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00:00:01
Christian Yordanov
Hey folks, Christian Yordanoff here. Today we have a special guest. um We have Ryan Minitti, who is now the Head of Client Success at the Live Longer Formula. I'm super excited.
00:00:17
Christian Yordanov
to have Ryan on board to help us grow our mission together and impact more lives, help more people resolve their health challenges, optimize their health and longevity.
00:00:29
Christian Yordanov
Super excited to have you on today, Ryan. ah Welcome.
00:00:34
Ryan
Yeah, and I'm super grateful to be on the podcast and you know to be working with the Live Longer Formula now. And just can't wait to get rocking and en rolling just starting my second week.
00:00:47
Ryan
But really liking the direction that we're going in and looking forward to serving a lot of clients coming on board.
00:00:57
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, man, you know, it's that's the thing. Like, it's just such a, to me, know, I don't know how much people know about me, but i i literally work every single day of the week, at least a few hours, you know, at least three, four hours.
00:01:13
Christian Yordanov
Sunday, Saturday, doesn't even matter. And to me, it's not even work. It's just wake up in the morning I'm i' am so grateful to God for like pushing me enough giving me enough challenges where I had to figure this out and start making this my you know my my just my day job and my mission you know thing that makes me gets me going in the morning
00:01:40
Ryan
Definitely got to have that motivator, um
00:01:43
Christian Yordanov
yeah
00:01:45
Ryan
especially, you know, like you'll you'll be wanting to lay in bed, sit in bed. But if there's something that jazzes you up about the day, then you'll just jump out of bed and you forget to brush your teeth, you forget to shower, you forget to even eat breakfast.
00:01:59
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:02:00
Ryan
You're just ready to start getting after it.
00:02:04
Christian Yordanov
Luckily, i don't forget to shower for too long because my wife reminds me. It's like, dude, you got to shower. Yeah.
00:02:10
Ryan
that was my That was my wife the other day. i got in bed after a long day and she's like, you're all sticky. You need to get in the shower.
00:02:18
Christian Yordanov
You're sticky and gross.
00:02:19
Ryan
Yeah. I was like, oh, oh shit. Whoops.
00:02:22
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, I forgot it's summertime, I'm sweating more here.
00:02:24
Ryan
Yeah.
00:02:25
Christian Yordanov
oh So, um we, but just for the listener, we met, so, just it's a cool story, actually.
00:02:36
Christian Yordanov
So, ah A couple of years ago, I was blasting people's mailboxes left, right and center to talk about, know, my work, my book, my stuff, just kind of reaching out to people. And one of the places I emailed was the Live Free Academy, which is where you were working last.
00:02:55
Christian Yordanov
And... Just months went by, i had completely even forgotten I had emailed y'all and you responded back to me. And I think you said something like oh dude, I heard you on on Charlie and this other podcast, you're a badass.
00:03:11
Christian Yordanov
I'm oh shit, that's so cool. ah This guy sounds really cool. So I responded back to you and I think like a couple months went by and you didn't respond. So I'm like, oh, this is never gonna happen. um I got my hopes up again for nothing.
00:03:25
Christian Yordanov
And I emailed again just for why not, you know, and you you got back to me and then we had you on the podcast. And, know, after that, I started working with your, issue she wasn't your wife at the time. Elizabeth, you you guys got married recently.
00:03:41
Christian Yordanov
We started working with her.
00:03:41
Ryan
Mm-hmm.
00:03:42
Christian Yordanov
So it just developed into a friendship that, you know, i think I just from the the the first moment we kind of interacted with you, knew was something about you, man.
00:03:53
Christian Yordanov
And I know I said it before, but I knew there was something about you, like so some sort of spark there that you don't see that in everybody.
00:04:03
Christian Yordanov
You know, like this little bit I call it get up and go, bit of get up and go, kind of a bit ah ah bit of I like these guys Moxie, you know, so really, really just a crazy turn of events that we even became friends, you know.
00:04:19
Ryan
Yeah, absolutely, man. I still remember that day when when you emailed in because i had listened to that Charlie podcast and you were talking about all these things like children's health.
00:04:25
Christian Yordanov
Hmm.
00:04:29
Ryan
I think at the time you were talking about your autism book and ah And, you know, obviously, like some of the more sensitive subjects around children's health, like vaccines and stuff like that.
00:04:42
Ryan
And you were like not shy to talk about that. And i was like, damn, dude, this guy's spitting. And then when you emailed in, I was like, no way. I just listened to this podcast.
00:04:53
Ryan
It was a very it was a very like godly timed thing.
00:04:58
Christian Yordanov
Divine timing, yeah.
00:04:59
Ryan
so Yeah, divine timing, the way that it all happened. So yeah, man. um and then And then you got back to me because we were super busy, just like we hear just like we are here at the Live Longer Formula at Live Free Academy. We are super small team.
00:05:15
Ryan
So attention runs very thin when there's so many projects to do and there's not very much people to pass off busy work to. So you got kind of do it yourself. So lost track with Christian. Thankfully, he's a he's a good businessman. And he reached back out and he's like, hey don't forget about me. i was like, oh, shit. Sorry, bro.
00:05:34
Ryan
but's We're definitely going to have you on the podcast. And then we went on Christian's podcast.
00:05:37
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:05:38
Ryan
And it was the start of a a very fruitful friendship. I think that was back maybe like early 2023 or something like that.
00:05:49
Ryan
It's been a couple of years now.
00:05:49
Christian Yordanov
yeah Yeah, I think so. It's hard to keep track because there's so much going on. But yeah, um then you you held the health summit. I think that was maybe end of maybe last year.
00:06:04
Christian Yordanov
Was that end of last year?
00:06:04
Ryan
Right.
00:06:05
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:06:05
Ryan
Yeah, that well, that was actually the end of 2023 when we held that and in December at Live Free Academy.
00:06:11
Christian Yordanov
Oh.
00:06:13
Ryan
But that was kind of the culmination of over a decade's worth of research into various health topics. I interviewed 31 natural health practitioners.
00:06:26
Ryan
Well, I guess one of them was ah was a near-death experience researcher, but I thought it was important that we're going to be discussing all of this kind of health stuff. We should have like, well,
00:06:37
Ryan
what what are we getting healthy for? Like, what are we actually doing here on earth? And so I thought we'd have one person talking about the afterlife, you know, to at the health summit, but, you know, just talked with some, some fun guys like Zuby and JP Spear, JP Sears.
00:06:48
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:06:57
Ryan
um And then talked with some real down to earth health practitioners like Christian and, and some other folks. um And, Yeah, man, that that that was an absolutely awesome experience. It was also, you know, in preparation for the health summit, I wanted to be more of a health authority for people to take me as ah as a health expert more seriously.
00:07:20
Ryan
ended up working with a high level coach. His name's Tanner Shuck. Um, ended up losing like 30 pounds, got abs for the first time in my life.
00:07:28
Christian Yordanov
Wow.
00:07:30
Ryan
First time my life I've ever had abs. I've always been a bigger guy.
00:07:33
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:07:34
Ryan
Um, so working with Tanner cut down, got abs was like pretty jacked.
00:07:35
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:07:41
Ryan
Um, considering like, how my body has been for the rest of my life.
00:07:46
Christian Yordanov
yeah
00:07:47
Ryan
But yeah, Jacked, Abs, Health Summit. Funny enough, the Health Summit is where I picked up like this little nicotine habit just because I was running myself ragged. And like, I'm sure like Christian could go into this for days.
00:08:01
Ryan
But, um you know, I was eating maybe 1900 calories a day maybe 100 grams of carbs out of those 1900 calories.
00:08:07
Christian Yordanov
well
00:08:13
Ryan
And, you know, i was just like exhausted. I'd have to do like three or four interviews a day for the health summit to get it ready in time for when we went live with the summit because it was all recorded.
00:08:25
Ryan
And then, you know, people could just watch at their leisure when when the summit was launched. So did a lot of recording for the interviews and then a lot of researching and note taking for future interviews.
00:08:40
Ryan
Not to mention i was also organizing um all of the editors. I'd have to you know direct them for editing all of the the interviews to get those ready for the summit and also the website design and then have to coordinate with affiliates to promote the summit so people would show up to this thing that I was building.
00:08:59
Christian Yordanov
Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:01
Ryan
It was such a massive undertaking and all of this on like 1900 calories and I'm going to the gym every day at six in the morning and I'm doing 10,000 steps every day. steps every day I mean, I was probably like running my adrenals into the ground.
00:09:16
Ryan
And the only thing that kept me like sane and sharp was nicotine. So I picked up like a little nicotine habit along the way.
00:09:25
Christian Yordanov
Interesting.
00:09:28
Christian Yordanov
But patches or what what kind?
00:09:31
Ryan
Yeah, I mean, it started out with Zins because it's like ah these little pouches that you put in.
00:09:37
Christian Yordanov
yeah
00:09:37
Ryan
And so my buddy in and Chicago, i was visiting for Thanksgiving before the health summit, and he gave me Zin nicotine pouch. And so I i put it in, and i was like...
00:09:51
Ryan
like I just felt like this explosion in my mind. And um they say that nicotine is really good for cognition. So like, I definitely felt that right away.
00:10:02
Ryan
And so when I got back, you know, I was grinding away at the health summit for a couple of weeks.
00:10:02
Christian Yordanov
Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:07
Ryan
And then I'm just like, wait, what if I, what if I just get some zins? Like, I remember how I felt when,
00:10:11
Christian Yordanov
yeah
00:10:12
Ryan
when me and Mitch were hanging out, like how sharp I was, I'm like, maybe that'll help. So like I would put a Zinn in before, before every interview and I just like crank it out. But then what I learned with Zinn's is that they have all of these artificial, uh,
00:10:29
Ryan
uh sweeteners and all of these other chemical compounds that are terrible for you and your gut so i switched over to like a more healthy brand more simple ingredients but then i was telling christian about the ingredients the other day he's like
00:10:41
Christian Yordanov
Mm.
00:10:46
Ryan
dude, magnesium stearate, that's no good. He's like, just ask Tim James. was like, oh, damn. So then I did some research on magnesium stearate. And the only thing that I can kind of come up with is that it inhibits nutrient absorption when the concentration is above 1% in whatever supplement or food that it's included in.
00:11:07
Christian Yordanov
Mm.
00:11:11
Christian Yordanov
To be honest, I actually don't think magnesium stearate is that bad because magnesium, we know magnesium is magnesium. And stearate is basically like stearic acid.
00:11:24
Christian Yordanov
It's just a satur type of saturated fatty acid. I forgot, maybe 18 carbon chain stearic acid. carbon chain theoryka So I don't necessarily think it's like, yeah, it's an 18 carbon chain fatty acids, saturated fatty acid.
00:11:40
Christian Yordanov
I don't think it's that bad. But yeah, like, here's the thing, though. That's why it's so hard to quit cigarettes. It's not really, i don't think it's the habit necessarily of, you know, ingesting toxic freaking, you know, fumes into your lungs.
00:11:55
Christian Yordanov
Yeah. It's the fact, I remember because I smoked cigarettes basically since the age of like 16, 17 until about, guess, 30, 31, even when I completely quit.
00:12:07
Christian Yordanov
um But it was so hard and I've tried to quit so many times as any ex-smoker knows. But the first week, dude, i felt like I couldn't string a sentence together.
00:12:20
Ryan
Wow.
00:12:20
Christian Yordanov
You have a smoke. You have a smoke. And just whatever that, you know, nicotine has sort these nootropic effects. And you you feel like, wow. And it's it's like the whole coffee and cigarette thing. You get the caffeine boosting you.
00:12:37
Christian Yordanov
get the nicotine boost. So that's why people like that. My phone's ringing one sec.
00:12:42
Ryan
Dude, it and that's that's what they say. And it's so true. Like, one of my favorite things is in the morning, you know, you crack open the laptop, you're getting after some emails, your he you have your coffee, you have your nicotine, and it's just like, it is one of the best things in the world.
00:12:59
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:13:01
Ryan
um is
00:13:02
Christian Yordanov
Clearly you haven't tried crack.
00:13:02
Ryan
But, I mean, like...
00:13:06
Christian Yordanov
You clearly have not tried crack, my friend.
00:13:07
Ryan
ah It's true. It's true. Maybe a little coffee and crack in the morning with some emails.
00:13:12
Christian Yordanov
ah
00:13:13
Ryan
Then then we're talking. But, you know, like for like I'm saying, I mean, for me, it's organic coffee, high altitude coffee, grown in shade, mold free.
00:13:26
Ryan
And then the nicotine that I'm using is super, super clean. Just five ingredients. um And magnesium stearate is the worst ingredient.
00:13:32
Christian Yordanov
Yeah. yeah.
00:13:36
Ryan
So, ah Far Cry from like Newports and Folgers, um,
00:13:40
Christian Yordanov
oh yeah Oh, yeah, yeah. and You know, it's interesting. A lot of clients have been asking me about nicotine recently. um i actually, I've been, interesting, I have a few tabs open on some nicotine products I'm about to, like, order. I've been meaning to rekindle my experiment with nicotine. But at one point, a couple of years back, i was doing the, you ever hear of Hape? Hape?
00:14:09
Ryan
Yeah.
00:14:10
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, the the one there you kind of someone can.
00:14:13
Ryan
You blow it up your nose.
00:14:14
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, yeah. Or someone can blow it up your nose with ah I think it's called a tepi or a kuripe.
00:14:17
Ryan
Yeah, I did that in Morelia for the Greater Reset. My friend Vanessa, she blew it up my nose, and it was like my brain exploded.
00:14:22
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:14:27
Christian Yordanov
Dude, it's good.
00:14:27
Ryan
i was like, whoa. Whoa.
00:14:30
Christian Yordanov
It's pretty cool. Yeah, so I was doing... But the thing with me is, like because and I've talked about this at length. Well, maybe not at length, but I have a very... At least before, used to have a very addictive personality.
00:14:42
Christian Yordanov
So I would buy the hape from...
00:14:42
Ryan
Mm-hmm.
00:14:45
Christian Yordanov
It was made in the Amazon by the shamans, like the guys the in their ah in Holland. But they would support... the, you know, the families there. So you knew the name of the shaman that made your hape, the village.
00:14:59
Christian Yordanov
They tell you the story, the ingredients and all sort of thing. But dude, I'd buy like a bunch of these. And like at one point I'd find myself, I was using it like six, eight times a day, 10 times a day.
00:15:11
Ryan
Oh my gosh, I couldn't even imagine.
00:15:12
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, like I'd like, I'd put my finger up my nose.
00:15:13
Ryan
It'd
00:15:16
Christian Yordanov
That's because, you know, you have like the the the lumps.
00:15:17
Ryan
be all ash.
00:15:19
Christian Yordanov
Not that at one it was just like blood and and obviously ash and like the stuff.
00:15:23
Ryan
Oh.
00:15:24
Christian Yordanov
um So, yeah, i was like at one point I ran out. I'm like, you know, andm I'm just not going to buy because I can't like, it's like with alcohol when I used to like drink, if we never would have alcohol in the house because we wouldn't have alcohol in the house if we had alcohol in the house.
00:15:42
Christian Yordanov
know what mean?
00:15:43
Ryan
Oh, right.
00:15:43
Christian Yordanov
It would just be gone. It would just be gone, dude. Like, sooner or later. So, but yeah, yeah. I think nicotine, that the whole whole thing, it's it's it's I saw a funny meme a while back where they were saying tobacco is so good for you that they had to pump it with 600 different chemicals to make it toxic.
00:16:06
Christian Yordanov
And even then, most smokers that smoke don't actually get lung cancer. you know I'm not recommending smoking or tobacco, but they do call it in kind of the the more you know sort of Peru the Amazonia.
00:16:12
Ryan
Right.
00:16:22
Christian Yordanov
They call tobacco the grandfather of the plant, like the one that they use it to cleanse and purify and send prayers to the heavens with tobacco.
00:16:34
Christian Yordanov
So there's got to be something to it, you know.
00:16:38
Ryan
Yeah, maybe so. um i definitely thought that for a long time. Although recently i watched a video by Father Peter Hears. He's an Orthodox priest.
00:16:50
Ryan
And he was going over St. John Kronstant, who was a contemporary Russian saint in the Orthodox Church. And he said that even even smoking cigarettes, he he was a former cigarette smoker as a priest.
00:17:05
Ryan
And he gave it up because he could realize the temptation. But in in orthodoxy, it's all about asceticism and resisting the pleasures of life.
00:17:09
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:17:15
Ryan
um
00:17:15
Christian Yordanov
yeah
00:17:16
Ryan
So I did that during Great Lent. I gave up caffeine, nicotine. um I mean, I was eating one meal a day, and it was maybe like 1,200 calories.
00:17:28
Ryan
But you know obviously, like I knew that I wasn't doing it for a health thing. um It was more for like the ascetic Lenten lifestyle. um but But I did realize after like three two, three weeks of not having coffee or nicotine, I felt like my cognition was even better than when I had both.
00:17:39
Christian Yordanov
yeah yeah
00:17:52
Christian Yordanov
yeah yeah there's something to be said for purifying the body in in various ways for sure ye yeah yeah yeah uh
00:17:54
Ryan
I mean...
00:17:58
Ryan
Right. So, I mean, do you drink coffee every day or caffeine?
00:18:06
Christian Yordanov
i do I do take caffeine almost every day, yeah, yeah. But not necessarily from coffee. Sometimes i actually get these um caffeine pills with, they're just caffeine, anhydrous, and just cellulose. So pretty clean, you know.
00:18:24
Christian Yordanov
So I love it. I'm sorry. i went to a homeopath up here in the in the mountains. um And this dude, he was like 80 years old. His skin was perfect.
00:18:35
Christian Yordanov
Like this dude was glowing, right? Super healthy guy. So he does this bioresonance thing where he has this machine. And, you know, he he um you hold...
00:18:47
Christian Yordanov
the Oh, yeah. So you hold a ah metal rod that connects to the machine and then he takes your one of your fingernails and he presses the other sort of electrode, whatever, to it.
00:18:59
Christian Yordanov
And the machine goes... no And then he basically, he's so good... And this this whole science is like kind of like a applied kinesiology slash there's a thing called autonomic response testing that I did a course in earlier this year by Dr. Klinghart.
00:19:16
Christian Yordanov
But basically, the autonomic nervous system ah gives feedback when when you know challenged. by And it could be literally holding up something to a person.
00:19:28
Christian Yordanov
And it could be a food, a supplement, a herb herb, whatever. and Anyway, so but this guy was so advanced. He had his home ah homeopathy lab there and everything. He was so advanced, he would...
00:19:39
Christian Yordanov
in his mind, ask the question. And based on your response, he would use the machine to tell you. he tested me a bunch for bunch of stuff. He knew i had metal in my teeth and like I was exposed to a lot of EMFs in my work here in my office. That's after that, I kind of I got a really a much better EMF tester.
00:19:57
Christian Yordanov
And I really kind of figured out where the EMFs are coming because you know what you have a lot of like cables together. Even though I don't have Wi-Fi, the cables of things plugged in, they kind of create fields that accumulate and stuff. so But anyway, um he he he's not a big fan of coffee and he tested me for coffee and he couldn't believe like he tested multiple times. it's like But it's not doing you harm. you know It's not like causing you issues.
00:20:24
Christian Yordanov
And that's when I realized I shouldn't feel guilty for drinking coffee because certain things are work well with certain people and certain things don't.
00:20:35
Christian Yordanov
And you know it's it's ah sometimes you know, like some guys do really well with weed and to have a great sort of relationship, quote unquote, with the plant. not everybody some people go freaking psychotic some get paranoid they can't sleep they get anxious so if if something is working well for you and you do feel it's working well like genuinely in your in your heart you feel it i think it's okay to to do it even if it's crack just kidding
00:20:48
Ryan
Right.
00:21:05
Ryan
That's beef for me. For me, like, I feel like, dude, I could eat...
00:21:06
Christian Yordanov
yeah
00:21:10
Ryan
Like, my wife, she she can eat beef, like... very like sparingly. She likes variety for me. I could eat beef for every meal and be so it's like, I'm like a dog.
00:21:20
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:21:23
Ryan
When you put like the same kibble you've been putting in the bowl for like 10 years for every meal, but then the dog scarves it down, licking its chops.
00:21:27
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:21:31
Christian Yordanov
um
00:21:31
Ryan
Like it's just eating it for the first time. That's me with beef, dude.
00:21:34
Christian Yordanov
Yeah. Same, same dude.
00:21:35
Ryan
Like Every time I have some beef, I'm just like, wow, that is the best beef I've ever had my life. I say that every time I eat it.
00:21:42
Christian Yordanov
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:44
Ryan
So I think that that is like one of the things that resonates with me the highest. But just just like a little comment about the weed thing. um Yeah, it's definitely not totally innocuous.
00:21:55
Ryan
My buddy... But I mean, maybe in like super small concentrations, it could be totally innocuous. But um my buddy, he he had a buddy that was a big weed smoker and he kept chasing the next high.
00:22:11
Ryan
But like with weed, you build up your tolerance. So then he buys some like wax that is 35% THC. I guess that's a super high concentration.
00:22:25
Christian Yordanov
Whoa.
00:22:26
Ryan
And then he like takes a fat rip of this wax and it sends him into a paranoid psychosis that he's still not out of over a year later.
00:22:33
Christian Yordanov
Whoa.
00:22:37
Ryan
He's lost his job. His wife has left him and so took custody of his kid.
00:22:41
Christian Yordanov
Whoa. ah he
00:22:44
Ryan
He lost everything because of you know chasing that next high with weed.
00:22:44
Christian Yordanov
woe
00:22:50
Ryan
And then he got paranoid psychosis.
00:22:50
Christian Yordanov
Dude.
00:22:53
Christian Yordanov
Dude, I can help him with that.
00:22:57
Ryan
Oh yeah?
00:22:58
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, I know exactly what he needs to do to to to get out of that. should you should um You should connect us. I actually had the ah one one one one client we were working with earlier this year.
00:23:14
Christian Yordanov
he had He had similar stuff going on wait with, you know, he he basically was smoking weed for like, don't know, like 10, a decade or more.
00:23:26
Christian Yordanov
Every single day, he had really gone more than a day without it. And after working together, he emailed me, um you know, like I forgot ah how long after, but he hadn't smoked at all since that last time.
00:23:30
Ryan
wow
00:23:42
Christian Yordanov
I gave him some things that... because and we but We also did a ah neurotransmitter test and there was definitely some neurotransmitter imbalances that are very much correlated with things like you know paranoia, anxiety.
00:23:57
Christian Yordanov
ah It can go all the way to like psychosis, but side of that side of the most extreme side of spectrum.
00:24:00
Ryan
Mm-hmm.
00:24:03
Christian Yordanov
so But it's actually not that so the' difficult to to knock a person out of that.
00:24:08
Ryan
The worst thing for me is that like when you know you're around a pothead, like they kind of sound like this. Or like, dude, have you ever even thought about like what if the universe like just created itself? Something like that. And then I'm just like, oh, dude, get out. like They're not even high, but they sound high.
00:24:30
Ryan
um That kind of thing, i just can't stand. I can't stand being around someone who sounds like that.
00:24:35
Christian Yordanov
yeah so yeah let's talk about more about you just so you know listeners and I know we're gonna have clients tuning into the podcast as well so just to know more about you let's talk about so you were you were dude you were captain of your state championship football team and you had a ah scholarship a football scholarship for college that's huge right is that correct
00:25:01
Ryan
So, yeah it's kind of funny the way that it all unfolded. um So like like also like wrapping in my health journey because you know we're a health focused company. We like to help people with their health.
00:25:18
Ryan
um It kind of all started like in middle school when my doctor grabbed my stomach and he's like, you got to lose this because I was a bigger kid and my doctor was like 80 years old, old school, like there's no filter.
00:25:36
Ryan
Um, so he just grabbed my stomach and was like, you got to lose this. This isn't healthy for a boy your age. was like, Oh damn. Okay. Dr. Miller.
00:25:47
Ryan
Um, so, ah then i started like doing, started getting into dieting, like just kind of like watching my calories.
00:25:57
Ryan
I would eat like 2000 calories a day, like in middle school because I wanted to lose the stomach and I lost like 17 pounds or so. Just like watching calories, that kind of thing.
00:26:09
Ryan
And then um another thing that I was doing was exercising a lot, but that was in the form of like sneaking out of my parents' house and like running around. And one thing that we would do was called car hopping.
00:26:23
Ryan
we would check people's car door handles and if they were unlocked we'd go in take change if they had some dollar bills i remember one time i took like happy a happy gilmore dvd out of somebody's car out of all things i ah like i can't pass this out dude i got i want to watch happy gilmore tonight you know
00:26:38
Christian Yordanov
it's a That is a classic. That's a classic one for the book. It's a classic.
00:26:47
Ryan
So that, uh, long story short, we end up getting caught. but I didn't get caught directly. Two of my buddies got caught that I was out with that night. Um, they were eighth graders.
00:26:59
Christian Yordanov
And they snitched.
00:27:00
Ryan
They snitched, they snitched hard.
00:27:01
Christian Yordanov
Busted.
00:27:03
Ryan
I, uh, I ended up getting brought in to the police station. Um, and then we went, we went to juvie for one night. They knew because we hadn't stolen much.
00:27:12
Christian Yordanov
Wow.
00:27:13
Ryan
I think we had stolen like maybe $18 and change. And they're like, okay, well like, yeah, right.
00:27:18
Christian Yordanov
And 16 DVDs and one Yeah.
00:27:22
Ryan
And then one dumb, dumb or something, you know?
00:27:28
Christian Yordanov
yeah
00:27:28
Ryan
Um, so yeah, man, uh, They put us in juvie for one night and like half of the next day. And then they released us to our parents and we had like three months house arrest.
00:27:41
Ryan
And the the worst thing about all of that was, well, I guess, number one, my parents like seeing them in the courtroom.
00:27:42
Christian Yordanov
Well...
00:27:49
Ryan
I mean, that that blew. But. the The thing that was the worst about it was like football was my passion. That was like my whole life. Like I was really good in middle school.
00:28:02
Ryan
um Some people had some high hopes for me when I was going to high school. And then that happened and I got banned or I was allowed to practice, but I wasn't allowed to play football.
00:28:17
Ryan
football for the entire season. So I was allowed to go to the practices and kind of like be on the scout team, which was like an insult to me because I was like, dude, I'm, I don't belong on the scout team. But anyway, i was on the scout team, wasn't allowed to play at all.
00:28:34
Ryan
Wasn't even allowed to go to the games. Um, and yeah, man, miss missed a whole year of freshman football. And then, um,
00:28:46
Ryan
The very next year, you know, that band was over. i was allowed to play. um End up getting moved up to varsity as a sophomore. and And then the the very next year, junior year, i for whatever reason, today they sat me for the first two weeks.
00:29:06
Ryan
And I was like, dude, I'm supposed to be the starter. Like, why? I didn't even play the first two games. Then the third game they put me in, i i I made five tackles for a loss in like the first ah five plays that I was in. like I just went absolutely nuts against our biggest rivals in the conference.
00:29:27
Ryan
It's like the biggest rivalry in the area, Batavia versus Geneva. And I just went absolutely wild in that game. And then ever since that happened, I won defensive player of the week for the conference.
00:29:40
Ryan
And they made me a starter from there on out. Like, they're like, OK, what were you thinking? So then I started the rest of that year. wound up going 9-0. And then we lost the first week in the playoffs, which really sucked.
00:29:55
Ryan
um But, you know, I thought to myself, again, like going back to the health thing, after my junior year, I thought, I never want to experience that again.
00:30:06
Ryan
Going 9-0 during the regular season, everybody thinks we're going to state. We're one of the best teams in the state. And then we lose first week to someone who barely made the playoffs because they ran this triple option.
00:30:20
Ryan
And we had a tough time defending the option. It's just like um kind of a hard thing to to defend. And, you know, each man has their key. Someone's got the quarterback, someone's got the fullback, somebody's got the running back.
00:30:33
Ryan
And if you lose one of those, yeah I mean, they can just take it all the way to the house if someone isn't playing like fundamental football. So, um i i told myself i never wanted to experience that again so i swore off any drinking anything for the entire off season and i was just going to focus on getting a strong fit and you know being an example for the rest of my teammates because i wanted to be a captain and uh I end up, you know, know, at 17 years old.
00:31:09
Ryan
yeah Now I think about it.
00:31:09
Christian Yordanov
Whoa.
00:31:10
Ryan
like, I can't even touch close to three 15. Um, nor do I really like want to do that kind of weight anymore. But, uh, I was benching three 15 squatting four 50, deadlifting 500 Um,
00:31:18
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:31:25
Christian Yordanov
Jesus, dude, that's insane.
00:31:27
Ryan
ah I know 17 years old, and but I mean, like, you know, I'm eating everything that I can. after football practice, I used to come home, drink half a gallon of milk, eat a quarter of a watermelon. You know, one of those big, like GMO watermelons, like massive watermelons.
00:31:45
Ryan
I'd eat like a quarter, a quarter watermelon. And I'd eat nine hard boiled eggs, nine hard boiled eggs, half a gallon of milk and a quarter of a huge watermelon.
00:31:56
Ryan
That was my post practice.
00:31:56
Christian Yordanov
Oh no, your cholesterol. Your cholesterol.
00:32:00
Ryan
I know, but dude, I was, uh, I was something else. And then, so I ended up getting up to like 240 pounds.
00:32:06
Christian Yordanov
Wow, dude. 240.
00:32:10
Ryan
And, uh, but like I was a total beast in the weight room.
00:32:12
Christian Yordanov
forty
00:32:15
Ryan
And then we had the, this night where it's like the captains are supposed to be selected for the next year. And so, you know, it's a voting process.
00:32:25
Ryan
And a bunch of my teammates had told me, dude, we voted for you. You're going be captain tonight. You're going to be up on the stage. going be captain. And then I'm sitting there and they call up Micah. You know, he's he's the quarterback. Of course, he's going captain. They call up Skacia.
00:32:40
Ryan
he's He was our running back. That was his last name. Of course, our like yeah well like I said, that was his last name.
00:32:43
Christian Yordanov
name these children like sequoia okay okay running river jeez anyway but't you hipies i'm sorry
00:32:47
Ryan
that's a good toyota there was uh
00:32:55
Ryan
yeah actually we did have a forest uh forest was named captain um and then uh and then rorke like you know
00:33:06
Christian Yordanov
what like what kind of crazy ass neighborhood anyway anyway
00:33:09
Ryan
I know, I know.
00:33:10
Christian Yordanov
like
00:33:11
Ryan
so ah but So they all four were named captain. And then they're like, okay, we're gonna that's all we're going to announce for now. we're so We still have a couple captain spots open. It'll be up to anybody who who wants them.
00:33:27
Ryan
And I was devastated. i was like, dude, everybody had told me I was going to be a captain. I went the entire off season, busted my ass, didn't have one drop of alcohol, not a single beer.
00:33:42
Ryan
Um, and you know, some people would be like, well, yeah, you were in high school. It's like, okay, come on, get over it. Like we, we would all get together for house parties or whatever. i wasn't even going to the house parties.
00:33:54
Ryan
And I was the one that usually threw them at my parents' house when they would leave for their motorcycle trips.
00:33:54
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:33:58
Ryan
mom. But, uh, Uh, so yeah, I didn't go to any house parties, didn't have any alcohol, like just kept it on the up and up. And then I didn't get elected captain when so many people had told me that they voted for me.
00:34:13
Ryan
A lot of people were very confused. They came up after me after the ceremony to me and told me like, wow, dude, I don't. we We all voted for you. I don't know what happened there.
00:34:24
Ryan
And so i i what did I do? Like, I could have made a couple decisions there, right? I could have sulked, thrown in the towel, screw it, this is rigged.
00:34:35
Ryan
Because all of the guys who were made captains, they were all, like, either buddy-buddy with the head coach or, like, were influential in the community. It seemed like a politics thing.
00:34:46
Ryan
And me, like, I was –
00:34:47
Christian Yordanov
but At least you don't sound like you're bitter about it still, right?
00:34:52
Ryan
No, I'm just saying like when i was finally elected a captain, which I and that's what I was saying is, you know, I had a couple of choices. I could have just like thrown in the towel and said, this is this is rigged. Like some people were telling me that it was and that, you know, my parents just weren't influential enough in the community or close enough or had given enough to the school or whatever it was.
00:35:18
Ryan
And, know, I could have just quit right then and there or like quit like working as hard or I could double down. And that's exactly what I did. i I was going to five workouts a week, which there there were only like three official ones.
00:35:35
Ryan
But I was going on the days that people um that that other sports were working out, too.
00:35:36
Christian Yordanov
Mm-hmm.
00:35:41
Ryan
And then also on Saturdays, they would have makeup workouts for the guys who were in like track or something like that. I would go to those too. So I was working out six days a week.
00:35:52
Ryan
um and going to all of the training sessions, doing everything that I possibly could, like listening to mindset stuff. And i was just, i was not going to be denied. I was going to be undeniable by anybody that, that even was abreast of the football team at Batavia high school.
00:36:12
Ryan
They were going to know that Ryan Manetti deserved to be a captain. And that was my mindset. And the first day of football camp in the summer, um at the end of practice, Coach Piran, our head coach of the football team, was like, we want to announce a new captain, Ryan Manitti.
00:36:31
Ryan
And I was like, fuck yeah, dude.
00:36:33
Christian Yordanov
Nice.
00:36:34
Ryan
Finally, finally, like, I get the credit that I deserve. And... ah
00:36:40
Christian Yordanov
At the age of 18, after all these...
00:36:44
Ryan
i
00:36:45
Christian Yordanov
Weeks, weeks and weeks of things I've been doing.
00:36:50
Ryan
Dude, it was it was it was from October two June that that I had been grinding in a away at this singular thing that was in my mind.
00:36:50
Christian Yordanov
Finally.
00:37:01
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:37:02
Ryan
and I had finally gotten it. It felt like it felt so damn good. It it really did.
00:37:07
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:37:08
Ryan
And especially like, don't forget freshman year. I was the black sheep. I was the outcast. I was, you know, the fuck up who, who got ah arrested and and banned from the football team freshman year.
00:37:14
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:37:22
Ryan
And then senior year I'm captain. Like it was, it was, uh, don't know.
00:37:25
Christian Yordanov
Amazing. I
00:37:29
Ryan
It's one of, one of my favorite stories about my life. Um, and it's something that I always look back at fondly because sometimes I struggled to find the motivation with various things.
00:37:32
Christian Yordanov
love it. I love it.
00:37:40
Ryan
And I'm just like, dude, if I could, if I could tap back into what I know is inside of me, when I just went buck wild on a singular goal for, uh,
00:37:52
Ryan
you know to be To be a captain for for the high school football team, like that's what I wanted more than anything else in the world. I just like kind of rekindled that energy. And then you know that's what got me through Great Lent and the grace of God, grace of God being number one, and then my motivation.
00:38:02
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:38:08
Ryan
being second, as as well as other various projects that I've been motivated to to work on. But so, yeah, became a captain.
00:38:19
Ryan
Then um the the second week of the season, we lost and we were expecting to go undefeated again and had all these lofty expectations and we lost to ah oakland richards in the second week by five points or six points something like that and then We end up winning the rest of the games for the rest of the season, go all the way to state. And who do we face?
00:38:52
Ryan
Oaklawn Richards in state. And then we were just like, oh, no way, dude. Because we had been watching them like, oh, surely they're going to lose to them. They, wait, wait, what? They beat them?
00:39:05
Ryan
It's like, okay, well, they're going to lose the event. Whoa, they beat their ass. And then it was just like one week after another, it's like, oh my gosh, are we going to face Oak Lawn and state?
00:39:09
Christian Yordanov
Mm-hmm.
00:39:15
Ryan
And then sure enough, they win their game. I think they won like 14 to seven or something like that. Like barely won. We played Rockford Boylan and we whooped their ass 38 to six.
00:39:26
Ryan
So there was no like doubt about it that we were going to state. Um, And then in-state, we ended up beating the team the only team that beat us all season.
00:39:39
Ryan
We beat them 35 to 14, like utter ass whooping. We just laid the smack down on their ass. And then, you know, all the captains got to go up on stage and were awarded medals and everything. So I got to do that.
00:39:54
Ryan
And then all all of the captains of the football team got to go to the Packers and Bears game later that month and be honored on stage.
00:39:55
Christian Yordanov
That's awesome, dude.
00:40:05
Ryan
at or not at the middle of the field during halftime of the bears Packers game. So we did that. And then that game is is one of my, one of my favorite games of all time, probably because I was there, but that game um for, for anybody that knows anything about football, that was the game where Randall Cobb,
00:40:26
Ryan
It was the last play of the game. It was like fourth and a mile, like maybe like fourth and 15. And Aaron Rodgers hikes the ball. Immediately, Julius Peppers is screaming off the edge about the sack. Aaron Rodgers.
00:40:37
Ryan
Aaron Rodgers does this incredible move, spins away from Julius Peppers. Randall Cobb is wide open at at the at the end of the field, and he just launches it.
00:40:49
Ryan
He just launches it. You don't even see where the ball went. It was so high. And you just look at the end of the field. Randall Cobb is wide open by 20 yards. There's nobody there.
00:41:00
Ryan
He catches the ball and like basically walks into the end zone. And the place was going nuts because then I think the Packers needed to win that game to be able to get into the playoffs.
00:41:13
Ryan
And it was Soldier Field, you know their sworn enemy, the biggest rivalry in football, Packers-Bears. And then the Packers win on basically a last-second Hail Mary.
00:41:24
Ryan
It was awesome. And we were only there because we won state. so and And I got to meet some Packers players on the field as well because the Packers are my favorite team.
00:41:33
Christian Yordanov
Wow, it's so cool. Yeah.
00:41:35
Ryan
So that that was an incredible experience. But the thing that I liked to drive across was that I had one goal in my mind and I did everything that I could possible within my power because ah you know they they didn't elect me captain the first time around.
00:41:53
Christian Yordanov
yeah
00:41:54
Ryan
But I still, I was going to be undeniable and I was going to do everything in my power to be able to achieve that goal. So that's why I like to say to to anybody who might be listening, you might be like, Oh, well, my boss, you know, he's got it in for me or, you know, he likes these other people better because they're more buddy, buddy, or they golf together or whatever it is.
00:42:15
Ryan
You got to be undeniable. Maybe your numbers have been slacking.
00:42:17
Christian Yordanov
yeah
00:42:19
Ryan
Um, make your numbers so incredible, so undeniable that you deserve that promotion or you deserve that raise or whatever it is. But, uh,
00:42:29
Christian Yordanov
Be so good they can't ignore you.
00:42:31
Ryan
Right. That's exactly it.
00:42:32
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:42:33
Ryan
For sure, man.
00:42:33
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:42:34
Ryan
So sorry to go on that on that terribly long rant, but...
00:42:35
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, man. it It's like, it's as if, dude, it's as if like Grant Cardone possessed you or something.
00:42:43
Ryan
Hey, man.
00:42:46
Christian Yordanov
ah no I love it, man.
00:42:46
Ryan
hey man
00:42:47
Christian Yordanov
But you see, this is this is why... is what I said earlier, you know, when i I saw you, I ah could... know This sort of energy that sort of ah you transmit, you know, when you're getting into something, you're getting fired These are the kind of people that change things, change the world, change the community.
00:43:11
Christian Yordanov
change something, you know, and this is the kind of people i want on the team because we need to bring that sort of energy to the, to the problem we're trying to be a part of the solution of, which is, you know, a pretty significant problem out there.
00:43:28
Christian Yordanov
lot of people are not thriving. a lot of people are living as a shadow of their true self. So we can't, you know, we can't waddle our way out of this problem. We need like a real serious push.
00:43:43
Christian Yordanov
need to have a lot of energy behind that push for it to, you know, to be meaningful. So that's why that's, that I love this. And again, just to kind of echo what you said, you know,
00:43:55
Christian Yordanov
I've had a lot of challenges in my life as well. And I think big problem for me was I was a smart kid. Like i could do I could do math in my head. Like kids like two my cousins with two, three years older, they're like doing stuff on their fingers. I could do that in my in my head at the age of six.
00:44:14
Christian Yordanov
And, but you see, everyone was telling me, Christian, you're so smart. Look at you, you're so smart. And then all through primary school, coasted, never had to study, aced everything.
00:44:25
Christian Yordanov
High school, it got a bit tougher, but I still didn't study, but I still stopped at the class. Then I got into college and smack. Okay, first year, i aced it. I had the highest score ever for the Java programming exam ever in that college.
00:44:41
Christian Yordanov
And I took that exam, hungover. i had a big old spliff and a Red Bull. That was my breakfast. And I went in high as a kite, son.
00:44:49
Ryan
oh
00:44:52
Christian Yordanov
First thing, waked and baked.
00:44:52
Ryan
I caffeinated to the gills.
00:44:56
Christian Yordanov
And I did 97% on the Java programming exam, And then the second year, when I actually got tough, the college, I dropped out because you just i hit ah I hit a wall.
00:45:06
Ryan
Oh.
00:45:06
Christian Yordanov
ah And I immediately, first semester into it, I knew... there's no way in hell I can make up the deficit in terms of my knowledge and ignorance that have allowed to so occur. you know You can't in a week cram that much stuff about all the programming. And to be honest, I never even liked the whole subject. I felt pressured to to to get into college to so I could leave Bulgaria you know and a very stressful home environment.
00:45:38
Christian Yordanov
um So I would do anything to get out of there, you know, and even even make the wrong choice. And that's why I kind of ah dropped out of college because I wasn't into it. i did I wanted to, like, learn business stuff.
00:45:48
Christian Yordanov
And, you know, I would have...
00:45:49
Ryan
Growing up you you didn't like Bulgaria. you you You always knew you wanted to leave Bulgaria.
00:45:54
Christian Yordanov
Well... i like, ah we lived in South Africa for a few years. So we going back to Bulgaria in my kind of mid to late teens, that was jarring.
00:46:05
Christian Yordanov
But I was actually starting to enjoy Bulgaria because, like, dude, weed, drinking, you could go to clubs even though you're underage. um you know like girls and and just i was actually starting to enjoy it but like a couple of kids dude a couple of kids that i grew up with from like one of them was from the same sort of block of flats like dude they were like in jail because they tried to knock over a freaking casino dude like a small casino, not a big casino, obviously they'd be dead.
00:46:37
Ryan
Right.
00:46:38
Christian Yordanov
But like the, there was like kids, 15 year old kids, dude, selling drugs, like hard drugs, amphetamines, whatever. So it was a really poor environment. And I'm so glad, you know, my mother pushed for us to get the hell out of there and go to college in Ireland because it, it would not have been like a good environment for me.
00:46:58
Christian Yordanov
Not that, you know, I did like amazing things, for the next 10 years when I went to Ireland or anything, you know, but um it it was ah a heck of a lot of a more savory environment there.
00:47:09
Christian Yordanov
um But, you know, so the the the thing is, like for me, i The arrogance of being smart and hitting that wall in in the in the kind of more grown-up world, that was a massive sort of ego, hit to my ego, which caused me to then, you know, struggle, struggle, until ah figured out that the the challenge...
00:47:34
Christian Yordanov
It's like Hormozzi says, the work that you do works more on you than you work on it. You know, so that my sort of biggest couple of challenges were when I was about to hit 30, training for the Thai boxing fight all year. That was a huge challenge physically.
00:47:51
Christian Yordanov
And then a couple of years later, you know, writing my first book, that was like an eight month sort of, you know, fucking journey to Mordor and back. Um,
00:48:00
Ryan
The autism wellbeing plan.
00:48:02
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, yeah. I published that. I was just 33 at that point. Just about 33. I was going to hit 33 years of of of age. So it was like when I hit those sort of... Went through those challenges, that's when I realized...
00:48:18
Christian Yordanov
pretty late, not like you, like when you were you know barely an adult. It took me a long time to figure it out, but that's when I figured out that there is a lot in there, a lot of potential, and the challenge isn't something to avoid.
00:48:34
Christian Yordanov
It's something to to sort of use as a mechanism of growth in this life, you know?
00:48:44
Ryan
Hmm.
00:48:45
Christian Yordanov
Yeah. Getting very philosophical here.
00:48:50
Christian Yordanov
But, uh,
00:48:53
Christian Yordanov
just for the listener, we're going to have Ryan, my plan from next week is we're going to have at least one episode on the podcast, the How to Actually Live Longer podcast with Ryan. We're going to just kind of talk, you know, health longevity stuff.
00:49:08
Christian Yordanov
There's a lot of research and stuff we want to, you know, talk about. ah Some of it is going to be in my next book, How to Actually Live Longer, Volume 2. So I think it will be a great opportunity to kind of, you know, talk about some research so you you get to you know you know, learn a thing or two, God forbid. Nowadays, you're not even you know he was supposed to use the the L word because people shudder, but I know people listening here love learning.
00:49:33
Ryan
Oh, do your own research.
00:49:33
Christian Yordanov
So, yeah, yeah.
00:49:34
Ryan
Remember during COVID, that was like the, but that was the naughty phrase.
00:49:37
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:49:38
Ryan
You're going to do your own research.
00:49:39
Christian Yordanov
Exactly.
00:49:40
Ryan
Yeah.
00:49:40
Christian Yordanov
Yeah. But yeah, so we're going to have some pretty some pretty cool research going to talk about. But also, my goal for the the podcast to be a little bit more entertaining, less let sort of you know clinical, all this research, this mechanism. I just want us to have a little bit of fun because what is the point of being healthy and vibrant and all this stuff that we're doing if we're not enjoying the whole process? you know This is so important. you know We have to...
00:50:08
Christian Yordanov
Just want to make the process of optimizing our health and all that stuff and learning all the scams in the health space. Let's make it a fun process so that, you know, it's a fun process, basically.
00:50:20
Ryan
Absolutely. Yeah. and you know, one thing that I'm hoping that we'll get into early on in terms of the research and whatever is something that you brought up the other day and something that I haven't stopped thinking about is the kind of endurance training scam.
00:50:35
Ryan
And like, what's, what's the threshold there?
00:50:36
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:50:38
Ryan
Because, you know, I brought up, i'm like, well, running a mile, well, and a mile is not endurance training. I'm like, for me, it is. like
00:50:46
Christian Yordanov
For me, it's for me it's a potentially life-threatening.
00:50:53
Ryan
Right, man. So I'm just like, okay, what what's the threshold for endurance training? When does it start to become like a hindrance on your health and help?
00:51:00
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:51:02
Ryan
Because you know it at various points in my life, I felt like I need to get my endurance training back up. And during the health summit was one of those one of those times.
00:51:10
Christian Yordanov
yeah
00:51:12
Ryan
And I started running like three miles twice a week. And I really felt like my my endurance was in a back in a great spot. So I'm just kind of curious, like, where where is it?
00:51:22
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:51:25
Ryan
ah What threshold is it helping? And then what threshold is it hurting? And maybe like the middle ground there, too. So that's that's something I'm interested to dig deeper on.
00:51:33
Christian Yordanov
yeah
00:51:35
Christian Yordanov
yeah Yeah, it's such ah it's such an interesting area, and I have this such a bunch of um fascinating pieces of research. So there's stuff, ah that I think we can maybe even, know, we'll do this on the the Friday recording. There was um some stuff around...
00:51:55
Christian Yordanov
even walking dude like with enough enough walk you think like walking can be bad but even walking if you were to walk enough in a given day straight up becomes harmful you know so it's it's pretty some pretty cool cool research we can discuss um
00:52:13
Ryan
Dude, i hope we get into that on Friday because you know that's a huge thing that's going on right now. Like this guy on on Instagram, his name is Joey Sorts. And he just did this whole thing. His big thing is like walking 10 or 15,000 steps every day.
00:52:32
Ryan
And then he was just like, hey, today we're going to do 100,000 steps, which he did.
00:52:32
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:52:37
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
00:52:37
Ryan
and I was like, OK, at that point, it's for sure not a good thing for you.
00:52:38
Christian Yordanov
Well...
00:52:42
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, man. it's It's, I don't know. I think for social, you have to do crazy stuff. There was one guy on YouTube. He just does the weirdest nonsense. He has millions of subscribers and he he he looks like a very cool guy.
00:52:55
Christian Yordanov
I forget his name now, but he's like, eat like 20, I don't know, 20,000 calories in a day. That's kind like crazy stuff.
00:53:02
Ryan
Oh, yeah.
00:53:03
Christian Yordanov
You know, oh he tried all the most dangerous, all the most banned sports drinks. He had like this sports drink that was banned because people had like a heart attack and he like drink the damn thing.
00:53:15
Ryan
Oh, my gosh.
00:53:17
Christian Yordanov
And then he like go do a workout and explain, okay, so I feel like my brain is on fire. Like, I mean, so this is the kind of stuff people click on, you know. So, yeah, dude, it's it's it's absolute.
00:53:28
Christian Yordanov
We've gone mega insane right now. And the for the kind of crowd that we are trying to help, you know we want to really define what what's too much. And it's a very variable thing for a person. What's too much? What's too much?
00:53:45
Christian Yordanov
50 minutes is too much period. It's for a specific person. What are sort of some guidelines? And it's very simple. Obviously, it's the healthier you are, the more punishment you can take.
00:53:53
Ryan
Right.
00:53:57
Christian Yordanov
Right. Obviously, the less healthy you are, the less exertion you can sort of do before it becomes super detrimental. But the thing is, and I always try to sort of spin this to to clients if you are healthy and you can take a lot of punishment be that stress of from exercise or from work or not sleeping or traveling a lot whatever if you can take it And you know you can still function.
00:54:22
Christian Yordanov
Should you though? Should you do that? Just because you can do it. you know Just because you're 30 years old and you can... like went I was doing the Thai boxing training. We're training like some days twice a day. We're training in the morning, two hours, and at night.
00:54:37
Christian Yordanov
two hours and at the same time full-time job and doing other courses and you know i was dating my what my wife at the time still and like i could do it because i had a lot of you know still resilience and vital reserve but um now that i think about it dude i was going gray i already had gray hair in my mid-20s you know So I could do a lot of stressful things, but the only sign of the stress at that time was gray hair.
00:55:09
Christian Yordanov
But if you extend this over ah much longer time period, like decades, 10, 20, 30 years into your 50s, much more than just gray hair is going to start showing. you know That's the thing people really need to understand.
00:55:24
Ryan
what are What are some of those other signs?
00:55:24
Christian Yordanov
We have to also delineate.
00:55:26
Ryan
Like, real quick.
00:55:26
Christian Yordanov
ah I mean, that's the thing. like and We're going to talk about this on... um on the the next show, but I just
00:55:34
Ryan
I've got a little patch of gray hair, like, like right here. Whenever I go to the barber shop, the girl who ah who cuts my hair, she's always like, oh, that patch seems to be getting a little bigger. And I'm just like, shut up.
00:55:47
Christian Yordanov
It's like, I'm surprised you're still going to her.
00:55:48
Ryan
Stop talking about it.
00:55:51
Christian Yordanov
I'd be like, you don't get a tip again.
00:55:52
Ryan
She does a good job. She cuts my hair the way that I want it to be cut. Yeah.
00:55:56
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, that's that's pretty hard to find. um I'd be like, no tip for you again.
00:56:00
Ryan
yeah
00:56:01
Christian Yordanov
Sorry. ah Yeah, dude, like I'll just quick one, maybe discuss this more in depth, but I have one client, he's a big shot CEO, runs multiple law firms, um thousand acre property, like real like...
00:56:23
Christian Yordanov
yeah doing real well in life and just for decades his thing he's like he's the boss he can do whatever he wants so his thing is he wakes up he goes to the gym and he goes to work and he has his routine that that that's been working for him you know and just <unk> I've had him as a client for more than a year now and every month or so I'm like the the thing that that's elephant in the room the exercise the exercise empty stomach first thing in the morning bad bad bad idea and I keep trying to hammer it home um but it just it's just some people they just simply because and with him it's a bit different because it's his wife that referred him to me so he he wasn't like he didn't read my book he didn't listen to the podcast
00:57:12
Christian Yordanov
So he wasn't like indoctrinated as it were into my into my stuff. But he he liked me. I liked him. So we we did, we've done some really good work together. But there's certain things, certain folks simply we will not budge on if they if they're not fully into your stuff.
00:57:28
Christian Yordanov
And that's one thing I've not been able to actually convince him to stop doing is to like not have breakfast and go directly to the gym. And the thing is that last year he did a coronary artery calcification scan, CIC, and he had coronary artery calcification.
00:57:46
Christian Yordanov
So he's like in his 60s. He feels great. He looks great. Looks like like he looks healthy, you know, from the outside, well-functioning brain, ah ah you know, all that stuff, you know.
00:57:57
Ryan
Mm-hmm.
00:57:57
Christian Yordanov
um but you know under the surface we know that endurance exercise ages the cardiovascular system i some of the the research is in animals so I think we can we can maybe start have to like it's a big topic I'm going to have a whole chapter on the book about it so to do one chapter there's actually a shit load of research that goes into just one chapter so we could maybe even like look at one episode we can look at the animal research and you know okay it's already some clues is something good or bad if the animal research is showing.
00:58:32
Christian Yordanov
But then we can look at the human research. We can look at endurance more specifically. We can look at women's stuff more specifically. I think it's important because a lot of guys, what we do is we start doing crazy shit and then suddenly our wife is, you know, roped into it. When I was doing the keto, my wife was doing keto, bulletproof coffee, my wife was doing bulletproof.
00:58:54
Christian Yordanov
We have breathing, Cold showers, she was doing that. And in hindsight, that was really dumb for me to rob Corinne. And the research clearly shows that, you know, exercise can be particularly detrimental for for women.
00:59:10
Christian Yordanov
So if we know that as as dudes, we can protect our women from too much exercise.
00:59:14
Ryan
exercise as a too much exercise.
00:59:17
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, can be, yeah. Yeah, dude, we'll get into that. There's some some interesting stuff there. But it's pretty controversial because like if you listen to Dr. Peter Atiyah, literally he says, i believe that exercise is the most potent longevity drug. that pre That's pretty much ah verbatim quote.
00:59:38
Christian Yordanov
So it's like, the is it though, doctor? is it? We'll see.
00:59:45
Ryan
Right.
00:59:46
Christian Yordanov
We'll see.
00:59:46
Ryan
Dr. Jack Cruz talks about, he's like, honestly, the people that I see living the longest are like these, like Orthodox Jews in New York. And they've never exercised like a day in their life or like, they don't go to the gym every single day.
01:00:02
Ryan
They're just like kind of, you know, like 170 pounds. ah And they're just kind of like chill. they They do their job. They go home. They eat dinner with their family.
01:00:16
Ryan
But they're not busting their ass at the gym every day. They're just kind of like living a very chill lifestyle. And they're the people that are living over 100 consistently the longest.
01:00:28
Ryan
Yeah.
01:00:29
Christian Yordanov
Yeah, dude, and look at Kissinger. He lived 100 years. Rockefeller lived 101, 102. Do they look like? Do you think they're out there?
01:00:39
Ryan
Kissinger wasn't going to the gym.
01:00:39
Christian Yordanov
like
01:00:41
Ryan
no way.
01:00:42
Christian Yordanov
ki no way Kissinger was going to the gym. He lived 100 years. Rockefeller clearly, like, he wasn't exactly, like, you know, he wasn't exactly jacked in Swalbraham Lincoln or anything like that.
01:00:55
Christian Yordanov
Okay, like like there's other questions we could ask there. that Let's keep it you know non-conspiratorial, etc. what What were they doing? like so What were they supplementing their diet with? We don't, you know, whatever.
01:01:09
Ryan
I was just about to say.
01:01:10
Christian Yordanov
and so Let's not say anything now because we have like people that are not necessarily coming from the you know that side of the...
01:01:18
Ryan
That angle.
01:01:19
Christian Yordanov
you know so but you know But still, the either they weren't exactly like in the gym.
01:01:20
Ryan
Yeah.
01:01:26
Christian Yordanov
Because look look at it. like Jeff Bezos, at one point he said, okay, look it. I'm going to stop being a Poindexter little know soy boy betta cuck. I'm going to get Soberham Lincoln.
01:01:39
Christian Yordanov
So he got on the, he got on the roids. He got on the, the tea juice and he got swole, you know, and a lot of like entrepreneur guys at one point, they're like, you know, it's great. I'm just going to do this.
01:01:49
Christian Yordanov
And they can, they get a trainer, they get like a really, you know, their chef starts doing everything optimally and that's all fine and dandy. You know, it, it can be done, but,
01:02:02
Christian Yordanov
And I'm sure you can be pretty like like you can exercise quite a lot and live a long time, you know. But it's not necessary. People, the yeah right now we have confounded health and fitness as being the same thing.
01:02:18
Christian Yordanov
But like if you look at podcast categories on ah whatever, Apple, the category... that this podcast is in, the category is called health and fitness.
01:02:31
Christian Yordanov
It's not called health fitness. It's not one thing, you know? So um that's the thing. can be healthy without being very fit. You can be extremely fit and be very unhealthy.
01:02:44
Christian Yordanov
the The thing is we have to find it like a Venn diagram. Where like can we do just enough exercise um exertion to maintain you a certain level of strength, mobility, you know lower pain, reduced pain um without stepping over into the threshold of actually causing ah stress and degeneration and oxidative stress and inflammation and damage to the tissues that cannot be repaired you know or is costing us too much ah in the in the grander scheme of things.
01:03:15
Christian Yordanov
Because that and do that, thats that's actually very easy to do, you know, um Not to say you should be a sedentary, like the the problem is our sedentary life nowadays, yes, that is a massive problem.
01:03:28
Christian Yordanov
I'm not saying we should be sitting on the couch or the computer all day. And i'm not saying that we don't have to exactly sniff in, you know, inhaling flame retardants and plasticizers at the computer.
01:03:50
Christian Yordanov
um yeah so anyway we we basically started getting to the topic but I think what we're going to do is let's wrap up today this was just like a little introduction introduce Ryan so people know who he is and stuff like that because you're going to be doing some of the metabolic function assessments coming up you know so prospective clients anyone interested in what we do they might be talking to you so this was a good way to kind of introduce to everybody and yeah any parting parting thoughts for today
01:05:09
Christian Yordanov
Yeah.
01:05:18
Christian Yordanov
Awesome stuff. Thanks, bro.