00:03:00.000Hello, and welcome to another exciting edition of Victory Never Sleeps.
00:03:11.700And this is our second edition of Adulting with Alan, where our law speaker joins us and helps drop some practical wisdom to our folk who find ourselves sometimes in various need of said.
00:03:30.000So, to start off with, I would like to just say, I just got home from a fantastic Charming
00:03:39.480of the Plows celebration at Njortzhoff.
00:04:28.840I look forward to seeing all of you there.
00:04:33.500Anyone listening to this, if you're interested and you'd like to attend,
00:04:36.820please contact any of our folk builders.
00:04:38.920They would love to get you all set up.
00:04:43.020Yeah, look forward to meeting you there, and I invite you guys to come out.
00:04:46.180It's a fantastic event in a really, really cool spot in a Hoff that is, I don't know, particularly close to me.
00:04:55.380That was the first of our Hoffs that we were able to make happen under my leadership as Ulsteria Gauthier.
00:05:04.400So it's real special to me and something that, I don't know, happened in a real pivotal time for me.
00:05:10.880So I thought I've always got a real special connection to the place.
00:05:16.180You will experience some fantastic people with truly amazing hospitality.
00:05:20.800Some of our very best people are in that area.
00:05:24.480The building itself has a lot of history to it and is beautiful.
00:05:27.940And the mural, and this is the first mural that Witten Svahn painted of one of the Isir in their haves.
00:05:39.800And it is powerful in a way my words don't do justice to.
00:05:45.840When you see it, when you walk in and you see Asa Thor in his hof, the mural dominates the space and you can really feel his presence in the room.
00:05:59.840So I invite you all to come out and experience that.
00:06:03.840uh other other stuff i appreciate everybody who has guest hosted for me in the last little bit
00:06:15.020through travel and before that battling the illness that so many of us have dealt with
00:06:21.340beginning part of this year um i've seen you guys far less than i am accustomed and then i would
00:06:27.340like to so it's nice to be back and i appreciate uh goethe trent who filled in for me a couple of
00:06:32.600times there. So this is, as I mentioned, the second of the Adulting with Alan episodes. And
00:06:45.720this week, our law speaker wanted to focus on diet and exercise. So Alan, looks really cool
00:06:56.020where your head is because you got the like wings on it. I tried to adjust so it doesn't look like
00:07:02.560i'm trying to take on the you know just a helmet no you just own it it's cool uh swan often wreaths
00:07:10.480his head into like the the the oak leaves with where he sits so it's it's all good and and the
00:07:17.760raven's on my shoulder there see so it's all i see it there so either way you go you got something
00:07:23.840something ethereal going on um that's my goal
00:07:30.320okay floor is yours thank you sir um first i'll add my uh gratitude and praise for all the folks
00:07:38.240there at njordzhoff that made us look so good um pam rocking the kitchen um alex ander rocking
00:07:46.320everything else and um you know everybody just made everything happen it certainly made it really
00:07:51.680easy um for those of us who conducted bloat to be able to just focus on what we were doing i
00:07:59.040think we did each other proud and i think we did well manifesting the presence of the gods
00:08:09.920both of us so thank you i'll share your go for your attendance and
00:08:15.040And as always, bringing it all for the folk.
00:08:22.660So a couple of things, just by way of introduction.
00:08:27.580First of all, I guess broadly saying, some may ask, and valid question, what these sorts of discussions have to do with any kind of religion.
00:08:38.720And to me, part of the function of a religious body, which we are, is to improve the lives of our folk.
00:08:47.940That's why I try to talk about financial stuff and improving our people's financial health.
00:08:54.600That's why I think diet and exercise is a very important topic for all of us.
00:09:01.040One that I'm starting to pay closer and closer attention to as I near my 50s.
00:09:06.320um the um it's and there's a lot of important research that's been done
00:09:13.380and some of which i'm going to brush on uh talk about a couple of youtube channels i've been
00:09:19.060following lately um but what i want to start with is just kind of the um the broad overview
00:09:26.580the way that i see it and it's not that's not the only way i see it and disclaimer i am not a
00:09:33.820medical doctor. I'm not a nutritionist. I'm just a guy who has too much idle time and watches a
00:09:40.840lot of YouTube videos on diet and nutrition. So the first broad picture aspect of it comes to me
00:09:52.780just in the idea that we all should be eating more whole foods. And by that, I mean,
00:10:03.400And I guess the footnote to that is corporations are not your friend.
00:10:14.160All corporations are trying to do is sell you corporate food, which has been processed into oblivion.
00:10:22.140All the nutrients rearranged in a way that is largely unhealthy so that it shoots through your digestive tract, shoots out into your system incompletely digested.
00:10:32.680It's not food in any meaningful sense. It's chemical soup. So study after study that is not funded by the food corporations demonstrates that again and again, that food that comes, the more it's processed, the worse it is for you.
00:10:53.180In fact, I recently read, sorry, I saw it on YouTube, that there is as much carcinogenic potential in an order of French fries as there is in a carton of cigarettes.
00:11:06.040And what the underlying science behind that is more complicated than I really completely understand.
00:11:14.980But basically what happened is they started frying foods in vegetable oil.
00:11:19.160Vegetable oil does not hold up to heat very well.
00:11:21.620They fry in very high heat. It rearranges the molecules in the oil and makes it into stuff that is really bad for you.
00:11:30.540And your cells, the lining of your cells are made up of these oils.
00:11:35.160So when you digest an order of French fries or chicken McNuggets, the oils in those substances stay in your body for.
00:11:43.460again this is the this is the guy that i was watching but he was citing the science
00:11:49.860that um those oils stay in your body for two years so you've got stuff that should be something
00:11:56.400that's really nice and clean like a cholesterol molecule from an egg yolk or uh you know something
00:12:04.820from the nut kernel of a pecan or some yummy bacon grease that should be making up the parts
00:12:16.820of those cells. But instead, it's made up of something that is not as healthy. It's not as
00:12:21.800stable. And it is more likely to go wrong in your body. And when things go wrong in your body,
00:12:30.500that's how that is what's you know we call disease um certainly that's one of the reasons that many
00:12:37.300doctors speculate that um that why cancer has become so prevalent because we have all these
00:12:43.620nasty non-food substances that we take into our body quite frequently and they get in there and
00:12:50.580And, you know, it's like, you know, I don't know, it's like putting diesel fuel in your, you know, in your gasoline motor.
00:13:01.940It just it shouldn't be in there. And so and when it gets in there, bad things happen.
00:13:09.500The other thing that certainly with my diet, I will say, as we all know, that good food costs more.
00:13:18.400I mean, the crap that they want to sell you, crackers and potato chips are relatively inexpensive, but to get good food, vegetables, organic meat, all that sort of stuff is a lot more expensive.
00:13:36.940But if you eat less, you can buy better food and end up with the same price point overall and just eat better.
00:13:43.960so that's the way um and that's a long time ago when i drank more beer um that that's what i
00:13:53.060decided to do that i was gonna uh you know i used to drink i don't even remember what it was miller
00:13:58.600or whatever but then when i found good beer which at the time was bex or something exotic like that
00:14:05.980you know um yeah that's you know i remember okay i'll tell you when the drinking age was 18
00:14:14.300um when i was 18 so that tells you how long ago that was um but then once i found good beer i
00:14:22.780just said i'm going to drink less and i'm going to drink better beer so we can do the same thing
00:14:27.500with food you can drink you can eat better food just eat less and that's better for you anyway
00:14:33.580your body is made to digest whole food like whole milk and you know vegetables or a piece of fruit
00:14:48.580or something like that not as Rachel so rightly reminds us not energy drinks which are just a
00:14:58.700chemical slurry that it's basically like mainlining sugar and these other things that are
00:15:05.780basically hormonal substances or pre-hormones that get into your bloodstream and dink around
00:15:12.840with your metabolism in a way that are really bad for you. We evolved for 300,000 years or 30,000
00:15:24.000of years, whatever number you want to use, you know, having to, um, digest food and get the
00:15:31.360nutrient out of, um, you know, uh, a kernel of, um, wheat or out of a, uh, you know, out of a
00:15:40.620kernel barley, uh, if you want to use something that looks more like beer or even honey digest
00:15:45.860very differently from table sugar. So, um, the best, best, best thing you can do is eat whole
00:15:54.880food, um, fresh food prepared at home. Even if you use white flour, if you use whole flour,
00:15:59.940um, that's cooked there at home with real butter, God, please don't use margarine or any of that
00:16:06.580stuff. But the, but if you use all of that, those things, again, it's a little more expensive,
00:16:11.040But if you cook at home, it's it's a lot less expensive than rolling through the drive through like I see all my clients doing.
00:16:20.180So that, you know, that, too, is a big part of it.
00:16:25.700Years ago, I watched a program about why small animals proportional to their species tend to live longer, like smaller dogs tend to live longer than bigger dogs.
00:16:41.040And what the scientists seem to, what scientists said that the conclusion seems to be is that it looks out, it looks at just total throughput, like your liver, your intestines are in your entire lifetime or will only produce so much digestive enzyme.
00:17:04.660It will only produce so much ability to keep yourself going.
00:17:14.520Your heart will only beat so many times.
00:17:17.020So the more food that you eat, like a big dog has to eat a lot more food to maintain all that muscle mass.
00:17:23.520So they tend to have shorter lives than the little lap dogs that, um, because they eat less overall, they, um, you know, their, their liver just lasts longer. It's like anything else. The more you use something, the quicker you wear it out. Um, I can certainly say that this is not the easiest fight for me.
00:17:43.780I still like to say I'm still trying to lose my baby weight, even though my youngest son is 24 years old now.
00:17:54.120He'll be 24 next month. So, you know, I realize it's a struggle.
00:18:00.240And, you know, part of it is, again, it's evolutionary.
00:18:03.960We evolved with this and we evolved in a long over a long time of food scarcity.
00:18:10.280I've been listening to books about English history, and it's pretty amazing how often there were widespread famines in a whole nation where substantial percentages, 5, 10, 15 percent of the population died because there wasn't enough food.
00:18:28.580That's not the era that we live in today.
00:18:32.120Now that we've invented the green, now that we've had the green revolution and we're strip mining the soils,
00:18:38.220we are in a very different place as regards to food.
00:18:55.160and they're not they don't care about your health they care about your money so go to the farmers
00:19:04.280market buy some real fruit and vegetables find a guy who has forest raised pork and have some
00:19:12.840real pork chops and you know some real apples and that sort of stuff eat in season you know
00:19:19.080there are hundreds and hundreds of recommendations along that line
00:19:25.160Secondly, as far as exercise, you know, I'll hear you go there. I know you, you know, you love the gym. I am. I love in Kung Fu. It's not called the it's not called the dojo. It's called the quun. But it's the same thing. It's the workout temple. And I've been doing Kung Fu. Sorry.
00:19:48.060Alan, can I interject? And I'd like to, I'd like to say a few, I don't know, I'd like to touch on a few diet things before we move on to exercise, because they work together, but while we're still fresh, and it's one of our questions that you alluded to.
00:20:04.540So, as you will note, a lot of people, okay, something that I want to say is a preamble.
00:20:16.000As I say a lot, don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
00:20:21.640Make more good choices tomorrow than you are today.
00:20:29.660It's easy when people talk about diet or exercise.
00:20:37.880Everyone, people get very passionate about it, and people get very entrenched ideas about the one right way to do everything.
00:20:49.920People who are doing good, who are in good shape and living good lives and are healthy that are arguing over the best way to get there, that's a good problem to have.
00:20:58.820but it's intimidating to people that don't know where to start to think that it's all,
00:21:05.980you know, you're either doing it this one right way or you're doing it all wrong.
00:21:09.400One of the secrets is most anything works if you do it consistently and you move towards it,
00:21:17.100especially if you are currently in a state of obesity or if you are, you know,
00:21:22.900unhealthily scrawny or whatever your situation you find yourself in.
00:21:26.760picking any of a variety of really good options is going to help you get there
00:21:34.060um one of our questions again uh rachel asks question for alan how do we convince our fellow
00:21:40.900folk of the evils of energy drinks well you got to start here because i don't believe there are
00:21:46.180evils of energy drinks but for an example if you're going to get it's true as alan mentioned
00:21:52.520earlier. It's like mainline and sugar, except for it's not if it doesn't have the sugar in it.
00:21:58.880So I think it is a pretty sound thing to say if you're eating full sugar energy drinks,
00:22:05.340if you eat not full sugar energy drinks, that's a step in the right direction.
00:22:11.320If you're drinking full sugar sodas, drink diet sodas. May not taste quite the same.
00:22:47.900there are a lot of options and there's some tools that i'd like to present to you guys a little bit
00:22:54.380later so you can help monitor for a variety of the things depending upon what you're trying to do or
00:23:00.960what diet you're trying to follow but i do say this most anything within reason is a lot better
00:23:10.140than remaining stuck in a state where you are not happy with your health or you are not happy with
00:23:15.200your fitness. These are all things that you have a variety of paths to get better at. Don't let
00:23:23.160people's strong opinions on them confuse you. Either mine or Alan's or anyone else's,
00:23:30.020but do something. And we're here to present you with our best ideas from both of our viewpoints
00:23:35.040on how best to do that. But as long as you're doing something, it's a lot better than doing
00:23:40.260Yeah, unquestionably. And as with a lot of other things, just mindfulness about your diet, just turning on that awareness will start to steer you in the right direction.
00:23:57.520And you certainly don't want to get disappointed, you know, and like think, well, I have to go full carnivore.
00:24:03.480And then, you know, so the first time you have a bag of chips, you think, you know, you've ruined yourself.
00:24:08.700And now you can just go back to being, you know, because it's not on or off.
00:24:15.120It's, you know, the goal is to be a little better every day.
00:24:19.720Another thing I wanted to add on that, just this is this is something that's been important to me.
00:24:24.320And here's the thing. A lot of the time you get some people that purity spiral because they get obsessed about things. You also have people that develop these really entrenched views on it because they spent a lot of years paying attention to it and being interested in it and reading up on it.
00:24:41.460And sometimes folks come to different conclusions, but I think one of the conclusions everybody notes, the biggest problem with any diet thing is consistency.
00:24:51.760People will shoot for something very askew from what their norm is.
00:24:58.940Then they will find out they can't be perfect.
00:25:04.120And then oftentimes they'll like, fine, it's not worth it anyway.
00:25:07.780They will binge eat themselves back worse.
00:25:10.160yeah that's worse than they started and that's something to consider whatever you do and this
00:25:19.560is another thing that's really hard and i'm sure we'll talk about this in the exercise portion as
00:25:23.700well but and again it depends if you're eating for health and you have a really specific health
00:25:32.860condition and i i think this is just a responsible thing to say anyway we're not doctors if you have
00:25:40.460a diabetic problem or a particular cardiovascular problem or something you need a really specialized
00:25:46.860medical thing on it by all means consult them and get that figured out and that's kind of outside
00:25:53.260of the realm of what we're talking about in general um but barring that if you're eating
00:25:59.340for a specific health result it may be a little bit different i know a lot of our folk struggle
00:26:05.340with obesity if the problem is that you're obese keep in mind that most people didn't you know
00:26:14.460you didn't get obese over a couple of months of bad choices most of the time when we find ourselves
00:26:21.180obese and i've been there it's due to years if not decades of poor choices and you can accelerate
00:26:31.660your progress but it's just not realistic to think that you're going to repair you know 20
00:26:40.140years of poor choices in 20 days of good choices don't let that discourage you i'm also going to
00:26:46.460to talk a little bit later about some tools to kind of check your progress in a way that maybe
00:26:51.720can give you, give you some confidence that something's working, even if it's not working
00:26:57.720as fast as you want. And that's the other secret. Nothing that we're going to suggest is going to
00:27:02.080work as fast as you want. It's never going to work as fast. If you find something that does,
00:27:07.300you let me know. But yeah, I just wanted to put that, put that out here that make the effort and
00:27:15.140consistency all of these things it's a it is all about the long game and consistency and building
00:27:21.940habits zero of it is easy but finding something that can be done consistently and when you fall
00:27:31.220down getting back up and going back at it is is the key to so many things in life but very
00:27:36.580specifically to this and then i'll pipe down you know that's all that's all absolutely well taken
00:27:43.700And I tend to launch on it because I've been trying to overcome my own obstacles in that arena.
00:27:51.940The diet thing has come hard to me because I work a desk job.
00:28:01.400And so it's always easy just to have, you know, some delicious mixed nuts in there in the drawer, which I have now excised from being within reach.
00:28:12.480So I'm not snacking all day. And certainly there are several tools that work, that can work to help you lose weight.
00:28:24.040Everything from just simple calorie reduction, eat the same meals that you've always eaten, just slightly smaller for, you know, for everything.
00:28:33.060Get a little more exercise and you will again, you begin to see improvement over a period of time.
00:28:38.980um uh you know one thing that has become popular certainly the carnivore diet is
00:28:47.320you know is a big thing it i've tried it for a while it worked um i did lose some weight on it
00:28:54.800i actually felt better after i you know started after i pushed through the initial ketosis phase
00:28:59.300um and it's odd to say it but you can only eat so much bacon um even even though so much can be
00:29:08.160pounds and pounds and pounds of bacon over a few days, but eventually it surprised me too. You can
00:29:14.540get tired of eating bacon and steak and cheeseburgers. But again, that's one of those
00:29:20.660things that you can use to jumpstart a diet program, even if you end up going back to
00:29:25.480something that looks a lot more like a mixed diet or, you know, a standard diet with just a whole
00:29:33.320lot less, um, carbs in it, a whole lot less processed food, a whole lot less starch, a
00:29:39.580whole lot less sugar. Um, if, and if a few days or a couple of weeks of the carnivore
00:29:46.080diet helps you get in the, you know, get used to eating that way, then great. That's a,
00:29:50.700that's a tool that can work for you. Um, I've been playing around some with intermittent
00:29:59.120fasting. Um, I talked to Witten Erickson about his, which turns out he's doing the intermittent
00:30:05.680fasting too. He's, um, he's doing it a little more rigorously than I was, although I have now
00:30:11.200adopted the, uh, 24 means of, uh, intermittent fasting, which means you only eat food for
00:30:19.720four hours a day, which means I have to finish my golden milk. So, uh, before 10 o'clock. Um,
00:30:26.660But and then you're on fasting for 20 hours.
01:01:31.760You know, we can certainly go 4,000 miles to the center of any of those rabbit holes, and I have on more than one occasion, but we can run through the questions.
01:01:45.560And certainly another thing that I meant to mention at the beginning is that we can also take questions on anything else.
01:01:53.120I mean, if you were, if you, uh, the financial stuff that I talked about last month, if that resonated with you, but you have some other questions you want to talk to me about, I mean, I'm happy to, we can look at that or about the dark money pools that control wall street.
01:02:10.640Um, so, you know, uh, I don't know if silver is going to break out over 35 this year, but I'm hoping that it does.
01:02:19.320So any of those things or any other topic that you feel like that you want us to discuss, I'm sure Matt's up for it.
01:02:29.660Yeah. Keep that in mind, guys. Literally anything you want to talk about.
01:02:33.800This adulting with Alan topics, also true topics or things just in general.
01:02:39.100We appreciate you guys being here and we appreciate your questions.
01:02:41.700I promised you guys some tools. So a couple of things that I talked about earlier. This thing, if it fits your macros, really, really helped me. It was a time in my life that I was just so focused on getting bigger. All I would do was focus on my protein and I would get tons of protein, but I wouldn't care about all the other stuff that I'd get.
01:03:05.620so i got bigger i got a lot more muscular i also got uh quite a bit fatter and i crossed over that
01:03:14.740obesity threshold that i don't want to be across and this helped me get back on the other side of
01:03:20.340it um so this link that nick put up and it's a lot of stuff so maybe he could put it in the
01:03:28.500description to this video i'm not sure how that works for those of you who are listening on um
01:03:34.820who are listening to this as a podcast later on
01:04:00.680your carbohydrates, your proteins, and your fats.
01:04:04.820In order to track that, there's another tool that I use on my phone. My Fitness Pal. If you could post the link up for that, Nick, that would be awesome. My Fitness Pal. It's a calorie slash meal tracker. You can make your own recipes of stuff and load in your own foods that you like there.
01:04:25.280but it has a database of lots and lots and lots of things lots of things other people have put in
01:04:31.440there can give you really good guidelines and get you close to calculating that number just right
01:04:36.640because a little you know a few tweaks here and there done over the long run can make a really
01:04:41.280big difference um so this is something that don't be intimidated i was at first it took you know
01:04:48.880just a few days and then it's old hat and you're used to it and it's it's very easy use to stick
01:04:53.600with it but it's helped me out tremendously it's helped mandy out tremendously and we use it every
01:04:58.000single day and have for a decade now um also it's really important to be able to track where you're
01:05:08.240at so you can know your progress it's easy over the course of months and months to figure there's
01:05:15.040a lot of things you can look in the mirror you can see how your clothes fit you you can judge
01:05:20.080by the reaction of other people remember it was a really cool day for me i was always i had this
01:05:26.800thing i was scrawny for a long time and i i wanted to be this big strong larger than life guy uh when
01:05:34.720i was when i was a young man when i was a kid and you know used to people you know would phys see
01:05:43.440your physical presence and react a certain way and i remember i was accustomed uh i was in a
01:05:48.960diverse place in anchorage alaska and i was accustomed to in the bar if somebody bumps into
01:05:54.720you like them turning around and getting mad at me for having the audacity to be bumped into like
01:06:00.720you're in the way and they come at you or whatever i remember the day because i'd been working out
01:06:06.320uh i started working out in 2000 yeah in 2000 i started working out and trying to put on size and
01:06:13.840bigger and i remember the day i was so used to that kind of interaction and this uh ebony gentleman
01:06:20.720bumped into me at the bar and then turned around to come around on me and get my face about it
01:06:25.040looked at me he's like whoops my bad i'll get you a beer and that again those are the things
01:06:32.640that sneak up on you that you realize but subtle changes are hard to figure out and so this um
01:06:39.680um this tool is the scale that i use that does like an electronic impedance body fat calculation
01:06:49.680it's really cool because it calculates a lot of different things on here though too it does your
01:06:54.240bmi which i don't like or i don't know how to make best use of perhaps it's got stuff it calculates
01:07:02.160your, you know, your hydration, your lean mass versus your fat mass, your skeletal mass, all
01:07:10.040kinds of things. And it's very, very useful. It syncs with an app on your phone. It's not expensive,
01:07:16.500but it helps a lot. And it helps people may argue about its accuracy compared to other ways of
01:07:24.440calculating body fat. That's not really my point. It's accurate to itself. So if you're checking in
01:07:31.200it once a month or so you will be able to see your progress go in one direction or another
01:07:37.040i'm not saying take the numbers for gospel but you can take the difference in change right
01:07:44.080to be indicative of what you're doing because there's a lot of different ways to measure that
01:07:50.640that are better and that are i say that are better or worse or that are you know sometimes more
01:07:57.680expensive more difficult to come by this is a very easy one that is within everybody's grasp
01:08:03.280and it again it helps you be able to compare from one month to the next on what direction
01:08:09.360you're running in a really efficient way the other thing the last link i'm gonna throw at you um
01:08:16.160is for a food scale because people want you know if you're using the other app that i talked about
01:08:20.800about measuring your food and how much you have this allows you to do that in a way to where you
01:08:27.440You can, you know, find out how many grams of what you're having and really dial in on that.
01:13:24.400You'd want to have a physical because, you know, first of all, all the mythology out there about cholesterol and those sorts of things, I think are exactly that.
01:13:39.080And I think there's, you know, I've watched enough of, in fact, I've read the Raw Egg Nationalist and eat a lot of raw eggs every week.
01:13:47.400But that too is one of those things that there's been too much hype made out of.
01:13:54.400too little bad information so um but do your research and if it and if it worked for you and
01:14:01.840you love bacon i i don't think there's anything wrong with it at all and you know it's one of
01:14:06.480those things that can help you get start to turn your life around just by developing new habits
01:14:13.600so i i think carnivore diet or anything ketogenic like that is a really good
01:14:19.760would shake stuff up and kickstart fat loss um I think it's good for that I don't think it's good
01:14:30.500long term in my experience and talking to a lot of people who've done it there's not a lot of
01:14:35.900long-term success on it as a matter of fact the guy who's kind of the founder of it has recently
01:14:41.780you know recanted that that's a real good thing to do for the long term but for the short term
01:14:47.300shake stuff up i think it's good i've also anecdotally um and again i haven't tried it
01:14:54.820myself anecdotally i don't feel that it's good for muscle building carbohydrates have
01:15:02.820an effect of fueling your muscle gain in a number of different ways that i don't think you achieve
01:15:10.340the same when you cut those out and you're running a deficit or you're running ketosis
01:15:16.180and what i've read many times in many different articles by various bodybuilders and gym
01:15:24.340enthusiasts who've tried it is that there's a lot less success than they would have wanted
01:15:31.460as far as muscle building goes but i've heard really good things for fat loss and i think that's
01:15:36.020something i know a lot of people who've gotten a lot of benefit out of the fat loss element
01:15:41.460right um question where did matt get his thor's hammer it looks epic so i wanted to look it up
01:15:51.020because it's a it's modeled after an archaeological find uh from uh otis hogg in
01:16:11.440hammer. Had it for a number of years. It initially had the
01:16:17.560kind of gold facing on it that the original hammer had.
01:16:21.480That has worn off over the years, unfortunately, but
01:16:25.340And it's the same modeler, it's modeled after the same hammer that my very first hammer I had was, which was just a little cheap brass one that I had from the museum store that used to be in the malls at the time.
01:16:48.340all right that one was made by he who shall not be named right
01:16:57.500that's why i didn't name him um still cool hammer yeah i think it's really it's really
01:17:06.280neat hammer uh do you know okay do you know any uh remedies for the effects of detoxing
01:17:13.720from processed foods? Alan, you may want to take that one. Um, wow. Um, no, uh, you know, other than
01:17:27.480that's, I guess I've never, I was never so far over the edge that I, uh, you know,
01:17:35.560that I had to detox from it, but, um, I, it's, I would guess though, that it's like anything else,
01:17:43.820you know, if you felt that bad for so long, that feeling bad feels normal. And then you start to,
01:17:48.580your body starts to work like it should, you know, it's like a, an engine falling into a good rhythm,
01:17:54.500you know, if it starts revving, like it should, then, you know, it's gonna, it's gonna,
01:17:58.460you're gonna you're gonna feel different um you know get get some sleep get lots of water the you
01:18:09.100know that's the other couple of things is you know when you're especially when you're making a big
01:18:12.860change like that even if you're doing the carnivore diet or if you're going to a more natural food
01:18:18.380diet from uh you know too many trips through the drive-through water water water is uh is certainly
01:18:25.020a big part of that. I have come to believe that, and I say it like that because I know that a lot
01:18:35.000of doctors don't like too much salt in the water. I put a little sprinkle of salt, natural, organic
01:18:44.360sea salt. There's some from California that I buy that costs more than I would like it to,
01:18:50.020But it has more minerals in it instead of just stable salt. It's not just sodium chloride as magnesium and a lot of other things in it.
01:18:57.560But, you know, I put a little of that in my water. A little bit of lemon in your water makes it alkaline.
01:19:04.960That makes it counterintuitive, but that's what it does. That that, too, makes water better for you.
01:19:13.320um ideally if you and you know we're making also true healthy again um and like rfk jr i'm a i
01:19:25.400i bought a berkey water filter so i can start filtering the fluoride out of my water
01:19:29.920um so you know i drink super healthy water
01:19:34.760i guess you could buy bottled water if you don't have access to a you know to a water filter
01:19:41.780especially if your water system is fluoridated i think that stuff's really bad for you i know
01:19:48.860there are people who disagree um to be continued um but if you know if you're detoxing like that
01:19:58.140drink lots of water and um even you know you can and it doesn't have to be like a switch you don't
01:20:06.040have to just turn it off i mean you can you know you can go from five burgers a week to two and
01:20:12.560you're still doing yourself a whole lot of healthy good um you can drink raw milk and eat raw eggs
01:20:21.260especially if you could find somebody like on craigslist or the food co-op that can gift you
01:20:26.500real eggs the eggs that my ann um gets for us here it's just you know the yolks are orange not
01:20:35.840this pale yellow like you get with grocery store eggs so it's a totally different food um than
01:20:42.240than getting anything else so the the healthier you eat and you know what one guy was watching
01:20:52.400you know he doesn't like almond milk but i think almond milk is better than homogenized milk but
01:20:58.720you know and if you can't get raw milk because it's you know if because you have to take it
01:21:03.040away from your dog because you know raw milk is usually sold for pet food only
01:21:07.240but if you buy your dog some raw milk and he lets you have some that's that's
01:21:11.980actually a pretty healthy food in my opinion and the nut milks if you can't
01:21:20.080get stuff you know try to find something that's at least not homogenized to me
01:21:26.740it's the homogenization that uh causes milk to be really unhealthy for you but you know and yes
01:21:34.900you're going to be detoxing that those nut oils as they start to break out of your cell membranes
01:21:39.780they're gonna um make your digestions digestives and as your digestive system starts to loosen up
01:21:46.500that too is going to be you know there's going to be some period of discomfort in there um
01:21:51.300As a transitional thing, you could eat a lot, a fair bit of oats and grains and that sort of thing.
01:21:59.480I did that for a while until I sort of purged my system. Now I tend to be, I do a lot of probiotics.
01:22:06.500I drink a fair bit of kefir. I eat yogurt.
01:22:11.920those those are the sorts of things that can really help you reinstate a healthy digestive
01:22:19.280regimen that um you know where where your food process is better like it ought to
01:22:24.960and again the occasional fasting can can give your give your body a chance to clean itself out
01:22:31.120in between big big meals and um so that you're feeling better overall
01:22:35.680so to the question um as far as the the uh remedies for the effects of of of detoxing
01:22:47.800a lot of actually a really important one earlier
01:22:54.640if you are replacing your processed foods with very nutrient dense often very fat heavy foods
01:23:05.680That's very satiating. One of the things is if you get unsatisfied and you're hungry, that's an uncomfortable feeling.
01:23:14.680If you're not just getting rid of processed foods, but you're replacing them, especially with proteins and fat that are very satiating, you will counteract a lot of the fullness issues.
01:23:31.320also the being hydrated a lot of the times you feel like you're hungry when you're really just
01:23:37.080thirsty keeping yourself well hydrated helps you to feel full as well another thing that is hard
01:23:45.400is the psychological effect of carbohydrates for your mental health if you're used to being very
01:23:53.380you know having a very high sugar diet and you comfort eat it can be really jarring if you try
01:24:01.040to shut that off all at once know that alan and some folks are not fans but i do think that if
01:24:06.480you replace uh processed sugar with fake sugar alternatives you get a lot of the sugar negativity
01:24:14.880out of it while still satisfying the sweet new the sweet tooth and the psychological
01:24:21.360need for the comfort eating so i think that's a really good option if you still need to have
01:24:27.040that in your diet or still want to have that in your diet i think it takes you a better route
01:24:33.200if it's just about the processing though if if fat also has an effect on the comfort eating
01:24:40.000phenomenon to where it helps get you some mental health in there and makes you and it makes you
01:24:46.720feel full for longer as well so i think those are some tools to help with the uh with you know
01:24:53.280know the detoxing effects and for me one of the one of the things that helped me feel full
01:25:01.520although it's too easy to get too many calories is nuts you know i you know the
01:25:09.040members club big box of uh deluxe mixed nuts that was uh that lived in the drawer for a long time
01:25:18.520And also pumpkin seeds, you know, are really good for you.
01:25:30.100And everybody's got slightly different stuff they're trying to go for and stuff they're trying to do.
01:25:35.980If you just eat less things that you know are not good for you and you eat more things that are,
01:25:42.120one of the other things that is a truth if you like i gave you the macro calculator deal earlier
01:25:51.080any of that is going to put your protein much higher than if you are not counting it it typically
01:25:57.080is for example usually i'm eating about 285 plus grams of protein a day
01:39:51.320Alan, do you have any comment you would like to make on that?
01:39:57.460And still be able to not watch my back constantly at OSTAR next month?
01:40:03.740Um, I understand what the, I understand the gist of the question. Um, I'll say that traditionally, and we are traditionalist people, um, traditionally the, the, the, the, the path, um, to higher attainment, um, by the, um, each through the, uh, as it is bisected by sex, um, the,
01:40:33.740The female path has always been devotion and service, as opposed to the left-hand path that is the male path, the wet path that men follow through physical.
01:40:47.380Um, that said, I hope that's the, uh, the sound of a LaCroix crack it open. Oh, good. Oh, good. So beer, beer is good for you in, in small doses. Now, now that being said, um, I don't, I think that the American yoga scene has been, um, watered down enough that
01:41:17.380The vast majority of yoga studios are not doing anything that looks like real hardcore spiritual-based yoga.
01:41:28.920and i can tell you that um the yoga that i have been doing for the last
01:41:36.58013 years incorporates a large rune component so i have swept those two divergent paths together
01:41:48.000to i sometimes call it rundalini yoga that's trademark you got you got to pay me a nickel
01:41:54.700if you say it. But so that being said, I think there is a real danger if if you got on the path
01:42:04.120where you're in, you know, in Swami want to have a good time yoga studio, then I think it could
01:42:13.120lead people astray if they are easily led. I don't think that that's our folk. I mean,
01:42:19.340don't think you find it. I don't think you find your way to this path by being easily led into
01:42:26.120any of the wrong paths that are out there. It's certainly a valid point for the, like, for the
01:42:34.440vast majority of NPCs, if that's the term that you want to use out there, that, you know, that could
01:42:42.680be um led astray uh into a you know into a wrong spiritual practice but i think most of them are
01:42:52.700doing something that looks a lot like pilates already you know they're doing hot yoga or
01:42:57.160something like that which is not the deep spiritual practice that could lead them into errancy
01:43:03.520yeah what alan said no re really and truly um
01:43:11.560i think that i also do not want to encourage uh white women to go to some creepy guy's
01:43:26.520ashram to get led astray by his yoga sex cult and i say that and it's funny but that's a thing
01:43:35.160and that at one time was a prevalent thing i think that what is so much more prevalent now
01:43:42.680is soccer mom yoga talked by an aged hippie that is basically doing pilates and it's pretty good
01:43:52.740they're in there getting some exercise and doing stretching and doing things. And I don't think
01:43:58.760that broaches upon, you know, a deep spiritual practice in most cases that people are going to
01:44:05.140be familiar with, unless that's specifically what they're seeking out with it. I don't think women
01:44:09.840in the United States, by and large, if they're going to find a yoga studio for health and fitness
01:44:16.280purposes, are going to run any risk of that. Now, yeah, if they're trying to pursue it for the
01:44:21.660spiritual aspect of it, they do run the risk of the creepy guru guy, or they also could
01:44:32.220potentially access some higher spirituality through it, which is kind of its own issue.
01:44:40.920But I don't think that's at play in the fitness yoga realm here in the United States, at least.
01:44:46.620still something to be on the watch out for i mean valid point yeah and and i say that literally
01:44:57.140knowing people who have gone and traveled places to go to some guy's ashram to do their
01:45:06.740you know yoga and there was a predatory sexual sexual element to the that equation so it's a
01:45:15.080thing. And it's a thing, you know, that I'm one degree away of knowing somebody who was involved
01:45:20.280in. So we have another question. Thoughts on dividend investing, REITs, to retire early.
01:45:31.400I'm looking into that. Alan, this one's all you. Okay. So real estate investment trust, REIT.
01:45:40.100um um i'm a strong advocate of passive income um if you can you know if you can leverage it right
01:45:50.460it can be good um i tend to like things on a smaller scale though um if you watch
01:46:00.160i didn't understand the real estate collapse of 2008 until i watched the movie the big short
01:46:06.880And, and I think that the danger of real estate investment trusts is very much like what happened
01:46:13.440in 2008. You get, you know, a hundred D class mortgages and wrap them together and they call
01:46:21.840it one, a class mortgage, but it's still just a whole bunch of D's and it's going to, you know,
01:46:27.120and that's what happened in 2008. We had all these different investment type
01:46:38.880instruments that were typing up the real estate prices. And honestly, from what I've read,
01:46:47.520your mileage may vary, but all the leading indicators are that we're in 2007 right now,
01:46:55.120like real estate is overinflated we're hanging over the cliff again there are more of these
01:47:01.840trust instruments out there and derivatives although they call them something different
01:47:06.240than there were in 2007 so it's a you know you know rather than getting involved in a
01:47:16.080real estate investment trust i'd buy a rental property i mean that's the you know one thing
01:47:20.880that you can manage that you can keep an eye on i and i know that i'm uh in a lot of investment
01:47:27.840a lot of these investment ideas i am the counter force to what so fine i'll just say it i don't
01:47:35.760own any stock i don't have you know i don't have any of that stuff but what i've done is i paid
01:47:39.600off all my debt i mean except for my mortgage but you know i don't i don't have debt and so i uh
01:47:46.240And so rather than having investments on one hand and a lot of debt on the other, you know, I own my cars and so I can, you know, I've got a rental property that we, you know, that doesn't have any debt on it.
01:48:01.360And so we can, you know, so, I mean, it takes a long time to make your money back, but, you know, that's, as I look to retirement and, you know, another 25 or 30 years, that's one of the things that I just, that I have to be aware of that there's, you know, that there has to be cashflow of some, in some measure that social security is not going to do it.
01:48:25.440You have to have, you definitely need to have some sort of, something that looks like an investment portfolio.
01:48:35.380You know, you got to be, and everybody's risk reward ratio and that sort of thing is all very, is scaled differently.
01:48:43.600I, you know, I just don't like, I think the stock market's a bet, like a real, like a REIT is a bet of a certain kind, Bitcoin or any of that stuff.
01:48:52.420I think it's all a gamble of a certain type.
01:48:56.100And I don't like gambling on something I'm not in control of.
01:48:59.140The rental property that I own, I'm in charge of.
01:53:37.080And the more muscle you build, the more every movement your body makes does to burn calories.
01:53:43.300another thing to consider though when you talk about weightlifting that is worthwhile when you're
01:53:50.900that big walking in and of itself is a form of weightlifting if you are squatting 500 pounds
01:54:04.900every time you use the toilet that counts that's something and i and i mean this sometimes people
01:54:11.940who are very obese will develop really really advanced lower body musculature because just
01:54:20.900moving around they are literally moving you know it's like the rest of us with 100 pound rucksack
01:54:28.500or 100 pound squat bar on our back doing things so that's something to consider too a really fat
01:54:36.420person doing body weight exercise is weight training in a way that's you know much more so
01:54:44.180much more direct than somebody who's a lot lighter um but yeah i think that weight training is
01:54:52.580essential we talk about cardio but if you're a person who's very obese and you're not in good
01:54:57.620shape if you're really putting the energy into your weight training you're going to be sweating
01:55:01.940you're going to be out of breath you're going to be cardiovascularly accomplishing something with
01:55:07.460that weight training and i think you'll see results faster um i would you know if you are able
01:55:15.620figure out what your calorie intake is do the math get your protein right if you're still eating too
01:55:21.540much also decrease your calories do weight training and then also do cardio that would be optimal
01:55:29.460but if you have to one or the other i'd say the cat the weight training protein
01:55:34.100since you're going to do cardio i think hit is the way to do it um you know i surprised myself
01:55:42.340when i started running um you know that's one of the things where i actually did start to
01:55:47.460see a change in my waist size you know even though you know 30 minutes three times a week
01:55:53.380uh anybody who's not familiar high intensity interval training and i
01:56:00.180thoroughly agree with alan on that is a much better route to cardio for
01:56:08.420body composition than other types of cardio uh there's something that happens and somebody who's
01:56:16.820you know more of a chemist on here can explain it in a more detailed way but
01:56:20.740But the, okay, the idea of high intensity interval training is you do bursts of near maximal effort exertion broken up by periods of steady state cardio, brief periods, and you alternate those back and forth in intervals for, you know, whatever amount of time you do that.
01:56:46.860And a lot of people do that for 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, maybe up to a half an hour, but typically not longer than that.
01:56:54.000There's a lot of different varieties of how to do that.
01:56:56.080I typically will do that on a treadmill or on the stair climber.
01:57:00.980A lot of people do that sprints, sprints and walk and sprint and walk and sprint and walk.
01:57:11.980I know people do that with battle ropes.
01:57:13.600there's a lot of different ways you can do it but high intensity interval training is the good
01:57:18.720cardio and one of the effects that it does is it doesn't just burn cardio while you are doing it
01:57:26.240but through the interval training method of it it tends to have that fat burning effect
01:57:32.800for hours after you're done completing the exercise so it's a really efficient way to get
01:57:39.520a really powerful bang for your buck and it also activates your fast twitch muscle fibers
01:57:45.520in a different way if you look at the body composition of marathon runners versus sprinters
01:57:53.520sprinters tend to be much more muscular and have a lower like lower body fat whereas you get
01:57:58.960marathon folks that they'll end up being skinny because there's running themselves the bone but
01:58:03.760they're also they're often what's referred to as skinny fat to where it's not the muscular
01:58:08.320definition there's just kind of an overall lack of everything yeah and i i don't mean to be
01:58:16.880disparaging if you're if you're on here and you're struggling with obesity and your way out of it is
01:58:22.000you want to run marathons by all means please do that i will support you every step of the way
01:58:26.320that's great but as far as best practice 26 miles i mean i will stand at the end here first
01:58:34.480smiles and like cheer um but yeah so those are those are the questions we have lined up this
01:58:44.640evening alan is there any any thoughts you'd like to leave people with tonight
01:58:50.640well i you know i'm glad that you use the word mindfulness um because that's really a lot of what
01:58:55.920What I think adulting really comes down to is internalizing the idea that you're responsible for yourself.
01:59:03.000You're responsible for the way you look.
01:59:05.120You're responsible for the way your wallet looks.
01:59:07.880You're responsible for the way your children behave.
01:59:11.760And mindfulness is a good, good part of that.
01:59:16.960And that's one of those things that, uh, that I think practicing the way, um, is a, you know, mindfulness is a big part of that.
01:59:26.820We, we are pious and worship the gods and, um, revere our ancestors and inside in here, we should be mindful and that, and that will help you with your money.
01:59:40.720It'll help you with your diet and exercise, and it'll help you with everything else to get you through to be a better person.
01:59:50.400Yeah, I think that's solid advice, and it applies to almost anything.