 Hey y'all, Dustin Schaefer here. I am super excited. I just realized my wife hates it when I do this clap And I did it right in the middle. I thought about it. I'm super excited about today We are bringing to you basically the first-ever Military and ketones like why is why is this conversation so important? We have an amazing crew on here We have three majors and two pains in the butt. I'm just kidding We have all all the services except the Coast Guard and the National Guard representing today We'll let them come next time though I just want to kind of give me give you a little bit of brief background and then also We're gonna just do a little round table talking about ketones talking about Performance in career performance in the military health benefits and what we've been seeing so If you're watching this out there do me a huge favor if you know something that's in the military that serves the military or a spouse or a veteran Share this to them. Let them see this because I think you're gonna be kind of blown away that this all started Basically because of the military. It's where the conversation really got going and And we're talking what we're talking about is ketosis. So Myself my name is Dustin Schaefer. I I served back in the 90s 95-99 I was a former recon Marine specialized in signals intelligence. I got out of the out of the military Ten years later. I married a lady that goes into the military. So not only was I enlisted I was also Now I'm also a dependent As in the officer side, so I've seen the military from a very unique perspective Seeing her go through all her training, which was really cool, but also I'm a keto guy I've been a keto educator Keto the keto probe and a keto educator for now for 20 years and for you that don't know a ketones I'm just gonna briefly cover it and kind of talk about how we got here and then I'm gonna bring our crew on so First off the keto conversation has been around for about 20 or about a hundred years About a hundred years ago the the scientists started researching the key jank diet But it was something that never really grabbed a hold by many people because it was really hard to do the diet was Well, about 10 years ago, maybe 11 years ago. The Department of Defense was looking at trying to get Navy SEALs NASA was looking to the same concept for their astronauts get them into ketosis But they didn't want to do this crazy hard diet. They've been researched for, you know, 90 plus years They wanted to find a way to get any ketosis another way. Well, guess what science figured it out And they were able to get Navy SEALs into ketosis by a drink Now it's a powder you mix in water and you drink it down well six years ago Prove it brought that patent to the world and Basically formulated the first ever pure therapeutic ketone supplement that could get you in a therapeutic level ketosis in less than an hour That was six years ago. Now that that patent has been advanced. We've advanced it and brought it way further forward Taste delicious. It's really really good But that original research was started for the Navy SEALs to get them into ketosis and now we're fast-forwarding six years And we got an amazing team on board Utilizing this product all in different services for different reasons of using this product So I'm gonna bring them on we're gonna do a little interview and I'm super excited about this So Mike Evans. Hey brother, you're on Mike Evans a veteran also semper fi brother. I appreciate you showing up So let's go on unmute and I'm gonna have everybody introduce themselves just really quickly We'll start with Scott on the upper right hand corner of my screen Scott go ahead and give us a little shout out your name name where you're from and what do you do? Roger. Hey everybody. My name is Scott Hall. I'm a major in the United States Army. I'm active duty right now I am responsible for all the tank training down over here at the armor school. So Armor guy by trade. I was a company commander and airborne unit So got a definitely a very interesting background in Iraq and Afghanistan. So that is happy to be here and Love love everything about this community. Awesome. Awesome. All right Pete. You're up, buddy Hey guys, thanks for having me. My name is Major Pete mask. I'm working out of the Pentagon right now Trying to survive the flooding that's going on. I didn't know if I'd have power about 30 minutes ago But anyways Doing I'm Air Force Reserve. I do congressional complaints for all the Air Force Reservists out there. So if they have issues at the unit levels Backgrounds crazy. I have seven Air Force specialty codes about to go to this seventh job now One October and then I'll promote to lieutenant colonel. So excited about that and happy to be here and and share Hey, congratulations on that future promotion. All right, mr. Terry We got mr. Terry out of Florida Terry's like I am we're veterans we serve back in the I mean It seemed ancient times ago And Terry has an unbelievable story. So Terry, you know, where did you serve? What'd you do back in the day? And when what year did you serve? I actually don't know the actual dates All right, Terry got to unmute you. I don't hear you. I think it's volume needs to just go All right, yeah, I speak loud buddy speak loud That's part of the problem. Yeah back in 88 to 92 for the Persian Gulf war I was electrician on an aircraft carrier So my job was to keep the lights on and if it's spun or stop spinning it was my job to get it spinning again So worked in the power motor rewind shop. It was there when we were flying sorties over to the Persian Gulf in Iraq and Loved every minute now. I'm second generation. I got both my twin boys active serving in the Navy right now Awesome, that's so proud. I think that's so cool. All right. I'm gonna the last but not least We're gonna have my wife go and I think our little girl just woke up. So she's gonna start I'm gonna have her finish her part and then I'm gonna have her go get the girl. I think she okay I didn't realize the years that you serve Terry because I was actually my brother Jim served at the same time So yeah, he was using the Marine Corps at the time but I'm April Schaefer and I am also major in the Marine Corps I did seven years active duty And then transfer the reserves Been loving that was an attorney in the Marine Corps by trade. So that's what I do when I go back in drill I have a lot of really fun fun fun stories. I'm the life of any dinner party when I start talking about my trial days You know the truth is is my wife didn't think she thought I made up everything She thought I was making up shit all the time She said this guy is full of it and then she went in the service and realized I'm actually not crazy I'm not a liar Real big this story that he told prior to joining I just thought he was exaggerating the hell out of everything and then I went through all the basic training and I was like Oh, this shit's legit. He wasn't joking about any of it So we're gonna tell a little bit of spotless story So I made my wife start drinking ketones because I am a keto person. I know what it does I know how beneficial it is. I knew the science behind it all I understood the Department of Defense why they would want this in the Navy SEALs So April you started drinking the product because I made you for the most part She did not like the first flavor we have so many amazing flavors now But tell people kind of what was that initial benefit that you got in that first about six weeks You've noticed different benefits, but what was that initial benefit that you had? And why this has been so beneficial for you. Yeah, so the initial benefit that I felt was honestly energy Dustin did make me drink it. He was just like you have to drink it It's the healthiest thing and contrary to popular belief. I do listen to this guy every once in a while So I was there forcing myself to drink this drink. I didn't like and at the time I was funnest of it work I was tired. I was Frustrated irritated. I just couldn't focus on my work and as an attorney you have to be able to focus on your work You can't be given out shoddy legal advice, you know, because you're tired. That just doesn't work out well for anyone And so what was keeping me awake and alert at work was the vending machine And coffee. I was drinking tons of coffee I was eating a lot of candy because that sugar was another stimulus that would just keep me awake Which was not helping me lose any baby weight at all And I just was not feeling great. And so what I noticed when I started drinking ketones right away was that I didn't have to hit the vending machine. I wasn't craving coffee I was able to just Get through my day. I had one in the morning one in the afternoon and I had energy all day I felt good. I didn't have ebbs and peaks and stuff like that I didn't want to like take five minutes to like lay down on the most disgusting floor imaginable to just to get like five minutes Of shut I am on my lunch hour. She used to do that all night. I used to do that Lay down the towel quick quick naps. Yeah, quick naps. Well, and really quick Now she went through a couple transformations after having babies, you know with the military you have standards weight standards You have physical fitness standards. You can't just sit around to get back at it, right? So you utilize it as a tool to get back in shape. I know this is helped with your pts It helped with your physical fitness test. Yeah, so It's actually been kind of crazy. Um, so, you know, I joined I joined late. I joined at at 28. Um, and I Got really close to to running a perfect pft score, uh, which is like our annual physical fitness I was like 10 seconds off on my rug. Um, otherwise, I would have had a perfect score at tbs and After that as I aged it it it just went downhill. I got I got slower. Um, I It hurt longer. It was harder to train. Um, it was harder to do any part of it. Um, and the ketones came into my life And my score started improving. I was still getting older, but my scores were improving and I was like, this shit's crazy Um, and legitimately I am 39 years old Uh, so 11 years I've 11 years since I've joined right And I just ran a pft Pardon me. We're getting over Being sick and I still got a cough. Um, and I ran my best time on that three mile run Then I then I ran since I was 28 years old And that was from drinking ketones. So 100 helps with the pft I I drink ketones like every time before my pft before my cft And it's it's amazing what it's done to my score and my ability to just I mean I smoked I ran with two guys that were like 10 years younger than me and I smoked them both She was smoking while she ran and still beat them by five minutes. Um, well, babe I appreciate it. I know we have a screaming baby in there if you she calms down come back in and we'll ask you some more questions Um, all right, let's go back over. Let's go back over to scott You know, um and really quick in the audience out there if you guys know somebody or if you had a benefit of drinking ketones What is your benefit put it in the chat below but scott? I would love to know I mean, I see you, you know, you and I got to meet a couple weeks ago. You look fit. You look healthy What's your story? Why did you start drinking ketones and what have you seen as a major in the army? Yeah, so, uh You know Been in the army for about 13 years and just like with everything there's a it's a lot of very physical rigorous Uh activity especially when you're younger, right? And then as an officer especially you you'll start to go up and rank and you become more stagnant Like i'm a staff wanker now Like I got to the point too when I was uh when I was a battle captain in a in a talk in the field We go to the field a lot So you're not really you got to be very creative when you try to do pt in the field But at the same time you're eating regular army food Not getting as much exercise because you're in the vehicles like we'd be in the desert to california or overseas somewhere And you're just riding in these vehicles the entire time and you can't stop to like go run six miles Or or eat well because you're eating MREs and those those like to hang out around your waist Right and they're hard to burn off. So kind of compounding that over time and then starting to slow down I I put on I put on a bunch of weight And I was starting to get to the point where I was like I cannot sustain this if i'm going to continue to be competitive As the military officer and be able to lead men and women The way that they need to be out front, you know when they and in we're in the military That's the thing, you know, uh, we are leaders from a very young age And we one of the big first signs that people take a look at is your physical fitness Because you're doing it every morning at formation right p. Um And that's so that's an indicator and I knew I had to change something So I was introduced to the the product and and the well the technology and within two months I lost 26 pounds and previously in one part of my history I was training up for special forces and I was like 175 and I could run eight miles every day And I had kind of weaned off after a while After started taking ketones, I I immediately was able to go right back to running six miles every other day Working out like my peak performance and maintaining all that. Um, I I felt more awake Especially when you're like at this level and officers Uh, you got to lead a lot of meetings You got to lead a lot of military decision-making process meetings and you got to be very Concise and you have to know a lot of knowledge And hold all that I so I saw a lot of cognitive benefits. I saw a lot of peak physical benefits to it and I it just convinced me and I'm the product of The success and what it's been able to give me and I'm just extremely happy with this Awesome. Why I think that's super cool. I did look up. Uh, how many calories in mre? I actually thought there was way more calories. It's only 1,250 calories in each mre But 51 of them are carbohydrate base, which you know, people think hey, I need all those carbs But the reality is we may not need as many of those I remember when I used to we used to have to strip our mre mre's down because we only had so much sproom in a ruck And we basically we got one a day But it was about a half of one a day and we always had to choose one of the most calories And then otherwise we'd just run out of food. So I think it's really cool just to before I go to terry here in a second I want to touch on something april and scott both talked about this this is more sustainable energy And and out performing they're out working out and doing more things Well, if you start looking at the foundation of science of ketosis ketones are an energy The best research of the top Performance researcher in the entire world research our product and basically showed that it you perform better And that being primarily energy And so you get this sustainable energy all day long and then scott, you notice you notice something else Which I think april the two has an attorney. She's like using her brain all the time Now I was a field guy right guy. I shot. I shot guns. That's what I didn't jump out of stuff Like I I didn't have to think terry using the orders Anything way more than I did right right the orders What's that? We sit back and write the orders and Yeah, you write the orders with all the vehicles and stuff. We execute them And so I I didn't have to use this much. I just had to like I just do what you said, right? But The cognitive benefits ketones fuel that brain as we get older Um, we get more tired our brain fatigues our eyes fatigue and that's why you're noticing those shifts and changes Um, so so anyway, I think that's really cool because the science really supports why you're seeing those benefits But all right, I'm going to go to old school here Mr. Terry So talk to me. So you're in a veteran. You're at the you're in another another phase of your life You have two young boys twins in the navy right now File and dad's footsteps, you know And you know, honestly for everybody out there april and I are big service people We just you know anybody that serves Um, we just it's such a it means a huge privilege that we get to do this and everybody gets to serve and And so I think it's just really really cool that your family is following your footsteps And we could only be honored if our kids followed in ours Um, but you know now that you're you're in your second half of your life after the military And talk about your benefits with ketones and then I'm going to ask you a specific question more about What your piece of advice would be for somebody younger? That's you know, that doesn't want to get messed up like we did Yeah talk up In the navy, you know instead of running orders. I was in riding in a Jeep I was a guy going out on weekends, you know drinking the beers with the guys at the local places all throughout europe, right? So that's fine in your 20s, right? But when you hit your 30s and your 40s, you know That sticks around that midsection a little bit more And I was like a lot of people I was in the best shape of my life when I was in the navy And then as you get out you get married and you have kids and you keep up those same habits You lose that being in great shape because you're not as disciplined like the military teaches you and As an electrician as uh enlisted I was standing six hour watches on and off 24 hours a day During my entire seven month cruise over in the Mediterranean You know running a switchboard so for six straight hours Watching dials turning knobs and making sure the whole ship's running smooth Yeah, I wish it would have had the mental focus You know that this product offers back then because I was falling asleep half the time on those watches from Midnight to six o'clock in the morning. Let me tell you but I needed it because I had gotten out of shape I let's put it Basic I got the fat fat and unhealthy and on a a bunch of medications until it wasn't taking care of my body And someone cared about me enough to introduce it to me and that military side of me kicked in and said You're better than this. You were trained better than this more is expected of you Especially with young men about to go serve So I took it seriously. I'm very small picture real quick, but that that's how bad it got Wow Right and I was dying So I was fortunate that the military invented this for us navy guys Because like you said You can want the best out of a navy seal, but they're going to eat their carbs So, uh, they had to come up with something so they could get both the performance and get to enjoy themselves on the weekend But it literally saved my life. I wouldn't be here today If this product wasn't introduced to me because I needed that That extra thing to push me over the edge to to relight that competitive spirit of service and survival in me And this product did it Well, I love your story. You're down like 70 plus pounds now and have taken your health back And and I say this gives a good friend of mine, brian mouchet. I know mike evans is on here And we have lots of us veterans, you know people a lot people don't know because I I try to really take care of myself But I've been I'm 100 disabled. I have I have more surgeries to come than I would like to count And you know, it gets harder like things get more complicated Um, as you as you get older Especially is the more that you've abused your body when you're younger and And there's an ego part of this and I just want to touch on that I'm gonna have peak come on in a second But there's an ego part of this because I know terry originally was like no, I'm gonna do it on my own I'll figure it out and then he's like, okay. I need help And so I work with navy seals all throughout the world. I work with special forces. I've worked with marsak I've worked with you name it. I've probably had my hands on it a high level firefighters. ER doctors Utah squad police officers And I find the same little the ego in there. They're like, well, they either don't ask for freaking help. So stop it Ask for help. We're here to support you Or they always want to do it the damn hard way Meaning they're like I can figure this out on my own if they did it. I could do it Well, listen, this was originally developed from navy seals because they didn't want to do it the hard way And they're pretty damn bad ass. I'm just telling you like they're pretty awesome They wanted to find a shortcut a simpler way. There's a reason Right. We there's a reason we have airplanes. It's easier to get from adp and airplanes, right? There's a reason we're not on boats all the time There's a reason we've invented things to help things get easier And so if you're uh, especially if you're a stubborn vet, um I'm gonna get to the military active duty reservists here in a second But if you're a stubborn vet, listen, whoever invited you to check this out Check it out. They care about you and we care about you and we want to support you and help you because we know that It isn't always easy. Um, the head gets a little squirrely. I've been hitting the head a lot Things don't work up here like they're supposed to not for the normal folks Um, they get a little squirrely and ketones have really helped balance that out for a lot of us So, uh, pete, I would love to hear your story. Um out there in the uh out there in the pentagon Hey, Dustin. Thanks. So, um, I'll give you a little pre context when I was a young captain I lived in Los Angeles and I had work life balance where I lost it, right? I was in LA and my solar power watch died Like I sent it in and sony's like we've never had this or cash is like we've never had this happen A solar power watch. Where do you live? I said Los Angeles said, how is it dying? I said because I'm working in an office building 20 hours a day So that was a time where I actually failed my first fitness test I got up to like 212 pounds Um, heaviest I'd ever got and I got desperate and I did everything. I was doing hydrochlorin therapy I was electrocuting my stomach with like seaweed. It was kind of like on a therme. I mean, I do He's in LA. So just everybody keep that in mind. He's in LA. I electrocuted myself with seaweed. Come on That's crazy. Like I'm Asian. I eat seaweed. I don't do that crap. So I was doing that I mean, I did everything and then I found a diet called ideal protein It was like adkins and keto on steroids like keto diet on steroids and it was expensive I was irritable. I was I was angry and nasty and just not a good person to be around not a decent human Fast forward to now, you know, I came from officer training school in Alabama where everything's deep fried and slathered in butter And then I come to the pentagon and then a pandemic hits and I'm like, holy crap And then I start supporting local and eating uber eats and you know, I was like, oh, it's a door-dash thing And I'm telling you I went up back to 212. So I roller coaster back up from 190 And I was at a 38 inch waist I like to think because of pride. I was at 36. I wasn't the pants said 36 But they were a little stretchy. If you know what I'm saying And and and I got desperate and I found a nutritional coaching group I met Matt and Debbie Hammond And he introduced me to this tool called ketones and you know, when I got it, I was like, you know I've tried everything else Short of liposuction and cool sculpting. I said, what what is it going to hurt? So I did the ketones And I was working from home. I was having to do the Starbucks run twice a day I mean, you know, what's bad when Starbucks is getting an uber gold elite status, right? You're like, holy crap, right? I'm like my every six drink was free, right? So I was dependent on caffeine and I was like I started doing this and I did it for the weight loss, but then I started getting really good mood And I got to tell you like I went down a whole pants size in the military, which decides Ranges from like one To y'all know this it's like a range of five different pants sizes So when I went down one full pants, I was like, uh-oh, this is crazy I had to replace all my uniforms because I literally I was like the magic shrinking man like I had more chins than the chinese phone book at first I mean you look at my id I mean I went to the pentagon and they looked at my id go We need a secondary check. They did not believe it was me That's how good it was that that's how good it was but I mean for me processing congressionals at home I'm working as a basement troll at home right now because I'm in the basement and and I'm doing all these congressionals virtually I have to read every little thing and I have to task it out and you know It's a it's a crazy job. It's kind of like april's job You know, you got to analyze every little thing and make sure it gets in the right compartments in the right people so The mood hell. I mean I I can't speak highly enough not only for what it's done for me But just for my friends and family. I've introduced it too. They're all loving it My mom took it wrong and still did lost three dress sizes I mean, I get random calls from korean church neighbors. I don't even I don't you know who they are just randomly calling me I'm like, oh you you peter, uh, mommy. Tell me don't stop eating pork and drink this drink. I'm like, yeah, do that Yeah, let's let's talk mommy's putting on her face. She's doing all things Well, I just want to touch on this I'm gonna open this up for a few minutes And we're just gonna do kind of a little round table But you notice that some of you are watching this going, okay, how do I we were every service calls it different But there's a lot of military guys now that are struggling with weight and women boys and men and women and and it hurts us It hits me hard. Um, somebody that understands nutrition Um, they're doing it wrong flat out just flat out if you're right now struggling the weight And you're in the military service the advice you're getting is wrong And the things that people do to cut weight is just stupid. I mean, they're sweating themselves in sweat boxes They're they're putting bag garbage bags on saunas. They're eating They're exercising running marathons But yet not weight training and not eating low carb and they're eating subways thinking that's going to help and They just don't understand it. There's a It's simple it really is the and the fat loss component that you guys have all noticed with this April's went through a few transformation is carb or ketones Reduces sugar and carb cravings so that you can start making better decisions, right? And as long as we can educate Especially the younger generations that you know these subways and these fast food restaurants They don't have your best interest and there's ways to even eat there and still keep it kind of low carb You don't have to stop eating that stuff. You just have to choose it differently And um, you know, we can try to support you guys in that but ketones are vital to help with fat metabolism Help reduce carb cravings help us maybe go in intermittent fast and eat only two meals a day Which can help reduce calories so that it can support fat loss Especially as you get older when you don't need as much food when you're you know when you're training all the time Scott, I bet you used to eat a lot and then now you eat you eat you kept eating the same amount But yet you were not working out the same amount and the weight starts to gain um So Scott, I'd love to open up to you and kind of say, you know What's what's one thing that you've been excited about kind of learning about the conversation? And what do you think this could be a valuable add to maybe just troops in general? Yeah, so the benefits Of what this is brought to not only myself, but to everybody that we've heard from Is something that the military has been struggling with for a long time. We are a much more sedentary army these days and Again, you can walk through any of the dining facilities that we have and you're going to see nothing but fried food Starts up and even the food that is like green labeled. I have a green labeled. It's supposed to be like healthy for you, but it's um Not uh, it's kind of like prison food, honestly Um, unless you go to an air force defect. There's a lot better. Um Yep, don't even don't even get the Marine Corps involved here because we know we have the lowest standards when it comes to Basically everything Never go to an air force base. I learned that going in an air force gym at an else air force base I was like I picked the wrong service Yeah, you makes you makes you wonder what service we why we chose the right service we chose Oh man, they're they're they're they're having uh, air forces are they're having like, uh, you know shrimp cocktails for dinner and stuff But anyways, um, but yeah, so like body weight is a huge problem I probably have at least 30 different soldiers right now that are getting like they're on the army body fat program And again, it's they they put them in a pod pod. They have it. They talk to a nutritionist um, and they say hey run a lot Work out and Try to eat a little better And they test them in six months again, and again They'll go through the rigmaror of trying to go through all these different You know witchcraft of a lose weight program or whatnot and not get any results And then they get frustrated and then they get down on themselves And they go back to playing their video games and this compacts upon itself when we see this time and time again And we need people we call it readiness it's across the board readiness is huge For everything that we do we have to be ready to go at any point in time Especially being in the army and I'm first just like all the rest of the forces We have what's called like global response force kind of like what the 82nd just did over in afghanistan. So Each different type of unit has a ready force and they have to be ready to go at any point in time I'm talking backs packed weapons ready to go in a locker and then the the balloon goes up and you roll out so um It's it's critical for people to not only be able to think it's critical for not people to be able to have that weight loss And to be able to fit into these vehicles and whatnot um, but one thing too We Unlike a lot of folks that you know out there in different types of careers We have to go further fight further faster harder and under worse conditions um You'll find yourself jumping in the middle of the middle of Romanian field and you have to go on this operation for 72 hours against romanian soft And you're only in mra's and karen ammo Like and that's just the level of training you have to push yourself. You're going 24 36 72 hours Just going on and on you have to have clarity of mind because number one You have people's lives like we are responsible for other people's lives You have to make those correct decisions that's going to focus on the safety mitigate risk while accomplishing the mission all at the same time So it's very vital that you're able to have that clarity of mind and that's one thing that i've Seen a drastic improvement from my own experiences with this That's awesome. I think that's important to recognize is that you know We all serve we all we all appreciate serving, but we also we I think we should hold ourselves at a higher standard Uh, to be honest, and I think it starts at the younger, you know the younger Uh generations just you know, they don't understand nutrition because they were brought up into a basically a pretty bad world of nutrition You know terry terry so dang old that you know, he couldn't even he couldn't even be raised in a bad nutrition I'm just kidding. You're like my age. I'm just playing with you I think I don't like you got me like my five years But um, so terry what's your piece of advice that young your your your sons like what would you tell your sons? You know, they're in the service right now. What is your piece of advice to them from kind of a you know an education perspective? Um, maybe a little bit of a wisdom perspective. No one it's what it's like 25 years later when you don't take care of yourself Absolutely, so uh speak up a little bit, but Yeah, one thing that I notice is that You know most of the young guys now their idea of getting in shape is just go with their body to the Fitness center and put in you know 45 minutes of throwing some weight around and that's what they think getting healthy is And then I'm looking at the big picture of the mental You know the diet and everything else. They're just trying to put some muscle on just by throwing weight around and they're missing Two huge components and they're risking injury You know and one thing that I kind of like to say from a veteran perspective is you know, I've gone into different VA facilities And you see the physical damage and sometimes you don't see the emotional damage that these veterans come home with And sometimes that lack of knowledge Manifests itself in getting out of shape and getting unhealthy And sometimes that's the first and maybe easiest thing that they can tackle So that they can get back some of that That pride some of that that mental You know sharpness and that desire and will to fight some of those battles that they've been fighting ever since They left the service so You know sometimes taking our health seriously and having a product and tool to do that can be the first step In changing if not saving a lot of lives Of our service brothers and sisters that might be you know falling through the cracks or we're just trying to get them medicated or you know Some type of you know pills to take where we can Approach it from a holistic perspective of their entire mind body You know health paradigm that could save a lot of lives Right. It's a positive momentum right give them something to start building momentum on and you know, we all got challenges We still have to maybe work through but at least if we have other things that we can lean on then we can work through Those challenges even more. What do you think babe? Women in the military Where do you feel that This can play a role for for more of a female side. We have all these, you know bad-ass dudes on here Um, how do you see this as a tool for for females to utilize this as a as a as a resource for them Oh You know, um it you know something for me um Was I always knew I always knew that I wanted a career Um, I wanted to serve I wanted to have a family right? It's not easy as a female It's not easy having a family in the military in general, but it's not easy being I think especially being female and going through being pregnant Uh giving birth trying to get your body back Um, and and I mean it's it's gotten a lot. It's gotten a lot better. Um, I mean Geez when alexander was born I had six weeks of maternity leave So I was I was back at work full time at six weeks with no sleep And it was not it's not a great place to be and physically I was still in a lot of pain um from giving birth and uh You know, it's it's hard. It's hard to The more kids you have the older you are everything to get your body back. Um, and ketones are like a secret weapon They are going to get you to get through your day faster You can focus better. You could have more energy you make We all make mistakes in general in life, right? That's just the way it is. Um, and depending, you know on what you do on a daily basis, but You might have more latitude in regards to the consequences of those mistakes when the military those can be pretty pretty dire, right? Um, and so you're just not going to be making those mental mistakes You're not going to be fatigued. So you're going to get in the fight quicker Mentally physically you're going to get your body back quicker. You're going to perform better even though I mean Okay, I'm going to tell you right now It's like my stomach is all jacked up like my my my abs are separated my belly buttons herniated I I need like surgeries to fix that stuff, right? But I'm still able to perform I was able to do a really a good, I don't know three three and a half minute plank. I was able to run Uh, that score I was telling you guys earlier because of ketones, right? I was able to stay in the fight and stay active Even though like my body is not what it once was and it never will be that's the thing that, you know I think that they don't always talk to you about so, you know, um There aren't a lot of females in the military, right? We're a very small number and so what we do always is going to stand out and so I think that while everyone wants to perform their best I think sometimes women sometimes feel a little more pressure to form to perform at a higher level because they know There's a level of scrutiny on them and ketones will get you to perform at that higher level Even when you're not feeling like it even when you're sleep-deprived So whether you're sleep-deprived because you've been up all night on duty You know, are you you're out you're on operation? Whatever it is that you're doing It's going to get you to perform well. So um, and I think that it allows you to have that dream of having a family and being active in the military at a much Um higher rate than without Awesome. Awesome. Yeah, I know that uh, we talk a lot about the female side of things and and I'm very fascinated with it All because I was the opposite I was the guy that just went 100 miles per hour and just did put blinders up to what was going on and Her world and uh, it's been really cool to see that now because I have lots of female friends that are either currently serving or Served with me and they're still great friends today, but I didn't understand what it was like for them compared to what I did I just didn't even I didn't pay attention. I was a nigger and anger man just did what I did Um, all right, Pete. Oh, go ahead. Did you guys talk about movie at all yet? I apologize because I had to step out of the room. Um, she had a baby to attend to um Yeah, a little bit. I think not not significantly my wife Just so you know, um, i'm gonna bring pete back in just a second and we'll wrap up But so as an attorney and a major in the military Active duty well active duty major No, I I was uh, okay, so captain major Our captain, uh a lawyer she was pretty grumpy And so ketones had a big impact on our on our relationship because of what it did to make her She's just got happier and so that is something that you want to touch on just briefly before we uh Yeah, um, so anyone out there. I mean it can come in all shapes and forms and sizes But I was just in a dark place. I wasn't happy. I was grumpy. I was irritated I was snapping and yelling at him and I knew that there was something wrong. I didn't quite know how to fix it Um, you know, I tried a couple things. Nothing was really working and I just felt shitter and shittier Mentally, um, and so drinking ketones was a lifeline for me Um, I started waking up happier started dancing with my kids not yelling at him So for anyone out there that's like struggling with their mood snapping at their spouses their kids just not being the person they want to be um Ketones majorly majorly impacted my mood in such a good way and for me that was a gradual change I mean it was six weeks in before I even noticed that benefit. Uh, he noticed it right away But I didn't notice it till I I didn't drink my ketones one day and then all of a sudden those Frustration and anger feelings came back to me and I was like, oh, this is way more than than helping with my energy This is way more than than fat loss. This is something really big So just wanted to throw it out there who anyone might be struggling with that. Yes, it's a big It's a it's a relationship changer. I promise you that. All right, Pete Any any piece of ice any words of wisdom do you have? For anybody that's watching this from a service perspective and then we're gonna wrap it up wrap it up Just just come to the just try it. I mean the biggest thing is we're our own worst enemy You know, we think that if we go do crossfit, which I love crossfit, but I'm old now, right? Can't do crossfit. I'll break things Um, these Asian looks make me look younger. I look like this. I'm 60. I'm good But anyways, my point is, you know, just get out of your own way I mean, I thought I tried everything. I I knew what here's the thing the thought while you're sitting there fat Discussed with yourself size 36, which really size 40 pant You're like, I can do this all my own. I just need to suck it up and get out there and go do it wrong like It's like beating your head against the wall, right? I mean, what did Einstein say madness is repeating the same thing over and expecting a different result? like I was like, I can do this No, I needed help if you sit at the beginning of the call ask for help just drink this stuff It's not going to make you grow a third horn or a tail. It's not going to be illegal substance I just had blood work done. I can tell you we're good but I mean just drink it and try it and You know what if you need help, you know ask the person that that referred you to the stuff and just try it because I mean I can either go spend eight hundred dollars and go do a very restrictive diet and be pissed off and angry all the time Or I can go to drink something for a quarter of a cost It's even better and makes me feel better and focus and mood energy and all that stuff I got to tell you all the benefits come to you you may start one way But you'll get a second third and fourth order effect benefits that you never even anticipated right So just just get out of your own way and quit making it over complicated And if you need have questions or need help just ask Yeah, does ask any one of us of course you can reach out to me. I will support you guys However, I can from a coaching perspective and y'all hall. It's a it's a powder. You mix some water. You drink it down once or twice a day It's a starbucks a day Most of you right now watching this you guys are drinking too much beer You're somewhere we can cut back on it from a cost perspective There's something in your daily life that we can get rid of red bowls monsters. Y'all those things are bad There's actually increases your risk of sprain and ankle increases your risk of injury All those do I got science on it on the whole thing I mean, we don't even like at the high level you shouldn't be consuming any of that if you want to change your life That stuff is not good for you. It's not real energy It's stimulants that mess you up and they actually can it increases your risk of spraining your ligaments Like it's not good. It increases the risk of injury This is was originally developed for the department of defense. The original patent was we've advanced way past that It's a powder. You mix some water drink it down and I'm gonna just touch on this one last thing is this is that If you serve in the united states arm services or any service anywhere in the world, we have followers around the world You probably are used to being part of the team and that's what this is about It's not about you just trying to figure it out. We are here to support you. We've been through it I know what deep dark depression looks like. I know what head injuries look like I know what physical injuries look like I know what it is to do things that other people have never seen or done before And most people that have served have seen that before And so we have a team of us behind here to support you wherever you're starting from So whoever invited you maybe hasn't served and maybe they don't know what you've been through Don't disregard what they're asking you to try or to check out because they don't they can't relate to you There's somebody out there that can and has and so allow them to connect to One of us so that we can have a conversation You know how many times I get on a calls with former navy seals I've been in for 25 years and they're in the worst place in their life It's like they are like they they feel this big and this tall Because they don't know which way's up and they're just looking for hope and looking for better in their life They're overweight. They're grumpy. They're moody. They're tired. They're sitting on their butt They're not doing anything and it's like holy cow. Dude. There's a whole community here that support you So come be part of this community Use something that's scientifically backed and get back to whoever invited you because I know there's people following us all over the world Whoever invited you cares about you and shared this with you So get back to them and give this thing a try come at minimum come do the challenge with us And let's change your life. Let's get you back to where you to belong. Let's get you back to your fighting weight your fighting size your fighting Desires of how you know that you should be and live your life. So Man, I appreciate you all being on Truly do any last words you guys got before we jump off and we'll be doing some more of these so I can't wait Yeah, just one thing on that like you mentioned to Dustin is the military is decisively Addicted to energy drinks scary And it's scared And there if there is something like this type of technology to already get in the hands of just a couple hundred or thousand people Within the military they would see that and we'd be able to kind of get rid of that pandemic that we see in the military because it's It's sugar and it's causing a lot of this overweightness Because these the kids just don't know for the one last thing I'll say is like for example In basic training that we have here the drill sergeant's got to make sure that the kids drink Two cups of milk a night because all they've done is literally drinking monsters from the time they were a little kid through high school right It's it's it's that's a that's a topic on itself um Yeah, I studied under charles paul quinn who's one of the you know number one Strength conditioning coaches of all time and he's done numerous studies with the united states army And and we special ops special forces. We worked on cognition. It was really cool stuff And it's sad. Um right now. I I work with a lot of the um Former x-game athletes the guys that started all this. They're the ones that were the ones the original people promoting Monsters and red bull, right? Well, here's the funny stories. You know, they're also dang old now that they have teenagers Well, guess what all their teenage sons and daughters are drinking Energy drink and they're like you can't drink that's bad for you, but it was them that started it all Right and now they're starting to get them to stop doing what they actually created 15 20 years ago So it's really an interesting turn of events and um So I think we just have to pour into education and unfortunately when we're young we're a little bit dumb and we think we're invincible and We all were there. I've been there myself but um, we have to provide at least a level of education and um, and somebody has to become the example So I just want to give a big shout out to you terry as a veteran scott pete april Um, you guys are becoming the example you're becoming the best version of yourself and that's what we need more people to step up and do And wear it on their sleeve and say listen come follow me because what we're doing isn't working And we are the greatest fighting force in the world and the only way at least I believe that And the only way to maintain that fighting force is to maintain our health and and we got to keep leading from the front So you guys I appreciate y'all get your key tones if you don't have any get back to everybody at you And let's get you healthier than you ever can be Salute cheers y'all nice work