.
42:11
But a lot of people have talked about the omega-3s. And I think it's extremely
42:15
important if you want to have a really healthy brain.
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There's a supplement called theanine or theanine. I think it's theanine.
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It has been the rage lately.
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You put that together with maybe some B12 or some ashwagandha.
42:27
Theanine is looking at changing the way we think as we get older.
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Theanine is one of the healthier supplements. It's also known as L-theanine.
42:37
And it's produced from the tea plant, which is kind of interesting.
42:42
But it's an amino acid. And it not only calms you, so a lot of people will take
42:46
it before they go to bed, but it's got inflammatory and antioxidants.
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And it's supposed to help greatly improve mental acuity or mental alertness.
42:55
Now, I have been taking it for a while. And it's also supposed to help with memory.
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So if you have someone that's going through, it might help.
43:03
They're talking now that it might help with people with Alzheimer's.
43:06
So it's kind of becoming more of a miracle little amino acid.
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I'm not going to say it's going to cure anything, but you can maybe supplement
43:14
with it to help your brain health.
43:16
And then the next is hormonal balances. Now, flax seeds, lots of cruciferous
43:20
vegetables, and maca help with your hormone balance. Now, cruciferous vegetables,
43:25
I haven't talked about yet, but they are amazing for just clearing out toxins as well.
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So the cruciferous vegetables are things like broccoli and cauliflower.
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And they just help your body detox. And detoxing is so important for us with
43:41
all the environmental toxins that we face these days. It's going to help balance you out.
43:46
When you get sick, what do you take? A lot of people, the first thing they do
43:50
is they go to the medicine cabinet.
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But what if you could do things that were antiviral or immune boosting instead?
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Instead of going to the medicine cabinet, think of food as medicine.
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And go for garlic and onions or elderberry. turmeric honey.
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Oh, manuka honey. If you get a sore throat, a spoonful of manuka honey is an
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amazing thing with just a saltwater gargle.
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Do a saltwater gargle and then take a spoonful of manuka honey.
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Manuka honey is great for sore throats.
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Ginger, lemon, and honey are a great concoction when you have a sore throat too.
44:24
Turmeric is great for colds and flus. Now, I'm not saying this is the only thing
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you're going to have to take every time you get sick, but do this as soon as
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you start feeling a little ill, and you'll be amazed at how quickly you recover.
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And do this while you're ill. You can take all of these things because even
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if you have to go on medicine, then this is something that's going to help you
44:45
get better faster, okay?
44:47
So if you're inflamed, and inflammation is the leading cause of most diseases
44:53
out there, and it causes pain, the pain you're feeling from inflammation is
44:57
your first sign your body is not healthy, just in general.
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If you've got inflammation in your joints and swelling and pain or you're getting
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a rash or you're itchy, you're getting inflammation.
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And fruits and berries are great for that. If you're on a keto diet and you're
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getting a ton of inflammation, maybe you need to cycle off and do some berries.
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Olive oil, turmeric, again, turmeric is mentioned so much as a healthy food. And then again.
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Omega-3s as well. And don't forget B12.
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A lot of times the B vitamins, people forget as well as vitamin D.
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And they're finding that we may need a lot more vitamin D because we're not outside anymore.
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I know people up their vitamin D during the winter, but they forget to do it
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during the summer, especially if they're inside all day long,
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because people used to be outside all day long.
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So you may need to increase your vitamin D. Get your vitamin D tested with your
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blood work and see where it's at.
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But you should be on the higher level of vitamin D, not the lower side.
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Our liver is one of the most crucial organs in the body.
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Now, I'm not saying you can live out with any of them, but with an unhealthy
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liver, your whole body is going to suffer.
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Your liver, if you can keep it clean and detoxed, you're most likely to have
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a lot of other problems in the body because when your liver gets toxic,
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you get more inflammation.
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When your liver gets toxic, you may get cancers that you didn't expect.
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When your liver gets toxic, your whole body starts to break down.
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And you need to have things that support bile production and detox you.
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And dandelion greens, arugula, beets, lemon, I think I talked about these a little bit earlier.
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These are great things for unhealthy liver. I take Tudka as well as milk thistle.
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There's just a lot of different supplements you can take when you have liver issues.
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But you need to support your liver as much as possible. And let's say you have
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a cardiovascular issue and you need to balance your cholesterol.
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Even if you've had heart surgery, a lot of times people don't realize how much
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the diet impacts your heart and your cholesterol. Heck, your liver also impacts your cholesterol.
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If your liver gets toxic, you're going to have higher cholesterol naturally anyway.
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When you have an unhealthy heart, you're going to focus more on avocados and olive oil and oats.
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Chia seeds are really good for the heart too, as well as almonds.
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They help balance your cholesterol. If you can balance your cholesterol out,
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you're going to do much better.
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Now, a lot of people not ever hear any of these things. A lot of people constantly
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just go straight for pharmaceuticals and they don't realize how much they should
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just change their diet because your food and medicine.
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Cancer prevention. Let's talk a little bit about that. With cancer prevention,
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cruciferous vegetables are amazing.
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They are going to detox the heck out of you.
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There's actually sulforaphane, I think is what it's called, where people are
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selling now sulforaphane, where it's broccoli, but it's on overdrive.
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So they basically take, and it's pounds and pounds of broccoli in one single
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pill, and that's helping detox people.
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So sulforafan, great for cancer prevention as well as helping recover.
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And then garlic and green tea again.
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I think you might be seeing a pattern. Garlic, turmeric, cruciferous vegetables.
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Lemon, all these things. Just eat them every single day.
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Green tea. Have these things every single day, and it's going to help you live a healthier life.
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What will happen is once you have all the healthy stuff, you're not going to
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really be hungry for the unhealthy stuff.
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That's kind of how it works. So it'll naturally change for you.
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Cruciferous vegetables, they're antioxidants, and some of these things have
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anti-tumor effects. Not that I'm going to say any of these are 100% cure,
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but why don't you help your body heal naturally as much as possible?
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And then there's skin health and eye health, and carrots and spinach and tomatoes are great.
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They have vitamin A, they support your skin's collagen, and people keep saying,
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oh, I'm going to go do this procedure to boost my collagen.
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Well, that's great, but what foods are you taking in to boost your collagen?
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Because you need food as well.
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Digestion, one of the great things, papaya seeds, I heard, is actually anti-parasite.
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So when people actually are going to fix their digestive system,
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a lot of them are doing papaya seeds.
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But papaya is in general good for your digestion. Pineapple is phenomenal.
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And then again, make your own yogurt and have some probiotics.
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And I think you'll improve your gut biome, your enzymes, and your gut flora overall.
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And then you're using medicine and food the way it's supposed to be.
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One of the other things I want to talk about is stress reduction.
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Holy basil is one of the great things for stress reduction that people don't usually take in.
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There's other kinds of mints and teas and herbs that people,
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they don't realize how much herbs affect our health as well.
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I'm going to go over a couple herbs or a few herbs here and just kind of go
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over them and describe what you can do to help your body with herbs.
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And the first is turmeric.
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Turmeric is, it's really anti-inflammatory. If you have bad liver,
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if you have a bad joints, if you have, if you injure yourself,
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let's say, because I recently injured myself, let's say you injure yourself
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recently. Taking turmeric is going to help with inflammation.
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And I know people are buying gadgets with red light and people are doing all
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these other things with different types of modalities.
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Let's work on the natural ways to heal ourselves first.
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Turmeric is one of the best herbs you can take. Now, I hate the flavor of turmeric.
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It's in a lot of Indian food. I just, I don't like the flavor.
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So I take a supplement in turmeric with ginger and garlic in it.
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But it's up to you. If you can handle the turmeric, great.
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If you can sprinkle a little bit on, great. But turmeric is one of the great herbs out there.
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Ashwagandha is great for stress relief. We talked about the holy basil,
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but ashwagandha is also really good for stress relief.
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And it helps balance your hormones and energy.
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So if you're having hormonal imbalances, even though you might be on HRT,
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ashwagandha may help be careful though when you're taking it because
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you don't want to take too much and mess up your hormones if you're doing
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supplemental hormones otherwise if you're trying to naturally balance your your
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hormones ashwagandha is wonderful then there's milk thistle milk thistle is
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wonderful for detoxing your whole body and helping your liver repair if you
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have fatty liver if you have liver cancer if you have primary bilinary cholangitis
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like i have an autoimmune liver issue.
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If you have any type of liver issues, milk thistle is wonderful.
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Dandelion root is also wonderful because dandelion is good for your liver and
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your kidneys because what tends to happen is when your liver goes bad,
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your kidneys are right behind it.
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They're suffering as well. When you're on milk thistle, a lot of people also take dandelion root.
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It's going to detox your liver, kidneys, and help you out overall.
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There's a lot of natural things out there, guys, that do so much to help the body.
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And then there's ginger. So ginger, I don't know if you were ever pregnant,
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but ginger pills or ginger chews is what they give pregnant women for nausea.
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Ginger is like the best thing to make sure you don't throw up.
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It's also good for your digestive system overall because it decreases inflammation.
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So ginger was wonderful, at least when I was pregnant. Then ginseng.
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It's great for your mood. It's great for, you know, focus, you know,
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I recommend not taking too much ginseng because it can get a little crazy,
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but ginseng's another good one. Now, oregano oil.
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If you get sick, oregano oil is really good antiviral and antibacterial.
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It's actually in a lot of supplements.
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Then peppermint. You can put a little bit of peppermint between your forehead
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when you get a sinus infection right on top. Peppermint oil helps with headaches.
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You can eat peppermint for digestion and headaches as well, and it relaxes your muscles.
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So if you get really tight muscles, peppermint oil is really good as well.
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Now you need to dilute it.
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Don't do straight peppermint oil on you, but you should have like a delivery
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oil. But peppermint is wonderful.
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And then burdock root. Now, burdock root is also in a lot of liver tonics for
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cleansing the blood as well as clearing up your skin health.
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So it's becoming more and more popular.
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I've seen it a lot. So I hope today helped. You need to realize that you get to choose how you look.
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You get to choose how you feel. And you get to choose everything about your physical body.
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Think about how much control that gives you. Your body and your health is in your control.
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You get to choose how you feel, but you've got to take responsibility and own it.
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If you've had medical issues, it's your body's way of saying,
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hey, look, something's wrong.
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Let's look at our diet. Let's look at our health and fix that first.
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Let's fix the function and the root problem and take ownership of our root problem.
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Because I think overall, if you can get your body exactly where you want it,
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your health will follow.
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If you can get your physical health there, your mind will stay strong longer
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as well. It gives you just so much of a better quality of life.
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Quality is what we're looking for, not just quantity.
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I don't want to live to 150 years if I'm in a wheelchair.
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I want to live to 150 years bopping around just like I do now.
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So remember, quality is just as important as quantity.
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I hope this helped. I hope that you can change a little bit every single day,
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make it a lifestyle to live healthy, and cycle your diets as need be.
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But in the long run, I hope the best for you, and I wish that everyone out there
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changes their diet in the right way so that they can live a healthy,
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prosperous life. This is Diva Mia signing off. Have a wonderful day.
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