 If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mind Pump! With your hosts, Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump, Happy New Year! Yeah hey, 2018! For the first 22 minutes, Adam, Justin, and myself have our usual introductory conversation. We talk about our New Year's Eve celebrations. We talk about the fluffer of the conversation. We talk about Adam's revised New Year's resolution. I had to take back. Poor fella. We talk about drunk stretching. Believe it or not, it's a good idea? Yeah. I don't know about that. I enjoy it. I'm going to franchise it. If you do, do it naked. Yeah. Also in this episode, we mention our sponsor Organifi. Adam's kind of ill right now, not in the cool way. If you're from the 90s, you were cool. He'd be ill in. Yeah, but he's actually sick. Trying to double up on my green juice right now. He's using Organifi right now to fight the plague. But we do mention them. They are one of our sponsors. If you use the code Mind Pump, you'll get 20% off. All you got to do is go to OrganifiShop.com forward slash Mind Pump and then enter the code Mind Pump. No space for that discount. Then we get into the questions. The first question was, Massages, are they good, bad, or are we indifferent to them? What is the science behind them? Besides feeling good, do they actually benefit you in terms of getting your results? The next question, now Mind Pump, we are experts in fitness, but we like to pretend like we're the experts in everything else. So we answer the question, what tips do we have for increasing the female libido? Remember that hashtag ladywood? Let's bring it back. Hashtag ladywood. The next question was, this individual has a damaged, quote unquote, damaged metabolism. They're following the MAPS program. So they've got one of the steps down. But what else can they do to speed up their metabolism? This is a very frustrating place to be in, where you've either over-dieted, over-exercised, or both over a period of time. And now you just gain weight eating more than 1200 calories or whatever, which is considered damaged metabolism. How do you fix that? How do we get out of that? So we get into depth in this episode about that. And finally, the final question was, why is it that your body sometimes rejects foods that you eat a lot of, even if they're healthy? You know, like nuts, blueberries. Well, that's the deal with that. Vegetables, like what's going on? I used to eat broccoli all the time. Did you catch his voice like that, too? I could have said this. He's very thankful to you. What? What's going on? Why does that happen? Second, we break down the science. Also, we are in the year 2018. It's the beginning of the year. You're probably pretty motivated to getting in shape. You want to either get lean, build muscle. Start the year right. You're going to go too hard. Improve your movement or all of the above. Now, there's a few things that stop people from continuing on. Lots of people get started on fitness in January. We know we manage gyms. On average, a gym will get 20% to 50% more sales and revenue and members in the months of January. And this lasts for like three months, and then it falls off sharply. People just stop. This is very common in the fitness industry. There's a few reasons why people stop. One of the main reasons is people go into this without a detailed plan. Typically, the plan goes something like this. They start working out, and I'm going to start eating right, and that's it. They have no idea where they're going to go with that. They have no idea how to progress that, how to move out of that. They have no idea how to prevent injury, how to get their body to move through different adaptations, whether they're trying to build strength endurance or whatever. And so after a few months, it gets boring, or they hurt themselves, or they see no progress, or they don't know how to get any more progress, and they stop working out, and then they wait until the following year again. We've got the plan for the entire year. So here's the deal. If you enroll in the MAPS Super Bundle, you will have your whole year planned out for you. And it's not just a list of exercises or whatever. We break it all down. We have exercise blueprints. So you know what exercises to do, how many reps to do, how long to rest in between each set. You know how many sets to do. You know the tempo, the control. There's videos in the programs where we are demonstrating and teaching you how to do the exercises like experienced personal trainers know how to. So we know how to give you the right cues because we've trained lots of people. We take you through different workouts. So you may be focusing on strength for the next three weeks. Now you're focusing on hypertrophy. Now you're focusing on endurance. Then you're focusing on mobility or functionality. The workouts change throughout the whole year. It's never boring. The best part about this is your body is progressing throughout the entire year. This is the time to get the MAPS Super Bundle. It's the best program you can get started with. It is your plan for 2018 to check it out and to enroll. All you got to do is go to mindpumpmedia.com. We are hot. So scolding hot. What I wanted to do, and I was waiting until we get the mics on, is Justin, I think either you or I need to give Adam a foot massage. A foot massage? Yeah, because his ankle is swollen. I don't think he wants us touching that one. I don't think so either. And he's got a cold and everything. And you know, you got to make him feel better. I think he needs more than a foot massage. Huh? Well, that's as far as I'm going to go. I don't know what you're going to do. Well, I mean, I'm a team player. You know what I mean? But he's got two feet. Don't fuck with me today. Don't fuck with me today. We're not fucking with you. Get this thing going. It's making you feel better. Oh, we're going. This is what we do. Let's get this fucking party started. We're party. I'm ball-hubbing up in this place right now. You're still hungover. I'm crippled and I'm fucking sick. That's some bullshit, dude. That's a double whammy. And I wouldn't get sick if it wasn't for this guy coming in here sick all the time. It's usually my fault. It's your fault. I hurt my fucking foot, too. I told you that. Yeah. First, it's just the typhoid Mary. It's your fault. I tore my Achilles. You're the whole purpose of having someone like you on this show so I can fucking get the PubMed stuff sent to me before. I can fuck myself up. Yeah, I know. And then you come in sick on top of that, too, so. With great power comes great responsibility. And so I didn't... Failing. Yeah. 2017 failing. Let's have a good 2018. I got to have better responsibility. Somebody's going to take the failure. With my power. That's leadership. Yeah. So I'll make sure that the economy's better in America. Thank you. I'll make sure that there's more world peace. Please. I love that. These are all things that affect Adam's illnesses. Yeah. All the things that... Spelling of words. Yeah, all that stuff. I'm going to make sure we get it covered. So, new year. New year, new means. It's all... New year, new south. It's coming in. Get it together. It's coming in organized and efficient. Do you guys have good New Year's Eve parties? Did you guys both stay up? Is that what you call it? Yeah. No, I... Did you stay up? Dude. I did, but I didn't watch any of those stupid... Talk about the worst show on television. It's one of those countdown shows. It used to be just Dick Clark. Now there's like four of them. Yeah. We were watching like the... I don't know what... Like the not so good version. Is Kathy Griffin still doing it? Last year I watched her doing it. It was awful. She's done. She's done. We were watching the Steve Harvey one at first and I was looking at everybody and I just... I can't move. I'm fucking all handicapped inside the seat and shit and I'm watching the TV and I'm going like, why aren't we watching this one? Why aren't we watching like the only one that's even halfway worth watching, which is the Dick Clark, which is now Ryan Seacrest, who does it because it's the most popular one that's been going forever. It has the best... Times Square and all that. Yeah. It has the best singers on it. Yeah. Yeah. And they're all doing different stuff. So we hopped around the Steve Harvey one, the Dick Clark one, and then there was another one. And the other two besides the Dick Clark one. I mean, I'm with you. I think they're kind of silly anyways. But the other one was really stupid. They had this and I don't even know who she is. There's a TV announcer who obviously is famous. I should know him, but I don't follow fucking famous people. And him and his girl of 20 years of dating got married like the final three months before the ball dropped. And it was all televised. And they said their vows on TV and stuff like that. And I know there's somebody who's listening right now. I was like, oh my God, that was so romantic. That's such a great idea. I'm like, I think that's cheesy as fuck. Who gives a shit about them? Why are they on there? So now you've made this year all about you. Right. What is that? That to me is so weird. It thinks a lot. I thought it was... I'm sitting next to my niece. I'm like, is this weird to you? This is weird to me to be watching this right now. I think this is... I don't know who either one of these people are. We're about to watch the ball drop. So it cuts over to these wedding vows. Three, two, one. You're in our wedding. You guys didn't see that? You guys didn't see this? I don't watch that shit. Did you stay till the ball dropped all the way? So it's funny you ask that because as I get older, I give less and less shits about staying awake to watch it turn midnight. You know what I'm saying? It's not even a big deal anymore. Do kids care? My kids just want to stay awake because it's a time... Just because they can't. Yeah, because they can stay awake. Our family gets together and there's a lot of people. So you have all these cranky ass-tired kids in pajamas. You know what happens when you keep a kid up all night? Oh yeah. Or a wound up on sugar. It always sounds like a good idea to them and then they're just dozing off, getting mad. What I end up doing, and this is probably the second or third year I've done this now, is I set my alarm and I go to sleep and then wake up before midnight. Oh wow, that is an advanced admin. That's like a cheat code right there. Right down down. I'm going to bed and then I'll wake down. Tell your family get some work to do, you go in your room. What's that? Bro, so I literally... I mean you can even check my alarm. It's 11.55 p.m. I woke up five minutes before. Watch the thing go down. Yay. We're done. Okay, I'll see you later. But anyway. I was watching Jurassic Park. That's all I was doing. Oh, the original one? They had like a whole marathon of all of them. We literally watched like everyone leading up to like the new one with the guy from The Guardian of the Galaxy. The first one was the only one that was good. Yeah. The rest of them were stupid. The rest of them were dumb. Did you guys drink? Did you guys drink a lot? No. I didn't drink a lot, but I drank. I drank two of the four days we were out there. But I don't think... I think the most I had was like four drinks on one day. I never got like tossed up or anything. I would have, but Courtney was working. So I was like just there by myself. Wait, it was just you and the kids? Yeah. And they passed out and I put them to bed at like 10.30. It was the best time to get drunk. What are you talking about? I know you're right. By yourself. Yeah. I'll drink alone. Like a real drunkard. Yeah, like a real gangster. Like a real asshole. Yeah. No, I didn't do that. I had like, so I just got this puppy and so it was like... Oh yeah, how'd that go? It was great. I mean, it was a lot of fun. I had a good family time going down to get them in San Diego and stuff. And then driving back was, oh my God, I always forget how long that shit takes. We were taking so many stops to you on the way back because it was just like, you know, there's so many things going on. I had to get them to go potty, like every fucking rest stop and make sure all that was going on. But yeah, it was cool. It was just, it was chill. I was chilling with him and we were just watching Jurassic Park, dude. That was my big night. Did you guys both even get ass or what? For years? Yeah, what? No. Not till the next day. You didn't see either at night, dude. I was weak. I was totally disappointed about that, too. Totally weak. My girl, I don't know what she was thinking. I got it twice. Wait, did you really? Wow. Damn you. Shout out to Jessica right now. Shout out to Jessica. Kids, look at now. Why isn't it a shout out to Sal? That's why you're so happy. Huh? There should be a shout out to Sal, too, bro. We get to this place. We stayed at the same place. You guys all stayed at it, right? So you saw the place, right? Yeah. We're in the master bedroom, which is fucking epic. That thing is pimp. It's epic, right? Fire place in it, fucking couch and, you know, jacuzzi tub and dual shower, all the cool amenities. And we're all set up and, you know, I'm doing the math and like, you know, we have like 17 of your family members coming here. Like, I was just going to work, oh, they'll just do air mattresses in the living room and up in the other this and that. Oh, no, you got cock blocked. Dude, my nephew is asked if he could, if him and his girlfriend can stay on their blow-up mattress in our room. In the room. And Katrina is... You understand this news. Right, quick to say yes. And then she's all frustrated because she's like, she wants some and she wants me to get up and leave the room. I'm like fucking... Hey, I'm like... Hobble into the bathroom. Yeah, yeah. We're laying in bed kissing on each other. So that fooling around and all of a sudden she like wants to have sex and my fucking nephew's over here on the blow-up air mattress. And she's like, let's just go sneak out. I'm like, get the fuck out of here. That's like a horror deer with the crutches and get out and wake everybody up here in this cuckoo to the house. Let's be honest though. Wow. Let's all be honest though. If you were 17-year-old kid... Oh, honey. Oh, yeah. 17-year-old kid, you cut my leg off. I'll still find a way. You know what I'm saying? 36-year-old man. You MacGyver your way to sex. Yeah, yeah. 36-year-old man. I'm like, no. Yeah, 17-year-old kid. You're going to go in the fuck. You'll go in the refrigerator. That's the only place, you know what I mean? Yeah, hell yeah. Squeeze in here. We'll just do it in the cold. We don't even care. We'll make it work. It was pretty funny though. And I was like, I don't know what you were thinking on that one. She's like, fuck, I don't know what I was thinking either. I'm like, yeah. Did you guys make any like resolutions or anything? I know we talked about this a little bit but did you make any new ones? I didn't make it. Well, I made one new one and I actually wasn't going to share it on the show but it's funny because something happened this morning so I feel like compelled to share it. So I wasn't going to say anything and I was like, okay, you know, I've always wanted to make like an actual effort to go out of my way to do random acts of kindness to strangers. And I thought, okay, I'm going to set myself this goal of like, you know, once a week, you know, and see if I just actively am doing that. And hopefully that catches fire and I'm doing it every day, whatever, you know? But I didn't even have a plan to like how this was going to play out. Well, this morning, I'm sick. I'm going to get crutches. I'm driving over to work. I'm already fucking irritated, right? So I'm already in like an irritable, you know, moody mood is how I would say. He's the moody one. I'm driving to work and my throat's all sore. So I pull into Starbucks to get something hot to drink. And on Monterey Road, there's a drive-thru one. And as I pull up, there is this guy that's coming the other direction. And so we're both facing each other to go into the line to Starbucks. And I was there first, just by a little bit though. You know, it was like 30 seconds. And so there's this like awkward moment. Like a tumbleweed goes through you guys. Yeah, there's like this awkward moment of like who gets to go next. And I'm like, you know, I'm like irritated and I'm just in my head. I'm going like, how am I going to act if this guy just cuts in front of me? I'm like, who fucking cares about him? Whatever, it's no big deal. We don't have to be at work right away. It's no rush. You know, so I'm already in my head today. And the guy lets me go through. And I was like, oh, into my head, I'm like, oh, that was really cool. So when I get up to pay for my Starbucks, I pay for his behind me. And then obviously don't tell him. I just drive away. So I've never met the guy and everything like that. How did that work? You just said, how do you pay for someone before you know what they get? I got the next guy. Yeah, you just, when you pull up, by the time you get to the window, he's already ordered and so is the car behind him. So they already had the order and I just said, hey, the guy behind me. Oh, I get it. Can I pay for his too? Thank God he was just only getting one coffee. It wasn't like for his whole office, right? That was like, that would have sucked. If he was like, oh yeah, that's a 75 coffee frappuccinos. He just bought a soccer team, right? Eggman Muffins. Fuck. No, it was no big deal. So that's something I added to my list of things that, and I'm still- Did you wait to see the look on his face or anything? You just took off? I just took off, you know, whatever. I don't even know how long it took before she even said anything to him. So plus I knew I was already in that line long enough and was worried I was going to be late coming in here. So I took off. But that's something that I want to, and I thought, you know, what struck me was, what made me do it was I said that to myself. I didn't tell anybody this. It was just something that, like I said to myself because I had created this basketball and snowboarding goals for myself this year. And here's the ball dropping and I'm looking at myself like, there'll be no snowboarding a basketball in my future anytime soon. So what a shitty way to start your New Year's resolution off. So I was like, I better add to this something, right? We have to adjust this a little bit. Right, right. So, you know, I'm going to continue on with the book reading goals that I set last year. Somewhere I'm going to push myself a little bit more this year. And then the other one was the random acts of kindness. And I still, I'm still planning on pursuing playing ball and snowboarding and I'll rehab and share my journey on that whole process. This just happens to be a fucking, and it's fucking life. You know, it is what it is. It happened. And I'll make sure to take the right steps to get better and that'll be all of what I'd be focusing on over the next couple of months. So that's pretty much all I added to that. That's very nice. That's a nice thing. Justin did a really nice act of kindness this morning. Did you see what he did? No, what'd you do? So we had, you saw, we had a mouse in the gym. Oh, God. So yeah, we were doing our morning meeting in the little mouse. I don't know if it started out nice. It was nice. Well, you're right. Because at first you were trying to... It looked like a Tom and Jerry fucking cartoon. Yeah, I was, I was like whack-a-moling. You were trying to with the stick. Which is like impossible. And it was like a little thin stick. Yeah. It was silly. And, but no, eventually Justin caught the mouse and then we went outside and we set him free. Yeah. In the dumpster. And the, yeah. Well, I mean, that's good for mice, right? Yeah, they like tearing out in trash. He's going to wake up in the dump with the rest of his family or whatever. Because don't they come back? I did want to kill him. I'll be honest. I had tendencies towards it. To kill the mouse? Yeah. I felt it inside. Yeah, I wasn't going to let you kill the mouse. Yeah. Poor guy. You know mice are very intelligent. Yeah. What? Who told you that? Mice are incredibly intelligent. Where did you read that? PETA. PETA said. You read that on PETA? Yeah. Mice and pigs. Pigs I've ever heard are smart. Pigs are smart. Yeah, pigs are smart. People say pigs are smarter than dogs. The only problem with octopus are really smart. The only problem with pigs is that they're delicious. I heard jellyfish live forever. Jellyfish do live forever. Yeah. Octopus are. Lots of rumors out there. Random facts for you kids, Dave. Yeah. Go ahead. Octopus are very intelligent. Have you ever seen them get themselves out of a jar? So if you put an octopus in a jar and screw the lid, it'll unscrew the lid from the inside and get itself out. How fucking crazy is that? That's pretty legit. It is. I had octopus on New Year's too. We ate that. Did you really? Really? Yeah. My dad got some octopus in, I think he went to Monterey and we had some octopus. Wow. I haven't had that in a long time. That's a bold move. Did you have a lot of people at your little New Year's get together or was it small? 40, something. Holy shit, I thought ours was big. Yeah. Every time we do them to my girl, she's always like, God damn. You got a big family, dude. Yeah. So it's people sitting everywhere and throughout the whole house. So we got the kitchen table, dining room table. We got other tables set up over here, over there. And people sitting outside even though it's cold. You guys like always party like over these holidays and stuff? It's usually about 30 to 40 people. Wow. I had some lamb meat and some steak and a bunch of pasta and what was that? What did I say? Octopus. Yeah. And all that. A lot of babies. My sister has a little baby now. He's adorable. You're not eating babies though. No, we don't do that. We don't do that anymore. Yeah. That was a one time thing. Good. But no. Check. But no, we have all these little babies now and running around. It's just a lot of fun. I love kids. Yeah. Someone was playing with them and stuff. You know what I did this weekend too is picked up the old PlayStation controller, man. The old one? Like the first one? No, no, no, no. I mean, I played all my nephews and stuff or anywhere between 17 and 25. Did you show them what time it is or did you get your ass kicked? Actually, I was actually very proud of myself. I had one of my nephews. You had muscle memory then? Yeah. I had one of my nephews that was pretty badass and gave me a whooping a majority of the time, although I did win some games. We played Madden and we played NBA 2K17, right? Mm-hmm. So I hung in there, man. I mean, it took me a game of each game to like remember. Yeah, what is triangle? What's circle? Give me all the stuff. And they're making fun of me. That's what was great. They're like, oh, look at Uncle. That's the note. I'm like, relax, kids. Give me one fucking game of playing here. Then it's on, right? So, and I did. I spanked most of them for most of the weekend. They were all there. It was pretty funny because he went from talking shit to me. He'd be like, oh, uncle's cool, you know, because he could play Madden and NBA. I had no one thought I had the skill sets. That's awesome. I used to play all the time as a kid, you know, and I just, it's been a long time. I told them, I said, I stopped playing when I was 27, 27, 28, somewhere in that range. Because first player games out of nowhere. Okay. Fucking 10, 15 plus years more than that. 15, 20 years of playing these games. Never once in my life has this happened. Then out of the blue, I'm playing Halo or Gears of War or, you know, Call of Duty. Call of Duty is what I gotta do. One of those, one of those first player, first person views and it started to get me nauseous and sick. And I thought maybe I was just happening to be sick and I must have, I must have tried maybe 10, 15 times after it would get me so dizzy. Yep, yep. It's a skill. You got to practice that as a total skill. You will get nauseous. Were you close to TV? Well, no, what was weird is that I've been doing this, like I said, for 15 to 20 years with no problems. There's been first player games like that and Call of Duty and, you know, Doom. I mean, they've been around forever. I've never had a problem with this. That's what was so weird was all of a sudden just hit me one day. Let me ask you a question. Are you getting any dizziness otherwise? No, I don't ever. I'm wondering if you got, because if you got what I had and I had a little bit, I had that vertigo. Yeah. Wonder if it was a virus that might make your, throw your equilibrium off a little bit. Well, so of course I thought of all these things and thought, okay, I'll just be able to get better and then we'll see. No, I only felt it when I would play these games, right? So I could play the basketball, the football. I could play all these normal games, but if I play a first person now, which I would play, I played for 15, 20 years with no problems. Now if I play it after about 10, 15 minutes of playing it, I can handle the first like five to minutes, but then after a while I got to look away. I'm just, I'm starting to get dizzy and then I'll get nauseous and then I'll want to throw up. Or are you just getting old? Yeah, that's what it feels like. Yeah. It's definitely what it feels like. So. God damn it. Well, we're all getting old. I did learn something else interesting. Just kind of fascinating. Did you know you can stretch really, really good when you're slightly drunk? Oh, I believe that. Dude. It makes sense because most people that survive. It's a central nervous system depressant. Right. Anything that's going to depress the central nervous system, you're going to probably get more range of motion. Of course. Also be careful because. I'm going to start branding drunk yoga. Droga. Yeah. No, I get down and start doing some stretches. It's actually a really good idea. And for the, for the, one of the first times. You heard it here first. Right. You know how stretching sucks, right? They have those wine classes. Yeah. What are they? They have those wine classes where people do wine and yoga. Wine and yoga. Yeah. That's popular. So I'm getting into stretches and they feel really, really good. Like really good. So I stretch for probably an hour and a half straight. Oh my God. Yeah. Which is, which is exactly approximately an hour and a half longer than normally. You and your girl are by yourself. First it was me. Then my girl kind of joined me a little bit. And then I just kept doing it all like just for the rest of the night. Can you picture him right now doing these like stretches? I feel like he's in. Yeah. It is. Yoga pants. Long socks. With his drink. You guys are picturing me wrong. I was, I was at this point I was naked. Of course. Yeah. If you're going to picture be accurate with how you picture this. I was naked. I got deep enough to in some of these stretches like lizard and stuff like that where the, the, you know, my stuff was on the floor. You know what I'm saying? So I'm like suspended and then it's on the floor. Bean bag was, was tension. Exactly. Wow. So it was like a, which is nice because it gives you feedback. I'm like, whoa, I got low. Yeah. Like each time you can really see any improvement. Huh. Any improvement? Yeah. My, my mobility. Do you want to see how low I can get? I do. I'll touch it on the floor again. I do. I don't want to see that part. But I do want to see your mobility improved. After the show. After the show. Over those pants. Where the fuck is this bird at? Bring it. Take it south. Today's quads being brought to you by Chimera coffee. It's the only coffee that is infused with all natural neutral picks for a cleaner, calmer and more focused buzz without the crash. Click the Chimera link at mindpumpmedia.com and input the discount code Mindpump a checkout for 10% off. It's the motherfucking quads. The eagle has landed. Quikwa. First question is from Tom D. Spence. Massages. Good, bad or indifferent? Oh. You kidding me? They're very good. I love them. There's a lot of... It's a necessity for me. There's a lot of benefits to getting a good, and I make sure I say good, massage. The first of which, and this is very basic, is touch. And a lot of people do not give this enough credence. Humans need, require... We crave it. ...and benefit from being touched. And if you're one of those people that... Because I know I used to have a facility with a massage therapist in it, and some people would be like, oh, I don't like... And I always thought this was weird. I don't like massages. I don't like people kind of touching me or whatever. Those are the people that probably would benefit the most from someone touching them. But studies will show human touch with good intention, so not someone punching you or hitting you, obviously, but or harassing you, but giving you good form of touch, will increase or levels of feel-good neurochemicals and hormones in the body, will decrease stress hormones in the body, will elicit a parasympathetic response in the body, which is a relaxing state. Just from being touched, we know with babies, babies need it to thrive. There's some pretty awful studies that were done in the former Soviet Union where they had some kids that weren't touched very much, and they had what they called failed to thrive, where they didn't grow. So that's the first thing is just the touch. The next thing is the actual function of the massage. I know, Adam, you have a lot of experience, right? Because your girlfriend... Yeah, no, this is what... This is her thing. This is how she got me right here, bro. She got me right here by massaging me. She was the one who really opened my eyes, and this was before we were even dating. I hired her company to do massages at my business, and that's how we first met. She was the owner, her mother owned the business, and they were the ones that were contracting out all the massage therapists. Well, part of the deal that we contracted was that I could come in and that I had four free massages every month. So every week, I was coming in and getting massaged. Wow, that's amazing. It was amazing. And then her and I would talk afterwards. Full release? And she really... No, this... Oh, God. Don't you dare ever say that in front of her. That's a big deal. Oh, it's a very big deal. Even years after us, her and I, being together, living together and dating, heaven forbid I try to get some ass when I'm on the table, dude. No, it's very... It's not happening. It's true because I'm in work mode. Oh, dude, I'm naked. I'm laying there. A lot of times I'll reach around, try and grab her butt while she's like massaging me and stuff like that. It's all... I get it because I'm the same way when I teach some... If I'm really teaching someone, if I'm teaching you, if we're just working out, then I'll give a shit. You can just work out with me and do whatever the fuck you want. I'm not paying attention to you. But if I'm teaching you and I'm trying to provide you help or service, I get into it. I'm serious about it, right? So I get the whole thing where when she's really trying to show me the benefits of a massage and why I need to do it and I'm messing around, she's gonna fucking give me shit, right? Don't they also hate it if you call them a masseuse? Yeah, masseuse is not what you call a massage therapist. A massage therapist is like a professional who massages people. There's this skill to it. Right. And I've heard the term body worker, too. So where do they... What does that follow? It's all under the same category. The same umbrella. Yeah, massage therapist and a body worker could be considered the same thing even though some people... Well, some body workers will include rehab movements and exercises. Right, but a good massage therapist just like a good personal trainer is versed in multiple modalities. So my girl can do all of it, right? Tie and different types of P&F and things like that. So she basically... She curtels the massage to my needs. So whatever it is that... She's done ties. I've been interested in that. I don't like the tie stuff. I've never tried it. She likes it. Tie can be pretty aggressive. It is. Oh, yeah, they walk on you and pull you back. Yeah, it's very, very good. I like a really deep tissue massage because I feel like I get the most relief from that. And a really good massage therapist, a lot of them, you don't even got to tell them anything. If they're really good, they'll be able to... They can feel it. Yeah, they can feel where you're really tight. And they have... The thing that her and I used to go back and forth on and I still tease her this day is the language is a little woo-woo for me. Oh, for sure. So the language is a little woo-woo, but if you can get beyond that and actually really open your mind a little bit, there is a lot of great truce behind it. It's just that they... We didn't have a lot of terms for this. And so just like we've talked about this before about... It's like Chinese medicine. Right, with Chinese medicine. And we say things like your Yi and shit like that. And this right here is another example of something that's been practiced for thousands of years that has lots of benefits and they've even made names around it. But some people shy away from it because they feel like it's too... Oh, that's made up. They'll say stuff like, I can feel your energy here. We need to release this energy there and all that stuff. And then they'll say, but there's an intuitive aspect to it. And I can relate to it because as a personal trainer, when you've been training people for a long time, there's a very intuitive aspect to it as well. And sometimes you can't put words to it. Like you can look at a person and you can tell that there may be a muscle imbalance here. Your function is wrong there. Or it looks like you're kind of tight in this area. And then you go and test it and then you're right. But there's that intuitive aspect just from doing it for a long time. The thing that I really like about massage is that Western medicine until relatively recently didn't have a way to explain why it helps. For a long time, Western medicine almost downplayed it and would say things like, it doesn't change anything in the muscle. You're not breaking up adhesions. You're not. And the reality is on a physical level, are you changing what the muscle actually looks like? Probably not. But what you are doing is you're changing the central nervous system and how it's getting that muscle to react and tense up. When you apply pressure to a muscle, you are activating certain receptors which release natural painkillers. But you're also telling the central nervous system to calm down. At first you tell it to tighten up. This is why when you have a knot, and someone presses on it, and at first it hurts really bad and then all of a sudden you feel that release where that muscle, that tight knot, all of a sudden seems to go away or dissipate or whatever. What you're noticing is your central nervous system starting to relax. And many times tight muscles, it's not the muscles themselves that are tight. So don't think of it as like it's different tissue. The tissue is the same. Think of it as it's no different than you flexing a muscle on a kind of a low level, on a constant low level, without trying to flex that muscle. Well, it's like, have you ever done one of those? I'm trying to think. In chemistry, we had this rod that you stick. It's like an electrode. Everybody kind of holds hands together and the electricity would go through your body. And immediately when you feel electricity in your body, you just feel your muscles respond. Tens up. And you just tense. It almost feels like you're sort of tuning that down a bit. Yes. So this was my first legit experience with massage therapy. So I had a massage therapist who mentored me in many different ways, and this was one of them, was with the benefits of massage therapy. And up until this point, I knew people enjoyed it. People liked it. I'd worked in the past with really good massage therapist and I could see the benefit, but I didn't consider it to be a fundamentally important aspect of wellness and fitness. It was just something cool, but it's not fundamental. So up until at this point, I had been training a lot of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. And in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, especially when you use the gi, it's very grip intensive. So your hands are constantly working, constantly gripping, constantly gripping. And I started to develop tennis elbow symptoms in my elbows. And this is tight muscles that attach around the elbow, in particular the forearms, the forearm flexors and the forearm extensors. And they just hurt. And what happened is I'd have to warm up and do all this stuff before I do jiu-jitsu so that they wouldn't hurt. That's a couple times I had to take ibuprofen. And I couldn't figure out how to get rid of this pain, even though I was a trainer. You were thinking about it as a tissue issue. Yeah, I was like, what's going on? And the problem with the wrists are they lock. So it's not like you can really stretch your flexors and extensors past a certain point, because then the wrist locks. And so like now what do I do now, right? So she finally convinces me to get on our table and she's going to work on my forearms. And she tells me, listen, she goes, will you come in here consistently for the next few weeks? And I tell her, oh, I can't really make that commitment because I'm really busy. This knows my excuses, right? So she said, well, I'm going to do a really hard one then. It's going to kind of hurt a little bit more at first, but then it'll get better. And so I'm just like, look, do your worst. Like give me your hardest, whatever. And, you know, because I don't know if I'll be back next week. I'll be inconsistent. So she spends an hour and a half on my forearms, just my forearms, and proceeds to fuck me up. Like literally gets in there and it becomes progressively and progressively deeper and more painful as she's doing these, this crazy pressure with her elbows and forearms and hands into my forearms. So I'm like sitting on the edge of the, I'm sitting in front of the table with my forearms up on the table and she's flipping my arms over and doing it to the side. It was so painful, but I didn't want to say anything to her because, you know, I don't want to be, I don't want to, you know, like kind of give in or whatever, you know, the ego, right? Right. Sure enough, they hurt a little bit more that day. The next day, the pain was reduced by about 20%. Over the course of three days, the pain went away completely, gone. Like never again did I have that problem with my forearms. And at that point, I became completely sold and I started diving deep into what may actually be happening on a scientific level with massage therapy because up until this point, all the explanations are like what Adam said, kind of woo-woo, which I fucking hate. I don't like the woo, personally, I don't like the woo-woo explanations because you're only going to be able to communicate that to a certain amount of people. For me, if I feel it and I see it. Same thing with yoga. Yeah, so for me personally, if I experience it and I see it, then you can give me a woo-woo explanation and I'm going to be okay with it because I can see what's going on. But when I'm trying to communicate this to clients and stuff, some people will accept it, but a lot of people are going to look at me and be like, No, a lot of people are rejected just because of that, which is unfortunate because it's normally those people that probably would get the most benefit from it, which is I always try, I mean, I joke with you guys off air and stuff because Katrina uses those terms because she's been in massage therapy for fucking 20-something years of her life. So she was born and raised in it. Her mom started the school and the clinic here years before even she was involved in it. So her verbiage is that way. And so her and I go back and forth all the time, like, stop saying it like that. Like that's bullshit. So what you have to think of is if you have a constantly, if you have a muscle that's in a constant state of tonus, if it's slightly tensed by your central nervous system for whatever reason, whether it's because you're protecting an injury that you currently have, an injury that you used to have, and so now you've got this recruitment pattern, even though the injury's gone, the recruitment pattern stays, or if this is the result of an emotion, which for sure your state of mind will affect how muscles tense up. If you're scared, if you're depressed, if you're mad, things change and whatever. Well, sympathetic, parasympathetic. Like that was the biggest thing for me. Going through and being on a table and having somebody manually kind of manipulate my tissue and kind of do all this for me. It's like, now I'm in the passenger seat. Right. And I understand what that feels like now, and that's why it was such a game changer for me, was I didn't know how to get to that state. Like it was really hard for me to do because everything I knew about training and being successful and doing all that stuff required tense and required like me just like pressing forward. Like I didn't really know what the other gear was. So that really helped me. Well, there's a big piece to add to that that people don't realize that, you know, some people, maybe you don't have a major injury or major knots, like you think you so you need a massage. But some people are just overly tense. All over. Yeah, all over and mentally. And when you finally, I can always feel, I mean, she can always feel too, she'll tell me. She'll be massaging me like, let's say I've just had a lot going on. A lot would work. Maybe I haven't been on their table for like a couple of weeks in a row or whatever. And she'll be massaging me. And it'll be like 15 minutes in, right? I'm laying there. And then she'll be, she'll say out loud, I'll hear it be quiet, silent music, going candles, whatever. And all of a sudden I hear her go like, finally. And it's weird because I can feel myself mentally just kind of go, and I relax. And then she can feel it in my body completely just settle down. So this is what's happening on a scientific level. When you have a tight muscle or a muscle that's getting a signal from your central nervous system to prepare itself or to protect itself or to protect a particular type of movement, when you press on that muscle with tension in a particular way, it sends a signal to the CNS for that muscle to relax and the CNS signal starts to dampen. Stretching does this as well, but in a slightly different way. Stretching and massage are very similar though, but it's just different. Massage can do things that stretching can't do and vice versa. This is why they're both important. So tension or pressing on these muscles causes things to relax. And here's the other thing too, when people, when massage therapists say you're storing your emotions in these muscles or your hips or when people notice an emotional release from massage, there is a dual, there is a two-way street with this. There's feedback that goes in either direction. If at this moment right now you're listening to the podcast and all of a sudden, I'll give you an extreme example, a lion jumps out in front of you at a nowhere for sure your muscles are gonna change, for sure your signals to your muscles are gonna change. If you get a phone call right now that when your kid's got an accident or someone you care about got an accident or if you just lost your job, for sure a physical change will happen in your body. That can happen on lower levels too. Little bits of stress here and there, thoughts, whatever, will change how your body feels, reacts, change how your central nervous system fires things on low levels. That's without debate. Now the reverse is true. The reverse is true. Your emotions and your state of mind also get feedback from your body. So if your body is tight and somebody goes in and manually gets your body to relax, all of a sudden your brain and your mind and your emotions, whatever, getting it to signal that I'm safe. And then all of a sudden emotions come out. Like I'm safe to cry now. So if you, and this is true by the way, you talk to any massage therapist who's been doing this for any length of period of time, they'll tell you people crying on their table way more common than you realize. Oh yeah. Way more common. And it's that feedback system. So I guess, I mean, we kind of went off on a rant here, but I consider- Well, we were answering it. I mean, I think there is a lot of good to it. I think that more people probably need in their life. Now that's not to say everybody absolutely needs it because if you're somebody who does do a lot of mobility work and maybe you meditate and you get, for me, this has to be part of my routine because I already don't do enough of that stuff. So this is something that I like to schedule in my life. It's as expensive as it may be. It's a value to me because I know that I don't put the daily discipline in that I should put into the meditation and the consistent mobility works over that. So it's also another way for me to give some more relief. So I'll tell you something. So massages sometimes people are like, oh, they're expensive, you know, just like getting a gym membership is expensive or eating healthy is expensive. All these things are expensive. So this reminds me of a documentary I just watched which I highly recommend you guys watch. Some of the stuff, most of the stuff they talk on there, on the documentary about you guys will know, but there's some pretty fascinating stuff. The name of the documentary is the science of fasting. And I promise you it's connected to the question that we're talking about. My sister-in-law actually just told me all about that. Fucking watch this documentary. First of all, the science of fasting, fascinating stuff, especially on the effects of fasting on cancer, on cancer cells and how it protects healthy cells. Is it on Netflix? It's on Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime. So I'm not going to go into that because that's another topic. But what I noticed was, which was fascinating, in some of these Eastern European nations and Russia in particular, for example, Russia has a little bit of a different approach to medicine. Part of it was because during the Soviet Union, they've had all these, first of all, their cultures have involved things like cold therapy, massage and fasting for a lot longer than Western cultures have, or most Western cultures, because some Western cultures have had this as well. But it was included as part of the protocol and doctors administer it. So they were showing these clinics, these are actual medical clinics with doctors, nurses, whatever. People will go there with asthma, bronchitis, all these chronic type of illnesses or issues, rheumatoid arthritis, whatever. They'll go there and the doctors will prescribe fasting, they'll prescribe cold and hot therapy, they'll prescribe massage. So people will go there for two or three weeks. The success rate is fucking amazing. The success rate for a lot of these people is 50% and we're talking about chronic illnesses that have zero cures. And as I was watching this, I was realizing, you know, if we would apply these things to ourselves here, sure they cost a little bit of money up front, but they save you way more money. And I could, massage is right up there. Like if you got a massage, you know, every other week and then you did your stretching, you watched your nutrition, you knew how to meditate, you fasted when you needed to, yeah, that's gonna cost you money up front. But think about all the money that's gonna save you later on and just medicine and doctor bills and, you know, sick and sick time and quality of life. Oh, no doubt, no doubt. So Adam, by the way, you can tell me to turn off your microphone. Tell your nose or cough. Sorry, I try to push, I try to push. I know, fuck, dude, I, you know, I forgot my damn organified today. I've been this whole, when I first started coming on, I was feeling really good. I was drinking that and staying on top of all that. And our, you know, we got the gift from, what's your name? Nature's Valley. Nature's Way. Yeah, Nature's Way. Oh, shout out to Nature's Way. That's right. That was really nice to see that. Yeah, no, I guess they, I guess what we mentioned on the other day, I guess they got all kinds of love over there. The Elderberry Zinc Lasagna. Yeah, so I've been doing that and I've been doing zinc and I did mucinex and then the only thing I'm missing is my Sudafed and my organified this morning because I left it with Katrina's bag because we took it up to there for New Year's because every day we were having the green and the red juice. So yeah, it's kind of kicking my ass. Did you guys try the cacao yet? The organified cacao? Yeah. It's great. Did you put it in your coffee? Uh-huh. It's good, right? Yeah, put it in like, you know, in the chimera, like one of those K-cup things. Yeah, yeah. Did you notice more of a buzz? Yeah, well, I just, it gives you like that little extra little zing. Yeah, I don't know if that was, you know, the case or if it was just like, you know, the coffee was on point. The El Bromine is in cacao and it's chemically very similar to caffeine. So when you take good quality rock cacao with caffeine, you're going to get more of a stimulator. I liked a little bit of a kick, though. It's like a spice there. Oh, I loved it. It was nice. Really good stuff. All right, but yeah, so we'll turn your mic off when you blow it up. Just wave to me. All right, I got you, I got you. All right, our next question is Lindsay One Dove. Tips for increasing female libido. You know, this is, this is becomes a thing for particular moms after they have children. I know because it's being tired and also hormones change quite a bit. I've never had any problems with the moms. Huh? God. I mean, let's just be honest. Yeah, just keep it real. That's the wheelhouse. Well, you know, hormones change after you have a child for, I think it's definitely while you're breastfeeding because evolutionarily speaking, it makes sense, right? You don't want to necessarily get pregnant right away afterwards. That could be a dangerous thing. But tip for increasing female libido. You know, same stuff that you would recommend for increasing male libido. But I know Lindsay does this stuff. So she's a, she's an avid listener and she's lifting. So she's running a map. So the first thing I would say would be getting into a good lifting routine, exercise and sleep and all that kind of stuff. You know, also, you know, I would imagine it's very, very similar with women as it is with men. I know all the factors. You talk about strength training, talk about different nutrition, talk about all these supplements I could be taking. Nothing makes a bigger difference on my libido than fucking stress. Yeah. Stress will fucking up more than anything else and in good spirits will change. That to me is, you know, the biggest rock of all the things that I could contribute as far as what I have noticed in my experience personally and with clients. If you are eating correctly, you're doing all these things, you feel sexy, all these other things that all do matter, but you've got a lot of stress, whether it be family, personal, relationship or business, that shit will fucking... Hit the nail on the head. My wife and I went through that whole process. It was like, oh my God, you know, what can we do to kind of bring this energy back and it was really just like alleviating a lot of these things that were just bombarding my wife on a constant day-to-day basis. So that was like, my focus was just really to just alleviate a lot of these things that were just like, I mean, she just was not in the mood. You know what I mean? I had to like create the environment. That was a more, you know, in that direction. Like vacuuming, washing dishes, cleaning. Yeah, like my shirt off and I'm like cleaning. You know what I mean? Didn't work for a while. She didn't get turned on because you had your shirt off, bro. No, I know. She got turned on because you vacuumed. Yeah, I know. I even put a cowboy hat on. Did the whole thing? Yeah. You know, more often than not, low libido is not a result of anything chemically or hormonally in the body. I know a lot of people think that. Like, my libido is low. There must be something wrong with me. My hormones are off or my thyroid is off. And sometimes that is the case. Yeah, it can be that. Yeah, sometimes it is the case. But more often than not, it's just an emotional situation. Like I don't feel appreciated or I feel stressed or I don't feel connected to my partner. I know for me, you know, when I was going through kind of the beginning of my divorce or whatever, and I was dating Jessica, there were times when I was like, man, what's wrong with me? Like I normally have a very high libido. And me and her would start talking. We would just start talking about the whole situation. And I was able to process some of the stuff that I was feeling. And then literally within 30 minutes, I'd be aroused. And I started putting that together and being like, there's nothing wrong with me. It's just this stuff that I need to talk about. You need to get it off your chest. And I start to feel better. You know, I've told you guys about, you know, I know I've said this on this show several times. And I'm sure Lindsay's heard this before because I know she's been listening for a long time. The book reading thing with Katrina was a huge game changer for us. We also had this game. I don't use it very often because we do read together on a regular basis. I forget the name of it. So those, I know Jackie will be doing the notes on this. So Jackie, if you mess with me, I'll have it for the show notes. But I was given this gift and it's like just this little, one of those little glass, you know, things that holds a bunch of cards, right? So there's like for board games, you know what I'm saying? And there's probably, you know, 300, 500 cards in there. And the cards just have like little conversation starters. That's all in the game. And it's really just like a party game to get conversation and dialogue going. And Katrina and I, one night just for shits and giggles pulled it out and just like started going through like, Oh, let's see this game. What it's all about. And it's really designed for parties, lots of people that don't know each other kind of break the ice type of stuff. But we started reading them and it really sparked up conversations that we just had never had. And I tell you what, like, you know, you, those that have been in a relationship for a really long time, like, I know that I've been with my girl and for seven years because I love her and I love her for tons of reasons. But we take a lot of those reasons for granted and we even start to forget some of those things. And a lot of those things are what drove us to be attracted to them and want them physically, you know, and you start to forget some of that stuff. And by doing this and playing this game where we started having conversation, the way she answered certain things about the, you know, and we each took a turn, like it would be a statement about something like something that you learned from your father, you know, between the ages of five and 12 go, you know. And so she goes and like has to really think about that. Right. And then she delivers and then I deliver it and then it starts up this big, long conversation and then it reminds me of the things that I'm so attracted to. It's a very sexy game. Do you really think about it? No, it really is. And it turned into that. We ended up having sex afterwards or whatever with that. And it wasn't even the intent. Like we weren't going into it like, hey, let's see if this, we need to really reconnect. Right. We need to rekindle our sex life. That wasn't the intention at all. It was a gift that someone had given us and we were opening it. But I did connect that that, whoa, this was something that I wouldn't have thought that would make that happen. But you know, somebody like, and I don't know if Lindsay's been in a relationship for a really long time, but sometimes you just need to be reminded of these qualities that you love or that you're very attracted to in your partner and nothing like great deep conversation that starts. Yeah. And you know, we should also, we should talk about libido killers, lack of sleep. Lack of sleep is a major libido killer. Because I get the stress. Not just lack of sleep, but lack of quality sleep. Sometimes just fixing that alone will change how you feel sexually. And that one is the pill. Birth control pill. Now some women actually notice an increased libido when they're on the pill. And that they believe has to do more with the removal of stress of getting pregnant. So now I'm on the pill, I'm not worried about getting pregnant and that increases libido. But on a chemical and hormonal level, it changes how women react and respond to men in terms of like signs of testosterone or wanting to mate or whatever. They've done these studies now several times where they'll take women who are on birth control and they'll compare them to women who are not on birth control. And the women who are not on birth control, you can clearly, they can clearly see when women are ovulating or able to get pregnant when they're not based on the type of man they're attracted to. So what they do with these studies is fascinating, is they'll take pictures of men and they'll masculinize the face. So same face, but then they make it look a little bit more masculine by adding like a little, maybe a heavier brow ridge or sharper jaw line, a little bit of a beard or whatever. Or they'll feminize it, make the face look softer, a little bit more feminine. When women are able to get pregnant and if they're off the pill, they are attracted to more masculine looking faces. They want to mate with a stronger male or whatever. When women are on the pill, that changes and a woman's preferences will change which is on the pill too. So they've actually done studies and showed that when women meet their mate while they're on the pill and they get married and then they go off. I've heard of this. The divorce rate goes up. It actually goes up because all of a sudden she's like, I'm not attracted to this dude anymore. Like what's going on? You're not realizing that, you know, because it's subtle. What was the connection to that? It had something to do with, something to do with their hormones when it's being controlled like that that it changes their desire or wants. The body thinks it's pregnant all the time when you're on the pill. Okay, so that's what it is. That's what's going on. So she's looking for a provider or so. So you have this morbid... Someone safe versus somebody she wants to mate. Yeah. You know, they've actually done studies and shown that when women who are not on the pill are in that kind of fertile stage that they were... They actually have a percentage. I can't remember what it was, but like 15%, they have 15 or 20% more skin showing. When they go out, they move their hips. So they actually numbered it like so much percentage more when they dance on the dance floor. These are all like, these are all cues and signs of... High heels are worn more frequently. They can actually calculate like a woman's ability to orgasm and where she is in her cycle by how her hips, how much her hips move. What? When she dances or walks. Get the fuck out of here. Swear to God. I've called BS on that. I'll find it. I'll find the study. We'll put it in the show. That shit on purpose. You know what I'm saying? That ain't like a natural thing. Some girls be working. There's stuff that's on purpose. There's a lot of stuff that's not on purpose. I think it's about break their ankles who are trying to work it so hard. It's probably both. There's a lot of stuff that's on purpose and there's a lot of stuff that's not on purpose. But yeah, get sleep, reduce stress, sit down, talk and communicate. And then if you want to talk about supplements, evening primrose oil for women has been shown to balance out hormones. Yo-him-be has been suggested that it actually helps women with feeling aroused as well. This also helps with men. The thing about men is if you give something to a man that improves his ability to get an erection, he will oftentimes feel more aroused as well because of the feedback. Like when a guy gets a boner, he feels it and then automatically makes him feel like he's more aroused. We're different creatures than women. With women, it's a little more subtle. So they don't necessarily connect that physical arousal with the mentally arousal type of thing. That's why it's a little bit more complicated. But yeah, that's pretty much it. They need a storyline. Yeah, because we're experts on this. And there's always pirates. I thought we did a pretty good job answering that question. Yeah, I mean, you've definitely had that with... If you DM us, Adam will send you a naked picture. That's actually helped many women. This could also kill your sex drive. Usually fixes it. All right, next is Katie Magrady. You guys have talked about rebuilding metabolism several times, but I don't feel like I've gotten good advice about how. I know I've done some serious metabolic damage to myself, and now I'm following your maps programming. Are there some kind of specific guidelines I should be following to fix my metabolism? Or should I just keep eating healthy and I will eventually see changes? Unfortunately, if we were to say yes, that would be a very generic answer because everybody is so unique and different. But this is also why we created the intuitive guide, because if we were to structure something or to give somebody a plan on how to rebuild their metabolism or to get reconnected to their body signals, this would be the path that you would start. Yeah, so here's two of the biggest challenges with... And by the way, I hate the word metabolic damage, we use it, we understand what that means. I don't necessarily like using it though, because it's accepted in the medical community still. Well, your metabolism is doing exactly what it should. If you diet too much, you over-exercise a lot, your metabolism is adapting, becoming more efficient, and it's actually protecting you. There's two big, big challenges with trying to get your metabolic rate to speed up, because I think what she's talking about is she probably dieted a lot over-exercise, now her metabolism is really slow, and if she eats anything over 1200 calories or whatever, she starts to gain weight, so she's trying to get it so that it burns more calories so that it becomes easier to stay lean. What are those first steps she needs to take in that right direction? There's a couple of big challenges with this. One is you're probably going to have to gain some weight, and that's a tough one for people, because people in this state of mind who overwork themselves in under eight probably don't have a good relationship with their body, and you tell one of these people, hey, look, in order for us to reverse out of this, your body's going to probably have to gain some weight and some body fat. You might as well tell them to cut their leg off or jump off of a bridge. That is a very difficult message to convey. Very different message to convey. So you're going to probably have to gain a little bit of weight and let your body know, feel comfortable that it has some reserves. You're doing the maps programming, which is good because you're focused now on building muscle, which is key here, absolute key. If you get stronger and if you build muscle, your metabolic rate is going to burn hotter. More muscle requires more calories and you utilize glycogen and glucose more effectively. Your body becomes more sensitive to insulin, so it just becomes more efficient at burning body fat. In terms of nutrition, very basic, you have to slowly increase your calories on a very basic level. Now, what those calories are made up of can vary pretty dramatically. I typically don't recommend anybody cut any macro too low when they're doing something like this. So I don't typically recommend a keto low-carb-style diet when somebody's coming out of metabolic damage or HP axis dysfunction or whatever because we want insulin to rise a little bit. We want it to be balanced. I run mostly, most clients that I deal with this, I run close to like a 30, 30, 30. Like the old zone or whatever. Yeah, I find it works the best. I mean, obviously there's benefits to having carbohydrates with this person, but I also know too that they could be insulin resistant, so you don't want to overdo it like a 50 or 60% carbohydrate diet. If you want numbers, I'll give you some generic numbers of protocols that I typically put on people. But this is, again, it's going to range based on the person is I'm only looking to increase their daily caloric intake, you know, week over week by about 5% to 20%, right? And 20% obviously would be, we're seeing great results. They're leading out actually. They're not putting any weight on, right? I'm only gradually inching you up 5% if I notice that your body's staying the same or even potentially like Sal saying going up. So I'm trying to increase, you know, your caloric intake by 5% daily each week like we're going to increase 5% if that makes sense, right? And then I'm going to try and counter that by increasing your neat by about 2 to 4,000 steps every week, right? So I'm asking that person, okay, if this week we average 6,000 steps a day and you're eating 2,000 calories, next week I'm wanting you to try and eat about 2,200 calories and we're going to shoot for 7,000 to 8,000 steps per day. And that's what I'm trying to create a little bit more movement to counter the additional calories that we're adding but also get our metabolism used to consuming more calories. Now again, those are rough and generic numbers but for the most part, you know, that's what I'm kind of doing and then I'm paying attention to the client and seeing, okay, obviously week over week I'm not going to add 5% to 20%, if every week I see you putting on 2 to 5 pounds, 2 to 5 pounds, I'll have to slow it down and some clients I've seen take me almost a year to fix their metabolism, some happen in around 6 months and then some of them after about a month of actually just getting their shit together, they actually start to respond really well so it's really tough to say. I noticed that with some clients, like it's really just the recovery that was absent, you know, even in the lifting process, people think that weight training, like as far as the rest periods are concerned, that gets like sort of muddied up because of trying to hustle through the workout and treat it much like a cardio session. Right, right, again, I didn't even address that, right? Part of the recommendation on programming would be something that models like a phase one of maps read, like that's the type of lifting that I'm having to do, good amount of rest periods, we're lifting heavier weight, that way any extra calories that you consume or any weight that you put on, I'm hoping that some of that is being partitioned over to building muscle. So even though your scale may go up like Sal saying two to five or eight or even 10 pounds, I'm hoping a nice percentage of that is actually going to building muscle on your body, which is internally going to help your metabolism. It's a shift in mentality. So what you don't want to do is you don't want to go into this and think to yourself, I'm going to quote unquote repair my metabolism and get leaner. Like get that out of your head. What you need to think is I'm going to go in, I'm just going to focus on getting stronger. I'm going to increase my strength in the gym and I'm going to slowly be able to eat more calories and that's it. And then forget everything else because it will fuck with your head when you realize, oh, this isn't, this is taking longer than a month. It's taking me four months or five or six months later and it's still taking me longer and I've gained five pounds on the scale. It will mess with your head and what a lot of people do is they back out of it and go back to reducing their calories and think, okay, I think I repaired it enough and they end up doing more damage. It can take a while, especially if you were in that state of damaging your metabolism for a long time. I mean, if you were a competitor and you competed in competitions for years, I mean, Jason Phillips made a good point. Your CNS may remember that. Even though you do a year's worth of rebuilding, it could take you another year to get your CNS to be okay with the fact that you're eating more now or you're gonna be able to eat more now. So give yourself, definitely give yourself some time. Don't cut anything too low. I always recommend people avoid foods that are, like lots of processed foods and things that are unhealthy. Gut health is important. It's pretty common to find people in this state that's with gut health issues as well. It's rare that I find someone like this without having gut problems. It's usually both. So repair your gut health because if your gut health is off, it's gonna be very difficult to get your metabolism to speed up. It's gonna be hard to eat more calories and do all that stuff, but give yourself some time. Just focus on strength and slowly move your calories up and then watch what happens. Next question is from Harriet Edwards 410. Why does your body sometimes start to reject foods that you eat a lot of, even if they are healthy, nutritious foods such as nuts, blueberries, et cetera? Didn't we just cover this? Maybe not just, but we've talked about this. Yeah, no, we've talked about this before. In fact, I thought we were just talking about this and saying more than likely, you know, as you get, if you do start to get autoimmune issues, more often than not, it's something that you eat a lot of, regardless if it's healthy. It could be avocados, it could be blueberries, it could be tomatoes. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's, you know, and you've explained this really well about, you know, and I think as Americans, we're obviously seeing this more and more and it's on the rise of this over-consumption. If we're constantly oversaturating, over-consuming, and then you have any sort of a leaky gut syndrome at all, you know, it could be avocados or blueberries that you eat a lot of and then that leaks through and then gets into your bloodstream and then your body thinks of it as an invader and says, okay, next time you eat that, I'm not gonna be happy with that. Right, because in, so it's important to understand that it's not, the problem isn't that you're eating a lot of healthy foods. Yeah. The problem is, you're eating a lot of the same foods in the context of inflammation. So if your body's inflamed, if your gut is inflamed, if the junctions between the, you know, the cells in your gut are open and food can pass through the gut that isn't supposed to or parts of food pass through the gut that aren't supposed to when they're not supposed to, then you're going to develop an immune reaction to these foods which just so happen to be the ones you eat a lot of. So now you're in a position where I used to always have milk, never bothered me before, and now milk gives me problems or, you know, wheat now gives me problems or whatever. Now some foods tend to be more, your body tends to develop reactions to certain foods more than others for whatever reason. We're not quite sure why, but dairy, gluten, nuts, lagoons, nightshade, you know, vegetables like tomatoes and eggplants are on that list of foods that we tend, that tend to be more immunologic. You see a little more frequently. You do. Egg whites is another one. Lectins are found that your body has a tendency to want to develop more antibodies towards. In the context of inflammation though, fuck, it could be anything. This, when I had my terrible gut issues and I did all these tests eventually when I was convinced to do so, I remember looking at the list and I was so befuddled. Like I looked at the list and I'm like, I've been eating this forever. I'm like, this is fucking foods I eat all the time. Like spinach was on there. Like spinach. Egg whites. Yeah, how the hell am I, do I have an intolerance to spinach and it's because I had, you know, leaky gut. Right. It starts with that though, right? It starts with that inflammatory state that you, you know, your gut gets into that state. And now, all of a sudden, the problems start to arise with, you know, some of these foods that are considered healthy that you've always ate. Now, the good news is if you're finding that you're in the state of leaky gut and, you know, lots of food intolerances, if you avoid the foods that you have a reaction to completely, because this is the current protocol. I'm not saying this is going to change because things tend to change at this state. This is a lot of new stuff. But so far, this is what seems to work. You completely avoid the foods that you have an intolerance to heal your gut. Those antibodies reduce and then you can reintroduce it. You can reintroduce it and you can cure many of your food intolerances. Sometimes you can't, but many of them you can't. So like for me, I can eat peanuts again. I can eat egg whites again. Gluten, I have a mild to moderate intolerance to now, whereas before it was a severe intolerance to. Dairy's fucked. I can't have dairy ever again, so that one's gone. But I had to completely avoid them for like a year. I remember like if there was like breadcrumbs in my food, like the smallest amount, then I'd get this horrible reaction and it was so frustrating. But I had to completely avoid them and your bodies starts to reduce these, you know, these, you know, IgG antibodies, they're called to these types of food. So you're going to have to identify these for yourself. There's a couple ways you can do this. There are tests that you can take that will test IgG antibodies and that'll give you a good start. They're relatively expensive. I think like $500 on average. The other thing is in the gold standard is an elimination diet where you remove all of your, you know, what you think may be giving you problems for 30 to 90 days. That's the pain in the ass. And then you reintroduce one at a time, one week at a time. So like, okay, this week I've been avoiding, you know, whatever, dairy for, you know, two months. I'm going to introduce dairy this week and then you introduce dairy. No reaction, cool. Now next week I'm going to introduce this other food that I had avoided and you slowly do that because you want to know what's causing the problem. Once you've identified that food intolerance it's recommended that you avoid it for a year, at least. So a year cut that food out and then sleep, you can reintroduce it later on and see what happens. But if you're in a state of you know, the kind of this low level immune response this affects everything in your body. This affects your hormones. When you have this low level of inflammation in your body and the slow kind of immune reaction in the body although you may think you feel okay cortisol is going to be a little higher because it's a reaction it's a stress response which will then affect your ability to burn body fat and build muscle. Cravings may change. It may affect serotonin and dopamine so your moods will start to change. Lots of things are affected by this and they gradually build over time to the point where what's that analogy where if you like put a frog in boiling water it jumps out but if you put a frog in room temperature water and then slowly heat it up it doesn't jump out and it eventually boils death because it doesn't recognize the slow increases in temperature. I don't know how true that is but I know it's something that people will say where you know if you some bayou proverb where if you you know over time your body gets worse and worse and worse over time you don't recognize how shitty you feel because it's been the slow gradual increase and when you get yourself better you start to notice like oh shit I was feeling kind of crappy so this is something that's real important if you have foods that give you bloat or skin issues or constipation, diarrhea belching lethargy, these can all be signs of food intolerance whether they be mild moderate or severe. Check this out we are doing a 30 day workout on YouTube for free so what this means is every single day we're going to give you a new workout or mobility session or something on YouTube for the month of January it's totally free. 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