153. Can Friends Alter Your Microbiome?

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everybody.

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Welcome to the elemental Ivan show.

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This is your host, Evan Roberts.

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And on this show, I break down complex

health topics from a holistic perspective.

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And on today's show, we're

going to be talking about.

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The people that influence you the most

and more specifically, the people that

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influence you on a bacterial level,

they can actually alter your microbiome.

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So I'm sure many of you have already

heard the saying that, you know,

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you are the average of the five

people you spend the most time with.

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This is a saying that I personally

find to be very true and it's something

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we're really going to jump into

today, but even more importantly,

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the people that you're spending the

most time with, or more specifically,

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the people that you're living with.

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Or actually affecting

you on a very deep level.

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They are affecting you

at a bacterial level.

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They are actually affecting

your micro biome or more.

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So they are influencing your microbiome.

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So on today's episode, we're going

to cover how the people we surround

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ourselves with actually influence us

and how they can have an influence

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on our microbiome, which for those

of you who are unfamiliar with what a

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microbiome is, microbiome is simply.

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The cloud of bacteria that surrounds you

and is inside you and all throughout you,

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you have tons of bacteria and viruses

and all these different things on you.

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And we have, what's known as a microbiome

and that is all of the bacteria

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that is on our body and in our body.

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So you are having that affected

or influenced by the people you

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are living with, and you also

will influence theirs as well.

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So that is going to be today's topic.

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It's a really interesting one.

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I have some.

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Pretty cool studies to

bring to the table today.

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But before we jump into that, One of

the things that I really love doing

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on this show is just talking about

the different health practices or

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things that I am trying, uh, that I

found some benefit with, or that I'm

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enjoying and sharing them with you

because that's something that I would

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do with my closest friends, my family.

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Uh, my loved ones.

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And of course you are all in that category

because you're tuning into the show.

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So thank you very much.

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And today I'm actually going to talk

a little bit about, uh, colostrum.

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So colostrum is something that has.

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Well, it's been around for a long time,

but it's kind of re-emerged here on

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the market, um, in terms of legalities

and just being able to purchase it.

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But colostrum, for those of you who

are unfamiliar with what it is, It's

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actually the dairy that is produced

by mammals, uh, within the first

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48 to 72 hours after giving birth.

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So it is the, essentially the

very first food that all mammals

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will receive is this claustrum.

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So it's a milk, right?

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Um, but it is a very special milk

because it's going to have the

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essential nutrients that we're going

to need when we're literally just born.

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Right.

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And I know this is.

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Almost a little weird sounding.

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Um, I know when I first heard about

this, I was a little skeptical

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and also just kinda like, man,

what the heck is this all about?

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But nonetheless, there are some

really great studies on it and

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there seems to be some real, uh, you

know, Some backing on this product.

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And it's something that I've been very

interested in because of its ability

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to possibly help with gut health,

which for those of you who know gut

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health is a huge thing that I focus on.

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Uh, I've struggled with a lot of gut

issues growing up, specifically, IBS.

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That's one of the main

things that I've dealt with.

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And so of course I'm always trying

to find new things that are going

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to help benefit the guy and the

microbiome and all that good stuff.

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And inevitably claustrum

came up on my radar.

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So I decided to give it a try.

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And it's been about three months

now that I've been taking claustrum.

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And I will truthfully, I started

taking it for my digestive health.

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Although personally, I've actually seen

most of the benefits in a different area.

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So in terms of gut health, I'm just

going to be straight up with all of you.

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Um, I have noticed some

benefit from taking claustrum

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literally every single day.

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I usually just take it once a day.

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I don't normally take it more than that.

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Although I have, for a period of

time taken a, uh, two times a day.

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But really the benefit of the gut health,

I would say there is a slight note,

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like noticeable difference in terms of

just kind of feeling better, um, that

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digestive, just digestive system working

a little bit better, but realistically,

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I actually, haven't seen a massive shift

in the benefits of claustrum for my gut.

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Now I think I need to take it for a

little bit of a longer period of time

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and also increase the amount that

I'm taking because when I was taking.

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Taking claustrum two times a day.

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I actually did notice a little bit

more of a benefit with the gut health.

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So that's something I want to do.

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It's obviously not the

most cost-effective thing.

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Of course, when you're taking it

literally multiple times a day.

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Cause I might even take it like three

times a day just to see what happens.

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But here's where I found a lot

of benefit from trying colostrum.

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So colostrum.

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When I was taking it once a day.

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This is right around the time when

literally like everyone was getting sick.

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Okay.

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So friends, family, coworkers,

acquaintances, everyone around me was just

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dropping like flies, getting sick, right.

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Um, from various different things, right.

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And here I was in contact with most

of these people, like physically in

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contact with them, because I didn't

know that they were sick or they

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didn't even know that they were

sick, whatever it might have been.

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And.

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I literally was completely fine.

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Felt incredible, actually like no issues,

no symptoms, not even like a little bit

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of a sickness, which is amazing because.

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Personally, I haven't

done anything different.

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I have been eating the same foods.

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I've been taking the same

supplements that I usually take,

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which it's just a few supplements.

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There's really not that many.

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So I have not been doing anything

differently aside from the fact

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that I started taking colostrum.

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On that note, Ashley as well, was taking

the classroom with me and same experience,

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no sickness, nothing like that.

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So the immune benefits which I have heard

about, and I knew that that was a possible

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benefit of taking colostrum, although it

wasn't the primary reason I was taking it.

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Was actually what I felt

was the most pronounced.

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Now, of course I can't.

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Go out and say, oh, a hundred percent

of this claustrum is, you know, what

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kept me totally safe and strong and

all this good stuff, but I really

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truthfully did not do anything else.

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And I just came to the conclusion that,

you know, for me, literally being in

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contact with all of these sick people.

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Um, and I, I know I have a decent immune

system for sure, but it's just wild.

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And I really truthfully think

that there is something with this.

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Uh, with our immunity and

with taking claustrum.

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So that's something I'm

huge on taking right now.

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I'm going to continue taking it.

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And funny enough.

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I ran out of claustrum and

I was meaning to order it.

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I ran over for like two weeks and I

decided I was going to go ahead and

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reorder the claustrum, but just kept a.

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Uh, escaping my mind and sure enough,

I ate some kind of a funky food or

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something like that because, uh, I

definitely got a stomach bug and it was

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just a quick little 24 hour kind of like

full evacuation if you know what I mean?

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Uh, both Ashley and I got it.

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I really do think it's

from, uh, something we ate.

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And I was like, oh man.

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I really wish I had my

colostrum right now.

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Uh, so I went ahead and ordered it

and, um, it was really cool because for

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one like full day felt really crappy.

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And then the next couple of days,

I was still a little bit like

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dehydrated, you know, a little

bit of a headache, all that.

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Uh, but I had the claustrum,

it started taking it.

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And I mean, within like a day

or two was just back on my feet,

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feeling back to normal and feeling

great and ready to rock and roll.

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So.

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Once again, can't fully a hundred percent

obviously say, because I don't have

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the ability to test that and to know

for sure that this is what was doing

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it, but I really truly feel that the

claustrum was benefiting my immune system.

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Uh, which also just on that note,

at least 70% of our physical

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immune system resides in our gut.

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So it just kind of goes hand in hand

that what is good for our gut is also

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going to be good for our immune system.

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So it just kind of makes sense there.

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Needless to say, I will

continue taking on a colostrum.

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I feel that it has a lot of benefits

to it, and I feel like it has even more

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benefits that I haven't tapped into yet.

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So I'm going to buy it and increase

the amount in, uh, in which I'm taking

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at least twice a day, maybe even

three times a day and just see what

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benefits I, I obtained from that.

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Um, truthfully, I literally just

try so many different health things,

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especially when it comes to the gut.

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That's a huge thing I focus on.

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Um, you know, I don't typically have

a lot of flare ups from IBS, but

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every now and again, it does happen.

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And so I'm still able to

kind of really tweak and.

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And find out what it is that is best

for my immune system and my gut.

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Uh, and colostrum is the newest thing

that I've been trying so figured

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I would share it with all of you.

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Um, I will share as well

other health practices and.

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Uh, books that I'm reading and

all those different things on

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here, because literally that's

what the show is all about.

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Uh, I just love to share this stuff.

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So.

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Anyways.

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If you want to try this glossary and

see what it does for you, because of

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course everyone's body is going to

be specific and, you know, different.

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So I can't say, you know, what works for

me is also going to work for you, but

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I've found some serious benefit with this.

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And if you want to try it as

well, the colostrum that I

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decided to go with was called tri.

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Arm WRA.

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And you might have seen them on

Instagram and all the socials.

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Cause they're pretty big on there.

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But that is tri T R Y.

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A R M R a tri armor.

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And if you go there, you can go

ahead and try out their colostrum.

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They have a few different flavors.

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Personally.

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I just got the basic flavor, like

the unflavored one, and I literally

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will just take a scoop of it and

throw it into my mouth and let it

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just kind of dissolve in there.

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Um, they say it's also good for

the oral microbiome as well.

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So, uh, yeah, if you want to

go ahead and try it out, I will

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go ahead and have the link.

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Uh, in the show notes.

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So you can go ahead down

there and click on it.

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It's tri Arora.

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And of course, because you are listeners

to the show and I love to try to

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give you guys something for finding

me your ear, all of these times.

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Uh, on all these episodes, uh, I love

to give you guys a discount code.

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So if you go and look at the

show notes, you'll see that

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there's a discount code there.

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It's Evan 10.

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It's all capitals E V a N one zero.

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Then go ahead and use that at checkout.

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You'll get 10% off your first order.

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And once again, that's just kinda my,

my little thank you to all of you.

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It's a, it's just a way for

me to, to help you all to try

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some of these products that I.

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Go through and, and see how they work for

me and the things that I find benefit in.

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I'd love to share with you guys.

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So, uh, go ahead and try that out.

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If you want.

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Um, personally, I felt that this

was one of the best brands for

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claustrum because they use a

proprietary, sorry, proprietary.

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Cold chain, bio potent technology,

which is to concentrate.

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Colostrum's a 200 plus living nutrients.

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In a.

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You know, pure bioavailable form,

which is very important because

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obviously dairy has a lot of heat

sensitive, um, components to it.

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So we don't want to lose a lot of those

beneficial things by heating it up.

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So.

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Tri armor has found a way to avoid that

with, you know, still getting it to you in

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a safe manner and allowing you to take it.

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Um, so anyways, if you want to check

that out, it's in the show notes, I just

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really want to share that with all of you.

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It's something.

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I have been trying, like I said, for the

last three months here and have found some

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benefit with and wanting to just share it

with you before we jumped into the show.

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So.

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Now that we got that.

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Uh, done.

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We will jump in to today's topic,

which is all about the people we spend

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time with and how they influence us.

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So, They not only influence us.

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Just on the basic levels, they also

influence us on a bacterial level, but

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to start with how people influence us

and really just, I love that quote,

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the, you are the average of the five

people you spend the most time with.

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I don't know where they got

the number five from probably

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just a good number to go with.

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Uh, but nonetheless, I think you're

just the average of the people

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you spend the most time with.

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And if you look at this from a very

basic level, if you just look at it

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in the sense of, if you have a group

of friends that love to go golfing,

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Guess what you probably go golfing too.

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It's just something that you all do

together as something you're into.

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If you have a group of friends

that loves to go out running.

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You probably go running.

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If you have a group of friends

that loves to go watch baseball

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games and you probably go watch

baseball games together, right?

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Like it's just, you are

associated with them.

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And.

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That's something you all share together.

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So naturally the things that you

do as a group, the things that your

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friends are all into are going to be

the things that your into as well.

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Right?

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We are, uh, by association, just

kind of into those things as well.

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Now, if we want to take this to

a little bit of a deeper level.

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You also have what's

called mirror neurons.

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So mirror like literally a mirror that

you look at to see yourself and neurons.

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So these are brain cells that react when

not only you're performing an action.

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But also when you're observing

someone else performing an action.

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So literally.

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These neurons are firing when they

see someone performing an action, and

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then they're going to fire as well

when you're performing that action.

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Right?

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So they say like, um, Uh, those that fire

or wire together fire together, right?

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Like.

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The cells that wire

together, fire together.

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And this is kind of where that comes from

it's because of these mirror neurons.

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So literally when you're watching

someone do something, you have

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mirror neurons that are being

activated at that moment in time.

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To basically help you to

mirror what they're doing.

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Right.

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So we are going to pick up on

the habits of other people.

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If we have people that have good

habits, we're going to pick up on those.

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If we have people that have bad

habits, we'll pick up on those as well.

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So in terms of, let's say.

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You are a person who let's just say,

doesn't really smoke weed all that much.

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Not that you're against it,

but you just don't smoke it.

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But then you have a friend come

over who smokes weed all the time.

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And all of a sudden you smoke weed

every single time they're over.

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This is a perfect example of that.

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There's also an example of a

friend who comes over, who let's

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just say, loves to work out.

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And I'm saying this because it

comes from a personal experience.

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Uh, guess what?

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I started working out more as well,

and just a shout out to that person.

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It is Caleb would.

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Yes.

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The guy I've had on here, like

three or four times on this show.

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He's a really good friend of mine and

just an awesome person all around.

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But Caleb gets after his workouts.

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And when he's over here for

literally just a couple of days,

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This guy gets after his workouts.

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Like no excuses.

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And for your boy here.

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I do work out, but it is not to the

extent that he works out, right.

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It is less frequently

and also less intensity.

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Right.

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But when Kayla comes over here and

all of a sudden just starts busting

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out a workout in my living room.

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Naturally.

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I see him working out and it's

like, ah, well, you know what?

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I'll just hop on over there and throw

a couple of weights around as well.

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And before I know it I've put

in literally a full on workout.

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So when Caleb is around here, I will

literally work out like twice the

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amount that I normally would work out.

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So yes, Caleb is an excellent person

for me to surround myself with

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because my mirror neurons are picking

up on him and naturally I'm just.

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Wanting to do the things

that he's doing as well.

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Right.

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Because I, I, I feel that he

has, you know, a good lifestyle

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and I like what he's doing.

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And also it's just kind of like

a reminder, like, oh yeah, like,

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Hey, why not work out right now?

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It's something that I enjoy as

is, and he's doing it right now.

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So why not just pick up a

weight and get after it?

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So it goes both ways, right?

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It can be bad.

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It can be good.

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And I love the quote.

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Um, I believe, I believe it's

actually a biblical quote, which

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is iron sharpens iron, right?

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This is so true.

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Um, when you have someone who's pushing

the needle and you're pushing the

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needle as well, and you both are just

really trying to be the best versions of

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yourself, and then you guys come together.

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Boom, like get outta here.

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Right?

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You guys are both going to just take

each other to a whole new level, right?

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Your iron sharpening iron.

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However, when you have that friend

who is not at the level at that

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level, they're not pushing the needle.

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They are going to be for, I don't know,

lack of a better term, a rock, right?

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They are not going to be

iron sharpening your iron.

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They're going to be a rock that

is blunting your iron right there.

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Making your iron less sharp.

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So.

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It's very important for us to understand

that the people we are spending a

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lot of time with, we are going to

also start adapting and picking up

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on their habits and their lifestyle.

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It's just natural.

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It's it's gonna happen, right.

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It like, it's almost impossible

to not have it happen if you're

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spending a ton of time with a person.

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You're going to pick up on at least

some of their habits and traits.

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Now.

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When I'm saying this, I feel like there's

a lot of people who think, oh man, but.

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I don't want to leave all my friends.

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I have great friends, you know,

and, and we do some fun stuff

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together in no way, shape or form.

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And I say, am I saying that you absolutely

have to just drop your friend group and

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step into a new group of people that are.

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You know, totally up leveled, if

that's right, you want to go find

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like, maybe that is the route you

need to go, but more than likely

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the friends that you have right now.

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You probably share some traits with

them and things that you like about

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each other, and maybe they're also

wanting to up-level and step up in the

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places that you're wanting to step up.

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And, you know, this is a great

opportunity for you to become a leader

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of your group and start to show them.

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Uh, you know, that you can really

start pushing that needle and

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being a better version of yourself.

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Because, you know, I love the quote

as well that says, if you are the,

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what is it the most interesting or

the smartest person in the room?

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You're probably in the wrong room and

unfortunately that's probably true.

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You are truly the most interesting and,

and the most smartest person in the

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room, you're probably in the wrong room.

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: 00:19:20

Um, but I always like to say

too, that if you are that person.

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Well, maybe the people around you are

hungry to learn and hungry to grow.

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So why not help?

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Lift them up as well.

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Right?

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And so if you have friends around you

that are willing to put in the work

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and they want to grow as well in the

same areas that you want to grow.

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Then work with them.

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You guys can still stay friends and

have the great friend group and continue

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to grow and, you know, reach new

Heights and go in this new direction

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that maybe is a little bit healthier

for all of you as an entire group.

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Um, and that way you guys can,

you know, still keep this friend

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group, but grow in a new way.

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Right.

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Now, of course, if you have some of those

friends that are just, they don't want to

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change, they are happy the way they are.

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They think the way you're going is

stupid and they just don't want to do it.

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: 00:20:09

And, you know, whatever, right?

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Like whatever their reasoning

is, is totally fine.

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It's their life.

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And they can absolutely

live it the way they wish.

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But unfortunately for those people who

aren't at least going to be supportive

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of your growth, Those are the people

that you are very likely going to have

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to dramatically decrease the amount

of time in what you spend with them.

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And the simple reason for that is,

is because the more time you spend

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with them, they are just going to be

blunting your iron sharpness, right?

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: 00:20:42

They are not sharpening your iron.

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When you hang out with someone

who is an absolute high achiever,

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and they're just app, just

getting after it every single day.

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That person is going to be the person that

will freaking sharpen your iron so much.

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: 00:20:57

Right.

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: 00:20:57

And you might be able to

sharpen theirs as well.

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: 00:21:00

Those are the people

you want to be around.

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And unfortunately the person

that's blunting your iron.

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: 00:21:06

They're the ones who are going to have

to receive less time, because if you

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want to continue sharpening your iron

and improving yourself, you have to

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be around the people who are going

to foster that improvement, right.

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: 00:21:18

That growth.

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: 00:21:19

So very, very important for us to do that.

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: 00:21:22

Very important for us to fill our

cups, hang out with the people

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that are going to help us become

a better version of ourselves.

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: 00:21:30

And if we're lucky, we can be the

people who can better those around us.

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: 00:21:35

Right.

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: 00:21:35

So making sure we are lifting all right,

a rising tide lifts all boats, right?

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: 00:21:40

So you can be the tide that

lifts all the other boats around.

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: 00:21:44

You can be the person that improves

the lives of other people around you.

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: 00:21:49

Now.

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: 00:21:50

In terms of.

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How a person can affect you on a

bacterial level, which is totally wild.

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: 00:21:58

I like this blows my mind

when I came across this.

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: 00:22:01

So as I just got done explaining

the people we spend the most time

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with, they're going to inevitably

influence us in one way or another.

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: 00:22:09

But did you know that the people that

you spend the most time with who are

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: 00:22:13

very likely your housemates, right?

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: 00:22:16

Uh, the people who you live with art,

very likely going to be some of the

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: 00:22:20

people that you spend the most time

with, they are going to affect you or

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: 00:22:26

influence you at a bacterial level.

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: 00:22:29

So there's two studies that

I have drawn upon and I have

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them linked in the show notes.

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So feel free to click

on them, check them out.

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: 00:22:37

Um, so, you know, I'm not just

coming out of nowhere, out of left

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field with this information, like

this is legit studies have been done

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on this, and they have found that

we share microbiota with people.

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: 00:22:47

We share microorganisms, our

microbiomes with the people that

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we are living with are constantly

interacting with each other.

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: 00:22:55

And in fact, we share bacteria on our

skin with the people that we live with.

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: 00:23:00

We share bacteria in our saliva

that people we live with and

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: 00:23:04

we even share bacteria in.

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: 00:23:07

In our poop with the

people that we live with.

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: 00:23:11

Literally all that bacteria, there

is a degree of sharing with the

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: 00:23:16

people that you live with just by

being in close contact with them.

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: 00:23:21

And I know that super wild.

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: 00:23:22

I actually, in fact, even dogs,

you can even have a, uh, exchange

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of bacteria with animals, like a

dog or even a cat for that matter.

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: 00:23:32

Now the highest degree of bacterial

exchange from what I was reading occurs on

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: 00:23:38

the skin and then, you know, to the saliva

and then obviously, uh, to our feces.

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: 00:23:44

But nonetheless, we do have

this exchange of bacteria.

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: 00:23:48

So our microbiomes are.

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: 00:23:51

Communicating exchanging

with each other diversifying.

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: 00:23:54

However, it may be right.

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: 00:23:56

But what's even crazier.

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: 00:23:58

Is that there was a study.

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: 00:24:00

Where they gave people antibiotics

and they wanted to see the effects

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: 00:24:05

that the antibiotics were having

on the microbiomes of the people

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: 00:24:10

who were taking these antibiotics.

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: 00:24:12

But they also were taking samples

of the housemates of the people

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: 00:24:19

who were taking these antibiotics.

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: 00:24:22

And sure enough.

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: 00:24:24

When someone is taking an

antibiotic that lives with you.

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: 00:24:30

You too.

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: 00:24:32

We'll experience a decrease or a reduction

in the diversity of your microbiome.

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: 00:24:40

Boom.

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: 00:24:41

Mind blown.

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: 00:24:42

Sorry, maybe this didn't blow

your mind, but this blew my mind.

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: 00:24:45

I was absolutely tripping

out when I heard this study.

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: 00:24:49

And so I have this quote actually

from this study that I loved,

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: 00:24:52

I had to share it with you all.

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: 00:24:53

And it says we originally hypothesized

that we would observe an increase in

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: 00:24:58

gut microbiota diversity due to the

sharing of microbiota with housemates

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: 00:25:03

and did not predict that we would observe

diversity reductions in the housemates.

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: 00:25:10

So they knew that.

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: 00:25:12

The housemates were naturally going to

have this, you know, share of microbiota.

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: 00:25:16

And they were, you know, hypothesizing

that they were going to observe an

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: 00:25:19

increase in the microbiotic diversity.

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: 00:25:22

But they ended up actually finding

as well, a reduction in that, in the

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: 00:25:28

diversity of the, of the housemates

who are not even taking the antibiotic.

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: 00:25:33

Now, granted, this is one study.

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: 00:25:36

So yes.

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: 00:25:37

Go.

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: 00:25:38

We're probably going to need

many more studies on this.

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: 00:25:41

I'm not saying that this is a

hundred percent true and all this,

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: 00:25:44

um, but at least in this one study.

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: 00:25:47

Uh, we were able to find that

this is the case that taking

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: 00:25:52

antibiotics, not only for yourself

will affect your bacterial levels.

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: 00:25:58

But it will also affect the

bacterial levels of all the people

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: 00:26:02

that you live with in that house.

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: 00:26:04

Which now this is me speaking

off of this study, right?

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: 00:26:09

Um, just as a non-medical professional,

but we know that our microbiomes

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: 00:26:15

are interacting and having this,

uh, you know, mixing going on.

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: 00:26:21

So we also know that there are

certain bacteria that are found

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: 00:26:26

in people who are generally fit.

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: 00:26:29

Right.

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: 00:26:29

They are staying able to stay in shape.

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: 00:26:32

And then we see the people who are obese.

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: 00:26:36

Tend to not have that bacteria.

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: 00:26:38

And, you know, we also see that

there's these opportunistic

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: 00:26:41

bacteria that certain people have.

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: 00:26:43

Right.

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: 00:26:43

And, and vice versa.

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: 00:26:44

Right.

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: 00:26:45

So there's these good

and these bad bacteria.

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: 00:26:47

So what's to say that those are

not the bacteria that are going

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: 00:26:51

from one person to another.

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: 00:26:52

Hence if you take all the

precautions that you can possibly

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: 00:26:57

take to be healthy, right?

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: 00:26:58

Like you're exercising,

you're eating healthy, you're

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: 00:27:01

doing all the things, right.

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: 00:27:03

But then you have someone

who absolutely does not care.

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: 00:27:06

They're eaten.

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: 00:27:07

McDonald's Chick-fil-A Jack in the

box, fast food every single day.

510

: 00:27:12

Um, you know, the process

food, they live, they have the

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: 00:27:15

standard American diet, right.

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: 00:27:16

Which is like 60% processed foods.

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: 00:27:19

Um, Never exercising, just

destroyed gut bacteria, all of that.

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: 00:27:25

Their microbiome.

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: 00:27:28

At least according to what we're

seeing here in these two studies, which

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: 00:27:31

once again, it's just two studies.

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: 00:27:33

But.

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: 00:27:35

We are seeing that that person could

negatively influence your microbiome.

519

: 00:27:40

Now, conversely, you could be

influencing their microbiome in

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: 00:27:44

a positive way, which is awesome.

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: 00:27:46

But nonetheless, it just goes to show

that the people we surround ourselves with

522

: 00:27:51

are not just effecting us on this, you

know, superficial level, but they are.

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: 00:27:56

Deeply.

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: 00:27:57

Influencing us at a

bacterial level as well.

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: 00:28:00

So the people who you

spend the most time with.

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: 00:28:03

Are very, very important.

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: 00:28:05

You really, really need to make sure

that the people you're spending the

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: 00:28:08

most time with are, you know, boosting

you mentally boosting you physically

529

: 00:28:14

and emotionally and spiritually.

530

: 00:28:17

And bacterially.

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: 00:28:19

You really do though.

532

: 00:28:20

You need to make sure that the people

you're surrounding yourself with are

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: 00:28:23

taking care of themselves, because if they

are not taking care of themselves, That

534

: 00:28:28

influence can spill over onto you as well.

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: 00:28:31

And that's not, once again,

this is not to say abandoned.

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: 00:28:34

All the people who don't know

how to take care of themselves.

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: 00:28:36

No, they need love and they need.

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: 00:28:38

You know, a push here and there as well.

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: 00:28:40

Um, to help them gain here.

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: 00:28:42

So if you have someone who's falling

behind or who isn't, you know,

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: 00:28:46

doing the things that they should be

doing to live a healthy, happy life.

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: 00:28:51

Of course do not.

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: 00:28:53

And I will say this because I truly

believe in this, do not force your

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: 00:28:57

will upon other people, right?

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: 00:28:59

Like no one needs to live their

life in whatever way you live yours.

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: 00:29:03

Uh, that's, you know, just,

we have free will and.

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: 00:29:06

We should be able to exercise that

and live our own lives in the ways

548

: 00:29:10

that we see fit for ourselves.

549

: 00:29:12

Um, but you know, it is truly

on us to be an example, right.

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: 00:29:17

And be the example and surround ourselves

with people who are also being an

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: 00:29:21

example for the people around them.

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: 00:29:23

And.

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: 00:29:24

Connect with those people.

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: 00:29:26

You know, sharpen each other's iron

become the best versions of ourselves.

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: 00:29:30

And, you know, really just try to find

that group of people who are going to

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: 00:29:33

boost you on all the levels, right.

557

: 00:29:35

Emotionally, spiritually,

physically, mentally.

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: 00:29:37

And like I said, bacterially right.

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: 00:29:39

Like, we really do need these people.

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: 00:29:42

And, uh, if you're trying to.

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: 00:29:44

You know, be a high achiever.

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: 00:29:45

If you're trying to be a person

who is pushing the needle, right.

563

: 00:29:48

Who's actually out there getting after

it every single day, doing the work.

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: 00:29:53

You owe it to yourself to surround

yourself with people who are also

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: 00:29:57

doing the same work and are going to

fill your cup just as much as you're

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: 00:30:02

going to fill their cup as well.

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: 00:30:04

So that's going to do

it for today's episode.

568

: 00:30:06

Y'all this is a little

bit of a motivational.

569

: 00:30:09

Podcast episode here today.

570

: 00:30:11

Um, I really do though.

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: 00:30:12

I love mindset episodes.

572

: 00:30:14

Um, I don't do too many of them on

this show, but I believe mindset is

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: 00:30:18

crucial to being healthy as well.

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: 00:30:21

Um, Dad living a healthy and happy life.

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: 00:30:24

We need to really focus on our mindset.

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: 00:30:26

Our mind is so powerful and really

getting that under control is a

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: 00:30:31

huge win in terms of our health.

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: 00:30:33

So.

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: 00:30:34

Anyways, y'all.

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: 00:30:36

That is going to do it

for today's episode.

581

: 00:30:38

Um, if you found any value in today's

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: 00:30:44

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: 00:30:47

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: 00:30:51

Uh, which I love to see those.

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: 00:30:52

I love to read them and really, it's just

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: 00:30:57

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And that's going to do it for today.

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: 00:31:42

Y'all I really, truly, truly appreciate

everyone for tuning in today.

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: 00:31:46

Uh, I will be on with, I believe a guest

for next week's episode on Wednesday.

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: 00:31:52

So definitely don't want to miss that.

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: 00:31:54

I love all of the guest

episodes have some.

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: 00:31:57

Amazing people come on this show that

can really share a ton of knowledge and

607

: 00:32:02

shed some light on topics that maybe I

don't have a huge depth of knowledge on.

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: 00:32:06

So anyways, Be sure to tune into that and.

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: 00:32:10

Until then y'all I hope you just

have a beautiful rest of your day,

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: 00:32:13

a beautiful rest of your week.

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: 00:32:14

Um, let's get after it.

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: 00:32:16

Let's.

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: 00:32:17

Go out there and sharpen some iron.

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: 00:32:19

Just be the best version

of ourselves as possible.

615

: 00:32:22

Um, truly that's what this is all about

is, uh, really trying to be the best

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: 00:32:27

version of ourselves and to, uh, you

know, Have a good health span, right?

617

: 00:32:32

That's a, that's truly the goal here.

618

: 00:32:34

Um, now, as you all know, I do

like to end these episodes off

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: 00:32:37

with some actionable steps.

620

: 00:32:40

Because I believe that when you listen to

a podcast, you can receive so much benefit

621

: 00:32:46

and so much information, but if you don't

have a concise way of how to actually

622

: 00:32:50

put a lot of these tools into practice,

um, then the episode can kind of be lost.

623

: 00:32:57

Uh, and you won't really

receive as much benefit.

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: 00:32:59

So.

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: 00:33:00

What my main kind of takeaway actionable

steps for today's episode are going to be.

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: 00:33:06

Is number one.

627

: 00:33:07

Evaluate who it is you're

spending the most time with.

628

: 00:33:10

Right?

629

: 00:33:10

So this is very simple.

630

: 00:33:11

You can just look at the

people you live with.

631

: 00:33:13

You can look at who it is that you

hang out with the most, and really.

632

: 00:33:17

Evaluate it.

633

: 00:33:18

Right.

634

: 00:33:19

See what it is that you guys do together.

635

: 00:33:21

What are, what are your hobbies?

636

: 00:33:22

What is it that you enjoy doing?

637

: 00:33:24

Like all of that, and then ask yourself,

do you enjoy doing those hobbies?

638

: 00:33:28

Does that person fill your cup?

639

: 00:33:29

Do you feel good when

you hang out with them?

640

: 00:33:32

Right.

641

: 00:33:32

Like ask these questions of.

642

: 00:33:35

If that is a healthy relationship, right.

643

: 00:33:38

And if it is a healthy

relationship, that's awesome.

644

: 00:33:40

And that's super cool.

645

: 00:33:42

Maybe you can even find ways to try

to push the needle with each other.

646

: 00:33:45

You can, um, think of things

that you're both into.

647

: 00:33:48

Maybe you can start reading some.

648

: 00:33:50

Books that are, you know, growth

books, growth mindset, books, and, uh,

649

: 00:33:54

you know, kind of have a little book

club on that, or maybe start working

650

: 00:33:57

out together, whatever it may be.

651

: 00:33:59

Um, and if you are surrounded by

people that genuinely do not fill

652

: 00:34:02

your cup and are truthfully just, you

know, blunting your iron, they are.

653

: 00:34:07

I'm not bringing anything to the table.

654

: 00:34:09

And in fact, they're actually holding

you back and bringing you down.

655

: 00:34:14

Well, then my recommendation on

that one is to start looking for

656

: 00:34:18

people that are doing the things

you want to be doing, right.

657

: 00:34:21

That are living the life

you want to be living.

658

: 00:34:24

And start connecting with those people,

reach out to them, try to get into

659

: 00:34:27

those, uh, groups, try to, you know,

find a way to get associated with them.

660

: 00:34:32

Uh, whether it's, you know, if

you want to be more healthy,

661

: 00:34:35

maybe you find a run club.

662

: 00:34:36

Um, maybe if you are looking for

a men's group, you go find a, or,

663

: 00:34:41

you know, a good group of men.

664

: 00:34:42

Sorry, you go find a men's group

to go, uh, hang out and, um,

665

: 00:34:45

kind of open up a little bit and,

and connect with some people who

666

: 00:34:48

might be on the same level as you.

667

: 00:34:50

Right.

668

: 00:34:50

Um, so those are going to be the

actionable steps it's going to take.

669

: 00:34:53

You know, beat to take stock of who

it is you're spending the most time

670

: 00:34:57

with, and then evaluate those people.

671

: 00:34:59

Right.

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: 00:35:00

Evaluate if it is a healthy

relationship, even to the degree of.

673

: 00:35:04

Does that person take care of their body?

674

: 00:35:05

Right?

675

: 00:35:06

Because as we know.

676

: 00:35:07

That could be also influencing us at a

bacterial level and um you know it might

677

: 00:35:12

be something where you can help that

person to obtain better health as well

678

: 00:35:17

so Anyways guys that is going to do it

for today's episode um i hope you found

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: 00:35:22

a ton of benefit in this show and as

always you know the motto of the show

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: 00:35:26

it's do everything with good intentions

and connect to your elements I love you

681

: 00:35:31

all so much and I will see you on next

wednesday have a beautiful week Peace.