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00:16:03.000And I know you fat fucks are out there chowing down.
00:16:35.000With this, digestive enzymes are what you normally get in food.
00:16:39.000You know, like one of the issues that a lot of people have with milk, like the reason why raw milk is so much more easy to digest for most people than pasteurized and homogenized milk is because it still has the digestive enzymes in it.
00:16:53.000They're not broken down by the pasteurization process.
00:16:56.000The pasteurization process is great because it allows cities to get milk and allows people to get nutrition that, you know, you're dealing with mass numbers of people.
00:17:20.000You're killing all the life in the food.
00:17:22.000When you get milk from a farm, it doesn't taste anything like that shit we buy in stores.
00:17:27.000What we buy in stores tastes like this weird water.
00:17:30.000But what you get, like when you get a cold glass of milk from a farm that came out of a cow that morning, whoa, that fucking thing's alive, man.
00:17:46.000And if you go to onit.com forward slash digest tech, they'll do a much better job of explaining why you should incorporate digestive enzymes into your diet.
00:18:12.000I recommend that people take lipase because it helps you digest fat, and most people don't get enough fat in, and that's one of the main ingredients there.
00:20:26.000It's just because you have smashed your muscles so bad, they've become like jello and they're just oozing poison into your fucking bloodstream.
00:20:36.000Yeah, I mean, you got to give yourself a chance to recover.
00:20:39.000It's not a matter, it's simple matter of will over your body.
00:22:21.000You know, I looked at it back when it went out, and they wanted to put something in from a cadaver that was good for five years or a synthetic.
00:24:51.000The problem with not getting them fixed is they're moving around a lot and that's causing a lot of undue friction inside on your meniscus and all that jazz.
00:25:08.000But because my knee used to just pop out, my kneecap would just go sprawling and the leg would fold sideways and I'd fall down like over and over.
00:25:15.000My nervous system learned that that leg is weak and you should protect it.
00:25:19.000So I put all my weight on my left leg unconsciously.
00:25:21.000And when I feel like I'm standing straight, I'm standing crooked and my right shoulder is too far forward and one's higher.
00:25:26.000So I'm relearning all these like neurological pathways and activating my feet muscles in the right way.
00:25:32.000And it's actually a lot of work and it makes like different parts of your body hurt in ways that aren't normal.
00:25:38.000I think I didn't start out with the strongest physical frame I would have liked.
00:25:42.000Yeah, you without a doubt should get your knees fixed.
00:25:45.000I'm telling you, because it's one of those things where, yeah, there's a period where you're going to have to rehab it six months.
00:25:51.000But once it's done, you'll be so happy.
00:25:54.000You'll be like, oh, I got a leg I can count on now.
00:26:53.000But I know some other people, I go, man, I wonder if that guy could have held out.
00:26:57.000I wonder if he could have lost some weight.
00:26:58.000I wonder if he could have tried taking yoga, tried changing his diet a little bit to reduce inflammation, cut out your sugars, simple sugars.
00:27:06.000Like people don't realize, you know, I went gluten-free, cheated a little bit the other day.
00:27:37.000Well, it's not necessarily a stem cell thing.
00:27:39.000It's your own blood, and then your blood gets put through this process.
00:27:46.000I should find a best way to explain it online.
00:27:49.000But I flew back from England, so it was like an 11-hour flight, and then I didn't get any sleep the night before because my clock was all screwed up.
00:27:58.000So I stayed up all night, and then tried to sleep on the plane, and then lifted in the morning like an asshole, and then started to feel kind of sick, and then got this quart of blood pulled out of my body.
00:28:40.000I don't necessarily know for sure that it's going to work, but it's one of those things that all these different athletes, like Peyton Manning, had it done on his neck.
00:28:51.000He had two different neck surgeries, I believe, and he was close to retiring before he had this done.
00:28:57.000And I know that Chris Wideman, the UFC middleweight champion, just went over there and had it done on his knee, and he's just raving about it.
00:29:13.000The guy learned how to do it from the dude in Germany.
00:29:16.000There's a cat in Germany that figured this out.
00:29:19.000Germany is just so far ahead of the United States when it comes to their experimental medicine.
00:29:26.000Everyone in the United States got hamstrung with all that stem cell shit during the Bush administration where people thought they were just going to start sucking babies out of chicks' pussies and turning them into fucking medicine.
00:29:37.000There was a real worry that people were going to actually get abortions on purpose in order to do this.
00:29:44.000Yeah, there was a lot of nuttiness when it came to stem cells and research.
00:29:50.000Here's the coolest stem cell story I've ever seen.
00:29:53.000There's this thing you can do for anti-aging where you pull your fat cells out and they do something to them and re-inject them as fat stem cells.
00:30:00.000And it can take 20 years off your face and it lasts for a long time.
00:30:04.000So a lot of ladies are getting this done.
00:30:05.000And there was a lady in Beverly Hills who got that done the same time they injected calcium into her eyelids.
00:30:12.000And because it was a stem cell and it saw the calcium, it made bones in her eyelids.
00:30:16.000So she'd close her eyes and it would click with bones.
00:32:11.000I'll let you guys know exactly whether or not it's helping or not helping me, but I just had the first series of injections stuck into my neck and back this morning.
00:32:21.000They'll pull your blood out, they'll mix it with ozone gas, which causes a whole bunch of anti-inflammatory molecules, and then they inject the blood back in after that Really strong oxidative exposure, and it has not stem cell effects, but it has really strong anti-inflammatory effects.
00:32:36.000I've done that one, and it's pretty legit.
00:32:38.000Well, according to a lot of these doctors, inflammation is the cause of a lot of illnesses, a lot of problems, and there's many different factors.
00:32:48.000There's diet, there's certain people have allergies or certain things they're not aware of that cause inflammation, but diet is a big one.
00:32:56.000Having a low inflammatory diet or a low inflammation diet, it's really good for you.
00:33:37.000Even if gluten is, it's all bullshit, like the gluten intolerances that people have as far as digesting.
00:33:44.000Even if that's bullshit, it's definitely not bullshit that you're becoming a person with much more sugar in their diet if you increase the amount of pastas and breads you eat.
00:33:53.000Without a doubt, when you eat pasta, when you eat bread, it converts directly to sugar.
00:33:57.000And having sugar in your body causes inflammation.
00:33:59.000So gluten, without a doubt, causes inflammation.
00:34:02.000There's another thing called agglutination, which is when your red blood cells stick together so they don't carry nutrients and oxygen like they should.
00:34:09.000And part of gluten is gliadin, which is something that we use to cause clotting.
00:34:14.000Like it's a clotting factor that's in this grain, and it's there as a defense mechanism to keep animals from eating the grain.
00:34:28.000Do you think that if that was known, that that would be something that they would just start telling farmers, hey, guys, guys, guys, stop growing grain.
00:35:09.000It's like someone says, I mostly gave up heroin.
00:35:11.000Like, no, if you go gluten-free, don't have a cheat day once a week because you'll crave gluten all the time because of this opiate-like effect.
00:35:18.000This is one thing that I've read, and I'd really like to know, how long does gluten affect your system?
00:35:24.000Like, say, because I've read that it's total bullshit, that it goes right through your system just like everything else.
00:35:29.000It's not a healthy thing to eat, but your body doesn't have, most likely, unless you have celiac disease, doesn't have any intolerances towards it.
00:35:36.000And then I've read the other that says that it can stay in your system as long as 30 days.
00:35:39.000Like have a cookie, and it'll be in your system for 30 days.
00:35:43.000I'm like, that doesn't even make sense.
00:35:44.000The gluten itself won't be in your system, but the impact of the gluten on your immune reaction can go as long as six months.
00:37:08.000So I woke up and there was like, I was like having a dream and these two like tingly spots on my neck and my heart would beat and they'd tingle and they'd stop.
00:38:14.000But yeah, so I could get an immune booster because I've had the whole rabies series.
00:38:17.000One shot would like boost my immunity for a long time.
00:38:20.000So it's not that hard of a thought to say, you know, if you drank a little bit of poison, it could cause a problem in your body for a long period of time.
00:38:29.000So I was just on Tom O'Brien, a friend of mine who's been studying gluten for like 30 years.
00:38:36.000He has a gluten summit coming up in November or sometime.
00:38:40.000And I was one of his guests on there, but he interviewed like a whole bunch of different physicians who've been doing research on the immune effects of gluten.
00:39:18.000When you eat gluten, it causes cross-reactivity in your immune system.
00:39:22.000And there's whole panels of cross-reactivity things you can do.
00:39:24.000What that means is that if your body is genetically or microbiologically set up that way, or let's say you have leaky gut because you didn't take your digestive enzymes, well, whatever the cause there is, this happens.
00:39:36.000And then the wheat tells your body, oh, you should attack your nervous system.
00:41:06.000The gluten-free pastas that I've had, they taste just like regular pasta.
00:41:09.000Like you don't feel like you lose anything.
00:41:11.000But the amount of time digesting it is incredibly different.
00:41:15.000The way your body feels after, like, the other night I had a big bowl of this gluten-free pasta with like this delicious sauce with garlic in it.
00:41:24.000And I swear to God, it tasted exactly like regular linguine.
00:41:28.000But the next like hour or two wasn't a struggle and staying conscious.
00:41:34.000It wasn't that that you get if you have a big bowl of like regular spaghetti.
00:41:39.000Isn't that the reason why like Chinese or Asian foods don't like you get hungry faster after that for the second?
00:42:33.000The problem is when you get extra glutamate like that, then you have so much that even when you suck the glutamate out, there's still some left.
00:42:40.000That's why people get migraines and they get tired, they get sleepy.
00:42:43.000But if you're a restaurant and you toss a little MSG in there, even stuff that's legally, you're allowed to say, I added no MSG, even though what you added was 74% MSG.
00:42:55.000So you go to a restaurant and the cook honestly believes, like, the chef there will tell you, I'll look you straight in the eye and say, there's no MSG in here.
00:43:01.000And he means it because he has things that say on the label, no MSG, because as long as it's at least 25% not MSG, you don't have to say what's in there.
00:44:06.000What it says online, there's on Wikipedia, it's kind of, I didn't know this, that it's one of the most abundant, naturally occurring non-essential amino acids.
00:44:14.000It's a sodium salt of glutamic, glutamic, how do you say it?
00:44:52.000Umami, when you're a chef, it's like the sixths flavor.
00:44:56.000And it's something that comes from like charring your meat just right, kind of searing the outside, or using soy sauce is the classical umami taste.
00:45:04.000It was isolated by Japanese researchers who, funny enough, invented MSG when they were trying to get to the bottom of what's the special taste that people enjoy.
00:45:13.000The problem is that that taste, especially in excess, causes these massive food cravings and drops in blood sugar and it causes brain cell death.
00:45:27.000Like, is it something you should absolutely definitely avoid Or is it something like along like sugar, as long as you have it in moderation, you should be okay?
00:45:35.000Especially for kids, it should be illegal to give kids MSG because their gut isn't that good at filtering these things out and their blood-brain barrier isn't fully formed.
00:45:44.000Not that it's that good of a barrier in anyone.
00:45:47.000After that, it's a question of how healthy your tissues are, what your genetics are.
00:45:50.000I don't think there's any argument that it's good for you.
00:45:53.000And it likely causes just weakness, headaches, brain fog, and tiredness in people, and they don't know what's happening.
00:46:59.000The kind of ancient history of coffee marketing.
00:47:02.000The techniques we use to manipulate people to eating the cheapest possible crap we can sell, the stuff that causes the most cravings so they'll buy more of it.
00:47:10.000You can't eat just one sort of marketing.
00:47:13.000That all evolved from the very early days.
00:47:15.000And all those companies today, like Post and General Mills, started out as coffee merchants, and they just spread into these other kinds of food.
00:47:23.000It kind of makes sense because if you start out with that, coffee, without a doubt, is addictive.
00:47:45.000We're going to have to put a bulletproof on the third corner and just...
00:47:52.000You should do a bulletproof coffee chain.
00:47:53.000Most people have no idea what the fuck this stuff is.
00:47:56.000When I give people bulletproof coffee, they always go like, whoa, the question everybody has about bulletproof, this is the controversial question.
00:48:06.000This process that you have, the bunch of questions.
00:48:09.000For folks who don't know what bulletproof coffee is, Dave invented some, this is how I found out about Dave.
00:48:14.000Tate Fletcher came over to the Ice House studio and he brought this delicious thermos of amazing coffee that had stevia in it and butter.
00:48:25.000And I was like, what the fuck are you drinking, man?
00:48:27.000And he used to tell me about bulletproof coffee.
00:48:30.000And it's coffee that is mixed with MCT oil and grass-fed butter.
00:48:36.000And then more importantly, I started reading about mycotoxins and how just generally accepted it is that there's mycotoxins in a lot of different coffee that you buy, you know, and that people aren't testing for it and they just accept it and that you're drinking this fungus.
00:50:39.000There's a reason that you should eat grass-fed meat, too.
00:50:43.000This is one of the many reasons because these toxins that are common in grains and cereals, by the way, they feed the crap cereal to the animals that they're going to feed you.
00:50:51.000Because the cereals that have high mold, they can't feed them to the pregnant cows because pregnant cows miscarry when they eat the toxic grain.
00:50:58.000So they save it for the stuff you're going to eat.
00:51:08.000I was at the supermarket the other day and this guy was trying to talk me into buying grain-fed beef because it was fattier and more delicious.
00:51:14.000And I was like, no, dude, I know what I want.
00:51:16.000I'm trying to get grass-fed beef for a reason.
00:52:41.000But when I get the stuff from a cow that's raised on grass, especially fresh, like just pasture, the fat's like a yellowish color, and it just tastes so good.
00:53:07.000When you eat, like a lot of people don't like the gamey taste of venison, but a lot of what you're eating when you're eating venison is the diet of the animal.
00:53:15.000Like if you get venison that's from a farm, like farm-raised venison, it tastes very different than wild venison.
00:53:21.000Wild venison has like a feeling when you're eating it, like it's alive.
00:53:26.000Like this is like a powerful piece of meat.
00:53:28.000The farm venison that I've had, I've had some of it that's really good and I've had other that feels like, man, they must be giving these guys the same fucking shit they give cows.
00:53:48.000This guy's like, he spent his whole life raising like 500 cattle.
00:53:51.000And we went into all these crazy details.
00:53:54.000And he said the secret to having the best grass-fed meat was that you wanted to go in and let the cows pick the grass they'd eat and then a cow will naturally get like the clump of grass that has the most nutrients for it.
00:54:07.000Like they have radar for the right kinds of food.
00:54:10.000And his meat has the darkest yellow fat I've ever had.
00:54:14.000So it's, you know, it's one of those things where you have these guys who make wine, and there's the equivalent level of artistry for people who make beef.
00:54:22.000And he told me about how after you slaughter the animal, like how they do it in an ethical way.
00:55:54.000It's the same as if you gave a bunch of people car parts and had them put together their own cars.
00:56:01.000There's some people that are going to put together amazing cars, and there's some dickheads that are going to develop things where their fucking wheels fly off on the highway.
00:56:20.000And it's just a whole different experience, especially when I come down to LA where drivers are more aggressive.
00:56:26.000I'm happy to drive in heavy traffic like this, but when I go up there, I have to take a deep breath and calm down.
00:56:31.000Otherwise, I'd cut in front of all these slow cars, but then I would be one of those American jerks, and I don't want to do that.
00:56:36.000Well, they've done these studies on rats where they stuff them into a room, and they have 10 rats in a room, then they have 20 rats in a room.
00:56:45.000They've shown what happens with rat population densities.
00:56:50.000It's the same thing that happens to people in cities.
00:56:52.000Rats start sitting in the corner by themselves and rocking back and forth.
00:56:55.000They exhibit all these weird fucking goofy behavior characteristics, and they do it in large numbers.
00:57:01.000That's what you're dealing with in Los Angeles.
00:57:03.000When you see these crazy people cutting in front of each other and fucking flying down the road and doing all this assholeish shit, there's too many people.
00:57:59.000There's certainly an issue of how many people.
00:58:01.000But I think that issue could be possibly managed by having some sort of real comprehensive mental health program in this country for adults and have it, you know, everybody's sort of on their own.
00:58:15.000They're on their own from the time they get to high school, essentially.
00:58:18.000Their parents drop them off at school, the parents are working, they come home, and then the parents are tired from work.
00:58:24.000You're basically raising yourself from 14 on with like a little bit of influence by the older people around you.
00:58:30.000Don't get into too much trouble, but you're kind of like that's stupid, all right?
00:58:34.000That's the most complex part of a child's life, and it's the most as far as like when you're establishing your traits and establishing your way and your ethics and the way the way you're going to live your life, you develop a lot of those patterns when you're like 14 and 15 and 16.
00:58:53.000Those are the years that I think it's very important to help people figure out how to manage life.
00:59:00.000Help people figure out how to think, help inspire them, help show them what can be gained from setting goals and achieving them and that excellent feeling, and that it becomes contagious.
00:59:12.000And then you can do more with that, and you can inspire other people.
00:59:15.000You can surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and instead of being jealous of each other, actually elevate each other and grow stronger as a group than you would as individuals.
00:59:24.000There's a lot of things that people just don't get to learn.
00:59:27.000And sometimes you're around the wrong people.
00:59:33.000And you never get around those people.
00:59:35.000And then one day you're old as fuck and you realize you wasted your life doing shitty things that are boring, hanging around with assholes who have no social skills.
00:59:54.000That aspect of society, I really feel like it's a mismanaged resource issue.
00:59:59.000I think that human beings essentially, besides being life, and besides being our brothers and sisters in the community of the world, we're also a resource.
01:00:12.000I've always said, if this country was smart, instead of spending all this money fucking with people in other countries, you want to build up, do you want to figure out how to make this country strong?
01:00:22.000It's not by suppressing the people inside of it or controlling natural resources.
01:00:29.000It's by making it so that there's the smallest amount of losers possible.
01:00:51.000They went to like the poorest neighborhoods and they went to families with young kids and they gave them one brightly colored toy and that was it.
01:01:00.000And then they tracked the results like 15 and 20 years later and there was a noticeable IQ difference and like a life success difference from the kids who got just a little bit more mental stimulation from having something like childlike to play with instead of just playing in squalor basically.
01:01:14.000It doesn't take that much to move the needle in a big way.
01:01:17.000And I think also just giving them something is also, it gives them like this feeling like someone did something nice to me.
01:01:34.000I honestly didn't think when I was a kid, I mean, I didn't grow up wealthy or particularly poor, call it middle class, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, actually, home of breaking bad.
01:01:45.000And I did not know that it was normal to expect people to help you.
01:01:49.000I seriously just, that wasn't part of the way I thought the world worked.
01:01:52.000And I didn't figure that out until I was in my mid-20s.
01:01:55.000So like now I'm like, it's pretty easy to pay for the toll for the guy behind you or buy a cup of coffee for someone else the way people do at Starbucks.
01:03:30.000But your prefrontal cortex isn't done until you're 23, maybe even 25.
01:03:35.000So what about like the development that happens in your 20s when you realize around like 23, like, oh, I probably can't drink every night of the week because I'm, you know, not holding up as well as I'd like.
01:04:05.000Yeah, and we don't even pay attention to them before they even turn 18.
01:04:09.000Once they start talking back, we just fucking, you're on your own, fuckface.
01:04:12.000You know, I think, and it's once a kid is on a path too, like if a kid is on a path to becoming an electrical engineer or on a path to, it's very difficult to jump off of a path that you've already started.
01:04:24.000That's one of the hardest things to do in life.
01:04:26.000When you already have some momentum and success, it makes it actually even harder.
01:04:30.000And it should reaffirm, like, if you've been successful at this, you could be successful at anything.
01:04:36.000But most people don't think like that.
01:04:38.000They think, well, hey, this is X is my specialty.
01:04:41.000If I decide that Y is my real love, I'm going to start from scratch.
01:04:46.000You know, I don't want to tell my, I don't want to, you know, I'm competing with my colleagues.
01:04:49.000I don't want to all of a sudden be back to square one and these guys are at step seven or eight.
01:04:54.000It's like you're on a train and your train's moving and you can jump off, but if you do, you got to go all the way the fuck back, and then you got to go in another direction.
01:05:05.000It's like you're not just starting from scratch, you have to run all the way back and start from scratch.
01:05:12.000Part of the problem here is there's so much regulation now, all these professional trade organizations that make it damn near impossible for someone who's sincerely interested in doing a new career to enter the career.
01:05:25.000Whether you want to be a plumber, like try and just go out there and say, you know, I read all the books, I learned all this stuff.
01:05:30.000By the time you do all the things, you're going to have invested years and a ton of money just to be allowed to go into someone's house and put a wrench on a pipe by yourself.
01:05:38.000And the same thing goes if you want to do some sort of quasi-medical, like physical therapist.
01:05:43.000The line between a really good functional movement trainer and a physical therapist is pretty blurry in my experience.
01:05:50.000Yet one group has like severe restrictions on who can call themselves that and very rigid requirements for what it takes.
01:05:57.000And the other group may have similar skills, but they're not even allowed to talk about some of what they do.
01:06:01.000So I'd like to see a little bit more fluidity around people's careers because maybe we say, all right, this guy's certified, but this guy is doing similar things.
01:06:21.000Well, I think that it's just unfortunate that a lot of folks get on a path that they're not actually enjoying.
01:06:28.000And I think a lot of times you're getting advice from parents or friends or girlfriends or boyfriends where they're, you know, say, hey, this is the safer bet.
01:06:36.000This is the more likely scenario for success.
01:07:27.000I was never going to be able to work in an office.
01:07:28.000I never even thought it was ever a possibility.
01:07:32.000Like when I was in high school, my number one thing was, I have to get the fuck out of here.
01:07:37.000And then once I'm out of here, now I can figure this out for myself.
01:07:40.000But whatever it is that allows you to think that that's good and think that that's preparing you for something that you actually want to do, ooh, I got to not allow that in my brain.
01:07:50.000I just knew that those people that were teaching those classes were so unhappy.
01:07:55.000Public school, the one good thing about it sucking so hard is that it makes you analyze these poor fucks that are teaching you.
01:08:02.000You know, if you have a really incompetent professor, it makes you analyze these poor dummies that are no motivation, not getting paid well, and they're not doing a good job of it either.
01:08:15.000They don't take any pride in their work.
01:08:16.000It's almost like if you wanted to go all Alex Jonesy, it's almost like they designed it to make sure that there's a certain amount of losers.
01:08:23.000There's always going to be a certain amount of people that are willing to take crappy jobs because they have no skills, because it just made education really fucking terrible.
01:08:32.000Well, there's a bunch of people who go into teaching because they just genuinely want to help kids.
01:08:45.000So they go to all this, and what do they get as a reward for all their college and all their extra training credentials?
01:08:50.000They get a job that pays them like $30,000 a year with 42 kids in the room, including some who have special needs who they just couldn't fit in the other classroom.
01:08:58.000I taught eighth graders for a couple days using Junior Achievement, this nonprofit that lets professional people come in and just teach.
01:09:07.000And I did this in East Palo Alto a while back, which is a really poor part of the Bay Area, like probably the poorest part of the Bay Area around there.
01:09:17.000It's like one side of the freeway is Stanford University, five and $10 million homes.
01:09:22.000You go across the road, there's dirt roads and like gunfire.
01:09:24.000And it's literally the freeway cuts it down the middle.
01:09:29.000And so I'm there and I'm volunteering to teach in this class.
01:09:32.000And I just remember I'm usually pretty good in front of a classroom.
01:09:35.000I taught at the University of California, so I'm a trained teacher.
01:09:38.000And it was so hard because there were two kids there who didn't belong in that class because their brains were tweaked.
01:09:43.000Like they were seriously unable to hear the answer to the question.
01:09:47.000So they would just interrupt constantly.
01:09:49.000And I just looked at the rest of the kids there and they're just sitting there kind of glazed over because they're getting nothing from this.
01:09:53.000And I talked to the teacher afterwards and he's like, there's nothing I can do.
01:09:56.000And this guy was one of those really good, just warm-hearted, nice guys who was teaching in a neighborhood he didn't have to teach in because that was where he could make the most good.
01:10:04.000And like, we need to pay teachers more and we need to make public schools better.
01:10:07.000That's one way to make the whole place more peaceful.
01:10:10.000Yeah, that's why I was saying it's almost Alex Jonesy.
01:10:12.000It's like by charging or by paying them $35,000 a year, you're ensuring they're going to suck at their job, a good percentage of them.
01:10:19.000And you'll drive away some of the most passionate ones because on top of that, they have all the bureaucracy and lawsuits and just rigmarole of working for kind of an ancient government.
01:10:29.000I'm not actually implying that it is some sort of a conspiracy as to why the schools suck.
01:10:36.000I think it's simply a matter of they can get away with not paying.
01:10:39.000I think they can cut resources in that area and then get away with it.
01:10:42.000I think it's just one of those things that people cut.
01:10:45.000And I think it's more of an economic matter than anything.
01:10:50.000I don't think it's a big grand conspiracy.
01:10:52.000But that's one of the reasons why people do think it's a conspiracy.
01:10:55.000I mean, if you did want to look at the effects of not having a properly motivated group of teachers teaching children, I mean, that's the effects of a terrible education.
01:11:04.000I looked at the cost of sending my kids in the Bay Area just to kindergarten in a private mid-tier school.
01:11:12.000It was going to cost $40,000 a year for two kids post-tax.
01:11:16.000Like, that's university level, but that's because private schools are too much.
01:14:54.000Yeah, I think when you're like a tiny little baby and like a two-year-old, cities are probably not that good for you.
01:14:59.000So that's one of the reasons I'm like, all right, you know, I'm going to maintain my connections with all my friends, and I spend a lot of time traveling and all.
01:15:06.000But at the same time, I know like when I go home, there's trees and everything.
01:15:43.000The areas of mass population are the weirdest ones.
01:15:48.000The areas like Los Angeles or New York, those are the weirdest things to try to manage because you see them and you see all these people packed into this area and you just go, there's no way you're going to be able to move around quickly.
01:16:01.000There's no way you're going to get into midtown Manhattan at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, shoot across town to the other side to meet your friend.
01:18:00.000When I went up, I spent a week fishing with him.
01:18:03.000He owned this 100-year-old cannery, like right on Cook's Cove, and you had to get there by boat, so it was totally isolated.
01:18:10.000And once a week, for like a half hour, he would plug this string of duct tape batteries into his mobile phone, and that was his only communication with people.
01:19:21.000So he flew out here in a plane and he stepped out in a three-piece suit into the surf from the float plane and took one look at me wearing my fish guts and all and said, oh, I'm sorry, sir.
01:21:16.000They say people that live in those communities and they're living off the land, they say they're like the happiest people, no mental health issues.
01:21:24.000That's the way our dumb bodies are designed.
01:21:27.000Our dumb bodies are designed to live as our ancestors lived.
01:21:29.000And this life that we live now with Wi-Fi connections and all this nuttiness is just too fucking complicated for us.
01:21:36.000You know, I asked on Facebook, I said, hey, I'm going to go talk with Joe.
01:22:53.000So I was sitting in a tub of ice water, like up to my neck, and it feels like you're going to die for about three minutes.
01:23:00.000And then all of a sudden your whole body like gives up and you just like get all these endorphins and you just feel like amazing and relaxed.
01:23:06.000And right when you're about to start shivering, you get out and you just burn massive calories and like you look better the next morning.
01:23:37.000It turns out that we've done the science and the faster you can make the skin cold, the better the anti-inflammatory response.
01:23:45.000So they have like liquid nitrogen and they like blast you with it for just a very short period of time and the skin starts making the anti-inflammatory things and you get the response you're looking for, but it doesn't take much time and you don't like freeze your ass off like you do when I'm sitting in that tub of ice water, just dropping my body temperature until my skin is like 45 degrees and you get out.
01:24:04.000And so when you do that, like if you do an ice bath after hard training, a lot of MMA fighters love to do that.
01:24:18.000There's all these different cytokines that are tied to inflammation in the body.
01:24:22.000And when you do that, it uses what's probably an evolutionary pathway for survival in people.
01:24:28.000I don't think we're certain why it works.
01:24:29.000That's one Hypothesis about it, but when you do that, it just turns off inflammation.
01:24:34.000So, if you had a really heavy workout or hard fight and you do that, it stops the inflammation.
01:24:38.000And, like you said earlier in our talk today, inflammation is at the root of most chronic diseases, and that's why you target inflammation every which way you can.
01:24:48.000And cold therapy, if you've got the time to do it, is a very legitimate thing to do.
01:24:53.000The problem is that fast cold therapy thing, I just checked, they're like $60,000.
01:24:58.000It's like more than a really high-end float tank.
01:24:59.000So, if you want to outfit your house with all the badass biohacking stuff, you're going to be throwing out some coin.
01:25:11.000It's pretty much like flashy with liquid nitrogen.
01:25:13.000It's not liquid, it's gas, but it's super chilled air, like really cold.
01:25:16.000Cold enough that if you stayed in it for a minute or two, however long is too long, it would give you frostbite.
01:25:22.000So you want to tell your body, frostbite is coming, and it causes physiological change, but then you don't let the frostbite come, so then you don't get the damage that would come from being too cold.
01:25:53.000I just chatted with Jack Cruz, who's one of the neurosurgeons who's done a lot of work on this, including like surgery without anesthetics afterwards, without painkillers, using just ice, and all this crazy stuff, including like massive weight loss with ice.
01:26:07.000So there's definitely guys who know about that, but in all the research I've seen and all the people I've talked to, I've never seen a comparison of the two techniques other than one is faster and it costs more, but it takes less time.
01:26:18.000It's very confusing for athletes when you hear all the different schools of thought when it comes to healing.
01:26:23.000I mean, I've actually heard people say you should never ice things because then, you know, the body's natural healing is retarded by the ice.
01:26:32.000And then when your body's swelling up and heating up, it's because your body's trying to fix whatever issue it has.
01:26:39.000I don't buy that because I've heard all the arguments against that.
01:26:42.000But I'm fascinated by the fact that there's people who are quote-unquote experts or so-called experts who will tell you that.
01:26:49.000And there's other people that will tell you the total opposite of that.
01:26:52.000That's why being a human guinea pig and this whole quantified self thing really matters.
01:26:57.000There's a lot of stuff that makes a lot of sense on its face.
01:26:59.000And you look at it and go, oh, it must make sense.
01:27:11.000And if you try it and you lose 25 pounds and gain 30 and lose 30 pounds and gain 40 and you do that over and over until you're a fat ass, at one point you're going to figure out that that is not a way to be healthy and thin and strong and to feel good.
01:27:24.000But the problem is not that people are idiots.
01:27:26.000It's that the assumption made a lot of sense.
01:27:30.000And instead of looking at the data, we look at what should work.
01:27:32.000And then if it didn't work, it's because we didn't do it right or we didn't try hard enough.
01:27:36.000And that little trap gets us on all kinds of things that seem like a good idea on their face.
01:27:40.000I'd even say like the whole vegan approach.
01:27:43.000It sounds like a good idea to be a raw vegan because you get enzymes and you get all these other things.
01:27:48.000But I know a lot of people who got really sick, including me, from being a raw vegan, because of the anti-nutrients that were in the raw vegetables we were eating.
01:27:55.000We didn't inactivate the vegetable defense systems.
01:27:58.000So it's great to have a hypothesis and to test it.
01:28:01.000But if you don't get the data, you don't look at how you're doing and see if it worked, then if you're a pro-athlete or not, especially then you should be getting the numbers.
01:28:10.000Yeah, it's one of the more fascinating aspects of professional athletics, even if you're not into watching sports, is the leaps and bounds they're making as far as recovery and nutrition and finding out what helps the body perform in a certain way.
01:28:26.000And by doing that, you know, it's sort of just like the trickle-down that you get from cars, car companies investing in race cars.
01:28:34.000And then, you know, they develop better brakes for commercial vehicles, for commercial cars, for pedestrian or rather civilian cars, as opposed to the professional race car driver cars.
01:28:46.000But those really high-level engineered cars, whether it's BMW or Porsche, all that stuff trickles down to the regular cars that consumers buy.
01:28:55.000I kind of liked it when you had Victor Conte on, because when I look at the pro athletes who are cheating, I want to know what they're doing.
01:29:02.000I'd rather that they weren't cheating.
01:29:04.000I'd rather that they were free to tell people the techniques they were doing because it seems like the techniques that we're using at the very edges of human performance, whether it's military or pro-athletes, that those should be trickling through into the medical profession.
01:29:17.000And we have a break there where a lot of times what they're doing is kind of like hidden or it's not talked about.
01:29:22.000But rapid recovery for a pro-athlete ought to be able to make my grandmother heal better too.
01:29:33.000And the leaps and bounds they've made in recognizing what benefits recovery, what doesn't, diet that benefits recovery, what nutrients you need, how important is protein, how important is this, what vitamins are good for you?
01:29:50.000A lot of that is coming from that science of performance athletics because they're just looking for these tiny, tiny edges everywhere.
01:30:38.000It's like they're going for 12 and 14 hours.
01:30:41.000And I just literally got a text message before this, but JC Tran, who's in the World Poker Championships, I think actually happening right after this, he's totally on Bulletproof Coffee.
01:30:54.000But JC's actually, I just literally found out he's going to be wearing a bulletproof patch, and I'm grateful For that, because it wasn't planned.
01:31:09.000But it's one of those things where I look at those guys, and I've actually done brain training with Nam Lei, who's another one of these guys.
01:31:17.000And they're some of the most dedicated cognitive athletes of anyone I can find.
01:31:21.000Like, you have students and all, but that's not the same thing.
01:31:24.000Like, where do you go to get the pro-athlete perspective on performance improvement, but to get it for people who want to pay attention all the time and think about stuff all the time?
01:31:34.000Is there a better place you can think of than pro-poker?
01:31:37.000No, I think those guys are probably, if you want, someone whose job relies on being clever and thinking many levels, pro-chess would be the only other people.
01:31:48.000What studies have ever been done, or have there been any done, that has anybody, even in personal studies, with bulletproof coffee and cognition or anything along those lines?
01:32:00.000So there's a study, and I think my guys are probably ready to put up the summary graph from it, where we recruited 54 people.
01:32:08.000We got an institutional review board approval for the study, like basically from the powers that be that say you're allowed to experiment on humans.
01:32:17.000And we had them go through a period of drinking basically mass market coffee from the corner coffee shop versus drinking upgraded coffee, just black coffee versus black coffee.
01:32:28.000And they did a battery of cognitive tests straight from like psychology research.
01:32:44.000Of the things we measured, there was a very substantial difference between the bulletproof coffee versus non-bulletproof.
01:32:52.000And this wasn't testing it with the upgraded MCT or even better yet, the brain octane stuff.
01:32:57.000This was just black coffee versus black coffee, then coffee with butter versus coffee with butter.
01:33:02.000And it was interesting, butter actually had a negative response on one of the five, one of the seven, I guess, measures of cognitive function that we were looking at.
01:33:10.000So this is a, it's pretty darn legitimate for like a small company.
01:33:14.000Like we funded this ourselves, and it wasn't, it's not a perfect study, but it doesn't look like there's a placebo effect because butter was supposed to be positive, but it was pretty much neutral with one negative.
01:33:24.000So we're going to be putting this stuff up, but there's like more of the write-up that has to happen in order for it to be like an accepted paper and all that.
01:33:31.000Now, as far as the negative impacts, you attribute the negative impacts of these other people drinking other coffee.
01:33:59.000And I know very well when coffee has it because I feel like a zombie.
01:34:03.000And 28% of the population has the same genes I do that make them more susceptible to mold.
01:34:08.000It's in the HLA part of your genetic code.
01:34:10.000And it's how you respond to clotting and how you respond to infection.
01:34:15.000So I have like a hyperactive immune response, which protects me.
01:34:19.000If I was like a rogue invader in Europe, I'm well designed to get cut by a sword, shot by an arrow, and then go invade your town and not get sick.
01:34:26.000The problem is if I'm like breathing toxic mold all the time or drinking it in my coffee, it's a chronic low-level exposure, but my body thinks I'm being attacked.
01:34:35.000I get sticky blood and I get chronic inflammation that won't turn off.
01:34:39.000And that's one of the reasons that I'm sensitive to these things and I can feel them.
01:34:43.000And then I went out and I did the work to quantify it.
01:34:45.000So mold toxins are one of them, but there's hundreds of mold toxins.
01:34:49.000So I went through and I identified which ones are causing this problem the most and I test for those.
01:34:54.000And I talk about ocratoxin, I talk about aflatoxin, like the main ones, but there's other ones that are in some strains of coffee that aren't in others.
01:35:01.000And then there's other things called biogenic amines.
01:35:04.000So when you quantify all that stuff, when you get the numbers right and get them far lower than even the European standards, you end up with some interesting effects from the coffee that just don't come out because most coffee has some good and some bad in it.
01:35:17.000So like this is, A, I wanted to drink coffee.
01:35:20.000I gave up coffee for five years because it was messing with my head.
01:35:24.000It's a legitimate scientific exploration on my part, partly because I wanted to drink good coffee, but also because like this is what I do.
01:35:32.000Like this fascinates me and interests me.
01:35:34.000And I did not expect the effects to be this big, especially on other people, but they're real.
01:35:37.000And that study and what people say, I'm very sure of it.
01:35:41.000It does make sense if there are toxins on coffee and those toxins are bad for you, that that would have a negative impact on cognitive function.
01:35:50.000But my question is, what are you doing different?
01:35:54.000Like when you say the bulletproof method, what the fuck does that mean, man?
01:35:58.000The problem is, like, you've got to tell people what you do that makes sense so that they understand how you can actually remove toxins.
01:36:06.000Because the one piece of criticism that I hear all the time is like, how do you know that your coffee doesn't have mycotoxins in it and what is the method for preventing it?
01:36:17.000So how I know is I send it through a medical, not medical, we'll call it an analytical laboratory.
01:36:54.000And what's happening is there's old world, like they call it second wave coffee, like the original kind of Starbucks and Pete's coffee and these kind of, even before them, the Folgers and just the normal coffee companies that have been selling coffee for a long time.
01:37:09.000They typically look at economics and then we started looking at flavor with the Starbucks.
01:37:14.000And you have third wave coffee guys who I greatly respect as coffee artisans.
01:37:18.000And these are like the modern, cool coffee shops where they roast their own beans.
01:37:22.000And, you know, it was carefully selected by this.
01:37:24.000And what the first round of people did is they said, how do I make coffee cheap and widely available and good enough To make a profit.
01:38:44.000But the Arabica plants that we rely on to make good coffee are particularly susceptible.
01:38:49.000And shade-grown coffee doesn't get it because it has a protective fungal biome in the soil, which is something I look for, by the way.
01:38:56.000So when you have a fungus that protects coffee from rust, it's likely to survive.
01:39:01.000But when you go out to, say, sun-grown coffee, which we do to increase production, there isn't this other fungus in the soil, so then the rust can just run rampant.
01:39:11.000So when we clear the forest, when we plant coffee in an industrial way, it increases the odds of bad fungus moving in.
01:39:17.000And then there's a whole part of processing the coffee, where there's different techniques and different tweaks you can make in the coffee processing in order to influence the cost, the amount of time, the amount of materials required to process the coffee.
01:39:29.000And I looked at that and said, I'm not trying to save money, and I'm not trying to create the world's most flavorful coffee possible.
01:39:35.000I'm trying to create high-performance coffee.
01:39:37.000And it turns out it tastes pretty darn good.
01:39:39.000I've had Cup of Excellence winning coffee, which is so phenomenally delicious.
01:40:28.000They're just a big coffee company whose numbers I know.
01:40:30.000They have $816 million worth of coffee in inventory right now.
01:40:35.000So in order to get an adequate sample size for $816 million worth of coffee, I am a very small company, and I spend tens of thousands of dollars on quantifying the coffee in order to get the bulletproof process where it is.
01:42:27.000And I sold them to 12 countries over the internet.
01:42:30.000And that was like, you know, ended up getting me an entrepreneur magazine.
01:42:33.000So I've been a coffee guy since I was a kid.
01:42:35.000I had to give up coffee for five years because I would drink it and I would get like a headache and I would get sore joints and I would just feel like, I'd drink it and I'd feel great and I'd crash and I'd feel like crap.
01:42:44.000And what happened is I was getting autoimmune things because the toxic molds that grow in coffee cross-react with gluten.
01:42:50.000That's a big problem because I'm gluten sensitive.
01:42:52.000So what happened is I just gave up coffee and it made me sad.
01:42:55.000And then I would drink a cup of coffee and I'd feel great.
01:42:57.000And the next day I'd drink another cup of coffee and I'd feel like a zombie.
01:43:29.000And I'm not ultra sensitive to it, but there's a difference between the way I feel when I drink bulletproof coffee and the way I feel when I drink regular coffee.
01:43:36.000But what other coffees are okay to drink?
01:43:39.000Like how do you know what's okay to drink and what's not okay to drink?
01:43:42.000You can get better odds by going to any coffee shop where there's lots of guys or girls with tattoos, piercings, and mohawks, right?
01:43:53.000Well, because people who are coffee people, and I count myself very enthusiastically amongst them, they're people who Are obsessive about it.
01:44:01.000And if you go to a coffee shop like that, they're paying more attention to sourcing.
01:44:07.000Now, I would very happily have just gone to the local, and you know, in the Bay Area, you can get lots of artisanal coffee shops.
01:44:15.000You go to New York, you go to any big city.
01:44:18.000There's a hundred guys competing to say, you know, my roaster is the shiniest and my beans come from Juan Valdez's great-grandson and all this stuff, right?
01:44:26.000The problem is that the reliability isn't there.
01:44:28.000And like, I'm not going to name names because it's a community.
01:44:32.000I've been to some of the coolest, most amazing coffee shops in big cities, and I've come out of there drinking single estate, Central American, and it is not clean coffee.
01:45:52.000It would be I'd have to do some work on understanding how you preserve a coffee sample to send it into an analytical lab so you don't get like a breakdown over time.
01:46:02.000Even one hour after you brew coffee, it changes chemically quite a lot.
01:46:06.000So I have no idea what the breakdown of mold toxins is over time in post-brewed coffee.
01:46:12.000We have good data about whether brewing takes out the toxins.
01:46:16.000And there's one study that says it takes out most of it, but all of the other studies say at least half, and some say upwards of about 80% remain.
01:46:24.000And it's pretty well known that ocratoxin is a heat-stable toxin.
01:46:27.000And that's just one of the ones we're testing.
01:46:29.000Now, has anybody at any of these large chains, we don't want to mention any names, has anybody contacted you?
01:46:35.000Has anybody said, hey, we're interested in what you figured out, and we would like to apply that method to our beans or whatever?
01:47:53.000I thought about piercing myself just so I could fit in better.
01:47:56.000But I mean, seriously, Joe, I go to high-end coffee shops and I marvel at the cool stuff they're creating and the cool vibe and the community and the culture.
01:48:04.000And I'm not trying to dump on that stuff.
01:48:05.000I'm just saying that if I want to feel at my very best, I literally...
01:48:27.000There is a denial there where they say, yeah, that's all BS.
01:48:32.000But when I talk to some of the guys who have been working with coffee for 25 and 30 years, they will tell me flat out, yeah, we know about this problem.
01:48:42.000Well, wasn't that on that show, Dangerous Grounds?
01:48:45.000Wasn't that something that they covered?
01:49:03.000It's not, at least I have it on my Kindle, so I can't tell you if it's picturesque or not.
01:49:08.000But it's the whole history of the coffee business going all the way back.
01:49:11.000And coffee has fueled South American dictators and Central American genocide.
01:49:17.000It has changed the shape of economics and food marketing.
01:49:21.000It's an amazing thing to read and understand.
01:49:24.000And you can sort of see how the use of coffee has changed, but people don't know.
01:49:29.000The Revolutionary War and the Civil War were totally coffee powered and they were a strategic asset.
01:49:33.000And the reason that your parents drink watery coffee is because there was a spike in coffee pricing.
01:49:39.000So the coffee marketing companies, the really big ones like Chase and Sanborn, they got together and they're like, let's convince people to use less coffee per cup and tell them it's the same so we can still charge more for less coffee.
01:49:49.000That's why you have three quarters of a pound of beans in a bag.
01:50:00.000Now, do you think that the transition during the Boston Tea Party thing, transition from tea to coffee, had anything to do with the way the direction this country went?
01:50:10.000Why there's so many fucking psychos here?
01:50:29.000You could argue That, but the Enlightenment in Europe was all about coffee.
01:50:33.000These people met and did all this, like, like the creation of science.
01:50:37.000They were doing it at coffee houses drinking coffee, and the government was trying to shut down coffee houses, and they did it a few times because all the basically revolutionaries were gathering in coffee houses.
01:50:45.000So then they come over here, they start drinking even more coffee, which they did in early America, quite a lot of coffee.
01:51:24.000If you were to go to any of the mass market coffee companies, I mean, they're blending coffee from all over the place in ginormous amounts of it.
01:51:32.000Your odds of getting something that's super clean are like 5% or 10%, if even that.
01:52:51.000And this is really cool because the whole focus on avoiding anti-nutrients, all plants don't want to get eaten by animals.
01:53:00.000The only plants that want to get eaten are the ones where you're supposed to poop the seeds out to fertilize them.
01:53:04.000The rest of plants protect themselves.
01:53:06.000So coffee doesn't want to get mold growing on it.
01:53:09.000So caffeine is an antifungal agent that the coffee bean itself uses to keep molds from eating it because there's so much pressure to eat it.
01:53:17.000There's also these other things called diterpenes that are in coffee, like cafestrol and cowhol.
01:53:21.000And those are there for the same thing.
01:53:23.000And those different things have other effects on the human body.
01:53:27.000So positive effects, in fact, if you look at the effects of phenol on health, well, these diterpenes are phenols.
01:53:34.000There's a lot of polyphenols in coffee, more so than in chocolate, more than in red wine.
01:53:39.000So when you look at all these, those are there to protect the plant from fungal, biological, insect, and animal predators.
01:53:47.000It just so happens that that one toxin that's made, that protects the bean from mold, caffeine, it has a positive effect on us.
01:54:06.000So would you take the world's best, most like prize-winning beans and send them through a process that removes their flavor?
01:54:12.000No, you take the moldiest, crappiest, lowest quality, lowest grade beans and you decaf those because people who drink decaf don't drink it for flavor.
01:54:20.000If they did, they wouldn't drink decaf.
01:54:30.000She kind of does it for the taste, I guess.
01:54:31.000I made my decaf beans because of people like that.
01:54:35.000There's good studies that show decaf does good things for you.
01:54:39.000And so it's a very small percentage of people, but the way I did it is I took bulletproof beans and I send them right over the border to the one place on earth where you can do Swiss water process, which is in Vancouver, and send them back over the border to Portland, where my roastery is.
01:54:56.000And it's the best decaf I can make, and it's clean, but it still doesn't taste good.
01:55:26.000I mean, just it's a thing that you can use to dissolve the caffeine out of the coffee.
01:55:32.000So it turns out chemical process decaf tastes a little better than Swiss water process, but it has residues from the solvents that they use.
01:55:54.000Corn, like 90 to 98% of corn is infected with fusarium fungus on the stalk.
01:56:00.000It actually comes in through those little tassels on the end of it.
01:56:03.000So by the time you get it, there's already some in there.
01:56:05.000It'll grow in fresh corn on the cob if it's not iced right after you pick it.
01:56:09.000But if you dry the corn, I mean, there's humidity levels, there's different amounts of things like that that influence this.
01:56:15.000But dried corn is universally something that's going to have levels of fusarium and the associated toxins it makes.
01:56:21.000And depending on the strain of fusarium, you can get trichostine, you can get ocratoxin, or you can get fusaricin, which is another toxin.
01:56:28.000You don't need to memorize all these names, but you should know that dried corn, even like the vegan dried corn, you know, tortilla chips or whatever, are a potential risk.
01:56:50.000And the main argument for avoiding these things is that we evolved to handle eating something bad, right?
01:56:57.000You throw up, you feel crappy, you might get headache, you might get sick, and then you recover, you excrete the toxins, and you go on and you kill the next animal, you pick the next tuber, and that's how it works.
01:57:07.000But we never were meant to eat a low level of these toxins every single day and every single meal.
01:57:14.000It creates low-grade chronic stress, which leads to low-grade chronic inflammation.
01:57:18.000And the level of safety for okra toxin, just one of these toxins that the European Union has for their citizens, is five parts per billion.
01:57:29.000You're not going to see mold on your coffee.
01:57:35.000It's not because they're smoking crack.
01:57:38.000It's because that's a level where you start seeing a problem.
01:57:41.000Here's one way to know that you got, this is like the poor man's mold detector test for your coffee.
01:57:46.000If you drink a cup of coffee and you have to pee soon after you drink it and your pee is clear, that's a really good sign that you got mold toxins.
01:58:46.000Well, so fructose is one of those things that causes advanced glycation end products in the body.
01:58:51.000It's one of the most damaging sugars to deal with.
01:58:53.000So your body really wants to flush toxins out as fast as it can.
01:58:56.000So whenever you have something that makes you have to pee and pee clear, as long as you haven't been like chugging gallons and gallons of water just to dilute your pee that way, what's going on there is your body pulled hydration, pulled water out of your tissues, put it into your kidneys and bladder so it could reduce the concentration.
01:59:12.000You want to dilute the toxin as much as possible and then pee it out as soon as possible.
01:59:16.000So what you'll find when you pee and it's clear, you're not peeing like two gallons of water.
01:59:22.000It's your body saying excrete the toxins faster, excrete them faster.
01:59:25.000And if you just look at the color of your pee, how often you pee and the volume of your pee, you can pretty much tell whether you had toxins in the previous several hours.
01:59:33.000So you think that it's actually the fructose that's making people pee when they drink redose?
01:59:37.000Fructose does make you have to pee more.
02:00:33.000And there's some seasonal effects there too, like especially in pork.
02:00:35.000So you get all this stuff stacked up, and then you're like, okay, I ate this meal.
02:00:38.000End of the day, was the meat deep-fried or not?
02:00:41.000All of those have different heterocyclic amines, acrylamide, all these things form.
02:00:45.000So your body's going to say, all right, taking all this stuff in as a total, including what was the ratio of protein versus fat and protein versus carbs, too much protein makes you have to pee more to get that out too.
02:00:55.000So it's going to do all that and it's going to do something.
02:00:57.000But if you eat a meal of just corn or just corn and a couple things like corn and butter, you know butter doesn't make you have to pee, you may notice a difference.
02:01:05.000There's probably also some individual sensitivities there around like allergies to corn and zine and whether the corn is genetically modified or not.
02:01:12.000But the main point is that if you have to pee urgently, look at what you just did in the previous half hour to two hours maybe, and you're very likely to say, wait, there's something in there that was different than the time before because it's not normal to go, I have to pee right now.
02:01:25.000If you're getting that, there's something going on in your body and your body's saying, get this crap out of here.
02:01:53.000Does it taste just as good as if it was fresh?
02:01:55.000It depends how you're going to cook it.
02:01:57.000One of my favorite ways of doing corn is you get fresh organic corn that was literally picked the day before, hopefully packed in crushed ice.
02:02:03.000Like that's what the farmer's market should be doing when they bring that stuff in.
02:02:07.000And then you take that, you just toss it on the grill and like let it steam inside the husk.
02:02:16.000But if that same stuff was two or three days old, like it might be in the grocery store, and the outside's a little bit kind of crinkled looking and a little gray, I actually noticed a big difference from that.
02:02:27.000But if I feel a huge difference, there's a difference in the toxin level.
02:02:30.000And what I'm learning in the course of just writing this and having all these people come to the website and share experiences there, they're noticing the same things.
02:02:41.000Like, wow, I got really tired after that meal and I don't normally get really tired.
02:03:22.000Do you ever think there's going to be a time where this is applied stuff?
02:03:25.000Like this is going to be, right now this is a pretty fringe conversation as far as like the mainstream ideas of health and nutrition.
02:03:32.000If you talk to a food safety scientist, you talk to CDC, you talk to FDA, they have mold toxin, they have salmonella, they have E. coli, and they have specialists who are tracking all this stuff.
02:03:42.000The problem is that testing is spotty.
02:03:50.000Like those bins where you're storing stuff in the bulk section at the grocery store, how often are those bins cleaned out?
02:03:56.000Because a lot of this contamination happens.
02:03:58.000If you test it after it's picked, it's pretty clean.
02:04:00.000You put it in a dirty silo during storage before it's packaged up in that organic store where you go to, it's going to pick up mold spores there and they're going to keep growing on the dried stuff unless you controlled humidity and temperature.
02:04:11.000And not a lot of times do people do that.
02:04:13.000So it's just a really complex supply chain.
02:04:15.000And the bottom line is fresh local food avoids this problem entirely.
02:04:19.000This is one of the reasons the industrialization of our food supply is creating more chronic stress in people.
02:04:32.000People get liver cancer from aflatoxin.
02:04:33.000They test aflatoxin in peanut butter because it was such a problem.
02:04:37.000The problem is that there's a difference between it killed you and it knocked you down for a week and you went to the hospital and I had a crappy day.
02:04:45.000Have you talked to somebody who has mold in their house, black mold in their house?
02:04:48.000I had black mold in my house at least two, actually more than two times.
02:05:20.000Your body uses vitamin C to make glutathione in the liver.
02:05:23.000Glutathione is the main detoxing enzyme there.
02:05:26.000Your body also uses vitamin C to make collagen in your tissues.
02:05:30.000Your arteries and veins are made out of collagen.
02:05:32.000So if you have to make a life and death decision biologically between detoxing the liver and building collagen, you will always choose protect the liver first because you can always make more collagen later.
02:05:42.000So I was shunting all my vitamin C. I didn't supplement back then.
02:05:45.000You know, I'm just a kid eating, you know, McDonald's.
02:05:48.000And so I would shunt whatever vitamin C was in my diet directly to my liver to help detox what I was breathing in.
02:05:53.000And it didn't help that I'm one of the 28% with the genes that don't handle mold, especially aerosol mold very well.
02:06:00.000And that's why I was getting bruising because I couldn't hold my blood in my nose or here, you know, just in my arms and legs.
02:06:06.000I just have all these bruises where I couldn't, I didn't like, I was playing soccer, but no one, you know.
02:06:10.000Sounds good, but I'm going with ghosts.
02:06:16.000Glutathion is one of the major cellular antioxidants in the body, and it's the thing that the liver uses for most of its detoxification.
02:06:24.000And a biochemist or a biologist is going to say, well, there's P450 pathways, blah, blah, blah.
02:06:28.000But basically, when you drink, you suck the glutathione out of your liver.
02:06:32.000And if you run out of glutathione, you start getting alcohol-induced liver damage.
02:06:36.000When you take Tylenol, it causes liver damage if it depletes your glutathione.
02:06:40.000So it's in your best interest to keep your cellular levels, your intracellular levels, and your liver levels of glutathione as high as you can so you can be more resilient in the face of toxins.
02:06:50.000And as a kid, I didn't have very good glutathione because I was taking all of my vitamin C and giving it to my liver because I lived in a basement with toxic mold, not knowing it, but I had all the asthma and ADD and a lot of these things that are directly tied to what I was breathing.
02:07:47.000I've been working out more on the vibe lately, so I've been increasing my protein intake to account for physical activity because I've decided I need to get my sense of proprioception, get my body lined up right, so I'm doing more work on it.
02:08:28.000So the upgraded glutathione that I make now uses a technique out of actually the pharmaceutical industry.
02:08:37.000And we encapsulate the glutathione molecule in phosphatidylcholine, which is basically a healthy form of the fat that insulates your nerves.
02:08:54.000And then we tie another molecule onto it called a lactopherin that your immune system loves.
02:08:58.000So when this hits the wall of your stomach, your stomach's like, oh yeah, and it sucks it right in, which raises the blood levels much higher than you can get via any other method that I've experimented with.
02:09:38.000I do things like collagen, like coffee, everything I can find on the planet that brings me back to above the level I've ever performed before.
02:09:45.000And like glutathione, understanding as a kid, I didn't have enough of it, and that affected my health, made me more aware of its role in the body today.
02:09:52.000So I could do the stuff that I'm doing now, which honestly, like, I take all my own stuff because it works for me.
02:09:59.000You know, A lot of people are skeptical about the possibilities that they're experiencing that much issue in their life because of toxins, because of things that are just naturally in the diet and a slow sort of leak of poison into your body.
02:10:18.000I never even thought about it that way.
02:10:20.000But if you have a house that has fucking black mold in it, that is exactly what it's like.
02:11:15.000And that's the other side of what I do with the supplements that I make.
02:11:20.000It's about increasing mitochondrial function.
02:11:22.000And if you have a fueling problem, an energy management problem in your body, and being fat is a great sign of that, you need to figure out why and you need to correct it.
02:11:31.000Because when your body works well, you shouldn't be fat.
02:11:34.000Have you noticed this trend where you're not supposed to bring up the fact that people are fat?
02:11:54.000It's just people trying to find some sort of an excuse for why they are the way they are and an excuse to continue to be the way they are without feeling any repercussions from socially from other people.
02:12:49.000She's celebrating the fact that she's thin.
02:12:51.000You know, and this fat shaming thing that people love to say now is it completely alleviates any responsibility you have for your own physical shape.
02:13:00.000It's like they want to take it out of the equation that social aspect of being fat, like there's a reason for it.
02:13:09.000The reason for it is it's not healthy for you.
02:13:11.000There's the girl, if you look at that picture up there.
02:13:16.000But there's a reason why that exists is because people see what you're doing and they don't like the way it looks on you because they're scared of it being on them.
02:13:25.000When someone sees a morbidly obese person, the reason why they're staring is not because they're trying to shame that person.
02:14:51.000If you show your six-pack, if you just pull that up like 15 minutes a month, bitch, boom, and show that six pack on Instagram, you're fat shaming.
02:15:01.000You could fucking work out every morning, an hour and a half a day, get yourself in shape, take a picture, and people would be angry because they didn't.
02:16:11.000And she was like, what's your excuse for not meeting your goals?
02:16:16.000I kind of get mad though when people say your excuse is that you're lazy and your excuse is that you didn't work out enough and you didn't diet enough.
02:16:32.000So it's really annoying when you get these people who are genetically gifted, have a good metabolism, and never got a chronic illness or whatever the heck works so they could basically look good without too much work.
02:16:43.000And they stand up there and say, you know, you didn't do enough of this.
02:16:46.000But when the fat people try and go for a jog, when you weigh 300 pounds, you try and go for a jog, it's destructive on your tissues.
02:16:51.000So you get all these fat people who are trying and just failing miserably and feeling bad about themselves because they did it because they got the wrong advice.
02:16:58.000Like that's why I started just putting some of this stuff up there.
02:17:03.000All that stuff I struggled with like for a lot of my life, it just isn't something I have to think about anymore.
02:17:09.000And it kind of upsets me when I see, you know, fat people who are feeling guilty and like fighting all their willpower on these cravings that they're just because like they're doing it wrong, but they don't know they're doing it wrong.
02:17:20.000So then they feel guilty and they get caught in all this emotional stuff.
02:17:24.000Yeah, it seems like there's got to be a way to get healthy food to people and make it a part of everyone's everyday diet.
02:17:34.000But then you start considering the numbers of people in Los Angeles.
02:17:37.000And if there's 20 million people getting everybody grass-bred beef and getting everybody MCT oil.
02:17:44.000They're going to have to take over some golf courses.
02:17:46.000We're going to have to put cows on them.
02:17:47.000Is that what they're going to have to do?
02:17:48.000You could feed an awful lot of cows on some of these crap.
02:17:50.000You're not going to stop people from golfing.
02:17:52.000There's too many rich dudes like golfing.
02:17:54.000There needs to be a fast food company that just takes over and just starts doing it because that's the biggest problem is people just need fast food.
02:18:00.000You know, they need fast food that's actually healthy.
02:18:04.000There's a guy from one of the early Whole Foods guys and some McDonald's guys got together and like they'll make something that's I'm forgetting the name of what they're trying to do, but they'll make something that's better than it was.
02:18:18.000No, probably not because we have to understand the core tenets of what makes us healthy and we have to understand those widely before there's demand for them.
02:18:26.000So the number one predictor for whether you're going to be obese or not is your income level.
02:18:31.000The poorer you are, the fatter you are.
02:19:21.000White male privilege is almost shameful.
02:19:24.000You know, it's almost shameful to have this white male privilege while people are star.
02:19:28.000It makes you feel like if someone talks about white male privilege, what do you think of?
02:19:34.000You think of someone being aloof to the concerns of brown people and poor people and racism and also aloof to the fact that they got super lucky.
02:19:45.000They got this lucky roll of the dice and were born in this way that allows them to be, I mean, if you think about white males, think about white males and you think about wealth.
02:19:57.000The majority of the super wealthy people are white males.
02:20:01.000The majority of the people that are in positions of power, whether it's presidents, mayors, white males.
02:20:06.000So that white male, being a white male and having that privilege is almost like being a pig.
02:20:34.000It's also alleviating themselves of personal responsibility and finding a new victim or a new culprit.
02:20:41.000And the culprit is not their own lack of self-respect or their own willpower or their own ability to discipline themselves or their own ability to educate themselves on proper nutrition.
02:20:55.000Now, instead, they'll concentrate on thin people having an ass that fits in an actual airplane seat and being able to squeeze on in an actual escalator.
02:21:06.000All of these things these fat fucks are complaining about and calling thin privilege.
02:21:10.000You've got to knock willpower out of that list.
02:21:12.000There is no lack of willpower in fat people.
02:21:20.000Willpower, there's a whole book about this now, and I'm, of course, forgetting the name of the author, but they actually show that there's so many decisions you can make.
02:21:29.000There's decision-making fatigue, and there's X amount of willpower, and you can apply that willpower to change the world, or you can apply that willpower to say no to the bowl of chips in front of you, right?
02:21:38.000And if you're a fat person and your energy reserves are low, and I say this from personal experience, the amount of willpower it takes to get up off the couch and walk across the street and do whatever you're going to do, it requires a hell of a lot more willpower than you would think it would as a healthy person because your cells aren't working.
02:21:55.000You don't have the energy and yet you get up and you do it.
02:21:57.000And every step you take is sapping your willpower in a way a healthy person doesn't have.
02:22:02.000So you're saying that even though willpower is sort of an individual characteristic and some people have it and some people don't, with fat people, it's almost like a catch-22 because although they need it to drop weight, they're not going to have it because they need it to just move around.
02:22:20.000Yeah, their energy levels are lower, so they have less willpower.
02:22:23.000And they're using the willpower to do simple things that are effortless for you, and it's not effortless for a fat person.
02:22:29.000That is such an interesting point and one that I really didn't consider.
02:22:32.000That's a very unique point because I never really considered that fat people, like, it's almost like they can't help themselves.
02:22:40.000It's almost like they're so, or it's so much more difficult for them to pass on shitty food than it is a regular person.
02:23:17.000If you're a fat person, that bagel is going to constantly sit there and go, eat me, eat me, eat me.
02:23:20.000And every time you say consciously, I'm not going to eat the bagel, you are spending your willpower wantonly.
02:23:26.000So every time you see an ad for Mars on TV, you know, Mars bars or whatever the heck the latest candy is, and you're like, God, I got a craving.
02:23:43.000You're wasting your willpower saying no to foods that are calling out to you in a biologically unnatural way because your energy systems are broken and you have less willpower than you should have had because your cells aren't functioning right.
02:24:23.000There's definitely a willpower component to it, but things like social support will increase the amount of willpower you have.
02:24:29.000Things like encouragement, and also things like dying or being disabled or finding a diabetic ulcer on your leg and your doctor telling you you're going to lose your leg if you don't work your ass out.
02:24:38.000That can temporarily increase willpower enough that you get your cellular energy kicked off.
02:24:42.000But what if you use that willpower and you go on a raw vegan diet?
02:24:46.000You might actually lose some weight, but you'll end up wrecking your health even more over the next probably one to two years.
02:24:52.000So what is missing from a raw vegan diet?
02:24:55.000What's missing from a raw vegan diet is saturated fat, and you can say you get it from coconut oil, but you don't get all of it from coconut oil.
02:25:03.000All those things that you find in the nice yellow rind of fat, the things you find in oysters, the things you find in liver, trace nutrients, iron, vitamin B12.
02:25:16.000Although I don't know where you're going to get vitamin D without relying on animal products unless you get the sunburned shiitake mushrooms is like one source.
02:25:26.000The only vegan vitamin D that we know how to make is to take shiitake, pick them, turn them over, and expose them to UV, and they make a small amount of vitamin D. So it's the only, otherwise you'd need to make it.
02:25:36.000How many shiitake do you have to eat to be healthy then?
02:26:10.000Is it true that my friend's lactose intolerant, and she recently told me that the ibuprofen that she has to take a lot recently put dairy inside of the ibuprofen, and she started getting really sick from it, and she found out that some ibuprofens have dairy as a filler almost.
02:26:29.000Yeah, they use lactose, the milk sugar.
02:26:31.000If you're lactose intolerant, that'll mess you up.
02:27:07.000Cross-react means there's an eight-amino acid sequence that's present in casein and in gluten and in certain species of toxic molds.
02:27:15.000So if your immune system, the memory B cells, get programmed to attack that eight amino acid sequence, you're going to see those foods as invaders and you're going to get a long, low-grade inflammatory response to them.
02:27:47.000And the question is, is it like a problem with the gut biome or is it an external environmental thing?
02:27:52.000And I can tell you that when we look at the studies of people's immune systems are attacking different parts of their bodies, there's definitely a problem with these anti-nutrients from foods and anti-nutrients from molds and other toxins in the environment.
02:28:09.000But let's talk more about this raw vegan thing.
02:28:35.000You just don't want it to crystallize in your blood.
02:28:38.000When I was a raw vegan, I certainly was getting the joint pain and some of the things that came from excess oxalic acid because I was like going crazy on the raw, like purple cabbage and kale.
02:28:47.000Actually, I really like that stuff, but I did find it was having an effect on me.
02:28:51.000And there's a whole class of these things called agglutinins.
02:28:57.000And the broader category is called lectins.
02:29:01.000And a lectin is yet again, I keep talking about these, it's something used in nature as a defense system.
02:29:07.000So our cells in our bodies use lectin, which is a protein that's attracted to a sugar.
02:29:11.000It's one of the many ways our cells communicate with each other.
02:29:14.000And it's particularly used for blood clotting and coagulation types of things.
02:29:20.000Lots of different plants use lectins as part of their defense mechanism.
02:29:24.000And you've heard of like ricin, you know, the breaking bad, that little thing.
02:29:30.000And a super tiny, tiny amount of that stuff is fatal.
02:29:35.000And even when we want to look at like what blood type you are, we take lectins that come from food things like beans, and we put a drop of lectin in your blood.
02:29:43.000And if your blood coagulates from this lectin, you're type O. If it if it coagulates from this lectin, you're type A. That's actually the test is using these things.
02:29:51.000So you can deactivate a lot of lectins by cooking them, but not all of them.
02:29:58.000And you can also go through and you can rinse them out.
02:30:02.000So like your grandmother, likely, if you ate beans, knew that you soak the beans overnight, you rinse them multiple times, you do all these steps.
02:30:31.000I felt great on it for about three months.
02:30:33.000What you can do is you can increase your food sensitivities dramatically because you end up cleaving holes in your gut based on the lectins you're eating.
02:30:40.000And it's interesting, some foods are higher in lectins than others, like the nightshade family, potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes, and bell peppers.
02:30:49.000And there's actually 200 other members of the family, like goji berries and things people don't usually think about.
02:32:50.000And a vegetarian one is a bigger advantage because if you're going to be vegetarian, you're probably not going to have that big of an issue with protein.
02:32:56.000I'm a fan of moderate protein unless you're lifting heavy or you're doing some sort of really intense exercise.
02:33:01.000You need more to replace what you damaged.
02:33:03.000You know, gorillas eat a ton of celery and stuff, and they get reasonable amounts of density here.
02:33:08.000But what you're missing there on a vegan diet is the saturated fat, the butter.
02:33:13.000You really need saturated fat for your brain, for your hormones, for your skin.
02:33:17.000And coconut oil itself does not have butyric acid.
02:33:20.000It doesn't have the fatty acid profile that butter does.
02:33:24.000And butter, if you're not going to eat animal fat, is your next best source.
02:33:54.000It's one of the more useful ways of converting non-food proteins.
02:34:00.000Like you can feed scraps to a chicken and they convert it to food.
02:34:04.000Mother Nature's cool too because even if you feed kind of moldy stuff to a chicken, like lower quality spoiled food, we're programmed to keep as much, just all animals are programmed that way to keep as much toxin away from the baby or the fetus or the embryo as possible.
02:34:19.000So most of the toxins don't go through into the eggs.
02:34:21.000Some of them can, particularly like metals, but the organic toxins and anti-nutrients get filtered out by the mom chicken, so the eggs are relatively pure.
02:34:30.000Even the crappy industrial eggs that do have some contamination, they have arsenic and things, but they're a better choice than a lot of foods because of that filtering process that happens in the hen.
02:36:26.000And he took me to his buddy had a house that in the back of the house, they had like, I don't know, man, at least 100 cages were chickens, friend.
02:37:09.000I'm not a fan of the whole idea of getting these animals to do things like fight for money and slice them up with razors and stuff like that.
02:37:56.000That was a smarter rooster than I would have thought.
02:37:59.000Like he knew that the BB gun was doing it to him.
02:38:02.000He didn't know how, but he'd like hide in ditches and do little chicken commando things.
02:38:06.000And I actually gained an appreciation for the intelligence of a rooster from having this thing.
02:38:10.000It was funny, you know, watching one rooster intimidate two cats, walk up, eat their food right in front of them, stare them down, and then just walk up.
02:38:17.000It was amazing just to watch these interactions.
02:38:19.000So, I mean, I'm with the way of thinking about when you kill an animal, how many deaths does it take to feed someone?
02:38:26.000And give me the beef, give me the lamb, because that lamb is going to feed me for a month for one death.
02:38:31.000You kill one of those chickens, it's good for like half a meal, and you're still hungry, and you got really not so good fat out of it anyway.
02:42:21.000There's about 20 crows that live in my backyard, and they freak me out sometimes because I'll go out there and they'll just start off screaming at me.
02:42:46.000There's like a creepy children of the corn thing with magpies because they're like in bigger flocks.
02:42:50.000When I was a teenager, I lived out in the country and these magpies had decided to like nest in this tree and they were like covering my car in shit, like hundreds of splots in one night.
02:43:01.000And I had this idea that if I shot one in the tree, they'd get the message that go roost somewhere else, which is actually a bad idea.
02:46:12.000And I'll be doing the fight for the troops in Kentucky on Wednesday.
02:46:16.000I'll be doing the commentary for that for the UFC.
02:46:18.000And then I'll see you fuckers this Saturday night in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada at the River Creek Casino with the lovely and talented Mr. Sam Tripoli.