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Robert said, a healthy outside starts from the inside and mark help and said sufficient sleep exercise, healthy food, friendship and peace of mind. Art necessities not luxuries. My guest at eight is my good friend sean Stevenson, who is a graduate of the university of Missouri, saint Louis, where he studied business biology and nutritional science he's also the founder of advanced integrative health alliance, a company that provides wellness services for individuals and organisations worldwide. Is the author of the International bestselling book, sleep, smarter, which has been so powerful for me, and so many people around the world and is the creator of the model health show, and today we're talking about book, eat smarter use the power of food to reboot your metabolism upgrade your brain and transform your life. Our conversation with,

powerful, there's so much data research that we wanted to share with you that we broke this up into two parts, so make sure to check out part two coming out right after this one, and in this episode we discuss why more than sixty percent of people have chronic inflammation. What the root cause of that is, how sleep affects your brain and when you have enough, or have too little also how our mental health is affected. When we aren't taking care of our body and how they're tied together, the link between inflammation in the body and neuro limitation, which I thought was fascinating and so much more and if you're enjoying this, you know what to do make sure to share this with a few friends text. Her friend posted on social media make sure to tag me and Shawn Stevenson as well this your first time here click the subscribe button right now over on alpine chats respond. If I choose to stay up to date on the latest and greatest from the school of greatness podcast. Ok, it just a moment the one and only sean stevenson.

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why do more than sixty percent of people have chronic inflammation in these conditions? What's the time of the root of this information is underlying component of a myriad of different diseases? We don't tend to think about it, because inflammation seems like sort of like a ghost in the machine. You know it's like who inflammation, but it truly is you know if you look at the root word, coming from the greek and latin it means to set on fire right and so they're lame and these are some of the outward symptoms we might think about it. Just like pain, swelling, bruising, burning, aching, those type of things But there is a massive. The majority of information at folks are experiencing oftentimes go unnoticed there, these little kind of chronic low grade fevers are little fires burning that are contributing to a lot of it metabolic disorders and the reason that our bodies are doing it is really painful.

is sending out a distress signal from different tissues to recruit and call in the immune system to support in in defending against infections and repair. The list goes on. Nation is actually not a bad day right. It's a here right right! We if we, if we would get out, won't, we would never he'll without information. If we got an affectionate, would be deadly without inflammation, it's an important part of our ambition and our health. What's it demonstrates that in chronic information right so will we generally think about his acute inflammation within not again, like us? Show the term intrusion, maybe an injury or an infection, for example, which the inflammation might last a few hours even a few days. But if inflammation is lasting for a long amount of time and also showing up in the wrong places, it can be devastating, and so now we're talking about chronic inflammation and if we're venturing into chronic inflammation

look at what are the underlying components? What did what is creating the fire? What is throwing gasoline on the fire is well, and so We take one of the conditions that you mentioned so right now here in the united states, a got about two hundred and forty, two million of our citizens are overweight or obese, and how we can make out of how many right around three hundred thirty thousand three, the thirty miles are three hundred and thirty seven, two hundred and forty one and forty nine are someone ballpark seventeen, even upwards of how is absolutely impossible exactly. How do me the garden this, for how is it just Food is too accessible at the wrong kinds of foods are too accessible to so many people. Now the you know social media laziness is it. Why

have we shifted from being a healthy nation? I dunno probably sixty seventy years ago to an unhealthy nation yeah, it's really a perfect storm of of all the things. So I the first thing to look at and to ask is what's going on, because our genes expect certain things from us. Our dna expect certain things to have The outcomes are healthy, so replication, healthy expression, and so we gotta look at one of the things are genes expect of us. Our genes expect us to move right, were the most sedentary culture in the history of humanity in recorded human history, where the most sedentary culture to ever exist- all of humanity are just? U s, especially: u s where they were the le brown james, where the king of having tearing working with a homer simpson snow year, were they We know we're really leading leading the league in these things and so that's number one also our genes expect us to get adequate sleep.

This is something that we ve talked about multiple times in the show by this is its built in to or evolution, and if you think about sleep is very strange, because you're incredibly vulnerable you're unconscious, you think we might evolve out of it. Just forsake but the thing is so many wonderful, absolutely amazing things take place during sleep that we just haven't found a way to replicate right. So, even with the reduction of information which will talk about more, you know with, we have micro, gleeful cells in our brain, which is kind of the brain's immune system and its its prime. Eerily active when were sleeping to reduce inflammation to metabolic waste and things of a life

What? What would you say are the five biggest benefits of the greatest night of sleep consistently like what are the five main benefits that you get? If you get deep rem sleep for seven, eight hours, a night, consistently, no interruptions, no light exposure, all the things you talked about in your other book, sleep, smarter. What are the five main benefits that come for that versus? You know grafton sleep. Four hours of sleep. You know staying up late with the phone, you know having coffee late at night, all that stuff. What's the benefits which just power, power pack bullet point, yeah he's number one: This is because our culture we are, we, I always like to connect to something visceral and people we care about, oh, how we look of course, and so you're young nobody's right, nobody's waking up like I want to look so old today. I want to get my george burns on. I want to,

is all this possible or I want to. I want to feel bad today about the way that I I that I, that I look or they're not waking up like I just wanna, look, terrible and feel terrible today and I've run in my clinical practice. I never met one person and people might argue these things,

into a because of archive abbot vices and never met anybody who wants to be unhealthy. Every single person wants to be healthy. Now with that said, this is where sleep really comes into the into the fray, because over the years me being an interest, I really mean an interest. I thought it. Food was everything you know because it was it was for me. It was my bridge, but theres many pass the goal when you're sleeping it is the most powerful anabolic state that you can be it. So it's just your just teeming with what we call these called anti aids and hormones in of the release of human growth hormone, for example, that really it's also known as the youth, formal yeah. You know, and also with in the late lane of body composition and an overall health and fitness,

Search at the university of Chicago did a very simple study they brought folks in and they wanted to see what would happen with their weight loss. He put them on account of strict diet and they want to see what would happen with weight loss when they were well rested versus when their sleep deprived, and so they put him under both conditions. And I love studies that do that they put people under both conditions to see what would happen, and so they allow folks to get eight and a half hours sleep in one phase of the study and they tracked all their metrics, their weight, loss, etc. And then they sleep deprived them for the other phase, so they was getting eight and a half hours now they're getting five and a half hours. I tracked all the metrics same group same group on the same exact calorie, restricted diet, same calories, yeah everything, but when they were sleep deprived when they were sleep, deprived vs, when they were adequately adequately rested when they were getting enough sleep, the last fifty five percent, more body fat by sleeping more that's great

its it doesn't even make sent with a working ashes same or is it like no move? What was just like everything is to say this is what I love tat, a ward study, so there under the conditions where they can track every hawaiian. Now here's another part of study I dont often talk about is that they actually did biopsies, They actually took the fat cells to see what would happen with their fat cells under the different conditions and what they came to. The conclusion was that your fat cells actually need sleep to whore, because when the fat cells were not when you, when they weren't adequately adequately rested their fat cells, actually became more insulin resistant, which should become like that should put up a huge red flag because insulin resistance is one of the classic scientists carrying more belly fat right. So the fat cells themselves, looking at them vs when you're well rested, vs, when you're sleep, deprived your fat cells themselves become insulin, resistant

and this is going to lead to downstream problems with your liver, lipid genesis, the creation of new fat. The list goes on and on so that's just one part, one number one number, two, the cognitive performance and I love the study is published in the lancet and they wanted to see what would happen when physicians. They took physicians and had them to complete a task and tracked all their numbers, and they sleep deprived for twenty four hours, which is not abnormal in the field of medicine and had them did complete the same task, which is a simulation of different like surgical type of simulation, they made twenty per cent, more mistakes, doing the exact same thing and it took them fourteen percent longer to do the alright. So- and this is a big problem in our culture again, we mistake being busy for being effective right and so

number. This number two thing, the cognitive performance number three and is it parallels and cognitive performance is the health of our brain and so researchers at you see, berkeley did brain imaging scans and we talked about this before but ass. He looked at the sleep deprived I mean just again: twenty four hours of sleep deprivation and the part of the brain, that's associated with executive function right so decision making distinguishing between right and wrong social control. So the prefrontal cortex, the more human part brain that part of the brain goes cold. The activity of that part, the brain just literally as we're more and more tired to shuts down with the lack of sleep and with the lack of sleep coupled with more activity in the amygdala, which is very much more primitive, driven by emotion, very much concerned with survival of self and so that part of the brain, just lights. Up like a christmas tree or las vegas I just came out so these changes happening, avert brain very quickly and that leads into number would number three reduce commented

It's so being able to manage our emotions being able to manage our decisions, and then we'll go to number force is gonna lean into this is well with brain function. Is I talked a little bit about this earlier during sleep? Is when your glim fabric system, which is the brains waste management says make waste management says cleansing it all last ten times more active when you're sleeping than when you're awake, so that in your brain is doing literally trillions of activity. every second and there's a lot of metabolic waste that takes place, and you have to have this cleansing system, this cleaning system or you're, going to have a build up of things like amyloid beta plaque, for example, which that is a strongly strongly correlated with alzheimer's disease? It's an inability of the brain to clear, clean itself, and also insular citizen, the brain we could talk about later, but we're wondering again. Why are these issues going up wise brain?

asian going up. These are the things. Are we getting enough sleep for the processes that normally just naturally want to happen? They do it on their own. Are we getting that The final thing so far is the cleansing right brands and cleaning This is associated with disease prevention, of the brain, longevity of the brain in number five. You know this is tough there. So many different different things and benefit, but I would say for me and you as well like we we want to be able to perform. You know we want to be able to to use our body and our mind to compete, to get out and and to play to have a good time.

And one of the fun things I've talked about in my in my first book, sleep, smarter was research that was done on basketball players, collegiate basketball players at stanford, and they found that simply by increasing the amount of sleep that they were getting not training more, not doing anything else differently. This shaved a full second off of their sprint time, just by increasing their sleep, while they improved significantly improve at free throw shooting in a three point: shooting wow just by getting more sleep. Alright- and these are things that we just kind of on the periphery kind of know that but at the same time, are utilizing it so some of the greatest athletes in the world right now sleep as a part of their training, lebron James. It's a part of his training, usain Usain, bolt same thing as a part of his training serene williams. The list goes on and on and on these things were taught us when we were in high school now, you're just like,

before you just go just go right into somebody, make a play make a, but today- really built into the inconsistent, so strength, training programs are this system, which is beautiful because again, when we were High school was very, I mean some stuff was starting to take. Supposed to be in the weight room, but it wasn't a big emphasis. Where is now, if you look at different sports like a good friend which is so weird for me to say this right now is like the coolest thing and actually got tails ozzie smith right so having the opportunity to ST louis I kahn man icon. When I was a kid. My two idols were ozzie smith and Michael Jackson, wow yeah I've tried to thriller jacket school and I got drove. That was not a good look, but obviously could be my role model, and I can just I wanted to to play on kids play baseball

and so actually met him at the gym, and so he was there. I think he was probably in his around in his mid sixties. Maybe at that. but he was there give strong like, and he was one of the first, if not the first high level elite baseball players to really embrace straight training way back in he's the reason he did it funny enough. Was he tore his rotator cuff He didn't want to be out like this was back in the day were just like, literally you pet, you do whatever it takes to get on the field, and he wanted to be there for his team, and so he'd just try to find out a way to strengthen everything around it. because you do when I've surgery would have been out for a year at the time and now you're, not course, sip surgeries have advanced tremendously since then by so he found it that he strengthen everything in a shoulder, but also he started, throwing from

clearly different arm angle is still one sided soon. Consecutive gold gloves crazy. It's crazy is crazy, back living at the same time, right he's out there back sleeping with the glove on his can so powerful. But it's a big part of what our genes expect is too, is to be strong in some different domain, and we talked about it before the show that translates over into our lives as well. You know so that strength, if you can train your body and your mind, because your mind is in play to life- gets a little bit easier in many aspects. You know, like you, feel more physically ready to handle whatever life throws at you, who you know, and so in the context that wine is being able to to perform at a high level to recover from the training that we do all the magic happens when you're sleeping you're up in the gym and in training or you're out on the field competing tearing your body up. That's all catabolic stuff and get the antibiotic reward sleep.

was interviewing andrew humor and are scientists out of Stanford. He was saying that even learning a new skill, it's like the runs connect when you're sleeping like when I do spanish class. In times like I'm, not getting this, you there's moments. I cast us a sports, my brain so challenging, but then I come back the next day, and two days later, I'm like you know, next? The neurons words like in your sleep and things are moving in processing for you to really connect those things. You're learning those new skills is challenging things, so, I think, and if I wasn't sleeping, I probably wouldn't connect the dots on a new skill so something about there as well. It's about this. Have you seen a study around or any search around how our belief about our identity, how we view ourselves in the world whether we think positively of our cells. We have confidence, we believe in our selves or our left there. We have a bad view of our.

Jobs. Do you do any research about how that affects? The brain are actual mindset of the brain and ourselves absolutely How did you is the number one driving force of the human psyche? Is the stake and growing with ideas that we carry about? Who we are every every thought that we think every action we take is really correlated with me, Leave ourselves to be- and this is why change can be so uncomfortable- you know when we start to think things that I I don't think that way, or these are things that I don't do our our physiology- that this stuff really gets harder. Irish into us and so increase discomfort, because we're literally going to creating new neural pathways and potentially start to break down old ones, and a mutual friend caroline leaf, and I love his grades and

he's, really brought to the forefront- and I talked a little bit about this in each martyr, my in my new book and how our thoughts really affect our biology, even how food affects us based on our beliefs about us and so one of the biggest things to really come from her work that, unfortunately, it wasn't embraced. Even though she's been in the field for forty years, she really knows her stuff and has affected so many different lives, but it takes time for kind of collegiate training to to change for the books to change. But one of the big takeaways is our thinking. Your your thoughts create your brain. Really, the process of thinking itself is creating your brain and we think that the brain is in and of itself just kind of off shooting our thoughts. Now we get we have spots stored in our brain, but thinking is so much bigger. Our mind is creating our brain. So thinking is a part of the mind. Is alright, but also the brain as well. It's both yeah, it's kind of

within the brain, and we start to create a she shared shares at an option that is with you, which he brings up the little tree ass in all these they ranches. Yes, we start to create these over the thought. Little thought trees started, bear fruit, but we consume see that your mind is bigger than just your brain. We tend to think that, because everything is kind of up here, but our mind is in our Well, in our mind, is just as much in our gut because diets emirate amarin meron yeah yeah. He was talking about the the mind in the gut and how it's all connected to the brain as well the gut brain the brain, brain and fascinating. so fascinating to monitor, connected throughout all throughout your body as well. So, for example, even a heart within the gut, the the human brain itself is just the absolute universe of neurons, so it was like eighty four billion neurons right. I was thinking about human cells overall, so we have about eighty four billion neurons in the brain. We have about one hundred

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to be able to see this and if folks want to check out the work from heart, math institute, heart, math, heart math institute, it is phenomenal. I've been you know, probably for about ten to fifteen years connected with Heartmath this too, it's just absolutely phenomenal. So there's a field around the heart. Does that mean, like quantum physics we're talking about, or is this something else so what does this feeling of energy will keep a real real, simple first, which is if we think about the elect the electrical energy that the hardest off like when you when you're the hospital right and you see the monitor it's not reading the the the smoke coming off. Your heart is reading. The electrical energy is coming off the heart rate, so he got he kgs and things of that nature. So we can read the electrical currency that the body she is throwing off. While your body is just teens,

with energy, and there is even a form of energy that we generates copies of electricity right just for moving were generating energy, an electrician so just from a very simplistic level. The heart is, is kicking off energy that we can't see. That's the thing about it right, it's it's emanating from beyond us. Even our skin is emanating energy. We just see a certain spectrum of light as humans. We see certain spectrum of how far does energy go beyond the body. So the tube tourists is from Heartmath institute's data enable to measure to monitor it. It can be upwards of sight at last, checked around eight feet from your and so now this is getting this some freaky stuff and I'm a very different, I'm a very logical, analytical human. So seeing is believing for me, but then we There are many things that are just as in all some I'm very open minded as well and theres, many things that we don't understand, but when we talk about people being in your speech and you picking up people's energy and interacting and

That stuff is very real. You know you can pick up people's vibes. You know that bad. So we don't want to downplay that, because other species of animals. They have that bigger connection, and we can. We can a tribute like bees, for example, in on this court hive mind, but we throw that away when it comes to us and so for me. For years I've been seeking define. How can I explain this to people to make sense, because I'm a very solid thinker, I'm a very logical person and one of the things I came across- was princeton university researchers. They found that they just took two strangers and they put them together and they had them to just chat and they found out within a matter of minutes all they had greece on report in their brain way, start to think up, come on their brain way started thinking up just by having report talking to another person, we start sinking up, and this is It happens all the time. What is mainly we think of the brain is what we say it's the again. This is

this is expanding beyond our kind of normal concept of the brain is because it's not just the brain is also the mind is concerned. Like the brain, the mind is controlling the brass? A brain is in controlling the mind. We we tend to think that is the, in writing it s, not mine. So what is the mind? That's doktor care, liveliest episode seek a dive in deeper on pond. What that is right. From a more clinical aspect, however, I'll tell you this. the mind. Is it's something we're still having a hard time to identify where it's located. That's the thing

is it a here? Is it around here is? It is definitely not in your brain along here. Your mind is everything about you, everything about you weak. The problem is that we tend to think of the brain. Is the master control or not? It's not it's. What is the mind sucker the mind and we still are trying to dictate what why is it so big in so beautiful expansive? So this is the big venture of all this stuff is that we get to learn, we didn't discovered, but as soon as we think that we got it figured out, not everything starts to go wrong and also it sounds like if the brain isn't optimized her sleep through nutrition through healing information, the chronic mason. Optimize, your mind is not going to be out tonight. poor leisure, acting poorly you're, going to be tired. All time I think so

If you want your mind to be sharp, you've got to make sure your brain is healthy and recovered and healed. Seldom hear you say it's it's true. If we're just going to be again looking at this from a very foundational, simple principle, it's much more difficult to think the thoughts that we want to think when we don't feel well I've heard of beer. Well, we started the bad thoughts. Is this car together cause telecoms together because of our up, so much of our biology is driving our lives. You know how we feel, but this is the thing and everybody's seen this example. We can think externally of our biology. We can change our thoughts and change what's happening with our biology instantly, because every thought that you think correlating chemistry des released, really an example. So right now no life yet and allow aware so I'm gonna start releasing the bitter oxytocin, although a little bitter, maybe little little dopamine. You know little serotonin in the brain.

Yeah which then released and also depends on the thoughts as well. If it's and sexy thought it might be a little little during a leaner up in every introduced. You know his like, instead a little bit more the might come forward you know just depends, but also- For example, we have a a a a thought where something bad is happening right now were we thinking about. You know, maybe we're worried about somebody that we care about. Maybe they've been in some type of an incident or something. Word, and but maybe we heard some news about it, but it's not true. Okay, so maybe we we heard that somebody that we love got into an altercation right and we're just like really upset like. Oh my god. I can't believe this happened. I can't believe whatever and we can start to produce these chemicals associated with that stress. So much more cortisol right. So

people know about course. Of course, not back, I was talking about this by Roma. It's a beating, our tradition consider my first year, especially in chronically, so we start to relate release all these neurons m Mariah, tides hormones, all driving us towards where we beer anger, regardless of the situation, is real or not the make it up. So we can think external? We can think beyond our current circumstances and change our biology, but if our biology is in a tough place, it is harder to keep trying to do that, so our thoughts shape our body. gee, I thought she'd leavings with ice cream, your by your thoughts, create the body we get into a break, I'm going to bring her up one more time. Yes, caroline's work, she's great yeah, so we that we had a great conversation about that as well and actually do an interview that I did with her. We came out recently in week after week. We we we put her

was in conversation a little bit more because this again this is kind of difficult for us to to to think about today. Cuz we've been so inundated with the digenetic dominant theory there are things are controlling our lives and now today, of course, I believe just about everybody. Listening is heard the term epigenetic at this point in how these. These are above genetic controls like epidermis, like your skin, the outermost part of your skin, so epigenetics is controlling your genetic expression right and so humans. Collective we've got maybe twenty thousand in twenty two thousand genes collectively, but I think that that's going to play out in your hearing at first. I think that number is not quite accurate, but when they did the human genome project, that's what they discovered. But why are we so different? It's because of the the expression of the genes there can be. A thousand different, our pictures of one gene and it could cold or express what we would deem to be something negative, but even the negative things are trying to push us towards health,

there are bodies, always adapting trying to help us to start to realign us saying this is not good. You need to pay attention to this and fix it yeah. Even with obesity. Our bodies are trying to save us, they're, also trying to save us so, for example, when we. When we bring in an abnormal amount of sugar like the way there the ball we didn't have access to ship. No, if you come across a beehive or something you're going to risk you're going to instantly get some, but today we've taken that just here all day long? It is it's so remarkable. How, in this, for me, is just very simple principle of biology. When do we start getting sugar accessible, in his country. One was that what year we decade was this, whereas, like us, donors available? Now here's a beautiful thing humans have. We ve always had a hankering for sugar, I throw of illusion we go.

Words for a seven year, we'd we'd go for those things, especially, but also is available for some cultures only certain times a year, for example, and so you would rack up on and hot and now this is important and it is well because there is a reason for this: the human brain itself, if we think about them. brain barrier that protects the brain and only allows in certain things, certain nutrients. It only has gates for certain gases like oxygen for water, only certain nutrients getting to the brain. The brain has it's own exclusive died, but there are a lot of sugar gates. Your brain will gladly confiscate harvard researchers uncover this. Your your your brain will gladly sop up half of the sugar that you take in a meal. You take fifty grams of sugar. Twenty percent of that twenty five grams, when you fly into the brain, brain how's and where's it going as a go throughout all the brain has to go to a section of the brain. What happens is then it's just filtered throughout you're, just on a sugar high

so even the term sugar. I like it sounds in this kind of funny, but that's not funny. It's not funny Because what happens is so there are these protein gates that allow the sugar to trance for over from through the blood brain barrier into the brain itself, Because many of the neurons run off of glucose so your It's like the gimme that we got. We got stuff to do with the meat. Let me take all of it, but what happens is over time. It starts to create insulin, resistance in the brain as well alright. So this is one of the biggest issues facing our world today and we'll forget in the conversation about inflammation. Neuro inflammation, I believe, is the most troubling issue that we're facing as a society, but it's it's It's a hidden overlooked issue, because the brain is so protective. We don't really know that is is going on all oftentimes time too late, because the brain itself, we talked about the symptoms of inflammation pain. swelling burning. The brain itself doesn't have pain, receptors

Your brain can tell you about pain in your in your pinky toe, or on your you know a pain in your neck, but pain within the brain itself. It does pain receptor like a migraine or something Grains are not the brain directly expressing pain It has a lot to do with now. There is that this is a little bit more complicated. There is there. There are some our offshoots of things happening within the brain, with migration may be clear just take. The borderline are different. Also, people experience my know that its different, but from a headache, will just take that borderline experience. Maybe like an acute migraine. Maybe a tough headache. What it really is is the blood vessels that surround the the brain that's a round the your skull right, not the brain,

But this round anger your neck in your shoulders. In so muscle spasms and things of that nature can start a kind of cut cause restriction right. So but there can be some electrical storms taken place in the brain for sure. Driving me with the brain is self doesn't experience pain. So this is why, for example, there's you know you can have a brain surgery. awake here I play or make sure that that's just like sum total recall, that's crazy man. I know that was crazy. Like yeah, it's it's amazing man, but these these are really overlooked, simple principles, but going back to that tentative inflammation. So if the brain can experience the pain, how do you know when it's on fire? How do you know when it's in the brain? You don't know until it's too late, don't know it, but

there are downstream symptoms. I'm feeling this my my face, my arm, my bio or something, my god doesn't feel good. There might be a constant superhighway of in body connection right. So these researchers at albert einstein, college of medicine they found that neuro inflammation is a double edged sword for nutritional disease, we're metabolic diseases. I so was I make it means is inflammation in the brain. Is one primary causative factors of obesity, When you have information, the brain, you're more likely to be obese and city is a causative in for neuro inflammation, so they both hurt each other

getting into this double edged sword or vicious circle, and this is why again we we tend to downplay or belittle people who are struggling with obesity, for example, and not knowing how many programs out there telling you we need to target the inflammation your brain get well and we met. And how do you mean tat? Listen to you yet the worth of doktor dino Ayman is doing, which is he says, the bigger the body, the smaller brain. You know your boy it starts shrink. I think that's accurate if I remember what it's like I really focus on both the nutritional side and the brain make sure the brain is healthy and you can heal and recover a lot of the brain from what I'm learning. From my scan that I took there, there are ways to and to optimize the brain, even if you've heard it in a big way. Yeah right, beautiful part about it, is and It was a really good friend. If there's anybody who knows it's him, he has the biggest database of imaging scans he's.

looking at the brain is just making it up yeah, and so this is this. I talked about this in each mod as well. He actually wrote the the cover quote for each smarter, nice man. I am so grateful to have a friend like him, because he's just such a wealth of knowledge, but- and one of the really interesting thing is that as your waistline grows. Your brain shrinks crazy right. So we see that and particularly the gray matter of the brain. He's gonna be inhibited jaminee easy. What does it mean I'll be city impacts, the quality of the brain, and what, if, sixty five. Seventy percent of americans are now obese. That means they have smaller brains. which means they're not going to be able to perform as well they're going to be more I'm from mental there to be more mentally on. Well, I'm assuming have more mental health issues, potentially more depression, anxiety and stress and overwhelmed based on of easy.

What are these areas where this will really gets how to run a scary? Because we often we look at those the condition and we just like me, in this field been almost twenty years and Would you say if I got thirty family members? Twenty eight of them are obese going up like? I grew up around obesity that you know, but for me a genetic cars a little bit different because I ate worse than everybody but I asthma I got your there. Of course, you know about it. Did the degenerative disk condition As you know, so I had advanced arthritis when I was just a baby really all I was reading the other, you had other painful side effects, then obesity, russia's, but that fat? My fat, always very active

and so now I've got this chronic condition. Diagnosis so called incurable. Nothing I can do about it, and now I get I was given a permission slip to do nothing. You know, and so I But I do so again again in a state of learned helplessness. Now when I something that might be controversial there, a big movement of the except yourself self love, no, how big you are small. You are like just love yourself where you're at and you know how do we, how do we? love and accept people for the rat without shaming them but also encourage them to improve the quality of health so that their brain gets bigger and healthier so that they can live longer so that they can perform better because from what I'm hearing obesity is not something that's going to make. You live longer and healthier. I love this question that, because the first thing is, I love it because This conversation is bringing to light the fact that we've been

dated with an idea of what beauty looks like we've been inundated with an idea that thin is better. How many years we've been inundated with an idea that you got to look a certain way you got to have a certain certain complexion, certain eye color, whatever the case is to be the epitome of what beauty is and human humanity so beautiful so diverse, and so so just so magical. You know, there's so much beauty, booting expression in their cultures that adjust thicker than a snicker. by rhino. If you talk about in old folks, you know in asian cultures, asian culture, for example, incredible athletes, and that they just right out of the gate, is going to have a look, be a little bit thicker, but that's a beautiful. It can be beautiful and can be healthy. It depends on genetic on how much weight you carry out careful. You can carry it. You maintain your excellent initiative. Any doubt of your brain along jeopardy. The list goes on and on

There are different, and this is one of things that I really brought to the fold with each mortar is your unique metabolic fingerprint and a part of that metabolic fingerprint is honoring your netteke and so with that said, shifting the culture right now to honor our diversity in our variation. What beauty looks like, and not being having this idea that having some body fat is something that's wrong or ugly. That's that's an absolutely terrible thing. The other end it's not even a but it's, and so we have that that acknowledgement and I have to understand that if you have insulin resistance, you are pre diabetic or you're diabetic or you have heart disease, or you have neural inflammation there. talk a little bit about you have allergies and asthma, It goes on and on and on advanced arthritis. All these different conditions, all these underlying things that can take place. This is going to in many ways, destroy your quality,

why hm and we want you to be healthy and a unique expression of what beauty is. Yes, that's it. You don't have to be perfect. Have a six pack and have like a certain amount of body fat. But go to live long time. If you want to live happy and healthy and not feel these kind of mental health issues as well. This will help that if here healthier physically we, because that goes hand in hand with all the other things that were seen as a society. Where we're losing so many people prematurely, you know we're losing lives, but not just that not just the actual loss of life, but the loss of life or people who are still living. What do you mean by that? When we fall into these places, I lost my grandmother, the love of my life, the love of my life, my grandpa.

Whether her and my grandfather were an entity e. You know, and so we just had some friends over yesterday and they were like what you guys are the only married couple that we really that we know that are like, and I'm just wondering I kick how we have what we have my wife and I, when I didn't, have any examples of a healthy married couple like I just pretty much, never seen sorry, but I live with my grandmother when I was a little guy when I was when I was between eight and about will say four to eight years old right, so it varies. formative, and for me that was my earliest memories and their entity and they should they had disagreements, but they know I never. I always, love, while I saw was then like his armor. I tour and just affectionate. She loved him literally to death, and so he ended up having multiple open heart surgeries, oh and he was, you would think again. He was he was hunting. He was foraging theory like outdoor guy, but he was living under chronic stress in the city. He's a country boy

alright, and so he was you know in this environment, but also when he first when he was noted, like of kate, you gotta high blood pressure. He also was very angry guy. You know where he is dealt with: anger, yes, but not towards us, I just have his conditions that he came up around so now. This is very important. The physician based on his prelim free, limited, tori blood work, which again I wish I could have been there in two to be able to intersect this there's like okay, you got it cut the fat. You need to switch out that butter are to have this policy hydrogenated vessel boy awaiting country. Crock, the first on us all country crop was in my grasp, my grandmother, grandfathers house, and he went from having some blood work issues to having heart attack man to having opened her surgery to him die early as it will be for no no, he looked. incredibly fit wow, but that was his long. Do you think it was more stress on the nutrition primarily stress? I feel

russian, and also the nutrition that was added in on the recommendations of didn't help right, so we're going from something that's called natural that humans have been having for centuries to something else, brand new and invented all the fat. I are my grandmother getting him like the low fat peanut butter and I remember was I got older, I went to the house, I looked out, but it said fully hydrogenated vegetable oil in. peanut butter, and so it's like it's basically exposing it to more hydrogen to try to creep thinks Dennis the shelf life of it kind of makes like a in a strange way of vegetable oil plastic out of it in many ways. Soap bottom line is, is an glad about a minute to talk about this, because it is a start to talk about, but.

She she was around for awhile. She was there at my wedding. I felt like she stayed while I felt like she stayed to make sure that I was in good hands while, but shortly after that, she'd die from an overdose. She was depressed. I didn't know really and- and you know, with the with the story goes, you know I dunno. If she did it on purpose or not, but you know she. She took her medication and she died Surely the wedding her? Yes, look, not nuts couple months- maybe you know maybe a year later here, but in my loss in

I lost the love of my life. I thought of my wife to depression, and you know when he left here, like really her identity was so tighter. She loved him so much man. So when I'm talking about this stuff, but also her health was going down as well, and I'm just now really started hit my stride in understanding this field and helping a lot of people- and you know I didn't know- I mean mother had diabetes. She had this year this that issue. She had like the whole pill cabinet man and for me growing up in it. It was normalized, you know and yet worked retreating symptoms and so when we're not in a good state of health of the depression, it is just it's more can be more invasive. It can be harder to deal with.

Come together so hard to deal with my point to get out of it yeah. My point that I want to share is when we're venturing into these outward states of inflammation, because even our fat cells themselves are an inflammatory factor, they're, essentially they're, putting out a distress signal. That's letting your body think in a sense that you're infected in the fat cells themselves are creating inflammation, and we talked about that again. That systemic chronic inflammation is just literally checking. All boxes were a bad event to take place, whether it's depression weather, which depression now we've got sound data on it. Having inflammatory component depression, heart attack, stroke, dementia, the list goes on and on and on and a big catalyst for this about. Four hundred thousand people die each year

from obesity related conditions. It's just a footnote. Is that like they have type two diabetes or they get stress or they have heart attacks because of obesity or one of those rain. So these are co morbidities, all right, so he's a co morbidities they're obese, but they die from something right right, but that's air four hundred thousand people every year, every year yeah it's because you think if they weren't obese, that they wanted I, the obesity is it's it's kind of fueling. The flames of the inflammation, for example, is fueling the flames of the metabolic function right right, so you could still look healthy and die of a heart attack. You hear that sometimes feels like, but today it's the exception, not the rule right. The majority of the time right right right, it's related to being overweight, and it's probably with stress or some type of like inner stress. We don't look unhealthy, but inside you're not able to deal with anger or resentment or stress or shame or whatever. It is thoughts of creating chemistry in your body.

terrorism is that it is as powerful man his powerful but this really ties in well with this topic of cognitive function. Yes, because we talked about neuro inflammation, but specifically the research vindicating indicating hypothalamic inflammation. It's the the hypothalamus. Is it it's really been considered the master glance at the of the human body, whereas it is so it's in your brain. Ok, it's it's in your brain, but it's so I think the best description is the hypothetical purple. The lamp pituitary Juno So we got this hp axis in their so many other glands upon that access. Even if I rode and so the hypothalamus is kind of like in the bosses office in a sense right but I would argue that it's not necessarily the boss, because everything is working together, but the reason that is considered a master plan is that the hypothalamus integration into crisis,

the production of all your hormones with your nervous system, which is like syncing your environment, your internal extra based on bad data and that feedback integrating the two in your hypothalamus is also controlling. Even calorie absorption is in constant contact with your gut and so that the vagus nerve is is linked up here, swell, and so based on your assessment, your brains, assessment of in all your gut of your caloric, needs how much energy you have stored. Your your brain can tell your gut to increase the absorption of calories from the food or decree. The absorption of calories from food, and so we last time about the Your brain can tell your gut when I'm eating always calories. Absorb these calories. Just let them go out essentially the more our own regulate or but it's not gonna, be like you can just eat a donor in you, don't absorbed in order to be that'd. Be amazing, if you put your mind to actually do that, though, do you think the

All possible, when I have fifteen hundred calories right now, this ice cream and donuts I is going to be absorbed in my body. It's going to go out and you just man, you just decide and declared. No. Thank you so much for listening to this conversation. If you enjoyed it and you want to dive into another similar school of greatness episode, check out the links in the pod cast description. I've done more than nine hundred fifty episode over the past seven years, and I want to bring you more inspiration just like this oh and one more thing we ve been choosing for lucky winners. Each week like federico from ITALY, william from Arizona Gabby from California, victor from may go, and so many others and that's right. They each one and amazon gift card when he is why it's our goal to get to know you better. So we ve created a short in simple survey. All you have to do is fill out this quick question

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for illness hole. That is the truth, sadly, and it's unfortunate, but there's too much suffering and pain happening in the world. A lot of it is due based on hard choices of what we eat our sleep, how we think and feel about ourselves and many other things as well, but food and nutrition heels. My friends, I hope you're doing your best to make the best choices, raw human beings. You know I'm a guy that loves to have some candies and cakes and cookies every now and then, but if you can do your best, I'm telling you have some quality meals throughout your week. That will help you improve the quality, your health. It will improve the quality of your life and I would remind you of no one's told you lately that you are loved. You are worthy and you matter, I'm so grateful for you and you know what time it is it's time to go out there and do something great.