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Essence Draining
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It's not just a line from the Dark Crystal, it is a real thing! This is the first of 6 episodes where we start to the scratch the surface on how to build and conserve Jing.
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Introduction to the Jing Series
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People of the Mountain, we are back with some new episodes for you all about Jing. We will have six episodes coming out for you over the next six weeks, so stay tuned.
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you watch Dark crystals growing up. No. Oh, yeah. So classic. Good. So classic. My brother can do all the voices. Oh, nice. So it was like month one in school. We talk about someone brought up Jing and I went like essence.
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And everyone was just like, what is he talking about? I'm like, guys, there's the new Dark Crystal out. They remade it, you know? I was like, uh... Is there really? I don't know about the new one. Yeah, they like they remastered the old one? No, they just redid it, and but with puppets still. And then they just CGI'd some battle scenes in there, which are like pretty fun. um Nice. But yeah, and it was out in like 2019 or whatever when I started school. and But I was the only one who had nerded out on Dark Crystals, so everyone thought I was just some weirdo trying to steal Essence in like month one of school. Nice. Yeah. That's like the creepiest out of TZM. Yeah. I'll take your Essence! Nice.
Basics of Jing and Dietary Influence
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Jing and so before we start off we got to remember that well what is Jing it's that yin substance that's stored in the kidneys shout out to yin don't forget there's four biggies so when we say yin deficient remember that's really a vague phrase in Chinese medicine we have to say well what kind of yin Is that yin-nutritive, which is actually separated between jin and ye? So those are two different things. Is that blood, third yin fluid, or is that the fourth one that we're talking about today, kidney jing? And sometimes called kidney essence, that's a solid translation, really is. It gets a lot of the information across. It's really, it stays pretty solid ah they all throughout all the nie jing translations.
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and Basically, we can think of what is kidney jing? It's ah the last remnant bit of all the food essence. and Again, we can use the word essence here. It's a very good crossover translation. In Chinese, it's called shui gu jingui, which is the minute essence of the food and water. and That's everything that our spleen took up. It's everything that it shared with the liver. It's everything that went up to the heart. and the lungs after coming to the chest and becoming zongqi. And then whatever comes down to the kidneys, that is then stored. So the big shout out to the understanding of this. We'll do that whole cycle later, I'm sure. But just remember, it comes from yin things, primarily food and water. It travels the yin pathway, primarily the food.
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um Dao or the food way which is the spleen starting from the spleen and everything I said there and it ends in the fifth song organ the kidneys So here's a big shout out. Like why do we why is everyone kidney deficient, right? So in Chinese medicine, basically you feel start feeling like everyone's spleen deficient and everyone everyone's kidney deficient Well, there's the big reason is is because we aren't eating very nutrient-dense food which is crazy to think that we have all of these food options and and people are just rocking out on popcorn all day long, right? and Or something like that, you know? Something really kind of nutritionally pretty vapid. um So here, what we're trying to do is make sure that what we intake is nutrient-dense enough that it can go through all the other ford's on organs, and then whatever's left over it gets stored in the kidneys as kidney jing, and that's what fuels the kidney to do the yin side of the jobs. That's the kidney yin that then helps fuel kidney function.
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Awesome. There's like a couple of things in there. I just want to take a sec to unpack because one, uh, different from what we learned in school, you can rebuild Jing. Okay. Correct. And then, but similar to like you learned in school, people aren't rebuilding Jing because like you said, they're not eating nutrient dense enough. I just want to go into what would be, so it sounds like the process sugary kind of quick hits for the system. That's not going to be nutrient dense enough. What is, is it the fats? Is it the starches? Is it the. um What are we talking about? So solid. So yeah, basically from a Chinese medicine perspective, the quick hit that Asher was just talking about, it gives you energy, but it does not give you sustained energy. So you know the carby, sugary, um bready, you know a slice of bread feels great if you're hungry, but it doesn't really get to your kidneys. it just gets you know You burn through it so fast. imagine like
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Carbs are basically just volatile calories, right? And you you you put that in a fire, it's just going to burn up right away. What burns a lot longer, just like Asher said, fats. So fats is really good, and vegetables. So fat and vegetable diet is just a phenomenal way to build up kidney stuff. um Think about, you know and I know it sounds a little bit redundant, but most people aren't getting their vitamins, even if they're taking vitamin pills. So a lot of people are still vitamin deficient because a lot of your vitamins aren't absorbed. um For those of you who you know are
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chemistry aficionados, you'll realize that when you make ah vitamins in a lab, so say like vitamin C, ascorbic acid or something, you can make those in a lab, but it's 50-50 which isomer you make, which means does it look like a left-hand model of that or a right-hand model of that? And that sounds like the same thing. It is the same molecule, but because it's a different isomer, it doesn't fit into the receptor the same. So you're only getting 50% on average of whatever vitamins are in your pills. But in food sources of vitamins, they're all naturally correct. It's the same thing when you're talking about amino acids, how there's an L and a D conformation and so forth. So all of these ideas is basically get it from food, our body knows how to deal with it, get it from a lab,
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often it doesn't. right So I have a big proponent of food sources for all your vitamins. But if you can think about getting all your vitamins from really vegetables and all your good healthy fats, oh man, that is the recipe for building up kidney jing. And there's a lot of reasons why I say this. So vitamins obviously essential. I think everyone can agree to that. But um often people miss, you know they underestimate just how important they really are. But number two is, how can we know that healthy fats are so good?
Role of Egg Yolks in Jing Replenishment
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shang han li There's plenty of good, really awesome classical formulas that use two great things for building up, two great super foods, I should say, for building up kidney jing. And that's pork fat, like pork skin technically, and ah egg yolks.
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In fact, that some of our our best formulas really are supposed to be taken with an egg yolk. In fact, one of my all time favorite mistranslations that I've ever read in my Chinese textbook for formulas was the Asshide Glue and an Egg York formula. Oh, yeah. Asshide? Asshide Glue. Like donkey or like human butt. I know. See, Chinese medicine is wacky enough. You'd believe me if I said human ass, right? But this is actually donkey ass. Well, I was thinking it was donkey hoping it was going to be donkey. I don't know why. Donkey ass doesn't smell good, but... It's true. It's true. So this is just called a jiao, but the way they translated it was ass-hide glue. What it really should be translated basically is donkey gelatin.
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So we know bovine or cow gelatin comes from cow skin. Well, donkey gelatin is a game changer. You want to see, it's real, man. It's real. It'll build blood like um like like you mean it. It's really awesome. And then ah and then the egg yolks, as they like to translate them in that that that formula name, which is just egg yolks. They just misspelled it, but it made it made it even better. Anyway, egg yolks are really a super food. But there's a really key point to them, is you can't cook them. And so even the Schenglen experts know this too, because the way you put them in your formula, you can imagine if if it was just tossed in an egg yolk while you cook the thing, while you cook your whole decoction, you just have scrambled eggs floating in your decoction, which sounds really gross. um It would also smell really wacky. So the way that you're supposed to take it and all this Schenglen
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um professors know this and everything, is you take, you decocked that formula, which is called hongni and ojiao tang, and you decocked it, and you then you pour it into a cup or a bowl, let it cool down to just warm, drop the egg yolk in, stir it up, throw it back. So it's kind of like it's like, it's like the TCM version of a car bomb, but with an egg yolk instead. and I was going to say it kind of just sounds like egg drop soup for that point. Yeah, it's like egg drop soup. But if it if it curdles up and it and it solidifies, you've over it just wasted it. Yeah. Okay. So what what is it about cooking it? Because usually when we think about if I take something and I cook it, I just made all the nutrients more available. And this one, it sounds like I just cooked it all off.
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That's right. You just stopped off with all good function. Well, so from our perspective, you just lost all jing um replenishing. And interestingly, modern science really again gets a um it gives us a great perspective here. So there's a couple key things in egg yolks. Egg yolks always got a bad rap. They get a bad rap for three things, cholesterol, um fat, or fat soluble vitamins would be another way of looking at that. um And then the third thing is lecithin. So these three things are what makes egg yolks amazing, not bad. I tell my patients all the time, like they're the essence of good things. So number one, ah we'll we'll end with cholesterol because that's the most controversial. So when it comes to lecithin, which actually just means it's the Greek word for the yellow of the egg, which of course is the yolk.
00:09:54
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lecithin is incredible at moving cholesterol around the body. So people think eggs, especially egg yolks, bad cholesterol, quite the opposite. Lecithin is actually the thing that's moving cholesterol around your body. And that's the amazing emulsifier that helps you blend fats and water. That's why egg yolks are so useful in things like salad dressings and everything else we need to blend the oil in the water. So, lecithin, absolutely amazing because you get to move basically what we would say, move yin around your body. I mean, that sounds like a game changer for me. Number two, fat soluble vitamins, incredible. So many good fat soluble vitamins. Egg whites, it's true, tons of protein, but egg yolks still have some protein and have all the fat soluble vitamins.
00:10:35
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That's the food source for the growing chicken. There's a reason, just so rich with all the good fats. so Number two, incredible. That's where you're boosting the yin. Number three, the cholesterol, an incredible yin substance. We love um cholesterol in a chinese from a Chinese perspective because it's part of bile. and We think bile is one of the most precious things in our body. and In fact, ah I think Western medicine would have to agree, um if nothing else, that bile is one of the only um things that's recycled in our and our body. it's It's one of the three major things that's taken back through our large intestine. so Most people know that your large intestine reabsorbs the water that you're processing using your to transport food through your digestion, and then you reabsorb your water.
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Otherwise, you'd be dehydrated. Well, there's actually two other things that really, really are important absorbing um through that large intestine. That's vitamin K that's um cultivated in your own intestines. That's how you get most of your vitamin K, and then bile, so that way you don't waste your bile. And the primary um building block that you need for bile is cholesterol. So a lot of people think, well, I shouldn't eat eggs that's got cholesterol. It's great. Just don't cook it. And don't forget that your your own gallbladder, um or I should say your own liver, your own liver um will produce cholesterol. Your ah and standard liver actually produces about 14 eggs worth of cholesterol every day. And if you eat four eggs, then it downgrades. It downshifts to producing 10 eggs worth of cholesterol
Food Choices for Kidney Health in Chinese Medicine
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every day.
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Technically, if you ate more than 14 egg yolks, you would definitely be overdoing your cholesterol. Just don't eat more than 14. I aim for a good three or four a day or something. But the key here is don't cook those yolks. And and the second reason is is don't oxidize your cholesterol. So cholesterol, not bad. But when you oxidize it, meaning cooking it in the presence of oxygen, then you start getting into some serious problems. Cholesterol is really, ah you know you can do your own research and check out check out the you know Western science on it. They've done a lot of interesting research. Cholesterol is really not bad. um The problem is, is how come cholesterol blocks up um arteries and everything else? It's the inflammation. So go back and you know feel, you know I recommend people go check out their own scientific literature for this. But if we didn't have blood sugar spiking and and insulin causing inflammation in our body, ah we wouldn't have to patch up our arteries. And so your body would stop sending cholesterol to those places.
00:12:59
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Yeah, cholesterol is one of the ones that, you know, just even in my lifetime, Western medicine has done a whole 180 on where and when I was being raised, it was like butter is bad, like eggs are bad, all this stuff is bad, cholesterol is bad. Nevermind the fact that, you know, you need cholesterol in the body for it for homework function and all the other things yeah you you sit for. it ah And then, you know, they kind of started being like, Oh, well, it's the what's the ld LDLs, the low density ones that are bad because they're on the surface. And so in times like these, it's nice to have Chinese medicine where we trace the lineage back 2000 something years and right and it doesn't change on the day to day, year to year, what's good for your heart, bad for your heart, what's good for your cholesterol, bad for your cholesterol. Is cholesterol good? Is it bad?
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they They tell you it's a little bit more simple. da gs thing That makes a lot of sense too because of all the hair products that used to be used in traditionally, like the world over shampoo is basically, yeah. was Really, they put egg yolks in shampoo? Yeah, that was like the OG because it made sense with the way that the emotion of it, of the fat and the or the oils in the water, right? How you move oils through your hair like that. um Interesting. Yeah. Like they'd actually crack a yolk on top? They would mix in egg yolks in and whatever else concoction, but that was like a staple for sure.
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Fascinating. For that lustrous hair. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. That's really interesting. it It totally makes sense. I know in China, at least one of the other components that they classically would use is um the water that they wash the rice in, the starchy water. Oh. And I never really understood that. I was like, well, it's not like your hair is going to eat the starch. I don't know. Yeah. but I'm wondering if it'll pull out, if it'll catch and pull out more of dirt. Oh, yeah. you That totally makes sense. Like dry shampoo. I've i've learned about this from my partner. She said dry shampoo is basically like cornstarch, shout out of camp. Yeah. So that's so interesting. So I bet that stops it from being excessively oily too. Right. Interesting. So they're two different halves of the equation, right? Or do you have oily hair and you're trying to undo the oil? like Because you can get dandruff from that one, or you can be dandruff from being too dry, right? So it's that. For sure. That balances. The other one too is that we learned that
00:15:24
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The meat for the kidneys was was pork. ah was like It was water and all this stuff. And you know playing around kind of made sense. But now with the when we were talking about the fat, I was like, oh, well, that's the fattiest meat that I have in these animal meats to Wuxing or your Zong organ. you know The pork fat was definitely the fattiest. And maybe also, I love duck. And there's a lot of Chinese duck yeah recipes. It's so fatty, so good.
00:15:58
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So fatty, so good. I never understood why. Well, I think most Asians do do this. When you come here for Thanksgiving, I was born here, born and raised in America. So I know Thanksgiving just as well as everybody else does. But I was like, why pick dry turkey? I mean, you could have no stock. I mean, this seems like a pretty obvious choice to me. Yeah. Me and my wife's first Thanksgiving together, we did duck for Thanksgiving. And actually, growing up, again, turkey was always dry. It was never the star of the meal, even though it was supposed to be you know the star. o I was always like, I'll take a couple pieces because I have to and we have so much of it. But coming out to Hawaii for Thanksgiving, it's Asian fusion. So it's like all the different you know like ah port Portuguese food, Filipino food, Japanese food, Chinese food. like It's all just a smorgasbord.
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And they still do a turkey because they're like they're trying to honor the thing, but the turkey doesn't fit at that point, anything. The stuffing goes, the cranberry, you know all that stuff mixes, drives. You can do it with Asian fusion, but the turkey is then really like not the star of the table. And it's just like this weird thing. Would you pass the dry meat for me, please? Yeah, I know. With no taste. I haven't had enough of that yet. And then I've heard people be like, well, that's what the gravy's for. And I'm like, yeah, but you don't need any of that if you just have a duck. Yeah, exactly. Why not eat something that has flavor already? Right. ah Or literally cooks in its own delicious flavor. Oh, my God. I know, right? We should just do a Chinese culinary podcast. ah we We should. we'll We'll do it when we're in China one these days. Oh, yeah. Good call, good call. Sweet.
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so Yeah, so getting back to it exactly. and There are actually the five meats that correlate to the five organs, but absolutely, it's it's pork for the
Balancing Diet for Spleen and Liver Function
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the kidneys. and so like um and Remember, when we talk about pork here, we're really talking just like Asher said, pork fat. It's the fattier parts, it's the bacon, it's the the pork skins. That's the one that's really going to be um you know building up that kidney jing. and so Here's a big point is people will be like, well, we're not just supposed to eat a bunch of fat. There's no way that someone would feel good on their tummy for that. right and The answer is actually true. um If we had like a rock star liver gallbladder function, just fat it up. right just Just rock that up. If you've got the liver and gallbladder function necessary to just you know digest a cup full of bacon grease, you could do that, but most of us don't have that.
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And so the key here is that's that it is where balance comes in. But remember, ah what you want to strive for is building up your spleen. in order to be able to handle a lot of those um richer foods and then building up your liver at the same time. And so lots of ways to do that, but funny enough, it's mostly cruciferous vegetables. So when people say, well, I can't digest that much fat, how do I how do i do that? Well, the answer is the green leafy cruciferous vegetables. Those are the best way to tonify your liver and build up liver function.
00:19:06
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There's actually tons of cool research into what cruciferous vegetables do for the enzyme changes in the liver. But long story short, green cruciferous vegetables, so we're talking the chards, the kale, the arugulas, the cabbage. Cabbage is the forgotten cruciferous kid, right? It's like, oh, kale's amazing. But nobody's like, man, coleslaw, pretty good for you, right? Just make sure there's no gross stuff in the mayonnaise or something. Yeah, no, that's great. Bak choy, another one. Oh, bok choy, so good. Yeah. Yeah. I bet you get good bok choy out there though, right? Well, I grow good bok choy. We grow wood o' kale. Those ones last longer. We're not so much talking about the lettuces though, are we? or this Not really, because they're not cruciferous yet, but arugula is. Do you grow any arugula out there? Yeah. Yeah, arugula's pretty good and easy to grow too. Oh, I didn't know that either.
00:19:59
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um And it's just easier on the spleen because it's got that kind of pungent spicy acrid, so it moves itself. So even more spleen deficient people tend to do pretty well on on ah arugula. Nice. So then the key, yeah we're we're kind of going back and forth. maybe Yeah, anyway. No, keep doing it. Yeah. So then the key is, well, then some people can't handle all those green vegetables, and that's a spleen issue. So how do you eventually build up this function? Build your spleen, build your liver. It's kind of piecemeal between those. Then you can handle that much vegetable intake and eventually you'll be able to handle all that much fat intake. And there's where you get the golden diet, which is lots of vegetables, good amount of good, healthy fats, and just normal amount of protein. That's what we recommend. Right. Yeah. i I was actually thinking that because I was like, usually I have people who come in and they're like, Oh, I try to eat healthy, but then it doesn't make me feel good. I get all gassy or this or that.
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And you be usually I just tell them i'm like, oh, your, your biomes probably changing over like the the gut biome and that's uncomfortable for everybody. So anytime you change a diet, especially dramatically, you're going to have more guests. You don't have this or that, but then usually it evens out in like a week has been my experience. Yeah, yeah, if they're fairly healthy, it couldn't just even itself out in a week, you betcha. Some people really just have not developed that function very well, though. So like, yeah, if you check their tongue, and it's like super teeth marky, and you're like, oh, you're just not going to be able to handle very much green stuff right now. Okay. And what do you and then you just help them with herbs? Or is there was there a diet one with that too?
00:21:34
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Yeah, I mean, you can do both. You can slowly introduce, and so that's helpful. And then there's foods that are helpful for the spleen, and then, yeah, herbs and acupuncture would be key. I mean, shoot, if they just literally did, you know, tsuusani, tai bai, maybe like two points twice, you know, twice a week or something like that, they'd see some nice shifts. wait Yeah. You can even just teach them to Moxa. Sometimes I do that with patients who are on a really limited budget is be like, ah these are the two best points you can Moxa. So those would be two standard ones for spleen stuff, right? If they're doing liver stuff, they could do other stuff liver. You just want to make sure don't over dry, but spleen and stomach channels are usually pretty good. Awesome. Good to know too. Cause sometimes I do worry about that, especially if they're constipated on and then I'm like, how much do I want to do Moxa over the stomach channel? Um,
00:22:22
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Yeah. Well, that's a good point. If they're really constipated, you you brought up a good point. Okay. Yeah. But if they're really constipated, then we'd also look what way is there stagnation and stuff, right? If it's the standard spleen deficient with loose stools or diarrhea, then youre you're good to go. Right. But yeah.
Internal Practices for Jing Conservation
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Sweet. So Jing, we just kind of talked about how to replenish it in your day to day, almost muggle way. But there's, there's also a, um, it's the kind of the internal practices kind of way of repleting Jin. Uh, like the Yang Sheng way to do it. Yeah, that's what I meant. Yang Sheng. Yeah, you betcha. You bet. So this is basically, are you getting the input, which we just talked about, and are you maxing the output, which means, uh, right. Turn off the valve. Stop leaking. Oh, totally. the Well, it's like, that's how they tell us the the Ling Shu one.
00:23:14
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the hope the beginning and ending points. It's like if you turn off the end of the valve, everything backs up and you have more replete system. ah Yes. Building it up, right? yeah Yeah, exactly. Exactly. You bet. um And so that's how we do it. It's kind of like that. You remember that start Saturday Night Live a long time ago? It was like an Arnold Schwarzenegger one way back then, pre-governor time, I think. And he just turns to the guys like, yo, ass is leaking. Well, here, it's usually not the ass that's leaking, um but something is leaking out for sure.
00:23:45
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And so it kind of brings up the idea that like when people are like losing their jing on a constant, sometimes daily basis. like i Literally, I was talking to um this guy I knew in China, super nice guy. He's in his 20s, came from the Air Force, just seemed like a strong guy. He would go running every day. A little chubby, but not like overweight or anything. just look like a good, strong you know young dude." And I took his pulses and I was like, what is wrong? Why is this so weak, especially the kidneys? And then I started asking him questions and he basically um had just developed an inguinal hernia too. All of these like kidneys signs, like you're like, whoa, not good. I was like, why is this the case? I mean, he's in his 20s, he should be good.
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and Ask him, like um I don't know if this is a weird crying question, but do you know do you ejaculate much? and He's like, well, not too much, maybe like once or twice a day. I was like, dude, like that's that's like maybe a 16-year-old can get away with that. Not the 20s, definitely not after the 20s, man. yeah Yeah, like twice a day. like just that is So that is wrecking the kidneys. We'll get into the proper amount in just a second from the classics, but it is not twice a day. Let me guarantee you that. No, I've run into people too where it's four or five times a day and it's like, I don't know how your
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you know Again, you don't want to pry, but you're like, I'm like, does anything come out after like three more times? like Do you just eat, sleep, and then you know ejaculate? like Is that what's going on over there? what How do you have time or energy for other things? But yeah, so when we're talking about this conserving this type of jing, it's ah yeah it's ah conserving your ejaculation. Correct. Which is interesting too. I'll just put another note in here too. It's not celibacy. you know a lot of you get into another two tradition, ah Buddhism, whatever it is, they're gonna be like, oh, don't celibacy, right? Don't partake in any of the sexual act activities. With the Daoist perspective, it feels more like, no, we still want you to like get aroused and have sexual energy, because this is really useful for, we'll get into later, like the the practices, the internal cultivation practices.
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but we don't want you to be ejaculating all the time. So we want you to partake in the sexual energy part, but we want you to conserve and the jing. One hundo. Asher just nailed it, which I think makes this method. um It really does make it a lot more complete for the body, but I think it also maybe be is a little bit more marketable, a little bit more. Oh, for sure. Amenable to people. well that's so and this is the the guy who, I forget his name, Manu Cha. Montagchia? Montagchia. Because he's probably, if you're in the West and you've, what we're talking about today, is it new? You've probably read one of his books because those are the most popular ones out here. um Right. And, you know, he entitled one like the multi orgasmic male. And I think it was a best seller. I'm sure it did pretty well because that sounds interesting. it's That's marketable, right? It's not, you know,
00:27:02
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no orgasms for the rest of your life. cepacy You can have more than one. ah You just don't ejaculate. That's right. so you can yeah you can kind of The difference between ejaculation and then that and like the climax or the orgasm and so forth, exactly. But it's the ejaculation that really needs to be limited. yeah So how many times a day should this 16-year-old have been? Yeah, the exactly. So we'll we'll go through a couple of key translations, and these are all directly from Sun Sun-myao's book called Chen Jin Yaofang, sometimes translated as
00:27:39
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um My favorite English translation is 1000 dukats of gold. Oh, yeah. Yeah. mar What's because dukat is just money. Yeah, gold money. It just means he had to gold gold money. Yeah, it's just it just changing means like the 1000 gold or 1000 gold pieces are of course dukats and Yaofang is like essential formula. So it's like all all the valuable shit in this formula. That's exactly. It's just as another way of saying these are the good formulas. Yeah, that's right Decoding the Chinese can be kind of fun. It can be a pain in the ass too, but sometimes yeah It's either really hip-hoppy or like nonsensical right gold money formulas They're balling out man Exactly. We're gonna get into exactly how they're bawling out right now
00:28:31
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Exactly. All right, so since the first one, he says, let's go time period. So this is really key for, oh, ah not to delay, but one more thing. um Men ejaculation and women climaxing is not the same thing. So the yeah, and i always I always remind people like women really get the short end of the stick when it comes to evolution, I feel like. Like they have to but they have to carry the baby. They have to have the monthly cycle. Can you imagine if a man bled that much every month? They'd be such whiners about it. Anyways. We're pretty emotional. And I don't know why the rap is that women are emotional. Guys are so emotional.
00:29:13
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Yeah, and you throw like an endocrine shift on that, plus bleeding, they'd be like taking a nut spin. Yeah. Yeah. One time, because we were talking about asses, one time someone said, the male hormone system is like a donkey and a female hormone system is like a racehorse. You know, like the racehorse will, when it's like everything's working, is like going to take you places the donkey could never take you. The donkey is like reliable, low maintenance, like he'll he'll get you there. It's not going to be fast or pretty, but he'll get you there.
00:29:44
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full outside glue Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that that makes sense. um So you know, women really do they they there's a lot and just gynecology is so much more complicated than andrology and so forth, even from treatment perspectives. But here's a big win for ladies. um but Basically, Chinese medicine doesn't it says coming is just fine. like Women can it ejaculate or climax pretty much as much as they want because they don't lose jing when they climax. At most, they lose fluid, which you might call jade liquid or something else, but they don't lose jing um because a lady's jing is the ovum or the eggs.
00:30:21
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a man's jing is the sperm. So women do lose jing, they just do it once a month and they can't control it. And men lose jing just when they ejaculate. So this is why when we're talking about all this stuff, we're really focusing on men, not because we're, you know, trying to imbalance the gender stuff here, but because women can really do what they please in this roughly. um And then when it comes to the man's side, they need to really kind of rein it in, understand the effect it has on their body. totally Alright, so let's go to the. the
00:30:53
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ah recommended dosage of gummings per week. All right, so ah they this is from Sun Tsing-Mao's book, Ching-Jin Yao Fang, and he says, um when men are in their, technically people, when people are in their 20s, they should come no more than once every four days. So that is not twice a day either, right? Once every four days, when they're in their 30s, once every eight days, when they're in their 40s, once every 16 days, in their 50s, once every 10, I'm sorry, 20 days, once every 20 days. Sorry, I was looking, cut off my my character there. And then in their 60s, best not to come at all, or they actually do make one or statement here. If they're particularly robust and strong, then they're allowed once a month. So you really judge, but if you're you know nice, like really robust and strong, then they could still tolerate once a month.
00:31:52
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So it is really key to hone in on this where there's obviously usually much less than Western averages. um And so in general, we always need to conserve. It's true. Technically, some people
Lifestyle Impact on Jing Conservation
00:32:06
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may be conserved very well, but there is no technically required amount of ejaculation either. So unless there's like an actual block into the vas deferens or something, which is very rare, and there's other ways to fix that anyway, um there's no minimum amount. and I know I've heard People tell me that there's some Western science about and studies behind not when people don't ejaculate how it it could actually cause blockages or everything else. From our perspective, it's just really strengthening, certainly as long as they follow the other recommended exercises to actually activate and utilize that jing and not just let it stay stagnated.
00:32:40
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Right. I think that's a huge difference when you're, if you just take a Western population of man with no practices of internal cultivation or sex practices, and maybe they are ejaculating, you know, an insane amount of time amount, multiple times a day, whatever it is, and then you tell them to stop. Don't do any, you know, internal cultivation practices and it's like, Is there a backup? Is there a blockage? Maybe, because the body's like, I have to create, you know, this much sperm. I have to like, this is what I'm used to. So the body is just trying to do what it's been trained to do. But now you're not ejaculating. So now it's causing problems versus someone who grew up in a different time and place or just with different practices around ah ejaculation. And then what are their signs and symptoms look like? Oh, no signs and symptoms. Well,
00:33:30
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maybe those practices are helping them. Totally. Totally. Yeah. It's so true. I mean, like in that case, like what about these Buddhist monks? Right. We just mentioned there is a difference, right? They they aren't actually even active. um But yeah, they're not blue balling all day long, right? No. there yeah And if they were having major health concerns, I think they would have stopped by now. Their lineage wouldn't have gotten very far. Not in that, because they pass it down like we do with our lineage. True, exactly, different kind of passing.
00:34:05
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Exactly. So that's a really key baseline for people to be like, okay, well, what's my goal, right? And assuming that you're not specifically a little, like, you know, your practitioner, or if if we're speaking to practitioners, you'll know, you take that kidney pulse, you can see the kidney yin and the yang. When you ejaculate, you lose kidney yin immediately. That is what it is. Kidney yin is jing. So when we talk about that third pulse, the chir pulse on the left hand, when we say kidney yin, we just mean jing. But when we say kidney yang, we mean activating yang, function of the kidneys. That's the yin and the yang. We've talked about that in other episodes, how you need both for functional kidney function. um But the key here is, what's a baseline? So if people aren't deficient, stick to this. If people are deficient, less or the better, less or the better. And really, you're chasing, what's that old phrase like? You're chasing a cart without a horse.
00:34:59
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Horse without a cart, any hoodie. You're putting so the horse in front of it or the cart in front of the horse. That's true. That does sound right. I'm just going to butcher it if I keep trying to find it proper. But basically, yeah, you got to stop losing Jing before you can build it up. Well, we got a Chinese one for you. Dig the wall before you're thirsty. And if you're really thirsty because you've been ejaculating all over the place, stop ejaculating and drink some fucking water. That's a good bilingual use of thirsty. Thirsty.
00:35:31
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You betcha. That's a good baseline. um and then so Then we would go on to say, like okay, well, if if we're supposed to be active, um How do we even know that? And Suzymya actually goes into that too. So he's got another phrase for that, bad boy, where he says, um he's talking about the classic um heterosexual relationship, but this doesn't matter what your gender preferences and everything are. But he says, um nabuo wu which means men can't be without women or can't exist without women.
00:36:03
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nubuu wan and women can't be without men. And what he's saying is, he continues on to say, well, what's the um what's the effect of this ah partnership, right? And again, it doesn't have to be heterosexual that he's just talking about it here. And he says, ah wu ze y don which means in this case, when men are without ah female interaction, like sexual interaction, then they have their, e their spleen e is, so so dong here means moved, um Literally, or it means afflicted by something. For those of you Ne Jing readers out there, this is the same dong that every single chapter, every single channel in the Ling Shu, for all your 12 channels, your main 12 organ channels, at the end they say shir dong za bing, which means when it's moved or afflicted, there will be disease.
00:36:53
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So this is the same dong, which means you're you're you're basically shaken. Your spleen's ee gets shaken and altered. And then what happens there, he says, yi dong zu shan lao. So when your ee is shaken or afflicted in this way, then your shan becomes fatigued. Shen lao zu sun shou, which means when your shan is weak or fatigued, then it damages your longevity. So a direct connection. And this is why we know,
Episode Summary and Teaser
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amongst other things as well, we'll see another chapter or another excerpt in the same chapter of this book, by the way, um that talks about kidneys are, they're the meter for longevity. Good kidneys, longevity, no kidneys, you know, a short lifespan. So this is a really good idea of how to understand how are we afflicting that through our spleen and through our shun.
00:37:51
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