Kyle Kingsbury Podcast - #14 Pulling Your Butt Apart with Aaron Alexander

Episode Date: January 1, 2018

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Welcome to the On It Podcast. I'm your host, Kyle Kingsbury. Today I'm joined by a very special guest and friend of mine, Aaron Alexander. Aaron is the host of the Align Podcast, and Align Therapy is his website where he focuses on body work and functional movement. I've learned a lot from this guy. He's fucking weird, and I mean that in the best way possible. Before he moved from Oregon down to SoCal, he stayed at my house in Northern California for a couple nights and really got to know this guy well. He has a wealth of knowledge. He's fixed a lot with my body from postural correctness, how to stand, how to walk better, and just what it means to express yourself physically and what that does to the mind. There's a lot we dive into in this episode. Hope you guys enjoy it. Check it out.

My dude, Aaron Alexander. My man. We're down, where are we at? We're in Santa Monica right now? We are on Franklin and Santa Monica Boulevard right now here in Santa Monica, about 32 blocks from the beach. Very nice. And how long have you been here now? Has you moved down here from Bend? Yeah, I moved from Bend I think eight months ago now or so. I've been saying six months for like the last five months, so I'm confused at this point. I'm going to say eight months. Eight months sounds good. That's a good number. Yeah, it's incredible here. A guy I've known since I was 12 years old in the Bay Area, we went to college together at ASU. We were roommates there. Had a blast. You got to meet him on New Year's.

And he moved out to L.A. shortly after graduating at ASU. And so anytime I wanted to get out of town but didn't want to drive all the way back to the Bay, I'd just stop in L.A. and hang with him for a few days. And he's lived off of Wilshire and Veteran and in Santa Monica, Culver City. Now he's got a house in Englewood next to – Englewood always up to no good. Exactly. Every time I hear that, I have to say that in my head. That's right.

It's ingrained in me. Yeah, that's why we're not there. He's – yeah, I guess it's coming up because they're going to build a stadium out there. So he's saying that there's lots of new restaurants. They have a tram that's going right through town i just went to see j cole up in angle one okay a few days ago are you familiar jake yeah yeah dude i when i first started dating natasha that uh like his his hit jam uh i forget what the name of it is deja vu was it before that neighbor the neighbor one where they're where they're called the cops neighbors called i don't

know what it's called i think it it's called Neighbors, actually. Oh, man. No, it's way back. It's like five years ago. I'm blown away by them. I get turned on to this music that, to me, I'm like, I'll find what I think is the new hot stuff. And it's like, dude, that's been the shit for the last seven years.

I'm like, no, but J. Cole, seriously, you got to check it out. So that was that. Yeah, we were rocking that. When I first started going out to Vegas to see her before we moved in together. And yeah, I remember we both had it on the iPod. And I was like, oh, okay, yeah. This will work. Yeah, he's got soul, man.

It's amazing to see he he's a preacher. Is he? Oh, yeah. Well, not literally, but figuratively, and I think you could probably call it literal. The show, I mean, there's something like 15,000, I don't know how many people the forum holds, a lot of people.

And to the point that when they scream for him, I had to hold my ears. Like, I'm like an old man. It's really silly. But I'm like holding my ears. I'm like, oh, God. Every time he does a new song. And it's just him in the middle

of this whole entire stadium and all the energy pouring down on him. I find those experiences almost as much or more fascinating to turn around and look at the crowd. It's just seeing all that attention going into one place and really feeling the energy of that place. Even if the music

is garbage, just having all of that concentration of intention in one little point, that's like Mecca. That's like the value of Mecca. People come from all around the world and bring their intention to that one little spot. It charges it up. Yeah. What's the place in France? People go to drink the water.

I don't know. Louvre? The Louvre? No, not the Louvre. Damn it. I don't know. The Louvre is pretty nice too, though. Have you been out there?

Yeah, yeah. I was on a tour for the troops in 2010, and a Goodwill military tour with some UFC guys. We were out there doing autographss teaching them jiu-jitsu hand-to-hand comment that kind of stuff and this volcano went off remember that volcano went off in Europe I think I don't know if it was in Sweden or Switzerland but um basically it grounded all airplanes for like an extra three days so So we had like this dope tour bus. And our guy, Mike, from Germany, he had driven for the military for like 40 years.

So he had taken everyone from the Rolling Stones to Toby Keith on this bus. And it was sick. Like we lived like rock stars for about a week. And so we have this bus. And we get, you know know all the planes are grounded and they're like hey you know why don't we go to the u.s embassy in paris and we'll say hi to everybody there so we went in there and you know you go from on base where you have like diehard ufc fans and guys that are into training and and just there's a lot to offer them you know they really give a

fuck that you're there and and that's reciprocated from us. Like you can feel it. It's palpable. And so we really enjoy that. And then we get to the embassy and it's, you know, a bunch of old ladies that are, you know, doing office jobs. And I remember one person was just kind of shaking her head while she was listening to us, this older woman. And she looked at Chris Lieben and she's like, you know, it's ruining your brain, right? Getting hit in the head. And we all looked at each other and just died laughing. And it was like, well, yeah, there's, there's that too. But, um, it's

kind of not what we're doing it for. But, um, yeah, we get to go out in Paris. I gained probably, I knew I was gluten intolerant at the time, but I was still throwing caution to the wind. And so, and of course, you know, being younger and the male bravado of being around other fighters, I was like, let's eat a crepe every time we pass a crepe stand. I fucking gained 10 pounds in the three days we were in Paris. You know, what do you think of the whole like French paradox thing? It's like eating baguettes and just butter all day. Yeah. We're pretty good.

I think there might be less stress. A lot of them eat very light breakfasts, so that idea of maybe not intermittent fasting per se, but something really light a little bit, and for sure less overall meat consumption. I just read The Plant Paradox paradox and he talked a little bit about that dr gundry i don't know if you checked it out it's a phenomenal book phenomenal book and um he brings up that too but you know this this idea also that the european union does not allow

half the toxins that our good government does on our behalf you know like oh hey chemical companies you give us enough money we'll say sure to anything. And you were telling me when we were hanging out in California how, you know, it's like the win-in-Rome protocol. So when you were in Europe, you just ate bread the whole time. Dude, I was going after it. Yeah. I think there's, have you ever heard of that Harvard study?

It was like 75 years. It's still happening right now. And it was, they measured folks as like babies. They took a group of something like a hundred people. I'm making the hundred people part up, but you know, some amount of people and, uh, they followed those people their whole entire lives, you know? So now they're in like, I think they're eighties. And, uh, what they found with that is the people that were the healthiest were the people that had the strongest social connections. So having that purpose in your community,

having people that are dependent on you, having friends that you could always reach out to. So I think that that's something that when we think of the French paradox or whatever, I think that a big component of that is looking at just smaller communities that actually have integration. It's that integration component, I think. Yeah, it gives your life purpose, right? That's the jam.

You feel connected. You feel like you belong to something that's bigger than yourself rather than just, you know, your Facebook friends. Yeah. I was listening to Rogan. He had a Sebastian Younger on who wrote Tribe. I listened to that conversation twice. Phenomenal, dude.

Phenomenal. Yeah. I absolutely loved that. That idea of, you know, either living in a cul-de-sac or maybe a poorer neighborhood where everyone kind of bands together and everyone knows everybody and you can kind of shift it we're never going to live in a tribe of 150 people and know everyone's name intimately and it's just not going to happen again you know so this idea like how do we shift back into that i think the thing that thing that was really great advice from him was when you join a team or you go to a club like CrossFit,

you look at how CrossFit's blown up or you look at martial arts, yoga, things like that where you can be a part of a small knit group where you do learn people's names and you have a sense of community in that. It can give you a piece of that. I think that's big. I think that's really big yeah you don't get that in big gyms how's your community in vegas it's good it's actually um it's better than i thought it would be because um

you know at first i was like shit man you know i'm not gonna know anybody it's all good i'll make friends that kind of thing but um my good friend neo noah lahad Lahat, he's an Israeli Army guy who fought in the UFC. He fights in Bellator now. He had a boy two days after Bear. So they're super close in age. They had a joint two-year birthday party. And I love him and his wife and their son. They're awesome.

I was telling you about Mount Charleston. We don't live far from there. So we were up at 8,000 feet feet and both the boys were running around going crazy the dogs were running around uh neo went for a run i brought the kettlebells started doing some halos and windmills and snatches and things like that and it's just it's beautiful but um i got another good friend too tom lawler that i was on ultimate fighter with and he's got two kids and they're they're phenomenal but he lives kind of on the other side of town out in Henderson, so we see each other on the mats when we can.

Yeah, I feel like the whole concept, you know, so 150, that's like the Dunbar's number. I know you're familiar with that, and that's like the amount of, I believe the Dunbar number is derived from the amount of primates that can take care of each other and be able to, what's that term called when you're picking each other's hairs? Grooming? Yeah, grooming each other.

Once you get beyond that point, it's like, okay, this is just getting weird. We can't keep track of each other. I think that's such an important part is to really have a close-knit group of people. But then the big component that we miss out with the whole like tribal existence is we miss out on well these people are living barefoot you know and they're waking up and they're getting you know that all the all the infrared and the uv light from you know morning sun and they're you know they're with the circadian rhythms and they're they're playing with the rhythm of the earth trees and and we're like okay

well that's just too daunting i can't't even, like, that's ridiculous. I don't live in the jungle. You know, we were just, we did a little walk around here with you and your peeps, your family. And, you know, we're all, you know, either barefoot or wearing, like, you know, five-finger shoes and, you know, climbing trees and shirts off or tank tops or whatever. And it's like, dude, this is it. We're doing it you know it's it's not it doesn't need to be this like well i need to be in peru yeah you know it's like dude you can just be in your neighborhood and just be barefoot more often

and like take your clothes off a little bit you know like maybe keep your pants on depending upon what kind of neighbors you have that's a tough sell for my son but yeah i agree with everything but the pants part off Off, off, off. Pants off. I'm like, no, buddy. Daddy's got his shorts on. We got to keep the shorts on. Then we're cool.

Yeah. Yeah, I think another excuse, well, I shouldn't say excuse. Another thing that people say when they say that it's unattainable is this idea that it's too hot or it's too cold. You know, like, oh, it would be real easy if I lived in Santa Monica, but I live in Minnesota or I live, you know, wherever, you know, in Vegas and it's summertime. And I was telling you about how I've been going out in the heat with sweats on and my sauna suit to try to expose myself to the heat and really, you know, get some heat shock proteins going in the body and just get a good sweat in and do some nasal breathing and work aerobically and just kind of have it be like a meditative practice.

And it's awesome. You know, I can kill two birds with one stone. We'll go out as the sun setting, it's still 105 degrees. I got the little dog Guapo running around, bears running around with barefoot, no shirt, you know, and it's, uh, it's just, it's doable if you just do it, you know, like the first couple of days were really rough. Like I thought I was going to pass out from heat exhaustion and then decided to be a good idea to bring like a half a gallon of water with me. But, um, past that, like, you know, obviously we see all these people talking about between Dr. Rhonda Patrick and Wim Hof and all the scientists coming out, like how important it is to expose yourself to the elements.

Yeah. It's just adaptation. Yeah. You know, we just need, we need adaptation. And that adaptation is discomfort. We need discomfort, you know, and then it comes into like, you know, stoic philosophy or, you know, it's like, it's all about, it's not about the situation, you know, it's about your perspective upon the situation, you know? And so it's like, dude, Santa Monica is hot. Like, I don't, you know,

people are talking, it's like, oh, it's, you could complain just as well as you could be grateful for it, you know? And so I'll be cruising around, like even on the way over here, you know, I driving, I drove down only because I had like my surfboard and stuff in my car. Normally I would, I would ride my bike, I promise. But, uh, you uh you know driving down it's like hot and i'm like sweating and i'm like you know screw it like i'm gonna feel it you know and that feeling of sweating and feeling your body function like it sounds maybe kind of like gross or obnoxious to some people but like if you can change your perspective on a little bit on that a little bit that's that's the key you know like that that's the key, you know, like that, that's the fountain of youth. If you can just change your perspective, just a few notches over to the point that, you know,

I really enjoy getting sweaty and dirty and walking up a hill. I don't know what it is, but I like it. Yeah. You know, it's like that person they're winning, you know, and then you can go deeper and say, okay, cool, sweet. We've changed your perspective that you're winning and you want to go now. How do you go right now? It's how do you, how, what kind of contact do you have with your feet as you step up the mountain? Right. How, what's your hip hinge? What's your gluteal engagement? You know, what's happening through your, throughout your spine, the facets, and you have like that long neutral spine. Are you able to stack your diaphragm? Right. Are you able to really open up all those systems? Now we have the perfect storm of a human being, but too often people drive towards just one specific thing. I'm just a diaphragm guy. I'm

all about the diaphragm. I know everything about the diaphragm. I know nothing about the plantar fascia or anything in relation to the feet. Just diaphragm. Well, that's like Western medicine mentality. That's it. You know, everything's separate. Let's compartmentalize all these things instead of looking at it as one system. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if we can start to figure that out of, I mean, it's like the hero's journey.

You know, that's something that gets talked a lot about in podcast land, like Joe Campbell, you know, the, the, the process of, you know, coming from those humble beginnings where modern culture is that humble beginning, we kind of like tear ourselves down through wearing backpacks and wearing high heeled shoes and sitting in class all day and kind of our creativity being stripped away from us, you know, and putting us into this like Victorian age, like learning how to be in a factory, essentially. Yeah. That's where we start. Learn what I tell you. Don't think for yourself.

Don't think for yourself. That would fuck the whole thing up. Yeah. You're not going to work for me. You know, and then from there, it's like, okay, how, what are we going to do with this? You know, you can either just stay in that cog mentality or you can start to just break the confines

of that box that you were put in and now you're going to deal with some pain probably. But if you make it through that, then I think there's a lot of really goodness to be had. But it's that process of like, do I just stay in the box and kind of like die in this measly kind of existence or am I willing to kind of go through probably a couple decades of awkwardness. Yeah, that's the work, right? That's the work. That's the work for sure. I wanted to ask you, when you saw me in California,

we had, you gave my wife and I a little clinic on some things that we could do to better ourselves. And one of the things you had me do was work on my posture and not just when I'm standing, but as I'm walking. And that's really helped me a lot. And I remember hearing somewhere about this, this like Wonder Woman pose since Wonder Woman came out, but that strong, powerful pose that can actually boost like neurotransmitter levels, hormone levels, things like that, just from standing a certain way. Familiar with what I'm talking about? Yeah, absolutely. So what are some tips people can have for really improving just their movement pattern? Yeah.

Well, for one thing, make your life a practice. So right now, technically, we're kind of at work in some weird, strange way. This is work in a way, which is great. So I'm super grateful that's the way it is. but we're in a meeting you could say, right? And the way that we're in this meeting is both of us are stretching out our hamstrings, our adductors are kind of sitting in like a, like a hamstring, like classic kind of hamstring stretch, right? Where you're sitting your butt down and your feet are going out to the side and open up through the hamstrings, open up through the groin and stacking our spine. So the first thing is we've got to figure out what those principles are.

So what does it mean to stack your spine? So from the ground, the ground is a nice place to start because it's simpler than from the feet. It's a shorter building. So the first thing is figuring out, find your sit bones. Everyone at home, you need to know where your sit bones are. Or if you're in jeopardy, your ischial tuberosities and the little bony things coming out your butt cheeks. If you don't know where those are, you've very well probably been doing yourself a disservice through a good part of your life. You know, so reach back underneath and find those sit bones.

Like everybody now, reach down and find those little bony things. And they're going to be about like an inch, you know, east and west of your, of your, of your, your, your bum hole there. And then reach under and pull those butt cheeks open. Like my concho. The concho, el concho. Yeah, exactly. Do you feel me have like a crisis mode of like what to call the anus? I'm like, fuck the bung, bunghole-io, I don't know. You know, so, so reach and grab those, those butt cheeks open there and make sure that you're on the front edge of those sit bones. So anytime that you're sitting in a chair, sitting on the floor,

sitting on a yoga block, sitting on the beach, you want to make sure as often as possible you're on the front edge of those sit bones. And what that does is it starts to, you'll feel your lumbar spine kind of create that little bit of a lumbar curve, lumbar being the bottom of the spine, the bottom five verba there. And that sets the stage for a good strong stack through the rest of the body. Most people fall into this kind of like posteriorly tilted kind of like sad puppy dog position. And if that's where you lie throughout the day, you know, the way that you sit throughout the day, you're practicing, like you had mentioned, the physiology of depression.

And you're practicing the anatomy of disc herniation. So as you, those discs, you can see the vertebra, that's actually, they're a bit more wedge-shaped in this bottom five vertebra, the lumbar vertebra. And the reason that is is because they're a wedge because it's built for a curve. And then as you go up through the thoracic and the cervical, they become more puck-shaped. Because then it gets a little bit longer and straighter-ish.

It still has a curve. But that lumbar curve is really important to start the foundation. That's where I'd start. From the feet up? Well, I just did from the butt feet. So I jokingly call the ischial tuberosities the sit bones. They're kind of like the feet of your ass. Okay.

Right? The next level is figuring out your feet, right? So from the feet, it's figuring out one thing. A lot of people, they end up being a little bit too wide of a stance, and they end up allowing their toes to kind of drift out to the side. So imagine if your feet are kind of like race car tires, you want them to be going straight down the track. If you have one race car tire that's kind of going out to the side,

it's like you're certainly not winning any races that way. So starting off, bring the feet facing straight ahead, and then try and get those feet underneath those sit bones that we discovered. And you'll start to feel weight kind of pour a little bit more along the outside, the lateral edge of the foot that way, as opposed to most people are collapsed with that. Collapse your feet. That puts stress on the plantar fascia. That puts stress on the knee. And it disengages the glutes.

It disengages the glutes. Then all of a sudden, you aren't able to support the lumbar spine the way you would because that gluteal tissue, that pelvic pelvic tissue that's the foundation of support for the back yeah it's an easy way to try to actively and consciously turn your ass back on that's just such a huge one i mean for years i squatted even at asu football when i was squatting i didn't have an ass because i was not engaging it i didn't know how to turn it on right and over time through opening up my body getting into jujitsu and things like that i could feel my butt working again and actually firing again for the first time yeah yeah yeah so it's it's it's just having that aha moment another thing i'd recommend is um this isn't shameless i promise but get a band right and say shameless because i have i have

a band oh we'll put we got to plug the shit out of that it's amazing plug the shit out of it no i'm i mean i'm joking serious like a band is really important, we've got to plug the shit out of that. Plug that motherfucker. Plug the shit out of it. No, I mean, I'm joking serious. A band is really important. It doesn't need to be my band. It's just a band. And having something that could be a belt. You could have your kids or somebody just press your knees against each other all day. But have something where you're able to have that feedback

to push those knees outward and start to create that, what's called the lateral rotators or the muscles that push the knees outward and start to create that, what's called the lateral rotators or the muscles that push the knees out. It's your glute muscles amongst other ones. But as you start to create that engagement pushing outward a little bit, it starts to reverse all those degenerative patterns. So that would be a great place to start

is just have some type of little resistance feedback kind of pressing your knees together and have something to push out against. Just a start. And with toes forward, right? Because you're going to lose that if you have your feet out duct style. Yeah, yeah. So Kelly, Kelly Starr, you know Kelly. Yeah, he was my first guest on the show. Perfect.

Yeah, yeah. So Kelly, you know, he calls it, and this isn't just his, but he's kind of popularized, you know, creating torque in your hips, right? So if you could look at your hips, if you were to take your shirt and put like, I have my, right now I have my knuckle inside of my shirt. I got an American Eagle shirt here. You know, I put my hand inside of my shirt there. And if I wanted to tighten this capsule around my hand, being the fabric of my shirt, that tissue doesn't have contractile tissue so much it just all of a sudden bear down and squeeze. What I can do, though, is I can twist my hand. If I twist my hand, all of a sudden I take all that slack out of the shirt.

Well, that's the same thing in the head of your femur. So when the head of the femur relates into the joint there, if you just create a little torque through there, then all of a sudden it takes out all that slack. You take the slack out of the joint, it becomes a safe, powerful joint. You have slack there, it becomes a sloppy, dangerous joint. Yeah, it's kind of, I think a good example

would be like in the push-up position. Carl Paoli was talking about this, one of Kelly's guys who wrote Freestyle. But when you do the push-up position. Carl Paoli was talking about this, one of Kelly's guys who wrote Freestyle. But when you do the push-up, if you think about fingers spread and your middle fingers pointing forward and then pulling the elbows in and acting like you're turning your hands out, what does that do? It's the same thing, right? You have that torque.

You pull it in, and then the shoulder's stable. And if you look at fighting, other than like Worldstar, you're not going to see some guy throw this giant haymaker with his elbow way outside because they're losing power there. If you watch anybody at the professional level, elbows are going to be in and it's only going to turn out at the last second because that's what keeps the shoulder stable through the whole movement, right? Yeah. That last second allows it to whip, right? So it's the balance between stability and fluidity right so if you're always

just stable well you're safe you know and so from a jiu-jitsu perspective that's like i got my ass whooped for years in jiu-jitsu and i would just be like elbows in you know keep it tight guys your size just fucking just murdering me you're the guy that's holding somebody in guard for the whole five minutes you're not gonna break my yeah. You're not going to break my lock. Yeah, exactly. You know, I'm like, God. You know, but when you're in those positions, there is some value to being comfortable, like, getting your ass whooped

and just knowing, like, well, at least I know how to be safe. Yeah. You know, it's the people that just started training that it's just, like, they'll, they'll allow you to take their back or something. Or they'll reach their arm out. You're just like, what are you doing? And they're offering you this big pie of instability. And you're like, okay, thank you.

I will take that. But if you can start to understand how do we stabilize these joints, you're safer for yourself with your movement around the world. And you're also safer if someone's trying to take your arm off. Yeah, there's a lot of translation from martial arts and different things like that, even from yoga. I mean, I was not big into yoga back in the day, but because of Natasha's influence on me, it's been a huge thing for me.

I absolutely love it. And you can feel that. You can do a downward dog incorrectly, or you can do it correctly when you finally get into that position correctly. And I use that as an example, cause it's probably like white belt level yoga. It's just that feeling of, Oh shit, this is how it's supposed to feel. Right. You know, and really open up the body from there. Yeah. So what else you got? You got, uh, you have another package that you sell other than the, the bands, the new one, right?

But you started with... I'm letting go of the... You're letting go of the other one. Yeah, previously I had a thing that was... It was a foam roller and balls and band and all that. And I kind of actually disagree with the necessity of that. I think that we can do better from a more minimalist place. And so now my perspective you know present day in 2017 is a foam roller is great but if you're traveling

i think you should have a water bottle you know get like a heavy duty nalgene bottle or something that's like it's like it's strong enough that you could roll your hips out or whatever it is that you want to do in it you know and then with the, it's like, I don't know, get a tennis ball, a cross ball, whatever it is. Balls are everywhere. Yeah, something cheap, something small and light. Yeah. And so it just felt more honest to me because I had this thing that I was selling. And then what I would actually take with me when I went on my trips was just the band and the door anchor out of that.

Oh, no shit. That's the evolution. That's how we Oh, no shit. That's the evolution. That's how we get here. Yeah, that's the evolution. I like that. And so it's like, all right, well, foam roller could be a water bottle and there's foam rollers everywhere.

But the band and the door anchor, that's the thing that nobody has that I think everybody should have. If you have a band hanging off of a door and you can change the height of it and such, you can be decompressing your shoulder joint. You can be decompressing your spine, you can be opening up through your diaphragm, your hips, all that, you know, and then you can pop it out of the door, you know, and use it for as a, you know, as a yoga belt or as a just an exercise band. And then the

last thing that's nice is it just you can see the freaking band hanging. If you can see it, you'll probably use it yeah you know and i think that's the important component for people is that we have you just need your environment to be what you want to be you know and if you put yourself into some type of mold that obviously isn't what you want to create good good luck. Yeah. Yeah. You need to start making little individual changes. Like, look, okay, what is the optimal version of, you know, this creation that is me? All right. Where do I start with my car? Where do I start with my house? Where do I start with the food in my fridge? Where do I start with the relationships that I have in my life?

You know, and little, like have like a, you know, just little visual cues like that, that re-inspire like, yes, cool. Do a couple band decompressions, do a couple pull ups. You know, those little things I think really add up. Yeah. Big time. That was something I think we talked about when I was on your show was Pavel's concept of greasing the groove. And I know I don't want to beat this to a fucking dead horse, but it, it really stands out to me because you can apply it to everything. You can apply it to meditation, breath work, to movement, to a fucking dead horse but it it really stands out to me because you can apply it to everything you can apply it to meditation breath work to movement to push-ups anything you want if you don't think you have time just do a little bit and then when you have a little bit more time do a little bit more and just keep trickling that in and the body responds so well mobility wise when you're trying to open things up if you do sprinkle in a little bit over time,

rather than I'm going to smash the shit out of my hip right now, and it's going to open up and then I'll be perfect for the rest of the day. It's like, well, not likely, not if you're going to sit more, not if you're going to get back into that position where you're locking everything into place, it might be better for you to stand up once an hour for a minute or two and open things up. You know, I noticed that a lot with relationships too. You know, so, so it's, it's sometimes I think people end up too often giving with the intention to receive, you know, and it's like, okay, cool. I'm, I'm giving you this now, like, okay, I'm ready. You know, but if you can, if you can get through that X amount of years or months or whatever in your life where you're just generous just because it feels good.

You know, and obviously you choose your generosity. I think it's important if you're just like giving away your money to everyone you see, it's probably not the wisest decision. You know, but really just every time you're in a relationship, every time, you know, you're with someone, having kind of the mantra of, I'm going to leave this person, leave this place, leave this thing, better than it was before I got there. And I think if we have that long, I was listening to Gary Vee. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was listening to a podcast with him recently. It was really good. He's got a lot of good stuff to say, that guy. And he was just talking about, in relationships, in life in general, this rule of being 51-49. You know, so his goal is to be, I want to give you 51% and receive 49%. I don't want to give you 90% and only receive 10%.

Like, I want to be at the level, but I'd like to be a little, like, I'd rather just keep it with everyone. Like, all of my fuel tanks with all my people, all my things, business, whatever. Just a little bit fuller. If you can do that, you might not see the change in a month or three months or whatever, but in two years, in four years, all of a sudden you have this network, this tribe. It's something that I've just been witnessing happen in my existence and friends and such. I'm just kind of seeing like, oh, this community thing, this kind of vision of having strong community. It's like, it's happening.

You know, and it's like, and it's a product of that, you know, just give, just give your shit away. You know, I think it relates to the body as well. Yeah. If it's that aggregation. Yeah, if you put a little bit more time towards yourself. That's something I, as a parent now, and it's funny for people who don't have kids, it's like, oh, God, this guy's talking about kids again.

Show us pictures. So many people talk about, yeah, nobody cares about how cute your kid is. Look at him. He's standing there. He's fucking ugly. I can't say it to your face. Your kid is ugly. No, your kid's. Look at him. He's standing there. He's fucking ugly. I can't say it to your face. Your kid is ugly. No, your kid's not ugly.

Your kid's legit, actually. Yeah, he's a good little shit. But it's the idea that I don't have time. I forget who it was. Somebody posted this thing on Twitter, a poll of what's the number one priority in your life? Your health, your kids, your job. And it just went down the list. And anyone who had kids said they were number one. But the truth is, in any relationship, if you don't give to yourself,

it doesn't mean being greedy and selfish and, you know, I only have time for me and I don't have time for my kids. It's not that at all. But if you don't put into yourself and invest into your own well-being, you're not going to be as good of a partner or lover. you're not going to be as good of a partner or lover. You're not going to be as good of a dad or mom. You're not going to be as good of a worker, a company man, or whatever it is that you do if you don't invest in yourself first. The word responsible, I think, is really rad.

You're able to respond, you know, when you look around your reality, sometimes I get just really, really blown away with just the things that are in my world and the, you know, the, the, the people or the, just what the environment, whatever it is, but you really are responsible for everything that's there, you know, whether it's good or bad or whatever it may be, it's like, it's, it's your momentary choices that puts you in that spot. You know, and so like the little things that get me, especially if I'm like utilizing some cannabis or something like that, all of a sudden I start getting really meticulous about stuff. You know, and if there's like any little like nicks in my surfboard or whatever, I'm like, I need to sort that out. And right now you'll see my surfboard. There's like some nicks, I'm like, I need to sort that out. And right now you'll see my surfboard. There's like some nicks.

I'm like, it's been on my mind. But it's like all these little things, like the organization of like the direction of my shoes. Like a little OCD on the cannabis. Super OCD, yeah, yeah. I think it's great, man. I think it's good medicine. I'm like, bring on the OCD.

I think it's completely fine. You wake up with like a totally clean house, and like your teeth are brushed. I'm like, I'll take that. I'm sure there's a lot of cannabis users that are like hey it's not meth bro right it's not quite on that level well so i i end up from from there i'll end up like getting really ocd about my connective tissue you know and so i get i get really ocd of like man this joint that's just kind of not quite what I want, that's unacceptable. I need to sort this.

I need to take care of myself. And feeling the connective tissue around my cranium. It's called the gallia aponeurotica. If you're ever in jeopardy, look it up. Gallia aponeurotica. Gallia aponeurotica, yeah. But it's to start feeling that connective tissue around my scalp. And does it feel like it's tight and bound to my head?

If it is, I've got to sort that out. That's irresponsible, right? Just feeling into all those. I have a mace that I'll swing around and a kettlebell. And I have my bands hanging. I have gymnastic rings. All these really, I was going to call them silly, but I think really important tools. Tools, for sure.

You know, and I'll just start kind of like heat seeking, going through and trying to find components, parts of my body that feel disorganized. Right? You know, so you start off with your superficial peripheral environment. Sort that out. Right? You know, or sort your inside out. But I think they're reciprocal. So when you meet someone and their house is a wreck

or their life is in shambles or whatever it is, look at their connective tissue. Look at the way that they hold their body. Look at the way that they move through the world. I haven't seen it yet that I haven't seen some correlation. Not necessarily like one to one hundred percent, but there's always correlation there. You know, so it's, I find that valuable. Yeah. Big time. Big time. I get that way. You know, I feel a deeper connection to my body

with cannabis unless it's like a late night cap and I'm just so tired, I'm going to lay in bed and just really just sink into the sheets and, and conk out. But, um, certainly more with, with like a small dose of an edible, you know, like a five milligram or less,

something like that. And then on a microdose to LSD, that's the thing that connects me to my body more than anything. It made me like the first time I did that, I just started doing yoga in the backyard. I was like, Oh shit. I got, my body was literally talking to me like you're tight here. And I would know instantly just to get into a lunge and then lift my arm overhead and really start breathing through it and understanding like I could talk or think about that. Like Arnold,

the mind muscle connection, you know, like really just drawing all my awareness to the spot that needed to get unglued. And just with breath work, it would vanish, you know, very quickly. Yeah, it's like an automatic reboot or cleanup on your computer. You know, it's like, how does the computer know just which files to take and which could be a virus and which, you know, it just, you just press the button and just goes through and like, okay, we're done. You know, it's like in our bodies, we have that, you know, we, we have access to all this information of how to work with ourselves. You know, it's just that we are wrapped up in the bullshit of the day, you know, wrapped up into, you know, what we think we are, I think we're supposed to be, or, you know,

our bills or our cell phone or our girlfriend or boyfriend or, you know, what we think we are, think we're supposed to be, or, you know, our bills, or our cell phone, or our girlfriend, or boyfriend, or, you know, all these stressors that just end up being turbulence, you know, or static that pull us away from this, you know, the deeper kind of, like, clarity. You know, I think that if those moments, what I find valuable with things like breath work or things like sex or things like psychedel work or things like sex or things like

psychedelics or things like anything that kind of just it shakes your snow globe up for a period of you know minutes or hours or maybe days is it gives you that opportunity to start to just reorganize you know it's like the storm of life passes for a second, you know, maybe you're just in the eye of the storm for a second. You can kind of see, okay, cool. Let's rake up the yard a little bit and let's, you know, let's like, you know, put, put some boards up on the show. Like we can kind of start to, cause we have some space, but through the day to day hustle, I think too many people are just too busy, you know, and they wear busyness with like a, like a badge of honor or it's like, you know, it's like, oh, if I'm not busy, that means I'm lazy. And it's like, I think too many people are just too busy. They wear busy-ness with a badge of honor.

Or it's like, oh, if I'm not busy, that means I'm lazy. Maybe if you're not busy, it means you have control of your life. Yeah. There's different ways to view that. Well, I think there is definitely a struggle, and I can speak from personal experience, of just not being comfortable in my own skin. And with that, I would much rather put something in front of my face, anything, even if it's painful, that takes me away from being alone with myself, you know?

Totally. And I think a lot of people, I think that applies to a lot of people, whether they can recognize it or not, you know? and then that's part of the work that we talked about is like when you do get quiet and you do become alone is recognizing the stuff that comes up it's okay like whatever the fuck is coming to

you it's coming up because it's maybe something you haven't been paying attention to you know it's something that's there and it's not going away until you address it and let go of it. What do you find is helpful to get quiet? Honestly, I'm trying to trickle that in, in terms of going back to greasing the groove. I talked a bit about driving up to Spokane to do Ben Greenfield. It was 18 hours in the car each direction. And normally when I drive, like we drove out here

and I had Bear and Tasha with me, you're doing what you can to keep the little guy happy. So it's not, obviously he's strapped into a tiny ass chair the whole way. You wanna make sure that everyone's happy. But being alone in the car can be really useful time to digest information through podcasts or Audible. I listened to four books on that trip.

But then also just turning it off. Having quiet time in the car can be huge where I'm not jamming. I listen to music. I fucking love music. And it's cool to jam out and really feel the positive energy you get from listening to music. But if you go from one thing to the next

over and over again, you're never really giving yourself that space. So I've tried to make time in the car when I'm alone. Like when I go for these walks, Bear has a few words. He's talking a bit here and there. But for the most part, we can just walk in silence next to each other. You know, we're not having this full-blown conversation yet. That time will come. But for now, it's really easy for me to just do nasal breathing and really, you know, look at the scenery at the scenery. We're around a ton of mountains. We walk at sunset, so we often have these glorious fucking southwest sunsets that are just absolutely incredible.

And just taking that in. It's very easy to have that shift in my feeling if I'm in nature. It's so easy to just pay attention to a tree or to the ocean or to a mountainside where you can see layers of sediment in it and just appreciate what you're looking at. And that's kind of a very restorative way for me that's maybe something that's different from my meditation practice or breathwork practice. Yeah.

It's amazing looking at – I was at a friend's house a couple days ago and we were talking about movement and stuff, of course. And so we were, I was pointing out, I was helping their sister-in-law with like, okay, what's good standing? What's good sitting and all that? You know, like, how do I stand up straight? All right here we go we're gonna break this shit down you know and then all of a sudden we look over at his uh at his kid and his kid's just over there in like a perfect lotus position doesn't think of it as a lotus position he's just like legs crossed whatever just chilling

he's just putting his body in what feels comfortable because he hasn't been polluted yet. He hasn't been polluted by sitting in crappy chairs all day and just all the things that we already spoke of. I wonder if from your experience with Bear, is there anything that you've learned

from Bear from a physical perspective? Just extreme jealousy and envy. Yeah, right. I'm like, you little fucker. Right. He'll just pop into the most beautiful ass-to-grass squat effortlessly and hang out, finger around some rocks and ants and whatnot.

It's like, God, man, that's how it's supposed to be. That's how we're born. That's the tribe. That's how we're designed. And somewhere along the way, we mess that up, right? Through, what is that?

Repetitive stress injury. Sitting is repetitive stress injury. It really is. But he's my reminder. So if I was to put a positive or the silver lining in that is when I see him and when I see you, like when we're at Paleo FX and you're getting some strange looks and you're in this beautiful squat and it's super wide and people are walking by

and they don't see you because you're so damn low and you're taller than I am. So when you're down like that, it was just hilarious to watch. But you're constantly making that a practice. Like, oh, I need to open this up right now, right? So when I see my son do that, I'm like, that's what it should be, and I'm not there yet,

but I can be there if I do put in the work for it. Yeah, it's so not complicated. That's the thing. It's like we get, so we're like, oh, man, if life was just so easy that you could just, like, sit on the floor sometimes, you know, and, like, every once in a while do a sweat. It's like, dude, it is.

Shut up. It is. Yeah, just do it it's not it's not that complicated you know it's just it's just a matter of i'm not telling you because you already do all that stuff but you know it's like it's like oh my oh my job my job would never it's like well maybe fucking quit you know like like this is your biology this is your life you know It's like figuring out maybe don't quit right now, but maybe start changing your direction so that it's going to support your physiology. Yeah, I think that at the very least, don't sacrifice your health for anything.

That's it. Don't sacrifice your health for anything. Be healthy. From there, build on top of that. If you start somewhere else, good luck when you're 70. Yeah. And this is the thing we were're talking about with like the relationships and the 51, 49, you know, if you go 49, 51 with your, with your health, then it's going

to hurt in the future. Right. You know, so if you can come from that place of like, okay, I start with the foundation of my health. From there, I put my, you know, fill inblank thing, then you're good. As soon as you lose your health, that's when you realize that health is all that matters. As soon as your health goes away. One of my favorite quotes of all time, Paul Cech, sooner or later, your health will be your number one concern.

Exactly. Sooner or later. You can invest in it now, or when you're on your deathbed, or they say they're going to amputate a foot, whatever the case may be, it will be your number one concern at one point, right? Yeah, absolutely. And some people get little titrates or little drops of that throughout their life, and that's a great gift. You know, the other day I was out. We went to a baseball game.

I got correct. I was on another podcast, and I misspoke on who the game was. I'm going to state correctly. It was the San Francisco Giants versus, I don't know who the other team was the padres it's hard for me to keep track and so uh well the padres just moved i think okay the padres that's the same i'm gonna take a ton of shit is the san diego there's this i don't know it's the chargers there we go see okay thankfully i corrected myself oh you idiot it was the Chargers. There we go. See? Thankfully, I corrected myself. Oh, you idiot. It was the Chargers that moved, not the Padres.

Yeah, the girl, we went together. She heard a little bit of it, and she's like, I got a text immediately, like, what the F? And I'm like, oh, sorry. But afterwards, I was just borderline getting arrested for jumping around on different gates and you know trying to balance down rails and doing parkour inside the stadium i mean the worst version of parkour what drugs is this guy on yeah no exactly i'm like no i've just been sitting in a baseball game for two hours like i gotta take this thing off you know and i jumped out of a tree and uh just kind of you know it was like no big deal from what i perceived as being no big

deal kind of like taller i was definitely kind of second guessing and i was like i'll be fine and i come down and i land and i was like nailed that landing like that was rad at least it's great and then all of a sudden like 45 seconds later i got this like visceral feeling that there was something that wasn't okay in my body and it it didn't, there wasn't any pain anywhere, but I was just like, Oh, there's something, I don't know what this is,

but this, there's something just got kind of shifted here. And all of a sudden I start feeling this little like spasm in my heel. And I'm like, Oh, like not walking on my heel very well. And then I started thinking back into a friend, rock climbing,

shattered his calcaneus, which is the heel bone, like pulverized it and he was out for a year or whatever yeah and all of a sudden my whole body just goes oh i start getting like flush i'm like oh my god you know did i just is that is that what i just did you know and it goes from me leading with kind of more like ego and like i'm strong and you know i can move better than anybody around you guys are judging me but i'm like you know climate you know and i kind of like a little bit more ego

driven i think and then all of a sudden you hurt the vehicle and the ego everything is it gets completely pulled off humbled immediately immediately yeah you know and it's it's like it's at some point that facade that you have will get set down you know and it's like the amount of preparation that you put in on a momentary basis of being comfortable with all the deeper layers of that i think that that's the most important thing for sustainability you know but at some point throughout your life throughout your existence you'll lose the the thing that you drive with. That's not to say you'll lose your whole body, but you'll lose the main, whatever, if it's your personality, if it's your money, if it's your power, or if it's that you move really, really well and beautifully. At some point, that could be taken away.

It's like, then where are you at? So it's figuring out all of those different layers and i think the way that you do that is i mean i don't know i'll ask you rather well we gotta think about it i'm here to say we gotta think about it i love it we do have to think about it i love it that was great you went right up you went right up to the answer and then no what do you do i don't know i mean i don know. I think everything that we're saying is what I would do. This whole podcast, I would say everything that's been said now,

there's been no... I don't think there's any hard answers to anything. Anybody that's run from people that have answers and people that have questions around. Many paths to one truth. Even in the discussion of psychedelics, which a lot of people are going to be like,

I've never done that. I'm curious. Some people have done it. Some people have had good experiences or bad experiences. The whole gamut that comes with that and then this idea that you can get everything we're talking about without that stuff. So there are many paths there. I, in my personal experience, have had really incredible experiences that changed my life moving forward, taught me how to meditate better, have made me a better father, have made me a better partner to

Natasha and all that. So I do speak highly of them, but yeah, there's, there's certainly, it's definitely a part of the discussion and, uh, but they're, you know, just treating yourself better on every level. It doesn't take that to realize that. For me it did, but for other people it does not. I have one potential answer. Yes. Are you ready? Yes. Drop it.

I think stay light. So stay light with your materials, stay light in your business terms, keep your business lean. If you have too many moving parts, then you have to have your vigilant attention there to operate the parts. You know, if you have too much material shit in your world, then you got to always be polishing the car. And you always got to be, you know, repairing the thing or taking this into the shop.

And all that's costing money and that's a liability. You know, but if you limit your life down to, you know, like you're not going to be able to take anything away when you go to the grave. Everything gets left. You take nothing with you. You take nothing with you. So I have an inclination that the closer that we can stay to that place of not being dependent on the materials that we have in our world and kind of just keep our lives quite lean, I think that's some of the best security that we can have

in a certain, like, a psychic way. It's much easier to manage things mentally with less, right? That minimalist kind of idea of just living with less, getting more from less. Yeah, the idea that you can just pick up, you know, if all of a sudden you and Natasha are like, hey, we're going to, you know, whatever, Fiji next week. You want to go? And I'm like, oh, man, like, yeah.

All right, I'm going. Let's go. You know, to be in that place where it's like, yeah, we can go to Fiji. Let's do it. You know, I think that's a really big deal. If you can get to that point in your life where it doesn't need to be Fiji, it could be let's go to Northern California. But at that point in your life where it's like,

no, I'm mobile. At some point I'm going to die for sure. But I'm not carrying all this. Every material that I have in my life I think carries a certain degree of psychic weight. So if I stay light in this life, I stay more adaptable. You know, the heavier that my world becomes around me, the less adaptable I become. Yeah. You're tied down,

you're tied down to your space and then you're limited to what you have locally as opposed to being, I guess, I guess it'd be like life flexibility. Life flexibility. Right. That's it. You know, so physical flexibility, life flexibility, Life flexibility, man. Right? That's it. You know, so physical flexibility, life flexibility, business flexibility, relationship flexibility, it's all the same thing, right? So each one's allegory for the next. You know, and so I think that,

you know, just keeping your, keeping your, what's that, your tablecloth clean. You know, it's like if you got a bunch of mustard and ketchup and crap all over it, you don't really notice new stuff going on it.

But every day it's a new practice. Every day, the first thing you do, you get out and you go sweep your porch. And you go through and you take the trash out and you're like, okay, we've got a fresh slate. If I die right now, my family doesn't come and be like, whoa, my son was a fucking slob. You know? Like, if I die right now, I just leave people, you know, whatever, a surfboard and some money. You know, it's like, cool, sick. Aaron was a good guy.

Yeah. Well, it's the lessons, too. I'm sure there's, I mean, Gary Vee talked about this, too, when Mark Bell went up to do his, the PowerCast. He flew to New York with him. And he was talking a lot about kids.

And one of the things he was talking about is how he manages his time is that he's trying to build something, wealth, to give to them. But more important than that is the lessons that he leaves with them, the life lessons that he gives to them. Right. And I think that sharing of knowledge that you give is fucking vastly more important than the surfboard and the cash that you have. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, so it's that, you know, so it's, it's leaving, I think legacy is really, and this is something that, you know, you and myself, and it's kind of like, I think entering like a phase of life in a sense where it's like, what am I going to leave behind? I think I've heard, I wouldn't call this a definition, but I've heard maybe Tony Robbins, somebody defining depression as being just focusing on yourself all the time.

If you're always just in this me, me, me, me, me, me, me, it might feel that's the short-term gain. That's the 49-51 instead of the 51-49, you know? It's like, if you're always in that place of what can I get? What can I get? Why can I get? You know, it's like it, it, for a day, it feels okay because you got the thing, but long-term it's, it's, it's pretty empty. Yeah. You know, it's something I'm working on myself. I mean, I'm, I'm working on unwinding that, you know, and it's from a product of like coming from a place of scarcity yeah you know like my background with like my dad smoking crack and stuff as a kid and like all these like really

interesting things where it's like really interesting fucking interesting man you know where it's where it's super interesting his crack addiction was really interesting it was fascinating you know but all those things that kind of you get instilled those little those little feelings or sensations that you know like the world's not safe you know and how many people on a day-to-day basis are walking around this world leading with that perspective that the world's not safe you know if we can kind of change that you know go alan watts is like the that the world's not safe. If we can kind of change that, Alan Watts says that the headlights, they always face out,

but they never look at the engine. If there is some way that we can kind of start to tinker and kind of see what's happening under the hood, that's a big process. I don't have any answers. Self-discovery, man. That is it. It's not an answer.

It's a lifelong mission yeah yeah there's no there's no finish line in the awakening process there's no finish line to your health there's no like you don't get to a point you're like i did it i'm in perfect health now i can just sit back and retire from treating my body well or doing good things for myself or lifting weights or working on my mobility. That just doesn't end. It's like Kelly says, you brush your teeth every day. You might shower every day, hopefully. Yeah, it's like there's no such thing as balance, just balancing.

Or there's no such thing as a perfect square, a perfect circle. It's forever and ever and ever. If you can really enjoy the process of balancing and you just become enamored with that, you're good. You found it. Hell yeah, man. If you haven't, figure that out. You know, become enamored.

You know, and then, you know, again. See, I like what you just had there, and I think we can finish there because we're approaching the hour mark. But become enamored. That's something that has driven me since finding out I had a gluten intolerance and really like, oh, shit, like this, not eating a certain way makes me feel better. And then diving into that and then diving into supplements, diving into movement, diving into like all these little things that help us get more out of life they're there for us but we have to be curious yeah because there's no one perfect way there's no one size fits all diet there's no perfect stretch like hey aaron you're a mobility

expert tell everybody the single stretch that's going to work for everybody fucking one guy might have perfect hips but his shoulders might be locked in place you know those kind of things so figuring out what works for you and that takes, you know, curiosity. It takes wanting to learn, wanting to dive into it. That's it. Hell yeah, brother. Thank you very much, my man. Dude, thanks so much.

I appreciate it. Hell yeah, dude. I'm so glad that you're doing this. Oh, wait, where can we find this fucking awesome device that I got here? And that would be www.aligntherapy.com. Aligntherapy.com. Yeah, so aligntherapy.com. And then on there as well,

the really fun thing for people to jump on and check out is I have a five-day, call it the five-day movement makeover where we go in and break down your home, break down your office, break down your work situation, whatever you may be doing day to day, and figure out how can you start to be moving more effective

in all those situations. Perfect. So situational movement awareness. And then breaking down fundamental foundational movement practices throughout the day. And just kind of like a little tidbit for people to get started with this little five-day thing to get going. So all that can be found at aligntherapy.com. That's awesome. And where can people get a hold of you online through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram? Align Podcast. Yeah, so Align Podcast, which youcom. That's awesome. And where can people get a hold of you online through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram? Align Podcast.

Yeah, so Align Podcast, which you've been on there as well, which that's like a super, I'm super stoked about that conversation. And so I would recommend checking that conversation out with Kyle. And yeah, that's my child is the podcast. I love it, man. And real quick, I'll give you one last plug. You know, whenever I go on a podcast as a guest, I always try to download a few episodes so I can hear kind of how the flow of the conversation

goes. What, you know, who, who that I find interesting has been on that show and listen to that. And you're the only podcast to date where, I mean, it had a bucket list of guests that I want to have on my show and people I want to talk to. And, and, you know, as I mentioned to you before, face to face, I probably downloaded like 10 episodes right off the bat and just churned through them. I mean, there are many, many,

many great, great people that you've had on there to share wisdom and knowledge with. And I really appreciate that. Yeah, man. It's an honor. Hell yeah, brother.

Thank you, Aaron. Thank you, brother. Thank you guys for listening to the on it podcast. Really hope you enjoyed my man, Aaron Alexander, check out his podcast online podcast. Really hope you enjoyed. My man, Aaron Alexander. Check out his podcast, Online Podcast.

It's absolutely phenomenal. He's had a wealth of great guests. I've been a guest on there back in the day. We dive into a lot different topics than we discuss on the show here. But yeah, man, he's had some great conversations with Dr. Chris Ryan and a number of amazing guests, Paul Cech as well. So be sure to check out his podcast. And if you love this show, please leave us a five-star review. It really helps spread the word and get other people to see it. And thanks for tuning in.

All right, fam. Today, I want to talk to you about krill oil. Because if you're like me, you love eating foods that are high in omega-6 fatty acids that includes all of the nuts from cashews almonds walnuts so much of the vegetable oils and nuts and seeds and everything that we enjoy eating even in a healthy diet is high in omega-6 fatty acids the problem with that is that if you don't balance it out with enough omega-3 fatty acids you're going to have systemic inflammation and that inflammation is going to make you tired. It's going to give you brain fog. It's going to decrease your motivation to work out in the gym. So supplementing with some omega-3 sources is a really smart idea. Now, one way to do that is to eat things like chia seeds, eat oily fish,

and I highly recommend that. But as far as supplementation is concerned, the absolute hands-down best way to do that is to get yourself some krill oil. Now krill has some advantages over fish oil in that krill naturally has a compound called astaxanthin that keeps the krill super fresh and so prevents it from going rancid. It also has a really favorable ratio of the omega-3 fatty acids and it's harvested completely sustainably from these tiny little squid-like creatures in the pristine arctic oceans so check out our krill oil it's from the best source in the world that we can find and it really will make a difference in your joint health skin health just overall feeling like you're on top of your game krill is just one of those essential products fish oil is great too we have that in our joint oil product and you can definitely explore that. That's another great way to go about it. But there's really something special

about krill oil. So definitely check that out if you're interested and especially check that out if you eat a lot of nut butter like me.