February 2, 2018 • 32 mins
5 tips to get your metabolism to start working for you instead of against you. What should you be eating? What can you add to your diet? Does your metabolism really slow down as you get older?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well would you look at that made it an entire
month of podcast. This is podcast number five to Workout
Wednesday podcast, and my name is Anthony. Thank you first
off for hanging out with me. Whether this is your
first podcast with me or your fifth, that's cool. You
can always follow me at worst Anthony, and you can
shoot me any questions you have or guests that you
want to suggest for the podcast. And you're gonna hear
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a lot of experts from similar fields. Right So, I've
already talked to two people about diet and this will
be the third. This is actually really about metabolism. But
you'll hear differences obviously, you might even hear people that
contradict each other from podcast to podcast, but you're also
going to find similarities across the board, um, getting processed
foods out of your diet, making the actual time to
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get your ass up and go work out, to stop
making excuses for yourself. And also, and we're going to
talk about this in this podcast to something that I
didn't really expect to talk about as much, but sleep
and how important sleep is. But today's podcast, it's about
making sure your metabolism is firing on all cylinders regardless
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of how old you are. So I'm gonna start off
by just saying good morning to Dr David McDonnell, Good
morning man, good morning to you. How are you doing today.
I'm doing very good with the podcast. I obviously I
talked to experts from all these different fields, and your
field is the metabolism world, right it is, Yes, So
explain a lot of health and wellness stuff, and metabolism
is is a big part of it. Um. We do
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stuff related to diet, nutrition and you know, beating sugar
cravings and all this stuff, but metabolism is a big one.
And it's actually a really nice time of year to
really hit metabolism because people want to have more energy
after you know, over eating a bit and sometimes during
the holidays. Yeah, so it's a really good time of
year to talk about metabolism. And even if we're not
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talking about metabolish the holidays, I should say. I mean,
I just went on a ski trip to to Whistler
and I ate like craft the entire weekend. And it's
one of those things where now I'm struggling that we're
recording this on Monday, So I'm struggling on a Monday
morning to kind of get back into the routine, have
the energy that I had last week before I let
my diet go to go to hell. You know, It's
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it's pretty funny and any of us that really sort
of take care of our health and exercise and that, um,
it takes a while to really get in good shape.
And then it seems like it goes downhill so quickly.
Oh absolutely, you get it seems like it goes downhill
even faster. So it's just interesting. So there's a quote
from from Derek Jeter. He was in Who I Love.
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Obviously I'm originally from New York, but he was in
Men's Health years ago and they were asking him about
what he does after the seasons over, like when he
starts working out again, and it was one of the
quotes that like stuck with me for a while. He said,
I realized after playing in the league for a couple
of years, it's so much easier to stay in shape
than it is to get in shape. Oh yeah, it's
once you get to that point, you want to keep
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it there. You don't want it to dip down because
you're it's a climb to get back up there. Yeah. Absolutely,
I'm full agreement with that. So let's talk about metabolism.
A lot of people will say that a slows down
as you get older, which I assume is correct. That
is correct, but it doesn't have to be. There's not.
It's more of a functional thing that breaks down rather
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than you know, an age thing. So the good news
is it doesn't have to okay, And how do we
how do we prevent that? Well, basically, when we talk
about metabolism, we're talking about digestion. There's a direct one
to one correlation between how somebody's digestive system is working
and how their metabolism is, so almost a direct correlation
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to that. And when you think about it, digestion is
just the basics of breaking down the foods that we
eat into these small particles vitamins and nutrients and proteins
and these things that will actually energize the cells and
allow the cells to work. So generally, what happens is
somebody starts to break down their digestion. And it's not
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that difficult to break down someone's digestion if they're eating
the standard American diet. You know a lot of cooked foods,
a lot of processed foods. Thinks of that nature and
then as digestion starts to go downhill, the metabolism slowly
follows thereafter. And then that ties into when we actually
do get older, we may have more aches and pains,
we start moving around a little bit less, and things
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of this nature. Now, the reason I know that this
is not an age related thing is because we've taken
people that have let their health deteriorate and their metabolism
gets very slow, and we've put them through a couple
of steps of our program and their metabolism starts to
speed up, where actually they've been continuing to age the
whole time, but we've actually changed the metabolism. So this
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is why it's not one of these things, Like you know,
it's totally related to age. It's just very common with
people that are older that they have more trouble with
their metabolism. And again, I think it's directly related to digestion.
So hopefully that makes sense. No, it absolutely does. I
mean you can turn on the TV at like any
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in or go to any drug store and you'll see
like metabolism boosters. Yeah, there are, and I try to
avoid those to be honest with you. Oh I tried, well,
because what we're doing is we're generally forcing an increase
in metabolism by sacrificing another area, like even coffee. I'm
a fan of coffee, right, I love a coffee in
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the morning. It's a it's a I don't think it's
a bad thing, you know. Uh though I've read, you know,
lots of pros and cons about coffee. I think used
in moderation, it's fantastic. But you know, my father in
law as an example, you know, he's about seventies seven
years old, UM, still very you know, enthusiastic about life.
In that UM he'll have his two cups in the
morning and then about three o'clock in the afternoon he'll
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have another three or four or five cups. And UM,
we've had this conversation, right, I said, Dad, you know,
really what you're doing is you're just forcing that adrenal
gland to squeeze every bit of energy out of it
and adrenaline or whatever else. UM that does, and ultimately
we're going to have a problem with the adrenal gland.
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And it happens just pretty much one for one with anybody. UM.
A lot of these um energy drinks, the fizz drinks
and things of that nature have other components uh poor
sugar additives, even if it's like the Sorba tall or
things of that nature, which are not really good. So like,
if it's a straight beetwelve, you know type of drink,
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then I'm all for it. Uh. If it's a green
tea in the afternoon, I'm actually in favor of that.
But these these drinks that were really forced the metabolism, UM,
I'm not a big fan of those because we're usually
sacrificing some other area the body to get that boost
of metabolism. I was actually talking about, um how I
almost kind of by accident, got addicted to uh energy
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drinks last year, and I completely stopped called Turkey in
October because I had been I got to a point
where I drinking like one every day for because you know,
when you wake up from morning radio, you're usually tired. Yeah,
I completely cut it out, and I felt it took
me probably probably a week, because when you're addicted to anything,
there's even if it's something as stupid as energy drinks,
there's a little bit of a like a withdrawal. But
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after a week I felt great without having any of those.
So we usually try to put you know, um like
magnesiums are great supplement and there's many great supplements that
somebody can take if they're if they're if if we
can't use our basic program to get their metabolism. But
I'll tell you our basic program works in of the
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cases and we don't really need to tinker with it
so much. But that's why I'm not really a fan
of trying to, you know, force the metabolism with these
energy drinks and things of that nature. Okay, so we
avoided them. You know, everybody seems to be very very
hip on them, and they're popular and even my my
future son in law does these pre workout drinks and
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I was looking through the label on that and uh,
you know, so anyway that to each of their own
I do not recommend them because us I know that
they're forcing some area, generally endocrine, which is a very
difficult theory to remain balanced the body chemistry and such.
They're generally forcing some area to overwork, which is always
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going to back parter on us. So what are some
methods that you would suggest the people for speeding up
their metabolism and digestion. So we go through a very
simple it's usually about four or five steps is all
that's needed, and it takes a period of about Usually
you'll see some change in a matter of a week
or two, depending on your age and your overall health.
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But generally by two weeks people are feeling a noticeable
change in their metabolism and we want them to maintain
that for several months. And then generally, you know, we
take care of a lot of older patients in our
clinics and that so, uh in most cases, we're getting
this going right so we can then handle something that
may be a little bit uh more challenging health issues.
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So we get this going to get them happy and
feeling better energetic, and then they're a little bit more
compliant from that point on. So the first step is
do not skip breakfast. And I know people love to
have you know, bagels and pancakes and waffles and things
of this nature. So we really promote a big protein
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breakfast and do not skip breakfast, but make sure the
breakfast is loaded um with proteins. So I love eggs
and bacon and you know, Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, you know,
anything like that, And I really discourage you know, pancakes
and waffles and bagels and cream cheese and toast and
jelly and things of this nature. Eat a big breakfast,
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but just have it loaded with protein. First off, growing
up in New Jersey, I mean a bagel with cream
cheese was like this staple. I mean you would get
that every day before high school, every day on the
way to work, whatever it was. Um. Which, obviously it
doesn't take a genius to realize that a bagel every
day isn't really the best thing for you. But a
lot of people have texted in or tweeted questions regarding
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breakfast because breakfast is a tough thing to get into
because you're you, you want to sleep in, if you
stayed up late the night before, you're in a rush,
probably especially if you have kids and you're trying to
get them to school. Um. But for someone like myself,
I don't have any of those issues. But I also
I have to get to work by five o'clock in
the morning, so it's not easy for me to get
in a full breakfast. So what's like a quick breakfast solution. Well,
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I love eggs, you know, anything related to eggs is
a good thing. And and and let me clarify breakfast.
So for you that go to work at five o'clock
in the morning, right, your breakfast may occur at eleven
o'clock in the morning. What do you think is the
the best time to eat? Depending on when you wake up,
the absolute best time is once you get up one
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year hungry, have breakfast. Now, for some people it's right
out of bed, and for other people it's two three
hours afterwards. So I don't really it's not like it's
it's gotta be an hour and a half after you
get up. That not so important. What is important is
that you do not get up. You have a break
at eleven o'clock. Um, you're a little bit hungry at
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five o'clock and you grab, you know, a bagel or
a piece of toast or something like that and make
that first little um snack or something along those lines,
just to carbohydrate thing, just to get you over to
the eleven o'clock. If that were the case, I would
have something protein based. Right, if you don't want to
cook something, grab some nuts. If you had a hard
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boiled egg in the fridge or something like that, throw
that down. Great protein. I mean, the eggs are like
a super food. I know people don't necessarily want to
hear a doctor saying you should have bacon and eggs
and a sausage. And I do get this all the time,
but it's not that I'm saying you should have that.
I'm just saying that, you know, I have a good
breakfast every day, and you know, just having eggs, I
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can't do it for very long, right, so I need
to add something in that I like, you know I do.
I do a Sudday set up eggs over a plate
of spinach. Fantastic. I never thought that would be good.
I used to like my sundayside up eggs with some toast,
but now you have it over spinach. It's fantastic, so
you know. And it's not cooked, it's just the row spinna.
So adding the bake and adding the ham, adding the
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sausage to any of these things, um um. But you
know the burger that's left over in the fridge. Any
of these things that will add protein are very important.
So you may not have your breakfast until eleven o'clock,
whatever time you need to eat your breakfast, regardless of
when you wake up, just make sure that it's packed
with protein. Yeah, and and don't sneak in something that's
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a carbohydrate thing as the first meal of the day,
and why is that? Why is that so bad? Not so,
it's not that it's so bad, but we're actually fixing
people's metabolism, and it's a key point to improving their metabolism.
It's it's not good at or bad, right, It's just
that we're trying to solve a problem for this individual
and we're trying to get their metabolism going. And they're
generally overweight, and they're generally not having a lot of
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energy and things of that nature. So these all sorts
of snow ball together. So we get the protein started
first thing in the morning, and we go on to
the next steps, and in doing so, we see their
metabolism and improve their weight usually comes down because exercise
is part of our increase metables and they feel more energetic.
So there's a lot of things that will start to
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snowball in their favor. Okay, so step one was don't
skip breakfast and hopefully have something that's hime protein right correct?
All right, how do we move on from step one?
If we've nailed that? Good, So every day you have
to move your move your body around and again we uh,
you know, our clinics take care of our patients are
older patients, right, so we want our patients to at
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least go for a walk. We want them to try
to target at least a two mile walk. Some of
the patients can't do two miles right off the bat,
so they start with a quarter mile or a half
a mile, and we give them a big hug when
they hit two miles because that's their first point of
you know, having enough activity. Um. But they have to
do that every day during the first six eight weeks
to the program. The only way they can take a
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day off is that they're going to go do something
else that they're gonna work in the garden for an
hour or two, or they're gonna go off golfing or
do something along those lines. Otherwise, it's going for a
walk every day. Now for maybe some of your listeners
and other people that are already exercising, um, what we
want to do is just make sure that they exercise
every day. Now. You mentioned CrossFit a little bit earlier
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when we were talking, and you know, so, I don't
know whether cross fit that's a very demanding exercise routine,
whether you can do that every day. So it may
be the type of thing that you know, you do
your CrossFit, you know, three days a week, and you
have those major muscles are resting in between, but you
have to do some activity, some activity that's going to
get the heart right up at least to that maybe
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that hundred and ten range or something like that, and
sustain that for twenty or thirty minutes. You don't have
to kill yourself every day, you just have to get
it out every day and do something. Exactly how long
do you think it would take people to kind of
reset their die jestive systems, reset their metabolism and and
really get it to working at an optimal level. It
takes about a month to reset the digestive system. And
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when you say reset, we're talking about people that may have,
you know, some pretty advanced um sensitivities like a gluten
sensitivity or dairy or things of this nature, and that's
not part of this program. But one component of this
program is digestive enzymes. Because remember, metabolism is directly related
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to digestion, So we're going to improve digestion with the
use of digestive enzymes. And you don't have to buy
anything for that. Digestive enzymes are in any food that
we eat. Um. But what I'm gonna tell you about
and what we've learned is that when you cook or
process of food, it kills off those enzymes. So most
of the foods are eating, we're killing off the enzymes,
so we're not getting any of that benefit. But step
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three for the metabolism is to get some digestive enzymes
in your in your body every time you eat some food.
And the simplest way to do it is, whenever you
eat some food, have some raw roots and raw vegetables.
All the other foods they're generally cooked or processed, so
you just gotta have raw fruits and vegetables with every meal.
Some of our patients have a difficult time with that right,
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either menu planning or they're having breakfast or lunch on
the go or whatever it is. So we did find
a company called Nature Sources that produces a product called
absorb At, which is basically ground up fruits and vegetables
that are just loaded with these digestive end times. So
and and somebody that's had damage to the digestive system,
they have indigestion or heartburn or some digestive disturbance that's
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already showing a symptom, and they want to improve their metabolism,
We're just going to have them taken absorb it. Even
if they have a salad for lunch which is loaded
with digestive ends tents from the natural source, we're gonna
we're gonna overdo it a bit by having them use
and absorbate with every meal. But really, when we talk
about getting some digestive enzymes into each meal that we're eating,
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we're going to speed up that digestive system and that's
going to have a direct effect been speeding up the metabolism.
So it's really the secret weapon in getting somebody to
have an increased metabolism. It seems pretty simple too. Oh
my god, these steps are simple, you know. And what
I've noticed is, uh uh, you know, the simpler the
programs are for our patients, uh, the better we get implementation.
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And if the if the patient can do the program,
then we're going to get a result. And that's all
we're really looking for, you know. So we've had you know,
in my early years, I would create these fantastic programs
that pretty much, you know, one out of ten could
follow and of course we didn't get a very good result.
So our programs are very simple. Um, they're done on
a step by step basis. Usually after metabolism, somebody will
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go from this program right into how to handle sugar
cravings and we'll or we'll go into another program that
they want, and again it's it's usually a number of
simple steps that anybody can do. So we've done, don't's
get practiced as step number one we've had. Step number
two is make sure you get out and of your
body every day, do some exercise. And then three was
making sure you add your digestive enzymes to your diet.
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That's as simple as adding fruits or vegetables to every
single meal. So what else do we have in terms
of a way to kind of sleep speed up your
metabolism and digestive system. Okay, so the next step is
get a good night's sleep, which is very difficult for me. Okay,
So is that because you get up so early for work.
It's a combination of that, it's a combination of I
like watching sports at night, and it's just I'm not
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really I've always been a night person, so it's hard
for me to get to bed. Although I've been trying.
I've been trying to get at least six hours every night. Okay,
that's great. Well, see, most of the case, most of
the times when somebody has trouble with sleep, it's usually
a lifestyle issue. You know, like you you get up
early for work and you like to watch sports at night,
so that combination doesn't really work for a good eight
hours of sleep, correct, But sleep is actually very very
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important to a whole host of systems within the body.
I mean, we all know that. You know, I'm a father, right,
so that our kids actually grow, right, Babies grow when
they're sleeping, and the same thing happens with us. You know,
our body actually gets rid of the dead and dying
cells when we're sleeping, and and your body is making
new cells. And the majority though that can go on
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anytime during the day, but the majority of that is
happening when you're sleeping. So you're actually re energizing your
body when you're sleeping in six hours is okay, Um,
we're pushing for seven or eight, um, and uh. And
it's not so easy to do. But again, by doing
some of the steps of the program, if somebody falls
asleep and they sleep for three or four hours and
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they can't go back to sleep. That's always a blood
sugar issue. So we try to reduce some of their
sugary foods and get rid of some of the sugary
foods that they're eating, not necessarily the fruits and vegetables,
but you know the process, the cakes and cookies and
breads and pastas and things of that nature, and that
usually allows somebody to go to sleep. Or it's a
lifestyle issue where you know, somebody gets caught up in
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uh watching a movie or sports or something like that,
and we really gotta, you know, sort of kick in,
you know, a schedule, which I know is a pain
in the romp. I mean, I do it myself, but
uh um, it does work to allow um, the sleep
to occur for enough time for your body to actually
re energize, to recover and rebuild. So it's pretty important.
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What I've realized actually is trying to get myself on
a schedule, even though it sucks at first. So I've
been trying to get into bed by ten o'clock. That's
that's like my goal every day of the week. The
first week was tough. The second week was a little easier.
Because now I'm like kind of training my body to
do it. So that helped a little bit. It's really
you just you have to you have to start it
and then just stay committed to it and it'll it'll
actually work for you. Now I know you said you
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you know, you're working out, you're doing CrossFit, you're doing
all this stuff. You know. Sleep, Uh, six eight hours
of sleep is very important to your body chemistry, the balance,
the production of testosterone and things of that nature, which
will allow muscle growth to occur and recovery to occur
much faster and things of that nature. So there's a
lot of benefits to sleep over and above, just in
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reacent the metabolism. We really ask if somebody has you know,
no schedule on sleep. They got to bed when they're
tired or you know, which means they're sitting in front
of a computer or something else for hours on end.
We tell them during the six eight hour program or
six six eight week program that they should have a
schedule where they can you know, be asleep for a
minimum of six hours, but hopefully closer to seven or
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eight hours. Okay, so we've got four tips so far.
Is there what else you got for us one other tips. Okay,
we're a fan of green tea and Ulong tea. They're
very nice uh teas. They're very good for the metabolism.
Uh they have a host of other anti accident and
other benefits that are good for you as well. Um,
they're they're not loaded with catheine, and we think it's
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a great afternoon drink for somebody to have. So we
would like everybody on the program to have a cup
of tea every day. It's a green tea or Anu
long tea, and it really doesn't matter what variety. But
the thing about Ulong tea and green tea is they
actually helped to break down the stored fat in your body.
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They take the stored fact and they turn that into
a uh an ingredient or a chemical called a fatty accid,
which is then you're able to use that fatty acid
for energy. So um, this is very helpful when you're
trying to boost somebody's metabolism, because what happens when their
metabolism goes down, their energy goes down, and you know
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they're generally putting on weight and things of this nature.
So this is a simple little added thing that works
out the antactic um to just you know, boost the
breakdown of the fat stored in the body into a
useful energy source. Now, so those are your five tips
for slowing down metabolism, which seemed pretty simple. One is,
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don't skip breakfast and eat some protein with it. Number
two was move your body, get your exercise. Number three
was to make sure you have your digestive enzymes in there,
which is you could find easily and like what fruits
and vegetables. Then make sure you get seven to eight
were a sleep and then drink green tea or oolong tape.
So here's what we're promoting with this program to actually
ensure uh that we're getting a result. So we we
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encourage our patients to get absorbated. That's the digestive enzymes
from the company called Nature Sources, and Nature Sources will
send you samples. You don't have to give a credit
card or anything like that. They'll send you samples and
those samples will laugh about two weeks or so, and
so we have our patients just go and get those samples,
and then usually within that two weeks they start to
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see the change, which is very important for us because
then they're committed to doing the rest of the steps
of the program, and that's very helpful. So great to
have the raw roots and vegetables, that is a perfect
way to transition into this is going to be my lifestyle,
but to actually get enough digestive enzy engines make a
difference in the metabolism. We we actually promote the use
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of absorbate with that. And the reason I use absorbate
is that we've had great success with it for a
number of years and it's very easy for our patients
to get it because they don't just spend any money.
They just go on the website and get some samples
and then they can get started with it. So um.
So it is true we want to add the raw
fruits and vegetables, but during the sixth a week program,
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we also want to use absorb a because that's going
to really that's really our secret weapon in the hole now.
But is absorb it is something that you would use
every day for the foreseeable future or is it like
a use this for four weeks to really get the
program kick started and then go back to a regular diet.
Great question. So I would use it every day. And
here's why our digestive systems rely on digestive end times,
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and because our diet our diets don't include enough raw
fruits and vegetables, we're not getting the digestive end times.
So and that's an important ingredient. It's no different than
if you're making a cake right and you leave one
of one or two of the ingredients out, it's not
going to turn out as a very good cake. Our
digestive systems need digestive end times and they're in every
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food that we eat, except they're killed off when you
cook or process the food. So for many of us,
they're metabolism problem is a ten year process of their
digestive system continually breaking down and getting worse and slower
and dysfunctioning as it goes. So to make sure that
that doesn't happen, we're promoting the lifestyle change of adding
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the row roots and vegetables. Totally do that. But even
when I do that, I take absorbed with every meal
I take breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take it all
the time. It's a digestive ends that there's actually a
doctor out in California that's doing, uh, some really interesting
work with real high doses of digestive enzyme and it's
an anti aging clinic and the results that I'm reading
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about are just really fantastic. So there's a lot of
uses in our body other than just the digestive aspect
of it. But if you have poor digestion, that means
you're not able to energize the cells, and that creates
poor function in our cells and systems and things of
that nature. So digestion is one of those fundamental things
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we have to get working. UM. So I take I
take justestive endz ends with my with every meal. I
love these conversations mainly because even though I've I've tried
for a long time to stay in decent shape, metabolism
was it something that I really worried about? Um? Growing up,
I was always active that I was in college when
I was an athlete, and I've always stayed pretty active,
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So I don't think I've ever had to worry about
it necessarily. But I love learning kind of the science
behind it and then being able to use that every day. Well,
digestive enzigns you. You put a group of doctors together
that understand help and well must every one of them
will say digestive enzigns in vitamin D three are like
staples that you should just take. And you know, magnesium
probably can get thrown in there too, because even if
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you eat like the most organic, healthy food the True
food Diet of of the home runs of True food Diet,
you're still not going to get the stuff that you
would probably want to get if you want to of
all these levels at the proper level. And then there's
just a couple of random questions from listeners that I
usually to get to, Oh, this is a pretty simple
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and it's just how do I start to eat healthy?
And how do I eat healthy on a budget. So
it's really two questions. But if you have either any
information for either those, we can jump into that. Yeah,
the way to start to eat healthy is um. I
find that if you can start to put like one
healthier thing in like instead of having potato chips for
a snack, have some nuts. They could be salted nuts.
That's fine. Salt nuts such a terrible thing, and you
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can get satisfied with that. So we we actually try to,
you know, like, get get rid of something that we
all would agree is not the best thing for us
and try to replace it with something that is a
good thing. And then we were really fans of trying
to reduce the processed foods, which really pulls almost all
the weak products out, you know, the breads and crackers
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and pastas and things of that nature. So um, that
would be a good thing to replace out to get
rid of first. And it's just you know, you you
decrease the wheat. Excuse me, you decrease the wheat, and
people have less inflammation, and even if they don't have
a condition, a health condition, they'll just feel better with
less inflammation in their bodies. What about like post workout,
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you want people to exercise, when people stay active, but
if you're someone who's exercising a lot, if you're doing
a hard workout, something that's now we're long maybe resistance
training something like that. What's something to grab right after
that in order to kind of stay keep a healthy diet.
I may have mentioned this, but I love eggs. Eggs
are like a super food, and if you're doing resistance
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training and you want to feed some protein into those muscles,
if you had three or four hard boiled eggs, that
would be fantastic. There's a couple of protein drinks. I'm
not a big fan of the protein drinks. But there's
a couple of vegetarian type protein drinks that are pretty good. Um,
but I don't think there's anything better than an egg.
And then if you don't have that, um after a workout,
anything you can have that is that is a protein
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For me, it would be a lot of left go
or you know, like if we had chicken, I would
grab a piece of chicken and have that as a snack,
not as a as a meal, but just as a
piece of snack out of the fridge or something like that.
You know, my daughter is doing a little program right now.
She's a food and over at the University of South Florida,
and so she grabs her five or six hard boiled eggs,
which she goes off to school and she's, uh, she's
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doing really well with it. But eggs is like a
super food. They should be in a They should be
in your diet every day. Go bowls us bowls right, yeah, doctor,
thank you so much. Is there anywhere we want you
want to send people if they want to get more
information from you, Yeah, they should. If they want to
do them tables and program, they should definitely go to
a Nature Sources website which is www dot Nature sources
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dot com. That's with two s is in the center
and as soon as you go on the website you
can request your free samples. There's also an eight hundred
number that you can call. But it makes it very
easy to get started. And I'll tell you, our patients
like the fact that they don't have to buy anything
to get started, because nothing on the steps of this
programs requires a purchase of anything. It requires going and
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getting some absorb ad which will last for two or
three weeks, and then you can buy some if you
want to continue on. And then it requires just some
commitment to do these things. And I think this is
why many of our patients have have started. They've seen
the result they've gotten, they've gotten a result, feel better,
and then they're interested in doing maybe the next step.
All right, well, Dr mcdonoh, thank you for your time.
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I know you have actual patients to see as opposed
to just talking to people, but thank you so very
much for your time. We appreciate it. Oh, thanks for
having me. I'd really enjoy speaking with you again. If
you have any questions, you want to answer it on
the podcast, um, whether it's super specific to you or
just general knowledge. Hit me up at Worst Anthony Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter,
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The weekly challenges that I've been putting together every single week.
So it started off with drink the right amount of water.
Then it was get get the right amount of sleep.
Then it was challenge yourself figure out something that you
want to do in two thousand and eighteen and sign
up for it and tell people. Then last week it
was to remove something from your diet, from your habits
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that you know is detrimental. I think I was doing
a pretty good job for the first three and a
half weeks, and then I went to Whistler last weekend
and completely fell apart. I'm even posting this podcast way
too late on Wednesday, so I'm probably not gonna get
the right amount of sleep. I've been pretty consistent with
the water thing, but based off today's podcast, I think
the challenge for this coming week is going to be
(31:29):
to add a little bit of green tea to your day.
I kind of hate green tea, to be honest with you,
but we do have it here in the office, so
I'm gonna try to have one cup of days see
if it makes me feeling better. See if I notice
any differences. You know, sometimes you take a doctor's advice
you and try it out. Maybe it's for you, maybe
it's not. But I'd say that would be this week's challenge.
Let me know if you have any of the other
challenges you want to add. Um, let me know how
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very much.
Well would you look at that made it an entire
month of podcast. This is podcast number five to Workout
Wednesday podcast, and my name is Anthony. Thank you first
off for hanging out with me. Whether this is your
first podcast with me or your fifth, that's cool. You
can always follow me at worst Anthony, and you can
shoot me any questions you have or guests that you
want to suggest for the podcast. And you're gonna hear
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a lot of experts from similar fields. Right So, I've
already talked to two people about diet and this will
be the third. This is actually really about metabolism. But
you'll hear differences obviously, you might even hear people that
contradict each other from podcast to podcast, but you're also
going to find similarities across the board, um, getting processed
foods out of your diet, making the actual time to
(00:47):
get your ass up and go work out, to stop
making excuses for yourself. And also, and we're going to
talk about this in this podcast to something that I
didn't really expect to talk about as much, but sleep
and how important sleep is. But today's podcast, it's about
making sure your metabolism is firing on all cylinders regardless
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of how old you are. So I'm gonna start off
by just saying good morning to Dr David McDonnell, Good
morning man, good morning to you. How are you doing today.
I'm doing very good with the podcast. I obviously I
talked to experts from all these different fields, and your
field is the metabolism world, right it is, Yes, So
explain a lot of health and wellness stuff, and metabolism
is is a big part of it. Um. We do
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stuff related to diet, nutrition and you know, beating sugar
cravings and all this stuff, but metabolism is a big one.
And it's actually a really nice time of year to
really hit metabolism because people want to have more energy
after you know, over eating a bit and sometimes during
the holidays. Yeah, so it's a really good time of
year to talk about metabolism. And even if we're not
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talking about metabolish the holidays, I should say. I mean,
I just went on a ski trip to to Whistler
and I ate like craft the entire weekend. And it's
one of those things where now I'm struggling that we're
recording this on Monday, So I'm struggling on a Monday
morning to kind of get back into the routine, have
the energy that I had last week before I let
my diet go to go to hell. You know, It's
(02:10):
it's pretty funny and any of us that really sort
of take care of our health and exercise and that, um,
it takes a while to really get in good shape.
And then it seems like it goes downhill so quickly.
Oh absolutely, you get it seems like it goes downhill
even faster. So it's just interesting. So there's a quote
from from Derek Jeter. He was in Who I Love.
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Obviously I'm originally from New York, but he was in
Men's Health years ago and they were asking him about
what he does after the seasons over, like when he
starts working out again, and it was one of the
quotes that like stuck with me for a while. He said,
I realized after playing in the league for a couple
of years, it's so much easier to stay in shape
than it is to get in shape. Oh yeah, it's
once you get to that point, you want to keep
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it there. You don't want it to dip down because
you're it's a climb to get back up there. Yeah. Absolutely,
I'm full agreement with that. So let's talk about metabolism.
A lot of people will say that a slows down
as you get older, which I assume is correct. That
is correct, but it doesn't have to be. There's not.
It's more of a functional thing that breaks down rather
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than you know, an age thing. So the good news
is it doesn't have to okay, And how do we
how do we prevent that? Well, basically, when we talk
about metabolism, we're talking about digestion. There's a direct one
to one correlation between how somebody's digestive system is working
and how their metabolism is, so almost a direct correlation
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to that. And when you think about it, digestion is
just the basics of breaking down the foods that we
eat into these small particles vitamins and nutrients and proteins
and these things that will actually energize the cells and
allow the cells to work. So generally, what happens is
somebody starts to break down their digestion. And it's not
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that difficult to break down someone's digestion if they're eating
the standard American diet. You know a lot of cooked foods,
a lot of processed foods. Thinks of that nature and
then as digestion starts to go downhill, the metabolism slowly
follows thereafter. And then that ties into when we actually
do get older, we may have more aches and pains,
we start moving around a little bit less, and things
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of this nature. Now, the reason I know that this
is not an age related thing is because we've taken
people that have let their health deteriorate and their metabolism
gets very slow, and we've put them through a couple
of steps of our program and their metabolism starts to
speed up, where actually they've been continuing to age the
whole time, but we've actually changed the metabolism. So this
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is why it's not one of these things, Like you know,
it's totally related to age. It's just very common with
people that are older that they have more trouble with
their metabolism. And again, I think it's directly related to digestion.
So hopefully that makes sense. No, it absolutely does. I
mean you can turn on the TV at like any
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in or go to any drug store and you'll see
like metabolism boosters. Yeah, there are, and I try to
avoid those to be honest with you. Oh I tried, well,
because what we're doing is we're generally forcing an increase
in metabolism by sacrificing another area, like even coffee. I'm
a fan of coffee, right, I love a coffee in
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the morning. It's a it's a I don't think it's
a bad thing, you know. Uh though I've read, you know,
lots of pros and cons about coffee. I think used
in moderation, it's fantastic. But you know, my father in
law as an example, you know, he's about seventies seven
years old, UM, still very you know, enthusiastic about life.
In that UM he'll have his two cups in the
morning and then about three o'clock in the afternoon he'll
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have another three or four or five cups. And UM,
we've had this conversation, right, I said, Dad, you know,
really what you're doing is you're just forcing that adrenal
gland to squeeze every bit of energy out of it
and adrenaline or whatever else. UM that does, and ultimately
we're going to have a problem with the adrenal gland.
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And it happens just pretty much one for one with anybody. UM.
A lot of these um energy drinks, the fizz drinks
and things of that nature have other components uh poor
sugar additives, even if it's like the Sorba tall or
things of that nature, which are not really good. So like,
if it's a straight beetwelve, you know type of drink,
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then I'm all for it. Uh. If it's a green
tea in the afternoon, I'm actually in favor of that.
But these these drinks that were really forced the metabolism, UM,
I'm not a big fan of those because we're usually
sacrificing some other area the body to get that boost
of metabolism. I was actually talking about, um how I
almost kind of by accident, got addicted to uh energy
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drinks last year, and I completely stopped called Turkey in
October because I had been I got to a point
where I drinking like one every day for because you know,
when you wake up from morning radio, you're usually tired. Yeah,
I completely cut it out, and I felt it took
me probably probably a week, because when you're addicted to anything,
there's even if it's something as stupid as energy drinks,
there's a little bit of a like a withdrawal. But
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after a week I felt great without having any of those.
So we usually try to put you know, um like
magnesiums are great supplement and there's many great supplements that
somebody can take if they're if they're if if we
can't use our basic program to get their metabolism. But
I'll tell you our basic program works in of the
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cases and we don't really need to tinker with it
so much. But that's why I'm not really a fan
of trying to, you know, force the metabolism with these
energy drinks and things of that nature. Okay, so we
avoided them. You know, everybody seems to be very very
hip on them, and they're popular and even my my
future son in law does these pre workout drinks and
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I was looking through the label on that and uh,
you know, so anyway that to each of their own
I do not recommend them because us I know that
they're forcing some area, generally endocrine, which is a very
difficult theory to remain balanced the body chemistry and such.
They're generally forcing some area to overwork, which is always
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going to back parter on us. So what are some
methods that you would suggest the people for speeding up
their metabolism and digestion. So we go through a very
simple it's usually about four or five steps is all
that's needed, and it takes a period of about Usually
you'll see some change in a matter of a week
or two, depending on your age and your overall health.
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But generally by two weeks people are feeling a noticeable
change in their metabolism and we want them to maintain
that for several months. And then generally, you know, we
take care of a lot of older patients in our
clinics and that so, uh in most cases, we're getting
this going right so we can then handle something that
may be a little bit uh more challenging health issues.
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So we get this going to get them happy and
feeling better energetic, and then they're a little bit more
compliant from that point on. So the first step is
do not skip breakfast. And I know people love to
have you know, bagels and pancakes and waffles and things
of this nature. So we really promote a big protein
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breakfast and do not skip breakfast, but make sure the
breakfast is loaded um with proteins. So I love eggs
and bacon and you know, Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, you know,
anything like that, And I really discourage you know, pancakes
and waffles and bagels and cream cheese and toast and
jelly and things of this nature. Eat a big breakfast,
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but just have it loaded with protein. First off, growing
up in New Jersey, I mean a bagel with cream
cheese was like this staple. I mean you would get
that every day before high school, every day on the
way to work, whatever it was. Um. Which, obviously it
doesn't take a genius to realize that a bagel every
day isn't really the best thing for you. But a
lot of people have texted in or tweeted questions regarding
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breakfast because breakfast is a tough thing to get into
because you're you, you want to sleep in, if you
stayed up late the night before, you're in a rush,
probably especially if you have kids and you're trying to
get them to school. Um. But for someone like myself,
I don't have any of those issues. But I also
I have to get to work by five o'clock in
the morning, so it's not easy for me to get
in a full breakfast. So what's like a quick breakfast solution. Well,
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I love eggs, you know, anything related to eggs is
a good thing. And and and let me clarify breakfast.
So for you that go to work at five o'clock
in the morning, right, your breakfast may occur at eleven
o'clock in the morning. What do you think is the
the best time to eat? Depending on when you wake up,
the absolute best time is once you get up one
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year hungry, have breakfast. Now, for some people it's right
out of bed, and for other people it's two three
hours afterwards. So I don't really it's not like it's
it's gotta be an hour and a half after you
get up. That not so important. What is important is
that you do not get up. You have a break
at eleven o'clock. Um, you're a little bit hungry at
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five o'clock and you grab, you know, a bagel or
a piece of toast or something like that and make
that first little um snack or something along those lines,
just to carbohydrate thing, just to get you over to
the eleven o'clock. If that were the case, I would
have something protein based. Right, if you don't want to
cook something, grab some nuts. If you had a hard
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boiled egg in the fridge or something like that, throw
that down. Great protein. I mean, the eggs are like
a super food. I know people don't necessarily want to
hear a doctor saying you should have bacon and eggs
and a sausage. And I do get this all the time,
but it's not that I'm saying you should have that.
I'm just saying that, you know, I have a good
breakfast every day, and you know, just having eggs, I
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can't do it for very long, right, so I need
to add something in that I like, you know I do.
I do a Sudday set up eggs over a plate
of spinach. Fantastic. I never thought that would be good.
I used to like my sundayside up eggs with some toast,
but now you have it over spinach. It's fantastic, so
you know. And it's not cooked, it's just the row spinna.
So adding the bake and adding the ham, adding the
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sausage to any of these things, um um. But you
know the burger that's left over in the fridge. Any
of these things that will add protein are very important.
So you may not have your breakfast until eleven o'clock,
whatever time you need to eat your breakfast, regardless of
when you wake up, just make sure that it's packed
with protein. Yeah, and and don't sneak in something that's
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a carbohydrate thing as the first meal of the day,
and why is that? Why is that so bad? Not so,
it's not that it's so bad, but we're actually fixing
people's metabolism, and it's a key point to improving their metabolism.
It's it's not good at or bad, right, It's just
that we're trying to solve a problem for this individual
and we're trying to get their metabolism going. And they're
generally overweight, and they're generally not having a lot of
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energy and things of that nature. So these all sorts
of snow ball together. So we get the protein started
first thing in the morning, and we go on to
the next steps, and in doing so, we see their
metabolism and improve their weight usually comes down because exercise
is part of our increase metables and they feel more energetic.
So there's a lot of things that will start to
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snowball in their favor. Okay, so step one was don't
skip breakfast and hopefully have something that's hime protein right correct?
All right, how do we move on from step one?
If we've nailed that? Good, So every day you have
to move your move your body around and again we uh,
you know, our clinics take care of our patients are
older patients, right, so we want our patients to at
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least go for a walk. We want them to try
to target at least a two mile walk. Some of
the patients can't do two miles right off the bat,
so they start with a quarter mile or a half
a mile, and we give them a big hug when
they hit two miles because that's their first point of
you know, having enough activity. Um. But they have to
do that every day during the first six eight weeks
to the program. The only way they can take a
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day off is that they're going to go do something
else that they're gonna work in the garden for an
hour or two, or they're gonna go off golfing or
do something along those lines. Otherwise, it's going for a
walk every day. Now for maybe some of your listeners
and other people that are already exercising, um, what we
want to do is just make sure that they exercise
every day. Now. You mentioned CrossFit a little bit earlier
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when we were talking, and you know, so, I don't
know whether cross fit that's a very demanding exercise routine,
whether you can do that every day. So it may
be the type of thing that you know, you do
your CrossFit, you know, three days a week, and you
have those major muscles are resting in between, but you
have to do some activity, some activity that's going to
get the heart right up at least to that maybe
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that hundred and ten range or something like that, and
sustain that for twenty or thirty minutes. You don't have
to kill yourself every day, you just have to get
it out every day and do something. Exactly how long
do you think it would take people to kind of
reset their die jestive systems, reset their metabolism and and
really get it to working at an optimal level. It
takes about a month to reset the digestive system. And
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when you say reset, we're talking about people that may have,
you know, some pretty advanced um sensitivities like a gluten
sensitivity or dairy or things of this nature, and that's
not part of this program. But one component of this
program is digestive enzymes. Because remember, metabolism is directly related
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to digestion, So we're going to improve digestion with the
use of digestive enzymes. And you don't have to buy
anything for that. Digestive enzymes are in any food that
we eat. Um. But what I'm gonna tell you about
and what we've learned is that when you cook or
process of food, it kills off those enzymes. So most
of the foods are eating, we're killing off the enzymes,
so we're not getting any of that benefit. But step
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three for the metabolism is to get some digestive enzymes
in your in your body every time you eat some food.
And the simplest way to do it is, whenever you
eat some food, have some raw roots and raw vegetables.
All the other foods they're generally cooked or processed, so
you just gotta have raw fruits and vegetables with every meal.
Some of our patients have a difficult time with that right,
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either menu planning or they're having breakfast or lunch on
the go or whatever it is. So we did find
a company called Nature Sources that produces a product called
absorb At, which is basically ground up fruits and vegetables
that are just loaded with these digestive end times. So
and and somebody that's had damage to the digestive system,
they have indigestion or heartburn or some digestive disturbance that's
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already showing a symptom, and they want to improve their metabolism,
We're just going to have them taken absorb it. Even
if they have a salad for lunch which is loaded
with digestive ends tents from the natural source, we're gonna
we're gonna overdo it a bit by having them use
and absorbate with every meal. But really, when we talk
about getting some digestive enzymes into each meal that we're eating,
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we're going to speed up that digestive system and that's
going to have a direct effect been speeding up the metabolism.
So it's really the secret weapon in getting somebody to
have an increased metabolism. It seems pretty simple too. Oh
my god, these steps are simple, you know. And what
I've noticed is, uh uh, you know, the simpler the
programs are for our patients, uh, the better we get implementation.
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And if the if the patient can do the program,
then we're going to get a result. And that's all
we're really looking for, you know. So we've had you know,
in my early years, I would create these fantastic programs
that pretty much, you know, one out of ten could
follow and of course we didn't get a very good result.
So our programs are very simple. Um, they're done on
a step by step basis. Usually after metabolism, somebody will
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go from this program right into how to handle sugar
cravings and we'll or we'll go into another program that
they want, and again it's it's usually a number of
simple steps that anybody can do. So we've done, don't's
get practiced as step number one we've had. Step number
two is make sure you get out and of your
body every day, do some exercise. And then three was
making sure you add your digestive enzymes to your diet.
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That's as simple as adding fruits or vegetables to every
single meal. So what else do we have in terms
of a way to kind of sleep speed up your
metabolism and digestive system. Okay, so the next step is
get a good night's sleep, which is very difficult for me. Okay,
So is that because you get up so early for work.
It's a combination of that, it's a combination of I
like watching sports at night, and it's just I'm not
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really I've always been a night person, so it's hard
for me to get to bed. Although I've been trying.
I've been trying to get at least six hours every night. Okay,
that's great. Well, see, most of the case, most of
the times when somebody has trouble with sleep, it's usually
a lifestyle issue. You know, like you you get up
early for work and you like to watch sports at night,
so that combination doesn't really work for a good eight
hours of sleep, correct, But sleep is actually very very
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important to a whole host of systems within the body.
I mean, we all know that. You know, I'm a father, right,
so that our kids actually grow, right, Babies grow when
they're sleeping, and the same thing happens with us. You know,
our body actually gets rid of the dead and dying
cells when we're sleeping, and and your body is making
new cells. And the majority though that can go on
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anytime during the day, but the majority of that is
happening when you're sleeping. So you're actually re energizing your
body when you're sleeping in six hours is okay, Um,
we're pushing for seven or eight, um, and uh. And
it's not so easy to do. But again, by doing
some of the steps of the program, if somebody falls
asleep and they sleep for three or four hours and
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they can't go back to sleep. That's always a blood
sugar issue. So we try to reduce some of their
sugary foods and get rid of some of the sugary
foods that they're eating, not necessarily the fruits and vegetables,
but you know the process, the cakes and cookies and
breads and pastas and things of that nature, and that
usually allows somebody to go to sleep. Or it's a
lifestyle issue where you know, somebody gets caught up in
(19:54):
uh watching a movie or sports or something like that,
and we really gotta, you know, sort of kick in,
you know, a schedule, which I know is a pain
in the romp. I mean, I do it myself, but
uh um, it does work to allow um, the sleep
to occur for enough time for your body to actually
re energize, to recover and rebuild. So it's pretty important.
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What I've realized actually is trying to get myself on
a schedule, even though it sucks at first. So I've
been trying to get into bed by ten o'clock. That's
that's like my goal every day of the week. The
first week was tough. The second week was a little easier.
Because now I'm like kind of training my body to
do it. So that helped a little bit. It's really
you just you have to you have to start it
and then just stay committed to it and it'll it'll
actually work for you. Now I know you said you
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you know, you're working out, you're doing CrossFit, you're doing
all this stuff. You know. Sleep, Uh, six eight hours
of sleep is very important to your body chemistry, the balance,
the production of testosterone and things of that nature, which
will allow muscle growth to occur and recovery to occur
much faster and things of that nature. So there's a
lot of benefits to sleep over and above, just in
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reacent the metabolism. We really ask if somebody has you know,
no schedule on sleep. They got to bed when they're
tired or you know, which means they're sitting in front
of a computer or something else for hours on end.
We tell them during the six eight hour program or
six six eight week program that they should have a
schedule where they can you know, be asleep for a
minimum of six hours, but hopefully closer to seven or
(21:22):
eight hours. Okay, so we've got four tips so far.
Is there what else you got for us one other tips. Okay,
we're a fan of green tea and Ulong tea. They're
very nice uh teas. They're very good for the metabolism.
Uh they have a host of other anti accident and
other benefits that are good for you as well. Um,
they're they're not loaded with catheine, and we think it's
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a great afternoon drink for somebody to have. So we
would like everybody on the program to have a cup
of tea every day. It's a green tea or Anu
long tea, and it really doesn't matter what variety. But
the thing about Ulong tea and green tea is they
actually helped to break down the stored fat in your body.
(22:05):
They take the stored fact and they turn that into
a uh an ingredient or a chemical called a fatty accid,
which is then you're able to use that fatty acid
for energy. So um, this is very helpful when you're
trying to boost somebody's metabolism, because what happens when their
metabolism goes down, their energy goes down, and you know
(22:26):
they're generally putting on weight and things of this nature.
So this is a simple little added thing that works
out the antactic um to just you know, boost the
breakdown of the fat stored in the body into a
useful energy source. Now, so those are your five tips
for slowing down metabolism, which seemed pretty simple. One is,
(22:48):
don't skip breakfast and eat some protein with it. Number
two was move your body, get your exercise. Number three
was to make sure you have your digestive enzymes in there,
which is you could find easily and like what fruits
and vegetables. Then make sure you get seven to eight
were a sleep and then drink green tea or oolong tape.
So here's what we're promoting with this program to actually
ensure uh that we're getting a result. So we we
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encourage our patients to get absorbated. That's the digestive enzymes
from the company called Nature Sources, and Nature Sources will
send you samples. You don't have to give a credit
card or anything like that. They'll send you samples and
those samples will laugh about two weeks or so, and
so we have our patients just go and get those samples,
and then usually within that two weeks they start to
(23:32):
see the change, which is very important for us because
then they're committed to doing the rest of the steps
of the program, and that's very helpful. So great to
have the raw roots and vegetables, that is a perfect
way to transition into this is going to be my lifestyle,
but to actually get enough digestive enzy engines make a
difference in the metabolism. We we actually promote the use
(23:52):
of absorbate with that. And the reason I use absorbate
is that we've had great success with it for a
number of years and it's very easy for our patients
to get it because they don't just spend any money.
They just go on the website and get some samples
and then they can get started with it. So um.
So it is true we want to add the raw
fruits and vegetables, but during the sixth a week program,
(24:12):
we also want to use absorb a because that's going
to really that's really our secret weapon in the hole now.
But is absorb it is something that you would use
every day for the foreseeable future or is it like
a use this for four weeks to really get the
program kick started and then go back to a regular diet.
Great question. So I would use it every day. And
here's why our digestive systems rely on digestive end times,
(24:36):
and because our diet our diets don't include enough raw
fruits and vegetables, we're not getting the digestive end times.
So and that's an important ingredient. It's no different than
if you're making a cake right and you leave one
of one or two of the ingredients out, it's not
going to turn out as a very good cake. Our
digestive systems need digestive end times and they're in every
(25:00):
food that we eat, except they're killed off when you
cook or process the food. So for many of us,
they're metabolism problem is a ten year process of their
digestive system continually breaking down and getting worse and slower
and dysfunctioning as it goes. So to make sure that
that doesn't happen, we're promoting the lifestyle change of adding
(25:21):
the row roots and vegetables. Totally do that. But even
when I do that, I take absorbed with every meal
I take breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take it all
the time. It's a digestive ends that there's actually a
doctor out in California that's doing, uh, some really interesting
work with real high doses of digestive enzyme and it's
an anti aging clinic and the results that I'm reading
(25:43):
about are just really fantastic. So there's a lot of
uses in our body other than just the digestive aspect
of it. But if you have poor digestion, that means
you're not able to energize the cells, and that creates
poor function in our cells and systems and things of
that nature. So digestion is one of those fundamental things
(26:03):
we have to get working. UM. So I take I
take justestive endz ends with my with every meal. I
love these conversations mainly because even though I've I've tried
for a long time to stay in decent shape, metabolism
was it something that I really worried about? Um? Growing up,
I was always active that I was in college when
I was an athlete, and I've always stayed pretty active,
(26:24):
So I don't think I've ever had to worry about
it necessarily. But I love learning kind of the science
behind it and then being able to use that every day. Well,
digestive enzigns you. You put a group of doctors together
that understand help and well must every one of them
will say digestive enzigns in vitamin D three are like
staples that you should just take. And you know, magnesium
probably can get thrown in there too, because even if
(26:47):
you eat like the most organic, healthy food the True
food Diet of of the home runs of True food Diet,
you're still not going to get the stuff that you
would probably want to get if you want to of
all these levels at the proper level. And then there's
just a couple of random questions from listeners that I
usually to get to, Oh, this is a pretty simple
(27:07):
and it's just how do I start to eat healthy?
And how do I eat healthy on a budget. So
it's really two questions. But if you have either any
information for either those, we can jump into that. Yeah,
the way to start to eat healthy is um. I
find that if you can start to put like one
healthier thing in like instead of having potato chips for
a snack, have some nuts. They could be salted nuts.
That's fine. Salt nuts such a terrible thing, and you
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can get satisfied with that. So we we actually try to,
you know, like, get get rid of something that we
all would agree is not the best thing for us
and try to replace it with something that is a
good thing. And then we were really fans of trying
to reduce the processed foods, which really pulls almost all
the weak products out, you know, the breads and crackers
(27:52):
and pastas and things of that nature. So um, that
would be a good thing to replace out to get
rid of first. And it's just you know, you you
decrease the wheat. Excuse me, you decrease the wheat, and
people have less inflammation, and even if they don't have
a condition, a health condition, they'll just feel better with
less inflammation in their bodies. What about like post workout,
(28:14):
you want people to exercise, when people stay active, but
if you're someone who's exercising a lot, if you're doing
a hard workout, something that's now we're long maybe resistance
training something like that. What's something to grab right after
that in order to kind of stay keep a healthy diet.
I may have mentioned this, but I love eggs. Eggs
are like a super food, and if you're doing resistance
(28:35):
training and you want to feed some protein into those muscles,
if you had three or four hard boiled eggs, that
would be fantastic. There's a couple of protein drinks. I'm
not a big fan of the protein drinks. But there's
a couple of vegetarian type protein drinks that are pretty good. Um,
but I don't think there's anything better than an egg.
And then if you don't have that, um after a workout,
anything you can have that is that is a protein
(28:57):
For me, it would be a lot of left go
or you know, like if we had chicken, I would
grab a piece of chicken and have that as a snack,
not as a as a meal, but just as a
piece of snack out of the fridge or something like that.
You know, my daughter is doing a little program right now.
She's a food and over at the University of South Florida,
and so she grabs her five or six hard boiled eggs,
which she goes off to school and she's, uh, she's
(29:20):
doing really well with it. But eggs is like a
super food. They should be in a They should be
in your diet every day. Go bowls us bowls right, yeah, doctor,
thank you so much. Is there anywhere we want you
want to send people if they want to get more
information from you, Yeah, they should. If they want to
do them tables and program, they should definitely go to
a Nature Sources website which is www dot Nature sources
(29:42):
dot com. That's with two s is in the center
and as soon as you go on the website you
can request your free samples. There's also an eight hundred
number that you can call. But it makes it very
easy to get started. And I'll tell you, our patients
like the fact that they don't have to buy anything
to get started, because nothing on the steps of this
programs requires a purchase of anything. It requires going and
(30:02):
getting some absorb ad which will last for two or
three weeks, and then you can buy some if you
want to continue on. And then it requires just some
commitment to do these things. And I think this is
why many of our patients have have started. They've seen
the result they've gotten, they've gotten a result, feel better,
and then they're interested in doing maybe the next step.
All right, well, Dr mcdonoh, thank you for your time.
(30:24):
I know you have actual patients to see as opposed
to just talking to people, but thank you so very
much for your time. We appreciate it. Oh, thanks for
having me. I'd really enjoy speaking with you again. If
you have any questions, you want to answer it on
the podcast, um, whether it's super specific to you or
just general knowledge. Hit me up at Worst Anthony Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter,
or you can email my Day Friday show at Gmail.
(30:47):
The weekly challenges that I've been putting together every single week.
So it started off with drink the right amount of water.
Then it was get get the right amount of sleep.
Then it was challenge yourself figure out something that you
want to do in two thousand and eighteen and sign
up for it and tell people. Then last week it
was to remove something from your diet, from your habits
(31:09):
that you know is detrimental. I think I was doing
a pretty good job for the first three and a
half weeks, and then I went to Whistler last weekend
and completely fell apart. I'm even posting this podcast way
too late on Wednesday, so I'm probably not gonna get
the right amount of sleep. I've been pretty consistent with
the water thing, but based off today's podcast, I think
the challenge for this coming week is going to be
(31:29):
to add a little bit of green tea to your day.
I kind of hate green tea, to be honest with you,
but we do have it here in the office, so
I'm gonna try to have one cup of days see
if it makes me feeling better. See if I notice
any differences. You know, sometimes you take a doctor's advice
you and try it out. Maybe it's for you, maybe
it's not. But I'd say that would be this week's challenge.
Let me know if you have any of the other
challenges you want to add. Um, let me know how
(31:51):
you're doing again. Hit me up at Worst Anthony, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter,
or my Day Friday Show at Gmail. Listen. I'm tired,
I'm getting out of here, but thank you so much
for spending the past half hour with me. You have
no idea how much I appreciate that. Thank you very
very much.
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