May 21, 2025 • 31 mins
https://www.youtube.com/@AHealthyAlternative
Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/a.healthy.alternative/
https://www.ahawellnessacademy.com/The-DR96-blitz
Chris James, founder of A Healthy Alternative, shares his transformative journey of losing 90 pounds and reversing chronic health conditions through fasting and natural approaches to health. He reveals how fasting can be used as a fundamental therapy for weight loss, disease reversal, and emotional healing.
• Fasting as a multi-layered healing approach that promotes hormonal regulation, stem cell production, and prevents loose skin during rapid weight loss
• Long-term fasting (beyond 10 days) can trigger emotional and mental detox, releasing stored trauma and balancing energetic states
• Proper preparation before fasting is crucial, including opening elimination pathways and gradually transitioning to higher water content foods
• The liver is the master detoxification organ, and using castor oil packs can help break up sludge and improve liver function
• Regular hydration and eating water-rich foods like cucumbers are essential for proper elimination
• Community support dramatically increases success with fasting and dietary changes
• The body naturally seeks homeostasis—our job is simply to remove obstacles in its way
For a free seven-day fasting prep guide that can help you lose 7-12 pounds, find Chris on Instagram @ahealthyalternative and send him a DM asking for the prep guide.
Sponsor Affiliates
Empowering Wellness Through Evidence-Based Education
Get YOUR Own
Joburg Protein Snacks
Discount Code: Damaris15 Or Damaris18
Feeling need to Lose Weight & Become metabolically Healthy
GET METABOLIC COURSE GLP 1 REseT
This course is designed for individuals looking to optimize their metabolic health through integrative and functional medicine approaches. Whether you're on a GLP-1 medication or seeking natural ways to enhance your metabolic function, this course provides actionable steps, expert insights, and a personalized roadmap sustainable wellness.
Are you feeling stressed, tired, or Metabolism imbalanced?
Take advantage of our free mindful steps to help improve your well-being.
ENJOY ONE OF our Books
Mindful Ways Health Wealth & Life
https://stan.store/Mindfullyintegrative
Join Yearly membership ALL IN O...
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hi, how are you?
This is Dr Demarex MariaGrossman, and this is the
Mindfully Integrative Show, andtoday we have a wonderful guest.
His name is Chris James.
He has a wealth of knowledge inhe calls his group health
alternative health as well, andtalking about losing weight on
an extreme level I believe hehas said that it's about a
hundred pounds that he has losthimself and others that he has
(00:25):
helped do this and other ways ofjust kind of thinking outside
the box, and that's the way Ithink.
So I really love that he'sgoing to be on the show and to
kind of give you anotherperspective on your health.
So thanks so much, Chris, forbeing on the show and kind of
tell everyone a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, thank you so much for having me.
And yeah, so I started ahealthy alternative about eight
years ago, maybe eight and ahalf years ago, so we're coming
up on our ninth year.
It's pretty exciting.
And the reason why I createdthe platform was because I found
that, you know, I had healthissues, as many people do.
(01:02):
One of the main issues I hadwas like an infection, and it
was an infection in my urethra,so it felt like it was like an
itch you couldn't scratch.
And, of course, I got all thetesting done.
I mean, they gave me all thetests, they gave me all the
drugs.
I remember I went to aspecialist and the specialist
(01:24):
was every two weeks giving me adifferent drug and it would help
a little bit with theirritation and then it would
come right back.
And I remember him saying onthe last visit he was like, hey,
you know what?
Maybe it's dietary what you'redealing with.
And at the time I had alreadybeen researching, you know
dietary strategy and you knowjust alternative health, and it
(01:45):
just clicked when he said thatit clicked and I decided to dive
feet first into alternativehealth.
I actually come from abackground where my grandmother,
at the age of 60, decided tochange all of her wellness
practices.
She was on the traditionalstandard, you know medical side
of things, right.
And then she just went allhealthy, all natural, all
(02:08):
wellness, and she startedteaching those things to me very
young.
But I never tapped into ituntil I started to get sick
myself, right.
And so I created the brand andnow we've got a huge community.
We help people lose weight,reverse disease naturally.
We teach them how to you knowhow to play with their diets,
(02:29):
figure out what makes sense forthem, and it's really successful
.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
What have you for yourself?
You said you lost around 100pounds.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I lost about 90 pounds.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
That's a lot.
That's a lot.
I lost about 70, you know, butit was a combination of things.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's a lot.
I lost about 70, you know, butit was a combination of things.
So what was your?
I mean, what was one of yourmost important key factors in
that weight loss?
Fasting to lose the weight.
And then the second factorwould be I used a liver and
gallbladder flushes to keep theweight off, but fasting has
become a tool that I useholistically for pretty much
(03:15):
everything.
I believe that fasting is one ofthose things that you can use
to help with whatever elementyou have, whether it's weight
loss or even type 2 diabetes.
With whatever element you have,whether it's weight loss or even
type 2 diabetes.
Even though I don't look at itas a cure-all, it's a
fundamental therapy that you canuse to uplift the body
holistically.
(03:35):
You're going to get betterhormonal regulation, you're
going to get stem cellproduction, you're going to get
a more younger, youthfulappearance, the lines of your
skin smooth out, and then, whenyou're talking about losing 100
pounds, one of the main thingspeople are afraid of is loose
skin.
So we do teach what I considerrapid weight loss techniques,
(04:00):
but they're non-conventional.
So it's very healthy because weallow the body to determine how
quickly the weight comes off,and what we do is, we support
the body through fasting andopening up the elimination
pathways so that you could getthe benefit that the body wants
to move towards homeostasis.
And so what I learned throughmy personal experience and also,
(04:23):
I hope, I helped my twobrothers, my sister, even my mom
, and then we went on to helpyou know other people but we
learned that with with long termfasting, you can actually tap
(04:44):
into deep autophagy where thebody will start to repair you
know the damage and a lot ofthat extra loose skin and stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The body will eat it up.
Yeah, yeah, what, um, what'syour longest fast that you've
had?
Like I was telling you, I do12s and 16s and 24 hours, but I
don't really do long ones.
I've only done like a three dayone and but what's your, what's
your uh fast?
What kind of how many days?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So my longest water only, I think, was 13 days, and
then I did what I call a hybridfast for 30, for 30 days.
So that's where I did dryfasting water fasting and juice
fasting wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah that one that was probably
challenging it's, it's, it'schallenging but also spiritually
good, like I feel.
Like that some people tell methey, you know, know, when they
get to another level, then theyare able to like it becomes.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
What I've learned about fasting is that there's
different, it's like an onion,so you can.
You can peel back that firstlayer, and that first layer is
incredible.
You can get, um, you know,hormone, hormonal regulation.
You can get um, better, betterinsulin.
Um, you know, you hormonalregulation you can get better
insulin, you could reduceinsulin resistance, you can lose
(05:56):
lots of weight.
You can get human growth hormoneStem cells.
It's great.
The first layer is great.
When you get to the secondlayer, you start getting to this
emotional or this mental detoxwhere you know we hold trauma
from childhood or just fromdifferent experiences we have,
and we typically look at talktherapy as like the, the gold
standard for dealing with thattype of stuff.
(06:17):
But I learned that throughlong-term fasting the body will
naturally release energy.
So I noticed, around 10 daysyou'll start to get like an
emotional and a mental detox,and so the way it looks is
you'll start crying for noreason, or you'll feel angry for
no reason, or you'll feelreally happy for seemingly no
(06:39):
reason.
And I find that what that'sdoing is the body is balancing
the energetic state and Iactually so.
I told you that I had aninfection and that was one of
the main reasons why I startedfasting.
It really wasn't for weightloss.
That came and I didn't evenrealize that I was going to lose
that much weight.
But another thing was I wasdepressed, impressed.
(07:01):
I broke up with my girlfriendat the time.
I broke up with her six yearsprior, but this was like the one
that got away.
This was like the one that Ithought we were going to get
back together and get marriedand all of that.
And so there was a lot ofemotional energy entangled in
that and it was depressing meand I didn't realize it and I
(07:24):
couldn't build healthyrelationships with new women,
and so I started approachingfasting originally for that, and
then I found out that after dayeight, going into day 12 or so,
that my depression started tolift naturally.
I just felt so good and I feltso clear.
(07:46):
And it's like this.
I've been dealing with this forsix years.
You know it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I feel like I mean I don't do as long as fast that
you have, but I will fast in thesense of what I put into my
body.
If it it may not be to anextreme of like zero, but sugar
in itself.
If, like you know, you take alot of that junk out, that in
itself like changes theperspective and then putting it
into a fast and it's done safely, I mean I think that is quite
(08:14):
effective.
And I think what you're sayingin the longterm, if people can
do it, you know, smartly, and ifthey feel you know, I think the
main things that come up righthere is like nutrient
deficiencies, but I mean I thinkthat those can be eliminated at
some point if you put goodstuff back in.
What do you think?
Because you obviously areguiding a lot of these
individuals.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Right.
So that's that's obviously amajor concern and I think that
number one preparation isextremely important.
So earlier, you know, I talkeda little bit about when you
start fasting, you want to openup your elimination pathways
because you have to imagine thebody's going to release toxins.
So one thing that you canexperience is what we call
(08:57):
fasting detox symptoms and thelong-term fasting those detox
symptoms can get more intense.
So by prepping we usually do aweek-long prep where we it's a
gradient we take you from like astandard American diet, we
reduce the frequency that youeat, we increase the high water
content foods because you gotta,you have to hydrate well in
(09:19):
order to do fasting properly, tomove the toxins out of the
system.
And and then we take you off ofsolid food for a short duration
of time and we do what we calljuice feasting and it's where
you take in your daily caloricintake in juice format and it
helps the body kind of get usedto getting nutrition from liquid
(09:42):
versus dense solids and thenalso like, if you're a coffee
drinker, things of that natureit helps you begin weaning off
of that, because that can bevery difficult.
You know fasting and you knowlike coming off of a caffeine
withdrawal, and so by doing thatpreparation, it makes going
into the fast easier Now, as itrelates to like nutrition.
(10:05):
So the cool thing about fastingis, you know, just imagine your
system is really gunked up.
There's mucus, there'sinflammation, there's synthetic
material in your system, soyou're beginning to clean that.
Clean that up Well, it reallymakes the body ready to receive
nutrition.
So a lot of people havenutrient deficiencies even
though they're eating every day,right?
Well, with this technique, youcan clean the system up and you
(10:29):
can prime the body to absorbnutrition more efficiently.
So now, when you start to eat,you do what's called a refeed,
you do intentional eating afteryour fast, and then the body
will absorb nutrients better.
And, of course, we alsorecommend, you know, getting out
in the sun.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Oh, the normal lifestyle measurements like a
sun, sleep, hydration.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Exactly when you do all of these things together, it
makes fasting extremely safe.
It's more than safe, it'shyper-beneficial.
And then, of course, we sayyou're going to build your
fasting muscles, so we don'tstart you off with 13 day, 20
day fast.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, I'd love you to talk about the elimination
pathway, because I've learnedthat in integrative health and
in functional medicine, I'mintegrated, like the elimination
pathway you know, with theliver and the gut, and I'd love
you to just take a brief momentof what that is so that someone
can understand, because I thinkpeople think that if they just
drink and juice, then they'refine and then they don't realize
that the like what exactlyyou're doing for your body,
(11:33):
cause, like you said, you weretalking about a detox of sorts
and sometimes people just don'tunderstand that and I feel like
it really needs to be likehighlighted you know as much as
you can, you don't have to goyour full thing, cause I want
people to reach.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah, Well, you know the liver.
It's very common now that,whether you drink or not,
whether you're young or old,that you have a fatty liver Like
it's a super common thing,right.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
It doesn't have to be drink, it's food.
It's like junk.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It's the junk food.
And the liver is extremelyimportant.
I look at it as the masterdetoxification organ for the
body.
It's the center of your immunesystem, and what happens is the
liver has all these littlespider web, kind of like tunnels
and pathways, that get allblocked up.
Mucus, bile, sludge just gunk,it gets all gunked up, and so
(12:28):
when the liver starts to becomelow functioning, well, you're
not absorbing properly, you'renot, you're not, um, you're not,
you're not eliminating properly, and so, um, it's important to
focus on the liver.
That's one of the areas that we, that we really focus heavy on,
and it's super simple.
Like, one of the ways that youcan, you know, help the liver is
(12:49):
by doing a castor pack, whereyou do a castor oil pack.
You know, castor oil is a deeppenetrating oil.
It has the ability to kind ofgo into those cavities in the
liver, those small littletunnels.
It'll break up the sludge andthen the liver will upregulate
and you'll get betterfunctionality, you get better
(13:10):
absorption out of it.
I think that's like the bestplace to start.
Obviously, the gut is extremelyimportant but you know, through
fasting the gut does begin ahealing process Most of us have
it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
That makes a lot of sense.
I mean the, uh, the castor pack.
Are you saying orally or areyou taking um topically, putting
the castor pack that eventuallywill absorb in this?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Right.
So so, as you've got likehexane-free castor oil, it's
going to come in a glass jar.
You can take it orally, but I'mtalking about using it above
the liver.
So you put it on a cloth it'skind of like a cloth pad and you
wrap it around the liver andyou put like maybe a tablespoon
of it on the castor pack and youfall asleep and it'll penetrate
(13:53):
into the skin, into the liver.
If you take it by mouth, it'sgreat, but it acts more like a
laxative, and so if you, if youknow and that's that's great too
I mean, people don't have goodbowel movements.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Oh yeah, oh my God, I just had a patient the other
day, just come over.
I'm like right day, I mean Iwish people.
Even I wish people would know.
I mean, you're gonna tell themtoo um detoxification is pooping
, partially like that for sureyou know what I mean.
Like I'm like, you know, it'salmost like people don't want to
talk about it, but it's likethat is part of the process here
(14:29):
, you know it's a huge part ofit yeah, so I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I'll tell you my story.
My, my sister, has terrible, um, bowels, terrible.
I went to go visit her when Ivery first started teaching you
know these, these alternativemethods, and I was sitting down,
I'm you know, you know, talking.
Hey, when's the last time youhad a bowel movement?
Oh yes, been probably likealmost four days and I and my
(14:55):
jaw the test that's how I feelabout it.
Like, really, four is a lotthat's insane and I asked her
what's the longest you'll gowithout having a bath?
She said she'll go a weeksometimes I.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I've heard I've had patients and friends tell me
that, and I and I'm the same way.
I'm like what, how?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
is that possible.
I don't know Cause you'reeating every day, Right, so well
, this is great.
So if, if someone out there, ifyou're not having a bowel
movement every day, you knowyou've got a problem you've got
to, you've got to work on now.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
What is something right?
We haven't even talked aboutright, yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Right, right, like that, that's in general, like
you would change so much aboutyour health just by having
regular bowel movements.
Now what's one really good wayto to attack that is hydration,
lubricated well, but alsogetting water into the cells.
(15:53):
If your cells are reallyinflamed, if your gut is
inflamed, yeah, your bowelsaren't going to move well.
So one thing I recommend ishaving a glass of water, usually
cold, steeped with like lemonor lime, overnight and you just
drink that first thing in themorning before you start your
daily habit.
12, 16 ounces, whatever morningbefore you start your daily
(16:14):
habit.
You know, 12, 16 ounces,whatever.
That will aid tremendously.
But it's important to hydratethroughout the day, right?
Not just depend on that.
I'm sure you know this.
Most people drink like a 16ounce bottle of water maybe a
day.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Oh, for real.
For real, I mean like my, likemy gauge is at a minimum half
your body weight would be greatin ounces.
But for me to even get them todo like two water bottle, like
you said, like 16 to 20, is likepushing it for some.
What I'd like, at least halftheir body weight.
But that is like me, that's measking for, like the world.
(16:48):
So maybe 20 to 32 ounces I'llget.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, yeah and it's, and then and then it's not even
consistent, but it's like we'reeating chips which are
dehydrating.
We're drinking coffee which isdehydrating.
You know, it's like we have allof these habits we're drying
ourselves out, we're notdrinking water, we're not eating
our water.
That's my big thing.
It's like, if you havehydration issues, focus on
(17:13):
eating your water.
Cucumbers are amazing sourcesof water.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That's a great point.
That's a great point, sensibleand sensible losses of why, when
you're taking in what your bodyneeds and it's like what is,
are you yourself I didn't askthis before Are you yourself a
vegetarian or a vegan, or or doyou still eat proteins?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
So I don't eat.
I don't eat meat, but I do likeI do a.
I do what I call alkaline forthe most part.
So there's certain fruits andvegetables that I eat.
I usually make everything fromscratch.
I do eat out still, and I dostill have cheese from time to
time, but what I've done is I'vereduced my dairy tremendously,
(17:53):
like I used to eat it prettymuch every day, and now it's
like sometimes I order a saladand I forget there's cheese.
You know it comes on the saladbecause they put cheese on
everything oh yeah, they do yeahyeah, unless you but to to your
point here, like I don't, Idon't think that meat is the is
the devil.
I think that if you source yourmeat well, I usually recommend,
(18:16):
if people want to do meatcarnivore or whatever, source
your meat well, make sure thatyou're getting high quality meat
.
I still personally don'trecommend eating a ton of meat.
That's just my personalrecommendation.
But people do what they feel isbest for them.
But if you do that, you getbetter quality.
Before I stopped eating meat, Iget better quality.
Like before I stopped eatingmeat, I went to a local farm.
(18:36):
I'm here in Texas.
I went to a local organicfarmer.
I bought a whole bunch of meatand over the course of a year
you know, I had in my deepfreezer, I'd eat that meat and I
noticed it cooked differently,it tastes different and it
digested differently.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, so that I mean that makes sense because it's
it's high quality and whatyou're putting in, I, I, you
know, I know there's differenttakes on vegan versus carnivore
when it comes to your you knowthe way your health is, so I
think it varies for me with that.
I don't think that's a one sizefits all um.
I've personally seen.
But I do think your take on howpeople have to detox and change
(19:15):
their perspective on what isgoing into their body, that is
like paramount, like that makesso much sense.
Um, because I think that, uh,people are just misguided or
they're just not, like I don'tknow if it's just they're afraid
or just you know we're, sothere's so much readily
available junk or crap and thenpeople just don't know what to
(19:39):
do, like to make their life alittle bit easier.
So, on your, with your groupand your support group, do you
give people a lot of recipes andoptions and community to
connect with you to you know tohelp and guide them into
different pathways?
You know and help and guidethem into different pathways.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
So what we do is I think we're the only group that
does this we host large fasts,we have these huge challenges.
So I have a team of coaches andwe do live coaching.
We have core content so you candigest that on your own time,
where we'll kind of teach youmore in depth about the process,
(20:15):
the fasting, and then, yeah,we'll go into.
You know what you need to beeating on during the preparation
, what do you need to be eatingduring the refeed, and what we
typically do are rolling fast.
So we'll have, you know, aperiod of time you know whether
it's two days or three dayswhere we'll do a type of fast
and then we'll have a period oftime in between where we'll do a
refeed and then we'll go backinto fasting and we'll do that
(20:38):
over the course of a couple ofweeks.
And what it does is it givesyou the benefit of fasting, it
gives you a nice break inbetween, so you're not pushing
yourself too hard, but it alsogives you an opportunity to
interact with different foods sothat you can learn, because you
know a lot of people.
The reason they struggle withwhat to eat is because they eat
for taste Right, and I don'thave a problem with that.
(21:00):
I think we should enjoy what weeat, but a lot of us have been
programmed to think that eatinghealthy is boring or it's bland
or it's whatever, and so I wantto encourage people hey, let's
try this recipe, no-transcript.
(21:35):
Your body will digest well andso it makes it so much easier to
you know.
Move forward towards health.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
That's really no, I think that's a great point,
cause then, you know, people arelike oh, I'm so used to the
salty, the sweet or the I don'tknow whatever the, you know
umami flavors that they want,and they're not realizing that
you know you can still get thoseoptions on the even.
For me, I might.
You know, I could always take apointer here and there.
I mean, you're blessed.
I've had to change an overhaula lot of things and I, you know,
(22:05):
I feel like I tell people it'sa lifelong thing, you know, and
it's not something that justgoes away.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
But sometimes people are always like oh, you know
interesting thing about thatwhen I talked about some of the
layers of fasting one of thethings that happened when you
perform longer fast is you startto discard your cravings.
So probably.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I wasn't that many days, but you are so right.
You're sugar right and you'resalt and you're whatever.
I have to have a hamburger, Ihave to have a drink, whatever
people think it was a candy barfor me, right, right.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And so so, the longer you fast the body, start the
chemical constituent.
You remember the saying you arewith what you eat, right.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
So the chemical constituents of the food
products that we're eating.
They stay with us, they'reimparted into our blood and then
, when you start fasting, you'llexperience these enormous
cravings, even for foods youhaven't eaten for years.
I was experiencing cravings forSloppy Joe my mom used to make
me Sloppy Joe when I wasadolescent and so when you fast,
(23:11):
you start to let that stuff goand you can actually eliminate
cravings.
And what that does is it makesit easier for you to change your
habits.
You can still reabsorb thosefoods if you continue eating
them, right, but you know thatmental thing that makes you, oh,
I got to have this.
You can discard that and itmakes it much easier to change
(23:32):
how you eat.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I could not agree more with what you're saying.
I feel like there's anadditional component to this and
obviously, obviously you have acommunity of us that
behaviorally they get past rightthe craving.
How can you reel them back in,you know?
Or is it the community itselfthat is helping along and guide,
or coaches and groups helpingguide along, or some of these
(23:56):
need more assistance.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
The the incredible.
So we have a platform.
It's called AHA Communities.
It's kind of like our ownlittle personal Facebook and
within that group we have what'scalled the PAC calls.
So they're peer accountabilitycalls.
So this is literally people inthe community.
It was like, hey, we want tovolunteer to help other people.
(24:20):
Community is so important.
When I did my first fast, I didit with my brother.
Had I not done it with mybrother, I don't know if I would
have lasted as long, becauseyou get scared, you get nervous,
you don't know what's going on.
But when other people arehaving similar experiences or
they can convey what theyexperienced, it kind of puts you
at ease.
When you're trying to changeyour diet and your family at
(24:44):
home is like, nah, I'm going tokeep eating Doritos and whatever
, and you feel alone.
You have a community.
That's like, well, I'mexperiencing the same thing.
And then what's really cool issometimes they get together in
real life.
So they meet online and theyhave these little groups.
They get together.
They go for walks and they havethese little groups.
They get together, they go forwalks, they go to different
restaurants, they cook together,and so that community helps you
(25:06):
stay on track.
It's just like anything else.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
If you want to learn how to be a pilot, you probably
should spend time with pilotsright, the group that you spend
time with is really kind of arepresentation of what kind of
individual you want to.
You know people, what surroundyourself with, certain people,
right, what are they saying,Like the amount of people you
can tell what you are you know II think that it's we've put in
(25:30):
a lot of good insights here thatI think people need to touch
base and learn a little bit moreabout what key points would you
like or something you'd like totake home for those to know
about, and then how can theyreach you?
Because I'm going to put yourinformation in the show notes.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Okay.
So I would say that your bodywas actually built in a way to
lean you towards homeostasis,right.
Your body naturally wants to behealthy.
So if we can understand thatwe're putting obstacles in our
body's way, our body naturallyis going a direction.
(26:07):
All we have to do is remove theobstacles and we will naturally
go the right direction with ourhealth.
We have to use our logical mind.
I think there's a lot ofpropaganda, there's a lot of
manipulation through, you know,the fast food chains, the
different manufacturers.
We have to be willing tounderstand, like what is natural
, what does the body want?
Pay attention to how your bodyfeels when you consume different
(26:30):
food products.
I used to eat ice cream.
Chocolate chip cookie dough ismy favorite thing in the world.
I would buy it every week andit would give me the bubble guts
it would make me feel reallygross yeah.
You know, and I ate it anyway,right?
So, so we know what's not goodfor us.
Our body will tell us.
If you give it the resources toheal, it will begin moving that
(26:51):
way.
If you guys want to try fasting, I highly suggest do a
preparation first.
As a matter of fact, what I'dlike to do is, if you guys if
anybody's on Instagram you canfind me at a healthy alternative
, ahealthyalternative If youjust simply in my DMs, just DM
me and ask, hey, can I get theprep guide?
(27:13):
I will give you guys a freeseven-day prep guide that will
help you.
And the cool thing about theprep guide is, even if you're
not doing fasting the prep, wepeople lose anywhere from seven
to 12 pounds just doing our prep, our fasting prep.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I believe it.
I think that I mean, I haven'teven seen it, so I can't wait to
.
You know, check it out and youknow, just put on.
I'm going to put it in the shownotes.
But also I just I think peoplejust need to have like a
perspective differently insteadof this, you know, um, standard
american stuff and and just it'snot just about losing weight,
right, I mean, that's the otherpart of this.
Like it's not just about losingweight, it's about like a whole
(27:53):
, a whole, a whole approachright, definitely a lifestyle
thing.
Yeah, yeah, um, I reallyappreciate you being on and um,
um, I feel like that we coulddive into this more Um and
there's plenty more to discuss.
So when you have so many greattopics and so many things that
you talk about, um, you're anexpert at a hundred pound loss
but reversing that um diseaseand you know um breaking free of
(28:15):
like that food addiction, Ithink is like super important.
I think that conversation isneeded.
Do you find yourself now thatyou've kind of have this way,
not say you've never have anyhealth issues, but have you
modified?
For the most part been prettygood and on a pretty stable?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I don't get sick anymore.
I used to.
I used to get sick um, wintersalts, solstice and summer
solstice, like I would get sick.
I don't get sick anymore.
I have no issues with likeallergies Literally like it's.
I just have no problem.
And also I resolved I used tohave like a heart palpitation
(28:54):
and I was like in the back of myhead I'm like I'm going to have
a heart disease one day, likesomething's going to be wrong
with my heart one day.
That fear is completely gone.
So it's not even just aboutreversing the issues you have
currently.
It's like having a betteroutlook on the future.
I just I feel like I'm going tohave a great you know quality
of life as I, as I get older.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And the longer span, whatever that is for you, and I
think that that's important.
I think it's not just aboutliving to like X.
Y Z but as living this timethat you are here on this earth
the best quality, Absolutely.
Thanks so much for being on andmaybe we can touch base and
reach out again to another show.
So thanks so much and Iappreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Thank you guys for joining in on the Mindfully
Integrative show and make sureyou find a mindful way every day
.
Hi, how are you?
This is Dr Demarex MariaGrossman, and this is the
Mindfully Integrative Show, andtoday we have a wonderful guest.
His name is Chris James.
He has a wealth of knowledge inhe calls his group health
alternative health as well, andtalking about losing weight on
an extreme level I believe hehas said that it's about a
hundred pounds that he has losthimself and others that he has
(00:25):
helped do this and other ways ofjust kind of thinking outside
the box, and that's the way Ithink.
So I really love that he'sgoing to be on the show and to
kind of give you anotherperspective on your health.
So thanks so much, Chris, forbeing on the show and kind of
tell everyone a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, thank you so much for having me.
And yeah, so I started ahealthy alternative about eight
years ago, maybe eight and ahalf years ago, so we're coming
up on our ninth year.
It's pretty exciting.
And the reason why I createdthe platform was because I found
that, you know, I had healthissues, as many people do.
(01:02):
One of the main issues I hadwas like an infection, and it
was an infection in my urethra,so it felt like it was like an
itch you couldn't scratch.
And, of course, I got all thetesting done.
I mean, they gave me all thetests, they gave me all the
drugs.
I remember I went to aspecialist and the specialist
(01:24):
was every two weeks giving me adifferent drug and it would help
a little bit with theirritation and then it would
come right back.
And I remember him saying onthe last visit he was like, hey,
you know what?
Maybe it's dietary what you'redealing with.
And at the time I had alreadybeen researching, you know
dietary strategy and you knowjust alternative health, and it
(01:45):
just clicked when he said thatit clicked and I decided to dive
feet first into alternativehealth.
I actually come from abackground where my grandmother,
at the age of 60, decided tochange all of her wellness
practices.
She was on the traditionalstandard, you know medical side
of things, right.
And then she just went allhealthy, all natural, all
(02:08):
wellness, and she startedteaching those things to me very
young.
But I never tapped into ituntil I started to get sick
myself, right.
And so I created the brand andnow we've got a huge community.
We help people lose weight,reverse disease naturally.
We teach them how to you knowhow to play with their diets,
(02:29):
figure out what makes sense forthem, and it's really successful
.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
What have you for yourself?
You said you lost around 100pounds.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I lost about 90 pounds.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
That's a lot.
That's a lot.
I lost about 70, you know, butit was a combination of things.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's a lot.
I lost about 70, you know, butit was a combination of things.
So what was your?
I mean, what was one of yourmost important key factors in
that weight loss?
Fasting to lose the weight.
And then the second factorwould be I used a liver and
gallbladder flushes to keep theweight off, but fasting has
become a tool that I useholistically for pretty much
(03:15):
everything.
I believe that fasting is one ofthose things that you can use
to help with whatever elementyou have, whether it's weight
loss or even type 2 diabetes.
With whatever element you have,whether it's weight loss or even
type 2 diabetes.
Even though I don't look at itas a cure-all, it's a
fundamental therapy that you canuse to uplift the body
holistically.
(03:35):
You're going to get betterhormonal regulation, you're
going to get stem cellproduction, you're going to get
a more younger, youthfulappearance, the lines of your
skin smooth out, and then, whenyou're talking about losing 100
pounds, one of the main thingspeople are afraid of is loose
skin.
So we do teach what I considerrapid weight loss techniques,
(04:00):
but they're non-conventional.
So it's very healthy because weallow the body to determine how
quickly the weight comes off,and what we do is, we support
the body through fasting andopening up the elimination
pathways so that you could getthe benefit that the body wants
to move towards homeostasis.
And so what I learned throughmy personal experience and also,
(04:23):
I hope, I helped my twobrothers, my sister, even my mom
, and then we went on to helpyou know other people but we
learned that with with long termfasting, you can actually tap
(04:44):
into deep autophagy where thebody will start to repair you
know the damage and a lot ofthat extra loose skin and stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The body will eat it up.
Yeah, yeah, what, um, what'syour longest fast that you've
had?
Like I was telling you, I do12s and 16s and 24 hours, but I
don't really do long ones.
I've only done like a three dayone and but what's your, what's
your uh fast?
What kind of how many days?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So my longest water only, I think, was 13 days, and
then I did what I call a hybridfast for 30, for 30 days.
So that's where I did dryfasting water fasting and juice
fasting wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah that one that was probably
challenging it's, it's, it'schallenging but also spiritually
good, like I feel.
Like that some people tell methey, you know, know, when they
get to another level, then theyare able to like it becomes.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
What I've learned about fasting is that there's
different, it's like an onion,so you can.
You can peel back that firstlayer, and that first layer is
incredible.
You can get, um, you know,hormone, hormonal regulation.
You can get um, better, betterinsulin.
Um, you know, you hormonalregulation you can get better
insulin, you could reduceinsulin resistance, you can lose
(05:56):
lots of weight.
You can get human growth hormoneStem cells.
It's great.
The first layer is great.
When you get to the secondlayer, you start getting to this
emotional or this mental detoxwhere you know we hold trauma
from childhood or just fromdifferent experiences we have,
and we typically look at talktherapy as like the, the gold
standard for dealing with thattype of stuff.
(06:17):
But I learned that throughlong-term fasting the body will
naturally release energy.
So I noticed, around 10 daysyou'll start to get like an
emotional and a mental detox,and so the way it looks is
you'll start crying for noreason, or you'll feel angry for
no reason, or you'll feelreally happy for seemingly no
(06:39):
reason.
And I find that what that'sdoing is the body is balancing
the energetic state and Iactually so.
I told you that I had aninfection and that was one of
the main reasons why I startedfasting.
It really wasn't for weightloss.
That came and I didn't evenrealize that I was going to lose
that much weight.
But another thing was I wasdepressed, impressed.
(07:01):
I broke up with my girlfriendat the time.
I broke up with her six yearsprior, but this was like the one
that got away.
This was like the one that Ithought we were going to get
back together and get marriedand all of that.
And so there was a lot ofemotional energy entangled in
that and it was depressing meand I didn't realize it and I
(07:24):
couldn't build healthyrelationships with new women,
and so I started approachingfasting originally for that, and
then I found out that after dayeight, going into day 12 or so,
that my depression started tolift naturally.
I just felt so good and I feltso clear.
(07:46):
And it's like this.
I've been dealing with this forsix years.
You know it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I feel like I mean I don't do as long as fast that
you have, but I will fast in thesense of what I put into my
body.
If it it may not be to anextreme of like zero, but sugar
in itself.
If, like you know, you take alot of that junk out, that in
itself like changes theperspective and then putting it
into a fast and it's done safely, I mean I think that is quite
(08:14):
effective.
And I think what you're sayingin the longterm, if people can
do it, you know, smartly, and ifthey feel you know, I think the
main things that come up righthere is like nutrient
deficiencies, but I mean I thinkthat those can be eliminated at
some point if you put goodstuff back in.
What do you think?
Because you obviously areguiding a lot of these
individuals.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Right.
So that's that's obviously amajor concern and I think that
number one preparation isextremely important.
So earlier, you know, I talkeda little bit about when you
start fasting, you want to openup your elimination pathways
because you have to imagine thebody's going to release toxins.
So one thing that you canexperience is what we call
(08:57):
fasting detox symptoms and thelong-term fasting those detox
symptoms can get more intense.
So by prepping we usually do aweek-long prep where we it's a
gradient we take you from like astandard American diet, we
reduce the frequency that youeat, we increase the high water
content foods because you gotta,you have to hydrate well in
(09:19):
order to do fasting properly, tomove the toxins out of the
system.
And and then we take you off ofsolid food for a short duration
of time and we do what we calljuice feasting and it's where
you take in your daily caloricintake in juice format and it
helps the body kind of get usedto getting nutrition from liquid
(09:42):
versus dense solids and thenalso like, if you're a coffee
drinker, things of that natureit helps you begin weaning off
of that, because that can bevery difficult.
You know fasting and you knowlike coming off of a caffeine
withdrawal, and so by doing thatpreparation, it makes going
into the fast easier Now, as itrelates to like nutrition.
(10:05):
So the cool thing about fastingis, you know, just imagine your
system is really gunked up.
There's mucus, there'sinflammation, there's synthetic
material in your system, soyou're beginning to clean that.
Clean that up Well, it reallymakes the body ready to receive
nutrition.
So a lot of people havenutrient deficiencies even
though they're eating every day,right?
Well, with this technique, youcan clean the system up and you
(10:29):
can prime the body to absorbnutrition more efficiently.
So now, when you start to eat,you do what's called a refeed,
you do intentional eating afteryour fast, and then the body
will absorb nutrients better.
And, of course, we alsorecommend, you know, getting out
in the sun.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Oh, the normal lifestyle measurements like a
sun, sleep, hydration.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Exactly when you do all of these things together, it
makes fasting extremely safe.
It's more than safe, it'shyper-beneficial.
And then, of course, we sayyou're going to build your
fasting muscles, so we don'tstart you off with 13 day, 20
day fast.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, I'd love you to talk about the elimination
pathway, because I've learnedthat in integrative health and
in functional medicine, I'mintegrated, like the elimination
pathway you know, with theliver and the gut, and I'd love
you to just take a brief momentof what that is so that someone
can understand, because I thinkpeople think that if they just
drink and juice, then they'refine and then they don't realize
that the like what exactlyyou're doing for your body,
(11:33):
cause, like you said, you weretalking about a detox of sorts
and sometimes people just don'tunderstand that and I feel like
it really needs to be likehighlighted you know as much as
you can, you don't have to goyour full thing, cause I want
people to reach.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah, Well, you know the liver.
It's very common now that,whether you drink or not,
whether you're young or old,that you have a fatty liver Like
it's a super common thing,right.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
It doesn't have to be drink, it's food.
It's like junk.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It's the junk food.
And the liver is extremelyimportant.
I look at it as the masterdetoxification organ for the
body.
It's the center of your immunesystem, and what happens is the
liver has all these littlespider web, kind of like tunnels
and pathways, that get allblocked up.
Mucus, bile, sludge just gunk,it gets all gunked up, and so
(12:28):
when the liver starts to becomelow functioning, well, you're
not absorbing properly, you'renot, you're not, um, you're not,
you're not eliminating properly, and so, um, it's important to
focus on the liver.
That's one of the areas that we, that we really focus heavy on,
and it's super simple.
Like, one of the ways that youcan, you know, help the liver is
(12:49):
by doing a castor pack, whereyou do a castor oil pack.
You know, castor oil is a deeppenetrating oil.
It has the ability to kind ofgo into those cavities in the
liver, those small littletunnels.
It'll break up the sludge andthen the liver will upregulate
and you'll get betterfunctionality, you get better
(13:10):
absorption out of it.
I think that's like the bestplace to start.
Obviously, the gut is extremelyimportant but you know, through
fasting the gut does begin ahealing process Most of us have
it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
That makes a lot of sense.
I mean the, uh, the castor pack.
Are you saying orally or areyou taking um topically, putting
the castor pack that eventuallywill absorb in this?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Right.
So so, as you've got likehexane-free castor oil, it's
going to come in a glass jar.
You can take it orally, but I'mtalking about using it above
the liver.
So you put it on a cloth it'skind of like a cloth pad and you
wrap it around the liver andyou put like maybe a tablespoon
of it on the castor pack and youfall asleep and it'll penetrate
(13:53):
into the skin, into the liver.
If you take it by mouth, it'sgreat, but it acts more like a
laxative, and so if you, if youknow and that's that's great too
I mean, people don't have goodbowel movements.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Oh yeah, oh my God, I just had a patient the other
day, just come over.
I'm like right day, I mean Iwish people.
Even I wish people would know.
I mean, you're gonna tell themtoo um detoxification is pooping
, partially like that for sureyou know what I mean.
Like I'm like, you know, it'salmost like people don't want to
talk about it, but it's likethat is part of the process here
(14:29):
, you know it's a huge part ofit yeah, so I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I'll tell you my story.
My, my sister, has terrible, um, bowels, terrible.
I went to go visit her when Ivery first started teaching you
know these, these alternativemethods, and I was sitting down,
I'm you know, you know, talking.
Hey, when's the last time youhad a bowel movement?
Oh yes, been probably likealmost four days and I and my
(14:55):
jaw the test that's how I feelabout it.
Like, really, four is a lotthat's insane and I asked her
what's the longest you'll gowithout having a bath?
She said she'll go a weeksometimes I.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I've heard I've had patients and friends tell me
that, and I and I'm the same way.
I'm like what, how?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
is that possible.
I don't know Cause you'reeating every day, Right, so well
, this is great.
So if, if someone out there, ifyou're not having a bowel
movement every day, you knowyou've got a problem you've got
to, you've got to work on now.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
What is something right?
We haven't even talked aboutright, yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Right, right, like that, that's in general, like
you would change so much aboutyour health just by having
regular bowel movements.
Now what's one really good wayto to attack that is hydration,
lubricated well, but alsogetting water into the cells.
(15:53):
If your cells are reallyinflamed, if your gut is
inflamed, yeah, your bowelsaren't going to move well.
So one thing I recommend ishaving a glass of water, usually
cold, steeped with like lemonor lime, overnight and you just
drink that first thing in themorning before you start your
daily habit.
12, 16 ounces, whatever morningbefore you start your daily
(16:14):
habit.
You know, 12, 16 ounces,whatever.
That will aid tremendously.
But it's important to hydratethroughout the day, right?
Not just depend on that.
I'm sure you know this.
Most people drink like a 16ounce bottle of water maybe a
day.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Oh, for real.
For real, I mean like my, likemy gauge is at a minimum half
your body weight would be greatin ounces.
But for me to even get them todo like two water bottle, like
you said, like 16 to 20, is likepushing it for some.
What I'd like, at least halftheir body weight.
But that is like me, that's measking for, like the world.
(16:48):
So maybe 20 to 32 ounces I'llget.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, yeah and it's, and then and then it's not even
consistent, but it's like we'reeating chips which are
dehydrating.
We're drinking coffee which isdehydrating.
You know, it's like we have allof these habits we're drying
ourselves out, we're notdrinking water, we're not eating
our water.
That's my big thing.
It's like, if you havehydration issues, focus on
(17:13):
eating your water.
Cucumbers are amazing sourcesof water.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That's a great point.
That's a great point, sensibleand sensible losses of why, when
you're taking in what your bodyneeds and it's like what is,
are you yourself I didn't askthis before Are you yourself a
vegetarian or a vegan, or or doyou still eat proteins?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
So I don't eat.
I don't eat meat, but I do likeI do a.
I do what I call alkaline forthe most part.
So there's certain fruits andvegetables that I eat.
I usually make everything fromscratch.
I do eat out still, and I dostill have cheese from time to
time, but what I've done is I'vereduced my dairy tremendously,
(17:53):
like I used to eat it prettymuch every day, and now it's
like sometimes I order a saladand I forget there's cheese.
You know it comes on the saladbecause they put cheese on
everything oh yeah, they do yeahyeah, unless you but to to your
point here, like I don't, Idon't think that meat is the is
the devil.
I think that if you source yourmeat well, I usually recommend,
(18:16):
if people want to do meatcarnivore or whatever, source
your meat well, make sure thatyou're getting high quality meat
.
I still personally don'trecommend eating a ton of meat.
That's just my personalrecommendation.
But people do what they feel isbest for them.
But if you do that, you getbetter quality.
Before I stopped eating meat, Iget better quality.
Like before I stopped eatingmeat, I went to a local farm.
(18:36):
I'm here in Texas.
I went to a local organicfarmer.
I bought a whole bunch of meatand over the course of a year
you know, I had in my deepfreezer, I'd eat that meat and I
noticed it cooked differently,it tastes different and it
digested differently.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, so that I mean that makes sense because it's
it's high quality and whatyou're putting in, I, I, you
know, I know there's differenttakes on vegan versus carnivore
when it comes to your you knowthe way your health is, so I
think it varies for me with that.
I don't think that's a one sizefits all um.
I've personally seen.
But I do think your take on howpeople have to detox and change
(19:15):
their perspective on what isgoing into their body, that is
like paramount, like that makesso much sense.
Um, because I think that, uh,people are just misguided or
they're just not, like I don'tknow if it's just they're afraid
or just you know we're, sothere's so much readily
available junk or crap and thenpeople just don't know what to
(19:39):
do, like to make their life alittle bit easier.
So, on your, with your groupand your support group, do you
give people a lot of recipes andoptions and community to
connect with you to you know tohelp and guide them into
different pathways?
You know and help and guidethem into different pathways.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
So what we do is I think we're the only group that
does this we host large fasts,we have these huge challenges.
So I have a team of coaches andwe do live coaching.
We have core content so you candigest that on your own time,
where we'll kind of teach youmore in depth about the process,
(20:15):
the fasting, and then, yeah,we'll go into.
You know what you need to beeating on during the preparation
, what do you need to be eatingduring the refeed, and what we
typically do are rolling fast.
So we'll have, you know, aperiod of time you know whether
it's two days or three dayswhere we'll do a type of fast
and then we'll have a period oftime in between where we'll do a
refeed and then we'll go backinto fasting and we'll do that
(20:38):
over the course of a couple ofweeks.
And what it does is it givesyou the benefit of fasting, it
gives you a nice break inbetween, so you're not pushing
yourself too hard, but it alsogives you an opportunity to
interact with different foods sothat you can learn, because you
know a lot of people.
The reason they struggle withwhat to eat is because they eat
for taste Right, and I don'thave a problem with that.
(21:00):
I think we should enjoy what weeat, but a lot of us have been
programmed to think that eatinghealthy is boring or it's bland
or it's whatever, and so I wantto encourage people hey, let's
try this recipe, no-transcript.
(21:35):
Your body will digest well andso it makes it so much easier to
you know.
Move forward towards health.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
That's really no, I think that's a great point,
cause then, you know, people arelike oh, I'm so used to the
salty, the sweet or the I don'tknow whatever the, you know
umami flavors that they want,and they're not realizing that
you know you can still get thoseoptions on the even.
For me, I might.
You know, I could always take apointer here and there.
I mean, you're blessed.
I've had to change an overhaula lot of things and I, you know,
(22:05):
I feel like I tell people it'sa lifelong thing, you know, and
it's not something that justgoes away.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
But sometimes people are always like oh, you know
interesting thing about thatwhen I talked about some of the
layers of fasting one of thethings that happened when you
perform longer fast is you startto discard your cravings.
So probably.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I wasn't that many days, but you are so right.
You're sugar right and you'resalt and you're whatever.
I have to have a hamburger, Ihave to have a drink, whatever
people think it was a candy barfor me, right, right.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And so so, the longer you fast the body, start the
chemical constituent.
You remember the saying you arewith what you eat, right.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
So the chemical constituents of the food
products that we're eating.
They stay with us, they'reimparted into our blood and then
, when you start fasting, you'llexperience these enormous
cravings, even for foods youhaven't eaten for years.
I was experiencing cravings forSloppy Joe my mom used to make
me Sloppy Joe when I wasadolescent and so when you fast,
(23:11):
you start to let that stuff goand you can actually eliminate
cravings.
And what that does is it makesit easier for you to change your
habits.
You can still reabsorb thosefoods if you continue eating
them, right, but you know thatmental thing that makes you, oh,
I got to have this.
You can discard that and itmakes it much easier to change
(23:32):
how you eat.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I could not agree more with what you're saying.
I feel like there's anadditional component to this and
obviously, obviously you have acommunity of us that
behaviorally they get past rightthe craving.
How can you reel them back in,you know?
Or is it the community itselfthat is helping along and guide,
or coaches and groups helpingguide along, or some of these
(23:56):
need more assistance.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
The the incredible.
So we have a platform.
It's called AHA Communities.
It's kind of like our ownlittle personal Facebook and
within that group we have what'scalled the PAC calls.
So they're peer accountabilitycalls.
So this is literally people inthe community.
It was like, hey, we want tovolunteer to help other people.
(24:20):
Community is so important.
When I did my first fast, I didit with my brother.
Had I not done it with mybrother, I don't know if I would
have lasted as long, becauseyou get scared, you get nervous,
you don't know what's going on.
But when other people arehaving similar experiences or
they can convey what theyexperienced, it kind of puts you
at ease.
When you're trying to changeyour diet and your family at
(24:44):
home is like, nah, I'm going tokeep eating Doritos and whatever
, and you feel alone.
You have a community.
That's like, well, I'mexperiencing the same thing.
And then what's really cool issometimes they get together in
real life.
So they meet online and theyhave these little groups.
They get together.
They go for walks and they havethese little groups.
They get together, they go forwalks, they go to different
restaurants, they cook together,and so that community helps you
(25:06):
stay on track.
It's just like anything else.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
If you want to learn how to be a pilot, you probably
should spend time with pilotsright, the group that you spend
time with is really kind of arepresentation of what kind of
individual you want to.
You know people, what surroundyourself with, certain people,
right, what are they saying,Like the amount of people you
can tell what you are you know II think that it's we've put in
(25:30):
a lot of good insights here thatI think people need to touch
base and learn a little bit moreabout what key points would you
like or something you'd like totake home for those to know
about, and then how can theyreach you?
Because I'm going to put yourinformation in the show notes.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Okay.
So I would say that your bodywas actually built in a way to
lean you towards homeostasis,right.
Your body naturally wants to behealthy.
So if we can understand thatwe're putting obstacles in our
body's way, our body naturallyis going a direction.
(26:07):
All we have to do is remove theobstacles and we will naturally
go the right direction with ourhealth.
We have to use our logical mind.
I think there's a lot ofpropaganda, there's a lot of
manipulation through, you know,the fast food chains, the
different manufacturers.
We have to be willing tounderstand, like what is natural
, what does the body want?
Pay attention to how your bodyfeels when you consume different
(26:30):
food products.
I used to eat ice cream.
Chocolate chip cookie dough ismy favorite thing in the world.
I would buy it every week andit would give me the bubble guts
it would make me feel reallygross yeah.
You know, and I ate it anyway,right?
So, so we know what's not goodfor us.
Our body will tell us.
If you give it the resources toheal, it will begin moving that
(26:51):
way.
If you guys want to try fasting, I highly suggest do a
preparation first.
As a matter of fact, what I'dlike to do is, if you guys if
anybody's on Instagram you canfind me at a healthy alternative
, ahealthyalternative If youjust simply in my DMs, just DM
me and ask, hey, can I get theprep guide?
(27:13):
I will give you guys a freeseven-day prep guide that will
help you.
And the cool thing about theprep guide is, even if you're
not doing fasting the prep, wepeople lose anywhere from seven
to 12 pounds just doing our prep, our fasting prep.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I believe it.
I think that I mean, I haven'teven seen it, so I can't wait to
.
You know, check it out and youknow, just put on.
I'm going to put it in the shownotes.
But also I just I think peoplejust need to have like a
perspective differently insteadof this, you know, um, standard
american stuff and and just it'snot just about losing weight,
right, I mean, that's the otherpart of this.
Like it's not just about losingweight, it's about like a whole
(27:53):
, a whole, a whole approachright, definitely a lifestyle
thing.
Yeah, yeah, um, I reallyappreciate you being on and um,
um, I feel like that we coulddive into this more Um and
there's plenty more to discuss.
So when you have so many greattopics and so many things that
you talk about, um, you're anexpert at a hundred pound loss
but reversing that um diseaseand you know um breaking free of
(28:15):
like that food addiction, Ithink is like super important.
I think that conversation isneeded.
Do you find yourself now thatyou've kind of have this way,
not say you've never have anyhealth issues, but have you
modified?
For the most part been prettygood and on a pretty stable?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I don't get sick anymore.
I used to.
I used to get sick um, wintersalts, solstice and summer
solstice, like I would get sick.
I don't get sick anymore.
I have no issues with likeallergies Literally like it's.
I just have no problem.
And also I resolved I used tohave like a heart palpitation
(28:54):
and I was like in the back of myhead I'm like I'm going to have
a heart disease one day, likesomething's going to be wrong
with my heart one day.
That fear is completely gone.
So it's not even just aboutreversing the issues you have
currently.
It's like having a betteroutlook on the future.
I just I feel like I'm going tohave a great you know quality
of life as I, as I get older.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And the longer span, whatever that is for you, and I
think that that's important.
I think it's not just aboutliving to like X.
Y Z but as living this timethat you are here on this earth
the best quality, Absolutely.
Thanks so much for being on andmaybe we can touch base and
reach out again to another show.
So thanks so much and Iappreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Thank you guys for joining in on the Mindfully
Integrative show and make sureyou find a mindful way every day
.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.