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Yes, and it's a beautiful morning in downtown St. Petersburg. 81 degrees, a little muggy, but it is August, so we don't mind too much. And I especially ride I-leaf for Tahoe. Next week? No, on Wednesday, this week. Oh, good. And so I'm looking forward to beautiful weather, sunny days, and get out of this muggy heat. That would be very nice. And make sure you pick up our primal edge newsletter. This gets into your box twice a month. Health signals newsletter. Yeah. Yes, our health signals newsletter. About the primal living. And we kind of follow the show and you'll get clickable links to information you can use to stay healthier. That's right. And pick up the primal edge also, our ancestral comprehensive daily nutrition. And it's all filled with all good stuff that you actually really need. And the reason you need it is because our food is kind of inadequate these days. And we're going to talk about our food. Yes, we are. The diets today a little bit. Yeah. Kind of take a regroup on what's going on. So pick up the primal edge and make sure that you get the nutrition you need to stay healthy. That's right. And it's only $89 every single month. And we're going to be talking about, not this, but the... Well, I think you wanted to start with how the brain senses glucose and why a lot of people did choose to follow a paleo or primal diet. We'll also kind of highlight some of the newer diets you're hearing that are variations thereof, perhaps the carnivore diet you've heard of or even the keto diet. And what about some... You know, what is the right amount of carbs? Are they? And are we eating the wrong kinds? And what are the right kinds? We're going to just kind of do a dusting of all this today. Well, I think if we follow the seasons and you follow people around the globe, people in the real Arctic regions are going to be eating a lot different than people in the temperate zones and also people around the equator, you're going to be... It's like Jack Kroos says, the zip code in chronobiology. Yeah, because it... Call the sun and use it code. That's right. So if you're on an island someplace in the Caribbean, you've got a limited amount of animals. So now you have to substitute and because it's warm out, things are a lot different. The sun is out a lot more. You're going to need carbs for that. And natural carbs are where the fruit comes from and the vegetables and things like that. If they're naturally grown and seasonal, I don't see a problem with carbs at all. But let's talk about the brain. That's important, that seasonality, what you just said. Yeah. And I like to talk about the brain because there's a little bit of confusion. You know, we always say that in conventional ways, we think that the carbs are our primary fuel source. When we kind of learn now that our primary source of fuel really is fat, but the brain does have the need for the sucrose. Right. And the key thing is the body has the ability to make it and we can get it from our food. Yeah. And everyone probably has a little different balance of where they feel their best. And also when you take that into consideration, as you said, where they live and the time of year and the time of day, you're probably going to get the best bet. Yeah. Let's talk a little bit about this. So when it comes to brain fuel, glucose is king. Glucose is the brain's primary source of fuel and is narrowly regulated inside the body as a result. So this is a termed glucose homostasis. Right. And there are two key players in this, which is insulin and glycogen. And these two hormones are kept in balance so that our blood remains stable. So when we eat, the ratio of insulin to glucose is high, which helps... You're talking about glucagon, you mean, actually. Glucagon, actually. Yes, I'm sorry. Insulin and glucagon. Yeah. And the ratio of insulin to glucagon is high and it helps to facilitate a lot of the processes in the body after you eat. Yeah. So the standard American diet is very high in glucose, means it's high in carbohydrates like bread, pasta, baked goods and juices. Let's preface that. It's high because we have a market of fake food. Manufactured food, fake food. Manufactured food. Yeah. And food probably... Produces a lot of money. Probably in the evolution of man, it probably played a very, very small role, except the last 150, 200 years. Now, you know, I want to preface this because the food that saves your life becomes very, very important and during hard times, this is what we always go to because it's the only thing left. It's the only thing that we can store. We call it starvation foods. You taught me. Yes. And that's interesting because I just saw... It came across my thing yesterday when I was doing something else that Dave Dubine, I guess, came out with a video about the rising prices of food in China due to... And the rising prices and the smaller containers. And that's what's going on here in the United States if you look at your vegetables and things like that. That is also going on here. Very stealthy. There's nothing in the news saying, hey, we got a shortage of this or that, but we do not have a shortage of sucrose, fructose, things like that. We don't have a shortage of that because we have beets and we have corn and we have lots of things that we can extrude the sugars out of. So let's go on with this. Well, let's talk about how the body manages glucose. The nuts and bolts of our brain actually handle this glucose. It's kind of fascinating. And to really explain, it's kind of complicated situation, but it's best to describe the various different metabolic states which bring about different activities in the body and the brain. And so, for example, when we lack carbohydrates, our liver glycogen stores are rapidly used and fatty acids go out into our bloodstream and are then shuttled from the stored fat. So we've got lots of energy on our body, some of us more than others, to provide energy versus, we call it oxidation. Yeah, so what this... Fat and acid oxidation. Yeah, so the fat is actually, the stored fat is being converted because now your brain needs it. And this is a natural process, but I do remember 15, 20 years ago when my wife and I were traveling that a couple hours after we eat, the sugar drops, and all of a sudden you're looking for food and you're on a highway, not much around, especially if you're out in the backwoods and stuff. And when that sugar really drops and your brain goes, duh, I'm starving, I need something, and you start snapping at your sibling or your wife or something, you get very cranky. So this is because we've been using sucrose as our main fuel. Our brain can get this fuel for many different sources. So this fatty acid oxidation actually allows us to survive on a limited food supply. And this was probably the mechanism that helped us keep from starving when there were times of scarcity. But how does that work for us today with food everywhere? Not so great. So think of glucose as the backup fuel system. Our body knows when one fuel is running low and we're not available and it switches to another supply. Taken to extreme when carbohydrates are low enough, for long enough we go into ketosis. The keto flu is something that you get because you're not used to it. And it's very hard to switch over. So on the flip side, if you have plenty of carbohydrates, your bodies will choose to store fat and rely on glucose for fuel since our ability to store carbohydrates is really non-existence pretty much. Right, we actually store carbohydrates as fat. Yeah, well, the other way to store it is there's some carbohydrates around the muscle stored, not as fat, but as the sugar. Unless you're like a super athlete, you're not really going to... Well, unless you're on a type of primal diet, you're not going to have access to that. That's for sure. All right, well, we're going to dive down into this a little farther. We'll be right back after this short break. You know what's cool? Taking something that's good for you. Something specifically formulated to help with weight loss, better sleep, stress reduction, and the need to detox. Nicar, hunter and gatherer ancestors found all their nutritional requirements for health in their wild environment. 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And so before the break, we were talking that the carbohydrate rates when you eat plenty of carbohydrates, our bodies choose to store fat and rely on glucose for fuel since our ability to store the carbohydrates is very limited just around our muscles normally. And this is why Marathon of Runners carb load they want to maximize the store. But we're finding a lot of differences in this because when you're on a high-carb diet, you need to have more carbs and this is how you store them overnight. So you're eating pancakes the night before and you have a lot of that in there. And then when you're running, your body really hasn't converted at all to fat yet and you're using the fuel for the whole run. But that's a problem. They're like people eating pancakes that aren't going for a run. Right. And the other thing is, yeah, that's for sure. But the other thing is, and now we're finding out if you're really more on a keto type of high-fat diet that you really don't need to carb load because your carbohydrates aren't being burned. They're still stored around your muscles. So you're running on that fuel all the time and if you have to go a little faster, that's when those carbs come kicking in. So you have that extra energy. So it's really kind of a backwards thing that you're talking about here. The carb loading is not really necessary unless you're eating a high-carb diet and that's the kind of the way I see it. Yeah. Well, that's a good way to clarify it. If you're a carb burner, then you're going to need them to perform. But if you've already gotten fat adapted. Yeah. That's why we have that 20-mile wall that they say in a marathon because by the time, even if your carb load, by the time 20 miles comes around, you're not going to have the glucose in there. So in your body, if your ability to get to the stored fat, fine. And maybe after 20 miles, you can. But you're not going to feel good doing it. That's what I'm saying. And that's why it's usually crappy that last six miles. For me, it took me an hour. That last six miles. I never ever did a marathon. Yeah. Well, it could as to you. So the standard American diet is very high in glucose, meaning it's high in carbs like bread and pasta and juices and all things. So while glucose is the king of the brain and the body fuel, we also have the ability to fuel our brains with ketone bodies, which is why the low carb diets are currently very, very popular. Yeah. But there's people that question what the balance actually is. There are a lot of people that are thriving on the paleo diet. And there are a lot of people that are doing well with keto and the carnivore diet, which we might touch on a little bit. And then there's people that aren't. Yeah. And I think it has to do with what you did before. That makes the big difference. I mean, if you're raised in France, southern France, or the Mediterranean area, and you're eating local there, you're eating much more carbs than I would be eating, but you're probably very balanced because you're eating vegetables, probably a lot of different types of vegetables that we don't even get in the United States. Most of the plants here come from one or two different plants. Yes. And they're really high in sugars. However, the French are known for... The French paradox is really their high fat intake. Yes. Yet they also have pretty much a neutral diet in terms of carbs, about 45%. That's really the key. 45%. Yeah. So if you're under the 50%, and you're eating these carbs that are not manufactured, that's a whole different story. And this is why people are successful on the paleo diet and get a crappy diet and now they're going into something that is completely different, changing their body. It's really not necessary to diminish the carbs that much as long as we really have to understand where these carbs come from. If you're getting them from wild plants or domesticated plants that aren't overly sugarized, if you're eating fruits that are more fruit that isn't so fruity, and the apples of today are nothing like 200 years ago when the apple seed came and started. Yeah, they were tart little apples. Like crab apples, you said. Yeah, crab apples. So, and then you'll see that some of the standard fruit, not the organic fruit, the apples will be like this big. And then an organic apple will be like this. And then, like you said, the original apple was probably like a little crab apple. But let's wrap this one up and then kind of go on to some of these other great things that you put in here. It says, you know, interestingly, research has also shown a direct link between too much sugar, specifically fructose, and premature aging. Now, I want to say, is it really the fructose or is it the rancid oils that are often part of that diet? I think probably both of them. I think so, too. Yeah. And other studies have shown that too much glucose can be linked to cognitive decline and memory issues. We call that Alzheimer's or perhaps what we might actually refer to is diabetes type three. And so, these are often cited when we hear articles that say sugar can kill us or sugar can go Alzheimer's. And the truth is, is it really actually sugar or is it actually these artificial sugars like the high fructose corn syrup that are high in fructose that our bodies are not meant to handle? Either way, glucose sensing is the brain and the brain is critically important and the paleo diet will help keep glucose levels at normal, healthy levels. And it leads to a much better brain health and a healthier life overall. And this is what these researchers are citing in this article. And I think that for the most part, that it's panning out to be true. Yeah. It's the real devil in the details and the devil is the fructose. And the reason it's so bad is because this is what the manufacturers of the food are industry is really using more and more of this because, first of all, it's about 100 times more per ounce sweeter. So now you've got something that you have to use less of. And it's the part that really goes to our body and says red flag right away. I mean, if you take a spoon full of sugar, the red flag may not go up for you. But if you're going to start eating cereals using these oils, which also are a huge problem because they block a lot of these sensory receptors that we have for the glucose and for the fat. So here we're dulling our body not to get, you know, so you're not as sensitive to these things. So you don't realize what's going on and pretty soon a year or two down the road you've got 20, 30, 40 pounds. And I have this picture. I'll try to bring it up later. It's a picture that my wife found on Facebook and it's these people walking in 1955 on the beach. And my God, everybody's thin. Everybody. I mean, you didn't see a fat person at all. It's kind of the same thing in the malls in Europe. You see a lot less heavy people. Yeah. And that's really because the Europeans are still eating from the ground. But a lot of them have coffee and cake at three o'clock in the afternoon. That's fine. But you know, if you start your day right and you're on it for a long time, your body pretty much is going to take care of you. You know, this is a fabulous system we have here. We just have to feed it the right way. And the right way is the wild way. But we've domesticated a lot of good things also. That's very interesting that you said that the wild way because it was really when they started talking about, I like to read old doctor books, you know, doctors around the turn, and when I say turn of the century. Yeah. Before. Old for us. Yeah, old for us. But a lot of them talk about the diseases of consumption. And really what consumption was was the rich man's diet, the processed pastries and cookies and cakes and these kind of things that were taking it probably way too much alcohol, et cetera. So, well, another thing is to, you know, we have this big thing in the news now about the Amazon burning. And the reason the Amazon's burning because it's farming. Farming has taken the land in a different direction. And now the winds have changed. The moisture has changed. And there's not much. I mean, the rainforest soil really is not great soil. So now you have to enrich the soil when you're farming or maybe they're grazing. You know, we say we have to turn all these fields that we plowed for years and years into wild areas. So the... Nature can take care of it. Exactly. And let nature take care of it. Yeah. You know, read the Bible folks. It says everything's here for us. All we have to do is go out and pick it. Yeah. Not make it. Exactly. Okay. We'll be right back. Enough tangents here. But during the break, please pick up our health signals newsletter and also our primal edge. And we're going to talk to you real quick about the history of the forbidden fruit. Don't you want to know what that is? Yes. Talking about the Bible. We'll be right back. We'd like to tell you about the personal training studio that Nico is the owner and president of, Performance Training. Since 1998, Nico has trained individuals and groups to improve their health both mentally and physically. As a certified personal trainer, Nico's main focus is on demonstrating exercises correctly to avoid injury and teaching his clients how to manage their past injuries while getting the most out of their personal training sessions. The Performance Training Studio is filled with unique training equipment that enhances balanced results at a faster rate while minimizing damage and discomfort. 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Odysseus later struggling to get home from it, yearns from the garden he had as a child that had apple trees. And the Norse gods owed their immortality to the apples. But, you know, we've heard about the Apple and the Arabian knights featured a magic apple that was capable of curing all kinds of diseases. But really the truth is, when you think of the forbidden apple, what do we think of? Well, we think of the Adam and Eve story naturally, but we don't even know if that was an apple. It might have been a fig, although apples, that's where they were originally from. Central Asia is where the apple was born. And from there it went to Europe and England. But actually no one really knows that the Garden of Eden was actually there or if it was in Turkey it was always in there. Because it's one of the few things that helps with digestion, I think, especially the sour apple. Really, you know, when you think of pickles and you think of olives and things like that, this is what helps digestion. And my wife for years always ate an apple a day just because it helped her with her digestion. Well, the other thing about it is to eat the seed too, or at least one or two of them, because it does have some poisons in the seed. That actually can be antiparasitic and so forth. Yeah, and actually if you just swallow the seeds they come out whole on the other end and you have the fertilizer right there. But the apple as a forbidden fruit seems to actually have appeared in western Europe around the 12th century. And some researchers suggest that the apple got a bad rap for an unfortunate pun. The word Latin, the word Latin, the malice is the word, means both apple and evil. Okay, malice, which may have given early Christians ideas. Evil, you know, the word meant the same thing. And a 1504 engraving by Albrecht Duer shows Adam and Eve with apples in a 16th century painting by Lukas Kranich and Titan show Adam and Eve under particularly tempting apple trees. So even though Michelangelo's Temptation and Fall which was painted on the top of the Sistine Chapel features forbidden figs, apples, and increasingly the apple was held responsible for the fall. Well, at least it puts a place when Adam and Eve were looking at that tree. We know this probably late summer, early fall. Just as a query because that's when apples would bloom. Or figs. Yeah. And if you look at indigenous fruit, fruit from your area and apples are not from north or south America at all. When you're looking at these things they pop up at certain times of the year when your body really kind of needs them. So if you're eating from the land then these things, if you've ever seen videos of a bear going through a bush of blueberries or an apple tree, they ate the whole thing. They'd only one there because that's what these kind of carbs do to us. The sour one probably not as much but of course the bear needs the nutrition to be stored as fat which the fruit does nicely so it can live through the winter and hibernate. Well, the other reason and if you really want to apply the science to it those berries go well when we're on more of a fat burning diet because as we release the fatty acids, we talked about in the first segment the fatty acid oxidation creates free radicals. So we need the antioxidants to help protect us when we're burning fat. Fat burning can be especially if you've got the wrong kinds of fats. If you're eating trans fats or too many polyunsaturated fats that produce a lot of free radicals then we can't set it by. The other thing that I was thinking of too was naturally that bear or whatever animal is eating the fruit to get the hibernation very successful. They're just going non-stop. Your body can't stop eating and we see a lot of that with the carbs. So it probably won't happen with an apple but when you take it as a manufactured food and you make it as bread and cake and cookies and candies and all these things then you really can't stop because every one of us is sat in front of the TV with a bag of chips or a bag of jujubes or even some ice cream and ate the whole thing. We've all done that and we know while we're doing it well it's just this one time you know I mean I've done it in the past too so the nice thing is now it doesn't happen to me. Yeah exactly and that's great. So let's go kind of the opposite side. You know at the same time that we're hearing about paleo and the keto diet we're also learning that the paleo diet rage kind of peaked in 2014-15 and although people are enjoying this diet and lifestyle there's always something new and why is there always something new because there's agendas. There's either food selling food agendas or maybe there's an even bigger agenda we know that high carbohydrate diets are the food stuffs of starvation or of times when things are not as plentiful. Nico mentioned that we've already seen evidence that food packaging is getting smaller and it's so funny I noticed that you know the bag lettuce I was looking and I said look at those bags they're kind of small but that's why it's happening you know they're making everything smaller for sure. Really there's a nice little scam going on we're making packages this is just the right size for you before we realized now it was too much in the thing so now we're making it. Oh they've got a story for it. Yeah we've got a story for it. We're going to talk about these next couple articles that Nico we're dissecting here whole food CEO on plant based meat boom remember how we talked about on the other show about how we're coming up with all these plant based franken meats you know that look like meat taste like meat well why don't you just eat meat but they're making all these plant based meats and they wanted to taste like meat that's very important for some reason and here in this article CNBC the whole food CEO on plant based meat he says it's good for the environment but not for your health well kudos to him for coming out and saying it but first of all you know Are you selling it right? Yeah but perhaps let's stop and think about this you know the whole push of the environment you and I have shared the information that actually more animal foods are better for the environment when we clear the land to grow plant based foods we're really disrupting the ecology and interfering with the environment and the plant it ain't natural folks it ain't natural it's not natural it really isn't so I just thought this was interesting you know at least he's coming out and giving us a bit of truth why is marketing something that's false well it's true and Google is also in play now they the head of Google was saying the other day we want to have the search engine so good that when you put a query in there's going to be one truth there's going to be one right answer I know I saw that well I think we and he's going to choose the right answer I think we're going to see that Google is going to be in a little bit of trouble coming up maybe well Facebook all these all these things are just yeah for sure but anyways in 2013 Whole Foods gave plant based meat start up beyond meats we talked about this a couple shows ago it's first shot it's selling it's vegan chicken strips at Whole Foods located across country early believers and investors in the products were billionaires Bill Gates and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone well what do we know about Bill Gates he likes to get involved in the things that help vaccines all these things he's part of the eugenics push of you know as he said there's also a push of people pushing back saying that you can't use you know meat as a non-meat product so even if you're calling it beyond meat then you're really saying well it's still meat but it's beyond it you really shouldn't be allowed to use meat as you know the bulk of burgers and things like that it's not really a burger well saying that both of these beyond meat and impossible foods another company that's producing these non-meat meats they both excluded actually but we're going to 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oil, rice protein and other flavors including apple extract, beet juice for coloring things like that he says I don't think eating a highly processed food is healthy and I think people thrive on eating whole foods and he says as for health I will not endorse that and that is about as big of a criticism that I will do to the public on those products so really what we're seeing is that there's a reason that their people want easy they want easy to fix there's a study here by Beyond Meat and the center for sustainable systems and they say a plant-based burger generates less greenhouse gas emissions of course they're talking about cows farting in the pastures which they don't really do they do in the corn fed factories but then you have to take it whether or not you believe in all that greenhouse gas stuff anyways which I believe that's true too I mean it's not pleasant smelling it that's for darn sure he says a lot of people say that the plant-based meat is a transition food meaning it's a way for people to re-educate themselves re-educate their taste buds so to speak to move them over to a plant-based diet and that's the agenda here speaking of that let's go into 12 easy ways to eat a more plant-based diet you know let's talk about what these people are recommending if you want to have a plant-based diet and if you're confused by the plant-based diet eating craze you're not alone while most people realize it's better for both our bodies than the environment many are still unsure of exactly what it means let me just say that better for your body and the environment how much of this diet dogma is based on guilt how many people well I guess a lot of it but of course it can't be better for the planet because farming ruins the planet so there you go and so there's the factory farms for meat also so that we have people on both sides we need to meet in the middle and that's why I like a little bit of all of it well it makes a lot of sense too so let's hop on the wagon here and they say the Zuley wagon is the thing you should do it Zoodles so this is basically easy way to transition is what they're saying and these are the foods that they're saying are going to help you I like a Zoodle spiralizing zucchini or other vegetables to mimic noodles I think that's okay zucchini first of all is not a fruit it's not a vegetable it's just it's a crazy thing I like the internet squash it's kind of like a pasta oh of course not swap your butter for oil that's a scary one it's a very scary one because butter or lard or tallow the natural oils from animals are the things that are very very healthy for us this is a very scary article it's sourced from animals so switching it out for plant derived options like coconut oil avocado oil or olive oil now I will say those are three oils that are healthier coconut oil certainly and the nice thing about coconut oil you can heat it olive oil not so much you can heat a little bit of it when it's refined the third one is mimic your meat this is what we're talking about in the last segment they want you to do this that's where there's beyond meat this is the guilt part that you were talking about well yeah not all meat substitutes created equal and many contain crazy ingredients you don't need or want to ingest so choose wisely number four upgrade your rice rice is already a plant based option but swapping in cauliflower rice gets you even closer to the plant source I like cauliflower rice I will say it tastes alright but I mean regular rice has been working for thousands of years for the Chinese they use it the right way now if you're going to say okay I'm going to eat a whole plate of this this is crazy to be sure though oh no well I mean maybe a whole plate have it on the side but again where's the protein well there you go mushrooms are your friend here's where I agree with them number five took them five to get there mushrooms can provide the deep earthy flavor that some ground meats provide also mushrooms contain the light I think are a good source of vitamin D well mushrooms and all these plant things out in the forest this is where the medicine man gets his medicine so these are really really important for us they're the things that are so powerful and this is always my contention we've dumbed down the vegetables they used to be very powerful now they're just kind of sugar sticks because again of the agriculture and the monocrop and we're not rotating the soil we're growing when you grow one thing it doesn't have anything except pesticides that kind of just strengthen itself let's say to a better product if you go into the forest there's never huge fields there's a small field here and there of certain things that grow but that moves and we used to move with the food now we move with our job at our school it's a big big difference and the food comes to us out of season from all over the place and eat a banana in the middle of snow we were not getting the exercise of going to get our food and moving with the food now you have to come and see me to work out that's a crazy system for sure hey cut back on cheese it says if you're not ready to give up dairy cheese altogether start out slow have you seen all those nut cheeses I couldn't live without my Gouda cheese I love my Gouda cheese well you're a Dutch and I admire so you know I love my cheese but then again make sure you're buying real cheese not cheese food stuff and there's a lot of good cheeses on the market and I'll say that these are delicacies that we crave very important and they're good sources of protein and fat yeah and have it with your wine it's perfect number seven I'm out for non-dairy milks excuse me again I'm concerned about people who think they're making a healthier choice by eschewing dairy milk and going towards these nut milks many of these nut milks are highly processed there's a lot of immune suppressive ingredients such as carigian what is that that's a preservative they put in look at on label of a lot of dairy products and so forth and it can actually be an immune suppressive and creates a lot of autoimmunity so if you're going to have your nuts soak them or make if you really feel like a nut milk was a good choice for you again high level of poofas concentrated fatty acids that acidify and are not meant to have in high doses like that make it yourself don't buy it in the carton fry your veggies now depends what you're frying it in that I would say that this might be a good idea and certainly when I learned macrobiotic cooking they always cook their vegetables in like sesame oil or even butter and things like that so they're trying to say fry your veggies instead of having you know fried french when I think of frying I think of coating them with a powder or some kind of throwing them a deep fryer I don't know if that is what they're saying here well I think what they're trying to say is have instead of eating a lot of other fried foods have your veggies I don't 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going over the 12 easy ways to eat a more plant-based diet really trying to see the fact that they really pushing us and we always say there's kind of an agenda behind it folks they're worried about the food supply but let's go on. Number 9 load up your pancake and waffle batter you know in Harlem they have this nice pancake that my mother used to make was great and of course everything was scratched using these batter mixes and stuff is really the wrong way and you have to probably eat a lot of them to if you're hungry enough to miss your bacon and eggs a little bacon and little eggs that's a better way than eating waffles. But see how they're kind of suggesting that the animal-based way is the wrong way. It's very disconcerting. Finally, embrace your beans. Beans are a magical ingredient. Yeah, remember that song beans, beans, good for your heart the more you eat, the more you fart. Well, beans aren't great because they save a lot of people's lives in a lot of different ways. Of course, new world foods, so Europeans, hard to digest and when they were brought back you had to soak these things maybe let them sprout a little bit and then they're much easier on your body. Well, you know what Dr. Marshall always said, eat some refried beans because of the sulfur content like once a week, but what's refried beans? Cook and double cook. Exactly. Number three, use applesauce instead of eggs and when I first saw this I was imagining applesauce frying next to my bacon and I thought boy, but they're actually thinking. I'm talking about using it as a binder in baking. I've heard of that. I've heard of that too. Well, soy is not a toy for the girl with the boy. So if you go to some of these older countries like Korea and Japan and China and the way they use soil, at least traditionally then you find out it's a whole different thing because they soak it in salt water. They're using fermented, they're using tempeh. They're not really using tofu the way that we do. You think people are thinking way ahead when you're thinking about tofu and putting in a vat for eight years. I mean that's really interesting. And there must be a very, very important reason that these people went to all this trouble while here in America we're just taking the tofu and we start eating it and boy are we ever healthy. It's an insane world. Why not look to the traditions and what the CEOs of these companies are really trying to do is wipe away all the traditions so they control the foods because when they control the foods they control the whole population. And if we don't have the knowledge of how we were to get where we came, we're in big trouble folks. Thanks for sticking around folks. We'll be back next week. Have a great.