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Christian's Current Projects and Fasting Critique
00:00:01
Christian Yordanov
Hey, it's Christian Yordanoff. Thanks for tuning back in to the show. I just thought I'd record something because it's been a while. I've just been super busy working on my next book on fasting and why it's terrible idea.
Client Success Stories and Consultations
00:00:14
Christian Yordanov
So that takes a lot of time and I'm getting a lot of, through my research, a ton of stuff to make content with, but I just, I have to buckle down and sort of get get it done ASAP because the this making content is distracting and it just will take longer so as soon as the book is ready and I've kind of started getting it ready for publishing I'm going to start pumping out more content on my findings you will love it in the meantime i thought I'd share a client story of ah of a recent client that she signed up with me about I guess six weeks ago at this point or so So just so you know, we're you know we're still open for business. If you need help, no better time than now.
00:01:01
Christian Yordanov
you know Try to book a call with me if you can. You know how to do that. Go to the the link below, livelongerformula.com. If you sign up to that free masterclass, you will you willll see the way to book a call. if Where there's a will, there's a way, as I say. So I thought I'd share this story of this client of mine, Heather.
00:01:19
Christian Yordanov
It's just such an amazing story of what can happen even in a few weeks on on, you know, when someone just gets a plan and has a little bit of support to resolve their health challenges. But before I do that, i just want share something else that one of my clients, Victor, ah he shared with me just now, a few minutes ago, before I was sitting down to record this. He basically said that he just fired his gastrointestinal doctor today. he said he's done. So I asked him, of course, this is through his own choice. I never said do do that. you know um
00:01:54
Christian Yordanov
I never tell people what to do in terms of like the care they're getting. And I always tell people, you know I'm not a substitute for medical advice or the care of your doctor. Always check everything with your doctor, all that good stuff. you know So this was something...
00:02:08
Christian Yordanov
that he decided to do on his own. So I asked him, you know, why, why what what did you say? How did did he take it? And of course, I asked for permission to share this communication between the two of us. So he just said ah to his gastrointestinal doctor, ah yeah, I just told him I'm done with the big pharma model because they're not doing anything to really help. It's just test after test, drug after drug. And I'm done with being a test subject. Said big pharma isn't interested in finding a cure. They only want lifelong customers.
00:02:39
Christian Yordanov
And apparently his doctor took offense to that because he says he said that if he could cure me tomorrow, he would. Which I think he he would. He's a good dude just subscribing to the wrong medicine. So that's the thing about a lot of these doctors is, of course they would cure you. They would cure you in a heartbeat if they could.
00:02:59
Christian Yordanov
They just haven't been taught how to truly help their patients resolve their health problems. They've only been taught, diagnosed, give drugs, prescribe surgery, do do invasive tests that really don't really help.
00:03:15
Christian Yordanov
And ah that's really about it. if If all else fails, you know, cut things out of people. Like I just had the another client in Canada um over the last month. He has um eight inches of ah large intestine because they they um removed it. they I've had other people that were, they you know, they resection people. They take...
00:03:38
Christian Yordanov
small intestine out, they kind of chop the parts of the stomach out and sew them back together. Countless people with gallbladder removals, which is completely avoidable, you know. ah So that's like, that's his reasons because just to share a little bit of his story. So this is a testimonial he's written for me on the website.
00:04:00
Christian Yordanov
So Victor's ah ah story is he's lived with digestive issues since he was 18 years old. He's you know about 40 now, 43. ah So he's had digestive problems for like more than 20 years. He went to a GI i doctor at around the age of 35, 36, so 18 years later after all. you So he's been living with these, he was living with these gastrointestinal problems, digestive problems, for a long time, went to the doctor, got the diagnosis of ulcerative colitis and PCS. Inflammation was, his this is a quote, inflammation was ruining my daily life, including my sleep schedule.
00:04:46
Christian Yordanov
I have been on several medications without much success. And then he said, prior to working with Christian, I had done some research regarding eating well and supplements. Shortly after the initial call with Christian, we got results back from testing.
00:04:58
Christian Yordanov
Turns out the information I found and I had been practicing was not helping. Working with Christian, we were able to determine what foods I needed to eat as well as what supplements I needed to help repair my body. And he went from widespread dysplasia to no dysplasia in the colon.
00:05:17
Christian Yordanov
I'm sleeping better than I can ever remember. I have more energy than I did in my early 30s, now 43. And he said, the one decision to work with Christian has changed my life dramatically in a few short months. Being able to have Christian's expertise to help continually dial in the diet and supplements is invaluable. No clue where I would be without Christian. And of course,
00:05:38
Christian Yordanov
You know, I thanked him that I could share sort of what he said to his doctor today. and He said, no, thank you. It's because of you and your program that I feel confident in walking away and feeling okay with my decision, walking away from the the doctor, you know. um And of course, for me, it's just an honor to be a part of his, of course, health journey and and all the other clients. And of course, not...
00:06:00
Christian Yordanov
The thing is not everybody will respond as well as you've seen in a minute with Heather's sort of the first five weeks on the program. Not everybody responds as quickly and as favorably because some of us are older. Some of us have had these health challenges for decades. And, you know, if you're 16, you've had these problems for like 30 years. Of course, the the journey back to health will be a little bit slower and more meandering. But it's just... I feel like sharing some of these successes is is an amazing thing, you know, especially with people with ah gastrointestinal stuff, because like, even like my mom, like, they're like colonoscopies and gastro ah gastroscopies and endoscopies and just shoving things up your ass and down your throat and like biopsies and cutting things out of you. I mean,
00:06:52
Christian Yordanov
scans
Critiquing Traditional Medicine Approaches
00:06:53
Christian Yordanov
that are like you know radiation and and also so so you know clients that get these MRIs where they inject you with like literally toxic metals like gadolinium. i mean, it's this is not this is not right. like I mean, that the people are truly being harmed like on a mass scale without, at least if there was some kind of resolution they would get. And oftentimes they can't even help them get their symptoms on under control. you know I've had folks with inflammatory bowel disease like ulcerative colitis and and Crohn's disease where within days to like a couple of weeks they they get so serious improvement like from ah like loose stools, pooping five times a day to like feeling like they're constipated because they're only pooping twice a day if you know what i mean which is of course not really constipated.
Pillars of Health and Alternative Solutions
00:07:43
Christian Yordanov
right so that's kind of just wanted to crowbar uh this um because it's just amazing again to help people free themselves from being i suppose at the mercy of a system that is not really first of all it's not designed to to help people truly like heal themselves and go off and and kind of live their life it's designed to kind of ensnare you and and just monetize you for life ideally. And the problem is with some of these ah you know treatments, ah you are going to develop other problems because of them.
00:08:22
Christian Yordanov
And then of course, because the underlying issues that you went to them for ah what are not getting resolved, those are allowed to continue festering. So it's a multi-pronged problem, right? Which is very easily solvable with the basic pillars or fund I suppose the the the pillars of health as I kind of talk about sometimes which is diet supplementation stress reduction hormone balancing gut health detox and liver support and then of course sleep is important stress is important and then some people also need help with their breathing I've seen that I suppose I guess maybe five percent of people have a fairly serious breathing issue but there's a good subset of people that could do with a little bit of improvement just
00:09:07
Christian Yordanov
Even like a 5% improvement in how we breathe.
Overcoming PMDD and Gastrointestinal Issues
00:09:10
Christian Yordanov
Imagine how, because you you do this on a daily basis, nonstop. Imagine like a 5% improvement in that, what that could do for your health over the course of decades and and a lifetime. So anyway, I just wanted to crowbar that part in. But what I was initially intending on talking about today is Heather, who came to me from ah World Alternative Media, Josh Sigurdsson's channel. She came to me, it's been about six months now that she's on the program. And she's a nurse, you know, like busy, you know, hardworking. um
00:09:48
Christian Yordanov
And she, like I'll just read you what, because I asked her, because she's had such an amazing improvement over even the first couple of the weeks on the program. just kind of asked her, do you mind just like jotting this down? I want to use it on the website. It's hard it's hard getting ah ah testimonials. ah it's It's hard asking for them. So I've been trying more over the last year to ask more. and kind of follow up when people kind of, I'm going to do that and then it doesn't happen. So I just kind of, been not that I'm pushing people or anything, but just ah it's it's hard enough doing this business, doing all parts of the business on my own. So any help I can get like a book review, podcast review or a testimonial we can use on social on the website. It's just really helpful. So I've been trying to ask without shame a little bit more lately. So anyway, ah I'll just read her ah what she wrote. She gave that to me this week. So she says, Heather in Michigan says, I am incredibly grateful for Christian and his Live Longer program.
00:10:51
Christian Yordanov
I had been suffering from severe gastrointestinal issues for 5 plus years. It seemed that no matter what i ate, ended up I ended up experiencing bloating, cramping and diarrhea. I just couldn't figure out what was causing it.
00:11:07
Christian Yordanov
Christian gives you a personalized eating and supplement program based on your issues and lab results. I followed his recommendations right from day one and within a few days,
00:11:17
Christian Yordanov
I no longer had any bloating or pain after eating. That's within a few days. I had also been living with horrible fatigue. I felt like I was barely getting through the workday and had no energy for anything else.
00:11:31
Christian Yordanov
After about a a week of following the program, I came home from work and I realized i didn't feel the need to immediately lie down and rest on the couch. I actually still had some energy and that has improved every day since.
00:11:45
Christian Yordanov
I had previously been diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric disorder a few years ago. So PMDD, this is a much more severe version of PMS, you know, premenstrual syndrome. This is where I have clients with with this PMDD where they're they're like borderline freaking suicidal or homicidal, you know, it's it's extreme like this is probably one of the worst sort of things that a woman could experience in terms of health challenge, just horrific, horrific depression, debilitating.
00:12:19
Christian Yordanov
And again, like um like it it drives, i've and i've I've talked to multiple women where they were literally considering taking their own, it's it's insane, like how horrific this is. Because you're dealing with estrogen, cortisol, serotonin, you know, obviously ah this sort of milieu, this mix of stress hormones all sort of going crazy at the same time. It's it's horrific. At the same time, you have like physical symptoms with the with the PMS or the premenstrual sort of. pain and discomfort. So it's it's pretty horrific.
00:12:51
Christian Yordanov
um So I had been previously diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric disorder a few years ago. The treatment my primary care physician had given me was not optimal and became something I wasn't willing to take. And a lot of the time they they would try to put women on on birth control to stop their period and or um SSRIs, you know, antidepressants. quote and This should be in air quotes, the depressed antidepressants. But yeah, so this is like really ah
Individualized Food Plans for Health Improvement
00:13:20
Christian Yordanov
freaking adding insult to injury and injury to injury even doing that, you know, that's beside the point. So the week before my period was incredibly difficult for me.
00:13:31
Christian Yordanov
I struggled with physical discomfort, agitation, and feelings of severe hopelessness. Christian's program also addresses hormone balancing. I followed the recommendations he gave me And after a few weeks, I started noticing that I felt a little calmer throughout my day. When I had my first period after starting the program, it caught me by surprise.
00:13:53
Christian Yordanov
I had no physical pain or feelings of deep sadness and hopelessness in the days preceding it. I couldn't believe it. I have only been following this program for five weeks and almost every day I see improvements. I have not felt this great in years. I can't wait to see how much healthier I can feel. Thank you, Christian. so that's Heather, Michigan. Amazing lady. You know, and I'll tell you, i just saw her. Now it's... um it's Wednesday so I think I spoke to her last on Sunday about three days ago and she looked different to me now it could have been the lightening blah blah blah that stuff but she looked like she had this big white smile on her face the entire time on the call on our you know we do three three support calls during the week with my clients so it's really ah one of the best parts of my week is interacting with clients live um
00:14:44
Christian Yordanov
And she was just like happy. And ah the thing about the PMDD, like if you're if you're a woman and your period catches you by surprise, it's an amazing sign. Because even like with women that are not really struggling with PMS much or PMDD especially,
00:15:04
Christian Yordanov
they still feel the period onset, right? The breasts might sort of swell and discomfort, tummy aches, ah you know whatever. like i mean, there's there's ah a bunch of different symptoms women can feel, like sweats. of agitation, frustration, but with PMDD this is it can be a horrific horrific horrific time that kind of the the the week before the period and then the period itself might be pretty horrible and then after that you have like a week or two of respite respite i don't know how to pronounce that word so the to to
00:15:44
Christian Yordanov
For your period to catch you by surprise, it means a lot of good things. And this is how I know with with my wife, when we were onto something with this stuff, is she she never had like serious you know ah PMS or anything. But she would like i I would hear her talk about, um my period's coming on, I feel uncomfortable, blah, blah, blah. This was years ago. And over the last few years,
00:16:08
Christian Yordanov
ah i and i would kind of always know when her period is coming up because she'd be a little bit more irritable and agitated and my my shitty dad jokes wouldn't land as well. And like when I kind of you know tease and stuff, it would be more it wouldn't be taken the same way. She wouldn't laugh as much when as as opposed to you know during other times. But then over time, i stopped being able to tell that, you know, ah because I'm not like counting or anything. I mean, i used to sort of track it a little bit, like ah but, you know, you have when you have a kid, you have other things you're thinking about and stuff like that. But anyway, so now it it in the last three years especially, it kind of would catch me by surprise. She just told me, oh, my period started. I'm like, oh.
00:16:59
Christian Yordanov
I had no idea. That's a good thing, you know? and But occasionally, like when especially when like things are more stressful, travel, et cetera, when I'm away for a while, then it kind of creeps back up and then I kind of kind of hear her talking about it or can feel her being a bit more frustrated. So these things do ebb and flow for a person. But even getting it to the point for a woman where it's like, oh, a bit of discomfort,
00:17:24
Christian Yordanov
I know a period's coming, but you're not like literally ah telling yourself, I don't, don't hit this person. that They're a family member. I love them because you're so agitated and irritated and irritable and you have so much pain that's causing that as well.
00:17:40
Christian Yordanov
and then also, again, like I said, the feeling the feelings of severe hopelessness and depression. I mean, like just to get a person away from that is an incredible, incredible thing to be able to do. And then we in terms of the, what's interesting is with the gut stuff, um because she's a nurse, busy days, has to kind of you know eat foods that are portable, compact, you know quick to prepare or little little preparation required during work. Some of those foods...
00:18:12
Christian Yordanov
on paper and for many other people would have been completely fine so they would actually be in my diet guidelines some of those foods but just looking at the kind of things she ate i just gave her ideas on of course what what to immediately exclude that could be exacerbating things but also what to replace some of those foods because you know you got to eat something at the end of the day and you can't necessarily replace like a a meal during your work time with that that was you know quick easy portable something that's ready to go with like you can't like suddenly just start cooking and bringing your own lunch to work which is the longer term solution of course but in the meantime I just gave her other ideas on foods that would be a hell of a lot less triggering so the cool part that I really enjoyed is before
00:18:57
Christian Yordanov
we even got the any of the lab test results she was already improving to the point where i'm like okay geez wow maybe we didn't need to do a stool test specifically here um but anyway the the food sensitivity test we do is very valuable because everybody has at least a couple of foods that are more inflammatory than than one would desire. So just removing those alone is very valuable. Usually it's a hell of a lot more than two, but I'm talking about the most inflammatory things like the yellows and the reds. So removing those super, super helpful. And then all the other stuff that's kind of middle of the road, let's say, there's not hyper inflammatory, but still a little bit on the higher end of the green. We ah we create for every client a plan
00:19:41
Christian Yordanov
where you can exclude and reintroduce those over a four month period. And what that does is it further gives the gut a break, lowers, first of all, lowers the triggers hitting the gut, which means the the immune system is getting less triggered, which means the immune system cells are producing less inflammation. which then means less sort of energy wasted on making inflammation, less collateral damage caused by the inflammation and symptoms associated with it, which many people, manifests differently for different people. And then less energy nutrients expended to repair and deal deal with that damage. So you're basically diverting a lot of energy and resources in the body from making and repairing
00:20:27
Christian Yordanov
inflammation and its damage to then using it for kind of other healing, repair, regeneration and just regular sort of functioning of the tissues and the cells. So that's a really good thing. You might not necessarily feel it immediately, but it's always, i always talk about How many little improvements can we stack in a person's favor? And with the program, the way it's designed now, it's a good two, three dozen things that even if it's half a percent, one percent of an improvement, when you stack like three dozen things in someone's favor and whilst removing things that are, you know, detracting from health, we're creating a huge ah impact on on the health, of course, in the near term, but also importantly in the long term. Because that's another thing. that i'm thinking about more with the fasting book now that i'm writing it is a lot of like not just people but practitioners is there they're looking for quick fixes and quick symptomatic relief so fasting can provide like someone like like her for example and victor you know and and many other gut clients yeah they would probably feel relief with a fast or intermittent fasting or a five day fast or whatever but it doesn't address the underlying problems so it's nothing more than an allopathic symptom suppressing tool it's not a solution it's a a symptom um
00:21:59
Christian Yordanov
sort of lowering ah quick fix so So that's kind of, so what I'm thinking about is, yeah, of course we want to get, we don't want these symptoms, of course. We want to get rid of them ASAP, of course. But are we also doing things that are sustainable and for the long term will support the person's health, their metabolism, their hormones?
00:22:23
Christian Yordanov
their longevity, all that good stuff. If we're not, then we're not truly helping them. We are you know getting the job done, but again, it's not it's nothing better than what an allopathic practitioner does. And we know that system is not very it's not very effective because people ah Unless you address the things, the lifestyle, dietary and other stress, etc. Unless you are identify and address those things that contributed to the downstream problem.
Exploring Food Sensitivities and Their Impact
00:22:54
Christian Yordanov
you're not really going create an environment where those symptoms go away and they stay away. That's kind of how I've been thinking about it. So that's the thing, you know, and so what I was kind of getting at is um the before we even got the lab tests, a lot of the benefits ah had already happened for Heather, which is amazing. And I've had lots of clients where we've done no lab testing, we got benefits. through diet, supplementation, all the other stuff, hormones, sleep, stress. It's all intertwined, gut stuff, the detox stuff.
00:23:29
Christian Yordanov
um But then what was interesting, I just wanted to kind of ah highlight here is, so we did three tests with her, food sensitivity, the urine test that I love, that that one always find. We found a bunch of stuff there, of course, because when you're dealing with gastrointestinal problems, PMDD and and fatigue, It's clear that there's imbalances in the deeper in the body causing that. So with the urine test, we found a lot of stuff to optimize, of course. With detox, with deficiencies, minerals, vitamins, neurotransmitters, you know, all that ah oxidative stress, all that good stuff. but what was interesting is her stool test which is i that's like a test i don't run very often mostly like with gut clients but even then we don't always run it because we want to save money on labs the the core two tests or the food sensitivity test and the um uh
00:24:23
Christian Yordanov
the urine test which gives us you know 100 plus markers so that's a good investment each one of those like 500 bucks or so so that it's a really good investment now the stool test we do run it especially when when ah a problem has been going on for like like a gastrointestinal problem has been going on for like five plus years etc 20 years Yeah, it it makes sense to see what's going on in the in the in the gut, you know, because we don't just get like bacterial markers, we get digestive health, inflammation, immune activation markers. But what was interesting in this case is that her microbiome
00:25:00
Christian Yordanov
i they didn't the The test is very sensitive. It's a quantitative PCR test. So it's actually very sensitive. They do quantify the the amount of organisms, but they found no overt pathogens, no inflammatory bacteria. i mean, there were some that get detected, but none were in like the red, the the higher, ah the above the reference range. so But like there was nothing quote unquote red, nothing... signaling ah like with the regular microbiome. the water There was some stuff like some of the the bacteria were a bit low, there was nothing like really, really bad. So it was clear that she doesn't really have that the so-called inflammatory dysbiosis. It was more
00:25:45
Christian Yordanov
um ah to predominantly just kind of certain factors in the diet and the way that were being combined some of those foods, so removing some foods replacing foods that were okay, just it wasn't the right time for them like that that were kind of contributing to the issues and then adding more of the foods that I recommend to clients. So we're just kind of tweaking the diet and um we did find some stuff around, we can actually catch pancreatic um insufficiency, which that that in and of itself can cause digestive issues, right? But that's not inflammatory dysbiosis, that's more insufficiency dysbiosis is kind of termed. So that's where we want to replace some of that for a while as we get the the diet, the, you know, everything, the liver functioning better. But it was just in the point here I'm trying to make is it was interesting that she didn't really have dysbiosis in the gut, although every
00:26:43
Christian Yordanov
every sign and symptom that she was experiencing was screaming this person has severe dysbiosis. You know, the bloating, the cramping, the diarrhea, it just signals something is really wrong, must you must have dysbiosis. But what I've noticed with the stool tests, when we do run them is, the like to it's quite rare to see like very serious dysbiosis on a stool test with many of my clients. It does happen once in a while, But a lot of the time, ah that's why, and this is again why I don't run the stool test with every person, even if they're a gut or autoimmune client, just to save that money on other stuff, food, supplements, things like that, you know. um
00:27:26
Christian Yordanov
But it just seems like a lot of... A lot of people's digestive problems, they really are about the the diet, what they're eating, and what they're not eating. And then of course, ah their ability to digest. So what I've noticed quite a lot is this marker for pancreatic insufficiency. That is a pretty common finding. I'd say one in three of the stool tests I run, that marker is an optimal or is in you know pretty rough shape, which kind of, you know, there's a lot of reasons why that can happen in in the modern world. But, you know, again, it screams to the fact that it's not necessary that the microbiota is out of balance or there's, you know, parasites or dysbiosis or whatever. It's just the way most people eat.
00:28:14
Christian Yordanov
is sub-optimal and then of course the the fact that we do the food sensitivity on top of my diet guidelines really is really helpful because even if you eat like there's really good foods like even like for example with some clients beef it's very rare i will say but like i have seen beef where beef you can't eat beef because it's freaking one of the most inflammatory things right now for your immune system So knowing what's more inflammatory or less inflammatory for a specific person and then kind of juxtaposing that on top of the the gu the diet guidelines gives us that extra layer of optimization. Now, this is only available to U.S. clients or, yeah of course, anyone that can go to the U.S. You can do the test, but you need to be there to to because you you need to get a blood draw, has to be shipped to the lab. There's only one lab that does this type of test.
00:29:06
Christian Yordanov
So they have to get it on the same day because then they expose the blood to the various foods and chemicals and their caffeine, MSG, whatever, a bunch of stuff. So it's it's a little bit logistically more complex than most of the other stuff, which clients just do at home, you know, collect some poop or collect some urine.
00:29:25
Christian Yordanov
and the you know FedEx or whatever, they come pick it up. But that one is a little bit more, ah suppose, logistically complex, not much, but I really think it's really worth it because, again, sometimes you just have no... had one lady she um still work She's still with me, second year now, actually coming up to the end of second year. And for her, for whatever reason, the lemon was off the freaking charts, off the freaking charts. And then we tested her again with a food sensitivity test, I guess a year later or six months later. It was still high, not off the charts anymore, still very high.
00:30:03
Christian Yordanov
And then we just did a third food sensitivity test. So we've done three tests in the span of about two years. And only now is it kind of approaching. It's still high, but it's like now it's, It went from like off the charts red to red.
00:30:21
Christian Yordanov
So I believe now it's in the yellow range. So eventually, and the thing is, the crappy thing is she loves lemons. So it's kind of sucky. But um that's the other thing. Like it could be the thing you, love one of your the things you love the most or you think is the highest quality food in your diet. For example, eggs or, you know, um um milk or, you know, so cheese or something like that. That is high high nutrient density.
00:30:46
Christian Yordanov
and it's a good food and you're buying it clean and organic and pastured and grass-fed and whatever else, it's just for for you right now, for your immune system right now, for whatever reason, there's many reasons why, ah but your immune system is creating more inflammation in response to, quote-unquote, it's seeing that food in your gut, if that makes sense. um so the so the But again, the what was amazing is...
00:31:13
Christian Yordanov
We
Recovery Stories Across Ages
00:31:14
Christian Yordanov
got a lot, it's like the 80-20 rule if you can think of it that way. We got almost, I would say, 80% of the results ah with 20% of the time and the effort because the the program is six months long and she's in there five five weeks when she kind of wrote this, I suppose, a few days ago.
00:31:33
Christian Yordanov
um But it feels like we've we've gotten for 20% of the the time and effort, we've already gotten 80% of the results. So it's amazing when this stuff happens. Now, at the same time, I do have clients that are, she's she's in her 30s, late 30s. So I have clients that are older and they're obviously not everybody will respond this well, this favorably. But on the other hand,
00:31:58
Christian Yordanov
She followed everything to the letter from day one. That's the other thing. Some people have more capacity to do that or more motivation to do that, especially when you're suffering a lot, the way she was suffering with the gut stuff, especially imagine at work having to like like bloating, cramping, diarrhea and you like you're you're holding it in you have to deal with with patients and and and you know you're working and you have to be nice and you have to be you know like civil and stuff like that, like oh my god, like it it must be excruciating.
00:32:31
Christian Yordanov
right So I suppose a person like that is ready to just do whatever has to be done. So there is that sort of aspect as well. But then that's not to say that you know someone that's 30 years older or 20 years older, they might do everything to the letter just as well.
00:32:48
Christian Yordanov
and just they might have to have They might be unraveling a much bigger ball of yarn that has been sort of congealing into the set of problems for you know a decade more or two decades more which is very common. right So everybody's results will vary you know and some people don't do it enough, don't do as much as they should and that that also is a factor. So I'm not i'm not saying I guarantee these results, I never guarantee anybody results, I only guarantee I will do the best I can for you but you are your guarantee, you you have to do the work and I've had people that struggled for a long time and then eventually they resolved the stuff, for example just out of memory I had one lady with me, she was also with me two years
00:33:36
Christian Yordanov
And she was she had more IBS type stuff, a again pain, bloating, severe fatigue, depression, she was vegan for like five years and she had a bunch of stuff going on, hypothyroidism, TSH marker one time that she measured it, it was literally...
00:33:58
Christian Yordanov
It was so high, it was literally off the chart to the point where I learned, that's when I learned that there is an upper limit to how high of a TSH the lab can measure, at least that lab. So after 150, they don't report higher, right? so we didn't even know that there's like a maximum amount beyond which they can't quantify the damn thing. It it was that high, so high that, you know, my first ah fear was, man, this could be like a freaking...
00:34:24
Christian Yordanov
pituitary tumor that's secreting tsh you know it is possible so i'm like you better like you better get this retested asap and uh uh anyway it's a bit a bit of a long story but anyway so she she was struggling fatigue sleep problems and uh And a year later, maybe a little bit more than a year later, everything improved. she changed oh She changed jobs. She went from a very stressful job to a less stressful sitting down job instead of running around job.
00:34:55
Christian Yordanov
So a lot of stuff started improving. And then she got pregnant. That was her one of her you know intentions, one of her goals after resolving all these problems. to have a baby and she got pregnant and not only did she get pregnant and have a ah healthy home birth at home but she did not even go to the at least that's what she told me she did not even go for a single scan she didn't even have a single scan you know how they do the ultrasound and all this stuff you see the baby you get a video nowadays
00:35:27
Christian Yordanov
all that stuff. She didn't even go for a single scan. Fearless, you know, in her in her in her health and her ability to to bear a healthy child without any intervention. Now, i don't we me and my wife, we didn't have that that sort of set of kohones to do that. we We got scans and all that stuff. Of course, we did ah we did a home birth. We had a doula and a midwife. We did all that stuff, you know, like we didn't want any of the bullshit that you get with, you know, the conventional system. But But even me and my wife were like, there no, i like I need to do some at least a couple of scans. but So it's ah it's amazing that even someone that can be in such rough shape where every meal is causing pain and headaches and suffering and writhing in pain and like people ready to give up and just horrific, horrific a quality of life and depression and fatigue and sleep issues at the same time. so
00:36:25
Christian Yordanov
To be able to resolve that, even though it takes longer, it's there was, like I so sometimes say, if there's a will, there's a way. if If it's a priority for a person, they will figure it out as long as they have the right help and support. And that's what I think is a big problem right now is there is not, there's a lot of,
00:36:46
Christian Yordanov
services out there there's a lot of stuff you can do you can get a dietitian you get a fitness coach you can get lab tests galore you can get your microbiome tested you can get your genome sequence you can do all of this biohacking stuff you can spend thousands and tens of thousands on equipment and stuff but it's not really for many people it's not getting getting them the results so that's what I've been working really hard over the last few years creating something that we don't focus on the the sort of the
00:37:23
Christian Yordanov
sort of more impressive stuff like hyperbaric stuff and you know peptides and all this stuff we just focus on the basic fundamentals and when you focus on the basic fundamentals that's what will get you 80 to 95 percent there you know you don't have to have a hyperbaric chamber you don't have to even have a sauna You don't you certainly don't need to have ah like an ice bath or cold plunge stuff. You can get away without a red light therapy unit.
00:37:53
Christian Yordanov
you You don't have to get peptides. You don't have to spend $100 per supplement bottle for each one of your supplements. You can use cheap things that are like $8, $10, $15 for a month to supply um for the most part And you can get a lot of these things, a lot of these health issues resolved with just the the basic, basic fundamentals of health, which again are diet, supplementation, which is essential in the modern world.
00:38:27
Christian Yordanov
yeah. ah focusing on gut health, liver health, detox, which are interlinked. And then of course, stress, hormones, sleep, those are also interlinked. And then breathing, which can you know underpin ah all of these processes in for better or for worse. right So just focusing on those things.
00:38:46
Christian Yordanov
is enough again to get most people 80 to 95 percent there. are Now there there are some cases with like nasty ah sort of you know Lyme disease and just some really um stuff that's let's say iatrogenic if you know mean so induced by so some other treatment. Now in those cases it it can get a bit more complex and then we have to manage expectations but like something that has has occurred organically over just like not knowing how to take care of one's health or or not prioritizing one's health for a long time or just not knowing what to do for a year, two years, five years, ten years, even 20 years, things like that
00:39:33
Christian Yordanov
there's always There's always
Personal Health Challenges and Successes
00:39:35
Christian Yordanov
solutions. I remember another lady, she 77 when she joined the program. I can't remember, was it last year or the year before at this point, to be honest.
00:39:45
Christian Yordanov
But ah at 77, within weeks, just the stuff that happened with her gut, and she lost like 10 centimeters or four inches off her waistline. She had this emphysema cough type thing where she couldn't even string a sentence together without going to a coughing fit.
00:40:03
Christian Yordanov
and I was like almost I was reticent should i even take her on as a client i'm like I'm not sure what we can do with her age but when she got all these amazing results and she's like I'm back to work I now have energy I'm not like a couch bound most of the day and I can sing when I'm washing the dishes now and she actually went traveling with one of her childhood friends uh or yeah younger life friends she went they went traveling to portugal so like when i saw that happen with her that was for me it cleared the mental block for me or a limiting belief that there's some after about 60 65 you kind of go past the zone of no return and it's like oh it's just too much work because before that i had a couple of clients that I was like man, that it's just too hard, it's too slow but when I saw that, that's when I realized, you know what, the human body, it's programmed in our cells to know what to do if the the right conditions are created which means again diet, supplementation, nutrients, all the pillars of health I mentioned and also removing things that are
00:41:11
Christian Yordanov
working against us which could be oh so many things from light and yeah emfs and you know ah just eating crappy foods to eating foods that are inflammatory ah i mean toxic exposures there's so many things stress uh just sleep hygiene there's so many things we can improve so getting the things out of the way that are getting in the way then adding the nourishing things and the supplements and using strategic supplementation ah that like that that that can be a game changer for people. right So that that really showed me that it doesn't matter how old someone is. So now when someone books a call with me ah that is on the older end, like 75 plus,
00:41:55
Christian Yordanov
i i don't i don't think to myself oh sure i just cancel this call and say look i can't help you're too old which obviously i'm gonna say in that way i just say you know what but if they seem like they are ready to put in a little bit of work and they're not just you know uh gonna waste my time in their time i'm ready to talk to them because i've seen what can happen and sometimes very quickly and also this lady that was 77 she ah she she responded super fast to all the stuff, super fast. So it's not necessarily that if someone is older or has had health problems for a long time and or both, it's not necessarily the case that they will it will take a long time to get results.
00:42:42
Christian Yordanov
it's Unfortunately the problem is that we're so different in how we respond to things, like some people are more sensitive to supplements, or others are you know more so more sensitive to like let's say gut cleanses and things like that so we're so different in terms of how we respond to things that it's just very difficult to say so you can have a young person take a long time to get their results you can have an older person get results faster and then the opposite you can have someone that's you know older that could take them a long time they have younger that can take them a short time it really depends it really really depends and that's kind of the That's kind of the challenging part, but it's also like what
00:43:22
Christian Yordanov
you know what makes us better practitioners is when we grapple with these challenges and we think and we think and we research and we try things and we learn.
00:43:35
Christian Yordanov
that That's what makes us practitioners. and better practitioners I should say and that allows us then to help our clients navigate things better and faster so I do believe I i i have got better at that and kind of learning from mistakes which we all make mistakes you know that nobody's perfect but it'ss it's it's an amazing It's an amazing and enriching journey because these are powerful tools. you know these are When you see this kind of change in people, you you kind of be like, man, this is so powerful.
00:44:09
Christian Yordanov
like Of course, I want to share it with the world and I shouldn't you know i shouldn't be reticent about offering it to people and and kind of toot my own horn because damn it this is this is powerful stuff we can change people's lives sometimes within weeks and months you know it's unbelievably amazing whereas we have people like my own mother she she had IBS for about almost 13 years IBS irritable bowel syndrome pain suffering bloating insomnia and when I this was in 2019
00:44:46
Christian Yordanov
when i The day I graduated as a functional diagnostic but nutrition practitioner, which is what gave me access to lab tests, that same day i had them send her a stool test and I already had a suspicion what her issue was.
00:45:04
Christian Yordanov
and I thought it was H. pylori causing her stuff, and indeed I was correct. So we did some H. pylori protocols and all that good stuff, and she went from writhing in pain after every meal or having headaches ah to basically, so that was May 2019. Then when COVID hit in March,
00:45:26
Christian Yordanov
And she you know she started eating raw garlic on an empty stomach because that's like an old sort of remedy back in Eastern Europe. You eat garlic to you know not get viruses and whatever.
Healthcare System Inefficiencies
00:45:38
Christian Yordanov
you know So anyway, she went from like not being able to eat like a normal meal without pain and and or headaches to being able to eat raw garlic on an empty freaking stomach in basically the course of eight months. um A little bit less because you know it it took time to get the lab lab work, the supplements, the protocols to get her to actually do the stuff, which was ah like, it's like about as hard as getting like ah like a little, like my daughter dressed in the morning, getting her shoes on and stuff like that. you know It's like a big kid.
00:46:07
Christian Yordanov
So, but I've seen that so but in that in that in those 12, 13 years, she got no help. And she it wasn't like she wasn't going to the doctor. She was going to the doctor, a lot, different doctors.
00:46:19
Christian Yordanov
um But she didn't get help and I saw that everywhere and I see that everywhere. People are not getting the help that they need and they're seeking it out. It's a different story if it's some, you know, a lot of guys that don't care about their health, they don't take care of themselves. It's a different story if you're not seeking the help. You're like, ah, I have all these problems and gout and this and that, I don't care.
00:46:39
Christian Yordanov
um It's a different story. All right, you that that's your choice. You're free to make that choice. But when people are actively seeking help from the system and they're not getting it, I think that's an absolute travesty because there's billions and billions pumped into this.
00:46:54
Christian Yordanov
A lot of it is taxpayer money. And then these doctors are spending, you know, 10 years of their freaking life. 10 of the best, healthiest years of their life learning all these things.
00:47:04
Christian Yordanov
And then they're they're basically not more effective than than doing nothing. And in many cases, they they can actually cause problems and damage and this iatrogenic sort of ah stuff that we know is is a huge problem in in in that system.
Fasting as a Longevity Strategy
00:47:21
Christian Yordanov
I'm not going go too deep on all this stuff because I'm going to try and post this on YouTube. But you know what I'm talking about, I'm sure. So I think I'll shut up here, 47 minutes.
00:47:33
Christian Yordanov
As you know, brevity is not my strong point. But yeah, thought I'd share some of the stuff. So you know I'm still here. Going to have a lot more content in the next few months once I get this book ready.
00:47:44
Christian Yordanov
And then ah I think you will see some of the fasting stuff is really interesting. And then I'm looking forward to moving... beyond the fasting again because I've just been deep in the weeds and it feels like I'm I'm losing brain cells reading these studies on fasting it's just the dumbest like the dullest crap ever reading about controlled starvation of of humans and and and lab rats and mice and stuff it just feels like i hope it's I hope it's worth it. I'm sure like i'm sure like so at least some people will be convinced by my my three-pronged argument that fasting is a terrible longevity strategy, a terrible weight loss strategy, and a terrible strategy in most cases to address chronic health problems. So I'm sure at least some people will be helped. So that's kind of keeping me going. And of course, a lot of supplements and nootropics and brain nutrients and stuff. And caffeine.
00:48:42
Christian Yordanov
A bit of caffeine is helping. So yeah, hopefully once that's done, I can expand into other areas again because there's way, way more interesting things than freaking fasting research. I'll tell you that right now.
00:48:56
Christian Yordanov
Mind-numbingly boring.
Episode Conclusion and Future Content
00:48:57
Christian Yordanov
um But yeah, so thanks for tuning into this episode and I shall see you on the next one soon, hopefully.