 Hello and welcome to episode 310 of Bruce and Ed live from New York. Welcome. I'm Bruce. I'm Ed. It's March 10th Episode 310 is a very complex numbering system. It means March 10th. Don't tell anybody. They're gonna think we've had 310 episodes anyway Today is Tuesday March 10th, and you know what that means Tuesday is body health fitness nutrition all those sorts of things so It very fittingly. I have a cold Mm-hmm. We were just talking over the weekend with some friends who were saying I was what we were out It was like 60 some degrees. It was beautiful in New York, and I'm always hot so I was like wearing a light shirt and no jacket at all and Later it rained but anyway during the day was beautiful. It's gorgeous, and they were saying that It's just an old wives tale that you get you catch a cold by going outside with wet hair Or because it's cold outside. You don't have a coat and things like that, and I'm just not so sure I think that the new wives tale is really an old wives tale or something because if that's the case Then how come I have a cold is a cold caused by a virus. Who knows? Well, it has to do with your immune system You don't take care of it everything you will get sick everything happens I mean everything has to do with your immune system But they say isn't the cup the common cold like one of the hardest things for us to Cure and prevent because is it a virus or something? Well, yeah, it could be virus. I don't get it I really still don't understand how we all catch colds and it it seems to always happen when the weather changes I'm just saying you know, maybe it's just a big coincidence, but yeah There's more stuff in the air, and of course if your immune system is not prepared for it Then you will fall sick. Well, apparently that's what happened because I felt sick yesterday I was just sneezing all day and Then last night. Oh my gosh, I had a fever and I was tossing and turning it hot all night Well, it didn't help that the heat was off and then I got up a turn on it was too hot. But anyway What? Yesterday we put our first show 309 up on YouTube. So that worked really well We did the audio version of the pot as a podcast on itunes So you can go to itunes and just type in Bruce space Ed do a search for podcasts Bruce and Ed or Bruce Ed and you'll find our podcast on there You can listen to us on audio and subscribe to it there Actually, I did that it didn't come. Yeah, Bruce Wagner does Well, no, I did it does. Oh, okay If you go to search you got a podcast search put Bruce space Ed it shows up actually there's two of them And that's kind of a glitch. They're really the same It doesn't matter which one you pick because one forwards to the other and it's a apple a weird apple glitch But it doesn't matter. They both are the same thing. I don't know how you can eliminate the duplication But anyway, they're it's there and if you click subscribe You'll automatically get every episode downloaded to your iPod every time you hot sink and all that stuff And actually if you have an iPhone, you know, it's really cool because you Can download the podcast without ever syncing it just does it through the cellular networks That really is slick. Yeah a few minutes to download The audio version now we're we're almost finished with getting the video version of the podcast up there So that was the last piece. Yeah If you have an eye touch or an iPhone or whatever the ability to watch a video Podcast you'll be able to do that too if you want so that's cool. That's exciting. Yeah We got it done at least That's important. So we don't have a guest lined up on Skype today, I guess host so if you have Skype and you want to join us Just type into the chat room your Skype name And I'll call you up and and get you up here on the big screen on Skype And you can join us or you just type in your comments or questions or whatever into Into the chat room. So as a view that are joining us live, of course. Yeah, and The today like I said is a body day the categories are money body love tech personal technology and celebrities So today's Tuesday. We're talking about money, which is everything related to body. I'm sorry body Everything related to health nutrition fitness and things like that, right? So happens to be one of my more preferred subjects that I enjoy talking about mainly because of You know, I know a lot about nutrition and and we have a lot of great Guests that are gonna be, you know, joining us and teaching us a lot about diet and nutrition, etc So what do you have to teach us today about diet nutrition? well, I didn't have a whole lot prepared mainly because we're Trying to focus this week on trying to get some great guests lined up for you for the next few weeks So we're just gonna kind of touch different areas of interest and a particular interest to me more recently has been like more natural foods whole foods raw the raw food movement and And that is seems to be taking a big up, you know big stage in the diet and nutrition world because So many people are interested in that kind of stuff. So we can talk a little bit about that and And then about, you know, health issues and things like that. So we've been We've been dabbling Ed has been dabbling mainly in raw food the raw food movement for quite a while now Like two years. I mean I have been for many years actually and You know as a truth student I'm always seeking better ways to, you know nourish my body and feel good and as I get older I You know, I realize that I need to change certain things in order to keep my energy levels as high as they used to be and So that's my quest So we we're not like a hundred percent raw vegan organic all that yet No, if ever but but we we eat pretty well. We like for breakfast Actually, also, there's this other thing that I really we both really got into there's a book by Dr. Dr. Nicholas paracone. It's called the paracone prescription, which is just about healthy, you know eating and nutrition and so on anti-aging as part of the theme of it and We really liked what he had to say about what was, you know, what was nutritious and all that so we got into that So we've been having pretty much very similar stuff for breakfast every single day like we have turkey bacon scrambled egg whites, you know, and we used to every day we would have You know slow cooked oats and with berries or some sort of berries in it Yeah, well, there's two that's the thing is too much It was actually such a big meal that it was too much and we're gonna split it into two meals So now we kind of have the scrambled egg whites in the turkey bacon, but as almost like a second meal You can have a bowl of slow cooked oats, which is very very healthy and then and I'm instant by the way Turns into sugar, right? There's well, there's like three kinds There's like instant and there's the two minute or three minute or something and then there's the five minute one The five minute one is the one you want. It's the only one that's not, you know Super high glycemic and all that the slow cooked oatmeal Anyway, you put berries in it like any kind of berries But you know for example blueberries that have tons of antioxidants and that's always excellent and cantaloupe is another one that's Extremely important and extremely healthy. So anyway, we've been kind of eating like that for a long long time Yeah, now wow, it's been a while. Now Ed is introduced into our diet green smoothies which are That's from the raw food movement, which yeah, what LD put in there. Well, my goal was to In my normal life before I got into the raw movement I was or we were eating probably like the 20 30 percent raw, which I think it's kind of low But that's probably where most people lie as far as raw food a lot For most actually more people probably have less raw food than that But for me it seemed like not enough and I wanted to kind of balance it a little more and get over that hump of 50% So we've incorporated a lot more raw foods into our diet to try and get over that hump of 50% So my goal was to get like 60% raw So that's where we're at and we've seemed to like it a lot Okay, now we have to take our little YouTube break. So we will be right back This is the end of segment one if you're on YouTube just click the link or there's a little arrow Maybe right here. Anyway, click that and go on to the second segment. We'll be right back after the jump And we're back part two So anyway Going back to the 60% Anywhere between 50 and 60% and lately I've been not doing that not the not eating enough raw food So I figured well Let me shift things around a little bit because I need to get more raw food in me because I feel You know lethargic and not enough energy And so I've been trying to combine the raw with the cooked stuff all in one as opposed to just cooked or just raw and That seems to be working out somewhat You know because then I'm more conscious about what I'm eating and I can easily tabulate You know at the end of the day. Oh, yeah, I think I reached my 50% You know for today, which is not a steadfast rule But you know, it's it's something or an attainable goal that can be easily Accomplished and what are some of the things that you throw in that blender? Well for the smoothies Hmm-hmm, you guys will probably not like I got a liquid salad So I got but it's super super super nutrition, right? That's what's important It's yeah, you think of it as medicine. Just drink it. It's not bad. You know, yeah Well, there has to be a balance though because most people don't like to eat anything that they don't like that doesn't taste well so So for me, it's very different because for me. I don't care about the taste as much So I pack it with lots and lots of nutrients So it doesn't always taste that great and and Bruce always gives me Little bit of slack because of it, but I always try encourage him and tell him You know, there's lots of nutrition in there. So you might as well just drink. So what are you putting in the blender? So I'm putting On a daily basis Yeah on a daily basis I mean you can make things to your taste of course But you just throw fruits in the blender You can a lot of people use that are into this heavily or use the Vitamix blender, which is a great blender But I just use my own traditional blender and it seems to work well for me at this point so I put like a banana orange and some berries whatever they are whatever's fresh and The important thing is not to do the same thing over and over again It's to mix it up a little bit and by the fruits that are in season So I'll put the apples bananas strawberries or bear or some other kind of berry And then I'll put a little bit of water or lately. I've been doing a lot of coconut juice or a coconut water and It seems to in New York City at least it seems to be in every supermarket now, and it's a hundred percent coconut water It's better to have organic of course including the fruits So I put the water and then I throw in whatever greens I choose and normally it's either collard greens or kale spinach Dandelion greens are excellent because they have a lot of Minerals and and then I just blend it all together And then once that's blended and I throw in the powdered stuff, which is the super dense nutrients Which gives me the protein because for some reason for me it feels like I need protein all the time or also I'm always hungry so that that satisfies my Thirst for protein or with our hungry the powders are The ones that I use I have a like if you come here You'll see a whole big drawer in the refrigerator full of all kinds of great things, but I do A spirulina or chlorella blue green algae The last couple weeks I've been doing alfalfa grass Which doesn't sound too good, it's kind of bitter, but it's an excellent food But you can do barley grass or wheat grass of course and I have that too and then I add some other like Those are the green powders, then I add some other like barks and things like that are powders Like mesquite, which the American Indians, you know use it for everything and And then in South America the Indians love this stuff called Maca M a cca and that's come derived from I believe a tree and it's a bark or something and it's a powdered and and it's supposed to You know give you all kinds of energy increase your libido and You know just You know makes you Very mentally clear and alert all these come all these ingredients combined give you some so much mental clarity It's amazing because I drink this juice and then I feel like my brain is just like so like I don't know It's like this weird sensation you kind of have to do it and then you see what I mean Like I can I feel like my eyes are like very wide open And I can see things with better light and better colors and things like that So those are some of the things and then I put goji berries and I try and add some Like um like a neutral Like aloe vera like I buy the aloe vera leaf And then I put it in there or chia seeds I'll put them in water overnight and then put them in my blender with the smoothie I mean, there's so many varieties that it's you know, do you put all those powders in or just a few or yeah Sometimes I put them all yeah, because I want I want to be nourished and and and for me if You know when I go to the bathroom I Want to see green. I don't want to see brown because when I see green I know that I'm getting my all my greens in Where does somebody if you live in Ohio or you know Minneapolis or somewhere? Where does somebody get all these powders? Where do they buy all that? well, I buy my stuff in bulk because as you'll get to know me you'll know that I'm very frugal and I don't like to waste money. So I'm a good steward of money So I buy them online There's different co-ops and I try and get all organic as much as possible because that increases the nutrient density twice fold and So mainly online, but you can go to your local Well, I go to there's one that's why I get some of my stuff in different places like Vita cost is a good one because they only charge five dollars for shipping for anything and And then I use this other one East Coast nutrition calm as well and And then there's a whole bunch of other ones that I can't think of but I mean, you know, I'll be sharing with us with you What should they Google to find these? Well, they can Google Green super green foods, you know powder or whatever superfoods. Yeah, or Chlorella powder whatever you're specifically you're looking for but how do you know that one of these online retailers or whatever is reputable well, that's a thing you don't so So if you find something that you really like then you might want to Google that company, you know and make sure that there's no negative, you know People yeah comments and things that people are saying about it There's no real sure way except getting it from a source like maybe me that I have some experience and even me like I Don't I go by what the other gurus are talking about because then I don't have to reinvent the wheel I can just use what they do and there's so many new things coming into the market now with there's a whole new Because I think that's the reason why the wrong movement has becoming so big is because now we've kind of minimized How much work it takes to get these new super dense nutrients into powder form or whatever still without destroying it the food and and keeping it in its most preserved nature and then and then you can they'll ship it to you and then you can eat it so We're 10 5 10 years ago. They didn't have the technology to be able to do those things so things were you know more expensive So it's a huge movement now. There are so many people getting in on it and Lots and lots of raw food gurus if you just Google raw food You'll find tons of websites and communities and yeah seminars and movies all sorts of things about it So all right, we're gonna take a break and come right back after this little YouTube break Click the link to go to the next part, and we'll be right back. See ya And we're back. We're back So anyway, yeah going back. I mean we can talk we can have a whole show just on raw food but There's a couple of great movies right now that came out actually last year in 2008 and The one that sticks to my mind right now for those of you that are suffering from like diabetes is one that I would highly recommend and it's called the What is it raw in 30 days how to reverse diabetes in 30 days? I think it's a reverse Yeah, I think reversing diabetes in 30 days. Yeah, and you can look that one up online It's a great film on they took like these candidates and they had diabetes and and for a month they put them in a on a raw food Diet and within like really 10 days most more than half of them already had stopped taking all their medicines Etc. Etc. Basically you can reverse diabetes and you can reverse most of the most Like heart disease high blood pressure diabetes and a lot of skin disorders are all related to nutrition so You can reverse a lot of things by eating healthy and the other one that I recently saw which I think is excellent is One that's called food matters and it's online as well And you can check it out. It's excellent excellent documentary on why we need to eat Right, okay, so the thing that always is always a question for me is how I don't cook. I don't even prepare food I eat so How can somebody in our modern American culture anyway? How can what's the easiest way for them to do all this without a whole lot of fuss and must I mean I know everybody always you hear these people talking. They're like, oh, no It's so easy all you have to do is go to the market every day You know and and all you need to do is get all these vegetables They name 15,000 different fruits and vegetables that you've never heard of and you got it You know put this with this and this and this and this and it's like it's like somebody who had barely can operate a mouse And you're trying to explain to them how to program in C++. It's way over my head. I have no interest in doing any of that I just want to pop the can and eat it or open the box and eat it So that's a real challenge for somebody who's not into prep food preparation They're not into cooking or anything, but they want to eat healthy and nutritious. What what's a have you? Found any solutions for people like that. Yeah, I mean there's no real magic of bullet I mean, it's like anything. It's how much you really want to change and it's really up to you What I can tell you is that That it takes less time than cooking believe it or not and less thought and effort if you already have the ingredients there and I only go to the supermarket maybe twice a week to get my natural or my whole foods and vegetables and fruits and things and Probably every three or four months. I order things online from our powdered stuff. So What I would suggest is just Know what what these foods are and then when you go to the grocery store instead of choosing the Oreos You choose the nuts maybe and and then you eat the nuts and you want to try and Eat raw nuts if at all possible as opposed to like something that's not roasted nuts all did yeah Because you're getting more nutrients in general. They say that conventional food Loses a lot of its nutrients because of the soil that it's grown on and of course the pesticides that you're putting inside your body but when you put her when you buy organic now you're getting say 50 to 60 percent of the nutrients that it should have more and then if it's wild then you're getting even more because it's not like farmed and So it's important that you spend 20 percent more on the organic stuff because you're getting twice as many Nutrients and you're not and you're gonna be fuller. You know when you're eating these low Nutrient foods or conventional foods as they call them You're gonna be hungry in a few hours and because you're not getting the nutrition that you need You get full because you're eating balks of food, but you're not getting the nutrients So that's why people in America especially Overweight because they're constantly eating bad food. So why not go a hundred percent raw food? Well, I don't know. I mean everyone has their own reasons why I know for me. I'm a very pragmatic person, so I Can't just stop everything. I'm doing now and start something Totally new that I've never done before That to me doesn't make any sense But hey, you know if it works for you more power to you I just can't do that for me has been a very long and gradual process that's taken over 12-15 years because I mean I took many nutrition courses in college and and although I knew a lot about Nutrition, it's been a very long process for me to make that switch to get to the point where I want to be more raw So anyway, it's It's it's hard. Yeah, it's not an easy thing But it's you you have to make the decision yourself and you have to and just do it little steps every day is What ends up giving you perfect health later, you know, it's it's if you continue doing the same things that you're doing now You know 20 you don't get disease till 20 30 years down the line because you've been doing the same thing for 20 or 30 years So now is the time to start changing those things and then you see the results down the line It's important to at least start very little It's gotta be hard when all your friends are not into that either like you know, you're out in Manhattan And somebody wants to go let's go have dinner and they Know this great Italian restaurant. You end up an Italian restaurant with nothing there about pasta and Steak and whatever. Yeah, that's probably been the reason why I won't go completely wrong because I love to eat from these fine chefs that are in Manhattan, especially they have a lot of great Foods to offer so for me I love cooked food and and I need it in in my mind at least I need it so So yeah, the thing about that is that if you know ahead of time where you'll be going You should look at the menu and see if there's gonna be something for you there If not, then you need to eat something beforehand That and then just order maybe an appetizer or a salad something so you don't feel like you're depriving yourself And you don't make the people that you're with feel uncomfortable that they're eating and you're not so There's a fine balance with everything and I think you have to use You know your decision-making process in figuring those things out But it's not that hard actually if you if you think about it If you know that what the foods are that you're supposed to be eating or that you want to start eating then You know you have the mental Space to be able to look at the menu and only focus on the ones that are good for you We know a lot of people that are in this raw food movement already and I know I noticed that you know Everybody's at a different degree. They they call themselves, you know 40% or 50% or 60% or 80% raw whatever and Some of them do that. I mean they'll they'll some of them are completely raw almost So they'll always suggest a raw food restaurant and they really are really really into it others are maybe like 50% raw and Sometimes they'll order a salad and you know stick to that and sometimes they'll just have whatever they want case it is Yes, I think it's important not to deprive yourself either and So for me, I think in the weekends we tend to do a lot more social things with friends and we eat out a lot more so That's where I'm trying to balance it because up until recently I was kind of during the week I'm really Religious about eating my 50% or 60% on the weekends I kind of let it go which hasn't worked for me, but lately I've just been not liking that anymore So I want to try and do the whole seven days of constantly Focusing on that because it's easy to let go and then just to not come back to it so And that's the end of this segment. We'll be right back Great job. Yeah, okay. We're back. That was a short break Hello question. I have it. So what what's um? I Got sick. I have a cold. I have a fever. I feel like you know what? What's the best remedy for that? no, I mean like anything else I mean rests and drink lots of water and and then Make sure you nourish yourself if you can some people lose their appetite when they're sick. So It depends on on the person and what the symptoms are You know, I'm not completely against medicine or anything like that So when I do feel sick, I might take some anti You know histamine or decadent gestants or whatever So do whatever you have to do to make yourself feel better What's important to me when I get sick is that I want to know where my body is when I'm sick And so I want to be able to feel some of those symptoms to be able to gauge where I'm at in the illness Is it getting better? Is it getting worse and what happens is that people take all kinds of medicines and they mass the Symptoms and then they continue on doing the normal routine And that's the worst thing you can do because you're not helping your immune system You're depriving of what it really needs. So the solution is nothing just rest and water rest lots of water And I would take some extra supplements, maybe vitamins and and then get back to your normal routine of nutrition, right? Because probably, you know, the reason you're sick is because you let one of those things go You didn't sleep long enough or you know, you wasted your your resources in your body your energy I don't have super food And yeah, and you have to you know, you have to love yourself enough to To continue to make the right choices for for your body really And your health really from my understanding health really starts from in the colon actually Which means that what you put into your mouth is the end result of what your health is so So getting sick is a result of Not properly eating The right nutrients and things like that as far as I'm concerned. I mean I get sick. Don't get me wrong I'm not perfect because I do let go of some of these rigid rules of Don't engage me, I guess that I use but and everyone does so it's just every day You got to wake up and know what the right thing to do Okay, so Rest water and nutrition same as the rest of your life basically Everyone loves the chicken noodle soup and and I think those things just are comforting More than anything and they do have nutrients But in general when you cook food it loses most At least 50% of the nutrients that are there. I think the thing that usually when I get sick I I don't get sick that often, but when I do it's usually always because I stayed up too late Working on the computer doing something didn't go to sleep till 3 or 4 a.m Then I wake up at 7 a.m. I always wake up at 7 a.m. With a son So if I am up till 3 or 4 a.m. Especially if it's 2 or 3 or more nights in a row And I'm getting only 3 or 4 hours sleep. That's what does it? Well that we get a lot of meals I mean, yeah, and you're not in the right foods. It's just it can spiral out of control very easily and And that's usually what happens with me when I get sick I I go on these sugar cravings and sugar binges which for me that's my downfall and So I kind of have to counterbalance that by eating Certain types of foods that that take away those cravings and Wantings and for me, I think some of it is stress when I get stressed. I crave sugar a lot So that's some of the issues that I'm working on So we're gonna in upcoming shows on Tuesdays. We're gonna be talking with we're gonna line up some really exciting guests So we'll talk about fitness and nutrition a lot of people from the Rafa movement and Anything that's related to health diabetes, you know the epidemic of obesity and all sorts of things like that so We're gonna have some really cool exciting guests lined up for Next week and weeks after that. So we hope that you definitely stick with us tune in. It's gonna be fine So we have did you have anything else to say about? well, I wanted to maybe Talk a little about fitness the dreaded fitness routines and things that we should be doing on a daily basis and How to go about it and one of the things that I always tell people is That if you're not into working out then at the very least you should be stretching every day Doing some kind of motion or activity where your blood Circulates, you know when you sit in front of a computer all day and you don't like I'm always telling Bruce You have to get up after an hour or two of being on the computer you have to Stretch and do something because your body needs to circulate the toxins out and so I think that You know, we can talk a little bit about fitness and and some of those aspects of how to go about it So stretching is one of the most important things you can do and I do a lot of stretching every day I stretch But I love to do yoga Because that's the ultimate stretch obviously you can get yourself into a pretzel practically and do all kinds of wild positions that can Make people like freak out Stand on your head things like that, but you know standing on your head is you look at it You're like, okay. Why would I do that? But it's It's it's a basic thing you do it because you want to Circulate the blood there again. You want to get all that blood rushing to your head and and that helps take things out of your body that you don't need and So if you're not doing anything at all at the very least if you're don't want to get out of your computer You should be doing stretches for your neck and I always tell people to do you know rotation flexion extension like this and just stretching it and moving things around I Motion brings life Stagnation brings death. That's the bottom line. That's what my trainer always said. It's all about movement Movement is yeah movement is life movement is the key to life. Absolutely Where can somebody find the best, you know, just ordinary stretching exercises they should do every day God with the Being online you you have the world Where of knowledge? I don't have really any particular place because I've learned most of my stuff on my own through books actually so I don't really have any Recommendation for that, but there's all kinds of stuff yoga is is one of the best things that anyone can get into For your health I practice or I also get like acupuncture, which is kind of like You know Reestablishing your chi like they call it which is your energy flow because sometimes even that gets Clod up and your body doesn't work, right? So Stretching kind of addresses some of those things and so does acupuncture So and it's a holistic approach to health and and and it helps me immensely and I sometimes a deep massage is great But acupuncture is like getting a deep massage, but without all the Deepness of it and pain of it after But I know some people can't take the needles. That's the biggest thing that people have to fear But for some reason for me, I don't feel them at all It's like I just love laying there and and I love the way I feel after and and beyond. It's not a Palliative thing. It's it's a long-lasting Effect that you get from yoga. I mean from acupuncture. So it's a great great modality All right. Thanks for joining us today Tuesday, March 10th We're gonna finish our segment now and yeah, thanks for joining us We're gonna have some great stuff to talk about in the coming weeks join us tomorrow for Wednesday is Love it's love sex dating relationships all that should be fun. We're gonna line up some great guests So it's gonna get more and more fun every day. Yeah stick with us and we'll see you tomorrow. All right Take care. Bye. Bye