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The Truth About Diet and Health
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Hi, I guess it's time for a little bit of tough love. You have to really tell people what they need to hear sometimes, not what they want to hear. And unfortunately, I strongly believe that a person can never be optimally healthy.
00:00:22
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if they eat seeds on a regular basis. And when I say seeds, I mean seeds, grains, cereals, nuts, beans, legumes, soy, peanut butter, white flour, pasta, bread. These are seeds and derivatives of seeds.
00:00:47
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more and more is being discovered about this stuff, right?
Gluten Disorders Demystified
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If you go on Wikipedia or just type in DuckDuckGo or whatever you use, type in gluten related disorders and the Wikipedia article will pop up somewhere up the top and go to the gluten related disorders article and you will see a picture there
00:01:12
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where they've classified a bunch of different gluten related disorders. So you have your autoimmune disorders, allergic disorders, and non autoimmune, non allergic disorders. So you have in the latter most category, you have just gluten sensitivity. But this is a very wide ranging thing. People can be sensitive to gluten in many different ways.
00:01:40
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Then the allergic disorders, you have the wheat allergy, then you have the respiratory allergies, food allergies, WDEIA, which I haven't even looked into what that is, and contact urticaria. So that's just the allergic type disorders. And then you have the autoimmune disorders.
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So you have celiac disease, which people know about, but you can have symptomatic celiac disease where you're basically have diarrhea and it's horrible. But you also have silent celiac, right? And potential celiac. So there's a lot of people with silent celiac disease out there that don't know they're super sensitive.
00:02:24
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super reactive to gluten. And then you have other things like dermatitis herpetiformis and gluten ataxia. So ataxia is where you lose control of your limbs, of your motor movements and so on. And that's kind of crazy, isn't it? That gluten can do that. And then the one I just mentioned before that was dermatitis herpetiformis.
Transformation Through Dietary Changes
00:02:48
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Interesting anecdote. One of my clients, a lady in her sixties,
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mid-60s plus. I was telling her for months, let's get the seeds out, let's get the grains out. And she was eating these ancestral type breads, Ezekiel bread with these ancestral grains. And it was fermented stuff and all these grains that are apparently better
00:03:17
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than the wheat nowadays, which is heavily hybridized, so it has more protein, which means it has more gluten, and it's heavily sprayed with glyphosate and other chemicals and so on. Never mind the fact that these breads and whatever else, they have a lot of other things like emulsifiers and bromides, which bromide is like an iodine antagonist, so it can mess with thyroid.
00:03:45
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function in a sense because it can block iodine uptake in the thyroid. So many, many other issues with processed foods. But anyway, we, we ended our client relationship, the package finish that she had signed up for. And in the last call that we did together, I just told her, look, I really recommend just getting the seeds and the nuts and all that stuff out of the diet, just all of it, all of it. And that was kind of one of my final recommendations for her.
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So then a month or two later, I just pinged her to see how she is just to follow up. And let me find the comment in my client software. So she responded. Getting rid of beans, seeds and nuts has totally transformed me. Plus I eat meat within 30 minutes of getting up. That has also stabilized me. I am now back into doing regular workouts. So I had told her while we were working together, I had recommended to not do
00:04:46
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workouts, crazy workouts and running and stuff like that, just to let the body heal and so on, to reduce the additional stress. And all in all, all in all, it's all very good news. So getting rid of beans, seeds and nuts has totally transformed me. Here's the thing. So this lady for 35 years had this herpes type rash that would appear in various parts of the body. And
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No doctor, no practitioner in those 35 years had helped this lady. And she told me that getting the nuts, the seeds, the grains out of her diet, that rash completely went away.
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And then I kind of stumbled upon this. I didn't even know about dermatitis now. Now when I see a case like this in the future, I'll know exactly what could be the cause. Obviously, there's many different causes always.
00:05:46
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I wasn't even aware of this dermatitis herpetiformis and that's a gluten related autoimmune disorder. And by the way, since, I mean, you obviously understand that I'm just talking about gluten here, but gluten is only one lectin of, I think hundreds of different lectins that are found in plants. So legumes will have different ones.
00:06:19
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But here's the thing. Gluten is one lectin out of a category of lectins of which there's hundreds. But then lectins are one category of compound that there's a much larger group of problematic compounds that are found in Nazis, grain cereals, beans, and
Exploring Problematic Plant Compounds
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so on.
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So, and I actually talk a little bit about that there's a study called, Is there such a thing as anti-nutrients? In the journal Nutrients, which is a very prestigious journal published in 2020, and it's a narrative review of perceived problematic plant compounds and
00:07:06
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There's a table in there that I also have adapted for my book, how to actually live longer. So I talk a little bit about the table there and all the various types of anti-nutrients. If you haven't gotten the book, it's on longevity and obviously how to actually live longer. Obviously I'm debunking a lot of myths about longevity, like low carb diets and fasting and a bunch of other stuff that's basically harming people. It's doing them more harm than good.
00:07:34
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and it's shortening their lives as opposed to actually lengthening it. So get the book if you're interested in increasing your lifespan and health span. But anyway, the table, so they have lectins and the sources of lectins are legumes, like I said, cereal grains, seeds, nuts, and they're also in some fruits and vegetables. And some of the suggested clinical implications of lectins is altered gut function and inflammation.
00:08:03
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And these things can lead to autoimmunity and a bunch of other stuff. Then a lot of people may know about oxalates, but these are found in cereal grains, legumes, nuts, but they're also found in spinach. Spinach is the highest source of oxalate by a very large margin. I stopped eating spinach a long time ago. It's been years since I've eaten spinach and I do not intend
00:08:32
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to eat spinach ever again. I mean, not that if like there's a dish in a restaurant and there's a bit of spinach on the side and there's butter and garlic and it's nice. I'm not going to like not eat it or I can take it or leave it. But if I if I did once in a while, it's not a problem. It's just I don't go out of my way to buy spinach and to make green smoothies, especially with with it raw. If I were to eat leaves of a plant, I would be cooking the Jesus out of them.
00:09:01
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For the most part, most vegetables I would cook like crazy. Obviously salad. Salads are a different story because when you think about it, most of the stuff in a salad is actually a fruit. So tomatoes and cucumbers and stuff like that. So those are fruits, right? So different story. But anyway, oxalates, these are also found in Swiss chard, also in beets.
00:09:25
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and some in sweet potatoes and potatoes. And these actually inhibit minerals from being absorbed or they prevent minerals from being absorbed. So calcium, I know magnesium, iron, potentially zinc and others. So oxalates inhibit calcium absorption. That's a big one because look at this, look at it this way, right? From a longevity perspective, most people aren't even getting, aren't even meeting the RDA for calcium, which is about a thousand
00:09:55
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to 1200 milligrams per day, depending on your man, woman, age-wise and stuff like
Mineral Absorption and Its Challenges
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that. A thousand milligrams, that's a gram of calcium a day. And that is the RDA. And we know the RDA is a very woefully inadequate for optimal health. These are just so you remain alive, okay? But here's the thing, you have a massive store of calcium on your body, something like a kilogram
00:10:26
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one point to 1200 grams of calcium, right? So if your RDA is one gram per day, you could go a very long time rubbing your bones, right? But what happens? You're rubbing your latter years, you're rubbing quality of life and potentially you could
00:10:43
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be predisposing yourself to osteopenia or osteoporosis and then you are one fall away from a broken leg which can lead to severe debilitation or even death depending on where how it happens. So we don't want things in our diet to be a
00:11:05
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you know, chelating and inhibiting the absorption of our minerals, because most people aren't even getting meeting the RDAs for the minerals. Okay, so oxalates are bad. They also can increase calcium kidney stone formation, and they can form with when they when they create this complex with a mineral, they create these oxalate crystals that can get jammed into our joints, our organs, our
00:11:32
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even our eyeballs in our brain. And obviously that can cause a lot of dysfunction. And that is not something that you want because it's, it's just, this is how, this is how disease develops is where cells get damaged, right? So we don't want anything that that's going to be causing cellular damage or damage at the cellular level, right? Then we have another whole,
00:12:00
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category of phytates. These are found in legumes, cereal grains like oats, pseudo cereals like amaranth, quinoa, millet, nuts and seeds. So these are predominantly in seeds. And these also inhibit absorption of nutrients, minerals like zinc, iron, calcium. And that's another thing. You don't want to
00:12:28
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you think to eat things that contains phytate that is going to bind the zinc in your diet like your meat and whatever else where there's zinc which meat is the best sort of source of because most people again are not consuming enough zinc and a lot of people are frankly probably zinc deficient I would say I was taking with my my wife we were taking zinc
00:12:53
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up to 60 milligrams per day, supplementally for, supplementally, supplementarily, I don't know, for like four or five years. And the RDA ferment for zinc was actually revised down from 15 milligrams to 11 milligrams. So we were taking up to five, six, close to six times more than that, just from supplements. And we eat a lot of meat,
00:13:19
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Okay, so that's another thing that you're getting from these seeds. Then you got your goitrogens, which actually goitrogens, this study and this article has a bunch of different anti-nutrients that span the plant kingdom, so it's not just necessarily nuts and seeds and grains, but you have goitrogens, that's another thing that's mostly
00:13:43
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found in brassicas or rather not mostly, but there's a lot of them in brassicas or kale. I would never eat kale. Brussels sprouts. You'd have to pay me quite a bit of money to eat Brussels sprouts. We eat cabbage once in a while. My wife will make a salad. I make some kind of crazy gross stew occasionally. If I just have a lapse in judgment and I put a
00:14:08
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order a cabbage or put a cabbage in the shopping cart. Also, millet has goitrogens. And the biggest problem with goitrogens is they inhibit iodine uptake by the thyroid gland. And then that prevents you from creating thyroid hormones. And then that can lead to either hypothyroidism or in more extreme cases, goiter, which is like a big swelling of this big thing on the thyroid gland.
00:14:37
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It's pretty nasty. Then we have phytoestrogens, which soy is a big source of. Also flax seeds. There's another seed. Certain nuts have them, but not in great amounts. And fruits and vegetables have them in negligible amounts. But these phytoestrogens, they disturb hormone balance. That's why they're called endocrine disruptors. And some of them have been implicated in
00:15:05
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estrogen sensitive cancer so you don't want to be we're living in such an estrogenic environment you don't want to be adding additional
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estrogenic compounds into your diet, especially for women. Because don't forget, we have a lot, there's a lot of toxins that are estrogenic due to their molecular structure. So soy completely out of the question, right? If you have a health issue and you're trying to restore your health, soy should be a big no-no. And
00:15:39
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Also, just if you're in good health or great health, these things are only taken away from that. They're for the most part not adding to it. Or if they're adding, they're adding very little
00:15:54
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net gain because okay you might get some let's say from nuts there might be some a bit of protein there might be some fats maybe some minerals maybe a vitamin or two first of all the minerals and the protein are generally
00:16:15
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in forms that are difficult first of all nuts are and seeds are hard to digest that's why we have to soak and cook the beans and cook them for like hours and grains have to be you know cooked and nuts generally are
00:16:30
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need to be cooked i mean if you're reading raw nuts really you need help you need someone to help you with your health if you're reading raw nuts and i can help you out if you if you're reading raw nuts you need my help please please go on my website read more about what i do and uh if if you think if you think i can help you or we're a good fit to work together schedule call with me because if you're eating raw nuts
00:16:58
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You need help. You need someone to help you learn how to eat properly. I completely forgot what the hell I was talking about. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. So the fact that
Cooking: Friend or Foe?
00:17:10
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we have to cook the bejesus out of these things is a real telltale sign that it doesn't seem like the plants intended these things to be eaten. Right. So
00:17:28
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The problem with nuts and seeds is if you cook them, you're going to inactivate some of these problematic compounds and some are going to get destroyed. But the problem is that
00:17:44
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Because there's so many omega-6 fats, polyunsaturated fatty acids in these seeds and the nuts, you're going to be damaging some of them and they're going to get oxidized. And when they get oxidized, they then do damage in the body and they deplete our antioxidants, vitamin E and so on. So really, when you kind of break it down, when you really look at it logically, nuts, seeds, grains, beans,
00:18:12
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the gyms, all the stuff. These are extremely suboptimal foods and at some point I'm going to come up with my own sort of food pyramid or optimal diet, hierarchy, whatever. And I'm telling you right now, the bottom rung of the hierarchy is going to be obviously processed foods like Doritos and
00:18:36
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Twinkies and stuff like that. That's, of course, everybody knows that's the worst of the worst. But just one level above that would be the nuts, the seeds, flour and flour products. That's that's kind of the that's how bad they are. Right. And you have to remember these things are extremely cheap to produce pound per pound calorie
00:19:03
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per calorie compared to animal products and stuff like that, yogurt, meat and cheese and stuff like that. So they're extremely cheap and profitable for manufacturers to produce and then to sell at a great profit. And in fact, a lot of the biggest sort of
00:19:24
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costs are in the marketing, the packaging, all the Kellogg's cornflakes and all the characters and all this stuff around that. So there's a lot of incentives for big business to keep a lot of this research is not going to get funded where it will expose how bad these things are for people.
The Influence of Big Business on Diet
00:19:53
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So there's a lot of vested interest in you not understanding fully how detrimental these things are to your health. So you kind of really have to go out of your own way to do a little bit of research. And then you have to a little bit go out of your way to change some habits and what you're eating and what you consider as food. Because here's the thing.
00:20:17
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I don't really, I'm several years into this eating clean and stuff like that, six years at this point of eating fairly clean most of the time or quite clean most of the time.
00:20:34
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I'm at the stage where I don't even consider this stuff food. I know it seems like, but it's food. You can eat it and stuff like that. But seeds, the plants, intend them so they can propagate their genetics and their life and continue their lineage. So they're really not, when you think about it, they're not really intended to be eaten. So we have
00:21:00
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They're edible if we cook the crap out of them and flavor them and whatever else in the case of grains and stuff, which by the way are grasses. Grains are grasses. We're eating the seeds of grasses. I'm not sure how anyone can think that that is optimal and optimal diet for a human being.
00:21:19
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So we have to go through a lot of steps to make these things palatable and edible and so they don't make us sick like a bean. If you eat beans raw, you're gonna like, you could die, I guess. So think about it that way. So is it really food? Just because we were able to make it palatable. At the end of the day, toilet paper is plant-based. You could eat it. You could probably like, you could make it palatable.
00:21:47
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you know, with some paprika and stuff like that, you could, you know, soak it and make a nice sort of slurry out of it and maybe add a little bit of salt and it will become palatable and edible. But there's, should we be, should we be eating it? And people are like, yeah, but these things have nutrients. And again, these nutrients are either going to get
00:22:12
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destroyed by all the cooking, or they're in un-bioavailable forms bound up to oxalates and phytates and stuff like that, or they're just not going to get digested properly. And some of them are just not in the optimal sort of form. Just as an example,
00:22:35
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Let me just think of an example. Vitamin K, for example, in plant forms, like in greens, it's a K1 form, but it's really not the best form. You have to convert it to K2.
00:22:55
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And that process can be very inefficient. You're told that the better carotene from carrots is vitamin A. It's not vitamin A. It's a pro-vitamin, so it's a precursor to vitamin A, to retinol. So we have to enzymatically transform it to
00:23:18
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to retinol, to vitamin A. So a lot of these things in plants are not the optimal form. They're not the most bioavailable or they're not the form that is actually the end stage form that we're going to be using. So that's kind of some of the rationale. But this is a deep rabbit hole on why grains, not seeds, and all this other stuff is not optimal for health.
00:23:45
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The bottom line, at least in my view, do with it what you will is that if you have a health issue, you really need to remove these things in order to give your body the best chance of healing itself. And I remember recently, one of my clients, she told me during our monthly call,
00:24:11
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She told me that she's now waking up in the middle of the night with splitting headaches. I'm like, that's crazy. That's not normal. So I started poking and prodding and we couldn't really get
00:24:29
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the info out of her that i need to figure it out so i said look let's just track your diet for a week or two and hopefully we can get to the bottom of this right so a day or two into it i just saw she was having bread
00:24:45
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for breakfast, then she was making something with white flour, some homemade thing she was making. And I just was like, well, what's with the bread and the flour? And she's like, oh, it's just convenient, you know, I'm trying to get out of the house in the morning and it's just convenient.
00:25:05
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So I'm like, yeah, but let's try to remove them and see if the headaches go away. And lo and behold, haven't heard about the headaches. So what's the point? The point is if, well, I already said the point of just giving an example, but I really have, like I said, people don't necessarily need to be
00:25:23
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taught new things that just have to be reminded of what really works and being steered back towards the path. And again, if you have a health issue, especially if it's a gut issue or an autoimmune issue, there's usually a genesis in the gut there.
The Case for Food Elimination
00:25:42
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you really need to remove these things to heal as quickly as possible. But here's the thing, if removing these things allows a person to heal faster, we have to think about it. Do you at that point want to add them back in? Removing these things made you restore your health. So isn't it logical that these things were impeding your health?
00:26:08
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They were harming you. And here's the thing I always like to tell people, a lot of people don't feel the effects of what these grains and the stuff is doing to them, but
00:26:22
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A lot of people live with cancer for years before they find out. A lot of people live with atherosclerosis for like two, three decades and then they might have a stroke or whatever, heart attack or whatever else. So you can live
00:26:42
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a very long time without feeling symptoms, it doesn't mean that there isn't an undercurrent of inflammation and just metabolic chaos going on that will eventually break the body's ability to
00:26:59
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keep homeostasis, right? As soon as the body is no longer able to keep these things in balance, the inflammation, whatever other thing is going on, then symptoms will start to appear. So think about it this way. Yes, you might not feel the negative effects of the grains, the nuts, the seeds today, but maybe you're still young and healthy.
00:27:22
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That doesn't mean that they're not doing you damage. So think about it that way. And I know it's sometimes hard to change habits and stuff like that, but we're adults here. We're adults here. I'm not saying you shouldn't eat them ever. Like I have pizza once in a while. I have bread once in a while and whatever else.
00:27:44
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It's not like I'm only eating super clean or I'm eating shit every meal. You don't have to do that. But if you're eating these things every day, and especially every meal or two meals a day, that's way, way, way too much. I'm telling you right now, because I can see what it takes to get a person back to health when they have a health issue. So I can see what it takes
00:28:12
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And I can see how the more resistant the person is to remove these things from their diet comprehensively, the longer that journey takes to get back to health. It's just that simple in reality, right? So if that's the case, that just plain means that these things are harmful. It's just that they take a long time for the harms to manifest. It's like all the other
00:28:37
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many exposures we're getting throughout the day to toxic metals and chemicals and plasticizers and pollution. These things are not acutely toxic, although for some people the grains can be if they're allergic or whatever, some other celiac disease or autoimmune condition, but
00:28:55
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For most people, harmful things, they're causing harm. Like I said, the body is compensating for, it's maintaining balance and homeostasis at the expense of something else, usually.
00:29:09
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So these things are causing harm, but it's just very imperceptible and slow and gradual. So, you know, people wake up in their fifties, their sixties and have a chronic condition and they're like, gee, gee whiz, it must be genetic or the doctor will tell them, yeah, it's probably genetic or you're just getting old. But then they, they forget that they've been eating
00:29:31
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bread and pasta and these seeds and nuts for decades and along the way a lot of seed oil exposure which is a whole separate topic but kind of linked because seed oils so we're extracting the oils of the seeds which are not
00:29:51
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the optimal ratio of fatty acids, you know, Omega 3, 6, whatever, for a mammal, for a seed to do its job. Even the plant, there's not so many Omega 6s and Omega 3s inside the plant. They're mostly concentrated in the seeds, right? Which should tell you a lot. And we are extracting the oils of them and then, you know, ingesting them. Terrible idea.
00:30:19
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So these things are doing damage on a chronic basis and it's very small, gradual and imperceptible. And that's why we think they're okay. And look, if you don't care about your health and your longevity and stuff like that, totally fine. But if you're listening to my podcast or your subscriber on YouTube,
Seeds: Food or Industrial Product?
00:30:39
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on the instant gram, then you probably care somewhat, right? So if you care somewhat, if you're doing stuff already, why not go take the entire step and at least keep these things out of your house, you know, just make a conscious decision. And it's not like you're limiting yourself again. This stuff isn't food. It's freaking seeds. The seeds are not meant to be food just because industry has created products out of them.
00:31:06
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doesn't mean we should allow them to dictate what we eat. They also started extracting oils out of seeds and then they marketed that. They vilified cholesterol and the saturated fats and all that stuff and then they created a whole new
00:31:21
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product line segment industry out of oils that were used as machine lubricants and varnishes and for whatever other sort of industrial purposes. They created a food group out of that and the same story with the seeds.
00:31:40
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the seeds were always just survival foods back in the day. They were given to peasants, to slaves, to prisoners, and they were famine foods. They were helped
00:31:55
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societies survive through famines and the hard times and hardships. So, you know, if you're listening to this on a $1,000 phone or whatever it is, and, you know, you can afford to pay for your cellular provider and just how much, how affluent the average Westerner is doesn't correspond to them having to eat seeds and grains and nuts.
00:32:26
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know, with every meal. Like some people spend more money on clothes than on the food they eat, and that ratio is a little bit off. But again, I'm not judging, we all have kind of our specific likes and interests. But if you're interested in longevity and health, and if you have a health issue that you want to restore your health from, these foods are a big no, no, no. And as you can see,
00:32:51
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I can just start a new thread every three minutes and continue to drone on and on and on because I'm very passionate about this issue. But I will probably stop here because I think I made my point and I'll probably have to rerecord something similar in like a month or two because again, people just have to be reminded not necessary that they don't know this. Like everybody knows that bread is not an optimal food, but it's just what they don't know.
00:33:21
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is that how suboptimal it is, right? How suboptimal the beans are and the legumes are. And honestly, I don't give a damn if you're soaking them and sprouting them and fermenting them. Again, if you're starting with a very
00:33:38
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low-grade product, and it doesn't matter how much you process that product and what steps you take in that chain. It's like garbage in, garbage out, right? So if you're starting with flour or lentils, which are seeds and they're not meant to be eaten, at the end of that, you're not going to create a much better product unless you start fortifying it. Then again, this is turning into processed food here.
00:34:09
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It's not optimal. And once again, I just started a new thread and here I'm going to be droning on and on. So let me stop it here. I hope you got some value out of it. If you need help with your health journey.
00:34:21
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00:34:42
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00:35:07
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easily more than that on a holiday, right? And what are you getting out of a holiday? Yeah, it's great to be on holiday, but think about this, your most precious asset. People put that last when they budget things, right? So if you're not that kind of person, if you're someone that values your health, but you're struggling in some way, hormonally with your gut, with your sleep,
00:35:31
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or fatigue. These are kind of the main things that this program is designed to address and along the way a lot of other stuff because at the end of the day a lot of the problems that we experience as symptoms they come from a dysregulated gut and immune system. The two are very closely tightly linked together and then what else
00:35:54
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energy production, usually there's some blockages there, and hormonal imbalances, so high cortisol, high stress hormones, and
00:36:06
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imbalances in the sex hormones. So usually low progesterone and testosterone and high estrogen. These are kind of the most common things. So that's why the three main pillars of the program are the gut reset and rebalancing, the hormone harmony to lower the stress hormones and optimize the sex hormones and the energy optimization. Dial these three things together.
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at the same time, systematically, step by step, in a straightforward fashion with my program. And a lot of these symptoms of gas, bloating, constipation, anxiety, irritability, PMS, water retention, insomnia, fatigue, a lot of these things start to melt away.
00:36:52
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because again, well, or not again, but like I've said it before, but you might not have heard me say it is symptoms are a manifestation of underlying imbalances in the body. And God knows most people out there are walking around with a ton of imbalances.
00:37:14
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guarantee you 100%. And for those that don't believe, we have lab testing, functional lab testing, state of the art functional lab testing. We can order for you that will get shipped direct to your door. You can collect samples
00:37:29
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conveniently at home, courier picks it up and we can test the gut for pathogens, inflammatory bacteria. We can test nutrient status, antioxidant status, mitochondrial function and energy production, candida, all that stuff, food sensitivities. And I, not one person, not one,
00:37:50
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so far has we not found stuff to work on that could be optimized. And what does that mean when you find stuff to work on and to optimize? Even if you have no symptoms, it means you're increasing your longevity, your resilience to stress and chronic disease. So there's always little things. It's like when you
00:38:12
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When you take your car in for the yearly servicing, so you don't know, the car looks fine, it's working fine, but those guys that do their diagnostic check and the computer tells them new filters, new whatever the things, brake pads,
Health Maintenance as a Lifestyle
00:38:29
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God knows. So they know much better what the car needs to maintain optimal function
00:38:35
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And why do you do that? Why do we do that? Why do we take the car to an expert to check for things to optimize? Because that person knows what they're doing. And then if we do that, if that investment means the car will function well for longer. So it doesn't break down on the side of the road and it doesn't cost us a hell of a lot more money when it breaks down or something
00:39:00
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unforeseen happens because we didn't check it. So this is where we can take it if someone is already feeling pretty well, but they want to optimize the functioning of their body. And usually it's people over about 40, 45 that start to think about these things. I was a little bit lucky that
00:39:19
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In my early thirties I kind of started thinking about these things more because people around me were having a lot of health issues and it kind of made me grasp.
00:39:33
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the gravity of my situation and how poorly I was living and I lived through my 20s really just terribly in terms of diet and drinking and smoking and all that stuff so I had that wake-up call early but a lot of people they only get the wake-up call when they develop something serious so you don't want to be that
00:39:56
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position because the longer you you you wait the longer you keep sort of your head buried in the sand and not checking what's going on in your body the longer there's that dysfunction and degeneration in the body will continue to accrue and then the longer the journey back to health will be so you want to avoid that you want to as soon as something comes up you want to ideally in an ideal world you want to
00:40:23
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a mitigated den or address a den. But the problem is, you know, people go for these early checkups and what do they check? They check their blood glucose, their friggin cholesterol and just it's and their liver enzymes. It's just pathetic. It's just pathetic. Right. Really, it's what the doctors are doing for these early checkups is pathetic. All it's designed to do is
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get you on a blood pressure lowering medication and maybe a statin to start. They're just waiting for that, right? That's all they will do, right? They're completely going after the wrong markers there. We need to be looking at entirely different things. And some doctors are doing more. I'm not saying they're all that like that, but 95% at least, at least are frigging clueless. So these checkups are useless.
00:41:17
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Right. They occasionally don't find like cancer or something like that or whatever. But again, they're good at catching disease. But then what they do about chronic disease is horrendous in terms of the treatments. They usually make people a hell of a lot worse.
00:41:34
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But that's the point. Why is the doctor even catching a cancer or chronic disease? Why didn't the person go to a practitioner that could have helped them optimize all the other stuff that is contributing to that state? Why isn't the sick care industry
00:41:54
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Why don't they actually help people maintain their health rather than just monitoring, adding drugs periodically for the blood pressure, the whatever else, high blood sugar, whatever, and then eventually just dealing with the disease that invariably still develops, right? Look at the America. One-third cancer, one-third heart disease. That's kind of people's fate. And we're supposed to accept that as if it's inevitable.
00:42:22
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Holy cow. I think 15 minutes ago, I said, I'll wrap this up. Okay. I think I'll wrap this up. I'm not even sure I can publish this on Instagram. Uh, the, the algorithm won't like, I might have to cut out this last part to this rant. Anyway, thank you for tuning in. Catch you on the next episode.