The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka - 147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health

Starting point is 00:00:00 We are the richest nation in the world, and for some reason we seem to be the sickest nation in the world. It's not about politics. It's about making America healthy again. It's about exposing people to what's been going on. The biggest hope coming from this message is the impact that it's going to have on generations because it's going to affect our kids. I want to be the one to do whatever it is for my kid. Gosh, how much easier would it be if you could feel great about sending your kid to school and having the school lunch there, not poisoning them. When you look at the statistics for kids, young adults, 77% don't qualify for military service because of poor metabolic health. The whole goal with making America healthy

Starting point is 00:00:36 again is to give people options, more information for you, the American consumer, so that you can make your own decisions and lead a healthier life if that's what you wanna do. Do you think that there is ever a day where you see public healthcare potentially covering lifestyle changes, exercise, meditation? I really hope so, because being to the Ultimate Human podcast. Today we have an incredibly special guest, someone who's making waves in media, politics

Starting point is 00:01:18 and the wellness space. She's the host of My View with Laura Trump. So I guess I just gave it away right there. It's a powerhouse program that's dominating cable television. Just last week, her show was the most watched program of the weekend, drawing in almost two and a half million viewers, surpassing CNN and MSNBC, and even college basketball and ESPN featuring guests like the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, White House press secretary, Caroline Leavitt and Attorney General Pam

Starting point is 00:01:47 Bondi. She's delivering must watch conversations that are reshaping the media. Beyond her media success, she's also a passionate advocate for health, wellness and fitness, particularly when it comes to nutrition, raising active children. She's also well known as the wife of Eric Trump, son of our 47th President Donald Trump. But today, we're here to dive deeper beyond politics and headlines to talk about the values, habits and disciplines that shape her life. We are incredibly lucky to have her with us today.

Starting point is 00:02:16 Please welcome to the Ultimate Human Podcast, Laura Trump. Hey! With our black and white ensembles here. Yeah, we didn't even plan it. We really didn't, but great minds. You know what they say. She goes, I got the memo and I was like, yeah, me too. I know.

Starting point is 00:02:30 And we got our weighted vests on. I know, this is an added benefit. We're cold because we did a cold plunge and we're burning calories because we're wearing our weighted vest. So it's going great. Yeah, it's going great so far. And we had a whole food lunch before we came in here.

Starting point is 00:02:41 We sure did. So amazing. Yeah, she is completely on my bandwagon. That's for sure. She got to the unit and we filmed an episode of her show and then we walked around and just did a massive amount of biohacking. I was actually really psyched

Starting point is 00:02:54 that you would get in the cold plunge with us. Absolutely, but I told you, I do a cold plunge on my own, but mine is like two degrees colder than yours, which you told me isn't wholly necessary. So maybe we can take it up. Well, I had to say that to protect my manhood. I couldn't be like, oh, yours is two degrees colder than mine.

Starting point is 00:03:11 There's a scientific reason why mine is. We had to get down to it. Yes, yes, but it was awesome. What a fun day. What a fun day. Yeah. I'm so excited to have you on the podcast. You know, I know a lot about you.

Starting point is 00:03:23 I've known you and Eric for a long time. And we've been at a lot of UFC fights together, events together. I found out a fun little fact about you. Interesting, fun fact. You are a bakery chef. Oh yeah, I went to culinary school. I'm a pastry chef technically.

Starting point is 00:03:39 Yeah, well, you know what? It's funny because I graduated from college and this is a time, like I graduated in 2005, not to age myself, oh my God. I was the youngest ever to graduate. But I graduated at a time where the job market wasn't great. And I left college and I found

Starting point is 00:03:56 that I was kind of doing odd jobs. I was a waitress, I was a bartender, I was a part-time personal trainer, doing all these different things. And I was also very interested in cooking and baking. And I would watch like the Food Network all the time. I just thought it was so random. Yeah, and so it's one of those funny things where I said,

Starting point is 00:04:14 I feel like I wanna get out of Wilmington, North Carolina, my hometown and move somewhere else. And culinary school in New York City was the way I got out. And I validated my choice to drive alone to New York, to move to a place I knew no one who, where I'd only been to visit like once or twice ever in my life by going to culinary school. So technically I'm a pastry chef too.

Starting point is 00:04:36 Don't ask Eric Trump when I bake him stuff. I was gonna say, does Eric, I mean, I don't know if this is good for my maha movement that we're gonna talk about today. This is pre-maha. Okay. This is pre-maha. Okay, this is pre-maha. This is a long time ago, but it's fun. You know what I loved about it was actually

Starting point is 00:04:51 the artistic nature of it, because there is an artistry in baking. It's very cooking. You can sprinkle a little of this, a little of that. There's a precision and an artistry in how beautifully you present your pastries. So yeah. I totally believe that. And speaking of Maha, we covered a lot of Maha on your show.

Starting point is 00:05:10 My audience is super fired up about this. You know, the fact that two men from polar opposite ends of the spectrum, you know, political spectrum, would meet under the guise of really making America healthy again, to me, I think is one of the greatest political happenings of our time. Absolutely. I really do.

Starting point is 00:05:32 And I find it just so odd that anyone could be on the opposite side of that coin. Yeah. You know, highest rates of childhood cancer in recorded history, the corruption in our food supply and our nutritional research, and that people still find a way to take issue with it. You're no stranger to that kind of strategy. You don't say. Yeah. No, by the way, I think you're right.

Starting point is 00:05:51 I think we are in such an incredible time in the history of our country. And for me, look, obviously I have a certain proximity to it because of my last name, because I was the co-chair of the Republican National Committee during the course of this past election. But just to be alive right now, while we are seeing such huge shifts and changes

Starting point is 00:06:12 in these spaces that I think are going to make us better off as humankind, and it's this moment right now where to your point, you have RFK Jr., a Democrat, the Kennedy name is synonymous with the Democrat party. You have Donald Trump, who very clearly is a Republican. They could not be on more different sides of the political aisle, but they have come together because now is the time that I think it's not about politics. It's about making America healthy again. It's about really exposing people to what's been going on.

Starting point is 00:06:46 And you're seeing that happen in DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, or within our government. All of our taxpayer dollars really, we don't really know where it goes. We're finding out now it's gone to a lot of bad causes and a lot of bad places and things that have nothing to do with America. Likewise, I think this ability we're going to have to tap into what really will make us healthy. Why is it that here in the United States of America, we're supposed to be, we pride ourselves as being the best in the world at everything, Gary.

Starting point is 00:07:12 Why are we seeming to regress in a space? Why is it that we are the richest nation in the world, and for some reason we seem to be the sickest nation in the world? We are. Parents are like, I don't know, what am I feeding my kid every single day? Can I feel comfortable that I'm giving them food that will make them healthy and not sick? And I don't think people feel that way right now.

Starting point is 00:07:33 I think they're very concerned about it all. So absolutely incredible. I think it's an awesome time to be alive. I do too. And to reap the benefits of everything going on. I totally agree. And as someone who gets to peek behind the curtain, not just see the show,

Starting point is 00:07:48 do you really feel that the administration has embraced this and they're really behind the maha movement? Do you think that Bobby Kennedy is gonna get the support and the resources that he needs from the administration? And do you see this actually going the distance and having real material change in public policy and really addressing some of the rampant corruption and food supply, nutritional research, you know, we've got a food pyramid that says Lucky Charms is more nutritious. Oh, crazy. We've got 67% of our kids diets are our pre-Besentine's diets is highly processed foods. I actually my wife right when we were getting on your show today, she stuck this breaking news announcement

Starting point is 00:08:28 in front of me and it said, what was it, Arizona? Arizona passed a state law removing processed foods from the public school system. Wow, that's amazing. When I also saw that some fast food outlet also replaced their oil with beef tallow. That's amazing. Like the movement is happening, the shift is happening, people are making these changes. food outlet also replaced their oil with beef tallow. That's amazing.

Starting point is 00:08:45 The movement is happening. The shift is happening. People are making these changes. And your question, do I think that they're really bought into this 100%? The time we're in right now with Donald Trump as the 47th president, I think is so fascinating. And what I always say is I actually think it's better that he was president for two terms that were not consecutive. Had he been president for eight years in a row,

Starting point is 00:09:12 first of all, no one wanted that more than those of us in our family. We all worked for it for 2020. It is so much better that he is president now than it ever would have been had he won in 2020 and remained president for the next four years. The ability we're gonna have to shine a light in all the dark places is unlike anything I think this country has ever seen.

Starting point is 00:09:33 And so whether it's within the federal government itself, within the bureaucracy that exists there, or whether it's within our general healthcare system, and I have to extend that out to our kids, our schools, like all of it. There's so much that needs to be exposed. And believe me, Donald Trump is absolutely bought into exposing all of it, resetting things, making sure you as an American feel great about where you're sending your kid

Starting point is 00:10:04 to school, what you're putting in your body, where you're sending your kid to school, what you're putting in your body, where your tax dollars are going. All of those things are happening simultaneously. It's incredible. And yeah, he's got the best partner and Bobby Kennedy to do it. I couldn't agree with you more. It's a great time to be alive. I feel the momentum.

Starting point is 00:10:20 I see the momentum and I pray that it continues. But why do you say that the eight-year term with a four-year break was better than an eight-year term consecutively? I noticed you said that break was probably the best thing. Was it because it gave people perspective? It's like, hey, this is how bad things can go and now we're having change?

Starting point is 00:10:38 Or why that four-year gap was so important? It's a little bit of that. It's half that. I think sometimes you need to see the other side of things and the alternative for you to realize, you know, maybe what you had in some cases. But I would say for my father-in-law as a president, it's interesting because everyone knows he was not a politician before he came down the escalator and announced he was running for president in 2015

Starting point is 00:11:05 And so his first time in office there was so much to learn there was so much that he didn't expect I think he thought okay. I'm gonna win the presidency I'm gonna go into the White House everyone will want the president to succeed because that means a successful America, right? That did not happen in case nobody noticed Snakes came out of the wood pile there. A little different. You know, he didn't have this ability to really know he had to fill all of these positions within the federal government.

Starting point is 00:11:35 And there were so many people working against him that were supposed to be working with him and for him. So that was an uphill battle initially. I think the American people are more clear-eyed now, looking at Donald Trump and looking at our country as a whole than they were in 2020. Maybe we had to go through COVID. Maybe it opened a lot of people's eyes.

Starting point is 00:11:55 Maybe we had to go through Joe Biden being president. War starting, inflation rising, open borders, all of these different things have made life tougher, sadly, for a lot of people in this country. And so that coupled with the fact that he's a different president now. And I always say, it's funny because I think the first term,

Starting point is 00:12:16 people were like, here's the mold of president and you gotta fit directly into this mold. And now he's like, no, I don't need to fit into this mold. I'm gonna fit everything around how I operate. And instead of operating the way people said he should, he's operating how he knows, which is as a CEO. He's really like the CEO of America now and he's operating it like a business.

Starting point is 00:12:36 And so it's just, I think everything seems to be clicking right now. The team he has around him, Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard. Oh, they're amazing. These people who never four years ago would have been part of the team are on the team now. And it's to our benefit and I think it's amazing. I think it's amazing too.

Starting point is 00:12:54 And I think the biggest hope coming from this message is the impact that it's gonna have on generations because it's gonna affect our kids. And when you look at the statistics for kids that, you know, young adults, 77% of our young military-aged men and women don't qualify for military service because of poor metabolic health.

Starting point is 00:13:16 You know, when you see the percentage of our nutritional research that's funded by private industry, when you see the conflicts of industry in our regulatory agencies going to work in private industry, and when see the conflicts of industry in our regulatory agencies going to work in private industry. And when you take this view, when you take a step back and you go from 30,000 feet, we are privatizing the profits. And we're socializing the expense, meaning the expense is dropping onto the taxpayer and the profit is going to private industry. And I am a capitalist, trust me, I mean, I, my, you know, I have a podcast, I sell things, earn money, I believe in our capitalistic system. But when capitalism is in charge of public policy, I think that's

Starting point is 00:13:57 where things begin to go a little wrong. So for the moms and the dads out there, especially those that have younger children that are, you know, going into the public school system now, talk a little bit about how you're raising younger, healthier kids. I've heard you talk about social media, how you're filtering social media for them, or at least their their contact with social media. I would love for you to talk about, you know, in your busy lifestyle, how are you raising healthy young kids and inspiring them to do the right things when there's so much negative messaging around them?

Starting point is 00:14:32 Yeah, well, I mean, I maybe I'm a little bit lucky because mine are very young. They're five and seven. But that's old enough that they're aware of the things that are out there. I mean, my son, my seven-year-old asked me when he's going to get a phone every day. And I'm like, not for a long time, dude. Double your age at least.

Starting point is 00:14:49 And then, yeah, poor guy. Plus, it's hard, as we say in North Carolina, where I'm from. Especially when the friends start getting them, right? Well, that's the thing, is a lot of my friends have older kids, and so some of them actually have phones already. He's like, well, so-and-so's got a phone.

Starting point is 00:15:03 I'm like, well, it's not you. Well, it's not you. Yeah, sucks to be you. It's hard. It's so hard. There's so much, and it's so different than how I grew up and how so many of us grew up because we didn't have all of this stuff.

Starting point is 00:15:18 For me, I also think I'm lucky because I live in Florida where I can use the old adage of, I don't care what you do Just get outside you can do something outside because that's what we like to do with my kids. They're very active They're obviously when they're in school during the day five days a week when they're done with school I get them in all kinds of activities. Both of my kids do jujitsu Oh amazing, which for people who don't know Brazilian jujitsu for kids is incredible And how old are your kids? Oh, amazing. Which for people who don't know, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for kids is incredible.

Starting point is 00:15:45 And how old are your kids? Five and seven. Five and seven. Boy is older, girl is younger. Yeah, my five year old is a girl, my seven year old is a boy. And they've both been doing Jiu-Jitsu for maybe three years now. Wow, what an awesome sport. But it's actually great because not only does it teach you kind of body control and obviously

Starting point is 00:16:02 self-defense, but there's a respect aspect of it. You have to be respectful and cognizant of your, you know, the instructor and your coach and the people with whom you're fighting because it's all part of it. They're, you know, basketball, football, soccer, gymnastics, we do all those things. And in my mind, I think back to when I was a kid

Starting point is 00:16:25 and I was very involved in sports and activities and I actually think it kept me out of a lot of trouble. And same with my brother, I would say. Screen time, they get, if they have a great day at school, 15 minutes a day. Right on. That's it. And if things are not perfect, then no screen.

Starting point is 00:16:43 And parents are always like, well, my kid throws a fit. I'm like, okay, we'll take it away for a week. And the next time they start to throw a fit, you can remind them that you took it away for the week. It's a bit of tough love for sure. But I think we're all trying to do our best with the kids these days. And I think we're all learning as we go

Starting point is 00:17:01 because it's all so new. You know, I feel like we're existing in a new space and there isn't much to guide us. We're having to figure it out. But I know what worked for me. I know that, you know, sports, being outside, being away from. I remember my dad coming home when I was a kid and giving me the old, I don't care what you do, just get outside. My parents were the same way.

Starting point is 00:17:25 I was almost sort of not allowed in the house during the day. My parents would be like, what are you doing? And there wasn't a lot of- Get out of here. Yeah, we didn't have screen time then. I think my generation is the last generation that's actually grown up without a cell phone,

Starting point is 00:17:37 without connectivity, without iPads. And so we didn't know any different. And so the rule of thumb at my house was you had to be home by sundown. And my dad, Captain John Brekka, he had this booming voice and he would go, Gary. And I could be three acres away on a different farm. I grew up in a very rural area of America

Starting point is 00:17:58 and I would start pedaling my bike home. But as the sun was coming down, that's when I had to come inside. Now there's like parents that are, you know, Department of Families and Children is investigating them because they let them ride their bike, you know, three blocks to the store. Oh my God, it's insane. You know, you read these stories and you're like,

Starting point is 00:18:16 man, has society gone this rogue that we can't even let our kids play outside anymore. This is the basics. Like you, I always want them doing active things outside, away from screens. And I talked to so many of my friends and I'm like, what is your kid into? Thinking they're gonna give me like a basketball answer. And they're like, what's the, I don't even know the game.

Starting point is 00:18:37 It's one of these online games where you like hook up with other people in different places and it's kind of nuts. Minecraft. I don't even know one of these things. What's the other big one, babe? My wife saw Fortnite. Fortnite, that's it. This is like phone a friend over here.

Starting point is 00:18:51 No, but really, I don't even know what it's called, but I know they're all doing it. And I'm like, God, it's just so different. And you think about the long-term effects. What does that mean for these kids who are on a screen or looking at a screen hunched over? And I don't know all of the lack of just human bonding and social interaction and you know we talked about blue

Starting point is 00:19:09 zones earlier where one of the continuity between blue zones was the sense of community sense of purpose how do you get a sense of community and purpose from a two dimensional screen right I mean it's I still remember like the heart palpitations I would get when I would ask a girl back then was called go with me to go with me. And I would write a note and then I would give it to my friend and he, do you remember that? And they would pass it. Yes, no like circle one.

Starting point is 00:19:36 Yes, no. And then you would pass it to her. You would sit there like what's she gonna do? Did they still do that? No. Oh, that's so sad. You don't even have to ask someone to homecoming anymore. You just send them a text and then if they say no, you go, I didn't send that text.

Starting point is 00:19:49 I don't know what you're talking about. How about this one? How about when you used to have to call someone's house and ask for them on the phone. Oh, and the parents pick up the phone. And the parents pick up the phone. I forgot that one. That's like a lost art. That's a lost thing.

Starting point is 00:20:01 I remember my parents saying, okay, when you call someone's house and the mom or dad answers, you say, Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. This is Laura, may I please speak to Jessica? You know, like there was a there was a protocol you followed. No one does that anymore, Gary. Do people even have phones at home anymore? I don't think so. My dad was so much that way. Like, yeah, if my friends wouldn't come over, shake his he was so big on shaking hands. And I contact when I contact and shaking hands. Maybe it was a military thing. So now I'm big on the same thing too. Like he's like, never do business with a man with a weekend. I mean, that's what he's saying. I feel like my father-in-law probably subscribes to the same thing. Oh, no, I've seen your father-in-law picks people

Starting point is 00:20:38 up off the stage. Like, he comes in the heart. It's almost like that's where the deal making starts. I think with him, he's like, yeah, I got you. But he was, he was so big on just the basics. And I feel like a lot of that is just lost. And what's really interesting is in this crazy biohacking world that I'm involved in, the anti-aging and longevity research, bio optimization, whatever you want to call it.

Starting point is 00:21:02 It's so fascinating that a lot of the biggest impacts on our longevity and our mortality and our bio-optimization are just those basics. Yeah. Right? Like sunlight, grounding. Like today, we ate before we came in here and you're like, this food is awesome. The food was delicious.

Starting point is 00:21:21 Yeah, it was just whole eggs. It was like- Imagine that. Yeah, chicken sausage. You didn't use powdered eggs for this one? No, I didn just whole eggs. It was like- Imagine that. Yeah, chicken sausage. You didn't use powdered eggs for this one? No, I didn't use it. Is that so sad? I knew you were coming.

Starting point is 00:21:29 I was gonna feed Laura Trump powdered eggs at my biohacking palace. One of my favorite biohacks outside of breath work by far is mineral salts, Baja Gold Sea Salt. It's got all of the trace minerals that the body needs. You know, most of us are not just protein deficient, meaning amino acid deficient or fatty acid deficient. We are mineral deficient.

Starting point is 00:21:49 So a quarter teaspoon of this in water, first thing in the morning, we'll make sure that you get all of the essential minerals that you need. It tastes amazing. In fact, I made a steak today. I actually made a grass-fed steak with grass-fed butter and I put just mushrooms and a little bit of rosemary

Starting point is 00:22:02 and I sprinkled Baja Gold sea salt all over the top. Try it. It'll be your new favorite for cooking too. It's the cheapest and one of my favorite biohacks. I don't know, a 15 or $20 bag of this will probably last you five years. It's literally the world's best biohacking secret. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. Another thing that is, you know,

Starting point is 00:22:21 I've got a growing female audience and a lot of these young women are starting on their business journey. And very often, they're starting their business journey with their spouse. And my wife and I sage, beautiful wife back there. You know, we started a business together 10 years ago, in took over a basically a bankrupt vitamin shop in a strip mall, we started a business in there. And I just remember the struggle, the pressure on our

Starting point is 00:22:49 relationship, the inability to separate business from pleasure, right? And people that tell you, by the way, that you can have a business with your spouse and separate your business from your personal life, are flatly lying to you. Yeah. Have a great day at the office. You have a great day at home. You have a crappy day at office. You have a great day at the office, you have a great day at home, you have a crappy day at office, you have a crappy day at home. But maybe if not from a business perspective, but you know what you and Eric have gone through, I might even say suffered

Starting point is 00:23:15 through as a couple, as parents, as public figures in the media, lots of, you know, some of which we actually talked about right before we got on here, much of it unjust. How did you keep that from trickling its way into your marriage? How do you keep the outside world from coming in and getting between your marriage, kids, your parenting, relationship with your husband? Because you guys speak about each other so fondly and I know you behind the scenes not just in front of the camera and I I think you're an amazing family I think the world of your whole family thank you I've gotten to know so many of you the amount of pressure you know it had to be a hundredfold what Sage and I went through and sometimes I say you

Starting point is 00:24:04 know the best relationships to me are the ones that actually go through all It had to be a hundredfold what Sage and I went through. And sometimes I say, you know, the best relationships to me are the ones that actually go through all the things that are meant to tear you apart and you're still there on the other side. But I wondered if you'd just give us some perspective on that. Well, I think whenever you are

Starting point is 00:24:20 in those very high pressure situations that I hope most people never have to endure, but I think every family goes through something. We all have whatever it is. And I think that it's those moments that can either tear you apart or bring you closer together. And I think for us, it brought us closer together actually,

Starting point is 00:24:38 because when you feel like you're kind of alone and singled out and everyone seems to kind of be coming after you, you really turn to those people who are directly around you, who you know you can count on, who under, you know, there are very few people, thank God, who will ever understand the things that our family endured. But because of that, not only did it bring me closer with Eric, you know, as a couple, but I think our whole family,

Starting point is 00:25:03 it brought closer together, you know, because there is something that is very unique to feeling like you've been targeted, and unfairly targeted, and to have so many lies told about all of you, sometimes you just have to turn to one another and say, well, we know the truth, and we know we'll get through this, and we're here to support one another. And I really think that that's what we all did.

Starting point is 00:25:25 And I think, you know, coming out on the other side, we're all so much stronger for it. And, you know, I think about it a lot in terms of a workout analogy, really, which is that if you work out enough and you lift heavy weights and you do things that kind of hurt when you're doing them, you'll get a callus. But when you come back and you try to lift that weight again, the callus is there to protect you. And it actually allows you to do more

Starting point is 00:25:49 than you could previously do. And so in some ways, maybe all of this has been a blessing in disguise because I look at my father-in-law and I look at specifically the person he's turned into as our 47th president, I don't know that he would have been as strong as he is right now

Starting point is 00:26:05 if he hadn't endured all the things that he did. And I would say that for all of us. So in some ways, it's even it's even a blessing. I mean, it's hard to look at things like that as a blessing. In the moment, you don't look at him like that. Let me be very clear. You look at him like this is terrible. Why is this happening?

Starting point is 00:26:21 It's the injustice of just pure fabricated. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy, which is crazy. And most people out there just don't understand that. Just because you read something out there about someone on these obscure websites or news outlets,

Starting point is 00:26:38 and I have to put that in air quotes, cause yeah. News outlets. Doesn't mean that it's actually true about them, but you know, I think for all of us, we very quickly realized that the people whose opinions matter are the people who actually know us. And it's very easy to get, you know, behind a screen and feel safe and type something

Starting point is 00:26:57 nasty about somebody. But I do think it's made all of us that much stronger. Yeah, I mean, I think so too. And, you know, particularly for women, you know, we know that if you look at statistics, you know, about 80, 82% of all autoimmune disease happens in women, happens in females. And you have to ask yourself, well, you know, autoimmune diseases are not gender specific.

Starting point is 00:27:21 You know, they're not feminists, they're not racist. You know, why are so many of these conditions happening in women versus men? And what the data shows is that women have a more difficult time engaging in self care. They're very, they're generally more selfless, or meant to, you know, they're children. So they become more selfless there. They spend a lot of their lives putting the needs of other people first. And very often, they'll look at self care as being selfish.

Starting point is 00:27:46 So talk a little bit about how you've been able to maintain fitness and health. Clearly, it's a priority. I mean, this woman is jacked. I mean, she has. We were going to go in the cold plunge, and I'm like, I'm embarrassed here. Like, she's jacked and tan, and I'm like pale and not as jacked. Oh my gosh. But it's got to be a big part of your life. Yeah. And before you answer, you know, I just ran this challenge. I had this morning routine challenge and I brought some really

Starting point is 00:28:17 impactful people on. What was fascinating to me about all of them, Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Redinger, Alexia Clark, you know, all these folks that came onto my challenge was they all prioritized their health and fitness, and they found a way to fit it in. The majority of people are saying, I just don't have time for that. Well, you probably won't like my initial answer, which is I probably don't sleep as much as I should.

Starting point is 00:28:42 But I do, I actually, let me ask you this. I'll ask you a question and then I wanna answer your other one. Yeah, you can ask me one. Does everyone need the same amount of sleep? No. See? I do not think that everyone needs the same amount of sleep. I thought that was the case.

Starting point is 00:28:52 You know, there's quality of sleep and there's length of sleep, right? I mean, REM sleep and deep sleep cycles are really, really important, but the specific time in bed, I mean, my wife will tell you, I was up at 4.30 this morning like a spring chicken. I know you were, cuz I got a video

Starting point is 00:29:07 Of me working out in the hyperbaricamer And then she text me back as me and her and Eric on a text thread and she was like Well, I'm just working out in a regular gym. I'm in a normal gym. What normal gym equals normal normal human And I said you deserve better Aaron Eric just text back, I love this. So good. So, okay, so I don't feel so bad. But I probably don't sleep enough. But look, like I think a lot of moms out there,

Starting point is 00:29:35 there is so much that falls on us and we always feel responsible. I always feel like I want to be the one to do whatever it is for my kids. And I'm lucky that I can have people help me that I Because I can't be in three or four places at one time I have to outsource sometimes but every opportunity I get I'm there for my kids I am typically the last one to go to sleep in my house

Starting point is 00:30:00 Really the first one to wake up in my house one of those people people that bullies sleep. Yeah, I know. I'm the worst. But I would say that I always go back to the analogy of sort of what we hear on the airplane, which is that whenever there's an emergency situation, you want to put your mask on first before you assist others. If you can't take care of yourself and actually do right by you, you're going to be no good to anyone else.

Starting point is 00:30:26 And anyone who's spent enough time around me will tell you, if I don't get a workout in on day two or three, I'm going to probably be miserable to be around. Ask Eric Trump how that goes. Babe, go to the gym. Leave somebody find her somewhere she can go for a run or something. But I think that once it works into your routine, and they say it takes two weeks to make a habit, once it works into your routine,

Starting point is 00:30:51 you get used to it and you need it. And for me, I need that. And sometimes that's the only time of the day I get left alone. It's the only time I'm not gonna answer an email, whatever it is, I am focused on me. And even if it's a short amount of time, 30 minutes, I take that 30 minutes for me because it's important.

Starting point is 00:31:10 I'm taking care of so that I can take care of everybody else. And you fit this in in the morning usually? It's gotta be in the morning. Oh my God, if I waited tonight to do any, absolutely not. No. It'd be like sleeping, it would just get bullied right out of your schedule. Yeah, exactly.

Starting point is 00:31:23 First thing. You know, it's interesting. I've always been told that I needed to learn to meditate. It'd be like sleep and it would just get bullied right out of your schedule. Yeah, exactly. First thing. You know, it's interesting. I've always been told that I needed to learn to meditate. I do breath work, you know, grounding. I do try to spend some time in stillness and silence, but I can't meditate. And I've even tried these people that take you on guided meditation. And you know, my wife and I, we went on this Ayurvedic retreat.

Starting point is 00:31:42 Remember that, babe? And it was like nine days in the Boone Carolina mountains. And I was- That's a long time. Way too long, first of all. Oh my God, nine days of anything. By day four, I was like, I thought I was gonna get hives because one of my sentences, I call it,

Starting point is 00:32:02 when they called it a treatment, but I felt like it was a sentence. A sentence? I had because I had attention deficit disorder, the the yogi or whatever said, you need to sit in front of you need to drink a quarter cup of ghee butter and and and sit in front of this big bay window for three hours every day. I go, I'm paying for this?

Starting point is 00:32:25 What did we pay to be here at this boon? When she goes, a lot. We paid a lot of money to go to this thing. And so like day one, I was so fidgety. I was like, I'm literally gonna ask for my money back. All right, I mean, I paid to fly here and drink. My husband would not survive this, by the way. And look out of window, but what was amazing was I sat there for three hours

Starting point is 00:32:47 and towards the end of the third hour, I started to like notice things out the window, like this little squirrel on the branches and this bird coming in and there's some insects running up the tree. And then it finally ended. And I was like, thank God that's over. And then the next day he was like,

Starting point is 00:33:01 you have to do the same thing. Oh my God. And I was like, are you kidding me? And I literally texted her mom day he was like, you have to do the same thing. Oh my God. And I was like, are you kidding me? And I literally text her mom and I was like, can you put a Snickers bar in a FedEx package? Market feminine hygiene and FedEx at home. This is a true story, isn't it? So second day I'm sitting there and I'm looking out the window

Starting point is 00:33:22 and I noticed the same squirrel and I noticed the same squirrel. And I noticed the same bird. And then I noticed the insects coming up the tree. And I actually noticed that the bird and the squirrel kind of interacting. And then I watched him go through his little daily routine. I'm watching the bird build this nest. And I kind of actually got into it a little bit, this little scene that was unfolding. And when they came to get me, I thought it had been like 30 or 40 minutes and the whole three hours had gone by. And the third day, I couldn't wait to get back

Starting point is 00:33:49 there. Because I wanted to see what was going on. And it was just really interesting to me that perspective of, you know, slowing down, and, and just being present. And, you know, increasing your awareness. And I've never been able to do it through meditation, but through exercise, this is like an eerily good way to meditate. As you exercise intensely,

Starting point is 00:34:15 you're wearing weighted vest right now. My weighted vest. This is not a fashion statement, by the way. This is a- It is fashionable, but- It's very fashionable. But so, talk a little bit about your morning routine, because clearly you're a cold plunger,

Starting point is 00:34:30 and lots of women are afraid to start doing this. So, what was your foray into cold plunging? What's your non-negotiables in the morning? How does your morning go from when you get up until you're done your self-care? Well, I will, well first I'll tell you, my cold plunge journey is an interesting one, because I'll give my husband full credit

Starting point is 00:34:47 for introducing me to it. And I was like, I think a lot of women terrified of cold plunging. I was like, that sounds awful. Who on earth would shove their bodies in water? Purposely in cold water. Yeah, that's freezing cold. Cause I'm a person who operates generally a little chilled.

Starting point is 00:35:02 Like I, if I can, I like to crank the heat up a little bit. I run cold, except at night and I'm always hot at night. And I like that I'm doing the right things by bringing the temperature down in the room. But that said, my husband first started cold plunging. I don't remember who introduced him to it. And I was like, all right, how hard could this be? I'm just gonna psych myself up and I'm gonna go do it.

Starting point is 00:35:25 And the first time I tried it, I probably lasted 15 seconds. And I thought it was gonna, yeah. I thought it was gonna hyperventilate. That's the worst to get out right then, because you're just telling me almost to go home. I know, you're almost through the bad part. And I felt like I couldn't breathe

Starting point is 00:35:39 and I was gonna hyperventilate and die. And I was like, oh my God, because that's your body's natural reaction to being in water that it knows it can't survive in. That's clearly. So that happened. I gave it about a two-month window of time. And I started actually researching a little bit and doing my own kind of digging and seeing what was out there. And I was like, okay, so this makes sense that at 15 seconds, I thought I was going to die in there. and I freaked out and got out.

Starting point is 00:36:05 And so I finally went back and my husband at this time is doing like five minutes or something in the cold plunge. And I was like, God, okay, gotta do this. And so I understood that if I just suffered through the first 20 seconds, it wasn't gonna get worse than that. And I did. And what did you do?

Starting point is 00:36:21 Just bite down and go, 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Or like, My wife plays positive affirmations. Oh right. Which I'll tell you a really funny story actually is she got in the cold punch this morning and because you're coming here obviously Secret Service is walking around. She didn't know. It's like 7 30 in the morning this morning. Sage gets out of the sauna. She gets into the cold punch and your Secret Service opens the door. There's this armed dude with the earpiece. He goes, sorry ma'am.

Starting point is 00:36:48 And she goes, no, no, that's okay. Don't mind me. Nothing to see here. Yeah, she goes, that was a first. I don't think I've ever had Secret Service walking on me during a cold punch. But yeah, I mean, I just got through it. And look, I've been an athlete my whole life. So an athlete, mine, you just tell yourself you're gonna do something. So I got through it.

Starting point is 00:37:07 And all of a sudden, I'm like at three minutes, and I was like, oh, well, this wasn't so bad after all. And then you get kind of addicted to it. And then you crave that feeling afterward because you feel amazing after you get out of a cold plunge. We talked about that today. And so, I mean, look, I love doing that. Do I have time for it every day? No.

Starting point is 00:37:24 But I would say that I try to do it three days a week. Mm-hmm. Every day, though, I do try to fit in some form of exercise. And that's generally the first thing I do. Now, sometimes it'll come after I get my kids to school, but most days it's very early before anybody's up. Right. And I try to move my body.

Starting point is 00:37:43 Some days it's weightlifting, some days it's CrossFit, some days it's swimming, running. I do triathlons. I think you used to do triathlons. Yeah, yeah, I did. And so I just like to incorporate whatever the day will allow me. If I have more time, I can fill it with an activity, with exercise for sure, but sometimes it's 30 minutes. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:38:03 And I do whatever it is, and that is 100% necessary for my day. You know I'm all about optimizing performance, and lately I've been using the Ion weighted vest during my workouts, and it's been a game changer. It isn't your average weighted vest. It's designed to fit like a second skin, activating your core, improving blood flow, and even helping you with recovery while you train.

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Starting point is 00:38:43 check out the ION weighted vest at iongear.com. That's aiongear.com. And you can use code ULTIMATE for 10% off and start training smarter today. Now let's get back to the ULTIMATE Human Podcast. I also wanna talk about big, big, big new thing in your life right now. I feel like you're really reaching maybe the pinnacle of your

Starting point is 00:39:05 professional career so far, right? With the launch of your new show. Yeah, thank you. Wildly successful launch. Congratulations. Thank you very much. You know, how did this come about? I mean, was this always something that you wanted to do? Were you always, as an athlete, were you always interested in media? Do you like being in front of the camera? Did you, I mean, you were chairman of the RNC. I mean, you've had a lot of public persona, you know, in your career, but talk a little bit about the show. Like, how did it come about if Fox hit you up and like, hey, do you want your own show?

Starting point is 00:39:42 Hey. I mean, to a certain certain extent so I worked for Fox Gosh how many years ago was it now I worked for Fox from 2021 like January of 21 until November of 2022 when my father-in-law announced he was running for president again, right and And I really enjoyed working there. And I was a contributor, which means I went on all the different shows. I didn't have my own show, but I was, you know, commentated

Starting point is 00:40:10 and this, that, and the other. And I really enjoyed it. And everybody treated me very nicely there. And then we had the election. We won the election. I had to decide exactly what my life was going to be on the other side of that election. I knew I didn't want to remain as RNC co-chair.

Starting point is 00:40:26 In fact, that was a job that initially I said no to. Really? Oh yeah. I mean, who wants to be responsible for all of it during the most critical heavy election of our lifetime? My father-in-law called and asked me to do this job like last January. He asked if I would run for RNC co-chair

Starting point is 00:40:44 and I immediately was like, no. I was like last January. He asked if I would run for RNC co-chair and I immediately was like, no. I was like, no. A lot of people say no to DJT. Well, listen, he called and asked me to do it and I was like, you really think I'm the right person for this job? I've got these kids, I have all these other professional things I'm working on.

Starting point is 00:40:59 I had a clothing line, a fitness clothing line I was working on, a documentary I'm working on, all these different things happening. And I was like, I don't think this is right for me. And he goes, okay, no pressure, it's gotta be you. Your impression is really good. Okay, no pressure. Gotta be you.

Starting point is 00:41:19 But honey, you think about it, you let me know. And I was like, oh my gosh. But it was really at night, talking my kids in bed that night, I looked at my kids and I was like, you know, I never want to look back and say, what if, what if I would have said yes to this? What if I was, you know, the person in this role and it could have made a difference. And so obviously we all know what happened. I ended up, I ended up as RNC co-chair and, but I told my father and I said, I'm not going to stay there after the election. I ended up as RNC co-chair. But I told my father-in-law, I said, I'm not gonna stay there after the election.

Starting point is 00:41:46 I will get us through this election. I will work as hard as I can to ensure integrity in our electoral process, fair election, all the things necessary. And then I'm gonna resign as co-chair, which I did. And so then that laid out my next chapter, what am I gonna do? There was an open Senate seat here in the

Starting point is 00:42:05 state of Florida. Oh, I actually remember this on Hannity. Yeah. Talking about this. And so Marco Rubio had been tapped to be Secretary of State. He's been a senator here in Florida for a long time and his seat would be vacant. That seat is appointed and the person who fills it by the governor, Ron DeSantis. And I really seriously thought about that. And a lot of people were pushing me to do that.

Starting point is 00:42:31 And then I did get a call from Fox one day and it just had a nice chat. And in that midst of that chat, it was like, well, listen, if this is something you're interested in, we'd love to have you back. And I don't know, maybe, you know, we just talked and threw around ideas. And it ended up that this is the path I chose. I'm very blessed. 9 p.m. every Saturday night.

Starting point is 00:42:54 I have my own show, which is... Wow. Gary, it's crazy. It's crazy. It is so crazy. Do you ever look back, like, sometimes, I kid you not, like, I look around and I'm like, I feel like I'm living somebody else's life. How did I get here?

Starting point is 00:43:06 Somebody could literally show up in my condo one day and be like, bro, this was all a ruse. Out you go. And I'd be like, I knew it, let me grab my shit. I say this all the time. I'm like, what is going on here? I'll tell you, the wildest one for me, the first show we had, which thank you for pointing out,

Starting point is 00:43:22 it was hugely successful. Almost two and a half million people tuned into it. But I was getting ready to go over and do these interviews with the press secretary, the director of national intelligence and the attorney general of the United States. And I am standing in the White House looking at a mirror and I was like, oh my God,

Starting point is 00:43:41 I had this moment where I was like, how did this happen? Because I grew up like probably so many people in this country and I could have never in my wildest dreams guessed that I would do all of this. But the show itself is different. It's different than anything else people will find on Fox News.

Starting point is 00:43:58 The news cycle's nuts. It is crazy every day, 24 seven. It's just constant, constant, constant. And so for me, I was like, you know, I wanna approach things a little differently and I want people to see the folks whose names are splashed across their television and headlines every day,

Starting point is 00:44:16 we really get to know who they are to a certain extent. And so you go a little bit deeper and I wanna do episodes on Maha, making America healthy again, which is what we're doing. What a blessing, I'm gonna be your second episode. Yes, you're on my second episode. Like for me, that's one of those moments for you,

Starting point is 00:44:30 like looking in the mirror, I'm like, am I gonna be a Laura Trump second episode under a lot of pressure? These are the things that are shaping our country and our world right now. These are the people and the movements that are changing the country. And I think it's very exciting.

Starting point is 00:44:47 So I'm trying to get deeper into that and really expose people to my view of those things. And are you allowed to have some editorial control? I mean, or is it or are they? Absolutely. OK, so they're not just like, no, this is a hot topic. This is trending right now. You can't talk about this. You can talk about that. I mean, what's what's actually a little bit... I always wonder if that's going on behind the scenes.

Starting point is 00:45:07 Okay, can I tell you? And this was actually nuts to me and a little bit scary for me. Whenever I first sat down after this was officially going to happen, I was going to have this show, they said, all right, what do you want your show to be about? And I was like, oh, so no one tells me. I just decide this on my own. Okay. And they said, You know what, whatever you want to do, we want you to do the show has to be yours.

Starting point is 00:45:32 That's why people are going to tune in. That's why people are going to want to watch. It's got to be yours. So you make it what you want, which is a little bit scary for me. Because now, because this is all on me, Gary. Yeah, yeah, you're like, I just got my own show. It's like the same thing with my podcast. You know, I determine who comes on, who doesn't come on. And you have to add value to the audience. Of course. Right? And because you're really in service to them, right? You don't own the podcast, the podcast owns you.

Starting point is 00:45:54 Yeah. And it's a commitment, you know, every single week, every single, I mean, you have a date and time for the show, and you have to be prepared, and you have to deliver a product. Right. And you have to do it over and over and over again. And in a way, it's really inspiring and exciting. And in a way, it's...

Starting point is 00:46:11 Terrifying. Freaking terrifying. And I'm so happy to hear that you're terrified too. I'm terrified most of the time. No, because look, I obviously, anything I put my name on, I want to give 110% to. I want to deliver a great product, whether it's as co-chair of the RNC

Starting point is 00:46:27 or whether it's as host of my own show on Fox. And so it's been really amazing that they were just kind of like, yeah, whatever you want to do, just do it. And I was like, okay, so I'm doing it. Yeah, and then when you ask for that and then you get it and then you're like, oh my God, I got to put together all this programming.

Starting point is 00:46:43 You got to start thinking about the guests that I put on, or are they too controversial, or do this way or that way. I sort of shed that now. I think the audience that follows me knows that we're just authentically in the pursuit of whatever makes you better, live longer, healthier, happier lives. Speaking of which, you know, getting sort of back to Maha for a moment. Speaking of which, getting sort of back to Maha for a moment, when we look at our healthcare system and the bloated amount of bureaucracy

Starting point is 00:47:12 and spending that's going on, and the inefficiency in keeping people healthy, we're really good at emergency medicine, there are these terms like functional medicine, lifestyle medicine, and a lot of these don't have a place, they don't have a seat at the table in modern medicine right now. Lifestyle medicine would be things

Starting point is 00:47:32 like we were talking about before the podcast, where if you're type 2 diabetic, or you're morbidly overbeast, or you have a metabolic syndrome, conditions that we know can be reversed with dietary and lifestyle changes. And in other words, they're modifiable risk factors, they're in your control. And because there's no mechanism for a physician to get paid, it doesn't make the physician

Starting point is 00:47:59 a bad person, but they have to make a living. But if you come in to see me, and I'm your primary care, and you're a little overweight, I'll bill you for an office visit, and I'll bill you for a script, maybe for a Zempik or a Wagovi. Yeah. They've also been taught that too.

Starting point is 00:48:15 Yeah. And I think it's hard for some people to think outside the box that they were taught, which is like, okay, for this, we do this. There's just a direct line of... And there's no ability to think outside of that. I think for some physicians, not all of them, but for some, and I think it's easy to write a script for somebody.

Starting point is 00:48:34 It's not easy to sit somebody down and say, like, listen, if you really want to take your health seriously, if you really want to feel better for the rest of your life, then these are the changes you need to make. People always, you know, they want to just write something down and help me feel better right now. Right, and you know, and I think some of the pushback that I receive for being associated with Ma,

Starting point is 00:48:53 and I'll just say I'm not officially in any kind of government role for Ma. I don't work for the administration or have a role there. Other than I'm an enormous supporter and have committed my entire platform to helping get get that message out. But, you know, one of the interesting pushbacks that that I get is that you're going to take away all of our freedom of choice. And, and I think I know what my answer is to that. I would love to hear what your answer is to

Starting point is 00:49:23 that. I mean, because I don't think the intention is we're gonna tell people, stop smoking, stop drinking. You can't buy a vape pen, you can't drink a two liter soda if you wanna drink a two liter soda. From my perspective, it's we're gonna get the unnecessary poisons out of the food supply, which no one should disagree with. If you're eating something and it's colored red

Starting point is 00:49:44 and you can't taste the difference, and one is poisonous and one is not, why are you fighting us getting, you know, the poisonous form of that die right out of the food system? I'm not telling you you can't eat cereal, telling you probably shouldn't eat cereal if you want to be healthy. But how, how do you fight that narrative? You fought a bunch of false narratives in your life. I feel like you have a PhD. We probably should at this point. You know, it's interesting because we live in this information age. You know, we have access via our phones, via computers, whatever it is, to anything we want to get at a, you know, a moment's notice. But it doesn't feel like we have all of the information when it comes to our health.

Starting point is 00:50:27 It actually feels like a lot of times people have put blinders on us and said, like, this is the only way you can look at it. You can't look over in this area and you can't look over there. It's just got to be this one area. And I think the whole goal with making America healthy again is to give people options. No one wants to take anything away from you. If you wanna go out and you wanna smoke 12 packs a day,

Starting point is 00:50:52 you're an American and you have that option to do it. What I think we wanna do is give you the information. Okay, if you decide to smoke 12 packs a day, here's exactly what's gonna happen to your body. Now, when it comes to cigarettes, I think we already all know. But what we're talking about right now is informing people in terms of what is in their food, what it is that they're consuming, what is it that on a daily basis is impacting their health that

Starting point is 00:51:16 they may not be aware of right now. And I think that that's very important. Now, the things like fluoride in our water or having pesticides on everything that we ing important. Now the things like fluoride in our water or having pesticides on everything that we ingest, those are things that I think all of us could probably agree if it's something that is making us less healthy and we have the ability like the red dye to get it out of our food supply. I don't know how anyone argues against that.

Starting point is 00:51:42 The goal with all of this is more information for you, the American consumer, the American citizen, so that you have actual informed consent. You can make your own decisions and lead a healthier life if that's what you want to do. When it comes to snacking, Masa is flipping the script on what real food should look like. Masa chips are crafted with grass-fed beef tallow,

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Starting point is 00:52:31 oils that you find in most snacks. And instead, masa uses pure Redmond sea salt, giving you a natural hit of minerals that keep your cells hydrated and your energy steady. So don't just snack, reach for masa. It's real food, real health without any of the junk. Grab a bag and I promise you'll feel the difference. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm actually opening some functional medicine clinics on the other side of the world. In Dubai and United Arab Emirates. Eventually I'll come back to the US and do the same thing. But one of the interesting conversations that I have

Starting point is 00:53:08 when I'm over there is they don't have a medical system. They have socialized healthcare. And so, eventually all of these expenses roll up to concentrated families. And they don't have a profit center based on disease. Here we make $110 billion a year on type two diabetes alone. So I think it's gonna be hard to imagine a day

Starting point is 00:53:30 where there's a meeting in a boardroom where they're going, hey, Stan, how do we get this, you know, $110 billion off the balance sheet, right? It's like, and that's the main driver. But there's a thread moving through all of these conversations that I've been having. And it is that in a lot of ways, they feel somewhat duped by Western medicine. And because they're realizing now that the ballooning cost of caring for chronically ill people, people that get really, really sick and die fast are going to drag on the system. It's those chronic conditions that just sort of linger.

Starting point is 00:54:09 So you suffer for a long period of time. I mean, you might die at 82, but you really started dying at 65. And so their view is we're actually going to put in billions of dollars, tens of billions, if to put in billions of dollars, tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars into this preventative system, where we focus on wellness, we focus on healthy lifestyle habits, and we're actually

Starting point is 00:54:37 subsidize some of these to push down this tail risk of expense that is coming. And, you know, very superficially, it's a cost-benefit analysis. I think the same thing could potentially happen here in the country. But do you think that there is ever a day where you see Medicaid, Medicare, you know, public health care potentially covering things like diet and lifestyle changes, you know, exercise meditation, peptides. I really hope so. Because look, we have to shift the way we think in so many respects, which is that people wait until they get sick, and then they want to treat the symptoms of being sick, right?

Starting point is 00:55:26 And being sick is a symptom of something else that's going on in your body, right? If we can prevent the symptoms from ever occurring because we are leading healthier lifestyles, not only do we feel better all the time, but then the cost associated with treating those symptoms doesn't exist anymore. And so why wouldn't we want to front load things for ourselves and say, we're going to have all around a healthier society because we're going to inform people in terms of actually what makes them healthy, actually, you know, altering

Starting point is 00:55:55 their lifestyles so that they don't have to end up on these pharmaceuticals, so that they don't have to end up in a hospital or a long term care facility one day. Gosh, what a great thing that would be for our country, Gary. Yeah. But what's amazing is that, you know, there's this sort of underlying narrative developing that that's bad, or there's some subversive agenda there,

Starting point is 00:56:14 or there's some, you know, profit center that we're all trying to get to because, you know, we were advocating for a healthier food system. And I think there are, I think all the things are- Of course, there's always gonna be that. Yeah. Well, I would actually push back on that with the opposite, which is that the way it's been going,

Starting point is 00:56:30 and you can compare it, there's a lot of comparisons that I can make between our federal government and our healthcare system, which is that there's a lot that's been going on that I don't think people are truly aware of. And I think the more information we're able to get out there, we're getting it through Doge and our bureaucracy right now.

Starting point is 00:56:49 That is so scary. It's terrifying. I mean, it really is. And isn't it upsetting every single day to realize, oh my God, we've been paying $10 million for circumcisions in Ghana, we've been paying $15 million for Sesame Street in Iraq. How does this impacting the United States in any way?

Starting point is 00:57:04 It's so mind-numbing. It's crazy. I mean, I actually know people or Sesame Street in Iraq, how is this impacting the United States in any way? It's crazy. It's so mind-numbing. I mean, I actually know people, family members of employees of mine that were affected by the tornadoes in the Carolinas. And some of them still don't have homes. Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:57:18 That's my home state. Well, where did all the money go? And then, again, this is usually not a political platform and I don't wanna turn it into one, but when you start saying, well, where did all the money go? And then, again, this is usually not a political platform and I don't want to turn it into one, but when you start saying, well, where did all the money go? And then you find out some of the places this went to these NGOs, these non, what do they call them?

Starting point is 00:57:34 Non-governmental organizations. Yeah. They were just essentially fronts for a bunch of nonsense. And these people that are really hurting and they're really in need are not getting, you know, they're not getting the basic care that they should be getting. They pay into our tax system. They pay into, you know, you hope that as a law-abiding citizen, you pay your taxes every April, you do the right things, you know, it's taken out of

Starting point is 00:58:00 your paycheck, whatever it is, and then God forbid you ever need it, it's there for you in the form of FEMA. You know, it's actually working to improve your life or improve the school system in your area, whatever it is. And sadly, that's not what's been happening. And so that's the federal government. But then simultaneously, I could take it over and look at like the healthcare system that we've had for so long in the United States.

Starting point is 00:58:25 And it does feel like, look, there's certainly a lot of money at stake for a lot of people. And there are a lot of folks out there who probably don't want us to go down the maha path because it impacts their bottom line. Because if you are a person who makes your living off of people being sick all the time. You probably don't like the idea of people being healthy all the time. So you have to consider that when you hear all of this information out there. I think the goal overall, like I said a few minutes ago, is to give people information. More information is always better than less.

Starting point is 00:59:01 Let people make their own decisions in terms of their health, healthcare choices and their lifestyle choices. And I would love to see, by the way, functional medicine, alternative medicine, clinics that we could all visit. That wouldn't be, you know, you walk into one of these urgent care facilities. Why can't it be alternative or functional medicine? Yeah. Can you imagine if you went into see your primary care physician and you're like, you know, I mean, it's just weight is just hurting my joints and heavy and they did some blood work and they were like, hey,

Starting point is 00:59:27 you're on the borderline for diabetes, you're pre diabetic. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna get you some nutritional coaching, you're gonna start a, you know, a daily exercise program. Here's we're gonna start with walking with, you know, slowly getting back to a whole food diet. You know, we're gonna, we're gonna get you outside more often. And then we're gonna see you in a few months and see how you're doing

Starting point is 00:59:48 and find a way to reward physicians and practitioners. I mean, the reduction in the total cost of caring for a chronically ill person in this country, just a 15% reduction in that is mind numbing. Oh, my gosh. You're talking about three quarters of a trillion dollars a year. And this isn't by making everybody into super athletes, this is just tapping, you know, the metabolic syndrome, which is creeping down into younger and younger and younger ages. And I think there's also, you know, an opportunity for us to really affect, you know, public school systems. Yeah. I mean, this law that was just passed, I mean, I pray that

Starting point is 01:00:30 that's true. I saw it on social media. So I don't know if it is or not, where they said we're not allowing, you know, processed foods. That was Arizona, right? Yeah. I mean, processed foods in the public school system in Arizona. I mean, things like that catching on like a brushfire, you know, as a mother. Yeah. You've got to be really inspired like that because for you, it's got to be tough too. I mean, how are you getting your kids into training them to be, you know, having healthy habits if they're constantly around kids that are not? It's very hard. It's very hard. And the thing is, I'll pack my kids lunches and I'll be very proud of, you know, what I pack for them, because I really do try to give them as much whole food as they will eat,

Starting point is 01:01:14 and it's not perfect with kids for sure. And then they'll come home, and they'll say, so-and-so had this fruit roll-up thing, and I'm like, oh my God, can we get those? I'm like, no, we can't get those. And they always want to know about why, but you know, so and so had it at school. Their parents love them. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:01:31 I'm like, oh my, by the way, I do hear that. He has a phone and fruit roll-up. Their mom must care about them. I'm like, oh, okay. That's the worst. It's hard. It's hard, but yeah, I mean, look, it's challenging, but gosh, how much easier would it be

Starting point is 01:01:44 for every parent out there if this was just kind of how it was that, you know, you could feel great about sending your kid to school and having the school lunch there, and it was gonna be helpful for them and not poisoning them. Yeah, I mean, I'm so inspired by that. I'm so excited about our future.

Starting point is 01:02:01 You're the same way. You know, I know what health and fitness and whole foods have done for me and for my family, and I feel like I want everybody to feel like that. And, you know, when you look at these, you know, broad studies where they go into prison systems or public school systems, and they do a pilot study where they just make a shift to whole foods, simple things like that, you know, The rates of violence in inmates go down,

Starting point is 01:02:26 the rates of what they were diagnosing as attention deficit disorders and learning disabilities actually go down. Dr. Hyman talks about this all the time. And it's so fascinating. I think the switch is finally beginning to flick for people that what we put into our bodies matters. I mean, we know that to an extent,

Starting point is 01:02:49 but we're starting to realize that the forever chemicals, the fluorides, the seed oils, these micro toxins that we keep putting into our system, eventually they build up and they blow the engine. You know where I'd like to see it? If you haven't been into a hospital recently, which I hope no one has, but if you go visit anyone in a hospital

Starting point is 01:03:10 and just the general food that they will serve you. Oh my gosh. It is like they have like the pudding packs. It's garbage. I'm like, okay, you are here in a place because you are sick, you are unwell. We're trying to get you out of here so that you can go live your life.

Starting point is 01:03:29 And this is what you're being given. It was astounding. You're really touching a heart string for me and my wife's wide-eyed off the camera. She just actually did a post on this. What was that like? Last month. Oh, wow. So I have a dear friend of mine of 35 years.

Starting point is 01:03:47 He's two years younger than I am, recently diagnosed with stage four metastatic colon cancer. And it's gonna be a message of hope because I'm assembling a clinical care team that's gonna walk him out of this over the next few months. I'm actually inspired for him. And I have no doubt that he's going to be okay, but he's not in the standard healthcare system.

Starting point is 01:04:09 But he ended up, because of sepsis, he ended up at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale. And huge shout out, first of all, to the Mayo Clinic for saving his life. Because there is no question my friend would not be on the surface of this earth if it were not for the care that he received there. But it was that critical and interventional care.

Starting point is 01:04:27 You know, I mean, this, it looked like an absolute chemistry lab when I walked into his room, you know, potassium, you know, calcium pumps, plasma, you know, and they just did an incredible job at stabilizing him and getting him in a position where he could go start a different, you know, more, more holistic care for his, for his condition. But to your point, you know, we walked into the, you know, the, the ICU at, at Mayo Clinic. I mean, these are the sickest people on the planet.

Starting point is 01:05:02 Yeah. And my friend was in very serious condition. And there was the jello with the red dyes and the fake sugar. There was pureed applesauce and then can of soda. And I even spun the can of soda around. I was like, holy cow, 54 grams of sugar, pureed applesauce. And I saw the levels of nutrients and minerals and electrolytes crashing in his

Starting point is 01:05:29 blood, but I'm like, there's no What's he putting in there? Yeah. going into the body. Yeah. And this is what's being fed. You know, I would consider Mayo Clinic that you know, that, I mean, they're the top dog. Yeah. And the best care and critically, there's no doubt that they saved his life. But I believe that this is another area

Starting point is 01:05:50 where our healthcare system is broken because it still shows you that even the best that healthcare has to offer still doesn't really embrace the fact that diet and lifestyle has an impact on all this stuff. Yeah. Sort of happens to people. We're in that shift space though, I really feel it.

Starting point is 01:06:07 And I think that people are gonna start demanding it. And I think that that's the shift that we've seen happen. People are finally aware of things for the first time. And I think, I hope it translates to schools, I hope it translates to hospitals, I hope it translates everywhere, but I think it's gonna take, I hope it translates everywhere, but I think it's, you know, it's going to take people demanding it happen.

Starting point is 01:06:28 Yeah. You know, again, normally my podcast is not political, but there's something in the news right now. I'm inherently political, Gary. I know you're drawing me in there. Like, here we go. Come on in. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:06:41 Hey, I lost 47,000 followers when I posted. Oh my God, did you? A picture of Bobby followers when I posted. Oh my God, did you? A picture of Bobby Kennedy and I together. I went through, you know, when I would post pictures with your dad at UFC, I would take a little down tick and then there was one, some when I went to the inauguration. And then I posted one with Bobby Kennedy and I lost 47,000. But then I gained 153,000.

Starting point is 01:07:03 I was like, oh, the tide shifting here. Look at that. Yeah. There is one major event, you know, going on in the world right now, that I'm praying your father-in-law is going to solve. And I'm really hopeful. And it looks like he's going to get it done because we actually have friends that are intimately involved in this conflict with Ukraine and and Russia. And I don't think a lot of citizens in America really understand how the this industrial war complex works, where it's a giant profit center or more. It's hard for people to believe that we actually may want to

Starting point is 01:07:43 or more, it's hard for people to believe that we actually may want to engage or support wars as a as a profit center, just like it's hard to wrap your arms around the fact that diabetes is a profit center. Right. And so is hypothyroid and cardiac disease and high cholesterol. These are these are actually profit centers. And there's something to be said for when when there's so many 10 tens of billions of dollars to be earned from a conflict like what is happening in Russia and and Ukraine that you have to wonder what the agenda really is are we really trying to save

Starting point is 01:08:20 humanity and we really want to stop all these lives from being shed or is there you know more sinister motive behind it yeah do you are you hopeful I mean we've already seen the world kind of calm down I've actually personally spent a lot of time on that other side of the world and I can tell you that there is a very it's very positive like the spirits are being lifted and that we may see this peace blanket start to wrap around that area of the world. Do you think your father-in-law's gonna be successful

Starting point is 01:08:55 in there? I do. You do? I do. I think, you know, the first term in office, you had no new wars, first president in 82 years to have no new wars, Donald J. Trump, and you also had the Abraham Accords,

Starting point is 01:09:09 historic peace agreements in the Middle East, something that people said would never happen. Donald Trump was the one to do it. And the irony, of course, is that there was hysteria around the fact that Donald Trump wouldn't have the nuclear codes, Donald Trump would get us in World War III, and if you take his first term in office and take a look at it,

Starting point is 01:09:27 he was the anti-war president. He was working on our... what would have been, I think, a bit of a different exit from Afghanistan, but he doesn't want the American people to be involved in conflicts that we don't need to be involved in. And you're right, there is an industrial war complex. And some people understand what that means, some people don't. In the same way that there are some out there incentivized

Starting point is 01:09:52 for us all to be sick, and because it's the profit margins are huge, there's a ton of money to be made by the American people staying in a perpetual state of sickness. Likewise, there's a lot of money to be made when there are wars around the world that the American people have to engage in. Total perpetual state of sickness. Likewise, there's a lot of money to be made when there are wars around the world that the American people have to engage in. Total perpetual state of conflict. Yes. And there are a lot of people who make a lot of money off of it, a lot of kickbacks,

Starting point is 01:10:13 a lot of it. And the great news with Donald Trump, and one of the things that I think some people came to know very quickly about him, some are learning, is that Donald Trump has made his money. Donald Trump is not interested in anything other than doing the best job he possibly can for this country. And it always made me laugh when people would say like, what's he getting from Putin? What's he getting from this one?

Starting point is 01:10:40 He's not getting anything. It's crazy. It's absolutely nuts, Gary. It's crazy. I'll give you a hundred grand if you like it's it's it's absolute insanity He is 100% committed to getting us out of these conflicts to ending these conflicts He talks consistently about the fact that the the bloodshed in Ukraine has been. The people that they're losing and that the Russians are losing is terrible. You know, the Middle East, you look there too. And I do believe he will be successful in it. And I think, you know, sometimes it's a little bit of you have to

Starting point is 01:11:17 have peace through strength. And people see him. He's a strong leader. They know when he draws the line in the sand, he's not joking. He absolutely means what he says. And so I think Vladimir Putin respects that enough to say, you know what? I don't know that I want to engage this guy either. So I think they all want to get out of it. I think everyone wants it to end, including Russia, obviously Ukraine. And I do think he'll be successful. That is so amazing.

Starting point is 01:11:41 Laurie, you're amazing. I could literally talk to you for hours and hours. Thank you. I know I said to you when I got here, I could spend 10 hours with you're amazing. I could literally talk to you for hours and hours. Thank you, I know I said to you when I got here, I could spend 10 hours with you, Gary. I hope I get to be on your show again. Oh, I hope so too.

Starting point is 01:11:52 I definitely hope you'll come back and do the Ultimate Human podcast again. Yes. So I have a VIP group. These are like my staunchest followers. They pay to be a part of my VIP membership group. They knew you were coming on. So they've got a list of questions for you.

Starting point is 01:12:08 So we're gonna go into this little private room and I'm gonna allow the questions that they asked for you to answer those. For those of you that are interested in becoming an ultimate human VIP, you can go over to theultimatehuman.com and just sign up to be one of my VIPs. But Laura, I end every one of my podcasts the same way

Starting point is 01:12:25 by asking all my guests the same question. And what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human? Oh. Well, I don't know that I am the ultimate human, but I think we're always striving for it. You're looking pretty ultimate. She got here today, I'm like, you're jacked. I'm doing my best, we're all doing our best, I think.

Starting point is 01:12:47 You know, in my mind, the ultimate human is someone who is able to balance all different aspects of life. And whether that's health and fitness, whether it's family life, whether it's social life, you know, you wanna have, to me, a great balance of all of them. And I don't know that any of us ever fully achieve it, but I think we're all striving for it.

Starting point is 01:13:11 I can tell you every day I'm trying to do the best I can as a mom, as a wife, as a daughter, as a daughter-in-law, as the host of a show, as you know, all the different things. And so to me, I think the ultimate human is someone who can balance it all. That's amazing. Well, my audience knows who you are, but those that don't can tell them where they can find you, where they can find the show. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:13:33 So you can follow me on social media at Lara Lee Trump, L-A-R-A-L-E-A. I know, I don't know what my parents are doing there. L-A-R-A-L-E-A. Yeah, it's really wild. Lara Lee Trump on Instagram, on X, on TikTok, on all the different things. And then my show is called My View on Fox. It's 9 p.m. every Saturday night.

Starting point is 01:13:54 My View FNC is the handle for all social media as well. Amazing. I will be on her next show. So I hope you guys tune in and we wish her luck with this show Congratulations on the new show and the new career and congratulations on an amazing Launch of your show and I hope you come back on the open until next time guys. That's just science

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka - 147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health

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