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Every day you have a choice. You can wake up and choose to give in to mediocrity and complacency, you can choose bad habits and poor choices, and you can do the bare minimum to get by and fly under the radar. Or you can choose to make today the day that sets you apart from the crowd, you can choose to start doing the right things, the things that will set you up for success. You can choose to create a life that is worth living, worth waking up to, and worth sharing with the world around you. Today You can choose to start with a win.
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Speaker 2
America is the worst in the world, by far the worst in the world in health span. Most people don't think about this. We're 39th in the world in longevity.
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Speaker 2
moving 15 minutes every hour is more important than three hours of exercise a day.
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Unknown
Welcome to start with a win where we unpack franchising, leadership and business growth. Let's go.
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Speaker 1
Coming to you from area 15 ventures and start with Win headquarters. It's Adam Contos.
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Speaker 1
We have this amazing two part episode. This is part two of two with Blair La Core, a dynamic business leader who's dove really deep into longevity. I'm a big fan of living longer myself. I think this is really important. So let's get back into it. Blair shares the five secrets to longevity and some things you can do with each of those.
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Speaker 1
Let's get into it.
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Speaker 1
You're in longevity now and I, I'm seeing this becoming more prolific, especially in leadership circles. So, you know, I'm former CEO actually I'm CEO of another company right now also.
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Speaker 1
And I'm huge into self-care, longevity, making sure that, you know, I'm 53. What is 73 or 83 going to look like? I hope it's going to look really good. But, you know, the reality is it's an important part of leader society. And a lot of people are very interested in it. Talk to us a little bit about the progression in longevity that you're seeing.
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Speaker 1
And where do you think we're going with this?
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Speaker 2
Sure. You know it. It is in vogue. and the good news is that it's in vogue because people are starting to appreciate it. The bad news is in vogue because America is the worst in the world, by far the worst in the world in health span. Most people don't think about this. We're 39th in the world in longevity.
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Speaker 2
Okay? We're behind Cuba. Well, that sucks, but we're 39th in the world out of, you know, 192 countries. Maybe we'll move our way up. But the reality is longevity is a false metric, because if you look at what we're number one in, it's dying. Okay? A genetically, advantaged person is one half of 1%. And if you didn't get it, you didn't get it has an immune system that can re, re, you know, invent itself very, very quickly.
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Speaker 2
They live to somewhere between 95 and 100. And you always say they were great. They didn't decline until the last year, and then they fell down. And then a year later, they die. Okay, that is winning the lottery. Okay? That is what we should want, that our health spend is very close to our lifespan. The problem in America is that the average age now is 74 blended between men and women, which means that, you know, men are a little bit less and that we start to decline 14 years before we die.
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Speaker 2
So it means by around 58 for a man and around 60 as a woman. And there's is some studies coming out now that women actually start to decline at the same point, they decline longer. So maybe they are at 58 at that point, the average American, we're number one in the world at this slow death, which is we start to get chronic inflammation diseases.
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Speaker 2
Okay, Buck Institute where, you know, I'm the vice chair. We've been we invented general science and longevity. We've done it for 30 years before it was vogue. we've been doing it horizontally. And the conclusion we came to many, many years ago was that aging is is a horizontal disease based on your, your system breaking down. And the best indicator is chronic inflammation, which means that your immune system is turned on for too long and it gets tired.
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Speaker 2
Okay. And what does that cause? It causes miss replications in cancer. It causes diabetes. It causes arthritis, it causes dementia. They are all chronic inflammation based. We used to argue when I was investing, I invest in a, a bunch of biotech companies. Does illness caused inflammation? Yes it does. Does inflammation cause illness? Absolutely. Chronic inflammation is what actually drives illness.
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Speaker 2
So when you take a look at this whole idea around health span, we wait until we break where when we treat it, it's got the highest cost and the lowest outcomes. So let me give you one example of something everyone on your show should do. And if when I say it, you'll say, well, of course I should do that.
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Speaker 2
you should actually figure out if chronic inflammation is the biggest cause of aging and breakdown in the body, then what causes chronic inflammation? Well, one of the things that causes it is the glucose absorption in glucose spikes. And you say, oh, well, I don't like that. Well, I'm not going to eat sugar. Well, when you go pick a diet, whether it's a keto diet or it's a paleo diet or whatever it is, they don't actually those diets, you don't know whether they're good for you or not.
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Speaker 2
The way you figure it out is you put a CGM, a, continuous glucose monitor on your arm, and you do it for 15 days and you log in what you ate, and then you'd watch how your body absorbed and broke down different foods at different times of the day. That you wait a month and you go back and you do it again, and you and you'll say to me, oh my God, thank you for telling me that this, this wonderful technology exists, that I could actually figure out what diet is better for me.
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Speaker 2
Right. Well, it's been around for a long time, and the reason it's been around for a long time is because we put a ton of money into it. For diabetics, every diabetic wears a CGM because once you're broken, I can sell you something. And it's not a bad thing. It's not a conspiracy theory. You now want to care about your health, and all of a sudden you're scared.
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Speaker 2
You've got diabetes and you buy this thing for me. But why don't we use it before we get sick? Because we can avoid diabetes if we actually control our glucose beforehand. That's a perfect example of how we actually can help our body, avoid chronic inflammation and therefore avoid aging. Almost everything we've shown before 55 years old, you can have an influence on.
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Speaker 2
So the other, the other thing that people say is, look, you know, it's all I don't want to get my, genome done because I don't want to know when you get your genome done, 7% of your health is is impacted by your your base notes of your genome. When you write a song, the notes are not what you copyright.
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Speaker 2
It's the melody. It's the entire thing, right? You may have the same notes. It will be a very different song depending on on how you actually produce that song. So the notes themselves, only 1% of them are things that are probably really, really difficult. The other 6%, if your genetics says you're predisposed, you can actually do things to stop yourself from getting those illnesses.
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Speaker 2
It's called for no mix. It's called expression of your genes. So 93% of everything that happens to you, an aging and a sickness you actually control, how do you control it? There's only five things that we know of. The five big things that we know of that actually, impact your life. And none of them are hard. and I can give you I could give people on the podcast.
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Speaker 2
I'll tell you what the five things are, if you're interested, and I'll give you two things in each. but they're much simpler, because at the end of the day, we're just a machine, okay? And we're a machine that is an end of one. So every time someone says your cholesterol should be this, they're lying to you.
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Speaker 2
It's impossible. They did a study back in 1972 because beauty was, thought to be normal. Like the most normal person would look the most beautiful because everyone's brain would say, oh, he looks the most like things I like. And therefore they couldn't find anyone who was normal because everyone is different. You had a normal nose, but your ears weren't normal, right?
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Speaker 2
The same thing happens in medicine. We're all and of one, which means we are a unique system. So, for instance, someone could ask me about almost anything you see in the news today. And I'll bring you back to the basic research. And what I'll tell you is, of course, honors are good. It's called heat shock. What is heat shock?
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Speaker 2
Most people's bodies are designed so that your brain doesn't boil and your organs don't boil. If you're in the desert to burn brown fat around those things so that it protects, the brain and the organs, and it releases beautiful, beautiful chemicals to rebalance your body, to try to save you until you can get out of that heat.
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Speaker 2
Now, that is a basic fact. And we have all the research that shows that that's true. But now you asked me the second question. We know it's good, but how good is it for you? For some people, a cold bath where you dry blood into the organ and then you use isometrics to let it out, to pull out the toxins and to sweat them out.
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Speaker 2
after that is better for you. I can't tell you unless I look at the person and he tries it, and then we watch what happens. So it's not that the cold plunges aren't doing it, basic research behind him or that that sort of thing. But when you design how you're going to manage your little machine, your machine likes some things better than others.
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Speaker 2
And so the real big thing, you know, we call a scientific wellness use science to predict and prevent. Today, I can prevent most diseases if I test for it early on, and I know what's happening in my body. So we can predict cancers by watching small changes in bloodwork years before it happens. There's actually a test out there today which.
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Speaker 2
Have you ever heard of the Grail test?
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Speaker 1
No, I haven't.
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Speaker 2
You know, holy grail tests at Galleria Grail. Okay. It's a test that I was involved in funding maybe 15 years ago. That's a predictive test for the top 50 cancers, so that you could see before stage one that you were going to get a cancer. Now, once you get to stage one, let's be clear. It's at least 14 to 28 methods and mechanisms in your body change.
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Speaker 2
And then when you go to stage two, it it's exponential. In stage three. So what do we do when you get cancer. We take things like chemo and we burn everything because we can't target everybody's specific systems. So the key is to get it before you get to stage one. Now when I ask most people to go to their doctor and ask about the Grail tests, number one answer.
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Speaker 2
I've never heard of it because our doctors weren't trained in a time when you could actually do preventive medicine, 98% of a GP's job is to find sickness, to find the sickness. So he's looking for sickness. It's too late. You're broke by that. Okay? 100% of what hospitals do, they're great. They're beautiful people. They're there to save you.
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Speaker 2
It's to treat sickness. But no one is thinking how do I avoid sickness? Because that's very subjective and it's very ambiguous and there really isn't something to do it. But they're, you know, they're thinking there's no way to do this, but there are tests today that could show you you're starting to decline, right? And that's when you should pay attention and you should do everything you would do when you find out you got cancer, you went in, you research, you went to the internet, you found your brother who was a med student.
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Speaker 2
and then you went to a specialist. Now you're engaged and trying to figure out how to save yourself. If you find out you're getting closer to diabetes, we need to tell you so that you can start that participation early, predict, prevent, participate and then personalize. That's the way it the way to do it. And there's five categories in the predict prevent that you can actually have an impact.
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Speaker 2
and they're very, very easy categories. Everyone will recognize them. And when I tell you how easy it is, you're going to be astonished that you don't do it right. The number one, in correlate to healthspan. And you've heard about this, is that, having one dyadic relationship in your life and a dyadic relationship is, and you only have to have one if you have more than one.
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Speaker 2
That's great. and you, they can change. You could have one with one person, that one with another person. A Dag relationship is, that someone is not just empathetic to you. They not just care about you and you feel that they care about you, but you actually mentally believe that by word or deed they will take action.
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Speaker 2
If you're in trouble. Now, think about that. That's compassion. You believe they're compassionate to you, but in order for that transaction to happen, not only do they have to show you that they care, that they're empathetic, you actually have to believe that they do. And it's that trigger that it's in your mind. That's why, you know, things like the placebo effect work when you trust your doctor.
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Speaker 2
The drugs work better because you believe. So what I'm telling you is it's not just good enough that people care about you. You have to be vulnerable enough, and you have to accept it. And you have to believe that they're going to be there for you. That's why married people live longer. Okay? You know, when you really break down the thing.
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Speaker 2
Now, if some people wish they didn't live longer because they're married and they wish they were dead, but they live longer because, you know, they actually believe there's someone there that's going to be there for them. So number one is this idea that mind body actually makes a difference and that humans are the only animal that has a parasympathetic, immune system and a vagus nerve, which is the largest nerve in your body that connects your brain to your mouth, to your stomach, to your heart, to all your organs.
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Speaker 2
And that brain saying that person cares about me sends a signal to your body that I feel safe. And I feel good, and I'll bring down the stress, and my immune system will function better, and I will kill illness before it gets me. There is not a drug in the world that we will ever create that isn't. Is more this more effective than your body killing things that are trying to get you?
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Speaker 2
And so what's happened is we are looking outward when it's not bad. Look, if I'm sick and I need an operation, I will tell you I'll take one. Or if I if there's a drug that's going to save my life, I'll take it. But the first line of defense, as we say in the military, is that you have to have a strong immune system.
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Speaker 2
Right? And what is a strong immune system? Oh, wait a minute. That's the other side of the coin. I don't have it working all the time. So it's not tired. I don't have chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation means your immune system is compromised. Okay. So number one is that you believe this? and right underneath that is connection. Humans are the only animal in the world that can actually imagine connection, which means that I live in the forest and there's there's two animals, and they know that animals mean I'll stay away from.
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Speaker 2
He's the alpha. I'm the beta. They. We eat the same food. I know who that they am. Was animals. You can't have a relationship unless there's a physical connection. Humans, I can say Adam to. I read your stuff. I love what you're doing. You make me happy because you're trying to help people. Now we have a connection. I feel closer to you.
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Speaker 2
Animals can't do that. Okay? We can. Which means we have a superpower. That if you actually smile, that's all the studies have said. If you smile ten times a day, of people that actually helps you live longer. Why? Because you're connected. Think about that. You know, Dunbar's number that that, that research that was done, that says you can connect to 150 people a day.
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Speaker 2
If you look at it, connection doesn't just have to be intimacy. It can be kindness. So you can actually make connection happen any time you want. so really in the first category, we in the military, we call it a force multiplier. If I have this skill, everything else I'm going to tell you the other four things I can multiply by 10 to 20 times.
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Speaker 2
If you don't have this, you're going to die anyway, okay. Because people the number one killer of people over 65 is loneliness. The number one cause of mental illness for people under 25 is loneliness. It's loneliness. We are designed both as a system that has a parasympathetic nervous system. So our brain, how we feel in our body, how we feel have to be connected.
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Speaker 2
Which means if we don't feel good about how we're connected to the rest of the world, whether it's nature or other people, we are compromised. So once you believe me, there, now let's move on to the other four are really. They're straightforward. You've heard them before. You have a machine. It's a system. First you need to know what you're going to put fuel.
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Speaker 2
You're going to put in the machine. Okay. I want two dining companies in my lifetime. I didn't know this back then. You know, a little barren thing. But the fact is that there is no diet that I could tell you is good for you unless I understand what's good for you. Right. And I can understand what's good for you unless you do a CGM so I can see what what foods drive your sugar.
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Speaker 2
I can do a food sensitivity test so I can see which foods you're allergic to. Right now, there are rules of thumb calorie restriction works. Why does it work? Because humans have in their systems have been designed to be stressed out. And so that makes them stronger. Okay, so if I go down to 600 calories a day, the longevity not not you'll feel great longevity.
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Speaker 2
You'll live ten years longer. That's what autophagy is. Go look up autophagy and you'll find restrict your calories to 600 calories a day. Now you'll live ten more years, but you'll feel like it's 20 and you'll hate your life. Okay, no one wants to eat 600 calories a day. So what have we done? Calorie restriction does work, so the number of calories you eat is important.
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Speaker 2
And for some people, fasting works because it rest your body and you have a smaller eating window, so you get a secondary effect. You reduce calories. The problem with Americans, and one of the key drivers of why we have all these chronic inflammation things, is we eat too much, okay, we eat the wrong things. Now why is that happening to us?
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Speaker 2
Because we hate friggin Russians. That's why it's happening to us. Because in 1950, the CIA and the NSA and the and the government went to the Department of Agriculture and said, those Russians are going to take over the world. How do we increase the amount of crops we we have in the U.S so we can export food because people will like us and they won't like the Russians?
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Speaker 2
Okay. So if you look at it in the 1950s, we, quadrupled wheat, corn and soy and we started exporting it. And we're good guys and we are Americans and we love people. The problem is unintended consequences is when you start it, when you quadrupled the amount of wheats and carbohydrates that we produce in the United States, it's seeped out because we're entrepreneurs.
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Speaker 2
I got all this extra food. So calorie induction went from 2000 calories a day to three. So we've increased by a third our carbohydrate calories in the United States. The second thing that happened to us was the fight between, fat and sugar. In the early 1980s. It became the sugar companies said we shouldn't be kicking zero calories because you don't know how they're going to be absorbed.
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Speaker 2
So, for instance, sometimes muscles absorb the calories and, you know, they don't. They're not negative, right? Mussels absorb 60% of your calories, which is why people tell you build muscle mass as you get older. Because again, you'll reduce your glucose intake into your bloodstream and you won't have chronic inflammation. Sounds like the same thing, right? So when you look at it, the sugar companies won.
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Speaker 2
We started drinking, eating more candy and, and, more soft drinks. And fat became the devil. Not fat. No low fat. It turns out that that isn't the devil. That it really doesn't matter. That the fact is that not only did we stop eating fat and start eating sugar, but because foods don't taste as good when you take the fat out, they just don't taste good.
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Speaker 2
We don't like them. And so we inject sugar. processed foods. 93% of processed foods include injected sugar, so they'll taste good. What does that do? Oh my God. More sugar in your system? More chronic inflammation. So those two things in the United States are why we we die for 14 years when the average in the world is they don't start declining until the last five years of their life.
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Speaker 2
But you can change that by calorie restriction. Try to stay away from processed foods, and then you have to find out what specifically your body wants. For some people, they can eat all the carbohydrates they want for other people, for like me, they turn to simple sugars right away. I have to be very careful. So the fuel you take is number one.
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Speaker 2
I'll just do one more and the other ones are quick exercise. All right. We've been fooled again. The diet business tells you you should be on a diet. They can't even tell you what. You should be on a diet until you tell me. Until I know what I'm allergic to. Right? Exercise business says I've. You know, you know, one of the companies I own right now, we we had 1800, 1800 gyms.
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Speaker 2
We ran for people. Right? I love gyms, I love exercise, I, you know, I love going to the gym, but the fact is that I can't tell you what exercise program is good for you again, until you do a couple things. One is the most important thing is that humans weren't designed to exercise just like we were designed to stress out and not eat a lot.
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Speaker 2
We were. We were designed to save calories. So when I used to go to the gym, they go, oh, you got to change your routine. You're not building muscle. You need muscle confusion. Why? Because my body was saying I'm getting more efficient every time. Why? So it wouldn't burn as much calories. And so the reality is, moving 15 minutes every hour is more important than three hours of exercise a day.
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Speaker 2
So if you don't move 15 minutes every hour, all the toxins sit in your organs and your joints and destroy your system and cause up chronic inflammation, arthritis, diabetes. Okay. That's why when they hear on the news, they say sitting is the new smoking. Yes, because if you don't move 15 minutes every hour, your body was wasn't designed to do that.
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Speaker 2
The second thing is, is high intensity good. Oh, I hear that. I just saw thing on TV. Yeah I intensity we do need high intensity. Why? It's going to be a common theme. Your body wants to stress out every day. It wants to stress out around fuel it. It wants to stress out to see if the system is working.
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Speaker 2
You need ten minutes of it a day, not more. If you do more that that's okay. if you need ten minutes lit. Why? Because if you don't bring your system up and you don't bring your system down, your hormones and your system doesn't balance itself every day. So it sits in the middle in that gray area and it grinds and causes chronic inflammation.
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Speaker 2
Right? So if I had to tell people to do two things, I would say, look, you move 15 minutes every hour and jump rope three minutes three times and then sit in a dark room for ten minutes and just don't listen to music, don't do anything that would actually be more important than exercise. Now, on top of that is exercise.
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Speaker 2
There. There are a lot of exercises that are good for you, but I've got to figure out what it is. So you have to try different things. Right. and that's where you can get into also, you know, cold plunges versus saunas. I put that into the exercise with the third category is maintenance. I got a factory, I put fuel in the front of it.
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Speaker 2
Good fuel. I got a factory. The machines are there. They're moving every day, and they're getting high intensity once a day in low intensity one day. Now I have to maintain my machines. It turns out that everyone knows that sleep's important. Okay. Also, human touch is important because your body responds to human touch. So being touched every day matters.
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Speaker 2
So whether it's a massage or it's intimacy or whatever you want to do or it's hugging someone, touch matters. But in the maintenance cycle for sleep, which is the major driver, it's not number of hours. We've been saying this for a long time and all the studies are coming out. It's when you call in the crew, if you had a factory and the crew actually was called in last minute at 1:00 one night and 7:00 the night, and they weren't efficient.
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Speaker 2
Your maintenance crew can be 20% more efficient if you go to bed at the same time. We shouldn't be setting an alarm to get up. We should be setting an alarm to go to bed. So five days a week you find your chronotype and you go to bed at the same time. Five days a week you'll get 20% better sleep.
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Speaker 2
So even if I only slept six hours, I'm getting much more than six hours now. The secondary thing is, most people, less than 1% of people can not do damage, and less than six hours you can survive because your brain is very powerful, but you can't actually help your body. So again, figure out where your chronotype is. Figure out when you go to bed every night, and then try to get between 7 and 8, depending on who you are.
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Speaker 2
Right? Those are. And then then you can take a look at your aura ring and say how much deep and how much REM, and you can start adjusting. Deep sleep tends to come at the beginning, right? So if you know what time you're supposed to go to bed, those when you get deep sleep, if you get up too early, you miss out on REM sleep.
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Speaker 2
Deep sleep repairs physical, REM sleep repairs. Mental. But again, what do we say if you have bad mental it actually your brain actually connects to your body. You have bad physical because it's stressed out. It doesn't strip out the emotional tags, right? That and store it in the right places through the executive function. And that causes low level stress.
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Speaker 2
Okay. the final thing, and this is the easiest of all of them because we all know this is where you live matters. The zone. If you live in Beijing and you're breathing in pollution, you got a problem. Okay. What most people, they think people realize, okay, smoking's bad for me. Air pollution is bad for me. If one of the ways that toxins get in your body is your lungs, there's two other ways it gets in your body that people don't think about.
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Speaker 2
What's the largest organ in your body, your skin, your skin. So guess what? Where do the toxins get in? They get into your skin. Where does most of the contact your body come from with your clothes? So when you go to the washing machine and you pour in that thing that smells really good and it's not organic, there's 71,000 chemicals that are are certified in the United States, but none of them are certified that over time they don't actually screw up your system.
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Speaker 2
Okay. They're basically certified. They don't kill you. So if you're not looking at your, your washing machine liquid and even more important, the majority of dryer sheets are pure poison because they don't make your clothes softer, softer, they put lotion on your clothes so that they slide across you. And then that lotion gets in your skin. It's just pure chemicals.
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Speaker 2
So using dryer sheets are not. It's just as it's like going to Beijing and breathing in pollution. The final area that you get exposed where else would you get exposed to toxins. What you put in your mouth. Now, we did talk about food. So don't do processed foods because they're, you know, there's a lot of, you know, a lot of bad things there.
00:25:53:22 - 00:26:16:08
Speaker 2
But you wash your dishes and then you put this rinse stuff on there, and then you have a glass of water and you drink it in. Do you think that exposure to whatever chemical is, even if it's not toxic in one dose, what happens is you screw up your system. So I'll leave you with this is pretty simple.
00:26:16:10 - 00:26:24:05
Speaker 2
We are a system. Everyone is different if you don't. Actually, if you're not the quarterback of your system, your doctor is just a coach or a trainer.
00:26:24:05 - 00:26:37:05
Speaker 2
Those are some incredibly key points. You listed five major things here. the first one, I think, you know, this this relationship piece that the dyadic relationship, somebody is compassionate about you.
00:26:37:05 - 00:27:01:01
Speaker 2
They care about you. You care about them. That drops our sense of insecurity as a human being. And insecurity is stress. It creates that inflammation. The number one thing you're talking about, the second one fuel. What foods drive you? I love that, exercise, of course, maintenance, which we all know sleep is incredibly important. And, and that human touch.
00:27:01:03 - 00:27:27:17
Speaker 2
I like this key point that you said. Blair, don't set alarm to wake up, set an alarm to go to bed so that our systems are on the same routine every single day. And then, of course, number five, live where you live matters. That's incredibly important. You mentioned Beijing. You know, the pollution, maybe LA, things like that versus how we live, fresh air as well as the chemicals we put in our body.
00:27:27:17 - 00:27:41:16
Speaker 2
What do you put in your laundry detergent? What touches your skin, the lotions, things like that. All the chemicals. Those are some easy things for us to all work on. Thank you Blair, so much. You've been such an inspiration to us and thanks for being on start with the win.