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How MAHA inspired me to change my life · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

• 0:11
  Hello everyone and welcome to the Maha Lowdown.
• 0:15
  I'm Jeff Lauterbach.
• 0:17
  And uh glad you're joining us today.
• 0:20
  This show is going to be a little different than the first one.
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  Our first show we had on John Clark.
• 0:26
  John is a regenerative farmer, an author, uh, Make America Healthy Again movement activist.
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  And he had an interesting, we had an interesting conversation.
• 0:38
  Uh, he talked about regenerative farming, make America Healthy Again movement news and his books that are coming out.
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  And it's a perfect time, I thought, uh, before moving to upcoming episodes with a wide variety of guests, some you're familiar with and some who are interesting people that you might not know their stories.
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  I wanted to share my story and how the Make America Healthy Again movement really changed my life and how how it led to me uh hosting this show.
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  Uh I'm a national reporter also with the Epic Times, and I write about regenerative farming, the Make America Healthy Again movement, uh faith-based stories, inspirational stories, Maha personality profiles.
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  So that's become a real prominent part of my life.
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  And I wrote a story for the Epic Times and the Maha Report, sharing how the Make America Healthy Again movement changed my life.
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  And I'm going to get into that in this uh segment, this show.
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  We're gonna have uh three 17 minute segments.
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  So I'll start out by telling you a little bit about my background.
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  And I'm down here in the Appalachian foothills of Southern Ohio as a national reporter of the Epic Times.
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  I love it because I travel all around the country doing interviews and covering uh events, covering news, and I always come home here in the uh Appalachian foothills of Southern Ohio, which I never imagined that I'd want to live down here and have this type of life, but that's how the Maha lifestyles changed me, and uh that's I'm gonna get into that.
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  So earlier in my career, I was a reporter and editor for newspapers and magazines, and I've always loved the communication fiota.
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  I've always loved telling stories, and I covered pro and college sports earlier in my career.
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  I've written travel and lifestyle features, I was a business editor.
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  Uh leading up to COVID, like three years before COVID, I was a publisher for a community magazine in uh south southwest Ohio, and that was in Centerville.
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  And I loved my life then.
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  I I loved um working as a publisher for a community magazine, getting heavily involved in the community.
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  I was freelancing for national magazines, and that was pretty much my lifestyle, and uh and my faith plays into this at the time.
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  I've always been a believer, but there's a difference between being uh believer and a Christ follower, and it all interrelates.
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  I'm going to get into that.
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  Um at the time, I really wasn't practicing my faith.
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  I was just so focused on the magazine, uh, the community magazine.
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  And then uh COVID happens.
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  So that's what March of 2020.
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  So at the time, uh again, I had never I was more focused on my career.
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  I had never been in advocacy, I was more focused on what I was doing.
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  And here in Ohio, Governor Mike DeWine, and at the time the health director, Amy Acton, went on TV every day.
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  Would I call with what I call uh their daily variety show, the fearmongering.
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  And at first, like most people, I was concerned about COVID, and I was listening to what they were saying, and I started looking into the data, and it wasn't adding up what they were saying, because obviously they had to closed down small businesses, and they were locking down, encouraging you not to go out, encouraging you to wear masks before having a mask mandate that required that masks be worn.
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  And then um, but the big box stores, the Walmarts, the Krogers, they remained open.
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  So I was looking at the health data that was readily available on the Ohio Department of Health's uh website, and it just wasn't adding up.
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  Uh, it wasn't uh the widespread danger that they were saying it was COVID, and piles of studies show that masks don't work, they don't mitigate viruses.
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  Um, I started sharing writing about this on social media and developing a following.
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  So I if you want to uh know who your true friends are and who uh what people think uh you know, the pandemic at the time, a lot of people were believing everything they heard by from Anthony Fauci from Mike DeWine, Amy Acton, and I was one of the people who was outspoken and presenting uh why I wasn't wearing a mask and and why the lockdowns were wrong, and I started getting involved in advocacy, and at the time it really hurt my magazine as far as the uh as far as COVID, because when businesses are shut down, marketing's the first to go.
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  So when the economy tanks, marketing is often the first to go.
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  So my magazine was struggling, but I was inspired to stand up and get involved in advocacy against mask mandates, against vaccine mandates against the lockdowns.
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  So I organized rallies at the state house for the first time in my life.
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  I'd never done anything like that before.
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  I uh was writing covering what I call the truth about COVID.
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  And um I was heavily involved in uh supporting businesses that didn't require masks, uh wearing masks.
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  And I've that was one wake-up call.
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  We all have a wake-up call, I think.
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  And COVID was my wake-up call.
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  So that's the first time I'd heard about the Epic Times.
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  So I being a national reporter for the Epic Times, I travel all around the country.
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  I cover, as I mentioned, uh regenerative farming, the Make America Healthy Again movement.
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  Um faith-based stories, inspirational stories, politics.
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  But at the time after COVID, it really changed my perspective.
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  I also grew up, I was raised in a non-denominational Christian church.
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  But I was more what I would call follower, Christ follower.
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  Uh I mean a believer and not a Christ follower.
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  And there's two, there's a difference between the two, and that relates to the story.
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  So that led to the Epic Times.
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  Uh when was that 2022, I believe, March of 2022 is when I joined the Epic Times, and I've been with Epic Times since.
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  But how that led to the Make America Healthy Again movement, uh, I think it's pretty interesting because of all, there was not a Maha term at the time.
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  And secondly, I was not involved.
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  I had earlier in my life or up until that point, I would drive past a farm or see a farmer in the field, and I would be happy to see it because obviously I always knew that that's the breadbasket.
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  That's what feeds us, but didn't really give it a second thought.
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  Never wanted to live out in the country, never ever imagined I'd be growing uh having a tower garden, growing microgreens, have an interest in gardening.
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  Uh have an interest in writing about what I'm writing about now, and hosting a show, a podcast where I'm interviewing Maha personalities and farmers and talking about these topics.
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  But what happened was I covered East Palestine.
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  If you remember uh in on the Ohio Pennsylvania line, a Norfolk Southern train derailed and exploded, and it let toxic fumes in the air.
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  It was one of the worst environmental disasters in US history, at least modern U.S.
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  history.
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  And I covered that from February of 2023 to April 2023.
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  When that went away from the news cycle, editors asked me what I wanted to cover.
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  I told them uh the RFK junior presidential campaign.
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  I had interviewed RFK Jr., uh Robert F.
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  Kennedy Jr.
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  during COVID, interviewed him a few times during the East Palestine situation because he repres was representing families.
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  And I had a feeling, I just had a hunch that his presidential campaign was going to be interesting and it was going to generate attention.
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  And I I liked uh what he stood stood for at the time.
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  So I started covering that.
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  That was April of 2023.
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  And I went to 28 states.
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  Covering RFK Jr.
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  And uh those of you who know him uh follow him.
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  Obviously, if you're listening to this show, you're likely to make America Healthy again, a Maha movement uh believer.
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  And RFK Jr.
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  for in the beginning was talking about the corporate capture of government health agencies.
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  He was talking about vaccine efficacy and safety.
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  He was talking about removing chemicals from foods.
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  He was talking about the chronic disease epidemic and tackling it and removing uh processed foods or removing uh a dependence on processed foods and encouraging sourcing from local farmers and also removing glyphosate and herbicides and pesticides, encouraging uh regenerative farming.
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  So I got it got to be where I joked that I still joke that I could have uh delivered his own speech for him because I heard it so many times and I interviewed him so many times one-on-one, and it really changed me, you know.
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  As a reporter, you don't become part of the story, or you prefer not to become part of the story because your job is to report, whether it's as a news story, or if you're doing profiles or features, you want to experience it firsthand, but you do not want to become the story.
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  But it really changed my life that uh that time hearing uh what he was standing uh standing for.
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  And I about the time uh what was it, September of 2023?
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  I moved down here from the suburbs to Southern Ohio, the Appalachian Foothills, where I don't have a big property.
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  I have about a quarter acre.
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  I live right across the street.
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  I see nothing but farm fields and forests and all around me.
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  I'm surrounded here by Amish farms and nothing but small villages.
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  It's uh an hour from Cincinnati, an hour from Columbus, but you feel like you're a lifetime away.
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  And all those times covering 28 states worth of events for uh on RFK Jr., I always loved it when I came back here.
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  Uh it was a change.
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  It was something different.
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  I really didn't like the where I was living at the time in Centerville.
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  I loved my condo, but I didn't like I was just growing tired of the suburban lifestyle, so I moved down here, and it coincided with uh learning more about sustainable living.
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  I started going to Food Independence Summit, Heritage Skills USA homesteading.
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  Uh got a tower garden where I grow my own uh lettuce and spinach and trying to expand on that.
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  I've grown some microgreens and getting back into that.
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  But at the time, I'm about six foot four, and much of my adult life up until about five years ago, I'd been in decent shape.
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  I used to play a lot of basketball, used to be really active, but over a five-year period and really started coinciding around COVID.
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  I just started gaining weight, stopped working out regularly, I stopped eating.
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  Well, I I had typically never eaten a whole lot of processed foods, but I had developed some bad habits, and I got up, I stepped on the scale last May.
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  This is March of 2026, uh, May of last year, and I was horrified.
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  I mean, I knew from seeing pictures of myself that I had gotten way out of shape, but I didn't realize I was too 78, and that was the most I've ever weighed.
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  And clothes weren't fitting well, I just wasn't feeling energetic, wasn't feeling good.
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  And at the time my faith, I was having the transition of my faith too, because I had prayed to God at that point to restore the lost years when I wasn't fully the man he intends me to be because we're called to fully live as disciples and to pick up our cross every day.
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  And there's a difference between between being a Christ follower and a believer, and I was a believer, but not a follower.
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  So it all coincided.
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  That's why I like telling my story and like sharing how I believe that faith, sustainable living, maha, it's all interrelated.
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  So at that point, that was late May.
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  Uh cold turkey with processed foods.
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  I started eating whole foods, nothing but whole foods.
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  I started getting back to hiking and walking a lot.
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  I cut out sugar, I minimize sugar, cut out fast foods, really drastically changed my life.
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  And I've got to go into more detail about this, but simply put, between May of last year to around November 1st of last year, I lost 65 pounds.
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  And since then I've maintained it.
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  I'm at a new stage, the next stage of uh body fat, uh, you know, toning up, muscle tone, muscle mass, flexibility, cardiovascular conditioning, all that, focusing on that.
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  But I attribute it all to the Maha lifestyle.
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  And that all relates to um RFK Jr.
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  So, what I'm gonna do here when we get back from the break, we're gonna be gone to a break here shortly.
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  We're gonna tell you about how Maha was coined and how that led to um here and now with uh RFK Jr.
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  HHS, the Maha movement, and uh my role in the Maha movement.
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  Welcome back, everyone, to the Maha Lowdown.
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  I'm Jeff Lauterbach.
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  And I'm going to continue the story about how the Maha movement has changed my life and uh made it made an impact on what I'm doing.
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  And uh essentially as a journalist, you don't like to become part of the story, but in this case, it's not bad because I'm hoping that it inspires people and motivates people that um that there is hope.
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  It's uh it's not too late to full to transform your life.
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  And it interrelates with faith too, as I mentioned before.
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  I'd been a Christ believer all my life.
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  I grew up in a non-denomination, non-denominational church.
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  Uh, but most of my 20s, 30s, and 40s.
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  I'm in uh 57 now.
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  Into my mid-50s, I wasn't fully the man God intends me to be, and I wasn't focused on what I needed to do.
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  I felt because we're called again to be disciples to go out and to pick up our cross and get uh immersed in the word and live the word, we live our testimony.
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  And I wasn't doing that, and then at the same time, I wasn't doing that with I was covering the Maha movement, uh, was covering RFK Jr.
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  And then if uh on August 23rd of 2023, he delivered a speech in Arizona.
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  He decided he was going to leave the race, endorse President Trump.
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  And in that speech, which I think was one of the better speeches I've ever covered, ever heard.
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  I encourage you to watch it.
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  You haven't uh he says, thank you to President Trump for giving me the opportunity to make America healthy again.
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  Well, make America Healthy again as a concept had been around for years and years, whether it's people advocating for vaccine safety and advocacy, I mean uh efficacy, that's a mouthful, advocating for removing chemicals and food, advocating for removing corporate capture of government health agencies, uh tackling the chronic disease epidemic, whatever uh autism, uh addressing autism.
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  That has been around for years, but there wasn't a name attached to it.
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  When RFK Jr.
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  said that uh uh Maha became a hashtag and it became a name, I believe it was Del Bigtree, who is the host of the high wire, and he was the head of Maha Action, the Maha related pack for a while.
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  He was a communications director of the RFK junior presidential campaign.
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  I believe he coined that phrase, Maha, which is make America healthy again.
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  But again, it's not more, it's not a just a catchphrase, it's a movement that really has been in the works for decades, but it now had a name and a direction.
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  And I ended up, uh, I remember when RFK Jr.
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  decided to leave the race.
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  I kind of felt uh punched in the gut because I was thinking, what am I gonna do now?
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  I mean, my last year, uh, about a year and a half had been spent fully covering the RFK junior presidential campaign, and it it was fascinating, it was interesting and it was fun and it was meaningful and rewarding, and it had helped impact me where I started developing a different mindset where appreciating agriculture and farming, starting to look at labels, care about what's in my food.
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  But as I wrote in the story, and you could see my story on the Maha report.
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  Um, if you go to my author page on the Epic Times or type in Jeff Louder back on my substack, you'll see that I talked about how I didn't I wasn't living the lifestyle.
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  You know how I said that I was a Christ believer and not a Christ follower, and I knew that needed to change.
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  That's what happened back in May when I stepped on the scale and it showed 278.
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  I'm writing about Maha, make America Healthy again.
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  I'm writing about healthier lifestyles, but I wasn't living it.
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  And that really changed.
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  That changed everything that changed it coincided with getting stronger in my faith, and it changed the way I lived.
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  So I like sharing about that.
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  Um I talk about how COVID was a wake up call, and then that was another wake-up call for me, realizing that I needed to actually live what I was writing about and and advocating for.
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  When you have a goal like 278, I remember earlier in my life when I was in great shape, and I was around where I am now, which is 215, and had less body fat, uh less body fat, less um less weight, uh more energy, more focus, more concentration.
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  I remember what I was doing back then.
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  I knew what I needed to do, it's just a matter of doing it.
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  But when you have, I think it's common for us.
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  We live in a society that preaches a quick fix, uh, pharmaceuticals uh the promise to help us lose weight, uh, or do this and that supplements that promise uh anything you could think of.
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  And there's no quick fix, though, it's about a mindset, it's about changing how you live, and that's why faith is important.
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  What I didn't have before was faith.
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  I uh I realized I wasn't taking care of the body that God had given me.
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  You know, I'm 57 years old.
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  I a lot of people aren't blessed to live that long, but I hope to live.
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  I would love to live to be 100, but I want to stay healthy, I want to take care of myself, and uh I wasn't doing that.
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  So I just started researching, uh looking more into what uh RFK Jr.
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  had said, and what the Maha movement had said, all the people I had interviewed, what they had talked about.
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  And the bottom line was first saying that tomorrow starts today, you know, no longer making excuses and sticking with it.
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  It's not easy, it's willpower and discipline.
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  And in my article, I talk about I'm a sports fan, and I'm a lifelong Red Sox fan, even growing up here in Southwest Ohio.
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  So say the Red Sox are on a losing skid, and say they've lost seven or eight in a row, they can't end that losing skid until they get a win, and that uh changes the mindset.
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  It feels good to win after you've been losing.
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  You know, you win a second game in a row, you win a third game in a row, then you have some momentum, and you have a different mindset.
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  That's the same with uh fitness, that's the same with wellness, that's the same with faith because uh we're called uh by the Lord to pick up our cross every day.
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  And just because we get saved, just because we get baptized, doesn't mean that things are easy and uh all will always be well.
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  We have to pick up our cross every day, and if we slip up, you know, we we repent and strive for holiness and righteousness, and we uh again pick up our cross.
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  That's a daily thing when you get up in the morning as a Christ follower to be a disciple and to live our testimony, pick up our cross, and part of that is taking care of the body that the Lord is giving you.
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  That's how I looked at it.
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  So again, it's not easy.
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  There, it takes willpower and discipline, and one day leads to another.
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  I just started with uh no processed food, and that was hard because there was times, you know, we live in a convenient, we live in a society where we want convenience.
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  So when you're on the road, it's all too easy to go to Chick-fil-A or Culver's or uh whatever your uh favorite fast food restaurant is.
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  It's it's easy to do that.
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  It's easy to order pizzas, and you know, when you live by yourself, it's easy to chow down on uh large pizzas or eat Oreos or eat nutter butters, and there's nothing healthy about anything that you look at the label and you can't pronounce the ingredients.
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  So how I did it, uh, I started giving up processed foods, and I uh stuck with that.
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  No processed foods, no fast food, minimizing sugar, uh, minimizing added sugar, focusing on whole foods.
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  I um right here right here on my uh bookshelf.
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  I have the Maha cookbook by Pete Evans, and I just got this Maha cookbook maybe a month ago, but I had really started living it.
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  I started uh making uh whole foods, focusing like a daily staple is ground beef and eggs, you know, eggs is a superfood, eggs is a power food.
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  We've been lied to for so long by big ag and big food, eggs, beef, produce, uh butter.
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  They're all superfoods.
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  They they're all it's just important how they're made, how they're raised, and we're gonna get to that about the importance of locally sourcing your food.
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  But yeah, while I'm on the subject of the Maha Cookbook by Pete Evans, I recommend that you get it uh and read it and and try the food in it.
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  Like there's chili concarney, there's a lot of beef and salmon dishes, chili beef fajitas, there's desserts.
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  Uh, there's it's just uh it says taking charge of your health with vibrant whole foods, and that's what I did.
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  I started learning the importance of herbs and the importance of whole foods.
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  I started just eating that like every day.
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  And um I have I've I gotta start the uh microgreens again, but I'm learning how to make oregano oil and colloidal silver, and as far as like with herbs, understanding that herbs are good alternatives to over-the-counter medicine.
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  I uh incorporated fasting, and that's something that uh is really really valuable that uh I'm getting to, and I'm calling something up on my screen as a resource.
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  So
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  Dr.
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  Eric Berg is a good resource to um anything related to fasting.
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  Dr.
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  Eric Berg is a good resource.
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  And he talks about the different stages of fasting, where whether it's a 16-hour fast where you just eat within eight hours a day, or you prolong it as high as 72 hours.
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  And I've done multiple 72-hour fasts.
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  Every day I at least do 16.
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  I strive to do 168, which is fasting for 16 hours, and uh eating within an eight-hour window, making sure when you eat uh you eat with proper portions and the whole foods, focusing on whole foods, uh minimal sugar, no fast food, no processed foods.
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  So I'm gonna get into a 72-hour fast right now as the next stage of the story.
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  A 72-hour fast is in this case, so that's three hours, 72 or three days, 72 hours, and it's no calories, so you can have herbal teas and moderate amounts of black coffee and staying hydrated with water, having sea salt in your water.
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  Uh dandelion tea I found is good.
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  So during extended fast, the body shifts from utilizing sugar as a primary fuel source to generating energy by burning fat.
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  And that's what ketosis is known as.
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  So people know about the keto diet.
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  Um fasting accomplishes that as well.
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  It forces the body to tap into stored body fat.
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  So that addresses fat loss and body weight, but really what fasting is about sometimes it's about spiritual purposes, about willpower and discipline.
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  But there's a lot of um other benefits like prolonged fasting is linked to improved mental clarity and anti-aging, cellular rejuvenation, uh reducing the risk of chronic inflammatory diseases.
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  And it helps with insulin resistance.
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  And what I find is the hardest part is between 18 to 24 hours, and then maybe 36 to 48 is tough.
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  But once you get between 48 and 72, the minoclarity kicks in, and it says uh Dr.
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  Eric Berg talks about during fasting periods, the liver releases large amounts of ketones that serve as a highly efficient fuel source for brain cells, and that promotes cognitive performance and sharper focus.
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  So it also helps with immunity, and it kills uh damaged cells and regenerates new ones.
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  The uh benefit of autophagy, which is self-eating, which eats eats the dead cells, and it also has anti-aging effects.
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  And so I recommend you go to uh Dr.
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  Eric Berg and learn more from him because he's a valuable resource.
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  But again, that's all part of uh of taking in having willpower and discipline and making it part of your wellness routine.
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  And it's all part of uh spiritual discipline as well.
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  I find myself during fast being uh more focused on being in the word and being more focused on making the most of the work that I'm doing.
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  I mean, I've changed where I used to be okay doing any type of story, but now I want to do stories that have an impact and and work that has an impact and glorifies God and I'm able to have focus and redirection and direction through through fasts.
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  So I highly uh recommend learning more about that because again, a lot of people when when they hear you doing a fast, they talk about their like uh, well, you you're starving yourself to lose weight.
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  That's not true.
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  You uh you have minimal weight loss, and it does target fat with autophagy, but it has all those other benefits that I talked about.
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  So, and we weren't meant if you do the research, we weren't meant to have three meals a day.
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  Um it's just good uh to eat within a certain window.
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  But I'm not a doctor and I don't uh dispense medical advice.
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  I just recommend uh looking at uh Dr.
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  Eric Berg, Dr.
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  Josh Axe, those are two good resources.
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  Josh is AXE, Dr.
• 35:13
  Josh Axe.
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  So um that is uh something that's that's the main thing I wanted to cover, or one of the main things I wanted to cover about this wellness journey.
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  And another point is that uh a lot of people think like you have to head to the gym and work out hours and hours a day.
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  And I'm sure you've heard if you're into wellness that you can't out train a bad diet.
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  So really wellness and nutrition is the most important element to change your mindset on first, and then um incorporate like I I did this all up until November without uh with just focusing on hiking and walking.
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  I've incorporated some hit exercises in like boxing fitness and pushing the weighted sled.
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  I'm trying to get into that's my next challenge.
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  Um even though I've been transformed and have had a lot of accomplishments, I'm trying to get into daily or at least four to five times a week, working out.
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  We have a great gym here, and it has boxing fitness and a good uh high-intensity interval training area, and that's why I love I love those type of exercises.
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  I get easily bored.
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  So I have to have something challenging.
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  So that is uh another point I wanted to make is you know, tomorrow starts today, and you just change your mindset with processed foods, no processed foods, no fast food, minimal sugar, but get active, you know, hike, walk.
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  I have uh two dogs, one dog, he's uh over 15, another dog, he's like uh a year, about a year and a quarter, and they both like going on walks with me.
• 37:09
  So that is uh work we're coming down to the final segment.
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  Um I wanted to share more, make sure I shared everything within my personal wellness journey because the most important part is you can you can do it.
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  I think we again we go back uh in society today, we want the quick fix, we have quick information, everything is there's but there's no magic pill to lose.
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  Excuse me, like uh I didn't gain all this weight that I gained overnight.
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  It was over about a four or five year period.
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  So I knew I wasn't gonna lose it overnight, but I'm 6'4, so I have a uh a frame, a tall frame.
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  I healthfully drop 65 pounds in from mid-May to the beginning of November.
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  So it's about uh five and a half months.
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  So it can be done.
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  And I recommend dividing it into seasons, and uh, we're gonna get back into that.
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  Welcome back, everyone, to the final segment of the Maha Lowdown, part of the morning in America series on the America Out Loud Network.
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  And I'm Jeff Louderback.
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  I've been sharing the roots of what Maha is, make America Healthy again, and talking about my story because in subsequent uh shows, I'm going to be talking about interviewing uh whether it be well known people within the Maha movement to people who aren't as well known but have fascinating stories that uh are all part of the Maha journey and the Maha purpose.
• 40:53
  But it's important that uh I share my story and tell my story because I'm a firm believer and in what uh the Make America Healthy Again movement is about, and I know that some people have been uh chastising the Maha movement, uh, mainstream media has been criticizing and saying things that aren't even remotely true about uh the Maha movement, about it being fractured, which is it uh it isn't, and uh I'm gonna get into that in this segment, but I wanted to go back to what I was saying at the end of the previous segment.
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  Again, there's no quick fix in the society we're in.
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  So I um recommend that people give it a season, and what I mean by season is three months.
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  So don't look at like when I was at 278.
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  I knew that uh about 215 was a good weight, and it's more about it's not just what what your number is on the scale, but the scale does give an accurate depiction of like the range you're in.
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  So I know I needed to get to about 215, and at this stage, now that I'm here, I want to maintain that, and I want to, I'm working on muscle tone, muscle mass, cardiovascular conditioning and flexibility.
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  And by focusing on that, I get uh a lot of mental clarity and mental sharpness too.
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  But give yourself a season, it's not going to happen overnight.
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  If you have a lot of weight to lose, if you have 50, 60, 70 pounds to lose, even if you have 20 pounds to lose, it's not going to happen overnight.
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  So a season is three months.
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  And I remember what I said about the breaking the losing streak using the sports analogy.
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  You know, give it a start with one day, two days, three days.
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  When you go a week without processed foods with minimal sugar, no fast food, you start seeing a difference.
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  You start feeling more energy.
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  Uh then one leads to two weeks, two weeks leads to a month.
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  When you get the three months, you'll see results.
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  And that encourages you to keep going.
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  For me, it's been about the faith because my faith is getting stronger, and I'm a Christ follower instead of a believer, and I'm striving to pick up my cross every day and to be a disciple and to be heavily involved.
• 43:31
  Uh, we have Southern Ohio Watchmen for Christ down here, a men's group that I helped create.
• 43:35
  We have Strangers Helping Strangers, which is a faith-based 501c3, and we're focusing on food insecurity.
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  Uh, I'm involved in that, and that's all part of ministry, and that holds me accountable.
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  Having this show, writing about Maha holds me accountable because I want to share my story and share other people's stories.
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  So if I'm not living that lifestyle, I'm a hypocrite, and I don't want to be a hypocrite because I have been before not living the way God intends me to live.
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  And uh I don't want to do that anymore.
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  So that's behind the all the motivation.
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  So what I'm gonna talk about uh really the strangers help the strangers, it's a good segue into another story that I've written about Jaclyn Capriotti and the Victory Garden Project.
• 44:26
  And if you go to my Substack, Jeff Louderback, the Substack, and I'll put links in the article on the Maha Lowdown uh article attached to this show.
• 44:39
  The Victory Garden, if you are into history back in World War II, when there were rations and it it was encouraged that everyone grow their own garden and produce their own produce.
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  And if you can, your own eggs and your own meat.
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  That has a resurgence because of Jacqueline Capriotti, who towards the end of RFK Junior's campaign had the R the RFK Jr.
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  Victory Garden Project.
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  But then when he left the race, she created the Victory Garden Alliance.
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  And it's working with churches and communities and organizations and people across the country to grow your own produce to know how it's growing.
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  And that's a big thing.
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  Uh what John Clark was talking about last week.
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  Glyphosate is a big problem because um really the Make America Healthy Again movement to clean up and to get healthy eating.
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  We need to focus on two aspects.
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  One is educating farmers to help them transition from using herbicides and pesticides into using implementing regenerative methods that have no chemicals, because that results in healthy food.
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  We uh multiple studies show that glyphosate and other herbicides and pesticides cause cancer and all sorts of health challenges.
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  Uh the gluten issue for obviously centuries and centuries, people have been eating bread with no problems.
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  Then what the last 20 years, everyone has a gluten issue.
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  It's not gluten for the most part, it's the uh chemicals and the herbicides and the pesticides in the uh corn and the soybeans, the everything that leads to the bread in that bread.
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  I think it was uh Casey DeSantis uh wife of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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  I think they did a study.
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  I believe that's also uh moms across America's in Hunting Cut the study, finding glyphosate and bread.
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  So glyphosate's a huge problem.
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  So it's all about educating farmers, as John Clark mentioned to transition to regenerative purposes, and at the same time educating the public on not only producing your own food without chemicals, but sourcing it local from farmer, it's not just all about getting produce from farmers because if you get produce from farmers and farm stands and get meat that's not raised regeneratively and organic, then it's still unhealthy.
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  So it's all about educating about uh how to do that and where to do that and how to get that.
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  And that's down here.
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  I live in Amish country.
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  And but just because it's Amish doesn't mean it's healthy, but most Amish do not use chemicals and herbicides.
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  So it's understanding, it's finding how your food is raised and learning how to raise it.
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  And I highly recommend going to the Food Independence Summit June 17th and 18th up in Ohio's Amish country.
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  Uh, cover that, and I'm gonna have a presence up there.
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  Uh you could hear Joel Salatin speak.
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  I've written about him.
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  He's the uh king of regenerative farming, I think.
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  Uh, I recommend going to his website and learning more about what he has to say.
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  Go on to those events where you can be around people, you can make contacts and connections and learn about that lifestyle.
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  Uh, here in Hawking Hills, I'm gonna be delivering the keynote address at the Heritage Skills USA homesteading event.
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  That is more about homesteading and survival skills and it's hands-on training.
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  So I'm still green when it comes to that.
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  I'm learning, I've write about it, I've tried to learn as much as possible.
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  There's never a time you should stop learning, just like it with your faith.
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  There's always room for growing closer to God and and learning the word.
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  That's the same with um learning wellness and learning healthy habits.
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  So I recommend that.
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  Food Independent Summit, Heritage Skills USA, Victory Garden Alliance.
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  Those are three uh organizations and events that have really helped me, and I've written about those all.
• 49:30
  And uh did the story on John.
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  If you go to the Substack, you see the story I did on John Clark.
• 49:36
  I recommend getting to know him, learning to know more about him, uh, reading him.
• 49:41
  Uh, the Maha Action Substack is a good website.
• 49:48
  And you can follow me on the Epic Times.
• 49:50
  Uh, I write frequently about these topics.
• 49:53
  So it's all about surrounding surrounding yourself with the right information and
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  And not being afraid, uh, Joel Salatin talks about starting small my first food independence summit when I was as green as it gets, and he was talking about don't start with something that's going to run away from you.
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  So you know, don't start out by growing a bunch of gardens and having chickens and turkeys and cows and uh bees and so baby steps, but gradually uh gradually improving.
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  And those are uh the purpose of this last segment.
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  I wanted to direct people to resources that they could learn more valuable information.
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  And um, moms across America is in the honeycut.
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  Uh, I have a story about the post.
• 50:51
  I'm gonna be doing a profile in a honeycut that'll post in the next week, but I have a story on breakfast cereals.
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  How breakfast cereals ushered in the processed foods movement, and we went away from having beef and eggs and made from scratch ingredients to uh breakfast cereals because of the convenience.
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  Pour it in a bowl, douse it with milk, and there you go.
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  And but it there's a lot of added sugars and additives, and I know moms across America just did a study that found, or they within the last year that done a study, finding that there's a lot of glyphosate or there's at least glyphosate residue and even organic cereals.
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  So just because there's an organic label slapped on it doesn't mean it's healthy.
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  So I think it's great that uh the RFK Jr.
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  in HHS is addressing removing synthetic dyes and additives and chemicals because that's important, but in the end, a fruit loop is a fruit loop.
• 51:55
  You know, it's better to eat healthy for breakfast to just change your mindset with that.
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  Um, I highly recommend uh learning more about moms across America and Zen Hunica following her, uh Kelly Ryerson and the glyphosate girl.
• 52:12
  She has the glyphosate girl blog.
• 52:15
  Uh, I think I have the article on my sub stack, which is Jeff Lauderback Loudy Yarnback.
• 52:22
  So those are resources that you know, I'm writing about this, but I also am living it.
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  So I learn a lot.
• 52:28
  I I re research that, and I I'm trying to, I've reached a different stage because I've lost the initial weight.
• 52:38
  And with my six four frame, I want to stay weight wise between 210, 215.
• 52:46
  But again, it's important muscle mass, the order you get cardiovascular conditioning, muscle tone, and exercising regularly.
• 52:56
  Um staying in that mindset where just like we're called to pick up our cross every day, so we're human, we all fall short of the glory of God.
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  And fortunately, uh Jesus died on the cross for our sins, so we're redeemed.
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  We pick up our cross every day when we fall in short.
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  So if you have a bad day, you eat something you shouldn't.
• 53:22
  Uh fall off the wagons, so to speak, you know, it's not over, just don't get back in that mindset.
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  That's critical.
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  And uh I think for me, that's the main challenge is I don't want to go back to that.
• 53:40
  And I want to do more, I want to expand this show, the maha lowdown.
• 53:44
  I want to share my story more.
• 53:45
  I want to get more focused and pinpointed on make America Healthy Again articles.
• 53:51
  I want to get back into uh, I want to learn how to play pickleball and play tennis again, keep on hiking, but stay away from the processed foods, not go back to that, but learn more and more.
• 54:04
  Like uh, it's fun to uh to grow your own food and what you can't grow, developing networks in your community supporting local farmers that are regenerative that uh they're they're good to support because they're again we need more and more farmers to shift from chemical herbicides and pesticides to regenerative methods, so being able to do that and support those people that's critical.
• 54:37
  So again, it goes back to two main changes need to happen, and that's what the Maha movement is focusing on right now is transitioning farming to regenerative because glyphosate's not gonna go away.
• 54:52
  The big uh ag and uh the big like the Monsanto's of the world aren't gonna disappear.
• 54:59
  So it's educating farmers and educating people about what they need to do, how how can they can get healthy and what they need to do to do that.
• 55:09
  So I'm gonna have other segments along the way, not quite this uh wide ranging, but I'm gonna have other shows where I'm gonna um be on my own talking about certain topics.
• 55:22
  Most shows will be with the guests that you're familiar with and interviews about any Maha topic.
• 55:28
  So I really appreciate you uh tuning in and staying with me through these three segments because I know I've touched on quite a bit, but it is again, it just goes back to if you if you want to change your lifestyle, live healthier one day at a time, one season, and you you can do it, just uh pick up your cross each day with your faith and with uh pick it up again if you fall short with your wellness.
• 56:00
  So I appreciate you listening.
• 56:02
  You can uh go to the Maha Lowdown page on um America Out Loud Network.
• 56:09
  You can also find me at Jeff Louderback at the Epic Times.
• 56:14
  Uh, enter my name and and my author page will come up.
• 56:18
  And I'm on social media on Facebook, and I'm gonna be creating a Facebook page for the Maha Lowdown.
• 56:24
  And I also have the Substack, so that's a wide variety of ways to find me.
• 56:29
  And I appreciate you once again for listening.
• 56:33
  And uh hope you tune in next week.
• 56:36
  And I'm gonna be uh putting next week's guests on social media uh leading up to that.
• 56:43
  So once again, appreciate you listening.
• 56:45
  And that is the Maha Lowdown.
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  This is Jeff Lauderback.
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  Thank you.