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Discipline, Muscle, and Longevity: The Truth About Fitness with Alex Jamal · Ageless and Timeless Podcast®

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Speaker 1: Good morning everyone. This is Michelle Hughes from Ageless and Timeless.
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Speaker 1: You're a wonderful podcast that always tries to feature the
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Speaker 1: very best in the best of the best in their field,
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Speaker 1: and today I haves no exception. I have Alex Jamal
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Speaker 1: who is a big well celebrity trainer, but you know
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Speaker 1: trainer and nutritionist in Los Angeles, and he was introduced
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Speaker 1: to me by my good friend Rob Fletcher, who had
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Speaker 1: his own fitness facility for many years in Florida. So, actually, Alex,
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Speaker 1: good morning, And how did you and Rob know each other?
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Speaker 2: Just curious?
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Speaker 3: Good morning, I've done the Rob for many years. Actually
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Speaker 3: we met first time the ISSN International Society for Sports
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Speaker 3: Nutrition Conference.
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Speaker 2: Uh huh years ago? How many years ago was that?
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Speaker 3: You know what? No, the first time I met Rob,
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Speaker 3: I just remembered exactly. I was sitting in front row
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Speaker 3: at the VIP section the mister Olympia and he was
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Speaker 3: sitting next to me. He was all dressed. We were
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Speaker 3: almost maybe second droll, you know, in front of us
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Speaker 3: with Arnold Schwarzenegger and other mister Olympias. So then he
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Speaker 3: handed me his card and we just stayed a little
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Speaker 3: bit in contact and the next thing. Maybe two months later,
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Speaker 3: I see him in the iss and Conference Sports and
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Speaker 3: Nutrition Conference. That was twelve years ago.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow, wow, Well both of you have evolved since then.
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Speaker 3: Right, thank you. Yeah, it's been it's been a journey.
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Speaker 2: So tell me about you. Tell us about your journey.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure my audience wants to know how did you
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Speaker 1: go from there to there to hear? So give us
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Speaker 1: a quick thumbnail about how are where you are?
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Speaker 2: Today?
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Speaker 3: Well, quickly, like, I've always loved sports since I was
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Speaker 3: a kid, and I always wanted to be that that
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Speaker 3: either like a professional athlete that his passion will make
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Speaker 3: him money and live out of it, or be like
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Speaker 3: a champion and the same thing like sport would be
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Speaker 3: in every aspect of his life. And with that mindset,
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Speaker 3: every day since then, since I was maybe twelve, I've
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Speaker 3: always like trying to, you know, prove myself and excel
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Speaker 3: in life. So later on I decided to study nutrition,
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Speaker 3: and unfortunately I couldn't do it like the way I wanted,
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Speaker 3: so then I had to change my major at the
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Speaker 3: beginning and just have a degree in the business in business.
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Speaker 3: But on the side, I was working out, as you know,
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Speaker 3: I was in the basketball team and so on, and
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Speaker 3: then I got my certificates as a person trainer and nutritionists.
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Speaker 3: That was the first, like I was like maybe twenty
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Speaker 3: two years old, and then from there I started, you know,
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Speaker 3: getting side jobs, having like a part time job as
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Speaker 3: a trainer, and I kept excelling and then of course
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Speaker 3: developing my body because you know, to be able to
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Speaker 3: become the fitness champion that I wanted, it would take
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Speaker 3: many years, so maybe ten years after training or I
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Speaker 3: want to say maybe nine years something like that. That's
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Speaker 3: when I start, when I first competed, and then I
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Speaker 3: became mister Lebanon Beyruda, and then after that I traveled
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Speaker 3: to the world. And I was very fortunate in my
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Speaker 3: whole career because it's like it's like a blessing. I
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Speaker 3: have to say. I was always I don't know how,
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Speaker 3: but in a way or another. Of course I I
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Speaker 3: has it for it. But I would be either around
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Speaker 3: mister Olympia, around the celebrity around Sylvester Stone, Frank stallone,
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Speaker 3: around here, around in la in London in some way
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Speaker 3: some way. But I always had the mindset in my
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Speaker 3: head like I gotta you know, I want this. I
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Speaker 3: pursued it. But you know, I always liked you know,
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Speaker 3: I believe in in in in education. So for your listeners,
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Speaker 3: education is very important. You have to go to seven hours,
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Speaker 3: you have to. I mean recently, I I'm thinking to
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Speaker 3: get another it's a very prestigious degree from Duke University.
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Speaker 3: Although I don't really needed, but I just like, you know,
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Speaker 3: maybe this will add one percent of me. So the
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Speaker 3: mindset of of always always studying to be better, that's
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Speaker 3: that's that's my whole life and it carried me to
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Speaker 3: to to become the person I am now where I
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Speaker 3: own my own business and I have a small nice
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Speaker 3: studio for some celebrities that come train with me or
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Speaker 3: either my clients. I you know, I do public speaking.
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Speaker 3: I lecture about entire aging, about working out, must have lost,
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Speaker 3: stuff like that, everything that has to do with the
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Speaker 3: human body and exercise science. So uh pretty much.
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Speaker 1: That's so, where exactly is your studio?
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Speaker 3: I am located in Culver City, which is in uh.
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Speaker 1: I lived in I spent here in Marina del Rey.
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Speaker 1: I had a condo, have.
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Speaker 3: Many clients from Marina. I have many lines that come
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Speaker 3: from I'm not that far. It's only like five miles
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Speaker 3: from Marina, Right, oh.
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Speaker 2: I saw your address, actually, says Marina del Rey.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So all right, well let's let's let's dive in a
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Speaker 1: little bit, because people are very curious about fitness and nutrition,
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Speaker 1: and particularly today with all the rage about g LP
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Speaker 1: ones and people's weight loss being so dramatic. So I'm
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Speaker 1: just going to try to go methodically with first and foremost,
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Speaker 1: what is what do you think is the biggest misconception
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Speaker 1: people have about getting in.
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Speaker 3: Shape that they want to get they will get in
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Speaker 3: shape the next day off signing up.
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Speaker 2: In other words, impatience, very impatient. It's timetables.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so many, so many, you know, And that's
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Speaker 4: actually why you'd see many gyms and even like gyms
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Speaker 4: and people like you know, you go and check, they
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Speaker 4: sign up and they only come for a day or
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Speaker 4: two and then the rest of the year.
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Speaker 3: They're paying the membership, but they're not they're not showing
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Speaker 3: up to work out.
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Speaker 1: I know, I know, I think I've read somewhere the
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Speaker 1: percentages of people that sign up for gym memberships that
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Speaker 1: actually ever fulfill like attending the gym is it's an
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Speaker 1: abysmal number.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, and people always like in.
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Speaker 1: The beginning of the year, they have their New Year's
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Speaker 1: resolutions and oh, I'm going to join a gym, and
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Speaker 1: then you know, a month later, they're not even they're paying,
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Speaker 1: but they're not going so so all right, so so
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Speaker 1: in patience or belief that they can make a transformation transformation.
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Speaker 2: Much more quickly.
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Speaker 1: So what's your step by step approach to effect change
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Speaker 1: positive change?
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Speaker 3: Well, first, you know, from the beginning, you have to
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Speaker 3: have to like have this mindset of Okay, I'm joining
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Speaker 3: the gym, for example, or I'm hiring a person trainer,
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Speaker 3: or I'm jumping on this although I don't like that thing.
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Speaker 3: We talk about it later, I'll be on this diet. Well,
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Speaker 3: you have to start with the mentality of you know,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be this time. I know it's going to
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Speaker 3: be hard, but I'm not gonna quit the first thing
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Speaker 3: hits me. I'm not gonna say, oh it's too hard,
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Speaker 3: I can't do it. So you have to start with
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Speaker 3: the with the mental state where I will push every day,
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Speaker 3: I would push this time I have I have the
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Speaker 3: ability to do it. That's where you any person has
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Speaker 3: to start, you know, and not what the first thing,
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Speaker 3: Oh I get hungry right away, then I go eat.
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Speaker 3: You're supposed to get hungry if your goal is to
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Speaker 3: lose some fat. R And and of course picking, picking, picking,
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Speaker 3: or like hiring someone. I mean, not everyone can afford everything,
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Speaker 3: but I'm just saying, like hiring someone around you, around
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Speaker 3: your radius where you it's not very hard to go
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Speaker 3: to the gym or who's really has a course of success,
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Speaker 3: because that person will really play a good role in
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Speaker 3: keeping you on at least at the beginning when you
9:39
Speaker 3: because then you know, the beginning is always a little hard.
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Speaker 3: Then you break the bad habits, and then you get
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Speaker 3: most of the people after that. It's like a train.
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Speaker 3: They stick on the same route unless you know something
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Speaker 3: happened and they could, so majorly the mindset. Second, having
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Speaker 3: someone who can really support you. Third, trying to create,
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Speaker 3: like you know, a support system around you. Like if
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Speaker 3: you're in a relationship, your partner has to be like
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Speaker 3: understanding what's happening your kids, same thing, like oh you know,
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Speaker 3: come on, mom, it's okay, you can eat it us
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Speaker 3: this time. Let's have them. But if you are i mean,
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Speaker 3: if you're every time you going to have an exception,
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Speaker 3: then you're not really stigging that a plan so that
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Speaker 3: you have again you have to work on it from
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Speaker 3: the beginning with your mind.
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Speaker 3: Who are I do I. Actually, you know one of
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Speaker 3: my guys I have on the walls of my studio
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Speaker 3: is mindset is everything. And I've always been known even
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Speaker 3: on my website, it's like it's the mind you have
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Speaker 3: to you know from the beginning. I you know, because
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Speaker 3: I I've had a great success with beginners a lot
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Speaker 3: from the beginning. You have to like make those people
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Speaker 3: understand what what are they getting getting into? You know,
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Speaker 3: let's face it with me, working out is not like
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Speaker 3: a fun thing, you know, and then but we need it.
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Speaker 3: It's very important. It's the best thing as an antire
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Speaker 3: aging is the best thing that will keep you away
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Speaker 3: from seeing doctors and taking medicine. So I explained to
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Speaker 3: to to to the two people who sign up with me, like, Okay,
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Speaker 3: look first, I'll try my best to make things easy
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Speaker 3: for you. But it's also you are accountable, so we're
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Speaker 3: gonna work together. I know sometimes when you're away from me,
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Speaker 3: like oh you're going to be you know, you go
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Speaker 3: to the weekend and you know, Sandree's is a place
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Speaker 3: whereas most of the time the weather is okay, you
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Speaker 3: got to go out or something. You have to start
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Speaker 3: from there. You have to start the good. You know.
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Speaker 3: We're not I'm not going to get off my routine.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to drink. I don't want to be
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Speaker 3: eating extra you know, I would make healthy choices. Like example,
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Speaker 3: I have a new clients. From the beginning, he from
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Speaker 3: the first session, all what I heard was all the excuses.
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Speaker 3: I said, Okay, hold on, Anthony, we're going to stop here,
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Speaker 3: talk about it a little bit. And he's like, oh, well,
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Speaker 3: what I'm going to do and get hungry? I said,
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Speaker 3: you're supposed to get hungry. If someone told you you're
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Speaker 3: not going to get hungry and you're going to lose
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Speaker 3: some fat, and then that's not applicable. You know, you
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Speaker 3: have to put your you have to put your body
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Speaker 3: in a key. You say, you have to put your
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Speaker 3: body in a place where let's start using your storage.
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Speaker 3: And he's like, oh, he became silent. He's like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: you need that goal. You have to work for it.
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Speaker 3: So we work. We work a lot other than okay,
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Speaker 3: this form, try to do this, try to do that,
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Speaker 3: you know, go deeper in this, for example, so it's
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Speaker 3: all in here, because then when you control your thoughts
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Speaker 3: and what's going in your mind and the rest will
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Speaker 3: flow well.
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Speaker 1: So so that's you know, you're talking about someone who
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Speaker 1: needed some help. I mean psychologically, you have to be
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Speaker 1: a part part psychologist as well as a nutrition.
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Speaker 2: Do right because you need to.
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Speaker 1: And if you don't have a positive a p M
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Speaker 1: A a positive mental attitude about your routines, you're.
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Speaker 2: Not going to make it. You're going to quit because
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Speaker 2: it's it's you.
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Speaker 1: Know, you're being You're going to challenge them, and particularly
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Speaker 1: when they have to do some dramatic changes. So well,
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Speaker 1: let's take let's take an example of a very disciplined person, someone.
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Speaker 2: Who's already far along in the.
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Speaker 1: Journey of wellness, longevity, fitness.
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Speaker 2: What what do you find that people like that get wrong?
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Speaker 3: The discipline types that they will always show up like
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Speaker 3: Frank Frank for example, Frankstone a little bit joined my
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Speaker 3: two lines there there no matter what you know, rain
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Speaker 3: or shine, as you say they, I know we're going
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Speaker 3: to work out, so I I know she like she's
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Speaker 3: going to come the next week and uh sorry, the
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Speaker 3: next week she did. She did her own homework on
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Speaker 3: the weekend. I know for sure. So so and that
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Speaker 3: actually was it was what was it very well? Or
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Speaker 3: is a very important aspect in their life for their
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Speaker 3: That's why they're more successful than others because discipline actually
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Speaker 3: in your in your in your own lifestyle is what
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Speaker 3: you're is what you will make you a successful business
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Speaker 3: woman or man. And you know, if you know, I
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Speaker 3: always use this term. You know, if you apply what
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Speaker 3: what you know in odd building is very hard. It's
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Speaker 3: very hard, right because I'm not talking about just competitive
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Speaker 3: body and I'm talking about, like you know, being on
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Speaker 3: everything on point, and that requires discipline. And if you
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Speaker 3: use the same mentality and the same way you're applying
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Speaker 3: that of dieting and exercise, waking up early and or
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Speaker 3: maybe not very well, going to bed without going out
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Speaker 3: and for no reason, if there's no networking, if if
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Speaker 3: there's nothing important, then it's it's important for you to
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Speaker 3: sleep because the next day will you need to perform
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Speaker 3: very well in your job, whatever the your job is.
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Speaker 3: So if you use these these keys, uh and apply
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Speaker 3: them in your in your in your in your life,
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Speaker 3: then then you're already you become really successful. Actually, it
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Speaker 3: gives you more time to be creative, and creativity creates
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Speaker 3: a lot of things.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So do.
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Speaker 2: They do you learn from them as much as.
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Speaker 1: They learn from you in terms of the little tricks
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Speaker 1: that they're using for that discipline? Is there anything that
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Speaker 1: you've learned and you can share with us today that
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Speaker 1: you've observed by being around people like Frank Stallone and
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Speaker 1: who is Elizabeth.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's one of the producer She's a she's a producer.
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Speaker 3: Good good Yeah. So yeah, of course, you know there
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Speaker 3: are days that I would really just want to enjoy
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Speaker 3: myself after all these years of working hard, and then
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Speaker 3: or like, sometimes I don't want to work out because
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Speaker 3: I've I've competed for ten years around the world. I mean,
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Speaker 3: so then'm like, no, let me, let me do it
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Speaker 3: and get it done and then I'll see how the
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Speaker 3: day goes and I'll see how things will will be.
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Speaker 3: So that that really, you know, it was really helpful
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Speaker 3: to push in the days that you know, you feel like,
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Speaker 3: you know, I don't want to do it.
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Speaker 1: Right, So sometimes they're pushing you as much as you're them.
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Speaker 3: So I'll get I get the text like come on,
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Speaker 3: let's go yeah yeah, or where are you something like that.
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Speaker 1: So, Alex, what actually changes in our metabolism as we
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Speaker 1: get older that causes it to become more difficult to
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Speaker 1: go through and have success in programs like yours.
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Speaker 3: Well, if for someone who doesn't work out, it's it's
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Speaker 3: a problem because you know, as we age, as we
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Speaker 3: age every ten years, we lose muscles, right, we lose
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Speaker 3: between between three to ten percent depends, Okay, and that
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Speaker 3: and that you don't you don't want to. You don't
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Speaker 3: want to face this because you know, the first of
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Speaker 3: or are hard to get and it's not easy to
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Speaker 3: maintain them. But it's not impossible as well. For but
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Speaker 3: message are going to protect you, protect your joint, keep
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Speaker 3: you strong, keep you okay going up and down the stairs.
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Speaker 3: I mean your daily your daily activities. I'm not saying
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Speaker 3: like more than that. So that actually is very important
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Speaker 3: to prevent disease and and and injuries. And then if
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Speaker 3: you want to and then and then comes the aspect
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Speaker 3: of you know, as you age, your hormones will decline
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Speaker 3: if and if you're not if you're not always you know,
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Speaker 3: I like doing my physicals every six months to check
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Speaker 3: everything in my body. That's me. But I also recommend
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Speaker 3: that to my clients or people I know, I mean,
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Speaker 3: if if you can't do that every six month, it's
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Speaker 3: much better. I get a detailed blood work with your
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Speaker 3: hormones and everything else. Uh, and just you know, keep
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Speaker 3: and keep keep track of what's happening, and if there's
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Speaker 3: something that appears a little often, then right away tackle it.
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Speaker 3: So as we age, those will start changing for for
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Speaker 3: many you know, for men sometimes the testaster will go
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Speaker 3: down if you're in some and for women, you know,
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Speaker 3: before I think the average American women by fifty she
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Speaker 3: hits menopause. That's the average for eight fifty. So that's
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Speaker 3: also another big hit for a woman, you know, pre
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Speaker 3: momopause mamble, so that that it changes the metabolism big time,
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Speaker 3: and the best and you can you probably know it,
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Speaker 3: but every you you read it in every recommendation, the
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Speaker 3: best thing for a woman is to work out. First
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Speaker 3: thing is to work out.
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Speaker 1: You know, well yeah, because well that's why I mentioned
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Speaker 1: the GLP once because that they're you know, infamous for charcopinia.
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Speaker 1: If if people are using them incorrectly or not supplementing
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Speaker 1: with the proper protein.
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Speaker 2: Or so, you know, that's that's kind of a new
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Speaker 2: challenge for you.
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Speaker 1: Because people have had many many people have had dramatic
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Speaker 1: weight loss, but that weight loss comes with a price,
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Speaker 1: and so.
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Speaker 2: You might be happier with the way your body.
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Speaker 1: Looks, but your health has can deteriorate if you don't
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Speaker 1: offset it with a proper diet. So that's a that's
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Speaker 1: an important news.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, anyone on GENP wants to be working out, it's
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Speaker 3: way better. Yeah, because because the product there is losing everything,
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Speaker 3: and you don't want to lose the muscle and muscles.
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Speaker 3: Like I said, it's hard to keep and maintain as
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Speaker 3: you as you get older.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: So, so what are some of the non negotiables for
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Speaker 1: people that reach that midlife? Obviously the muscle loss is
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Speaker 1: the on the hormones you mentioned is too. So I
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Speaker 1: assume you tell all your clients to get their hormones tested,
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Speaker 1: which a lot of allopathic medicine doctors don't even ask you.
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Speaker 1: They just take your you know CBC.
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Speaker 3: And you know, if you're not going to ask your
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Speaker 3: doctor about it, they're not going to do it. They're
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Speaker 3: not going to add.
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Speaker 1: At least the allopath the functional medicine doctors like my
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Speaker 1: doctor in Beverly Hills.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's the first thing she would say is.
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Speaker 1: You need to test hormones along with everything else. But
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Speaker 1: not all doctors are like that because they're much more
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Speaker 1: traditionally educated. They don't even and they don't even really
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Speaker 1: understand women's health. And you know more, even even with men,
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Speaker 1: they don't test their testosterone and thyroid and stuff.
22:47
Speaker 3: But yeah, which is worth Yeah, but now I think
22:52
Speaker 3: you know now a little but a little bit individually.
22:57
Speaker 3: I mean I've sense it with people like that, they're
23:00
Speaker 3: a little bit more aware of that. But not everyone,
23:03
Speaker 3: not everyone, I have to say. Yeah, but again, yeah,
23:07
Speaker 3: if you don't ask your doctor about it, they're not
23:09
Speaker 3: gonna do it for you. So you have to either
23:13
Speaker 3: go to a specialized functional doctor like yours, or or
23:17
Speaker 3: you have to ask the doctor, can you please add
23:19
Speaker 3: that on the panet so we can I know it's happening,
23:23
Speaker 3: or if there's something I'm not feeling okay, I'm feeling down,
23:26
Speaker 3: I'm not feeling uh, you know, recover there's yeah.
23:31
Speaker 1: Well it's interesting that you know, even with hormone testing,
23:35
Speaker 1: like like the thy word is probably the one most
23:37
Speaker 1: underdiagnosed condition people go through.
23:40
Speaker 2: They oh, the thyroid's normal.
23:42
Speaker 1: Well that's because the doctors are only testing for t
23:45
Speaker 1: s H, which isn't even.
23:46
Speaker 2: The thyroid hormone. It's a pituitary hormone.
23:49
Speaker 1: But they don't go any further to the T three
23:51
Speaker 1: and the reverse T three and the T four and
23:54
Speaker 1: all that. So people come away say, I don't feel
23:57
Speaker 1: well and my hands and my hands and feeder, I'm
24:00
Speaker 1: gaining weight, I.
24:01
Speaker 2: Feel tired and lethogeny, but yet my thyroid.
24:04
Speaker 1: Because they only test this one measurement doesn't tell you
24:08
Speaker 1: the whole story. And so then they walk away from
24:11
Speaker 1: the doctor's fifteen minute interview with them to post laboratory analysis,
24:17
Speaker 1: and they think, what's wrong with me? You know that
24:20
Speaker 1: I don't feel well, and yet my thigh word allegedly
24:24
Speaker 1: my thyghroid is normal, but it's actually because it wasn't
24:26
Speaker 1: thoroughly tested. But so those non negotiables, you know, so
24:33
Speaker 1: give us another.
24:34
Speaker 2: Okay, we know protein, we.
24:36
Speaker 1: Know physical fitness, we know hormone testing. Are there any
24:42
Speaker 1: others that come of sleep?
24:46
Speaker 3: Yeah? But protein is a big as a big subject
24:49
Speaker 3: because you know, oftentimes people think they got they got enough,
24:54
Speaker 3: or they don't know what type of good of good
24:57
Speaker 3: proteins they're eating. So you really we need to you know,
25:01
Speaker 3: not all meat are equal, by the way, and there's
25:04
Speaker 3: some meat you shouldn't be eating at all. And so
25:07
Speaker 3: and so I would I would, I would, I would
25:12
Speaker 3: be more like, you know, focus on that because you
25:16
Speaker 3: know from protein comes amino acid and amino acid helping
25:20
Speaker 3: the anti aging process of everything. And it's not just
25:23
Speaker 3: protein for the muscles. People think it's just like, oh
25:26
Speaker 3: I'm eating that, I'm gonna have you. No, you need
25:29
Speaker 3: protein for everything in your bodies a lot of organs
25:31
Speaker 3: they you know, it's and it keeps you, it keeps
25:34
Speaker 3: you young, it keeps you good. So focusing on every
25:39
Speaker 3: meal that at least to have forty grams of fleam
25:42
Speaker 3: protein and then the rest would come with it. But
25:47
Speaker 3: you know, controlling and understanding the carrieres, where are coming
25:50
Speaker 3: from and what what am I eating? What am I
25:52
Speaker 3: putting in my body? I mean just not just like
25:55
Speaker 3: oh I'm gonna carry, defist or carry or I'm eating
26:00
Speaker 3: to gain more. That also is very important to h
26:05
Speaker 3: to sit with the certified nutrition or dietician and have
26:08
Speaker 3: them understand, you know, teach you those major principles or
26:14
Speaker 3: major things that will you know that will help you
26:19
Speaker 3: when you are by yourself to know what to eat
26:22
Speaker 3: and what choices to make. If you go out with
26:24
Speaker 3: your friends, you know, you need to know what you
26:27
Speaker 3: to order. You don't want to just order everything. You know,
26:31
Speaker 3: so many restaurants also use those bad oils. You have
26:34
Speaker 3: to be aware of that.
26:36
Speaker 2: The see the seat oils.
26:38
Speaker 3: Yeah.
26:38
Speaker 1: But so the good news one stop shop with you
26:42
Speaker 1: is that you're both a fitness trainer and the certified
26:45
Speaker 1: nutrition so they get kind of the you know, the
26:48
Speaker 1: the full.
26:52
Speaker 3: Yeah.
26:52
Speaker 1: So that's a big, just a big advantage of coming
26:55
Speaker 1: to train with you.
26:57
Speaker 2: So okay, so let's talk.
26:58
Speaker 1: Let's drive a little deeper into protein because a lot
27:01
Speaker 1: of misunderstandings about protein. So how do you teach somebody
27:06
Speaker 1: to select the right protein and the protein that's going
27:11
Speaker 1: to nourish their bodies and not hurt their bodies because
27:14
Speaker 1: there's so many you know, you don't want.
27:16
Speaker 2: To be eating regular.
27:20
Speaker 1: Cows, for example, steaks that are not grass fed and
27:24
Speaker 1: organic because you're now you're adding in all those grains
27:28
Speaker 1: and the hormones that are you know. So you and
27:31
Speaker 1: I know all about this, but a lot of people
27:33
Speaker 1: are not aware and they go out and buy what
27:36
Speaker 1: they think is a great steak at Costco, but it
27:39
Speaker 1: can be or even the salmon. They've been showing recently
27:42
Speaker 1: on the internet that a lot of the salmon that
27:45
Speaker 1: you get at Costco has worms in it because it's
27:48
Speaker 1: not it's farm raised, and it's it's not. So let's
27:54
Speaker 1: let's let's give a little lesson, a little tutorial to
27:57
Speaker 1: our viewers about selecting the right protein.
28:02
Speaker 3: Well first, uh, first, all is you know, for example,
28:07
Speaker 3: it comes to fish, anything farm raise, just just stay
28:14
Speaker 3: away from it, no matter you know the Norwegian No,
28:18
Speaker 3: I don't, I don't know. It has to it has
28:20
Speaker 3: to be wild caught. It has to be a natural.
28:23
Speaker 3: Then uh uh, it depends where you live. But most
28:27
Speaker 3: of them, you know, to check the freshness, how how
28:30
Speaker 3: long you can ask, hey, how long this has been here?
28:33
Speaker 3: You know, that's that's important. Uh, majorly people. I mean
28:39
Speaker 3: I think the most two sold salmon and telapia, and
28:43
Speaker 3: you bet it's very important to get those wild. And
28:47
Speaker 3: then if you if you see the videos how they
28:50
Speaker 3: raise those fish farms, I guarantee you most people will
28:54
Speaker 3: stop beating because it's really even you.
28:57
Speaker 2: Wouldn't even want to eat it knowing what they.
28:59
Speaker 3: Said, Yeah, it's kind of worse than the chicken for Yeah,
29:05
Speaker 3: so that's one, you know. And then for example, like
29:10
Speaker 3: read the label, make sure there's no gh no hormones,
29:13
Speaker 3: no it doesn't have to be always just saying that
29:16
Speaker 3: the label of organ has to be more everything is
29:20
Speaker 3: more natural, like because some you know, sometimes you hear
29:25
Speaker 3: of a lawsuits like oh they only say oh they
29:28
Speaker 3: said it's natural, but sorry organic, but they don't specify much,
29:32
Speaker 3: so we gotta be careful. I like you saida approved.
29:36
Speaker 3: As for the red meat itself, uh, it's better to
29:41
Speaker 3: pick the lean meat, okay, I mean unless you are
29:45
Speaker 3: more on a Kito state, so you can get some
29:48
Speaker 3: good New York steak or something. But of course controlling
29:52
Speaker 3: that amount of fat entering your body is important. And
29:55
Speaker 3: understanding that you got some fat from that media, so
29:59
Speaker 3: you have to cut later the rest of your of
30:01
Speaker 3: your calories always. You know, I prefer everyone measure. They
30:07
Speaker 3: have a scale and they measure their food. You have
30:09
Speaker 3: to measure your food. You have to know how much Okay,
30:13
Speaker 3: I'm eating two hundred grams of chicken breast, you know,
30:17
Speaker 3: so and so you have to know how much you're
30:20
Speaker 3: getting from each and the way the way is you
30:25
Speaker 3: either write them down or you have an app. Nowadays
30:28
Speaker 3: they like apps, but you can always you can easily
30:30
Speaker 3: memorize those after maybe a day or two because you're
30:33
Speaker 3: going to be using them every day. So how much
30:36
Speaker 3: protein is in two hundred grams of chicken? How much
30:39
Speaker 3: protein is in a good lean steak. I say to everyone,
30:44
Speaker 3: stay away from any sausages, pork, bacon that is not
30:50
Speaker 3: good for your body, no matter there's many studies, there's
30:54
Speaker 3: many everyone knows those are not healthy and they're they're
30:57
Speaker 3: not gonna They're not gonna be good for you. And
31:02
Speaker 3: if you really want to, if you are a person,
31:05
Speaker 3: I mean, there's nothing like if you sorry, nothing wrong
31:08
Speaker 3: eating some chicken legs everyone in a while, but again,
31:12
Speaker 3: pick the free range, no hormone, no gh no, no
31:19
Speaker 3: additives for the chicken, and measure it before cooking and
31:25
Speaker 3: know how much you're going to eat on this plate.
31:28
Speaker 3: For example, if you're outside ordering, ask the ask the
31:35
Speaker 3: the waiter how much chicken is it? They tell you
31:40
Speaker 3: six ounces? Eight ounces? Then you know, okay, eight ounces
31:43
Speaker 3: has sixty grams of protein, because every two hundred grams
31:47
Speaker 3: of meat has around sixty grams of protein. So that
31:52
Speaker 3: you'll add and candy. So it's important. And if you're
31:56
Speaker 3: a person, difference from one person to another another thing
31:59
Speaker 3: I want to say, like some people do very good
32:01
Speaker 3: with red meat. So they can eat it around three
32:04
Speaker 3: times a week, there's no problem. I am a person
32:07
Speaker 3: who doesn't do well with red meat. I only eat
32:09
Speaker 3: it once a week, meaning I don't I don't feel
32:14
Speaker 3: it's makes me feel a little bit uncomfortable. I also
32:19
Speaker 3: tend to I tend to accumulate a body fat on it,
32:22
Speaker 3: so it depends so I do. My body does better
32:29
Speaker 3: with with with more like white meat, like white fish.
32:33
Speaker 3: You know, chicken breast, turkey breast. Turkey breast is the
32:38
Speaker 3: leanest and the highest in protein.
32:41
Speaker 2: I always like to buy turkey fresh, not turkey, not ground.
32:44
Speaker 3: Turkey, No exactly, I was just gonna say that, not ground,
32:50
Speaker 3: I mentioned quickly, you know, even though I would say
32:53
Speaker 3: sometimes okay, it's ninety percent or ten percent on the
32:56
Speaker 3: label of the ground. I don't like the ground the
32:59
Speaker 3: way they do it in big industrial stuff because they
33:02
Speaker 3: put many.
33:04
Speaker 2: It's more processed. And that chicken, though it puts a chicken.
33:10
Speaker 1: Excuse me for interrupting, but I just don't want to
33:12
Speaker 1: forget to say this, but with the chicken, you know,
33:15
Speaker 1: I go to.
33:17
Speaker 2: Like Whole Foods as an example, and I get.
33:19
Speaker 1: The air chilled Mary's Mary's Organic air chilled chicken. It's
33:25
Speaker 1: a little more expensive, but you are getting air chilled,
33:29
Speaker 1: and that means they haven't dunk dunked it in chlorine,
33:33
Speaker 1: which is you know sometimes a lot of these meats
33:37
Speaker 1: are put into some chemicals to preserve them, but the
33:41
Speaker 1: air chilled it, you know, prevents that. So that would
33:44
Speaker 1: be my tip to everyone is if you're going to
33:46
Speaker 1: buy chicken, you know, the best one is the white meat,
33:49
Speaker 1: the chicken breast and or I always sometimes I buy
33:53
Speaker 1: the whole chicken and then I make bone broth.
33:56
Speaker 2: By you know, using the chickens.
33:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's a great way. That's how
34:03
Speaker 3: you know, my grandma and my mom would do it,
34:05
Speaker 3: you know, and they would buy the chicken, take the bars,
34:08
Speaker 3: and then the US will make it soup or especially
34:12
Speaker 3: you know you can tell yeah, because the chicken is
34:15
Speaker 3: not that big, right, right.
34:19
Speaker 2: I mean, you can buy bone broth without doing it
34:22
Speaker 2: the old.
34:23
Speaker 1: Fashioned way, but it's not nearly as efficacious as doing
34:27
Speaker 1: it right from the actual chicken instead of buying it
34:31
Speaker 1: after somebody.
34:31
Speaker 3: It's more fresh, more fresh if you did yourself. Yeah.
34:36
Speaker 1: So okay, So what why is it that some people
34:40
Speaker 1: no matter what they do, they think they're doing everything right,
34:44
Speaker 1: but they still can't change your body composition. What's what's happening?
34:49
Speaker 1: Is this a hormonal thing? What what do you think
34:51
Speaker 1: is happening that causes people to get stuck even though
34:55
Speaker 1: they're doing everything you tell them to do, but they
34:59
Speaker 1: don't seem to, you know, be able to make.
35:03
Speaker 2: Progress at least not to their satisfaction.
35:07
Speaker 3: Uh. I mean if if they're really eating on point,
35:11
Speaker 3: I don't think I don't think it would be a problem.
35:14
Speaker 3: But sometimes again it would be back to I would say,
35:20
Speaker 3: good sleep is very important. You know, people underestimate sleep,
35:25
Speaker 3: but sleep is where your body hormones or you know, badness,
35:31
Speaker 3: you know, one of the best. You know.
35:34
Speaker 1: Another thing to Alex that related to sleep is stress
35:39
Speaker 1: and a lot of people have trouble sleeping because.
35:41
Speaker 2: They're under so much stress.
35:43
Speaker 1: But but stress is you know, created creates cortisol, and
35:47
Speaker 1: cortisol is the fat hormone. So of course you're going
35:51
Speaker 1: to have trouble losing changing your body comp if you're
35:55
Speaker 1: if you're constantly uh stressed.
35:58
Speaker 2: So and then what about you.
36:00
Speaker 1: Know, let's just say substance abuse. What about alcohol or
36:03
Speaker 1: pharmaceutical drives.
36:04
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, no, that that that from the beginning,
36:09
Speaker 3: you gotta you gotta. Alcoholism will not be your friend
36:13
Speaker 3: if you're if you if you're looking for results no
36:17
Speaker 3: matter what it is, even if you drink once a week.
36:19
Speaker 3: If you want to be always like, if you seeking
36:24
Speaker 3: really seeking the results you want and you want to
36:28
Speaker 3: keep them and maintain them and maintain your life and healthy,
36:31
Speaker 3: healthy state, you have to stay you have to stay
36:34
Speaker 3: away from alcohol. And it's very like you can read
36:38
Speaker 3: so many successful stories from all the celebrities that people
36:44
Speaker 3: would follow and like and have their like, you know,
36:46
Speaker 3: as the influence in their life. Most of them or
36:49
Speaker 3: all of them, they don't drink. They may go and
36:52
Speaker 3: socialize and stay like they would have sparkling drink or
36:55
Speaker 3: whatever standing by people, but they don't drink.
36:58
Speaker 2: And I yea, And what about sugar? Sugar? Sugar is
37:03
Speaker 2: the big.
37:05
Speaker 3: Depends It depends you know, you know, okay, processed sugar,
37:09
Speaker 3: refine sugars, that's that you don't that is like you know,
37:16
Speaker 3: it's like you're putting you put it, yeah, exactly, process
37:21
Speaker 3: refine refine food that you know, there's a lot of
37:25
Speaker 3: of of those hidden in the food. So that's why
37:28
Speaker 3: you need I tell my client, you got to read
37:30
Speaker 3: the label. You gotta be careful and aware always, you know,
37:34
Speaker 3: stay with withdraw withraw like food as it as it is,
37:38
Speaker 3: like not more than three four ingredients in your plate
37:42
Speaker 3: or buying. But you know, if you if you're someone
37:47
Speaker 3: who is asking you, you know some like I need,
37:50
Speaker 3: for example, extra amount of carries in a day or
37:55
Speaker 3: in this certain day, So you have to be aware,
37:58
Speaker 3: like okay, how much I'm putting in my body and
38:02
Speaker 3: and you know where am I getting them from? I
38:05
Speaker 3: prefer if you stick to fruits and simple things that
38:09
Speaker 3: you know. You know, because pizza it's good to eat
38:12
Speaker 3: it every once in a while, no problem, but nowhere
38:14
Speaker 3: where is it? What is it done? How is you know?
38:18
Speaker 3: Go to a good chef somewhere where you know. I
38:21
Speaker 3: was recently in Italy and I was doing so I
38:26
Speaker 3: so there the food is. You know, you need to
38:29
Speaker 3: be discared, but you know you have to eat the pizza.
38:31
Speaker 3: You cannot not eat it, but then that you have
38:34
Speaker 3: to calculate with the rest of your of your calories.
38:39
Speaker 2: Right.
38:40
Speaker 1: But yet it's interesting to me that these people who
38:43
Speaker 1: have celiac or you know some you know gluten, they're
38:48
Speaker 1: all having to be gluten free here in the US.
38:50
Speaker 1: And then they go over to Europe where the wheat
38:53
Speaker 1: is not sprayed with life to say it, and uh,
38:56
Speaker 1: you know other horrible chemicals, and somehow there there weak
39:02
Speaker 1: intolerance disappears. And so there is something to be said
39:07
Speaker 1: about Italy, like you said, where you can eat the
39:10
Speaker 1: pasta or eat the pizza and not have the same
39:14
Speaker 1: reaction as you would hear where these carbohydrates are are
39:21
Speaker 1: sprayed or you.
39:23
Speaker 3: Know, well, there is some truth to that, but I
39:27
Speaker 3: would say not that much. You know, there's some truth
39:30
Speaker 3: to that, but people over exaggerated. I think people here
39:33
Speaker 3: don't know. Most of them, they either don't know what
39:36
Speaker 3: they're doing, they don't know what they're eating. Just they
39:40
Speaker 3: follow they follow Instagrams and YouTubers whatever they tell, Oh,
39:43
Speaker 3: I have glutens, I don't have to. So I say,
39:47
Speaker 3: you know, nowadays you don't guess. You test. You know,
39:50
Speaker 3: you're able to test many things in your body, gene tests,
39:55
Speaker 3: food sensitivity, and then there's one thing, okay, if you can't.
39:59
Speaker 3: If you can't that as a certain type of food,
40:01
Speaker 3: and you really would like to eat it. Then there's
40:03
Speaker 3: digestive enzymes, so you use digestive inzymes. I guarantee you
40:08
Speaker 3: fifty percent of the people they think they're gluten in
40:11
Speaker 3: TOI and they're they're okay, but they're not. They just
40:14
Speaker 3: don't know what they're doing, you know, And I'm sorry.
40:17
Speaker 3: It's very like the same thing with others. Oh there
40:20
Speaker 3: is not good says who you heard it somewhere? But
40:24
Speaker 3: you did, you did you really test yourself if you're
40:27
Speaker 3: okay with it or not? So not that much, you know,
40:33
Speaker 3: you know, carriers are carries. You know you have if
40:37
Speaker 3: you but where they are coming from, how is the
40:40
Speaker 3: food being done? That's you need them to go four
40:43
Speaker 3: years of nutrition and university then you can know. But
40:46
Speaker 3: of course having someone in your corner, like a certified
40:49
Speaker 3: dietition nutrition will help you understand stuff and you know,
40:53
Speaker 3: be aware of what you want to eat or what's
40:57
Speaker 3: out there. That's very important you have, but not not
41:00
Speaker 3: the all sugars are the way they say, Oh, then
41:03
Speaker 3: you end up so many people don't don't know what
41:06
Speaker 3: they're even they like, they don't know what they want
41:10
Speaker 3: to eat. In the end, you know, no, it's major
41:17
Speaker 3: and carbodies are are very major in nutrition. That's very important.
41:23
Speaker 3: You're not going to be able to have that much
41:26
Speaker 3: amount of energy if you're not eating that.
41:30
Speaker 2: So I mean the brain. The brain is a good example.
41:34
Speaker 2: You know, it needs carbohydrates and fat.
41:38
Speaker 1: And people you know who are on these fat free
41:41
Speaker 1: diets or are starving their their brains. Tell me quickly,
41:47
Speaker 1: tell me quickly what you think of the keto diet
41:50
Speaker 1: and whether you use that yourself with for yourself and
41:54
Speaker 1: for your clients.
41:56
Speaker 3: You know, kido diet as you know from from a
41:59
Speaker 3: body building aspect. We used to do it way before
42:01
Speaker 3: it became known as kito. You know, we we we
42:05
Speaker 3: as we do like high protein, very minimum of fat
42:11
Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks and then sorry, very minimum
42:14
Speaker 3: of carboy drate and and decent amount of fat the
42:18
Speaker 3: last couple of weeks, so we can really help our
42:22
Speaker 3: body tap into whatever left so you can get to it. So,
42:25
Speaker 3: but you know, lately, over the last ten years or whatever,
42:29
Speaker 3: it is the kid that I gained more more like
42:34
Speaker 3: you know, attention and became more famous because of whatever
42:41
Speaker 3: algorithm at that time was. So it has its place.
42:46
Speaker 3: You have to know how to get into kito and
42:48
Speaker 3: get out of kito some people. You know, if you
42:51
Speaker 3: really don't want to get out of it, you have
42:53
Speaker 3: to just understand that you're allowed to eat around ten
42:57
Speaker 3: percent of your daily care from car boy. It's not
43:00
Speaker 3: wrong to eat it, but always keeping keeping like I
43:06
Speaker 3: said important, you have to know how to get into
43:09
Speaker 3: it and get in your place where you will be like, okay,
43:12
Speaker 3: now I'm putting my body in Kostosi's state. But I
43:17
Speaker 3: think it's amazing for people who want to lose weight.
43:21
Speaker 3: But keep keep track of your blood, you know, because
43:25
Speaker 3: some people will at the beginning the drug restaurant will
43:29
Speaker 3: shoot up. So then the doctor will freak out and
43:32
Speaker 3: the doctor is not aware, Oh what are you doing?
43:35
Speaker 3: No take this so I like it. It's no, there's
43:40
Speaker 3: nothing wrong with it. If you, if you, if you,
43:43
Speaker 3: if you digest very well and you're okay with it. Now,
43:46
Speaker 3: how long do you want to stay with it? That's
43:47
Speaker 3: your's and go back to the it can.
43:54
Speaker 1: It can affect the kidneys to and you know, some
43:57
Speaker 1: people overdo it. And then there again, like as you
43:59
Speaker 1: said earlier, we need carbohydrates. So when you go on
44:04
Speaker 1: like an all or nothing and you're eating mostly fat.
44:08
Speaker 1: You're now you know you're imbalancing, You're going to be balanced.
44:14
Speaker 3: That's why, that's why the Mediterranean diet is the best
44:18
Speaker 3: diet forever, yeah, most of the people, because it's a
44:23
Speaker 3: balanced one, you know, you get your good Yeah.
44:31
Speaker 1: No, I think the Mediterranean diet is the most balanced.
44:36
Speaker 1: And of course, you know, you look over to Greece
44:38
Speaker 1: and the you know, the Blue zones Acaria and Greece,
44:43
Speaker 1: and you know, these people eat a lot of olive oil,
44:47
Speaker 1: you know, obviously a lot of very authentic beef and
44:52
Speaker 1: other fish, lots and lots of fish, of course because
44:55
Speaker 1: they get it fresh.
44:57
Speaker 2: And then but they do eat carbohydrates, you.
45:00
Speaker 5: Know, and I natural stuff, you know, all the Mediterrane, Italy, Lebanon, Grease,
45:08
Speaker 5: uh playing, the Morocco, Tunisia.
45:12
Speaker 3: They have the best olive oil in Tunisia. So all that.
45:16
Speaker 3: But you know when I when I immigrated here years
45:19
Speaker 3: and years ago, i'm i'm I was. Of course I
45:24
Speaker 3: was already here like in fitness, but I only eat like,
45:28
Speaker 3: you know, simple stuff like this is how we like.
45:31
Speaker 3: We eat, like one tooth rice and chicken, some beef
45:35
Speaker 3: and side of side of a good cell with olive oil,
45:39
Speaker 3: like simple stuff. But and then I remember, you know,
45:43
Speaker 3: I get hungry here over there, I go grab the
45:45
Speaker 3: sand you go grab the thing, and all of a
45:47
Speaker 3: sudden I look on my scale. I'm like, wow, that's
45:50
Speaker 3: another I've gained seven pounds, which is I wasn't able
45:53
Speaker 3: to read it. But are these reading mustards. There's no way.
45:57
Speaker 3: There's something weird here. But but the sandwich itself. Here,
46:02
Speaker 3: you get a sandwich, you will have so many layers
46:05
Speaker 3: of whatever they put in it, like cheese and this
46:07
Speaker 3: and that, and then the salary will be like a
46:10
Speaker 3: thousand one sandary is a thousand carrier plus, and then
46:14
Speaker 3: you want to eat something on the side as another
46:16
Speaker 3: two hundred car so you end up with one meal
46:19
Speaker 3: getting twelve twelve hundred to fifteen hundred calories, and that's
46:24
Speaker 3: one mede and the end of our you end the
46:25
Speaker 3: day by five thousand carriages. And you and you wonder
46:28
Speaker 3: why we're on a bee's nation, because because of everything
46:33
Speaker 3: is extra extra here, extra there, extra big, extra carrier.
46:37
Speaker 3: It's always like it's much better to stick to simple
46:47
Speaker 3: food like one, one, two three and that's it, and
46:50
Speaker 3: then wait for your body to digest it. And then
46:54
Speaker 3: maybe five five hours later you eat another and that's it.
46:58
Speaker 3: You're not supposed to be eating so much every day. Actually,
47:01
Speaker 3: you're over. You're over.
47:04
Speaker 1: That's a that's an American thing too, that you know,
47:07
Speaker 1: we snack, whereas in Europe, you know, they you know,
47:11
Speaker 1: three times maybe and.
47:14
Speaker 2: And it's maybe they don't eat between meals.
47:19
Speaker 3: No snacking is Snacking actually makes your insulin always most
47:24
Speaker 3: of the time, you know, it makes your body less
47:27
Speaker 3: insert sensitive and makes your insert always high because every
47:30
Speaker 3: time you're eating, you're making your body digest that hormones
47:33
Speaker 3: are always affected. So you're almost putting yourself in a
47:36
Speaker 3: non fat burning state as well. You need to to
47:39
Speaker 3: just give your body food, let it digest. And that
47:42
Speaker 3: time probably you're moving, you're working, you're you're studying, so
47:46
Speaker 3: that you give your body time to work on what
47:50
Speaker 3: you put in it. Right, So, but getting a snack
47:55
Speaker 3: here and there, and also it's better if you really
47:58
Speaker 3: want a snack, snack with some natural of like here,
48:01
Speaker 3: take a green apple, take some strawberry. Not like, okay,
48:04
Speaker 3: let me take a protein, but that will have even
48:07
Speaker 3: not the proteinma let me take some some doughnut or something,
48:11
Speaker 3: and that has refined stuff or like we eat here
48:14
Speaker 3: and there, chips and all those things are accumulated in
48:18
Speaker 3: the body and eventually they catch up either fast for
48:22
Speaker 3: you or they would cause you some some trouble. And
48:25
Speaker 3: when you age and and.
48:28
Speaker 1: Alice, do you approach nutrition differently if you have different goals,
48:32
Speaker 1: Like let's just say if you had fat loss versus
48:36
Speaker 1: performance versus you have those.
48:40
Speaker 2: Let's say those are three possible goals.
48:45
Speaker 3: Of course you have to you know, every every every
48:48
Speaker 3: individual has to like it will have to be for
48:51
Speaker 3: for them exactly. And and how how how many days
48:55
Speaker 3: a week they can perform or exercise, how's their sleep?
49:00
Speaker 3: How many meals they are normally eating? Before we fix that,
49:05
Speaker 3: it should be like, you know, a better way for
49:08
Speaker 3: their body. I like to if there can my clients,
49:12
Speaker 3: I ask them for tests because once I get the
49:16
Speaker 3: test result, it's way better to minimize the margin of
49:21
Speaker 3: gene tests and blood tests and know what's happening. And Okay, I'm.
49:25
Speaker 1: So happy that you said genetics tests because a lot
49:27
Speaker 1: of people forget that the foundation of knowledge for your
49:31
Speaker 1: health is to first understand your genetics, not to say
49:35
Speaker 1: that that's a death sentence. Let's just say you have
49:37
Speaker 1: the APO for you know, Alzheimer's gene. That doesn't mean
49:41
Speaker 1: you're going to get Alzheimer's.
49:42
Speaker 2: But it's really important to have. Like I always call
49:45
Speaker 2: it like.
49:46
Speaker 1: Building the foundation of the house. You wouldn't build a
49:49
Speaker 1: house without a foundation. Well, your genetics are your foundational parameters,
49:56
Speaker 1: so you get to know a little bit about what
49:58
Speaker 1: you're predisposed whether are you meth later do you need
50:02
Speaker 1: methalated envitamins?
50:03
Speaker 2: And are you allergic to dairy as an example, you.
50:08
Speaker 3: Know that's yeah, and you know also that it gives
50:13
Speaker 3: you what's what workouts are good for you. I remember
50:16
Speaker 3: I almost knew what it is but my workout, but
50:19
Speaker 3: that was after twelve years of guessing versus going and
50:23
Speaker 3: doing them. Like I got the resultant, it makes sense.
50:26
Speaker 3: I feel better doing what I was doing lately versus
50:29
Speaker 3: what I was doing two three body parts a day
50:32
Speaker 3: and then again repeat. And so for example, my test
50:36
Speaker 3: came like, okay, you should be doing three times a
50:39
Speaker 3: week AWAIT training which was not more than fifteen minutes
50:43
Speaker 3: DA DA, and then the next day focus on more
50:46
Speaker 3: and doing and stuff. So it will really give you
50:49
Speaker 3: almost a game plan for life and if you really
50:52
Speaker 3: apply those and stay away from what like, for example,
50:56
Speaker 3: food that makes you feel uncomfortable, and then you really
50:59
Speaker 3: will be in a place where you're feeling very good
51:03
Speaker 3: and feeling good then like I said in the beginning,
51:06
Speaker 3: you'll be able to perform and be creative and what's
51:09
Speaker 3: better you want?
51:11
Speaker 1: So I think you just answered that question and really
51:14
Speaker 1: the difference of performance, longevity, and fat loss those three
51:19
Speaker 1: I was just using those as three three legged stool
51:22
Speaker 1: of fitness.
51:24
Speaker 2: If you had those three and.
51:27
Speaker 1: You know you were trying to separate them out, that
51:30
Speaker 1: they really don't separate.
51:31
Speaker 2: They're really like it's a collective that you.
51:33
Speaker 1: Will do all the same things for all three end
51:36
Speaker 1: results and you'll get them if you follow those instructions.
51:41
Speaker 1: So okay, so let's let's talk a little bit about peptides.
51:47
Speaker 1: Because you're in the bodybuilding business. You've been in it
51:51
Speaker 1: for many, many years. I mean bodybuilders were using peptides
51:55
Speaker 1: and growth hormone and all that, you know, long before.
51:58
Speaker 2: The even knew what a peptide was.
52:02
Speaker 1: So how how have you used pep guides to improve
52:07
Speaker 1: your overall fitness or have you ah?
52:13
Speaker 3: To be honest, I would be.
52:17
Speaker 2: You know.
52:19
Speaker 3: I only would do that if if if, if, if
52:21
Speaker 3: the doctor would, if my doctor would say, okay, you
52:24
Speaker 3: can I have some you know what do you You'll
52:28
Speaker 3: be able to do simple stuff. But I wouldn't just
52:31
Speaker 3: go online and buy whatever I've read somewhere, like for example,
52:37
Speaker 3: you know now there may be less because the government
52:39
Speaker 3: is tackling them like SARMs. Those are very bad. You
52:42
Speaker 3: don't know what in it. I don't recommend nobody to
52:45
Speaker 3: use them, even when I'm asked about as I stay
52:47
Speaker 3: away from it. As far as for the peptize, there's
52:52
Speaker 3: only few that really uh, you know, kind of like
52:56
Speaker 3: F the A. I want to say, like maybe not
52:59
Speaker 3: have they approved, but there's maybe two R but the
53:02
Speaker 3: rest are really anti aging. And if if you're working
53:05
Speaker 3: with her, you can always have a consultation with an
53:08
Speaker 3: anti aging doctor and they can tell you okay this
53:12
Speaker 3: and that is always good for you. Like some moreland,
53:16
Speaker 3: I put moreland. Uh. I will be honest with you.
53:21
Speaker 3: Back in the days when I wasn't, like you know,
53:24
Speaker 3: one of my friends is a mister olympy said you
53:27
Speaker 3: got to take this so you can eat more, and
53:31
Speaker 3: like I don't want to take it. They're don take it,
53:33
Speaker 3: take it. You can eat more ats. So I took it.
53:35
Speaker 3: I couldn't stop eating. That was the I think the
53:38
Speaker 3: CGH that was the only time CG C. I think
53:44
Speaker 3: that was so I didn't buy it, he gave it
53:47
Speaker 3: to me. But yeah, they have a great way of
53:51
Speaker 3: keeping you like you know, keep you your body. Lets uh,
53:57
Speaker 3: I want to say, like recover better and kind of
54:00
Speaker 3: like feeling feeling younger in a way. There's nothing wrong
54:06
Speaker 3: of using nothing wrong using them under the recommendation of
54:11
Speaker 3: an of an endochronology.
54:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, because so many people today, because it's become the
54:18
Speaker 2: wild wild well, so many people are buying these things
54:21
Speaker 2: from China and not being supervised by medical even here.
54:26
Speaker 3: I mean, you don't know, you don't know where they're
54:29
Speaker 3: making them, like you know those trainers or whatever influencers
54:33
Speaker 3: they're selling from website that they approach them, but oh
54:38
Speaker 3: use my code or this, And I mean I I've
54:40
Speaker 3: been approached maybe five six times with these companies. I'm like,
54:43
Speaker 3: there's no way I would go. And endorsets think, are
54:46
Speaker 3: you crazy? Yeah, and trust me, I'll say something quickly.
54:50
Speaker 3: Trust me. The government is going to come after those Actually,
54:53
Speaker 3: if you are someone who's saying in mass you are
54:56
Speaker 3: you are in trouble. But if you are a user,
54:59
Speaker 3: not much. That's why I stay under the recommendation of
55:03
Speaker 3: a doctor.
55:04
Speaker 2: But the good news is with Robert F.
55:06
Speaker 1: Kennedy, he's letting fourteen of the nineteen that we're taking
55:11
Speaker 1: off the market for compounding pharmacies.
55:13
Speaker 2: He's let he's letting. By the end of the year,
55:15
Speaker 2: they'll be back and legally able to Yeah.
55:18
Speaker 3: I heard that. Yeah, that would changed like.
55:21
Speaker 1: The landscape, because that will reduce the number of those
55:25
Speaker 1: counterfeit types that are just going to make a book,
55:29
Speaker 1: and it will put it back where it's scientifically much better.
55:35
Speaker 3: It's much better to be this way then, rather than
55:38
Speaker 3: being like the wild widress like you said. Actually, g
55:41
Speaker 3: LP one is a peptide, you know, so if we
55:43
Speaker 3: are selling that, why don't we let people use also
55:47
Speaker 3: ipomorians some moreland and you know there's there's there's another
55:52
Speaker 3: It can help you with your your sorry, your skin,
55:56
Speaker 3: keep your colleage.
55:58
Speaker 1: G HK c U.
55:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that's that's really I mean, of course there's not.
56:04
Speaker 3: The thing is no one's started a study on it,
56:07
Speaker 3: like a long study because it costs money and stuff.
56:10
Speaker 3: But that is a great peptide for example.
56:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. And then testimoraland is the other one.
56:18
Speaker 2: And then of course you have the immune.
56:21
Speaker 1: Modulators of thymus and l for one, which helps your
56:25
Speaker 1: immune system to be stronger. You know, people should understand
56:28
Speaker 1: the peptides are signaling molecules, so they are amino acids.
56:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they're not even the even even the gh
56:38
Speaker 3: is one nine. It's a compound of amino acids, a
56:43
Speaker 3: lot of am I mean, one of one of the
56:46
Speaker 3: things that command my clients, you know what, get eas
56:50
Speaker 3: and get on the side, get an argent orthene and
56:55
Speaker 3: take them take a lot of those every day and
56:57
Speaker 3: see how your body is going to be total friend
57:01
Speaker 3: and said, so what about creating.
57:04
Speaker 2: That's the one that we haven't talked about yet.
57:06
Speaker 1: But how do you how do you dose creating with
57:10
Speaker 1: your clients and and what do you tell them about
57:13
Speaker 1: which one to buy?
57:15
Speaker 3: I love how much creating became famous all finally, you know,
57:19
Speaker 3: you know, during the pandemic, I got this phone called
57:22
Speaker 3: because I'm having involved in the sports industry and I
57:25
Speaker 3: work in it and on the side, and I used
57:28
Speaker 3: to work for opt Nutrition and I'll tell you quickly.
57:30
Speaker 3: I got this phone called and look, I need an
57:33
Speaker 3: order for four million dollars? Can you get it for me?
57:35
Speaker 3: I said, what you want? It's like four million dollars
57:37
Speaker 3: of creating. What am I going to get you that?
57:40
Speaker 3: During the pandemic? So it was it was like, you know,
57:45
Speaker 3: it's good that people now that they're all about creating, creating.
57:48
Speaker 3: I always do. I would say, get it creating from
57:51
Speaker 3: Creer Pure. It's a it's a pattern that it's actually
57:55
Speaker 3: a German company. They're creating monohydrate is pure and it
58:00
Speaker 3: then it comes from good sources. That's where you want
58:03
Speaker 3: what you want now, if you're eating enough, if you're
58:06
Speaker 3: eating the cray A pure el.
58:11
Speaker 2: What was the name of that company? I could I
58:13
Speaker 2: couldn't catch.
58:13
Speaker 3: Up crap Pure from Germany.
58:19
Speaker 1: It's okay, okay, I want to I just want to
58:23
Speaker 1: have my assistant put that in the show notes because
58:25
Speaker 1: people may do you can.
58:26
Speaker 2: You buy it here locally or do you have to
58:28
Speaker 2: go to Germany together?
58:29
Speaker 3: No? No, no, it's it's it's actually the one of
58:32
Speaker 3: the biggest manufacturing companies for creating. So they Crepure, for example,
58:38
Speaker 3: sells op To nutrition or muscle tech or all these
58:42
Speaker 3: brands that so when you buy a creating you see
58:46
Speaker 3: on the label and small it's pure. That's a trademark,
58:51
Speaker 3: so they have to say it. Yeah, I'd say stick,
58:56
Speaker 3: I say stick to creating monohydrate. You don't have to
59:00
Speaker 3: go with that. And but you know, for that to
59:02
Speaker 3: be able to for your body to be able to
59:04
Speaker 3: absorb it, it has to be mixed with either your
59:07
Speaker 3: protein or a little bit of sugar and water for
59:09
Speaker 3: the absorption. Otherwise, if you just mix it with water,
59:13
Speaker 3: it's not going to be absorbed. So it takes some honey.
59:17
Speaker 3: Take it, everybody.
59:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, what I've been doing is I take cocao, you know,
59:24
Speaker 1: the real organic good cocao, and then I take my
59:28
Speaker 1: perfect aminos, a scoop of the perfect aminos, a scoop
59:32
Speaker 1: of creatine.
59:34
Speaker 2: Whatever the little scoop is it comes up.
59:36
Speaker 1: I buy the thorn, the one thorn, and then I
59:41
Speaker 1: put some collagen in, you know, just in an other
59:44
Speaker 1: Wise I try to make like a protein drink. That's
59:47
Speaker 1: but it tastes like a chocolate, you know, like a
59:50
Speaker 1: chocolate like you're drinking cocoa, but it has all that
59:55
Speaker 1: good protein in it. So and that's like you can
59:57
Speaker 1: do that, you know, instead of having breakfas, you're getting
1:00:01
Speaker 1: all that wonderful protein and the creating.
1:00:04
Speaker 2: So well, he just.
1:00:08
Speaker 1: Our producer just flagged me that we're running out of time.
1:00:11
Speaker 1: So let me ask you how people can reach you
1:00:15
Speaker 1: if they wanted to come and do a session. And
1:00:18
Speaker 1: do you do any like preliminary trials with people where
1:00:22
Speaker 1: they get to come and experience you the first time,
1:00:25
Speaker 1: or how does it work?
1:00:27
Speaker 2: How does your program work?
1:00:29
Speaker 3: Well? You can find me online by on Instagram The
1:00:35
Speaker 3: trainer Alex, The Trainer Alex. My website is Fitness Results
1:00:40
Speaker 3: okay okay, and my website is Fitness Results Coaches, Fitness
1:00:44
Speaker 3: Results Coach. Even if you google my name Alex Jamal,
1:00:48
Speaker 3: you'll be able to have a contact of me. I
1:00:53
Speaker 3: mean I do online training, I do in person training.
1:00:55
Speaker 3: If you're nearby me and you'd like to come and
1:00:58
Speaker 3: see me. So I have a nice private studio. I
1:01:04
Speaker 3: work with the client one on one, no interruption, there's
1:01:08
Speaker 3: nothing that will affect our workout. And uh yeah, pretty much.
1:01:14
Speaker 3: I mean they can have a we have a quick
1:01:16
Speaker 3: phone call consultation before and then from there we will
1:01:20
Speaker 3: see how it goes and take it to a session.
1:01:25
Speaker 1: So if you were to give one piece of advice
1:01:30
Speaker 1: to someone who wants to improve their their fitness level
1:01:36
Speaker 1: and whether.
1:01:37
Speaker 2: They work with you or not, that you wanted to
1:01:39
Speaker 2: give them one little secret.
1:01:42
Speaker 3: Chip chip, what.
1:01:43
Speaker 2: Would that be?
1:01:47
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll list them quickly and but make think about it.
1:01:51
Speaker 3: It's one. Never stop exercising and never go three days
1:01:56
Speaker 3: without exercising. Sleep well, stay away from alcohol and refined sugar,
1:02:03
Speaker 3: be very well hydrated. Hydration is under estimated. It is
1:02:06
Speaker 3: very important.
1:02:07
Speaker 2: That's it. That's very well. That's sit in a nutshell
1:02:12
Speaker 2: and you probably want to add stress to reduce your.
1:02:17
Speaker 3: Sleep will help you reduce that. So exercise and sleep
1:02:21
Speaker 3: is the best for lowering stress and depression. So once
1:02:24
Speaker 3: you get those good that's why I said stay away
1:02:27
Speaker 3: from refined you and alcohol because that will affect your system.
1:02:31
Speaker 3: Then you'll be fine for the rest of that.
1:02:34
Speaker 2: So so like for me, I work out at the gym.
1:02:37
Speaker 1: I have a gym in my house, but I do
1:02:39
Speaker 1: only it's mostly aerobic, you know, said stationary bike.
1:02:43
Speaker 2: I have a power play how they.
1:02:47
Speaker 1: Uh what it called?
1:02:51
Speaker 2: I forgot the name of that one anyway, So I
1:02:55
Speaker 2: have a few pieces of.
1:02:56
Speaker 1: Equipment, but then I go to the big I call
1:02:59
Speaker 1: it the big gym, and I go there usually three
1:03:02
Speaker 1: times a week.
1:03:03
Speaker 2: So is that enough every other day for that great weights?
1:03:07
Speaker 2: And then and then every day and then I try
1:03:10
Speaker 2: to hike.
1:03:11
Speaker 1: And you know, when it's warmer weather like now, so
1:03:14
Speaker 1: I add to my thirty minutes of let's say the
1:03:17
Speaker 1: stationary bike, I would add another forty five minutes of hiking.
1:03:22
Speaker 1: And then on those three days of the week, there's
1:03:25
Speaker 1: a third leg, which is the physical the weights. So
1:03:30
Speaker 1: but when I do the weights, I'm probably not nearly
1:03:33
Speaker 1: as experienced about how to do them, but I just
1:03:36
Speaker 1: use as much just as as as.
1:03:40
Speaker 2: A female executive who is always in a hurry.
1:03:43
Speaker 3: I use the machines.
1:03:45
Speaker 2: I kind of cheat. I just use the machines. I
1:03:48
Speaker 2: know that I can go use the freeways. Is that okay?
1:03:51
Speaker 3: I mean that's okay because you're you're hitting more than
1:03:55
Speaker 3: the minimum of of what's needed to exist side as
1:03:58
Speaker 3: long as you resist you're feeling like you're chattnging your
1:04:01
Speaker 3: body when you're lifting, then that counts. And then for
1:04:05
Speaker 3: the rest of the days you're doing your cardiovuscatin. That's great.
1:04:09
Speaker 3: So that's that's if you just maintain that, then you'll
1:04:13
Speaker 3: be fine.
1:04:14
Speaker 2: Okay, good. You know, Alex.
1:04:16
Speaker 1: There's a company I met when I was at a
1:04:18
Speaker 1: four a m in December and Las Vegas. It's called Shapescale,
1:04:24
Speaker 1: and they happen to be located right here.
1:04:26
Speaker 2: In San Francisco. But they do it's like an advanced
1:04:30
Speaker 2: in body for your body.
1:04:31
Speaker 1: Comp But they do a thing where they do you
1:04:34
Speaker 1: get on a machine and it does it takes your
1:04:38
Speaker 1: whole body and you know, instead of just being static
1:04:41
Speaker 1: like the embody and so and then it tells you
1:04:45
Speaker 1: your biological age, your fitness age.
1:04:49
Speaker 2: It's really quite quite interesting.
1:04:51
Speaker 1: You might want to look look them up. The CEO's
1:04:54
Speaker 1: name is Alex. Another Alex. But you're right here in
1:04:58
Speaker 1: San Francisco, so you know you can they and I
1:05:00
Speaker 1: think they have a facility in La So it might
1:05:04
Speaker 1: be one that would complement.
1:05:06
Speaker 2: What you do if your clients were interested. And so
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Speaker 2: it's yes, Shapescale.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. You have been a great guest. It's been
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Speaker 1: a pleasure having you on the show and sharing the
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Speaker 1: conversation with our audience. We appreciate your time and your
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Speaker 1: insights and the work you've been doing and the very
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Speaker 1: important work you've been doing in the longevity world,