 If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go Mind pump, mind pump with your hosts, Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews In this exciting episode of Mind Pump, it's January motherfuckers, time to get in shape, boom! It's a new year everybody! For the first 32 minutes we do our usual intro Conversation we talk about if mind pump moved to solo podcasting. What would that be like? Yeah, get ready, suck! 2018 it's the Sal DeStefano show No, don't piss everyone off. It's not true Then we talk about narcissistic and confidence Follow up. We talk about pheromones and chemistry between people We talk about Dr.. We talk about Dr. Bronner's. Bronners or boners? Bronners And the wacky label you got to buy this soap and read the label just for the label and figure out what the hell They're trying to say by the way. We need to decipher this everybody. It's a good All-natural soap. I've been using it forever You can find it at Thrive Market who also happens to be one of our sponsors if you go to Thrivemarket.com forward slash mind pump you will get one month free membership $20 off your first three orders of $49 or more and free shipping. We also talk about how stress and diet affect the body smell because sometimes people stink and our animal-like nature. We also mention Organifi green juice. Adam actually uses it before his workouts They are one of our sponsors if you go to organifyshop.com Enter the code mind pump no space You'll get a massive discount. Then we get into the questions first question was Someone was asking us if our pre-workout rituals have changed You know, they've been listening to the podcast for a long time. We used to do certain things before our workouts to get ready They are radically different today Why are they different and what do we do that is different? The next question was what do we feel or how do we feel about? female-only exercise areas in gyms and what does that say about society they still exist huh damn society Next question was besides moving better sleep and good nutrition What are some of the other big rocks to improve? The wellness of our children like what should you focus on watch your kids fool to get your kids? Healthy besides you know moving more sleeping better pay attention better and finally the last question is This particular individual feels worse at first when they start a detox program or protocol before they start feeling better and Of course lots of people have experienced this You know when you go on a fast or you change your diet radically you feel crappy at first then you start to feel Better why does that happen? What's going on in the body? Or we all just crazy? Also, this is January 2nd. You're right. You're in the beginning of the year. This is when everybody Makes those resolutions to get more fit or just to improve themselves one of the problems with Making these resolutions that in our experience is people just don't have a plan like they go into January like okay I'm gonna work out. I'm gonna get in better shape. I'm gonna eat better. What does that mean? I mean you can work out right Or you can work out the wrong way both of which will create drastically different results for your body. We have Something called the maps super bundle now the map super bundle includes Several of our workout programs several of our maps programs and if you do them in a row as we've laid them out You'll have the entire year Planned out for you. You'll be able to work out every single week. You'll know what to do What exercises to do? You'll be able to see us demonstrating them in videos. You'll have exercise blueprints your goals will change throughout the year There'll be correctional components. There'll be athletic components. 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It's t-shirt time Shirts in the new year. How many reviews 11 reviews. Oh, dude, you know what? I gotta teach people how to do this It's slipping Sal. You know what it is. It's again. It's my fault. Hmm. I blame my everything in 2017 was your fault Hey, our successes and I'll take the new Sal. I'll take responsibility for 2018 Okay, so here's what you got to do if you want to leave a review and get a chance to win a shirt Go to the search function on your podcast app. Even if you already subscribe to mine pump enter in mind pump Then click on the icon the mine pump icon then it'll pop up and you'll see there's an area where you can leave it We just got you got one of those little teenage finger things for girls right there Oh, that's cute right now. He's a teenager's but it's for girls to the pop thing. Oh, yeah all the chicks Yeah, bro, do you like twirl? It just so I don't drop in the toilet. Oh, he's got one is the the bejazzling Yeah, I think you did a bedazzle it bedazzle, but that bedazzle Bejazzle You know how much bedazzle and Justin I know all about it. I'm so glittery. All right. We are gonna give away three shirts. You're still looking it up though Oh, yeah, we're giving away three to agro techs. I need Google plus Alexandra horn all of you are winners and they might just read to itunes at mine pump media Dot-com send your shirt size your shipping address and we'll get that right out to you. Thank you. Get so Welcome to the sal power hour with his two sidekicks The two power balls lefty and righty. Oh, man Hey K-90 ff Yeah, we're host DJ jazzy JJ. You're here live with Sal. This is Stefano Stefano So lightning Adam shiffer We should we should do episodes where we each pretend to be like the main dude, okay You know what I'm saying? We've all agreed that there is a special magical chemistry amongst the three of us And that it mine pump would never be where it's at if there was just one of us, right? Yeah, what what part? Adam You guys yeah, what would be if if it was only you running this show what would be the worst part about it? Yeah, the worst part. I don't hear. I don't need to hear you fucking stroke yourself Where what what would you tell you what would be the worst part God, I don't know if you're doing it by yourself You know, that's easy for me not only for yourself personally getting started man I was a listener too. Yeah, like what would what would they be so polarizing dude by myself? I'd be so polarizing. Yeah, you'd have oh, which is not necessarily a bad thing actually You would it would you would divide a lot of people, right? Oh, man, you and I have a really like niche market that was like, you know feverish towards you I just pissed a lot of you have everybody else that hate because if I get in a bad mood then I become We make you more likable totally. Otherwise. I'm like, you know mega, you know pompous asshole This is the ego explosion show Hi, I'm salad. I know everything. I know the entire universe. I'm an expert on being an expert. Well, you know, I'm never wrong I already annoyed myself All right your turn guys I think I think people get really frustrated with me with all because without you guys I'd probably be making up at least three to five words at episode That's not that bad. I think it's something worse. That's you're going easy on yourself. No, I Be like captain trail off, you know, like I'll start talking about something and then I would just go on like 20,000 different tangents ramps and water. Yeah, everything would just go away from me Nobody would be able to rain me in and it would be horrible. You know what the worst thing about your episodes would be Justin is you wouldn't know what to name it. Yeah Even later like I talked about Widgets, you know name something. Yeah, you gotta give us a better one Adam then that okay Yeah, cuz that's that's not that bad. Well, I mean mine for sure. I'm like you like I'm very loved and hated You know I'm saying there's not a lot of middle-of-the-row people with me like It's like like you either like me or you really don't like we're lucky cuz the people that hate you Yeah, like me. I know that's why people that don't like me 100% that is for hold on don't like me like you. So it is weird That's for sure the magic between this we planned it that way, you know We took a personality. No, I the irony it is we're very much. So a lot of like that's what's funny Which I think the things that people don't like about each of us individually. It's just the deliveries different, right? So I think a lot so like when I get nobody doesn't like Justin if somebody if somebody complaint No, I really do Which is ironic because in real life Justin's an asshole real life He's the biggest yeah in real life you guys would definitely like just or sound like a bully. So this is all new Yeah, he like he hits kids and random Walking down the mall is fucking slap kids everybody Hey grandma. He needed it a kid needed it push that kid in the wheelchair overall Went too far. Wow. I'm not that much of an asshole. No, I think I think a lot of people that Over the course of the time that we've been building this thing that have ever said anything that negative to me about any of you It's it's more Sal than Justin always it's hard never Justin and if it's Sal It's actually feel bad for me. Well, it's actually a lot. You get a lot of people tell you negative shit about me No, not a lot at all. I'm saying over the course of three years if there's ever that one guy There's yeah, no, there's I've had the same thing to you I know that but what they it's people that actually just misunderstand you it's never like the things that they like Oh, I don't really like Sal because he's he thinks he knows it all and if you meet you in person Like if you know you as a person You're not like that. Yeah, it doesn't come across. You don't reverse that way Like if you're having a back-and-forth conversation, they're just getting they're hearing it And so it sounds like you're talking to everybody all the time and you're just not receptive people, right? They're putting up a wall right away. Ah, fuck you. I don't hear it right and actually you're not like That's where Adam comes in like a fucking wrecking ball So I think that the even the few complaints over the years that I have had Over your your personality. It's misunderstood. Yeah, I think you're miss and I think I'm misunderstood I think look for a lot of people that Think on this arrogant. We I mean fuck we I don't know who started it who nicknamed me the ego To start this but it's people took that and ran like on this super cocky type of person and I'm very confident 100% but I don't I don't think I'm a I think pretty humble to do there's very humble I think that was something I used to teach to my staff all the time was that you're very confident in your humbleness You're a little cocky about being humble But I used to tell people that I think the the truest or greatest art to being a really good leader is to be Ultra confident yet humble at the same time. I think to be a great leader you have to you have to who was it? It was a psychology test the test that we took. Mm-hmm So it's an old episode so if you want to I don't know if you can find it way back in the Narcissism. Yeah, and we got we all got this really in-depth psychology test done on us by an actual psychology professor and Good friend of mine, and she we all ranked Higher than normal in Narcissism which sounds way higher which sounds bad And when we first looked at it, we're like oh shit, and she goes no no no she goes if entrepreneurs and Leaders always tend to score higher in Narcissism Because you have to like if you you have to think you're Good or better than most people in order to lead them otherwise why would you right? You know I'm saying you don't feel you're you're ready for it You're not you're not will or you're not worthy. So I felt better about that. Yeah Well, there's some vindication there's some truth that though if you're gonna be leading you can't lead You have to have some self you can't you can't be confident You can't not be confident and lead a group of people in a direction otherwise They'll stop following listen and you're taking a walk by yourself. I am not gonna follow a dude That's like all right everybody. I think it might be safe We might it maybe I think it's okay. What do you guys think? I think the bears are sleeping. Yeah It's like I'd be like no. Yeah, I'll follow the guy. That's like oh for sure. It's this way I even if he doesn't know what's going on, right? You're gonna be like well if he's that confident He might take a sword. That's my secret ever. That's really my secret if you really think about it Yeah, is you just if you if you believe it they'll believe it. That's it It's a trick yourself. I believe that you have to trick yourself into believing things Yeah, so I think you and I have the same would have the same issue with our show You would have a group of people that enjoy it that totally identify with us and like or relate to us like you'd have more bros I'd have more hippies. Yeah. Oh, yeah for sure Because when you look at the people that don't like each of us That's probably you turn off the bros because you feel like you and they feel like you insult them a little bit You know I'm saying and I think when they can figure out how to use their iPhone to click and I think like the super intellects Hang on to every word and everything like that. They you know because I'm typical I'm it fumble shit around man. They don't like I tell you what I learned this a long time ago Life is too short to give a shit about what other random people I think you know I'm saying yeah And the irony of that all is this is a something I figured out relatively recently The irony of it is the less you the less you start caring the more people actually like it starts to like people respond to it Yeah, like they want that. It's like refreshing. You know somebody is just completely themselves and it gives zero fucks It's like right. I love those people dude I remember as a little kid all you wanted to do is be like everyone else because God forbid you stood out Right if you're an elementary school in junior high If you stood out it was a bad thing But then as you got older if you were like everybody else you it wasn't a good thing Like the guy that stood out was the one that got the attention. He's the one that got the girls He's the one that yeah, you know was you know everybody kind of appreciate it, right? It was that weird person against the grain and I appreciate weird people I really really do and I don't mean weird isn't like you're you know pick your scabs off and eat them I mean you're just You're just you don't mind because I think everybody's weird if they're just really truly themselves You know I'm saying if you're out in society, and you're really just who you really are I think most people looking like that guy's a little weird. I smell my own armpits Do you smell your armpits sometimes everybody does yeah, you want to know what's here's what's weird This is my she's gonna be so mad. Hmm. I cannot tell I like how you preface Wherever this goes yeah, I cannot tell if my girlfriend has BO. I can't tell wow And you've really done it an investment. Oh, yeah, she'll be like oh man I just worked out whatever you're attracted to her pheromones exactly, but it's so weird because I don't remember who it was Her dad was over something he was teasing her because she had worked out was in the morning We hadn't showered and he's like oh, you know he's like you got BO and you know We start laughing and so then she's checks and she's like oh I do I'm gonna go shower So then I like come here. I'm like I can't smell bad on you like I just smell you and it doesn't smell bad I used to think that I used to think dirty animals I wasn't gonna say that but it's true, dude I used to think that was a sign of that's the person To be with right if you have like if you're attracted their pheromones and you're attracted their pheromones But I also think that there's so many other now I think back maybe we evolved that way, right? So I think maybe back in the days like that was before communication and things like that like it was it was just Probably smell you walk to wow does this match and then all sudden there's chemistry there We're now you could have that like smell thing going on with someone like oh man Her pheromones or her smell is just amazing, but then she's a fucking bitch It's like imagine if we could just she smells good when she's stinky I don't give a fuck cuz she's a bitch dude Dogs that go around smell each other's assholes. It's like they know everything about him after that. Yeah, I won't go that far Yeah, no, I'm talking about armpits. Okay. I'm not like hey babe. Come here. Hey listen blow one in my face No, it's I do think it's a it's a it's a redeeming quality that somebody can have now But it's not like it used to be so it's not gonna It doesn't mean you're compatible in all areas Of course means your DNA is Because they've actually done studies on this and I'm not gonna fucking tell you where the study is okay before I get a Bunch of messages. I need a Please I get people ask at a glossary. Hey, Sal Can you tell me the study that you referred to that said point seven grams of protein like all you got to do is this Google that exact question you say Google the same question you just asked, but anyway They've done studies on this and people who like each other smells They'll do like DNA tests and they'll find that they'll be highly compatible with their like if they would have offspring Where their likelihood of having a healthy offspring Is much higher based off that so I don't think it's telling you like this is the person will be with for 10 20 years It's telling you I want to bang this person and then our genes will probably mix Well, you know I'm saying but yeah, no, she can't it's weird man. I'll smell and I was like Smells good to me. Yeah, I'm ready to go. It's kind of weird, right? You guys don't like my smell, so that's good. No Yeah All right, so I'm gonna read something to you. I'm not gonna tell you what I'm reading see if you guys can figure it out Okay, all right. I like this game first if I if I'm not for me. Who am I nobody? Second yes, if I'm only for me. What am I nothing? Third if not now when once more unless constructive selfish I work hard like Mark Spitz Perfecting first time. Absolutely nothing can help protect me fourth only hard work can save us But if we can but if we teach only our clan We are all hated then and it just continues on and on and yeah I'll read like a high I'll read one more part on this who else but God gave man love that can spark mere dust to life And then there's more so Remember what this come this is from the dr. Brauners. Oh you I knew it magic Sounded wacky enough to be that dude. So here's the deal like it's it is fucking weird, but it's it's more than weird Yeah, it's more than weird. I mean if you like break it down I feel like some of our smart listeners needs to go case is what you do dr. Braun or so by the way great product I've been using it amazing Thrive market sells are for hella cheap. I get it for something I literally get like all versions of soap, you know from dr. Brotter. I love their soap They've been around for a long time didn't realize that that It was this fucking weird the whole label because if you look at the label It's a bunch of writing. Yeah, and it looks old-school because I think that's what they're looking for But it's weird when you read it I know I want some of our smart listeners to buy dr. Brauners or if you already have dr. Brauners like like Let's let's figure this out. There's some break down his philosophy like his overarching sort of theme There's some hidden message. Well, it seems a little Old testament desk. It's not just that it's a bunch of other shit. Yeah, but yeah, it gets gets a lot more crazy Dude, I wonder if you can decipher this if you want looked him up. Is he like a philosopher? So I did I did look him up. Okay, and it's a weird story About dr. Brauners, but what I would like to do is I think I feel like if somebody looked like read this and broke it down Someone's smart. So I want it decoded. Yes, right? I bet you there's a fucking chest of gold hidden somewhere I could find you you could find you know what it is It's something like it's probably like, you know how they're trying to get that treasure on Oak Island Yeah, he's probably like leading people to that direction. Yes. Yes. I would it's really weird to read It's a treasure hunt of some sort. He was a super I'm not gonna lie I'm gonna have to buy some of the soap now that you guys have been talking about it so much I did I had no desire before it's all natural. I'm assuming. Yes It's all yeah, lots of natural ingredients anyway. Yeah, so he's it's very religious Let me see what I do everything body soap hair. So is it everything? So it's it's soap that can be used for anything It's like old-school soap because you know back in the day you had soap you didn't have soap shampoo So my my best my best friend his mom made us this stuff one year and it worked as body soap hair hair shampoo and and toothpaste So you could do all it had it had just a hint of that last motion the toothpaste one. Yeah Everybody now stop what you're doing and make a brush your teeth movement While you're driving your car listen to my brother Yeah, do the universal brushing your teeth sign and then tell us what people react, you know how they react No, so I think I she used to do this It was amazing like I could I get in the shower I just bring my toothbrush in the shower and lather up my body my hair Squirted in my mouth and brush my teeth. It was hilarious. That's weird. It was all natural products everything It wasn't made with all of your body. I wish I remember everything that was in it fat I do I do remember the my least favorite part was the brushing my teeth though Like the same stuff that was going on my head in my body. Yeah, that's a weird idea You know, it's really good to brush your teeth with I know somebody listening right now It's probably got some shit that I can do that. You know, it's really good to brush your teeth with Chalk activated charcoal. Yeah activated charcoal is supposed to be excellent to brush your teeth But then it makes your whole mouth black and then you're just not satisfying is like, you know Lathered toothpaste, of course they've conditioned us to want they put soap in there to make it foam up So you think it's better, but the lather does fuck all for you, right? That's an English term It means nothing call does zero for you when you brush your teeth into foams. Yeah, same thing with shampoo and foam Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm saying it's a total marketing. Are you guys loyal to? Like products like shampoo and stuff like that. I'm not anymore You just you swab. I have not actually don't give a fuck I think the generation coming up right now doesn't give a fuck and I think that you know we are watching Amazon completely changed the marketing game because There are so many great companies out there now and I think people are still loyal I just don't think they care about the brand name. I think they find a product and then they like it Yeah, like I care about the ingredients now. No, but over like the label. Yeah And what Adams referring to is a high rating on Amazon or a high rating on whatever way more than a brand Yeah, you know, I mean it's that feedback everybody wants to know like, you know, that's so that's so free market Yeah, because what happened in the past was you you couldn't rely on that because you might not know anybody That's used those products right because you have a small circle and you think the company's really just promoting that, you know Yeah, so if a company's been around for a long time, you kind of trust them You know that okay, you know, you know, whatever brand Calvin Klein makes underwear been around long times, you know It's that's the one But now because you can now compile, you know hundreds of thousands of reviews and get You know general rating from a bunch of people Mm-hmm, you can trust that and you can say, you know what forget this company that I've been using forever Yeah, I'm gonna try this new one which normally people don't do that, right? I'm gonna try this new one because it's got the right rating awesome Yeah, I know it's it is interesting to see how that's all it's very interesting. What kind of shampoo do you use Adam? I have this stuff. What is Katrina get me? It's this new stuff that I have right now and it has that kind of tea tree oil smell that I don't like For my psoriasis on my head. You don't like tea tree oil. I hate tea tree oil really and I know it's so and but my girl It's a stringent right natural string dude. It's we it's great for my psoriasis It's great for you know nails dry skin like dandruff all these things. It's great for I used to do tea gel a long time ago But this is like of another version of that and I can't I wish I remember the brand I've only been using it for like Three months or so so I use I'll look it up and tell you guys So I in my family it 100% runs in my family to get go bald like a hundred percent like I I'm fucked on either direction whatever. I'm supposed to be bald my brother's losing his my dad's You know, he's got a little bit on the top where my grandfather was like a cue ball but I've been using Saul Palmetto shampoo for Probably ten years now and my hair is definitely thinned, but I got most of it No, you look at it. You have a great joy for sure. You probably have the best hair out of all of us No, look at Justin. Justin will never lose a single. It's all there, but it's it's gonna be white though Justin's gonna be white by the time he's your age But it'll be a good Anderson Cooper or whatever you have the perfect salty peppery handsome. Look like you've looked 40 Since you were 20. That's true. I say like you look this thing laying it on thick. You look distinguished Yeah, you guys are a thing I like Justin your hair is nice dude when it turns all white You're gonna look like Steve Martin Steve Martin Get my banjo What do you know Steve Martin is yes, dude Do you understand that Steve Martin's one of like the best banjo players out there? Oh shit You know we're more about you just got schooled on I did I got your job I don't know everything. I only know good things Anyway, yeah, just to fight speaking of bo Did you know that if you're that your smell will change based on your mood any motion? Mm-hmm. Well, is that why I get on you need some chains up? Yes. Oh, really? Yes If you like anxiety or so so if you're yes, if you're anxious Or like super nervous and you sweat that is far more likely to produce the bo smell than if you just sweat normally Yeah, because my wife my wife actually trips on how like little like it might be always like I don't smell all night I sometimes I don't shower for a while and I don't smell but then there's those days where it's like really bad You know anything like it's normally day three or four without like the fourth day You know what I mean? It just it comes in like a like a truck like I'd like a garbage truck Wow, yeah, I'm reading studies on it. There's actual studies on it. Isn't that cool anxiety can make your sweat smell worse There you go. Mm-hmm. I was actually yeah What is what is happening? Obviously we know stress is is changing your hormone your hormones, but what is it doing with the sweat? How does that how is it changing the smell? That's so that's interesting Your smell is is a result of your microbiome. That's on your skin and you have You have bacterial signature or bacteria signature type colonies throughout your whole body So there's a particular type of breakdown. That's on your eyes. That's on your scalp. That's on your dick That's on your frickin armpits everywhere is a little bit different, but it's very unique now if your pH changes In your skin it will it can promote the proliferation of certain types of bacteria And anxiety tends to promote the the proliferation of a type of bacteria that Creates a byproduct Which is that smell? Yeah, which is that smell, but what's weird about that is why did we evolve that? Yeah, no, is it like a repulsion kind of it or is it like a tracking or is it repulsing it? Well, it's be oh stinks right, but some people like that that stink their freaks I don't yeah. No, I don't think they think they like to be oh, I gotta do like a natural smell Okay, so if if your when you're stress or when your diet is way off those two things both can manipulate that smell You're not unhealthy signal. Right. It's an unhealthy signal. Maybe stay away Right. Yes, it's it could say that this person is not optimal for mating with because they are super high-strung taking care of themselves Right, so true. So I mean if I was guessing why we evolved that way That's what I would guess is that that makes the most sense to me and I'd be it'd be interesting to see what affects The smell more Poor diet or stress because I would think it's not common. Well, yeah, both are bad, right? Because I know the diet will I've seen people's smell change just by their diet I noticed a big difference in and Katrina's I'm very I'm very sensitive to smell right? We've already established this and so I noticed a significant difference And her her body smells when she switched over to ketogenic diet when she stopped eating a lot of carbohydrates and processed foods Better or worse. Oh way better like a big and she wasn't bad before but I I if she I love you honey, you smell great, you know, so she I'm sure she's not gonna like this episode No, there there was a significant difference when she she knows it because she knows it in her skin too Like she she would break out sometimes. I know it's not my wife's breath. Yeah, all those things We're winning points That we won't tell like we won't let the girls know about this one, right? Yeah, no I'm just keeping it real and I think that She's one of the few girls that I had been with long enough I had seen a change in the diet consistency on both sides to make that assumption You know I'm saying because I hadn't spent enough time with any other woman before before and after Eating a certain way to have something really to measure otherwise I could just think that oh, oh, maybe she just smells better today because she didn't sweat or because she whatever But now I've seen it long enough like where she was eating before and then how she's eating now How funny is that? significant difference that we don't even Western societies and medicine doesn't even consider unless it's extreme doesn't consider smell to be an indicator of Health, you know good or bad when it for sure is it's it's not the indicator But it's it's definitely a signal it is a signal 100% in fact they have dogs no joke I'm not exaggerating or making shit up there are trained dogs cancer that can smell cancer They'll come and sniff there's there's a fucking they have a dog that can smell if you have Parkinson's early early pocket Parkinson's Yeah, because I didn't know that that's crazy. Yes. I believe it though I can sense death to dude like imminent like a few hours beforehand Bro think about like your body if you're getting one of these disorders something's changing in you Why wouldn't it change? Mm-hmm a scent that you're giving off now We're like chemistry is gonna change. Yeah, and I think that I really although humans obviously we don't have a sense of smell Like a dog. I think we've been so we've lost our ability to utilize that sense Like we used to because I because we're just not in touch with it. We're not in tune with it Right, you know I'm saying but fucking weird, right? I think for sure This is something we need to consider like if I know me for okay I'll use me as an example like if I my diet is good my farts don't smell straight up. They don't smell Yeah, at all. Well, not as bad. No, they just don't smell there isn't a smell Justin. I'm sorry, bro So don't believe I have that I have the same thing with mine's burps So I have these nasty burps and I've told you guys before that I get like if I'm drinking soda and stuff like that If my but when my diet is clean one, I'm hardly ever burping and if I do it's not rank like yeah Yeah, they're smell it. But when I'm drinking soda, I'm off on the diet and I burp It's so nasty. I'll burp in the car because she's got to roll the window down as if I farted That's how bad my like acid II You know, I don't know that I don't know what a different burp taste and the Fernanda Like I don't know what your burps taste and smell like cuz I've never I know if it's like one of those deep ones It's like really from the bow Yeah Demon just left me, you know, I just it doesn't believe us right now because his farts always smell. Yeah At least a trace Yes, there's a signature. No, dude signature particles in the air. I've done it left I've done it in the show. It's I've done it in the shower You know in the shower how it hits you right right away because there's no filter I've done in the shower. Nothing not a single like nothing. It's because my diet's good You know I'm saying what is it about us humans to still don't believe that make you want to smell your own butt and your own farts Um, I don't think that's true. Yes, it is you want to yeah, absolutely Oh, you want to know your own brand I always want to smell my fart what like you want to because you enjoy it or you're just checking I kind of know what everybody else is experiencing. I think in my head. I'm justifying that I just checking but if I if I've been doing it for 30 something years and I keep doing it I keep what am I checking? Is it working still like yeah, but yeah, but you do do do not tell me you Wonder if it's you don't fart and then take a big whiff. What am I brewing just to check it? Yeah, right? Why do we do that? Maybe it's interesting Maybe it's instinctive Maybe we learn to do that to check our own health and what why do I why do I bite my nails? Nobody taught me to do that. Thanks. I mean nails. Yeah, like you oh So that's a big problem for me right ever since I was a kid and I fucking passed that shit on to my kids because they Do the same thing and I read about it and apparently at first they used to think it was an OCD thing But it's it's it's not it's something that people who are if people are perfectionist They like to do it, but it's not OCD. Don't ask me the difference. I don't know I don't see it Katrina always like oh your stress. Why you keep biting your nails? You wouldn't know I'm like no it's they need to be trimmed and I take care of them You guys look at my if you look at my hands in my finger I'm really good with my teeth. You know what I say And I don't know who taught me when I was little But if we had any fans that were attracted to us They're gone now We've secured that that one right there the animals. Yeah, we do some we do some shit, right? Why do we have shit? Why do we have this habit to pick at scabs? Why do we have and there's not things that your mom or someone taught you to do or you saw we suppressed our instincts You know, I mean we're animals at the end of the day. We're such animals We are and we all want to think we're better than that. We pretend so much We shave our body hair in total denial of our monkey nature, you know I'm saying like why are we doing I literally like I mean, there's people with like multiple nevels. You know, I mean what yeah, you went too far again I'm saying like we're like mammals, you know that have People do have some we're there's this case like these teedies I Gotta make up your mind. It's teeth. Well, I kind of like teedies cuz it's new, you know, it's like that's not like a t-shirt brand That's not teedies might be like with the D. Yeah, I know we're totally animals We pretend like we're not everything we do is driven by these instincts and then we create all this freaking Elaborate culture around all these weird things to make it seem like yeah, it's we're fucking complex when we're not They were just so smart. We're just smelling each other trying to have sex and that's basically in food and eat right basically it We over complicate things sometimes. That's it bring on the bird. He's an animal bird This cause brought to you by Organifi For those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition Organifi fills the gap with laboratory tested certified organic superfoods to help give your health a performance the added edge Try Organifi totally risk-free for 60 days by going to organifi.com That's or gani fi.com and use a coupon code mine pump for 20% off at checkout Our first question is from Alicia a Warren listen to an old podcast have any of your pre-workout rituals changed big time Yeah, man my pre-workout ritual is so different than it used to be. Yeah, so I'm gonna tell you what it used to be I'm gonna tell you what it is now what I used to do is I used to take I used to supplement bunch of stimulants So yeah, so so 30 minutes before I would take citrulline. I would take branched amino acids. I would take Glutamine I would take stimulants like caffeine then I would foam roll For probably 20 minutes Before my workout and then I would start my workout now I drink coffee before my workout. So all I have is caffeine Maybe some in the cat the coffee I drink is chimera. So it's got the anine and all the stuff in there So it's just coffee because I I realize that all those other amino acids and stuff are largely a waste of money and time and Now I don't do any foam rolling at all Which is the biggest change all I do now is priming which is crazy because had you told me Five years ago that I would be able to work out without foam rolling before and I would have said You're crazy because I had reached a point where if I didn't foam roll before my workout shit would hurt Yeah for the first half of my workout now. It's all priming now. I'm like 90 90 I'm Activating muscles while I'm in particular stretches. I'm doing basically I'm doing a bunch of prime pro stuff Then I jump into my workout and it's literally One warm-up one or two warm-up sets max and then I'm going heavy Whereas before it was this fucking long bullshit, you know thing that I had to do just to be able to get you know full-range emotion I think my mind's changed. It's similar in a similar way, right? So When I was competing I was probably doing quite a bit of pre workouts compared to what I do now But if I'm also being completely honest to You know, I'll use a you know Crazy pre-workout once once a month maybe twice in a month like when I there's this when there's a day that I just really need to Fucking ramp myself up. So they I still keep one at my house always There's always one for me to school but like I can buy a pre-workout and it'll last me almost a year like six months To a year because I take it that little right and so but that was something I was taking on a more regular basis Meaning like I was doing it three to four sometimes five times in a week I was using a pre-workout to get me up. So now most of the time I'll have a chimera coffee. There's some time in the morning or a couple hours before my workout and Ever since we signed with organifi I've been drinking the green juice and the green juice gives me it's not it's not a stimulant like fucking a Pre-workout. So if you're looking for something that's gonna just like wire you crazy Like it's not designed to do that, but it does give me a nice sustained energy Throughout the day, you know, I'm trying to figure out why that is because I noticed the same thing but it's not super What's the word? It's not super evident. It's like you're drinking like boom. Yeah. No, it's not like but you do feel Sustainable. It's weird, right? Well, let me tell you what I'm trying to figure out. What's doing. Let me tell you what I Ashwagandha is adaptogenic. Yeah properties it has that could be some of it What I attributed to is I notice so the way I use it, right? I use my green juice to help supplement the lack of greens that I'm eating on a regular basis I just I'd like to admit that I'd like to Think that I get enough greens every single day But in reality, I don't in fact I Consistently miss my greens target on a daily basis more than I actually get it So that's why it's become pretty much a staple thing that I drink although of course I'm always trying to get my greens naturally now I've had days where our two three four five days in a row of man four to six servings of vegetables and it I feel the same way. So what I think it's more is it's making sure I'm hitting some micronutrient targets that I'm not I wasn't hitting before I could see that and by making sure that I'm getting what I need Just keeps me this more sustained energy throughout the day So the green juice has become a staple and it's it doesn't necessarily need to be a pre workout before it Just work. I've had it. I've trained myself to be a guy who shakes up something before he goes to the gym And he drinks something so I've just switch. It is a ritual. It is it is and I've been doing this for a fucking long time So I've already got the habit doing it That's the best time it seems like in a perfect world Maybe I had the green juice in the morning or night before bed and you could argue that maybe that's better to do But for me, I've already trained myself to have these weird rituals before I go to the gym I've now replaced something that's fucking loaded full of stimulants And I'm starting to make that a habit of using my green juice and it's been doing wonders for me as far as how I feel You know, so that's been a major and then just like you and those that have been listening to the podcast since the beginning know this because I Think I was the first one to say that he eliminated the foam roll So I remember we were talking one time and I said, you know, it's been six months And I haven't used a foam roll ever since we started creating prime and prime pro and getting into mobility I I went from being a guy just like you who spent 15 to 20 minutes Religiously foam rolling and stretching before he trained and just like you I had to ease my way into my lifting to now Like I prime it only takes me like five ten minutes tops To get myself warmed up and I'm right into it and I feel better than I've ever felt my life doing more Dynamic flexibility than doing crazy. Yeah static type stuff. I used to have to eat and really schedule my eating Before the workout like an hour two hours ahead of time and like that was like I in my head It was stuck that that's where I was getting all my energy to be able to You know accomplish the the list I wanted to accomplish and to kill it in the gym And then I started, you know getting into fasting in a minute fasting and just realize that that You know, I still could have energy and my performance wasn't completely dependent on that And so that's that's something that I sort of I actually Like realize that like when I would overfeed like before the workout It would actually take away from my performance on some level and I would feel a little bit more lethargic So that was interesting. I've definitely changed that and obviously the dump schedule with that. I said Drop a deuce, you know, there's nothing worse than having to put like 20 minutes into your workout I would always have to plan on that, you know going into the workout Oh, I don't have to do that as much it makes me so angry. Yeah, but I mean obviously the the priming's been been a game-changer and You know just to reiterate what everybody's talked about. It's definitely something that we've applied personally Ourself. I'll say what if you? Priming proper priming and when I say proper, I mean it's individualized because a Warm-up general warm-up is not individualized to your body So although you'll get some benefit from moving the body and getting the central nervous system firing and feeling You know the muscles feel a little more pliable and all that stuff You'll get some benefit from that But if you don't individualize your priming session, you're missing out massively like well and to make it even more specific It makes a huge difference. I mean it to what you're doing that day I mean if you can really nerd out and see like what kind of performance gains you get just by being That specific and really getting the most out of each one of dude I will add when I started priming properly. I was just from the priming. I was adding five to ten pounds on most of my lifts Earlier to in my workout. So not only was I adding more weight, but I was adding more weight Yeah quicker in the workout with having to warm up so much and it's for sure the priming because I've tested it on and off Reminds me of so like let's use bench for an example like you would have to do like a couple sets of like warm-up sets Sometimes like with lightweight just to get that type of response, you know, and like I've eliminated that that took a lot of time out Right. So yeah, no it makes a huge difference priming is a very big deal And it's better than any pre-workout you can take well remember when we created maps prime prime and prime pro We did it with the intention of okay You know, we got all this great feedback that we helped so many people save a ton of money that they were wasting on supplements every single Every single month, you know, you know, I mean I know some people like myself that were spending 150 to $300 every month on supplements that were just that in my head I had turned into these rituals that I thought that's what I need to do to get those type of gains that Once I eliminated that Implementing something like priming I'm getting the same or more results than I ever could have thought I could have got from any Sort of supplement so it is it is weird though that we do create rituals before we do things that we deem important and It is an important part of your workout. I I recommend everybody have a ritual before Their workout and before they go to bed Anything you do that's important to you that ritual sets the stage and it doesn't matter what that ritual is by the way Like some people and you see athletes have been doing this for years for years or for decades Athletes have been creating their own rituals where oh before a big game We got a you know jump and hit the fucking picture of whatever or I got to wear a particular jersey or you know I put my right shoe on first wash my undershirt for the entire season I put my right shoe on first or whatever or we all need to sing the song or you know And I'm these are all rituals that people do before games and they've they've found that people who create rituals Perform better now. It's not sometimes it can be the ritual like priming by itself will definitely help you work out better But it's also the mindset that a ritual creates, which is why I think Humans we tend to naturally create rituals for ourselves before anything important So you talk to a sales person who that's what they've been doing for for years and they're really good at sales And you ask them what do you do before every sales call and I guarantee you they will have some kind of a ritual However small there's something that they always do well before they get on a sales call sales and marketing knew this right? And this is where pre workouts got there how they exploded because they've been attached it to a rich Yes, they attached it to a ritual and I what is so brilliant and I've said this to so many people like You think that because you're taking all these things You're seeing more results in your body because of those things But really what it is is because you've never been so consistent and because you have this ritual and you're spending money on it You've been more consistent. You're what's really rewarding you is your consistency. It's the consistency that's making the change in your body It's not your fucking newest fat burner muscle builder amino acid supplement that someone closed you on That's not what's doing it I guarantee it in fact if you those that want to take the fucking Pepsi challenge can measure this by Tracking every single day that you consistently get your lifts in with and without a you know Pre-workout amino acid creatine and whatever else fucking thing your nose explode everything else that you're taking Get rid of that and compare them heads up I guarantee if you're true to it and you do as many days as you did with this a difference You won't notice a difference, but I will say this I recommend a pre-sleep ritual as well And it makes a big difference like and out like I agree like what I do before bad one hour before bad Electronics are off lights are dim or we have candlelight we drink chamomile tea and we have nice calming relaxing type conversation and when I do that I every single time I do that I notice an improvement in my sleep and so pre anything ritual it does set the stage for what you're about to do and so I suggest creating rituals for things pre pre anything that's important to Next question is from jazz Massa How do you feel about female-only exercise areas? What do you think that says about our society? Hmm. I think I think that says more about The fact that women want to or a decent percentage of probably a lot less now than used to be But a decent percentage of women still want to feel uncomfortable working out They still want I mean it's we okay, so being completely transparent. This is something that we struggle with currently right now so we have Hired a marketing team for mine pump as of three months ago And we've been building out all of our sales funnels and sales and marketing and leads and email sequences and yada yada all that's been happening behind the scenes at mine pump and one of the biggest struggles that we have is much of our message is Against or anti things like this like yeah, it's separating every right separating men from women because the message is pretty much the Same to both male and female, you know And so but the truth of the matter and the thing that we keep getting pushed back from our CMO is that? Listen, not everybody is ready for that yet And you got to at least get them in to listen to you guys first and then you can change their thought process It's a huge challenge for us because if you create let's say you create a fitness program that you want to sell you will sell more for sure if you if you take that same program and Rapidly packaging wrap it with female type marketing with women in the videos and all that stuff and say Work out for women and then take that same workout do the same thing But for men and say a workout for men versus just selling one and saying this is for everybody Even if the work and the workouts are the same. There's nothing different. The only difference is the wrapping But it fucking works and it sucks mainly because I mean We are we've been in fitness for a long time We're purists when it comes to delivering when we talk about fitness when we talk about exercises We talk about corrective exercises. We talk about fat loss muscle building all that stuff We are purists because this is what we've been doing as long for a long time and it's on It's just it's not true. It's inaccurate to say This is a workout for women and it's different than a workout for men Because that's not first of all, there's not true It's the same for men and women and really the only thing that really if you want to take any new accounts the individual Has nothing to do with whether you have a penis or vagina. Yeah, it's all about the individual What are your imbalances? What's your exercise history and all that stuff? So It's difficult, but yeah, I mean women feel uncomfortable many women feel uncomfortable working out around men right in gyms And I kind of don't blame them. Yeah, I really don't you can't blame the gym for doing that because they're They're just going with the well Yeah, they're going providing with the members of probably right and they're in the business of keeping people coming to their gym And they need the membership fees. So I don't fault them for that. I don't fault These companies that are doing this because as we're demanding it as as consumers if people stop buying if people if Messages like ours continue to spread. Hopefully one day including ourselves will never have to go this route Hopefully five years ten years from now that you know, women will think this is patronizing, right? They'll think that I don't want oh, they're gonna color it pink Why just because it they're advertising me and they'll turn them up But the truth of the matter is your unique and most people do want that I don't know how many times I've got someone asked me. Well, do you guys have a program for women? You know, do you have a program for women and it's like I think a part of it's conditioning too, right? They've been conditioned by marketers for so long Yeah, they have to find the one that's for women and for a lot of undoing and I think that We're always trying to to kind of carve like the righteous path You know as far as like what we present in in fitness, but it's it is true You have to be able to to be able to meet people where they you know, you like right here Here's what you kind of expect But there's gonna be a twist to it and that's kind of our new direction is more like this may look familiar from You know what you've seen but but there's a lot more depth to it once you get in think of it this way We've all been in this situation like we had so Remember sitting down with people that would be considered like a warm lead for me, right? They come in to see an appointment with me. They don't really know who I am they just know that I'm a trainer and my desired outcome of the conversation is that they buy personal training with me and they become a client and A lot of times in fact more often than not They sit down and you know a good part of the sales process for me is asking a lot of questions When I'm asking all about them and their history where they know about attrition and weight training and more often than not They're they're they're spitting out tons of fallacies and I can't just come out and say oh You're wrong about that you're right because if I if I start doing that a wall goes up And then they're not receptive to hear anything from me And so it's the the marketing that you see with people that do stuff like this and what we potentially kind of have to Do to get people into mine pump is the same thing. It's not that we're changing our message or we're trying to manipulate the market It's like if I want those people's attention I got to kind of give them what they want to hear at first then when I get them in then over time So I sometimes people will be telling me things. I know it's wrong I'm for sure it's wrong and I can help these people out What I do is I get excited because it's like wow these people have a lot that I can help them with and I could teach But I'm also aware enough to know that if I challenge everything they say right now Or what because it's wrong that I might actually offend them And I'll never get them to buy anything from me and that was a wasted conversation I never helped that now the other thing to consider too is because the market is changing so fast now Like it's changing very quickly in a very short period of time Largely because information now is just so accessible and it just gets out there. We have the internet now in In the in the sense that I think marketing has been one way for so long that now It's becoming marketable just to market differently because now you separate yourself a little bit You know I'm saying like if I like ten years ago if I came out and I said here's a program that you know But that you know programs for women are bullshit women need to train like men ten years ago I would have sold nothing today Because we've been marketed so long like that and because information is getting out a little more It might even be more marketable I think that's part of the reason why CrossFit did so well They were doing shit and they were like men and women working out same exercises everything's the same women are gonna deadlift women are gonna squat women are gonna whatever and It kind of became a plus, you know, I'm saying whereas the old message was You know women have to work out this way and men have to work out that way, you know that being said I can see why a woman would be uncomfortable going into a gym I mean when you walk into a gym, especially if you go into a first off I feel uncomfortable when I go into a yoga class That is all women and that's just cuz I'm the only guy in there now That doesn't even throw into the mix that I don't feel threatened by any of these women because I'm bigger than all of them So if I mixed it up and I said and if I if I put myself in the mind of a woman I'm going to a freeway area. I'm the only girl in there. I'm working out some already sweating I'm already kind of uncomfortable. I'm not you know looking my best whatever and dudes are kind of looking at me And they're all bigger than me. I could see why it's kind of uncomfortable that being said I'll tell you what I've been doing this for a long time If you're a woman and you're listening and you're in your nervous or whatever about going in the freeway area Nothing is more empowering than going into the freeway area working out and realizing nobody gives a shit right because the reality is Women in the freeway area more often than not get lots of respect from the guys in there And if you go regularly And I've seen this happen more than more than ten times where there's a woman that works out regularly in the freeway area And then we'll get a new member. That's a guy that acts douchey the other guys in the freeway The other guys in the freeway to regulate hard they become kind of protective of her in there But it's super empowering go in there and just fucking do your thing man And you'll feel great afterwards next question is from prime and glory Besides moving better sleep and good nutrition. What are other big rocks to improve wellness of children? Oh for sure Provide make sure your kids feel stable make sure your kids feel stable and they feel love that is so important For the wellness of children to know that the to feel that their parents will be there no matter what That when they that they'll have a bed that they'll have food That if something happens that they can go to mom and dad or you know dad or just mom or whatever and to know that they are They can be themselves. They can be loved. Yeah, and that is so communication to you know Like being able to come in and describe, you know in full detail what happened, you know in their day and You get a lot of information, you know If you're if you're there and they feel comfortable enough to come approach you with things and you know You can be it's just like really being present and involved You know with the day-to-day stuff that they're going. I was just gonna say that I think and you guys are I think great examples of great Father, so all three of you but I don't so maybe you guys don't connect to this one But being an outsider looking in who doesn't have kids and sees a lot of these younger parents and young kids growing up The biggest thing that I see that I go like fuck man I wonder this kid's gonna be like when he gets older is this disconnect with with the raising process and what I mean by that is We've never been in a place before where we have these babysitting tools Where we could stick some fucking bows headphones on our kid and plug them into his iPad and stick them in a corner for fucking four hours And he'd be completely entertained which for a young parent who's working full-time and struggling to get by and is also Raising a family boy. I bet that's a fucking nice relief And I bet as a parent it can be really easily to get sucked into that of just doing that all the time And you don't understand the long-term effects that you can it's a tool right sometimes people like that's the thing I get it comes in handy sometimes, but like yeah You always have to think in terms of like all these things are influencers You know like like certain people certain friends, you know that they're hanging out with all these things are Influencers and so you want to really make sure that you're like kind of the biggest piece of that pie as far as being the Influencer and the direction of where they're going who was it that we were talking to I don't know if it was one Of you guys's friends. I think we were all together and they are talking about how I think maybe was Jason Phillips Who talked about the the time that day his kids get on it? There's like certain channels or certain things that he lets them watch because they're educational So at least he knows that if they're sitting in front of this for two hours They're watching something that he knows they're growing and they're learning from I think that's like a big rock and important because Real I mean you could really easily let your kid just get go suck down the fucking You know call a duty path and that's always playing as freaking mucking out for hours on that I saw that with my little brother man So there's a big age gap between my my brother who's now 21. I'm 36 So we have 15 years apart from each other So I was already grown up and out of the house when he was still a child growing up And he was like just plugged into Xbox like 24 now I played a lot of video games to myself so I can relate like liking to do that one do it But I remember when he got into high school and stuff that my mom let him get away with like being on the computer through the night Like he'd get up like fucking exhausted for school Because he was playing video games on the internet for throughout the night and and I now see him now Where where he's at currently in his life and he's getting his stuff together and he's learned You know kind of learning and doing his thing But I think he's a little behind on His responsibilities and shit he needs to do and I think that a lot of that is attributed to my mom being a single parent working Finishing her degree at the same time plus raising her fifth child You know he just got kind of oh, you know do your thing there and you know, and again, that's anecdotal. It's my family It's my brother who knows ever there's probably brilliant kids that did that too You know, I think that happens, but I think more often than not the kids will be on these devices a lot Not because their parents are super busy working in that home Although that does happen. They're dicting. It's because the parents are also right doing the same thing That's what that's why it's like you're your dad's on the computer mom's on her iPhone I'm hearing it all and everybody's doing it together in the house all doing this is what I mean by why I think it's a big rock And why it happens to me. We all got a yeah, I think you got to look out for it because It's really tough when you're the all there's the busy parent doing all these things and then in addition to that You're sucked in yourself because you're working and there's a good excuse for you to be on your phone checking you have to set You have to set boundaries like with my kids. I don't let them They're not allowed to go on the internet unless they're using it for school But they're not allowed to go on and watch YouTube or my son Well, if I let him he will play video games From I swore no joke from 6 a.m. Till bedtime. Oh easy. I used to do it not a problem So I limit his video game consumption to the weekends and when he does do it on the weekends and he's smart So what he does is he fucking wakes up early because he knows when I wake up then I start to give him a time limit So this fucker wakes up 5 a.m. And when I get up and I'll sleep in on the weekend, which for me is like 7 you know It's funny though. He's already been on for two hours I like though there's something about that I like because I it trains him that there's something he really wants to do Bad that he's got to kind of find like a way around it. I kind of like that Oh, it's hilarious because most kids would sleep in till 9 or 10 and then when they roll out of bed Then they're fucking sucked into their game and then they never leave the couch This kid's smart enough to get up in the morning and say okay before dad puts the time I mean I'm gonna get as much gaming as I can I'm willing to get up on a Saturday at 5 a.m. It shows a little bit discipline Initiative there and you think yeah, you think these kids get up that early for school. No It's on the weekend when they know but anyway But yeah, I'll limit it to to just weekends and I'll try and limit the hours or whatever But I'm not super hard about the time limit. So sometimes it's more than others, especially if I'm Busy or if I get caught on my own device and you know, whatever it's cuz they are super addicting But I it's like, you know, it reminds me of It's it's really no different than when we all of a sudden had this processed food Revolution where all of a sudden we were no longer worried about Getting enough food. We had abundance of food. So it was it was a new problem But you had a generation that had grown up without food. So they had the same mentality, right? I grew up without a lot of food. I grew up having to clean my plate I grew up having a force, you know force feed kids because you don't know when you're gonna get the next meal Now it's the 70s 80s and 90s. We've got all this food So we had this obesity epidemic, which is I think that's part of the reason why we had it There was no policing with the kids because we didn't really understand that we Well, it's also very I think that's happening with tech like, you know, I didn't get policed on tech because I don't have it You know I'm saying so now that it's there. I don't we're not realizing like what it's causing Well, it reminds me a lot of like when cable TV came through, right? So we had TV that I watched a lot of TV When we were young and see I kind of didn't you know, my my parents made me get outside now Part of that was because we couldn't afford cable like we had like the basic five channels or whatever It was and then we didn't pay we we off and on like we'd have little spurts of Cable for like three months and then we weren't paying for it anymore We had a black box and so we didn't have anything cool like that And so I was really limited to how much TV I could watch and my parents were always kicking me outside Stopped watching TV all day long and so I had to play and interact. I attribute a lot of that to my social skills I think that because I was forced to do that be creative play with others do things like that I think it has a lot to do with who I am today and Sure, I could be in the same same person I or I could be in the same spot as I am today But maybe it'd be a total different person with my social skills had my parents just allowed me to plug into a cable network and Watch eight hours of TV every day. Yeah, I wasn't allowed to I found ways like like your kid where I would Go to my best friend's house like super early or like I would always make an excuse to like stay the night You know with one of my friends that had like a Nintendo and we would play like the entire day, right? You know and just eat bagel bites, right? That's all man So fun, right? That's like all we did back in the day. That sounds so fun Next question is from Carter's consumptions. Why does one's body begin to feel worse when they started detox or treatment protocol? Before feeling better. There's a term for this. This is not a this is not a bullshit thing So I don't know if you've got if you guys have you guys ever done like a long You know detox where you're like, okay I'm gonna you know avoid all carbohydrates for a while or I'm gonna you know fast for prolonged pretty time Have you ever noticed that well at first you start to feel shitty Yeah And it makes sense to me the same process that you go through like when you're trying to wing off drugs or something like you Have oversaturated your your receptors with all this shit that it got used to getting in and then now Suddenly you deprive it and that they're going where is where's all this sugar? Where's all this stuff that you were supposed to be giving me? Yeah, that's that's part of it But there's also so there's something called a herxheimer reaction is named after the the doctor that you know found this out or whatever It happens after You know antibiotic treatment sometimes so let's say you have Lyme disease or you know you have some other you know you know Horrible infection and you treat it with really powerful antibiotics the die-off of those micro organisms Causes you to feel shitty So now you've got like this massive die-off of all these micro organisms It's like it. It's like a toxic to your body and you feel terrible and this so this is a real thing that they've identified in you know like Lyme disease is one of them is a big one and there are other I think Trickling nello nello, so I hope I'm saying that right is another but I've noticed this with Fasting I noticed this when I did the when I took the para parasite cleanse supplements and I did my fast I felt Horrible for the first five days and then afterwards I started feeling better and a lot of people say that that was a herxheimer effect So it's definitely something that people will experience But what you're saying Adam's completely true you may not get a die-off effect Which is I think that die-off effect is less likely unless you do have something that is you know like Candida or something like that I think what's more often is you're getting withdrawal, right? You're just you're feeling that's what I think you're feeling withdrawal from not having you know sugar or processed A lot of things that we that are in our foods or in our drinks that we're so addicted to we don't even realize you're going off Caffeine's terrible. Yeah, it is. It's a terrible one monster Yeah, what do you guys notice when you do you get the headaches and headaches and just like fogginess and in the way that I think and Yeah, it's it's just uncomfortable and I fucking hate it And so I'm always like going back and forth with it No when it's when it's at that point where you're like, oh my god, okay, like I'm so dependent on this I have to scale down and it have to just be adamant about like look I just have to go through this, you know drink more water and like kind of go through the process of this Because then now I'm gonna you know get the benefits all over again. Yeah So if you are having a herxheimer reaction, there are a few things that functional medicine doctors and wellness experts will recommend One is to increase the fiber In your diet because fiber binds to things and it you helps, you know get out of your body Some people will supplement with something like psyllium husk, which is a non-soluble fiber The other thing is to use activated charcoal activated charcoal is one of the oldest Remedies for toxic, you know, you know poison or overload. Is that the same cuz I remember telling a story on the podcast a long time ago Where like my brother and his friend fed me a bunch of cough syrup and like I drank like two bottles of cough syrup Then they gave me all kinds of charcoal To sort of help. Yeah, so charcoal does the same thing it binds to certain molecules making them too large to Absorb and then you you poop it out or whatever So charcoal is the other one lots of water and then some functional medicine doctors recommend sauna Apparently sweating in a sauna and heat is good to eliminate like some heavy metal loads I think it was doctor. I forgot who said it was a dr. Bush that said that dug or was it The other guy remember one of those guys told me that the sauna helps with that type of thing But I also think that you know the whole detox thing And most of this stuff has been marketed to us to like sell us a package or something goes with it like oh Here's your drink every day. Here's the thing like here's your detox I detox okay, or I clean my system out the same way that I would if I was addicted to drugs, right? And I've been down this road before where I try and eliminate something same way I do caffeine same way I do You know cannabis same thing I do anything that diet coax anything that I feel that my body is not Benefiting my body. I'm doing too much of and I don't go cold turkey and buy some fucking detoxing And then like you know tough it out for three days and then hopefully get all I do is I assess my mind the overall thing Right so whatever it is that I'm trying to clean out And maybe if it's your diet you've got a lot of things in there processed foods you got sugars You got caffeine you've got energy drinks. Maybe you're drinking maybe got a bunch of stuff in there I don't think it's necessary to cut it all out right at one time and then get on some detoxing like what I would do is like Set a goal for yourself. Okay, I drink a fucking energy drink every single day. I take this every single day I do this for my body. I know it's not good for it every single day So how about cutting it down to three times in a week and then how about cutting it down to two times And then how about cutting it down to one time you're gonna get the same benefits It just might take you a little bit longer. That's so much so much better. It's so much better Right, and it's and it doesn't turn into this like crazy hard thing to go through where you're like Depriving so now some people mentally they they do better with they have to go one or the other I know you know I mean but like caffeine is a good example of that if you go cold turkey You're gonna fucking hate life for a good a good week sometimes longer Or what I recommend to do people's do what you said Adam. I recommend people Slowly wean themselves off to I actually don't find it difficult at all But when I do it this way, this is kind of how I weave in and out you guys we talk a lot lately about my my Coke zero deal and it's like, you know when I I know when it's when it's getting out of control when I'm buying it at home And I'm drinking it on a regular basis I never let that go too long while I'm doing that and then my way of detoxing from it Is I go from having one every day to having them three times in a week? And then maybe one time on Friday with like a dinner that I have to eventually not having it at all And it's really not that hard. It's really easy for me to go from that and I and I see how great I feel when I'm off it and you know I do that with many things that I allow in my life that I know is not serving my body ideally It might be serving something else right making me disconnected or what that and I enjoy Enjoying it for the moment and I think that's really how you have this balance and it doesn't have to be this one Way or that because then I I feel like things like these detox things create the on and off wagon with whatever it is You're trying to detox from yeah, and they're they're trying to sell you shit right and I like yeah I like to just keep it on like focusing on what's gonna benefit my health and like, you know get me, you know a new fresh Start as far as like my cells are concerned and that's why I was interested in like we talked a little bit about the 48 to 72 Are fast. Oh, yeah, dude collectively as a group and I think that would be a really cool I think we should do that at the beginning of the year. I think we should I'm gonna do it for sure I'm gonna try for a 72 hour fast and not for the detox necessarily properties of it, but Fasting that long. I think once you go like 24 48 hours or so you really ramp up Sell autophagy. This is where cells as they get older They naturally kill themselves will you? Amplify the fuck out of that process while you're fasting for a prolonged period and then what you do is you activate a shit ton of stem cells When you refeed yourself Your body replaces all of those old cells with new younger cells and the effects are pretty incredible to the point where there are facilities in other countries that do prolonged fast to treat Autoimmune issues so if you go in there with an autoimmune issue, they'll put you on like a week or two week long fast and Basically will replenish or regenerate most of your immune system so now your new immune system doesn't have these old patterns where it's attacking your body and You know, I'm not recommending this do your own research, but this is an old Time-tested way of treating some of these disorders. I know in Chinese medicine. So you check this out, right? In a reboot. So check this out. I was at I had my obviously our Christmas party I saw my uncle there my uncle does Chinese medicine. He's been doing it for decades Very intelligent man, and we were talking about fasting and he says, you know Sally goes. It's funny because the Classic Chinese treatment Chinese medicine treatment for cancer, which they've been doing for thousands of years is a long fast He goes if you if you had cancer, you know, 500 years ago or whatever They would put you on a prolonged fast and he goes what's funny about that is for a long time People would make fun of Chinese medicine for recommending that and especially for that They would say things like don't do that. You need to feed your body. You're fighting cancer You need to give yourself nutrients, especially if you're going through chemo this that and the other There's now confirmed studies showing that fasting with cancer Weakens and kills cancer is very anti-cancer and if you get chemotherapy While fasting the chemotherapy is far more effective. It kills more cancer and it's protective of The healthy cells. So not only does fasting increase your the effectiveness of chemo to kill cancer It also makes it safer on the rest of your body Fucking trip on that shit, and they've been saying that shit for thousands of years, but yeah, so I'm excited I really want to try yeah a 72 hour fast totally in and maybe some of our listeners were joining in on that Well, let's do it this month. This comes out January 2nd So let's do this episode this goes January 2nd So that's when this episode because I'm gonna start my fast the day after New Year's Either Eve or day. So I'm gonna start so that would be that would be today. Yeah, that would be today when this episode Yeah, that would be today. Do we have to do it then? I feel like that's a little early. Oh, wait a minute Yeah, I don't want to be fucking on my day three of Stand up and speak to people when we get back by the way Do we tell me did we tell the audience that yet? Have we did yeah, so Adam and I will be speaking at the L a this weekend coming up They'd be this week in coming up, right? That's right, and we're gonna be speaking two days on Intuitive eating answering questions. Yeah, so it'll be a good time come show you're going to Vegas for CES I'll see you there. That's right. You're gonna be in Vegas. You fuck Yeah, how did you get Vegas because I'm the tech guy. Yeah, I mean like I have to do some homework for you guys How am I gonna go to work? You know what else is happening at the same time, but isn't the porn convention? Oh, yeah, the avian Is it really at the same time it's gonna get weird. I don't know is it pretty sure I'll take pics for you Adam as a dildo. He wants you to get I'll get something signed for you I'm not kidding. It's been as all the all the times. I've been to Vegas every I used to go to Vegas a lot right and I never made it out there for the the porn awards And I've always wanted to go out there because it would just be a trip on well I've had buddies. Tell me about it. Yeah, we won't talk too much about it I know your wife's not gonna be excited about you Let's just say it's a good time to be in Vegas I told her I will video everything Yeah, good luck right on check it out go to YouTube Subscribe to our YouTube channel. It's different content than the stuff you find in our podcast So if you want more information, you want more fun, you want more good stuff You want more controversy the YouTube channel is our other channel. 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