Badlands Media - MAHA News [7.10] Vax Compensation, Auto-Immune Biohackers, Haaland's Diet, Overcoming ADHD

Episode Date: July 10, 2026

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince kick off a slower newsweek by trading MAHA wins (fasting, ankle rehab, and other Friday flexes) before diving into RFK Jr.'s push for a formal COVID vaccine injury table and what it could mean for Americans still waiting on compensation. They break down HHS's new Make Hospital Food Healthier Pledge, wonder aloud why hospital cafeterias so often resemble a sad Applebee's, and dig into Medicare's brand new GLP1 coverage pilot for seniors. After Nate signs off early, Jordan flies solo through Merck's Gardasil settlement, the Supreme Court's glyphosate ruling, and a candid roast of biohacker Brian Johnson's autoimmune diagnosis. The episode wraps with a genuinely useful rundown of habits and supplements for focus and ADHD, from Lion's Mane to adaptogens. Equal parts news update and dinner table debate about what actually counts as "good" food.

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Ladies and gentlemen, happy Friday. Another week of Mah-ha, man. Nate Dogg, what's up? Muted, homie. Oops. Rookie mistake. Oh, chat, forgive me. I was absent for a second.

Now I'm here. What's going on, guys? Hope it is a great Friday for all of you. How can we not forgive that stash, brother? Hey, what's been your Maha win of the week? Ooh, Maha win of the week. I have fasted. There's two days.

I have done a fast until dinner, so 24-hour fast. That has been my Maha win. Yeah, I am, I don't want to admit it, but I have put on. some weight over the last year and I am working hard to lose it right now. So you basically go omad, one meal a day, you just eat dinner and then you go pretty much 24 hours. Yeah. Yeah. I think, well, you were mentioning a while ago that you were trying that out and inspired me and I was like, I got to follow. I got to follow that. So, see, honestly, I feel great when I do that routine. Yeah. I can't, I can't be as active.

you know, it's not a good routine if I'm in the gym a lot or if I'm super active. But if I am not, then it's usually one meal a day. Feel great doing it. Yeah. The mental clarity is untouchable. Like there's no supplement. There's no energy drink. There's no, there's nothing out there short of maybe, I don't know, some sort of hard

drug that we're not supposed to get our hands on. But there's nothing else out there that. that can match the mental clarity of a full, full thing like that, for me personally at least. But like you said, physical activity, lifting is definitely diminished if you're,

if you work out later in the afternoon. But, yeah. Nice. Yeah, yeah. I hadn't heard that term omad before. Omad, yep.

Omad or Nomad? No meals a day. Synonym for fasting, I guess. No nomad. Awesome brother. Good to hear. How about you? What do you got going?

I feel great because I've been pretty consistent in routines with trying to kind of balance my knees out, balance my hips out, try to help heal my knees and get them a little stronger, more stable. So I have a balance board for my ankle. A lot of my knee problems originate my ankle. So I've been doing this sort of balance board for my ankle. and getting the bands out. I played soccer a couple times this week and my knees feel great.

So my Maha wins, biomechanics related. Dude. Feeling good. That's extremely, that's so valuable, because I think that that kind of work that you're talking about doing,

I mean, yeah, it helps you right now with soccer, but like later on in life, like that's the stuff that's going to pay you back, you know, in folds. Just because, yeah, less injuries. And I've found pro tip out there for anybody dealing

with knee issues, I got this from, he's called Knee Over Toes Guy, if you've ever heard of him. I love Knees Over Toes Guy, his YouTube channel and his content, but doing backwards exercises. So walking backwards, running backwards, my favorite are backwards sled drags, going to the gym and putting some weight on a sled and just dragging it backwards. And recently I've been doing lunges backwards,

but when you drive your foot into the ground, toes first, and then you have to press off backwards, whether it's running or lunging or anything, that drives a blood into the knee joint. It helps to sort of balance the muscles, work the postural muscles around the knee in ways that walking forward doesn't. way your fits and you have to press off.

So doing stuff backwards. This really helps strengthen my knees, especially backwards lunges, backward sledge. So pro tip for anybody suffering with knee problems out there. And ankle problems. I'll be throwing it in. I've been really looking at hitting 40.

I'm noticing a few things changing and I'm looking at my workout routine. It's like, man, I don't know if I want to just keep doing the same old, just compound lifts, you know, like starting to get, functional movement back into my workouts, I feel like is really important as I noticed flexibility diminishing a little bit. Yeah, in the gym, a lot of people just stick with like

bodybuilder routines, your bench press, your squat deadlift, and there's a time and place for it, but getting, getting out of that same, I'm going to do three sets of 10 reps of a push. And it's like you're very, you're not working rotational movement. You're not really working much stability. You're not working a lot of things that you need for longevity. So it's very like basic. This kind of bodybuilder split routines are very basic. And if you actually want to build longevity, stability, mobility,

there's a lot more you need to do. So that's good, man. Yeah, as you're pressing 40, you know, I'm 35. So think of more towards longevity these days. It's good to do. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the classic routines work great if you just want to put on mass. Yeah. And they're perfect. That's what they're there for.

But for, you know, staying mobile and active and able to move the way that, you know, like I did when I was 30, I'm realizing I can't keep doing what I've been doing. That's just that's not going to work anymore. Yeah, bodybuilders are not athletic. If you ever watch a bodybuilder try to run, it's like one of the most disappointing. awkward, cringy things ever. So I try to train more for athletics, which sometimes requires putting muscle on, but mainly requires joint stability and neuromuscular development.

So anyway, man, good talk. Let's get into it, because I know you've got to leave a few minutes early. So let's just hit the stories for today. We're going to kind of jump around with stuff. It's been a slow maha news week, to be honest, not too much going on. So we just have a few topics.

We're just going to kind of jump around to see what RFK is doing, HHS is doing, and see how the mainstream media is trying to attack them for it. Our first one here, RFK Jr. to create a COVID vaccine injury table. Will more people finally be compensated for injuries? This is coming from Children's Health Defense. HHS plans to propose a rule in November establishing a form. normal injury table for COVID-19 vaccines. Proposal would undergo public comment period,

which is expected to run in early next year before the final rule. Well, all right. I think this is, this has a lot of roots, legs. I don't know. Like, what's the, there's a saying for this? But, like, what do you think the ripple effect? of this could be. Well, I would like to see it extend to

other vaccines, of course, which I know you can get compensation for other vaccines, but it's very difficult. Yeah, very difficult. In this case, you know, it's important that, I believe last week on our show, we mentioned we covered RFK

removing the emergency use authorization for COVID-19 vaccines, which gave them liability. So it was important to remove the EUA from COVID-19 shots to then open up a compensation fund. But I really hope it's not the same here, whereas it's since, whereas like the bureaucracy

or the compensation fund will say, well, we can't prove your marocharditis was vaccine-related. We can't prove it. We need a doctor's note or something. And the doctors never want to give a note or admit that vaccines could be related to the injuries they cause. So I really hope this doesn't get lost behind some bureaucratic mess or something like that. But yeah, good news, man.

Yeah, I mean, I can't help but wonder if RFK and his team have been putting the things in place so that doctors will not not be under as much threat as they were before to, you know, go outside of the system for lack of a better term. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Jumping around to some other Kennedy news. Looks like over the last week, they've been posting on their pages quite a bit about nutrition. Really going to town or trying to just get the idea of eating good food into people's minds. Here is RFK and Dr. Oz on the make hospital food healthier plans.

Pledge. Sounds like a damn good idea to me. We'll play this video and we'll chat about it after. Hi, this is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Your HHS secretary. I'm joined today by my friend and CMS administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz. Today we're launching the make hospital food healthier pledge and calling on hospitals across America to join us. Hospitals should be place of healing. That includes the food they serve. Patients deserve meals made with real nutritious ingredients that support recovery, not a highly processed foods that contribute to the chronic disease crisis. Poor diet is one of the leading drivers of chronic disease in America. Six and 10 adults are living with at least one chronic condition. We know better nutrition can help prevent

disease, improve recovery, and restore health. That's why we're asking hospitals to commit to serving healthier, minimally processed food, and putting nutrition back where it belongs at the center of patient care. The response so far has been fantastic. More than 2,000 hospitals, medical organizations and community leaders have reached out to learn more. Now we're asking hospitals across the country to take the pledge. Thanks to President Trump and the new dietary guidelines It's peer-headed by Secretary Kennedy, real food, like high-quality protein and full-fat dairy, is at the center of the American diet. We recently issued a reminder that any hospital which receives Medicare, which is virtually

all of them, must ensure our inpatient meals meet individual nutritional needs. Hospitals that take this pledge agree to work with us to ensure their nutrition services align with the dietary guidelines for Americans and support healing, recovery, and long-term help. Let's go through these. It includes limiting ultra-processed foods, limiting sugar-sweetened beverages. Now you want to use baked, broiled, roasted, stir-fried, or grilled preparation methods while eliminating the deep frying. Limiting processed meats and foods high and added sugars, sodium and artificial additives are also part of the pledge, as well as emphasizing whole grains over refined grains. And if you can, prioritize minimally processed proteins, including

plant-based options. HHS is restoring real food as a cornerstone of American health. What a concept. What a freaking concept. Do you have any experiences with hospital food, Nate? Yeah, some. I mean, it's been years since I spent any time, basically anything pre-COVID. I want you guys in the chat. You know, maybe Rock Justice worked in a hospital in London as a chef, real food.

I don't know what hospital food in the UK is like. can let us know but uh yeah i just had some jersey surgery how about some jello oh that's your comment nate that's mine um hospitals also push aspartame i haven't been into a hospital in 13 years and i was just there for a brief period and i didn't eat any of the food but i do remember a vending machine and it was your standard vending machine with candy and soda and crap but um if any of you guys have experience with like a hospital cafeteria. What did they have there? I can, I can, you know, I would bet money.

Your hospital cafeteria looks not much different than a waffle house or an apple bees or some crab like that. You know, when we had, it was like a local, when the hospital was local, it was owned locally here in Callispell. We had an amazing hospital system, and I remember what the cafeteria looked like. And it was just like a full-on buffet, and it was great food. I remember, like, everybody talked about how good the food was. And then there was right before COVID, my grandfather spent some time in the hospital. And I remember going back in there, and it was disgusting slop. Oh, my gosh.

Deanna just got out of the hospital on Tuesday. It was admitted for diverticulitis. The food was shit. What do they have? If you know, mine, I'm just generally curious. But, I mean, it blows my mind that here in 2026 hospitals where people are going for degenerated disease and life-saving care, that food is not priority there. Yeah. Oh, my God.

I mean, you could. I mean, this is why we've talked about the Gerson therapy before. and Dr. Max Gerson's granddaughter Charlotte Gerson, who recently passed a year too back, but she had a Gerson Therapy Institute in Mexico, and people who didn't want to do standard Western medicine, allopathic methods of treating cancer,

would go down there and do the Gerson therapy to help treat their cancer. And literally, Gerson therapy is pretty much all food-based. It's like a healing treatment based on food. and people had great success with it. So just imagine if our hospitals were basically grocery stores, like organic grocery stores. So that would be nice.

I mean, I don't, I mean, I don't agree with the food that they're serving. I just don't know how big of an impact it's actually going to have, though. I mean, because how long somebody goes to the hospital, like a long stay is, you know, a week. Yeah, right. I mean, if you're trying to, say, for example, somebody finds out they have cancer, they're deciding to do the Gerson therapy for it. I mean, it's going to take a few months. Yeah. It's going to take a few months of hardcore life change and consistency with what you're doing to start recovering.

Because it was, what, 40, 50, 60 years of probably bad habits that got to that point in the first place. So it's going to take some time to undo the mess they got themselves into. Yeah, you're right. But HHS, good nutrition can support healing, improve recovery, promote long-term wellness. Hospital, healthier food pledge. I got a couple other comments here. The cafeteria had great food. However, I got things like uncrustables, uncrustibles that were frozen.

Like, that's what you were given. You're in the hospital for diverticulitis? That's, ooh. Now, you say the cafeteria had great food. Did it taste good or was a good quality? Because when we say good or great food, you know, most people, when they say it's good food, they mean taste,

which does not necessarily equate to good for you or good quality. That's a good point. I make sure to point that out to my kids when they're like, oh, that was good. I was like, ah, it tastes good. It wasn't as good. Oh, my God. I say that all the time.

Like define good. Define good. Yeah. And in our instant gratification society, people, when they say good food, usually just mean taste good. But you know what that means. Why does it taste so good? Yeah.

You know what's cool about seeing this, the good nutrition, all this focus on nutrition. Previous administrations like, yeah, okay, so they were trying to push new, they were trying to push their version of nutrition, but it was basically like, let's remove the sodas from the cafeterias. And that was like the extent of it. There wasn't anything about seed oils. There wasn't anything about chemicals in the food.

Whereas now they are directly pointing to eating real food. I think that's big. It's a big shift. Worked in a hospital for years, high amount of noodles, chips, and canned veggies. Wonderful. Yeah, pump that insulin.

More inflammation. We've got to get you back in. That's what they're thinking. Secretary Kennedy, I visited the Flint Farmers Market with Lauren Holloleseembo of the Crim Fitness Foundation and leaders of the YMCA. I'm sorry, she has a fun name. Holla Lee. Hollolidizumbo. Innovative programs like the Hurley Children's Clinic Food, pharmacy where every child leaves with a prescription for healthy food that's cool i'm not really a fan of ymc a's to be honest they're very corporate i know i know literally zero

about them i used to uh used to work out at a ymca many years ago and it was it turned into the wokenest gar like garbage corporate gym pushing mass during covid and get your vaccine blackards and crap like that. Hmm. But that's cool. Teaching the kids how to eat right. The verdict is in on Medicare coverage for GLP-1s. All right.

All right. Let's see what they say. If you are a senior citizen with Medicare coverage and you've been wanting to start using GLP-1 drugs to lose weight, we've got some good news for you. Right. millions of seniors may benefit from this. KPRC2. reporter Bill Spencer live with us right now to explain what is happening with this. Good morning,

Bill. Hey, good morning, you guys. And this is not just good news. This is great news. This is historic. It's going to save lots of people hundreds and hundreds of dollars every month. Yes, millions of Medicare enrollees will gain their first ever coverage for weight loss drugs under a temporary pilot program that begins today offered through Medicare. This is a historic move because Medicare has never in its history covered the cost of weight. lost drugs until now. Now, this program is being made possible because of a deal that President Donald Trump and his administration announced in November with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo-Norvidisk to reduce the cost of GLP1 weight loss drugs. Without insurance, these blockbuster medicines

can cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars every month. The cost to seniors who qualify for this new program would be just $50 a month. But it is important to know that not all Medicare in enroll leaves will be eligible. Let's look at the rules here and who will qualify. To qualify, seniors will have to be enrolled in Medicare Part D drug coverage. They will also have to meet specific health criteria. In fact, you must have a body mass index of BMI or 35 or more to qualify. What do you think about this, man? Dude, I don't know. I don't like it. I don't like it. Part of me is like, okay, cool, but man, if I'm like 70 years old and I'm fat as heck, I'm just going to live out the rest of my life.

Yeah, I mean, I would honestly rather the, just eat. I'm just going to eat. Yeah. Okay, so I got to wrap my head around. What's a, what's a BMI of 35 or more? Like, I'm wondering, what does that look like? Is that like 35% body fat? 30% body?

Like, what? No, the BMI. The body mass index is it's not a very reliable scale because it pretty much just looks at weight. And if you have like a lot of muscle on you, it classifies that as a part of your weight. So say, for instance, like a bodybuilder, their BMI is real high because it's just looking at your age, your height, and your weight. So if you're a bodybuilder and you're 510 but 240 pounds, your BMI is going to technically be obese. So it's a very, it's a very unreliable scale. But we're talking, we're talking about class one to class two obesity here. You can see right there. Okay. That's about

BMI 30 to 35. Yeah. Technically obese. But still, it doesn't, it doesn't separate. The BMI does not separate lean mass, muscle, and visceral fat. I mean, if they measured, if they measured this based on body fat over BMI, I think I would maybe be a little more intrigued. But still, I guess I just haven't seen enough about these GLP ones to make me feel comfortable. Like I wouldn't recommend it to a single friend, family member or enemy to take a GLP1. I don't, how do you feel about it? I mean, I'm not, I'm not completely anti-OZempic or anti-GLP1.

There's a time of place for peptides like that. And I'm not going to be fundamentally against somebody taking it to lose some weight, but just way too many people are using them as magic pills. Like here's Dr. Oz saying that the number one zip code in America using GLP1s is Upper Eastside Manhattan. I'm kind of surprised. I thought it'd be LA. But, uh, like people, people using GOP-1s as their first go-to, didn't even try to really exercise or calorie restrict. They're just, they want their magic pill. They want their, their easy route out. Yeah. And there could be side effects. So don't, don't take it for very long.

take a small dose of it and yeah do it short term but still like if you it should be last last ditch effort yeah well i you know if there's uh if there's a massive influx of paralyzed stomachs and upper east side of manhattan we will know why yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah All right, man. How much more time do you have, brother? Oh, yeah, like four minutes. Four minutes? I'm glad you're watching.

I wasn't. I was into the show, man. I was like, yeah, let's talk about. Let's talk real quick about, let's see, let's chat Brian Johnson and his biohacking. Oh, yeah. So Brian Johnson, famous millionaire tech guy, who's over the past couple of years gone viral,

gotten pretty famous for his just pretty insane biohacking regimen from, gosh, spending thousands of dollars a month on supplements to trying to extract, like, wasn't he trying to extract plasma from his son's blood and then injecting it or something? Yeah, he was, yes. Yeah. Which is wild.

Well, it turns out that Brian Johnson has found out that he has an autoimmune disease now where his stomach is basically eating itself. So I've got some bad news. I got diagnosed with an autoimmune condition and my stomach is eating itself. We just found out about this diagnosis last month when I did a bi-directional endoscopy,

which means it's a colonoscopy and also you go down the throat as well. So looking at my entire intestinal tract. And so I didn't know this thing was happening inside my stomach. But what happens is, so think of your immune system, like you have trillions of soldiers. Each one is an immune cell. And they have a specific key. And this key is designed to I don't think I'm going to listen to this guy for health advice anymore. No, man. He's going to start lecturing us on health as he finds out of an autoimmune condition.

And he's a staunch vegan as well. Oh, is he? Yes. And has he gotten plastic surgery, like Botox and stuff on his face? That I don't know. I mean, it wouldn't surprise me. I'm pretty sure he asked. The dude looks like a vampire, man. I'm not going to lie. Like, you see images of him online.

I always just think, dude, I wouldn't take health advice from him. He kind of creeps me out a little bit. Well, I've said this for years that, sure, Brian Johnson, his blood work, his biomarkers. They might show his mitochondrial health as being, a younger age than he is. I don't know. I think he's around 40 or 45 or something.

Sure, his blood work might be good, but the simple, obsessive, compulsive nature of his brain, I knew he was going to get sick because of how just messed up his mind is. When you become that obsessive over something, that you're going to give yourself some kind of disease, some kind of illness, just, not being mentally healthy. And I knew this guy was going to get sick.

And, you know, this is akin to people who are 100 years old still smoking cigarettes, but they're super healthy. Now, obviously, that's a very rare occurrence, but it can happen. It's, you know, the, and this is also a good example here is Trump being 80-some years old and super healthy, because his mind is so strong. When you have a relaxed, strong, balanced mind, it's not going to do, you know, everything,

you know, and trumps that age and still drinking diet sodas. It's not going to do everything, but it is going to be a huge marker of health success in just having a strong balanced mind. This guy does not. This guy is, in my opinion, pretty unstable. and I think his latent anxieties are what's causing him to go insane biohacker bro

and his obsessive compulsiveness spending I don't know five 10 grand a month on supplements and taking 100 pills a day like oh you're not you're not healthy can you imagine like trying to just like hang out with a guy like that would not be fun dude like I would not want to go play around a disc golf with him

Yeah. His unstable brain is probably influencing his relationships. And I'd imagine he probably doesn't have too many people around him, or at least I'm sure he's got a lot of acquaintances because of his fame and money, but he doesn't have many deep bonded relationships. Yeah, and most of what he does have, he steals their blood. Yeah. I wonder how his kid feels about donating.

You just love me for my blood. I wonder how his kid feels about having to donate blood to dad's. Yeah, and that like the world knows about it. It's a little odd. Anyway. Well, unfortunate for him, I don't wish disease or illness on anybody, but I think he would probably be a hell of a healthier. Like you were saying, if he just added some balance to his life,

a little homeostasis, you know what? Go get a steak, dude. Eat some liver. Yeah, I don't wish disease on anybody, but, consequences are consequences and just can't you can't avoid the law of cause and effect i got i got i got to throw this out before i bounce though is that this dude also i believe he took the covid vaccine and he was talking about taking was tuberculosis vaccine or one of those vaccines because it helped with longevity uh i can't remember yeah i can't remember which one of the vaccines

it was but he was posted it was like three months ago i think we talked about talked about it. So, yeah. Yeah, I think better advice would be like, I'd listen to Rinaldo. Yeah, how about we listen to, uh, yeah, Cristiano Rinaldo for some health advice or or hide. I have to bounce. See you, man.

It's been real. Chat, have a excellent weekend. I will catch up with you next week. See you, brother. Yeah, Nate had to go early because he has some family obligations he's got to deal with. So I will be finishing out the rest of the show alone. We'll jump around to a few more news stories

and then maybe spend some time talking to chat or going through, I've gotten a lot of questions recently on ADHD. So put together a quick couple slides here on the top five habits and supplements for your brain, focus, concentration, ADHD. We'll see where we go the rest of the show. I'll just stall here for a little while, but we're going to get to a couple of advertisements first to help pay the bills. Science proves that a healthy immune system is the body's first offense against the smallest of ailments to the most catastrophic.

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Merck settled a Gardasil vaccine injury lawsuit for $50 million in June. Merck settled $50 million for more than 200 lawsuits brought against them a month ago. So maybe this does give some faith that those, that COVID-19 vaccine compensation injury fund can actually go somewhere, hopefully. on that note, the glyphosate ruling by the Supreme Court has not been a Maha win. Last month, the Supreme Court basically taking the side of bear to protect the agricultural companies from liability for their pesticide products. Campaigns are going on, this one by Stand for Health Freedom, to undo the Supreme Court's design. Ruling in favor of pesticides like glyphosate. And when you look at the statistics of glyphosate, like this from the McCullough Foundation,

80% of Americans have been tested to have basically glyphosate in their system. It's in the food. It's in the water. It's definitely in the water, especially in the Mississippi River Basin, because that is some of the most heavily sprayed area of the country. We're talking through Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, kind of that region there. So much glyphosate used in their crops, their corn and their soy. And that goes right into the environment, right into the streams. So hopefully we can do something about all the pesticides in our world

and people finally start learning about them. Glyphosate breaks down the blood brain barrier. glyphosate is a key later so it carries other toxic chemicals into the brain it makes other chemicals like aluminum and vaccines paraquot diquot or even dioxins 2 comma 4 dash d even more harmful paraquat is the most acutely toxic pesticide in the world and we start combining them with glyphosate enhancing the permeability across the blood blood blood. brain barrier. It's bad. And this is an issue in modern science, especially health research, is that typically they're only studying one chemical at a time. And when you only study one chemical

at a time, it might appear safe. The statistics, the study might show, oh yeah, aspartame is fine or artificial sweeteners, artificial colors. They're fine for us, but they don't often study the synergy of chemicals, multiple chemicals at a time and the effects on the combination. And in our modern world, studies have shown babies' umbilical cord blood to hold over 100 chemicals, the average baby. So we have a lot of chemicals in our body at any given time, from cosmetics to food to pesticides to et cetera, et cetera. So very important to reject all that trash. let's see what else do we have here well i guess to finish up the show we talked about uh i'll get to the chat

here in a moment talk with you guys for a little bit we talked about brian johnson biohackers getting there autoimmune issues honestly i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these hardcore carnivores start coming out with health issues of their own. So we know veganism is a problem. There's a lot of essential nutrients that people end up missing when they turn full vegan. But I think the same thing with carnivore. You know, carnivore diets have a time and place, but I do not think it is a good diet to be on long term.

there are effects that I think will come long term from being on a carnivore diet, just like a vegan diet. You'll feel great at first. You can feel great for the first couple of months going vegan or going carnivore because your body's starting to get nutrients that you haven't had in a long time. But over time can cause some problems. You know, carnivore is the way somebody said, it is a way. a tool it's just a diet any diet is a tool but i don't think i don't think it's for everybody and i

don't think it's long-term balance is crucial so we'll see if some of these hardcore carnivores start getting any problems in due time but uh just wanted to make a couple of notes on on that got a super chat in the chat zbm is monk fruit sugar okay thank you for the uh thank you for the dollar brother monk fruit sugar okay for someone of the gut health issues and liver and pancreas inflammation? I don't know. I'm sorry. I would look at the glycemic index of monk fruit and

just kind of assess that. My question to you would be do you need it? Do you need the monk fruit? Intuitively, I would say it's, it might be, okay in small amounts if you do really want some monk fruit sugar in your coffee or something that's intuitively what i'd say but i'm not confident on that so i would uh maybe scroll around for some more research on monk fruit sugar um in terms of carnivore we are carnivores look at her teeth the thing is when you look at our yeah when you look at her teeth in our digestive system we have aspects of both. Like we have some teeth that are associated with carnivorousness,

you know, our canines and all that, but we also have some teeth that are associated with being an herbivore. Our stomachs are quite highly acidic, which is associated with carnivore diets, but we don't have a very short digestive tract. We have a pretty long digestive tract, which is associated more with herbivore animals. So we're kind of omnivores, kind of both. Granted, I do think vegetables are kind of overrated, but there is a time and place for some. It's kind of kind of a little bit of both. But also you could look into the ideas of metabolic typing. There's a good book out there called the metabolic typing, written in the 90s.

And looking at the book here. Metabolic typing diet book. There it is. By William Walcott. So William Walcott wrote this book based on a lot of work from the foundation, Weston A Price Foundation.

And basically the metabolic typing diet discusses how the best diet for an individual is usually based on their ancestry, their genetic heritage. So white people, more Northern European type people, do better on more carnivore, higher fat, higher protein, fish, red meat, eggs, things like that, because that's what effectively Northern Europeans, when they had to deal with those long winters, they didn't have much vegetables. They didn't have many, many veg. So they were eating a lot higher fat, higher protein, really no fruit, aside for maybe a little berries.

But white people do better on carnivore. And melanated people can handle more higher glycemic fruits. So equatorial, people with equatorial heritage, your darker skin folks from, you know, South America or Africa or Indonesia. They were eating, their ancestors ate a lot more like tropical fruits and things with the higher glycemic index. So their bodies can handle that. Granted, there were no vegan. If we're talking ancestral, you know, ancient people, there are pretty much no vegans across the planet.

Even equatorial people were eating fish and animal foods like that. So there's some ideas, some ideas, some information on how to structure your own diet. ZBM, you're on the carnivore diet. because your body just can't handle other foods, except for red potatoes, carrots, asparagus, sourcrow. I love sauerkraut. I mean, that's a good diet right there.

Carnivore, but a few veg here and there. A little bit of apple and banana. I mean, that's great. It sounds like a great diet. Pretty much what I eat. And you're still on the medications. Your doc gave you 510, 150. That's not bad.

Hoping the mushroom pills help because you still need more help. Yeah, good luck, man. Glad things are going well for you. If you want any extra assistance, feel free to DM me or send me an email. I might be able to help you out with some suggestions or supplements, ways to structure your routine. Yeah, I would agree. Kale is overrated. Some of those plant foods are a little overrated. If you do like them, it's best to cook them. groupler said your sister is fixated on oxalate since she read a book about them i know if you cook spinach you can reduce the uh oxalic acid in it eskimo's sure didn't eat salads lived on blubba and i do agree deborah metabolic typing is the best diet because it matches your individuality because

we're also different not only do we have different genetics different ancestral heritage but we're in different situations. One person might work a desk job, whereas the other person works a physical contracting job. So their diets are going to have to be different. And we have different body types. I'm 510. I'm 510, 170.

And I have a, I don't have a weight changing goal. I like the weight I'm at, but I'd like to reduce some body fat and gain some muscle. I like to stay the same way, just alter the composition. So my diet is going to be different than somebody with a weight gain or weight loss goal, who might be 6-2.

And we live in different environments as well. So somebody that's living in hot and dry might need more fruit and veg for the electrolytes or foods with more potassium than somebody living in cold, cold, wet climate. All sorts of different things. So you can't, there's no one-size-fits-all approach to dieting or exercise. It needs to be custom tailored, needs to be individuated. All of our bodies are going to have different posture, different injuries we've been dealing with that have caused different movement patterns.

So that's why research is crucial. Come across a lot of different information and then cherry pick it to see what's best for you. try some things, experiment, see what works, see what doesn't, and then keep trying. Keep trying new things. See what works. See what doesn't. And you might always have to shift. It might be, you might want to change your diet a bit when winter comes around. You're not exercising as much versus when summer's around. Eat lighter foods, more fresh fruit during the summer. more hydrating foods because you're more active,

you're outside more, and change your diet and exercise based on season, based on goal, based on environment. And again, if any of you want some help with that, I'm more than happy to help.

Send me a DM or an email. The sun is your friend. For sure, one of my favorite things to do is just go and lay out in the sun for 15, 20 minutes, with no sunscreen. It's healing.

It's definitely healing. All right. To finish up the show, I've had some questions on ADHD recently. So we'll go through, we'll go through some habits for focus, concentration, ADHD. A lot of people are very focused on their focus.

And I've gotten some questions on what people can do to sort of help their brains. So, yeah, we've been played sunscreen as evil. Again, there's a time in place for sunscreen, but if you need to put on some SPF, coconut oil has a natural SPF of about 10, so you get a little bit of protection by lathering up yourself with some coconut oil.

I think carrot seed oil has an SPF of about 30 to 40. So if you can get some carrot seed oil, you can do that. Or zinc oxide, but, oh man, banana boat and whatever those other brands are, I can never remember them because I don't buy them, but some of the worst, some of the worst cosmetic toxins you can put on your skin. There are those big box sunscreens. I hide that.

All right. Now let's talk. Habits and supplements for focus and concentration. Let's go through the list of habits. This is all your basics, but you cannot stress the basics enough. I had a coach one time. College soccer coach would reiterate the acronym, Kiss. K-I-S. Keep it simple, stupid. Sometimes he would say keep it simple, shitheads.

Basics are important here. Foundational principles that we so often forget, maybe because they are too basic and too simple, but seven to eight hours of sleep a night. Prioritize that. Your brain will work better. Your immune system, your hormones will all function better if you're at least getting seven hours of sleep at night and do what you can to get that sleep cut off the screens an hour or two beforehand i'm a big fan of epsom salt bass maybe a pot gummy is going to help you get to bed careful of eating too late if that's a problem or maybe eating late is what's going to help you go to sleep sometimes that that's the case for me big meal right before i go to bed boom i'm out and that's my one meal of the day.

But do what you can to get the seven of eight hours of sleep at night. Caffeine's a big one for that. A lot of people drinking caffeine until late in the day. Try to cut that caffeine off at 2 p.m. If you're having problems. I mean, do these things if you're having problems. Exercise. Daily low intensity movement, walking yoga stretching,

get the blood flowing, get your body in motion. Motion is lotion, but that's going to help. circulate blood and oxygen to your brain. And it's going to act as somewhat of a meditative practice too. Meditation in general is great for people to help calm their brains down. Think clear, focus clearer, but I don't necessarily do the boring, sit there, static meditations too much. Sometimes here and there if I need it, but I find exercise to be a meditative. practice for myself. So try to get your, some people really focus on the 10,000 steps a day.

Awesome. If that is great for you, by all means do it. But it could take about an hour of walking to get that in. And sometimes I don't have an hour to spare hour, hour and a half. So I like more high intensity, high intensity movement for my steps for me. For me, getting 3,000 steps running does more than 10,000 slow walking steps. But again, it depends on you and your schedule, your time frame, what works best for you. Maybe you can't run much because your knees or your hips hurt. So get some walking in. But whether it's walking, yoga, stretching 15 minutes of a mobility routine that you do in the mornings over your morning coffee, do it.

It's going to help your brain. And then every week, try to get two to three, two to three bouts of a higher intensity exercise. So whether that's weightlifting, running, some kind of sport, swimming, biking, at least 30 minutes, 20 to 30 minutes. Doesn't have to be long, doesn't have to be grueling. But work that in two to three times a week.

And then posture and breathing too. When you're doing your mobility routines, when you're doing your exercises, try to work on some postural exercises, corrective exercises, because that will help your breathing. A lot of people have inhibited breathing patterns. They can't take diaphragmatic breaths because they can't expand their rib cage

because they're hunched over in a rounded shoulder posture all day. So getting your posture better will help your breathing. If you can breathe deeper, then you're getting more oxygen into your body with each breath, your brain will love that. We'll work better for more oxygen, better blood flow, your posture and your breathing is crucial for your nervous system. And especially with your spine, not going to go too deep into this,

but big, big deep breaths help to basically mobilize your vertebrae. Get nutrients and fresh blood into your spine. and I believe the process is called imbibition. But this is a lot of ways. A lot of ways these things connect to help your brain out, help your nervous system out. So posture and breathing is crucial. Next habit for helping focus concentration

and helping to manage ADHD. Clean cosmetics, clean detergents, clean house cleaning products, All of the things you use around your home, whether it's air fresheners, colognes on yourself, soaps, shampoos, soaps on your body, soaps on your carpet, laundry detergents, a big one. But there's so many chemicals that we get in from our homes. Because we're in our homes, 8, 10, 12, maybe more hours a day.

So what are the chemicals that you're, literally and figuratively bathing in, take a look at those. And then the basics of nutrition and hydration, especially foods focusing on probiotics, magnesium, B vitamins, and vitamin D. Of course, vitamin D you're mainly going to be getting from the sun, B vitamins you're going to be getting from red meats, magnesium from nuts and seeds. I'm a big proponent of pumpkin seeds, Brazil, nuts and almonds, especially pumpkin seeds for the guys, but you're getting a lot of magnesium through those foods, probiotics from your sauerkraut, your fermented foods. These nutrients are going to be the most helpful for your brain. There's other ones as well that I didn't list here,

but this list is for if you can't get them through your diet. Ideally diet, if not you can't supplement. And then not all supplements are the same. There's definitely some trash supplements out there. So you want to be looking for the vitamin D that you can actually absorb, food-based, whole-food vitamins, minerals, probiotics that are strong enough to actually work your align brand or cultural probiotics are kind of a waste of money. You're not going to do much.

They're too weak. So not all supplements are the same. And then I also listed here handling latent stress just because I find that it can, for myself and many people, stresses in your life that you are repressing, that you're avoiding that you haven't handled, whether it's work stress, relationship stress, financial life, whatever it is. When you're constantly avoiding them, your conscious mind might not be thinking about them, but they are affecting your subconscious mind. And then that will have effects on your focus is just, whether it's past trauma or PTSD or current problems you're avoiding, it's going to be having an effect on your ability to focus. And then before I get into the supplement list, let me say hi to the chat here for a moment. There's some good comments coming in.

Most commercial supplements are garbage, 100%. GnC's products come from China. GNC got bought out by a Chinese company in 2020. It was still trash before that, but most, most commercial supplements are garbage. Not all of them, but most of them. I do not know anything about sports research products, but I can research sports research. Never heard of that company before.

Let me take a little looksie here for you real quick. I'm going to judge a book by its cover here. They look like they're good, but overpriced. This looks like a very overpriced brand. Let's just check out their weight protein isolate. How much do you get? Creamy of vanilla. Give me the nutrition facts.

Yeah, it's okay. I wouldn't, they kind of fill it with casein. if you can see that sodium caseinate there i can't scribble on the screen right now but they might be just trying to bump up the numbers by throwing casing protein in there which is kind of a low quality protein but at least they sweeten it there's not many ingredients and they sweeten it with stevia so not bad 50 bucks for 26 serving so two dollars a serving yeah there's better it's not bad like i would probably take it, but it wouldn't be my first choice. Creteate monohydrate.

Yeah, it's not bad. Just basic monohydrate. Colostrum, MCT oil. What about their electrolytes? 40 bucks for, yeah, it's okay. I've seen a lot worse. You order their probiotics. Okay, let me check out their probiotics.

And then I'll call it good. This one here? 25 bucks. for 30 servings. That's not bad. 60 billion strength. They've got a decent blend of lactobacillus. So those are your more upper digestive tract bacteria.

And then the phytobacterium is more for your colon and lower digester tract. Decent spread of both. Yeah, this is good. 25 bucks for 30 cap. Not bad. I'd give it a thumbs up, and I can be pretty critical. I don't know when I'm getting my probiotics, but my creatine will be here in 24 hours. And on that note, guys, before we get into the supplement part of our discussion here,

I have a new conscious strength website that I want to share with you that is pretty much done. It's done enough for me to feel comfortable sharing it. sharing it with you right now. Of course, I tried moving to Shopify about six months ago and Shopify debanked me after six weeks. So I had to go back to the original website. I just, there's some issues with the original website in features and stuff.

So I have now built a site on WordPress. And it is ready to go. There's a lot more functionality with being able to buy things. and offer discounts and subscriptions and all that. Although there will be a new URL, it is Consciousstrength. Store. I'm going to have to change the URL. The old one was Consciousstrength.net. This one here is the old one.

And over the next, probably about month, I'm going to slowly be switching things over to the new site. But the new site is ready to go. Consciousstrength. store and uh maybe get some emails and hearing more about this new site with new products coming to i'll be putting up the creteen on this tomorrow and uh working on the other products too so super stoked i'll go ahead and put this URL in the chat and i'll be running some sales too some website launch sales coming up but pretty cool uh but yeah sports research actually

actually looked, not too bad. I'd keep buying it. And Tamarack in the chat. What's up, guys? Working on an ADHD and Focus supplement right now. Nice. Speaking of which, funny you're here. Look who's rocking the shirt.

That's who rock, let's look who's rocking the shirt. Pretty cool. No, I can't get Conscious Strength.com because it would cost me $9,000. and I don't have $9,000 right now to get that URL. So I had to go with Conscious Strength.Store. So sorry, sorry about that. Someday, someday I'll be able to afford the dot com,

but not this day. Cool. Supplements for ADHD. Maybe some of these will be in Tamarack's new product coming out, but we're going to focus on a couple of things here. So first off, Lionsman mushroom. I'm a big fan of medicinal mushrooms. Lionsmane is one of my favorites.

And speaking of which, I'll be having a Lionsmane product come out through conscious strength in T-minus, maybe about three or four weeks. I'm a big fan of Lions-Mane mushroom for just overall nervous system health, focus, concentration, mood. it helps to it helps the body and the brain

to spur neurogenesis or the creation of new nerve cells so even people who've been in car accidents and have nerve damage lion's mane can help their body repair their nerves great for the brain too so I'm a big fan of lions mane

alpha gPC might help with ADHD and concentration I know it helps me with concentration I'm a big fan of alpha GPC. Alpha GPC is a coline, I don't know if I want to say derivatives, but it's basically a,

it's a precursor to acetylcholine. Alpha GPC, alpha glycerol phosphoral coline is a precursor to acetylcholine and can increase acetylcholine concentration in the brain. Coaline is that compound that you find in like egg yolks that's really good for your brain, really good for your hormones. Alpha GPC helps the body to convert and utilize coline. So I'm a big fan of alpha GPC for supplementation. Trace minerals and dissolved oxygen.

I find that putting trace minerals in my water, trace minerals drops or dissolved oxygen drops. is great for endurance, great for the brain, great for so many things. So if you're looking to increase focus and concentration, big fan of oxygen drops. And then if your diet doesn't suffice, B vitamins, magnesium, and probiotics for the brain, nervous system, mood, focus, concentration. That's again, if you're not getting them through your diet, you can supplement with them. So be complex, ideally food-based. magnesium. You can do food-based magnesium.

Magnesium glycinate is probably the most easily absorbed non-food-based magnesium. A lot of people get glycinate, but you can also get food-based magnesium pills and powders. That's what I would personally go for. And then good probiotics out there too. Ginkobloba and gotacola. Now we're getting into the herbs for your brain. Not sure what Tamarack is putting in there tincture, but these herbs, Ginko and Gondokola, I like to take them together back when I was taking Ginko and Gondokola. And very powerful combo to increase blood flow to the brain and also strengthen blood vessels throughout the body, including the brain. So ginkobeloba helps with circulation and go to cola actually helps with vessel strengthening.

And you want to make sure you're taking them in effective dosages. So I'd probably do 200 milligrams of ginkobloba, 1 to 200 milligrams and strong dose of go to cola with it. But good, good combo. And then the adaptogenic herbs. I'm also a big fan of adaptogens for stress. stress reduction, helping the body to balance stress hormones and better mood, better focus, better brain, brain health. The herbs in that adaptogenic class are your holy basil, sometimes called Tulsi.

You can take that as a tea. There's a lot of Tulsi teas you can find at the grocery store, but different names, same plant, Tulsi or Holy Basil. You can do a lot of these herbs and teas, or you can take them. in capsules as well. Holy Basil. Rodiola is an herb that comes from Russia. Rodiola Rosea, a big fan of that, especially for physical adapting, physical stress. Rishi mushroom, Ashwaganda. Aschwaganda is getting really popular in online circles. Shazondra is another adaptogenic herb, especially if you keep getting sick. If you're getting, if you're getting, if you're

stressed out and getting sick from it. Shazondra's a good adaptogen that helps the immune system. And then ginseng, ginseng's been quite popular in Eastern medicine for a long, long time. There's a lot more supplements I could have thrown on here. L-thienine from green tea, promoting alpha waves in the brain. I like L-theneene.

I like green tea. Yeah, there's a lot more. There's a lot more. DMA-E, L-Tyrazine. Could go down the list. These are just a few that I've found success with, that I've found other people having success with, and I wanted to throw on our list here.

All right, guys, any last questions, comments, concerns before we finish it up? Yeah, Oshuaganda has been pretty popular for years in the USA. Over the past couple of years, because of TikTok trends, Aswaganda is getting really popular. So you've got to be careful. Some Ashwaganda, at least the stuff that you find on the front page of Amazon and TikTok,

It might be coming from China. It might be pretty cheap stuff. But you can find some good Ashwaganda out there. Just have to be careful where you get it, where they're source from. But it's good stuff. The drops for hydrogen are just magnesium. No, the oxygen drops I like to use are dissolved deuterium with some trace minerals in it. And it's a product called cell food.

And what it does is that it weakens the bond between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms in the water molecule. So your body can basically break that bond easier and be able to absorb the oxygen more effectively. So, works great for me. I love putting cell... I mean, this is cell food water right here.

Now, do it about once a day. It's a deuterium drops. I think that's how you say it. D-E-U-T-R-I-U-M. I think that's how you spell it. Some people do hydrogen tabs or hydrogen drops in their water, which is cool, good for them.

If it works for them, by all means. Oh, no, I wanted to have the chat up there. There we go. Cool. All right, guys. You all have a great day, great weekend. What do the fruits are good? Non-inflammatory fruits.

Pineapple and papaya, especially the core of pineapples with the enzymes in there. And then papaya you know in general berries with the antioxidants in them

berries are pretty low glycemic as well so try to shoot for your low glycemic fruits but I would frankly avoid bananas bananas have been so hybridized over centuries by humans that they have a very high glycemic index I mean if I'm

if I'm running or working out super hard for hours and I need some potassium and I need some quick sugar, sure, yeah, banana is what I'll go for. But I don't eat them in my daily diet, really. So I'm not really much of a banana guy. I do like apples. And I know apples have been hybridized quite a bit as well and are a little higher glycemic index in modern times than they used to be in ancient days but i do love my apples probably grown up in washington give me a good Fuji or a good cosmic crisp but uh so i'd shoot for your berries and yeah pineapples specifically the cores of pineapples have an enzyme is it bromoline i think it's called yeah bromoline It's a group of enzymes that is known for being anti-inflammatory.

But pineapple is pretty high glycemic, so, although you can take bromuline as a supplement, but, yeah, I would go for the berries. If you're looking for a low-glycemic, anti-inflammatory fruit, blueberries, blackberries, rasp, strabs. You've got apple trees. Nice. That's awesome. And blueberries don't bother you. That's good. Blueberries are frigging great. It's just unfortunate how tough they are to grow, how expensive they are.

But they are one of the best for you. Technically tomatoes are a fruit. Avocados are a fruit. Aren't cucumbers technically a fruit? No. Maybe. Eat some tomatoes. Not too many, though.

They're a nightshade, aren't they? Eat some avocados. There you go. Good for you. Yep. Good combo for sleep. Elthini, magnesium. If I'm ever having sleep problems, just a good old Epsom salt bath is what does it for me.

But if you need some supplementation, that's a good combo there. Also, GABA, G-A-G-A-B-A, helps to calm the brain down. Gaba and magnesium, good combo. Yep. That's why I do the Epsom salts. Magnesium sulfate. Just got to be careful, though. You don't want to do too much magnesium at once.

Because magnesium is a muscle relaxer, and your colon is a muscle. So you can do the math with that one. Cool. All right, guys. Good talk, good chat. I'm going to head out. Appreciate all you for tuning in and hanging out with me here while Nate was gone. Nate will be back next week, as will I, here on Maha News, here on Friday afternoon.

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