Mark Bell's Power Project - Asmongold: Why Ignoring Your Health Is A Dangerous Gamble || MBPP Ep. 1098

Episode Date: September 2, 2024

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So I've been having problems recently. Remember the day that I ended my stream early? So I went to the emergency room that day. You notice that some people can get away with things for a while when they're young, but it catches up. What do I do when I'm anxious? What do I do when anything? I'm upset, I'm sad.

It's very simple. I ignore it. They say that people have to have like three really big scares before they actually really do anything. Exercise and try to be stressed out less. I do love the fact that he is identifying exercise as like being something that he needs to get to. I don't want to kill myself.

That day, I realized that like, holy f***, like I was scared, man. I don't think that's like all our main motivators, but it's a big reason to stay healthy. It sounds like he values life a lot. Bro, if you value life a lot, maybe you should live your life a little healthier. Wow, who drinks this s***? It sounds like he values life a lot. Bro, if you value life a lot, maybe you should live your life a little healthier.

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You're too rich for Panda Express, I know, but like. Chinese food is weird. It's like, it's just fat and sugar pretty much. You gotta have this conversation. Fat and carbs. MSG. Yeah, I don't think, you know, I think that all the stuff about MSG is fake.

I don't even know what it is to be honest. Mado sodium glutamate, it's fake. It's been, it's like It's been debunked. I think people think it's super unhealthy and that it's gonna kill you and cause cancer, but I think like many other things in this country, that might've been built off of some racism. I don't know.

But MSG, yeah, I guess years ago, they just, you see a lot of products with no MSG as if that's some sort of great selling point, but MSG, it tastes great. Are you saying it's something like when the label has gluten-free and it's really like not a healthy alternative, it's just something? Exactly, I think, you know,

we had the girl that makes the hardcore carnivore seasonings on our show, remember? And she was like, hey, I got MSG in some of my products. So you want to know why? Because it tastes great. It's been debunked by research. There's no danger to MSG in normal amounts. And it was not based on any solid scientific evidence. It was because of, yeah, Chinese people.

People being motherfuckers. I like Chinese food, but, you know, at the same time, I'm just like, I don't know, it's like, you know, I guess I don't have any experience having probably authentic Chinese food. I should probably say that. Got to go to a hole in the wall. That's where you get the best.

When it's like, birdie and oof. You've been using the same oil for a little while. That's the good shit. That's like the food truck stuff. Yeah. I do like some Chinese food though, but it's usually like just like fried and like, I don't know. Yeah.

I don't know. My fat brain just always goes to like, if I'm going to eat like a bunch of carbs and fats together, I'm going to have pizza and ice cream. There you go if I'm gonna eat like a bunch of carbs and fats together, I'm gonna have pizza and ice cream. There you go. I'm too American, goddammit. I think I'm too cheap to really eat Chinese food because I get hungry really fast

and then I just feel like I wasted a lot of money. So I don't wanna do that. So if you eat it, it doesn't fill you up very well. Y'all are eating the wrong Chinese food. Same thing with wings though. I can eat- You're eating the wrong wings. Dude, where am I going to get wings from? Fire wings.

Exactly. And you can name all the wing places I've gone to and it's like, oh, there's a 40 piece family meal. Okay, that's what I'll get. And then I'll still eat the rest of your guys' food. I don't get full off of wings. If you're still eating after a 40 piece, then I don't know what to tell you.

Like, I truly don't know what to tell you. Pretty impressive. I have crushed 40 in a row. Then how do you find it hard to gain weight? If you can eat 40 wings, dog, you can gain weight. I, you would think, but it's... Those wings have to go somewhere. I think they're gonna end up in the toilet.

Yeah, no, that's the other part, yeah. I'm not BSing, dude. I've crushed a 40 piece like family meal. Obviously I haven't had all the like the fries and all that. That's, that won't hurt my tum tum. You guys dip it in anything else or do you just like eat the wing straight up? I do the wing straight up,

but then I'll dip carrots inside the ranch and then chew that. Cause otherwise it gets too messy and I don't like that. Joey Diaz is pretty particular about whether you have ranch or blue cheese. He's like, if you have ranch, fuck your mother. You're like, what? Like, I don't, you're like, yeah.

You're like, I don't understand what that means. Did you guys see the all you can eat Buffalo wild wings thing? Contest? No. So I don't know if it's still currently going on. And this is the caveat is it's boneless wings, but it's all you can eat for $20.

Oh, wow. It's a lot of chicken nuggets. Yeah. That's a very. When does that happen every day? I believe so. Yeah. Very hot butthole the next day.

Until we show up and they have to. Until they get back. Until they stop it. Until they get back. A little uncomfortable.thole the next day. Until we show up and they have to. Yeah, until we stop it. A little uncomfortable. I got an announcement to make. I don't know if I should say it on air, but I probably should. I've been fucking a lot lately. It's like a lie.

Let's get like. We should celebrate it. There's something in the air. Yeah, just don't tell Andy. No, I don't know what's been happening. I don't know if it's her or it's me or it's both. It's been great. That's awesome.

All right. Well, if that's the announcement, you got to make that one there. Andrew can delete it later. It will be fine. Or magnify it. Nah, this is perfect. That'll be in the trailer. Well, are we going?

Yeah, just recording. We're just chilling. Wait, are you sure we're going? Oh my god. I was like, I can't hear myself. This whole time I thought we weren't going. I thought we were still waiting to go because I couldn't hear myself.

And I just. My bad. Couldn't hear yourself? It's cool, we're just chatting. It's no big deal. I'm happy you've been fucking. Yeah. Don't mix that. And don't mix sex and wings. They don't mix. Oh god. They. Don't mix that.

And don't mix sex and wings. They don't mix. Oh, God. They don't go well together. Not spicy. May I ask you this? Do you think there's a reason? I don't know.

Maybe it's just like the time of year or something. I don't know. You guys have been traveling more. Yeah. Yeah, just a lot of time together, I guess. Okay. Maybe it's that. I'm, this is, I don't know.

Maybe it's just been a while. Oh, we did have our anniversary yesterday. There you go. 24 year anniversary. Oh wow. Congrats, that's awesome. Thank you. Yeah, heck yeah. Happy anniversary. What's up with that kid?

No, like it's sort of like I'm getting morning wood at night. Like as I'm trying to go to bed, I'm like, hmm, this is inconvenient right now. I'm trying to go to sleep. And I'm like, whatever. So I can go to sleep, but it is interesting. I don't remember the last time that's happened, but it just started like a couple of weeks ago.

Sounds like a disease. Yeah. Some sort of condition. Yeah. Never happened to you before? You don't remember this type of- I mean, not in recent memory. Did it happen after you came back from Vegas?

I know, before. Before you went to Vegas? Yeah. Have you been eating a lot of vegetables? I've been eating more vegetables. That, a little bit of Joy Mode here and there. I don't know if it has a delayed response like that, but. Sounds great.

Whatever you're doing, keep it going. I know. Well, actually, you know what? Maybe it could be the fact that I am just eating a little bit more. Oh. Yeah, maybe I'm getting healthier. What are you weighing?

I bumped up to 181 and I'm pretty pumped. Okay, there we go. Because when I went to Vegas for CJI, I was starving the whole time. And I dropped down to like 176. Oh, shit. Yeah. All I did was eat like one meal a day because the only thing that was like somewhat decent was in and out after CJI So me and Josh Settledge and our boy Zach we would walk to in and out and I would just get five Flying Dutchman

Eat that I got another order of five Flying Dutchman took that to go and I ate that for breakfast the next day Yeah, but the event seemed pretty cool. It's incredible. I saw some videos on your IG. Yeah Yeah a lot of people are calling it the like the most exciting jujitsu event in history. And I'm biased because I was right there. Um, it was incredible. Was there a lot of good matches and stuff? Yeah. Yeah. There's one in particular. So Kate Rutolo versus, uh, Andrew Tackett going down as one of the greatest matches ever. And it was so cool because like you're watching it. And then sudden you just see like a big old Merrick logo in the alley. So Merrick was one of the, if not

the like main sponsor of the whole event. So that's how I was able to go. So yeah. So me, Josh, um, and a couple of other, uh, jujitsu friends of ours and then Smokey was there as well. And we were like right there in the VIP section. I was literally like sitting next to cave Rotola's mom and she's like going nuts in the finals and stuff. It was sick. And you know, Mighty Mouse Johnson was there. Like dude, it was the event to go to, you know, for grapplers. And I mean, I guess there was MMA that night. So everybody was watching on their phones as well. They made it like WWE style, right? And they gave away like a

million dollars and like a clear briefcase or whatever. Right? Yeah, they did. Yeah, for the over and under 80 kilo cat or yeah, weight classes. But no, it was sick. And again, like, just having like the the connections with Merrick and stuff, and you hear like over the whatever the PA system or whatever you call it, but like the dude's announcing, he's talking about like Merrick health and like all this stuff. And it was just really cool. And I think it was a really smart move on Merrick's part

to be a part of this, not knowing what was going to happen. Right. It could have crashed and burned, but now it's, everybody's watching, everybody's talking about it. And it was ran really, really well. And it did a lot for the sport because, just so you know, Mark, traditionally in jujitsu tournaments, there's not rounds, right?

You have a match, it starts, it ends. In 80CC, they have these different rules where the first, I think it's five minutes, it's sub only, and then the last five minutes, you can work on points and stuff, but you're going's five minutes. It's like sub only. And then the last five minutes, you can work on points and stuff, but you're going for 10 minutes. So if you and I are going, we're both kind of like, all right,

we got 10 minutes to roll. It could end up being slow and boring. Versus this one, it was three five minute rounds. So it's like, you're gonna go, go, go, and then take a break and then go, go, go. And it just created just the most exciting environment for Jiu-Jitsu. And it was one of those events where if somebody's

just a casual fan of sports period and you want to introduce them to Jiu-Jitsu, you go, oh, you check this out. Because they're going to see some exciting stuff versus another, you know, tournament where it's like, you know, not much excitement can happen. There's like, wow, that's jujitsu, you just fall on somebody. This one, there's like a lot of takedowns and some-

Like one fight going on at a time, right? Rather than like multiple- Yeah, yeah, for this one, they only had one, they call it the alley. They only had one of those set up for the entire tournament, which meant a nine-hour first day, which was just insane. I had to leave, I couldn't hang. But again, everybody, like if you wanted to, you can watch every single match versus like an ADCC they have, I don't know how many mats and it's just there's just too much going on, you know? So yeah, it was sick though. Lots of people,

lots of fun. Cool. Yeah. And again, sponsored by Merrick. So that's really cool. What do we got on tap for today? Our boy has been gold. Hey, that's a $2 stake. Yeah. Well, he's, he's, uh, his kitchen was gross. Remember that? I remember that. I pulled a fork out of like the sink and he's like, I think this is clean enough, which I do shit like that all the time. I'm not going to do it on camera. Do you clean your pan after you make your eggs? Sometimes. Seriously? Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't matter.

I do all kinds of weird stuff at my house. Well, okay. You're still healthy. You haven't had any scares yet, so I guess you're okay. The thing I do is I'll use scissors for everything. I'll open up an Amazon package. I'll cut open a package of meat and I'll use scissors for everything. Like I'll open up an Amazon package, I'll cut open some like a package of meat,

and I'll use the same scissors to cut the meat again, and that sort of thing, yeah. Hope you wash your scissors. No. No? I mean they're out, so like eat a little rincey poo. You're joking though, right? Bro, anytime I question anything like, oh is this sanitary, like is this okay? I think about raw meat experience, and or experiment. And I'm like, dude that guy sanitary? Like, is this okay? I think about raw meat experience or experiment.

And I'm like, dude, that guy's eating like raw chicken, raw fish, raw ground beef. And he's still going. He created another one, that was like raw chicken experiment. But he was getting bored of just like not dying. He's like, I'm still going. I don't know what else to do now.

So I think about him and I'm like, all right, we're good. Like, I don't need to wash to do now. So I think about him and I'm like, all right, we're good. Like I don't need to wash these scissors. We need all these germs. I mean, I, you know, I like will rinse something off, wipe something down. I mean, I don't know, it just kind of depends. Like if I cook something in the morning and then I'm gonna cook something later on,

I may not completely wash the pan super clean. I'm not gonna use soap every time. I don't like soap Mm-hmm. I always just think like soap makes my like Cooking situation soapy. Mm-hmm. So I don't use it as much But we obviously like put stuff in the dishwasher and all that kind of shit. Yeah good I just sent before we get to this as been video. We need to watch our boy here make some orange chicken This We need to watch our boy here make some orange chicken. He's just on the phone for this. He's just talking about orange chicken. I don't remember his actual name, but we had him on the podcast.

Let's see. ...exactly how they do it at Panda Express. Oranges and the peels. And the chicken. With raw chicken in a blender. Nice. Sorry. If you got a drink, that chicken shake and there's still chunks. There's still chunks.

I wonder if it was good. You got to get the calories in. He's always wearing a nice little suit or a sports coat. It was chicken and like a full orange. Yeah. Yeah. He's made orange chicken. I am truly curious about like his gut microbiome because like he hasn't gotten, you know,

he hasn't gotten anything. Maybe he's just, he can fight that everything off. Yeah. It's really weird. But our boy Asmine can't apparently. So let's watch this, it should be interesting. All right, let's go. I guess I can probably just say, I kinda don't wanna hide it a whole lot,

is like, so I've been having problems recently. Like I remember the day that I ended my stream early. So I went to the emergency room that day and because I felt like uncomfortable, like a discomfort in my chest. And so they did an EKG on me and like they did all this stuff and they said that I was okay. But my blood pressure was very high. And so it was like, cause I've actually been like,

I've had very bad stress problems. So pause this real quick. I think this video is interesting cause like he's not very old. He's 34, right? And I mean, mind you, anybody can get sick at any time, but like the dude is like known to drink full sugar sodas all the time.

Lots of caffeine. Lots of caffeine. Lots of caffeine. He doesn't really eat healthy. Like he doesn't eat vegetables, doesn't eat a lot of actual protein. It's probably pretty much indoors. And yeah. I was gonna ask, are his streams usually at night?

I mean, it seems obvious, but they're probably really late, right? His streams all the time. Yeah, oh, it's weird. He streams during the day, streams in the evening. But like, people see kind of like the way he eats, the sugary drinks he drinks. And it's one of those things where it's like,

you notice that some people can get away with things for a while when they're young, but it catches up. Oh yeah, it just catches up to you. You got to keep moving. The point and my policy is that, what do I do when I'm scared? What do I do when I'm anxious? What do I do when anything?

I'm upset, I'm sad. It's very simple. I fucking ignore it and I keep going no matter what. Like a real man. But I was worried that it was good, that it's killing me. And I'm concerned that it might be. And so I've had to dial back a lot of

the stress. And so I've had to deal with this. And like my blood pressure was in like the one 70s. It was really, really bad because of how stressed out I've been. And so that's why I have it. You know, when people say they're stressed out, I think it's a very tough situation sometimes because I don't think people have a good idea of how to identify where the stress is coming from. Like what's the source of the stress? People just say they're stressed out or we've had people on the show before

talk about how they've had dark times and then they don't really define it. Like what's the dark time? Like you cheated on your spouse and now you're completely fucked. That's the dark time? Like you cheated on your spouse and now you're completely fucked. That's the dark time or you got addicted to drugs, but they're not really like defining like what they mean by. So I wonder what he's referring to in terms of stress.

And I think it's good to point out there is not a level of stress that you can't handle. Like there's no, you can handle enormous amounts of stress. It just depends on how you're able to deal with it and your skillset for it. You know, like any one of the three of us, we're pretty comfortable in front of a camera, but I don't know how comfortable I am in front of a camera

if I'm talking to Al Roker on the fucking Today Show. But what's John Cena's level of comfort with that? You know, he's used to it. So it's gonna be a little easier for someone like that. So it kind of just shows you there's many levels to be able to handle many different types of stresses and you can inoculate yourself to a lot of these things by being healthy and by being strong and by...

So I do wonder when I sometimes hear people say, when I hear someone say stressed out, it kind of just makes me think that they're procrastinating on a lot of things. They're not following through on the things that they've talked to themselves about doing. They're not doing them when they're supposed to do them. And they're not finished projects.

And so that's where I think a lot of the anxiety comes from for a lot of people. Real quick guys, I don't know what good blood pressure or whatever. He said he was 170. What is typically a healthy level? I always forget. Yeah. I don't know. Whenever somebody talks about it, I'm like, is that good or bad?

I'd never know. Yeah, systolic, diastolic. I don't know. Maybe we can look it up. I think it's like 120 over 80. One second. That sounds about it. I'm like is that good or bad? I'd never know systolic diastolic. I mean we can look it up It's like 120 over 81 second. That sounds about right. Okay. Oh Nice 120 over 80. Oh, there you go So damn when he says 170 Yeah, it's probably is it's probably the first number. Damn. Okay. Yeah. So alright cool the more, you know

And streaming as much for like a number of days. One day, 70. So I just had a nosebleed. And so I thought to myself, oh my God, because that's an indicator of a stroke or like a heart attack. And so that's why I went downstairs to take my blood pressure in to make sure that I was okay.

And I checked my nose and I found it was actually, I was just picking at my nose the wrong way. It seems like I'm fine. So that's the reason why. And I've been exercising every day now. It's in his Google search. I've changed what I was eating to already. And I'm probably going to have to schedule an appointment with my doctor about this to make sure that I'm okay. Because it was really weird that I had like that feeling that's heart attack level.

Yeah, it is. But I just checked it. It's not anywhere near that. It's like 135, which is like, that's not great, but it's not also, you know, like worrisome. Pauses though. You know, it's really cool that he started exercising and I'm curious how he changed up his diet.

But this is one of those things where it's like, how long does it take for somebody to make that change? Because like if you're as successful as he is, you make millions of dollars, you continue doing the same thing. It's like, for a lot of people, it takes a really, really big scare. And for at 34 years old,

this is a pretty substantial thing to happen where you've been eating the same way. You've been drinking all the like soda, you've been like sitting down for so long and not doing this stuff. I just wonder if the small changes he's making is actually gonna be able to make that big of a difference. Because it seems like it's gonna be neat,

it's gonna need to be some drastic changes. They say that people have to have, like, three really big scares before they actually really do anything. So a lot of times what happens is, and I'm not saying this is the case for him, but a lot of times people will make some small changes. Some of the things that they are experiencing may subside.

He may do a couple easy things. He may say like, all right, I'm only gonna stream like twice a week and I'm gonna back off on this and that. And I'm gonna get an assistant to help with whatever the hell else he does, right? And he might be able to like lower his levels of stress. But a lot of times people just go back to the behaviors

because they're addicted to them. And we have all these studies and all these people laughing about their morning coffee and their caffeine and all these things. And it's really, it can be really dangerous to a lot of people and maybe not for everybody. Maybe people can figure out ways to enjoy alcohol and maybe people can figure out ways to enjoy certain things

when they can control it. But when you're compromised and when your blood pressure's through the roof, you definitely have to examine your diet. Definitely have to examine the things that you're consuming. I think most people would say, hey, let's just take some caffeine. Let's just back way off on that.

And then let's check out your blood pressure. And if there seems to be a correlation between those two, then you'll have to reduce the amount of caffeine. And maybe at some point get yourself to, you're not consuming it at all. But something else that's interesting is like, most people when they have high blood pressure and they haven't really had a dietary intervention,

a low carb diet works amazing. And you hear a lot of times people are like, well, you really just lost water weight. Well, that's kind of what blood pressure is. Blood pressure is you just being like bloated. You just like holding on to more water than you need. And so you build this like pressure in your body. And for a lot of people, if they just went on, I'm not saying low carb is going to completely

solve it and it's all of a sudden going to be gone forever. But a low carb diet would be tremendous. That would be a great place to start and this cutting back on some of the sugars and stuff. But isn't it just a calorie restriction or is there something magical? Of course, of course. No, a calorie restriction can be useful. I just think that for a guy like this, like if I could give him one message,

I would say just don't eat. If it has carbohydrates in it, just don't eat it. For like a month and just see what happens. Mine is 64140. Yeah. You're right. So it's not like he's, it's like you got to wonder where is he getting his calories.

It's probably a lot of drinks, right? It's so... It's one of those things where it's, you know, he has to change up a lot of stuff. And I'm actually curious what your thoughts, both of you guys, when someone's mentioning, you know, stress, because stress is real. And don't get me wrong, stress can cause a lot of issues,

but the way you eat can affect the way you handle everything. The amount of caffeine you drink can affect how stressed you feel, right? So it's one of those things where it's like, you really need to change up your food habits so you can potentially handle stress better. But unfortunately for people and for everyone, sometimes the food you eat

is the way you handle your stress, right? And you see that a lot with little kids, like people can point that out really easy with children, but then they won't point that out in themselves. They'll be like, oh man, Johnny, he had sugar earlier, and so the kid's now having like a meltdown or whatever. And he maybe had too much birthday cake or something like that,

and you can really see it can have a profound effect. A lot of times little kids will act that way anyway. It's not always correlated directly to food, but we do know the food can have a huge impact. And I think to your point, I think that food's like making us crazy. I really do. I think that food is like really fucking us up.

But like way worse than we give it credit to. And I don't know what it will take for this country to turn around that way. I do know that like RFK has been talking a lot, beating that drum of talking a lot about health and mentioning that one out of five children nowadays have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which fatty liver disease used to be something

that could only happen, or we thought it can only happen from people that were alcoholics that drank for a really long time and abused alcohol. Until more recently, we found out that through highly processed foods and overeating for a long period of time, that other people can acquire non-alcoholic,

what they call it fatty liver disease, and now like children are getting it, fatty liver disease, and now children are getting it. It's like, that's fucking crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Matrix Foods. To answer your question, and Seumath, I know for sure for myself, if I have maybe a little

bit too much caffeine and I'm not doing something, I just start to get anxious. I just want to go move, but if I have nothing planned or whatever, I don't know where to put that energy. So if I am ever going to have more than a cup of coffee, then I need to be moving and doing something. And I don't mean like a pre-workout. I mean literally like I need to go work on something. I need to go work in the backyard.

I need to work on the podcast or whatever. Because without that, like I'm kind of a mess. I get anxious and it shows on me too. So I have to be careful. And we're around some kids that are in their 20s. My son is 20 and a couple of his friends. And you just kind of see, they just will pop like an energy drink.

They just drink an energy drink without really much thought. Multiple. Yeah, and it's like, will pop like an energy drink. They just like drink an energy drink without really much thought. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, and it's like, okay, I understand. Like you're working on the computer. Like you're working, you're doing something, but it's not really physical. So to me, it's like what you're saying, Andrew, is like all that angst is just gonna be like

kind of sitting in there. Unless you, you know, go in the gym and do some wall balls and some burpees or something, you might not be able to get all that energy out of you. And now it's just sitting in there and you got some extra kind of baggage with you, I think. Yeah, it is interesting. I don't know, maybe it's just like you hit a certain age,

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Oh, right. 135 is still hive panic attack. Yeah. Cardio will help for this. Yeah. And that's exactly what I've been doing. And so that's the reason actually why I've been doing shorter streams. I don't really want to talk about it a lot. Just give me a second. My dad's calling me. Hello?

Does he know that he's funny? I feel like this guy like... Yeah. Can you just let me do this? Like I'm like- Pause this though. You know, it is interesting though, because it seems like someone like him, because again, he is, when he does talk about like, or when he shows like the stuff he eats,

the stuff he drinks, he's very open about that. And it's not that you need to be open about every part of your life, but when the things that you do and the things that you're showing all your probably like, you know, viewers, turns out to be something that's negatively impacting your health, and you probably have a lot of young viewers that love you that are probably just like drinking the same shit, eating the same way. It's probably important to show them the the downside of that too, right?

Yeah, and what's gonna happen when he's like on like a strict diet and then he starts talking about health and nutrition and a lot of those people are probably going to be- He's so upset. Yeah. A lot of those people are probably going to be like, what? Like you- Cause he's kind of bragging about it a little bit, right? Like he has the sodas and all that stuff and he's 6'4 and he's, he's lean, but he's also probably like, I mean, I would say 6'4, 140. Is that what you said?

Yeah, it's not that. I mean, I would just say that that that's not, that doesn't sound like a healthy weight. You know, I don't know what you should be at 6'4, but probably at least 180, I would say. Yeah, at least. I'll talk to you later. I don't like to talk about that kind of stuff because it just, I think it invites a lot of like parasocial stuff. But you know, since I've had to end stream early a few days and like it's still fucking

with my head. Like I, oh God, oh Jesus. Yeah. And so that that's really it. You started eating healthier. It's catching up to you, bro. I think it's honestly stress more than anything else. Like it's really just stress and it's a lack of exercise.

And so I'm going to... An interesting thing about the stress thing he's mentioning, because I'll be quick about this, but a few weeks ago, AC conked out. I don't think I mentioned this on air, but for seven days didn't have it. And then every night was bad sleep. My heart rate was at like 60 something because the room was at like 90 degrees each night, right? So I was losing weight every day.

I had no energy to do other things. And I got down to like 238 and that's the lightest I've been in a long time. So yeah, I was stressed and my sleep was shit, even though I was trying to like get good sleep. So it's one of those things where, yeah yes stress can make a difference, but it's like There's a lot of things you can do that add to that stress and like like we just mentioned the way you eat You're not taking care of your sleep hygiene. Probably all these things will make you more stressed

Do you guys think stress and anxiety are like different things? Yes, definitely Yeah, I think they're kind of different things? Yes, definitely. Yeah, I think they're kind of different things. But I think with him, I think he might be like, I think he might be blending them together a little bit. I think stress is obviously like a hard thing to deal with, but I think it's easier to maybe just apply some like general health rules to it.

I think anxiety is a little bit more of like a mental condition that you may have had for a while that would be, it's gonna be a lot harder to like shake. Dealing with stress and stress management, like I think you could literally watch some videos and gain some access into like figuring out how to manage your life a little bit better. And then maybe you could be like less stressed.

But anxiety is an interesting one because I don't know how much of a choice that one is. I do think that healthier practices are always gonna help and give you healthier outcomes regardless of how impactful nutrition actually is with anxiety. But having someone like Dr. Palmer that came on here from the University of Harvard,

talking about, you know, a ketogenic diet and some of its efficacy with some basically just like disorders and mental issues that people may have, I think it's just incredible. And it's like, for a guy like this, it just makes sense to me that, you know, for someone like that to give a diet like that a shot and just try it for a few weeks and see if some of these things subside,

see if some of the anxiety or stress or whatever the particular thing is with him. He did also mention in the beginning how he just likes to kind of brush stuff off. And I'm definitely guilty of that quite a bit, but I don't completely brush it off. I will push it to the side and I'll be like, I'm gonna like deal with that later.

And I usually try to like almost like hyperanalyze it and break it down and go, where is this coming from? Is there any truth to this? Should you be anxious? Should you be worried? Being like really worried or overly concerned about much of anything isn't my demeanor. It's not, it's out of the norm for me.

But if it does happen, then I need to think about like, where is this coming from? Is this real? A lot of times it's not real. A lot of times it's like something that you sort of manifested in your head. You're like, oh, my wife is gonna think this if I say this to her, then this is gonna happen,

that's gonna happen. You're like seven miles down the road with this idea that you never even communicated anything about to anybody. And then you go and tell them, say, oh, I was, you know, worried about saying this to you because of this. And they'll go, what the fuck are you talking about? But you already had this conversation to you because of this. And they'll go, what? The fuck are you talking about? But you already had this conversation in your head that this whole thing was gonna,

this ship was gonna crash and burn so bad. So I think it's important to try to work these things out and really try to investigate how real they are. Yeah, I would say that stress is sort of like an overwhelming feeling. You know, like you have a lot of stuff to do or you have, you're under a lot of bills, you know, and you're not having like money coming in that you're stressed about like feeling overwhelmed.

And then anxiety is like you're, you're scared of whatever it may be. You know, you're scared that you're not going to be able to do X, Y, and Z. You're scared of something that hasn't happened yet. Exactly. Yeah, right. That's what they say. Like depression is being upset about something in the past and anxiety is being afraid of something in the future. And then I feel like stress is in that middle section

where you just feel overwhelmed. The key though is it's something that hasn't happened period. Don't stick the yet on there. Yeah, don't stick the yet on there. Oh yeah, don't stick the yet on there. Very, very true. Something that hasn't happened yet. Yeah.

Yeah. It's like, oh, fuck. Even the yet is like at a level of anxiety. You know what I mean? Yeah. Not yet. Yeah, yeah. Like, it's coming.

As a recovering, anxious person, I guess that's still in the vocabulary. Let's do this. Exercise and stress out and try to be stressed out less. still in the vocabulary. Exercise and stress out and try to be stressed out less. Like, cause it was weird that stress is insidious killer. I know. Can you pause it? I do love the fact that he is identifying exercise as like being something that he needs to get to.

So good on him for identifying that. He just said, it's like lack of exercise. I need to move around more. Tension it is. Yeah. And so that that's been the position that I've been in and Yeah, I've been trying to just be on and you know, stream as much as I can and everything and You know say fuck it. It's it's fine But uh, I don't want to I I don't wanna kill myself, right? Which is weird, right? Because like I've tried very hard

to like kind of move away from like being afraid of like dying and like all that stuff. But man, that day I realized that like, holy fuck, like I was scared, man. I really was. And so- Pause. That's interesting.

Not being, trying to move away from being afraid of dying. Death is scary, dog. Like, I don't know if I could ever not be afraid of death. And I, cause I know a lot of people, I've heard people on the stoicism side of the internet be like, don't be, don't fear death. Yeah, memento mori. Like, yeah. Means you're going to. Blah, blah, blah. Yeah, memento mori means you're gonna die tomorrow or something along those lines, yeah. Yeah, but like, death is scary.

Especially when you've had people like, I think we've all had people close to us die. It sucks. And I mean, I think one side of trying to be so healthy is to prevent yourself from getting sick with some shit and knocking, you know what I mean? I think that's, I don't think that's like all our main motivators,

but it's a big reason to stay healthy. Yeah, I think it's normal to be like a little bit scared of death, but what I'm hearing from him, like if I was like his therapist, I would say, Asmongold, what I'm hearing you say is, it sounds like he values life a lot. Yeah. And that's like an important factor. It's like, bro, if you value life a lot,

maybe you should live your life a little healthier. You know? Like we don't have to like get into like all the X's and O's of exactly what you need to do, but just healthier. How about that? How about just like not seven cokes a day, just two? We don't have to get into all the Xs and Os of exactly what you need to do, but just healthier. How about that? How about just not seven cokes a day, just two. And maybe diet cokes.

Yeah, throwing a fucking Coke Zero every once in a while. How's some protein? How's some whey protein? His body just probably freak out. His body gains 10 pounds of muscle. His balloon's up, yeah. He gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that.

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Do you hate life? Yeah Exactly. Yeah lots of people oh Hey, there we go. This is good shit So I don't want to talk about it a whole lot more and or anything like that. It's, it's whatever open to Gatorade. I actually did get Gatorade. I got Gatorade as well. Yep. There we go. That looks like the zero sugar Gatorade. And yeah, I'm going to change my diet and eat a little bit differently because I don't

want to have to go on medication. I think that the first thing, you know, people, people that go on medication die, in my opinion. Like I think that like there's all these times, like I know people that are like younger than me and they have five different medications. That's terrifying, absolutely fucking terrifying. And so I want to do whatever I can to like be able to like, you know, overcome it physically myself. I think that the human body is made to last. It's made to endure and I'm 34. Right. And so like it's going to be a while. Right. You know, I've been alive for a while and a lot of my friends have already had a lot of issues. And so, you know, I think it's a stress and I've been like not getting a lot of sleep in a lot of days too with like anxiety and so

Yeah Pass that that medication thing he mentioned is well, that's actually really great insight from him But it is it is pretty wild because like I know people that I've gone to high school with that are on quite a few medications Right now you think about that you like you're in your early 30s. Mm-hmm on quite a few medications right now. Think about that, you're like, oh, you're in your early thirties. It's so common, right? It is.

It's so common, like you go to the doctor for A, B, or C, and they're gonna, they prescribe stuff. It's not really their fault, it's not necessarily your fault. It's just sort of like the way the system is. You're actually looking for help and looking for relief. And the doctor's like, well, I have just the thing for you. And they have been recommended this drug and it actually fits exactly what you just said.

And they don't really have other techniques. Most doctors don't have other techniques. They're not necessarily gonna... I mean, the first question you should probably ask everybody is like, how's your sleep and how's your food? You know, cause like, if you're not, if you are, if over the last several years, you haven't had, over the last several years,

if you felt like fairly normal and now you're having all these, all this like anxiety and panic and stuff like that, it's like what has changed in the last, you know, couple of years for somebody. And a lot of times I think it's just the accumulation of like poor health habits. Like they're going to, it's going to manifest.

It's going to catch up with you. And I know people hate this talk about the sun, but this fucking guy going outside and getting a walk and getting some sunlight would be amazing. He'll feel better. Maybe he hates going outside so much, he can't stand it or whatever. And maybe he can get like a red light and just, you know

get some sun here and there, but some sunlight in the morning, you know, for people that are fair skinned and don't want to burn and so on, the sunlight in the morning is not going to burn you. You know, the first three hours of the day the UV is pretty low. Last three hours of the day, the UV is fairly low and it's safe and it's healthy.

It's a good, healthy practice. I think what you said there though about him getting a red light thing actually, for someone like him who's streamers, gamers, that would actually probably be pretty impactful because he probably doesn't get outside that much. That would be huge. He can get some sun and some red light on,

that would make a difference. Red light is balls when it's streaming. Shit, why not? Yeah, it looks like it's just like shoulders up anyways, so should be good. That's what it is. I should do that. And so there you go.

And streaming's just, I wanna make you guys. Headlighting a nuts. Why don't we do that right now? We should do that. Great. It's like our legs up on the desk. It just dicks out. I'm surprised you're not doing that, Andrew.

I know, I was gonna say, I'm like... You have a covered desk. It makes less sense that I don't do that, actually. Dude, all right, we're doing this. Whip that big thing out of it. You know, I saw this comment on a recent podcast and someone was like, these three hulking men are homosexuals, right? That's great.

We got to send that person a free t-shirt. Who told? Never been a more accurate depiction. The fact that they used homosexuals. Yeah, what a great term. Sophisticated. Oh my God. It's the energy. Let's understand this.

Okay. This is the least stressful part of my day. I love streaming. I love doing it. It's not your fault. It has nothing to do with the stream. Obviously chatters can be annoying. Of course, of course. But that's not the real reason, okay guys?

It's really not. I wish it was the reason because it would make it so fucking easy to solve. I would just stream less. So yeah. That's so good to hear solve. I would just stream less. So yeah. That's so good to hear that. Yeah, no, I'm okay. And so I just want to let you guys know.

And I've already been making improvements for a few days and I've already seen a tremendous decline in like those like high spike blood pressure stuff. And, you know, like going down today, like just a few minutes ago, it was lower than it pretty much ever has been. And that was like... By the way, for people who do have issues, one simple thing that helps with blood pressure

is taking walks. Talk about that all the time here, but going on walks, getting some lymphatic drainage, the body moving, that will lower your blood pressure too. A lot of things do, but getting the habit of taking walks will be massively beneficial. I know that just about anybody can be overwhelmed with stress and anxiety, but my observation has been, it's oftentimes in people with smaller frames. Was that your experience, Andrew, growing up, being thinner?

I see it from a a lot of runners actually. A lot of runners are real like fidgety and like anxious and like they have to fucking run. They gotta run a lot to get that anxiety out. So they go miles and miles and miles and miles. I remember when like we first started, you know, being around each other, you were like, oh no, Andrew's a fidget or something.

Like, cause I always had to shake my leg and stuff. Yeah, I always just equated it to being like skinny and just being unhappy with like my physique. And then as I got bigger, it got better. So I don't know, I just started liking myself better. So that's what I always equated it to. But maybe there is something there where, yeah, like the leaner you are, the more-

Maybe it's part of the metabolism or something. I'm just fucking pulling shit out of my ass at this point, but it's just an observation, something I've noticed, and maybe for individuals that are thinner and grow up skinnier, maybe some like weightlifting would be, weightlifting and some protein would be maybe a good idea. Because maybe you just...

I don't know, you just feel... I'm imagining if I grew up the way this guy did, I would probably feel... Everyone gets picked on. I got picked on too. But I would feel way more threatened. I never felt threatened in my life because it was always big. And then I had older brothers.

So there was never a threat of anything like that. Yeah, I always felt threatened and that was a huge part of it. Always. Yeah, when I was a lot younger. Yeah, that would give me a crazy amount of anxiety, I think. No, like anywhere I would go, it was just be like, dude, how come people are always messing with me? This doesn't make sense.

Like, do I just have one of those faces that people want to punch? But that, and then also, yeah, I ate a lot of carbs and I didn't eat much protein. Though I am fitting this archetype or whatever you want to call it that you're describing. And I did happen to have some pretty good depression and I was anxious and fidgety and all that stuff. So I don't know.

Again, that's one of those things that you're not gonna see a paper about. But shit. And maybe you could go the other way too. Like if you're real heavy, maybe you feel like shit about yourself too. And maybe you feel threatened in a different way. Yeah. I don't know.

But like I just, that word, you know, like threatened or thinking somebody like this guy is just doesn't look like he's like durable, right? Like looks like he's very thin, very frail. And maybe if he's able to get himself out of that position where he is stronger than he is currently, I'd imagine he'd probably feel a lot better. Yeah, no, this is weird. But I remember the day that people started moving out of the way for me. Like I, like people would see me walking. Nobody would get like no common courtesy, just like, well, let me just punk this fool real quick.

And I remember the day that I walked through a group of like friends and stuff and like they all parted ways. And I'm like, that's never happened to me before. Yeah. Yeah. And this was after I had been in the gym for, I don't know, a handful of years. And I'm like, oh, I finally, I look like a man now, you know? And I just like got right back into the gym like the very next day.

You know, I felt good. Great. I think it's sugar and a soda. Yeah, I probably, I really don't want to have to stop drinking soda. I really love soda, but I probably will have to cut back on it. I will, at least until I can get the stress in my life down. It's like, how do you get to 100%? I think that I can deal with, if I didn't have any other stress factors, I feel like

I'd feel fine, but I have all these other things going on. And so it's like, it's just too many things take you over the edge. Pause. Just don't drink soda. In general, just sodas. And me, like, it's not soda, it's just bad. In terms of, especially full sugar shit. Just no reason.

I think it's just easier to like label certain things as like bad. Like they're just not things that you should probably do. I don't know about you guys, but like I've had this happen a bunch of times. You think you're buying the zero of whatever and it's not, and then you're just like, fuck. And I just throw it out.

I get rid of it. Cause I'm like, I screwed up. I don't want to have like all this extra sugar that, and the product tastes good either way, you know? But I think the main thing is just to get rid of soda, like completely. I think the really cool thing that happens too, because this has happened to me, when you stop drinking stuff like that,

when you do drink it and then you put it in you, very soon after, you will feel, it'll hit you in a different way. Because I feel like when you drink a lot of soda and a lot of sugar, you have an adaptation to... The human body is great, man. Right? You put that fuel, it'll figure it out. Yeah, because I drink a soda now, I'm tired.

I feel not good. Yeah, and when you're a kid and you have something like that, it just like makes you zip around for a while. As you get older, you're like, no, this is not good for me. You guys think we got enough from this video? I think so. That was good. Yeah. But, I don't know, do you guys think that he keeps, he's talking about like not giving up the soda,

and he's talking about making these changes, but he keeps saying, oh, once I figure out and get the stress down, then we'll be good. It's, I don't know, do you think that he's kind of making excuses to not go all in with like the diet and maybe some other habits that are probably doing a little bit more of the damage.

It's one of those things where I feel like when people, when he's making some good changes, but when he starts feeling better and better, it might be one of those deals where like, initially you want that thing, but you realize how much better off you are without it. You don't go back. Yeah, I think obviously there's like a lot of strategies

he can employ, he can like, you know, go and talk to a therapist and all those things. And that alone might kind of fix everything. But I think ultimately there's something going on with his diet. I don't think it's, again, I don't think being 6'4 and 140 is great. And then he has some of these health issues and concerns.

The blood pressure is really concerning because blood pressure is something that can kill you really, really fast. I mean, and it's great that he learned that he has high blood pressure because now he can attack that and pay attention to it. But that's something that will take people out pretty quickly.

So I think he's got to address, I think, multiple things. He's got to sort of figure out where is the stress and where are some of this anxiety and stuff like that? Where is it coming from? And then, you know, try to work on that in addition to kind of going all in, like what you're saying, like, rather than just being like, I don't want to give up soda.

He probably should, like, what's it gonna hurt, right? What's it gonna hurt if he just doesn't have soda for like three days? And if he eats a little bit better diet for three days, and then he just analyzes and is truthful with himself, like, is this the path forward? I think he would find that it probably is. You're trying to get healthier

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and at checkout enter promo code power to save 20% off your entire order. Or if you want to save even more, use promo code power project to save an additional 5% off your build the box. Again, goodlifeproteins life proteins comm link is in the description As well as the podcast show notes. I find it really interesting that there's so many people that are Pretty young that are not doing well that are just like in a lot of pain

They you know, you mentioned, you know Being on medications and stuff like that. And I think it's just acceptable in our society today to have these ailments. And if you start talking too healthy, then you're completely out of your mind. Then you're a wacko. You're excessive. Yeah, because a lot of people don't really have much problem

with you mentioning like, oh, you should have a couple of glasses of water every day. Like, okay, amen. Cool. I could do that. Eat a little bit more protein. Okay. That makes sense. I hear a lot of other health people say that. Grounding. Wait, what? Get in grass. The earth is an electromagnetic field. Wait, what? A human body is a fucking antenna. Well, what?

They don't wanna like hear any of that stuff. And it's annoying to me because these things are free. And there's just, they are, I realize there's some complications for some people to do it at certain times of the year and stuff like that. But it's just awesome, you know? Getting out in nature, getting out in the woods, getting out on some dirt, getting out on a beach.

There's so many things we have access to go to a park, you know, there's just like so many wonderful and great things that have so much to do with health that we tend to deny for some reason. And they're huge aspects. And for people with anxiety, I mean, there's thousands of years of people talking about how much, you know, going on like a hike or something does for anxiety and being in the woods and being around trees.

This morning I saw that they're running a study in Louisville, Kentucky, where they're putting like a lot of trees in this community, which Louisville, Kentucky, by the way, is full of a lot of green stuff and trees anyway, but specifically, and they're putting like a lot of trees in this community, which Louisville, Kentucky, by the way, is full of a lot of green stuff and trees anyway, but specifically, and they're testing the people in the area and they're testing a lot of their health markers and a lot of their health markers are improving.

And they're like, holy shit, we see a correlation with the trees and the trees, by no mistake, they breathe out what we breathe in and so on. I mean, it's just like, so there's a great connection of health that goes well beyond just some of the little changes that you might make to your diet. Also, don't, you know, as you get older,

a lot of times you don't want to see what's going on with your blood work. It's important. I think that's why Merrick is so cool and why we talk about them so much because usually, especially men, we don't go get checkups. Actually, I haven't gotten to physical in a bit, but I got my blood work, but that's the thing. It's one of those things where men kind of avoid the hospital. And I'm not scared of avoiding the hospital because I have my blood work and I'm cool,

but in general, if you're not getting your checkups and you don't know what's going on with your blood work, then you get surprised with something later on. So it's one of those things where that type of stuff gives you the ability to make sure year by year, everything is moving the way it should and you have nothing to be stressed about. And you're doing this for other family members

and stuff too, like your mom and stuff, your mom's lifting and stuff like that now, right? Yeah, my mom, my sister, it's important because I want her to do well so I can also see what's going on with her blood work. And it's one of those things where when you get that stuff done with Merrick, you'll get suggestions on things you can do

that's not medication. And I'm not saying medication is bad, but the more you can stave off having to use meds, the better off you're gonna probably be. Is all these things you can take care of naturally with your habits. Yeah, and I'm getting some blood work done through Merrick coming up, and I'm gonna get some blood work for Andy

and for Jake and for Quinn as well, because I'm like, all four of us might as well just do it. Might as well see, yeah, might as well see like what kind of starting point do they have and they can, you know, learn about what's going on with their blood at a young age. And then if they ever care to like look at that further, they can be like, oh, that's normal for me.

Or that's actually, you know, isn't normal for me or whatever. So I do just think it's like, again, I think our society, we're just so accepting of pharmaceutical medications and these other like interventions to come and kind of like save the day for us. But I wish that we were just more proactive

and out in front of it a little bit more. Cause I think that people that are in their late 20s and 30s and stuff, I think you should feel really good. Shouldn't be a lot of pain. And again, I realize everyone's life is so different and my brother's had chronic pain forever that has been very difficult to figure out. He's got a lot of tightness in his body

that's hard to figure out. And so there's gonna be individuals that just are dealt certain cards, we're all just dealt certain cards and certain things happen certain ways, but still you could still be healthier. Like there's still, whatever level you're at, there's still a way for you to figure out

how you could be healthier. And these people that are not feeling well at such young ages, I think it's really concerning. And it's just widely accepted. There's just like a lot of memes that are pretty accurate, but it's like, hey, if you graduated in 03, what kind of smoker do you have and how bad is your low back pain?

And it's like, oh, I have a pit boss and it's actually pretty good right now. But, you know, so again, it's like one of those things where if it's a meme, then now all of a sudden, everybody just thinks that, oh yeah, we're supposed to feel this way. But no, you're not. And yeah, it does kind to feel this way. But no, you're not.

And yeah, it does kind of suck to be the weirdo of the family, I guess I'll say. It doesn't suck, it's awesome. But it's a bummer that you are the outsider when you don't drink alcohol. You're the outsider when you bring your food or you don't eat period because it's not good, you know, good choices. That's what happened to me in Vegas. I don't drink nor eat bad food. So I was really hungry

and sober the whole time. And I didn't, you know, I didn't want to lose weight, but I did. But it's hard to tell somebody that's, and I'm very attached to food that this trip told showed me that big time because I was hungry the whole time. But when somebody's really attached to food, it'd be like, maybe sometimes you just don't eat because the choices aren't good enough. That sounds wild to somebody, but sometimes that is not only is it the only answer,

but it's gonna be the best answer to a tricky food situation. That would have sounded wild to me, I don't know, my early 20s. Do you imagine? What? I'm not eating, I don't know, in my early 20s. Do you imagine? What? Not eat? I'm gonna fucking eat.

Gangs, bro. Right? Yeah. No. What do you mean there's nothing good? That just means I get to eat something pretty bad. Something interesting for the beer lovers. It hurts your stomach.

For the beer lovers in the audience, there's this brand called The Athletic. We were at dinner with my girlfriend's mom and somebody else the other day, and they had this non-alcoholic beer. Light? And I got it, and it was really good. It tasted like an IPA, but it had like 0.5% alcohol. So there's barely any alcohol in it,

and it actually tastes good. So it's gross and doesn't get you drunk. I like the taste of IPA. I do like the taste of IPA. That's what people will say, I'm just fucking with you. But that's the thing, for people who do like IPAs and you don't want alcohol, you don't, that's actually a good option.

You know who drinks a lot less these days? Casey. And drinks, no, it's even crazier than that. Stone Cold Steve Austin. What? Get outta here. By the way, he's in amazing shape. See, if you can bring up his Instagram,

he had a post the other day where he was like in front of like a four wheeler or something. He's doing some like race or something. He's jacked as fuck. He looks awesome. It's hell yeah. Stone cold and beer. 240 pounds and shredded.

Let's do this. Goes hand in hand, stone cold and beer. I know, right? What? Yeah. Maybe he'll be doing that shit with like the. Yeah, like protein shakes. Yeah.

This one maybe? Yeah, I'm not sure which one it would be. So that's just him in. It's like a picture, I think. Okay. Maybe you can find it, but I mean... Oh, right there. There's one.

Damn. Holy shit. Wow. Dude. He looks like he'd get back in the ring. Yeah, because I don't remember him being vascular like that. Wow. He did get back in the ring like maybe like six months ago or I think last WrestleMania, I think WrestleMania come,

I forget when WrestleMania is, but yeah, I think the last WrestleMania or maybe the one before that, he did come back and I asked him about how he felt about it. And he's kind of regarded as the greatest wrestler of all time. And he's just very talented in the ring. There's a lot of nuances to wrestling that people don't know much about.

But he's one of the best on the microphone and he's one of the best in the ring in the history of wrestling. And he was like, it wasn't that good. He's like, it wasn't that good. And then I was like, I don't remember it not being good because I don't follow wrestling that much anymore, but I do remember hearing it.

I thought I caught like some of the match and stuff. So then I went and checked it out on like YouTube and stuff. The match was amazing. And as I text him, I'm like, I'm like, what? Like he's like, no, no, it just wasn't up to my standards. He's like, you know, he's like, he's like the guy that he was working with, he's like, he stepped inside,

he stepped inside the ring with Stone Cold Steve Austin. He's like, that's the way I wanted it to be. And he's like, he didn't get that opportunity. He stepped in the ring with a guy that's retired. And I was like, damn, he's hard on himself. The goat. Yeah, bad ass motherfucker. But I do think alternatives are great.

You're mentioning a different type of beer, kava for some people, but in this video, we're talking a lot about sodas. There's so many alternative drinks nowadays. Kava's great. I got introduced to a product recently, it's called Perfie, which uses natural fruit juices in the product. And it only has like around 10 grams of carbs. Perfie? Maybe it's a...

A P-E-R? Maybe it's only like three or four grams of sugar. And it also has ashwagandha in it as well. P-R-F-Y. So it's like a kind of relaxing drink, but they taste amazing. I'll have the guy send some here to the studio. Just an absolutely incredible product. So there's options everywhere.

If you're paying attention, you got your eyes open. And we talk all the time in the show about legendary foods and all these different snacks and things that you can get. But that one right there, is that the Dr. Pepper one? Yeah, Dr. Perfie. Oh my God, dude, I don't know how he made, like that tastes so good. It's like got a pear on the front of the bottle or whatever.

But I was like, how would a pear taste like Dr. Pepper? But it kind of does. So this is good, we're talking about this, because this Perfie stuff, I've never heard about it before. I'm curious about it. That's 30 milligrams of ashwagandha, 50 milligrams of L-cethionine. You gotta be careful with that ashwagandha though.

That's what I'm wondering, because people when they drink cans of shit, they want to drink more than one can. Poppy, have you ever had those poppies? They sell those at Costco. Yeah, exactly, right? 15 pack, they have prebiotics. But if you're someone who likes soda, right?

It's one of those things, you can have a few cans of that. I drink these pretty regularly. I haven't noticed anything. Only 20 calories. Anything crazy with it, but I might have two or three in a day. Yeah. But I don't know, like what's the recommended amount of like ashwagandha? I don't know. And it's supposed to be, it's supposed to like kind of chill you out a little bit, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's supposed to be it's supposed to like kind of chill you out a little bit, right? Yeah. Yeah Yeah, it's supposed to yeah ever since we had Lucas Owen on the the podcast. There's been a little weary about Ashwagandha

Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know some people yeah, we're real pro for other people. Yeah Yeah, 500 to 600 milligrams a day is like what some people do. So this only has what 50? 30 Little mile little mild bump of it, I guess. A bump. Happy for... I've been mixing that with my Kava too. It's incredible.

Kava's incredible. Yeah, what was your friend that came over? Let's plug him in a little bit. Serge. Yeah, Sergeo. Stay rooted Kava on Instagram. So if you're local in Sacramento, you can get some legit like home brewed stuff.

That was so great. He got his energy fucked. And Seema just like, yeah, hit me. I drank a lot of kava. That's the thing, like it didn't fuck with my sleep. It doesn't, it seems negatively affect me. And I can, you know, kava's solid. It's way better than alcohol.

All these things are way better than alcohol and way better than soda. I think it's a good alternative. You know, maybe it's not instead of for everybody, but maybe it's something they could utilize here and there to not do so much damage. Strength is never weak. This weakness is never strength.

Catch you guys later. Bye.