October 7, 2025 • 52 mins
In this episode, Dr. Alfred Alessi and Dr. Anya Szigeti delve into the complexities of IBS and its diagnosis. Dr. Szigeti shares her background in functional medicine and discusses the impact of healthy fats, sleep, and gut health on thyroid function. They explore patient care, diagnostic testing, and the Zigeti Method. The conversation shifts to mindset, sleep hygiene, and health optimization, highlighting insights from Dr. Szigeti's new book on health and diet. Gender differences in fasting, personalized nutrition, and protein's role in diet are examined. The importance of fiber and optimal health markers are emphasized. The episode concludes with Dr. Szigeti's upcoming projects and contact information.
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An IBS is a label that they give you that tellsyou what you just told them you have.
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My bowel's kinda irritable.
Hey.
You have irritable bowel syndrome.
I just told you that.
What do you what do you mean?
Right?
To me, that's like Mhmm.
It's like the most bogus kinda diagnosis.
It's garbage diagnosis.
Anytime they put syndrome on the end ofsomething, that means they don't know what
it is.
No clue.
Yeah.
No clue.
They'll just put the first couple words like,these play into it and then syndrome.
Ta da.
So that's basically what it was.
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They kind of ruled out super scary stuff likeIBD, which is irritable bowel disease,
ulcerative colitis, Crohn's.
They ruled out some of those scarier things.
Welcome to Health Decode, your number onesource for real health information with your
host, doctor Alessi and Matt Tack.
Welcome back to another episode of HealthDecoded.
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I'm your host, doctor Alessi.
Today's episode is gonna be something a littlebit different.
We are going back in time to an old episodefrom when we were the full fuel podcast where
myself and Matt Tack interviewed doctor AnyaSzegedi.
We talked about everything from gut health toautoimmune conditions, leaky gut, and more.
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This episode could not be more prevalent andpertinent for today's world.
Hope you enjoyed this episode.
Tune in to the Health Decoded podcast today.
With your host, Matt Tagg.
What's up, man?
Who are you?
I'm doctor Alfred Lesson.
Oh, there we go.
They know by now.
They know by now.
Thank you for that.
Love it.
Well, we also have a very, very accomplishedand decorated guest on the show today.
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Past classmate of mine in chiropractic school,good friend, doctor Anya Szegeti.
I said that correct?
Szegeti.
Szegeti.
The z is silent.
So pardon the butcher there.
Doctor Anya Sighetti is a holistic functionaldoctor and the founder of Back to Health
functional medicine.
She is the creator of the Sighetti Method andthe best selling author of You Can't Outrun
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Your Fork.
Doctor Anya is passionate about empowering,educating, and equipping others to take charge
of their own health so they can prosper,thrive, and live a life they love.
Doctor Anya is here on the show to dispel themyths and set the record straight when it comes
to fancy marketing gimmicks and provide insighton what is actually beneficial for our health
and what is actually dangerous for us toconsume.
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Doctor Anya, Doctor Anya, right?
Last time I saw you, welcome to Full Fueled.
We're so glad to have you on the show.
Awesome to
be here.
You Full so Fueled.
Yes ma'am, it's a pleasure.
We're super excited.
I, one thing I noticed about you as soon as Imet you I'm like wow this woman has amazing
energy.
So I just want to compliment you right off theThank you.
You can feel it so it's cool.
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We're excited that you're here with us today.
If you could just give us a little backgroundon kind of the story of what led you into
functional medicine and then also what led youinto becoming an author.
So we're excited to dig deep, if you just givea little background on yourself.
Yes, absolutely.
So I think a lot of folks that find themselvesin the holistic space have their own health
journey that they went on And that was my storytoo.
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So little bit of a short version of my story isI was active duty military.
And then when I got out of the service, I was asurgical medical device sales rep for a
corporate America company.
And with that job comes a lot of stress, a lotof travel.
At the same time, I was also training for andcompeting in Ironman triathlons and
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ultramarathons, the longest being 50 miles.
So yeah, that's a fun day.
That's a that's
a freaking long race.
And the Ironman also, 2.4 mile swim, a 112 milebike, and then a full marathon at
the That's insane.
Do they call you an Ironwoman?
Why did
A lot of people call me an Ironwoman.
You're an Ironwoman.
You are Ironwoman.
I love that.
You got the tat?
You have the tat.
You have the tat.
Alright.
You're official.
She's she's legit.
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That's the fourth part of the triathlon isgetting the tattoo.
You gotta finish first.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I'm I'm crazy enough to do too.
So I'm doing all of that.
Those are my hobbies.
Right?
That's my stress relief.
And while working in corporate America.
And so as I progressed with my career, theyrewarded me with promotion and more and more
territory.
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So originally I was covering the state ofFlorida.
And then they kept adding states.
So then I was covering 11 states in theSoutheast.
This as a regional sales manager, I'm goingaround to different locations up to four
different locations in a week.
I think that's a lot of travel.
And so, you know, I'm stressed, I'm runningaround like crazy.
I'm, you know, taking a 4AM flight out, comingback that night, go to another location the
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next day.
So I made a lot of compromises when it came tomy health, primarily nutrition, Because you
know, airport food, hotel food, it's not thebest quality.
It's garbage.
It's garbage.
Yes, exactly.
So I was putting garbage in, and then I wasalso really pushing my body to extreme limits
and not fueling it properly.
And so I actually got really, really sick andsick in the definition of just feeling
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exhausted, digestive issues.
I mean, I used to keep a note in my phone.
So just not to you were you were doing all this
Mhmm.
And still training for ultra marathons.
Yes.
Wow.
Yes.
And Ironman.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yes.
So at all ends.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Sleep was terrible.
Stress off the charts.
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Nutrition, terrible.
You know, hormones in the garbage.
Like, everything.
Just just totally wrecking myself as as best Icould as quickly as possible.
So, yeah.
So I had, you know, all the digestive issuesand as I was saying, I used to keep a note in
my phone of all the symptoms that I had becauseit was coming everywhere.
People are like, oh, what did you start with?
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I don't know because I started to just kind ofignore it, right?
I think we all do that.
We get some pain, we'll take a pill.
We have digestive issues, we take a pill.
Yeah.
Or you know, whatever.
Because we have to keep going, right?
We have to keep performing.
And so I really started to just feel this andnot be able to hide from it anymore.
And so I went to my doctor and she ran my bloodwork and she says, oh, everything's normal.
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Air quotes.
I like the air quotes there.
That's Yeah, like it's normal.
Yeah.
Like how how can everything be normal?
I feel like complete garbage.
Like how is that possible?
And you know, now I realize that that'sunfortunately quite common, that a lot of
people will go and get a very basic panel doneand it doesn't really show anything.
So there has to be a deeper dive.
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And so I actually turned into my own healthadvocate and researched about what could be
causing this.
And I went back to my doctor and I was likepushing her, like, you run these additional
tests?
Can you check-in deeper to see what's going on?
And thankfully she did after a little bit ofpersuasion.
I'm not very persuasive at all, so you know,she just was like, oh sure, whatever.
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And we found that I had antibodies to mythyroid and my thyroid was underperforming.
But she tells me, you're not sick enough tomedicate yet, so we're just gonna wait until
you get sicker and then we'll medicate you forthe rest of your life.
Health care, baby.
That's what we call health care in this country
for right there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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It's it's backwards for sure.
Yes.
Yep.
So While on the outside though, you probablystill look pretty good.
I think so.
I mean, I have pictures.
I was ripped.
I mean, I, you know Yeah.
But I was still throwing Snickers in my littlebags in between my events because that's what I
used.
That was what I looked forward to on the bikeis to have a
Snickers Club.
Because you didn't have the nudes.
I didn't have the nudes.
I didn't, I just,
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yeah. Were
Were you, buddy?
You, where were you?
That's why
we're here now.
Exactly.
So, I look back at that time and of course inthe moment I'm frustrated, I'm feeling helpless
and hopeless, but I'm thankful for it nowbecause that's what led me to find holistic
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functional And I actually worked with a doctorout in Colorado back before, virtual thing was
a cool thing to do.
And we took a deep dive.
I mean, we tore apart my diet, my lifestyle,made some major modifications, added in some
supplementation.
And then I go back to my doctor in threemonths, right?
She has a prescription pad out because I'msupposed to get worse because we've never done
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it.
We haven't done anything.
And she's like, wait a minute, your labs aregetting better.
What are you doing?
So I'm like, I'm doing this and that, like,
this time.
I'm healing baby.
Yeah.
She's just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
Just keep doing it.
I'm sleeping.
Yeah.
I'm actually sleeping.
Yeah.
She's like, just keep doing it.
It seems to be working.
Totally brushed me off, but I didn't carebecause that made such a transformative effect
of my health and my life.
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I vividly remember going home to my my husbandwith my boyfriend at the time.
And I was like, hey, so I'm gonna quit thisreally lucrative job and go to school with
people that are a little younger than me.
It's fine.
And that's where I met Alfred.
And, you know, just really dedicate my life tothis.
So I did the chiropractic doctorate.
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I also did the certification for acupuncture,and the three hundred hour diplomate in
internal medicine, functional medicine, all atthe same time.
Wow.
Killing it.
Yeah.
That's than
what I
was doing.
Was just so curious.
That's crushing it.
That's making a change right there.
Yeah.
How cool is that?
Can you, I this might be a little, like,swaying off topic, but how imperative was sleep
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in that time frame?
Like, where you made or what was one thing thatyou just made right off the bat that was, like,
you you felt like kind of was the tipping pointin that change or the in that mental shift?
Well, one, sleep was super important.
So we can definitely dive into that more.
But if we look at nutrition, one thing that Ichanged that was significant for me was
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actually consuming healthy fats.
That made a big difference.
I was consuming all the garbage, you know,labeled gluten free on the front, processed
packaged ultra, you know, even call that foodanymore because that's not nourishing the body.
And so I was eating all the garbage oils andunhealthy fats and trans fats and all that
stuff.
And when I switched to actually healthy fatsand nourishing my body, starting to rebuild my
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hormones and all those different, it's amazing.
That was life changing for me.
Huge.
That's one thing that's been, we've beenhonestly focusing.
So we have a, like a third pouch we're workingon right now with food scientists, but was kind
of that understanding when you go into a race,how important fats are for that mindset, for
that kind of the early onset of like that prenutrition, that intra nutrition and the post
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nutrition of how you're doing that.
But I treat it every day like a race.
And how are we treating every day going intothat?
How are you getting the appropriate fats maybeearly in the morning, get that mind moving when
you're coming out of your circadian rhythm andgoing into your ultradians throughout the day.
So that's one thing that has been really ashift for me over really the past five years is
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I set a bedtime routine and then I go to bed atevery, like it's a non negotiable for me now.
Just go to bed at 09:30 and, like my wife and,like, we have family in town right now.
I'll be like, where's Matt?
You know?
And they, of course, know I'm in bed because I,yeah, I'm optimizing.
Like, I need to make sure my circadian rhythmstays in that cycle so that when I get up in
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the morning, my body's prepared to be welloptimized.
So I love that.
That's so crucial in understanding kind ofthat, the fat load.
But if we can, and I know Alfie has, I have somany different I
wanna I wanna kinda stick to the, like, alittle bit to your story and kind of, you know,
what you were experiencing.
Obviously, you said it was a thyroid issue.
That was the diagnosis.
Mhmm.
But we know as functional medicine doctors,there's a root cause, right?
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And so you focus a lot on gut health with whatyou do with your practice.
And maybe break down some of this a little bitnerdy for the audience.
We have people who listen that are into that.
How does the gut affect the thyroid, right?
What does that combination or why does thatmatter?
Can you elaborate on that a little bit?
Yes, absolutely.
So if we look at, so my official diagnosis isHashimoto's thyroiditis, which is autoimmune
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hypothyroid.
And so if we back up to the gut issues that Ihad for decade and a half, yes, bounced around
to a lot of different specialists.
Eventually diagnosed with the gut issues of IBSbecause they couldn't figure out anything else
that was wrong necessarily.
They just said, oh, maybe go gluten free andmaybe take a probiotic that might work.
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IBS is a label that they give you that tellsyou what you just told them you have.
My bowel's kinda irritable.
Hey, have irritable bowel syndrome.
I just told you that.
What do you what do you mean?
Right?
To me, that's like Mhmm.
It's like the most bogus kind of It's
a garbage diagnosis.
Yeah.
Anytime they put syndrome on the end ofsomething, that means they don't know what
it is.
Yeah.
No clue.
Yeah.
No clue.
They'll just put the first couple words like,these play into it, and then syndrome.
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Ta da.
So that's basically what it was.
They kind of ruled out super scary stuff likeIBD, which is irritable bowel disease,
ulcerative colitis, Crohn's.
They ruled out some of those scarier things.
They tested me for celiac disease, which is theautoimmune gluten allergy.
So we ruled out those sorts of things, but Istill was having a lot of issues.
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And so knowing what I know now, that was partof the pathogenesis of my autoimmune And so,
with the inflammation within my gut, that setup the foundation for leaky gut, or increased
intestinal permeability, if you want to find itin the medical literature, that's what they
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call it now.
So what that does, is that actually opens upthe tight junctions of the gut lining.
Yeah.
And so whenever I would eat inflammatory foods,we'll use gluten as an example for this, I
don't want to make it the villain, but it doesplay a role.
That gluten protein isn't supposed to be in mysystemic circulation.
And so it was able to pass through those largeropenings in my gut lining, and then my body
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recognized that as foreign, as an enemy.
And so it built up this immune army to attackthose gluten proteins.
Now the problem is, gluten protein is verysimilar in amino acid sequence to thyroid
tissue.
There it is.
Yep.
And so that's what I just did.
Every time I consume gluten, I built up an armyand attacked my own thyroid.
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So I did that for who knows how long.
There's research out that autoimmune and otherchronic diseases have a ten, twelve, fifteen
year timeline that they're building in yourbody.
These don't happen overnight.
And so, that's a big piece of my own healthjourney, is one, trying my best to avoid gluten
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as much as possible, because it's literally ineverything.
Even gluten free products are crosscontaminated in the agriculture process, the
way we farm in this country, geneticmodification, and then the manufacturing
process.
There's a lot of cross contamination, yeah,can't even say the word today.
Cross contamination there, to the point wheretesting was done on the top selling gluten free
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items, and I'm using quotes again.
The pizza crust pasta and bread, and over 50%actually contain gluten.
And they're supposed to be gluten free.
They're supposed to be a 100% gluten free, andthey're at least 50% or over 50% have gluten in
them.
So that's terrifying for someone who has aceliac allergy, because that could be very very
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detrimental to But their then it's not good forsomeone who has an autoimmune condition,
especially one where gluten is triggering thosereactions inside your body.
And so healing leaky gut, avoiding gluten,making sure my thyroid's getting the nutrients
that it needs as well, all super important inmy own personal healing journey.
Yeah, and honestly my take on disease is,especially like these chronic diseases or these
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long, like pathogenic disease that take time tobuild up is like think of your body like a
bucket and the bucket's filling up with waterand you know a little bit of gluten in there
starts to raise that bucket up and then sometoxins from the environment, right, chlorine in
our tap water, lack of sleep, stress, burningit at both ends, your bucket starts to fill up
when the bucket overflows, right, and you mightfeel okay, when the bucket overflows, signs,
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symptoms, disease state, right?
Yes.
And so it's like, we talk a lot about likepreventative health obviously, you as well,
like how do we empty the bucket a little bit,And that's where it's like the diet, removing
the gluten, that bucket starts to lower backdown, you can get health back.
Exactly, and I have a lot people that are like,well I used to be able to do all these things
and that goes back to the bucket analogy.
Well yeah, you used to be able to because yourbucket was half full then.
Yeah.
And now it's overflowing, So we need to do somework there.
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I also find that most people don't have thesymptoms until their body is less than 60% of
optimal function.
I know that we all like to work in the realm ofoptimal, optimal function.
And so, even though we, if we don't have anovert symptom, that doesn't mean we're
performing at 90% or 95% of optimal function.
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That means we might be teetering right on that61%.
So that's where prevention and doing the thingsevery day to really optimize your health is
super, super important.
100%.
And so then what's the protocol in yourpractice?
Testing, herbal supplements, I'm guessing,right?
Heal Like and repair the gut.
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Can you give like a little overview?
Or kind of like your process?
Absolutely, so I look at each individual asunique.
Because everyone is definitely very, veryunique.
And so I do a deep dive into specific healthhistory.
The factors that brought you to where you aretoday.
I look to see where, you know different placesin your health journey you might have gone off
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track.
Because it's not a straight A to B line, ever.
We're always taking little ebbs and flows.
We look at those because those are gonna giveme some information because again you might not
have Alport symptoms of different imbalances,but there may be some there just from your own
health journey.
So I wanna look at those.
You know obviously taking the time to reallytalk with the patient and understand their
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experiences.
I have them fill out very, very detailedpaperwork to get a better understanding of
them.
And then we look at different diagnostictesting.
So I have the availability to test just abouteverything, which is fantastic.
But I try to really laser focus it into themain issues that I feel are affecting that
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patient's health today.
And of course things that are going to be, ifwe don't address them or identify them, issues
for the long term.
Right.
And so then we use lifestyle, nutrition, bigfocus, know, potent nutraceuticals to help to
remove infections and imbalances and addressdeficiencies to help to bring the body back
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into balance.
Yeah, and so what would be like the main twotests you say you run?
Mean, do stool tests.
Stool tests is probably one of the biggestones, because you know, as Hippocrates says,
all disease begins in the gut.
I believe that your health begins in your gut,so that's a big focus that I wanna make sure
that we are optimizing right off the bat.
Because if we have imbalances there, literallynothing else we do is gonna matter.
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Because if we're using nutrition, which is mylong term goal with everybody, then if you have
imbalances, don't have enough hydrochloric acidor stomach acid, you don't have enough
digestive enzymes, you have inflammation, youhave dysbiosis, infections, then you're not
gonna be able to properly process and absorball the nutrients that you need to be able to
rebuild your body.
And so that's a big step.
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And then just blood work as well.
I mentioned the basic panels can give us someinformation, but they often don't give enough.
So I do a really detailed, again, customizedpanel on every one of my patients.
Yeah, we're big on biomarkers, right?
Knowing your individual biomarkers versus justlike your blood work, your CBCs, right?
Exactly.
That's a little bit important but
It's important.
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I don't think that people get those testedenough in reality.
I think a lot of people will come to me andlike, I haven't gone to a doctor in '20 And I'm
like, okay, well, so we're starting fromscratch.
Step one, yeah.
Step one, we have a little bit of work to do.
I think it's important to understand your ownbody and where you are and where you're
starting from.
And in correlation to how you're feeling andwhat symptoms that you're having as well.
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So that we can, we know where to, to takeeffect and where we need to prioritize our
energy.
That's awesome.
What, walk us through then, because you'reprobably walking us through a little bit of
this right now, but the Zigeti Method.
So you have actually a method that you operate.
Clarify it for me too.
I always try to look at people not as likerobots, but like there's very small
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differentiations of like who we are.
Right?
We have our personalities, which I think areimpacted obviously by like these major
lifestyle changes, But there's a lot ofredundancies in humans that we see.
So maybe that's why you put together like kindof a method together because our habit
structures typically align, that way.
But if you could just dive deep into a littlebit of, you know, what, what you have
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programmed into that method.
Yes, absolutely.
So I find that when someone commits tosomething, they have a much better outcome.
So the spaghetti method is actually mymembership program.
And so with that method, I cover the 12foundations of health.
And so that's gonna include kind of like youalluded to, all the different areas that we
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each need to make sure we're fully optimizingin our own health.
Whether or not that might be an overt, youknow, issue for you that drew you to my office,
we're still gonna work on it.
And so, first one right off the bat is mindset.
So if we don't have our mind right, thennothing matters.
You know, deep dive into your why, like why doyou want to be healthier?
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Why are you going on this journey?
Like what does it mean for you?
What's your ideal outcome?
And then again, we dive into the other pieces.
Sleep is a big one.
So we talk about sleep hygiene and that'sstarting from the moment you wake up and it
goes all the way till the moment you go tosleep.
All the things you can do to optimize yoursleep throughout that timeframe.
Because I don't know about you, but if I don'tget a good night's sleep, you don't even wanna
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talk to me the next Like, I'm a monster.
You'll take care
of it, yeah.
Yeah.
Sleep sleep is just that I I one thing I justhave loved really about sleep is that people
exactly what you were tapping into there isthat people don't understand that, like,
throughout the entire day, you're actuallyprepping for sleep.
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Like, your body is prepping itself for Startsfirst thing
in the morning.
As soon
as your eyes wake your eyes open.
Yeah.
So really, you know, I feel like I didn't havereally a mind body connection, until I started
prioritizing sleep and being like, okay, my mybody is actually telling me something and I
have to listen to it.
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And so then, okay, well then I got super nerdyjust diving into what my circadian rhythm,
like, okay, these delta waves are happening.
My body heat and core index is changing andfluctuating throughout the night.
Like, how do I need to understand that to getthe proper amount of REM to then develop, like,
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more tangible focus and become more optimalduring the day?
Like, I don't like, this is what I also found.
Like, I don't need to work nearly as hard if Ibecome optimal in my flow states Mhmm.
And really understand my, ultradian rhythms oflike, okay, like, I can break now.
Like, it's cool to break now because my body Iprepped it for that flow state and to get
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through that.
But it, that's been a crucial piece in in ouroptimizers program that we have geared towards
obviously men is really understanding that thatsleep narrative of how we can become more
optimal through that process.
So I love that
you focus on that.
And being optimal is getting the mostaccomplished and being the most efficient for
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the least amount of expended energy.
Right?
And that's what we focus on.
How do we get better results with less?
That's what we do with guys.
Like, we we're, dude, you're doing way toomuch.
Mhmm.
You thought you had to do all this stuff.
You're you're killing yourself.
Right?
You're because it we're all day, we're in astate of catabolism.
Our body's, like, like, breaking down torebuild.
Mhmm.
But if you're not sleeping, you're notrebuilding.
Right?
So then you're just breaking down even more.
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Right?
And that's
And that's a that was a badge of honor thatwas, you know, really pushed on me in the
military and corporate America.
Sleep when you're
Is.
Exactly.
How much can you do on the least amount ofsleep?
And who can send the first email in themorning?
And who can send the last email at night?
Like, was almost this competition of how badcan you basically tear your body down, and how
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productive can you still be at the end of theday.
Like it's just such a bizarre mindset to lookback on that.
So I think it's awesome that you really focuson the opportunity and the permission to give
yourself a break, and to really focus on thethings that are gonna rebuild and nourish your
body so that you can perform at the highestlevel.
Because I feel like it doesn't matter how muchmoney you have, if you don't have your health,
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you are basically poor.
Like it just, it doesn't matter.
We had a guy in one of our men's group, sayhe's at, he actually does, have you ever heard
of PEMF therapy?
Wild stuff.
So it's an electronic, it's, more like the TENSmachine.
Okay.
But it's, it basically combines like the TENSwith massaging.
So I had bodywork done yesterday.
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It's, it's pretty incredible.
We'll have to introduce you to Jake.
He's a good guy.
But it's, he said this and it's like reallystuck home.
The best ability is availability.
If I'm not, if I'm, if I'm not available, like,and so many people, and I had to go, like, I
still go through this in ebbs and flows, but,like, some days I'm I'm not available and if I
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don't get that proper sleep, I'm only gonna getout of sleep, I feel like, right now, but I'm
not gonna be available for my wife.
Not gonna be available for my kids.
Exactly.
Which like, if I get to the end of my life andI wasn't available for them, what good was it?
Right.
Right?
At the end the day.
So I think that's crucial.
Can you, you're an author now too.
Like, you're, how do you fit it?
Like, how do you fit it all in?
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Let's be serious.
So you are an author.
Can you, tell us a little bit about your book?
I've heard of the book, and I am absolutelygonna be reading it.
But I would love for you to just kind of briefit, then we're gonna deploy it to the audience,
but it's right in front of us.
Awesome.
Yes.
So this book is actually a three part.
So one part, I elaborate more on my own healthstruggles, because as I was going through my
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journey, I realized that we all have a healthjourney.
And as I mentioned during mine, I felt hopelessand helpless at certain points.
And so I wanted to share what I went through tohopefully provide some hope to someone else
who's also struggling, because I know a lot ofpeople are.
The second part is a lot of education aroundthe quality of nutrition and the importance of
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that in our own health.
And so that's, as I mentioned, with even justthe healthy fat piece, I do dive into healthy
fats.
But also elaborate on the best types of meat toeat, the best types of produce and just the
things to avoid, the things to eat.
So I definitely dive deep into those.
And then I really want to reinvigorate thatpassion and the understanding of the fact that
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if we prepare and make our own food that we'reconsuming, that whole process dives into our
health.
The act of preparing our own food, that prepsour digestive process.
100%.
And that is so missed in this country,purchasing food from DoorDash or, you know, I
don't wanna bad mouth different companies, butif we hand over our food preparation to someone
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else, we're handing over control of our healthto someone else because they're a business.
So unfortunately most businesses aren't goingto use the highest quality ingredients.
They're going use the cheaper oils that areinflammatory to To your
margins by lowering your
Exactly, they're going to add sugar so thatit's addictive so that you buy more.
So the and all these things are detrimental toyour health.
So I put in about a 100 of my favoritedelicious easy to make recipes that have
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ingredients that anybody can find.
I've made them in, you know, all differentstudio kitchens around on the Tampa Bay area
for different TV shows just to show that thesefoods are so easy to make and accessible and
they're delicious and they have enormousimpacts on our health.
And so this is actually my COVID baby.
When the world shut down, I wrote a book.
Had the idea when we were in school, and then,you know, when everything kinda shut down, it
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just really gave me the time and space to toprocess it.
And, I'll be fully transparent.
The first draft I I wrote was garbage.
My publisher basically threw it back at me andtold me to rewrite it because I wrote a, like a
standard operating procedure.
I'm very military minded and I was like, dothis, don't do that.
And they were like, no, we need story.
We need Story is context
with
it as well.
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I found that, I mean, in just being in thiscareer and meeting other docs and stuff, the
best docs who get people the healthiest or getpeople the best results are the ones who had
some kind of struggle and their story is wherethey're coming from.
Right?
They have that empathetic, like, heart forthem.
Right?
Like, anyone can, like, learn something andthen teach it to people and just push it on
others.
But it's like when you feel like your doc'slike, I've been there, right?
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When patients come in here with likeexcruciating nerve pain, I'm like, I had that
man, like my shoulder was fricking jacked and Ihad the worst pain you can imagine.
So I get it, I get what pain feels like, yeah.
And so it's like, then they're like, hey, hehe's he's here with me.
Right?
Versus like, he's gonna tell me what to do.
Exactly.
Yes.
The empathy piece, think, is is again lackingin this country.
And to be able to to say that I've walked a fewsteps in your shoes and I've been there and I
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get it, is a huge difference between me and alot of the other doctors that are out there.
And then I was a patient too, I was a patientfor a decade and a half.
So I went through all the
You saw what didn't work.
The BS that they're going and through rightthat they're pulling their hair out and they're
so frustrated with.
And I'm like, I get it.
That's why that's why I'm doing what I do.
And so okay.
So the recipes, is it mostly because I'm it'spropped open right here and I can see this one
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power kava, kave.
Kave.
Kave.
That's Hungarian.
Coffee drink or something?
That's coffee.
That's how I make my coffee.
I'm gonna have to do that.
Big coffee guy.
It's awesome.
I love coffee.
So coffee is one of the, highest pesticidecontent.
I was about to say moldy.
Yeah.
Moldy.
So you the sourcing, like, right off the bat,first thing in the morning that most people
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drink is coffee or some sort of caffeinatedbeverage.
You wanna, again, make sure that's the highestquality.
So I full full confessions, sometimes I'll I'llnot have breakfast for a period of time and we
can talk talk about intermittent fasting andall those fun things too.
But sometimes I'm just not hungry in themorning.
But I want to have my coffee and I want to makesure that everything I'm consuming is of the
highest quality.
So I put in very high quality grass fed wheycollagen into, not whey collagen, grass fed
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collagen into my coffee.
I put, sun fiber.
So I get six grams of fiber in my coffee.
And then I alternate between either a grass fedbutter or a plant based butter.
But I use that term very loosely becausethere's a lot of bad marketing around plant
based.
This particular brand is organic cashew andcoconut oil.
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And so it's again highest quality.
What's the brand?
It's called, I'm gonna pronounce it wrong,Myokos.
Myokos.
Cool.
And you can get it at Sprouts.
Big butter guy, man.
Think butter's a healthy.
Oh, love butter but sometimes I feel like I'meating a little bit too much animal products so
I like to do like a fluctuation thing.
So like I'll do a month or two of this, monthor two of that and kind of go back forth
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between it to make sure I'm still getting allthe nutrients.
But
And that's a good point to, like, beingintuitive.
Right?
So, like, what you just said is basically theterm is intuitive fasting.
You woke up, you're like, I'm really hungry.
I don't have to force myself to eat today.
Or, like, days where you're man, I'm hungry.
I probably should eat.
Or days where you're like, probably should havesome more carbs today, I kinda killed it
yesterday.
Or like, maybe I should be more protein today,I worked out hard, right?
And so like, being able to be present and sointuitive to your body that you can sense what
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it needs.
Right?
Absolutely.
Most people are like, why am I thirsty all thetime?
Because you're fricking dehydrated.
Like listen, ninety five percent
of Americans.
And I know that the majority of your audienceis men, but when you talk about fasting, I do
wanna touch on that there's a lot of researchout now that women shouldn't fast the same as
men.
And so, yeah, I don't, I don't want to divetoo, too deep into it, but, just to touch on
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the fact that you're mentioning like differentcarbs at different times, different fats at
different times.
So primarily in this, for women who are cyclingin the second phase of their cycle, the luteal
phase, they really shouldn't be doing anyaggressive fasting.
That's when the body is building up hormones.
If you do a significant fast during that periodof time, you're gonna tank your hormones.
Yeah.
Or busy moms, they got three kids, they takethem to school, then they're working and all
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this and then they're fasting.
Let's just add another stress to our body,right?
Fasting is a positive stress but maybe in thattime of life, it's not the best for you.
We need to optimize elsewhere.
I actually, the majority of my female patientsaren't eating enough.
They need more healthy Most
people, yeah.
They need more healthy fats.
They need more high quality protein.
They don't need less.
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And so that's why, again, I'm starting my daywith high quality protein, with healthy fats.
I actually throw a little bit of pink Himalayansea salt in there to make sure I have my
electrolytes going.
And again, I'll pulse in and out differenttypes of organic mushroom powders as well,
different blends of mushrooms to see foradaptogenic health too.
And what you're doing a lot of, right, and kindof on the intro I said, is like flipping the
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narrative to what it should be versus whatwe've been told.
And it's like, why is science always changing?
It should be.
It should be evolving.
But you gotta listen to who's pushing it.
The government says, fat's bad.
Salt is bad.
All this stuff, is it?
Right?
We're starting to find that, like, you needsodium.
Right?
Your body where sodium goes water flows.
Right?
Remember that analogy?
Oh, yeah.
And so it's like, to be hydrated, you do needthose electrolytes.
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Fat's not bad.
Fat's what our brain is made out of.
So if you want a functioning brain, you shouldhave some fat in your in your diet.
And if you're exhausted, you need some fat.
That's right.
It helps fuel fuel our bodies.
100%.
So, yes, follow where are the sources andfollow the money.
Who's paying
for the research?
What's the yeah.
What's the agenda?
It's so sad if people are like, oh, there's astudy behind it.
That's great.
Who paid for the study?
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Yeah.
Yeah.
That's I call those the, like, the study Nazis.
People that are just like, so trust thescience.
It's all about the science.
I'm like, dude, like, a lot of studies can be,like, skewed to fit the result they're trying
Yes. To
To If you really look into the study, you'relike, man, they picked these people from a
specific area.
I know you're big on the blue zones and I amtoo, I agree with it.
But they cherry picked a lot of the data forcertain populations in certain places.
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Right?
And only use these people, whatever.
I'm not gonna go too deep on that.
But again, to your point, do your own research,be your own health advocate, is what you did
and what you do.
Mhmm, absolutely.
And then figure out where your specificimbalances are.
So that's why I do the very customizeddiagnostic testing because you're gonna have a
completely different, if we go for the gut forexample, gut microbiota than Doctor.
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Lesse, totally different.
Even though you guys work together and aroundeach other, totally different.
If you travel internationally, it's gonna bedifferent.
If you have a pet, it's gonna be different.
If you have a spouse or a partner, it's gonnabe totally different.
If you have kids, it's gonna be different.
My identical twin sons probably have differentgut microbiomes and their genetics are
identical.
They came from the same DNA, right?
So like, that goes to show you.
There's studies on that too.
Mhmm.
Two twins, one lives this kind of lifestyle,one lives the other way.
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They're identical twins.
Guts are totally different.
One becomes obese and inflamed, the other is ahealthy person.
It's crazy.
Yep.
That's where genetics used to bescientifically, I'm using lots of air quotes
today, was a crutch that people would use.
They're genetically predisposed
Freaking hate that.
For this.
Yeah.
And then that study really, really blew thatapart and said, no, you have control over so
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many different aspects of your health that youcan, you know, impact every single day.
That's empowering.
Empowering.
That's powerful.
One thing that I think I've like really noticedto myself of having the, mind body connection
was the, my actually, my nutrients like duringthe day of the days that I actually have like a
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workout.
So we worked out this morning, but I also knewI had a podcast.
Right?
And so I wanted to stay light.
Mhmm.
So I'm gonna actually my my I'm gonna load upon protein a little bit later in the day.
And there was this, like, myth for a long time.
I think it actually you know, the show TheBiggest Loser, I think it was this, that Julian
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Oh.
Trainer or whatever.
It was her name, Julian.
I don't know if
that was her name.
But anyways
It's something like that.
She came out with something that you had to getprotein in you forty five minutes after your
workout.
Like, she said that.
Yeah.
That's how they that's they dude, that was tosell protein powder.
That was like to
sell Oh, you gotta get protein right after yourworkout.
Yeah.
Great for freaking everyone working out.
Now it's gonna buy your protein.
Yeah.
Fantastic marketing.
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It's the only way to do it.
Yeah.
Think that's why chicken
breast You're isn't not gonna get any gains ifyou don't.
Right?
Yeah.
You don't.
You need a forty five within forty five minutesof your workout.
But I mean, the reality is that's not true.
Your body can utilize it whenever, wherever.
And I for my understanding, and I think it'ssomething that you educated me on, was, it's in
the cadence of a really a week that you couldmeasure what your total protein I do it daily,
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but what your protein intake is by the week.
Daily tends to be easier because then you'redividing by seven, like, over a week.
But Yeah.
It it's there's, like, I think back and forthresearch too, but they show that, like, by
getting like, you can have a day that's less.
Right?
Maybe you're not as optimal on your yourprotein or you're a little underfed that day,
but then the rest of the days are eitheroptimal or above.
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Maybe it kinda averages out over the span of aweek.
And so, you know, not beating yourself up ifyou're like, man, I didn't hit my goal today.
Right?
Kinda what we're talking about with our guys inour cohort with optimizers.
Like, one guy was like, I didn't get my proteingoal in today, but yesterday I overdid it.
I'm like, it's cool, man.
Think you're gonna be okay.
You're not
going into, like, the perfectionist mindset.
Yeah.
And that's a really good thing to say, let's doprogress.
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Let's not go for perfection because that'sanother stressor.
That's right.
Yeah.
And you're overwhelmed and you quit.
Exactly.
I wanna talk about this because it's somethingthat I think is important and I think that you
really build on in your book as well.
But it is that portion between men and womenthat obviously as we age, our protein intake
goes down from my understanding as far as wherelike data says, right?
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But it should go up.
And it should go up technically.
But, like for me specifically, I wanted to makesure, you know, I was depleted in glycative
supply.
So I actually had a couple of nudes before theshow Mhmm.
So that I could be well optimized for you.
So
Guys, I didn't get mine.
We need we need to hook you up.
We do that. I
I do I have I have an elk protein mac andcheese meal that I'm gonna, be eating later in
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the day.
But I knew that would like, that, that wouldjust legitimately, that would like slow me
down.
So I like, I wanted to be like well optimizedgetting my protein intake.
Is that, is that something like you, you'rereally pushing on?
I know you focus on fats too, but like thatprotein intake, pushing kind of the protein,
that's what we're focusing on with our guys andour optimi, we wanna focus on fats and carbs,
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absolutely we wanna focus on those.
But proportionally we want, we have a proteintarget for them.
And then we really, those days that they'reobviously working out, I tend to focus a little
bit more on my carbohydrates because I want tomake sure like I'm maintaining my glycogen
supply still pretty sharp.
And then I'll get my protein in.
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On the days I like, actually am not workingout, which I've increased that a little bit, I
focus, tend to focus on a little bit heaviermeals, throughout the day.
But, can you talk a little bit just aboutprotein, specifically and like how imperative
that is kind of for the long term andlongevity?
I like to just take a step back and I look liketo just focus on foundational four.
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So that's high quality protein, healthy fat,plant based fiber, and then something green or
colorful.
So I try to keep it as simple as possiblebecause I think people get super overwhelmed
with, am I counting my macros?
Am I getting this?
Am I getting that?
So I try to keep it simple because I don'twanna add more stress.
You're talking like per meal.
You're like in the in the Per meal,
hit per the snack.
Like, let's get those four.
Got it.
Every time you eat, let's get those four in.
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And then specifically to protein, so if you'regetting all four of those in every meal and
snack, like you're gonna cover the bases.
And I like the week kinda averaging it out, soyou're not stressing yourself every single day.
Like, oh, I missed my mark.
I missed my mark.
But specifically to protein, I I think thequality is where we need to go.
So highest quality, what is that?
That's grass fed red meat, including organs.
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I am a fan of eating organs.
Liver baby, let's Liver,
yes.
Highest Yes, yes, yes.
Nutrient bioavailable It's not
It's not the valid for me.
I don't.
But Discussions with
this with one of our instructors in school with
the tree.
Yeah, yeah.
He was like, it's a filter, filters all thetoxins, why would you wanna eat that?
I'm like,
I don't know bro.
Scooch and tons.
Yeah, yeah.
So if you don't wanna eat it, there's obviouslysome high quality capsule forms can get it in
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as well.
So that's for red meat.
And then any type of poultry, eggs, organic.
There's a lot of marketing around free range.
And I just wanna touch on what that meansreally quickly.
So my husband and I travel a lot in The US andinternationally as well.
We have an Airstream here, and we stay on farmsand different things.
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And I've talked with farmers, and they'veshowed me the facilities of their free range
chickens.
And it literally if they have this tiny littlespace where they put their little leg out, that
means free range.
If the chicken's not in a box, it's free range
essentially.
Well, there's cage free Okay.
And then there's free range.
So cage free means they're not in theindividual little They can actually move their
body.
Their body.
But it doesn't mean that they're you know, wehave I have this image of chickens running in a
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field and, you know, happy chickens out in the
pasture raised.
Right?
Pasture That would be pasture raised.
So organic pasture raised would be the highest.
Pinnacle.
Yep.
And those yolks are freaking orange.
Oh, When you get an organic pasture raisedbecause they're eating worms, they're eating
grubs, like they're eating like real stuff.
They're eating what they are
They're getting a
lot of omegas into there and so that that yolk,man.
Yeah.
So they're gonna be raw.
They're gonna be healthier which means what youconsume is gonna be healthier.
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You're eating it raw?
I eat raw three raw eggs every morning.
Okay.
Alright.
Sometimes at night too.
Alright.
Yeah.
That's why your beard orange.
Right?
That's right, baby.
Let's go.
And then for any type of seafood wild caught.
So we could dive into hours discussion on farmraised seafood.
Just if it says farm raised, just don't eat it.
It is not good for your health.
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Those creatures are unfortunately fed dietsthat are natural to them.
The agriculture industry is the highestconsumer of prescription medications in this
country.
So let that kinda sink in for a second.
Wow.
Well, I heard something recently about fibertoo and I had a hack with my protein.
So I put lion's mane on all of it.
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I just saw like basically the mushrooms.
I think you've seen me do it.
I'll just put it, I'll just put it over top tojust get that protein into or I get the fiber
intake.
My understanding on like fiber, like we aresignificantly deficient from just a, or at a
global scale of Insanely deficient, yes.
Fibers in our diet.
And like, an adequate amount of fiber on adaily basis is 20 grams.
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A sufficient is 60.
Am I wrong on that?
Well, the the recommendation is kind of in themiddle of that.
So 30 to 40 grams.
So I think you're you're hitting each side ofit.
Okay.
You know, we alluded to the blue zones earlier,so I will touch on a little bit of that because
I do, follow what doing.
Because I feel like they have some greatnuggets to share.
For sure, yeah.
And what they've studied is the longest, livingcommunities that are living optimal life or
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health span, not just lifespan, which is superimportant.
Critical.
Critical.
Is the fact that they're consuming sixty,seventy, 80 grams of plant based fiber a day,
which is just mind blowing.
That's a lot of fiber.
And that fills you up too, right?
So that keeps you satiated, you're not gonnasnack and binge.
And actually, a higher fiber, plant based fiberdiet addresses four of the top 10 killers in
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The US.
That's metabolic diseases, strokes, heart,disease, and cancer risk.
Yeah.
All, you know, majorly decreased when you areconsuming enough plant based fiber.
Now, cautionary.
Don't run out and grab a tub of Metamucilbecause that's not gonna do the That's
processed.
No, it's highly processed.
We're talking about plants.
We're talking about legumes.
One of my favorites is chickpeas.
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So a cup of chickpeas, that's twelve, fifteengrams of plant based fiber right off the bat.
And that's protein too.
And plant based protein.
It's amazing.
I actually will dump some into, the blenderfirst when I make a smoothie because it doesn't
add any taste to
it.
Nice.
And it gives it a little bit more like thickensit up a little bit and you get the plant based
fiber and protein right there right off thebat.
I'm gonna do that.
I've never heard of that before.
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You're welcome.
Here we go.
I hope you learned something new today.
That's right.
And I think a lot of the the summary of a lotof what we're talking about is, like, optimal
versus, like, adequate.
You said the word adequate.
You go to your doctor, like, let's, circle backto the beginning when you told your story.
Right?
Oh, you're good.
Dude, I feel lousy.
Well, know, if the range is a 100 is is 20 atthe bottom and a 100 at the top and you're at
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21, you're within range.
You're adequate, baby.
You're good.
Dude, you're one away from being freaking outof range.
Right?
So, like, that's functional medicine is like,no, we wanna get that to the top of the top,
baby.
And that's hormones, that's, you know, allmarkers.
Right?
We don't wanna just be existing.
Totally different because the lab ranges weredefined based on a sick population because
that's who was in the hospital.
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And they change them.
And they change
them.
As we get sicker as a population, they're like,well, let's just lower the standard so that
people can, you know, fit in it still or elsewe have to address the fact that everyone's
dying and sick.
Right?
And we can medicate them sooner.
Boom.
That's that's what I've been, that's what Iask.
I I've actually asked this quite often latelywas I'm, like, point blank, I'm, I don't mean
to be, like, just extremely forward with you,but since when do you wanna be average?
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Like, don't you wanna be, like, above averageor optimal?
Like, said no one ever.
Like, hey.
You wanna do you wanna be average in life?
I just wanna get by.
Said no one ever.
Like so if you ask that question, they're like,well, you actually think about it.
Didn't wanna be average.
You know what I I called out my dad the otherday.
I'm like, I I really poor dad.
But, like, I'm like, look, back end of yourlife, I I love, like, my parents immeasurably.
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And that so I I say it in an act of love, but,again, I'm, like, pretty forward.
But I'm like, do you wanna finish or do do youjust wanna finish or do you wanna finish well?
And so I think there's two separations there.
Like, if you're just looking to finish, like,this retirement life, sit down, eat a bag of
potato chips, and watch some Hallmark movies,like, I wouldn't call that finishing well, bro.
So I don't mean to call you out, dad, but I'mstill calling you out.
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Oh, I
looked right at him.
And, dead in the eyes, dad.
Dead in the eyes.
But the reality is that it's like I, no matterwhat age, I don't know when God's gonna call me
home, but I don't wanna be average.
Like, and that's why we're diving into thisfield of like, what does it mean to be
optimized?
And if it means putting a little more fiber inyour diet, like as a simple measure, like if
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there's one action you can take today of likeputting some chickpeas in a blender, how hard
is that?
Like it's, you know, some really cool thingsthat you can just take away that create a
different narrative for your life and how youfinish it well.
I don't know.
I mean, fully believe that we were meant tothrive, not just survive.
And I feel like a lot of people are justscraping by and surviving.
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And there are simple things like you mentioned,little hacks that we can do every day to just
move that needle a little bit and get us tothat thriving so we can prosper, so we can live
a life we love.
I love that.
What's coming up for you?
Anything new in the works?
Another book or TV.
Yeah, you've been all over TV and stuff.
I actually have another episode that, we justrecorded last week, an actual entire cooking
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show, which I'm super excited about, which I'venever So done that was
that work?
That's on Fox thirteen.
Fox thirteen.
That's awesome.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Hope you'll be able
to When it's gonna be?
Or do you know yet?
Yeah.
This should air on the twenty seventh.
So I don't know when this episode's gonna air,but that's coming out the twenty seventh.
And then I am doing a digestive detectiveprogram where as a group, we dive into our
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microbiome.
And we do a stool test and we dive into all theimbalances within our body and things that we
can do to optimize that.
We do that, we don't collectively poop as agroup, but I do call it.
Poop poop.
You poop at home, we discuss the results as agroup.
Then I make customized recommendations based onthat.
So I have another session of that coming uplaunching March.
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And then just some amazing educationalopportunities to just share and empower and
hopefully take the message international thisyear too.
Definitely gonna bring you back on so we canget like in in-depth on a lot of the stuff we
talked about today.
Man, if you if you're listening and you gotsome value out of this show, which if you
didn't then, I don't know, maybe you're deaf, Idon't know, right?
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But like, check out doctor Anya.
Where can they find you online and Instagramand and kinda give us where we can look you up?
Yeah.
My Instagram is doctor Anya Segeti.
So fun being able to spell that, but s z I g et I.
I'm sure we'll we'll link that in the shownotes.
Yep.
It's probably the best place.
I have an amazing person that's helping me outwith that just to get the message out with that
because I'm terrible with social media andshe's amazing.
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That's probably the best best avenue.
You're like going into grocery stores andcalling out like crappy food and I
I did a whole thing recently.
And and I love to hear where where people arehaving questions so that I can make sure that
I'm getting the content out that people want.
And actually, you're inspiring me.
I've I've had several people ask me to start apodcast so I'm looking into
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that.
Awesome.
So hopefully, I'll put this on myself to launchthat in the next month.
It's a great platform for just spreading thisknowledge, man, and this right here.
Right?
And if you obviously listen to this, go get YouCan't Outrun Your Fork, the book here about how
nutrition is, I mean, pivotal.
Yeah.
Great book.
Tons of recipes.
I'm about to go make some of that power kavehright now, man.
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Well, that's awesome.
So we have I got one last question, and we'llwrap up.
I ask this every guest we have.
You have your 12 things that you talked about,the 12 kinda optimized things.
We have six pillars.
Fuel, movement, sleep, mind, purpose, andspirit.
And so we believe that to live full fueled, ifyou have all these pillars optimized, you are
full fueled.
What does living full fueled look like for AnyaSageti?
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That is amazing.
I mean, that that covers into the majority ofof what I cover as well in the Sagetti Method.
So for me, that is being present.
That is being there showing up a 100% formyself, for my husband, for my miniature
dachshund Milo, who travels everywhere with usincluding Europe twice.
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And if I'm not showing up a 110% for myself,then I can't be there to help anyone else
because you can't pour from an empty vessel.
I tried for years and it's not possible.
So that's making sure that, you know, I'mstarting my day with sunlight.
I'm getting fresh water.
My nutrition's on point.
I'm taking time for mindfulness.
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I do a lot of yoga meditation that just reallyhelps to clear my mind and keep me balanced.
I have a personal relationship with with theLord and so that that helps guide my purpose.
And I really feel like he has, you know, tookme on this journey, and I'm his vessel to be
able to help empower others.
And so living through that just just reallygives me goosebumps and just really just fuels
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me every day.
Smash that answer.
That was amazing.
Anya Sageti is full fuel to the brim, dude.
Full fuel.
Well, thank you so much for coming on the show.
It has been an extreme pleasure.
It really has.
Thank you so much.
Awesome.
Healthy Coated listeners, thank you so much fortuning in to today's episode.
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An IBS is a label that they give you that tellsyou what you just told them you have.
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My bowel's kinda irritable.
Hey.
You have irritable bowel syndrome.
I just told you that.
What do you what do you mean?
Right?
To me, that's like Mhmm.
It's like the most bogus kinda diagnosis.
It's garbage diagnosis.
Anytime they put syndrome on the end ofsomething, that means they don't know what
it is.
No clue.
Yeah.
No clue.
They'll just put the first couple words like,these play into it and then syndrome.
Ta da.
So that's basically what it was.
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They kind of ruled out super scary stuff likeIBD, which is irritable bowel disease,
ulcerative colitis, Crohn's.
They ruled out some of those scarier things.
Welcome to Health Decode, your number onesource for real health information with your
host, doctor Alessi and Matt Tack.
Welcome back to another episode of HealthDecoded.
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I'm your host, doctor Alessi.
Today's episode is gonna be something a littlebit different.
We are going back in time to an old episodefrom when we were the full fuel podcast where
myself and Matt Tack interviewed doctor AnyaSzegedi.
We talked about everything from gut health toautoimmune conditions, leaky gut, and more.
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This episode could not be more prevalent andpertinent for today's world.
Hope you enjoyed this episode.
Tune in to the Health Decoded podcast today.
With your host, Matt Tagg.
What's up, man?
Who are you?
I'm doctor Alfred Lesson.
Oh, there we go.
They know by now.
They know by now.
Thank you for that.
Love it.
Well, we also have a very, very accomplishedand decorated guest on the show today.
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Past classmate of mine in chiropractic school,good friend, doctor Anya Szegeti.
I said that correct?
Szegeti.
Szegeti.
The z is silent.
So pardon the butcher there.
Doctor Anya Sighetti is a holistic functionaldoctor and the founder of Back to Health
functional medicine.
She is the creator of the Sighetti Method andthe best selling author of You Can't Outrun
(01:49):
Your Fork.
Doctor Anya is passionate about empowering,educating, and equipping others to take charge
of their own health so they can prosper,thrive, and live a life they love.
Doctor Anya is here on the show to dispel themyths and set the record straight when it comes
to fancy marketing gimmicks and provide insighton what is actually beneficial for our health
and what is actually dangerous for us toconsume.
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Doctor Anya, Doctor Anya, right?
Last time I saw you, welcome to Full Fueled.
We're so glad to have you on the show.
Awesome to
be here.
You Full so Fueled.
Yes ma'am, it's a pleasure.
We're super excited.
I, one thing I noticed about you as soon as Imet you I'm like wow this woman has amazing
energy.
So I just want to compliment you right off theThank you.
You can feel it so it's cool.
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We're excited that you're here with us today.
If you could just give us a little backgroundon kind of the story of what led you into
functional medicine and then also what led youinto becoming an author.
So we're excited to dig deep, if you just givea little background on yourself.
Yes, absolutely.
So I think a lot of folks that find themselvesin the holistic space have their own health
journey that they went on And that was my storytoo.
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So little bit of a short version of my story isI was active duty military.
And then when I got out of the service, I was asurgical medical device sales rep for a
corporate America company.
And with that job comes a lot of stress, a lotof travel.
At the same time, I was also training for andcompeting in Ironman triathlons and
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ultramarathons, the longest being 50 miles.
So yeah, that's a fun day.
That's a that's
a freaking long race.
And the Ironman also, 2.4 mile swim, a 112 milebike, and then a full marathon at
the That's insane.
Do they call you an Ironwoman?
Why did
A lot of people call me an Ironwoman.
You're an Ironwoman.
You are Ironwoman.
I love that.
You got the tat?
You have the tat.
You have the tat.
Alright.
You're official.
She's she's legit.
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That's the fourth part of the triathlon isgetting the tattoo.
You gotta finish first.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I'm I'm crazy enough to do too.
So I'm doing all of that.
Those are my hobbies.
Right?
That's my stress relief.
And while working in corporate America.
And so as I progressed with my career, theyrewarded me with promotion and more and more
territory.
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So originally I was covering the state ofFlorida.
And then they kept adding states.
So then I was covering 11 states in theSoutheast.
This as a regional sales manager, I'm goingaround to different locations up to four
different locations in a week.
I think that's a lot of travel.
And so, you know, I'm stressed, I'm runningaround like crazy.
I'm, you know, taking a 4AM flight out, comingback that night, go to another location the
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next day.
So I made a lot of compromises when it came tomy health, primarily nutrition, Because you
know, airport food, hotel food, it's not thebest quality.
It's garbage.
It's garbage.
Yes, exactly.
So I was putting garbage in, and then I wasalso really pushing my body to extreme limits
and not fueling it properly.
And so I actually got really, really sick andsick in the definition of just feeling
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exhausted, digestive issues.
I mean, I used to keep a note in my phone.
So just not to you were you were doing all this
Mhmm.
And still training for ultra marathons.
Yes.
Wow.
Yes.
And Ironman.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yes.
So at all ends.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Sleep was terrible.
Stress off the charts.
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Nutrition, terrible.
You know, hormones in the garbage.
Like, everything.
Just just totally wrecking myself as as best Icould as quickly as possible.
So, yeah.
So I had, you know, all the digestive issuesand as I was saying, I used to keep a note in
my phone of all the symptoms that I had becauseit was coming everywhere.
People are like, oh, what did you start with?
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I don't know because I started to just kind ofignore it, right?
I think we all do that.
We get some pain, we'll take a pill.
We have digestive issues, we take a pill.
Yeah.
Or you know, whatever.
Because we have to keep going, right?
We have to keep performing.
And so I really started to just feel this andnot be able to hide from it anymore.
And so I went to my doctor and she ran my bloodwork and she says, oh, everything's normal.
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Air quotes.
I like the air quotes there.
That's Yeah, like it's normal.
Yeah.
Like how how can everything be normal?
I feel like complete garbage.
Like how is that possible?
And you know, now I realize that that'sunfortunately quite common, that a lot of
people will go and get a very basic panel doneand it doesn't really show anything.
So there has to be a deeper dive.
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And so I actually turned into my own healthadvocate and researched about what could be
causing this.
And I went back to my doctor and I was likepushing her, like, you run these additional
tests?
Can you check-in deeper to see what's going on?
And thankfully she did after a little bit ofpersuasion.
I'm not very persuasive at all, so you know,she just was like, oh sure, whatever.
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And we found that I had antibodies to mythyroid and my thyroid was underperforming.
But she tells me, you're not sick enough tomedicate yet, so we're just gonna wait until
you get sicker and then we'll medicate you forthe rest of your life.
Health care, baby.
That's what we call health care in this country
for right there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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It's it's backwards for sure.
Yes.
Yep.
So While on the outside though, you probablystill look pretty good.
I think so.
I mean, I have pictures.
I was ripped.
I mean, I, you know Yeah.
But I was still throwing Snickers in my littlebags in between my events because that's what I
used.
That was what I looked forward to on the bikeis to have a
Snickers Club.
Because you didn't have the nudes.
I didn't have the nudes.
I didn't, I just,
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yeah. Were
Were you, buddy?
You, where were you?
That's why
we're here now.
Exactly.
So, I look back at that time and of course inthe moment I'm frustrated, I'm feeling helpless
and hopeless, but I'm thankful for it nowbecause that's what led me to find holistic
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functional And I actually worked with a doctorout in Colorado back before, virtual thing was
a cool thing to do.
And we took a deep dive.
I mean, we tore apart my diet, my lifestyle,made some major modifications, added in some
supplementation.
And then I go back to my doctor in threemonths, right?
She has a prescription pad out because I'msupposed to get worse because we've never done
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it.
We haven't done anything.
And she's like, wait a minute, your labs aregetting better.
What are you doing?
So I'm like, I'm doing this and that, like,
this time.
I'm healing baby.
Yeah.
She's just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
Just keep doing it.
I'm sleeping.
Yeah.
I'm actually sleeping.
Yeah.
She's like, just keep doing it.
It seems to be working.
Totally brushed me off, but I didn't carebecause that made such a transformative effect
of my health and my life.
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I vividly remember going home to my my husbandwith my boyfriend at the time.
And I was like, hey, so I'm gonna quit thisreally lucrative job and go to school with
people that are a little younger than me.
It's fine.
And that's where I met Alfred.
And, you know, just really dedicate my life tothis.
So I did the chiropractic doctorate.
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I also did the certification for acupuncture,and the three hundred hour diplomate in
internal medicine, functional medicine, all atthe same time.
Wow.
Killing it.
Yeah.
That's than
what I
was doing.
Was just so curious.
That's crushing it.
That's making a change right there.
Yeah.
How cool is that?
Can you, I this might be a little, like,swaying off topic, but how imperative was sleep
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in that time frame?
Like, where you made or what was one thing thatyou just made right off the bat that was, like,
you you felt like kind of was the tipping pointin that change or the in that mental shift?
Well, one, sleep was super important.
So we can definitely dive into that more.
But if we look at nutrition, one thing that Ichanged that was significant for me was
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actually consuming healthy fats.
That made a big difference.
I was consuming all the garbage, you know,labeled gluten free on the front, processed
packaged ultra, you know, even call that foodanymore because that's not nourishing the body.
And so I was eating all the garbage oils andunhealthy fats and trans fats and all that
stuff.
And when I switched to actually healthy fatsand nourishing my body, starting to rebuild my
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hormones and all those different, it's amazing.
That was life changing for me.
Huge.
That's one thing that's been, we've beenhonestly focusing.
So we have a, like a third pouch we're workingon right now with food scientists, but was kind
of that understanding when you go into a race,how important fats are for that mindset, for
that kind of the early onset of like that prenutrition, that intra nutrition and the post
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nutrition of how you're doing that.
But I treat it every day like a race.
And how are we treating every day going intothat?
How are you getting the appropriate fats maybeearly in the morning, get that mind moving when
you're coming out of your circadian rhythm andgoing into your ultradians throughout the day.
So that's one thing that has been really ashift for me over really the past five years is
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I set a bedtime routine and then I go to bed atevery, like it's a non negotiable for me now.
Just go to bed at 09:30 and, like my wife and,like, we have family in town right now.
I'll be like, where's Matt?
You know?
And they, of course, know I'm in bed because I,yeah, I'm optimizing.
Like, I need to make sure my circadian rhythmstays in that cycle so that when I get up in
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the morning, my body's prepared to be welloptimized.
So I love that.
That's so crucial in understanding kind ofthat, the fat load.
But if we can, and I know Alfie has, I have somany different I
wanna I wanna kinda stick to the, like, alittle bit to your story and kind of, you know,
what you were experiencing.
Obviously, you said it was a thyroid issue.
That was the diagnosis.
Mhmm.
But we know as functional medicine doctors,there's a root cause, right?
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And so you focus a lot on gut health with whatyou do with your practice.
And maybe break down some of this a little bitnerdy for the audience.
We have people who listen that are into that.
How does the gut affect the thyroid, right?
What does that combination or why does thatmatter?
Can you elaborate on that a little bit?
Yes, absolutely.
So if we look at, so my official diagnosis isHashimoto's thyroiditis, which is autoimmune
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hypothyroid.
And so if we back up to the gut issues that Ihad for decade and a half, yes, bounced around
to a lot of different specialists.
Eventually diagnosed with the gut issues of IBSbecause they couldn't figure out anything else
that was wrong necessarily.
They just said, oh, maybe go gluten free andmaybe take a probiotic that might work.
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IBS is a label that they give you that tellsyou what you just told them you have.
My bowel's kinda irritable.
Hey, have irritable bowel syndrome.
I just told you that.
What do you what do you mean?
Right?
To me, that's like Mhmm.
It's like the most bogus kind of It's
a garbage diagnosis.
Yeah.
Anytime they put syndrome on the end ofsomething, that means they don't know what
it is.
Yeah.
No clue.
Yeah.
No clue.
They'll just put the first couple words like,these play into it, and then syndrome.
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Ta da.
So that's basically what it was.
They kind of ruled out super scary stuff likeIBD, which is irritable bowel disease,
ulcerative colitis, Crohn's.
They ruled out some of those scarier things.
They tested me for celiac disease, which is theautoimmune gluten allergy.
So we ruled out those sorts of things, but Istill was having a lot of issues.
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And so knowing what I know now, that was partof the pathogenesis of my autoimmune And so,
with the inflammation within my gut, that setup the foundation for leaky gut, or increased
intestinal permeability, if you want to find itin the medical literature, that's what they
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call it now.
So what that does, is that actually opens upthe tight junctions of the gut lining.
Yeah.
And so whenever I would eat inflammatory foods,we'll use gluten as an example for this, I
don't want to make it the villain, but it doesplay a role.
That gluten protein isn't supposed to be in mysystemic circulation.
And so it was able to pass through those largeropenings in my gut lining, and then my body
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recognized that as foreign, as an enemy.
And so it built up this immune army to attackthose gluten proteins.
Now the problem is, gluten protein is verysimilar in amino acid sequence to thyroid
tissue.
There it is.
Yep.
And so that's what I just did.
Every time I consume gluten, I built up an armyand attacked my own thyroid.
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So I did that for who knows how long.
There's research out that autoimmune and otherchronic diseases have a ten, twelve, fifteen
year timeline that they're building in yourbody.
These don't happen overnight.
And so, that's a big piece of my own healthjourney, is one, trying my best to avoid gluten
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as much as possible, because it's literally ineverything.
Even gluten free products are crosscontaminated in the agriculture process, the
way we farm in this country, geneticmodification, and then the manufacturing
process.
There's a lot of cross contamination, yeah,can't even say the word today.
Cross contamination there, to the point wheretesting was done on the top selling gluten free
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items, and I'm using quotes again.
The pizza crust pasta and bread, and over 50%actually contain gluten.
And they're supposed to be gluten free.
They're supposed to be a 100% gluten free, andthey're at least 50% or over 50% have gluten in
them.
So that's terrifying for someone who has aceliac allergy, because that could be very very
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detrimental to But their then it's not good forsomeone who has an autoimmune condition,
especially one where gluten is triggering thosereactions inside your body.
And so healing leaky gut, avoiding gluten,making sure my thyroid's getting the nutrients
that it needs as well, all super important inmy own personal healing journey.
Yeah, and honestly my take on disease is,especially like these chronic diseases or these
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long, like pathogenic disease that take time tobuild up is like think of your body like a
bucket and the bucket's filling up with waterand you know a little bit of gluten in there
starts to raise that bucket up and then sometoxins from the environment, right, chlorine in
our tap water, lack of sleep, stress, burningit at both ends, your bucket starts to fill up
when the bucket overflows, right, and you mightfeel okay, when the bucket overflows, signs,
(15:40):
symptoms, disease state, right?
Yes.
And so it's like, we talk a lot about likepreventative health obviously, you as well,
like how do we empty the bucket a little bit,And that's where it's like the diet, removing
the gluten, that bucket starts to lower backdown, you can get health back.
Exactly, and I have a lot people that are like,well I used to be able to do all these things
and that goes back to the bucket analogy.
Well yeah, you used to be able to because yourbucket was half full then.
Yeah.
And now it's overflowing, So we need to do somework there.
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I also find that most people don't have thesymptoms until their body is less than 60% of
optimal function.
I know that we all like to work in the realm ofoptimal, optimal function.
And so, even though we, if we don't have anovert symptom, that doesn't mean we're
performing at 90% or 95% of optimal function.
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That means we might be teetering right on that61%.
So that's where prevention and doing the thingsevery day to really optimize your health is
super, super important.
100%.
And so then what's the protocol in yourpractice?
Testing, herbal supplements, I'm guessing,right?
Heal Like and repair the gut.
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Can you give like a little overview?
Or kind of like your process?
Absolutely, so I look at each individual asunique.
Because everyone is definitely very, veryunique.
And so I do a deep dive into specific healthhistory.
The factors that brought you to where you aretoday.
I look to see where, you know different placesin your health journey you might have gone off
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track.
Because it's not a straight A to B line, ever.
We're always taking little ebbs and flows.
We look at those because those are gonna giveme some information because again you might not
have Alport symptoms of different imbalances,but there may be some there just from your own
health journey.
So I wanna look at those.
You know obviously taking the time to reallytalk with the patient and understand their
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experiences.
I have them fill out very, very detailedpaperwork to get a better understanding of
them.
And then we look at different diagnostictesting.
So I have the availability to test just abouteverything, which is fantastic.
But I try to really laser focus it into themain issues that I feel are affecting that
(17:51):
patient's health today.
And of course things that are going to be, ifwe don't address them or identify them, issues
for the long term.
Right.
And so then we use lifestyle, nutrition, bigfocus, know, potent nutraceuticals to help to
remove infections and imbalances and addressdeficiencies to help to bring the body back
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into balance.
Yeah, and so what would be like the main twotests you say you run?
Mean, do stool tests.
Stool tests is probably one of the biggestones, because you know, as Hippocrates says,
all disease begins in the gut.
I believe that your health begins in your gut,so that's a big focus that I wanna make sure
that we are optimizing right off the bat.
Because if we have imbalances there, literallynothing else we do is gonna matter.
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Because if we're using nutrition, which is mylong term goal with everybody, then if you have
imbalances, don't have enough hydrochloric acidor stomach acid, you don't have enough
digestive enzymes, you have inflammation, youhave dysbiosis, infections, then you're not
gonna be able to properly process and absorball the nutrients that you need to be able to
rebuild your body.
And so that's a big step.
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And then just blood work as well.
I mentioned the basic panels can give us someinformation, but they often don't give enough.
So I do a really detailed, again, customizedpanel on every one of my patients.
Yeah, we're big on biomarkers, right?
Knowing your individual biomarkers versus justlike your blood work, your CBCs, right?
Exactly.
That's a little bit important but
It's important.
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I don't think that people get those testedenough in reality.
I think a lot of people will come to me andlike, I haven't gone to a doctor in '20 And I'm
like, okay, well, so we're starting fromscratch.
Step one, yeah.
Step one, we have a little bit of work to do.
I think it's important to understand your ownbody and where you are and where you're
starting from.
And in correlation to how you're feeling andwhat symptoms that you're having as well.
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So that we can, we know where to, to takeeffect and where we need to prioritize our
energy.
That's awesome.
What, walk us through then, because you'reprobably walking us through a little bit of
this right now, but the Zigeti Method.
So you have actually a method that you operate.
Clarify it for me too.
I always try to look at people not as likerobots, but like there's very small
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differentiations of like who we are.
Right?
We have our personalities, which I think areimpacted obviously by like these major
lifestyle changes, But there's a lot ofredundancies in humans that we see.
So maybe that's why you put together like kindof a method together because our habit
structures typically align, that way.
But if you could just dive deep into a littlebit of, you know, what, what you have
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programmed into that method.
Yes, absolutely.
So I find that when someone commits tosomething, they have a much better outcome.
So the spaghetti method is actually mymembership program.
And so with that method, I cover the 12foundations of health.
And so that's gonna include kind of like youalluded to, all the different areas that we
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each need to make sure we're fully optimizingin our own health.
Whether or not that might be an overt, youknow, issue for you that drew you to my office,
we're still gonna work on it.
And so, first one right off the bat is mindset.
So if we don't have our mind right, thennothing matters.
You know, deep dive into your why, like why doyou want to be healthier?
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Why are you going on this journey?
Like what does it mean for you?
What's your ideal outcome?
And then again, we dive into the other pieces.
Sleep is a big one.
So we talk about sleep hygiene and that'sstarting from the moment you wake up and it
goes all the way till the moment you go tosleep.
All the things you can do to optimize yoursleep throughout that timeframe.
Because I don't know about you, but if I don'tget a good night's sleep, you don't even wanna
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talk to me the next Like, I'm a monster.
You'll take care
of it, yeah.
Yeah.
Sleep sleep is just that I I one thing I justhave loved really about sleep is that people
exactly what you were tapping into there isthat people don't understand that, like,
throughout the entire day, you're actuallyprepping for sleep.
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Like, your body is prepping itself for Startsfirst thing
in the morning.
As soon
as your eyes wake your eyes open.
Yeah.
So really, you know, I feel like I didn't havereally a mind body connection, until I started
prioritizing sleep and being like, okay, my mybody is actually telling me something and I
have to listen to it.
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And so then, okay, well then I got super nerdyjust diving into what my circadian rhythm,
like, okay, these delta waves are happening.
My body heat and core index is changing andfluctuating throughout the night.
Like, how do I need to understand that to getthe proper amount of REM to then develop, like,
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more tangible focus and become more optimalduring the day?
Like, I don't like, this is what I also found.
Like, I don't need to work nearly as hard if Ibecome optimal in my flow states Mhmm.
And really understand my, ultradian rhythms oflike, okay, like, I can break now.
Like, it's cool to break now because my body Iprepped it for that flow state and to get
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through that.
But it, that's been a crucial piece in in ouroptimizers program that we have geared towards
obviously men is really understanding that thatsleep narrative of how we can become more
optimal through that process.
So I love that
you focus on that.
And being optimal is getting the mostaccomplished and being the most efficient for
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the least amount of expended energy.
Right?
And that's what we focus on.
How do we get better results with less?
That's what we do with guys.
Like, we we're, dude, you're doing way toomuch.
Mhmm.
You thought you had to do all this stuff.
You're you're killing yourself.
Right?
You're because it we're all day, we're in astate of catabolism.
Our body's, like, like, breaking down torebuild.
Mhmm.
But if you're not sleeping, you're notrebuilding.
Right?
So then you're just breaking down even more.
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Right?
And that's
And that's a that was a badge of honor thatwas, you know, really pushed on me in the
military and corporate America.
Sleep when you're
Is.
Exactly.
How much can you do on the least amount ofsleep?
And who can send the first email in themorning?
And who can send the last email at night?
Like, was almost this competition of how badcan you basically tear your body down, and how
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productive can you still be at the end of theday.
Like it's just such a bizarre mindset to lookback on that.
So I think it's awesome that you really focuson the opportunity and the permission to give
yourself a break, and to really focus on thethings that are gonna rebuild and nourish your
body so that you can perform at the highestlevel.
Because I feel like it doesn't matter how muchmoney you have, if you don't have your health,
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you are basically poor.
Like it just, it doesn't matter.
We had a guy in one of our men's group, sayhe's at, he actually does, have you ever heard
of PEMF therapy?
Wild stuff.
So it's an electronic, it's, more like the TENSmachine.
Okay.
But it's, it basically combines like the TENSwith massaging.
So I had bodywork done yesterday.
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It's, it's pretty incredible.
We'll have to introduce you to Jake.
He's a good guy.
But it's, he said this and it's like reallystuck home.
The best ability is availability.
If I'm not, if I'm, if I'm not available, like,and so many people, and I had to go, like, I
still go through this in ebbs and flows, but,like, some days I'm I'm not available and if I
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don't get that proper sleep, I'm only gonna getout of sleep, I feel like, right now, but I'm
not gonna be available for my wife.
Not gonna be available for my kids.
Exactly.
Which like, if I get to the end of my life andI wasn't available for them, what good was it?
Right.
Right?
At the end the day.
So I think that's crucial.
Can you, you're an author now too.
Like, you're, how do you fit it?
Like, how do you fit it all in?
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Let's be serious.
So you are an author.
Can you, tell us a little bit about your book?
I've heard of the book, and I am absolutelygonna be reading it.
But I would love for you to just kind of briefit, then we're gonna deploy it to the audience,
but it's right in front of us.
Awesome.
Yes.
So this book is actually a three part.
So one part, I elaborate more on my own healthstruggles, because as I was going through my
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journey, I realized that we all have a healthjourney.
And as I mentioned during mine, I felt hopelessand helpless at certain points.
And so I wanted to share what I went through tohopefully provide some hope to someone else
who's also struggling, because I know a lot ofpeople are.
The second part is a lot of education aroundthe quality of nutrition and the importance of
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that in our own health.
And so that's, as I mentioned, with even justthe healthy fat piece, I do dive into healthy
fats.
But also elaborate on the best types of meat toeat, the best types of produce and just the
things to avoid, the things to eat.
So I definitely dive deep into those.
And then I really want to reinvigorate thatpassion and the understanding of the fact that
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if we prepare and make our own food that we'reconsuming, that whole process dives into our
health.
The act of preparing our own food, that prepsour digestive process.
100%.
And that is so missed in this country,purchasing food from DoorDash or, you know, I
don't wanna bad mouth different companies, butif we hand over our food preparation to someone
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else, we're handing over control of our healthto someone else because they're a business.
So unfortunately most businesses aren't goingto use the highest quality ingredients.
They're going use the cheaper oils that areinflammatory to To your
margins by lowering your
Exactly, they're going to add sugar so thatit's addictive so that you buy more.
So the and all these things are detrimental toyour health.
So I put in about a 100 of my favoritedelicious easy to make recipes that have
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ingredients that anybody can find.
I've made them in, you know, all differentstudio kitchens around on the Tampa Bay area
for different TV shows just to show that thesefoods are so easy to make and accessible and
they're delicious and they have enormousimpacts on our health.
And so this is actually my COVID baby.
When the world shut down, I wrote a book.
Had the idea when we were in school, and then,you know, when everything kinda shut down, it
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just really gave me the time and space to toprocess it.
And, I'll be fully transparent.
The first draft I I wrote was garbage.
My publisher basically threw it back at me andtold me to rewrite it because I wrote a, like a
standard operating procedure.
I'm very military minded and I was like, dothis, don't do that.
And they were like, no, we need story.
We need Story is context
with
it as well.
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I found that, I mean, in just being in thiscareer and meeting other docs and stuff, the
best docs who get people the healthiest or getpeople the best results are the ones who had
some kind of struggle and their story is wherethey're coming from.
Right?
They have that empathetic, like, heart forthem.
Right?
Like, anyone can, like, learn something andthen teach it to people and just push it on
others.
But it's like when you feel like your doc'slike, I've been there, right?
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When patients come in here with likeexcruciating nerve pain, I'm like, I had that
man, like my shoulder was fricking jacked and Ihad the worst pain you can imagine.
So I get it, I get what pain feels like, yeah.
And so it's like, then they're like, hey, hehe's he's here with me.
Right?
Versus like, he's gonna tell me what to do.
Exactly.
Yes.
The empathy piece, think, is is again lackingin this country.
And to be able to to say that I've walked a fewsteps in your shoes and I've been there and I
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get it, is a huge difference between me and alot of the other doctors that are out there.
And then I was a patient too, I was a patientfor a decade and a half.
So I went through all the
You saw what didn't work.
The BS that they're going and through rightthat they're pulling their hair out and they're
so frustrated with.
And I'm like, I get it.
That's why that's why I'm doing what I do.
And so okay.
So the recipes, is it mostly because I'm it'spropped open right here and I can see this one
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power kava, kave.
Kave.
Kave.
That's Hungarian.
Coffee drink or something?
That's coffee.
That's how I make my coffee.
I'm gonna have to do that.
Big coffee guy.
It's awesome.
I love coffee.
So coffee is one of the, highest pesticidecontent.
I was about to say moldy.
Yeah.
Moldy.
So you the sourcing, like, right off the bat,first thing in the morning that most people
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drink is coffee or some sort of caffeinatedbeverage.
You wanna, again, make sure that's the highestquality.
So I full full confessions, sometimes I'll I'llnot have breakfast for a period of time and we
can talk talk about intermittent fasting andall those fun things too.
But sometimes I'm just not hungry in themorning.
But I want to have my coffee and I want to makesure that everything I'm consuming is of the
highest quality.
So I put in very high quality grass fed wheycollagen into, not whey collagen, grass fed
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collagen into my coffee.
I put, sun fiber.
So I get six grams of fiber in my coffee.
And then I alternate between either a grass fedbutter or a plant based butter.
But I use that term very loosely becausethere's a lot of bad marketing around plant
based.
This particular brand is organic cashew andcoconut oil.
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And so it's again highest quality.
What's the brand?
It's called, I'm gonna pronounce it wrong,Myokos.
Myokos.
Cool.
And you can get it at Sprouts.
Big butter guy, man.
Think butter's a healthy.
Oh, love butter but sometimes I feel like I'meating a little bit too much animal products so
I like to do like a fluctuation thing.
So like I'll do a month or two of this, monthor two of that and kind of go back forth
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between it to make sure I'm still getting allthe nutrients.
But
And that's a good point to, like, beingintuitive.
Right?
So, like, what you just said is basically theterm is intuitive fasting.
You woke up, you're like, I'm really hungry.
I don't have to force myself to eat today.
Or, like, days where you're man, I'm hungry.
I probably should eat.
Or days where you're like, probably should havesome more carbs today, I kinda killed it
yesterday.
Or like, maybe I should be more protein today,I worked out hard, right?
And so like, being able to be present and sointuitive to your body that you can sense what
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it needs.
Right?
Absolutely.
Most people are like, why am I thirsty all thetime?
Because you're fricking dehydrated.
Like listen, ninety five percent
of Americans.
And I know that the majority of your audienceis men, but when you talk about fasting, I do
wanna touch on that there's a lot of researchout now that women shouldn't fast the same as
men.
And so, yeah, I don't, I don't want to divetoo, too deep into it, but, just to touch on
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the fact that you're mentioning like differentcarbs at different times, different fats at
different times.
So primarily in this, for women who are cyclingin the second phase of their cycle, the luteal
phase, they really shouldn't be doing anyaggressive fasting.
That's when the body is building up hormones.
If you do a significant fast during that periodof time, you're gonna tank your hormones.
Yeah.
Or busy moms, they got three kids, they takethem to school, then they're working and all
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this and then they're fasting.
Let's just add another stress to our body,right?
Fasting is a positive stress but maybe in thattime of life, it's not the best for you.
We need to optimize elsewhere.
I actually, the majority of my female patientsaren't eating enough.
They need more healthy Most
people, yeah.
They need more healthy fats.
They need more high quality protein.
They don't need less.
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And so that's why, again, I'm starting my daywith high quality protein, with healthy fats.
I actually throw a little bit of pink Himalayansea salt in there to make sure I have my
electrolytes going.
And again, I'll pulse in and out differenttypes of organic mushroom powders as well,
different blends of mushrooms to see foradaptogenic health too.
And what you're doing a lot of, right, and kindof on the intro I said, is like flipping the
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narrative to what it should be versus whatwe've been told.
And it's like, why is science always changing?
It should be.
It should be evolving.
But you gotta listen to who's pushing it.
The government says, fat's bad.
Salt is bad.
All this stuff, is it?
Right?
We're starting to find that, like, you needsodium.
Right?
Your body where sodium goes water flows.
Right?
Remember that analogy?
Oh, yeah.
And so it's like, to be hydrated, you do needthose electrolytes.
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Fat's not bad.
Fat's what our brain is made out of.
So if you want a functioning brain, you shouldhave some fat in your in your diet.
And if you're exhausted, you need some fat.
That's right.
It helps fuel fuel our bodies.
100%.
So, yes, follow where are the sources andfollow the money.
Who's paying
for the research?
What's the yeah.
What's the agenda?
It's so sad if people are like, oh, there's astudy behind it.
That's great.
Who paid for the study?
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Yeah.
Yeah.
That's I call those the, like, the study Nazis.
People that are just like, so trust thescience.
It's all about the science.
I'm like, dude, like, a lot of studies can be,like, skewed to fit the result they're trying
Yes. To
To If you really look into the study, you'relike, man, they picked these people from a
specific area.
I know you're big on the blue zones and I amtoo, I agree with it.
But they cherry picked a lot of the data forcertain populations in certain places.
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Right?
And only use these people, whatever.
I'm not gonna go too deep on that.
But again, to your point, do your own research,be your own health advocate, is what you did
and what you do.
Mhmm, absolutely.
And then figure out where your specificimbalances are.
So that's why I do the very customizeddiagnostic testing because you're gonna have a
completely different, if we go for the gut forexample, gut microbiota than Doctor.
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Lesse, totally different.
Even though you guys work together and aroundeach other, totally different.
If you travel internationally, it's gonna bedifferent.
If you have a pet, it's gonna be different.
If you have a spouse or a partner, it's gonnabe totally different.
If you have kids, it's gonna be different.
My identical twin sons probably have differentgut microbiomes and their genetics are
identical.
They came from the same DNA, right?
So like, that goes to show you.
There's studies on that too.
Mhmm.
Two twins, one lives this kind of lifestyle,one lives the other way.
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They're identical twins.
Guts are totally different.
One becomes obese and inflamed, the other is ahealthy person.
It's crazy.
Yep.
That's where genetics used to bescientifically, I'm using lots of air quotes
today, was a crutch that people would use.
They're genetically predisposed
Freaking hate that.
For this.
Yeah.
And then that study really, really blew thatapart and said, no, you have control over so
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many different aspects of your health that youcan, you know, impact every single day.
That's empowering.
Empowering.
That's powerful.
One thing that I think I've like really noticedto myself of having the, mind body connection
was the, my actually, my nutrients like duringthe day of the days that I actually have like a
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workout.
So we worked out this morning, but I also knewI had a podcast.
Right?
And so I wanted to stay light.
Mhmm.
So I'm gonna actually my my I'm gonna load upon protein a little bit later in the day.
And there was this, like, myth for a long time.
I think it actually you know, the show TheBiggest Loser, I think it was this, that Julian
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Oh.
Trainer or whatever.
It was her name, Julian.
I don't know if
that was her name.
But anyways
It's something like that.
She came out with something that you had to getprotein in you forty five minutes after your
workout.
Like, she said that.
Yeah.
That's how they that's they dude, that was tosell protein powder.
That was like to
sell Oh, you gotta get protein right after yourworkout.
Yeah.
Great for freaking everyone working out.
Now it's gonna buy your protein.
Yeah.
Fantastic marketing.
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It's the only way to do it.
Yeah.
Think that's why chicken
breast You're isn't not gonna get any gains ifyou don't.
Right?
Yeah.
You don't.
You need a forty five within forty five minutesof your workout.
But I mean, the reality is that's not true.
Your body can utilize it whenever, wherever.
And I for my understanding, and I think it'ssomething that you educated me on, was, it's in
the cadence of a really a week that you couldmeasure what your total protein I do it daily,
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but what your protein intake is by the week.
Daily tends to be easier because then you'redividing by seven, like, over a week.
But Yeah.
It it's there's, like, I think back and forthresearch too, but they show that, like, by
getting like, you can have a day that's less.
Right?
Maybe you're not as optimal on your yourprotein or you're a little underfed that day,
but then the rest of the days are eitheroptimal or above.
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Maybe it kinda averages out over the span of aweek.
And so, you know, not beating yourself up ifyou're like, man, I didn't hit my goal today.
Right?
Kinda what we're talking about with our guys inour cohort with optimizers.
Like, one guy was like, I didn't get my proteingoal in today, but yesterday I overdid it.
I'm like, it's cool, man.
Think you're gonna be okay.
You're not
going into, like, the perfectionist mindset.
Yeah.
And that's a really good thing to say, let's doprogress.
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Let's not go for perfection because that'sanother stressor.
That's right.
Yeah.
And you're overwhelmed and you quit.
Exactly.
I wanna talk about this because it's somethingthat I think is important and I think that you
really build on in your book as well.
But it is that portion between men and womenthat obviously as we age, our protein intake
goes down from my understanding as far as wherelike data says, right?
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But it should go up.
And it should go up technically.
But, like for me specifically, I wanted to makesure, you know, I was depleted in glycative
supply.
So I actually had a couple of nudes before theshow Mhmm.
So that I could be well optimized for you.
So
Guys, I didn't get mine.
We need we need to hook you up.
We do that. I
I do I have I have an elk protein mac andcheese meal that I'm gonna, be eating later in
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the day.
But I knew that would like, that, that wouldjust legitimately, that would like slow me
down.
So I like, I wanted to be like well optimizedgetting my protein intake.
Is that, is that something like you, you'rereally pushing on?
I know you focus on fats too, but like thatprotein intake, pushing kind of the protein,
that's what we're focusing on with our guys andour optimi, we wanna focus on fats and carbs,
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absolutely we wanna focus on those.
But proportionally we want, we have a proteintarget for them.
And then we really, those days that they'reobviously working out, I tend to focus a little
bit more on my carbohydrates because I want tomake sure like I'm maintaining my glycogen
supply still pretty sharp.
And then I'll get my protein in.
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On the days I like, actually am not workingout, which I've increased that a little bit, I
focus, tend to focus on a little bit heaviermeals, throughout the day.
But, can you talk a little bit just aboutprotein, specifically and like how imperative
that is kind of for the long term andlongevity?
I like to just take a step back and I look liketo just focus on foundational four.
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So that's high quality protein, healthy fat,plant based fiber, and then something green or
colorful.
So I try to keep it as simple as possiblebecause I think people get super overwhelmed
with, am I counting my macros?
Am I getting this?
Am I getting that?
So I try to keep it simple because I don'twanna add more stress.
You're talking like per meal.
You're like in the in the Per meal,
hit per the snack.
Like, let's get those four.
Got it.
Every time you eat, let's get those four in.
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And then specifically to protein, so if you'regetting all four of those in every meal and
snack, like you're gonna cover the bases.
And I like the week kinda averaging it out, soyou're not stressing yourself every single day.
Like, oh, I missed my mark.
I missed my mark.
But specifically to protein, I I think thequality is where we need to go.
So highest quality, what is that?
That's grass fed red meat, including organs.
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I am a fan of eating organs.
Liver baby, let's Liver,
yes.
Highest Yes, yes, yes.
Nutrient bioavailable It's not
It's not the valid for me.
I don't.
But Discussions with
this with one of our instructors in school with
the tree.
Yeah, yeah.
He was like, it's a filter, filters all thetoxins, why would you wanna eat that?
I'm like,
I don't know bro.
Scooch and tons.
Yeah, yeah.
So if you don't wanna eat it, there's obviouslysome high quality capsule forms can get it in
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as well.
So that's for red meat.
And then any type of poultry, eggs, organic.
There's a lot of marketing around free range.
And I just wanna touch on what that meansreally quickly.
So my husband and I travel a lot in The US andinternationally as well.
We have an Airstream here, and we stay on farmsand different things.
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And I've talked with farmers, and they'veshowed me the facilities of their free range
chickens.
And it literally if they have this tiny littlespace where they put their little leg out, that
means free range.
If the chicken's not in a box, it's free range
essentially.
Well, there's cage free Okay.
And then there's free range.
So cage free means they're not in theindividual little They can actually move their
body.
Their body.
But it doesn't mean that they're you know, wehave I have this image of chickens running in a
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field and, you know, happy chickens out in the
pasture raised.
Right?
Pasture That would be pasture raised.
So organic pasture raised would be the highest.
Pinnacle.
Yep.
And those yolks are freaking orange.
Oh, When you get an organic pasture raisedbecause they're eating worms, they're eating
grubs, like they're eating like real stuff.
They're eating what they are
They're getting a
lot of omegas into there and so that that yolk,man.
Yeah.
So they're gonna be raw.
They're gonna be healthier which means what youconsume is gonna be healthier.
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You're eating it raw?
I eat raw three raw eggs every morning.
Okay.
Alright.
Sometimes at night too.
Alright.
Yeah.
That's why your beard orange.
Right?
That's right, baby.
Let's go.
And then for any type of seafood wild caught.
So we could dive into hours discussion on farmraised seafood.
Just if it says farm raised, just don't eat it.
It is not good for your health.
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Those creatures are unfortunately fed dietsthat are natural to them.
The agriculture industry is the highestconsumer of prescription medications in this
country.
So let that kinda sink in for a second.
Wow.
Well, I heard something recently about fibertoo and I had a hack with my protein.
So I put lion's mane on all of it.
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I just saw like basically the mushrooms.
I think you've seen me do it.
I'll just put it, I'll just put it over top tojust get that protein into or I get the fiber
intake.
My understanding on like fiber, like we aresignificantly deficient from just a, or at a
global scale of Insanely deficient, yes.
Fibers in our diet.
And like, an adequate amount of fiber on adaily basis is 20 grams.
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A sufficient is 60.
Am I wrong on that?
Well, the the recommendation is kind of in themiddle of that.
So 30 to 40 grams.
So I think you're you're hitting each side ofit.
Okay.
You know, we alluded to the blue zones earlier,so I will touch on a little bit of that because
I do, follow what doing.
Because I feel like they have some greatnuggets to share.
For sure, yeah.
And what they've studied is the longest, livingcommunities that are living optimal life or
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health span, not just lifespan, which is superimportant.
Critical.
Critical.
Is the fact that they're consuming sixty,seventy, 80 grams of plant based fiber a day,
which is just mind blowing.
That's a lot of fiber.
And that fills you up too, right?
So that keeps you satiated, you're not gonnasnack and binge.
And actually, a higher fiber, plant based fiberdiet addresses four of the top 10 killers in
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The US.
That's metabolic diseases, strokes, heart,disease, and cancer risk.
Yeah.
All, you know, majorly decreased when you areconsuming enough plant based fiber.
Now, cautionary.
Don't run out and grab a tub of Metamucilbecause that's not gonna do the That's
processed.
No, it's highly processed.
We're talking about plants.
We're talking about legumes.
One of my favorites is chickpeas.
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So a cup of chickpeas, that's twelve, fifteengrams of plant based fiber right off the bat.
And that's protein too.
And plant based protein.
It's amazing.
I actually will dump some into, the blenderfirst when I make a smoothie because it doesn't
add any taste to
it.
Nice.
And it gives it a little bit more like thickensit up a little bit and you get the plant based
fiber and protein right there right off thebat.
I'm gonna do that.
I've never heard of that before.
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You're welcome.
Here we go.
I hope you learned something new today.
That's right.
And I think a lot of the the summary of a lotof what we're talking about is, like, optimal
versus, like, adequate.
You said the word adequate.
You go to your doctor, like, let's, circle backto the beginning when you told your story.
Right?
Oh, you're good.
Dude, I feel lousy.
Well, know, if the range is a 100 is is 20 atthe bottom and a 100 at the top and you're at
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21, you're within range.
You're adequate, baby.
You're good.
Dude, you're one away from being freaking outof range.
Right?
So, like, that's functional medicine is like,no, we wanna get that to the top of the top,
baby.
And that's hormones, that's, you know, allmarkers.
Right?
We don't wanna just be existing.
Totally different because the lab ranges weredefined based on a sick population because
that's who was in the hospital.
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And they change them.
And they change
them.
As we get sicker as a population, they're like,well, let's just lower the standard so that
people can, you know, fit in it still or elsewe have to address the fact that everyone's
dying and sick.
Right?
And we can medicate them sooner.
Boom.
That's that's what I've been, that's what Iask.
I I've actually asked this quite often latelywas I'm, like, point blank, I'm, I don't mean
to be, like, just extremely forward with you,but since when do you wanna be average?
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Like, don't you wanna be, like, above averageor optimal?
Like, said no one ever.
Like, hey.
You wanna do you wanna be average in life?
I just wanna get by.
Said no one ever.
Like so if you ask that question, they're like,well, you actually think about it.
Didn't wanna be average.
You know what I I called out my dad the otherday.
I'm like, I I really poor dad.
But, like, I'm like, look, back end of yourlife, I I love, like, my parents immeasurably.
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And that so I I say it in an act of love, but,again, I'm, like, pretty forward.
But I'm like, do you wanna finish or do do youjust wanna finish or do you wanna finish well?
And so I think there's two separations there.
Like, if you're just looking to finish, like,this retirement life, sit down, eat a bag of
potato chips, and watch some Hallmark movies,like, I wouldn't call that finishing well, bro.
So I don't mean to call you out, dad, but I'mstill calling you out.
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Oh, I
looked right at him.
And, dead in the eyes, dad.
Dead in the eyes.
But the reality is that it's like I, no matterwhat age, I don't know when God's gonna call me
home, but I don't wanna be average.
Like, and that's why we're diving into thisfield of like, what does it mean to be
optimized?
And if it means putting a little more fiber inyour diet, like as a simple measure, like if
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there's one action you can take today of likeputting some chickpeas in a blender, how hard
is that?
Like it's, you know, some really cool thingsthat you can just take away that create a
different narrative for your life and how youfinish it well.
I don't know.
I mean, fully believe that we were meant tothrive, not just survive.
And I feel like a lot of people are justscraping by and surviving.
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And there are simple things like you mentioned,little hacks that we can do every day to just
move that needle a little bit and get us tothat thriving so we can prosper, so we can live
a life we love.
I love that.
What's coming up for you?
Anything new in the works?
Another book or TV.
Yeah, you've been all over TV and stuff.
I actually have another episode that, we justrecorded last week, an actual entire cooking
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show, which I'm super excited about, which I'venever So done that was
that work?
That's on Fox thirteen.
Fox thirteen.
That's awesome.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Hope you'll be able
to When it's gonna be?
Or do you know yet?
Yeah.
This should air on the twenty seventh.
So I don't know when this episode's gonna air,but that's coming out the twenty seventh.
And then I am doing a digestive detectiveprogram where as a group, we dive into our
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microbiome.
And we do a stool test and we dive into all theimbalances within our body and things that we
can do to optimize that.
We do that, we don't collectively poop as agroup, but I do call it.
Poop poop.
You poop at home, we discuss the results as agroup.
Then I make customized recommendations based onthat.
So I have another session of that coming uplaunching March.
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And then just some amazing educationalopportunities to just share and empower and
hopefully take the message international thisyear too.
Definitely gonna bring you back on so we canget like in in-depth on a lot of the stuff we
talked about today.
Man, if you if you're listening and you gotsome value out of this show, which if you
didn't then, I don't know, maybe you're deaf, Idon't know, right?
(47:44):
But like, check out doctor Anya.
Where can they find you online and Instagramand and kinda give us where we can look you up?
Yeah.
My Instagram is doctor Anya Segeti.
So fun being able to spell that, but s z I g et I.
I'm sure we'll we'll link that in the shownotes.
Yep.
It's probably the best place.
I have an amazing person that's helping me outwith that just to get the message out with that
because I'm terrible with social media andshe's amazing.
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That's probably the best best avenue.
You're like going into grocery stores andcalling out like crappy food and I
I did a whole thing recently.
And and I love to hear where where people arehaving questions so that I can make sure that
I'm getting the content out that people want.
And actually, you're inspiring me.
I've I've had several people ask me to start apodcast so I'm looking into
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that.
Awesome.
So hopefully, I'll put this on myself to launchthat in the next month.
It's a great platform for just spreading thisknowledge, man, and this right here.
Right?
And if you obviously listen to this, go get YouCan't Outrun Your Fork, the book here about how
nutrition is, I mean, pivotal.
Yeah.
Great book.
Tons of recipes.
I'm about to go make some of that power kavehright now, man.
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Well, that's awesome.
So we have I got one last question, and we'llwrap up.
I ask this every guest we have.
You have your 12 things that you talked about,the 12 kinda optimized things.
We have six pillars.
Fuel, movement, sleep, mind, purpose, andspirit.
And so we believe that to live full fueled, ifyou have all these pillars optimized, you are
full fueled.
What does living full fueled look like for AnyaSageti?
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That is amazing.
I mean, that that covers into the majority ofof what I cover as well in the Sagetti Method.
So for me, that is being present.
That is being there showing up a 100% formyself, for my husband, for my miniature
dachshund Milo, who travels everywhere with usincluding Europe twice.
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And if I'm not showing up a 110% for myself,then I can't be there to help anyone else
because you can't pour from an empty vessel.
I tried for years and it's not possible.
So that's making sure that, you know, I'mstarting my day with sunlight.
I'm getting fresh water.
My nutrition's on point.
I'm taking time for mindfulness.
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I do a lot of yoga meditation that just reallyhelps to clear my mind and keep me balanced.
I have a personal relationship with with theLord and so that that helps guide my purpose.
And I really feel like he has, you know, tookme on this journey, and I'm his vessel to be
able to help empower others.
And so living through that just just reallygives me goosebumps and just really just fuels
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me every day.
Smash that answer.
That was amazing.
Anya Sageti is full fuel to the brim, dude.
Full fuel.
Well, thank you so much for coming on the show.
It has been an extreme pleasure.
It really has.
Thank you so much.
Awesome.
Healthy Coated listeners, thank you so much fortuning in to today's episode.
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Again, I am your host, Doctor.
Alessi.
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