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A sneak peek into what's in store for the relaunch of FC2O in its new iteration "FC2O AI"...
Looking forward to sharing some great upcoming conversations and insights with you.
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Welcome Back to FC2.0
00:00:33
Speaker
Hello, welcome back to FC2.0. It's been what some might call a little hiatus of about four years since our last episode was put out. and So thank you to all of those who continue to listen to some of those those previous episodes. This is a little preview to explain why we took FC2O off air, why we stopped stopped producing it, um what's happened in the interim.
00:00:56
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and why now is a good time to look at re-releasing it so hopefully you will be able to join us and you know not just in the next few weeks but across the coming years um so it just remains for me to say enjoy the show here we go
Why FC2.0 Was on Hiatus
00:01:21
Speaker
Hello, and welcome back to FC2.0. Now, it's been about four years since we were last online. And so there's been a bit a bit of a break there. And so what we're going to do is we're going to relaunch. And um this is just a little bit of a preview, just to let people know that we're re relaunching. And to give you a bit of insight into and why we stopped previously, but also what we are now doing to make it a bit different and hopefully make it more interesting for everyone. Of course, one of the features is that we actually have video now is previously around 2019 podcast with primarily audio. Now you can't really have a podcast without having the video. And so, uh, hence if you're watching this on, on the video on, on the, uh, Matt Walden health and performance YouTube page, then, uh, then great or on Facebook or insta or whatever.
00:02:12
Speaker
um but um But if you're just listening to it on the podcast, fine as well. Now, there are some images, of course, associated with this, seeing as it is a video. um And so what we'll do is we will post those in the show notes at mattwarden.com under the podcast tab. So if you want to look at some of these these images or follow as follow them as we as we go through, then of course you're welcome to do that.
What’s New in FC2.0
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But um but yeah, so this is FC2.0 and um we are, as I say, we're relaunching.
00:02:41
Speaker
And um the you may recall the previous logo so the previous logo and had a little picture of me on one side the sun on the other and you know it's by design um the the orbits that you can see in that logo and they are examples of attractor states so essentially where a planet is in a stable state. With ah the sun or it could be a moon in a stable state with a planet and these are examples of attractor states in nature.
00:03:11
Speaker
And um they are part of what is termed Chaos Theory. And so you may recall FC20 stands for From Chaos to Order. um And you know, it's inspired by a bunch of different things. It's inspired by ah the fact that I've been writing a bit about the importance of ah Chaos Theory and also Complexity Theory and some of the papers I've been writing for the Journal of Body Work and Movement Therapies. um Also the fact that Jordan Peterson had been talking a bit about Chaos and Order and that that seemed topical at the time.
00:03:40
Speaker
um When i stopped during covid i was a little concerned that i didn't really want to bring out fc2 again when there's all this talk of the new world order going from chaos to the new world order um and so i was a little bit like oh god i don't know whether i want to actually have that that name anymore but um hopefully uh move beyond that a little bit now but um but Yeah so you know the idea really is that in this day and age is so much information and as covered illustrated so much disparate information so information from credible sources or in theory credible sources always have to follow the money of course and then you know and.
00:04:20
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It can say completely different things, to completely disparate um information. And um so you can have you know one virologist saying one thing and an equally qualified virologist saying exactly the opposite. um and And so we have to make sense of that chaos, try and make order of that chaos. um And so FC2O really, pre-COVID was an attempt to do that in that pre-COVID world.
00:04:44
Speaker
um and And so you know just to to give a quick recap, um what we had was um you know about, I think we had 26 episodes, one one preview to those episodes, 27 in total. um And you can see a little list of them, actually. I'll show you a list of them here. So now if you want to look at the list, ah because you're just listening, then again, you go to mattauden.com ah to the podcast tab and you can see the list of them. And if you want to listen to them or look at the show notes, they should all be there.
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but um the some of the sort of highlight guests for me were of course pull check um and so we did a couple of costs with him and he got a picture of him throwing an extremely heavy weight above his head. um We got fill beach just above the fc2 over there and he is a huge inspiration to me that probably the two most inspirational people on my career um and i'm into both of those.
00:05:35
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And now Phil was the first, first of all, about the notion of attractor states and the context in which he told me now the first, the first thing he described was the notion that when the moon ah formed, because of course that was from an asteroid strike.
00:05:50
Speaker
Can you get complete chaos you get you know all kinds of break up of the meteor in the atmosphere and it's going around the courses nuclear winter and all this kind of stuff and gradually bit by bit. All of those meteors or meteor fragments gradually reformed back into a moon and that moon in issues very close to the earth's surface and search literally pulling up the crust of the earth and it's extremely ah chaotic but it gradually became.
00:06:19
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ah more orderly and now it sits i forget how many miles away from the earth but it's pretty constant and it revolves around the earth at a pretty constant speed 29 point something days which is exactly the duration of the average female menstrual cycle of course um anyway so So that's an example of the moon going into an attractor state with the earth so it's now in a stable state so what Phil suggested is that there are certain attractor states or attractors in the human body and you could look at that so really attractors and chaos theory are from the field of physics.
00:06:56
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ah Whereas in biology, you tend to talk about complexity theory and it's a kind of it's a very similar field. There's very lots lots of overlaps. In fact, yeah you it reminds me there's a guy called Dobzhansky or Dobzhansky, I'm not sure how you pronounce his name, ah but a famous biologist who said, um nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. And and I think that's a really powerful quote.
00:07:21
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But I think he was, let's say, being conservative with that comment, because really nothing in science makes sense except in the light of evolution. um ah So you know evolution, I think, is a hugely powerful tool for us to guide our thinking. And in fact, you know we've got several podcasts already recorded with people that specialize in evolution. This is another thing that attracted me to both Phil's work and to Paul's work.
00:07:49
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um And you can see on this slide, Mark Sisson there who of course, um he's so he's the guy that stand up paddleboard with the six pack. he um He was one of my first guests ah because we've written a paper together and a couple of papers actually. um And talking about Phil Beaches,
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I'm archetypal rest postures now the archetypal rest postures again you can hear about these on the um on the podcast of the film. What's the idea there is that fill kind of conceptualize this notion of archetypal rest postures as being um there's only a certain number of postures that we can adopt.
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um When you're using the floor to rest which of course for most of evolutionary time and across most species that's how most animals rest and how most humans rest um and the in fact the chair is only actually about 4,000 years old. It's a mesopotamium met Mesopotamian um invention just like the wheel was. So that's the so there's pros and cons to the Mesopotamian. I can't even say the word Mesopotamians um and um the Of course, you know, undoubtedly we would have sat on logs, and we would have sat on rocks and so on, but primarily we would have used the floor. And cross-culturally, of course, what happens and what Phil observed is that if you look cross-culturally, then there's only a certain number of postures that human beings can can um
00:09:14
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Easily adopt a real tend to regularly adopt and that these could be seen as what he would call attractor states and he calls market type of rest postures so so that they are typical of human beings and and often of primates as well so deep squat would be one sitting cross legged is another sitting long legged and sitting kneeling these are all examples of archetypal rest postures.
00:09:38
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And you can combine them as well and so on but anyway feels notion is that those are couple rest postures are reforms of attractor states he was the first person to introduce me to this notion of attractors. In biology.
00:09:51
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And I think that's a really potent concept. um So anyway, so there's Phil and actually I was sharing Phil's ideas with Mark Sisson and that's what we wrote our papers about. And Mark did a lovely little video which you'd be able to find. If you route around on my website, you'd be able to find the video that Mark did talking about our papers and talking about these archetypal rest postures.
00:10:10
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um I'm dying lee who is one of the world's great physiotherapists and if if you're looking at the image you'll see her in the middle of the diagram now in the middle of the ah the the picture behind the web podcast. And again die and you know the first book of hers i read the public girdle i think the first chapter is all about evolutionary and that's me and so it really most people that.
00:10:32
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From my perspective, have their shit together and and have a really ah optimal perspective and are able to contextualize what what is going on in human function. They use an evolutionary model to understand human function.
00:10:47
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And then, so in the bottom left hand corner of the diagram, you've got Leah Keith who wrote the book The Vegetarian Myth, and again, she uses evolutionary principles very much tied in with Weston A. Price's work. And of course that leads into talking about Bill Wolcott, who also was a guest on the original series of shows and his his metabolic typing approach.
00:11:10
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Paul also talks about what's the price of pool. Will cut the air key they all talk about what's the price i think i'm pretty sure my system will have done as as well. I'm so you know there's all these overlaps because this is the wisdom that helps us to make sense or to make order out of the chaos um and so anyway i think evolution really helps us to cut a path through that chaos and and that's why there's a leaning towards these specialists in that area.
00:11:40
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So um so anyway you can have a little look at the list is the same on the website and if you want to re revisit some of those old podcasts and of course it's still fascinating to listen to and i can see that she many of you have still been listening to them over the over the month since we lost published run.
00:11:55
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so um The next image that I have here is a typical bell-shaped curve, just a normal population distribution. um and so you know Most of you will be familiar with that as a graph, a bell-shaped curve. and In this case, it's it's looking at heights and it's got nothing to do with the podcast apart from the fact is a good illustration of a bell-shaped curve, ah which shows the fifth percentile, so the the first 5% of the population, then the middle 90%, and then the 95th to 100th percentile, if you like, so the last 5%. And the reason I've got it up here is that, you know, going into 2020, as we've discussed, I closed the podcasts, and partly, I mean, largely driven by COVID, and and we'll talk a bit about that a bit more in a moment. but
00:12:43
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you What I hadn't realized was that actually FC2O was doing really well. It was, I was getting around 600 to 1,200 listeners, which, you know, if you, if you look at that from the perspective of getting people along to the village hall ah each week, that's a pretty good number. and So that was, so someone pointed that out to me because I was kind of saying, oh, it's not really been that successful. And they they they made that comment and and you think, oh yeah, well I suppose that is quite good then. um But.
00:13:13
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in terms of podcast worlds, you know particularly when you're comparing yourself to the likes of Paul Cech and Mark Sisson and others that have tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of listeners, um then you know it feels like you're not doing so well. But also at that point in time, since 2019, it's a bit like the Wild West. I remember Gavin Jennings, the head of the Czech Institute, the the the CEO of Czech Institute, kind of said to me, podcast is just like the Wild West at the moment because it's a completely new industry. No one really knows how to play it. um But at that point in time, you really needed about 5,000 to 10,000 listeners to attract sponsorship. um And I'd never really started the podcast in order to make money from it. I'd done it really for fun, and because I think it was kind of six months after Paul had released his podcast, um and a bunch of people said, oh, Matt, you should do one. And I thought, yeah, that'd be fun. And I looked into it, and it wasn't too expensive to put it on. And I thought, OK, yeah, I'll give it a go. and um And so I did, and it was fun, as anticipated.
00:14:12
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But it takes a lot of time. And what I hadn't quite realized was that um each podcast episode takes, I would say at least a day of time. um So you get sort of six months down the line, I've done 26 episodes and you realize that's 26 days in six months. And if you think what the average person works in a month, it's about 20 days, maybe 21, 22. So I've done 26 days.
00:14:36
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So more than a month's worth of work in six months on the podcast and not been paid a beam for it. And you start to realize, oh, I am getting a bit stressed and I am finding it hard to keep up with my patients and I am finding it hard to find time for the family and this is getting a bit too much. So, you know, I kind of felt like I was in a little bit of ah a jam because, you know,
00:14:58
Speaker
Wasn't big enough to attract sponsors um and and so kind i were how can i turn this into a business venture so i you know i kind of sat back and and and let let's take over as it is but what the reason i got the bell shaped curve up on the screen is that what i hadn't realized was with with those kinds of figures at that point in time at least.
00:15:18
Speaker
That put my podcast in the top 5% of podcast globally. um So though it wasn't near the numbers that you know the checks and the systems of the world were getting, and it actually was doing quite well. um But anyway, so so knowing that, of course, that's somewhat inspirational. But what I really found was that I started up You're trying to make order from the chaos so so take people from chaos to order but i was going back to chaos again because of the the podcast so and that that was one reason why we stop now another thing that happened around that time was that i went out to australian new zealand to put on some. um
00:15:56
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some seminars and um again as you want one of them with phill beach which is fantastic um but representing my own ideas and concepts and built from. Really you know understanding um how to develop models which is largely inspired by pool checks work by phill beach is working and search greg of it ski someone else is largely yeah inspired through evolutionary approaches to understanding spinal mechanics.
00:16:23
Speaker
Anyway i was out there presenting these um these conferences or say um workshops. And, um, you know, it was a lot of work, of course, a lot of work to get out there, a lot of work to fill up the workshops, um, and to make them financially viable and a lot of work to prepare and deliver the workshops and all the rest of it. And and I'd call it 2020 vision because it seemed like a good name at the time. Um, but what I realized is that I didn't have 2020 vision at all because I didn't foresee the, uh, the pandemic coming. And, um, and so I was out there actually in March, 2020. Um,
00:16:57
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They say behind site is twenty twenty that and that's true but for site not so much um and so you know i'm there. Delivering you know my first ah set of seminars in new zealand and second set of seminars in sydney and um and i'm really looking forward to getting two or three days at the end i had a couple of like two or three days spare working just get to the beach.
00:17:21
Speaker
Chill out and think, you know, kind of celebrate the fact that, uh, we'd had a successful time. Um, and, uh, and then my wife's kind of on the phone and saying, well, you know, Matt, they're, they're looking at closing the airport. So I think you need to get back. You might need to book an early flight. So ultimately I did have to book an early flight. So I literally flew out the day after I finished teaching, um, didn't get to rest at all, but at least I got home. And that was an interesting flight back because, um, I was flying via Hong Kong. So you can imagine going into China.
00:17:50
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I'm on the way home when this the covid is is ah raging and um so all kinds of things going on all kinds of fascinating costumes that people were wearing on the planes from that you know. Kind of almost like deep sea diving suits to second world war gas masks to surgical masks as someone in full surgical regalia on the plane.
00:18:12
Speaker
There's a family of four who were wearing just standard face masks, but all wearing yellow Macs with their hoods up as if it was going to rain COVID onto them. so Anyway, I got back home safe and sound and no issues there. but so but yes so that was that were you know The podcast really helped to to to drive that um that set of webinars sorry seminars i say out in Australia and New Zealand.
00:18:40
Speaker
And when I got back, I recorded a few more of the podcasts, but um I really felt I had other things I had to focus on. um So although I was keen to start up a kind of FC2.0, I really felt that at that point in time, I had to dive into what was going on with COVID. And, um you you know, first few weeks, I'm kind of looking at the various figures from the Office of National Statistics.
00:19:06
Speaker
I'm looking at this data from medical journals and i'm thinking this is really interesting cuz this is not we hear what we're hearing on the news is completely different to what the actual figures are um and. ah You know so i had some eyebrows raised immediately obviously you know when you don't know much about it there's more fear naturally but.
00:19:26
Speaker
As you learn more like i think it's around may time twenty twenty there's a paper that came out in the bmj which is that eighty percent of people that get covered won't even know they've got covered there will be asymptomatic so now you're thinking well wait a minute this is doesn't look like what we we're seeing on the the news.
00:19:44
Speaker
Two months ago, with people falling over on the streets in China, that didn't seem to happen anywhere else in the world. Just purely those early pictures, which are highly questionable now, of
Contextualizing COVID
00:19:53
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course. and But anyway, um for the longest time, I wanted to reopen the podcasts with a podcast called contextualizing COVID. um And I was going to try and put some of that data into context. But of course, as the pandemic unfolded and as The papers got published and the opinion pieces came out and you got various virologists and statisticians and so on on both sides of the camp, but but especially on the side that we're questioning the the the narrative. the The amount of data just went exponential and and so it became a ah project that was just too difficult for me to to pin down. Now that said,
00:20:34
Speaker
I've come up with a way to present contextualizing COVID and so my plan is to still actually put out a um a podcast in the in the coming weeks, which is um contextualizing COVID and and helping to um understand how different people had completely different perspectives on it. um And hopefully that will be helpful. I know I got a lot of nice comments from people ah through social media, especially over that that period of of the pandemic when we were in lockdown and so on, um because I think people did need a second perspective.
00:21:09
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So um anyway, one of the things that that I was providing was actually a focus on health as opposed to a focus on disease. And that's that's really what we specialize in ah through the check system is focusing on promoting health and supporting health. And um so a lot of my early, I put out a bunch of videos early in the pandemic and it was explained to people, you know, things like vitamin D and sunlight and exercise and fresh air and breathing through the nose and various things that actually would support health and support function when it looked like there could be food shortages and and there might be supply issues. I was explaining the benefits of fasting and how that can support immune function and so on and so forth. so That was really you know my goal in those early stages. There's early days of COVID and the early days of the lockdown was to support people and provide some reassurance. and Actually, as it turns out, one of the biggest killers was anxiety. It turns out that anxiety predicted death more so than any other factor apart from obesity, if I recall.
00:22:05
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so you know the The techniques that we use by our governments to instill fear actually killed more people than anything else ah contributing, or let's say co-morbidities that were contributing and it to the COVID scenario, the COVID picture. So anyway, um lots to be considered and reviewed there. um So that's something we will we'll come around to. but One of the other issues that I had was that it was very difficult for me to ah do the podcast, of course, when the kids were at home, because, of course, now everyone's off school, off work. um And so difficult to to do the podcast from home. It was kind of challenging anyway, because um I was working from home, got a road outside. So every time a car went by, I would mess with the recording. We've got dogs. So if you bark, that would be a problem. Obviously, the kids, you know, so there are all these kind of little factors. And I was thinking, OK, well, I'll relaunch
00:23:00
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um Because we're planning to move house I thought I'll relaunch when we're in the new house so actually in November 2020 we moved to a new house and I'll just show you if you're looking at the video you can see a picture of the garden here and the idea was which indeed we did was to build a An office in the garden so I could be away from the family away from that hubbub of family life So here in the image, you can see the garden and you can see up towards the back of the image, there is the um mini, which is on the road there. So there's a main road. And of course, you know, it's quite exposed, but we're going to build a cabin to hopefully, you know, soundproofed enough that we can um still do the podcast from it. So anyway, here you see from a slightly different angle, put a fence in. So that's to help block out some of the road noise. And it turned out it was absolutely useless for blocking out road noise. So so that didn't really help much at all.
00:23:52
Speaker
Can you see the the structure going up so there's a foundation you see the the walls going up you see the the inner skin if you like the installation. Absolutely useless for blocking out road noise didn't help at all than the outer cladding went on still to make any difference to the road noise really ah windows when in doors when in no much difference the road noise.
00:24:17
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You think well maybe i'll record it at night time but night time you get almost no road noise and then you get someone going right past or trucking. This is shaking the whole foundations of the of the clinic so that didn't help either.
00:24:33
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um And and then finally we put some gates in the air maybe that will help and. That didn't help either so really turns out a lot of road noise comes through the ground not through the air um and so.
Innovations & AI Motivation
00:24:45
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Anyway come twenty twenty three i'm out in the u.s i'm teaching some courses for the check institute and fill delay who is the institutes ah videographer is there doing a bit of filming and. um This is me here matt have a listen to this and he's got some recording of me doing some presenting and um says this is the original the original so you're listening to it and there's a little bit of background noise with wearing maybe a car going by or playing going overhead something like that. This is analysis to this one and it was completely clean and i was like wow that's cool and it was clear or crisper.
00:25:17
Speaker
And I said, so what was that then? And he said, that's AI. And I'm like, oh, right. And he said, yeah, it's a new thing by Adobe. it's it's Anyway, I forget what it's called, Adobe Podcast or something like that. And anyway, so um so I thought, well, that's interesting because that could be something that I could use to relaunch FC2.0.
00:25:40
Speaker
So you know another element to this, as I mentioned at the beginning, is that what time is so is so so much at a premium these days, but also it's so much time to launch a podcast and to to to run the podcast. But then it turns out there's also AI that helps you to edit the podcast these days. So that is going to help as well. So I thought, okay, well, I could relaunch FC2.0 with some AI help. So that was that was something. um So ah What I want to do is take the opportunity to introduce you to FC2.0 AI. ah okay so there it There we are. That's what we're going to call it. FC2.0 AI. Now, of course, in terms of how it will appear online, it will still just say FC2.0, but we're going to be using AI to support it. It's not just called AI from the pacific specific perspective that we all know from artificial intelligence.
00:26:32
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But um also because I'm going to bring these in here. Now those of you watching will be able to see what I'm doing. But we've got one mic there and one mic here and the mic I'm speaking into here. And so we have two other guests and that is Archie and Isabella. So that is why it's FC2.ai. um Because Archie's my son at 16 years of age. He's just done his GCSE. So that's his um You know his is kind of fat qualifications before they go on into a levels and specialize here in the uk and isabella's just on her a levels so she specialized in sociology psychology and english. She's got a kind of particular interest in sports and in business so when we're interviewing people we can take a little bit of a business angle to try and understand
00:27:24
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know what it is that they do and how they make their living and and how that then converts into the services or the products that they are providing. um And like I said, Isabella is very into her health and sort of looking after herself, but but also the psychology and the sociology side of it. So part of the goal here is to make it slightly transgenerational so so that they can um Put a younger perspective on it and also so they can keep an eye on what's trending so that's another thing to one of the things that actually inspired this idea is that. archchi I can I work on our way into school and take him into school to drop men and he said dad. Did you know that aspartame or aspartame as you Americans call it um is cause infertility and I said well.
00:28:11
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I don't, yeah, i've I've not heard that before. I know it's a neurotoxin or or an excitotoxin, but um I don't know about having a fertility issue. He said, well, I just saw it on TikTok and I thought, ah, okay, all right, I better explain this to him. So anyway, we had this long conversation. I won't go into it too much because we're actually going to do a podcast on this. But essentially I explained to him how to look into it and how to think about it and how we can explore the veracity of that and so on.
00:28:39
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And so that's something that we are going to talk about where there's something that's trending on on TikTok or whatever it might be.
Exploring Trending Topics
00:28:46
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We'll draw that out and we'll have a chat about it and we'll talk about the research and and what I understand a bit from a clinical perspective. perspective um and And we're probably going to get some of their mates on as well. So we've got that kind of transgenerational thing. But part of the function of having them involved is is A, it's it's a fresh idea, right? It's something that I don't think there's too many parent-child podcasts out there.
00:29:08
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um But also it allows them to rain me or my guests in if we start getting too technical so for example one guest we're gonna have on is a guy called your nice and.
Guest Spotlight: Dr. Jo Nijs
00:29:21
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You're right if you're an english speaking person um or let's say english native you probably read his name is joe ninjas but it's pronounced your nice is belgian and. um He's perhaps the world's leading neuroscientist in terms of pain neuroscience. um so Certainly one of them. He's very prolific in his publications, really highly thought ah of, and that's why I wanted to to write a couple of papers with him. So I did that in 2021.
00:29:47
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and um We can have him on the on the show but of course he's very very technical and and you know i've done my best to get up to speed with that that technical information so you know we might be talking about bd and f or something or some kind of a long term potentiation of neurons.
Making Technical Content Accessible
00:30:05
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And that's all kind of fairly normal language particularly to join the ends and yo and and then someone to me as well.
00:30:13
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But the idea of having the kids there is in for them to say wait a second that you know what is the speed and if you're talking about um and i can say alright okay well that's brain derived neurotrophic factor so what it does is you know x y z and and so hopefully what it does it makes the podcast more accessible it means that you know those.
00:30:32
Speaker
Stupid questions that people might have all the things that my throw people off as they're listening actually get rained and get gets weeded out by the kids um and they are welcome to take the mickey out of me if i'm getting to my high horse about anything or forget to.
00:30:47
Speaker
Provocative whatever it might be so um so that's the idea of having them on board um So now if you've seen any of my writing if you've seen my my webinars um Then you will probably you've seen this diagram and then for those of you who are just listening It's again another bell-shaped curve um but it's just a nice one to to to look at because what it's illustrating is that there's um there's always a kind of level of simplicity that occurs when we first learn something or we first approach a new concept or a new idea. So for example, you're interviewing a guest like the one I was just saying, talking about pain neuroscience, that might be a new topic for you. So you'd be like a beginner and so the complexity of what you understand would be quite low and the elegance with which you understand pain neuroscience is going to be quite low as well.
00:31:38
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So complexity is going up high on the y-axis, it's going vertical, and elegance is going horizontal on the x-axis. And so as you go across from left to right on the bell-shaped curve, what you see is that initially it's low complexity, low elegance, and as you move into higher and higher complexity, then you get more and more elegant in the way you understand things, the way you explain things.
00:32:02
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And then of course when you ultimately get to a point where you're an expert, the next step is really to become a master of that field and to be able to explain those things with increasing simplicity. And that's why um Oliver Wendell Holmes said, for simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give a fig, but so for simplicity on the other side of complexity, I would give everything I own. And that's what he's talking about. And this is what Einstein was talking about when he said, so um If you can't teach it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it well enough. Okay, so so this is the simplicity. Also, DaVinci said that um simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. And so that's what we're aiming for is is this order or simplicity that arises from chaos or complexity. And that's what FC2.0 is all about.
Using AI for Efficiency & Reach
00:32:52
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So um what's new? Well,
00:32:56
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Just as a recap what's new is the AI format in case we get to be using AI partly for the sound partly for the the video and the show notes and so on so fingers crossed that will work and and also for promoting see this is one of the things before is that. I was so busy trying to put the shows out that often I just squeeze them in at the very last minute put them out.
00:33:17
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but i wouldn't even have time to tell people that i put them out so i wouldn't post it on facebook or on twitter or anything it was just literally i put it out and just hope people would listen so that was an issue of the previous format um but with the ai we can actually get that to auto post so that would be good.
00:33:34
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I'm of course because we using i am because we are now five years down the line from when i first started at least we gonna be using video as you can see here i'm gonna be on a youtube channel on the map warden health and performance ah channel. um We also obviously aiming to expand the audience not not just. ah To grow it because we want to grow it um and that might help us to attract sponsors as well but also because we're expanding the age range and we're we're trying to get ah you know trying to be helpful to younger. The younger generation which i think in turn will actually be more helpful to.
00:34:11
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Let's say the middle generation and the older generation, because it's going to make everything that bit more clear. um So we've also got some um some footage or I should say audio in the archives from people that we actually had interviews with before COVID or sometimes with
Expanding Audience & Sponsorships
00:34:26
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two or three of them. It was during COVID. Again, in this anticipation, I was going to start up FC2.0 again.
00:34:32
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And they've just kind of sat there, but they're they're good. They're good interview. So what we'll do is we'll put those out. Now, of course, we don't have video with those, but but what we'll do is we'll either at least at least have a picture of whoever's talking um or or hopefully we might even be able to get a little bit of video or some relevant imagery. So that's something that we will put out when we do the archive versions.
00:34:52
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We are, of course, looking for product sponsors um and brand partners. um But what we're going to do on that front, one of the things also that ah you know I've had to take a little bit of time to to to get aligned is to um essentially arrange for us to to be able to sell some of our own products. okay And so I've got, you know I mean, for years I've had these neutralizer devices, for example, and which are via feedback tools that help you to get up to more posture when you're exercising.
00:35:21
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um if if indeed you want to keep an unusual spine in a specific exercise so that's something that i've had on the site for a long time but i have really had it optimized and so now you know if we talking about something relevant like one of these guys is in the archives christopher norris is one of the. the You know more prolific and well thought of physiotherapist is written several textbooks lots of lots of papers presented at loads of conferences and is a lovely guy. Did a great interview with him and sat in the archives but he's someone who talks a lot about neutral spine finally is someone who talks a lot about neutral spine and maybe we'll get her back on at some point. I will check of course is someone who taught me about neutral spine these are all people that understands the importance but also the relevance and the context when neutral spine is helpful.
00:36:08
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And of course if they are talking about that word that's where you might break and go okay so we've been talking about neutral spine how how it can be helpful to rehabilitate in certain circumstances and here's a tool that helps you to do that so we will just break and say let's say you know might ah you know say if you get this now then you get some kind of offer or whatever but it's really just to sort of let people know we've got products to tangible products like the neutralizer we've also got um you could say intangible digital products which are things like webinars ebooks and we're gonna be bringing out a bunch of other informational um products as well that we will again just mention when relevant um so that if people want to support the podcast by going ahead and getting hold of those and support themselves in their their health journey.
00:36:55
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then of course that's there as an option as well so we're kind of acting as our own sponsors in some way um by ah hopefully getting a little trickle of income each each episode um and then as the podcast grows hopefully that that also grows from a trickle to more of a flow of income.
00:37:12
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um But as our numbers grow we will be looking for brand partnerships as well and we already have a couple in the pipeline where people is kind of saying well yeah we'd be up for being involved in some way so that's something that's um again it will be relevant it will be uh you know in in the health and performance field um and uh so yeah listen out for those as well so um that should mean that everything becomes viable and that we can provide these useful and engaging and um you know hopefully Insightful podcasts to you on a regular basis.
00:37:47
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So I think that covers it all for now. So we've got FC2.0 AI from Chaos to Order with Archie and Isabella, ah not necessarily every time, but they'll be involved quite a lot. And certainly the AI in terms of the artificial intelligence and the actual intelligence hopefully will be involved every time. So look forward to sharing some more of these ah these times together with you, these episodes over the coming weeks, months and years.
00:38:17
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Thanks. See you soon. Bye for now.
First Featured Episode: Alan Bigart on Earthing Shoes
00:38:24
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Well, I hope you enjoyed that little outline of what's in store for you. and The first episode is going to be with a colleague of mine, Alan Bigart from Denmark. He's a a Scotsman from ah the Glasgow area of Scotland, who now lives just outside of Copenhagen. And we're going to be discussing our path together and um in particular we've we've worked closely in the Czech world, in the Five Fingers world and now Alan has brought the first range of earthing shoes to the market. So these are shoes which are designed to allow you to earth and they're very effective. I've i've got a pair and he's shown me all the the tools and gizmos to show how much they earth you.
00:39:05
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compared to a normal pair of shoes or compared to barefoot and it's pretty much identical to being barefoot. So we'll be talking a bit about that, about the journey to getting there and we actually will have some of these shoes available on our site for you to have our peruse as well. So we look forward to seeing you on the new show.