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This is what's good right now. Yeah. Cassie.
It's all good. All right.
All right.
We're going to be talking food, but I have I have to kick this off because,
You're vegan.
You're carnivorous. Well, more like kudo.
Keto. Carnivorous.
I am so lucky to be sitting here with these two.
Very handsome, very fit men.
Because you're talking about us.
I think so. There's nobody behind us.
But yet you both have very different diets.
So I'd love to talk about that.
And I and Cassie myself.
Were someone asked you recently something about protein,
and you said, like, you don't really count that much, but.
Yeah, but.
So a lot of people and I'm vegetarian.
So the biggest question that I know that I get is
how do you get your protein choice. Yeah.
So let's talk about how you get your protein.
Well, it's funny because, we've kind of been brainwashed,
I think, to think about this one macronutrient as opposed.
No one ever comes up to you say, where do you get your fats?
Where do you get your fiber?
Where do you get your potassium?
Like we don't, we isolated this one thing.
So there's been a lot of marketing around it over the years.
Because there's money to be made, you know, there's different protein powders.
There's protein in water.
I've seen it. It's
it's kind of ridiculous at this point, but no one is protein deficient.
If you look at any case around the world, you won't find somebody
unless they're starving, which means they're just malnourished. Right?
So I personally choose not to focus on that.
There's been times in my life when I did, you know, I used to work at GNC.
I used to be 20 pounds heavier than I am now with muscle.
I work out all the time. We've taken all these things.
And then I realized, like, I really don't need it.
And this has been kind of the path that I've been along.
So now I just make sure I try to eat the rainbow.
I try to get as much of a diverse,
You know,
option of foods in my day as I can, and it tends to work out.
I feel pretty good.
If I had some instances where I wasn't feeling good, then I would
explore and say, well, maybe I need to up this and see how it looks up that.
But at the moment I'm pretty good.
So your wife and your child.
Yeah. Yes.
My son was really the impetus for us to to live this lifestyle.
You know, I started as a challenge back in January 1st of 2015.
I used to do all these weird food challenges.
I would go a month eating this or a month not eating that.
So I said, let me try this raw diet.
So I started on, January 1st and I said, I'm gonna make it for the month.
10th anniversary. Yeah. Yeah.
So, what I did was I
made it for about two weeks, and I wanted to chew my own hand off.
Right.
You get your protein.
Yeah. Yeah.
So I'm I'm I'm I'm doing all the typical mistakes people do when they go vegan.
I'm eating nothing but salads and and some fruits and stuff.
But this is January. It's freezing.
I'm craving something different.
So then I started to do some cooked foods.
I did the pastas, the rices, the beans,
and the different things incorporating that.
I found out like, wow, this is pretty good. I'm satiated.
I feel good about this. And then it just stuck.
And now, this January to be 11 years.
And, you know, my son has been that way ever since he's been born, and,
Yeah, well, that's true. It's something that's worked for us.
You know, sometimes people will try these things
and they'll go back and I say, you know, it wasn't for me.
But I think over a decade, I've kind of put it to the test for myself.
And I'm like, I think I can write this out.
And it's it's taken some different turns, like it went from just being a challenge
to then being about health and then a deep dive into the research around this.
And then it became a spiritual thing like, okay, well,
if I can live this way, that's in harmony more with the natural world
and maybe that's the way to go.
And then your wife came along on the journey or was she already. Yes.
She was about six months after me
when she started to transition atlas from,
breast milk into soft foods and stuff.
She couldn't think about giving him another mother's milk.
Right.
So she started looking at, you know, we got the cheesecloth.
We're, you know, doing almond milk and different milks at home.
And then it just kind of went from there, you know, fed them
nothing but sauteed or, smashed up vegetables and stuff.
We made our own baby food, essentially.
And, he's super healthy.
And what a great name to list.
Thank you.
Yes. Yeah.
I'm cutting.
Son's name is Atlas. Atlas elbow. Yeah.
No middle name.
We couldn't think of something cool enough to put in between it.
So it's just that.
You know, when you mention, you know, mother's milk,
and it reminded me I was a very sickly child.
And for the time I was nine months old, I was hospitalized.
And, and I can remember going to different doctors or a lot of digestive problems.
I was having.
And it wasn't until I was around 30
that this wonderful Indian doctor at Yale looked at me and he said,
has anyone ever tested you for being lactose intolerant?
And all the tests I went through, no one ever did that.
And he said over a certain age,
there is no need to be drinking
milk from, you know, milk.
Yeah. Never mind milk from an animal. Yeah.
And my life just changed for the better when I met.
And I was very lactose intolerant.
I was, like, on the floor with pain.
Once you had to drink, then wait three hours.
And once I got rid of dairy, boy, did my life improve.
Yeah, so.
But everyone has their own journey in finding this out, so, I mean, you're
both like, I said, so extraordinarily healthy and in great shape.
But, John, you eat differently and you also fast.
I don't know if you do fasting.
I do, yeah I do.
It's, it's kind of built into my schedule right now.
So it's not something I really have to think about.
But I've done intentional fast before when I feel like I need it.
Yeah.
And don't get me wrong, I.
So again, I switched my diet ten years ago, so I was 35, right?
I'm going to be 45 in a couple months.
So I this guy is ancient.
I, I, I, I know you.
Through all the secrets, but I ate everything.
Like, you name it, there's a there's
I don't think there's an animal that I haven't eat.
My dad used to bring me to game dinners
and stuff, so we would try all sorts of stuff.
And, I just looked at myself in that way, taking everything in,
and it's only been relatively recently
where I kind of stepped aside from that and just tried this different way.
But even that, at that point I felt pretty good,
I felt healthy, I never had any nagging ailments
or anything that I would attribute to my diet.
Right.
But, I think it's probably because I ate all the good stuff and all the bad stuff.
So if you you get the right things in,
you can live a certain way and not really pay, so to speak.
But if you're doing all the bad things, you know the good things.
Now we start to see other problems.
Yeah, yeah, that's very true.
And I say good and bad, but I know just yeah.
You know what I mean.
It's like, you know, judgment. Yeah.
There's so many different ways to get there is like with you, with your style.
What do you do? I admire that.
Thank you.
And the bottom line is like, you know, Joyce knows me well enough.
I'm not judgmental with that thing. You're you're healthy.
You're doing great. It obviously works for you. Yeah.
I mean, not everybody likes the same food or the TV shows or whatever.
Maybe it doesn't make them a bad or good.
It's just your choice. Yeah, but you. Make it work.
Whatever works for you. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
If you're sitting there and looking all week and everything and saying,
you know, vegetarian, but, you know, some people will say that to me.
Well, you can't just be a vegetarian because of that.
And I'm not, but I honestly, I look at some of them who are way younger than me,
they got a lot more problems within their body.
And, so it works for me. Yes.
And I been that since a teenager.
That's that's when I, when I stopped in eating meat, eating chicken.
And it was for reasons that I loved animals.
I just one day I was just this,
enlightenment, you know, came over
me, and I looked at the chicken on the table and I said,
I can't do this.
Yeah. You know, there's got to be alternatives.
And my first little book I bought was called diet for a Small Planet,
and it was a vegetarian little cookbook.
And I learned how to soak the beans and grind things
and make my own veggie patties, and, you know, all of that.
And I remember having a party and serving what looked like Swedish meatballs.
They weren't and weren't meatballs.
And everyone loved it.
And they didn't believe it when I told them that.
No, it's really grown nuts and cottage cheese and,
you know, whatever, you know, herbs I put in there. Yeah.
My wife made deviled eggs one time for a party, and it was little,
I can't remember what the little potatoes are called,
but she hollowed them out and then made this little whipped,
you know, yolk, so to speak. Put it in.
Yeah, they were delicious, and nobody knew the difference.
Really. Right.
Okay. Right. I'm.
I mean, I love a lot of that myself too. Yeah.
I keep an open mind.
That's that. Yeah. I always like the taste of eggs.
I could never do eggs.
It just really bothers my stomach.
Yeah.
You know I'm big.
That's why I say I'm not vegan and vegetarian.
So that if egg isn't something I mean I eat it be eggs alone.
Just it'll do a number.
Oh does it number on my stomach.
Yeah. Well, you kind of put yourself through a master class, right?
And you're still in it. Learning along the way, and it's right. Yeah.
So part of the journey. Oh that master class.
So you you but you do fasting.
I do, I do intermittent fasting.
I've started about a year and a half ago
and has done wonders for my body and then because like you
I, when I was big I was competing.
I may compete again in a couple of years. Let's go.
I was more like a a gymnast look because I've always kept it really,
really strict and natural with everything I do.
But you know, but,
you know, year and a half ago, I started intermittent fasting, I love it.
What I'll do is I'll do a 24 hour fast one day a week, typically an 18 to 6 split.
Yeah, but I'll do 16 eight. I'll do 24.
I keep it predictably unpredictable.
I'll feast
maybe once or twice a week because your body gets into a settling mode.
And I wanted to go crank it up a little bit.
So when I feast, I end up actually losing a little bit of weight.
In many cases, if I go like an extra 2 or 3 meals once or twice a week.
But I'm really, really big on high protein and I get my proteins from my fish.
A lot of fish. I eat a lot of red meat.
You know, I find that that's really good about helping
with inflammation in the human body, and I'm just a really a big fan of that.
And it it works for me.
You know, even chicken, you know, tons of vegetables, steamed, organic.
Yeah. Fruits when they're in season. Yeah. You know what?
I make sure they're organic.
Honey, that's indigenous to this area because it's great for the immune system
as well.
Lots of water.
I wake up first thing in the morning.
I have my my, water with filtered water with Celtic salt in it.
Yep. Same.
Then I'll have my black coffee after,
because the acidity
is not going to affect my my stomach as much after I've had that.
And then I'll have maybe 2 or 3 big giant glasses of water,
and then I'll have my first meal, usually five, 4 or 5:00 in the afternoon.
Yeah, but I'm finding out
when I, when I work out in a fasted state, it's really good for me.
I'm more clearheaded.
I have more energy, less brain fog.
It's counterintuitive to the average person. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
You know, but, it's just really worked for me.
And I've since last year, I've lost maybe 20, 25 pounds leaner.
You know. And, and stronger and. Fitter.
I feel more resilient.
More resilient. Yeah. Many ways. Yeah.
And it's really been noticeable to people around.
They go, wow, man, you. Look really good. Yeah.
He really leaned out not to do it bad before, but it looks better.
Yeah, yeah.
But more importantly, health
wise and inside all my doctor appointments are like this.
You you get the body of a 30 year old.
What are you doing?
Your numbers are perfect in every way.
Yeah. He should be sitting down. And you give him an election, right?
Resonate with you, enjoys the same thing, you know? Yeah.
We're all in the same fraternity here.
So does people have different ways of getting. Yes. Yeah, but to be.
Totally transparent, my problem was if I had to go out there and kill,
the game to eat it, I would probably be a vegan or vegetarian.
I would not be able to kill that chicken.
He'd be my buddy, my pet. Yeah, yes.
I. Know, and I have to admit that, like, or a cow or something.
Yeah. I would not be able to do it. I couldn't. Do it.
You're not alone in that sentiment.
Someone's just mentioned, as they said, if people had to go out and like butcher
catch and but. You couldn't do food. Like we'd all be, I'd. Be a vegan.
Yeah, yeah.
Being a vegetarian without question. Yeah, I admit that.
And you would be the best one. You would.
Yeah. Things. Yeah.
Oh yeah.
You would teach us that you found.
Because I think what you do, there's
a lot of merit to that both you enjoys to know.
And I really admire that.
I've chosen a different road right now that works for me.
Like you said, you had to go work, but I admire it.
I yeah, I don't say like, oh, you know my words.
No, no, no, I don't like that self-righteous adage.
I said, we're all we all came from the same place.
We're all going to the same place.
So while we're here together, we got to enjoy it. And yeah.
And each other with some kind. Of show respect.
Yeah.
You talked about fasting though I think a lot of people would benefit from that.
Not maybe not even a formal type of fasting
but just giving themselves a break.
Like we go we have breakfast and we have a snack.
Then we have lunch,
then we have a snack, then we have dinner, and then we have dessert.
And just it's an overload, right?
I tell my students all the time, like,
if I gave you a homework assignment that you didn't finish
and you show up first thing in the morning and I gave you another, Simon said,
start that and you're like, wait a minute, I didn't finish that right.
That's kind of what we're doing to our digestive system.
So yeah, when we do that with toxins
and with things that are overloaded with preservatives
and all those also sorts of stuff, it becomes too much.
We get overwhelmed.
Especially in the American culture right now.
On, our food is
just loaded with cheap preservatives to keep them on the shelves longer.
Yeah, and the thing is, I'd rather pay a little extra money and get organic.
You know, Gorgui, we clean all of our vegetables,
our fruits, and make sure we make the best choices.
If we're going to get the beef, it's going to be grass fed hormone, no hormones.
You know, none of this stuff.
You get the best choices.
And I rather pay now the pay later.
You know so we're going to make those better.
And be mindful about that. Right. Yeah.
Shopping with an intention of health. Yeah.
The outer parts of the supermarket. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Inner aisles.
Yeah. We don't even go in there. No. No way.
You know talking about fasting
the most I do is three days.
And every once in a while I do it.
And by the second, especially the third day,
I have so much energy.
My mind is so clear.
And I, I do things around the house like, oh,
I think I'm going to, you know, recreate some space over here.
Move this over here. Do that. Yeah.
And I it's just amazing because people think they're going
to be sluggish and, and they're going to be sleeping and hungry. But
I've always felt that way from years ago.
I used to fast every Monday, you know, kind of eat what I wanted on Sunday.
And then Monday I would just let my body rest.
But by the second day,
it was like I would say to people,
I don't know, it's it's like, might like cobwebs are out of my brain.
Like I'm thinking so much clearer.
Where's that health teacher coming out of me?
So like when you a lot of people think we get energy from the food
and it's not entirely true, because when you eat right,
you got to have blood that goes to your digestive system
and it takes it away from your muscles, from your brain,
from all these systems to kind of make that happen.
So when you're not eating right, then you're in kind of survival mode
and whatever you want to do, whatever you think
that you put your mind to it, you want to do it.
Your body's going to have all the energy to support that, because it's thinking
what we're doing now is to help us stay alive and survive and thrive.
This is why when you eat, like, what's the next thing you want to do?
You want to sit back, you want it later on? Oh, yeah.
Like after that Thanksgiving meal. What do you know? Yeah, like.
Even like the lions on the savanna.
They go boards and then they sleep for two days.
They're just laid out in the. Sun, right? Right.
So, I think mindfully snacking, mindfully eating right.
If you need some stimulation,
you need something inside of you to kind of satiate you. Yeah.
To go do the work that you're going to do, but most of the time we can do it
with nothing.
The thing is, I want to burn for my fat reserves.
That's where you're getting your energy.
If you go eating all the time,
you never have a chance to tap into the fat reserves.
No I don't have a chance to have autophagy kick in.
I want that ketosis.
The ketones just aren't working right.
So I throw in my black coffee in the morning, maybe some MCT oil.
You know, and that helps speed up the ketosis right there. Yes.
Is it a technically a pure fast? Maybe.
Not necessarily, but it works for me. Yeah.
What is MCT. Oil. It's like it's a coconut.
Coconut. Yeah.
And I put like a little tablespoon organic and with my black coffee in the morning
and it keeps me satiated a lot longer. Yeah.
Along with the Celtic salt.
Made on the water.
Hit those minerals. Yeah.
And during the course of the day, if I find myself,
you know, a little bit tired, I'll throw some more salt.
Yeah. In the body which is salt is our friend.
Yeah. The right salt.
Yeah. Yeah.
You don't want to get the stuff that's in the box.
Edwards and all over the table. Salt. Yeah, you got it. I go to a restaurant.
I stay away from that salt. Yeah, whatever.
Yeah.
My son just discovered that, that he feels so much better
waking up and drinking water with fresh lemon and, like, Himalayan.
Pink salt, Himalayan or calcium. It's that.
Yeah.
Is there a difference between Himalayan and, South? Excellent.
Yeah. I heard the Celtic salt is the way to go.
You got to source it from the right places.
So you got to do your research.
A lot of the Himalayan salt that has that pink, it's been colored
and it comes from different places.
That the dye is not good for. You. Exactly.
So okay, there's a couple of good sources.
If you go to like, what we're talking about,
edge of the woods or the time and season some of the, iron in Middletown.
I go to, you know, food works and, and Guilford.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah. Great spot. Yeah.
All right, I'm going to get that salt.
I'm glad you said that.
And, I mean,
your affiliate, what do I call that with a wellness company?
You and your and your wife? Oh, yeah.
My wife and I are marketing reps.
It's the largest online wellness shopping club in North America.
And everything is made there at Idaho Falls.
Let me. Tell you. Something. Simple. Ingredients on the planet.
Yeah, I had one.
Today the protein bars.
I've never had a protein bar like this.
And I'm very fussy about my protein bars.
I mean, I think I've tasted them all, and.
And you're the company that you're affiliated with.
I bought protein X, I believe it's called,
I eat that when I know
pretty much I'm not going to be eating most of the day,
and I'm going to have a tough day or a long day.
It's so filling.
I feel so good when I eat that I have to order more,
but I think I just eat last one.
To really try to make the best choices that we can.
Like I would tell you, we're not the perfect company
know you could find fault
in a lot of things, but it's the best of the choices I made
with the company because, I mean, we try to get
the best possible products in our body.
It's not just what you eat, it's what you surround yourself in your house
and make sure you get the best cleaning products.
Make sure you put, you know, the best shampoos.
Yeah, and all the. So yeah, Caroline.
That was really important.
Yeah. Right.
When people find out
or I talk about veganism, a lot of times you think like, oh, I'm high and mighty.
You know, vegans are perfect.
That's never the case. We're just trying our best.
When I speak from it, I speak for myself. Right?
I can't speak for everybody, but I'm trying my best to give myself
the proper nutrition, avoid toxins, avoid any kind of
anything that's going to resonate with me in a negative light.
So whether it's the suffering that, you know, comes with that
or whether it's just the right, you know, right.
It's my macro micro, right.
You know.
And like I say a lot of to, I'm not a perfectionist either.
I know I live basically by the 85, 9010 rule.
Yeah.
If once in a while I want to go off and I want to have that ice cream,
I'm going to have it right.
If I want to have that cheesecake at the wedding reception, I'm dealing,
you know, a cupcake. I want to have it and not feel guilty about it.
You know, I know that I'm going to be fasting the next day
and my body's going to burn it.
You know, it's it's not like it's part of my normal routine, right?
Yeah. Right. Right, right.
It's not like the person who might be or maybe heavy
and also need that one healthy meal, that salad,
they think all of a sudden they're going to look like, you know.
Yeah. Right. Maybe. Yeah.
Yeah.
I think if you deny yourself, it makes you have a craving for it.
If you feel like you're really depriving, I love.
Sweets, I admit I love. Them. I'm a chocolate fan.
Me too.
Yeah, yeah.
And Joyce.
Oh, okay.
Oh, get those bars out.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Well, the bars that I made, it has raspberry and it's that sensual.
But there are some chocolate in.
Okay. Yeah. Girl, anything she makes is going to be good.
I bet. Yeah.
I just like,
you know, I get more satisfaction out of making something than eating it, actually.
Well, every. Time I bring stuff home for my bride.
Yeah, sure, I hate choice. I love.
I hate to say I love you, but she loves you more than hate you.
Yeah. Oh. That's good.
So everyone needs to find out.
Like, what their what they want to do.
You know? Like what?
What this isn't. Do you want to make,
I know a lot of people have a hard time losing weight,
and they want to eat healthy, and I.
They honestly don't know how.
I mean, I've had people say that to me so many times in my practice,
you know, like, they don't even know where to begin.
And and also they may have other people living in their house
where they're not eating that way, and they are buying a lot of the, the, you.
Know, process. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
So I guess just take baby steps and.
Yeah, there's some different tenants
you can live by fresh, ripe, raw, organic, seasonal, local.
Right. Those are six six words right there.
Yeah.
Those are six that you can kind of pay attention to.
And then when you're shopping or when you're preparing a meal,
like how many of those can you check off right. Right.
If you can check off half or more, you're looking pretty good.
And if every time you make a meal, you try to add a little more to it.
In that realm, I think you'd be in good shape, I think.
Is anybody watching right now at Joyce?
I mean, we've we've been more than happy to to help with advice.
We have your contact information absolutely from different ways,
from the vegan or vegetarian, from a person to those kind of keto,
whatever works for you because there is no right or wrong way.
It's what's best for you, no judgment, what's best for you.
But at least you're doing something.
A lot of people say
they want to do something, but they don't know where to start.
There's so much conflicting information out there.
If you put ten nutritionists in a room, they'll have ten different
ways of doing it.
Listen, all you have to do is go online and click on one thing and you have a.
Barrage of.
Japanese coming, and then you don't know.
I mean, it really is even for me, it's like, oh, that looks good.
And then I do a deep dive on the company and I'll read the reviews,
but then it's just too much. It's too overwhelming.
Yeah.
Or you or you go to a white, you know, the vitamin department,
which I love, the vitamin department
at edge of the woods because they have a knowledgeable team there.
So you're not just standing there maybe like at a GNC,
you know, just just like, what do I do?
You know, someone will come along and help you.
And even doctors recommend going to a store like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If you have somebody with some experience
and then they've been dealing with other customers
that might have similar questions and they already have the answer.
And if you don't have the answer admitted to people,
I'm the first person to say, I don't know, but I will get the answer for you.
Yeah. Then you maintain that credibility.
It's not like you're trying to sell them something, right?
Or something, I don't know. Yeah, nothing wrong with it.
Don't you find that once
you have a desire to do something, that it just shows up also?
Yeah. Right now.
We're talking about attracting and bringing.
In and, traction. Yeah. Language.
Yeah. It starts with your thought and your intention.
And then that will lead to that feeling in action.
And it just you can pull things into your vortex real fast.
Yeah. You can.
The laws of the universe.
That's why it's so important to speak faith over your life.
Speak faith over yourself, speaking with people you know.
Don't not say, I, I can't do this.
Well, how can you do this? Oh, I have to go to my job.
No, you get to go to your job. Yeah. You know.
Yeah. Gratitude.
Gratitude is riches.
And say I am healthy. Yeah, yeah.
Well, see.
Am. I am.
I am a masterpiece. And it's not arrogance.
We all are masterpieces.
Yeah, we're all creators. Masterpieces. And we are. Yeah.
You know, I could hear my son say, right.
Oh, yeah. You're a master. Hey.
Yeah. My wife.
Two of you watching right now.
Look, give him the book. Say I am enough.
Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
My wife and say, yeah, you're enough. All right? Yeah. I'm not.
I've had enough.
You get that every now and then.
Every now and then I get it. Yeah.
I, I just.
Ask you, are you, do you cook or you're cooking also.
Yeah I see the when you're with your son.
Yeah.
I try to keep him in the kitchen to see what I'm doing.
Sometimes I'll have him be my sous chef.
Other times I just let him chill
and I enjoy you know catering to him and catering to my wife. So
And what's your, what's your wife's.
Name? Chrissy. Hey, Chrissy. Yeah. Hi, Chris.
That's yourself. A good one here. Chrissy.
Usually right out of, let's say Alice. Yeah.
Now she gets to hear from some other person.
Besides me, right?
Oh, about third party.
You know, a third person edification. Yeah. Right.
Yeah.
No, but, no, I, I really enjoy catering to them and trying
to get the best ingredients and making sure they're happy and satisfied
and enjoy the experience, because food is something
we've all been bonding around forever.
Yeah, it has a big emotional and psychological component to it.
And I think that's why a lot of people fall into some traps,
because they think about what grandma's apple pie,
you know, when they were feeling bad and they had that with the ice cream.
And now all of a sudden when every time they feel bad,
what's in the back of their mind?
Pie and ice cream.
It's just so we got to try to change that a little bit, maybe use some healthier
ingredients, some healthier meals to try to attach to the emotional peace,
and then using fasting to totally disconnect
from all of it and say, what do I really need? Right? You know.
Because right now I'm in the process.
Right now, I'm on my 24th hour right now of fasting.
Let's go.
And I'll and I'll break it probably after about 28.
But it's just a really good feeling, like you said,
feel more and more clear headed and enjoy.
She was saying you feel really good.
Now that and that third day with the 72 hour, we have all that energy.
And that's when I would have you come over the house and clean.
Yeah. Go and come over to my house. Yeah.
We're going to watch it.
There's a lot of wisdom to.
Coming over with her. Mom. Yeah.
There's a lot of wisdom in, eating once a day.
And when I first heard that, I thought it was kind of crazy.
And now I kind of do it just by default.
It's just the way my schedule works. Yes.
And then there's also some people
that would say, like, eating once every other day is even better.
Now, some people will go once a week
and you might think like, how does somebody do that?
But, they say, if you can do that, you'll never be sick ever.
As long. As you're hydrating. Yeah.
So. Yeah.
So, so, that's with the salt, the Celtic salt water,
making sure it gets into the cells. Sure.
A lot of people are drinking just water from the tap. Right.
And it's flushing ourselves out and taking away all the minerals.
And I'm not going to go that pure I
a black coffee I'm gonna have my black organic coffee.
Yeah. To do that or tea. With that nature.
And then the enjoyment part of it too because like I think we might have said
this, we're only here for a short period of time. Right.
So you want to enjoy the ride. Yes.
And if the coffee is something that you look forward to
and has you do better in the world, like double up.
Right. Exactly.
Yeah I do.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, whatever makes it feel better.
I mean, do it.
But quite honestly, you sometimes you don't need
a whole piece of cake or the whole, you know, cupcake.
A couple of bites, and if you take a break, It's satisfying.
Oh, speak for yourself. Yes.
But we're getting real here.
Say, you remember the whole cupcake or two. Yeah.
Yeah.
No, but sometimes that sugar rush for me, I can feel it, like.
Right.
You pay for later on, Oh, well, we could go on forever,
but thank you so much for being with us today.
It's been really a privilege and honor.
I've had a lot of fun. And.
And if someone wanted you to come to their home to talk about,
yoga, talk about even helping the family get on track with eating.
Yeah, you can reach out to me on any of the social medias.
It's all costing him out on social media.
My website is Kassem outlaw.com, so you can check that out too.
I've got to update a little bit, but it's there as a calling card.
Mark, I've seen you been an absolute blessing.
I just love the joy you exude.
I love the way you walk into a room.
You just slide it right up. Man, I appreciate it.
Thank you, thank you.
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