 All right, we are live, so when I was 26, my life forever changed and I didn't realize something was wrong. I didn't know how significant it was until it just got worse and worse and worse and worse. And so I don't actually tell my story very often, and so I'm going to tell you a little bit about my story. You know, I was a former recumbering college athlete, but at 286, I got diagnosed with Hashimoto's. Prior to that, I had lost to use my leg for a year. I had had some head injuries and I knew something, like I was super competitive and determined, but at the same time, I was becoming less of me, if that makes any sense. And so it was a pretty disheartening time. And so I went on this kind of quest to figure out what was wrong. And when I got diagnosed with Hashimoto's, it's like after two years of doctor study in me, we finally figured out it was Hashimoto's, which is an autoimmune disorder. And what's interesting is that once we realized that, they just wanted to put me on medication, which I'm not against, but I was like, it took you two years to figure this out and now you're just going to just, can't we figure out why it happened, what's going on? And so I basically, I couldn't even, get out of bed was horrific. I was gaining weight, my joints were, I mean, unbelievably sore, brain fog for days. Like I was so cloudy in the mind, it was unbelievable. And I want y'all to keep in mind that I was the guy, like since I was a kid, I'm kind of a rule follower, if you get to know me, a couple of years in the Marine Corps, but I was a rule follower. And so basically, I legitimately, you know, when I was in the Marine Corps or I was playing college football, like I was the guy that followed all the health rules, right? Skin milk, whole wheat, chicken breast, broccoli. I mean, I didn't, I wasn't crazy. I wasn't excessive. I didn't even start drinking until I was 22. Like I wasn't, like there's no reason it seemed like I should be in this problem. So people from an outside, I always looked like I was the healthy one, but inside I was falling apart. I couldn't take my dog for a walk. I would literally have to throw a ball down the steps for him to, or for her, sorry, for her to run around and go for a walk. So life sucked. I didn't know the light at the end of the tunnel, didn't know where I was ago. I mean, literally I'm sitting on a hospital bed and the doctors are like, if you don't change, if something doesn't happen, you may not walk by the time you're 30. I didn't have kids yet. I wanted to have kids. I have four now. Life is good. I want, I ran today. Two-story, it's, and it all accidentally happened through Keto. At the time, back in the late 90s, early 2000s, Keto was, he understood it scientifically from research, you know, I was an exercise physiologist in college and, you know, specialized in cardiac rehab. And so like I knew it, but it's not like you looked at it as a treatment for really anything right back then. And so I didn't know what to do. I spent a few hundred thousand dollars trying to figure out what's wrong with me. I hired all these different doctors to kind of get their insights. And everybody kept leading me to bags of pills and crazy extreme things all the time, but nothing seemed to really make a difference. And I didn't know what to do. So I decided to do something extreme. Tiktok, you guys are going to probably not make it through this one. I do Tiktok on a different device. So if you guys want to continue this, come to Instagram or Facebook. But, but anyway, what I ended up having to do is I did 14 days with no food. I was committing to 10 days and going 14 days. But why did I keep going is because at five days after no food, I became vegan, like I literally woke up out of a coma, a walking coma. And I felt like I was normal. Truly, I felt like I felt invincible, to be honest. I remember I helped a friend out on the on the fifth day and I was literally we were moving concrete, like jackhammering concrete, picking up concrete and putting and we filled a whole huge back truck. I mean, not like a truck, but like a like a dumpster truck. Like the big, big ones were a semi has to get filled the whole thing. I probably did a third of it myself and there were six of us. I felt amazing. And so I stayed on this fast. But then at the same time, I'm sitting and thinking, I can't I got to eat food at some point, right? And my for this, what if I just clean the slate and figure out what to eat? And it took me almost an entire year to figure out what to eat. And I eat relatively close to that today, true story. And so I got into ketosis. I basically taught myself to get a diet through trial and error. And not knowing that that was really going to be the recipe. So for 15 years, I did this and I've taught people around the world that at the same time, I got was very blessed to work with some of the top coaches like Charles Paul Quinn, Greg Roscoff, Tom Purvis, I got to learn from some pretty and really intelligent people. I got to have gotten to work with, you know, Dr. Kenneth Ford, I've got the interview and working with and and and present with Dr. Dominic DiRostino and Angela Poff and Dr. Jeff Bollack and Dr. Ryan Lowry. I mean, it didn't list Jacob Wilson, but the list just keeps going on and on. And but over those 15 years of this hardcore diet, basically everybody quits. Nobody sticks to a health plan. That's what I've learned. It's like, do you have to get bad enough? Do you have to feel bad enough to stick to it? You have to be bad unhealthy to stick to the plan. And seven some years ago, I meet a fat guy in birth in class and he introduces me to the first ever drinkable ketone supplement. And for me, it's like the invention of the airplane. You know, think about it. I'm a diet control my life because I didn't really have one without it. That's that was my alternative is to be miserable. And I promise you, I've tried many times to come off the diet and I don't have an alternative. Ketones are vital to my my health and my vitality for me to be me. You see who you are. You see me and this energy in this guy because of ketones. And and so they matter, right? And now, and I know they'll matter for so many other people. And but here's the thing is I want my mom and I want all these other people to do this with me, but nobody would. They always quit or just never committed to never try because it's too hard or that's the way Dustin has to live. Dustin's too extreme, like that's what I'd hear all the time. And my mom at 65 couldn't get off the couch for crap. I mean, she couldn't get off the floor. I mean, it was just it was kind of sad. It was sad watching her. And seven years later, she travels the world now, but she didn't follow the ketogenic diet. She followed drinking ketones. She did some fasting with us. My sister dropped 100 pounds. She didn't follow ketogenic diet. She followed better. She felt eating cleaner. She followed drinking ketones daily and fasting. And the stories keep coming. My wife, who was grumpy, irritated, snacking, like out of control, gained extra excessive body weight, wanted to blame it as a baby. She's like, it's not the baby's fault for two years. Like it's on me now. And it changed her life. And so many other stories. And we have Kate's story of 70 pounds and maintaining for five years. Kristen's story, who she's allowed to focus anymore. If you have a ketone story right now, put it down below. But I can tell you this is that when I was 26 years old, I was hopeless. I felt like there's no answers. I mean, I spent, I mean, I talked to Russian doctors. I talked to this Russian doctor. True story. He was intranobal. He was doing research. I don't know how I get the weirdest access to the weirdest people, but I meet people. I'm very social. So I meet people and we were trying to figure it out. We couldn't like, why was this? Why was I breaking down so fast? I was aging rapidly. I mean, it was sad, truly was. And five days of no food, I pulled me right out. And so, so I'm a huge fan of fasting, of course. I don't recommend 14 days. I actually don't recommend even five days anymore. There's no need to do it the extreme because we have a simpler path to do that. But watching everybody else, watching Lynn live younger and I hear you, Lynn is stronger, has more mobility, ambition. I love that. What's exciting is that I guess the last little thing I wanted to say today is that, you know, being in this industry of health and wellness and fitness and now being a big part of prove it and the trainer and consultant and get to do what I get to do and see the stories coming in. It's not about my story. It's about everybody's stories of getting better. But a lot of times people are like, but you know, your price of your product is expensive or what does it cost? And I'm like, there is no value to what it costs for me. I get to play with my kids. I get to be a dad. I get to be a husband. I get to stay in upright, y'all. I'm just I'm stoked for all these things. I don't fear tomorrow. I don't fear illness. I just don't. And so I so I always drives me crazy to play price. But I get it, you know, there is a cost to it. And but so I decided to do some looking into it. And I looked under some of the some other companies that are let's just call it weight loss companies or help help driven companies. And I looked at their pricing. And what's interesting is that by far we're less expensive than all of them, not even close. But here's the real the real secret. I mean, they're like the cheapest I found was $200 or $300. Sorry, $300 a month. After that, it was 700, 500,000, 1500, 1300, 800. I mean, it's it's nuts. And here's the craziest thing. I wouldn't recommend not one of those and not because they don't get paid. They were they've all been around since I've known about them is because they're actually not good for you. They're they're they're the problem in our country. They're what's causing a lot of the health problems. They're synthetically made. They're crap. I wouldn't feed it to my animals, some of them. And they're not in bad companies or really good sales and marketing companies. But I've said they're thinking, like, how does somebody think a product that is backed by the top scientists in the world that legitimately can truly change your life forever is expensive when it's less than all of those. But yet, wait, like you can go to NASA scientists and talk to them about our product, right? You can't do that. Which I'm not I'm not going to name names of these companies. And this is what is kind of where I'm passionate about because right now there's too many people watching this live right now or you know, somebody right now that is looking for better. You like literally literally you were where I was when you were trying to say or you're just like where I am now or now I'm about better living. You know, I'm I've had many surgeries in my life. I'm about I'm about optimal, live better, live long, live free, but live with passion and uncertainty of better life. And if you find something that has that, follow what they're doing. Follow what they're doing. You know, I was watching NFL, Fox NFL. They all did the Meta Fast Shakes. Well, they all look like shit now. Like obviously they didn't stick to it or stop working. I don't know, but they should all join us because when you get around us, it's freaking awesome. And people look awesome, feel awesome and stay awesome. And so I know right now people are they're hurting more than ever. People are struggling with life. They don't know which way to go. And I just want to say this is that, you know, if you've ever been where I was when you were hopeless and don't know which ways left or right, I'm actually kind of getting emotional. I don't I don't talk a lot about my story. And I probably should. I just hate to get in the medical world of the medical weeds because I don't care what you have, what it is, what's going on in your life. You got to get better. You got to you got to move into the better way. And if you get on Google and start Googling a bunch of shit, you're going to get lost. My wife challenged me for one year. She's like, don't Google anything that's wrong with you because I can always find something else wrong. I mean, if you actually seen an image of my entire body and the inside, you'd be like, damn, the doctor actually said, dude, you're like you're 80 inside. I was 26. I watched one of my surgeries when I was 24 and the doctor legitimately said, oh, my God, I was watching my surgery. I was watching my second knee surgery. He says, oh, my God. And I'm like, you can't see that one watching. He's like, it's not good. So I had to go to a specialist and they did an experimental implant and my left knee had been versed in the soda. Like it was bad. He's it was just like, what's happening? What's wrong? And now that I've been in ketosis for the majority of my adult life, not quite the majority of my life, it's pretty it's a it's a pretty amazing thing. So when people go that like everyone's on tic-tac people because they don't all know me as much on tic-tac and they're always like, bullshit, they're BS, BS, because, you know, I'm promoting a product. Yes, I am promoting a product. I'm promoting a product and promoting the company. But I'm promoting the only product I've ever promoted. And the only company I've ever stood behind is this, right? It's it. And because it's backed by the top in the world, I know what it is. I know it's an it's only product that give every single one of my family members. And that's why. But I also know what it's done for me and millions of other people. That's why I have the mission to a million on the top. So and so it's just it's just so, so, so important for people to realize that this is valuable, more valuable than you can imagine. And you deserve less than $10 a day. Like you just deserve it. I don't know how else to say that. You know, people go, well, what about this? And what about I mean, don't be wrong. I'd like to have some champagne. I'd like to drink a little bit. OK, a couple drinks a week or change my life forever. It's a decision at this point, right? Coffee at Starbucks or change my life forever or stop snacking or replace a meal or change my life forever. It's a decision. It's not a it's not an option. It's just a decision. It's what it is. You just decide if you want to live better or you want to stay where you're at. And it's this is it. This is the journey that twenty twenty three, the real me is coming out in twenty twenty three. You like that, Lynn, the real me. So I'm going to do my best. I'm told that I'm very sciencey and I'm very technical and I don't think I think you're science. I think through products. I think through like what it is and how it works. That's how I naturally think. And I'm like, people aren't connecting with that. So I'm going to try to use the other side of me and talk about, you know, some of the big obstacles and challenges like, you know, when you meet me, you're always like, well, I just don't know the stories, right? And so, you know, I have a lot of near death stories and I've been there. I've looked it in the eye numerous times. I've laid, I've sat in bedside to watch people literally melt away and disappear on this planet. I've got to see this stuff. This is it's it's it's part of like I used when I was 16 years old, the ER, the ambulance people knew as my mom and I personally, like they were like our best friends. Like I saw them more than I saw my friends for my stepdad. Like literally we clean out the house and get it set up so he could go in and out of the hospital. Like that was a daily part of my life, watching people just completely fall to nothing. And now we have an answer to change that. And so it's time for us to to share that at a different way. So hopefully the stories will start to come out. I'll probably tell my mom's story, my sister's story and so many other stories. I have stories. I have more stories than Dr. Seuss. I mean, it's crazy what we have. And it's just time. It's time for people to live better. You know, and I'm a big performance guy. I'm watching NFL downstairs and and yes, I work with athletes. I've written the first protocol for the Tour de France riders. I mean, it's like and that's great, but there's like nine of them. There's nineteen hundred million of you that are looking for answers and you don't know who to frickin follow. You don't know who to trust and you're you're following a path like this. It's the path doesn't have to be hard, but it's not going to be easy. I hope that makes sense. That can be hard, but it's not going to be easy either. Meaning that you got to change, you know, two people coming to me like, oh, that that that's a fact. It didn't work long term that you kind of stay on like you can't stop. What we create for people is a lifestyle and it takes time. And it's going to be different for every single person out here. Now, one person has the same lifestyle. Nobody does. My wife and I will never have the same lifestyle. We have a few things in common. Number one, we drink ketones. Number two, we drink water. Number three, we poop and sleep like that's some basic. We take a vitamin. After that, it's not very much the same, right? It's just not and it never will be. So we're not going to put people on that same plan because those plans don't work. We got to get off this hamster wheel of, you know, these fads of these cycles. It's not the way it'll ever work. You got to become free of food. You got to become free in yourself so that you can spend more time loving your kids, loving your family, building an empire. I don't care what it is. Having vacations, enjoying life. And it says, get down to water and move your body. It's really that simple. And when it comes to food, we got to figure it out. You know, there's emotional attachment to food. I have emotional attachment to pizza. It's funny because there isn't. I haven't really thought of pizza. I really like now that I don't eat regular pizza, but it's still I have an attachment to it. Like when I think of pizza, my whole life, pizza has been a big part of my life. My wife has it with chocolate and brownies. It's a transformation of lifestyle. That's what it is. And so this year in 2023, it's about that. It's about I fasting. It's about fasting with ketones. It's it's it's I truly believe it is the it is the way to make it right. The way to make it that way that everybody can do it. Because there's not a person out there that shouldn't fast true story. I mean, I actually get off the zoom right now, this live now. But my wife, I think it was either a first or second day. I actually told her that when I have kids and, you know, she was not nearly as interesting to me as I was at her, of course. I think she was. I think she is. I told her I want to start my kids someday. And I fortunately didn't scare off too much. She said that was almost a deal breaker. But the point was, is that I understood the importance of fasting. My kids do not fast now, but we don't necessarily try to show up breakfast on the road either, right? And but the point is, is that first off, you're going to be OK, especially when you have tools. I want people to be OK. I want people to have a better relationship with food. But ultimately, I want people to have some freedoms in their lives. And this idea of eating every three hours is absolutely idiotic. Outside of a couple audiences, you know, where it might be necessary, but you're most likely not that audience. It's a very small number of professional bodybuilders and really messed up people, really, really messed up people. It can work for a while. Bodybuilders, it works great for. But I don't know any bodybuilder in their 90s. I haven't met one yet. So I just haven't shared about Keto up and how it benefits some of the inconvenience. Hey, I got a Keto up shirt on. Keto up, I don't actually have one actually anywhere over here. This is empty, you know, Keto is basically ketones on the go. It's a support product to our main product. Keto up, it's like it's a it's a it's a fizzy, drinky drink it. I like it because it gives me my carbonation fix and I get extra ketones with it. Some people, I would tell people that I wouldn't replace a Keto up for Keto not though, I would definitely drink a Keto not and then use the Keto up as a lifestyle. It's something I'm going to go. It's easy, it's convenient. People that like to replace or have that that carbonation like fixing, it's an addiction, by the way. There actually is a brain, it actually has an impact on brain chemistry. And so it's a great way that you can use that as a tool to get off some sodas or energy drinks. If the ketone map doesn't do it alone, the Keto not usually just does it by itself, but it's a great tool there. It's also it's a modified technology. It's a it's a free cell technology, so absorbs a little faster. So pre-workout, it's an amazing pre-workout. I mean, unbelievable pre-workout. So, but just a little summary. Yes, I had Hashimoto's at 26. I say had, I don't identify as somebody that has it anymore. Is that against is that is that OK these days? I'm still aware of it. Like, you know, I'm not a person to abuse my immune system. So I got to be aware of it. And and so that's something just to be aware of. But also, you know, I need my knee replaced when I was my 20s. I had an experimental surgery in my 20s that had injuries. My body shut down. I had a point where some organs were shutting down. I've had to be literally like rushed to the hospital from a dental chair. My system started going. I'm completely out of control. So, yeah, things were tough. Like it was I was by myself, by the way, at that time, I was alone in Southern California, no family, no friends really at the time. I just moved there and everything just fell apart. So it was kind of a little bit of soul searching at that time in my life. But Keto, I went five days. I went 14 days without food, five days in my life changed forever. Now I do not follow a ketogenic diet. Now I drink ketones daily. I fast nearly every day. I've been eye fasting all week. It's been unbelievable. My energy is extraordinary. Like it's absolutely my sleep. My energy is just just amazing. I've been eye fasting all week and I drink ketones every day. And yeah, I won't go a day without them. I have one without them. My wife and I, she won't let me do it again. But I haven't did days without them. She won't let me do it again because I'm just cheating. I age. And the reason why is some people go like, well, that means you're dependent on them. I'm like, no, I live better with ketones. My joints still need to be replaced. But with ketones, I can function without ketones. I feel the replacements if that makes any sense. So it didn't solve my joints, but it allows me to function rather than taking ibuprofen at the panfals or narcotics. I can focus and function and live in a ketogenic state and that was on diet before ketones. Well, I'd rather just drink ketones and then go have pizza when I go to Italy. So it's a choice again. So I drink my ketones with soda. I tried that and it exploded. I was in Mexico and I did soda water with the Mexican ketones or the freestyle and they exploded and I have a video somewhere. I mean, it was unbelievable explosion. I didn't shake it much either. I thought it went, nah, that mix is really easier. But hey, I gotta go down and we're gonna have dinner before my fastings. I got an hour before I'm in my fasts. I'm doing IFast this week and all you dudes out there, any men or ladies, if you have a dude, we're gonna be doing a fasting and IFast next starting on Monday and then as a company, we're gonna do it into January, but starting on Monday, we're gonna do an IFast for five days and it's just a way to challenge each other to live better. And so ladies, I know you guys have a little bit more support out there just because you guys are more vocal. So where this is like a dudes-only, a dudes-only challenge kind of thing, it's just a group so that we can call each other dumbasses and call each other out on our crap so that we can live better. But anyway, I appreciate you all and if somebody that invited you to follow me and you wanna get started with us, commit less than $10 a day. I mean, $30 a day, I don't know what that is. But I'm telling you right now, there's no better value out there in the entire world than this. It is by far the plan that you can change your life forever and never go back. And we just have to share that at a higher, higher level. Stop the crap. There's so much crap out there that people are trying to do and there's no quick fix. You gotta decide that you wanna change your life and this is the momentum that will do that and you won't be perfect and that's okay too. It's a journey that we're gonna take you on. So get back to everybody of you. They're gonna send you over a link. You might see my face again on that link a couple times but grab your kit. I would tell you to grab the best bundle and let's go change your life forever. So of course, if you follow me, hit me up and let's take care of you and let's change your life forever. So appreciate y'all. Keto kick is way healthier than five out of energy. I don't drink five out. Basically, I don't drink five out of the energy. I drink these. This is actually one of my favorite products. I'm not gonna go into that today. Yo dudes! My dad has really bad knees and is on a fat loss journey. I'm working and convincing him to start ketones. I'll have him watch this live. He's currently does the ketogenic diet. I'm showing him the better way. Yeah, just Anna say, hey, can you watch us live with me? I'm gonna say it to you. If you get to the end, Anna, I'm gonna say, dad, listen, I've been there, I've done it. Like, can you stay on that diet for the rest of your life? That's what you have to ask yourself. If you can do it for the rest of your life, and remember, it takes about six months to a year to really get good at the diet to get the best experiences. Cause what happened when I started the diet, if I slipped up a little bit, when you have bad body and you slip up, it's like, it feels like it's a hundred times harder because you're literally free and then you go backwards a hundred days overnight where it took time for you to feel bad. And now you go on and off because the ketones are so effective that if you slip up, I mean, I'm telling you just one slip up. We were in Italy in 2008, maybe, and I messed up and I couldn't, like it was hard to just go to the bathroom, like just a walk, like it was, and then it was like two, three, four days for me to get it back in Italy. That's just not acceptable. So Anna, tell your dad to check this out. I just drink your ketones and then still can do the ketogenic diet. I encourage you if you wanna commit to it, but you don't have to be perfect. You can slip up and make a mistake and you're not gonna feel bad in the journey and it's gonna accelerate all your results. So brother, I'm just gonna fly out and tell you, do this and it'll change your life forever. I mean, my mom, I'll tell you my mom's story some other day, I'll do a live on my mom, but it's just truly remarkable. So don't have a kit, but I have all the products. Awesome Chad. So I'll see you Monday then, brother. If you haven't already, check out the promo that's coming up so there's a really cool promo that we just dropped. It's pretty exciting about the whole kits and what we're doing for the end of the month. So you might wanna take advantage of that, by the way. Anyway, so gotta go, cheers. And I wanted to say thanks for all your support. People are very supportive of me. I'm very, very blessed that I get a lot of positive feedback and a lot of positive, like I don't have a lot of haters. I know a lot of people out there have some haters. I don't get a lot of haters. And so I just wanna say thank you guys for more support, but it's hard to hate somebody that just cares a lot. More about you getting better, because I've been there. I don't just like to not feel well. I don't just like to wonder what tomorrow's gonna ram. I don't just like to wonder about if there's gonna be a tomorrow. So I just gonna say appreciate that. And Ellsworth, I don't know how you say your first name. I wish I knew how to say your first name, but I'm thinking about going back on it. You know, it's funny you say that. I hope you're still watching, but I always tell people don't ever quit. It's the biggest mistake people ever make. I've been doing this for seven years and I've had people that start three years ago quit and then they're like, why did they ever quit? Cause they wake up one day, realizing they're nowhere closer to where they were. And they already started their journey. And then I realized something. It's like, it's okay. As long as you can reflect back on that and continue on the process, just change your expectations. You know, my sister wanted to lose weight really fast. It was eight weeks before she lost a pound. For whatever reason, my sister, my sister's a drug addict and not a prism. For whatever reason, she didn't quit. She kept going. And now she's down a hundred pounds and you don't even recognize her as the same person. I guarantee you nobody would even know her as the same person if you've seen them, seen her. And she's now, I mean, she snowboards and she just lives her life in her fifties. It's just extraordinary cause she didn't quit. She just kept finding a way to come fast with us, come use the product and then start looking at it. You're gonna hear a lot in 2023 where I'm gonna talk more about like, if you need to lose weight, your number one focus should be performance, not weight loss. So focus on performance because you have to perform better in your life to maintain it. That's it. And if we can put that as the higher priority, then you will ultimately have long-term success because ketones are the number one performance tool ever researched in the history of the world. So they're gonna help you live better and everything you do. And if you just stay on that path, that and alone where it's gonna change your life. And then the fat burning side, I think is easier. So, and I find that because most people that quit her, it's because of the way they come off fast enough. That's almost no other reason. That's why I say that. And so if you get some challenges, we have some new technologies too that you can play around with that maybe that helped absorb your GI track and all that good stuff. So, I gotta go. I said I was gonna leave earlier, but now I'm really gonna go. Cheers y'all.