Eggs are bad for you. Then they’re fine. Then they’re bad again. If the health advice you get keeps contradicting itself, you’re not imagining it.
Eggs, cholesterol, coconut oil, alcohol, LED lights… the advice keeps flipping.
That is not you being slow to catch on. That is a field that changes its story faster than most people can act on it.
In this episode, I take the questions that come up whenever the advice conflicts. I break down what holds up, what doesn’t, and where the answer depends on you.
In this episode:
- Are eggs good or bad, and does high cholesterol always mean trouble?
- Is coconut oil better than seed oil? White rice or brown?
- Is any amount of alcohol okay, and what does it do to your sleep?
- Do LED lights, blue light and EMF products deserve the attention they get?
- Does mouth taping work? Are barefoot shoes worth trying?
- How much of your body is genetic, and how do you undo what a parent told you about it?
- How do you work with a doctor who can’t refer you outside the system?
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Welcome to the Deepak Saini Show.
0:23
23 secondsEggs are bad for you, then they’re fine, then they’re bad again. The health advice you get keeps contradicting herself. You’re not imagining it.
0:32
32 secondsWelcome to the Deepaxin Show. I like to thank J23 for the intro music. You can find a link to her music in the show description. Eggs, cholesterol, coconut
0:40
40 secondsoil, alcohol, LED lights. The advice keeps flipping. That’s not you being slow to catch on.
0:47
47 secondsThat is a field that changes its story faster than most people can act on it.
0:51
51 secondsIn this episode, I’m going to take more questions from you that uh come up whenever the advice conflicts and I break down what holds up, what doesn’t,
0:59
59 secondsand where the answer just kind of sometimes just depends. So, anyway, let’s just jump right into it. Okay,
Chapter 2: Genetics vs Lifestyle Control
1:06
1 minute, 6 secondsquestion number one. How much of our body and weight is genetically pred uh predestined and how much can we change?
1:13
1 minute, 13 secondsGreat question. So, uh, when I test DNA with people, um, there’s a lot of predispositions you can get that, you
1:21
1 minute, 21 secondsknow, say how you handle, you know, um, insulin, sugar, are you more predisposed
1:27
1 minute, 27 secondsto be um, obese, overweight, etc. So yeah, you’re
1:36
1 minute, 36 secondsmaybe fighting a little bit of genetics, but really 80 plus% of your genetics is based on your lifestyle, how you
1:43
1 minute, 43 secondsrespond, how you the actions you take, the the food you’re eating, the exercise you’re taking. That’s why it’s so important to actually get your genetics
1:50
1 minute, 50 secondstested so that you know where you’re at or where you’re predisposed to. That doesn’t mean you’re going to get anything or be that way, just predisposition where you’re leaning so
1:59
1 minute, 59 secondsthat you can counter uh balance it. So uh your body your weight is not pred
2:06
2 minutes, 6 secondspredestined um at all. You have huge huge influence on how you look, how your
2:13
2 minutes, 13 secondsbody reacts, etc. So I guess my big takeaway is like get get your testing done. I can help you with that if you
2:19
2 minutes, 19 secondswant. Uh question number two, um how do you undo a belief that a parent planted into your body? I.e.
Chapter 3: Breaking Family Beliefs
2:28
2 minutes, 28 secondsyou’ll never be thin. Hey, this runs in our family. This is a great question. Uh I see this all the time when I work with people what I call the the inner game.
2:36
2 minutes, 36 secondsUm there’s a couple two ways to approach this. Number one, you know, people of uh
2:44
2 minutes, 44 secondsour parents, people in our family, whomever has told us things. This is just genetics. This is where our this is how our family is.
2:52
2 minutes, 52 secondsLook at us. We’re all, you know, big boned. We’re all whatever obese, whatever the case may be. And you think this is part of your destiny. This is just the way it is. And the reality of
3:01
3 minutes, 1 secondit is like you’re all eating the same thing.
3:05
3 minutes, 5 secondsSo of course if you’re eating junk food or you know foods that don’t serve you from a biological point of view, it doesn’t have to be junk food, right?
3:13
3 minutes, 13 secondsLike it could be like healthy food but it just doesn’t align with you and that can impact you as well. But if you’re just eating the same things as everyone else in your family, of course you’re going to follow down the same pattern.
3:24
3 minutes, 24 secondsSo, that doesn’t mean it’s pre pre-ordained that you’re going to be a certain way. Um, it’s just that you literally are eating
3:33
3 minutes, 33 secondsand doing the same things. If you’re a if your family is someone who’s just like always watches TV and doesn’t move and everything like that, that’s what you grow up with. You’re going to mimic
3:41
3 minutes, 41 secondsthose patterns, right? So, you can break these patterns simply. The second aspect is, you know, what I would call uh, you know, an event. Some people would call
3:49
3 minutes, 49 secondsit trauma. And there’s the whole scale of that of course. But you know if someone you know when we’re impressionable at you know
3:59
3 minutes, 59 secondsyou know six seven years old or younger you know we look to our role models.
4:03
4 minutes, 3 secondsThis is typically our parents our family members um you know society in general school maybe we’re just starting school church whatever the case may be. If
4:12
4 minutes, 12 secondswe’re influenced, you know, at a unconscious mind level that like you will never be thin, this is how we are
4:18
4 minutes, 18 secondsor um, you know, whole whole host of things that we perceive as,
4:26
4 minutes, 26 secondsyou know, emotional responses that made us angry or sad or hurt or guilty or whatever the case may be. We’re going to hold on to that and that’ll translate
4:34
4 minutes, 34 secondslater into our life. I had a client just recently whose mother was actually very very thin and you know food um you know
4:43
4 minutes, 43 secondsscarcity was a part of it you know just you know kind of generationally um but that whole thing like you need to be thin you need to be thin you need to be
4:50
4 minutes, 50 secondsthin and my client was thin for like almost their entire life until they weren’t until those patterns you know
4:59
4 minutes, 59 secondswhen they broke free from you know they moved out of the house um moved away from their their mother um had less
5:07
5 minutes, 7 secondsinfluence and they had more control of their own life. Then lo and behold those unconscious patterns that they were you
5:13
5 minutes, 13 secondsknow inundated with and were released and of course then the weight gain came on and that’s why they came came to see
5:21
5 minutes, 21 secondsme. So we can literally I can many people can I can you know rewire your brain so that we break those patterns
5:28
5 minutes, 28 secondsthat were instilled with you in childhood or even earlier for that matter. So um so that’s how we you know I use timeline therapy, neural
5:36
5 minutes, 36 secondslinguistic programming and hypnosis as three tools to you know undo what you know your parent typically or your
5:44
5 minutes, 44 secondsfamily has implanted on you about like this just runs in our family. This is how we are. That’s just a bunch of BS.
5:50
5 minutes, 50 secondsUm the next question basically the same question. So I’m just going to skip that.
Chapter 4: Nature as Meditation
5:56
5 minutes, 56 secondsUh does a walk in nature count as meditation? What is moving meditation?
6:00
6 minutesGreat question. Um so number one you know just getting out in nature there’s so many benefits movement has so many benefits I talked
6:08
6 minutes, 8 secondsabout that before um typically to be like really strict uh a moving meditation is such where you’re doing
6:16
6 minutes, 16 secondsexercise and you’re like literally like zoned out you’re not thinking you’re just moving that could be on a machine that could be you know paddling on the
6:24
6 minutes, 24 secondson the lake it could be running whatever because technically that’s would be considered a moving meditation I think it’s a little bit too strict. I think if
6:33
6 minutes, 33 secondsyou’re out doing something and being, you know, I’ll just use myself an example. I love to stand up paddle board. I’ve shared that before. So, if I’m out on the lake, you know, and I’m
6:41
6 minutes, 41 secondsin a rhythm and I’m paddling. I’m going my direction. I’m thinking about other things, you know, about, you know, what’s that noise? Oh, look at that, you
6:49
6 minutes, 49 secondsknow, eagle flying over there. Oh, look, there’s a deer on the shore. Like, whatever. Right? So, the the purist would say, well, I’m not really meditating because I’m thinking about
6:57
6 minutes, 57 secondsall these things, but I am relaxed. I am, you know, listening to nature. I’m focusing on my breath. I’m focusing on
7:05
7 minutes, 5 secondsmy paddle stroke. And again, for if you’re running, it could be your foot stroke, whatever. I would consider that a moving meditation uh myself, even
7:13
7 minutes, 13 secondsthough the purists wouldn’t. So, that’s that’s my take on that.
Chapter 5: Cortisol Stress and Weight
7:17
7 minutes, 17 secondsHow does cortisol and adrenaline connect to weight gain or weight retention?
7:23
7 minutes, 23 secondsThis is I could do a whole like podcast episode just on cortisol. And actually, I have a I have an article um that I just released uh some time ago about
7:32
7 minutes, 32 secondscortisol uh and sleep and how people get that wrong enough. So, I’m not going to uh maybe we’ll put a link to that in the
7:39
7 minutes, 39 secondsshow notes. But, um I think the real question is if your
7:45
7 minutes, 45 secondscortisol um and and number one, cortisol is important. We need it. If we didn’t have cortisol, we’d be dead, right? It’s just the real problem is not even high
7:54
7 minutes, 54 secondscortisol. is cortisol high at the wrong times of the day, right? We want our cortisol to like rise in the morning. That’s typical. That helps wake us up.
8:02
8 minutes, 2 secondsAnd then a little bit in the afternoon as well. We get another little boost of cortisol. The problem is when our cortisol is, you know, either fluctuating the wrong times a day or
8:11
8 minutes, 11 secondsjust staying elevated too long. We’re not having those natural declines that we’re supposed to have. And that’s that
8:18
8 minutes, 18 secondsis part of a bigger picture of um you know, hormones in general. um probably
8:25
8 minutes, 25 secondsour mindset around you know everything food uh our stress response all these sort of things that’s
8:33
8 minutes, 33 secondsa bigger picture of you know whether we’re going to gain weight or retain weight. So cortisol in itself is not a problem and people like to point to that
8:41
8 minutes, 41 secondsas like a single thing and like don’t do this or don’t drink coffee in the morning which is a bunch of BS. Um we have to look at a holistic picture. So
8:48
8 minutes, 48 secondscortisol is one piece uh of a bigger picture when it comes to weight gain.
8:53
8 minutes, 53 secondsSo, I know that’s didn’t really answer the question that this person wanted, but that’s what I’m going to respond with.
8:59
8 minutes, 59 secondsOh, here’s an interesting one. Do EMF or electromagnetic field products uh work?
Chapter 6: Do EMF Products Work
9:06
9 minutes, 6 secondsAnd how would you even know? Um, so I guess what they’re trying to say is, you know, do these products that are supposed to block EMF signals, uh, their
9:15
9 minutes, 15 secondssupplements, uh, like, uh, sheillegit, etc., do they actually work? Um here’s my take on
9:23
9 minutes, 23 secondsthis. Um the science while emerging is pretty clear that non-native EMFs so
9:30
9 minutes, 30 secondsthose from our you know phones and devices and Wi-Fi routers and you know uh all these sorts of things um disrupt
9:40
9 minutes, 40 secondsour cells and cause a low level of harm slashinflammation to our bodies. Now certain products uh supplements etc you
9:49
9 minutes, 49 secondsknow promote that. I don’t know if we can really test that. I don’t think the science is there. What I will say is on my back shelf here, I have two different
9:56
9 minutes, 56 secondsEMF meters that I’ve used to test. And I have um actually I’m going to go two
10:04
10 minutes, 4 secondsways with this. There are products that are supposed to uh minimize the effects
10:10
10 minutes, 10 secondsof EMFs. Sometimes you’ll see them as like stickers that have sacred geometry on them you can put on devices.
10:18
10 minutes, 18 secondsSometimes they’re like um things you can place in your home. They’re almost decorative. They’re supposed to like harmonize the EMFs. There’s no way to
10:26
10 minutes, 26 secondstest it. I’ve tried to test them. Um my meter will still pick up the EMFs because it’s picking it up in the air.
10:32
10 minutes, 32 secondsUm because it’s not eliminating the EMFs. These harmonizing devices are supposed to make the effects less impactful to your body or to your area.
10:40
10 minutes, 40 secondsSo, in a sense, no. You can’t really test it. Now, what I will say is I do have a toque, you know, that’s for us Canadians or for Americans, a beanie, a
10:48
10 minutes, 48 secondswinter cap, uh, that’s lined with silver, and if I put my phone on inside
10:54
10 minutes, 54 secondsthat toque, I can eliminate the EMF signals on my meter. So, a product like that, uh, laptop protectors, these cases
11:03
11 minutes, 3 secondsthat you can wrap your phone in, I think those do work. Uh, actually, I’ve I’ve tested one of those cases before that does work as well. So those products do
11:12
11 minutes, 12 secondswork, but as far as certain supplements or natural products that are, you know, or or these harmonine devices, I I can’t I maybe somebody else has a better idea.
11:22
11 minutes, 22 secondsUh but I have not been able to test them. But that being said, that doesn’t mean I don’t have them because I think there’s some um validity,
11:30
11 minutes, 30 secondsnot some, there is validity in these devices in harmonizing and minimizing the effects of non-native EMS.
Chapter 7: Sound Healing and Frequencies
11:38
11 minutes, 38 secondsIs there anything to sound healing, tuning forks, and frequencies? Wow, we’re really getting deep in the questions, sir. I love this that you guys are sending these in. Um,
11:46
11 minutes, 46 secondsdefinitely sound healing. Um, I’m I’m going to speak to the frequencies. So, there’s there’s sound frequencies, there’s uh light
11:55
11 minutes, 55 secondsfrequencies, right? Uh, you know, um, red light, infrared, you know, certainly that’s why I have a sauna. Um, obviously
12:04
12 minutes, 4 secondsthere there’s there’s lots of different ways we our bodies communicate within ourselves, our cells communicate as well as we communicate with the outside world
12:11
12 minutes, 11 secondsand take that information and and sound and and sound frequencies is one way.
12:16
12 minutes, 16 secondsUm, so there’s definitely we can certainly um minimize the impacts of things going
12:25
12 minutes, 25 secondson in our environment and even heal with uh sound frequencies for sure. Um, I’ll just share this is not exactly the
12:32
12 minutes, 32 secondsquestion, but if someone I knew uh was struggling with um Alzheimer’s,
12:39
12 minutes, 39 secondsdementia, early onset, I, you know, I would exclusively play music
12:48
12 minutes, 48 secondsthat ties to an earlier period in their life, probably somewhere in their childhood up to their teens, early 20s,
12:56
12 minutes, 56 secondswhatever that type of music is, and play it all the time. But it helps for memory consolidation when they can go back. Um,
13:03
13 minutes, 3 secondsI know that’s more than just sound. I’ve gone a little bit little bit off topic here, but I think that’s a worthwhile exercise. If you know anyone who’s struggling with that, and I would certainly something I would do as well.
13:13
13 minutes, 13 secondsAll right, that was a big that was a big question. I’m going to move on here.
Chapter 8: Handling Family Dynamics
13:18
13 minutes, 18 secondsHow do you protect your family around family dynamics you can’t choose? Um, not really sure what they mean by this, but uh what I what I think they mean is
13:27
13 minutes, 27 secondsum we didn’t get to choose our family, right? They could be our personal family, they could be our in-laws,
13:35
13 minutes, 35 secondswhat have you. Uh that type of thing, you know, we didn’t get to choose them.
13:38
13 minutes, 38 secondsWe we inherited them or were born into them. Um I think the best thing you can do to protect your health around these
13:46
13 minutes, 46 secondstype of people, and I’m going to put two ways. There’s a physical aspect, right?
13:50
13 minutes, 50 secondsum maybe your family doesn’t eat the way that you would like to eat, right? And there’s ways around that. And again, I could do a whole podcast just on this
13:57
13 minutes, 57 secondstopic. Um you know, substitute where you can lead by example. Um bring your own
14:03
14 minutes, 3 secondsfood if if if you need to. Um you know, there’s certain, you know, even supplements you could take to reduce the impacts of the food that you might get
14:12
14 minutes, 12 secondsserved somewhere else. That that’s one aspect to look at it. The other aspect is more of a emotional piece. You know,
14:19
14 minutes, 19 secondsare you self-regulated so that those people don’t bother you or the way they
14:26
14 minutes, 26 secondsact doesn’t bother you? Like it might bother you. You might be like, “Oh my god, what? I can’t wait to leave these people.” But how you react, you don’t have to get angry. You don’t have to get upset. You don’t have to get sad.
14:36
14 minutes, 36 secondsWhatever the emotion is for you if you’re properly self-regulated. So again, that kind of goes back to the earlier question about um you know,
14:44
14 minutes, 44 secondsthose three modalities that I use for um emotional regulation um and really getting you know a handle on your your emotions. So that’s one way.
14:54
14 minutes, 54 secondsFocus on yourself because you can’t really dictate what other people are going to do, but as long as you can control yourself, they won’t bother you as much. That’s from the emotional
15:03
15 minutes, 3 secondspiece. And on the physical piece at a high level here, um, you know, do what you can when it comes around to food and and other sort of practices like that.
Chapter 9: Seed Oils Coconut and Cholesterol
15:15
15 minutes, 15 secondsUh, does swapping seed oils for coconut oil raise cholesterol? That is an interesting question. So, as I mentioned
15:22
15 minutes, 22 secondsin the last episode, uh, coconut oil, uh, is a saturated fat. Um, so it’s a bit of a simplistic question.
15:33
15 minutes, 33 secondseating fat or eating foods that are uh high in cholesterol. And I think that’s be our next question or a couple
15:41
15 minutes, 41 secondsquestions down. Eggs. Um consuming cholesterol doesn’t raise our blood cholesterol.
15:48
15 minutes, 48 secondsWe produce cholesterol ourselves as response to inflammation. So if our body is inflamed, we will produce more
15:57
15 minutes, 57 secondscholesterol. So when you do a blood test and your cholesterol is high, whether it be HDL, the good cholesterol, or LDL, the bad cholesterol, it’s really based
16:05
16 minutes, 5 secondsmore so on our inflammation levels. Now, that ratio we can impact with what we eat. So coconut oil would be a way to
16:14
16 minutes, 14 secondshave more um saturated fat and more uh HDL, but it’s not that simplistic. I can’t just say, oh, raise your good
16:22
16 minutes, 22 secondscholesterol HDL by eating more coconut oil. But that’s it. It’s more complicated than that. Um, but back to what I said last episode, I would
16:31
16 minutes, 31 secondsdefinitely swap out um the seed oils out for natural olive oil, natural avocado
16:39
16 minutes, 39 secondsoil, and even a little bit of coconut oil in moderation um again to just to get those healthy fats and reduce the highly inflammatory uh seed oils.
Chapter 10: Sugars and Glycemic Index
16:50
16 minutes, 50 secondsOkay, next question. uh coconut sugar, stevia, sugar, alcohols, honey, where do they each fall in the spectrum? Um,
16:58
16 minutes, 58 secondsis a great question as well. I’ll just say this, all those things plus every other type of sugar out there, and there’s over 100 different names, 120
17:05
17 minutes, 5 secondsdifferent names for sugar or even just carbohydrates in general, like an apple, uh, or, you know, celery or a potato or
17:13
17 minutes, 13 secondspiece of bread, right? They’re all all carbohydrates break down into glucose um and or fructose in our in our body. So I
17:23
17 minutes, 23 secondscan’t really rank them because everyone’s going to be individual how we you know how do we respond to sugar, how our body responds. There’s a genetic
17:30
17 minutes, 30 secondscomponent to that as well. So I can’t really rank them. Um, but I will say that
17:39
17 minutes, 39 secondswe need to be mindful of the amount of and again it’s gonna actually it’s going to be independent depend on our goals.
17:45
17 minutes, 45 secondsWe got to be mindful of um our carbohydrate intake, our you know uh
17:51
17 minutes, 51 secondssimple sugar uh simple carbs intake and you know again just more natural products right I’d rather you eat honey
17:58
17 minutes, 58 secondsthan you know some processed white sugar. Um, there’s also a lot of benefits from honey that I won’t get into now. Um, I’m just going to dovetail
18:07
18 minutes, 7 secondsthis into the next question, which is, is the glycemic index a good guide or does it lead you astray?
18:13
18 minutes, 13 secondsUm, again, I think it depends. So, here’s here’s an example. So, watermelon has is really high on the glycemic
18:20
18 minutes, 20 secondsindex. So, may feel like, oh, I’m maybe I’m diabetic or whatever the case may be is, I’m going to avoid watermelon. But
18:27
18 minutes, 27 secondsyeah, but watermelon also has a ton of water which helps dilute that sugar per se. So I wouldn’t be really concerned with
18:36
18 minutes, 36 secondswatermelon. Now we have to look at, you know, anything we eat in the context of our overall goals, our overall diet, but just from a simplistic question, I wouldn’t be concerned with watermelon.
18:44
18 minutes, 44 secondsUm, white potato has a higher glycemic index than say sweet potato, which is why, you know, a lot of people switch to sweet potato. And sweet potatoes are
18:53
18 minutes, 53 secondsgreat. White potatoes in moderation, too. How are we preparing these potatoes? You know, um are we uh cooking them and then letting them cool so they
19:02
19 minutes, 2 secondsbecome more of a resistance resistant starch? Basically, what I’m trying to say is I wouldn’t be overboard with like the glycemic index. I put too much
19:10
19 minutes, 10 secondsweight in it. You know, if you want to be simple like this or this, great, go with the lower one. But that’s not the complete uh picture.
Chapter 11: Eggs Diabetes and Cholesterol
19:18
19 minutes, 18 secondsOkay. Are eggs good or bad? Especially for older or diabetic people. Um I don’t know where this came up. I think there’s some very terrible vegan doctors trying
19:27
19 minutes, 27 secondsto push this agenda from like 10 years ago that eggs are bad for people with
19:34
19 minutes, 34 secondsdiabetes. Okay, eggs don’t have any sugar. Eggs are not carbohydrate.
19:40
19 minutes, 40 secondsThey’re like protein and fat. That’s like the dumbest thing I ever heard. So, are eggs good or bad?
19:46
19 minutes, 46 secondsIt’s going to depend. Depends where you’re at. I already just said a moment ago, eating eggs, the cholesterol that are in eggs are not going to raise your
19:55
19 minutes, 55 secondsblood cholesterol, right? That comes from from inflammation. So, eggs, good or bad, eggs are good. Eggs are fine.
20:02
20 minutes, 2 secondsUm, I would say eat the whole egg. Don’t eat eat just the whites. Don’t eat just the yolks. Eat the whole egg. And how
20:09
20 minutes, 9 secondsmany you you should eat per day. That’s going to depend. What are your goals? How much protein are you trying to get?
20:16
20 minutes, 16 secondsAre you sensitive to eggs? if you’re and many people are that don’t eat eggs if you’re sensitive. Now this is again this is just what Deepack does and I’ve eaten
20:24
20 minutes, 24 secondsin the past. In the past when I was trying to, you know, stay active, stay strong, get lean, but I still had so
20:34
20 minutes, 34 secondsmany things wrong with my overall health. I was still sick. I was still fat. Um I ate six eggs a day. That was probably too much. I now eat three eggs
20:43
20 minutes, 43 secondsa day. Three eggs a day pretty much every day. and my cholesterol is fine.
20:47
20 minutes, 47 secondsSo, I like eggs. It’s and they’re very versatile food. So, eggs are not good or bad. Eggs I say eggs are good, but it’s going to depend.
Chapter 12: Reading Cholesterol Ratios
20:57
20 minutes, 57 secondsUh, if total cholesterol is high, but LDL is also high, should I worry? So, again, I’m this is not medical advice at
21:06
21 minutes, 6 secondsall. Um, but when I work with my clients and we look at their blood work, I’m not concerned if their total cholesterol,
21:14
21 minutes, 14 secondsnow there it’s within reason, of course, right? You can’t have like five times the normal number, you know, that you should have, but if your total
21:20
21 minutes, 20 secondscholesterol is high, but your LDL is also very high. Sorry, sorry, your HDL,
21:27
21 minutes, 27 secondsthe good cholesterol, your HDL is also high.
21:31
21 minutes, 31 secondsAnd that’s the difference. That’s what makes up why your total cholesterol is high. I have no problem with that. And actually, it’s really the relationship between your HDL and your LDL. You want
21:40
21 minutes, 40 secondsthat ratio to be favorable. If it is, then I wouldn’t worry about even if your LDL was high, but your HDL was even
21:48
21 minutes, 48 secondshigher and that ratio is good, I wouldn’t worry. Same with HDL to your triglycerides. So, I don’t think it’s a what it’s it’s not a blanket thing that
21:57
21 minutes, 57 secondsyour doctor will tell you or that your standard lab will say. It really depends on a lot of of factor and those ratios.
22:02
22 minutes, 2 secondsSo to answer the question, if your HDL is high and it and because of that the highness of your HDL makes your total cholesterol high, I have no problem with
22:11
22 minutes, 11 secondsthat. As long as your LDL is fine. Even if your LDL was a bit high, but your HDL was high, no problem. Uh and if your triglycerides are normal, no problem.
Chapter 13: White vs Brown Rice
22:20
22 minutes, 20 secondsWhite rice versus brown rice, does it matter? Especially for diabetics.
22:25
22 minutes, 25 secondsMust have been a diabetic who sent all these questions in. Um I pref So a lot of people think brown
22:32
22 minutes, 32 secondsrice is healthier than white rice. Um most people don’t know brown rice is actually has higher levels of arsenic in it. Now we’re talking trace amounts.
22:41
22 minutes, 41 secondsOkay? So eating a brown rice here and there is like not a problem. If you ate brown rice every day for the rest of your life, I’d be concerned with the arsenic. But um as far as that glycemic
22:50
22 minutes, 50 secondsresponse um particularly for someone who’s you know diabetic or blood sugar issues um
23:00
23 minutesI wouldn’t really the question I don’t think is should I eat brown rice or white rice. I think the question is like what does my overall diet look like and what else am I doing to mitigate this
23:07
23 minutes, 7 secondsrisk? That’s the better question. So I prefer white rice and I have a little bit here and there. I’m East Indian.
23:13
23 minutes, 13 secondsRice is part of our culture. Um I like sushi. My daughter likes sushi. We eat a little bit of rice, but you know, still mitigate it. I don’t really eat brown rice ever. It’s just something not
23:22
23 minutes, 22 secondssomething we we buy. So, I don’t think there’s a right or wrong here. I think especially if you have blood sugar issues, it’s like what does the overall picture? That’s the better question.
Chapter 14: Doing Vegetarian Diet Right
23:33
23 minutes, 33 secondsCan you do a plant-based or vegetarian diet? Well, what must you supplement?
23:38
23 minutes, 38 secondsUm, yes. The answer is no. I’m not vegan or vegetarian. Uh, many family members are, many friends are. Sure. Can you do it well? Yes. Does it take more effort?
23:49
23 minutes, 49 secondsYes, it does. Um, you have to supplement with, you know, B12 at a minimum. You don’t get B12 from vegetables. Um, iron,
23:58
23 minutes, 58 secondsyou get a very poor uh form of iron from certain vegetables. You know, you really only get it from um meat, animal
24:07
24 minutes, 7 secondsproducts. Um, so we’d have to be concerned about iron and and there’s a whole host of other things. Um,
24:14
24 minutes, 14 secondsif there there’s an ethical reason to be vegan, okay, great. Um, and many people
24:23
24 minutes, 23 secondsare vegetarian, right? They’ll have animal milk or maybe even eggs and they just won’t eat the flesh. Okay, that’s fine. That’s a better way. Or they’ll maybe’ll eat fish, you know, pescatarian, whatever. No judgment.
24:33
24 minutes, 33 secondsWhatever your your lifestyle or religious beliefs uh are, um, it is more challenging. Can you do it? Well, yes. I
24:41
24 minutes, 41 secondsjust want to point out that most junk foods, processed foods are vegetarian or vegan.
24:50
24 minutes, 50 secondsChips, Twinkies, Coke, uh you name it.
24:54
24 minutes, 54 secondsThese are all vegan products. So, can you be healthy on a vegan or vegetarian uh diet? Yes. But you need to eat the right things. I’ll leave it at that.
Chapter 15: Organic Produce and Dirty Dozen
25:05
25 minutes, 5 secondsOrganic versus conventional. What’s the dirty dozen? How do you wash produce?
25:10
25 minutes, 10 secondsUm, I think where possible, we all have to make our own choices. Um, organic when you when you can,
Chapter 16: Organic Produce Picks
25:18
25 minutes, 18 secondswhat I would say is if it’s something where you’re eating like let’s say a banana example, you don’t eat the banana peel, you don’t need it to be organic.
25:27
25 minutes, 27 secondsYou know, if you’re going to if you’re going to not if you got to pick your spots, you know, something where you’re peeling in a way, don’t go organic. Uh, an orange, another example. Uh, but an
25:36
25 minutes, 36 secondsapple, you know, you you eat the skin of the apple, you know, sure, go go go organic. As far as the dirty dozen or
25:43
25 minutes, 43 secondsthe clean dozen, uh, I’m not going to go through the list. You can Google that yourself. The dirty dozen is the list, and it usually tweaks a little bit every
25:52
25 minutes, 52 secondsyear. Uh, the list of the foods that have the most pesticides, uh, and everything like that.
25:58
25 minutes, 58 secondsStrawberries are high in the list. I don’t eat strawberries by choice.
26:01
26 minutes, 1 secondSometimes it’s in a thing. Sometimes you order a salad at a restaurant, they throw it on there, you didn’t know.
26:05
26 minutes, 5 secondsOkay, whatever. It’s fine. Um, and there’s others like that, but um yeah, and how do you wash your produce? Um,
Chapter 17: Washing Fruits and Veggies
26:13
26 minutes, 13 secondssome people will use like a baking soda solution, you know, vinegar, whatever, you know, batch washer things from the grocery store. That’s great. No problem with that. That’s quite a bit of effort.
26:23
26 minutes, 23 secondsI’m I’m not I’m not doing that. Uh, I’m just washing, you know, as as diligently as I can. And this is not just running
26:30
26 minutes, 30 secondswater. I’m like kind of like scrubbing it. Uh that that type of thing. Uh we can go way deeper down that. Anyone could for sure. Uh but I’m I’m not personally doing that.
26:41
26 minutes, 41 secondsIs any amount of alcohol okay? What does it do to your sleep? So I’ve said this before, alcohol is a poison. There’s no ifand or buts about it. It is a poison.
Chapter 18: Alcohol Truth and Sleep
26:52
26 minutes, 52 secondsIt’s a toxic toxic substance to your system and your body will respond to clear it as quickly as possible. That’s why a lot of times people get the
27:00
27 minutesmunchies because your body wants sugar or any sort of food, primarily carbohydrates on board to help dilute uh
27:08
27 minutes, 8 secondsthat alcohol. So, hey, I get it. Um people wanted to relax or social, what have you. Uh I I just put this myth to
27:16
27 minutes, 16 secondsBeth. They didn’t this question wasn’t asked, but you know, red w red wine is hard healthy. That is a myth. uh that is a somebody uh you know the marketing
27:26
27 minutes, 26 secondsindustry took a study completely out of context like 20 years ago and just ran with it. That is a complete myth. Uh I’m not going to go into that. I’ve talked
27:34
27 minutes, 34 secondsabout that uh before. Second part of the question, what does alcohol do to your sleep? Some people take alcohol to sleep. Maybe it relaxes them, whatever.
27:42
27 minutes, 42 secondsI get it. But if you actually look at sleep data, not only myself, but across the board, have they done sleep studies?
27:49
27 minutes, 49 secondsSleep messes up your sleep cycles. It impacts your sleep, destroys your deep sleep, um elevates your temperature, all
27:57
27 minutes, 57 secondsthese sorts of things. So, uh alcohol not good for you. Now, does that mean I don’t have alcohol? I have it here and there. Again, social setting, what have
28:05
28 minutes, 5 secondsyou. But I know I also know I’m not kidding myself. It is not good for me.
28:09
28 minutes, 9 secondsSo, alcohol, bottom line, it’s not healthy for you. Do what you’re going to do. No judgment on my part. Does it affect your sleep? Absolutely.
Chapter 19: Chocolate Before Bed
28:18
28 minutes, 18 secondsUh, oh, here’s a fun one. Is chocolate before bed a yes or a no? I like chocolate, but I also
28:27
28 minutes, 27 secondseat dark chocolate, like 85 90% dark chocolate, and I’ll sometimes have that before bed as a as a little treat or
28:35
28 minutes, 35 secondswhat have you. Um, hey, I’m not going to lie, around Halloween time or post Halloween, there’s a extra Kit Kat or Coffee Crisp lying around, you know, the
28:44
28 minutes, 44 secondslittle mini mini ones you get at Halloween. Yeah, I might have one of those. Probably not before bed, probably earlier in the day for my body to have a chance to work on it. But, uh, bottom
28:52
28 minutes, 52 secondsline, uh, you know, dark chocolate is, you know, even saying there’s a lot of polyphenols and stuff like that. You
29:01
29 minutes, 1 secondknow, can even be a superfood, but you’re going to want 85 or greater uh, purity on that. Milk chocolate, which is
29:09
29 minutes, 9 secondsanywhere from 40 to maybe 50%. Uh, actual chocolate is mostly just sugar.
Chapter 20: What Keeps Produce Fresh
29:17
29 minutes, 17 secondsUh, why do bagged apples last for weeks?
29:20
29 minutes, 20 secondsWhat’s done to produce? Oh my gosh, we could do a whole podcast on this. Um, I might throw some resources in there. I’m not sure. Uh, bottom line, anything
29:28
29 minutes, 28 secondsconventionally grown, um, for shelf life, for faster growing, for higher yield, um, you know, everything from
29:36
29 minutes, 36 secondsgenetically modified seeds to, um, incest in insecticides, pesticides, you name it.
29:44
29 minutes, 44 secondsum whole host of things. So, back to the earlier question, just wash your wash your produce uh as as as best you can.
29:51
29 minutes, 51 secondsUm I’m just going to leave that one there. Are pre-workout supplements a good idea?
Chapter 21: Pre Workout Supplements
29:57
29 minutes, 57 secondsUh the person didn’t say what they meant by pre-workouts. Um, I think what most people think as pre-workouts is some
30:04
30 minutes, 4 secondssort of caffeine slash sugarbased um, drink or mix or powder that you mix
30:12
30 minutes, 12 secondsinto a drink that you know to give you a little bit of a a boost. Um, and hey, and caffeine, don’t get me wrong, caffeine can can impact your workout,
30:21
30 minutes, 21 secondscan make your workout better. Uh, you can lift more, you have more energy. Sure, I get I get why people doing that.
30:27
30 minutes, 27 secondsUm, and sugar is is fuel on on board. Uh, ready readily available, you know,
30:34
30 minutes, 34 secondssimple sugar, you know, that’s in in these workout drinks or or, you know, energy drinks or whatever is ready
30:41
30 minutes, 41 secondsimmediate fuel. Um, I would say, you know, hey, if you want to have a pre-workout or something, like
30:50
30 minutes, 50 secondseat a banana or an apple or or something like that. I don’t think they’re really necessary for most people. Uh, most people are not professional athletes,
30:59
30 minutes, 59 secondsbodybuilders, what have you. So, I don’t know if a pre-workout really needs to make sense. Eat some real food. And then when you’re done your workout, have some
31:07
31 minutes, 7 secondsreal food. Now, depending when I’m doing my workout, if it’s earlier than typical and I’m drinking my coffee anyway,
31:14
31 minutes, 14 secondsabsolutely. I want to have my coffee while I’m working out. Um, that’s just the way it is. And do I get that boost? Like I mentioned, yes, absolutely I do.
31:22
31 minutes, 22 secondsBut I don’t take anything specifically.
31:24
31 minutes, 24 secondsUm, I’ve experimented. People send me products all the time to try out and yeah, you get a little a boost because you’re adding extra stimulants or extra
31:33
31 minutes, 33 secondsfuel on board. Uh, again, I’ve shared this before. I typically work out fasted. That works better for me, but again, I have certain goals. I’m not trying to like, you know, super bulk up.
31:42
31 minutes, 42 secondsI’m not a professional athlete.
Chapter 22: Collagen and Protein Boost
31:44
31 minutes, 44 secondsUh, next one. Collagen. Is it fixing a deficiency or just optimizing? Um not really sure what they mean to this
31:53
31 minutes, 53 secondsquestion, but uh um as we get older, our natural collagen production declines.
32:02
32 minutes, 2 secondsSo people will see a lot of products, particularly women, these face creams with, you know, collagen peptides in it. And technically collagen is a
32:11
32 minutes, 11 secondspeptide um in it. And you know, for the like all the service level stuff really doesn’t do anything. What you really
32:17
32 minutes, 17 secondsneed to do is jumpst start your body to produce collagen itself. So we could do that using peptides which I’m not going
32:25
32 minutes, 25 secondsto get into here. Um you know having the right other nutrients on board, vitamin C, etc. Or you know you can take u you
32:33
32 minutes, 33 secondsknow a collagen uh supplement or powder and I mix a little bit of my coffee uh every day. And now for me it’s not
32:41
32 minutes, 41 secondsnecessarily about and I don’t know the person didn’t say what this where they were coming with this question. It’s not necessarily so much about um trying to
32:50
32 minutes, 50 secondsbump my internal collagen up from the inside out so I have clearer skin and all. Hey, that’s all benefit. That works for me. Having some collagen is a way to
32:58
32 minutes, 58 secondsget some extra protein uh extra amino acids into into my diet.
Chapter 23: Essential vs BCAA
33:05
33 minutes, 5 secondsUh branch chain amino acids versus essential amino acid. What’s the difference? Um essential amino acids are what your body
33:13
33 minutes, 13 secondsneeds. They are essential and you don’t produce them. So we need to get them from exogenous sources typically um pro
33:21
33 minutes, 21 secondsprotein animal meat. Um or you know you can buy them as capsules. Uh and I and I take essential amino acids. I talk about
33:29
33 minutes, 29 secondsthe Keon brand all the time. Maybe they’ll be a show sponsor. Maybe they we’ll have a link here in the show notes. Uh but essential amino acids very
33:36
33 minutes, 36 secondsimportant. branch chain am branch chain amino acids I think are garbage. I’m just going to say it. Don’t waste your time with them. If you’re going to take amino acids, take essential amino acids.
Chapter 24: HIIT for Any Age
33:46
33 minutes, 46 secondsOkay. Is hit too hard for beginners or older people? How do you make it work?
33:51
33 minutes, 51 secondsSo, hit high intensity interval training. Now, the key points are is intensity. And that’s going to be
33:58
33 minutes, 58 secondsdifferent for everyone. What’s intense for me is going to be different. That’s what’s intense for my wife is going to be different than what’s intense for my mother.
34:06
34 minutes, 6 secondsSo, you go to a class, it’s like a HIT class, whatever, and they’re trying to get everyone the same pace. And I think that’s uh where people get it wrong.
34:12
34 minutes, 12 secondsDon’t try and keep up with the instructor. Don’t try and keep up with the person standing or sitting next to you. Keep up to what you can do. What is
34:21
34 minutes, 21 secondshigh intensity for you? So, assuming we’re relatively healthy, we don’t have any injuries, and we can do these type of intense, whatever’s intense for you.
34:30
34 minutes, 30 secondsSo, to the question, can beginners do it? Absolutely. But don’t try and keep up with the instructor who’s, you know,
34:37
34 minutes, 37 seconds40 pounds lighter and 20 pounds young 20 years younger. You know, do what’s intense for you. If you’re an older person, don’t try and keep up with the
34:45
34 minutes, 45 secondsyoung instructor or the person, you know, standing beside you. Do what’s intense for you. So, absolutely, high-intensity inter interval can uh can work.
Chapter 25: Minimalist Shoe Transition
34:55
34 minutes, 55 secondsAre barefoot shoes worth it? How do you transition safely?
34:59
34 minutes, 59 secondsI’m not even going to really I’m I’m going to pass on this one because um I don’t feel like I’m an expert in in this. What I will say is in the
35:08
35 minutes, 8 secondstransitioning through injuries and over time I found that wearing minimalist shoes uh shoes that have very little uh
35:18
35 minutes, 18 secondsdrop so from the toe to the heel how much heel there is that that you know how many uh millimeters the the smaller it is works better for me. I don’t do
35:27
35 minutes, 27 secondswell with things with heels. I don’t wear dress shoes anymore. I pretty much almost wear runners. Even when I’m on stage, uh or I’m wearing a suit at a
35:36
35 minutes, 36 secondswedding, I’m wearing runners. I don’t care. Uh now, in the winter time, good luck finding boots that don’t have a heel. So, yeah, I got to wear heels.
35:43
35 minutes, 43 secondsBut, uh um so I would say as far as a transitioning, go slow with anything.
35:48
35 minutes, 48 secondsTransition slowly. Don’t go from, you know, a super uh thick sold running shoe to like uh barefoot shoes. Um transition slowly.
36:01
36 minutes, 1 secondBut as far as are they worth it, you know, mechanics, that that’s not my area of expertise. I defer you to other people.
Chapter 26: Lunges and Knee Pain
36:08
36 minutes, 8 secondsUh next question. Do forward lunges wreck bad knees? Are reverse lunges better?
36:14
36 minutes, 14 secondsIt’s going to depend. It’s going to depend on the knee injury. There’s no oneizefits-all uh here. Um some people
36:22
36 minutes, 22 secondsas far as their knee joint, that reverse motion, a reverse lunge seems to put less pressure or pain than a forward. I
36:30
36 minutes, 30 secondswould say, you know, and you don’t even have to do a forward, you know, there’s lots of ways to do lunges. You can do like a stationary lunge as well. You don’t have to necessarily step. So, I’m
36:38
36 minutes, 38 secondsnot sure what they’re what type of lunge they were referring to necessarily, but I would say it’s going to depend on the person. you know, do what works for you.
36:47
36 minutes, 47 secondsI would rather someone do um less range of motion lunge and have no pain than try and go to like a 90 degree lunge and
36:56
36 minutes, 56 secondshave pain, right? We don’t want any pain. So, long short, it’s it’s going to depend.
Chapter 27: Heel Plates and Squats
37:06
37 minutes, 6 secondsWhy do people put plates under their heels to squat and what does it say about ankle mobility? I love this question. Uh probably about a year ago,
37:13
37 minutes, 13 secondsI had a nice little social media rant on this exact topic because my daughter saw
37:20
37 minutes, 20 secondssomething on social media and started squatting that way. Okay, here’s the deal. The people who put plates under
37:28
37 minutes, 28 secondstheir heels to squat so that they can have a fuller range of motion, i.e. they can go deeper, they can they’re all they’re doing that because they have no ankle mobility.
37:38
37 minutes, 38 secondsIf they had ankle mobility, they’d be able to do that without putting plates under their heels. So, stop doing that.
37:45
37 minutes, 45 secondsI’m just telling you, stop doing that.
37:49
37 minutes, 49 secondsGo less deep. Go less heavy and work on your ankle mobility. Work on your full range of motion and build up to that point to wherever you need to go. And
37:56
37 minutes, 56 secondsand just as a side, you don’t have to go so deep. Are you a powerlifter? Are you a professional athlete? Most of you are not. So, don’t worry about it. Go to 90 degrees or even less than 90 degrees.
38:07
38 minutes, 7 secondsBut move naturally and holistically. Putting putting uh plates under your heels is
38:15
38 minutes, 15 secondsjust uh putting a bandage on the problem which is you have no ankle mobility or limited ankle mobility.
Chapter 28: Mouth Taping Basics
38:24
38 minutes, 24 secondsMouth taping, does it work? What kind of tape? Any risks? Um yes, mouth taping works. I mouth tape. My daughter mouth
38:31
38 minutes, 31 secondstapes. Many clients try it. Um, it keeps you from breathing through your mouth.
38:38
38 minutes, 38 secondsNow, you’re not No, you’re putting a little tiny little piece maybe maybe this way. You know, technically they can still a bit of air
38:46
38 minutes, 46 secondsmaybe comes through the side of the mouth or what have you, but it forces you to breathe through your nose, which is what you want. You’re supposed to
38:53
38 minutes, 53 secondsbreathe through your nose. Your mouth is for eating and talking. And too many people breathe wrong just generally as society and certainly when they’re uh
39:01
39 minutes, 1 secondsleeping. So, what kind of tape? Um, there’s special tape you can get specifically for for for a mouth, so it’s not so sticky. You can get sort of
39:09
39 minutes, 9 secondsthat bandagey kind of tape that’s more of a material. Uh, that works okay. You might have a little bit of sticky film.
39:15
39 minutes, 15 secondsUm, that’s about the only risk. I get this all the time.
39:20
39 minutes, 20 secondsI won’t be able to breathe and or I’m stuffed up all the time. My nose is stuff. I have to breathe through my mouth. Look,
39:27
39 minutes, 27 secondsyour body will do anything it can to preserve itself for life. That’s your body’s job. If you’re stuffed up all the
39:35
39 minutes, 35 secondstime, you cover your mouth up and you’re forced to breathe through your nose.
39:40
39 minutes, 40 secondsYour body will clear your nose up because it does not want you to die.
39:44
39 minutes, 44 secondsMight not be both, might just be one, might just be partial, but you’ll be able to breathe through your nose. So, don’t worry about that. That is not a risk at all.
Chapter 29: LED Blue Light Sleep
39:55
39 minutes, 55 secondsDo LED lights hurt sleep?
39:59
39 minutes, 59 secondsWhat about blue lights on devices? Um, I’ve talked about this many times before. Uh, LED lights are
40:08
40 minutes, 8 secondsnot natural. They’ve only been around for whatever, what, 10, 20 years now.
40:12
40 minutes, 12 secondsThey are brand new to humanity and we have not adjusted. So LED lights, blue
40:19
40 minutes, 19 secondslight in general impacts our sleep and arguably impacts our health overall
40:27
40 minutes, 27 secondscertainly getting a blue light from your devices, from your phone, from your TV set, your computer screen, what have you. One, it isn’t. Why am I wearing these glasses?
40:36
40 minutes, 36 secondsTwo reasons. One, I’m cutting out the blue light as much as possible.
40:41
40 minutes, 41 secondsAnd two, I’m trying to mimic the natural cycle of this of the sun of when the sun starts to set and we the blue and the
40:48
40 minutes, 48 secondsgreens of the spectrum are gone. You get more orange, reds, and yellows. So, um yes, bottom line, LED lights do hurt
40:56
40 minutes, 56 secondsyour sleep. Uh it’s unfortunate that they are more energy efficient. We’re we’re solving one problem but creating another problem. It’s hard to get traditional light bulbs anymore.
41:04
41 minutes, 4 secondsAlthough, they are making a bit of a resurgence because people are starting to realize the negative health effects of LED light. So, um, you know, I’m just going to delve into the next question
Chapter 30: Red Bulbs at Night
41:13
41 minutes, 13 secondsbecause the next question is, “Do red or orange bulbs work? Are red, uh, night lighting night lights better for kids?” Absolutely.
41:21
41 minutes, 21 secondsWe have our house, not our entire house, but our nightstands in our room for both uh, me and my wife and our kids have red
41:29
41 minutes, 29 secondsbulbs. So, as we’re transitioning to bedtime, that last little bit before we’re getting ready for bed, put our pajamas on, etc., we have red bulbs. Uh,
41:37
41 minutes, 37 secondsand the kids do as well. You get up in the middle of the night, you need to turn on the lamp. Uh it’s red bulbs again setting that signal. We’re not waking ourselves up with bright blue
41:45
41 minutes, 45 secondslight. We’re transitioning as the sun would as the sun is setting. We’re transitioning to bedtime. And if we do have to get up in the middle of the
41:52
41 minutes, 52 secondsnight, we are not shocking ourselves with uh blue light because traditionally you would not. Traditionally, you would had the fire going which would been red
42:00
42 minutesand orange light or you would add candle light um to see around at night time.
Chapter 31: Natural Eyesight Hearing
42:07
42 minutes, 7 secondsUm, can you improve eyesight or hearing Natalie? Um, the short answer is uh yes.
42:16
42 minutes, 16 secondsThere’s many uh there’s a few techniques that I do personally for improving eyesight. Uh% of transparency. It’s a
42:24
42 minutes, 24 secondswork in progress. I can’t say I’ve reduced my prescription by x% doing these exercises. It’s a work in progress. Even if I don’t improve my
42:31
42 minutes, 31 secondseyesight, I’m trying to minimize the deterioration further, both from macular degeneration. That’s also part of the reason why I wear blue light blocking
42:39
42 minutes, 39 secondsglasses. Um, but also from just being on screens and all these other lights we just uh talked about. Uh, sungazing is
42:47
42 minutes, 47 secondsone you can do. You can Google that yourself. Um, I’ll I would say um past um no, they were not a podcast guest.
42:56
42 minutes, 56 secondsThey were in my summit that I ran a few years ago. they were guest Barry Archettel uh an expert uh he reverses
43:03
43 minutes, 3 secondsblind blindness using his techniques and he has a course and everything so we’ll put a link in the show notes there um so you can definitely improve your eyesight
43:12
43 minutes, 12 secondscountless cases thousands maybe even millions of cases and also with hearing as well but I’m not an expert in these two so I’m going to just leave it at
43:19
43 minutes, 19 secondsthat all right last question this is getting a little bit long here but last question how do you work with a doctor who can’t refer you outside the system.
Chapter 32: Working Beyond Your Doctor
43:32
43 minutes, 32 secondsSo I think this question probably came from a Canadian but it would somewhat uh apply to you know people in other
43:41
43 minutes, 41 secondsjurisdictions uh as well. Um I’m going to speak to my experience and more so the Canadians although again I think generally works everywhere. Um a doctor
43:50
43 minutes, 50 secondsso this is my experience. Um in Canada your doctor knows nothing about nutrition. If you want nutritional
43:59
43 minutes, 59 secondshelp or you request nutritional help, they can only refer you within the system, meaning the overall health
44:07
44 minutes, 7 secondssystem. So, it could be a specialist or whatever, heart disease, diabetes, whatever, cardiovascular, like whatever.
44:15
44 minutes, 15 secondsUm, or a registered dietitian. So, so that’s that’s the limitations certainly in in in Canada. Now, if your doctor,
44:24
44 minutes, 24 secondsyou know, doesn’t um can’t refer you to what you want, let’s use peptides. That’s super um hot topic
44:33
44 minutes, 33 secondsright now. I’ve talked about this before um in past podcasts and social media articles, what have you. Um number one, most doctors don’t know anything about
44:42
44 minutes, 42 secondspeptides and and I mean, they know what they are. They learned about them, but they don’t know how to dose or whatever.
44:48
44 minutes, 48 secondsAnd they can’t prescribe them for the most part. U it’s changing. that’s getting more and more so, but most doctors still are kind of in the in the dark. So, they don’t know what what to
44:56
44 minutes, 56 secondsdo. So, again, that’s a role that I play with my clients is, and again, I don’t replace someone’s doctor. I’m not a doctor. I work with their doctor or
45:04
45 minutes, 4 secondsanyone else on their medical team or their health team, I should say. Um, and I can help them get the resources they need. That might be someone in my
45:13
45 minutes, 13 secondsnetwork. So they can, you know, find an oncologist that’s in my network or they can find um a functional medicine doctor
45:20
45 minutes, 20 secondsor a lab that does stem cells or peptides again as an example. So you can you as an individual can
45:29
45 minutes, 29 secondscertainly work outside of your doctor or the system wherever you live and you certainly have res access to resources that you
45:37
45 minutes, 37 secondsprobably don’t know. You just don’t know where to find them yet. and work with someone. Again, that’s a role I play with my clients who knows how to find
45:45
45 minutes, 45 secondsthese resources for you. Anyway, let’s leave it at that. That’s we’ll probably do round three because there’s still more questions, but I think this has
Chapter 33: Wrap Up and Next Steps
45:53
45 minutes, 53 secondsgotten long enough. So, I talked about a lot of things here. You know, if you want to know what applies to you, you know, what is with your specific
46:01
46 minutes, 1 secondsituation, your specific concerns, your specific goals, you want to know what’s the next best step that you should take if all that noise and all that confusion
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46 minutes, 8 secondsout there, book a call. Book a vitality checkup call. We’ll put a link in the show notes there. Um, so you can find
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46 minutes, 15 secondsout, you know, what’s the one thing, you know, that you can follow, the one or two things that you can follow that you know is exactly right for you, that isn’t just for the masses.
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46 minutes, 25 secondsIsn’t just general advice. If, you know, if that’s what you’re looking for, that call’s for you. Um, you know, if you’re just looking for the magic bullet, you
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46 minutes, 32 secondsknow, supplement thing, whatever, the call is probably not for you. Um, also, as I already mentioned it earlier in the episode, uh, this entire episode was for
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46 minutes, 41 secondseducational purposes only. Nothing I said today should be construed as medical advice. That being said, I’m going to throw it to back to J23 who’s going to guide us out with some music.
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46 minutes, 49 secondsDon’t forget to check out today’s show sponsor. Um maybe Keon, which I mentioned earlier. It might be V optimizers. These are great uh products.
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46 minutes, 57 secondsAnyway, thanks for listening to the Deepaxi Show. Exceptional results for the exceptional you. Until next time.
Chapter 34: Kion Aminos Sponsor
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47 minutes, 3 secondsThis podcast was sponsored by Keon and Keon Amos in particular. This is my favorite postworkout thing to do. People
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47 minutes, 12 secondsare always talking about you need more protein. It’s super important especially as we age, as we’re trying to maintain our lean muscle mass. Super important
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47 minutes, 19 secondsfor both men and women. And essentially protein, you know, that chicken, those eggs, whatever you’re taking, breaks
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47 minutes, 34 secondsessential amino acids, which what this these are, is what your body cannot produce, but they are essential for you.
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47 minutes, 40 secondsyou need to get them from food. And as with many other things, we’re not getting the same nutrients uh anymore from our foods. And certainly, if we’re
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