Unlock the potential of your lifestyle choices to dramatically enhance your health and energy. In this engaging episode, Adam Gates shares his journey toward regaining his health and vitality, emphasizing the power of strategic lifestyle adjustments.
Adam doesn't just share his story; he provides actionable insights into navigating today's challenging food landscape, achieving peak performance without sacrificing health, and making conscious choices that lead to lasting health benefits. This episode is more than just a personal recount; it's a motivational call to action for anyone eager to improve their life through mindful health and dietary practices. Tune in to embark on your journey towards a more vibrant, health-conscious life.
Takeaways:
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction and Background
01:12 - Overcoming Illness and Lifestyle Changes
08:57 - Rebuilding Life and Starting Naked Healthy
25:18 - The Role of Gut Bacteria in Well-being
29:04 - Choosing Higher Vibrational Foods for Elevated Consciousness
30:51 - The Power of Conscious Decision-Making
32:20 - Mitochondria, ATP, and Energy Production
33:07 - Balancing Work and Personal Life
34:29 - The Importance of Planning Ahead for Healthy Eating
43:03 - The Impact of Diet on Overall Health and Well-being
50:42 - The Significance of Sleep for Hormones and Brain Function
52:11 - The Benefits of Fasting and Autophagy
56:23 - Becoming a Consciousness Coach
Unlock the potential of your lifestyle choices to dramatically enhance your health and energy. In this engaging episode, Adam Gates shares his journey toward regaining his health and vitality, emphasizing the power of strategic lifestyle adjustments.
Adam doesn't just share his story; he provides actionable insights into navigating today's challenging food landscape, achieving peak performance without sacrificing health, and making conscious choices that lead to lasting health benefits. This episode is more than just a personal recount; it's a motivational call to action for anyone eager to improve their life through mindful health and dietary practices. Tune in to embark on your journey towards a more vibrant, health-conscious life.
Takeaways:
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction and Background
01:12 - Overcoming Illness and Lifestyle Changes
08:57 - Rebuilding Life and Starting Naked Healthy
25:18 - The Role of Gut Bacteria in Well-being
29:04 - Choosing Higher Vibrational Foods for Elevated Consciousness
30:51 - The Power of Conscious Decision-Making
32:20 - Mitochondria, ATP, and Energy Production
33:07 - Balancing Work and Personal Life
34:29 - The Importance of Planning Ahead for Healthy Eating
43:03 - The Impact of Diet on Overall Health and Well-being
50:42 - The Significance of Sleep for Hormones and Brain Function
52:11 - The Benefits of Fasting and Autophagy
56:23 - Becoming a Consciousness Coach
you Hello everyone and welcome to today's episode of the Super Daddy Club Podcast. We're thrilled to have with us a former model, actor and wellness advocate renowned for his transformative journey towards healthy living. Today, he's going to share his inspiring story from overcoming illness to reshaping both body and mind, as well as an honest discussion about the food we consume. He's the founder of Naked Healthy, a blog dedicated to living a healthier and more conscious lifestyle. Without further delays, I would love to introduce Adam Gates. Thank you for having me. I'm very excited to be here. So a little bit about myself. I was a model for about 10 or 11 years when I got really sick with a black mold inhalation. So I lived in a duplex and there was just mold in the walls. I didn't know about it, but over the span of six months, my hair was really long. It was pretty. Like I said, I was modeling full time. I was acting and in the span of six months, my skin turned yellow, my hair fell out and I lost about 30 pounds. So. I didn't realize how sick I had gotten until I went back home to New York to visit my family and they all kind of collectively gasped. And then that's when I sort of realized the totality of what was going on with me. So pretty much my entire life got derailed. My ego, my career, my sense of self, my friends, I had to change environments because I was living in Georgia where it was humid. So I had to move out to Colorado for a drier climate. I needed to get the mold out of my body. So after this built up, I went to three separate doctors. and all three doctors made me worse. The first one gave me antibiotics, which as some of you will know, just destroys your immune system. I did not know this at the time. I was very health dumb. I didn't know really anything. I knew how to stay lean and skinny and not eat to be a model, but I did not know anything about health. So I put my faith in these three separate doctors and all three of them made me worse. And so I made the decision to move to Colorado and I'm going to do this on my own. I had gone to high school here, so I was very acclimated and aware of the dry climate compared to Georgia. So I moved out to Colorado and I attacked the mold that was in my body. I also realized upon learning that all of the alcohol that I was consuming on almost a nightly basis was feeding the mold in my system. So was the sugar. So was the ultra -processed diet. It was all feeding the mold that was growing in my body. So I essentially had to throw everything that I knew. as myself kind of out the window. I literally gave up my cell phone and my television and all I did was I researched, I watched Ted Talks and lots of YouTube videos about stage four cancer patients that were sent home to die whose friends intervened and said, no, listen, this is what we're going to do. You're going to go on a raw food diet. I watched person after person after person that were healed, that were sent home to die. And I said, okay, well, these are the people I'm going to trust because these people have clearly done it. And so over the span of a year and a half, I learned everything I could about... Mold, sugar, big pharma, alcohol, consciousness, quantum reality, our physiology, the way the government works, the way our pharmaceutical industry works, the way our education system works, and realize they're all very intertwined. And the reason why 70 % of Americans are on at least one prescription drug is because of this sort of system we're thrown into. So we're not taught how to heal ourselves, and we're not taught how to live a healthy lifestyle. So... That's pretty much what was the catalyst for this. A lot of people think that I just went into this because I was modeling and I wanted to be a personal trainer that has absolutely nothing to do with it. I was minding my own business and my entire life got completely derailed. You know, just losing your hair is one thing, but to be withering away and your skin's changing color and brain fog and I couldn't remember friends' names and I couldn't remember movie quotes with my brother. So that's really what pushed me into all of this. Yeah, there's a few things you're speaking on there. And well, the first quote that come to mind is a pill for every ill. And that was the model that was set sometime ago. But besides that, there's the element of the mold, but I'm understanding that within there, there was also a certain lifestyle that you were living and both of them came together in a really like bad way in a sense. How old were you at that stage of life and how do you reflect on? the relationship and the friends and how do you move from that just to start there, then we can kind of get back into the health elements of things. Sure. That's a really great question. I appreciate you asking that because the social elements of this, I feel like are highly ignored because once I realized the molds in my system, I already know that, right? So that needs to be addressed. What, rather than taking a pill, I'm going to address the symptoms. So what is feeding the mold, the alcohol, the sugar, all those things, right? So alcohol was something I already was struggling with and knew needed to go. And then this was sort of the two handed push that was the time for me to do it. I did not recognize how many of my friends I was going to lose by saying goodbye to alcohol because most of us haven't gone a month without alcohol. And there's a reason for that. It's because we're dependent on it and we don't realize that we're dependent on it. I thought I was good. I tried to go four days in a row when I said I'm going to quit drinking and I drink every single night in a row that I said I was going to stop. And I realized I couldn't stop. That's when I realized, okay, this is an actual problem. Then I had to start eliminating all of the areas in my life where there was alcohol all the way down to the NFL, which sounds crazy. I had to stop watching sports because the way that I would sit down and watch sports, what do you do? You sit down, you grab a beer and you watch your team. So. I didn't even realize that that was going to be a trigger for me. It was like a pavlovian response. Like I'd start watching football or if I thought about going to a concert or going out to a nightclub or going, doing any of those things that you would usually do, there's all alcohol related to that. It's just interwoven into our society. So as soon as you decide that you want to improve yourself and not put this poison in your body that causes seven types of cancer, and it's also fat and water soluble. So it permeates all of your organs. That's why it goes to your brain, your liver. It goes everywhere. It does. There's no filter that a kid where the alcohol can't go. So as soon as you decide that you are going to reduce your affiliation with that, it makes people very uncomfortable because it shines a light on them and their insecurities and the things that they know that they're doing. Everybody knows they shouldn't be drinking three, four or five nights a week. We all know that, but we do it just because it's just something that we do in life is hard and it's very stressful and we need some sort of coping mechanism. to be able to handle that and take the weight. Otherwise, we break. And so that's why when I gave up alcohol, I had to come up with all sorts of different ways to cope with stress, to handle stress, to deal with my realities, other than just smoking cigarettes and doing drugs and drinking and going out and just hanging out in a nightclub environment. Now, did you also find yourself, because the career element also fell apart with that, did you find yourself devoid of purpose? And is that something that you also had to rebuild with everything? You're already successful by your own measure or metrics, probably by that time at that age, right? I was doing really well. I was doing a lot of featured background. So what featured background means that someone called you and said, listen, we have a scene, there's no lines in it. We need a particular type of look for this scene. There's going to be a main actor here. Then you're going to be right behind them. So you're in that. So I was doing a lot of that sort of stuff. I was sort of working my way up. Directors knew who I was. I had four or five different modeling agencies. And so I went from, like I said, long hair, just healthy looking to looking like I had cancer within six months. And that, like I said, derailed my entire life as an understatement. It's like taking a dish plate and throwing it off a balcony. That's basically what was left of me. There was everything, my sense of self, my career, my future. I thought I was gonna be an actor my whole life. That was my whole direction for 12 years. I had been working towards that, working out, staying in that environment, constantly on the hustle. I was really working hard. I was in Atlanta, Hollywood is down there, or New Hollywood is down there. They call it Yollywood. But that was exploding while I was down there. And it just, it was by far the hardest thing I had ever had to go through in my adult life. Cause I had to restitch together every aspect of who am I, what do I want to be, who do I want to be? I was like this party guy that used to go out and I was the center of attention and now I'm giving up alcohol and now I'm not going out to events. Now I'm not going to sporting events. So it was a lot of energetic outward to completely flipping the coin and focusing inward, which is what completely started the path of Naked Healthy. Hmm. That's very beautiful. And so you found your purpose through this new, you recreated yourself, you recreated a new narrative for yourself. And that's very, very powerful. It made me kind of like a weird parallel to draw here, but I worked in the homeless shelter system for some time and people who are within that system have a very high turnover rate and they keep on coming back and coming back. And one of the things that keep them coming back is the social network, the social circle. And it is. like crabs in a bucket mentality, but for them, that's the people who are there for you. And so as soon as you're trying to get out of that environment, they're not happy with that. They rather drag you back down there. That's a beautiful analogy. Yeah. And that's really what it reminds me. Yeah. That's a beautiful analogy. And the whole Western society, all this hustle hard, sleep when you're dead, work hard, all this stuff we all see online all the time. I feel like it's starting to fade away in the last couple years, but for the last five to 10 years, that was very strong and prevalent in our mentality. When you know that you should be focusing on your health and you're watching yourself age and you're watching your mood decline and you think back and you look at pictures from five years ago or 10 years ago and you think to yourself, I was significantly happier then. And you just know it and you feel it. And most people know when they hear what I'm saying, they know exactly what I'm talking about. They were just happier. years ago. It's just every year, it's just less and less happiness resides within your body. When you know that you should be making the choices and you just continue along the path, Joe Dispenza says this very well, the fear of the unknown is a lot more frightening than the comfortable reality of your current existence. You'd much rather stay in this guilt-ridden existence of just what's comfortable and what you're used to doing than go into the unknown and maybe try to give up alcohol for a month and see how you feel. and have to deal with those nights where you're like, okay, I didn't realize I was going to experience withdrawal symptoms. This was unexpected. Yes, you're learning yourself. You're learning that something had its hold around your ankle that you didn't know had its hold around you. And if you have invisible chains around you, you need to know about those because how you can plan on progressing your life when you have invisible chains holding you down, you're not going to get very far. So you need to try to go without these things. And if that just means that there's friends that are going to fall off, your friends do not benefit your health. If they're just drinking buddies, they're not benefiting your health. Some of those people will want to change with you and will want to enhance their life, especially now we're really going through a movement where alcohol is really becoming, it's being kind of known as more of the poison that it is than just this social aspect of just something like, let's go out and do it. So I feel like initially, It's harder and you do spend a lot of time alone, but I think that that's beneficial because you need to spend time alone to figure out who you are, who you are without going out and partying and all this stuff. I was drinking six nights a week, four nights a week. We're by myself at home just because it was just a habit. So it really, really had its hold on me. And once you start giving up something like that, you have a lot of free time to start doing other things with. I've had a couple of friends who had reached that alcoholic stage at a point where we were all just. We thought it was just casual drinking. We thought it was just a stage of life, whatever. We weren't really thinking too much about it, right? One of the things that I noticed is that once everybody start moving past that stage, sometimes you still have that one friend who's still in that stage and people still go out there and drink with them. It's his birthday. Let's go out and drink, but he's an alcoholic. He's got a problem. And maybe I got a problem too, but my problem is not there yet. I've always cautioned my circle of friends about it. It's like, Hey, So -and -so has a problem. When we go out there and we're having casual drinks, he's not having casual drinks. That's maybe, that's the fourth day, fifth day, sixth day, who knows? But that's something that I just wanted to highlight in the frame of this conversation because I've always found that people missed out on that because it's such a routine, it's such a habit that we get into. Absolutely. It's such a part of life, like you're saying. We become friendly enablers and we don't even realize it. Indeed. You are just underlying their... exclamation point of life, essentially, you're just okaying it. So if it's okay on a birthday, then it's okay on New Year's, then it's okay on Christmas, then it's okay on my boy's birthday, then it's okay on my girl's birthday. Then now how many days you have that are accepted to just get smashed out of your face. Now you're allowing this. Now everything below that is below that. So now you have this reference, like I still have a landscaping business and I tell all my guys when we have a really, really hard day at work, That's our new bar. We're probably not going to have another day of work that's going to be this hard. So you can just compare the rest of this to that. And it's very similar when you're drinking. If I have 10 beers, I'm not using drugs, I'm not doing shots. So it's only 10 beers. Cause my bar is up here. It's not new year. So if it's new years, I'm used to drinking this much. What's the big deal? It's Tuesday. I'm not going to get smashed. I'm not going to drink one small bottle of wine. Everything's relative. So just like you said, where your friend might be doing that fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh night, and you're experiencing your own pullback from alcohol. We're all experiencing our own reality, right? This is why I call myself a consciousness coach because everybody's perspective is going to paint their own reality for them. And depending on the food that you eat, depends on the reality that you're going to get. It depends on where your vibration is and what you're going to focus on. So, whereas you're aware of your friend and being an enabler for your friend, six of your other buddies might not even be aware of that because you're the one that's now conscious. of the fact that you're drinking too much and maybe you're not even cutting back yet, but maybe you're just conscious of the fact that you're drinking too much. I didn't just stop. It was a long process of, am I drinking too much? My mom called me an alcoholic when I was 30. In my head, I'm like, I'm too young to be an alcoholic. And then I hit the fast forward button 10 years and I was like, if I was 40, I'd be an alcoholic. So what's the difference between what I'm doing now and what I'm doing if I was 40? I'm just younger. So. your reality and your perspective is going to paint that picture, which then makes you more aware of what your friends might be going through. You know that your buddy, it's his birthday and he drinks a lot. Maybe you could make a suggestion of going on a hike and then going to a bar. So you throw in like a little bit of healthy stuff. I live in Colorado, so forgive the hike example, but you get what I'm saying. Like do something else first without alcohol involved so that the whole event isn't just highlighted in alcohol. you know what I mean? Because otherwise it's like the Pavlov and the Bell, just everything is alcohol related, which is what I found out. I became a hermit after I quit drinking. I moved to Boulder, Colorado and literally, like I said, I threw out my phone and my television. My girlfriend had a cell phone, but I literally threw out my cell phone because I was like, I can't be around anybody. This is a big deal. My health, my reality, my career, and I'm battling alcohol and I'm trying to quit smoking cigarettes. So it was like a rogue wave in the ocean forms. When three or four random waves together meet at the same point, now you have a rogue wave. That is what happened with my mold, my alcohol, my addictions. I had a rogue wave that just completely derailed me. It wasn't just like this little, this will be fixed in just a couple of days. This was a, I'm rebuilding my entire life. I'm cocooning myself. I'm coming out as a butterfly. I will be a different person. And to think about who I used to be back when I was that person is like, It's wild to even think I look back at pictures. It's just, it doesn't even feel like the same person. And just for context, how old were you around that time? I've been sober for 10 years. So I'm 42 now. So I finally, finally quit of drinking at about 32. And I started at 21. So I didn't drink at all until my 21st birthday and then went hard. Yeah. I am on such an opposite spectrum with, I was a very, very young alcoholic, but I was also trying to numb a lot of pain. And I think I started drinking at the age of. The first time I drank, I was like 12 and a half. It was not until I was much older that I realized that, wow, you're a child alcoholic. And that's where I'm like pinpointing these changes that you had to make. Cause I do recognize the effort that you have to go through to get rid of that circle of friends, rebuild your identity afterwards. Well, you brought up the consciousness element and I really loved that idea of a consciousness coach. And if I understand correctly, it's about just helping people be more conscious, be more mindful, realize what's in the immediate environment. Like, can we dive deeper into that if possible? Yeah, I would love to. So it starts with food, period. We are what we eat. We've all heard that since we were babies, right? It's like one of the first things we learned, but we just, we've heard it for so long. It's mute. Like I say it and you're like, some people is like, yeah, I know I've already heard that. you literally regenerate your entire body every seven years entirely. You have a whole new body based on the food that you eat. So if you look back at the last seven years of your food, how much of that would you go back and want to change? Like all the pizzas and all the beer and all the cheese and all the burgers and all the, you know, whatever, just take the average Western diet, right? You experience the reality at which the vibration that you are resonating at everything has a frequency. Okay. Are you familiar with cymatics? Have you ever seen this where they put sand on a plate and they hit it with a particular frequency and it immediately forms a shape? Yes. Okay. Every frequency has its own individual shape. Okay. So 300 Hertz, take a plate, sprinkle some salt, hook two little clips to it. And all they do is they just put a frequency on it and they just turn the dial up. So 248, 250, 260, 270. As you increase, the shape will change to a different shape. that's more intricate. Now keep in mind that's only two dimensional. It's really representing a three dimensional shape. So as we speak, we have a three dimensional shape that's coming out of our mouth with all the words. That's why you shouldn't talk bad about yourself because you're actually projecting words. So the frequency that you are vibrating at can only be as high as the food that you're eating. As the more that you turn this dial up, if you go up to a thousand Hertz, you get these beautiful looking crop circle looking intricate detailed patterns. And as you turn it down, they get less and less and less intricate. So the lower vibrating, the less beautiful, the less detailed. So the higher vibrating is where you want to be. That's going to be things like produce, fruits, apples, oranges, papayas, produce. Think about garden food, anything that you could grow in a garden. Low vibrational food is going to be things like fast foods, anything that's ultra processed that came out of a factory that didn't require the sun to grow. There's no photons in it, right? Did your food require photosynthesis to grow or was it made in a factory? So my mantra is don't eat food with ingredients. You eat whole things. You can make stuff out of multiple things and then make like a zucchini bread, but you don't buy bread. Like most of the bread is going to have stuff in it that you don't want. So it all starts with the food that you eat. And then from there it goes from detoxing your body, getting your liver clean, working on different things like breath work, meditation, but. The main thing, 85 % of what I focus on with my clients is going to be diet and nutrition because that's where most people fail. Once I was able to give up alcohol and cigarettes, everything was easy. Once I found out I had to give up dairy, no problem. That's easy. I already gave up alcohol. I can give up dairy. And then I found out I had to give up gluten because there's glyphosate on all of our wheat. It's not that we can't ingest wheat, my friend. It's that we can't ingest glyphosate. That's our problem. toxin in our body. It's not the wheat problem, it's the glyphosate problem. Can't have wheat. Okay, cool, I'll remove that too. It's not a big deal, I've already gotten rid of alcohol. Each one of these things is leveling up my consciousness to make me more aware and more in tune with the universe, with the spiritual realm, with God, fill in the blank, whatever you want to call it. We are light. It's in every religious book that you can possibly find. The more photosynthesis that we are eating, the more light that we are eating, They're now saying that they think that bio photons, so photons come from the sun, the plant absorbs that, that's now bio photons, which we ingest. They're now thinking that bio photons are what is firing in your brain. Like that's actually what your neuron light is. So if you're just eating an ultra processed diet, you're going to live a lower reality. What does that mean? You're going to come home, you're going to want to sit on the couch, you're going to flunk back. You're just going to use the remote. You're going to order a lot of to go food. You're not going to work on a side hustle. You're not going to want to work on bettering yourself. You're not going to want to work on going to the gym. You're not going to want to be in the sun. You're not going to paint. You're not going to learn an instrument. You're not, you're just going to exist. You're a tax abiding citizen at that point. That's what you're doing. You're down here. That's a lower vibrational reality. I want nothing to do with that. Higher vibrational. Think about walking through an alley in New York that's dirty. Not to knock on New York, just pick that as a city and then picture walking on the beach at sunset. High vibration, low vibration. You want to eat higher vibrational food. That is the reality that you will experience. And what happens is it's the same way a jet flies up above the turbulence. If your vibration is up high, that's the reality that you're experiencing. You don't notice all this ankle biting bullshit down here. All the rumors and gossip and all this chatter and all this stuff, you don't even pay attention to it because you're up here. That's why it's so important. But you can't just change someone's life if they're eating poorly. It's not going to happen that way. So I very, very, very much focus on food. Then obviously exercise goes into that. But food is where I really like to start because that's where most people really have no clue. Because like I said, at the beginning of this interview, we've been thrown into a system that just makes us sick. If they have empty hospital beds, it's the same as it. If you were a hotel owner, do you want empty rooms in your hotel? Nope. If you were a hospital running as a business, do you want empty hospital beds? Probably not. You do not. You make money based on those beds being full. It's a business. It's interesting because you are dying where we eat. to motivational drive and that's very powerful. You know, the idea of fast food itself is kind of tricky because it's not necessarily fast. If you think about it, you still have to sit down and eat unless you want to eat and drive, sure. But most of the time you still have to sit down and eat. And so if you're going to spend that $10 at McDonald's, you might as well spend an extra two, three dollars and get something somewhere else a little bit healthier. So as I started kind of like switching to the mindset and I think Ryan helped me with this line where it's like, hunger pains are okay. You don't always have to sue them and bury them and deal with them. It's okay to be hungry every now and then. But, It's actually really good to be hungry every now and then. Right? So, yeah, definitely. Let's talk some more about that too. What I started realizing is that it was harder for me to go back to heavy processed food because I would feel just weak after. I would feel drained. And sometimes, and this is experiential, I would feel drained of energy. I would feel depressed almost after consuming food. And that is insane. And I don't know if other people have experienced such a thing, but - I think everybody experiences that. I'm going to explain why. I really appreciate you. I'm sorry to cut you short. I get so excited about this stuff. Go ahead. All right. So you have gut bacteria in your digestive system, right? You have millions and millions and millions of gut bacteria. I think it's a hundred trillion gut bacteria in your digestive system. Those gut bacteria regenerate directly based on the food that you eat. So picture a garden bed with a finite amount of space. The food that you eat grows either flowers or weeds. Keep in mind that 95 % of your serotonin comes from your digestive system. It goes up your vagus nerve into your brain. Your neurotransmitters form in your digestive system. So if you are eating food that does not trigger those neurotransmitters to be activated, you're just numb. Most of the reason that people even go to fast food is addiction. They don't even realize it. It's not even, you mentioned time and I really appreciate you saying that because it really, if a camp comes down to it and you ask someone who already has fast food on the brain, hey, do you want to go over here and get something healthy? They've already made up their mind. That's what they want. Their gut bacteria has already decided that's who's in control. Their mind's not in control. It's their digestive system that's telling them what to eat. Because what happens is the same reason why I said that I tried to give up alcohol four nights in a row and I couldn't. I was addicted. My gut bacteria wanted it. The alcohol was telling me I needed it because there was less and less and less in my system. So it's like screaming. It's like when you go underwater and you need air and you start freaking out and panicking, that's exactly what your gut bacteria is going to do when it needs more. It's going to start freaking the hell out and then sending those signals to you. Now you want fast food. You don't want a salad. Your gut bacteria is in control. One of the things that I do, I have a three -step program for someone that's starting. Like even if they have the most addictions they could ever possibly have, I don't even work on taking anything away from people because you have to start shifting their gut bacteria to even get their brain to wake up to want to make changes sometimes because they're so just ingrained in doing this. So you have to do like a lemon water first thing in the morning to start flushing that stuff out that's caked in your digestive system. Do a smoothie midday so you nutrient bomb your body with more fiber, more nutrients. more of these feel good things that are going to get your chemicals. And it's like a defibrillator to your stomach. All of a sudden you're like, I feel less shitty. Why do I feel less? I had a lemon water and a smoothie. I actually feel better because I had a little bit of fruit today. And then you go out through your day and then that feeling kind of goes away. And you're like, maybe I should eat something healthy again. And then a lot of times when people are starting, they'll eat something shitty and then they feel like crap again. But you need to be able to feel the difference between I'm feeling really good with food and I'm getting these neurotransmitters. And they're sending signals to my brain versus the shift away. But if you're constantly just eating the same food, you're never going to notice the difference. You're constantly just going to be, it's like a seesaw that just weighed down the whole time. Yeah, absolutely. You have no benchmark. Right. The way I was made to understand the gut bacteria or the way at least it really made sense for me was you have all these bacteria cultures that are existing in your stomach and you promote whichever species of bacteria based on what you eat. And so. that person that's been, like you're saying, eating all that garbage food and whatnot, the dominant species in their bacteria feed off those particular chemicals. And one of the cool things that we learned in science is like bacteria colonies have bacteria wars and they have like, they form like these microfilms that it's a very rigid matrix structure of like proteins and all kinds of like stuff, but it's a biofilm. That's what it's called. Once they formed this biofilm, they're able to secrete chemicals that allow them to. engage in war against, I mean, I'm using those words, but kind of like engaging warfare against other bacterial cultures. So you're actually promoting bacteria cultures in your stomach that are going to decimate the other bacterias that live off of chemicals that these guys don't thrive on. A little bit of biology and survival of the fittest going on in our stomach at any particular point. I appreciate that a lot. And to co -tail off of that statement, think about this. If you go to the doctor right now and they give you a shot, what do they rub on your arm before you get a shot? Alcohol, isopropyl, I believe. Alcohol. What are we all drinking? Yeah, the alcohol. It destroys the good gut bacteria in our digestive system, which is another thing. So what happens is the alcohol will actually kill the good bacteria, leaving the bad bacteria, which then what you said, then you have more bad bacteria, which then is attacking the good bacteria that is trying to grow. Which is why you need to constantly be putting good things in your body. that grow that good gut bacteria. And by the way, I do want to mention that the gut bacteria technically starts in your mouth and goes all the way to your colon. So it's about 30 feet. So it's like mouth to anus. The best way to look at a human body is it's like a donut where it's like, you can go from the inside to the outside. It's just like one long strip. Just a bunch of doors. Yeah. Yeah. It's a very long tube. Yeah, no, it's, I really love that stuff because it helped me reshape how I eat. Like I hated eating most of my life. I've never had a good diet till today. I'll probably, I'll probably be way bigger if I could maintain a good diet, but that's usually the first thing that goes out the window whenever people are stressed and busy and running around through life. Like we said earlier, right? We don't have time in society. At least we don't make time. And in order to make time, we really got to pause and really think about what we're doing. And. You know, like again, the example of the guy who's already, they got their mind set on fast food already. They have to actually pause and think about what the hell they're doing. Which takes energy, mind you. It takes energy. Yeah. The act of being conscious and thank you for saying that, but the act of being conscious and making a decision that's against what you can do unconsciously. Anybody that goes to fast, if I went to McDonald's, do you know how out of sorts I would be? I don't even know what their registers are. I don't know if it's computers. I don't know if it's going to be a person. I don't know what value menus they have. I don't know where the drink... You know what I mean? I'm completely out of sorts. But you take someone who goes there all the time, boom, they know what they want. They know what they're getting. They know when they're sitting. They know what it's going to taste like. They have all their expectations are already there. So for you to get someone to make a decision that's different than where they're already going, it's like steering a car, right? If you're steering a car going straight, it's one thing. But if all of a sudden you have to make a left real fast, That takes actual energy to do the act of being conscious and making a conscious decision to do something different is tiring. We look at that as hard. We confuse being tired with it being hard. And so we just say no. And it's also against what I'm comfortable with. So there's all of these things that are ingrained in us that when you decide that you want to do this, that this is why I say a consciousness coach. Cause if you're just unconsciously, bouncing around life, you can merge onto a highway four lanes while you're texting on a highway, steering a 6 ,000 pound SUV with people in the back. No problem. You can get on the highway because you've unconsciously done it. How many times you're just used to doing it, right? You have to form new neural pathways in your brain, which take energy, which I would like to talk about because I want to talk about the mitochondria and ATP before we get too far into this because When you eat clean, you'll have energy to work out. And when you have energy to work out, you'll build more ATP and ATP is essentially our battery. It's our unit of energy. So I definitely want to get into that before we get too far down. Ever faced moments that left you searching for words? Well, discover BeCeremonial, an app that guides you in crafting personal ceremonies for life's pivotal moments. Celebrate, heal. and honor with ceremonies that speak when words fall short. Exclusive to our listeners, use code SUPERDADDYCEREMONY for a free personalized ceremony. Dive into the transformative power of ceremony before March 31st. With BeCeremonial, every moment counts. Hopefully this doesn't say go as too much, but please bring me back if it does. I was listening to this show that I really enjoy and they talk about like finances and business and whatnot for the most part, but one show they had was very interesting and they posited this idea that is there really such thing as a balanced lifestyle for high achieving individuals. But when you think about the job of parents, for example, they are working. Like they're putting in the hours, right? They're working, they're on that pace of life. They're on that schedule of life. And so is there really such thing as a balanced lifestyle? And if so, what does that really mean realistically for like average Joe out there? Sure. I really appreciate that question a lot because most people are like, I just don't have the time. So I've had a landscaping business for seven years and we, the first five years we doubled our business every single year. explosive growth. I went from being a landscaper to managing people and running a business and running around and doing all this stuff. My second year, I let my health slip a little bit. And then the third year I said, that's not going to happen. I'm going to figure out how to integrate my health into my day so that I can perform and function better. My brother and his wife, they have a two-year -old and they have a baby on the way. I personally don't have any children, but I very much understand what having absolutely no time and sleeping in shifts. and just working and trying to have a side hustle and afford rent and afford our food. When a bag of groceries is a hundred dollars now and all of these things. So the only way that you are possibly going to be able to do this is if you plan ahead. That's it. If you're single or if you have a partner, if you have a partner team up, you guys have to work together so that when you go to the grocery store, that's your strong time. If stuff ends up in your cart, you're going to eat it. So you need to just have a game plan when you go to the grocery store that we are putting food into our body and to our children's bodies, our children's developing bodies and our children's developing brains that is good food that is not ultra processed. We are already living in this environment with all of these toxins floating around us. Like we don't need to be ingesting it too. And the kids don't have a choice. So it's our job as parents to be very stringent over the food that goes into our children's mouths. They just found out if you take a piece of celery and drop red food coloring, like three drops of red food coloring into the water and you put the celery in there. And like one day that celery is gone. It's dead. Food coloring is horrible. It's in a lot of the kids foods. It's in a lot. It's just, that's just one example. So making your own food so that you can perform better so that when you do sleep, you fall into a REM sleep faster. If you're all frazzled and stressed, you're not going to get good night's sleep. If you're a new parent, you're just. When you lay down, you need to be able to fall asleep immediately and wake up immediately. You need your brain making its own melatonin. You need to have your circadian rhythm as off as it's going to be, being up and down and up and down. If you're trying to just push through with caffeine all day, it's not going to work. It's not going to work. You're going to frazzle yourself out. It's the same as a flower that's just wilted. It just needs nutrients. You're not going to perk it up by giving it soda or coffee or anything. It needs nutrients and water. So it's very important that whether you're an entrepreneur running a multimillion dollar business or a single parent or anywhere in between those or both, that you are putting the best food that you can. This is why the higher vibrational food that you put in, the higher vibrational reality you're going to experience. It doesn't mean you're not going to be stressed. It doesn't mean you're not going to sit in traffic. It just means that when that happens and that cortisol hits, It's not like throwing a big rock into the lake. It's like throwing a little rock in the lake so that you can manage your emotions a lot easier. Thank you so much for that answer. Yeah. A hundred percent. The element of planning ahead is probably the biggest life change that I'm making right now because I've always been spontaneous in the moment. Just, you know, can't be healthy and spontaneous. My friends, they don't exist. Absolutely. And planning ahead. that becomes the only way for parents to survive really. You know, like if I don't make - You have to plan ahead. If you're going to go anywhere, you have a diaper bag, food bag, change of clothes, just in case, like all these extra things, like do it with food. You're bringing them snacks anyways, right? You're already bringing them stuff. So just put healthy stuff in there. This is where they're planning. So that's why the grocery store matters because the food's going to end up in your pantry or in your fridge. And when you're running around, you're just going to grab what's there. So there's certain things that you can cut up early. There's certain things that you can't cut up early. There's things that you can food prep. You could make breakfast for five days in a row. I make pancakes and my breakfast is made for days and days and days. Can you imagine being a parent waking up and not having to make your own breakfast? I mean, it's just like, it's already there. It's ready. It's delicious. And you could, when your kid goes to bed at night or before they go to bed, you can make your smoothies at night. You know, like when they're doing their thing in the evening time and it's still like, you're all in the kitchen, you're cleaning up for dinner while your kitchen's already a mess. make a smoothie for the next day, put it in the refrigerator. Now you have breakfast and you have a smoothie ready for the next morning. Now you have how much extra time would that have taken? 20, 30 minutes that you have extra that you can now put towards maybe a lunch later or making something healthier for that day. I understand everyone doesn't have like this bodybuilder mentality. My type of food prepping is I'll usually have two types of meat ready and like two types of vegetables ready so that I can just mix if I want. And then I'll have like brown rice pasta. and I can just throw them into a Tupperware and take them somewhere. And if I need to heat them up or just eat them at room temperature or whatever I need to do, but anything that I can do to prevent my blood sugar from dropping and anything that you guys as parents can do to keep your children's blood sugar from dropping, because we all know what that's like. It's just absolute complete meltdown. When you give a kid sugar, they're going to ramp up for a little while and then they're going to plummet. It's the best example of what sugar does to us. We're just adults. So we're used to dealing with it a little bit better, you know. Our big bodies have more insulin dump, but the kids don't have enough insulin in their bodies. So it just takes over and they're just a mess. Yeah. Yeah. A hundred percent. And the big thing again, just to make sure that we reemphasize this is by changing our own diet, especially for parents that directly determines the diet for the child. So the dietary changes that I've made as of recent, it's not just that I don't go to fast food is that he doesn't go to fast food. And in addition to that, it's interesting because. The amount of energy, like physical energy that a child burns in a day, if you stress how important it is to make sure that they're not getting the synthetic sugars, because technically we're having this energizer battery level of activity with a poor input of energy. Like the amount of energy that's going to be outed is not matching how much we're bringing in for that child. and the body has to find a way to compensate when it comes to things like that. You may actually switch to an unhealthier form of sugar that is not really meant to be used in such a way. And so I just wanted to highlight that as well. You're exactly right. You know, when you change your life, you end up changing everybody else's life around you because if when you change your diet, let's just take an average, the average human being, male or female, right? They're 40 years old. They've been living an unhealthy lifestyle. Let's not even say unhealthy. Let's just say they've been just adding a little bit of body weight year after year after year after year. Your energy and your mood over the span of what you could be and what you could be exuding and being to your child is going to be far less than someone who is taking control of what they're ingesting. The food that you eat and the people that are around you, when you change who you are, like I was saying, like take someone that's 40 years old. that's been living the same lifestyle for a long time. That person, as they start changing what they're doing, even if you say nothing to anybody, people are gonna notice. Your skin starts to glow, your mood changes, you look smaller, you look fitter. If you're in a relationship with somebody, they're likely going to want to jump on what you're doing. Because unless they're an athlete, they're probably also aging and not feeling as good as they should. So if you do this as a family and you do this as a unit, especially if you're married and... you guys can do this as a couple. The trickle down effect to your kids is just, it's immediate and it's immense because now you're both doing it and they look to you as an example. Literally the reason I didn't drink until I was 21 was because my dad didn't drink. I respected my dad and that's why I didn't drink. It's because I just looked up to him. So the things that you are doing as a parent, your kids are watching and they will emulate and they will based on personality choices and things you're doing. If they see that you're taking time to make food, and make whole foods and dice up food rather than go to fast food. That is going to absorb into their being as to who they are as a child. And then that's going to grow with them as they grow up. On top of that, heart math, it's a, I forget where they're located, but essentially they are a center that they discovered that your heart emits a signal. And depending on how healthy and happy you are, it's up to nine meters. We detect that you walk into a room, you're like, I don't like the energy in here. That's why your heart is literally an antenna. There's neurons in your heart the same way there's neurons in your brain. Your heart, like I said, emits that signal. If you are healthier and you are happier and your kids are around you all the time, they are now in a healthier bubble versus you're stressed, you're wired, you need more caffeine, you're pissed at them because they won't be quiet because they're din -a -din -a -din -a, you know, and you're not getting enough what you need. So it affects everything. It does, 100%. It does. And... I think this would be a great segue into the whole issue of mitochondria. And if I can preface it a little bit, I heard this very interesting lecture and it was specifically related to diabetes. But what the presenter in there was suggesting or saying was that I think it was sucrose, but the problem with diabetes, contrary to traditional thinking, is actually our powerhouse being underpowered. So our mitochondria not having sufficient energy. And this ties into everything we're talking about because whether it's sleep, the diet, we're tired and all that stuff. What we're experiencing is our power units, our batteries are not being fully charged. They're not being fully powered. And so we're functioning with these energy units that are not complete and that are not fully functional. And so that... really is starting to make my thinking change about diabetes because what he's suggesting is that you can cut off all the sugars you want, but if you're still not eating properly and not even sleeping properly to be able to recharge your batteries. And I mean, it sounds cliche when you say it in that sense, but when we, if we use a scientific word like your mitochondria, I mean, you're really shooting yourself in the foot. You're turning in circles. Exactly. And I wanted to know if you can like share some knowledge on that particular issue. Yeah, I would love to. And not specific to diabetes, but just mitochondria and energy and. Absolutely. So this is why most of us are tired, right? Most of the Western diet converts to sugar. So people either have a sugar addiction or it's salt and cheese, right? It's usually most people have one of those. Do you love sugar? I'm more of a salt and cheese person. It's usually one of the two of those. So the sugar is obviously sugar in your system. And then the carbohydrates of the salt and whatever that is also turns to sugar in your system. So here's the way that mitochondria work. Your mitochondria are literally what make energy in your body. Okay. So we have 30 to 40 trillion cells within our body. Here's a cell within each one of our cells. We have 1000 to 2500 mitochondria, depending on where it is in our body. There's going to be more mitochondria in certain cells, like in our heart versus other areas. The way that the mitochondria makes energy is it takes oxygen and the food that we eat and literally converts it into ATP. ATP is energy. So picture a battery, okay? So it takes oxygen and food, converts it to a battery. That battery is what gives us energy, okay? That ATP does not get stored. It only gets stored for like a little bit. We only store just a little bit, okay? It's not like sugar or fat in the body. So. When we are ingesting sugar, sugar directly beats up our mitochondria, it damages it and kills it. The example that I like to use is if you took a paintball gun and started shooting paintballs at a car, the paint after a month, you're gonna see all that's gonna be rusted. It's oxidated. That's what it does to your mitochondria, but on a much faster level. So the sugar goes in there, it sort of rusts your parts for lack of a better term, right? To keep it less scientific. But because of that rusting of your parts, it's oxidating it, it's stripping it, and then they just break down. And then if you don't have the proper amount of mitochondria functioning, you don't have energy. End of story. It doesn't matter. Caffeine, drugs, stimulants, it doesn't matter. You can berserker rage like Wolverine for a couple minutes, but you're not going to have any sort of amount of energy that's just going to allow you to keep going, right? You're done. So two things that make ATP. Food filled with nutrients that feeds the mitochondria, also exercise. Those two things make energy. So it's weird that exercise actually makes more, but the point is, is that if you don't eat the right food, you're not gonna have the right mental wherewithal or clarity to even want to go to the gym, which is why I start with food. It's the foundation of everything, of everything. So you eat clean food. You feel a little bit better, you feed your mitochondria, you have way more battery, way more energy, then you have the mood and the wherewithal to want to go to work out, and then that builds more mitochondria. Now, the thing is, is that when your mitochondria are damaged, that's how disease forms, because you're starving your mitochondria of oxygen. Not all, but most disease forms in an oxygen -deprived environment. This is why sugar causes so many different types of cancer on a cellular level. I don't care how much you work out. It doesn't matter if you just pounded sugar all the time, you're doing damage to yourself. You remind me now it was sucrose as opposed to glucose. Another analogy that we can use here, it's like driving a car that requires premium gas and you put regular gas in it. And yeah, it's when you get your body onto that sucrose, which is pretty much into everything that we eat, especially like the more processed stuff and you can still. I shouldn't say everything because I've been able to avoid it to some degree, but it all starts from just getting raw food elements and again, cooking and eating from there. And eating things that are what's called bioavailable. It's readily available for your body to absorb it. So we can all remember the last time we had fast food and we felt bloated and we had a big old food baby. That's because the food is not bioavailable. Your digestive system doesn't go whoop and just suck it up like it does fruit juices. fruit, smoothies, red meat actually is I even eat a bunch of red meat. So, but it doesn't bloat me. But if I go and I eat pork or fast food, pizza or bread or anything like that, and I want to go on a run in an hour, it's not going to happen. I'm going to throw it up because it's just going to sit in my stomach because it's not being broken down properly. Like I said, I landscaped for seven years. I need to be able to eat a meal and then within five to 10 minutes bend over and dig a hole. That's how fast I need my food to be just absorbing into my system. If you can't do that, the food that you're eating is not absorbing properly. And on top of that, when we have all the sludge and gudge in our digestive system, which is why the lemon water is so good, because it flushes all of that out. Picture rusty pipes. Like picture a pipe and there's just more and more and more and more and more rust. Like the water flow is going to be drastically reduced, right? The same thing happens in our digestive system. We're just cakes. So when we eat something, boom, you're bloated. It's not going to absorb. It's gonna cause gas, it's gonna have constipation, it's gonna take you forever when you sit on the toilet. It's just, nothing's gonna move naturally. You should be able to sit on the toilet, go to the bathroom in a few minutes and be on with your day. And you should also use the bathroom a couple times a day. But if you're eating fast food and the Western diet, you're going to make yourself tired, you're going to be affecting your mitochondria, you are going to be robbing from future you. Just period, you're just taking away, you're doing something now for the enjoyment of the taste to remove... your health and mood and reality and level of consciousness that could be up here to reduce it to down here because now you're full. Now all these toxins have how long that it's going to take for them to float through your body. It's going to, you're going to have food fog and just all of these things. So all the way down to a cellular level, that's what's happening is that your mitochondria are just getting annihilated by this ultra processed food. What a beautiful way to drive that point home. Thank you for that. Now, what about sleep? How sleep plays in here? Can you kind of like, touch based on just the importance of trying to just hone that in and even, you know, it's advice for parents, especially with new babies to have shift sleep. So mommy sleep, I take care of baby, I sleep, she takes care of baby and having those breaks just to try and get as much sleep as we can. Of course. So sleep is one of the most neglected parts of health and fitness. It just, we don't think about it because we're not conscious during it. So a study that just came in and Andrew Huberman was talking about this recently, let's take a 40 year old man. that usually sleeps seven hours a day. If he sleeps five hours for two or three nights in a row, his testosterone level will be that of someone 10 to 20 years his senior. So it drastically affects your hormone level. We know when our hormone level is high. Like if you're dating someone new or you just got a new job and you're feeling like Leonidas from 300 and you just feel like taking over some shit, you know what it feels like when your testosterone is high. And you know, like if you've ever been dumped, or you've ever been laid off or you've ever been sick or you've ever like, and you, when your testosterone is just low, when you envision yourself working out and you're like, God, who was that person? I can't even imagine. That's when your testosterone is low. Okay. We are in a epidemic of low testosterone. We've dropped almost half since the nineties, almost half. And I think that there's a few things affecting that one is stress, stress, not being able to sleep. Right. So, stress at night, watching our phone at night. You know, like if you're sitting here like this with this blue light in your eyeballs and you take that phone and you shine it around on your room and you see how bright it really is, you can light up your whole damn room with something that you have right in your face and you don't even pay attention to it. You see all these blue light blockers and all these things. When you sleep, your brain recycles white and gray matter only when you sleep. They just learned that that white and gray matter is what forms neurons. So. If you're not sleeping properly and this whole flushing recycling of your fluid that creates neurons which form your thoughts and memories and actions and all of these things, just expect to not be able to function properly. It's a form of torture. In the military, they use lack of sleep as a form of torture. It's almost impossible to go three days without sleep because you just start hallucinating and you go crazy. So the importance of sleep is it's up there. And it's really becoming one of those things in the health and fitness world that people are really starting to focus on. I have developed a sleep protocol over the past year where about an hour prior to bed, I will take 50 to 65 milligrams of CBD and then I will take 325 milligrams of magnesium. And I take seven different types of magnesium. It's all in one scoop. And that helps with over 300 different bodily functions. So magnesium deficiency is a big issue, but it also really helps with sleep. You don't want to be taking melatonin. You should be naturally producing that. The lack of sleep that parents are getting, this shift sleeping, you just got to get as much as you can. Sleep dead is real. Try to get as close to six hours as you can, as close to seven. I know that's insane. I usually can't even get seven as a single adult. You just want to do your best. You want to come up with a sleep protocol. Don't watch Netflix until it's time to go to bed. That bright light. in your face, same thing. Like if you walk out of that room, that whole TV is glowing. It's lighting up that entire room. All of that's going to affect you. You need to be doing things, stretch, meditate, do breath work at night. There's all sorts of different things that you can do to start to slow your mind down rather than just go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go Yeah. And there are so many other issues that are affected to lack of sleep that we could talk about it forever. But the main things that I really think to drive home with that are your hormones are going to be affected. They use it as a form of torture and your neurons are flushed through in your brain and recycled when you sleep. Yeah. The sleep elements is the hardest one, man, because, and you've had that experience where you're running a business. Exactly. You're working harder than your employees. Right. That's what we say. Mostly people who start their businesses, they're working harder than voicing till 11 PM. Yeah. I would fall asleep on the couch, literally invoicing. Yeah, exactly. And then you got to wake up the next day again and start over. And I mean, I'm doing that trying to build this production company, parent of two, a student university, third year student. Now we've got this podcast running and my job on the side. And yeah, like it's, I know that most. people do not have that same workload that I take on because it's just, that's just what I do. But one of the things that I told myself is I'll give myself another maybe like six months of this. But within that, my thinking is that if I can hone in my diet, that's a huge thing where it's like, okay, cool. We're like sleep deprived, but at least we're eating, we're feeding the body properly. We're giving it the proper nutrients. And actually, before last thing here that I'd like for you to dive in is just hunger. the stomach being empty and the importance of that. That was my kind of like give and take solution to the sleep issue. Cause yeah, I am getting better about getting that more sleep. I'm becoming more conscious of it. But like, yeah, I told myself, if I can at least like get that diet proper, at least the body has proper energy and is not sleep deprived and energy deprived. Right. Right. And now we're going to start working on that sleep element. Exactly. Nutrient deficient. Right. But yeah, just kind of like my point as you're speaking there that I wanted to raise. But yeah, on the last note there, if you can talk about the hunger element, fasting and yeah. Absolutely. So you have to think about how much energy is consumed when you eat. Like they always say, don't eat before you go to bed because your digestive system is going to be busy and it drastically affects how you sleep. If you do not give yourself time to be hungry ever, most of us don't. We're just, as soon as we feel hunger, we jump on something, we eat something, and then it blows our stomach up. And then we never recycle dead cells in our body. If we don't fast, the number one reason that's so popular about all the reasons why people are fasting is because of autophagy. So about 16 hours into fasting, your body starts using dead cells as energy. Those dead cells otherwise are just floating in your body. They're just hanging out, right? So at about 16 hours, That's when that starts being used as fuel. On top of that, when you give your digestive system a break, remember what I said, we have 30 feet of digestive system. Your small intestine is taller than a giraffe if you stretch it out. Okay? So when you give, you gotta think about how much energy it takes to break down food all day, every day. When you give yourself a break from that, you're now giving all of this extra energy to go to your brain, to go to your extremities, to go to your heart, to go to thoughts, to go to just... Focusing, it's mind blowing the amount of streams of consciousness that you experience during fasting. It's wild. The lack of brain fog. Even if you don't want to do fasting, if you want to experiment with something that's similar to fasting, do a juice fast for two or three days. Juice a whole bunch of vegetables and things like that. People can reach out to me. I can give you ingredients on that. But juice mostly vegetables. You don't want to juice fruit. Big batch of veggies, four limes and maybe an apple. That's it. But you can do that so that you're still giving yourself the nutrients, but it's just absorbing into your body. Your digestive system has a break. So it's very important that we do this. I don't fast every day because between landscaping and lifting weights, I need a lot of energy. And I found that if I fast every day, it doesn't work for me. But if you're someone that sits at a desk a lot and you're not moving around a lot, you know, maybe you eat first thing in the morning and then you fast throughout the day, or you, you know, you fast at night and then you wake up and then you don't eat until noon or something like that. There's different ways to fast. You can do a 16 eight where you fast for 16 hours and you eat for eight. And there's sometimes what people will do is they won't eat for a day and they'll eat for a couple of days and then they won't eat for another day. And they just kind of repeat that. So a couple of different things. I also would you want to point out, I forgot to mention that your brain uses up to 70 % of your ATP. When we were talking about ATP earlier and not having energy and eating like shit and eating sugar, your brain uses 70 % of your ATP. Okay. So if your mitochondria are not making energy, You can just assume you're going to be brain dead. And I just think that's really important for people to know that like, why do I feel like this? Why, you know, cause you start asking you're like, is there something wrong with me? It's why you just need to start removing things from your diet that are making you feel this way. Yeah. And that solves a lot of inefficiency. And that's why I'm getting on top of my sleep right now, man, because I realize I'm trying to solve inefficiency, inefficiencies in my life, I should say. And one of the biggest things that I realized is like, okay, well, we have so many hours in a day. I've got. a lot of crap ahead and I need to be efficient with everything that I'm doing. And if my mind is not functioning with at least like four hours of sleep, and I know that's not enough for a lot of people, but for me, it's like, I will get there where at least give me four hours of sleep, six hours, great, eight hours, my body doesn't know what to do with itself. But if I can get a minimum hours of sleep, sweet, my brain is functioning to some higher capacity than usual. And I was finding myself just hitting these brick walls. Just. consistently where it's like, Hey, I seem to be working a lot, but I'm not getting a lot done. Yeah. You're just spinning the tires. Yeah. It's that brain fog. Yeah. Yeah. A hundred percent. Well, this has been an amazing conversation as I thought it would be. I really appreciate it. Is there anything else that you would like to add before we go? Maybe even just like a shameless plug, like where can people find out about your work and you know, if they reach out to you, what can they expect? Blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Please take care. Yeah. So, anybody that's looking to increase, enhance their health, anybody that's dealing with addiction problems, whether it's nicotine, harder drugs, alcohol, please reach out to me. I focus on every aspect of health. I know there's a lot of people that just focus on gut health or parasites or sugar. I focus on all of it. So, that's why I say consciousness coach. I can literally enhance all aspects of your reality. And people can find me at Naked Healthy on... at Naked Healthy on YouTube, on Instagram, on Facebook. I just launched a YouTube channel. I've filmed my fifth video yesterday that's on depression. So I am working on getting that edited and getting that up, but I'm going to be releasing new videos hopefully once a week on there that are longer format that deal with specific topics. Yeah, just feel free to reach out to me. My email is 7perleegates at Gmail and they can reach out to me privately there as well. Wonderful. Well, again, thank you. I really appreciate the time. Yeah, yeah, definitely. And we'd love to have you back on again. There is meditation and other dimension of the conversation that I wanted to get to. We didn't get a chance to hear. But yeah, thank you very much for coming on. And we're very pleased to have you here as a guest and honor as well. Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it. It's been an honor. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Our audience. We'll see you guys on the next one. Great. Yeah.