Julian Hunt: The HUME Body Pod: Where Recovery Meets Innovation

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Always consult your physician before beginning any new diet, exercise,
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
Are you one of those people who stands on the
bathroom scale in the morning and it literally can change
the way your day goes because the scale's gone up
one to two pounds out of nowhere. You didn't need
anything last night, and you don't understand it. Well, we
are going to change the way you look at scales.

(00:51):
Welcome to Accelerated Health with Sarah Banta, where I cut
through the noise and fast track your journey to better health.
I'm your host, CEO and founder of Accelerated Health Products
and certified by the National Association of Nutritional Professionals, and
I'm here to share the latest un supplements wellness as
natural health solutions that actually work. Imagine that from boosting

(01:14):
energy to detoxing do balancing hormones and everything in between.
So let's dive in. I am so excited today because
we have Julian Hunt. He is the visionary founder of Hume,
the owner and creator of the body Pod, a different
type of scale that is going to give you some

(01:35):
information way more than that bathroom scale that literally determines
how your day's going to go. And he has a
deep passion for human performance, innovation and holistic health. He's
created the human body Pod, which is a breakthrough technology
designed to accelerate recovery, enhance performance, and optimize wellbeings for athletes, professionals,

(01:57):
and moms that are in their forties like me. Welcome, Julian.
How are you today?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
I'm fantastic. How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'm great? And you know, growing up in the nineties
and looking at that bathroom scale, I don't know any
woman who doesn't have a bathroom scale and literally will
say my day can be ruined or my day can
be amazing depending on what that number is. And what

(02:27):
we are not looking at is what is making up
that weight? Is it water? Is it the moon? Is
it your hormones? Is it the fact you haven't gone
to the bathroom? Is it the fact that you may
have eaten a bigger meal the night before and you're
retaining salt and water. So many factors that are just
that don't mean anything, and That's why I love the

(02:50):
body pod. It has changed the way I look at
my body, the way I look at the scale, and
not just me, but my who are athletes and their
teammates as they are measuring their muscle growth and their
endurance and using different supplements to do that, like the
accelerated aminos, which was a fantastic example of where these

(03:14):
girls are eighteen years old, they don't care what they eat.
They're athletes. They want to bulk right, not the typical girl.
And they started doing my accelerated aminos and using the
body pod once a week and showed muscle gain and
actually fat loss, and they weren't worried about the water

(03:35):
composition of their body because really it doesn't mean that much.
So anyways, super excited to dive into here. Why don't
you tell people your background and where you've come from
to this point with the body Pod?

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah? Sure, you know. For me, I originally went to
school for physics and my interest was taking things off
this planet putting them into space. But the market movement
for that is not really environmentally friendly, and I pivoted
into energy systems, distributed energy systems and trying to change

(04:13):
people's lives in that regard. And then the next step
as I went on my own health journey, was bumping
into a lot of confusion and a lot of questions
without answers, and going and working with personal trainers and
with dietitians, and especially with this idea of every two
weeks or every four weeks, you hop on the scale

(04:35):
and you weigh in and nothing, you know, no change
at all. And I'm thinking, I'm watching my diet every
single day and I'm going to my trainings every single day,
and my dietitian, on the one hand, is saying, you
need to cut your calories down further, you need to
cut more sodium, and my personal trainer is saying, no,
look in the mirror. You know, maybe the scale hasn't changed,

(04:57):
but you've changed, and so there's been some fat loss,
but there's been some muscle gain. And it's just coincidentally
so similar that the scale hasn't moved. And the truth
was there was that, Yeah, when I looked in the mirror,
my clothes were fitting better, my shoulders were a little
bit bigger. This was the progress I was making. I
could see it if I really stopped to look at it.

(05:18):
But it's also just so slow day over day and
week over week, or at least it can be. And
so I wanted to ask and started to ask, there
a way that we can kind of look inside, and
there is the form of DEXA scans, But that's a
blast of radiation. You know, that's not actually super healthy
for you, and you should not be doing a DEXA

(05:39):
scan more than I'd say about twice a year. And
that's just too far of a window to wait and
see is my training working, is my diet working, or
my supplements on point, like whether the changes that I
could be making just to squeeze out kind of more
effectiveness per week. And that's what led into this newer technology,

(06:00):
which is the bioelectrical impedance monitoring. But even there there
was still some gaps. It's largely based on population averages
and comparisons to huge lookup tables and a lot of estimation,
and which really it's secretly kind of one measurement and
then everything else is derived from there. And that's where

(06:21):
the callback to that original position where I was in
physics came in. What if we measured you on all
of these different types of tissues independently. So instead of
just looking at one measurement that guesses everything, we're going
to do eight different frequencies. And also what if we
were to do composite measurements, so instead of just measuring

(06:42):
from foot to foot, by adding in the body pods
unique handlebars where we're measuring with your hands as well,
we actually brought in some of that original aerospace technology
that I was working on at this point almost twenty
years ago, with how autopilot works to just measure and
measure and measure and measure foot to foot, hand to foot,
left or right, right to left, and each one of

(07:03):
those is going to create a different image because of
how it's traveling through your body. But if we layer
all those on top, a very clear center image forms.
And this is how we were able to get within
that three percent accuracy of a DEXA scan. Except you
can do it every day, you can do it twice
a day if you want, without any harm to your body.
And that does change the game for me obviously personally,

(07:25):
but also for the athletes we work with, the moms,
we work with, the whole gambit of people who all
have different goals and different things they're trying to accomplish,
but in each version of that self, the body pod
can now be that moment of truth of what is
actually going on. How do I look inside? And even
if you know what, the mirror does make me feel
good because I'm looking better. I can see that, yeah,

(07:47):
specifically I have lost this much fat, I have gained
this much muscle, or maybe I am retaining this much water.
And now even we're getting to the specificity of the
different fat between visceral and subcutaneous. We have segmented analysis,
so I can see, you know, is my right side
bigger than my left? And do I need to change

(08:07):
my training there? Or where is my fat actually changing
intant distribution? And so that android versus gynoid fat region
has a huge influence of by hormones, and so we're
able to now see as actually, are you experiencing testosterone
reduction as a man, are you starting to show early
Menopausit to scenarios for as a woman, just so much

(08:29):
more that we can get out of it because of
the way we're doing these scans. So that's kind of
a little bit of my history and into what we're
doing now kind of blended together.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
I love it. One of the things that you mentioned
is that it shows your right arm versus your left arm,
and your legs, you know, right versus left. That was
something that I'm like, oh, gosh, I need to work
on my left side a bit more and I carry
a little more fat on my left side and less
muscle and the trunk. You know, there is variation day

(09:01):
to day, and so when I you know, as much
as you can get obsessed with the bathroom scale, you
can also get obsessed with the changes in the body pod.
But what we're looking at is a trend, right right,
So a couple of the things that I want to
get into the technology and then I'll start asking the

(09:22):
questions of what can make those different changes day in
and day out. But let's drive in to the technology,
because I love the fact that you said something about
the DEXA scan. Not only is it inconvenient and it
cost money, but the radiation And I just did a
podcast on the fact that thyroid cancer has exponentially increased

(09:46):
due to more scans that people are doing, whether it's
a mammogram or going to the dentist, or going through
X rays or doing a DEXA scan, any type of radiation.
The thyroid is extremely susceptible to that, and the whole
reason that you'd be doing a DEXA scan is to
hopefully lose some body fat and gain some muscle. Well,

(10:09):
with your thyroid getting damaged and more prone to cancer,
you're not going to lose fat and you're not going
to gain muscle. So that Beings said, this is where
the body pod comes in and with such extreme accuracy.
So let's talk about the technology and it's unique features
compared to some of the other scales out there. There's

(10:31):
the Embody, there's like a thousand different ones. If you
look up Amazon and you can get a scale for
fifty bucks off of there. Where's the difference and why
how did you get it to be so accurate?

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, there's this old adage is just more data is
more better. And that's the big differentiator is that if
you're getting fifty dollars scale off of Amazon, it's going
to have only two electrodes in your feet, and it's
going to send one frequency through your body, and honestly,

(11:10):
it's not getting it's it. So we're sending a very
very very small electrical signal and we're traveling from one
place to another, and what we're measuring is how much
of that electricity is actually lost in that transference. So
if you were just a solid copper wire, ninety nine
point nine percent of the electricity is making it through
the other side. But you're not. You're made up of

(11:31):
all these different components, and so as the electricity travel
through you, some of it is lost. More it would
be lost from say bone or fat less would be
lost through very conductive tissue like muscle. I mean, electricity
is what makes your muscles contract. They're full of water,
and so that little piece goes through and they say, well,
we lost about thirty percent of the signal, so you're

(11:52):
about thirty percent fat, I guess. And you told us
that you're a woman, and you said that you're five
at six, so you probably have. Let me just look
up in my table. You have this much bone, and
that's it. That's the whole measurement. And honestly, I mean,
if you're just looking for a ballpark measurement, you're gonna
land somewhere there. And in terms of measuring your trends,

(12:17):
as long as you're not changing your bones, which most
of us can't. I don't know anyone who can. You'll
still be able to track if you're gaining or losing fat,
but how much and where from and where you even
accurate to begin with, you know, so you might hop
on the scale as a bikini model and be told
that you're twenty five percent body fat, and that's obviously wrong. Now,

(12:39):
if you go on the Victoria's Secret Diet and don't
eat anything but a can of tuna and an apple
for the next five weeks, yeah you'll lose some body fat,
but you'll still show up at twenty two percent because
you kind of started wrong. Right, So what we're doing
is we have eight sensors, so there's two in both
feet and there's two in each hand, so right away,

(13:00):
four times the number of channels. And then we're not
doing one measurement. The different electrical frequencies travel through tissues
at different rates and at different speeds, so the higher
frequency ones, those will penetrate cells, and so we can
actually measure what the intracellular water, so that's the water
that you find inside your muscles, and we also do
the lower frequency ones, which can't do that, and that'll

(13:21):
travel through that extracellular water. So that's the stuff that
you feel when you're bloated. And so we're taking all
the different measurements as I mentioned before, all those different angles,
and we're measuring it all those different frequencies at twenty fifty, seventy,
and eighty, and each one of those is going to
give us a different result. How much fat we went
through and within that was it visceral or was it subcutaneous,

(13:45):
how much muscle, how much bone? And when we layer
all that, because honestly, each one will paint a slightly
different picture, you do get that really clear image that forms,
like I said, when you just stack everything on top
of it, one of it is the most true is
some little fuzzy, the left, I'm a little bit fuzzy,
the right some fuzzy, but the middle is the true you.
And so with all those different sensors, with all those

(14:07):
different channels, we're just going to get that really hyper picked,
crystal clear picture of not just the different tissue types,
but the segments and everything like that.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
So one thing I want to point out is the
extracellular and intracellular water. So you know I talk about,
oh well it's a full moon, you might be more bloated,
you might be retaining water, you might be more constipated. Factually,
last night was a full moon. I step on the
scale two pounds up, and I could that could have

(14:40):
made someone really upset, right, But I look at it.
Muscle's the same, Fat's the same, It's all water. It's
all water, and the moon moves the tides in the oceans.
Why do we think it's not going to affect the
body water of our bodies. But it just shows that
if I had wed myself with a regular bathroom scale,

(15:02):
it would have done some mental damage. And by doing
it here it just I love the fact that it
breaks things down. Another example, and I would love for
you to explain this is if I do a weightlifting training,
my weight will be up, my muscle will be up,

(15:23):
my water will be up. The next day I go
to hot yoga and my water's down, my muscle's down,
and my weights down. Can you explain that?

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Absolutely? So, the phenomenon that you're talking about is colloquially
called the pump. So when you go to the gym
and you get pumped up, well, you didn't just spontaneously
gain muscle, despite the fact that your muscles are significantly
bigger after you've used them, it's because they're full of water,
and that water gets sent to the muscle along with
blood to help it perform its functions. The more full

(15:57):
of water it is, then the more leverage that this
same muscle has during its contractions. And so we can
influence this with supplements like creatine, for example, which helps
usher water into the muscle cell so that it's just
there on hand before you even worked out, and it
also makes it easier to fill them with water while
working out. We could also take some vasodilators. There's some

(16:17):
people who like some off label uses of certain bedroom
medications because it really amps up their pumps if they're
trying to perform or be visibly more competitive on the stage.
And so what's happening there. If you aren't filling your
muscles with water, your muscle does way more. It is
literally heavier, and so you've you've technically increased your muscle mass,

(16:38):
but what you haven't changed is the muscle fibers inside
and that when the myonuclei right, So those have remained
the same. And so when we refer to things like
muscle memory, when someone loses muscle because they change their
diet and it rapidly comes back. It's because it's really
actually kind of hard to get rid of those muscle fibers.
They just deflate when they're not in use. So when

(17:01):
you're going to the gym and you're drinking lots of
water as your body's demanding it, all that water's going
where it's doing its best work, which is inside your muscles,
especially if you're training them hard enough to cause little
bits of damage in there, then it's going to be
inflame and full of blood because it's healing. And then
you went to hot yoga, which is of course going
to encourage the body to let go of a lot
of water. And one of the first places are the

(17:24):
first places we gain and one of the first places
we lose water is in the muscles. So if you
look at the Hollywood diet where they want to get
superjacked for a specific photo, it's with massive amounts of
dehydration first to get rid of all the water from
the whole body, and then they'll guzzle water right before
the photo itself, because the first place the body wants

(17:44):
to put that water back is into the muscles, and
that's how they get that paper thin skin. But those
huge bulging muscles that are just largely unobtainable, and within
an hour they don't look like that anymore. But the
photos forever, right, So the body pot is going to
correctly be able to show you that, yeah, your muscle's up,
but the water is what's driving that, whereas the biological

(18:05):
cell mass, it's just a completely different metric, hasn't really
moved at all.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
So what is the biological cell mass? Because that I mean,
if someone is on a weight gaining bulking journey, will
that number change much?

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yes? Will? So that's like the beef jerky version of you.
If we completely dehydrated you, what would be left? And
so that's metabolically active tissue that is responding to electrical signal.
So that would be the indicator of am I gaining
muscle tissue or in extreme cases of osteoporosis where they've
then been put back onto some kind of bone replenishing drug,

(18:42):
they would see it also go up as their bones
redevelop that's kind of a very niche scenario. So largely, yes,
you'd be wanting to attract your biological cell mass and
making sure that that's increasing. Now, if you're on substances
that are giving you. You can get organ growth as well.
That will also show up there, but largely as adults,

(19:04):
our hearts and livers, intestines don't grow anymore. So that's
okay unless you're taking performance enhancing drugs, in which case
then yeah, you're going to want to start to differentiate.
We do actually separate organ tissue from lean mass elsewhere
inside the apps, but the body cell mass is everything included. Gotcha.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Now, we talked about intracellular water and how that's related
to muscle, and that's the good hydrating water. Talk about
extracellular water and what that is indicating.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, so extracellular water, it's important too. I mean, we
don't want to have none of it, but if you
have more than about thirty percent, that's when you're moving
into the bloating range. So you're going to hold that
water in two scenarios. The main one that you're probably
encountering is when you're losing fat, and so those fat cells.
We talk about how fat cells never go away, right

(20:00):
unless you get them permanently sucked out of you or frozen.
The fat cell, once it separates into two fat cells,
you've got two forever. And the way that they actually
work is they're full of your fat, and when they're
encouraged to let go of that fat, the chemical reaction
actually requires water to go inside so that the fat

(20:21):
can come out, So that relationship, that switch happens, and
that water remains inside the fat cell, holding it full,
holding it kind of open, so that when it's ready
and fresh fat that you just made can go into
the cell and the water can come back out. We
don't really want to have these empty, flaccid cells inside
of our bodies unless it's the time has come. And

(20:43):
so if you're on a really great diet and you're
exercising properly and you're burning through fat primarily during the day,
and then you're going to sleep at night, you're going
to keep holding on to that extra water and then
weighing yourself wondering why is in the scale moving, Why
is my extracellular water going up fat going down? And
then you're going to have a day where you really

(21:03):
need to go to the washroom and you're surprised because
you've only had maybe one small drink, but you're going
to the washroom four, five, six times in the same day.
That's all that water. Finally, the hormone shift is caught
up with you saying, yeah, you know what, we meant
to lose this fat. That food's not coming back. We're
not about to switch the script and put the fat
back where we borrowed it from. It's gone forever. That's

(21:25):
going to all come out of you as water. So
that's the main reason why you'd hold extra cellular water.
But of course it's all hormonally driven. Your body's powered
by hormones telling it when whether or not to keep
water or not. So women are far more susceptible to
these changes than men. But your diet can influence it
as well. Sodium can influence it as a really common one.
So if your minerals are imbalanced, which we also do

(21:48):
show in the app as well, your inorganic mineral content,
so that's your magnesium, potassium, and sodium. If your sodium's high,
it's going to prevent fat cells from letting go of water.
So you're going to hold onto that water as well.
And just keep in mind that, you know, unless you're
only consuming sugar water throughout the day, you're burning fat.
Even if you're not exercising per se, you're still going

(22:10):
to be burning fat. Just to survive and move, and
then at night when you sleep, your liver puts that
all back, so you are still constantly in this cycle
of freeing up glycogen into your blood system so that
you have fresh energy, and then at night putting that
stored energy from your days eating back into the fat cells.
So you're holding that water all day. So if you
were to measure first thing in the morning and then

(22:32):
measure all the way at night, chances are you're holding
a significantly increased amount of water before you go to sleep,
then when you woke up, and then you're going to
fix that naturally.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
So that brings up. Okay, So if you are if
your bladders full versus your constipated, how is that going
to translate into numbers, excess fat, excess water.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, so if your bladders, then you're just going to
have extra extra extracellular water. It's water not inside your muscles.
And if you're constipated, it kind of depends on the
composition of what you ate. If you have a really
high protein diet, it's where you're going to start fuzzing
or fudging the protein based numbers higher, but not too

(23:19):
much because it's still not really connected the same way
to your bloodstream and the normal pathways that we're sending
electricity through. And if you have a really fatty diet,
it's going to show up as fat because that is
that tissue in there. And then if you're just holding
fluid in your intestines, then I feel bad for you
and you should definitely not go to work that day,
but that would again show up as extracellular. So to

(23:40):
get into that realm where you're being measured as intracellular water,
it does need to be inside muscle tissue because the
signal that we're sending is penetrating muscle tissue, and so
it's traveling through water only located within that tissue.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
So you should see your intracellular water increase as your
muscle increases. Those numbers kind of go.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Together exactly as long as you're hydrated. Right, So, in
some mythical world, like you're taking significant amounts of performance
enhancing drugs and you are simultaneously like not drinking enough
water but still gaining muscle tissue, which again, like that's
really hard to do. No, you wouldn't see them mirror
each other. You can grow muscle without water, but your

(24:25):
muscle is a sponge and it loves water. It wants
a lot of water. It temporarily inflates beyond what it
wants at homeostasis during a workout, but it just loves water.
So as you gain muscle, you're also going to gain
body water just in thener all, that's where a lot
of the weight comes from. And this is where you
know when we look in scientific journals and health journals

(24:46):
and they say you want to have about fifty six
percent or fifty to sixty percent body water percentage, Again,
those numbers are population averages and they're assuming certain things
about you. So if you're a very lean individual as
a body water percentage, you might be in the seventies.
If you're not a very lean individual, you might be
in the forties. And you might have both of those

(25:07):
people getting now mixed results where the super lean person
says I drink too much water. I need to cut down,
and the larger person thinking, oh my gosh, I just
need to drink more and more water, and they can
actually be over drinking and you can get sick. You
might not believe this if you drink too much water,
And of course, struggling with that frustration of like why

(25:27):
am I not matching these averages? And so again, something
that's really great about the body pot is that your
rating scale for body water is based on your lean tissue.
So we're able to say are you bloated today or
are you dehydrated today, and not just use some kind
of generic number of Well, you're fifty six and so
that's good. Well, maybe not good for you, Sarah because

(25:49):
you're super lean, and maybe that's remarkably high for me
because I'm not super lean. But getting the real numbers
and really what you should be doing.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, the numbers of the water and the percent That
was one of those numbers where I'm like, gosh, why
is mine so high? It was high compared to some
other people that I was looking at their scan, their scans,
but it is. It's also something now that I realize
I just watched me compared to me, apples to apples.

(26:20):
So let's get into the fats. There's subcutaneous fat that
it measures, there's the visceral fat. I also love that
not only do you measure the percentage, but you measure
the exact poundage or the exact amount, so people can
look at both numbers. So there's visceral, subcous, subcutaneous, and

(26:40):
total body fat. Can you describe what those are?

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yeah? So, subcutaneous is the fat that we generally think about.
It's the fat that's in between your skin and your muscle.
It's the visible fat, uh, And it's kind of the
least important fat for anything other than esthetics. But throughout
history because we haven't really had this technology, it's a
general indicator of overall fat. So you typically have about

(27:04):
fifteen percent to twenty percent of your total fat is visceral.
And so that's the other type, that's the more scary type.
That's the part that's inside the torso, behind the abdominal wall,
and it insulates all of your organs, so it does
actually have a role to play. It's also metabolically active,
is connected to your bloodstream, and it's kind of the
brown fat we talk about. If you were to pull

(27:25):
it out of someone, I don't recommend that, but you know,
if you were, it's got that different coloration and it's
the far more dangerous fat because that's what's going to
also be a precursor for heart problems as well as
suffocating your organs where they're not getting enough blood. Just
because they don't have surface area the fat instead of
suffocating them. That's your faty liver, that's your plaque inside

(27:49):
your arteries, that's all of the negative stuff, so that
visceral fat. The good news is that visceral fat is
more dense than the subcutaneous fat, and so we're able
to actually measure the difference, and that was a big
forward for us. We're not just saying, hey, you know what,
you have roughly this much percentage body fat, and therefore
a percentage of that percentage is this much visceral fat.

(28:09):
That's where the competitors lie. But by measuring them separately,
we can look specifically at what's going on. So someone who's,
for example, had liposuction surgery is going to have disproportionately
high visceral fat compared to their subcutaneous because they've affected
the natural distribution. But so even if most of us

(28:29):
do have a consistent pattern of about fifteen to twenty
percent one and eighty percent the other, not all of
us do. The other indicator is that we all respond
differently as well. So some people their fat is actually
marbled within their muscles. So looking at visceral fat from
that perspective versus just subcutaneous. It's important to differentiate like

(28:52):
how I'm gaining and how I'm losing fat. So subcutaneous
is the aesthetic one, like I said, viscral is the
health one that we're more concerned about, and we did
want to differentiate them. And you mentioned another thing that
we do differently and we draw a lot of attention
to it is that body fat percentage versus body fat mass,
and that's that's something very very critical when it comes
to training because when you think about percentages, I could

(29:15):
go gain muscle and as a consequence, lose body fat percentage,
but I haven't actually lost any fat. I have the
exact same amount of fat as I had yesterday, but
I just weigh more now because I put on a
bunch of muscle. So as a percentage, my fat went down.
But from a health risk, I've actually reduced none of
my health risks, and I may have increased some of

(29:38):
them because now I have more muscles demanding more blood
and I have just as much fat kind of carrying
around on me. So we want to show we show
them side by side and we indicate what they mean
and what you're trying to accomplish because someone who's in
the two hundred pounds of muscle range getting to eighteen
percent body fat is not hard for them. Someone who's
in the one hundred pound body range at eighteen percent difficult.

(30:01):
But comparatively, if we looked at just the mass of
fat that's on those two people, it might be the same.
So we want to be able to draw all those
different separations and then change our diet and our training
accordingly before what we're trying to accomplish, generally, that's to
reduce the subcutaneous fat so we look better. That's the
kind of the goal for most people. But the visceral

(30:21):
fats the real one that we want to be pushing
down as best as we can, And that's where making
sure that not just what you're eating in foods, but
how you're supplementing is going to make a really big
difference on whether or not you're actually liberating that visceral
fat without going into like deep caloric cuts, because that's
also not a healthy.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Place to be, right. So the lean body mass is
that what does that include? Does that include everything other
than fat?

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, as the name implies, it's that's the everything. Metrics
that isn't fat minus the extracellular water because that's not
counted either, So you're so it's not quite beef jerky you,
but it is on the road towards eliminating what we
don't consider you. So your bone is in there, your
organs are in there, and you and your muscles are

(31:12):
in there as well as the water that's inside the
muscles and organs.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
So no extra cellular water. That's interesting. I didn't know that. Okay,
how can the meal the night before affect your scan?

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah, I mean in a lot of ways, right, So
primarily it's within those inorganic salts that I mentioned. So
if you're holding a lot of sodium, you're going to
hold a lot of water that's going to change your scan.
And if you're taking a ton of potassium and magnesium,
you're not only going to have really bad muscle cramps

(31:48):
if you work out the next day, but you're going
to evacuate a lot of that water and so you're
going to be pretty dehydrated. And so unfortunately, there's no
way to tell salt from potassium from magnesium apart from
any kind of skin at but what we can do
is draw the inference, right, So if your extracellular water
is high and your inorganic salts is high, it's evidence
that you have too much sodium. And if your extracellular

(32:10):
water is low and your inorganic salts is high, then
we know too much magnesium potassium, and so you can
modify your diet that way. Those are kind of the
real influencers. And then you know, of course, like I said,
if you're eating a super fatty meal, like you're one
of those butter coffee folks, that is going to show
up for you as well as having a little bit
more fat. But you'd need to eat a considerable amount.

(32:33):
When we're talking about diet impacting anything other than water, and.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Will that show up as trunk fat like literally in
your stomach, So it's not going to show up as
fat on your shoulders or in your legs. It's going
to literally show That's really interesting. We are almost out
of time. I can't believe it, but I wanted to
hit and that It also measures your metabolic age, and

(32:57):
I guess Brad at forty nine, my metabolic age is
thirty six, So super excited. I love seeing that, so
anytime I don't love the other numbers on my scan
I'll just focus on that one and say okay, I'm
doing okay. But what was interesting too is that my
young daughter who's eighteen athlete, and all of her friends

(33:20):
so they're eighteen, they were showing up at twenty three
metabolic age of twenty three, which was interesting. So let's
talk about what that number means.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Yeah. Absolutely, So we do have benchmarks for what the
expected metabolism is for people in different age groups. And
there if you go online and you just type in
like what is my BMR, those estimations occur by taking
your total weight and they use a formula and they
say this is how many calories that you burn at rest, right,

(33:49):
and it's largely inaccurate because your fat doesn't burn any calories.
So someone who is morbidly obese, who's struggling to lose
weight and is not having any success, well it's because
they used one of those calculators and it told them
to eat three thousand, five thousand calories a day thirty
five hundred, I mean to say calories a day. And
in terms of the woman or man on the inside
underneath all that fat, two thousand calorie a day person,

(34:12):
So they are following their diet just bad news as
they're still overeating. What we do to calculate your BMR
is only look at that metabolically active tissue, so that's
your organs, your muscle, and then the brown fat if
you have enough of it to actually make a difference,
and then we're looking at your activity for your neat

(34:34):
and all this other stuff that's kind of stacked on top,
and we compare that by kind of reversing that other
formula for well, if this is your real metabolism, where
does that actually fit in terms of the world's benchmarks
of the person who's the same gender and age or
the same gender and height as you. How does that
factor in? And so if you're someone who has a

(34:55):
higher muscle mass or more smooth tissue, you're going to
have a a much higher BMR than someone who has less.
That's either going to lower or potentially raise in your
daughter's case at a back age, because if they have
more tissue than someone around their own age, well then
they're going to be showing up older, right, because we
don't really stop growing until about twenty five.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Okay, that makes sense. Well, where is the company going,
where's the technology going, or is there anything, any other
metrics that you guys are working on that will show
up on the scale.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah. Something we're really proud about is that the scale
itself is a little over engineered, so there's more in
it than we needed, and we're introducing new metrics regularly.
The ones we just did is the android gynoid ratio
for fat, so drawing that differentiation. Like I said, because
of the hormone indicators, we added the metrics for the

(35:50):
symmetry and upper lower balance and our next phase and
maybe our shouldn't say it because now our competitors are
going to wonder how we did it, But we're actually
splitting the trunk. So by using the same signals, we
have enough data now so we'll be able to separate
the pelvic region. So for women really trying to grow
the booty, you know, that's now they can isolate and

(36:10):
look at just the tissue that's going on there from
the thorax. So you're going to be able to look
more at the stomach and that's just another level in
that precision because that's really the area when we say trunk,
and that's you know, from neck to butt. That's kind
of a long segment. So if we can split that again.
It's going to help with more training data and more

(36:30):
information about whether or not this is working for you.
That's working for you, So that's the next phase for us.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Okay that just I just had an ahablem with the trunk,
muscle mass and then the fat. So if that fat
is increased, it's not just your belly, but it could
be your booty as well.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, so maybe that's what you want.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
You know, right exactly, so that that metrics would be
really important. I just I love all of this. And
you know, as we've talked before, we have supplements that
work on body composition, building the muscle, dropping the fat,
increasing the metabolism, and then of course it's all about
quality of life and having energy. That's why we do

(37:15):
all of this stuff. And the scale is just it's
it's just such a great how do I say it?
I mean, I can always look at the scale even
on a bad day and find something positive because if
the number is up, then okay, Sarah, it's okay because

(37:36):
you're just retaining a ton of water, or you got
a good pump and your muscle's up, or you know,
the scale's down and your muscle might look a little lower,
but it's because you sweat out a lot at hot
yoga and the water's down and the fats down, and
and so there's a lot of things. Or you could say, okay,

(37:59):
all these numbers, I don't like any of them, but
look my right arm, it's got it got stronger today.
So there's a way to make it positive every time.
And the one thing I do want to emphasize is
that you want to look at the trend and not
look at the every day change, because there are days

(38:20):
where my muscle will change two pounds overnight and that's
not real. That is right, that's influenced by diet, sleep, exercise, water,
all of these other factors. So you just want to
look at the trends. But it is a lot more
specific and gives you so much more data than the
stupid bathroom scale that literally is mind warping you. So

(38:44):
throw them away or give them to the neighbor that
you don't like. And the beauty of this the body
pod is it's not expensive. I mean it is. The
price point is so reasonable and we're going to put
a link below to purchase it. And then also you

(39:05):
know some of the supplements that can help you change
that body composition. But Julian, you are brilliant and I'm
so excited to have you on and explain all of
these numbers because it can get confusing because we're not
used to seeing all of these numbers. And the fact
that you're offering technology that so someone doesn't have to

(39:28):
go get a Dexa and get confused and get exposed
to that radiation and then pay out a pocket it's fantastic.
So thank you so much for joining us. Is there
anything that we did not cover that you want to
make sure the listeners know?

Speaker 3 (39:44):
Well, I think you really hit the nail on the
head with how those numbers can change and on the
daily and what that means. And so we've tried to
introduce a couple of features that alleviate that with our
milestone system, which takes your goal and it breaks it
down into manageable chunks, and we find that at each
one of those milestones, that's around the right time that

(40:05):
you should actually look at how much change went on
so you can assess whether or not what's working for you.
Are you losing primarily muscle because you're dieting too hard? Okay, well, great,
you know you've lost some weight, but I don't think
you wanted to lose that weight. And then we also
have our monthly health reports, which do a comprehensive look
where we're cross referencing with your phone's activity data and
your sleep data and we can see if that's influencing

(40:27):
their changes and putting some context there. And so we
have some stuff that kind of zooms out a little
bit as well as if each one of the measurements
is super zoomed in, so that you can get as
much or as little information as you're looking for, depending
on where you are in that journey. And then absolutely
check out. We have a number of articles on our
website and you can click into any metric and read

(40:48):
for more descriptions. It's all there for you. I think
we cover just about everything with the body plot, at
least for this amount of phone calls. We can talk
about the macro level research studies that we do and
stuff on another time.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Awesome, I look forward to it. Well, definitely, we'll definitely
do that. So thanks again, Julian, Thank you. I don't
know if you're encouraged, but I am. And I love
this body pod. It is making me focus on the muscle.
Every time I see that muscle go up, it's a
dopamine hit. And every time I just see my body

(41:21):
composition change, I feel like a stronger woman. I feel
more powerful mind, body, and spirit. And especially as women,
we should not try to become small human beings because
muscle is a sign of longevity. So with that being said,
I just want to mention a couple of the supplements
that help you change that body composition, increase muscle mass

(41:45):
while you're losing the fat and staying healthy and increasing energy.
And number one is accelerated fast. I don't talk about
this supplement very much, but I take it every day.
It puts you into a little state of ketosis. Helps
with that fat burn, teaches your body to burn its
own fat, gives you the energy to work out in

(42:06):
a fasted state, and so it's burning your fat while
maintaining that muscle mass. And the ingredients also increase the
spark to actually teach your body to produce more keytnes,
turning the fat into keytnes. It is a game changer.
But with that, I take my accelerated aminos and I

(42:26):
take them before my workouts. You know, this weekend I
had forgotten them and I tried to go work out.
I'm like, where's my energy? And you can feel it
because the accelerated aminos is not just the essential amino
acids that you need to maintain that muscle mass that
everyone talks about, but the cofactor ingredients HMB prevents muscle breakdown,

(42:50):
increases strength, enhances fat burning estrogen. No one puts this
in a formula like this. It boosts the absorption of
your amino acids, so you're actually getting more bang for
your buck, and it's helping heal that leaky gut so
that you are increasing absorption of all the nutrients your
muscles and tissues need besides just the protein. And then sinactive,

(43:13):
another ingredient that is a game changer, speeds up muscle recovery,
clearing out the old fatigued cells, activating new muscle cell
regeneration OKG, erotic acid TMG. These all help with ATP
production in the mitochondria, helps of methylation, muscle hydration, endurance,

(43:36):
while helping with the fat burning. This is going to
give you the energy to work out harder while maintaining
and building muscle. I had gone through a health crisis
last year and I lost muscle mass. My body literally
was burning up from the inside, and so I had
to go hard on building my muscle back up. And

(43:59):
with the accelerated aminos literally didn't change what I was
eating because I'm so boring and I eat the same thing.
I actually don't even need to eat as much protein
as I was eating. I've put on ten pounds of
muscle and I feel amazing, and I feel strong and energetic,
and it really has changed my workouts and my blood

(44:21):
sugar and my stabilization throughout the day. I take it
before my workout. If you need a therapeutic dose, take
a second dose after your workout, and you can even
take it right before bed to help encourage growth hormone
and blood sugar stabilization during sleep. With that, you want
to add in the accelerated our accelerating idine. This is

(44:42):
the metabolic plug we talked about thyroid. Your thyroid health
determines your fat burning, your protein synthesis. You need iodine
for protein synthesis in the muscles and it is really
important for the fast fat loss. So it is the
master switch for your thigh iyroid and metabolism. That thyroid
hormone activation is done through iodine. It's required to make

(45:06):
the T four and converted into T three. Four and
three molecules stands for iodine, so you can't have T
four and T three without iodine. It displaces the toxins
like the halogens. It caused the body to store fat.
It increases atp in the mitochondria, helps with all of

(45:26):
your hormonal regulation, balancing estrogen, testosterone for gestone. So those
three supplements accelerated fast, accelerated aminos, acceleradine, iodine are going
to help your body change its composition, increase the muscle,
decrease the fat. At the same time people say that's impossible,

(45:46):
It's not impossible, and I improve you can do it.
So together, the help with the fat oxidation, building the muscle,
increasing your workout and endurance and recovery. Whether you are
a teenage girl or boy doing a sport, or a
sixty year old man or a hormonal menopausal woman, we

(46:07):
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