Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 678: Tips for Increasing Female Libido, How to Rebuild Your Metabolism, Intolerances to Healthy Foods & MORE

Episode Date: January 5, 2018

Kimera-Quah! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Kimera Koffee (kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about massages... good, bad or indifferent, tips for increasing female libido (this was moved), specific guidelines to fix a damaged metabolism and why a body sometimes rejects healthy, nutritious foods such as nuts , blueberries etc. Is Sal sabotaging Adam? Do the guys give two shits about seeing the ball drop or staying up till midnight? Find out! (5:28) Find out Adam’s revised New Year Resolutions…Life Happens and he is making the best of a bad situation. (10:47) Random facts from the guys of Mind Pump (17:35) Is Adam a cool uncle or just old? (19:30) Find out if you can stretch better when drunk? (23:00) Quah question #1 – Massages, good, bad or indifferent? (25:31) Organifi shout out! (44:45) Quah question #2 – Tips for increasing female libido? (46:15) Quah question #3 – Specific guidelines to fix a damaged metabolism? (56:46) Quah question #4 - Why does a body sometime start to reject healthy, nutritious foods such as nuts, blueberries, etc.? (1:05:09) Related Links/Products Mentioned: Kimera Koffee Use the code “mindpump” for 20% off Are octopuses smart Pigs are Intelligent, Emotional, and Cognitively Complex Stretching under the influence of alcohol TABLETOPICS Couples: Questions to Start Great Conversations The Power of Touch The importance of touch in development The Effects of Heat and Massage Application on Autonomic Nervous System The Science of Fasting Organifi (MP sponsor) Use the code “mindpump” for 20% off Nature’s Way Booty Call: How to Spot a Fertile Woman Women dance most attractively when fertile Study links women's fashion sense to ovulation Low sex drive in women - Symptoms and causes Oral contraceptives and libido in women Healing Metabolism: A Naturopathic Medicine Perspective on Achieving Weight Loss and Long-Term Balance Influence of the Microbiome on the Metabolism of Diet and Dietary Components Ep 664-Jason Phillips - Mind Pump Media Immunomodulators for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Managing The Immunomodulators Immunoglobulin G An elimination diet People Mentioned: Steve Harvey (@IAmSteveHarvey)  Twitter Ryan Seacrest (@RyanSeacrest)  Twitter Jason Phillips (@in3nutrition)  Instagram Would you like to be coached by Sal, Adam & Justin? You can get 30 days of virtual coaching from them for FREE at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Get our newest program, MAPS Prime Pro, which shows you how to self assess and correct muscle recruitment patterns that cause pain and impede performance and gains. Get it at www.mindpumpmedia.com! Get MAPS Prime, MAPS Anywhere, MAPS Anabolic, MAPS Performance, MAPS Aesthetic, the Butt Builder Blueprint, the Sexy Athlete Mod AND KB4A (The MAPS Super Bundle) packaged together at a substantial DISCOUNT at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Make EVERY workout better with MAPS Prime, the only pre-workout you need… it is now available at mindpumpmedia.com Have Sal, Adam & Justin personally train you via video instruction on our YouTube channel, Mind Pump TV. Be sure to Subscribe for updates. Also check out Thrive Market! Thrive Market makes purchasing organic, non-GMO affordable. With prices up to 50% off retail, Thrive Market blows away most conventional, non-organic foods. PLUS, they offer a NO RISK way to get started which includes: 1. One FREE month’s membership 2. $20 Off your first three purchases of $49 or more (That’s $60 off total!) 3. Free shipping on orders of $49 or more Get your Kimera Koffee at www.kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off! Get Organifi, certified organic greens, protein, probiotics, etc at www.organifi.com Use the code “mindpump” for 20% off. Go to foursigmatic.com/mindpump and use the discount code “mindpump” for 15% off of your first order of health & energy boosting mushroom products. Add to the incredible brain enhancing effect of Kimera Koffee with www.brain.fm/mindpump 10 Free sessions! Music for the brain for incredible focus, sleep and naps! Also includes 20% if you purchase! Please subscribe, rate and review this show! Each week our favorite reviewers are announced on the show and sent Mind Pump T-shirts! Have questions for Mind Pump? Each Monday on Instagram (@mindpumpmedia) look for the QUAH post and input your question there. (Sal, Adam & Justin will answer as many questions as they can)

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND,IND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, The first 22 minutes Adam Justin and myself have our usual introductory conversation. We talk about our New Year's Eve celebrations. I call it the fluffer of the conversation. We talk about Adam's revised New Year's resolution. I had to take back. He's got a little bit of poor fella. We talk about drunk stretching. Believe it or not, it's a good idea.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that. I enjoy it. I'm gonna franchise it. If you do's a good idea. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that. I enjoy it. I'm gonna franchise it. If you do, do it naked. Yeah. Also in this episode, we mentioned our sponsor, Organify, Adam's kind of ill right now, not in the cool way. If you're from the 90s, ill meant you were cool.

He'd be ill in. Yeah, but he's actually sick. Trying to double up on my green juice right now. He's using Organify right now to fight the plague. But we do mention them, they are one of our sponsors. If you use the code MindPump, you'll get 20% off. I gotta do is go to organifishop.com forward slash MindPump and then enter the code MindPump, no space

for that discount. Then we get into the questions. The first question was, massages, are they good, bad, or are we indifferent to them? What is the science behind them? Yeah. Besides feeling good, do they actually benefit you in terms of getting your results? The next question, now mind pump, we are experts in fitness,

but we like to pretend like we're experts in everything else. So we answer the question, what tips do we have for increasing the female libido? Remember that hashtag, Ladywood? Let's bring it back. Let's bring it back. Hashtag Ladywood. The next question was, this individual has a damaged, quote unquote, damaged metabolism.

They're following the maps program, so they've got one of the steps down. But what else can they do to speed up their metabolism? This is a very frustrating place to be in where you've either over-died it, over-exercised or both over a period of time. And now you just gain weight eating more than 1200 calories or whatever, which is considered damage metabolism. How do you fix that?

How do we get out of that? So we get into depth in this episode about that. And finally, the final question was, why is it that your body sometimes rejects foods that you eat a lot of, even if they're healthy? You know, like nuts, blueberries. What's the deal with that? Vegetables, like, what's going on?

I used to eat broccoli all the time. Did you catch his voice like that too? I got this very sign-fold. What? What's going on? I used to eat broccoli all the time. Did you catch his voice like that too? I got this very sign-folding. What? What's going on? Why does that happen? We break down the science. Also, we are in the year 2018.

It's the beginning of the year. You're probably pretty motivated to getting in shape. You want to either get lean, build muscles. Start the year, right. You're going to go too hard. Let's prove your movement or all of the above. Now, there's a few things that stop people from continuing on.

Lots of people get started on fitness in January. We know we manage gyms. On average, a gym will get 20 to 50% more sales and revenue and members in the months of January. And this lasts for like three months and then it falls off sharply. People just stop. This is very common in the fitness industry. There's a few reasons why people stop.

One of the main reasons is people go into this without a detailed plan. Typically the plan goes something like this. I'm going to start working out and I'm gonna start eating right and that's it. They have no idea what they're gonna go with that. They have no idea how to progress that, how to move out of that. They don't know idea how to prevent injury,

how to get their body to move through different adaptations, whether they're trying to build strength and endurance or whatever. And so after a few months, it gets boring or they hurt themselves or they see no progress or they don't know how to get any more progress and they stop working out and then they wait till the following year again.

So we've got the plan for the entire year. The whole year. So here's the deal. If you enroll in the maps, super bundle, you will have your whole year planned out for you. And it's not just a list of exercises or whatever. We break it all down. We have exercise blueprints. So, you know, what exercises to do? How many reps to do? How long to rest in between each set? You know, how many sets to do? You know, the tempo, the control.

There's videos in the programs where we are demonstrating and teaching you how to do the exercises like experienced personal trainers know how to. So we know how to give you the right cues because we've trained lots of people. We take you through different workouts. So you may be focusing on strength for the next three weeks. Now you're focusing on hypertrophy. Now you're focusing on endurance. Then you're focusing on mobility or functionality.

The workouts changed throughout the whole year. It's never boring. The best part about this is your body is progressing throughout the entire year. This is the time to get the maps, super bundle. It's the best program you can get started with. It is your plan for 2018 to check it out and to enroll. All you got to do is go to mind pump media.com We are hot So

Scoding hot what I wanted to do and I wait was waiting till we get the the mics on is I Justin I think either you or I yeah need to give Adam a foot massage a foot massage Yeah, because his ankle is swollen. I don't think he wants his touch in that one. And he's, he doesn't think so either. And he's got a cold and everything. And, you know, you're gonna make him feel better.

I think he needs more of a foot massage, huh? Well, it's as far as I'm gonna go. I don't know what you're gonna do. Well, I mean, I'm a team player. You know what I mean? But he's got two feet. No fuck with me today. There's two got two feet. Don't fuck with me There's two of us

Don't fuck with me today. We're not fucking what you were to get this thing going Oh, we're going Let's get this fucking party started We're party I'm ball humming of this place right now over I'm crippled and I'm fucking sick. That's some bullshit dude That's a double and I wouldn't get sick if it wasn't for this guy coming in here Sick all time, man. It's all south fault. It's usually my fault. It's your fault. I heard my fucking foot, too I told you that first it's your the typhoid Mary

Sure, fall I tore my Achilles you're the whole purpose that having someone like you on the show So I can fucking get the pub med stuff sent to me before I go fuck myself up Yeah, no and then you come in sick on top of that too, so. With great power comes great responsibility. And so I didn't... Failing. 2017 failing. Which I haven't good to doubt yet. I gotta have better responsibility.

I'm just gonna take the failure. With my power, that's leadership. So I'll make sure that the economy's better in America. I'll make sure that there's more world peace. I love it. These are all things I affect. Adam's onus is all the things going of words. Yeah, all that stuff.

I'm gonna make sure we get it covered. So, New Year. New Year, New Me. New Year, New Year, New South. It's right. It's coming in. Get it together. Do you guys have an organized and efficient?

Do you guys have good New Year's Eve parties? Did you guys both stay up? So you call it? Yeah. No, I did. Did you stay up? I did, but I didn't watch any of those stupid, like talk about the worst show on television

as one of those countdown shows. Do you know, it used to be just Dick Clark. Now there's like four of them. Yeah. We were watching like the, like the, I don't know what, like the not so good version What is Kathy Griffins will do last year I watched her do Well, we were watching the Steve Harvey one

At first and I was looking at everybody and I just I can't move I'm fucking all handy cap inside the the seat and shit I'm watching the TV and I'm going like, why are we watching this one? Why aren't we watching like the only one that's even halfway worth watching, which is the Dick Clark, which is now Ryan Seacrest who does it because it's the most popular one that's been going forever.

It has the best time square and all that. Yeah, it has the best singers on it, yada, yada. What a, now they have all these competing ones and they're all doing different stuff. So we hopped around the Steve Harvey one, the Dick Clark one and then there was another one. And the the other two besides the Dick Clark one, I mean, there I think I'm with you. I think they're kind of silly anyways. But the other one was really stupid. They had this, and I don't even know who she is. There's a

TV announcer who obviously is famous. I should know him, but I don't follow fucking famous people. And him and his girl of 20 years of dating got married like the final three minutes before the ball dropped. And it was all televised. And they said their vows on TV and so like that. And I know there's somebody who's listening, I know I was like, oh my god, that was so romantic. I love it.

I'm like, I think that's cheesy as fuck. It gives a shit about them. Like, why are they on there? So now you've made this year all about you. Right. What is that? That to me is so weird. Thanks a lot. It gives a shit about them like a why are they on there so now you've made this year all about you right What is that that to me is so weird thanks a lot? I thought it was I'm sitting next to my my niece. I'm like is this weird to you This is weird to me to be watching this right now I see this just I don't know who either one of these people are we're about to watch the ball drop

Also, it cuts over to these wedding vows Three two one you're in our wedding you guys didn't see that you guys didn't see this you watch that You know you stay till the this till the ball dropped all the way? So what, this is, so it's funny you asked that because as I get older, I give less and less of shits about staying awake to watch it turn midnight. You know what I'm saying? It's not even a big deal.

You can't scare. My kids just wanna stay awake because it's just because they can't. Yeah, because they can stay awake. So you're just, you know, and you know, our family gets together. There's a lot of people. So you have all these cranky ass-tired kids and pajamas. You know, it happens when you keep a kid up all night. Oh, yeah. Or wow, never. It always sounds like a good idea to them. And then there's like, you know, dozing off. It's mad. What I end up doing in this is like probably the

second or third you have done this now, as I set my alarm and I go up doing and this is like probably the second or third you have done this now as I set my alarm And I go to sleep and then wake up before midnight. Oh wow. Yeah, that is an advanced admin Yeah, it's like a cheat code right there Right down down. I'm going to bed and I'll wait till you're family at some work to do you go in your room What's that good? So I literally I mean you can even check my alarm. It's 11.55 pm I woke up five minutes before watch the thing go down. Yeah We're done. Okay. I'll see you guys later. Yeah, but anyway, I was watching Jurassic Park. That's all I was doing. Oh the original one They had like a whole marathon of all of them

We literally watch like everyone leading up to like the the new one with the the guy from a garden of the galaxy The first one was the only one that was good. Yeah, the rest of them were stupid. The rest of them were dumb. Did you guys drink? Did you guys drink a lot? No. I didn't drink a lot, but I drank. I drank two of the four days we were out there.

Mm. But I don't think, I think the most I had was like four drinks on one day. I never got like tossed up or anything. I would have, but of course I was working. So I was like just there by myself, it was kind of- Wait, it was just you and the kids? Yeah.

And they passed out and I put them to bed at like 10.30. That's the best time to get drunk. What are you talking about? I know you're right. By yourself. A drink alone, like a real drunk. Yeah, like a real real- Like a real asshole.

Yeah. No, I didn't do that. I had like, so I just got this puppy and so it was like- Oh yeah, how'd that go? It was great. I mean, it it was a lot of fun. I had a good family time going down to get them in San Diego and stuff and then driving back was oh my god I always forget how long that shit takes. We were taking so many stops to on the way back because it was just like, you know Like there's so many things going on. How do you get them to go potty like every fucking rest stop and you know make sure all that was going on?

But yeah, it was cool. It was chill. I was chilling with him and we were just watching Jurassic Park, dude. That was my big night. Did you guys both even get asked for what? For years? No, until the next day, you didn't see the other day.

I was weak. I was totally disappointed. Totally weak. I don't know what you're thinking. We get to it twice Wait did you really? Mm-hmm. Wow. Damn you. Yeah.

Shout out to Jessica right now. Yeah. Shout out to Jessica. Just looking at how. Why isn't it a shout out to Salty? That's why he's so happy. Yeah, that's right. We should be a shout out to Salty.

We get to this play. We stay at the same place you guys all stay at right? So you saw the place, right? Yeah. We're in the master bedroom, which is fucking epic. It's epic, right? Fireplace in it, fucking couch, and, you know, jacuzzi tub and dual shower, all the cool amenities.

And we get, we're all set up, and, you know, I'm doing the math, I'm like, you know, and we have like 17 of your family members coming here, like I was just gonna work, oh, they'll just do air mattresses in the living room, and up in the other this that you got cock blocked dude. My nephew is asked if he could if him and his girlfriend can stay on their blow up mattress in our room in the room and Katrina.

He understands his new right quick to say yes and then she's all frustrated because I she's like she wants some. And she wants me to get up and leave the room. I'm like fucking hey, I'm like in the back. Yeah, yeah, you know, we're in late and bad kissing on each other. So that phone around and all of a sudden she like wants to have sex and my fucking nephews over here on the on the on the blow up air mattress. Oh, quiet. And she's like, let's just let's go sneak out and go in and like get the fuck out of here. That's like a whole row deer with the crutches and get out and wake everybody up here in this you know, go to the house. Let's be honest. Oh, let's all be honest though if you were 17 year old kid. Oh, yeah 17 year old kid you cut my leg off. I'll still find a way you know said 36 year old man

You the guy for your weight. Yeah, 36 year old man. I'm like No, 17 year old kid. You're you're gonna go in the fuck you go in the refrigerator. That's the only place You know me squeezing here. We'll just do it. We don't even care make it work Yeah, it was pretty funny though And I was like, I don't know what you what you were thinking on that one Fuck. I don't know what I was thinking either I'm like, yeah, did you guys make any like resolutions or anything? I know we talked about this a little bit, but did you make any new ones? I didn't make it I well

I made I made one new one and I actually wasn't gonna show share it on the show But it's funny because something happened this morning, so I feel like compelled to share it. So I wasn't gonna say anything, and I was like, okay, I've always wanted to make an actual effort to go out of my way, to do random acts of kindness to strangers. And I thought, okay, I'm gonna set myself this goal of like, once a week, and see if I just actively

and doing that. And hopefully that catches fire, and I'm doing it every day, whatever, you know. But I didn't even have a plan to like how this was going to play out. Well, this morning, sick, I mean, the crutches, I'm driving over to work. I'm already fucking irritated. Right. So I'm already in like an irritable, you know, moody mood is how I would say.

So I'm the moody one. I'm driving to work and my throat's all sore. So I pull the moody one. I'm driving a work and my throat's all sore so I pull into Starbucks to get something hot to drink. And on Monterey Road there's a drive-through one. And as I pull up, there is this guy that's coming the other direction. And so we're both facing each other to go into the line to Starbucks. And I was there first. Just by a little bit though, it was like 30 seconds. And so there's this awkward, no know, it was like 30 seconds. And so there's this like awkward moment. Like a tumbleweed goes through you guys.

Right, yeah, there's like this awkward moment of like who gets to go next? And I'm like, you know, I'm like irritated. And I'm just in my head, I'm going like, how am I gonna act if this guy just cuts in front of me? I'm like, who fucking cares out of him? Whatever, it's no big deal. We don't have to be at war cry the way, it's no rush.

You know, so I'm already in my head today. And the guy lets me go through. And I was like, oh, in my head, I'm like, oh, that was really cool. So when I get up to pay for my Starbucks, I pay for his behind me. And then obviously don't tell him, I just drive away. So I've never met the guy in everything I tell him. How did that work? You just said, how do you pay for someone before you know what they get?

I get the next guy. Yeah, you just, when you pull up, by the time you get to the window, he's already ordered and so it's car behind them. Okay, so they already had the order and I just said hey the guy behind me Oh, I get okay. Take it. Can I pay for his to thank God He was just only getting one coffee and it wasn't like for his whole office, right? That would have sucked if he was like, oh, yeah, that's a 75 Grappuccino Yes, you just bought for a soccer team right? Oh yeah, that's a 75 grand frappuccino. Yeah, you just bought for a soccer team, right?

Eggman muffins. No, it was no big deal. So that's something I added to my list of things that, and I'm still, did you wait to see the look on his face when he just took off? No, he just took off, you know, whatever. I don't even know how long it took before she even setting me to him.

So plus I knew I was already in that line long enough and was worried I was gonna be late coming in here. So I took off. But that's something that I want to, and I thought, you know what struck me was, what made me do it was I said that to myself. I didn't tell anybody this. It was just something that like I said to myself

because I had created this basketball and snowboarding goals for myself this year. And here's the ball dropping, and I'm looking at myself like, there'll be and snowboarding goals for myself this year. And here's the ball dropping, and I'm looking at myself like, there'll be no snowboarding in basketball on my future anytime soon. So what a shitty way to start your new year's resolution off. So I was like, I better add to this something, right?

I have to adjust this little. Right, right. So, you know, I'm gonna continue on with the book reading goals that I set last year. Some more, I'm gonna push myself a little bit more this year and then the other one was the random acts of kindness. And I still I'm still planning on pursuing playing ball and snowboarding and I'll rehab and share my journey on that whole process. This just happens to be a fucking and it's fucking life, you know, it is what it is.

It happened and I'll make sure to take the right steps to get better and that'll be all of what I'd be focusing on over the next couple of months. So that's pretty much all I added to that. That's very nice. That's a nice thing. Justin did a really nice act of kindness this morning. Did you see what he did?

No, what you did. So we had, you saw it, we had a mouse in the chat. So yeah, we were doing our morning meeting in the little mouse. I don't know if it started out nice. Oh, God. So, yeah, we were doing our morning meeting in the little mouse. I don't know if it started out nice. It was nice. Well, you were right. Because at first you were trying to, like I told my Jerry fucking cartoon, I was like

whack a moly. You were trying to, with a stick, which is like impossible. And it was like a little thin stick to it. It was silly. And, but no, eventually Justin caught the mouse and then we went outside and we set him free. So, in the dumpster. And the, yeah, well, I mean, that's good for mice right now. It was like feeling like they're heading out in trash.

She's gonna wake up in the dump with the rest of his family or whatever. Cause don't they come back if you want to kill him, huh? Be honest, I had tendencies towards him. To kill the mouse? Yeah, I felt it inside. Oh, yeah, I wouldn't let you kill the mouse. Poor guy. You know, mice are very intelligent. Oh, yeah, I wouldn't gonna let you kill a mouse poor guy. Well, you know mice are very intelligent

What mm-hmm? Who told you that mice are incredibly intelligent? Where did you read that? Peter Peter said you read it on Peter. Yeah, mice and pigs pigs ever Yeah, pigs are smart people say pigs are smarter than dogs the only problem with octopus are really smart the only problem with pigs Is that they're delicious? I heard jellyfish live forever jellyfish do you live for with octopus are really smart. The only problem with pigs is that they're delicious. I heard jellyfish live forever. Jellyfish do. Yeah, octopus are. And a fact that rumors out there.

Brand of facts for you kids, Dave. Yeah, go ahead. Octopus are very intelligent. Have you ever seen them get themselves out of a jar? So if you put an octopus in a jar and screw the lid, it'll unscrew the lid from the inside. And get itself out. How fucking crazy is that?

That's pretty legit. Yeah, it is. I had octopus on New Year's too. We ate that. How fucking crazy is that? That's pretty legit. Yeah, it is. I had Octopus on New Year's too. We ate that. Did you really? Really? Yeah, my dad got some Octopus in, I think you went to Monterey and we had some Octopus.

Wow. I haven't had that in a long time. That's a bold move. Did you have a lot of people at your little New Year's get together? Was it small? Forty, some. Holy shit, I thought ours would be big.

Every time we do them to my girl, she's always like, I can't do it. Yeah, to my girl, she's always like, I can't. Yeah, so it's, it's, it's, people sitting everywhere and throughout the whole house. So we got the kitchen table, dining room table, we got other table set up over here, over there, and people sitting outside, even though it's cold,

it's just, you guys like always party, like over these holidays and stuff. It's, it's usually about 30 to 40 people. Wow. At least we had some lamb meat and some steak and a bunch of pasta and What was that what I say octopus? Yeah, and all that a lot of babies my sister has a little baby now He's adorable. I'm not eating babies though. No, we don't do that. We don't do that anymore

Yeah, that was one time thing good But no, but no, we have all these little babies now in the running around. It's just a lot of fun. I love kids. Some always playing with them and stuff. I was, you know what I did this weekend too, is picked up the old PlayStation controller, man. I have a old one like the first one.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I mean, I play all my nephews and stuff or anywhere between 17 and like 25. To show them what time it is or just get your ass kicked. Actually, I was actually very proud of myself. I had one of my nephews. Yeah, muscle memory there. Yeah, I had one of my nephews that was pretty bad ass

and gave me a weapon of majority of the time, although I did win some games. We played Madden and we played NBA 2K17, right? So I hung in there, man. It took me, it took me a game of each game to like room. Yeah, what is triangle? What's circle? Give me a little stuff and they're making fun of me. That's what was great. They're like, oh, you're uncle. That's the note. I'm like, what relax kids? Give me one fucker. Give me one fucking game of playing here. Then it's on, right? So and I did. I spank most of them for most of the weekend.

They were all there. It was pretty funny because they went from talking shit to me. Like, oh, shit. Uncle's cool, you know, because he could play mad in an NBA. I know what that I had to skill sets. That's awesome. It did give me the little itch a little bit till I used to. God, I used to play all time as a kid. You know, and I just it's been a long time. I told them I said I stopped playing when I was 27, 20, some 28 somewhere in that range. Because first player games out of nowhere, okay, fucking 10, 15 plus years more than that 15, 20 years of playing these games. Never once in my life has this happened. Then out of the blue, I'm playing Halo or Gears of War or, you know, college, college duties. One of those, one of those first player or first person views and it started

to get me nauseous and sick. And I thought maybe I was just happy to be sick and I must have tried maybe 10, 15 times after it would get me so dizzy. Yep, yep, it's a skill. You gotta practice that as a total skill you will get nauseous if you, will you close the TV? Well, no, what was weird is that I've been doing this

like I said for 15 to 20 years with no problems. There's been first player games like that and Call of Duty and Doom, they've been around forever. So I've never had a problem with this. That's what was so weird was all of the sudden, just hit me one day. Are you getting, let me ask you a question. Are you getting any dizziness otherwise?

No, I don't ever. I'm wondering if you got, because if you got what I had, and I had a little bit, I had that vertigo. Yeah. Wonder if it was a virus that might might make your throat equilibrium off a little bit. Well, so of course I thought of all these things in thought, okay, let's be able to get better and then we'll see. No, I only felt it

when I would play this these games, right? So I could play the basketball, the football, I could play all these normal games, but if I play a first person now, which I would play, I played for 15, 20 years with no problems. Now if I play it, after about 10 which I would play for 15, 20 years with no problems. Now if I play it, after about 10, 15 minutes of playing it, I can handle the first like five to minutes, but that's a while I gotta look away. I'm just, I'm starting to get dizzy and then I'll get nauseous and then I want to throw up or I'm just getting old.

Yeah, that's what it feels like. Yeah, it's definitely what it feels like. So, God damn it. We're all getting old. I did learn something else interesting, just kind of fascinating. Did you know you can stretch? Really really good when you're slightly drunk. Hey, oh, I believe that dude. It makes sense because they had most people that It's a central nervous system depressant right anything that's gonna depress a central nervous system

You're gonna probably get more range of motion of course also be careful because I'm gonna start branding drunk yoga of course also be careful because I'm gonna start branding drunk yoga. Dr. Droga. Yeah, no, I get down and start doing some stretches. That's a really good idea. And for the, one of the first times I've ever heard of her first. You know how stretching sucks, right?

They have those white classes. Yeah, what are they? They have those white classes where people do white and yoga, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's popular. So I'm getting into stretches and they feel really, really good, like really good. So I stretch for probably an hour and a half straight. Oh my God.

Yeah, which is exactly approximately an hour and a half long than normally. You and your girl are by yourself. Huh? But first it was me, then my girl kind of joined me a little bit, and then I just kept doing it all, like, just for the rest of the night. Can you picture here right now doing these stretches and it's yellow pants? I feel like he's in, yeah, it is yellow, it is yellow, it's yellow, it's yellow,

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I'm like, whoa. I got low. Yeah, like each time you can really see it. Any improvement. Huh? Any improvement? Yeah, my mobility. We want any improvement. Huh any improvement? Yeah, my my mobility we want to see how I can get I do on the floor again I do I don't want to see that part But I do want to see your show who we will show through those pants Yeah, we're the fuck this bird at bring it away from naked South

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Quiju... First question is from Tom D. Spence. Massages, good, bad, or indifferent. Oh, you kidding me? They're very good. Yeah, love them. There's a lot of... It's a necessity for me.

There's a lot of benefits to getting a good, and I say make sure I say good, massage, the first of which, and this is very basic, is touch. And a lot of people do not give this enough credence. Humans need, require, and benefit from being touched. And if you're one of those people that, require and benefit from being touched. You're one of those people that, because I know I used to have a facility

with a massage therapist in it, and some people would be like, oh, I don't like, and I always thought this was weird. I don't like massages, I don't like people kind of touching me or whatever. Those are the people that probably would benefit the most from someone touching them. But studies will show human touch with good intention.

So not someone punching you or hitting you obviously, but or harassing you, be giving you good, you know, good form of touch, will increase or levels of feel good, neurochemicals and hormones in the body, will decrease stress hormones in the body, will elicit a parasympathetic response in the body, which is a relaxing state.

Just from being touched, we know with babies, babies need it to thrive. There's some pretty awful studies that were done in the former Soviet Union where they had some kids that weren't touched very much and they had what they called failed to thrive or they didn't grow. So that's the first thing is just the touch. The next thing is the actual function of the massage. I know Adam, you have a lot of experience, right? Because you're girlfriend. Yeah, no, this is what this is her thing.

This is how she got me right here, bro. She got me right here by massage me. She was the one who really opened my eyes and this was before we were even dating. I hired her company to do massages at my business, and that's how we first met, and she was the owner and her and her and her mother owned the business, and they were the ones that were contracting out to all the massage therapists.

Well, part of the deal that we contracted was that I could come in and that I had four free massages every month. So every week, I was coming in and that I had four free massages every month. So every week I was coming in and getting massaged. Wow, that's amazing. It was amazing. And then, and then that her and I would talk afterwards. Full release.

And she really, no, this, no, Alcott. Never, don't you dare ever sit in front of her. I know. That's a big deal. Oh, it's a very big deal for you. You mean, even years after us, her and I being together, living together, and dating, having for a bit,

I try to get some ass when I'm on the table, dude. No, it's very, you guys not happening. It's true, because I'm not in work mode. Oh, dude, I'm naked, I'm laying there. A lot of times I'll reach around, try and grab her butt, while she's like, massage me and stuff like that. Wack! It's all, you know, I get it because I'm the same way

when I teach, if I'm really teaching, so like if I'm teaching you, if I were just working out, then I'm gonna give a shit, you can just work out with me, do whatever the fucking one, I'm the same way when I teach some if I'm really teaching so much I'm teaching you if I were just working out that I'm give a shit You can just work out with me do whatever the fucking one about paying attention But if I'm teaching you and I'm trying to provide You help or service I get into it. I'm serious about it, right? So I get the whole thing where You know when she's really trying to show me the benefits of a massage and why I need to do it. And I'm messing around, she's gonna fucking give me shit, right? They also, don't they also hate it if you call them a masseuse? Yeah, masseuse is not what you call a massage therapist.

Yeah, massage therapist is like a professional, you know, massage people, a masseuse. There's a skill to it. Right, and I've heard the term body worker too. Sure. Where do they, what does that fall? It's all under the same category. Yeah, massage therapist and a body worker could be considered the same thing, even though some

people like, well, some body workers will include rehab movements and exercises. Right, but a good massage therapist, just like a good personal trainer is versed in multiple modalities. So like, my girl can do all of it, right? Tie and different types of p and f and things like that So she basically she could she could tell us the The massage to my needs. So whatever it is that she's done tight I've been interested in that just I don't like the tie start she likes it can be pretty aggressive It is like walk on you and pull it back. Yeah, it's very very very good I like a really deep tissue massage because I feel like I get the most relief from that pretty aggressive. Yeah it is. I have to like walk on you and pull it back. Yeah, it's very, it's very, very good.

I like a really deep tissue massage because I feel like I get the most relief from that. So, and a really good massage therapist, you, a lot of them, you don't even gonna tell them anything. Like if they're really good, they'll be able to feel it. Yeah, they can feel where you're really tight. And you know, they have, the thing that her and I

used to go back and forth on and I still teaser this day is the language is a little woo woo for me. Oh yeah, right? For sure. So the language is a little woo woo. But if you can get beyond that and actually really open open your mind a little bit, there is a lot of great truce behind it. It's just that they we didn't have a lot of terms for this. And so just like we've talked about this before about. It's like Chinese medicine. Right, with Chinese medicine, and we say things like you're ye and shit like that. And you know, this right here is another example of,

you know, something that's been practiced for thousands of years that has lots of benefits. And they've even made names around it, but some people shy away from it because they feel like it's too, oh, that's made up. They'll say stuff like, I can feel your energy here. Right, right. You need to release this energy there and all that stuff.

And then they'll say, but there's an intuitive aspect to it. And I can relate to it because as a personal trainer, when you've been training people for a long time, there's a very intuitive aspect to it as well. And sometimes you can't put words to it. Like you can look at a person and you can tell that there may be a muscle imbalance here, your function is wrong there, or it looks like you're kind of tight in this area, and then you go and test it, and then you're right, but there's that intuitive aspect just from

doing it for a long time. The thing that I really like about massage is that Western medicine until relatively recently didn't have a way to explain why it helps. For a long time, Western medicine almost downplayed it and would say things like, it doesn't change anything in the muscle. You're not breaking up adhesions, you're not. And the reality is, on a physical level, are you changing what the muscle actually looks like? Probably not, but what you are doing is you're changing the central

nervous system and how it's getting that muscle to react intense up. When you apply pressure to a muscle, you're activating certain receptors, which, like, natural pain killers, but you're also telling the central nervous system to calm down, to calm down. At first you tell it to tighten up. This is why when you have a knot, a quote unquote knot, and someone presses on it, and at first it hurts really bad, and then all of a sudden you feel that release where that muscle, that tight knot, all of a sudden seems to go away or dissipate or whatever. What you're noticing is your central nervous system

starting to relax. And many times tight muscles, it's not the muscles themselves that are tight. So don't think of it as like, it's different tissue. The tissue is the same. Think of it as, it's no tissue. The tissue is the same. Think of it as it's no different than you flexing a muscle on a kind of a low level on a constant low level without trying to flex that muscle.

Well, it's like, have you ever done one of those, I'm trying to think like in chemistry, that we have this like rod that you stick, it's like an electrode. Everybody kind of hold hands together and like the electricity would go through your body. And immediately when you feel electricity in your body, like you just feel your muscles respond. Tense up. And you just tense. It almost feels like you're sort of,

you know, tuning that down a bit. Yes, here's my, so here's one of, this is my first like legit experience with massage therapy. So I had a massage therapist who mentored me in many different ways, and this was one of them, was with the benefits of massage therapy. Now up until this point, I knew people enjoyed it, people liked it, I'd worked in the past

with really good massage therapist, and I could see the benefit, but I didn't consider it to be a fundamentally important aspect of wellness and fitness. It was just something cool, but it's not fundamental. So up until at this point, I had been training a lot of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. And in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, especially when you use the G, it's very grip intensive.

So, what your hands are constantly working, constantly gripping, constantly gri gripping and I started to develop Like tennis elbow symptoms in my elbows and this is you know tight, you know You know tight muscles that attach around the elbow in particular the forearms the forearm flexors and the forearm extensors And they just hurt and what what happened is I'd have to warm up and do all these, you know, stuff before I do Getso so that they wouldn't hurt. It's a couple times that I take ibuprofen. And I couldn't figure out how to get rid of this, this pain, even though I was a trainer, even thinking about it as a tissue issue.

Yeah, I was like, what's going on? And the problem with the risks are they lock. So it's not like you can really stretch your flexors and extensors past a certain point because they're then the wrist locks and so like now what what do I do now right? So she finally convinces me to get on our table and she's going to work on my forums and she tells me listen she goes will you come in here consistently for the next few weeks and I tell her I can't really make that commitment because I'm

really busy this and I was my excuses right. So she said well I'm going to do a really hard one then it's going to kind of hurt a little bit more at first, but then it'll get better. And so I'm just like, look, do you're worse, like giving your hardest, whatever. And, you know, because I don't know if I'll be back next week, I'll be inconsistent. So she spends an hour and a half on my forearms, just my forearms, and proceeds to fuck me up, like literally gets in there and it becomes progressively and progressively deeper and more painful as she's doing these this crazy pressure with her elbows and forearms

and hands into my form. So I'm like sitting on the edge of the, I'm sitting in front of the table with my forearms up on the table and she's flipping my arms over, and doing it at the side. It was so painful, but I didn't want to say anything to her because, you know, I don't want to be, I don't want to, you know, like kind of give in or whatever, you know, the ego, right?

Right. Sure enough, they hurt a little bit more that day. The next day, the pain was reduced by about 20%. Over the course of three days, the pain went away completely gone. Like, never again did I have that problem with my forms. And at that point, I became completely sold. And I started diving deep into what may actually be happening on a scientific level with massage therapy. Because up until this point, all the explanations are like what Adam

said, kind of woo-woo, which I fucking hate. I don't like the woo, personally, I don't like the woo-woo explanations because you're only going to be able to communicate that to a certain type, a certain amount of people. For me, if I feel it, I don't like the woo woo explanations because you're only gonna be able to communicate that to a certain amount of people. For me, if I feel it, and I see, yeah, so for me personally, if I experience it and I see it, then you can give me a woo woo explanation, and I'm gonna be okay with it because I can see what's going on.

But when I'm trying to communicate this to clients and stuff, some people will accept it, but a lot of people are gonna look at me and be like, no, a lot of people will reject it rejected just because of that, which is unfortunate because it's normally those people that probably would get the most benefit from it, which is I always try. I mean, I, I, I jump with you guys off air and stuff because, you know, Katrina uses those terms because she's been in massage therapy for fucking 20 something years of her life. So she was born raising her mom started the school and the clinic here years before even she was involved

in it. So her verbiage is that way. And so her and I go back and forth all the time, I stop saying it like that. Like that's bullshit. So what you have to think of is if you have a constantly, if you have a muscle that's in a constant state of tonus, if it's slightly tensed by your central nervous system,

for whatever reason, whether it's because you're protecting an injury that you currently have, an injury that you used to have, and so now you've got this recruitment pattern, even though the injury's gone, the recruitment pattern stays, or if this is the result of an emotion, which for sure your state of mind will affect

how muscles tense up. If you're scared, if you're depressed, if you're mad, things change or whatever. Well, sympathetic, parasympathetic. Like that was the biggest thing for me. Like going through and like being on a table and having somebody manually kind of manipulate my tissue and kind of do all this for me.

It's like, now I'm in the passenger seat. Right. And I understand what that feels like now. And that's why it was such a game changer for me was I didn't know how to get to that state. It was really hard for me to do because everything I knew about training and being successful and doing all this stuff required tense and required me just pressing forward. I didn't really know what the other gear was, so that really helped me. There's a big piece to that, to add to that,

that people don't realize that, you know, some people maybe you don't have a major injury or a major not, it's like you think you so you need a massage, but some people are just overly tight and dist, tight all over. Yeah, all over and mentally, and when you finally, I can always feel, I mean, she can always feel too, she'll tell me, she'll be massaging me,

like let's say I've just had a lot going on, a lot with work, maybe I haven't been on their table for like a couple of weeks in a row or what, and she'll be massaging me and it'll be like 15 minutes in, right, I'm laying there, and then she'll be, as she'll say, I'll out, also, no, I'll hear it, be quiet, silent, music going candles, whatever, and also, I hear her go like, finally.

And it's weird because I can feel myself mentally just kind of go, and I relax, and then she can feel it in my body completely just. So this is what's happening on a scientific level. When you have a tight muscle or a muscle that's getting a signal from your central nervous system to prepare itself or to protect itself or to protect a particular type of movement. When you press on that muscle with tension in a particular way, it sends a signal to the CNS for that muscle to relax and the CNS signal starts to dampen. Stretching does this as well, but in a slightly different way.

Stretching and massage are very similar though, but it's just different. Massage can do things that stretching can't do and vice versa. This is why they're both important. So, pressing on these muscles causes things to relax. And here's the other thing too, when massage therapists say you're storing your emotions in these muscles or your hips or when people notice an emotional release from massage, there is a dual, there is a two-way street with this. There's feedback that goes in either direction. If at this moment right now you're listening to the podcast and all of a sudden,

I'll give you an extreme example. A lion jumps out in front of you at a nowhere for sure your muscles are gonna change. For sure nowhere for sure your muscles are gonna change. For sure your signals to your muscles are gonna change. If you get a phone call right now that when your kid's got an accident or someone you care about got an accident or if you just lost your job,

for sure a physical change will happen in your body, okay? That can happen on lower levels too, little bits of stress here and there, thoughts, whatever, will change how your body feels, reacts, change how your body feels, reacts, change how your central nervous system fires things on low levels, that's without debate. Now the reverse is true.

The reverse is true. Your emotions and your state of mind also get feedback from your body. So if your body is tight and somebody goes in and manually gets your body to relax, all of a sudden your brain and your mind and your emotions wherever, getting it to signal that, I'm safe.

I can like, and then all of a sudden, emotions come out. Like, I'm safe to cry now. So if you, and this is true, by the way, you talk to any massage therapist who's been doing this for any length period of time, they'll tell you people crying on their table, way more common than you realize, way more common. And it's that feedback system.

So I guess, I mean, we kind of went off on a rant here, but I consider, we are answering it. I think there is a lot of good to it. I think that more people probably need their life. Now that's not to say everybody absolutely needs it because if you're somebody who does do a lot of mobility work and maybe you meditate and you get, for me, this has to be part of my routine

because I already don't do enough of that stuff. So I already, this is something that I like to schedule in my life, it's as expensive as it may be, it's a value to me because I know that I don't put the daily discipline in that I should put into the meditation and the consistent mobility working so that so it's also another way for me to give some more relief. So I'll tell you something. So massage is sometimes people are like, other expensive, you know, just like getting a

gym, a membership is expensive or eating healthy is expensive, all these things are expensive. So this reminds me of a documentary I just watched, which I highly recommend you guys watch. Some of the stuff, most of the stuff they talk on the documentary about, you guys will know, but there's some pretty fascinating stuff. The name of the documentary is the science of fasting. And I promise you it's connected to the question

that we're talking about. My sister-in-law actually just told me all about that. Fucking watch this documentary. First of all, the science of fasting, fascinating stuff, especially on the effects of fasting on cancer, on cancer cells and how it protects healthy cells. It's on Netflix. It's on Amazon Prime.

It was on. So I'm not gonna go into that because that's another topic. But what I noticed was, which was fascinating, in some of these Eastern European nations, in Russia in particular, for example, Russia has a little bit of a different approach to medicine. Part of it was because during the Soviet Union, they've have all these, first of all,

their cultures have involved things like cold therapy, massage and fasting for a lot longer than Western cultures have, or most Western cultures, because some Western cultures have had this as well. But it was included as part of the protocol and doctors administer it. So they were showing these clinics.

These are actual medical clinics with doctors, nurses, whatever. People will go there with asthma, bronchitis, all these chronic type of illnesses or issues, rheumatoid arthritis, whatever. They'll go there and the doctors will prescribe fasting, they'll prescribe cold and hot therapy, they'll prescribe massage.

So people will go there for two or three weeks. The success rate is fucking amazing. The success rate for a lot of these people is 50%. And we're talking about chronic illnesses that have zero cures. And as I was watching this, I was realizing, you know, if we would apply these things to ourselves here, sure they cost a little bit of money up front, but they save you way more money.

And I could, the massage is right up there. Like if you got a massage, you know, every other week, and then you did your stretching, you watched your nutrition, you knew how to meditate, you fasted when you needed to. Yeah, that's gonna cost you money up front, but think about all the money that's gonna save you later on and just medicine and doctor bills and, you know,

sick time and quality of life. Oh, no doubt, no doubt. So Adam, by the way, you can tell me to turn off your microphone, tell your nose or cough. Sorry, I tried to push, I try and I know, fuck dude. I forgot my damn organifi today. I been this whole, when I first started coming on, I was feeling really good. I was drinking that and staying on top of all my...

The bridges? Yeah, I didn't. You know, we got the gift from... What's your name? No, no, no, no. Nature's way. Nature's way. Yeah, nature's way.

Oh, shout out to nature's way. That's right. That was really nice to see. Yeah, I guess when we mentioned it on the other day, I guess all the good all kinds of love over there. The elderberry zinc losses. Yeah, so I've been doing that, and I've been doing zinc, and I did musinex, and then the only thing I'm missing

is my suit of fed, and I want to organize this morning because I left it with Katrina's bag, because we took it up there for New Year's, because every day we were having the green and the red juice. So yeah, it's kind of kicking my ass. Did you guys try the cacao yet? The orange has like a cow? Yeah, it's great. Did you put in your coffee?

Uh-huh. It's good, right? Yeah, put it in like, you know, the chimera, like one of those K cup things. Yeah, yeah, it's good. Did you notice more of a buzz? Yeah, well, I just, it gives you like that little extra little zing. Yeah, I don't know if that was, you know, the case or if it was just like, you know, the coffee is a point, but the yo bromine is in cacao and it's chemically very similar to caffeine.

So when you take good quality rock cacao with caffeine, you're going to get more of a stimulator. I like the little bit of a kick though, it's like a spice there. Oh, I love those nice. Really good stuff. But yeah, so we'll turn your mic off when you're bored. Yeah, it's just waved to me. All right, got you, I got you. All right, our next question is Lindsay one dove.

Tips for increasing female libido. This is, this is becomes a thing for In particular moms after they have children. I know because just being tired and also hormones change I'm ready problems with the modes huh? God I mean let's just be honest. Yeah, just keep it in real as the wheelhouse Well, well, you know hormones change after you have a child for I think it's definitely while you're breastfeeding Because evolutionarily speaking it makes sense right that you don't want to necessarily get pregnant right away change after you have a child for, I think it's definitely while you're breastfeeding because evolutionarily speaking, it makes sense, right?

You don't want to necessarily get pregnant right away afterwards. That could be a dangerous thing. But tip for increasing female libido, you know, same stuff that you would recommend for increasing male libido. But I know Lindsay does this stuff. So she's an avid listener and she's left in, so she's running a map. So the first thing I would say would be getting into a good lifting routine, exercise and sleep and all that kind of stuff.

You know, also, you know, I would imagine it's very, very similar with as women as it is with men. I know all the factors, talking about strength training, talking about different nutrition, talking about all these supplements I could be taking. Nothing makes a bigger difference on my libido than fucking stress. Yeah. Stress will fucking up more than you know, and in good spirits, well, that to me is, you know, the biggest rock of all the things that I could contribute as far as what I have noticed in my experience personally and with clients,

if you are eating correctly, you're doing all these things, you feel sexy, all these other things that all do matter But you got a lot of stress whether it be family personal relationship or business That shit will fucking nail on the head, right? I mean that with my wife and I went through that whole process It was like oh my god, you know like what can we do to kind of bring this this this you know energy back and it was really just like alleviating a lot of these things that were just bombarding my wife on a constant day-to-day basis. So that was like, my focus was just really to just alleviate a lot of these things that were just like, I mean, she just was not in the mood.

I mean, I had to create the environment that was a more, you know, in that direction. Back you mean watching? Yeah, like my shirt off and like clean it Didn't work for a while. I didn't get turned on because you had your shirt off, bro Yeah, I know because you vacuumed yeah, I know I didn't put a cowboy hat on the whole thing Yeah, you know More often than not low libido is not a result of Anything chemically or hormonally in the body. I know a lot of people think that, like my libido's love, there must be something wrong

with me, my hormones are off or my thyroid is off. And sometimes that's not a case. Which it can't be. Yeah, it can't be that. Yeah, sometimes it is the case, but more often than not, it's just an emotional situation. Like I don't feel appreciated or I feel stressed or I don't feel connected to my partner. I know for me, you know,

when I was going through kind of the beginning of my divorce or whatever and I was dating Jessica, there were times where I was like, man, what's wrong with me? Like, I normally have a very high libido and me and her would start talking. We would just start talking about the whole situation and I was able to process some of the stuff that I was feeling. And then literally within 30 minutes, I'd be aroused. And I started putting that together and being like, well, there's nothing wrong with me. It's just this stuff that I need to talk about. You get it off your chest. And I start to feel that, you know, I've told you guys about, you know, I know I've said

this on the show several times. And I was sure Lindsey's heard this before because I know she's been listening for a long time. The book reading thing with Katrina was a huge game, James Ross, we also had this game. I don't use it very often because we do read together on a regular basis. I forget the name of it. So those, I know,

Jackie will be doing the notes on this. So Jackie, if you mess with me, I'll have it for the show notes. But I was given this gift and it's just this little, one of those little glass, you know, things that holds a bunch of cards, right? So there's like, for board games, you know what I'm saying? And there's probably, you know,

300, 500 cards in there. And the cards just have like little conversation starters. That's all in the game. And it's really just like a party game to get conversation and dialogue going. And Katrina and I one night just for shits and giggles pulled it out and just like started going through like, oh, let's see this game, what it's all about. And it's really designed for parties, lots of people that don't know each other, kind of break the ice type of stuff. But we started reading them and it really sparked up conversations that

we just had never had. And I tell you what, those that have been in a relationship for a really long time, I know that I've been with my girl and for seven years because I love her and I love her from tons of reasons. But we take a lot of those reasons for granted and we even start to forget some of those things. And a lot of those things are what drove us to be attracted to them and want them physically. And you start to forget some of those things. And a lot of those things are what drove us to be attracted to them and want them physically, you know, and you started to forget some of that stuff. And by doing

this and playing this game where we started having conversation, the way she answered certain things about the, you know, and we each took a turn, like it would be a statement about something like something that you learned from your father, you know, between the ages of five and twelve, go. You know, and so she goes and like has to really think about that, right? And then she delivers and then I deliver it and then it starts up this big, all-long conversation and then it reminds me of the things that I'm so attracted to. And it's a very sexy game.

Did we think about it? No, it really is. And it turned into that. We ended up having sex afterwards or whatnot like that. And it wasn't even that. It wasn't even the intent. Like we weren't going into it like, hey, let's see if this, we need to really reconnect.

Right, we need to, we need to re, we need to rekindle our sex life. That wasn't the intention at all. It was a gift that someone given us. So we were opening it already, but I did connect that, that whoa. This was something that I wouldn't have thought that would make that happen.

But you know, somebody like, and I don't know if Lindsay's been in a relationship for a really long time. But sometimes you just need to be reminded of the, these qualities that you love or that you're very attracted to in your partner and nothing like great, deep conversation that starts to change. Yeah, and, you know, we should also,

we should talk about libido killers, lack of sleep. Lack of sleep is a major libido killer. Not just lack of sleep, but lack of quality sleep. Sometimes just fixing that alone will change how you feel sexually. The other one is the pill. Birth control pill. Now some women actually notice

an increased libido when they're on the pill. And that, they believe has to do more with the removal of stress of getting pregnant. So now I'm on the pill. I'm not worried about getting pregnant and that increases libido. But on a chemical and a hormonal level, it changes how women react and respond to to men in terms of like signs of testosterone or wanting to mate or whatever. They've done these studies now several times where they'll take women who are on birth control

and they'll compare them to women who are not on birth control. And the women who are not on birth control, you can clearly see when women are ovulating or able to get pregnant when they're not based on the type of man they're attracted to. So what they do with these studies is fascinating, is they'll take pictures of men

and they'll masculinize the face. So same face, but then they make it look a little bit more masculine by adding a little, maybe a heavier brow ridge of sharper jawline, a little bit of a beard or whatever. Or they'll feminize it, make the face look softer, a little bit more feminine. When women are able to get pregnant and if they're off the pill, they are attracted to more masculine looking faces.

They want to mate with a stronger male or whatever. When women are on the pill, that changes and a woman's preferences will change, which is on the pill too. So they've actually done studies and showed that when women meet their mate while they're on the pill and they get married and then they go off, I've heard of this. The divorce rate goes up. It actually goes up because all of a sudden,

she's like, I'm not attracted to this dude anymore. Like what's going on? You're not realizing that because it's subtle. What was the connection to that? It had something to do with, something to do with their hormones with its being controlled like that, by the changes their desire or want.

The body thinks it's pregnant all the time when you're on the pill. Okay, so that's what it is. That's what's going on. So she's looking for a provider or so, so you have this more of it. Someone safe. Yeah, you have a kid.

Versus somebody she wants to meet. Yeah, so. You know, they've actually done studies and shown that when women who are not on the pill are in that kind of fertile stage That they were they actually have a percentage. I can't remember what I was but like 15% They have 15 or 20% more skin showing when they go out They move their hips some they actually number to it like so much percentage more when they dance on the dance floor

These are all like these are all cues and signs of. High heels are worn more favoritizing. They can actually calculate a woman's ability to orgasm and where she is in her cycle by how her hips, how much her hips move when she dances or walks. Get the fuck outta here. Swear to God. I've called BS on that.

I'll find it, I'll find the study, we'll put it in the showroom. I feel like some girls throw that shit on purpose. You know what I'm saying? That ain't like a natural thing. Some girls be working. I'll find the study. We'll put it in the show. I feel like some girls throw that shit on purpose. You know what I'm saying? That ain't like a natural thing. Some girls be working. There's stuff that don't see.

There's a lot of stuff that's not on break. I'll break their ankles. They're trying to work it so hard. There's a lot of stuff that's on purpose. And there's a lot of stuff that's not on purpose. But yeah, get sleep, you know, reduce stress, sit down, talk, and communicate. And then if you want to talk about supplements, evening Primrose Oil for women has been shown to balance out hormones,

Yo-Himbee has been suggested that it actually helps women with feeling aroused as well. This also helps with men. The thing about men is, if you give something to a man that improves his ability to get in the erection, he will oftentimes feel more aroused as well because of the feedback.

Like when a guy gets a boner, he feels it and then automatically makes him feel like he's more aroused. He's more aroused. He's more aroused. He's more aroused. He's more aroused. He's more aroused.

He's more aroused. He's more aroused. He's more aroused. He's more aroused. He's more aroused. He's more aroused. He's more aroused. He's more aroused.al type of thing. So that's a little bit more complicated. But yeah, that's pretty much it. We're in a storyline.

Yeah, because we're experts on this. Yeah, we're totally in. There's always pirates. I thought we did a pretty good job of answering that question. Yeah, I mean, you've definitely had that with you DM us, I'll send you a naked picture. That's actually how many women. Right.

This could also kill your sex traff. Yeah. Usually fixes it. All right, next is Katie McGready. That's actually how many women this could also kill your sex traffick Usually fixes it. All right next is Katie McGrady You guys have talked about rebuilding metabolism several times But I don't feel like I've gotten good advice about how I Know I've done some serious metabolic damage to myself and now I'm following your maps programming Are there some kind of specific guidelines? I should be following to fix my metabolism? Or should I just keep eating healthy and I will eventually see changes?

Unfortunately, if we were to say yes, then that would be a very generic answer, because everybody is so unique and different. But this is also why we created the intuitive guide, because if we were to structure something or to give somebody a plan on how to rebuild their metabolism or to find how to get reconnected to their body signals, this would be the path that you would start. Yeah, one of the, so here's two of the biggest challenges with, and by the way, I hate the word metabolic damage, we use it, we understand what that means. Right.

I don't necessarily like using it though because it's not- You're metabels are accepted in the medical community still. Yeah, well,'s not your metabolism is doing exactly what it should. If you diet too much, you overexercise a lot, your metabolism is adapting, you have lots of stress. It's becoming more efficient and it's actually protecting you. There's two big, big challenges with trying to get your metabolic rate to speed up. I think what she's talking about is, she probably dieted a lot over exercise.

Now her metabolism's really slow. And if she eats anything over 1200 calories or whatever, she starts to gain weight. So she's trying to get it so that it burns more calories so that it becomes easier to stay lean. You know, one of those first sort of steps she needs to take in the right direction. Here's a couple big challenges with this.

One is you're probably gonna have to gain some weight. Yeah. And that's a tough one for people because people in this state of mind who overworked themselves and under eight probably don't have a good relationship with their body. And you tell one of these people, hey look, in order for us to reverse out of this,

your body can probably have to gain some weight and some body fat. You might as well tell them to cut their leg off or jump off of a bridge. That is a very difficult message. It's hard to convey. Very different message to convey. So, convey, excuse me.

So, you're gonna probably have to gain a little bit of weight and let your body know, feel comfortable that it has some reserves. You're doing the MAPS programming which is good because you're focused now on building muscle, which is key here. Absolute key. If you get stronger and if you build muscle, your metabolic rate is going to burn hotter. More muscle requires more calories and you utilize glycogen and glucose more effectively,

your body becomes more sensitive to insulin. So it just becomes more efficient at burning body fat. In terms of nutrition, very basic, you have to slowly increase your calories on a very basic level. Now, what those calories are made up of can very pretty dramatically. I typically don't recommend anybody to cut any macro to low when they're doing something like this.

So I don't typically recommend a keto low carb style diet when somebody's coming out of like, you know, metabolic damage or HP access, this function, whatever, because we want insulin to rise a little bit. We don't have any balance. I run mostly, most clients that I deal with this, I run close to like a 30, 30, 30. Like the old zone or whatever.

Yeah, I just, I find it works the best. I mean, obviously there's benefits to having carbohydrates with this person, but I also know too, that they could be insulin resistance, so you don't wanna overdo it like a 50 or 60% carbohydrate diet. If you want numbers, I'll give you some generic numbers of protocols that I typically put on people. But this is again, it's going to range based on the person.

It's, I'm only looking to increase their daily color intake week over week by about five to 20%. And 20% obviously we're seeing great results. They're leading out actually, they're not putting any weight on. I'm only gradually inching you up 5% if I notice your body staying the same

or even potentially like Zal saying going up. So I'm trying to increase your caloric intake by 5% daily, uh, each week, like we're going to increase 5% of that makes sense, right? And then I'm going to try and counter that by increasing your need by about two to 4,000 steps every week, right? So I'm asking that person, okay, if this week we average 6,000 steps a day and you're eating 2,000 calories, next week I'm wanting you to try and eat about 2,200 calories

and we're gonna shoot for 7 to 8,000 steps per day. And that's what I'm trying to create a little bit more movement to counter the additional calories that we're adding, but also get her metabolism used to consuming more calories. Now again, those are rough and generic numbers, but for the most part, you know, that's what I'm kind of doing. And then I'm paying attention to the client and seeing,

okay, obviously week over week, I'm not gonna add five to 20% if every week, I see you putting on two to five pounds, two to five pounds, I'll have to slow it down. And some clients, I've seen take me almost a year to fix their metabolism, some happening around six months. and then some of them after about a month of actually just getting their shit together, they actually start to respond really well. So it's really tough to say.

I noticed that with some clients, like it's really just the recovery that was absent, you know, even in the lifting process, people think that, you know, weight training, as far as the rest periods are concerned, that gets sort of muddied up because of trying to hustle through the workout and treat it much like a cardio session. Right, right. Again, I didn't even address that, right? Part of the recommendation on programming

would be something that models like a phase one of maps read, that's the type of lifting that I'm having you do. Good amount of rest periods. We're lifting heavier weight. That way, any extra calories that you consume or any weight that you put on, I'm hoping that some of that is being partitioned over to building muscle. So even though your scale may go up like South saying two to five or eight or even ten pounds, I'm hoping a nice percentage of that is actually going to building muscle on your body,

which is internally going to help your metabolism. It's a shift in mentality. So what you don't want to do is you don't want to go into this and think to yourself, I'm going to, quote unquote, repair my metabolism and get leaner. Like get that out of your head. What you need to think is,

I'm just gonna focus on getting stronger, I'm gonna increase my strength in the gym, and I'm gonna slowly be able to eat more calories, and that's it, and then forget everything else because it will fuck with your head when you realize, oh, this isn't, this is taking longer than a month, it's taking me four months or five, well, wow, six months later,

and it's still taking me longer, and I've gained five pounds on the scale. It will mess with your head, and what a lot of people do is they back out of it and go back to reducing their calories and think, okay, I think I repaired it enough and they end up doing more damage. It can take a while, especially if you were in that state of damaging your metabolism for a long time. I mean, if you were a competitor and you competed in competitions for years, I mean, Jason Phillips made a good point.

Your CNS may remember that. Even though you do a year's worth of rebuilding, it could take you another year to get your CNFs to be okay with the fact that you're eating more now, or you're gonna be able to eat more now. So, give yourself, definitely give yourself some time. Don't cut anything too low. I always recommend people avoid foods that are, you know, like lots of processed foods

and things that are, you know, unhealthy. Gut health is important. It's pretty common to find people in this state that's with gut health issues as well. It's rare that I find someone like this without having gut problems, it's usually both. So repair your gut health because if your gut health is off, it's going to be very difficult to get your metabolism to speed up. It's going to be hard to eat more calories and do all that stuff. But give yourself some time, just focus on strength

and slowly move your calories up and then watch what happens. Next question is from Harriet Edwards for 10. Why does your body sometimes start to reject foods that you eat a lot of, even if they are healthy, nutritious foods such as nuts, blueberries, etc. Did we just cover this? Maybe not just, but we've talked about this? Maybe not just, but we talked about this. Yeah, no, we've talked about this before. In fact, I thought we were just talking about this

and saying more than likely, as you get, if you do start to get autoimmune issues, more often than not, it's something that you ate a lot of regardless of it's healthy. It could be avocados, it could be blueberries, it could be tomatoes. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

And you've explained this really well about, I think as Americans were obviously seeing this more and more, and it's on the rise of this overconsumption, if we're closely over saturating, overconsuming, and then you have any sort of a leaky gut syndrome at all, it could be avocados or blueberries that you eat a lot of and then it leaks through and then gets into your bloodstream and then your body thinks of it as an invader and says, okay, next time you eat that, I'm not going to be happy with that. Right. It's important to understand that it's not the problem isn't that you're eating a lot

of healthy foods. The problem is you're eating a lot of the same foods in the context of inflammation. So if your body's inflamed, if your gut is inflamed, if the junctions between the cells in your gut are open and food can pass through the gut that isn't supposed to or parts of food pass through the gut that aren't supposed to when they're not supposed to,

then you're going to develop an immune reaction to these foods, which just so happen to be the ones you eat a lot of. So now you're in a position where I used to always have milk and never bothered me before, now milk gives me problems or wheat now gives me problems or whatever. Now some foods tend to be more, your body tends to develop reactions to certain foods more than others. For whatever reason, we're not quite sure why, but dairy, gluten, nuts, legumes, nightshade, you know, vegetables like tomatoes and eggplant are on that list of foods that we tend to be

more immunologic. You see a little more frequently. that list of foods that we tend to be more immunologic. You see a little more frequently. You do egg whites is another one. Lectons are found that your body has a tendency to want to develop antibodies towards. In the context of inflammation though, fuck, it can be anything.

This, when I had my terrible gut issues and I did all these tests eventually when I was convinced to do so, I remember looking at the list and I was so befuddled. Like I looked at the list and I'm like, I've been doing this forever. I'm like, this are fucking foods ate all the time. Like spinach was on there.

Like spinach. Big whites. Yeah, how the hell am I, do I have an intolerance to spinach? And it's because I had, you know, leaky gut. Right, it starts with that though, right? It starts with that inflammatory state that you, you know, leaky gut, right? It starts with that though, right? It starts with that inflammatory state that you, you know, your gut gets into that state and now the sudden,

the problems start to arise with, you know, some of these foods that are considered healthy that you've always ate. Now the good news is if you're finding that you're in the state of leaky gut and, you know, and lots of food intolerances, if you avoid the foods that you have a reaction to, completely, this is the current protocol. I'm not saying this is going to change because things tend to change at this state. This is a lot of new stuff. But so far, this is

what seems to work. You completely avoid the foods that you have an intolerance to, heal your gut, those antibodies reduce and then you can... Reintroduce it. You can reintroduce it and you can cure many of your food intolerances. Sometimes you can't, but many of them you can't. So like for me, I can eat peanuts again, I can eat egg whites again.

Gluten, I have a mild to moderate intolerance to now, whereas before it was a severe intolerance to, dairy's fucked, I can't have dairy ever again, so that one's gone. But I had to completely avoid them for like a year. I remember like, if there was like bread crumbs in my food, like the smallest amount, then I'd get this horrible reaction. And it was so frustrating. But I had to completely avoid them. And your body's, you start to reduce these, you know, these, you know,

IGG antibodies, they're called to these types of food. So you're going to have to identify these for yourself. There's a couple of ways you can do this. There are tests that you can take that will test IGG antibodies, and that'll give you a good start. They're relatively expensive, I think like $500 on average. The other thing is in the gold standards and elimination diet where you remove all of your,

what you think may be giving you problems for 30 to 90 days, that's the pain in the ass. And then you reintroduce one at a time, one week at a time. So like, okay, this week I've been avoiding, you know, whatever, dairy for, you know, two months, I'm gonna introduce dairy this week, and then you introduce dairy, no reaction cool.

Now next week I'm gonna introduce this other food that I had avoided, and you slowly do that because you want to know exactly what's causing the problem. Once you've identified that food intolerance, it's recommended that you avoid it for a year, at least. So a year, cut that food out, and then sleep if you can reintroduce it later on and see what happens. But if you're in a state of the kind of this low-level immune response,

this affects everything in your body, this affects your hormones. When you have this low level of inflammation in the body, and this low kind of immune reaction in the body, although you may think you feel okay, cortisol is going to be a little higher because it's a reaction to stress response, which will then affect your ability to burn body fat and build muscle. Cravings may change, it may affect serotonin and dopamine, so your moods will start to change. You know, lots of things are affected by this, and they gradually build over time to the point where, what's that analogy where if you like put a frog in boiling water, jumps out, but if you put a frog in room temperature water and then slowly heat it up, it doesn't

jump out and it eventually gets boils death because it doesn't recognize the slow increases in temperature. And I don't know how true that is, but I know it's something that people will say where, you know, if you... Some bio-proverb. Maybe. I don't know. Where if, I'm not familiar though.

If you, you know, over time, your body gets shit up over here. Worse and worse and worse over time. You don't recognize how shitty you feel because it's been the slow gradual increase and When you get yourself better you start to notice like oh shit. I was feeling kind of crappy So this is something that's real important if you have foods that give you bloat or skin issues or constipation diarrhea belching

You know lethargy these can all be signs of a food intolerance, whether they be mild or moderate or severe. Check this out, we are doing a 30-day workout on YouTube for free. So what this means is every single day, we're going to give you a new workout or mobility session or something on YouTube for the month of January, it's totally free. We're trying to help out as many people as we possibly can this year for free. So make sure you guys tag a friend, share this with somebody who's not working out right now, get them started the right way.

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