 Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, the Gracie diet and today it's amazing. I have Hori on Gracie here his father who's actually right here is the man who created Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Son here Hori on brought Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to the United States was the co-creator of the UFC in 1993 which is now Everywhere you go. You've got mixed martial arts and it really comes back to his family He's nice enough to come by the house and I wanted to just share with you some very important things not just About diet, but about philosophy on life Overcoming stress worry how to discipline yourself how to create a daily routine, you know really how to transform your life So thank you for coming. My pleasure. Thank you very much. He's a 10th at ninth degree red belt This belt right here is the highest belt you can get his father is a 10th degree There's only only the founders of Jiu-Jitsu the brothers here And so there's only a few people that have the root the red belt ninth degree. That's correct Yeah, the handful of people around the world and then you have and your sons Hanner is he's a black belt. Yes. Yes to be a become a red belt You have to be at least 50 so they have a ways to go Yeah, because the coral belt comes in between that is correct. Yeah, the black belt goes up to six degrees Yeah, and then seventh and eighth are coral borough belts and then ninth is red. Oh, okay Yeah, you got to be there. They've been doing Jiu-Jitsu. Here's a cool picture here It was had his gi on before he was even old enough to remember one or two. You probably don't remember. I don't remember Awesome and I got the Jiu-Jitsu Flag here very cool Brazilian flag The US one on the highest there. So this is where I do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I am not I am a blue belt So I have a long way to go But but you're advancing you know, you got a red belt in other subjects No, not a red not a red belt. Maybe maybe a brown in some other areas The Gracie diet. I'm here with the founder of the UFC Mixed martial arts Hody on Gracie His father is also the founder of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. A lot of you have seen on my social media and snapchat that I do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu And he was nice enough to come here And talk and we're gonna talk about all kinds of stuff. That's important You know how to discipline the mind one of the most common questions I get is how to overcome procrastination Discipline yourself build a daily routine. That's productive and then we're gonna also talk about The Gracie diet, which is a very you know The Gracie family is in the Guinness Book World Records for the most professional athletes in one family There's I think something like 50 to 70 professional athletes And so this diet not only is you know for health, but as part of a whole lifestyle and so Thank you for coming Very honored that you're here. Maybe we could start for somebody watching The story of how Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Came about how your father started how you this is a picture actually of you right here When he was a very baby one years old or two years old with a gi on Practicing Jiu-Jitsu for those of you who don't know much about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu If you watch any UFC fighting now any MMA fighting They call it mixed martial arts because they do a combination of boxing and striking But the foundation of mixed martial arts is really Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu because Your family came to America. What was it? When was it 94 you started the UFC 93 93 And nobody could beat the Gracie family. Everybody was doing karate. They were doing boxing. They were wrestling I remember watching the first UFC one two three and You know one skinny Gracie family member came and Just nobody could be how many did he win? He won three of she's the first he won the first three against people that was when there was no weight classes That's right. No weight class. No time limits. No time limit people were elbow. It was vicious And he was about He's your how's he related to you? Hoice is my little brother. That's your brother. Yes. Okay. So hoice is Uh hoice came in and he's probably 170 pounds sometimes right 75 or something like that. Yeah, it was the lightest guy on the event for sure Yeah, but was a very good example of what proper technique can do. So he went and then put on a nice show And ultimately you changed the world. Yeah, yeah, it's changed the world now. There's Your family your sons have schools. I mean there's schools around the world. I trained. I was just down in san diego I just trained now. I found a Gracie jujitsu academy trained there Almost every country in the world has something. I was in norway. They're doing Gracie jujitsu So what's the story for someone who doesn't know the back take us back over a hundred years ago Okay, thank you again for the opportunity. It's great to know. Thank you. Um A former jujitsu instructor came to brazil About a hundred years ago early 1900s as I made to the japanese integration colony. Was he from japan? He was from japan. Okay, and my grandfather Gaston was a very influential man in brazil at the time So he helped the japanese gentleman get settled in northern brazil and to show his gratitude The japanese instructor offered to teach jujitsu to my den 13 year old anko carlos Who was the oldest of eight kids five of human were boys Anko carlos was kind of a wild kid But as soon as he started learning jujitsu he found himself with that and fell in love with the art Trained under the japanese instructors for a few years And when the family moved from northern brazil to rio He then started teaching jujitsu to his friends and of course sharing with his brothers Right, my dad elio was physically a very frail child. He was a small one in the family, right? He was younger than the other ones also 11 years younger than manko carlos But still had a very frail health. He would run up a flight upstairs and had thinking spells Wow, nobody knew exactly why so the doctor said the time recommended he'd be kept away from any kind of physical activity Wow So my dad used just to watch his brothers practice jujitsu nothing else to do no television Just kind of spend a day watching his brothers until one day when he was 16 years old A student came for a class and my uncles were not around to teach the class So my father offered to teach the man a lesson and the guy agreed. Okay, kid Let's play my father stepped on the mat and taught the man a lesson When uncle carlos showed up very apologetic. I'm sorry. I'm late. Let's have the class These students said listen, I had a class with your little brother elio and I liked it In fact, I want to be his student from now My dad was promoted to be a teacher by his student Wow What the old man soon realized is that the techniques he had memorized Required a certain amount of physical ability and strength and speed which he did not have So to trial and error he started modifying the traditional japanese techniques that the brothers were practicing And giving more emphasis to natural body movements simpler shorter moves Better timing better leverage and so forth and that Modification is what gave birth to what's known today as Gracie jiu-jitsu or brazilian jiu-jitsu. Yes So my dad did not invent jiu-jitsu. He just made it easier for the little guy like you'd like to explain to himself In order to test This changes in a martial arts. You can't just theorize about that. So he started issuing challenge to everybody in brazil And uh becoming very successful in the challenge maps against different styles of martial arts So he would just fight he would put a I heard he would put something in the newspaper Anybody come fight me or something like this uncle carlos started with that You know, if you want to have a broken arm or a broken rib call me college guys in such a such an address You know, that's gonna get men macho men are macho. They're gonna show up. They're like who is this yet? But ultimately my dad started challenging everybody and defeating everybody and became the first sports icon in brazil's history Wow now back in the 30s pele the soccer player wasn't even born So there was nobody else in terms of sports that the brazilian youth had to root for and like I said The old man became this iconic figure that's beyond anything else And he's a for people who know belt system You see Him and his brother and the brothers are the only red belt 10th degree. Yes. That's many years. That's the highest And you're a ninth degree. I'm a ninth degree red belt, which is the highest you can get because because I'm not a founder Yeah, exactly. Yeah Anyway, so my dad started challenging everybody becoming this huge guy in brazil very popular The family became very, you know defeating everybody and stuff like that very successful And then For the longest fight in history one round of three hours and 40 minutes Who was that against valdema santana for my students of his the academy. Was it a japanese? No, i was not a japanese brazilian guy 25 years old. My dad was 43 years old at the time and the fight was just crazy long Anyway, so who won ultimately the guy won the fight But it took three hours and 40 minutes and my father basically lost to exhaustion eventually He eventually was just so tired. He couldn't take it anymore. But anyways, wow There was a very impressive fight and for both of them and stuff like that So my dad Becoming this huge guy in brazil for me. It was growing up as if I was living with superman Right, you know, everybody knew the old man like a movie star whatever he goes very popular that kind of stuff and It was great to be born up in a family like this. You just everybody knows some very convenient stuff When i was 16 years old I decided to come to the united states. So I saved money for a year teaching my private class, which I started teaching very young And in the legacy family, you don't have much of a choice of how early you start doing jiu-jitsu. You're pretty much conceived for this You have a grandson that's how old I have 10 grandchildren 10 grandchildren. They start when they're one year six months There's a diaper and then there's a kimono oka hiding the diaper, you know, anyways, so um I started saving money by teaching class and stuff like that and then at 17 I came to the united states to spend a month vacation I found that right before I came that if I was a member of dy mca I would have a one dollar discount, which for me at the time was a lot of money So saving my money and stuff like that. I stayed at the ymca here in hollywood Oh, really? Yes, you mean to sleep to sleep. Oh, wow. Not to go to the gym. No, no, no to sleep So I look at a hostel all the time because people would come in and sleep So I joined the ymca in brazil a month before I came so I could get the idea and become a member So I came here in the state at the ymca and for security reasons I didn't want to leave my cash in my return ticket in my room So I gave to the receptionist to put on the safe of the company Which he did a week later when I went to get some more cash I find out that the receptionist had stolen my cash in my ticket So I called the manager and he said i'm very sorry I'm going to give you a couple of bucks to buy a sandwich, but i'm not buying a new ticket called the airline company Which I did they told me that it's going to take them six months to make sure nobody used my ticket So they could give me a new one. Wow So I did not want to leave my father, you know worried about it. So I called my dad in brazil say dad. Guess what? I love america. I'm going to be here for at least another six months So fate I didn't tell the old man that uh fate indeed. Yes I didn't tell the old man that had no money no ticket didn't speak english He didn't know anybody he would have a heart attack So I learned very early on in my life that all 17 so you weren't even 18 and you were in a new country That's right. No money. No money. No nothing. Yes I learned very early on in my life that all bad things happen for a good reason Huh no matter what how bad it's 100% no doubt. No doubt. I'm gonna leave me an example of that but do you think you have to Recognize that and turn it into good because sometimes people something bad happens and they get so depressed they never learn from it That's right That's the trick if they can turn things around and say wait, what's the good in it for me? It changed immediately Yeah, always invariably or look at all different How they say crossroads in your life or something very very bad happened Ultimately is for the goods who creates a new opportunity. That's what I see it has happened to me many times Yeah, anyways But just a question for looking at things once you can see a person can see a glass half full half empty Depends on the way you see the things for me worked out well to understand and accept that mindset Okay, so I find myself eventually looking for work and find myself flipping hamburgers a place called white castle Oh, yeah, and then My trip that was going to be a month long trip Stressed out to be a year long trip. That's 1970 Find myself for a few days literally struggling no money Penhandled on the street corners asking for a spare change so I could eat sleeping a newspaper on the sidewalk All that is part of growing up in old monthly after one year got a ticket went back to brazil everything worked out fine But all I could think about is america was just good. I got hooked I love the idea of you know the land of opportunity and being able to support myself at 17 18 years old for a year And that was fascinating, you know, so I jimmy henderson concert a couple of times. Wow Yes And uh, so anyways a great experience made some good friends And then I spent two years after I returned to brazil I spent two years saving money so I could come back to the state Which I did in 72 Visit some friends for a few months and then went back to brazil went to law school in brazil Graduated law school my attorney Oh, I never practiced law But I have a law degree and then after finishing law school in 78 I decided it was time to come back to the united states and share the jiu jitsu that my family had perfected with the rest of the world It was my dream So I came back I first stayed with his friends of mine whose mother Was an actress So I would stay You know should go to work in the studios and I'll be home alone. Okay But I can't be doing nothing so I had to do something. So I'm washing the windows. I'm cleaning the bathrooms I'm cooking dinner cutting the grass anything to show appreciation for her letting me stay at her place And uh before you know it I started looking for work and she said what do you want to do? I said anything do you want to clean other people's homes? I said of course So I started calling her friends. She started calling her friends. Hey, my friend hardy. There's a great cleaning world I'll send him over here over here. So I'm cleaning everybody's house right a whole bunch of ladies everybody in the business And uh, eventually I landed on the house of a woman whose husband was the assistant director when the tv show starts getting her Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah And uh, 35 years ago. She says hey, you're not a bad-looking guy. How come you're not in the movie business? I said that's right. How come I'm not in the movie business? She said take some pictures and my husband take her to a casting office and you start doing extra work And I said done hung up my broom and I started doing extra work fantasy island hill street blues heart to heart Rockford files Quincy, you know, the love of brazil right to hollywood right to hollywood So now I'm doing extra work in the movies having fun with that and at the same time I left the ladies house Right to the house with some friends of mine put some mats in my garage And every person I met invited for a free class So I'm working on the movies as an extra five days a week and teaching classes Saturdays and Sundays As my schedule gets busy and I start working more here I start cutting down the hours working the movies and teaching more classes right so First classes on the house I happen to be an amazing teacher people gonna fall in love with the class for sure And then if you like it you bring a friend to get you another free class if you bring 10 friends I got you 10 free classes. Yeah, and that's how the word was spreading around It was not uncommon I started teaching classes in my garage for 1979 early 80s That somebody would say hold up my former kung fu instructor or karate or taekwondo or wrestling or boxing or judo Does not believe in judo so he thinks that I'm wasting my time training with you He wants to challenge to a challenge he wants to challenge you to a fight Would you accept that I said of course bring him in so the guy would bring their martial arts instructor to challenge me To a no-hose bar fight in my garage in third street Hamosa beach And of course I'll tell my students a Tuesday night eight o'clock some kung fu guys show you have everybody watch everybody come in Watch some of those are on youtube. Well, maybe you're is it your brother hickson? It's hickson. Yeah, hickson is my brother. Yes, because I've seen some Challenges there's some challenge on the old is the kung fu guy always loses. Well Kung fu is like other martial arts. You're all good. They're just limited on their possibilities, right? You know, it's not my fault. They're not completely rounded out. That's right. It's not my fault. Somebody had to be number one I just haven't been here So the bottom line is this so this guy's from different challenges Thousands of martial arts kept coming to the house and challenge me over and over and over hundreds of times on a 10-year span Wow, really that many times hundreds of times. I'll be bringing someone tonight. Great. Did you win every time? Yes It's not me is what I know the sport. I mean not the sport the skill as we say in brazil in a blind man's land He who has one eye is king, right, you know Because the striking martial arts karate kung fu boxing in taekwondo, they rely on punching Yeah, right And it's okay that you can punch someone if the guy's bigger having stronger you can knock him out great But if you're fighting someone who's bigger heavier and stronger than you and you rely on a punch Even if you punch him on the face and break his nose, that doesn't mean he's gonna stop Right, he cannot get a hold of you throw you on the ground And if you don't know how to deal with the grappling aspect of it, you're very limited Yeah, and the realism that my father had adapted and Implemented on the jujitsu techniques that we do is to deal with the person who is bigger having stronger And wants to crush you on the ground also because that's usually the most dangerous situation You get attacked by somebody for women too. Of course. Yeah, that's the realistic situation You don't want to find a lot of five-year-old kid right is the kid's father They'll have you worried about you know the guy's big strong and wants to beat you up So you have to know how to defend yourself from that. It's not even a question of beating them up But knowing enough that you won't get hurt. Yeah, that's the science. Yeah, of jujitsu especially anyways So the guys were coming challenging We had this humble a bunch of challenge matches and stuff like that and like I said after 10 years it dawned on me That I could not be in a garage challenging one person at a time to show the world about that's not the way to go You got a you know, and then we rented a little school in torrents You know the greece academy that's still there. No, that's not it was still in torrents. There was in torrents also Yeah, okay. Yeah And people say gosh, how come you stayed in torrents, you know and I said I have so many cop friends They were coming to have class with me in the garage You know and I said, you know, these guys have my friends Sometimes I my lead foot I go faster than I should in this top sign And I got to say harder and go slow seeing class tonight. I said, I'm not getting out of this time So that's kind of why I stay around the neighborhood. Anyway, so Um, I have to hundreds of challenge matches like that. It dawned on me that I couldn't be doing this with one on one On a garage or even a small school in torrents That's the videos you're talking about the ones we have with the academy in torrents on the first one Some challenge matches. Yes And uh, it's on the gray scene action dvds. We have so what happens after those it dawned on me I can't do this. So I came up with the concept of creating the fc Where you can put showcase the world to the world different styles of martial arts fighting against one another Yeah, in a three fight elimination. Remember that eight fighters. They fight each other's the losers get out They keep fighting each other until we have a one guy defeating everybody that night And that was when there's no weight classes no weight classes. There was no limits How many years was that? That was the first, uh, five years first five years. Yes, that's when I was involved in the fc. Yeah those days And uh, because for me it was very important to allow Different styles of martial arts to do anything and everything they wanted you can have rules Yeah, you know the idea of the octagon for example I've seen there's been enough fights that you can see if the guys are getting beat up He wants to run away between the ropes and a boxing ring But the idea of the cage is so that guy can't run away. Yeah In fact movie director Joe Milius, who was a student of mine at the time John I invited me to be the creative director and Joe and I came up with the concept for the for the octagon You know, we thought of a boat with alligators, you know Shark tank around so this the guy want to run away. You get chewed up by sharks or stuff But ultimately we settled for the octagon to turn out to be a great idea. It's still happening today They still call it the octagon. Yes. Yes, so it worked out great So with that said of course, I think I mentioned to you I might I was How are you so this is in 1994 when you started 93 sorry the first one. Yeah, I have 47 48 something like that. Yes So eventually the thing of course exploded. It caught on big time. It was a very successful experience You know and it just turned out to be a great showcase opportunity for jujitsu Yeah And the message and the dream I had of making people realize the importance of knowing jujitsu was done I mean after the first event the u.s. Army calls me up and said mr. Grace We saw the little guy beat the big guy We need to learn this and ask me to create the program for them Which I did that for the last 25 years has been the official hand-to-hand combatants program for the u.s. Army Really that you created. Yes. Wow the fbi the secret service the dea Border patrol every major federal law enforcement agency in the country and a whole bunch of lot pd So as well in secret service. I mean and special forces everybody. Yeah, it's all of them Train jiu-jitsu now the whole thing is official. It's all over the place. Wow, which is great. Yeah, nice group of friends to have you know Yeah And group to have that's right. So once this stuff exploded And I kind of the dream is this whole field. I'm like this, you know now what? So a few years ago as you know The boys came up here in henna came up with the idea of grace university Yes, which is now has reached the online school. It's an online school that you can learn jiu-jitsu online. It has reached, you know Ridiculous amount of people the united nations has 193 countries affiliated to it grace university has 196 countries More than united We're welcoming more countries than united, which is an amazing idea a brilliant idea The boys are very dedicated pushing that button to the making it happen and so forth But for me it's like jiu-jitsu. It's it's on a fast track. Now what yeah in one day Or five years ago. I had this epiphany It's the health the health part it's the health part because one thing people should understand is that jiu-jitsu people who practice it It's not just fighting It's a whole way of thinking about life a discipline. Yeah jiu-jitsu does Impacts your level of confidence right and when you're confident It changes a lot of the aspects of the perspective that you have in life I mean the whole thing changes one thing is you walk around insecure The other one is a businessman if you're confident on your possibilities, you deal with that medium of the way That is very different. Yeah, so the confidence aspect of jiu-jitsu is really impactful in one's life So there's that side to it And of course the exercise the fitness all that good stuff But the diet is beyond that and so you wrote this book. How long ago did you write this? Four and a half five years ago five years ago Gracie diet and I've read this before and you brought me another copy Yes And the key thing and one of the things for people who are so many diets out there The unique one of the unique things about this diet is It's big on food combinations. Yes, because a lot of diets say Don't eat bread, you know, if you're if you're ketogenic Don't eat fruit or eat lots of fruit or and yours is much more about you can eat it But not together. That's correct. Yeah The concept of the idea of the Gracie diet developed by my uncle Carlos By the way, as soon as my dad and his brothers are getting involved in the early days In competing fighting pretty much running the academy Uncle Carlos was the first one to learn jiu-jitsu in the Gracie family took a step back became the manager for the brothers And started studying how to keep everybody healthy, right? They are not big strong guys They couldn't afford to have a headache before a fight Or a toothache or a stomachache, you know, so a heartburn If you're going to fight, it's going to impact your performance. You realize very early on they They close correlation between Good health and good performance. Yeah, if you have to do a speech tomorrow And you have one grain of rice on your shoe, it's going to mess up your speech Right because that little grain of rice becomes a distraction, right? Let alone an ulcer or a heartburn or a headache So you can't just wonder if that's going to happen or not. People are so accustomed To feel good one day and bad on the other good. They don't know the ingredients of your food Therefore, if your body's alkaline, you feel great the whole time. There's no headaches. There's no stomach aches. Nothing. Everything works perfect By sometimes people just are guided by the pleasure of what they're eating And pleasure becomes the determining factor why they eat this or that because they like to eat Now remember food is a very cultural thing great grandma taught grandma grandma taught mom Mom taught us and we're going to teach our kids what we like to eat Bottom line is not everything you like is good for you Yeah, especially with modern food. They put so many things that trick your taste buds Yes, 100% absolutely right. So people like to smoke but that doesn't mean it's good for them Right the people that like to use drugs is not good for them. So the fact that you like it doesn't mean it's okay So the concept of the greasy diet is to learn to like what's good for you. Yeah, fortunately. I was born in a family Where my uncle carl who was not a doctor Spent 65 years studying food combining he literally using the family as guinea pigs We had a very big house In a place called terrazopoli choose an hour from downtown rea with 21 bedrooms in 18 bathrooms Wow, we counted on time 37 children all relatives staying there for a summer vacation. Huh crazy stuff But the bottom line is that it was a lot of fun Crazy times. Yes, wonderful times. So all the meals are prepared according to degrees of that So the kids would just eat what we had. This is it. There's lunch right here. They have no choice So there's no I don't want to eat this and there's no such a thing It's just that's like a little army, you know a very Spartan lifestyle training you do eating right? That was a very unique and you saw people's health Change as they started doing that Well, we had we just grew up like this. Oh, you grew up. So you had no There's no choice. This is it. How about the other kids that weren't that were just visiting for the summer for the first time Did they notice a difference those 37 kids are all relatives They're all family. Okay, so they were but if every time we had people out They would just fall into the groove and eat like we ate. Yeah, there was no choice of taking junk And I don't know what I call in the fridge ever. Yeah, you know, there's no there's no sodas and stuff like that No, it didn't exist. Yeah, and everybody just ate right and learned to eat right and that was the bottom line So when I wrote this book my idea was to share with people because while I was teaching classes on my garage A lot of people came say, honey, tell me about what you eating now. What kind of meal is that you're preparing this and that And I kept giving them some tips, but it was never enough So I decided to write the book explain to everybody how to follow into it and then literally impact their lives in a positive way Let me read some of the there's a few there's some there's a lot to this you go out and buy this book They can get on amazon amazon. Yes, so The Gracie diet in a nut shell here For juicing apples melons pineapples carrots use a juicer. Oh, this is sorry. Let me this is the juicing Is it as big on juicing you have fasting you fast once a month Food combinations is the main thing. Actually, here's my breakfast that I was gonna eat And then and I ate a little bit, but then I felt guilty So we had bread was okay bread and the butter and the kale was I mean the Kale and kale was great, but I had this And you said I shouldn't have this at the same time. That is correct. What's the right? What's the reason the reason is this because these are acetic fruits, you know, the strawberries and the blueberries Right are acidic fruits. Okay acidic fruit should not be mixed with anything else. So you eat that alone You ate Strawberries you have a bucket of just strawberries make that meal out of that Same thing with the blueberries and blackberries all acidic fruits. Can you have blueberries and strawberries together? No, no, only one kind of acidic fruit per meal. That's it. Okay Nothing else because what happens then if you eat them at the same time, it brings acidity to this system Yes, okay, that's what you want to but how come if you just have one it doesn't bring as much acidity because it's not Mixed with anything else. Okay, we all need gasoline. Yes, we all need fire. Yes, don't put them together. Yes Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, but it's important to have gasoline important to have fire So the vitamins of different fruits is great. We have a variety of fruits and vegetables and stuff is great The trick is how to combine them, right? This should not be called a diet should make a point of saying that clarifying this because it's not limiting Right. Look at the list of yeah, you can eat almost anything. So no pork is one thing The only thing we don't eat is pork pork. Yes, and some things you eat a little bit less like you said like Dairy have some cheese, but not a lot of milk and things like that's right You don't need milk the less milk you drink the better, but if you like to drink milk, it's okay. Yes You're not forbidden for me to drink your milk. It's just I don't drink milk. I don't need milk Yeah, you know the idea of you know a good-looking lady on a bathing suit or a strong-looking guy in us On a bathing suit a little milk mustache, right? They want to sell milk right? That's a commercial Yeah, of course, you know, it's not something that you need then this is a this is kind of a This is a quick overview of the groups of food, right? That's right. So you have We'll take some close-ups of this we have The vegetables right here So group a you can combine all of these things with one of group b With one of group b, which is here or it can be grouped with itself Of course all group with combines each other. So for example in group a you have Vegetables and green beans kale mushroom. So you can have like a salad. Yes with One meter seafood like two or three or four Okay, two or three and you could have also have fat and oily foods like avocado Almonds avocado cashews all melted cheese and you can combine it with one Starch with rice not rice and beans or with pasta not so you could have rice But not you wouldn't have this with bread and rice correct only one of lentils now group c Those are the sweet fruits and cheeses. Yes. So these can combine with a starch as long as you don't have fat on the starch Which one's fat there butter. Yeah oil or butter here. So you could have just say lentil soup If she's not prepared with fat it would no fat. Yeah, no oil. No butter. No nothing Then it could have then you could have apple an apple right you can have water melon juice you can have Dates you can have papaya and you can have some crackers And now d is also acidic fruits, right? D are the acidic fruit group. What was c? C is the sweet fruit. Oh sweet fruit. So you separate sweet from acidic. What about this green tea? What do you think? It's okay. That's cheese milk. Cheese can be with everything everything you want just like water just like water. So you can have water with abc There's e there's abcde. Yes. Okay. Yes. So then d is your So d things acidic fruits do not combine with each other. So this so like for example mango you should just eat a mango Not a mango a whole bunch of mangoes like 15 mangoes in a meal. Really? Yes, but that's only mango great fruit Same thing same thing. Just have some great fruits. That's correct. Now group e is interesting Is just bananas. No, that says the raw bananas combine with these foods and do not combine with these So you're big on bananas people should eat bananas You know, it's interesting when I track my diet and my fitness pal Almost all and I eat pretty healthy Potassium you don't get and bananas give you that potassium. So does coconut water. Yes Most people if you track your diet, you don't get and potassium is one of the major things you need So you can have raw bananas with with this cheese apple, but not with honey Yes, or bread and you're not big on sugar in general like I eat so much sweet stuff already from the fruits that you don't need to put the sugar You know, so get your dessert from fruit not dessert. There's no dessert Okay, because there's no dessert because you wouldn't eat a meal and then have this Just have it as a meal have it as a meal. Now the other thing that you talk about in the book is that every you should only eat Oh, actually, let me do this. So group f is milk what you can have with milk and you yes So don't have milk with fruit of a carbon fruits and stuff like that. That is correct What about milk? So you're gonna milk with you can have milk at cereal if you want Although we know they see a lot of them are bad. This is homemade granola bread should be made from whole flour and should not be consumed Oh, you should wait let it 24 hours before usually when you buy bread somewhere has been there for 24 hours Right, so that's good avoid sweets can food pepper clover cinnamon pickles and don't eat pork Correct. Now the other big thing is you should eat every four and a half hours Well, you should space your meals at least four and a half hours Not that you have to eat every four and a half hours Okay, but you have to have a space in between meals at least four and a half without snacks in between no snacks only water Yeah, and then fasting You were telling you about nobel prize winning This year 2016 2016 won a nobel prize along this what your what your father knew and uncle knew 100 years ago Well, we've been saying that for a long time the idea of Of autophagies of when he described the Japanese scientists explained that when you Fast you literally help your body By not consuming it into clean house. He has to eat there. So it eats old cells and things like this It's a great cleansing process for you and helps you. So do you do that? Yes once a month I do fast Just 24 hours. No, you don't drink anything. But just water you're allowed. I don't drink water Really? Yeah, just take a date. You're gonna rest and just chill But for someone new maybe they could just have water in the beginning Yeah, but it's not that bad. You can do it without water. Yeah, that's pretty impressive Resting your day that you don't have to go to work or anything like that. I just have to chill a little bit Get a book and relax. Huh? Yeah Now for somebody watching you you were telling me how sometimes it's too overwhelming to go from the modern Diet to switch to this so you created a system with the belt ranking systems where you do it In levels till you're a black belt correct each one about two weeks. Yeah, so you start out with white belt Yes, which is just drink water first in the morning. It's also big on sanitation. Wash your hands before It's important. You have to wash your hand before you eat doesn't hurt I mean the amount of contamination and bacteria that you're going to avoid but just simply washing your hand is Yeah, it's stagnant. So you should do that. No reason why not I actually read there's an interesting book I read years ago on they just did an experiment with the average person And they said not only when you wash your hands But put soap under the nail because it's the nails that carry most of the so And then okay, and then so then get in the habit of writing down what you eat on the first week only You're gonna have to do it every week. Okay. So wash your hand. What's the idea? Why do you think what it what's the benefit just people start to see how much crazy things they eat? That's right. If you write everything down that you eat during a week. Yeah, it helps you keep you accountable It's like the person who has no no idea how much money you're spending if they write down every penny they spend On the other month, they're gonna say wow, I wasted so much money in this and this and that In the same thing with food if you start writing down what you eat You're gonna realize that I'm eating more than I need and whatever you can use if you like to use apps There's a great free app called my fitness pal that you can enter your food that counts too, right? Just keeping of course keeping track of it 100 so then then after a week or two you go to blue belt Which you continue to do everything you did in the white belt washing your hands drink water Hey, except you don't need to write it down Then you start eliminating desserts sweet or fruits after cooked meal. Yes after cooked meal It's just not that you shouldn't eat so you can have fruits Yes, but just not as dessert as dessert as their own four and a half hour later Yeah, exactly And then you can drink water carbonated water coconut water veggie juice iced tea But no lemon or sugar then after that you do that for a few weeks Then you go to purple belt, which is the third belt you do everything that you're doing before And now you start to do the combinations You implement the combination but now you've already been a month of changing your habits. That's right. So it's not so hard Not so hard at all. That's the idea and you eliminate pork and you eliminate pork The concept of combining foods is the most important Because I know a lot of people say only eat organic food eating organic is an important step That you are becoming aware of what you're eating. It's very smart But if you don't combine the foods properly, it doesn't matter. Yeah, the reaction is still going to be acidic in your system And that's going to bring unwanted results Now the next you go to brown belt where you continue to do everything you've been learning But now you start spacing the meal At least four and a half hours and you only do this six days a week and you get one day cheat day That's right six days a week. Yeah, so you can take Saturdays for I always do Saturday for my cheat day And the reason I recommend you do that is that if you spend six days of the week Eating right spacing meals combine your foods properly properly and on the other day of the seventh day you mess up You'll feel so sick that you're going to say wow. What the heck was I doing it? You stop doing it then it went automatically revolve to the black belt and you start eating every day correctly So then when by the tune you do a black belt then you start doing this seven days a week and teaching others You'll feel so good. It's just so this is this is about two. It's interesting. It takes for those of you in my 67 steps it takes about Two and a half months to change Old habits scientists have found is that a university? Yeah university of college london came up with a study They used to say you can change habits in 30 days You know quit smoking change your diet, but they said you need about 67 days And this is interesting this black belt is right around 67 days. So you kind of found out You were ahead of the scientist now question for you What are let's say somebody watching this buys the book Starts implementing the diet. What type of results have you seen weight loss? Getting a six pack feeling better disease going. What have you seen all of the above? Yeah, yeah Any stories you can think of that or just stand out to you of people? Yes I have a student who's a gastroenterologist at Torrance Memorial And uh had a student had a patient who was morbidly obese She was doing an eight month program to have the stomach reduction procedure done. Yeah. Yeah. She was Diabetic, she had high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Yeah He gave her the grace of that book six and a half months later He was in his office and the woman came to thank him and give mahog which he did not know who the person He couldn't recognize her. She lost 52 kilograms over a hundred pounds She was no longer diabetic. No longer high blood pressure. No longer high cholesterol. She canceled the procedure She didn't have the stomach reduction done. Wow. Happy 53 year old woman So I was very happy to see that and for me. It's no surprise if you eat, right? Yeah, you'll be fine You know what people should not do Is forget that eating should not be something that you live for that Eating is something to nourish your body to keep you going, right? If you're driving a car on the freeway and a little red light start blinking on the panel Do you put a band-aid and keep driving or you pull over to a mechanic and say what the heck is that? Right, of course So if you have a heartburn And you take a medicine or zentac or whatever it is to stop the heartburn Don't think life is good. Right. This is a band-aid. You're just putting a band-aid For somebody who's watching, you know What about Combining let's say somebody wants to start doing jiu-jitsu Can't do even professional athletes follow this type of diet. They should yeah The ones that are not should be doing it, but I'm saying in jiu-jitsu. Are there some people that practice this? Yes? Yes, a hundred percent and your brothers Yes, all of them do that. You don't see all of the whole grace. It's been doing this for a long time Hickson Gracie. Oh, of course. Hickson is one of the did he ever lose a fight? No I think he's like Hickson is impossible to deal with guys too much. Did you spar with him? Was he the hearty when he was younger, you know, of course I'll play with him But then as we get older, you know, I'm the older brother that kind of thing It was his young me who was the hardest person you ever It's also always in the family Really? Yeah, this guy's eventually somebody's gonna catch up for it, you know, yeah Yeah, this is part of the the tradition. It's because there's always the change of the guard That's the old man used to do that when a little baby's born to be nice to him because one day What about things like I saw a documentary on jiu-jitsu and they had Hickson Gracie doing Some yoga and breathing. Yeah, do you think that's type of thing somewhere wonderful? Yeah Very good stuff for me. And Hickson's really good at stretching all the stretching Yeah, Uncle Kyle used to say that as long as you're flexible, you're young Yeah, you know, so make sure that you stretch and keep you know exercising that kind of stuff is very important But more important than all that is eating right. Yeah Because I don't care how much you exercise because so many people go to the gym all the time But they never might so I'm gonna tell you an interesting story. I never told you My dad was one of the first professional bodybuilders in the world Um, and so when he was born He had I think it was rheumatic fever something with his heart when he was a one years old And so the doctors told My grandparents this boy will probably live to 12 years old. He's probably gonna die This is in my dad was born in Harlem in new york And they were poor and they they said whatever you do don't have him do Hard exercise It'll hurt him Well, my dad just sat inside till he was about 12 13 And then he found an article on bodybuilding and he started to lift weights And his diet my dad always had a great diet My dad didn't have a sweet tooth at all never ate sugar And he went from this kid who was supposed to be dead at 12 or 13 To by the time he became mr. Canada mr. Puerto Rico. He had the world record bench press so control So many times in life We Have things outside of our control who you're born to where you're born poverty, you know abusive parents and things like that and If you just focus on what you can control a big one's diet And I don't care if you you can diet lifting weights. You can do if you're in prison When you control everything within your control I tell this for entrepreneurs in business people say how can they make more money? I say well Are you optimizing what you actually can because some people go if I could just get an investor to give me a million dollars I'd be able to grow my business, but I say if I came to your office right now Is it optimize with what's around you and we all humans we I think at least myself There's a natural bad habit To look outside for the answer when you realize Yes, it's simple stuff like diet, which everybody knows but nobody does What do you for somebody watching this that's worried about willpower? What are some things you found? Because we live in a world. I go out. There's pizza or you go to the movies. There's no Good food, even if you want to eat healthy. How do you? Build the discipline. Is it by fasting once a month? Is it just long enough doing this? Do you have tricks do you bring your own food with you? I a lot of times my traveling has a lot to do with what I'm going to eat when I get there So eating for me is is is a major Aspect of any project that I do what am I going to eat? Okay worse comes to worse or just fast I won't do anything if it's bad stuff. I just don't eat I don't have to go to a movie and eat right dinner and then I go to a movie Yeah So in a full time I don't have to eat in popcorn and soda. Yeah, do you know what I'm saying? Why should I have to eat that's not if people just contrary they are used to certain things And the trick is to re-educate yourself And learn the good habits because they are as difficult to break as the bad habits Right, so if you can get in the good habits get in a good habit in a good shape and that's the trick What about one thing that I found? Who you're around matters to of course, so if you hang out with with people That go to a jiu-jitsu Gracie jiu-jitsu school. It's going to be easier Because they might be following the same diet I've always found it hard to a hundred percent rely on willpower if my environment is messed up Yeah, the environment has a lot to do with that But you sometimes you're the one that influence and change the environment as well depends on how convinced and how How much conviction you have in what you're doing? Yeah, I've been many times in environments that I say, you know what? This is the way it should be before you know it. There's a people following and learning and doing this Yeah, I came here started in the garage. Nobody knew anything about jiu-jitsu. Yeah, look at everybody about jiu-jitsu now Yeah, so I just was able to you know, because of my convictions and my beliefs and the way I handle the thing Literally changed the word. Is there any back in that time? Was there even any jiu-jitsu people in America? There's some people that danger jiu-jitsu, but the japanese jiu-jitsu not brazilian In fact, that's why when did your other family start to come other gracies after the fc 20 years later Oh, so in the mid 90s mid 90s. Yeah, so you had already been here 20 years. Yeah, huh, so you're a pioneer Kind of yeah, that's good Well, this has been awesome. So I want to just kind of close by saying One thing that I found in life Whoever experiments the most wins So this is might be something you haven't heard before Experiment with it try to you can follow this simple thing. It's two and a half months Now if they buy the book this has all these inside that was correct information. So if you buy this book, it's not how expensive is it 20 dollars and Uh, try it just try it because so many people in the person out There's something called the hexaco personality score. You take a test. It tells you 25 things about yourself Okay, this is the newest scientific test. It came out in 2000 and One of the factors in your personality that predicts your success. It's called openness to new experience So many people miss out on life because anything like you said that They haven't heard growing up. They'll be like, I don't want to try. Yes And One way you make a heck of a lot more money if you look at everybody who made money A lot of them billionaires They did something They experimented with something when other people thought it was crazy Bill Gates, you know, these people doing computers at 12 Elon Musk starting the car company tesla Even some of Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett told him he shouldn't do it But he saw something and was willing to experiment. So Try something new. I mean diet is at the end of the day if you don't have health I know a guy that's got a billion dollars, but he's so overweight. He can't even get out of bed All the money in the world. You wouldn't want that If you could if you could have if I could wire you one billion dollars now, but one condition You'd be so fat And unhealthy that you couldn't get out of bed and you'd have to play in a hospital bed Nobody would take that deal Even for a billion dollars because you can't use the money if you can't move I often tell my kids That I'd rather be on a crossroads in a dirt road in china in the middle of nowhere the parachutes Shirtless in the rain at night completely lost with good health Then being in a castle with all the money in the world at my disposal with bad health Yeah, with good health you can take any position any situation. You can handle anything. There's no stopping you. Yeah, that's what I do That's the trick one last thing I was going to ask you you said earlier that stuck with me if Somebody watching yesterday. I posted on my snapchat. Have you had something happen to you in life? Something bad recently? And when I do that about once a month, I post on my social media and every time I'm surprised by the Literal I would say I it's hard to count but 10,000 or more people write me in one day with Sad stories. I mean it's almost I can't even look at them all the last one. I was looking at you know, it's Mom died Sister has cancer little sons dying all this things and you were saying earlier that in your experience With your jitsu the diet and just your life Oh, there's always there's always something good. Yes, but how in the midst of that when it's so hard and so painful How do you have the faith to believe that? I guess you said it all right there having the face to believe that That's what it is. I believe it's comforting to me to see it that way So you don't think it's random and it's just no Yeah, I took many years ago. I took a balloon trip. Okay, you know Yeah, you mean up up the balloon and I drove two and a half hours to get to like Lake Perry or something like that Had to be there at six o'clock so that you can see the sunrise at 6 30 on the balloon So I drive two and a half hours And I get there and the balloon is filling up with helium and I hop in a little basket Which is like pretty much a very small thing. There's a couple that's me and a friend and the pilot And he turned on the gas and he's three minutes here at 3 000 feet. Yeah very quiet over there And as I'm looking up I'm looking down from the balloon very silence and the wind and stuff like that I see the freeway is like a little line like this With thousands of cars going towards downtown And I looked like a little ants, you know, and I'm looking gosh a little ants on the car I'm thinking wow each one of those little cars Which like a size of an ant has a person in it, which is smaller than that car Each person Has a head that's smaller than them. You can barely see now at that point And each head has a brain in it and each of those people on those cars thousands of people Has the worst worry the biggest Ah more stress than anybody else each one of them thinks they have the worst problems on their shoulder Everybody thinks oh my gosh my life is there every single one of them And I'm looking over there that took me two and a half hours to drive to that location The lake that I drove around is nothing but a little Pool of water the mountain I drove around is just a little power dirt And looking from over there. I said gosh each one of those a little tiny things so worried about everything It made me realize that we don't have the rights to worry about anything We're too insignificant on the big You know the scheme of things that we don't have to worry about each person has oh my gosh I got this everybody has words all the time don't worry about a thing Just relax let it cruise by wait do the right thing try not to cheat and do the you know the The same people and whatever do what your heart tells you the right thing to do and things will just fall in place 100% I came back from the balloon trip a different person Realizing that I could not worry about a thing in my life never worry about a thing My son the young son told me one thing very interesting a few months ago that I kind of You really capture my way of looking at things. He said when god pushes you up a cliff He said I'm gonna catch you on the way down Or give you wings and teach you how to fly. Yeah So But what happens if you feel like it's your fault like god didn't push you off like you did something stupid Well learn from that. Yeah, if you learn from every stupid thing I try to learn from the stupid things. I don't do it again and again But if you learn from every stupid thing you made you you did a mistake you learned the lesson and move on Yeah, that's what life is about. It's not a question of falling as we know it's a question of getting up and moving on again That's what the whole thing is about Falling is okay. You know, you're gonna get up and keep going or you're gonna quit on that fault. Yeah, and ultimately that's what it is I mean, it's it's been a very interesting experience for me to believe that things happen for a reason that alone is So many experience opportunities that I've had to see that and when the things all fair everything else about to collapse You just say hey, I did what I could did the best I could is it gonna happen or not? And if it's meant to be it's gonna be if you're not I'll try again next time when I was creating the academy I mean you know getting the academy a few years ago I had a I brought a guy who do the stucco outside the building Did you beat the academy choice? Yes, I've been So I had a big huge open door because it was before it became the academy It was a car parts storage location. Okay, so they had the big roll-up doors The metal doors and was center block around it was a big cement square like this and The guy came in to do the stucco on a Thursday. He said I'll be here Saturday to cover the whole place What are you going to do for a door? I said I'm going to put a glass door, which is what we have now He said if you're going to put a glass door, you have to put a beam a wood beam So that you can then screw the metal frame of the door and then put your glass in there I had no idea we needed that so I said I'm going to find a beam. That's on a Thursday on friday I call call call nobody had the beam available because it's a three-day process Right, you have to order it takes three days the industrial side. It's 16 by 4 It's not the little 2 by 4 that you buy at home people Right So I have to call a lot of people nobody had an available finally someone said hey I have one here somebody ordered a month and a half ago. They never picked it up. I said it's mine I'm on my way up So I went there picked up the beam in order to secure the beam You need a shoe a metal shoe like this that you screw to the wall and then the beam sits on top of this Yeah, you know what I mean two However, if you put there's the cement frame if you put the beam here to shoot Both of them. There's no way you can put the I mean if you put the shoes against the wall You can't fit the beam in there. Oh, do you understand? Yeah You need one shoe that you can screw this way Put the beam and the other shoe you have to be able to screw from the outside It's going to come to hold it. Yeah, do you follow me? But this reverse one didn't come with the beam. I had two that came with the beam There are like this. Okay. So you had two of the same get to the same that wouldn't work Yeah, so my friend said hot and we need to get this reverse one. So we ran to home depot And we get there and I asked the lady you have one this size 16 by 4. She said no, we don't carry this I said, where do you carry the beam? She said that we don't have this guy We'll check out aisle 8, but that's we don't have that So I go to aisle 8. I start looking and I find one beam like that Huh the big one. Yeah only one I brought to the front and she said wow you found one. I said, yeah found one And she runs this the the barcode reader scanner. Yeah, she said it's not from here Huh somebody left somebody left it Isn't that interesting? I can't even charge you you can take it for free So I took it home put it in there the next morning the guy was able to put the whole stucco The leftover one I had I left it on the wire and I framed it And I said somebody must be trained in jiu-jitsu in heaven In other words, it was the last thing for me a week before the grand opening everything is already happening So I didn't find that shoe now go to any home depot in the country. You're not gonna find one Isn't that interesting? Yeah, that when everything for me was just like the last thing I need I was thinking to support that stuff a week before the grand opening They don't carry it, but somebody left one in there for me. Yeah, I mean for me It's like hey keep doing the right thing Yeah, all right, so me being here me being here is a special blessing as well No, no for me and you watching this video, you know, I say whenever you see something like this if you've watched this bar Uh, you know, things happen for a reason. So check it out. You'll change your life forever. There's nothing like this Leave a comment below if you've done the Gracie diet or questions you have and let me tell you something else Yeah, I know it's a lot of people that watch your stuff. Yeah, this is all confident. I am on the book Get the book try it for two weeks. Yeah, follow the guidelines of the book for two weeks If you don't feel better, yeah, I'll buy the book back from you. Yeah Nobody doesn't forgive the money back. Yeah, and they receive the book in good conditions and I'll buy the book back Yeah, nobody gives your money back guarantee on your book only I do that Do it for two weeks 100 and I'll let you know I like that you have here by the way If you're at the cheesecake factory what you what you should order So that's pretty practical cheesecake factory Some things you shouldn't so you think it's an orange chicken is okay Deep fried chicken breast in a sweet so deep fry is tolerable. Here's the problem sweet and spicy I'm gonna give you the tips on how to work both the water to food. Okay. What do you do on orange chicken? Because I love my chicken. Yeah It says deep fried in a sweet served over white rice and garnished with vegetables So you should pass on the wheat bread So if you're going to eat rice, don't eat the bread. That's good because I've always been skipping orange chicken I love orange chicken. It's my weakness. That's awesome. Well, this is such a cool book tips for losing weight which You have managed carbs if you if you eat right losing weight is just a natural consequence. Yes, you know, that's the trick Yes, like the headache Why should people have a headache because you're thinking too much come on your head was made to think Yeah, you know take this is interesting take a 15 to 30 minute nap every day I try to do it every single that's important man. When I take a nap changes your life. I know That's something even a short even five minute nap if you can't don't have the time That's right And here you have some meal plans that can actually be followed So like breakfast you have oatmeal raisins apple juice Lunch you'll have a looks like a salad here all of us So this is just a vegetarian right here. No, this is salad that should precede your entry So this is a meal right here lunch is this too. Okay, so you have salad. Okay, so you think three meals a day That's all you need Now what if somebody's watching and they're a bodybuilder? They're trying to so just eat more the question you can do as much as you want Yeah Within reason of course, you don't want to feel sick after you eat so much The question is this do you want to get big or you want to be healthy, right? That's the plan. So some people you think are too big I don't think anything they have to decide for themselves. Right. It's not me telling them how they feel how they feel. Yeah, sometimes the guy's huge But they feel sick all the time. Yeah, you know or they're not that athletic Whatever dinner. I like this watermelon juice cottage cheese rye bread raisins dates. So is this A meal dinner. That's a meal. That's all that's a meal another meal another meal each one of them We can have a little bit so not necessarily for you don't have meat. It looks like at night at night No, I usually have fruits for for breakfast. Yeah, and I have Cooked meal during the day because your metabolism is more active. It's easy to digest And at night I usually have fruits or some veggie juice or some cottage cheese Avocado you sleep better if you have a lighter view at night instead of having cooked food. Yeah I love cottage cheese. Yeah, just try this. Oh, this is week two. Yeah Awesome for two weeks and there's no stopping you and sun you're big on get enough sun Born in brazil brazil have to go to the beach if you get Man, if you've never been to brazil has some of the prettiest women in the world Eggplant quiche. I'm getting hungry actually watching this because I've been four and a half hours yet Well, thank you so much. This was awesome. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right