Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 699: First Steps to Correcting a Poor Squat, Benefits of Nitric Oxide, Overcoming a Lack of Belief in Oneself & MORE

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Starting point is 00:04:33 Again, to get all of this, you gotta go to mindpumpmedia.com. I think there's a conspiracy on the lotto that, and I probably Google this, you're the Google master, and see how many... I am the Google master, I don't know why I thought of having this big wizard hat. Yeah, you totally have.

Starting point is 00:04:51 Like a wizard beam that never sees somebody win the lotto from like the suburbs. Like it's never like some, no you don't. Google it. The last person, I did. The last person, it's in my brain now, for all the Google master. The last person to win the last person it's in my brain now for all the Google master now the last you just something The last person to win the big big power ball which was look it up look it up hundreds of millions of dollars was this 21 year old

Starting point is 00:05:13 Do the suburban kids do this do the average income of a lot of winner. Oh, oh, I know that dude But but there's there's a there's a reason why that that is the way what is that then mr. I know but you know Why that is yes? I'm getting to that point if you would stop just being so certain about things. You're not certain about Google Well, you tell me why you tell me why then because they know it's gonna go right back into the economy No, yeah, absolutely absolutely That's not what people and lowering come people buy more lottery tickets. That's this there's a self selection buy they dream a lot more I just said that's how people it goes back to the commie like conspiracy go go go do average income a lot of winner And what do we get let's see here? I want to own a unicorn to come pay for all my problems. Oh what a unicorn

Starting point is 00:06:00 My daughter would love a unicorn summon the unicorn. She would lose her mind far to a bunch of money on my lap Yeah, oh well that's what it is You win there average average number of friends Men winners give money to that's buddy Women women give only what women are less likely to give any their money away of course stingy So listen, what's the conspiracy? I don't understand why you think there's a conspiracy. Because I think that they I think that they pick from areas that are lower income. Okay, because because there's more lower income people win.

Starting point is 00:06:36 Not that's not because of that. I think they pick from lower income areas because they think of it as a strategy that these people are more likely to blow all the money anyways and be broke, which I'm pretty sure there's a stat on the people that have gone, that have won the lotto that end up blowing it all anyways. Okay, so it's like you're losing the money, but you're not. Those same people probably blow it all and then spend half of it on more lotto tickets, too. So here's, so there's two, I guess, fallacies in that.

Starting point is 00:07:03 One is that it's better, it would be better for the economy for someone to blow their money, false. And the second thing is that they're picking lower income people. No, what are you saying that it's better for the economy for someone to blow their money? You just said it goes back in the economy.

Starting point is 00:07:19 Right. Which is, if it doesn't go, if they put it and they held it and they never spent it, yes, it would. Okay, so, yes, it would. Right, and apparently to that, they held it and they never spent it, yes it would. Okay, so yes it would. Right, and apparently to that, yes. Right, so that's a common fallacy again. So taking your money and spending it frivolously is worse for the economy than taking your money

Starting point is 00:07:35 and saving it or investing it. Because it's- No, not investing it, saving it or spending it in an economy explain how you're gonna, how that's- What do you think happens to the money that you save? Now, are these people taking these lottery winnings and putting it in a safe in their house? No, they're putting it in a bank.

Starting point is 00:07:52 What does that money do in the bank? It collects interest and gets loaned on all about other people. That's right. So the money in the bank, besides collecting interest, that money is what creates liquidity, which allows other people to take that money invest what creates liquidity, which allows other people to take that money and invest, and the bank invest as well.

Starting point is 00:08:09 And that's important. That's an important thing to note because people will say that. You could argue that those people are taking that money, and they're also buying stuff that forces a business now to hire more people. Now you've created a job at somebody. But that's not the question. The question was blowing it and spending it frivolously. No, no, no, frivolously was your word, blowing it was your word.

Starting point is 00:08:29 Spending it back in our economy is what I said. Okay, so here's what took that spun on it and tried to talk certainties again. Okay, so here's what's better. Here's what's always the best option. The best option is always to spend it the way you feel is best for you to spend it. So it wouldn't be better.

Starting point is 00:08:46 There wouldn't be a conspiracy to have people spend more money because it isn't better. What's better is that people spend it the way that they want to do. It's better for the lottery, dude. It's better for them. It's not better for necessarily for the economy. It's better for them for you to go blow the money. You're more likely to probably buy more fucking tickets. If you give it to somebody who's in a poorer neighborhood, the statistics I guarantee

Starting point is 00:09:09 will show you that they're more likely to spend it and lose it all again and buy a bunch of tickets and throw the money back out into circulation than they are to save it or invest. Again, it's still in circulation when you save it. So it's not at a circulation unless you literally take the cash and store it under your mattress. So it's still in circulation. So that's not true. And then the second thing about taking the money and how you're going to spend it and whatever is that how, first and foremost, the reason why more poor people win the lottery is because more poor people play the lottery. As far as who's more likely to buy a bunch of tickets with a lottery winnings, the amount of lottery tickets that's a lottery ticket winner will buy, it pales in comparison to

Starting point is 00:09:52 the average people. What motivates people to buy lottery tickets is circumstances, they don't understand that odds, which are ridiculous. I disagree with you on this one. I think it's a strategy for the lotto to do that. And I think it looks way better on television when you change somebody's life by them winning ten million dollars and they're oh my god they were poor and they got all this it looks better for the lotto for

Starting point is 00:10:13 that to happen more people are gonna be inspired to go and buy it because that is a hard if some millionaire wins ten million dollars no one gives a fuck that's a hard thing to speculate because if you just look at the numbers and you look at proportions that's not that hard it that's why it's fun to speculate but they've come in and start talking certainties like you know for sure that's bullshit. Well no the certainty that I know is that they've done the numbers and they've shown that proportionally speaking it's super random it's very random in fact there's people that spend well you found that on Google so it must be true Where did you find yours? I'm not I'm speculating okay? So I'm so I'm emitting it what you're doing is you're trying to counter my speculation

Starting point is 00:10:53 I'm not with certainties that you're not certain about I'm telling you I'm telling you the numbers have been done And it's high it's super impossible on Google so the lottery put out some numbers for you that you you Tristan lottery there's people that devote a lot of time and energy into figuring the system out and trying to find Super impossible. So the lottery puts out some numbers for you that you, you, you, you, you, it's not the lottery. There's people that devote a lot of time and energy into figuring the system out and trying to find how they can win the lottery and they find that it's random and random and random. Don't think for a second,

Starting point is 00:11:13 when you're giving away a lottery ticket that could just worth half a billion dollars that there aren't people investing a lot of time and money trying to figure out where to buy the right ticket. You need to know the numbers too of like every certain area, like they would already have to buy the right ticket. You need to know the numbers too of like every certain area. Like they would already have to have all that data.

Starting point is 00:11:28 Which would be, which would basically, like that would mean it's the whole things right. You know there's laws against buying a certain number of tickets, right? They'll actually, there's actually laws that say, like if there's a, if there's a ticket that's worth a half a billion dollars, let's say that's your cash out,

Starting point is 00:11:44 there's laws that say you can't buy a certain amount because then what will happen is you'll get corporations that'll look at the odds and say well if we buy You know A hundred million dollars worth of lottery tickets with all these ranges the odds of us winning a half a billion dollars Are really good or whatever they actually have some laws against that. And some of you guys have ever met somebody that won the lottery? I know that. Not the big one. I trained.

Starting point is 00:12:08 I've met people that have met, like, one big money. Oh, really? Yeah, this single mother and her daughter, and they're very unassuming. They didn't want to obviously tell me that they got this fortune at their hands. And this is back to when I was trying to close at my service value, being at a high price

Starting point is 00:12:27 point, and I walked away from it. You know, that's okay. You guys can't, it doesn't make sense financially for you guys to invest in me. And this service blah, blah, came out and they called me back. They tell me and then they just unloaded. Like, oh yeah, we won the lottery. And like, we, like, their mentality towards it was to reinvest to with more purchases of lottery tickets. That's hilarious.

Starting point is 00:12:52 I was like, why? Like, I wanted to, like, I was like slapping myself in the face as I left. I was like, they spent like half their money of earnings back into circulation. I wonder why that is. Have you seen the, it's that is. Have you seen the... It's a mentality.

Starting point is 00:13:05 Have you seen the statistics on how a lottery ticket winners, how it affects their happiness and stuff later on and how it affects their... Yeah, they all end up getting depressed later. It's terrible. Yeah, no, it's terrible. It's a terrible vicious cycle that they do and they spin it to be all spectacular by these people

Starting point is 00:13:22 that didn't have a lot of money. It's got to be taken. Money answers are problems, right? Money answers. And I think that they've actually done a few studies on this and found that, actually quite a few, found that over, I think the number that they found for the more recent one was, once you make over $75,000 on average a year,

Starting point is 00:13:38 in the US, happiness doesn't change with more money. It does break though at a point again. I've seen that same study and it it shows it levels off and I've said this before and I think on this show where like there's this like 70 to 150 grand a year is like the same it really is like my I remember my lifestyle between that range is I was like kind of scaling up. Yeah like I really didn't change like sure and you know maybe you have a little bit, nicer stakes every once in a while, or maybe you're taking a little bit step up on the car payment that you normally would never justify

Starting point is 00:14:11 paying before, but very, very little changes. There's not a drastic difference, because by the time you bump into a new tax bracket, and by the time you see it in your pocket, it's not a major difference between that 75 to 150 range, but I do believe that I saw that same study and that it was, then there's like another, it starts to curve back up like at like a quarter million

Starting point is 00:14:31 or so. So this is a, I love using this particular example when people tell me that, you know, in free societies that money, more people need more money and that would answer a lot of people's problems because in free societies, you're greatly rewarded for your competence and your skill and your work ethic.

Starting point is 00:14:54 Like, if you work hard and you're competent and you're smart, you're gonna make more money. You're gonna make a lot more money, just the way it is. And people who are not any of those things are gonna do a lot worse. And giving them tons of money actually doesn't solve a lot of their problems.

Starting point is 00:15:10 It does for like a couple years and then they go right back into. Who said it's like, who said it best? P. Diddy? More money, more problems. That's right, is that right? Who said that? Brilliant.

Starting point is 00:15:19 So smart. So more current events after we debunked your men. We did we did not be on the med bro i did you are not going to let you in on that either because you you razzle dazzle people you're as well as a little dazzle people with your fucking fake google stats doesn't mean you close me on your theory i still and standing by my book and spot i speculate on your brain and the meeting that

Starting point is 00:15:44 i'm speculating not trying to act like I'm for sure about that. That's all right. So this is a new thing that just came out. It's pretty interesting. So they did a study. I'm trying to find where it was. I believe it was in Canada. Let me look at the university. Anyhow, I'll find in a second, but they found that this was reported in scientific reports that sunlight, Alberta and Edmonton, Canada, that sunlight was better. Burn's body fat. Sunlight burns body fat, which we've all speculated for a little while, you know,

Starting point is 00:16:18 and they actually found a direct length and it was the blue light. It was the blue light from the sun that causes the subcontaneous body fat, the fat that's under skin, under the skin, to shrink, it actually causes fat cells to reduce in size and it's not the result, it's not the down effect of the increase in vitamin D because when I used to speculate on this myself, because I noticed this one myself and one of my clients

Starting point is 00:16:44 that if I got more sunlight, I felt like I got leaner faster, but then there's always, is it because I'm more tan? He is, because my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed.

Starting point is 00:16:55 It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed.

Starting point is 00:17:02 It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's my diet changed. It's a lot of factors. And funny, you say that. It's the opposite. When you get, when you're cold, your body trying to warm up burns more calories. When you're warm, you might actually have a slowing down effect. But nonetheless, it's so hard to isolate it. Well, they did a study at this university, and they found that it's the blue light itself actually causes fat cells to shrink a little bit. Now, if we, if we back up a little bit and try to unpack on that,

Starting point is 00:17:27 or unpack that, evolutionarily speaking, if you're not getting much sunlight, it makes sense that your body would want to store more because in the absence of sunlight, you're probably less likely to encounter food, right? Cause warm days, warm seasons, there's more food available, more plants, more animals. When it's snow and cold and gloomy,

Starting point is 00:17:51 you're not gonna find lots of food. And so your body probably wants to go into this... Hybernation. Yeah, like train storm mode, you know what I'm saying? So, now what are the studies showing though as far as how significant of a difference? Oh, it was a small study, and I don't know how significant they were just

Starting point is 00:18:07 showing that it causes fat cells to shrink but if we had everything else into the mix sunlight you know in some countries i know in the uk they did they they reported a study that said that they think that up to ninety percent of the of people living in the uk are deficient in vitamin d that's a big number and vitamin d does act like a hormone in the UK are deficient in vitamin D. That's a big number. And vitamin D does act like a hormone in the body.

Starting point is 00:18:28 And if you do have low vitamin D levels, you will for sure impact your ability to burn body fat. You're not gonna burn body fat as efficiently or effectively. You're not gonna build muscle like you normally would. You're not gonna, you're gonna have a lot of health problems or that are real subtle with low vitamin D. So there's that. There's also the changes in serotonin and dopamine.

Starting point is 00:18:47 There's the, and those then can promote more activity. So sunlight is important. It's an important part of the process. So although the light itself may cause a direct effect on fat loss. In my experience, I don't know about you guys, but when you get out in the sun, even just being in the sun, it seems to promote more...

Starting point is 00:19:08 And here's the other thing too, when you're in the dark a lot, I don't know about you, you notice your appetite goes up a little bit? Did you... Yeah, I had no sight. Did you look to see what this is connected to, like if there is some company that's selling blue lights or something? No. I mean, that's the first thing that always comes to mind. It comes from the study.

Starting point is 00:19:25 Right, right. So you started off with like a really good point and there is some science to support and then also you know. It follows like a logical train of thought. Right. And then also it's like, So it's the diabetes institute that is looking at they were trying to figure out if they could, which by the way, just so everybody knows, you will see what I'm saying right now.

Starting point is 00:19:44 You might not see it right now, it might not be where Sal got this, but it's only a matter of time before we'll see blue lights now. You know what's funny? It's just like a micro influencer, you know? It's tiny little. It's marketable. And now, how funny would that be?

Starting point is 00:19:57 Because what is everybody trying to wear on their face? Yeah, no, reds, all, every light blue is the best. Blue light blockers. So blue, because blue light is the bad thing. No, you need blue light in the daytime. That's why when I was laughing, we're up paleo-affecting.

Starting point is 00:20:09 We're like, what's ridiculous? Yeah, it's like people are wearing you wrong. You know, you don't wear it during the day. Yeah, wear it at night time. So, but when I used to have my personal training studio, I would train in the middle of the day because that's always the best time when you have clients

Starting point is 00:20:24 because everybody comes to the morning at night. I'd lift in the middle of the day because that's always the best time when you have clients because everybody comes the morning at night. I'd lifted the day and then I'd go for a walk outside with my shirt off and I had the, I swore to God it really did impact my recovery when I would do that. I feel so much better. And then if you go back to the golden years of body building,

Starting point is 00:20:41 I mean Arnold Schwarzenegger and all those guys in the 70s and 80s, that was like part of the routine, right? They do the weights and then they go to the beach. Yeah, totally. So how much do you feel at impact? Just our overall skin to our skin health? Oh, big time, dude. I feel like it's one of the treatments for skin issues. Yeah, I feel like that would, there was a definite, huge shift in my life from all the way up to about 22 years old and then 22 on. And I never even thought I had any skin issues or bad skin and I was in the sun all the time. I wake boarded, I snowboarded, I was outside, a lot of play ball outside.

Starting point is 00:21:16 I was definitely a kid that was getting a lot of sun. And then I all of a sudden moved to the Bay Area, get this job where I work in this brick building that I love to do all day long. And I found I became passionate about training and fitness and I'm working 10, 12 hours a day from sun up to sun down and never getting any sun. And then poop all of a sudden at 25 years old, here comes psoriasis. And then now I've like considered myself having terrible skin now. And it makes me always wonder like I wonder if I would have just kept that routine of making an effort to get out in the sun on a more real basis. And then I also wonder, did I fuck myself up because I was so extreme as a kid and then I went to the total opposite extreme.

Starting point is 00:21:57 And that has something to do with why that happened. It is ironic that when you think about the structure of the gym being so artificial and everything being so like, like, either the lighting, the equipment you're using. It's like all fixed in certain directions. Whereas if we literally did all that stuff outside and picked up random objects and got the same type of benefit work out wise, but now, if I said, it's, I mean, you just see how, that probably has a lot more benefits,

Starting point is 00:22:31 just like we've sort of reconstructed the idea of that and put it in its own little unique environment. It's good for us, it's better than just sitting and doing our normal thing, but we're still indoors, we're still confined. It's funny to me how much we fuck ourselves up with our knowledge and information. We get some information and some knowledge, and then we tout it, and we actually cause a lot of problems. And sunlight is one of them, because it wasn't that long ago, it was when I was a kid, where it was all about, get out of the sun.

Starting point is 00:23:06 Something gives you skin cancer, it's terrible, it causes damage to the skin, makes you look old, and you know, sunscreen, the shit out of you. Sunscreens, some countries, I know Australia, which at Doug Federal Policy, they had an actual national policy in Australia, where it was like promoted to put sunscreen on kids, like crazy,

Starting point is 00:23:25 everybody wearing sunscreen. The fucking irony of that is skin cancer went down a little bit, but all other cancers went up quite a bit. Don't you feel like it's like, that was an interesting example of us the way we do this whole pendulum swinging from left to right, because there was like sun worship being not that long ago, and then it would become, oh my God, you can't do that. There's cancer, cancer, there's cancer that.

Starting point is 00:23:43 Then we went the other, now we're going the other direction, now we're kind of coming back again like okay. We've demonized the sun long enough No, I guess he's a right dose right yeah for me like because I'm obviously I'm fair skinned and I got you know Freckles and shit and you know I find if I do too way I'm gonna burn the hell out of myself Yeah, you only have two colors red or white red or white red or clear, but yeah, yeah So I'm trying to get less ghostly, but you know, it's at the same time, man. I got to really slowly introduce it. So it's funny,

Starting point is 00:24:10 because it's all the old, all the old advice from like our grandparents is all coming true. Like what would they say, oh, you don't feel good? Get some sunlight, get some fresh air, and you'll feel better. And then I remember when I was a teenager,

Starting point is 00:24:22 I thought that was so stupid, because when I was a teenager, I thought, I'm like, we'd tell him I'll sound like a fresh air. I need medicine. I need like, and then we come back. You get drugs and a couch.

Starting point is 00:24:31 Yeah, and then we come back around and it's as an adult, as I've learned this, when I was younger and I would get sick, I'd stay indoors like a hermit. Now, if I'm sick, I kind of force myself to go outside and sit outside in the sun sun and I swear to God, it makes such a big difference.

Starting point is 00:24:48 Yeah, I've definitely changed my mentality with that. Oh, it makes such a big difference in how you feel. And again, if you, cut, if you dramatically reduce your exposure to the sun, will you lower your rate of skin cancer? You will a little bit. But you also, statistically speaking, raise your risk of all other cancers, all cause mortality goes up,

Starting point is 00:25:10 the goes up high to people, or much higher, to people who have no sun exposure whatsoever. Rob and Peter to people. Yeah, so really the key is to not get some burn. And you know what the secret to not getting some burn is? Besides obviously some people genetically are gonna have a harder time getting tan or whatever The number one way to reduce getting sunburn is the same way you reduce if you work out real hard that you cost to McDaniel from the intensity. Yeah, well not only lay off the intensity

Starting point is 00:25:36 But how about if you train your body? Like if you never work out and you go to the gym and you do a few exercises your risk risk of over-training is way higher than if you're a fit person. Well, if you get a little bit of sunlight every single day and your body is accustomed to it, the odds that you're gonna get a sunburn when you go do a walk in the park or some random outdoor thing with your kids is way lower. And so I think the advice should be get some sunlight

Starting point is 00:26:01 every single day, be smart about it, train your body, build up this tolerance, so that when you do go out in the sun, you know, when you're outstanding in line or something on accident, you don't get a sunburn on you. I know people that, like they work indoors all day long, I have friends that go outside in line,

Starting point is 00:26:15 they'll win in line for something for 40 minutes, come inside sunburn on their arms. And I'm like, well, and they'll be like, oh, they blame me because they say that it's because they're white. And I'm like, well, part of it's because you're white, but the other part of it is, you literally are never outside. So you're super hypersensitive to sunlight.

Starting point is 00:26:29 Yeah, I know it's not exactly the same but I feel the same way about people that are like really germaphobes and of course, if you avoid germs at all costs and like you're always like cleaning everything and having these like, you know, antib always like cleaning everything and you know having these like you know antibacterial soaps and all these things you're not gonna get that much exposure therefore probably you might avoid like certain sicknesses but what happens when you get it

Starting point is 00:26:57 all of a sudden you know and you get the exposure is intense and it's boom it's gonna knock you out. It is it is and the vitamin D is just, you cannot, that is there's more and more evidence coming out that vitamin D deficiency is much more common than what we had previously thought. And I've actually read some articles where there are some reputable individuals who are saying that the range that we consider normal of vitamin D

Starting point is 00:27:22 is actually low too. So even if you're within range, some of these people are saying that that needs to change, that range actually needs to be higher. I believe that for sure. I believe that for sure. And they're basing this off of people who get lots of sunlight and then they test their, you know, I've got a diet and who are out in the sun a lot and they test their vitamin D and it's much higher than whatever range that we're given.

Starting point is 00:27:42 So some more cool news. Phase two trial, so this is now, they've done phase one, and they've now done phase two trial on MDMA, which is the popular, which is the drug in the popular street drug, ecstasy or Molly. So MDMA is the active ingredient. Has been shown in phase two trials now to have a 68%. That's such a crazy number.

Starting point is 00:28:09 You're right. I know, that's crazy. You're. You're like gone. Like, they'll test them. That's almost 70% of people that have had PTSD right now. You're talking about, yeah, they had the PTSD that to get rid of it completely. That's insane.

Starting point is 00:28:22 Bro, it's after only a couple treatments too, right? It's after. I need to look into the it completely that's insane bro. It's after only a couple treatments to right? It's after I need to look into the details, but it's not I think it's like a little bit of treatment. It's not a lot I know it's a lot I read it. It's something like two or three treatments with the therapist and then there's like a few weeks of Post-therapy through a dead mouse concerts No, but you know what the cureate is normally with Md it, with PTSD, between eight to 40% at the high end. So the high end, you'll see something like 40%. But it's less than half. So you figure, let's be super generous and say,

Starting point is 00:28:56 it's normally 50% curate with lots and lots of therapy versus 70% curate with less therapy. That's a 20% difference. That is a major statistical change. That's massive. And it requires less therapy. Now, it is important to say that the way that they're doing this is with trained therapist.

Starting point is 00:29:17 So these people are not just, here's some MDMA go take this at home and then. Now are we seeing more with MDMA than we are with psilocybin or LSD? I mean, is that right? Right. They're doing a lot more studies on PTSD with MDMA. Psylocybin, they've done a couple end of life studies, so people with terminal disease,

Starting point is 00:29:38 and then they'll give them psilocybin and then they'll talk to a therapist because one of the biggest, and I went through this with that, I had a family member who died of cancer and I saw this at the very end, that depression is extremely common, for obvious reasons, with individuals who are told that they have a limited time to live. So, you know, you go to the doctor and like, you have six months, very common then, that they have extreme anxiety and extreme depression, so they're put on powerful antidepressant drugs and benzoes and anti-anxiety, other enzoletic type medications because it's such a stressful thing.

Starting point is 00:30:13 And what they did is they took people who were terminal and they did therapy under the influence of psilocybin and they found a dramatic improvement. So these people afterwards were much more at peace with inevitable that they were gonna die and whatever time. So I think this is great. I've heard, yeah, and I've heard that,

Starting point is 00:30:31 the trials of the MDMA and the post-traumatic stress and from soldiers coming back and then go into these treatments, but also to like a testosterone replacement therapy was the one that I heard a doctor really experimenting with in having these results with. That's interesting because I could see that the stress from the PTSD driving your testosterone hormone level off.

Starting point is 00:30:54 And I, wow, that's a really good point. I wouldn't even have thought to go that route. But you, there's, there's showing some really good positive benefits to that. Where was that at? Where was that at? Yeah, that was actually a doctor that, what, I think I'm pretty sure he was on Joe Rogan, but he, like part of the treatment, he brought in one of the soldiers

Starting point is 00:31:12 that came back from Afghanistan and was talking about all these different, like, trials and different experiments that are going through. And MDMA was one of them that was like, you know, at the forefront, but it was also testosterone. Testosterone that was like, you know, at the forefront, but it was also testosterone. Testosterone and then like, you know,

Starting point is 00:31:27 the anti-inflammatory effects of that too, with the blood. It feels good, it is a feel good hormone. Right, right. Stereroids and MDMA, it sounds like a Jersey Shore episode. Yeah. You send your accent. What's that?

Starting point is 00:31:41 I got some of those. DTF, yeah, this is detail. I got a laundry day. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I got a laundry day. Yeah, so... D-shirt time. Hey, hey, hey! Your husband comes back from therapy. Hey, what's up, baby?

Starting point is 00:31:51 I'm fucking... I'm not gonna treat you. Hey, you scum over here. She's like, wow, you're cured, but you're an asshole. What was your hair so spiky? I don't like this, Beth. So I was reading an article. That's part of the side effect.

Starting point is 00:32:03 I was reading some articles on PTSD, and... So I was reading an article. That's part of the side effect. I was reading some articles on PTSD. And so I found this very fascinating. I don't have any experience, any personal experience with PTSD, but I can only imagine maybe a little bit of experience, but nothing like what these individuals are going through that have to get these treatments. And my personal view on PTSD was, first of all, I always think of the soldiers, because I know

Starting point is 00:32:25 that a large percentage, much larger percentage of soldiers coming back from battle have PTSD than the average population. So I always think of them. And I always thought to myself that it was caused by like your friend getting blown up next to you or your friends getting shot next to you or you're scared and that kind of stuff. But I was reading articles on it and a large chunk, if not a majority of people with PTSD who come back from war, is not from that. That's a part of it, but that's not the main cause.

Starting point is 00:32:56 A lot of it is that they do things in war that completely shatter their understanding of themselves. Think about it. Think about what we do as soldiers, man. Let's be real. You brainwash them. You bring them into boot camp. We break them down.

Starting point is 00:33:12 You absolutely break them into killing machines. Yeah, you break them down and then you rebuild them up and then you train them to be killing machines. And some people maybe that feels natural or normal for them or they don't have a problem with it, but I'm sure there's a lot of people. Most of that just doesn't sit well with them. No, most of it. Look, everyone in this room, if I were to ask you guys, hey, do you think you'd ever kill somebody?

Starting point is 00:33:36 All of us would say, well, no, never. I can think of very few situations where I would want to literally kill someone. I may want to hurt someone to defend myself, but I can only think of a few situations where I'd want someone to actually die and even thinking about them, if I really place myself there, that would be a terrible experience. And it's mainly because I've now identified

Starting point is 00:33:56 that I'm a good person that killing is wrong and that I, because I'm a good person, I could never do this. So you're taking these people and you're putting them in war and Although they they know logically that I need to defend myself Then they go on to have to do it and they fucking blast someone and maybe they see that they kill someone and now it's like You have to grapple with the fact that you now Have killed somebody and maybe you killed somebody

Starting point is 00:34:21 Maybe you killed some some kid maybe it was some some some some 13-year-old kid holding an AK at you because you go into a lot of these countries and you're fighting, and it ain't 18 and over. A lot of times it's 14-year-old kids or running out and doing, I mean, Vietnam was like that where they would give kids bombs or to run into platoons and do,

Starting point is 00:34:38 and you'd have to shoot them. You'd have to shoot a kid running towards you to say, no clear lines. No, and so it's this, this is what causes a lot of these problems because these soldiers come back and they're like, oh my God, I did these things and I know I was supposed and I'm defending myself but it was fucking horrible

Starting point is 00:34:55 and I had to become, because the, what I read in these articles was you have to, you have to make yourself a monster sometimes to do that because, you know, if I'm identifying with me, I'm sad, right? Sad can't kill people, so I have to become something else in order to do this, and now what am I? Oh my God, I'm a monster. What is this?

Starting point is 00:35:14 I don't know that this duality. It's like a jackal and hide, yeah. Yeah, so what they're saying with these drugs with MDMA is one of the troubles with treating PTSD is being able to even go in and talk about and relive it with MDMA is one of the troubles with treating PTSD is being able to even go in and talk about and relive it because it's so painful and so horrible that you don't even wanna let alone forgive yourself.

Starting point is 00:35:35 You can't even get into it, you can't even talk about it. And what MDMA does is it makes you feel super empathetic. You empathize for yourself. Super-for-gift, and you empathize and forgive yourself and you can go in and understand it. And then this particular article is talking about how you make one of the ways you cure PTSD is you make the person understand that the capability to perform evil is it rests within all of us. All of us have this duality in us and what makes us good is choosing the

Starting point is 00:36:04 good, but the good decisions. But that potential is always there. We always have that good and bad side. There's a dark side. When you see horrible acts, realize that they're human and so are you. Once you can understand that, accept that, then you can go through the whole process of processing and apparently MDMA helps with that. It's getting a lot of federal funding

Starting point is 00:36:25 because of these, we've been now occupying some of these countries like Iraq for, I mean, there's kids born, you know, the kids now that are in their 20s who, they've grown up their entire lives knowing that we've had, you know, occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan and all these different, so we have people coming back all the time dealing with this.

Starting point is 00:36:44 And it isn't really a good thing. It isn't doesn't look very good when you start to look in statistics and realize that number one Cause of death of soldiers is suicide. You know, I mean, that didn't look very good for the military So I think they're purposely investing in the shit because they're trying to figure this out like how can we until of course we have killer robot shit What would you say 68% or what the the Of course we have killer robots. Shit, what, the performance you want from it or whatever. I just did I love it. I'm a little bitch when it comes that stuff. I want to be I want to enjoy. Oh, man. I do I want to enjoy it It's my favorite natural Neutropic like lion's mane

Starting point is 00:37:34 Little caffeine kitty-jank diet and I am fucking absolute fire absolute fire You know what we're gonna do? We're all gonna take some next time and even if you don't like the taste and then see if you guys notice. No, I've already, I mean, I've done the Lanesman or just the Chagas. I've done all everything. I've done everything that they've sent us. I've tried. Quartisps. Yeah, in the Chagas, probably the one I've used the most. For psoriasis. Yeah, just because of that, exactly. And that's kind of my thought process on taking that. I'm trying to deal with something like an autoimmune that is very annoying, right? So taking down a supplement that I may not love the taste.

Starting point is 00:38:13 That I can make that switch. But if it's just something where it's going to get improved energy or cognitive function, like I'm like, I'm going to take it. I'm going to have to like it or I'd rather have it in a pill form. That's just my personal. Yeah. It's the more natural you get with the product, the less processed it is, the more it's gonna taste like that product.

Starting point is 00:38:31 And it is a mushroom, so it's gonna taste like more like a mushroom. It lives on the body. Well, I just like to keep it real. It's the realest floor. It is, and you know, the reason why we're sponsored by them is we all stand by their product. They have as far as like mushrooms,

Starting point is 00:38:44 like they're the best dude. I mean, the best that we have, as far as like mushrooms, like they're the best dude. I mean, the best that we've come across and we've found unless you literally go out there and go fucking find the mushroom yourself. If sell your core, I'm sure it would taste like. Yeah, yeah. Blueberry Razz. Yeah, blueberry Razz.

Starting point is 00:38:55 Blueberry Razz, Lions, me. Yeah, no. And I think if you're gonna do something like that, you would want that. So I respect that. It tastes like a slurpee. Hey, what are we, are we boxing Doug? We are. Today's my box on.

Starting point is 00:39:07 It's your box. Okay, so before you open this, I have to, I'm a little nervous because I made for the sal, and his tampons, and I allowed, obviously, what do you like, 12 of it? Not my tampons. Oh,

Starting point is 00:39:22 oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, like 12 it's not my tampon. Oh, I said who we got you some max of your heads. No, so I Katrina did their our list. So I don't know if she's gonna

Starting point is 00:39:30 she's gonna embarrass me right now or not. So let's see how she did. All right, here goes. It looks heavy. It's a big box. What do we got here?

Starting point is 00:39:39 What do we got? What do we got here? What do we got? We got goodies. Maple syrup. Maple What do we got here? What do we got here? What do we got here? What do we got here? What do we got here? What do we got here?

Starting point is 00:39:47 What do we got here? What do we got here? What do we got here? What do we got here? What do we got here? We got goodies. Maple syrup. Maple syrup.

Starting point is 00:39:55 Oh, they make maple syrup? You've been eating them. What do you do? So it's probably got our pancakes that we really love there. You did. You got birch vendors. So protein. Oh, this is cool. Good girls. This is good stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I'm all about these pancakes. Oh get this we got some new man zone premium dog treats peanut butter flavor

Starting point is 00:40:07 Oh from a boys they got dogs Hit that up just in time for a trip there. That's a good call Justin you can't have any oh my boys You know it's crazy. It looks a lot like these other packages I'm gonna eat that and even though thanks for pointing that out. It's just peanut butter stuff like I used to sure. I had it like, it's really bad. It probably would taste alright. Have you guys ever eaten dog food? I was looking, I was actually at what you call,

Starting point is 00:40:34 I could say no. Petco and I was looking at the ingredients. I'm like, this all natural thing. I was like, yeah, this is all stuff I eat. Yeah, you know, none of it was, none of it was something I don't eat. Every bit of the ingredients that went into this dog treat was something that I consumed.

Starting point is 00:40:48 I used to be in the quality, like they would just take, like just nasty shit and put it together. Like, oh, these dogs will eat it. That was like horse meat before. Yeah, it was like rat meat and shit. It used to be like, what is that? Balsamic vinegar.

Starting point is 00:41:00 Or vinegar. Balsamic vinegar, very nice. Yeah, the Napa Valley. Is it not organic? It is No, so thrive does have you're living on the edge non GMO. It's always non GMO, but it's not always Organic and we have some fourth and heart Guy that's from grass-fed It counts. Oh, they got the ghee there too Oh It's a hard ghee that's from Grass-fed accounts. Oh, they got the ghee there too, huh?

Starting point is 00:41:25 Oh, that's a different brand. Himalayan pink salt. I love ghee. Oh, they added it in there. That's a lot of ghee. Bro, I can literally eat ghee like myself. I use ghee out all the time. That actually came, I believe I really started using it

Starting point is 00:41:37 when we started. We could do it. We could one, look at that. That is a good ghee. You don't want this one? Yeah. That looks good. Now we got Bragg Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

Starting point is 00:41:48 There you go. I just got some of that. Did you? Yeah. Are these plastic bags recycled? Is that what they're all green looking like this? Is that, are they recyclable? I have to be right.

Starting point is 00:41:57 Maybe they already. Yeah. They're edible. Are you being used? They're edible. That's it. That's it. I use mine as a dental dam.

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Starting point is 00:42:30 That's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I dot com. And use a coupon code MindPump for 20% off at checkout. First question is from John Alva 7. Oh that's our boy. When correcting someone squat initially, is it better to begin working on ankle mobility and then focus hard on hip mobility or vice versa? That was a good question.

Starting point is 00:42:52 So he was having a debate with another trainer because I saw this question and I guess they were debating. This is debatable. It is, right? Yeah, you could debate this. You know what the answer would be for me? Both.

Starting point is 00:43:03 Depends on the individual, obviously. I'd say both. Like, if you're going to work on mobility, you probably want to work and you just go right up. I don't think you have to pick. Well, what's more obvious? Well, you could look at it from my perspective. Here's what I could argue one way, right?

Starting point is 00:43:18 I could argue it the other way, but one way to argue that I would work on hips first and then ankle is you could actually crutch the ankles until you do that by wearing, and that's what I did. I did choose. I wore squat shoes while I really addressed hip mobility and then eventually worked on the ankle mobility.

Starting point is 00:43:36 I was still able to squat with pretty good depth and get great workouts while I was still working on the hip mobility, got really good hip mobility, and then I worked down the ankles. Now that being said, if you were to walk into an office like Dr. Brink, I guarantee he would work you from your feet up. So the thought process for him is like,

Starting point is 00:43:57 that's the way he would think. He would think from the ground up, work everything, work everything that direction. Now the thought process for me and doing the hips first was I'm stubborn, I don't want to stop squatting. Like, brink would say, if you're broken down from the foot all the way up the kinetic chain, stop squatting, just work on your movement, your mobility, and then go about squatting later, where I was stubborn and especially back then, that's when I was competing. So I don't want to lose my aesthetic.

Starting point is 00:44:25 So I'm still squatting with squat shoes while I'm working on hip mobility. Once the hip mobility was good, then I moved over to ankle mobility. Yeah, I actually agree with you. In the reason why I would, if I had to pick, well, usually wrong. I had to, so many points.

Starting point is 00:44:40 I would, the reason why I would focus on, the reason why I would focus on hips first, of reasons. The reason why I would focus on hips first, if I had to pick is because I feel like hips are easier to correct than ankles and feet. Encles and feet are, boy, that is a very, there's a lot of stuff in the ankles and feet. Some people's feet or a lot of people's feet are so fucking turned off that like,

Starting point is 00:45:02 they can't even figure out, if I tell them to activate this muscle activate that, like they can't even figure out, if I tell them to activate this muscle activate that, like they can't even do it, whereas with the hips, if your hips are off or they're not firing the way they want, I can put you in an exercise and make you do it. And because the movement is easier to understand like a hip thrust, it's easier to maybe work on hips where when I'm working on the foot,

Starting point is 00:45:20 like have you ever tried to get someone to do short foot that has no idea how to activate their foot? Yeah, it's like you're telling them to levitate some off the floor. Yeah, it's very, very difficult. Yeah, no, I totally, I mean. But for that reason, you could also argue that it's the most needed to. Well, that's just it. That's what matters.

Starting point is 00:45:37 That's what Brink would say. Yeah, yeah. What are you really, are you fixing the root or are you just fixing the symptom? And so like hips to me is a symptom of the ankles. And so like what you're doing is you're allowing you're bandating the process to get down towards the root problem, which takes fucking work. And it's hard and it's like you said,

Starting point is 00:45:58 short foot is like it's like I can't even really understand that still with my feet. Like we just don't communicate like that yet. You know, I haven't established that. And just getting that to become familiar is gonna take thousands of hours in addition, pattern wise versus like something that you can address with your hips that maybe the mechanics,

Starting point is 00:46:22 you can adjust mid exercise a lot easier and it's something that you can kind of scale and still work in versus like this is gonna totally like change the hard wiring of the way that your kinetic chain is established. So I like talking about ankle mobility because it's so overlooked. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:46:47 And it was zero knowledge on it until we met Brink. Yeah, and very little. Yeah, ankle mobility, and it was a major game changer for me. Major game changer for me. Like I now consider myself a pretty good squatter. I don't think I'm great,

Starting point is 00:47:02 but I think I'm a pretty good squatter as far as overall mobility and my form and strength. And a lot of that limiting factor for me was my ankles and I didn't know it. I didn't realize that it was a major limiting factor because I wasn't looking there. I was so focused on my upper body and my hips that I wasn't really paying attention

Starting point is 00:47:21 to the pronating of my feet and the lack of ankle mobility and the ability for me for my knees to travel further over my toes. So when I started addressing that, it just really completed my squat. And, you know, first was the hips and I addressed that. Had I known, not what I know now, I probably would have started on my ankle mobility

Starting point is 00:47:42 because I recognize what a big difference that it made for me hands down though Like talking about where I'm at now if there's three moves that I I will never live Without doing these three moves especially if I'm training squats deadless any lower body and that's 90 90 my my 90 90 transitions and moves my Lizard with a rotation and my combat stretch those Those three have, I've gained the most return from those three mobility, priming movements that they are a staple. I just do not, and I of course want to spend more time

Starting point is 00:48:16 and I try and do other things and get better about being consistent with that is something that I've, I saw the changes walking barefoot a lot more consistently, which has been a game changer for me personally, and like activating my toes individually, which is nothing I've ever focused on, because like, like my feet are literally like smashed, and I have like hammered toe,

Starting point is 00:48:38 and my operating system is to grip pull, grip pull, like as one unit. And to like, yeah, to like segment it, it's a spread amount, like, I was like, oh shit, like what, like it did make sense and just doing that now, you feel the difference in stability. You feel the difference in the way that you react,

Starting point is 00:48:59 you move, you transition, everything, like one small little like micro dysfunction in your foot, you transition, everything, like one small little micro dysfunction in your foot your ankle, it cascades and it creates a louder problem up into the hips. How fucked up is that most people, just because we're modern life, as soon as the kid walks, you put shoes on them, right? How fucked up is it that, imagine if it was like, obviously, wouldn't happen with our hands, because we use them so much, but imagine if your hands were like that, where you looked at your hands, and you just couldn't.

Starting point is 00:49:30 And you couldn't really move your fingers, and it's like, it's like a fin. It's like, it doesn't work. That's what we've done to our feet. That's exactly what it is. And athletes, especially big athletes, are the worst at this. Yeah. Mainly because, like, I'll tell you what, unless, if you're queasy, don't do this, but do this dog, pull up Google LeBron James feet. Yeah, there to go. Oh, if you look at Google LeBron James, if you look at the feet of pro athletes,

Starting point is 00:49:56 mainly because they, they probably grew so fast that they probably wore tight shoes all the time. Yeah. And they, but they compensate so well obviously and NBA players like like 20 in bro You ever seen like a picture of really bad teeth that require braces It looks like their toes need braces like toes are on chop of each other and it just there you go Look at that bro. What is that? That's this pinky at the end? Bro. That's all smashed in look at that Toe is smashed on his big toe bro that pinky toe's on top of everything else. Looks like it's growing out of the top of his foot. What in the fuck?

Starting point is 00:50:28 And his middle toe is on top of his big toe. Wow. Wow. I mean, think about how smashed in everything. Everything, right? Isn't that crazy? And that's crazy about that. That's too far beyond that.

Starting point is 00:50:41 You can arguably one of the most athletic men in the world. Yeah has has some of the worst Which you got to know that he's on it. Oh look as you get his feet worked on right there Dude, I would hate to work on it. They look at him. They look at have arthritis to them He's probably like Trying to separate the toes No, you know what I hate to say this but if you're an adult in your feet are kind of messed up You're never gonna get them as good as if you had worked on them from the beginning, but you can't make improvements Oh, I click on the one to the right.

Starting point is 00:51:10 I used to have her. Click on the right. Look at that. These are women who had their feet bound. Oh my god. Look at the little shoes you wore and look what happened to her foot afterwards. That's a shit. That's another thing.

Starting point is 00:51:19 Let's just go. If you want evidence of how much your feet can be molded by your shoes and stuff like that, look up like pictures of women who used to bound their feet. These are in, you know, in countries like China where they valued small feet, they would bind their feet since they were children. And the whole foot in the toes tucked underneath and it looks like this little tiny hoof that they walk around with. See, when I see that too, I wonder,

Starting point is 00:51:45 like, you know, if you were to change nothing about LeBron James, but that maybe his parents got him in like gymnastics when he was a kid. In addition to everything else that he was doing, right? And then he got into like training his feet and working barefoot, like I wonder if we would see any at all or how much carry over into his performance now as an athlete and or the potential injuries that he's going to have down the line.

Starting point is 00:52:09 I guarantee he would have been less injury prone for one. Right. That just has to be that. So here's the other question, right? Let's say, let's say you take an athlete like this, who's fucking exceptional, but they've got fucked up feet. And then you're like, oh cool, I've identified something that's messed up on you.

Starting point is 00:52:28 Let's spend a bunch of time fixing this. Do you think that would improve his performance or decrease it? Oh, it decrease it for sure. Especially at that level because he's so created his own patterns. Yeah, it's just like what's he solidified? It's like what they say with like a golf swing.

Starting point is 00:52:41 Like if someone's been golfing and they never got lessons and they've been swinging for ever. I didn't Tiger Woods trying to do that and then it took them like two, three years to really like develop this new swing. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, and he never really got that same response back. Yeah, once you've put in that 5,000, 10,000, 50,000 reps into something like that, you've solidified that recruitment pattern so much that trying to break that, although

Starting point is 00:53:09 it may be better for health, would probably decrease in performance. And I think that's where someone like that is at. It's just like, it doesn't even matter. Next question is from Mark Kahlhoff. Does nitric oxide help with performance? Oh, the old pump. No, no two exp, you know, category of supplements.

Starting point is 00:53:29 You know, it's been a long time since I've actually, I remember when this first got hot, and I remember reading deeper into it and telling people that first of all, all the studies that they show on this, there's no real proof that we can ingest these things to increase the nitric oxide into our blood. So it's really, it's one of those, it reminds me like when supplements like leptin come,

Starting point is 00:53:50 like a leptin pill comes out or what with that. So we know that leptin and acrylric. Just increasing that. It's not going to happen. Right. Just taking it in doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to increase the levels into your blood just because you supplement it. Well, what they do is they, we know that certain amino acids, like

Starting point is 00:54:07 argonine, for example, are required to produce or make nitric oxide. So then what they do is they take that and they say, oh, cool, if we take argonine, then that means we'll produce more nitric oxide. Now, this is the same mentality as somebody saying, protein builds muscle. I'm not gonna lift weights, I'm not gonna do anything else,

Starting point is 00:54:29 I'm just gonna dramatically increase my protein intake, it's gonna build more muscle. Or calcium is needed for bones. I'm not doing anything else, but taking an extra calcium and that'll make more bones. Not necessarily, your body first off needs to want to make more nitric oxide. And if that is a limiting factor, then it may help. But we do know that our organization is actually a terrible way to raise nitric oxide. And if that is a limiting factor than it may help. But we do know that

Starting point is 00:54:46 organite is actually a terrible way to raise nitric oxide because it gets degraded and destroyed before it hits your bloodstream. Citroline is a better alternative for that. Citroline gets converted to argonine, which then now it's in your bloodstream and theoretically can raise nitric oxide. Now the question is, can does nitric oxide improve performance? Well, if you have nitric oxide production problems, if you're older, then maybe it may actually help you. If you're young and healthy, probably not. And the nitric oxide precursors or whatever

Starting point is 00:55:23 that have been shown consistently in studies to have an effect and it's not a huge effect, but to have an effect is not the, you know, Situiline and bodybuilding supplements that you find in yourric oxide and they've studied endurance athletes where they've noticed a in some studies and improvement in performance, but otherwise no and you know one of the best ways to increase your nitric oxide is to just be healthy because then you're gonna have more and what okay real quick nitric oxide is a gas release by your blood vessels that dilates your blood vessels so they kind of relax and it allows for More blood flow more oxygen more nutrients therefore more muscles the theory on on this whole idea Right, and what they did in the supplement industry, which is absolutely brilliant is they you know

Starting point is 00:56:18 They identified that the pump was one of the most sought after things that people Try to get when they work out. Everybody loves the pump. And so they figured out how to increase this process. Yeah, how do we attach a supplement to getting a better pump? Because we don't need to sell a pump so much. Like everybody likes to have a good pump. And so what they did is they created supplements that had stimulants in them so that you felt really jacked when you lifted weights.

Starting point is 00:56:41 And then they put in argonine in there because we know argonine turns in an nitric oxide, which is true, it just doesn't do a very good job when you eat it. And they created this new pump line of supplements, which were easy to sell because people like to have a good pump. And they were easy to sell because the first time you ever took one of these supplements,

Starting point is 00:56:59 you felt awesome mainly because it had 300 or 400 milligrams caffeine in it. So if I were to make a list of supplements that you could add to your repertoire for things that will give you really good benefits, nitric oxide boosters would be way at the bottom. You know, I would look at things like... And most of the benefits going back to what you just said is coming. I mean, I like to... I think that's in almost most all fat burning pre workout,

Starting point is 00:57:27 nitric oxide, pump enhancer, all these fucking supplements. The biggest game changer in all of them is the caffeine. Is the caffeine is like the most beneficial thing which you could get for a massive bottle for like next to nothing. Oh, caffeine by itself is super true. Yes, you could get some raw caffeine. If you don't believe me, read the label, figure out how much caffeine is there in there.

Starting point is 00:57:49 And then it's because most caffeine pills are like only like 25 milligrams. And most of the things you're talking about have like 300. You want to take between 100 to 300 milligrams per month. But you want to feel crazy, take 600s, yeah, you feel? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no what I mean with my point is, I would never recommend, I would never take six. I remember the first time with truck drivers. I remember when Joe D sent over, when we were talking to Joe, don't know his pre-workout two years ago,

Starting point is 00:58:31 and he sent over his pre-workout, and he was just like, man, my pre-workout shits on everybody's, and he was like, hyping it all up. And I flip it around and I go, holy fuck, I have never seen a pre-workout that has 400 milligrams per serving, per serving in it. I'm like, no,

Starting point is 00:58:47 no one there. No one there. You feel like you're on cocaine after you take it. Like no shit dude, like it's the closest thing to that. Like it's not and then but yet all the promotion of it and with how they marketed and stuff is the perfect ratio of this and it has the, at the right amount of and that's how like some of the companies are so funny they get into all these like semantics over like who has the exact

Starting point is 00:59:10 right amount of ratio and I love when kids are always asking me like well you know I heard this one is better for absorption and it's just like that's all the jargon it's all the jargon they fucking razzle that's what time that's razzle dazzle right there. It's best. It releases at a specific time. Right. If you know, if you, here's what they'll do, if a supplement has Mark as proven themselves in the market, so let's say, Crateen, Crateen, I remember when Crateen came out,

Starting point is 00:59:34 there was like the biggest fucking thing ever. It was super expensive, a 30-day supply of Crateen costs something like, and we're talking back in the mid 90s. It was like 60 bucks. It was like 60 dollars in the mid 90s. Yeah. It was super expensive, and it was breakthrough because it was one, it was finally a supplement that actually did something because every other than that.

Starting point is 00:59:53 And it was like all the same, and then like, fuck, we got a, we got a different sheet. Yeah, it was money somehow, so we have to label it something else. Cause it proved itself. Well, yeah, it proved that there was, there was a huge market there, and leave it to us, what do we do then? Then we start splitting the market up by going like, okay, this food BCAs, let's do liquid form, let's sell the Thai. Crateen Thai, Crateen Cite, Crateen,

Starting point is 01:00:15 grape juice with it. Yeah, no, it's just like that. They find something that works in the market and nitric oxide supplements or supplements that give you a pump or supposed to give you a pump, mainly pre-workout supplements. Definitely have proven that people want to buy them because they feel great. And so now you've got a huge market and you've got all these different versions of all these

Starting point is 01:00:34 different things that give you a better pump. Here's the thing too with supplements. Supplements may show benefits in certain people or certain populations of people, but doesn't mean it's gonna work for you. So, if you have high blood pressure or arthroosis, you know, organitis, it literally may actually benefit you. You may actually notice a reduction in blood pressure. You may actually notice some health benefits.

Starting point is 01:00:57 But if you're a healthy person, it ain't gonna... That's a really good point. Yesterday I was taught, I was mean with his trainer, a younger guy, and he follows my and publicist and is everything, he's been paying attention to what I've been doing with my testosterone. And he told me, he's like 25 years old, right? And he tells me he goes,

Starting point is 01:01:13 Hey, I was gonna go buy those, you know, how are you liking the Juve slide and how are you liking the testosterone pills that you're taking right now? Is it helping you? I was thinking about going to get it. And I'm like, is there something wrong with your testosterone? And he's like no, but I mean it is yours increasing and I say well, yeah, but you can understand like I got fucking terrible levels, dude

Starting point is 01:01:32 Like so a little bit of that gives me a little bit more which makes a difference for a guy like me But if you're normal, do I have any effect on yeah, you won't feel anything for it I don't even I say don't yeah, is it don't waste your money? No, and here's here's a good analogy you won't feel anything. It actually won't even, I think. Yeah, as a don't waste your money. And here's a good analogy. If I took somebody, if I took a group of people who have a deficiency in magnesium,

Starting point is 01:01:51 let's say they're not getting enough magnesium in their diet, if I give them magnesium, they're gonna notice all of a sudden clear thinking, better sleep, they're stronger in the gym, they have way less anxiety. Depression is gone. It's going to be a miracle fucking substance that I gave them. Now, if I gave that same magnesium

Starting point is 01:02:11 to a bunch of people who have no magnesium deficiency, they're going to notice nothing. Zero. So, that's an analogy for what we're trying to explain here. If you have issues with blood pressure, if you're older and the older populations tend to have issues with producing nitric oxide, again, probably poor diet, and stuff like that. issues of blood pressure if you're older and the older populations tend to have issues with producing nitric oxide, again, probably poor diet

Starting point is 01:02:27 and stuff like that. And nitric oxide supplement may actually help. If you're average healthy person, don't waste, I would say probably don't waste your money on it. Crateen, beta-alamyin has some benefits for, but it's real small for elite people and your stimulants and you're pretty much set. Next question is from sat manches.

Starting point is 01:02:46 In the intuitive nutrition guide, it recommends initially tracking calories and macros and then weaning yourself away and into intuitive eating. Do you think intuitive eating can still be done without tracking first, as long as you're disciplined and listen closely to your body? I don't. That would be way harder. I don't. I mean, I don't even There'll be way harder. I don't, right? I don't.

Starting point is 01:03:05 I mean, I don't even like it for someone like me where I'm at in this career fucking 16 years later. I still... Well, you're just gonna find out how off your intuition is. Yeah, it's just, I've never met a client. I've never been able to put 100% put it together for myself. I'm still learning things about how food affects me to this day.

Starting point is 01:03:27 I don't know, man. I'm not, I mean, I, I mean, theoretically. Yeah, yeah, theoretically. But realistically, no, I completely agree with Adam. I mean, there's, okay, we have to understand with intuitive nutrition is you go through the classic four stages of learning when you're doing this. And the first stage of this is where you're unconsciously

Starting point is 01:03:49 incompetent, which means you don't know what you don't know or you don't know that you don't know. And so you have to move from there. If you can't move from there, if you don't figure out what you don't know, there's no way you could get to intuitive eating. And the first step to moving out of there is to go from unconscious incompetence

Starting point is 01:04:09 to conscious competence and tracking does that. Once you start to track all of a sudden, and this happens all the time with clients, all of a sudden they're like, holy fuck, I don't know there was that much sugar in that. I don't know, I was eating this many grams of protein. I had no idea I was eating this many calories. I had no idea that I was lacking in my protein intake.

Starting point is 01:04:26 It's like expecting to be able to learn multiplication and division without learning addition and subtraction. Or not even knowing what a number is. Right. I mean, if you try to, you could theoretically, you could have somebody teach you multiplication and division, but it just makes way more sense to learn addition and subtraction.

Starting point is 01:04:46 First, since those tools are necessary for you to be successful at multiplication and division. It's a step further. If you wouldn't even know what numbers are because you're unconsciously incompetent. So, I mean, you got it. You got it. You got it.

Starting point is 01:04:58 You could, Mac, but they don't. Yeah, but without tracking, they don't know that they don't know is my point. You know what I'm saying? So, you got to go from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence. Now you know what you don't know. And then from there,

Starting point is 01:05:13 you move to conscious competence, which is also tracking. What that means is I first start tracking, now I see what I didn't know. Now I consciously aim for macro nutrients, targets, and I aim for calories. That's the conscious competence part, which you can get stuck there, which isn't good.

Starting point is 01:05:32 You don't want to have to think about what you're doing all the time with your food. You don't have to think about planning everything out, you know, ahead of time and all that stuff. Then the next stage is intuitive eating, which is unconscious competence, which takes a long time to get to. And that point is where you've tracked,

Starting point is 01:05:47 you've aimed for targets, you understand what's in the food, you're making the connections with your body, you're creating positive connections and negative connections with food, you're identifying how foods affect both your mental state and your emotional state and your physical state. And then you can move to a point where it's unconscious, you're in this flow state where you reach for what you should be eating and it's kind of

Starting point is 01:06:09 a natural state, and that's a great place to live in because it's much more maintainable forever. But to get to that point without ever tracking, I mean, I'm going to go out and say that's probably impossible. I don't know how you would even get there if you didn't know he was in your food. The only way would be to fail a ton of times and not even realize it. Or being okay with your lack of results.

Starting point is 01:06:34 I mean, if you're somebody who's just like, nah, I wanna try and intuitively eat and make better decisions for myself, but I don't really have any fitness goals where I'm trying to gain weight or lose weight or build a bunch of muscle. And I just want to practice some better habits. Like, I could see somebody kind of going that route, but it just, I don't know anybody

Starting point is 01:06:53 that I've never trained a client that wasn't trying to eat better or exercise to better themselves. And without measure, without measuring that or tracking it at one point, it's really tough to measure. Like, how do I know for sure that what I did the other day was something that was good for my body? You need something objective. And the reason why I think we all feel so passionate,

Starting point is 01:07:13 this is because I've done this hundreds of times with clients where I do a test. Like, you know, tell me where you think you're eating, tell me what you're doing, and then we track it. Nobody knows. Way off, it's always, yeah, that's, way off, you know what's happening. Clients give you this answer, like. Way off. It's always. Yeah, that's way off. It always happens.

Starting point is 01:07:26 The clients give you this answer like, oh, I eat really good. Like, I don't eat a lot of sugar. I don't do this. I don't do. They tell you everything they don't do. And then you start tracking. Well, those sodas yet. Yeah, you start tracking and it's way off from what they think.

Starting point is 01:07:36 So, you know, I think it's necessary to do it. And here's the thing too, like, even when I track. Like, so let's say that I'm noticing that my stool is off, right? And so my first thing before I just assume that it's like a fiber deficiency is the track and to pay attention and then I go, oh, we'll look at that, you know, three days in a row. I've been under consuming fiber.

Starting point is 01:08:00 Okay, now let's reintroduce some more fiber and then let's see how what happens to my stool. Oh, look, my stool changed. Then even after that, I'm going to test it again. We'll let my fiber drop a little bit. Let's see if it affects it again. And then I'll do that multiple times tracking before I'll just assume that I get too many people that try and correlate.

Starting point is 01:08:19 Oh, yeah, for sure, you took this. And so this is probably a reaction because of that. Or you feel this way because of this it's like, well wait a second I'm not going to draw that conclusion off of just maybe Like I don't have the proof, I want to first prove to myself that that's more than likely what's going on before I just decide I'm going to go ride this bike with no hands And you know what people are really good at? We're really good at fooling ourselves Yes, so you need to have, to start with, you need to have an objective measure

Starting point is 01:08:48 that you can look at and then measure against it because if you just rely on your intuition, which is something that you're trying to develop in the first place, you're fucked, you have no reference, you have no objective basis, you have not trained your intuition first. You gotta get to that point first got to get to that point first. And to get to that point, information

Starting point is 01:09:07 is extremely important in tracking provides that. Lucky, hogey. You have talked about how people sometimes may not reach their goals because of a lack of belief that they can. How do you overcome lack of belief and just do it? Two things. You have two scenarios here. Let's say you want to, and just for argument sake, let's say you want to lose 30 pounds. And your two options are, I work out and I change

Starting point is 01:09:37 my diet to lose 30 pounds, and I may succeed or I may fail. And the other option is, I don't work out and I don't change my diet, in which case we know the result of that. It's guaranteed. You're guaranteed not to lose the 30 pounds. So you don't need to necessarily believe that it's going to happen. Just believe that the option for it to happen is much more likely if you do something and the option that it won't happen is guaranteed if you do nothing. So that's that's the first thing. The second thing

Starting point is 01:10:09 is to be okay with it not happening. Like be okay and say to yourself, here's a deal. I'm gonna work hard and I'm gonna bust my ass and if I you know we'll talk about business. I'm gonna work hard and I bust my ass and I may not ever get to my success level. I may never make a million dollars a year. And that's gonna be okay. But it's gonna be okay because at least I know that I went out and I tried because if I didn't do

Starting point is 01:10:35 anything at all, well fuck, that sucks. Now the problem with that is people would rather not fail. They would rather not try than fail. Like it's easy for me to be like, hey, how come you're not a millionaire, man? But I don't give a shit, I don't even try. Like that feels good on my ego because it's like, I don't even try, therefore I'm not,

Starting point is 01:10:55 hey, why aren't you in shape? Yeah, why aren't you in shape? Well, I don't work out and I don't eat right. And it's cool because I don't, because I don't even take a chance and try, therefore I've never failed. That is a shitty way to live. Life like that sucks.

Starting point is 01:11:08 What do they say? It's better to love and lose than never, love, love, you know, before or whatever. I love to know. Yeah, you have to, you gotta understand that about, you know, reaching goals is that you may not reach them, but trying dramatically increases your odds of getting those goals, not trying guarantees that you won't.

Starting point is 01:11:26 Yeah, I'm like, it's super basic. I mean, you just gotta listen to more art Kelly. What? Art Kelly? I believe I can flow. Oh, yeah. Yeah, bro. It helps me.

Starting point is 01:11:37 I would say change your goals. That's what I think. Change your goals. I think a lot of times when people, they're so hung up on the finish line and they're like, this person is probably like, oh my goal is to build this much muscle or burn this much body fat or look a certain way. And those are the wrong goals. Your goals are wrong. And actually the goal should be the process going through all this and what you're gonna get from that. So for example, if maybe I wanna get in better shape and I wanna look a certain way,

Starting point is 01:12:07 and that's something that is like a long-term goal for me, like I'm gonna set short-term goals or challenges, and part of that may actually be failing, because there's still a learning and a growing process during that, and if you're seeking the learning and the growing process and looking at that as a win for yourself, then the goal is okay. And you're going to believe you're going to be fine and you're going to do that self-belief

Starting point is 01:12:29 that you're lacking. You'll have because you're like, I expected that I might not get there. I expected this would be challenging. I expected this is going to take longer. I expected I would try this and maybe it didn't work out. That's okay. When I approach something, especially if it's something that maybe I don't feel really confident in, I mean, podcasting, here's an example.

Starting point is 01:12:47 I remember the day that we all decided to podcast, okay? Three assholes that have never been on radio in their life before, never podcasting before, but yet we're super confident that we're gonna be good at podcasting. Well, it wasn't because we all said, what's that a goal that we're gonna be the best at podcasting and if we're not the best at podcasting, then we failed.

Starting point is 01:13:03 No, it was like, we're gonna do this. I believe in myself that I will go through the process of what it takes to get to whatever my long-term goal is. And during that process, I'm okay with setbacks. I'm okay with sounding terrible. I'm okay with learning that, oh, I was going the wrong way for a while. Now I need to go this direction.

Starting point is 01:13:21 So I think reframing your goals is what I would do because somebody like this also strikes me as somebody who struggles with all goals in life, not just fitness race. So we're addressing this like it's a first. Of course, let me just got burned real bad, you know, and for me, like I could see that as like being, well, you know, what's set me back is like, I don't believe in the process anymore. Whereas what you're saying makes a lot of sense, where if I can go through and scale it down and start giving myself some wins

Starting point is 01:13:52 and ramping back up my confidence levels and overcoming, you know, smaller objectives and ramping that process to, you know, get back to a place where now I build up my confidence. If that's what you need, then that's a process you have to go through. Right. And reframe your losses as wins. Right.

Starting point is 01:14:13 Okay, so the goal is I want to lose 20 pounds. Okay, so that's the main goal. I decide that I'm going to start to follow the ketogenic diet, listen to my impump, start doing meditating. Here's a group of things that I'm going to start doing to hit the goal. Well, six weeks go by and I got fatter. So am I depressed or do I just, I learned from that. Like now let's figure out what did I do that didn't lead

Starting point is 01:14:35 to my goal and that learning process from that, that is a success and that's a win. And that's all part of this and that's okay. I think people get hung up so much and this goes back to the whole comparing ourselves to other people because you see something else that you want. So then you set this personal goal for you which I don't think even aligns. I think it's like there's nothing wrong with having a goal,

Starting point is 01:14:56 a target that you're heading towards but then also being okay with the failures and the misses along the way because that is all part of the process and that is part of growing and learning and treat it like that. So guess what, if you followed the keto-jid diet for six weeks and it didn't give you the return that you wanted, it's not a failure, you just learn something about yourself, you just learn something about a diet, you just learn something about your body and there

Starting point is 01:15:17 was other things that probably happened that you hopefully connected the dots to too. So reframe your goals. Yeah. Good advice. So YouTube, mind pump TV. We post new videos all the time. There's fitness, there's comedy, there's philosophy, there's money investment advice, there's, you know,

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