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In this episode of the Elemental Evan podcast, host Evan Roberts breaks down various health trends from a holistic perspective. The major topics covered in today's episode include the benefits and potential drawbacks of ice baths, the carnivore diet, and fasting, as well as a nuanced look at alcohol consumption.
The episode emphasizes practical tips to incorporate these trends into daily life while highlighting some tried-and-true health practices such as exercise, whole food nutrition, quality sleep, meditation, and fostering good relationships.
00:26 Today's Health Trends Overview
01:04 Evan's Morning Supplement Stack
04:09 Ice Baths: Benefits and Drawbacks
07:08 The Carnivore Diet: Pros and Cons
10:02 Alcohol: The Good, The Bad, and The Social
13:05 Fasting: Benefits and Best Practices
15:02 Tried and True Health Practices
19:00 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
This podcast is for educational purposes only, it is not a substitute for professional care by a doctor or other qualified medical professional. Evan Roberts is not a medical professional and this podcast is provided on the understanding that it does not constitute medical or other professional advice or services. Statements and views expressed on this show are not medical advice, this podcast, including Evan Roberts and any guests on the show, disclaims responsibility for any possible adverse effects from the use of information contained in this episode. If you think you have a medical problem please consult a medical professional.
Transcript
Hey, what's going on, everyone.
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:Welcome to the elemental Evon podcast.
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:This is your host, Evan Roberts.
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:And as always on this podcast, I
break down health topics from a
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:simplified and holistic perspective.
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:The goal here is to have you
leave all of these episodes with
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:some tools in your tool belt.
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:So you feel like you can actually
do something about your health
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:after these episodes, and hopefully
equip you with some information
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:that is applicable to your life.
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:So on today's episode,
we're going to dive into.
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:Some health trends that have come
up in the last, you know, five
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:to 10 years, maybe even less than
that, just the last couple of years.
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:And we're just going to touch bases
on kind of what is coming out in
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:terms of if they still work, if they,
uh, don't work, uh, maybe they work,
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:but only under certain scenarios.
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:Um, so some of these things are going
to be things like ice, baths, alcohol,
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:the carnivore diet, things like that.
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:Uh, we're also going to quickly, uh,
just mention a few things that are
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:tried and true and still seem to be
working to this day for most people.
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:Uh, so that way you can also have
some things that definitely work
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:and you can apply to your life.
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:Before we jump into that, though, I just
got done taking my morning supplement
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:stack and, uh, just wanted to mention
a couple of the things that I've really
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:been digging the last couple months here.
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:Uh, the first one that's going
to come up is my, or the stress
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:relief from ritual, which for full
disclosure, I do work at ritual.
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:So there is a hundred percent a tie there.
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:Uh, but nonetheless, this
product is really amazing.
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:I love how it works and
how it makes me feel.
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:It's got ashwagandha L-theanine
and saffron in it, and it's
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:also a time release capsule.
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:So it releases throughout the day.
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:So you actually feel these ingredients
throughout the entirety of the day, which
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:is really awesome, uh, as opposed to
some of the other stress relief products,
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:which you're going to feel, but you
might only feel them for about an hour
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:or two based off of the half-life of
the products and all that good stuff.
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:So.
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:Anyways, I've been
really digging that one.
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:I've been taking it pretty consistently
here for the last month or two.
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:And I really feel like my stress.
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:Uh, the amount of time it takes
me to distress is a lot less.
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:So I don't know, you get cut
off in traffic or something.
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:Um, it only affects me for a short
period of time, not the entire day,
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:you know, I don't think back to that
incident and get worked up about it.
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:Um, of course, you know, there are
natural things like meditation.
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:Um, honestly meditation is amazing
and it can do a lot of the same,
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:you know, kind of, uh, out.
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:You'll get some of the same outcomes
as taking this stress relief.
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:Um, maybe even more, I'm a
huge fan of, of meditation.
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:But nonetheless really digging the
stress relief has been awesome,
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:especially with the huge workload
that I've been having lately.
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:Uh, and then the other thing is just my
tried and true spirulina and chlorella.
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:Um, it's been one I've been coming back
to a lot here recently, especially because
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:I've increased my seafood consumption.
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:And of course, with increased seafood
consumption, we do have to worry
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:about things like heavy metals.
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:Uh, you know, in things like our salmon or
tuna, just any of those bigger game fish.
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:So, uh, it's been really key for me
to increase my spirulina and chlorella
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:intake because they have high levels of
chlorophyll, which can help get a lot
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:of those heavy metals out of your blood.
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:Um, which anytime I go and eat
sushi or something like that, I
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:always make sure to, uh, take some
of that before and after if I can.
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:Uh, just to kind of give me some
of that reassurance, but aside from
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:that as well, it's also just like
a multivitamin because it has 40
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:plus vitamins and minerals in it.
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:And honestly, it just makes me feel great.
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:So anyways, those are the two highlighted,
uh, supplements that I've been taking
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:recently and I was taking them and figured
out how to just share them with you guys.
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:Uh, of course with the spirulina,
spirulina and chlorella,
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:I always use energy bits.
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:And of course, I also get that 20%
discount code for all of you listeners.
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:So if you go down to the description
or the show notes, Uh, you'll find
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:a code in there as well as a link.
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:That'll take you right to their page
and you can go ahead and get yourself
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:some of the spirulina and chlorella
from energy bits, which is personally
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:just my favorite brand for it.
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:So.
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:With the supplements taken care
of, we're going to jump in to
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:some of these major health trends
and if they're working or not.
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:So we're going to start at the
high level here with ice baths.
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:So an ice bath, for those of you who
haven't taken a nice bath before,
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:it's literally what it sounds like.
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:It's a bath.
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:That is cold as ice.
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:Um, you can either use ice to cool down
the water, or you can buy, uh, from many
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:companies, they have these temperature
controlled bathtubs that you can hop into.
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:Um, you can get them down very, very
low down to like 34 degrees Fahrenheit.
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:Uh, so I don't know, that's probably
like one or two degrees Celsius.
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:And it's absolutely freezing.
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:It's difficult.
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:Um, usually what I do at, I hop in
for about three minutes, uh, and
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:you know, it's a huge mental game.
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:Um, now the effects of hopping out of
a cold bath, I think are hard to deny.
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:Um, it makes you feel incredible.
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:It is like the best cup of coffee.
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:Uh, best cup of coffee
that you've ever had.
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:It will keep you dialed in, but
it's a very, um, clear focus.
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:It's not jittery of any kind.
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:Um, it's really just a great way to
start your morning in my opinion.
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:And it makes you feel great.
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:It can also really benefit a
sore and recovering muscles.
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:So there is a lot of benefit in
the cold plunge or ice baths.
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:But we are seeing that doing it too
frequently might not be the best thing.
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:And the reason for that being is just
that it is such a shock to the body.
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:Uh, if you are doing an ice bath
every single morning, it might not
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:be the best thing for your cortisol
levels and for just kind of putting
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:an extra stressor on the body.
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:Especially for people who
are already pretty stressed.
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:Um, now that's not to say
there isn't benefit in cold.
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:Uh, you know, ice baths because
they're a hundred percent is there's
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:some massive benefit that you can
gain from them, but it seems like
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:you don't need to do it frequently.
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:You don't have to go every single day
in an ice bath, you can spread it out.
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:Maybe just once or twice a week is
probably going to be sufficient.
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:Of course, we also don't want to
do an ice bath right after working
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:out, because I believe that does
slow down or inhibit hypertrophy.
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:So your muscle growth.
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:Um, so if you did just work out, hopping
in an ice bath is not the best idea.
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:After a workout.
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:So aside from that ice path, still
a solid thing to do, it's great
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:for your mental practice as well to
really create some mental fortitude.
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:And I personally love an ice bath.
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:Um, however, I actually don't
own any of the fancy ice baths.
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:What I do is I just take a cold shower
and honestly, you receive a lot of
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:the similar benefits, especially
if your water can get cold enough.
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:Um, so.
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:You know, you could go the route
of getting the ice bath, which it's
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:awesome and you can temperature
regulate it and all that.
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:But hopping in a cold shower
is also very effective and has
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:a lot of the same benefits.
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:So if you don't have the money to afford
one, just switch over that a little tap
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:control to cold, and you're good to go.
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:Uh, the next thing is going
to be the carnivore diet.
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:Um, is the carnivore diet good?
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:Well, I don't know.
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:It depends who you ask.
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:But, uh, personally, I don't
see the carnivore diet as a, uh,
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:longevity or, you know, a long-term.
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:Diet that can be sustained.
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:Um, even people like Paul Saladino
has really kind of changed up
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:his take on the carnivore diet.
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:And obviously he was like one
of the biggest proponents of it.
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:Uh, you know, obviously he still eats a
heavy meat diet, but he's also included
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:some, some fruits as well as honey.
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:Uh, because he saw that there was
benefit in having those in the
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:diet, which absolutely makes sense.
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:Now, of course, on the carnivore diet,
he does eat organ meats, which I'm really
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:a huge fan of because there are a lot
of huge benefits to eating the Oregon's.
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:Um, and it's something
that we don't do enough.
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:We typically eat muscle meat and,
you know, I fall in that category.
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:Um, it can be difficult sometimes to eat
things like liver or a, heart's not so
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:bad, but you know, things like kidneys
or, uh, just pretty much any of the, of
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:the organs, you know, they can be kind
of difficult, uh, in terms of the flavor.
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:But in terms of the carnival diet,
the real benefit that I've seen with
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:anyone doing the diet is within the
first couple of months where they do
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:carnivore diet, because really what
they've done is they've just moved any
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:or sorry, they've removed any triggers,
uh, that would, you know, cause some
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:inflammation in their body, maybe they
don't, their body doesn't agree with a
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:dairy, for example, or it doesn't agree
with corn or soy or, you know, some of
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:these really major, uh, inflammation
or kind of like irritating, uh, foods.
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:For most people.
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:So when you go to meet, obviously you
bypass that and hopefully you're doing a
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:really high quality meat when you do that.
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:Um, so that seems to be the most
benefit is they just have simply
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:removed those trigger foods.
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:But there's another way of doing that.
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:It's called the elimination diet, where
you just remove the foods that are the
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:common triggers and, you know, Uh, slowly
reintroduce them back into your diet.
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:So.
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:Obviously another way to do it.
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:Um, I personally do eat meat
and I believe that eating high
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:quality meat is very important.
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:Um, but of course, uh, having a balanced
diet with a lot of veggies in there, and
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:some fruit is also very, very beneficial.
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:You get a lot of fiber.
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:Um, you get a lot of vitamins
and minerals from your fruit and
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:vegetables, specifically vegetables.
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:I think, you know, we focus or it's easy
to eat a lot of fruit because they're
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:sweet, but vegetables have really a lot
of the beneficial nutrients in them.
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:And they're super
important to be consuming.
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:So definitely.
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:Uh, you know, we want to try to have a
balanced diet, but of course everyone's
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:diet is going to look different.
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:Based on you, you are a very
specific person and your body
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:is very specific as well.
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:And what works for you might
not also work for everyone else.
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:So.
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:A carnivore diet, maybe some benefit
in the first couple of months.
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:But after that, Uh, definitely
doesn't seem to be something that we
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:can stain for a long period of time.
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:Um, moving on to alcohol.
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:So alcohol is one of those topics
that I have covered on this show.
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:And, you know, I still stand by the
fact that, you know, alcohol is.
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:Literally like.
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:Toxic thing for your body.
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:So your body literally tries to
remove it as fast as possible.
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:Um, because you know, it
doesn't want inside of it.
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:Um, it's literally toxic.
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:So your body is.
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:Processing it through the
liver and getting it out.
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:But on that note.
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:There are a lot of people who are
talking about the benefits of the.
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:Relationships that you can build
while consuming a little bit of
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:alcohol, which is something that
I've always highlighted on this show
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:as well, because relationships are
truly one of the biggest benefits
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:that we have in terms of longevity.
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:At least from the studies that we've seen,
you know, some, like, I believe one of
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:the longest studies that was ever done.
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:I think it was done by Harvard.
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:Um, you know, it showed that
of all things, money, food.
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:Diet all the, all the stuff that you
can think of the most important thing
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:for longevity was relationships.
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:And for that reason, if you will
out okays, regionally, right?
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:We don't want to make this a
super habitual thing, but if you
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:go out occasionally and have a
drink, or maybe tutoring's right.
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:Uh, there could be some benefit if
you are building relationships, right.
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:If it's, if it's in good company and
it's an enjoyable experience, right.
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:We don't want to get in the
mode of, you know, getting home
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:after work and cracking open.
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:A can of beer or pouring a
glass of wine every single day.
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:Um, you know, that probably is not
going to be super good for you because
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:once again, it's yeah, it's just not
a good substance to put in your body.
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:But under the right circumstances,
it does seem that maybe it can be the
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:social lubricant that we need at times
I would also recommend trying out
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:some different alcohol alternatives,
things like Kaaba, which is truly
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:one of my favorite alternatives.
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:Uh, I really like how cava makes me feel.
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:Uh, and then of course there's all these
other brands, like high, uh, HIO as well.
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:I've had one of the founders here
on the show, George and, uh, you
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:know, that's a great company.
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:I enjoy the beverage.
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:I enjoy the flavor.
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:I do feel like you have to drink
a couple of them before you really
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:start to feel some of the benefits
of it or the effects of it.
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:But, uh, still it's a great option.
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:Uh, but if you are going to drink
alcohol, I would just recommend that
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:you do it in good company and with
restrictions and guidelines around it.
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:Right?
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:Like do it at certain times, like in
the evening with friends, you know, and,
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:and by setting those guidelines around
it, it's going to keep you from falling
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:into the bad habits of drinking when you
get home from work or, um, you know, I
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:don't know, like at the times when you
basically don't need to be drinking.
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:Just choose to, to take the edge off.
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:Um, those are the times that we don't
want to, uh, be consuming alcohol.
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:So.
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:Alcohol still bad.
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:Uh, but used in the right context,
could benefit other aspects of your
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:longevity, your health and your
life, such as your relationships.
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:Um, the last one I'm going to cover
here and I actually had a couple
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:left, but I want to keep these
episodes a little bit shorter.
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:Um, the last one is
going to be with fasting.
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:So fasting is something that
I personally really enjoy.
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:And I think there's a
ton of benefit to it.
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:I personally still fast.
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:Um, occasionally, you know, I'll
do a really long-term fast or maybe
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:I'll do some intermittent fasting.
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:But it does seem that with
fasting, you do not want to do
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:fasting 365 days a year, right?
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:You don't want to be intermittent
fasting for the entire year.
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:You want to do it in segments.
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:You want to do it in spurts.
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:You want to, for a few months,
maybe do some intermittent
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:fasting and then take a break.
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:Um, or maybe you do a couple of,
you know, once a once a month, you
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:do a really extended, fast, like.
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:Two or a three-day fast or maybe.
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:You know, once every two weeks you
do a 24 hour fast, whatever it may
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:be, there does seem to be a lot of
benefit in fasting, um, from the mental
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:kind of fortitude that you build to
the relationship with food as well.
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:Uh, just feeling like you're not
controlled by every single meal, you
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:can actually choose to say, you know
what, I'm not going to eat right now.
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:I don't need to eat right now.
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:Um, the only food that's present
in front of me as fast food, and
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:I don't feel like eating that.
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:So I'm going to wait until
there's a better option things
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:along those lines, right?
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:So it really does benefit us in that
way, as well as, you know, some of the
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:autophagy that takes place and a lot
of the other, just, you know, really
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:good benefits with our, uh, blood sugar
levels and all of that, uh, fasting is
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:really beneficial, but we want to be
careful in how often we're doing it.
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:And on top of that, if you are, um,
you know, if you are a woman and you
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:are on your time of the month, then
you also want to be, uh, very selective
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:in the times in which you are fasting.
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:There is, uh, you know,
certain times that are better.
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:For you to fast during your cycle.
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:Uh, so we also want to be mindful of that.
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:I had that in another episode
on fasting, if you care to hear
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:more on that, But really quickly.
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:I also just wanted to wrap
up today's episode with the
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:things that actually work.
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:I like the things that are tried and
true that we know to be very beneficial
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:for at least most, if not everybody.
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:And, you know, kicking things
off it's exercise, move.
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:The body movement is medicine.
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:You know, we're going to hammer
this home until the cows come home.
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:Uh, It's super important.
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:We have to move our bodies.
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:Our bodies expect it, it demands it.
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:Um, you know, when you move your
body, you create ranges of motion that
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:your body can comfortably get into.
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:Uh, when you move your body,
you're literally also draining
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:your lymphatic system.
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:Uh, when you move your
body, you help keep.
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:Excess weight off you put muscle on you.
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:Keep yourself strong.
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:You keep yourself mobile,
you keep yourself balanced.
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:So literally balanced.
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:Like you don't fall over just because
you step off of something incorrectly.
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:You can catch yourself, right?
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:Like these are very important things.
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:Exercise a hundred percent is beneficial
for literally pretty much the entire body.
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:Uh, then we have eating.
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:Whole foods.
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:Right?
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:So really focusing on one single
ingredient foods, foods that
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:are close to their source.
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:So I can apple from a
tree, a cow from a pasture.
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:Uh, zucchini from the
plant in your garden.
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:Hopefully, uh, these are the
foods that we want to stick with.
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:We want to stay away from those
ultra processed foods, things
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:like Oreos, gummy worms, um, you
know, the process, boxed foods.
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:Like those are the things that
we really want to stay away from.
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:And then of course, good sleep can never
go wrong with getting a good night's
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:rest everyone's body benefits from it.
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:Your brain as well,
massively benefits from it.
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:Um, meditation is another one that
seems to just be so beneficial.
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:I know I mentioned this a little earlier,
but, uh, I've been doing a little bit
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:more meditating here recently, which
I had fallen off for a while, so I
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:felt so good to finally get back into
some meditation practice and it's.
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:Incredibly beneficial.
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:Um, five to 10 minutes is all it takes
for you to really feel the benefit.
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:Um, if you can go longer, please do it.
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:Cause you just continue to gain benefit.
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:I found up to about 30 minutes is,
uh, It's a, you know, a good amount
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:of time that you can meditate and not
feel like you kind of really dedicated
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:a big portion of your day to it.
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:Uh, so I really enjoy meditating
a, it feels like the ROI on
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:meditating is just super high.
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:And then of course, last but
not least good relationships.
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:Uh, you know, I mentioned this again
earlier on, but good relationships
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:are one of the biggest factors
that we found when it comes to
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:longevity and having a long life.
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:So make sure you're developing those
good relationships, you know, finding
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:people that you can truly trust those
people that energize you when you're
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:around them, not the people that drain
you when you hang out with them and you
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:feel like you need to go be a recluse
and wrap a blanket around your head and.
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:You know, just like get on the couch and
not speak to anyone for a couple of days.
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:Those are the people you
want to stay away from.
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:You want to be with the people
that energize you make, you feel
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:like you can conquer the world
and all things are possible.
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:And just leave you feeling
like, I don't know.
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:I know you're, you're on a
high after speaking with them.
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:So those are the people we want
to surround ourselves with.
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:And we want to be that person for
everyone that we're around, right.
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:We want to energize and
pump people up as well.
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:So anyways, those are the
things that are tried and true.
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:Uh, I would highly recommend adding
some of those into your life.
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:I'll run through them one more
time, just as a quick checkoff list.
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:So exercise, eating, whole foods, good
sleep meditation and good relationships.
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:Those are the things
that are tried and true.
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:And then in terms of the health trends,
ice bath Aboard diet, alcohol and fasting.
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:Um, Still good.
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:Uh, for the most part of
aside from the alcohol.
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:Um, you know, there's, uh, there's
definitely tweaks to be made to them.
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:So I think there's a, you know, it's not
all black and white in the health field.
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:And, uh, definitely with these it's
not black and white, there are, um, you
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:know, specific specifications, I would
say that make these, uh, either more
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:beneficial or, or not beneficial at all.
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:So anyways, y'all, I hope
you enjoyed today's episode.
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:Um, Yeah, thank you.
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:I hope you're enjoying these kind
of slightly shorter episodes as
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:well and got some great guests
coming up on this show here.
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:Really excited for them.
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:And, uh, yeah, if you all have any
questions, concerns, you want to
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:hear something on this show, please?
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:Of course.
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:Just reach out to me on
Instagram at elemental, Evan.
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:And, uh, yeah, feel free to
reach out to me a stranger.
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:Let me know if you want to
hear anything and yeah, that's
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:pretty much going to do it.
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:Uh, y'all know the motto of the show.
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:It's do everything with good intentions
and connect to your elements.
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:And honestly just appreciate all of
you being here, listening to me today.
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:Hopefully you gained some
benefit from the episode and.
386
:Uh, yeah.
387
:Do everything with good intentions,
connect with elements and.
388
:much love to everybody.
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:Peace.
