 Episode of Mind Pump, your favorite fitness and health podcast. We know it's your favorite. In the world. So we answered questions asked by listeners like you. But the way we open the episode is by mentioning current events, having fun conversation with each other. Sometimes we talk about our sponsors. Here's what went down in today's episode of Mind Pump. We started out by talking about signs, all of us recognize when it's time to change signs everywhere with signs, you're getting fat, watch out. Yeah, so that's what it was, signs that were maybe we need to stop with all the snacking. Then Adam brought up a story told by Dave Ramsey. He's an economist. We talked about churchgoers getting citations in America, believe it or not, what's wrong with you guys. Justin brought up a Saturday Night Live and how they did everything through Zoom. Yeah, I guess it didn't turn out too well. We talked about our Easter and how it was all done virtually with our families, but it was still a good time. I talked about the Guinness Book of World Records. A brand new record was set for bench pressing underwater. We talked about how wild animals are coming back to the city because everybody's at home right now, not going out. Adam brought up strip clubs, virtual strip clubs. Then I talked about getting greens in the diet. I've been eating less vegetables than ever. Part of it is because vegetables are perishable. I'm not trying to go to the grocery store every single day. They're also sometimes hard to find. So I've been drinking Organifi's green juice once or twice a day, far more than I ever have to help make up the difference. Their green juice is made by organic vegetables, freeze dried so they're nutrient dense. You mix it in water, actually tastes really good. Organifi is one of our sponsors and we've got a hookup for you. Here's how you get that discount. 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The first question was, how do I fix hip shift? So hip shift is when you squat or you do a deadlift and your hips kind of moved to one side. So we talk about remedies for that with exercise. The next question, this person wants to know how to transition into resistance training after an injury. So we talk about that. The next question, this person wants to know if there's any truth that an imbalance in your microbiome can be causing depression and anxiety. So we talk about how your microbiome might be connected to how you feel. And the final question, this person wants to know what's something that we've taken for granted during these weird times and something we want to change when things go back to normal. So we talk about that at the end of the episode. So this month, two of our correctional exercise mobility programs, Maps Prime and Maps Prime Pro are 50% off. Now both programs require no equipment at all. 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For iTunes and two winners for Facebook, the iTunes winners are Dodge Kev, Chely Belly 25, Soldier of Fantasy Football, Shakenbake and Cole Mom. For Facebook, we have Jillian Warwick and Jesse Hermiller. All of you are winners. Send the name I just read to iTunes at mindpumpmedia.com, include your shirt size and your shipping address and we'll get that shirt right out to you. Do you guys have a sign? Because everybody I think has their own personal sign or signal when they know that it's time to reverse action, reverse course with diet and lack of activity. Do you have like something that, like some people have like a favorite pair of jeans or they put their weight belt on and are like, oh this is two notches too, what's yours? So mine's a, it's, you know, I think we've talked to, it's been a while actually since we talked about this, I lose muscle like as fast or faster than I put body fat on. So for me, it's, it's the way I fill out my extra large t-shirts, my arms. I can, I can, I can go off the diet a little bit, but if I'm training good still, I'll still, I'll just be thicker, thicker but still muscular and I'll still be snubbing the t-shirts. I'll still look like a buff fit guy, right? Even if I'm a little bit higher body fat percentage, but the minute I fall off of training hard consistently and if the diet does that too, it doesn't take that many weeks, probably two weeks when this starts to happen, where I throw on that extra large t-shirt that I normally fill out, especially the arms, and there's a gap in there. Like that's, that's, like, oh, gotta get my shit together type of deal, so. You have one, Justin? Yeah, I just want to look at myself in the mirror and I'm like, you're a fat fucker. No, you don't. Yeah. Look at this. What is that little pat, you know, on my stomach or? That's when you get the dick-do? Yeah. You know what a dick-do is? A dick-do? Yeah. You? Oh, yeah. No, it never happens to me. So mine is a weird one, okay? So if I sleep on my back, then I may or may not snore. Sometimes I snore and it's annoying for my partner, right? They're gonna wake me up or whatever. When I start to snore, even if I'm sleeping on my side, that's when I know it's time. This was happening last night. So last night, the first time, you know, Jessica like, you're snoring, you're snoring. And I'm like, I'm sleeping on my side. So I'm like, oh fuck. I just adjust myself a little bit. Third time. Hey, hey, you're the final time. Wake up your snoring. Yelling at me. Wake up your snoring. And I'm sleeping on my stomach. Oh, wow. With my head turned. So I'm like, all right. My tongue is getting too fat. Remember that article I shared with you guys? Yeah. Yeah. That's why you snore when you start gaining a little body fat. Your tongue actually- Your tongue gets larger. Yeah. That's a trick. Fatter. So I'm getting a fatter tongue and that's not cool. So I'm gonna not buy potato chips anymore. I had a story I wanted to share with you guys. Because we just recently released the Peter Schiff episode. Oh, I loved it. For sure, one of, if not my favorite, interview we've done. It was really, really good. Yes. And here's the thing, when we were- It's a hard message for people to take. It is. It is. But it would ring true. And this is why I wanted to share this story. Because I know it hit probably pretty hard for a lot of people and maybe even naked some people out. And when I was doing all my personal homework, each of us, you know, anytime we have an interview, everyone's kind of doing their own research and reading, watching, you know, looking up stuff on our guests. And, you know, while I was doing that, like I found like, you know, who Peter's like, kind of antagonist is, right? And that's Dave Ramsey. Dave Ramsey and him have gone back and forth quite a few times. In fact, a lot of probably how Peter really started to explode was Dave Ramsey back in like 2007 called Peter an idiot for his prediction on what happened to the housing crisis. Which turned out to be correct. Right. And Dave Ramsey at that time was much bigger than Peter Schiff. So he had a lot more people following and listening to him. And then he comes out and he says that. I think that had a lot to do with helping him actually catapult to the size he is now. So anyways, Dave was sharing a story today. Dave has more of a kind of an optimistic outlook on the economy. His argument to what the things that Peter Schiff says about it's inevitable, the direction we're going with the money and crashing is that we're just a way more sophisticated economy now. And there's too many safeguards to ever allow something like the depression to happen again. And so that's kind of how he counted. But he did say some things, though, in agreeance to Peter where they align and he says, this is the way I'm talking about this to people right now is everybody is getting a phone call. Everyone's getting a call right now. And it's up to you to make the decision if you're going to answer or not. And then he goes in to tell this story. And Dave Ramsey is like, I think in his 50s or 60s even. And he goes in to tell a story about when he was working with his father in the early 70s. And his dad was rebuilding a deck. And his job as a son was as they were tearing up the old nails in this deck to rebuild, he would collect all these old nails. And he says, you know, that is an example of my father's reaction to the Great Depression that he lived through. It forever changed the way he was with money or anything of value. And it just made him way more cautious and prudent about anything like that. And he goes, right now, there's a lot of people that are getting calls and are finding out that maybe they were overleveraged or they hadn't saved for a rainy day. And they were living a much more lavish lifestyle than they probably should have. And these people, the ones that will answer this potentially will forever change their life and their spending behaviors and the way they think about finances. And some people it has nothing to do with finance. Somebody could be listening right now and they are saved for the next six months to a year and this wasn't that big of a deal financially for them. But then they're now at home with their kids and they're spending more time with their kids than they ever had. And maybe they thought they were spending a lot of time with their kids before until now and maybe they're getting a new connection to them and maybe their phone call is spending more time with the ones that you love and he's the same thing about with your spouse and really being home with them. He says, so a lot of us are getting phone calls right now and some of us will pick up and this will forever change behaviors and some of us may find ourselves in this situation another decade from now. I like that message because when you're communicating hard truths which the three of us are very experienced doing. Not in finance, money, economics, but in fitness we are very, very experienced at communicating hard truths to people. Now one of the things you learn when you work with people long enough is you learn how to communicate hard truths in ways that are effective. So I could easily tell somebody who's 60 pounds overweight well it's because you eat like crap and you don't move and if you don't change that ain't going to happen. It's true, terrible way of communicating it, it's not effective. I'm not going to get the person to understand how to make those changes. It seems too daunting, it actually makes them feel terrible and it ends up pushing them in the opposite direction. And so what you end up learning over time is how do I communicate the hard truths because here's the reality, if you want to change your body composition if you want to improve your health there is no shortcuts and the truth is it takes hard lifestyle changes. You cannot continue to live the way you've been living and expect to have better health, it just can't do that and it's more complicated than that but that's what we try to do on the show. So what Peter Schiff says on the podcast is hard truths. He's telling the truth but the problem is a lot of us don't want to hear it because I don't want to hear that it's going to get hard and I don't want to hear that maybe the way I've been living is part of the reason why it's getting so hard because he made a really good point and think about this, this is true now. How come so many companies and so many people are so screwed after not working for just two months? Think about that, we're just talking two months here. It's because they were living so close to their, they were pushing the limit so much on their lifestyle, they didn't save, they might have credit card debt, they spent money on streaming services and video game consoles and maybe I buy cigarettes or maybe I eat out here and there and over time what that means is I am totally screwed if I don't work for two months, I am done, I'm out and a lot of companies, a lot of big companies, not just people by the way, a lot of big companies ran this way and so what Peter Schiff is doing is he's telling the truth about, because the decision was made by the infectious disease experts, which who are experts at this? They said look, it's better if we stay at home, shut things down, isolate ourselves for a little while but that comes with consequences. You don't have people who are working, you don't have companies producing products, people aren't making money so you can't just do that and not have a consequence. Just like the consequences of leading a healthy lifestyle mean you're not going to indulge like you normally do. You can't just be lazy all the time. I think of lipo suction. That's what that is. The way we're infusing money is like somebody who is obese going and getting lipo suction. You don't fix the root cause of how you got to that situation and what ends up happening to almost every client that you guys have had that have done lipo suction or had gastric bypass. It's never a long-term solution. Right, because you didn't fix the behaviors. You didn't and so what he's saying in that and some people got pissed off listening to that. Oh, he's just saying then people should suffer and businesses should know what he's saying is it's inevitable that not that they should, that's just inevitable. Just like if you want long-term fitness success, it's inevitable that you have to follow certain steps and if you don't, it's inevitable. If you don't stay active, if you eat terribly and don't take care of yourself, 100% you will suffer from worse health than if you did all the right stuff and there's nothing that I can do. I can't make magic and change that for you and so that's kind of what he's talking about and it leads me to another point here and this is an important one. And again, none of us are infectious disease experts. I'm gonna leave that up to the scientists but I will say this, there are health consequences to what we're also doing right now so I don't mean forget the economics for a second but are there health consequences from not having your going to work and having that sense of purpose? Are there health consequences from not seeing and meeting with people, the physical touch and that connection that you have that we all took for granted, you know? Just not going to work and seeing coworkers, a lot of people are starting to feel like, oh man, I miss I just had this debate with my friends that because everyone goes back and forth on the argument of the death rate, the infection rate, how serious it is and it's like, okay, no one is talking about the suicide rate going up, depression going up, spousal abuse going up, child abuse going up, alcohol, 50-something percent increase so there's a lot of other things that are happening right now that potentially could be very harmful to our society that we're not addressing or talking about either. Right, so here's the mental space that and remember, if you're new to the podcast I'm a hypochondriac, okay? So trust me, I worry about a lot of stuff like this but I try to put things in perspective and the reality may be this. I don't know if this is going to be the reality but this might be the reality. We might be in a position where we have to make a choice where the government opens up the country because they realize if we don't have people producing shit, we don't have people working that's going to kill us more than this potential virus. It doesn't mean the virus went away though so we have to go back to regular life and we have to willingly accept the risk and that means we can't let fear destroy us. So you take your precautions, you wash your hands, you know, someone's sick, stay at home. If you've been around someone's sick, stay at home. If you're at high risk, you probably should take more precautions but we're going to have to, just like every day when I get in the car and I drive, I willingly take the risk that I may die in a car accident which if you add up your entire lifetime of driving, that's actually a decent risk, right? But we take that risk because we have to live our lives so we might have to be in that situation soon. This is where I'm actually a little bit on the optimistic side in terms of us being quarantined and really having to evaluate what your true values are and what that looks like going forward and the precautions that you're going to take where you probably wouldn't even have considered them before and how you're going to wash your hands and still making contact but there's going to be different behaviors that are going to result out of this going forward but also just like in terms of your own life using this time, this is a hard stop. Everybody had forced, it was forced to stop which either you could use it to your advantage like you were bringing up earlier or you could not receive the call and I think this is one of those things you really need to do a lot of soul searching, deep dives with what the landscape looks like for you individually going forward. What does the work look like? What does the family schedule look like? All these things that are super valuable to you really put those in the forefront. I'll tell you, I'll give you an example of how they went too far. I don't know where this was but there was Easter. We just had Easter and first time I think in modern history where Easter wasn't celebrated with people together or whatever, everybody had to stay home but there were some church services where people drove their cars to a parking lot kept their windows rolled up, everybody stayed in the car. Nobody got out of the car, everybody's in their car and there were literally, there were little, I don't know where this was but there were I think it was in Texas. There were police and government officials walking around these parking lots with people staying in their cars meeting for handing out citations and taking down license plates so they could give people tickets. You went too far. What? You went too far. That didn't happen. Yes it did. Really? Yes it did. There's stuff like that that makes me pretty concerned. That makes me really upset because part of people's health for some people is having these services, they stayed in their cars, why are you writing citations? Why are you giving people tickets for shit like that? You piece of shit. That's a terrible, I get it if they got out of the car and they're all hanging out, whatever. Totally different. But they were in their cars, they gave them tickets. I wonder if, I didn't even think about this, right? Because don't, I mean CHPs and just your law enforcement, don't they have quotas that they have to hit for tickets? Sure. And if nobody is on the road. They're going to be more aggressive, which is kind of what I'm experiencing. Driving around, I can see a lot of people getting pulled over. I don't know how often this has happened or if it's just coincidental that I'm seeing this quite more frequently, but it's like anything else. If there's money coming in, I would assume that they would probably be a little more aggressive right now. Yeah, there was some dude who went on his boat and he got a, they pulled him in and impounded his boat and gave him a ticket. He was by himself. That's pretty isolated. You can't get more self-isolated than the boat in the ocean. You're going to sneeze on a fish. It's got to be that then, right? It's got to be that they're trying to make quotas and so they're doing things like that, right? Yeah, and fear is a really bad motivator when people are scared, you know? Yeah, dude. Then they start to do stupid things. I think we need to be smart. And it's good, look, it's coming soon. We're going to be told to go back to work. I think it's important that we don't let our fear, we're still going to be smart, but don't let our fear, you know, crush us and realize that there are other aspects to health, avoiding getting sick is one of them. The other one is we need to be around each other. We need to work. We have to have a sense of purpose. Yeah. Otherwise you're going to see people's health start to decline just from that. You already are, I think. It was interesting. I'm going to get a chance to check out like SNL. I don't think, I guess Saturday night, they released with Tom Hanks being the host and they did it all remotely. So it was like all on Zoom. And so he presented as like the host and did his whole thing, but there's no audience. So it was just like dead air and like there's no energy. And then the skits were all one on one kind of skit. So it's like, you know, I guess they had like a responsibility to do a skit within their house and then kind of try and make it funny. And then they had one where they were like all like zooming in together and they tried to like collaborate on a skit. It was just like, I was really hoping for them. Like, oh, this is a great idea. You know, kind of showing that, you know, we can still keep going on with this, but it was like, it was painful, dude. It was tough to watch. You know that the back in the day, they used to have laugh tracks where they would have like fake laugh. They needed that. It makes a huge difference. Yeah. Like watch an old sitcom. Yeah. Like three's company, take out the laughing. Oh, it's crickets. You know, I was just like, I felt bad cause like, you know, they've had, they've had hits and misses quite a bit, but this was just like one of those where if you don't have audience responding, like that was a major part of the show that just got eliminated. Did you got, what did you now? Did you guys use zoom for Easter? I didn't. Yeah. You did? We did a family zoom church session. So it's tradition for us. My wherever all my siblings are at, we come back in a town and my mom's like one mom request is like, can we all go to service together? That's her thing. Right. So she sent out a thing earlier in the week that, okay, we could stream it. And it was cool. I mean, a lot of churches are doing this right now. Right. So a lot of churches are doing the streaming service. They, a lot of them were doing it before. So it wasn't that big of a hard transition for them. And that's what we did. We just pulled up. I pad up with all of my family. So all my siblings and my mom and her husband and we're, and then we're watching on the television. We're watching the actual service. So we're all watching the same service. Oh, that's great. And then we're all zoomed together. And so we did that. That was really nice. Yeah. Yeah. We did it with my family. The, one of the drawbacks to have such a, well, I mean, it's not a drawback. I love this about my family, but it's huge, right? So we're on zoom with 30 or 40 people. Wow. And it says, yeah. And then there's other people who don't understand how to get on and use like my grandparents or whatever. So then like my aunt will like FaceTime my grandma and put her on the camera. Classic. Yeah. So we all saw each other that way. And then Jessica's family did something really cool. Her friend, Jessa and her friend's mom made Easter dinner. And then what they did is they, she drove by and kind of dropped off food at people's houses. Then all of us went on zoom and ate together. Yeah. So we pulled, we pulled up the screen and everybody's eating together and having conversation. It was really nice. So we did this with, so being in services, my mom and our family's tradition and then Katrina's family, every Easter we've been together with their family. And it's normally like yours. She's got a very big family and we get together and it's food and drink and music and having a good time. And what we did, so Joey, my brother-in-law, like he's a musician and plays the guitar, normally always for us when we're there. So he actually came on while everybody was kind of cooking in their kitchens and preparing for Easter dinner. He came on zoom and like you guys, we had like 30 people all on there, all of her family and stuff. And he's playing music for everybody. So that was, you know, what it did make me think about, and you know, this is cool that you brought this up because, you know, and again, thinking back to the Dave Ramsey thing of, you know, answering the call and like, what is my message behind all of this that we're going through and stuff. And I think, you know, I definitely don't see my family as much as I'd like to. We're all in different places, right? So we all live in different cities within a few hours of each other. So occasionally for these holidays and stuff, we get together. But it just made me think like, you know what? Of course, getting together in person, it would never replace that. But this is something that could potentially complement my family that we weren't doing before. Totally. Instead of us waiting every three months to get together for a holiday and all finally see each other, what if once a month we at least did a family Zoom where we all get together and like have a glass of wine or have a dinner and like interact. So there's some things that I have a feeling that, I can't be the only one that is noticing stuff like that that may change. That may stick, yeah. Yeah, that may stick around. I think, you know, back to investment, I think Zoom is a great investment because of it. I think that it's, you're going to see it stick after this is done in many ways. I think that's why. Yeah, even like, I mean, that's a really big deal for my mom for us to come to church with her. And, you know, she feels like she gets it once or twice a year now. I mean, that's something we give to my mom now once a month, you know? Like that would just, oh my God, it would just totally make her day. Like if just, you should have seen how excited she was just having all her kids on the screen and our grandbabies, right? So I'm holding Max and my sister's got her three kids. That's great. So she's like looking at all our kids while she's watching church. You know, so, you know, these are things that we could do for our mother that takes an hour out of our Sunday once a month and would probably just make her over the world to be able to do that. And so valuable. You can sense the value. Right, right. Of course it doesn't, again, it doesn't replace human contact and being together. I think that what we're all learning is how much we value and probably appreciate that. But some things that, you know, hey, maybe we're going to start to do some more stuff like this in the future, I think. So we also watched a streaming service and God, the pastor, such a good speaker. And he said something I thought was so powerful. He goes, you know, in many ways, he goes, this Easter is much more like the first one, much more than any other Easter. He said a lot of uncertainty, a lot of fear, people feeling isolated. And when he said that, I was like, wow, that is really powerful. I heard like the same message. Except the guy that... Sure he wasn't originally. Yeah, he's like, he's good, but he's also like radio DJ guy. So it's hard for me to like take that out of it. He's like, yeah. Like, I mean, he does a good job, but like it's funny. So one of my goals this year, you know, because every year, maybe not at the beginning of the year, it's not necessarily a resolution, but, you know, every once in a while, I'll make a goal for myself on something I want to improve. And one thing that I said to myself last year is I want to get a lot better at public service. I want to get public speaking. I want to get really, really good at public speaking. I had no idea that pastors and people who speak at church, the best speakers. The best speakers you'll ever hear. Well, think about it. Think about it for a second. They practice every week. They go to school. Not only that, their ability to survive financially depends on that, too. Well, that's what I mean. They practice for years and years and years. Right, the community, they rely on their community to tithe in order for the church to be able to, to be able to survive. So, and you being able to obviously draw more people in that do that, you've got to be one hell of a speaker or else you're not around very well. Right, and then the other part is this is like, you know, there's some great famous public speakers out there that you can listen to and watch. They also make money off of their motivational speaking and all that stuff, but they're well known. Many of these pastors I've never heard of, but they're exceptionally well, and I think a big part of it is they literally are speaking in front of a group of people several times a week for decades. Yeah. Of course you're going to be amazing. That's good, 100%. Yeah, every time I hear one, there's some other... Other school challenges you, like seminary school, always puts you up in front of people to speak. You know, that's like the, that's what you're being educated on. Oh, wow. Yeah. Hey, did you guys hear about the New Guinness Book of World Record that was just set for working out? What? Yeah, there's a new one for, I'm going to pull it up just so I know it. I don't screw it up. The guy broke the Guinness Book of World Records for bench pressing underwater. I didn't even know this existed. I know Jiu-Jitsu has done that before. I've seen him bench pressing underneath. So here's the record, okay? Bench pressing underneath. Greg Whitstock from the United States bench pressed with a 50 kilogram barbell. So what is that, 120 pounds? 62 times underwater. So it's the record for how many reps you could do underwater. You've got to send that over to Jiu-Jitsu. Leave it to him to try and beat something like that. 62 times. So it's not a strength beat. It's holding your breath. It's holding your breath. Which to be honest with you, 62 is not that crazy. I mean, you could probably get 62 done in what, two and a half minutes maybe? Well, bro, it's underwater though. So think about the oxygen, your blood oxygen going down so quickly. You know what I mean? I mean, it made a record. So it's not like, not impressive. It's impressive. But I think I could see somebody, I mean, how many people have tried to beat that? That's what's comical about the Guinness World Record. Remember, did you ever watch, did you guys watch? That's silly. Did you guys watch Robin Big when you were growing up? Yeah, I watched it on and off. I loved Robin. I've seen every episode. I love Robin Big in one of the episodes. Yeah, that was his mission. Yeah, well, he looks up. He's like, I wonder how many skateboard Guinness World Records there are. You know, how many kickflips in a day. And he went, I think they crushed like 21. All of those, the biggest skateboard? Yeah. Driving it through downtown LA. Yeah, they did. They went and they like listed all the ones that they, okay, I know it could be this, this, this, this. I think he got here, owns like 20 something Guinness World Records. You know, that was one of my favorite books as a kid. I got it every single year from 19, I want to say, 85 until like, I was like, maybe 1993. I would get every year Guinness Book of World, I loved reading the Guinness Book of World Records. And there was one, there was one in particular that might still stand today. And I guarantee you, if I say it, you guys will know what I'm talking about. It's the world's heaviest twins. You know what I'm talking about? Brought them up a few times. Yeah, they're on the motorcycle. Two messages. You know what I think about immediately is the guy that had the longest nails. Oh, I remember that one. They were like curls all the way under, like the spiral disgusting. Why do we have a few of those, those records that are just ingrained in our brains? I remember. That was just so nasty. It was, I remember that one. How do you wipe your ass with that? Yeah, what do you do? Like you're just like carrying this ball of nails. You know, there are spiritual people in, in India that are known for a lot of this kind of stuff. There's one man in India. He's considered a spiritual guru and he's known for, apparently, you know, his, what he believes in his God told him to raise his arm and never put it down. So he holds his arm and it's like all atrophied and weird because he's been holding his arm up for, I don't know how many decades or whatever. I got a question, somebody. I'll tell you guys, answer this guy. I'll tell you something weird that is going on right now during this whole, you know, COVID-19, all of us being at shelter in place. So, you know what's happening here in the Bay Area that's tripping me out is because everybody is indoors so much. The wildlife is coming down into the city. Oh, wow. Yeah. So my, my mother-in-law sent me over this, you know, pictures of mountain lion footprints. Oh, hell no. And a picture of it on from their, her neighbor's cam, you know, whatever, security cam. Yeah. Of it walking in the backyard, putting its paws up on the window seal, looking into the living room and stuff. It's a mountain lion. They've never had a mountain. This is like down the city right here, right where I used to live. She sends me a video the very next day after sending me that one of just like a whole family of wild pigs, like 15 of them running down our old neighborhood. Well, the noise has gone down. You know, at night, the light, you know, has gone down in terms of light pollution. Like, so they're getting all the signals that this is like, okay to go. Okay. Yeah. They're not hearing cars driving around like crazy like you normally would. And people being out in loud and lights, like car lights and everything like that. So it's all, it's just, they're all kind of creeping in right now. I wonder if we're going to see Bigfoot. Stupid dude. What if all the animals- These are inter-dimensional dude. Squatch. You don't think Squatch lives in this dimension? No. I think, what if the animals are like, yeah, the animals are probably like, what the fuck's going on? No. Are we taking it back? No. Right? Isn't it our time? I don't know. You mean a mountain lion in real life? Not in a zoo, but like in real life? I told you guys, we had one like, like walking down our neighborhood one time and they caught it on camera and everything. And it was, it was, it was creepy. Yeah. Isn't that- Really creepy. Isn't that, because we're in California, right? So you get the foothills right. I remember, one time I was on a trail and I was walking and I go around the corner and there's a mountain lion sitting on the side right there. And I remember thinking like, that could kill me so easy right now. Yeah. Slowly back up, you know. And it was all good. But I can't believe that they live- So tall. Right there. Yeah. It's crazy. Hey, we brought up on the show the other day. You know, I think Justin made a funny meme about the fans only or only fans pages. Oh, the ones that are popping up right now? So we've been like joking about it, kind of talking about it. And like, you know, we've noticed, dude, so I love- Is it true? It is. We have a discount code now? Not only is it true- I knew it. 76% increase in traffic. No. Whoa. That's how true it is. That's amazing. I knew it. I thought it was so- I read the article this morning. This is so great. That's high. Because we've been talking about this for a while now. Not only that, but what's making its way right now are virtual strip clubs. Yeah. So- Don't they just call that porn? Well, no, what they do- I don't understand. No, it's set up different. It's set up so where like they're dancing. You can give tips. Yes, you can give tips while she's dancing, right? So you're watching virtually and this stripper just reported this that she did 18,000 in one night. Oh my gosh. Wow. Look at that. You know what I don't like most about that industry? I'm not going to lie. The gender pay gap is terrible in that way. You know what I mean? Man, don't make- Equal wages. There ain't no dude stripper making 18 grand on a webcam. You know? No, you just get made into a meme like that one guy. Yeah, partially our fault because guys are just- Can I have a dick picture? Like, what are you doing? Give it another way. You're crashing the price of it. Anyway, how are you guys doing with your- You know, I was talking about that I'm just trying to, you know, get my- my body fat down because it's a little high. One thing I haven't- I've definitely neglected is my vegetable intake because I'm making far less trips to the grocery store because- Well, they're out. It's a bit of a- They're out a lot. We just went yesterday. It's been tough, yeah. Really? You saw it being sold out? Oh yeah. Just- Now you're talking about frozen or fresh? Fresh. So we went to go get- so we- we normally go to our little- we had this little- I don't even want to share what I know. I know what you're talking about. Yeah. We have this nice little grocery store. I'm going to say where that actually has almost felt like nothing's happened. It blows my mind. It's in this little nice, rich pocket neighborhood. I'll give you that much. And, you know, when we go over to it, it's always got everything stocked. Yeah, it's a good experience. So, they- they were closed for Easter. So it forced Katrina and I to go over to Safeway. And when we go in there, all the frickin' fresh greens are gone. I'm like, fuck, dude, it's still bad this way. Safeway's like post-apocalyptic. I guess I should have for our partners, they probably would have appreciated it, but I just- I took a picture of what we made last night and we had very minimal greens on there. So we always like- I mean, Katrina and I will pound a green juice, the Organifi, like right afterwards or right before whenever we have days. I've never had so much of it. It's the savior. Yeah, no, I've definitely had more of it now. I'm having it once or twice a day because of exactly what you said. And the other- the reason why I'm not getting a lot of vegetables is I don't like the grocery store experience right now. You go in there, you're separated, it's all anxious with the masks and everything. Then you come home, we gotta wipe everything down. It takes forever. It's like, I go once a week- Yeah, you wanna do it as less as possible. Yeah, and fresh vegetables, you can't go buy a shit ton of them once a week because they'll go bad. Or you can, and you'll be like me where we signed up for this whole thing where you get like a box straight from the farm. And so we did that and so we're still getting that, but now they're giving a lot of you know, all these like like arugula or like like real random stuff like celery like this huge thing of celery. I'm like, what am I gonna do with this? This isn't like regular like carrots and you know, lettuce and all that. Like kale, this is like all these like random sprouts and stuff. Now is that what happens with those? Cause I haven't done- You know what you can't pick. They just give it to you. They give you these huge bushels of these things and you're like, I could use like maybe some dishes but you're like, this is weird. Like I'm not using soup. Bro, celery, you just just cover it in peanut butter. Are we talking? That's like the best thing in the world. No, it's like, you know, zero nutrients. Speaking of our partners, we've been sharing like all of our partners that have been doing really cool stuff. And here's another one. Mear is doing this. So they had, they had got this famous tattoo artist to draw like this really cool image on on their mear cups. And then they're selling those and then $5 for every cup that they sell is going to be covered in COVID relief. Wow. Yeah. So I think that, man, I feel like we've gone through most of our partners and most everybody is doing something really cool to get back. It makes me feel really good. So hold on Doug, scroll down. It's a cool design too. It's like this, like octopus holding these people up from different. So the whole thing behind it is basically like we're all like sort of like riding this tied together or whatever. Yeah. So it's okay. So the artist is Kyler Martz and then Doug just pulled it up. So $5 of every alone together camp cup gets donated to Feeding America's COVID-19 Response Fund. That's so good. Yeah. See, I like seeing that right now. Champion stuff. Yeah. It makes me feel really good to see that, you know, what people are doing or whatever. I can't wait to find out our antibody test. We're not going to find out till tomorrow, right? Are you guys just like, oh man, just totally anticipated. So since we brought it to Feeding America, and I shared my best friend who had the baby who was having seizures, I had two people that had the exact same scenario as that, went in, got tested, actually found out that this was back in mid-January, got tested, they for flu, they said it wasn't the flu, they couldn't figure out for sure what it was, thought maybe it was an ear infection or whatever. Her and her husband both just recently, tested for COVID-19, then they both have the antibodies. Wow. Interesting. Wow. Very interesting. Where do they test? I didn't ask where they tested out, I just shared that information. I just had a lot of people that you said that, hey, I heard you talking about that you think you might have, and I shared the symptoms and everything. And it seems that it's about everybody around the same time, January or February, there was quite a few people here that thought they had it based off the symptoms. Well see, so the messages I've gotten are people who say that they still went to the doctor and got tested for the flu. And they weren't. Came back. Yeah, so they have all the flu symptoms. I was like my youngest in December, yeah, he had real bad flu symptoms. Did they test him? Yeah, he didn't have any flu. So what did they think it was? Yeah, just a real bad cold, I guess. I hate that answer. Yeah. They go to the doctor and not that it's their fault, but you know when you got something and they're like, it's probably just a virus. Yeah, it's just a virus. Yeah, I feel like that's just an answer. And the newspaper too, I don't think we've told on the podcast, which like a lot of people like, oh my God, like Adam, your newspaper. You know what's so funny about that? That's that's how old we are. I know that's Katrina and I were talking about this because I did. I got all kinds of phone calls from people and text messages. And the irony of that is that, you know, San Jose spotlight newspaper or whatever I thought is smaller than mine, but media. But it's a newspaper because that just shows you how we're still like my family like, oh my God, you were in the newspaper. I'm like, put this in my refrigerator. Are you fucking kidding me right now? Like literally mind pump is like probably five X that newspaper is. You know what I'm saying? As far as the reach that they have, but because it hit people's feeds on Facebook and shit like that and it popped up, people were tripping out. Bro, it's totally true. For example, let's say your your face was was on someone on Instagram or whatever, Twitter with like a million followers posted a picture of you was a billboard that like, you know, hundreds of people, thousands of people drive by every day. Yeah. If your family drove by a billboard, oh my God, he made it because it used to mean something. I know. You know, it is funny, but I was just happening. She was in there when I went in to get my antibody testing and she just wanted to chat and talk about what if I, and you know, I seen the thing that I was sharing with her was like, you know, taking advantage of COVID-19 and I just that type of stuff irritates me. Yeah. If you look at, even look at because you paid for a test. Yeah. And I, and I stayed out of this. Somebody twisted your arm. Yeah. I didn't pick the brick up. I know that, you know, when I saw, I looked at like when red dot posted, they posted that the newspaper article, they posted something else that I'd done. And, you know, underneath it, you know, I was here, here and stuff like that. And I'm like, you know what, what is your, what does that person's desired outcome to come on to red dots page and do that? And I did. And I want, I was going to engage because it just, it really irritates me when people do shit like that. And it's, it's unfortunate. And I don't know. I feel like I want, I want to be someone from the other side to like, we need to get away from this like in fucking entitlement thing that we just, we expect that we're supposed to have all these services. It just can't work. No, it's just, it's not all Peter shift thing is so hard for people to digest. I know. Because it's like money just doesn't fucking come from nowhere. There's there, you know, it has to be backed by something. And the reality is this is there are going to be a free COVID test or paid for by your insurance. But the problem is going to be access to them. You're probably going to need access because people will be lining up like crazy. So you might not be able to get one. And the way they may ration them is by saying you need a prescription from a doctor versus a company who sells them. And maybe you don't have a doctor's prescription. Maybe, you know, it doesn't matter. I'll pay anyway. By the way, that money that you pay that company profits with that money, all it's going to do is help them create more of these tests. And it doesn't take away from free tests. It only compliments. It's adding more to the market. So it's not a bad thing. It's actually doesn't overwhelm the places that are doing it or options. And here's the deal. If you're someone who doesn't spend and doesn't do it, then who cares? Yeah, exactly. Why do you have an opinion? Exactly. If you're not going to do it because there's trust me, I'll tell you right now, it's filled the fuck up. You know what I'm saying? Because there's a lot of people just like me who are like, hey, I really want to know. I have nowhere else to get this test. Yes. Because you get put on the back burner right now. If you're somebody who thought they had it a month or two months ago, if you're not currently sick right now and you want to go to the doctor, they're trying to treat people right now that are in the middle of it, which was understandably so. You should. Yeah, it should be that way. And I agree with that. I'm not saying I should cut in the front of the line. But if I could pay $250 to someone who's providing a service out there so I can come get it done right away, absolutely I'm going to. Right, right. I want to talk to you guys about Top Gun. Okay. Have you guys seen the trailer for like the Maverick, the new one? That's badass. Yeah, like so they've been delaying it a bit and all this, and they're trying to push it through to like December 23rd, like right before Christmas. And so I actually got to see some of the, and read a little bit on it, like how they shot some things and everything. So they have like IMAX cameras and everything inside the cockpit. And they're actually taking actors and they're doing these crazy maneuvers like super low altitude and with G-forces, all the thing like with the cameras inside with no CGI. So for real. How are they not like puking their guts up? Well, I guess they had to go through all this training and then, you know, Tom Cruise had already gone through that and he was trying to get the other actors to do it too and get conditioned because yes, they were puking quite a bit at the very beginning trying to get used to it. Now I would assume too that we probably, has this ever been done? I mean, have they ever shot IMAX through it from a jet? No, it's revolutionary. Dude, people, Justin, you need to educate people on just how insanely difficult it is to sit in a high performing jet and go through how many Gs did you hit? 9.3. Yeah. I know. I know how many. Yeah. Because I earned that shit. Justin came back because he got taken up by the Thunderbirds. Thunderbirds. He got taken up and they took him through 9 Gs and when he came back, remember when he left, I turned into like a ghost. He was super hyped and he's like, yeah, it's gonna be so awesome and I'm like, I don't know. He comes back and I'm like, so what did it feel like? And he goes, it feels like every molecule and atom on my body was taken apart and he goes, and I said, would you do it again? He scrambled my DNA. He's like, no, I would never do that again. Now when you were doing, obviously he didn't go from 0 to 9 Gs right away. You were a little bit faster, a little bit faster. Was there a, was there like a major difference between 4 and 9 or 4 and 6? Fuck yeah. Oh, so each G you could feel. Oh, hell yeah. Really? Like, well like 4 or like 2 to, I think out of the gates, like 4 or 5, because like, he was going like vertical straight up and then started spinning and I was like, whoa! And like, I thought that was going to be like the extent of it. I was like, I can do this. You just kind of bear down and like, it feels like, you know, like I try to think of like, have you ever seen that, that Maxwell commercial where the guy's just getting blown like his whole face is slapping with the speaker? Yeah, it just felt like, you know, like a huge like thousand pound person is just smashing you like all of your body parts at once and you're like, you know, trying to like squeeze yourself to stay in one place. And that's 4 and that's 4. Yeah. And then like, you started to do all these maneuvers and that's where, I think that's where most people get like queasy and you know, because you start spinning and you're trying to like, regain your semblance of where you are in terms of space and like, where your center of gravity is all that gets fucked, you know, and so, just going through that, we did a bunch of maneuvers for a while and then he's just like, ramping it up and then we do like a little test and it was like, I don't know, like six or something. And I was like, holy shit. And because they had these compression pants that if I didn't have those, like for sure to blacked out. So that's what sends all the blood back up. So yeah, just immediately when we hit the Gs, it just squeezes your legs really hard and then he comes back up. But yeah, does it feel like it's almost cutting the circulation off? Does it feel like that? Yeah. Wow. Like you just, like you have to actively squeeze like fiber of your, of your muscles to be able to keep the blood. Yeah. Just to keep it, you know, pulling back into your, in your dome. So yeah, I was like, those, those hard, it's basically like almost like a 90 degree, you know, hard stop turn, like, you know, abruptly turn and go the other direction. That's where you get the nine, something, 10 Gs. So when you hit nine, do you even know what's going on or are you just like, I'm in surviving? Yeah. Well, it's probably our condition to where they can still, obviously they can still see, it's not just feel, but I think like, I probably would have done better. I think there's something about being in the driver's seat, you know, like, and you're not like, you know what the fuck you're doing. You're like, I would have did better if I was driving. No, but like, I would have felt better, you know, like I would at least been like, oh, I have a handle on me. No, no, I could get, because you, you know, you like, it's just like when you are way into it more, like I was just like, it was like, somebody's just smacking me with their rag doll. So these actors are going through. My eyes are popping out and like, yeah, I guarantee they're puking. Yeah. Well, top guns probably gonna crush. There's so many guys our age who grew up watching that movie. As soon as that comes out, it could suck. And I mean, I want to watch that. No, I feel like it's gonna be bad. Yeah, it looks like they did a good job too. I'm excited for it. First question is from dance, I'm always favoring my right side when I squat. Oh, the good old asymmetrical shift. Yeah. You know, one of the best ways, just kind of basic, because there's a lot of techniques that I would employ to work on this with someone. And, you know, it depends on what's causing the hip shift in a person for me to determine what exactly I would apply. But one general piece of advice I can give on the podcast that I think would help most people is to start doing unilateral work. One-legged or split stance work. And then the idea is to mimic, make sure both sides are mirror images of each other. That's a really big one. So what you want to do is you want to, let's say you do a standing lunge, which is a bit unilateral, or more so than a squat, go down with your strong side, film it with your phone from the front and the side, and then try to be exactly the same with the other leg. It's kind of an easier way to, I'd say, more general way to address the differences. And also take, regressing it down quite a bit and like doing those exercises like bird dog and these things where we're really just focusing where your hips start to rotate and like you're losing that, that bracing tension that you need evenly distributed and being able to anti-rotate. So without getting too complicated, really just trying to keep the hips from moving at all and really like having that proper bracing in the core and connectivity and the hips to keep everything straight ahead. There's lots of exercises for that you can regress to to kind of stay in there and really work on that. So this is a little bit of a depends question, right? Because everybody's going to be a little bit different, but I do want to share probably two of the most common things that I see when I see this in a client. One of those being it tends to happen a lot when somebody had some sort of an injury on one side, especially when it's a major one. They broke an ankle, they tore an ACL, MCL in their knee. They had hip surgery on one side. And then during that time, that side tends the atrophy. The other side tends to overcompensate because you were injured on that side. And then when the rehab happens, a really good person that was rehabbing probably didn't do a good job of making sure that you started to catch everything back up and were balanced. I see this a lot. And so then what ends up happening is you have a very dominant side and then it's just natural. The body will naturally go to that more dominant side like when you're in a deep squat. So you go down to squat and so let's just say like so I had knee surgery on my left side. So after that, when I would go to squat, my right side was much more dominant and stronger. So at the very bottom I would have this shift to the right. My right side that's stronger at the bottom would want to take over and then you would come out of it. So that's one really, really common area that and one of the best ways to address that is unilateral training is to go back and do a lot of split stand stuff, one leg of stuff and try and catch the legs up and regain stability. That's right. Regains a lot of stability training. That's going to be really good. And it could take a while. Yeah, it does take a while. It takes a while to catch that up and you got to be okay with the dominant side, you know, maybe getting a little weaker in while you try and catch the weaker side back up and to try and level that out. And unilateral training I think is really good for this. Now the second thing and this was really, I was way more enlightened by this after I met and started hanging out with Dr. Brink. So those that don't know the Maps Prime Pro program was written with Dr. Brink and he was probably very, very crucial to all of our mobility knowledge, our movement. He's just on another level as a movement specialist and a very good friend of ours and I'll never forget the first time that I was in his office and he had me take off my shoes and he wanted just to watch me walk and squat and move and he broke down the shift and everything going on in my squad that time all the way down to my feet. So a lot of people have really weak feet and they tend to pronate and they typically do that one side more than the other and if there's a breakdown in the foot and the foot, you know, internally rotates or what they call flatten, your foot flattens more on one side. It'll bounce its way all the way at the kinetic chain until it gets to your hips and what will happen is you shift the opposite direction, right? So that is really common is to look at your feet and get barefoot, squat down and pay attention to see if you notice one side is doing really, really common and it was something that I just was not trying we were trained as trainers early on to really kind of watch the hips and the knees more. Never the feet. Never the feet, right? We were never really watching the feet which explained a lot of the reason why this was broken down in myself and boy, once I really started to work with foot strength, my ankle mobility and address how I was planning on the ground it started to take away any sort of shift that I had in my hips. So those in my opinion are the two areas to really look at for the majority of you. And you know what the challenge is with this is that we can get really good at compensating. In fact, you can get so good at compensating. You don't know. That to the average person you may look balanced when you squat or lift because you've gotten so good at this particular pattern. And then what ends up happening is when you try to correct this pattern you have to back way off on the weight because you're better at lifting weights poorly than you are at lifting weights properly, okay? No different than if you you always typed with your two index fingers the first time you go and practice typing the correct way you're still gonna be faster with your two index fingers. You're just better at doing it the wrong way. But over time we know that the right way will get you the results you'll be able to type much faster. The truth is the same for the body. The absolute truth because you are limited by the weakest link in the chain. So what I mean by that is if your squat has been stuck at you know, X amount of weight or so many reps what might be preventing you from progressing isn't your total genetic potential for strength often actually more often than not it's not that more often than not what's stopping you kind of a mobility issue where your body just stops you from going any stronger or faster because there's something that's weak. This is why mobility is such or mobility work can be so valuable for a lot of people because you may think oh I feel balanced I'm good but you got all these plateaus I've been stuck at you know, 250 pound squat I've been stuck at you know, 150 pound bench press or whatever forever. Well, try this try working on mobility working pro work on the major areas of your body and spend the next two months making that a priority two or three months making that a priority the good news is you don't need equipment to do this you could practice this anywhere you don't need a gym and then go back to lifting and then with your new mobility your new connection start to add weight and then don't be surprised if your old plateau is shattered because you've now fixed that weak link and this is this is something that's extremely hard to do next question is from Sophia Northrup How should I transition into weightlifting again after an injury? You know, it's funny about this question is that people don't realize that the best way to rehab or correct or fix or work on the body with after an injury is resistance training is weight training Yeah, if you go to and here's there's a couple reasons why it's the best there is no form of rehab or strengthening or correcting imbalances that even comes close to resistance training one of the main reasons why it's in a league of its own is because resistance training is formless in many different ways there's I can change my form technique and I can mold the exercise around my body it's that's what is unique to resistance training you go to a physical therapist and almost most of the things that they'll do with you to fix your your problems or rehab you revolve around resistance training that means weight that you're actually lifting a dumbbell sometimes it's a resistance band other times it's just intrinsic tension in your body isometrics but all of it is considered resistance training so it is by far and it's the one that's used by professionals the best way to work or correct injuries now how do you get into resistance training after an injury number one very slowly number two special emphasis is and prioritized is mobility work that's what you focus on correctional exercise and mobility work and that'll get you not just to the point where you feel better after an injury but get you to the point where you're now better off than you were before because that's probably why you got injured in the first place I want to add to that and I have a story to share because I'm really passionate about this topic because when I had my knee surgery this was not my first injury that I had but it was after I had already almost a decade of personal training under my belt and I was far more educated than what I was with previous injuries and I'll never forget after I had recovered from the knee surgery signing up for my rehab and going there and I go to this rehab center and I meet the physical therapist and then after that he hands me off to the lady who was kind of overseeing the area which was a PT so they typically have most therapies are like this you have a physical therapy office which is that's the main doctor where it's held under then they have a bunch of PTAs physical therapist assistants that work underneath them that are helping all the patients and they try and bus as many people as they can through that and so they'll have a facility like this one that I went through where there's about 10 of us that are all rehabbing someone's rehabbing an ankle someone's rehabbing a knee a hip there's all different ages we're all in there together I'll never forget you know I was doing she came over to teach me you know I was doing like these little stations and she came over to have me do these wall wall squats where she put the wall behind my back and then I was squatting up and down and she wanted me to do that for like two minutes and she you know just take your time if you need to in between and rest but for two minutes you do this and she went to the other patient how to do stuff and she basically showed me and then I'm squatting down again after the injury was holy shit you know I was like shaking like a leaf and when I would get down towards the bottom you know the natural thing that my body wanted to do was again like we were just talking about is the dominant side that was an injury would take over out of the squat you know and I would shift over to the right really hard and then it would shoot me out of squat now I know as a trainer that mechanically allow the body to just take the easiest path and so that got me really I ended up quitting the rehab because this happened two or three times in a row and I'm like why the fuck am I doing this if I'm doing the real training the hard part is the form and the technique while you're rehabbing because if you just go through the movements and you don't think about what you're trying to accomplish you just solidify bad patterns and this happens to so many Americans that come out of our surgeries and our rehab is they just they get them working again and able to go back to their daily life and walking but they didn't really fix the overcompensation that naturally happens in all of us so your attention to detail and form is more important than it ever has been when you are rehabbing an injury so you know when you do go back to weights start with very lightweight and put all of your energy and emphasis on mirroring the other side or being symmetrical when you move and really focus on the mechanics and trying to perfect your form that is far more important than seeing hey last week I did five pounds now this week I'm doing ten pounds I'm getting better no no no pay attention to the movement and the detail that otherwise you're setting yourself up for a headache long term next question is from Kathleen Jurgen Cymbaleo is there any truth that an imbalance in your microbiome can be directly linked to anxiety and depression yes 100% so there's there's two reasons why this is true and by the way this has been now studies are showing that there is a connection between our microbiome and microbiome represents all of the bacteria and fungi and all the different you know cells in our body that are not human cells that also that lives symbiotically usually but there's a microbiome that's on your skin on your eyes your genitals your feet you know in fact if you were to count all of the cells that are human cells and compare them to the cells that are in and on your body that are not human cells they would actually outnumber human cells so we we evolve with them they are definitely a part of our of who we are so there's two reasons why a microbiome you know it's off let's say could cause you to feel anxious or depressed number one this is a very obvious one you don't feel good okay so how imagine if you were chronically bloated after eating meals which happens to a lot of people or you're constantly battling constipation or diarrhea or heart burn you know really bad acid reflux that's obvious if you have any kind of a chronic health problem you're it's probably you're more likely to feel anxious and depressed just cause you don't feel good okay that's a very easy one but there's also a much more direct link your gut for example produces quite a bit of the feel good chemicals in your body like serotonin in fact there's there's all there's the second part of your body that has the most serotonin receptors receptors or the serotonin chemical attaches to is in your gut the first place is your brain second place is in your gut I think the third place is in your heart which is kind of interesting we've for thousands of years we've talked about listening to our minds our guts and our hearts which is kind of interesting and remember serotonin is that kind of love feel good chemical but there's other ones that are produced quite a bit by this microbiome so if it's off you're probably gonna have less potentially of these so is connected to your overall inflammation in your body well systemic inflammation we know is connected to depression and anxiety when you're just inflamed overall they find that you tend to have those you know those types of problems so it's it's definitely directly connected to those things it's more of a physical and then there's this kind of this feedback loop that happens so I have those that makes me feel bad the microbiome is off which also you know directly makes me feel bad but now I start to feel bad about feeling bad now I start to feel bad about why the why the hell am I always bloated why am I always feeling this way now I feel bad about feeling bad and it kind of becomes helpless and it's perpetual yeah and it it starts to become this problem so it's definitely connected your gut health is a huge part of your overall health I think that's a really simple way to show this or explain this to someone I mean have you ever been so scared to get up and do a talk or do something that you threw up or before a big event or a game like that makes you so anxious and you're so afraid or someone give you the most awful news you've ever heard in your life and it makes you puke I mean there's obviously communication that's going on that's all mind that's happening right you're freaked out you're paranoid somehow made you throw up there's obviously communication that's happening there they call it the gut brain access and there's a direct communication between the gut and the brain and they're connecting it to all kinds of different things and it's a two way moods too we've talked about this about how we visibly see this more like in our children after they eat certain types of foods what types of behavior like happen as a result if it's like what that reaction looks like versus like a different type of like balanced nutrient meal you know all these things like it's very visible when you kind of take yourself out of it and look from the outside and again this is probably going to be in the future there will probably be future treatments that use gut treatments as part of therapy I don't know if it will necessarily be the cure by itself but I think it will probably be in combination with other types of treatments because again I mean look I've battled with gut issues for a long time luckily for a while now I've had zero issues but I know when my gut is off man I definitely don't feel as happy and as calm and part of it is just not feeling good the other part of it is just physically you know because there are you know there are emotional components you can also have a physical body that just feels down and depressed this is how medications will treat it when people take an SSRI it's like they're they're not fixing the problems in your life but maybe it's helping with the physical feeling of those things next question is from Ty Finnecom what's something you've taken for granted that has come to light during the coronavirus situation and as a result what will you do differently once the pandemic is over and you know what's interesting is that we were kind of talking about this already right early in the intro and you know while we're having conversation like my mind has been spinning about that because I knew it why it was happening and then having to say it on this podcast made me really think about it and now my brain has been going like you know playing the guitar and have incredible voices and one of my my personal favorite and I'm pretty sure most of my family members favorite things to do is to get together as a family and these are opposite sides right so actually never do the two of them get together we've never both my brother-in-laws that are the musicians have never been in the same family party or without that they're on different sides of the family but both very talented and both sides of these families love to get together have food they should do that would be fucking really cool I'm gonna talk to each one of them individually and I'm even gonna offer to pay for their time an hour I'll pay you to play for a hundred dollars or something an hour for the family once a month that we just make a consistent time that we on Sunday the first Sunday of every month that you play for one hour and we all get it on a zoom and enjoy it together and I just think that would be so rad and something even a thought to do that until this whole COVID situation and you know who knows maybe both sides of my family start getting together and if it becomes a regular thing and you know we've got everybody on there and enjoying music and seeing each other and I think that's what I'm gonna do I mean I literally like that just came to mind as we were talking about this because that was something that I noticed I thought you know what we don't as much as we all do get together as a family that and that could be a very easy thing that I make as a monthly thing that we all do I love that I love that idea I'm on the same wavelength as much as I value family I realize that I took I took a lot of it for granted and what I mean by that is I see certain parts of my family regularly I see my parents you know at least once a once a week maybe we'll have dinner together whatever twice a month maybe once a month maybe I have cousins and stuff that you know I'll see at big family events but I don't see a lot of them enough and what's actually happened is because of this because I think all of us want to check in on each other and we do love each other you know my cousins and I we care for each other my aunts and uncles although I only see them for birthdays and Christmas and stuff like that we definitely care for each other and what's ended up happening is we're contacting each other and then we ever have through FaceTime and through that type of stuff and I'm really enjoying it and I'm realizing I don't have a relationship with a lot of these people aside from the big family functions and I did take them for granted and I'm going and that's what I do now so on a weekly basis now Jessica and I will you know we'll sit down actually on mostly daily basis we'll sit down and be like who have when we FaceTime recently oh my brother oh my cousin I'm alone FaceTime and I think I'd like to keep doing that I think I think you know as much as I value family I still took some of it for granted that's for sure yeah I know I totally agree with you guys on that I do think too one thing that I've really been stoked on that we've started to kind of do with our own family and our kids besides always just kind of going outside with them horsing around you know doing like activities outside and enjoying the sun and climbing and all that which has been great we've designated like an hour of just creative time and so this is something like we have been able to like my oldest for instance has started to draw a comic and he's really getting into that and like I've never seen them really gravitate to doing artistic things and my youngest is building all these elaborate things right now and he's really getting into that and then we spend time all the three of us like learning guitar and I'm kind of walking them through and they're you know working their way through that but it's just something that you know besides getting all of the education from school you know hanging out with their friends and all that that's like really like rich time that I get to spend with them and I want to see if I can maintain that going forward yeah you know it's something else too that I never used to do that now I do a lot when I would go on walks because I would still do walks and stuff regularly just to keep activity or whatever if I passed by someone or someone's out in the garage or whatever I never used to say hi to anybody oh that too yeah I used to just walk do my own business maybe if I'm with Jessica or the kids I'm paying attention to them now I make it a point to say hi to anybody I pass or and on Easter you know Jessica and I went through for a walk and we saw people out or whatever and now that I've been saying hi to people now they're starting to have conversations so like I walk by this lady and she was talking to her neighbor and I said hi and she's like hey how are the how are your babies how are your kids how are they doing and I realized like oh she knows I have kids because I've walked by now several times and said hi and so we're starting to build that that community feel that I didn't have before 100% took that for granted before and with that go to mindpumpfree.com download all of our guides resources and books I'm gonna start with the Ben shout out yeah yeah okay what's his last name Lawson okay and what was the deal with leukemia alright hey before we sign off I do want to wish one of our listeners and friends Ben Lawson we want to wish you good health and if you could send him your prayers and good vibes that would be awesome he's battling with leukemia right now he's been listening to us for a long time he was up to like 600 pound like dead left and he was really strong and just got hit hard really really good dude so Ben on our minds we hope you do well hang in there buddy and with that go to mindpumpfree.com download all of our guides resources and books they're all totally free you can also find the three of us on Instagram you can find Justin at Mind Pump Justin you can find me at Mind Pump Sal and Adam at Mind Pump Adam