Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 901: How Flexing & Posing Can Help Build Muscle, When to Limit Cardio to Avoid Muscle Loss, the Amazing Endocannabinoid System & MORE

Episode Date: November 14, 2018

Organifi Quah! iTunes & Facebook Review Winners! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Organifi (organifi.com/mindpump, code "mindpump" for 20% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about how bodybuilding style posing can increase muscle connection, hypertrophy and muscle fiber recruitment for strength, a good amount of cardio to do during the week for good health and not affect the muscle building signal, when a low bar squat is a bad idea and the endocannabinoid system. Mind Pump Recommends: Three Identical Strangers. (6:09) Media’s important role in society, the origin names of reality shows & MORE. (11:25) The mystery of the sea nomads’. (16:49) The last of the eagle huntsmen: Mongolian tribes are the only people in the world using the amazing birds to catch prey. (22:07) The Ultimate Feast from Butcher Box has arrived for the Mind Pump Thanksgiving. (25:05) The various unconventional ways the guys have cleaned their teeth. (27:50) Is going to the dentist a scam? How to Reverse Cavities Naturally & Heal Tooth Decay. (29:25) How Sal and Justin have given their kids Organifi products to optimize their performance. (35:46) In-store vs. online shopping. Which do you prefer? (40:56) #Quah question #1 – Would bodybuilding style posing increase muscle connection, hypertrophy and muscle fiber recruitment for strength? (46:06) #Quah question #2 – What is a good amount of cardio to do during the week for good health and not affect the muscle building signal? (53:46) #Quah question #3 – If a person had a bad low posterior tilt, is a low bar squat a bad idea? (59:48) #Quah question #4 – What is the endocannabinoid system? (1:07:48) People Mentioned: Ben Pakulski ® | Official (@bpakfitness)  Instagram Links/Products Mentioned: November Promotion: MAPS Anywhere ½ off! **Code “WHITE50” at checkout** Butcher Box **FREE Bacon,2 Ribeye, $10 Off + Free Shipping on Your First Order!** Organifi **Code “mindpump” for 20% off** Leave a Facebook 5 Star Review and Win a FREE T-Shirt! Three Identical Strangers Reality television Mystery of sea nomads' amazing ability to free dive is solved Enlarged spleen key to diving endurance of ‘sea nomads’ - YouTube The last of the eagle huntsmen: Mongolian tribe are the only people in the world using the amazing birds to catch prey How to Reverse Cavities Naturally & Heal Tooth Decay The Weston A. Price Foundation MAPS Fitness Products Blue Zones Mind Pump TV - YouTube Ned **15% off first purchase** Mind Pump Free Resources

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Three identical strangers. About us. This one's really good to us. Wow. You can't tell us apart. So, right. Yeah, in the dark. Really good documentary that explores the nature versus nurture argument in a very strange

and fascinating way. Go check it out. Spoiler alerts. The whole thing. Then we talk about the decade that Adam was cool in, the 90s. Whoa, this was it. This isn't great. Then you are the cats me out. Yeah.

I wait to get the cats ass. To your cats ass. Now I'm just a cat's ass. To your credit, I was never cool in any decade. So I'm waiting for the ticket. I would be cool. There you go. Then we talked about a dou-soups.

What are docu-soups? These are gonna find out. Yeah, find out. You gotta listen to that part. Days of our lives. Then we talk about seeing no mad. There's a people that live. This is crazy.

And dive in the ocean and scientists have discovered that their bodies have actually adapted to be more proficient under the water, fascinating study. You're like merman. It's pretty crazy. If you go to our show notes, there's a link to that article. Leave it to our form to drop some knowledge.

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Then we get into the questions. The first question was, what's a good amount of cardio for health? I don't wanna affect the muscle building signal. I'm not necessarily trying to burn body fat. I just want to be healthy. What's a good amount of time to do cardio? Then we ask the answer to the question, would body building style posing be a worthwhile way to increase muscle connection and muscle growth? Is flexing in the mirror good for you, or are you just feeding your ego?

You're such a pose. You know, it's Doug doing it for his health, or is he just, because he won that contest and now he's got a big head. He's got a big head. Yep, yep. The next question was, if someone has a bad pelvic tilt, so we actually answer this with anterior

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Oh wait, might be on prime. You watched it too, Adam, because I saw someone in the forum post it and you said you saw three identical strangers. Oh yeah, great one. Is that crazy? It's a true story. Weird. Do you want to know what that's about?

I mean, three identical strangers. I brought it up. I brought it up on the show a long time ago when it first came out. Like just we just kind of like glazed over it though, but I do was fucking fast Yeah, it's one of those ones I don't like to talk about I tell people just go watch it because it's just we're gonna Like triplets or something we're gonna talk about it on the show because this is a podcast You're gonna ruin it whatever whatever I want just no watch it. No, no you just still watch it

But so it's fine it starts off. Yeah, but It's better when you don't know it's coming. No, no, no, no. I already guessed what was gonna happen just from the time. Yeah, but it still gives you like a holy shit. That's crazy. So this is what's crazy about it. So it starts off, this kid is, and he's narrating what's happening in his life.

He's going into a community college. He's never been there before. As he's walking up, and he's kind of a shy dude or whatever as he's walking up People are like hey, what's up, man? Pshh, what's up brother? He's like hugging him high five of them. He's like man. Everybody's real friendly here This is kind of cool, you know like all right. This is cool and everybody's like to finally people are coming up to him and saying, you know Hey, what's up Eddie? Oh, what's up Eddie? And he's like he stops. He's like, I'm not Yeah, who the fuck are you guys talking about?

Goes in his dorm room. The guy who ends up being his roommate is best friends with the dude that everybody thought he was. And he looks at him and he goes, this is he goes, this is fucking wild. He goes, you're, he's like, you have a twin. So they get on the phone, they call this dude. Yeah, he's asking him his birthday first.

He's like, he's doing all the basic, like. Yeah, his birthday this day. Where's this? He's like that, he's like, where you adopted, all this stuff. Finds out he has a twin, they find each other, and it's like, holy shit, I can't believe I had a twin. They were separated birth. Big news.

It goes all over the country, the newspapers. A fucking kid somewhere else. His buddy sees this, brings it to him as like, dude, you got fucking two twin brothers, who's triplets. What? Yes. And they just all got separated. And so they meet each other.

And what's crazy about is all the similarities, I think. Yeah. And that's what's really fascinating to me is like how three people could be separated at birth. And then they show them, they're like on all the, you know, talk shows, and stuff like that. And they're like finishing each other sentences. It's really rad, right? Yeah, and they go party together,

and they find out that they all had this troubled youth and stuff. So, they all have the same girlfriend. As they start digging deeper, what they start to realize is that the place that what is it called, the orphanage? Yeah, yeah, the orphanage. Separated them when they were six months old so that must have been crazy

inspiration anxiety they did it like as a test right isn't it well that's the crazy part that's the shady part that's the twist the twist comes out that this was a study that was a broad study that was done on twins and what they would do is they would purposefully separate twins and put them in different environments to examine the difference between nature and nurture, biologic versus how you're raised. So the three brothers will put into three different homes, a wealthy home, a middle-class home, and an immigrant home to see what the difference would be. How fucking wild is that? Science has great morals, right? Not at all. That's crazy. That's exactly what I said as I was watching. I told Jessica I said, this is exactly why,

dirty. Science, you can't go pure science while you need some kind of a moral code derived from something that you believe to be higher than science because from a scientific standpoint, what's the big deal? Triple, it's probably hard to. Oh, from a scientific standpoint, it's a brilliant test. It's a brilliant study.

He can ask for... He can ask for... Yeah, you can't ask for better controls, right? Right. And plus, you think to yourself, you could just fight all day long, you could be like, well, who would adopt three triplets? Yeah. Separating them is better for the kids, get some put out.

We also get to study them, but it was all premeditated. The way the scientists picked the homes is they picked homes that had already adopted kids so they could go in and kind of watch. And then once they said, okay, these are the perfect homes and they kind of selected them. Really fucked up. Wow.

You know, it's crazy. But there's more to the story you gotta watch. That's great that they found each other. There's more to the odds. And what's crazy is you see like one of them's overweight, one of them's not overweight, so you could tell. Yeah. It wasn't gymnasium.

The environmental factors kick in. And so yeah, they go through all that. That's crazy. I had been, someone recommended it to me when it first came out. And I remember clicking on it and just, the preview too, it just seems like whatever. But the reviews on it were really high.

It was like 90, 80, 90. And I'm like, I guess we got to watch this. And finally Katrina and I finally watched it. And we watched it. I was like, oh 80, 90, and I'm like, I guess we got to watch this. And finally Katrina and I finally watched it, and we watched it. I was like, oh shit, I recommend it to my buddies. And it's definitely one of those, oh shit, you gotta watch it one. It was definitely worth the watch.

It would have chose, and what it proves is that. Well, not I knew everything. But I still, no, you don't. No, you're no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's more to good. No, I still wanna watch it. I'm not like, yeah, deterred from it.

I didn't want salad, I didn't want salad, I ruined it all. You know what, you pooped on the 90s thing, I like the 90s thing. Oh here we go. Yeah. Oh the 90s documentary? Yeah.

Maybe I didn't give it enough time. Well you know what it felt like it was just possible to turn it into like the kids. Like remember that documentary kids? Oh the movie you're talking about? No, no, it's an eight part series. Oh that's what he's talking about. Yeah, no, no, you know what it is.

I only watched some of one and I think each one is on a different top. Oh, that's what he's talking about. Yeah, no, no, you know what it is. I only watched some of one and I think each one is on a different topic. Yeah, that's why. But you know that was all pop culture. It's what you'll, you, what I thought why maybe you didn't like it because you probably in the 90s you were probably buried in your encyclopedia. I was definitely watching TV.

And so it's a lot about, it's all about TV and pop culture. Oh, the whole series? The whole series. Oh, okay. I think I haven't got to the ones there, I think it's all about TV and pop culture. Oh, the whole series? The whole series. Oh, okay. I think I haven't got to the ones, I think it gets into political stuff down the road. So I'm only on three or four.

But I mean, it's, I enjoy the fuck out of it. Is that all the old advertisements and stuff? Everything, everything, yeah, it's got all kinds of cool stuff. I mean, it really dives into music. And what I liked about it actually was, it talks about shows that I watched as a kid, but how pivotable they were in history, just like it was such a big

deal. For example, like Arseneal Hall, like before that there wasn't a talk show host that was black. They just didn't exist. And there wasn't anybody bringing on like hip hop artists. And like that completely changed the culture. So there's some shows that, you know, I- Well in Grace? Yeah, well in Grace was huge in the 90s. Right, so they talked about Will and Grace,

and they talked about this. So there was some things that I remember as a kid watching and seeing, I just didn't remember how paramount they were to society and culture, and now watching it again, I'm like, oh, wow, that is crazy that that was going on. That's media has a very important role in society and culture. Very important. It's like willing grace is a great example. Will and grace brought a, you know,

brought gay people into your living room. And they were likable, and they were good people in the show, and so you couldn't help, but start to feel like you knew some gay people, and that was okay. And that actually, that show by itself changed a lot of people's attitudes towards homosexuality. Did you know that? Did you know that, I'm going to fuck it up, maybe Doug can Google this. The original name to reality shows was not real, real world came out.

And they, they used to call them Doc, Doc Q soaps. Like a documentary soap opera. So something I think it's Doc, Doc Q soaps was what they used to call reality shows before they started. Well yeah, because they would stage everything anyway. Right. Like the next day they would stage everything anyway. Right. Like the next day they would have more of the same clothes

and like we didn't get it, we needed to get you guys more fucked up. You know, but I remember that. I remember when that first came out and that set off the... Well the first real world was different actually. The first real world, which was a big experiment by MTV, was truly real. Like they actually didn't see. Do you remember that guy, Puck? Well no, it was truly real. Like they actually didn't see. Do you remember that guy, Puck?

Well, no, it was part two. It was part two. Even the very first real world was supposed to be a docu-sup. They set it up. It was set up in stage. You might have felt like it was completely real, but that was the original,

it was originally called, there it is. Thank you, Doug. It is a docu-sup. So I did get it right. All right. So, and there it is, the real world, world the real world the first one was the the first I mean People argue that cops was the first one cuz cops yeah, that's the true. Yeah, that was a reality type show But this was love that show remember yeah, what you gonna do?

I think so yeah, dude. I think it's on basic cables You know it also, they need to bring that show back. It triggered us to watch. So I was a die hard, Seinfeld fan. I watched every single Seinfeld episode multiple times and it was,

and when I was growing up, that was my buddies and I, that was the thing is like, all the one liners that were in there, we were using in normal conversation, right? So like Katrina I think just didn't watch it as much and because she knows that we have similar Sense of humor and into a lot of same stuff. She's like let's watch sign phone I can always go for a lot of new signals

She started it back from beginning and last night was watching like the pilot and the original sign filled and such a from beginning and last night was watching the pilot and the original Seinfeld and such a creaminess. Such a huge, such a great job. My son loves Seinfeld. Oh he does. Yeah, he watches them back to back to back. Oh, my favorite.

I don't know any of 13 real kids that watch old Seinfeld episodes. You know, he's got smart, witty humor, that's why. Probably. That's definitely, if you're a young kid, if you're your kid's age and you're into something like that, you have to be smart enough to pick up on the wit. It's got a lot of wit, you know,

that's why I think it's quick like that. So, he's kind of, my son's kind of, he's like an old man in some ways. He's an anomaly. Like, he likes old man things. Like, we go to a restaurant and, you know, kids will order like chicken fingers and stuff and he'll be like, I'll have the salmon. I'll have an old fashioned. Yeah. know kids will order like chicken fingers and stuff and he'll be like all of the salmon

I'll have an old fashioned yeah, you know, I'll like water Chris Sam. Can I have some olives? Yeah, what? This fuck eats like that at your age Some mineral water. It's just he's like he's like an old man, you know, hey, what do you want to watch sign felt like what? It's watch some crazy shit Anyway, you've been with Bree. Yeah, exactly dude watch sign felt what's what some crazy shit anyway you would be exactly dude so I got some articles here that I want to share with you guys let me pull up the first one that's kind of interesting so this one was shared in our forum I love our

forum for this by the way I don't have to do as much anymore you know I mean yeah they they find a lot of cool stuff I just get tagged I get tagged on these great articles. Well, it, it, it, well, thanks. It took a little while, but eventually we ended up finding a way smarter people than ourselves in there. Yeah, that's so great. So it's nice.

I love it. Yeah, it is. So, so this is an article in National Geographic magazine about the C nomads. Okay, you're gonna love this. Right. So for hundreds of years, and I hope I'm pronouncing this, right?

The Bajal people have lived at sea. So these are people that for hundreds of years, they, what they do on a daily basis is they dive. They dive deeply and they fish. And they don't do this with any apparatus, no snorkel gear, no, you know, nothing, they use spears. And these fuckers go deep and long. They go down underwater for as long as 13 minutes.

What? At depths of around 200 feet. And they're nomadic people and they live in the waters that wind through the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia. And so this is just what they've been doing for hundreds of years. There they are right there. There's a picture. So scientists were like, I wonder if these people have evolved specifically to be able to do this because that's an incredible feat.

Like handling the pressure. 200 feet underwater without any gear or anything. And 13 minutes underwater. Is that possible? That's what they do. These are real real deal. And you see look, look at even says here in this article, the mystery of their amazing ability to free dive is solved. So they thought, okay, let's let's see if we can find any differences in these people versus regular people that maybe they've developed over hundreds of years. That's called ketogenic diet.

Yeah, exactly. They all do maps and a ball. So anyway, next article. No, so, moving on. So, the ability to hold oxygen in your blood, a lot of that has to do with your red blood cells. And your spleen helps produce some of those red blood cells. And so in animals or mammals that spend a lot of the time

underwater, mammals who typically do that have larger than normal splines. And so that's the first place they look. They're like, let's see what size of splines these people have. 50% larger than the average person. What? Oh wow.

They have 50% larger splines than the average person. So they literally, because of hundreds of years of doing this, their bodies have evolved to just be able to hold their breath for longer and be able to handle the problem. Is there a video of this or something I wanna see? And this is like every generation in this tribe like has this 50% larger spline.

They test it all, I mean, they test it, I mean, that everybody of the tribe, but they did a lot of tests. How have I never heard this. I thought it was like four minutes or six minutes is like the record of holding your breath. Right. No, 13 minutes.

13 minutes. Yep, yep. They also find that their lungs are more compliant to being able to stretch and hold oxygen. Their abs are more compliant. So they found like these different adaptations that these people had that let them see look how they live. Serves their very specific niche.

They literally build like Hudson shit on the water. So you just jump off your balcony or whatever and go down under. Look, and there they are. They just dip, just swim around with a, with a, with a spear. No, no, no, no, is there other things that we're seeing as a benefit to that? No, is, is it?

What's that? The article didn't say anything else, but that's a good question. I wonder if there's side effects? Right, right, is it? Any other potential effects? I don't know. But yeah, that just goes to show you,

like when you have like a very specific task that like you like groups have figured one thing out and that became like Like everybody has to adapt and evolve with this in order to survive It's interesting to see that goes into genetics like that and starts you know favorite well I would imagine to the from a very young age. They're training like crazy, too, right? I mean by the time you're old enough to walk, they're probably teaching you to swim, and you're diving. Well, with natural selection, what probably ends up happened?

That's the gene, the PDE, what was it? PDE 10A was the gene that they found that resulted in a larger spleen and more red blood cell production. Yeah, if you're the guy that's going down for 13 minutes, you're getting some action, right? Okay. I'm saying, that's like a valuable thing there. And then that becomes like, you know, you're having a bunch of kids.

That's how it works. Oh, I see your genetics. That's what I'm just saying. You know what, that's a good point. You know, with natural selection, what probably happens over hundreds of years is, if you can't fucking hang, you don't do very well, like Justin said, you know? So the if you can't fucking hang, you don't do very well, like Justin said.

Yeah. You know, so the ones who can dive the best because that's their livelihood, they end up procreating because it's valued in their society, you're right Justin, they probably have the pick of the litter when it comes to them. I'm just saying, it's right. Yeah, it's kind of like, I mean any other sort of culture you find the people that are killing it and they're the ones getting all the, you know, tension. Mm-hmm. other sort of culture you find the people that are killing it and they're the ones getting all the you know tension. It reminds me of the Mongolian, I think Mongolian tribes that live in the real

high, high altitude cold tundras. Have you seen pictures of those? Maybe Doug can look them up. They live in the like freezing, cold, dry tundras. When you look at pictures of them, the pictures of the kids are always adorable. That was really red cheeks probably because it's freezing. They're bundled up to crazy. And then the men, there's pictures of them on their horses up on these tundras

with an eagle or some shit. And they just live in some of the mounting eagles. Yeah, and they live in some of the most inhospitable areas of the world. And I Yeah, and they live in some of the most inhospitable areas of the world. But I wonder if you were to study those people, if you were to find differences in their bodies, because they just live in freezing all the time.

I'm sure, dude. Yeah, that in the altitude. Right there, look at that. How they're acclimated to it, like over everybody else. I mean, let's be honest, is there anything more alpha than that? Yeah. On a horse with a bald eagle on you. I mean, let's be honest, is there anything more alpha than that right here? Yeah. On a horse with a bald eagle on it.

You know what I'm saying? No, I feel like a, like it just generally like a wimp. Look how big that wingspan is, dude. Those things are monstrous. You know, you like, you bring your pug, you know what I mean? Or something like, oh, here's my pet.

Yeah, cool, cool pet. I have, I've got a, basically a teradactyl on my hand. Yeah, look at that and they use those eagles to hunt. It's kind of cool with the differences that human, that you can find in humans based on. And it beats mass. It makes me think of nutrition, you know, because obviously we're in the fitness and health industry.

How you can, you know, one way of eating, maybe beneficial for one people, but may not be beneficial for one people, may not be beneficial for another people. If you're people evolved diving into the ocean and getting fish for hundreds of years, and then you move somewhere where you never eat fish, can't be ideal.

Would the diet of the eskimos or Mongolians on the tundra who may eat just like super fatty Seal and moose meat or whatever would that work for you? Or would you find that it might not be so good for you? You know, right? So it makes it makes it wonder when you say things like that It always makes me wonder too though is if we're going through this transition of all this process shitty food And then like 10 years it's gonna be good for us You know what I'm saying maybe I mean think about, think about that. Right now, we're going through that phase of just like this. It wasn't around for very long, but push us two,

three, four hundred years. And then before you know it, you know, so to can and ho-ho's, it's going to be three, three years. Like a thousand years from now, you'll have people who'll be like, you know, writing books on the new diet list food. Look, look, this is really rid of them. We've been eating like this for thousands of years, so you need everything needs to be processed. You have to do everything processed, you have a lot of sugar, and you'll find yourself be healthy. If you eat too much whole natural foods, you get cancer.

You will, you're going to die. It's pretty, yeah, that kind of stuff really fast things to share to me. You know, I got yesterday our butcher box for our big mind pump thing came in yesterday. All the Thanksgiving. Yeah, I think we have Turkey, we got sausage, we got bacon. What else did we get in there? We got a bunch of cool stuff. So we're going to deep fry this fucker, huh? Yeah, Doug ordered. We're going to have a schmorgasbordas lord last night Doug and I are talking and he ordered the deep fryer He gets here what this week Doug when we get Wednesday Wednesday. We have it how big of a how big of a turkey fits in that deep fryer You can go up to 20 pounds. Oh, okay, oh snap. I think I think ours comes with it I've never had a fried turkey. I haven't either have you sell?

I have I've had it once. Oh, I've never had it. Oh, that's a sweet one. Yeah, that's Friday. No, I've had a, I've had a fried turkey once. My cousin had a friend's giving or whatever. Yeah. And first off, so this came from his buddy who's a firefighter. So his buddy that was there was a firefighter. And he said, just don't want to freak anybody out.

He goes, but this is the number one cause of fires. Right. During the holiday season. It's people deep frying turkeys. Yeah, because I got a high tech one. Yeah, I think we're good. Made by Butterball. Oh, is it?

Yeah. It's all enclosed. Yeah, does is way different than the one that we, I coated was on an open burner. Open burner and it was a big, just huge pot. So Doug found a who told you, dude? Did you tell you? That Justin's brand.

Butterball. Butterball. That was my nickname and junior high. That was, was it really? No. That's adorable. It's not really what we were. It is on mine pup now.

Butterball. Butterball. Little Butterball. You little gaurier little Butterball. I'm gonna bring that. Does it make you want to wrestle him? Yeah, don't. You little bear ball. I'm gonna bring that one. This isn't making you want to wrestle him, Adam? You know what I'm gonna do?

You're gonna be a little fucker. This is tickling, boy. This is a wrap. It's a bear ball. It tickles you little. No, but he said that you have to lower, first off, you have to thaw the turkey completely. So what the biggest mistakes people make

is they try to deep fry a frozen turkey and I guess that makes the oil go everywhere. Oh yeah. And imagine it's like when you have a super hot pan and then you try and run it under cold water. Yes, Yeah. It's not smart. And he said also to lower the turkey and really slow because he said a lot of people will just like drop the turkey slack. And then that oil catches fire. And then how do you put out an oil fire? Yeah. Yeah. Good question. Blanket. Yeah. Yeah. Big cover with a big cotton stop drop a hole on top of

a fire blanket. Yeah, or are you supposed to dump like, can you dump like salt or baking soda? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's a smotherer. Dows it with some guests. How many people have enough baking soda though? Line around. Yeah, like that much. Does anybody even use it anymore? Of course, you do. Yeah, it's in my refrigerator. It's down by our trash. We keep baking soda right. For what, the smell? Yeah. You don't brush your teeth with it?

No, I have tried that though. I love it. It's just messy, pain in the ass. It used to be like my paranoid, like if I was like in a pinch and I didn't have any like, thumbs or anything, like I was a little baking soda. That's actually old school which helped.

Really? Yeah, it's an old school way of treating water. It doesn't do that for ines house because I gotta have bad heartburn or whatever because I just, is that what Elka Salsa is? It's just like a tab of it. Prune.

It's different. It's different. The baking soda doesn't last as long. So if you take it for heartburn, it was kind of temporary. It'll be like an hour of relief. Cause it neutralizes the acid. We do just say the box and you like finger. Yeah, no, I just like it. I just put a water in it. Put a water in it. I mean, if it neutralizes the acid. We need to just say the box and you like finger.

Yeah, no, I just like to put a water in. Put a water in. If it's going every hour, I just carry the box around and scooping your mouth. Because you know, man, you got some baking soda. He's like, I got some in my gym bag. Oh, you burp. Oh, that's the worst dude. That turns it on.

But I brush my teeth with it every morning. I use toothpaste and then I sprinkle some, do you also do the charcoal? Like, I did that for a second, but it was so messy and black. Yeah, you have black teeth. Yeah, I'm afraid, like if you get a little toothpaste on your shirt, no big deal. We get like some charcoal under shirt. That turns into a big deal.

Yeah, it's stupid. But it does clean, it feels like it cleans your... Did you do the... Did you guys ever try the oil pulling? Yeah, I did it for a second. Yeah, it ever got in. It takes too long. It does take too long. It's annoying. It's actually pulling? Yeah, I did it for a second. Yeah, ever got me. It takes too long. It does take too long.

It's annoying. It's actually tiring. Yeah, it is. How good is that for you? It's actually really good. Yeah, yeah. I've been meaning to try. It just looks like intently.

It labor intents. It's 30 minutes. Yeah. And after a while, cheeks get all, and then you get, you start to like, if you accidentally swallow some of it, well, yeah, it's not. It's kind of good. I just went to the, speaking of which. I just went to the speaking of which,

I just went to the dentist. I hadn't been to a dentist and... What have they done? They troll you. I haven't been to a dentist. It's funny, I'm gonna go and admit this on the podcast. I hadn't been to a dentist in years. Ew!

That's a game. They're overrated. Long time. They're overrated. Most of them are a scam anyway. Really? Fucking scam. Bro, I wasn't gonna get the dentist association out here.

We gotta stop pissing people off. I gotta say this on the show. I made a comment like four episodes ago about registered dietitians and said they were the worst people to go for, I got a fucking slew of messages. You said that about registered dietitians? I said that the worst people to go to for diet. I didn't even pick up on that.

When did you say that? It was just a great, I let it ask, what an asshole. No, and you say that? I just agreed. I didn't ask. What an asshole. No, and you know what? A couple of them are in our forum, and they reminded me that they're all the same. When I was referring to some of us listen to MindPup and asshole. No, and some, they're trainers. But anyway, it's so dentist, you know, do you think they're scams?

Fuck yeah, they're scams, dude. I told you. A lot of them, I've seen a lot of these ripoffs. Well, I went one time. I remember as a kid at one time. Well, that was it. Well, no, that was when I was sold that it was a scam because we went one time, and at that time, I hadn't been in like two years, my mom takes me,

they tell me I have eight cavities. And like my family's like didn't have a lot of money, so they're like, okay, son, we're gonna put that on hold for, are you fine? Is it hurt? I'm like, no, I'm fine. I don't notice anything like that. They're like, okay, well, you know, when we get some money, we'll go back and we'll do that, right? So, you know, then I didn't go for like another year or two. And then when I go back, this Dennis tells me I have zero cavities. So I went from having eight cavities to having zero

cavities. Nothing. And this, I'm a kid. Nothing changed in my diet. I was eating just as much fruity pebbles and fucking. You what that ice cream. You want to know what's weird about that You you probably were the probably the guy probably did bullshit you guys however. Did you know that there's now evidence that cavities can heal? Hmm. I used to believe that once you had a cavity that once you had a cavity that was it Yeah, but now there's evidence that changing the microbiome and the mouth and doing other couple of things, supplementing, I think, maybe Doug can look it up. That cavities will heal themselves.

The bone will actually heal itself. So trippy, that anecdotally, I had a cavity that I've been meaning to address forever. And it just, again, just one of those things I just avoided the dentist, because I didn't want to go back. And I kept, you know, like changed my just, again, just one of those things, I just avoided the dentist, because I didn't want to go back. And like, I kept, you know, like, change my diet, health, and all that, and improvement wise in my mouth,

and it was like, I didn't feel it anymore. I had the same thing. So when I was an adult, this happened to me. I went and saw, I had a client that was a dentist, and we're given terrible advice right now. And so this says that a reverse cavity, now. So I had, you know what I got it from, was drinking too many rock stars. And she had, you know what I got it from,

was drinking too many rock stars. Oh yeah. And she just told me, she's like stay, or how many of those are you drinking? I was doing like two a day. I stopped drinking them literally like the next day and took about a year or so and I could feel where,

feel where my cavities were, I didn't film it. I was just saying to me, but it was like coffee with sugar and all that and I just cut the sugar out. Whoa, check this out. You're ready for this is crazy. Doug just pulled up an article, and I just read it while you were talking,

that they did a study, and this was published in the British Medical Journal, and they had a study performed on 62 children with cavities. They broke them up into three groups, group 180 standard diet plus oatmeal Which is rich in fightic acid group two consumed a normal diet and supplemented with vitamin D and Group three a grain free diet and took vitamin D Ready for this. Yeah, the group three first of all group one

Worse their cavities got worse and they got more cavities. Group two had less, less improved, less cavities start up, so they were a little bit better. Group three, who had the grain-free diet with nutrient-rich foods, vegetables, meats, fruits, and took vitamin D, had almost all cavities heal. Wow. I fucking knew it. What a trip. Well, you know it's funny, so it'll'll trip you out and if the listeners can check this out If you want to read about somebody who who pioneered some of these studies or Speculations look on Weston a price look up Weston a price

I think the website is Weston a price foundation dot org if I'm not mistaken And he was a dentist that traveled the world and he would photograph people's teeth and would trip him out because he was a Western dentist, Western doctor, was that these people in some of these these hunter gatherer societies who had no access to dental care at all, no toothbrushes, they didn't even have regular teeth cleaning practices or whatever.

That looked anything like the ones that we have. They had perfect teeth and their teeth were straight and there were no cavities. He would examine their teeth and he was shocked that nobody had cavities and everybody had really, really straight teeth as if they had all worn braces. And so he started speculating and that's how this foundation started. That diet plays this massive role and much more than a lot of the stuff that we understand. And if you think about it, what trips me out, you're talking about dentistry, you know, some dentists sometimes scamming or whatever. I mean, I definitely think some bad ones out there,

but here's something that I think is complete bullshit. And I don't want to slew a fucking DMs. No, no, no. Yeah. No, have I said all of them are? No, dentists have played a valuable role, but one thing that I think is complete bullshit is how we were led to believe that

we're supposed to remove our wisdom teeth. Like nobody's supposed to have wisdom teeth, always get them removed. Oh, that's another scam. I was told to remove mine, never remove mine. I'm fine. I'm sorry, but it doesn't make any sense to me that we would evolve to have something

that will kill us if we don't remove it. Nobody removed their wisdom teeth 5,000 years ago or you know, a thousand years ago. To say even less than that. Yeah, I think what it is is our mouths, as we've gone on these grain heavy diets, our mouths have actually shrank and our teeth are becoming crowded, we get more cavities, all kinds of stuff. So I go to the dentist after not going to one forever and I had to get a good cleaning a lot, but I didn't have a single cavity. Nice. I actually have never, I don't think I've ever had a cavity. Oh yeah. All of them sardines.

It's, it's a, it's a snub kid. Sardines and avocado. It's, yes, it's silver veggies. Hey, hey. No, but how trippy is that? That's cool that you brought that up, dog. I'm gonna make sure put that in the show notes. That's great. Yeah. So anyway, speaking of of things that are healthy Started giving my son some of the green juice after our workouts, you know train him here and there What does he think of it? I see I mean he likes it. Oh, okay cool. Well your kid also is a kid We just talked about earlier that's true likes weird. Sure, but your kids tried the organized stuff They have actually I've I've been giving them the red juice because they keep them hyper. They keep wanting, yeah, it does during the day.

So I, well, in replacement of crystal light. Okay, so somewhere along the lines, I think it was my parents that introduced them to crystal light. And so they were like really wanting, I'm like, no. So I gave them, I gave them some of the red juice instead. And they liked it. But yeah, I gave him some of the red juice instead. They liked it, but I had him try the green juice and I'm just sort of introducing that one too,

but yeah, I would prefer them at least to have that then to crystal light. No, what I do is post workout with my son. So now him and I have agreed that he's gonna consistently lift two days a week, even if he's with his mom, I'll bring him over and train him. And what I do now is post workout,

is he'll eat something, or I try to make it cool for him, kind of cool. So I'll give him a little bit of like the Organifi protein shake with the green juice. Cause he thinks it's, you know, you're 13 year old kid, your dad's giving you a performance thing right after. Yeah, your dad's giving you like a potion, or so you know, like a mix.

A mixture. Yeah, so he feels kind of cool, he's like, is this gonna make me, that's gonna give you jacks. a performance thing right after yeah your dad's giving you like a potion or see like a mix a mixture Yeah, so he feels kind of cool. He's like is this gonna make me? That's gonna get you jacks I remember how I felt about supplements when I was in a 1415 biome I used to go to I used to walk to the big five on blossom. I used to walk four miles Oh, yeah, and by weeders muscle builder. I was a name of the protein. So great the walk would cancel out the calories that you're 400 calorie walk for a 300 Okay, but I buy this muscle builder protein powder and I think that I was taking like you know a lickser of the gods So I I you know, I give it to my son to kind of get him kind of pumped about it

And he's like he's talking to me. He's like so as I get stronger He's starting to ask me the right questions, you know, I might do I Do I, is that mean I'm building muscle and gaining weight? I'm like, absolutely. And I said, well, if you want, I said this summer before you go to high school, we can do a mass building protocol. I said, we could try to put between five to 10 pounds of size on you over the summer, which means you're

going to have to eat a particular way and I'm gonna train you. And if you wanna get ready for high school that way, and he kinda got excited. Bro, if he gets all pumped about that, and I get to train my son for summer to put on size on him, I get to relive that period of time

that I'm in the summer of guns. That'll be so fun. This is it coming up, right? I mean, this is the time where you really started to get into it, right, for him. I got into it at 14, so I was older than him. I was like, right after... Actually you're right, it was the summer...

I kind of got into it after eighth grade, and it was the summer after my freshman year that I got. That's it. I was like, 100% all the way in. It's going crazy. Now, I see coming in the garage and lifting more and more? Or do you feel like it's kind of inconsistent right now? It's a little on and off.

I'm not pushing it. I just want him to do it here and there and just see what's happening. I worked out with him a couple times. That's more fun, I think, when we work out together. But the summer time, we'll see what happens. Yeah, I can't wait to do that. I mean, right now I'm making a big effort to finish things with, you know, the tree house and stuff. And so I got...

I saw you made four more posts up. Yeah. It's progress. I got it all the posts up now. I'm proud. Is there going to be a roof on that and everything? I don't know. I'm debating that because my efforts, I think,

I'm gonna go more platforms like with railing and then have it have gates that open. So it's more functional. So it's like, I'm gonna build another one on another tree adjacent to that so they can have a bridge that goes to that one. So it's like, my vision is for them to be able to have nerf gun fights and like, know use it as like two different

Tiaming stuff. Yeah, two different towers. So one goes over to one side and then another tower They climb up that they zip line down. So I'm probably not gonna put a roof on it I'm just gonna have multiple kind of platforms that they can like you know attack their from when friends. I'm gonna, when they come over this weekend, I'm gonna show them like, it's a crazy, like crazy S-Tree House system to put pressure on. Oh, fuck that. Hey, you should have your dad do that. No. You should have your dad do that.

There are new watch sets show that Nelson guy did. This one has an elevator phrase. Like, we call these like, you should have your dad to build this. Look at this one looks like a Millennium Falcon. Fuck you guys. He's gonna, he's gonna build them into little houses and then, you know, the kids will start to realize that that's where they're gonna live now. Yeah.

Yeah guys, oh you know why I built these? Oh you're outside now. Because you guys get to sleep out here. Yeah, mom and I will. Yeah, mom and I will. Don't you say they already call themselves the downstairs people? Yeah, yeah my youngest, he calls them the downstairs people. We're the downstairs people. We're the downstairs people. Yeah, my youngest he calls them the downstairs people. Yeah, the downstairs people. We have rights, you know, they're always demanding stuff.

Now do you guys, do you guys start your your Christmas shopping early for the kids? Are you like procrastinator dads that wait till the last the last week? I'll probably start in a week or two. Yeah, kind of fine. Well, we have ideas already. So it's like it's the matter of going Amazon at this point. Yeah, kind of fine. Well, we have ideas already. So it's like, it's the matter of going on Amazon at this point. Yeah, I mean, so the last couple of years, I've been full on no stores, like just all online. Yeah, have you converted yet? Yeah, I don't go to stores anymore.

Yeah, stores suck during this time of year. It's crazy that it still is crazy and people go and do that. I'm like, man, you get... Some people like that, you know, Jessica likes the, she likes the whole thing. She likes going shopping. I love. She likes getting hot cocoa. She likes listening to Christmas music. She likes the crowds. She likes the whole thing. I fucking hate the crowds. Yeah. I used to hate it too, but I'm what I'm trying to do is I'm starting to trying to change my

perception of the whole thing a little bit because I'm wondering if I just decided it sucks. And if I can maybe see it through different places. It's like, the difference is getting a fast pass to space mountain or not, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, thank you. I know what you know what I mean. Adam doesn't. You know kids.

But yeah, no, I'm probably gonna do most of my shopping. My daughter's birthday's coming up,, oh, what are you doing? Well, what I'm gonna do with her, I was thinking, like, what should I get her? She knows she wants a canopy over her bed, like every girl. So I got that, that'll be cool. But then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pick her up from school,

tell me this wouldn't be fucking awesome. I'm gonna pick her up from school and maybe like, you ready for your shopping spree? And we're just gonna go to the store and I'm just gonna let her surprise. And I'm gonna let her pick whatever. Oh, she'll do it. Let's fill it up.

Just know what you're setting yourself up for. Well, I'm praying. It's not now. It's not now. It's what you're setting your up for. It's her loving that having this good time at this age and then when she gets to like 16, still wanting to do that with that.

Yeah, we're gonna go and buy a car. Yeah, no, no, then it's like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, like, shoving spree's like 10 grand. Well, I think it's just the fun of it, right? The fun of going to the store with your parent and having him be able to pick out whatever. Right. And then we're gonna have dinner at one of those

Benny Hanna type places. Love those, huh? My kids love that shit. I love those too. Where they cook the food in front of you and they throw the frickin' eggs in your face. Yeah, throw the eggs in your face. You ever, you freaking eggs in your face Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, dude You know they throw it in the train you try and catch it in your mouth. I fucking hate that you not good at it

No, that's an athletic thing. No, you know, no, I catch it. But you know what it is What if they throw a little short, so you do this move? You know what bothers me about the throwing the egg in your mouth when it's coming down, what if somebody like breathes a little bit? Is it right? Is it wearing? I mean, I think they have there, has anybody ever died?

I don't know. From the Benihana. Probably not. Egg throw. I don't know, dude. No, your number's guy, you know, might happen. So, yeah. But they always make the chicken,

you know, on the hot plate or whatever. Yeah. You know, they crack the egg and they always draw the chicken out. Yeah. Or they always make the chicken, you know, on the hot plate or whatever. Yeah. You know, they crack the egg and they always draw the chicken out. Yeah. Or they'll make the volcano with the, yeah, the volcano. Yeah, the volcano. That's the best.

When you leave that place, you smell like that place. What did, when, now, what day are you doing this? This is win. It's coming up. I don't wanna say win, but it's coming up. Oh, yeah. Okay, she's listening. Yeah.

No, my dad was just a vipo. Oh, man. God help us. All those weed jokes are joke, honey. That's good. Cause we have our, ours is Friday, right mypug. Oh man. God help us all those weed jokes are joke honey That's gonna because we have our ours is Friday right our real boss is it Friday? We're doing Friday right Doug our Thanksgiving thing Right, it's okay. That's my birthday. You guys have me cooking on my birthday It's your birthday. It's your birthday. Yeah, I'm hosting and cooking on my birthday. I'll give you a massage I'm gonna champion. Yeah, we'll give you a massage. You'll get a forehand massage for handed

You're gonna have a forehand massage. No, I haven't Googleed. Yeah, we'll give you a massage. You'll get a forehand massage. Forehanded. You're a forehand massage? No, I haven't. Google it. It's pretty, it's free legit. It's forehand. Yeah. It's a cover a lot of area real quickly. Yeah, it'll be fun to have all the kids together though.

It will. Yeah, I can't wait. I had a blast with you guys over the other night just with your boys. Yeah, it was fun. Your boys are adorable. You know, your kids are cool to me. You can tell that you do a good job with them. They ask permission when they're a well mannered.

They are. They get beat. They're, they're better. Justin's old school. No, the whole matter. Just a hammer. My mom used to have a spoon. I wouldn't spoon that hung on the wall.

Justin's got a two by four. Yeah. Yeah. Stay put. Stay put. I love it. No. It's a staple. A staple gun club. Yeah. No, it's funny because they brought dessert and they brought these little powder sugar powder cookies. That's really good.

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I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I For those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition, Organified fills the gap with laboratory-tested certified organic superfoods to help give your health a performance-the-edit edge. Try Organified totally risk-free for 60 days by going to Organified.com. 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 Eric Kapel. Would bodybuilding style posing practice be a worthwhile way to increase muscle connection and increase hypertrophy and muscle fiber recruitment for strength?

Absolutely, yeah. Absolutely, you know, one of the, let me tell you something, if trying to connect to a muscle with resistance is easier than connecting to a muscle with no resistance. The reason why, one of the reasons why bodybuilders are so damn good, the best athletes you can find at connecting to individual muscles. Part of it's their training, the other part of it

is because they know how to pose. They'll know how to do a latsbred, they'll know how to give themselves a Christmas tree in a particular position, how to squeeze a bicep a certain way, the tricep dealt, whatever, because they've posed without any outside resistance. Well, think about this, resistance training, okay.

All that resistance training is, is flexion of the muscles with resistance. That's all it is, you're of the muscles with resistance. That's all it is. You're flexing muscles with resistance. So if you practice flexing specific muscles, then hell yes, it's going to carry over into your training. And this is why, like you said, they are so great. This is also why, you know, when people talk shit about certain exercise, like, oh, that's not for that or oh, that's I can take an exercise and make it for a lot of different muscles. Just by, same exercise.

Yeah, same exercise. And, you know, you can take a rear delt fly, and it be for rear delts. You could also do it for traps. You could even get some of your wrong boys and maybe some of your lats engage in a little bit. Like, there's a lot of ways to do a movement and have certain muscles take over.

And if you're really good at doing that without any sort of resistance with just flexing and posing, then when you add resistance with weights, boy, it really enhances that. I honestly think that this is definitely one of those attributes, one of those techniques that bodybuilders present that strength athletes should pick up on. And I honestly think that just focusing on isometric connectivity and contractions and where

you are producing force. And what muscles are contributing is such a crucial part even, even more of a higher performer in your sport. And for them to go through a lot of those poses and connect to their body on that level, I think, would take and elevate their game to a new level they haven't achieved before. Yeah, I remember when I was a kid, one of the hardest muscles for me to feel when I was working out were my lats. It was so hard. I felt everything else before working out were my lats. It was so hard, I felt everything else before I ever felt my lats.

Like I was able to connect to my chest and my delts and of course arms, that was easy, right? Biceps and triceps and quads and hamstrings and glutes and all that. It was really hard for me to be able to just activate my lats. And it's not a coincidence that the time I was able to feel my lats and my workout was also the same time I was able to feel my lats just standing and flexing them.

And it's funny because it happened at the same time, but it's because I became more connected to those muscles. And that is a very important skill. If you're in the gym and you're trying, and it's not just for bodybuilding. Yes, it's important for bodybuilding because you want to be able to connect to a muscle to target it, stress it more and cause more development in that area.

That's obvious. But the other reason why it's important is if I'm trying to teach you a new recruitment pattern, if I'm telling you that you're not activating your glutes very well or you're doing a barbell squat, your ability to feel your glutes is what's going to allow you to connect to the movement in a way that's more beneficial. This is one of the reasons why priming is so effective. Priming, you know, we say it turns on muscles. I mean, that's controversial in terms of turning on or turning off muscles. What I think one of the main benefits is, when you prime a muscle or a movement first, now you know what to feel.

Now, if I can't feel my glutes when I squat, I allocate resources effectively. Right, if I can't feel my glutes when I squat, and I do some hip thrust and really connect and squeeze my glutes with every single rep as a primer, then I go squat, I know what to feel. Now I know where my position is, and what muscles I need to feel

when I'm doing that exercise. Besides all that, flexing your muscles intensely does send a small, it's not a big one, okay? But it does send a small muscle building signal. It's definitely better than not flexing your muscles. That's for sure. So, you know, back in the day, bodybuilders used to actually make this a part of their training.

In fact, Arnold used to talk about how he would do 30 to 40 minutes of posing at the end of his workouts, especially the closer he got to contests. And he used to say that it would bring out sharpness and definition in his muscles. Now I'm not sure if that part's actually true in terms of actually bringing real definition, but I do think that being able to connect to those muscles and activate them better, probably allowed them to pose them in a way to where he could make them more visible.

I know Adam, you competed for a long time. Were you able to find that posing differently or squeezing a muscle differently was able to bring it out, almost make it appear? Oh, 100%. I mean, that's half of it. Half of bodybuilding is being able to present your physique

in its best light, you know, and also hide your flaws. And some of the best bodybuilders are also just the best at doing that. We all are, I mean, I think we all have flaws, we all have weaknesses, like there's no such thing as the perfect physique, right? I think that some guys are just much better at accentuating their strengths and then hiding their flaws and posing is part of that, part of learning how to. And then too, when you're on stage and they're assessing your entire body, and I'm up there hitting a double bis... Although I would never hit a double bis, because I was a men's physique, but say I'm doing a side chest pose

or whatever, and I'm in my twist. Well, that doesn't mean they're not, they're looking all the way from, from my toes, all the way to the center. So you're activating everything all the way up. Yeah, so you're, you're thinking about keeping your calves tense, you're thinking about keeping your core and abs tense, you're thinking about your chest being up

and your shoulders being peeled back at the same time. So you're trying to activate all of them, which only has carried over and made my workout to even better. And like I was saying earlier, I have disability too, taken exercise that maybe traditionally is for one muscle, and that's what it says on the side of the machine,

or that's what most people use for. And I could use it for a total different purpose. Yeah, and here's a great use of flexing. If you have a muscle that you're having trouble developing, throughout the day, activate it. Throughout the day, you regular day when you're not working out, flex that muscle, activate it. And get to the point where you can activate it

by barely moving your body. Like for example, I could make my boobs bounce, right? I could do the peck flex without moving the rest of my body. I don't have to bring my arm across my body to activate my pecks. I could just activate them. I could do that dance. I could do that with my lats too.

I could somewhat do it with my traps. So if you can practice activating that muscle throughout the day, I promise you'll feel more connected to it when you finally go lift and work out for that muscle, you'll be able to connect to it more, which will then lead to better progress. You know, Ben Pekolsky made the comment that, you know, you don't have weak body parts,

you just have body parts you can't activate and stress properly and not accessible. So connect to them better, and then watch what happens when you work out with a better connection to that muscle Next question is from Barbell Scott What's the good amount of cardio to do during the week for good health and not affect the muscle building signal? We got to be we got to make sure we we communicate this properly because I'm getting a lot of people now who are so afraid of cardio Because everything is headed into the red

Well, that's why I said that on this show through the day. I'm like, I just want, you know, just so everybody knows, I did cardio a couple weeks ago. It's not like it's that absent where nobody does it around here. I think that we just have said it so much because the opposite message was being given for so long

that, listen, you don't necessarily have to do cardio, the traditional way where you get out on a track and run or get on a treadmill and just mindlessly run for an hour. There's many other ways to exercise your heart and you can actually do that with weights too. So I think it's important that we note that we're not saying it's bad to do that. No, this real health benefits the cardio and some cardio will actually benefit your muscle growth.

If you have terrible cardiovascular, stamina and endurance and you're lifting weights, a little bit of cardio will improve your cardiovascular endurance and you'll find some carry over to your weight training to where you can work out harder, have shorter reps. Lots of kills me all the time when we do these super sets and we do these muscle endurance type adaptations where I'm just used to picking up the weight like three, four times and then like setting it down whereas, you know, I like conditioning and going through a little bit of cardio will help me to build up more endurance process. I think the, if you really want to do it for your health, really the best thing to do is

monitor your daily meat, your daily steps, your daily movement. That's going to give you, when they do studies of places in the world where people live a long time, these are known as blue zones. These are areas of the world where a disproportionate percentage of their population lives to 100 years old or older, for example. And there's a few of them in the world. There's like Okinawa, Japan is one of them. The island of Sardinia is one the world. There's like Okinawa, Japan is one of them. The island of Sardinia is one of them. There's an island off the coast of Greece.

There's the Loma Linda. Yeah, in Loma Linda, California, there's the Seventh-day Adventist. I think I said that, right? And what they found with their activity levels, they weren't super crazy into working out. None of them were like these. It wasn't a culture of hardcore fitness,

but it was a culture of movement. So for example, in Sardinia, when they were studying the 95 year old man that, and what his daily activity consists of, every day, he'd wake up and he'd walk a mile to the shore and he'd get on his boat and he'd roll himself out and he'd fish. And the fishing was somewhat vigorous.

He'd use a net or whatever. And then he'd roll back in, drag his fish in, he'd clean them, and then maybe later on the day, he'd walk up the hill, gather some berries. So every day there was some kind of activity. Same thing for Okinawa, same thing for pretty much all these other people. So a good amount of cardio for health is just be active every single day.

And here's the other thing too, if you really like doing cardio, just go ahead and do it. Well, this is what I tell people is, okay, if your goal is that you want to do cardio because you feel good, it makes you feel good, you want to be healthy and so you want to strengthen your heart. I get that, and then you also have this, I wanna build muscle, which is fine. If you're doing so much cardio, that you can't build muscle,

probably back off a little bit, but if you're doing lots of cardio and you enjoy it, and you're still able to build muscle, you're not doing too much of it, you're okay, you're fine. So, just, that's kinda how I treat it, and there's gonna be an individual variance for everybody, and also your core can take, it's gonna make a difference if you're fine. So, that's kind of how I treat it. And there's going to be an individual variance for everybody. And also your core can take it. It's going to make a difference if you're somebody like myself who used to struggle with

getting enough calories for my size to continue to build more size. I had to really limit the amount of cardio I was doing because I just couldn't keep up with the calories. It made it really difficult. But if you have no problem consuming the amount of calories that you need and you're also able to do cardio, you'll probably be able to build muscle just fine too. So each person is going to be different. It's interesting to think about when you bring up the example of the blue zones and they're

more active in general and that may be various forms of activity, right? And this is something that's really, in my own personal experience, just understanding more that cardio doesn't have to be on a treadmill, doesn't have to be just walking, it doesn't have to be just hiking, it could be a whole variety of things, and things that are very productive throughout my day,

and that provide purpose in my life. And I think that a lot of the correlations that you may see with, you know, longevity is when you are always, every day you have an activity, you have a purpose, you have something that is driving you to get out of bed and to do things. I think we just as human beings we need that. You know, my favorite form of cardio is playing with my kids. My daughter, you know, when I'll pick her up from school

and, you know, I'll tell her, if you finish your homework quick, then we'll have 45 minutes to rough house. And she gets so excited, she does her homework. And, you know, there's a couple of things that we'll do. Like, one of them is I'll put a blanket on the ground. She'll lay on the blanket and try and hang on while I pull around the house, or I'll swing her around in it, or she'll jump on my back and I'll act like blanket on the ground. She'll lay on the blanket and try and hang on while I pull around the house or I'll swing

her around in it or she'll jump on my back and I'll act like a horse trying to get her off. I'll do the same thing. That was the sandest sack. Oh, he saw me do that. That was awesome. Yeah, and it's just, you know, that's the kind of cardio that brings me purpose. Or some mornings I wake up early and if I don't have the kids, Jessica and I will go for

a long walk with 35, 40 minute walk. And that's my cardio, but it's also very purposeful. And the good thing about cardio is it's pretty general. Like Justin said, you don't have to be specific with your programming, unless you're training for specific type of endurance. Resistance training, there needs to be much more specifics when it comes to programming.

But cardio, just move and you're gonna get the health benefits. Next question is Lawless Fitness? If someone had a bad posterior pelvic tilt, would a low bar squat be a bad idea? How often have you guys seen a really bad posterior pelvic? It's a little more rare, right? I can count on one hand at a time as I've seen it. It's really, really weird.

I wonder if this person is the shitting dog kind of like, well, I'm wondering if this person is getting it backwards. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I think they probably got the answer to that. Well, why don't we address both? Yeah, I'm gonna get it. So let's say you have a bad posture, your pelvic tilt. That's where, like Justin said,

the shitting dog position where, yeah, it's like your tailbone tux. So typically with that person may have really tight hamstrings and glutes that don't want to fire. And maybe some weakness in the muscles of the low back. What I found with this particular person is if they're able to retract their shoulders, if they're able to pull their shoulders back and actually have a bar on their back,

box squats is a really good way to get this, to teach this person to get the right tilt with the squat. So I'll put a bar on their back. If they can do it, if they can hold the bar, and then I'll put a box behind them or a bench, and I'll have them focus on sitting back and sitting down while maintaining a little bit more of an anterior pelvic tilt,

and I'll tell them, I want you to, I want your hamstrings and the bottom of your butt, where your hamstrings meet your butt, that's the part I want to touch the bench or the box, sit there for a second and stand up, and it tends to teach them to fire the proper muscles or do the proper form for the squat. For an anterior pelvic tilt, there's some different stuff. Really it's about bracing the core more than anything.

Adam, what's your feet, because you have probably the worst anterior pelvic tilt among the three of us. So, it's more common, I should say. Working your lower abs, right? Which is, or working your abdominals period, but doing movements that engage the lower abdominals, like lifting your legs up and then tilting

the pelvic, the other direction is what I love to do which would be like your back presses or doing like a reverse crunch I think is a great way to prime before you go in and you're not doing it to fatigue so you're not trying to blast the abs you're just trying to get yourself to the point where you can activate that also doing the wall presses so the wall wall presses, the back press, reverse crunches are all come on my favorite things to get that activity. Otherwise, if you go into that, you're already in an excessive arch and then if you load that excessive arch, then at the bottom of that, you're going to feel a lot of stress. They have to really learn how to break. One of the best things I ever learned was, you

know, I used to work with this physical therapist and she was really brilliant in some of the stuff that she would do. And she would do with her clients when she would have them squat or do a movement, the ones that had a strong anterior tilt, which is, that's where your butt sticks out, is she'd poke them in the stomach. And they'd, and she'd say, okay, I want you to brace yourself,

like I'm gonna poke you in the stomach. So just by bracing the front side of the body, it would take some of that sheer force, shearing force off the lower back, and it would help them kind of neutralize that position a little bit. This is also where I see hip thrust a lot, too. This would be a good place for hip thrust.

Somebody who has a hard time with that because you're really isolating the glutes and trying to focus on them squeezing the glutes and having the pelvic come forward. So that's another place that I think I would definitely introduce it. Just be cautious that that person, their default is going to drive through their hip flexors, so you have to really teach

them first, like the back press technique, then to drive through the glutes before they do it. Now, a low bar squat by nature, what the low bar squat is towing is, so you have your, you put the bar on your back. I would think there's more risk of the high bar than a low bar. It depends on your form. It out of the high bar than a low bar. Yeah. It depends on your form. Because it's a longer lever. It's a longer lever. Yeah, if you're still bending forward,

if you're able to sit down in a nice squat, then you're okay. Like a little bit lifters. Oh, yeah, definitely. I mean, but I mean, if we're talking about any sort of a tilt, you know, posterior or anterior, a high bar squat is gonna be more technical than a low bar squat

because it's a longer lever. I feel like it requires more difficult mobility stuff for the average person. This is one of the reasons why I hate. Oh, especially shoulders. Yeah, this is one of the reasons why I hate putting a bar pad or when people put a bar pad on the bar because it automatically brings the bar higher, lengthens the lever and then people don't typically don't have the mobility to just sit down into a nice squat. Crosses your head forward. Yeah.

You're in a bad position with that. Yeah, because when you go low bars, my power lifts tend to do that. It shortens the lever and allows them to use more of their hips. So I can bend forward. The weight isn't so high on their body. So there's less load being placed in that position on the hips and the low back and they can squat more. But what ends up happening with a lot of people, and this may not be true for the person

asking the question, but you see a lot of power lifters who do a really low bar squat with a really wide stance because it maximizes leverage. Then they start to push that position where it looks like it's like a modified good morning almost. Then they start to get back injury and back injury and back injury because they're just, they're pushing leverage. So we have a good friend that tends to do this quite a bit.

So, you know, when it comes to the bar position, what I found for most clients is kind of in the middle. I don't think a low bar squat or a high bar squat tends to benefit most people. You know, if anything, what I like about a mid to a lower bar squat is it kind of helps retract people and get them with their chest up. That's how I started with a lower to mid bar squat to get better at my squat first. Because what I definitely found when it was up high, my shoulders were rolled forward. I had a longer lever.

I was more anterior focus for me. Right. So doing the low bar or low to mid bar squat helped retract the shoulders and puffed my chest up as I decelerated into the squat. So it's just it's independent on the personal or what we're talking about here. One easy thing you can do, this is more general, but it's kind of an easy approach,

is let's say you're doing a movement and you notice that you have your hips are in the wrong position or you feel like your back is too arched or not arched enough, use a very, very light weight and then train the movement with the position that you want. So what I mean by that is rather than doing squats to challenge yourself to squat more weight and to work your legs out, what you're doing is you're using lightweight and you're trying to squat with the right pelvic tilt, if that makes any sense. So you're not going to be challenging your legs much. You're challenging the technique.

You're challenging the technique. And this goes back to stuff something we've talked about in the past, which is train movements and perfect and practice your exercise rather than going to try to work out. Practice your exercise. So you're going into practice your squat. And if this part of the squat that you're having issues with is your pelvic tilt, don't add any weight.

You're not in there to work out your legs right now. All you're trying to do is learn how to squat with the right pelvic tilt, which means you're gonna be squatting with very lightweight and you're gonna have to brace your core and position yourself properly, and you're probably gonna have to go slow and practice and practice and practice.

And then over time, you'll be able to add weight to the bar and then start to challenge your legs. But initially, it's gonna be all about practicing the movement to the point where you're not gonna have an issue with your pelvic tilt while you're squatting. Well, I know I did a video on this, at least one, if not two videos on our Mind Pump TV on YouTube, is the, and this is what I love using the PVC pipe for, where you take that the PVC pipe and you put it on the back of somebody and you show them the three points

of contact with behind the nodule that vertically goes right down your spine. Yeah, right down their spine, so they should feel it touching at their head, they're upper back and then they're low back right by their hips, those three points of contact. They should be able to squat all the way down into a nice deep squat and not lose those three points of contact, and if they can,

that's what they should keep practicing until they can before they even think about loading with any sort of a barbell on their back. Next question is from Sammy Juni. What is the endo-cannabinoid system? Endo-cannabinoids. Endo-cannabinoids. You know, it's crazy about the endo-cannabinoid system. This is what I, this is such a cool story. We had no idea that it even existed. It's like a new thing.

Well, we had no idea that it existed and the whole reason why we discovered it, marijuana. Yeah, it was because scientists were trying to figure out why the fuck marijuana had this psychoactive effect on it. Thank you, Mary Jane. So scientists were like, what is it doing?

We know it's attaching to some receptor and it's mediating some kind of an effect because when you smoke marijuana, you get high, and there's a psychoactive effect. And so for years, they were trying to discover how this worked in the body, and through studying the cannabis plant, they discovered these receptors that the cannabinoids attached to. Now, endo, first

of all, they named the system after the cannabis plant. So it's your endo, endo, meaning your own body cannabinoid system after the cannabis plant. And what they found was actually quite fascinating. So there's two receptors that we've identified in the body. There's a CB1 and CB2 receptor and they are in a class of receptors known as G-protein coupled receptors. These are receptors that are oftentimes targeted by pharmaceutical companies because these receptors tend to tell the inside of a cell what to do. So if we can target like an opiate receptor, which is another G-protein coupled receptor, it'll have like these wide-ranging effects in the body. Well, what we end up finding is that the CB receptors from the cannabinoid system are the most, one of the most

abundant in the whole body. It's found throughout the whole body. That's very high concentrations in your nervous system, your brain, in your gut. It's very's very high concentrations in your nervous system, your brain, in your gut. It's very, very high concentrations in your bones. It's pretty much everywhere in the endocrine system. But the highest concentrations are like in the nervous system, the gut, and I believe in the endocrine system. That's what else have they found affects this system?

Well, they've found, because once they figured this out, they discovered the natural cannabinoids that we produce. And they think there's two of them, or three that they've identified, the one that's most studies studied is known as anandamide. And what they discovered through the system is that it's a system that helps regulate neurotransmitters and it works in retrograde, meaning most neurotransmitters move from a presynapse to a postsynapse.

So there's like one direction. The cannabinoid system goes backwards. And so that was kind of fascinating. So it's feedback. Yeah, it's like feedback and it's telling the body kind of what to do. We also discovered that because this system is throughout the whole body and because of the way it communicates, it's kind of a regulator. It's a regulator of sorts.

So there's a few things that they've identified. Well, you normally have a really good analogy for this, like your amp and speakers. Like if you were to give an analogy to somebody because it's kind of tough to understand any of the body systems without having sort of some sort of a physiology background. So what would you explain this in laymen's terms?

All right, let me try to, let me think how I can explain. All right, imagine if you're operating a machine that needed all these different fuel systems, and so you're just pumping it full of these different fuels, but there was no feedback. So you didn't know what was too much or what was too little. So you'd have to kind of guess, it'd be very difficult. The only way you'd know would be if you could get some kind of feedback.

Like, oh, okay, too much oxygen here. You know, not enough gas here. Pressure is gone up. Yeah, so the cannabinoid system is that it's like a feedback system. So it's like telling your body, hey, we need immune system ramping up. Hey, we need immune system to come down a little bit. Hey, we need to clamp down, clamp down, it's active in your body's ability to control cancer cells or finding. It's a part of the inflammatory process of your body, meaning, and this is the cool thing about this. It is anti-inflammatory, but it's not anti-inflammatory in the same way N-Sed drugs are, or anti-inflammatory

like cortisone shots are, where it's just kind of hammers down inflammation. The cannabinoid system regulates the inflammatory system so that it's appropriate. So if you have too much inflammation because of something else, it'll help bring it down. But if you, but it's not going to bring it down to a point where it's going to become detrimental. So this is also why we get these claims of the marijuana plant being good for everything. It's better, it's good for your skin, it's good for anxiety, it's good for gut, it's good for all these things because this system is abundant in our entire body. And if it attaches to these receptors,

then that's why we can get away with saying that marijuana is good for all these different things because it's so is that right? Yeah, it affects so many different systems. And now there's a couple theories as to why people are seeing medicinal benefits, wide-ranging medicinal benefits, I should say, from using cannabinoids,

which by the way, include the non-cycle active varieties of cannabinoids like CBD. Yeah, cannabidiol, which you can find in hemp. For example, we work with a company, Ned, that produces a product that gives full spectrum cannabinoids from hemp, minus the cycle active cannabinoid THC. Now THC has its own benefits, but it gets you high.

A lot of people don't like that, plus it's heavily regulated, so you can't just go take this in every state, although I like it. At some point, exactly. At some point, it'll be that way. But there's some theories, I think that, when you, that maybe some disorders develop as a result of your own cannabinoid system

becoming fatigued, if you will. Like your body's not producing enough of its own cannabinoids for whatever reason. And we're not quite sure why this is happening. It may be something similar to like when people are under too much stress, over and over and over again, and their cortisol levels and their other hormones get out of whack.

And so sometimes supplementing people with hormones makes them feel better. You're not necessarily figuring out the root cause, but at least you're solving a lot of the, like if your thyroid productions low, it's important to figure out why your thyroid productions low, but meanwhile, you're gonna need to take thyroid

because having low thyroid is bad. It's bad for you, right? So there's some theories as to why this may be happening. But we do know that having low production of cannabinoids, your own cannabinoids, may result in things like fibromyalgia, autoimmune disorders, it may result in depression, it may result in more severe PMS symptoms, dysregulated sleep, there's like a whole host of things. And so supplementing with cannabinoids from a cannabinoid,

a cannabis plant, what's they call phyto cannabinoids, may alleviate many of these symptoms. Irritable bowel syndrome and digestive disorders is a really big one. So there's a lot of theories as to why it benefits so many different ailments. I think medicine, we're going to start to see some revolutions in medicine through cannabinoid type treatments. I think cancer is a big one. I think we're going to find autoimmune disorders. I have a family member who has Crohn's disease and the science and studies that are coming out

with cannabinoids and how they affect Crohn's is actually starting to become quite fucking fascinating. And this is a disorder that you get a Western medicine doctor and their answer is to put you on low dose chemo and to give you super potent anti-inflammatories to handle the symptoms, but those things have their own negative side effects on top of it. You think in conjunction with concentrated pharmaceuticals

with something like cannabidiol, like some kind of cannabis, you could actually prescribe a little bit lower dose in combination with it. There's some studies that show that when people use cannabinoids with opiates that they require far less of a dose of opiates. And it's funny because it's a different way

of helping you with pain. They're not quite sure how it reduces pain for a lot of people because it's different. It's not necessarily a pain killer, but for sure there's definitely an effect for a lot of people when they use cannabinoids that they just find that they have less pain. It could be the systemic reduction in inflammation. It could be the way the body perceives pain. It could maybe increase your body's, how your body utilizes its own natural opiates or synthetic one that you may take.

And so they're finding that cannabinoids are great adjuvant therapy alongside pharmaceuticals. Chimotherapy is a great example. Animal studies are showing that when they give animals high doses of cannabinoids in conjunction with chemotherapy, they need way less chemo and it kills way more cancer and it has way less side effects. That's how I think it's going to be used. The way I think it's going to be used is we're going to find that it's going to work really well in combination with chemo for certain types of cancer. So now you're gonna go to the doctor, they're gonna say your stage one or stage two

or whatever cancer, we're gonna give you this dose of chemo, which is much lower than what we used to do, along with this high dose of cannabinoids, and we're finding that to be more effective. Because chemo does kill cancer, the problem is it kills everything else. On top of it, and so if you could find something that'll,

you know, augment its effects and mitigate the side effects, that's going to be a huge one. CBD is fascinating for anxiety. That's where you're really starting to see it, start to kick ass, is it's enziolytic effects. It's a really interesting, if you've never used CBD before, you don't like take it and feel it. It's like you take it and you're like,

oh, shit, I just took CBD. But if you're anxious, you just notice like, oh, I'm kind of less anxious. There's some studies that show that the endocannabinoid system also plays a role in your sociability, which obviously would point to its inzealitic effect. So I've seen, this is anecdote now, and I believe there was one study if I'm not mistaken,

but I've read plenty of anecdote where people who have general anxiety type disorder where they're social anxiety, they'll take high doses of CBD, and then they'll say, wow, I went to a party and I didn't feel as anxious, and I could talk to more people, and I felt better. The good thing about

cannabinoids in particular is their non-toxic potential. And this happens, by the way, this is the natural cannabinoids we've discovered. This is not the same with the synthetic cannabinoids because scientists have actually created synthetic cannabinoids. Yeah, they've created zombies. And you've got, and you've got like these fucking gray market fuckers who are putting it in like fake weed to sell it because it's illegal in the state to buy cannabis. And kids are smoking this shit. It was as good as ideas, basalt. Yeah, and they're getting all these crazy effects. But, but these natural cannabinoids, the toxicity is so low that it's like the LD50 represents

how much of a compound you would need to take to kill half of the people who took it. So like caffeine, for example, if you were trying to figure out a LD50 for it, I don't remember what the number is. I think it's 2,000 milligrams or 1,000 milligrams. Like, if you give 1,000 milligrams of caffeine to 100 people, half of them would die. That's what the LD 50 number is. With THC, which is psychoactive,

they can't really come up with an LD 50 because it's so impractical, it'd be impossible to get. That's why they have these stupid edibles with like 1,000 milligrams of it. That's why they can get away with it. I wouldn't suggest that you probably have a really bad time, but you won't die. CBD, same thing, super non-toxic.

Like, you know, an active amount might be between five to 50 milligrams, but they've done studies with 500 to 1000 milligrams and, you know, there's no negative, you know, side effects or toxic side effects. So that's another thing that's really exciting about it. But it's a system in the body that's responsible for quite a few things.

It's responsible for brain development in many cases. They're finding high doses of natural cannabinoids in breast milk. So when a mother breast feeds her baby, she's putting out a certain amount of, I think an endomide is the one that's found in breast milk, and that's benefiting the baby. Doesn't this just piss you off?

Yeah. Because it's been here the whole time, and it's just because regulations, and just because of hysteria, that we're just figuring out, there's a whole system of theia that were just figuring out. There's a whole system of the body that we need to study and explore. You know, it really made me mad years ago when I had the family member who had cancer because I started doing research trying to find a natural way she could help herself.

And the one that was supported by the most science was where cannabinoids and what really infuriated me was there was a study done in 1972 or 1974 by the government. And the study was to try to find a connection between marijuana and lung cancer. And that's what they went in with. The goal was, we have to find it. Yeah, because there was this whole campaign to get people to not smoke weed. And they made it public enemy number one. And what they started to see what the study was

No, no there was no cancer Connection in lung cancer where people smoking marijuana and then they started to find a somewhat protective effect for head and neck Cancer like they found that way to met there might be a correlation between cannabis smoke and slight reduced risk of cancer. And so then the government shut the study down and sealed it and didn't want anybody to see it. And now we know it's because cannabinoids have this kind of anti- you know cancer effect and that that was probably why. But it is infuriating. They also find that people who smoke weed and smoke cigarettes have lower rates of lung cancer.

The people who just smoke cigarettes. Right. Just because of the counter effects. It is and it's funny, you know We had all these fires recently in California and shout out to everybody who's who's affected by that Oh, yeah super tragic. Yeah, you know, I We hope you we wish you all the best. It's terrible terrible biggest fires in California history But the air quality's been terrible outside. And I was telling Jessica, you know, what we should probably do to protect ourselves from the pollution

that we're breathing in, smoke some weed. It's the vape, well, vaping is better because it's less of the tar and shit. It's the vape cannabis because it's anti-cancer effects in the lungs. I mean, how funny is that, right? Pretty much my answer for everything. Yeah.

This sucks. That's why you're so healthy, Adam. I'm smoke some weed. Yeah, right? Pretty much my answer for everything. This sucks. It's like so healthy, Adam. Yeah, that's funny. He's the healthiest. Rub some tussin on it. That's hilarious. Anyway, look, check this out. If you go to MindPumpFree.com, you can download any of our free fitness guides. There's like 12 of them up there.

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