The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Chervin Jafarieh #3 - Part 1 of 2: On Essential Health Practices, Unhealthy Life Habits, Victim Mentality, & How We Unnecessarily Suffer

Episode Date: September 5, 2022

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I just want to take a minute, a moment of silence for you to acknowledge that I do not have candles lit to fuck with your endocrine system. Thank you so much. That really means a lot to acknowledge that I do not have candles lit to fuck with your endocrine system. Thank you so much. That really means a lot to me that you are not fucking with my endocrine system. I made the whole team. I said, nobody wears cologne today. Nobody wears perfume. I said, don't fuck around today. I just have a question for you to manipulate, Michael. Let's kick this off on the right foot. Candles, cologne, deodorant with a newborn. I don't wear deodorant. Let's you. Okay. Let me tell.

Let me tell. Yesterday, he walks in to my baby's room smelling like Sephora. No, I don't. I know. And then he puts the baby on his shirt. So the baby's like breathing in like Clinique happy or whatever. Hold on. Tell the truth.

I sprayed a little on my shirt, but that's it. I didn't do it. Tell us all the dangers of that. Just go off. Oh God. Well, this is going to go. The masking of all of our body's odors and everything that we have has become like a, I don't know, trillion dollar business from deodorants to makeup to all those things. And what are we doing here? We're basically shutting down our body's ability to say, hey, there might be something foul going on in the body, right? And people are basically living and sitting in their own toxic soup.

And then we're adding deodorant on top of it or adding cologne and all these things. And subliminally, we're shutting down the body's ability to tell us something is off. And that whole industry of blocking, we always talk about we're masking the symptoms with our health and nutrition, but we're also masking it with our clothes, with our deodorant, with our colognes or perfumes, all that kind of stuff. And that stuff is an immediate shockwave of a toxic load. So depending on which perfume or cologne or whatever it is, you're getting basically like you're mainlining those chemicals into your body. So all of a sudden you have an inflammatory response and then you have oxidative stress. So usually like goes in that layer. In my opinion,

it's one of the main assaults that we have on mankind right now, because not only is that stuff getting into everyone's bodies, it's getting into our waterways. It's getting into our atmosphere. It's getting everywhere. It's in the soil. It's like, where do these chemicals go? They don't evaporate. They're just getting washed into our water supply. It's insanity levels. And then the concept of deodorant for women, especially men too. Why would you want to plug up the main detox pathway in that area of the lymph system? That is one of the most crucial areas to release hormones and toxins and heavy metals and whatever metabolic stuff that's building up, you know, throughout your every day. And so, you know, I'm not going to say it's a direct

link to breast cancer, but there are studies out there that show that it makes sense. I mean, you know, that's a, that's a crucial area. And so many things are going on there, including phytoestrogens and all the other stuff. I don't wear deodorant and it's really offensive to Michael after I just had a baby. I don't wear deodorant and it's really offensive to Michael after I just had a baby. No, I don't wear deodorant either. I feel like the epidural, this is so crazy, needs to like sweat out of me. I know you don't love an epidural, I'm sure. I'm not, I don't shame. No, you had to do what you had to do. Okay. So I feel like it's coming out of my system. If you had a newborn, would you just not wear cologne at all? Nothing. I don't wear cologne

at all. I haven't worn cologne in 15, 16 years. I remember I had that cool water or that dulce de gabbana or whatever for a little bit. I haven't worn cologne or deodorant in 15 years. Once in a while, we'll put on some kind of crystal or clay or whatever so it's not blocking the pathways. But because I don't have candida in my body and I'm cleansing constantly, I'm not building up layers of toxic load and my pheromones are speaking for me right we want our pheromones to speak for for us and so if you're constantly just blocking that you have no idea what you're working with and that's what i was talking about earlier i was saying that we if you are smelling like sulfur that means

something's going off in the body. That's why I don't go to gyms anymore. I can't deal with that. Smelling is one of the most powerful senses. You smell your mom's cooking. You remember being seven years young in your mom's kitchen. You remember the food. All the memories pop up.

You smell solvents and all these chemicals. Where is that taking you? It's taking you to hell. It's so interesting because when I was pregnant, I became so sensitive to house cleaning supplies. And so I just did a whole... After you came on the podcast too, I completely cleared everything out. We switched to branch basics. I hope you approve. No, no. Anything that you can do to support a company and support yourself by using the right chemicals and the right solvents and the right products in your own house is so important. We're worried about the lawn,

but we're not worried about what's inside our house. And it's like, you have to be using these things in your home. It's so important. We talked about this. This came up in our last conversation in Symbiotica. We're working our tails off to release the entire home line. We're very, very close. I'd say we're a few months away. And so it's just as important. And I'm all for supporting companies that are doing things the right way. They're packaging it the right way and they're using the right nutrients to create homeostasis in the built environment in your home. And that's what the whole thing is. Chemicals are used to like destroy everything, right? Remember during the pandemic,

everyone was putting all the weird alcohols and Lysols and spraying it everywhere. What does that stuff do? That stuff kills everything in its path, just like an antibiotic. It's the same thing. You can't have this stuff in your home. You need to have a nice balanced ecosystem in your home.

You're breathing, you're playing, you're touching, you have kids. This is like, it's bonkers out there. balanced ecosystem in your home you're breathing you're playing you're touching you have kids this is like it's bonkers out there i now if anyone uses anything any kind of cleaning supply anything i can immediately smell it when you switch over like you're saying to all natural and you smell something that's not you immediately are like it's it's like what the fuck to your senses, which tells me that we're not really supposed to be using all of this stuff to cover stuff up. No, we're not. It's repulsive, actually. It's a repulsive feeling. I'm repulsed by these biochemical warfares. I want to

throw up. I want to get out of there. And I'm also releasing cortisol on a high level. I can tell the stress hormones are kicking in. Not to mention, I mean, just think about it. You're breathing. Imagine someone's breathing this three, four times a day. It's nonstop. Just breathing out. What is that doing to their brain chemistry?

You know what I mean? Like we're talking about neurotransmitters that are out of whack. You know, you're kind of almost getting to the point where you're numbing your frontal cortex and other things as well. It's insanity. So let's, can we go a little deeper on this?

And then I have another question, but shampoos, conditioners, body washes. Yeah. What about that? Same thing. I mean, come on. Is there a brand that you go to or what do you do? I mean, I kind of make everything at my house.

Oh God. So you're like, you're breaking bad. Yeah. Like breaking bad. Yeah, of course. What are the ingredients if you were going to use like a kind of soap to clean your body? Like what ingredients would you look for? You got coconut oil, of course. Coconut oil is antibacterial, antimicrobial. I love fats on my body. Fats feel good. Apple cider vinegar, lemon. There's a couple of herbs, you know,

that you can use. Charcoal, things like that. Why change the alchemy of your body? So I'm big on like your skin. Like I take skin really important, but I'm not like this whole, like putting nine serums on my face and doing all this bullshit. We have a pH on our skin. It's a microbiome. And every time you mess with it, you're dilapidating that biome. And then you're opening up yourselves to funguses and different things. And then you have inflammation. Inflammation causes dryness. Then you have wrinkles and all that kind of stuff. So I only want to put anything on my body that my body receives it well and understands it. And there's no like warfare on my system. And that goes for shampoos, that goes for conditioners, that goes for body wash, all that kind of stuff.

Is there anything you do when you get your groceries? Like do you soak your fruits and vegetables? I saw this on TikTok and like white vinegar. Like are there things that you do before you eat things that you get at the grocery store? It depends. I mean, if you're getting your veggies at a farmer's market, you know how they're growing it. I don't do that because I want those. I want those biotics in there, right? I don't want to rinse off little microbes and stuff like that. I love getting food from the farmer's market and there's snails and worms. And I'm all about, I'll eat all that stuff. Because that's like- You eat the snails.

I'll eat the snail, for sure. I will eat the snails now that you just told me to eat the snails. I didn't know I could eat the snails. I'll eat anything for beauty. Right. Like if you tell, like I will, I will eat, if you're like drink Michael's cum down your throat for beauty. Yeah, that's a lot of beauty right there.

Well, we're working on it. You might age in reverse actually, Lauren. We're working on a spermidine product. Oh, really? Are you being serious? I'm so serious, of course. What is a spermidine product? Explain that.

We're pivoting. We're pivoting now. Yeah. Changing to sperm. Well, spermidine is a very interesting compound. It's a powerful nutrient and it induces some of the actions of fasting and autophagy. It really is a very interesting molecule for anti-aging. It's usually designed and created through a fermentation process, but it's very similar in terms of what

is in our sperm, in terms of the coating and the nutrients that keep the sperm alive. And so it's like, it's the nectar, it's the golden nectar, right? And I just say this right now, like for women out there and whoever's listening to this, we hold a lot of our men hold a lot of their toxins and a lot of their karma

and a lot of their frequency in that, in that alchemy. So choose wisely, know exactly who you're dealing with and look at their regimen. Make sure they're clean. Hold on, hold on, hold on. So you're saying if someone gives someone a blowjob

and they ejaculate in their face and it's all over their face that I'm taking on that frequency and that karma. Why do you have to be so vulgar? I'm just wondering. I'm going to get killed for this. The headline. Can you imagine the headline yeah yeah the typewriter's going right now oh my god but it you actually take on the energy through the sperm i was thinking more um of them swallowing it oh okay yeah but i'm sure there's something there in the residual on the on the topical as

well let's get real. I thought you were going to angle if somebody like... Ejaculates in you? In you as well. No, it was having her... For sure, yeah, yeah. It was inseminating someone. It was having a, you know...

Regular sex. Yeah, regular sex. That too. See, we're all on different pages here. Lauren was on the dirtiest page. Jesus Christ. Yeah, she's full on. I like your frequency.

So that's good, right? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Well, when I meant by frequency, I didn't mean it's so cosmic. I meant it more like you know how they're spending their every days. You know what the foods they're putting in their body. You know what they're not doing, right? Like people are still like, you know, eating weird shit all day long.

And they're backed up and they're constipated and they're filled with chemicals. Their livers are dilapidated. Their lungs are filled with crap. And they're just like a big poison bag. That's a big majority of the population. Unfortunately, it breaks my heart. And that's why we have these conversations so we can help motivate and give opportunities for people to come into balance. That's really what it's all about. We can't just like fly by and just roll dice with our health and our life. If you had a magic wand that you could just use against...

I do have a magic wand. Okay. No, go ahead. Show it. Show your frequency. Oh, here we go. Michael. How good's your karma?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So good. These are dating questions now. Let's brand it in Symbiotica. Sherveen special. Sherveen frequency. If you had a magic wand. Symbiotica team, I'm so sorry.

If you had a magic wand that you could just say. You got to think about that. Your team's pretty big now. You got to think about all the different people listening. HR is going to call. He's good. If you could say and edit what the world was doing, like you can edit what they're eating, you know, what, what products they're using at home and they're cleaning.

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foods. I can't pay for these supplements. I don't know where to get clean water. I don't want to do these things. You don't need so much abundance to get sun on your body at 6 a.m. You don't need so much money to figure out where you're going to get a healthy meal. You have to take ownership of your life first and foremost. So I think that there has been a great deal of effort to remove the sovereignty, I would say soul, from humanity. And that sovereignty soul is missing. And it's taking us down a course of escapism behavior, blaming behavior, anger behavior, blaming the big bad government, blaming their neighbor, blaming their parents on the trauma. This never is working out for anyone. And it's creating a slippery slide for us to develop toxic tendencies and toxic patterns. And so for me, it's like, okay,

what are your toxic patterns? What are you doing in the last two weeks that's taking you out of your front and center, that's not taking you closer to getting to a step where you have abundance, the things that you're crying for and so sad that you don't have? What are you doing every single day to right that ship? Because there is opportunity out there. There's so much opportunity in this world. And I know some people got dealt a very difficult hand. I mean, my parents immigrated with nothing to this country. They worked their ass off.

My father killed himself to provide for my sister and my mother to give us a life, to give me an opportunity to grow. Everyone thinks that all this just developed and evaporated from a rainfall. It did not. It was blood, sweat, tears, sacrifice. And I want to thrust that into the souls of hearts and hearts of men and women. We can talk about all the different strategies, all the different tactics, all those things. But without this type of consciousness, it's all for nothing. It's all for nothing. That's the cornerstone of my message. Follow me on social media. That's really all I'm talking about. Especially in the last two years, we're ingrained, especially in this culture, for

whatever reason now, there's this whole thing. Anytime you start to tell people they got to start thinking about helping themselves and that nobody's coming to save you, the first thing, privilege, privilege. It's like, okay, throw that aside. Still nobody's coming to save you. You have to take accountability for your health, for your own life, for the actions you take, for your success or your failure. And you have to realize that nobody's coming. Nobody cares about your backstory. It doesn't matter. Everybody's got issues. Everybody got their own problems. And you can cite privilege or you can tell it, you can give yourself 80 reasons about why you can't do something or why you can't do

something or why you don't have something. But the fact of the matter is until you start taking personal accountability, nothing is going to change. That's right there. I mean, that's it. The victim mentality has disabled our values and our ability to stand up for ourselves. What you just said was flawless. And it's not having empathy or compassion for people that are going through rough times.

I mean, mother of God, the last three years of my life was the most difficult time of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father. I was on the verge of collapse. We all have these obstacles. That's what makes us who we are. That is the medicine of life and the elixir of becoming your dharmic warrior. And that's the path of the warrior. And

then we go through the dark nights of our soul. And so if you're listening to this, and this is a really hilarious conversation with, I think, a lot of keys and a lot of coding, is that there are so many routes to go with your health in terms of detoxification, in terms of nutrition, in terms of figuring out a balance and homeostasis with your training and your workouts and your breath work and finding faith in something and figuring out your sphere of influence with your friends and family. That's so important. But at the core of it is your ability to look yourself in the fucking mirror and have discernment with your life and the choices that you've made to get you to where you are because you are some of the decisions you have made. That's the true essence.

Let's talk about that more. This podcast has an underlining theme that you are the, not everything, but there is a big part that you are some of the decisions that you make. You are the sum of the decisions you make. And quickly to people, like when you say, when you talk about empathy for people that may be in these tougher situations, I actually think this is the most empathetic position because you're telling them, listen, if you fundamentally understand that nobody is going to help you and that it's not going to change, the government's not going to help you, your neighbor's not going to help you, your friend, your dad, your mom, nobody's coming. It's all on you. And you could

get that message through them. That's the moment when someone can start saying, okay, now I can change my life because I realize I have to change my life. Nobody else is going to change my life for me. Michael, that's it. What other choice do you have? You don't have a choice. You don't have any other choice. So are we going to be stuck in illusion? Are we going to be stuck in the, I would say the pattern of pain and frustration that you've probably done your entire life? Or are you going to call yourself higher and say, fuck it. This is, I'm not going to wait till the next life. I'm all in right now because there's no other choice. Yeah. People get mad at the bluntness of the message or the messenger, but it's the right message. It's the truth.

It's how I learned. I remember feeling like a victim at certain points in my life and it just tailspin me out of what I'm here to serve and what I'm here to do. What I'm doing on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, monthly basis is not easy. Sometimes I put stories of us overlooking our garden in the Pacific Ocean and walking barefoot and traveling to cool places, but that's just like 30, 40 seconds of my timeline. What they don't see is getting up at 5 a.m.

and fucking grinding for eight, nine hours straight, not breathing barely straight, not breathing barely sometimes, not even eating food, sweating, dealing with manufacturing, dealing with all my farmers, dealing with all my extractors, dealing with 10,000 people messaging me a day, telling me their life story and the pain and trauma they're going with. It's like me attacking you being like, I need to get my baby weight off. Give me something. Right. Yeah. Well, I'm here for that one. And so you get my drift, you know, firsthand, it's all relative. We, you know, our lives, we're talking about it before it's like storytelling and so many people project what they think someone is or who they are or why they are. They have no clue.

They're just seeing one segment and they're coming up with their own form of perspective. And that right there is a fatal flaw. And you're just creating a disservice for yourself. I try to say this all the time. When people watch my Instagram stories, even if there's 30 dots at the top, that is five minutes of my day. Five minutes. Literally add it up. It's five minutes. The podcast is two hours of my week. So if you're just basing your opinions, it's projection. It's so true. You're not seeing you sweating, you waking up at five, you doing all the stuff to get you to the place where you can put your feet in the sand and look out at the

Pacific Ocean. That's right. They're missing the 110 hours of the rest of the week. Yeah. I really wanted you to come on because selfishly, obviously I'm postpartum, but I think also there's so many people listening who have had a baby or they're in postpartum or maybe it's two years later. Getting ready to have one. Whatever it is. And I think this is the perfect platform to discuss postpartum in general. It's incredible how many messages I got when I said I'm going to Austin, but I didn't say any details.

And I got at least maybe 100 people have messaged me saying, please tell me you're going back on the skinny and you're going to talk about postpartum. People really want to talk about postpartum. People really want to talk about it. I don't know. How did they figure that out? Because we mentioned it maybe or...

Because I've been snapping tips that you've been giving me on my stories postpartum. So I've been saying like you told me, this is just a little tip, you told me to eat poached eggs because the yolk is more raw and it's really good postpartum. You also told me to get cold and ice to burn fat. Like you've given me a little. We have about 200 people outside after this because you're sticking around for the signing, right? You're doing.

Sure. Yeah. I'm going to sign with my left foot. Cologne and deodorant on there. Ready to go. Hey, I'm built for this. So what are those postpartum Easter eggs that you can share with the audience? What are things?

I love like little tips. And I will say this, whatever you guys have been talking about and saying, okay, I was there the first time. Yeah. First postpartum. Well, I hope you were there. And let me tell you, let me tell you, it was, it was rough on me. I was, nobody, nobody talked about the trauma that I went through.

Yeah. I mean, it was like, don't be a victim of your trauma. We can go back to the archives in here, but no, it was, I mean, listen, bad headspace. She wasn't happy with the results. She was not in a good mood. I mean, we talked about it. I was happy with the result.

That was my baby. Wait, what? Not that result. Yeah, I was going to ask him, what does he mean by not happy with the results? No, she was just like her... She was her... How do I say?

I was in a fog. She was in a fog. Okay, gotcha, gotcha. She was in a fog. I was not in a good place. Listen, we've already gone through that. We've already gone through. We've already dragged me through the mud of...

But this pregnancy, I supplemented the whole time with Symbiotica. I did my minerals. I'm going to say this time, it's like night and day. She's much better move. We're doing ice baths. She's supplementing. Whatever you're telling her is what I'm saying is obviously working night and day compared to the first pregnancy.

That warms my heart. And I think that's the greatest news of all time. And I think... It's the greatest.. That warms my heart. And I think that's the greatest news of all time. And I think it's so important for both, you know, man and woman to come together during that process because, you know, you guys are bouncing energy off each other. I don't want to get to your favorite word granular here. That's Lauren's favorite word. Is that Lauren's favorite word? Okay. You know, there's some technical aspects that happen during pregnancy and post-pregnancy almost immediately. And I'm just going to, I'll just make it very basic.

You know, so you have progesterone levels that are skyrocketing during pregnancy for number of reasons. I think one of the main reasons is loosening up all your ligaments so you can move the body and do all that kind of stuff. And then you also have prolactin levels kind of building up for your mammary glands and stuff like that. And so when you give birth, all of a sudden the progesterone drops off and then you have a spike in prolactin and the prolactin lowers dopamine. And so all of a sudden you're kind of left in a rebound of some of the most powerful hormones ever.

And when dopamine is gone, your pleasure hormone is gone, that affects everything else. And serotonin is dwindling and all these different things. So this is the science of it, right? But what can we do to mitigate this process? What part of our daily activities can we do? So the number one thing, in my opinion, and I'm not a doctor, and I'm not a woman, right? So my best thing is have as much sex as possible. Okay,

that's probably the most important thing a woman can do even during pregnancy and even after pregnancy is that sex is the main stimulator to keep the hormones in check, to keep the metabolism in check, to keep the energy levels where they are, to loosen the frequency of pain, frustration, and also the, I'm not worthy, I'm not healthy, I'm fat, I'm all these things, which are all illusions. You gain weight because you just carried a child and your child's feeding off you. You got to hold that. That's why women have those abilities to expand in those regions. It's so important. So that's probably the number one thing. Number two, cry as much as possible. That's really, really important. When you're feeling something and if

you bite your tongue, bite your lip and hold back, it's terrible. I'm not a big crier. Okay, well, you need to start crying. We need to figure out how we can get Lauren to cry. We need you to cry. Crying is a- I have to start wearing more cologne. Yeah, that could work. But like, and I mean it like, if you're feeling something on a deep, deep level,

don't hold it. That's important. If you're listening to this, just let it out and create a situation where you have a partner. And I'm hoping- That was the first time. For sure, you didn't let anything out. For the first time, she let it out and create a situation where you have a partner. And I'm hoping. That was the first time. For sure, you didn't let anything out. For the first time, she let it out.

No, she did not. Okay, that's good. She did not. A lot of people, they feel like they just can't be themselves around their significant, which just really sucks. It's terrible. That's a cultural thing and that's common. And just let out all that emotion.

Number three, movement, right? So movement is so important postpartum. You have to exercise. You have to release those endorphins. You have to tap into your adrenaline stores. You have to keep the body in a state of goo. And what I mean by goo is like loose and all that kind of stuff.

If you're just sitting around all day long, watching TV and scrolling through your social media, you're going to be doing your hormones. You're going to be doing your metabolic system. You're going to be doing your self-confidence, a big, big no-no. And so those three right there, I think are the most important. We can go down some of the nutrients, some of the herbs, some of that stuff. I love that you're cold plunging and doing it like that. I think getting in front of the sun, super important. The sun is serotonin, right? So on the rise, get naked in front of the sun. So if you're listening to this, you just had a baby,

get as much sun exposure as you can on the rise. Of course, cover your face. You're not getting blasted on the face for too long. Are you a butthole sunner? I'm a butthole and a ball sunner. So can I just really quick take one quick tangent? So are you outside like in happy baby with your butthole and your balls hanging out? Like how do you, how does he do this in the morning?

I kind of flip my legs. What is Jamie doing? Like looking at? Yeah. I flip my legs over my shoulders and I do the Jim Carrey, you know, he speaks out of his ass. Yeah. It's a it's no but seriously document it prove it

we're supposed to get sun on our genitals like what the hell we're not supposed to be in incubated boxes with incubated light incubated temperatures getting door dash what the hell happened to our species that's why we're sedentary is the root of disease it's stagnation stagnation is the root of disease. It's stagnation.

Stagnation is the root of disease. When things aren't moving, you die. It's as simple as that. Bones don't work. Ligaments stop working. All the nutrients in the body stop flowing and all that stuff. And so you got to keep moving. I love jumping on a rebounder for women too. Rebounding is an excellent, excellent tool to get the lymph system going. Sometimes women are backed up emotionally and it could be a stagnation in the body. I jumped today. Okay, epic. Inversions, all that kind of stuff, staying hydrated, getting your nutrients, eating a well-balanced meal, not fasting too long. You want to be eating constantly every two, three hours, in my opinion. These are things that are

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I'm not eating enough. Like I would just not eat until noon or one. Cause one, I wasn't, I'm not really hungry in the morning and there's so much to do with it. You're not hungry because of the cortisol, right? So that's why we don't, we're not hungry on the rise. Cortisol is what wakes us up and cortisol cortisol blunts, ghrelin, our hunger hormones. So you got to get into the habit of getting food in, getting protein and healthy fats in on the rise. That's so important for you throughout pregnancy, after pregnancy, all of it.

So what's a great breakfast to wake up and eat postpartum? I think a nice, healthy, fatty meat with some poached eggs and maybe some gourmet fermented sourdough. You're not getting it from some regular grocery store. You know where that bacterial strain came from. I think that's an awesome meal to have. When you say fatty meat, you mean like Wagyu? What's a fatty meat? Like a little bit of a ribeye or maybe some ground beef, maybe some duck, just healthy fats. Turkey is good for you as well because of the tryptophan. Tryptophan helps produce serotonin. Oh, that makes sense. I was talking to my trainer, Brent, the other day,

and he was telling me that he follows this girl on Instagram. And she basically is calling out the food industry. She's saying that it's so crazy that everyone's like, don't eat meat, don't eat meat, but no one's talking about the 1200 aisles of processed food. Oh, it's insane. Did you see that video I just did? It went viral, for lack of a better term. I think there's almost a million views. I posted it two days ago. It's about the just egg. Oh, I did see that. That's insane. Tell us. Well, and I want to make this clear. I'm not attacking veganism. That's your discernment to become vegan, especially the moral vegans. I've been around veganism my whole life.

I have a lot of respect for people that are doing it the right way. Do I think it's optimal for health? I do not. I did a post. There was this product that was at Whole Foods, and it was filled with canola oil and all these other weird things in there. And it was a faux egg. And you cook it on a pan. It was intense.

And if you go down the list, it's terrible stuff to put in the body. It's just immediate put in the body. It's just immediate inflammation in the body. And I received such great remarks on that, but there was a small percentage of people that thought I was attacking veganism and I'm not. I just want to make that clear. Do I think veganism is good for your health? I don't, but I'm not attacking vegans. I want to make that super clear. Well, what's happened too in that space is as it's risen, it's been commercialized and you have all these players that are coming in and doing the same thing that they've done in regular food space, right? Is that how you even say it?

Yeah. Where they're coming in and putting all these unnecessary chemicals into these plant-based foods and they've turned them into things that are not natural anymore. That's right. The processing of a lot of these compounds becomes more hectic and wreaks havoc on the body. Our body doesn't recognize what these are. And it just keeps your vibration at a low level, in my opinion. We want to eat whole foods, foods that we know where they're coming from, foods that are ancestral in their process.

You don't want to give a blowjob to someone who just ate just an egg. Listen, I have no problem with- That's a bad frequency. I saw you scheming over there. Look, I could see it in her eyes. She sat back. She was just like- She was waiting for the moment.

She was reviewing the conversation. And I saw her eyebrow quiver. And then boom, she went for it. Dude, you are a berserker. If you're a guy and you're eating just egg, please don't get a blowjob and spew everywhere because we don't want that frequency on our face. You love canola oil. You talk about

moral veganism too. I have no problem with that either, but I think people need to educate themselves more about what takes place to produce all of these things and how many species actually get obliterated. Absolutely. Completely obliterated. You can have your qualms with meat, especially if it's, you know, raised the right way, but look at what's, you know, some of these fields of plants do in the

species they obliterate to make them. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's killing the whole village. Right. And so I'm with you on that. And here, here's the deal. I'm against commercial meat farming. I've always, I've been an opponent against commercial meat agriculture, big textile agriculture. It's the destruction of our earth. It's one of the most disastrous things of all time. What they've done with chicken stocking. I mean, I want to puke and I'll go to war with that any day of the week. That's not how I'm getting my food.

That's not the nutrition that I eat. I eat organic pasture-raised chicken eggs. We're about to have our own chickens. I'm about that life. You can find balance in everything. It's not got to be so absolutely extreme. And I think everyone's just angry. Everyone's got something that they want to say. At the end of the day, you got to do what's right for you. You got to do what's right for your family. And you got to do what you have access to. Why do you think people are angry? We're in an interesting realm right now.

This dimension is poverty stricken. And we're, for lack of a better term, we're all in some kind of servitude, right? We have to be doing something to be able to get something, to get shelter, to get this. And I think with the way that our structure is, our medical system, our financial system, our school system, all these things, they've not created a utopic energy of where we're finding freedom in our everyday life. So people are struggling out there. And when you have a struggle, that struggle is passed on to their kids. It's passed on to their, that struggle is passed on to their kids. It's passed on to their kids.

It's passed on to their kids. So we're in a kind of loop system of this anger and frustration. And it's getting worse and worse, in my opinion. I do think that there's a lot of groups out there. I feel like I'm part of it as well that's providing solutions, that's going for it. But at the end of the day, if you really look at it on a macro level, this is a lot of suffering out there. People are sick of it. And they're unhealthy, right? Right.

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