In this episode of Prevention Over Prescription with Dr. K, we're joined by Ben Azadi to explore the powerful principles behind his new book, Metabolic Freedom. Why are 93% of Americans metabolically unhealthy? How does insulin trigger disease, and how do environmental toxins affect our well-being? We unpack how mindset, self-image, addiction transformation, and purpose-driven living can unlock true wellness. Discover actionable strategies to reclaim your health, boost longevity, and tap into your body’s natural healing abilities—without relying on medication. Stick around after the episode for a quick message from Dr. K on supporting your aging parents.
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Ben Azati qualcas Nation, listen. I can't even look into
the camera right now. I'm so excited because we have
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been trying to land this Jim, this baller, this influencer, author, podcaster,
freaking all things Ben and Zotti in the house. We
are so excited to have you, Ben, thank you so
much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh it's an honor, brother. I love what you're doing.
I know that we at first I'm low carb Denver.
About two years ago, we've been trying to coordinate this.
We made it happen. We're gonna have a lot of
fun today.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
We are going to have a lot of fun and listen, Ben,
I maybe I normally I'll get into a bit of
your backstory, but I'm just really excited about the book.
First of all, metabolic Freedom, because I'm the lost person
to need to tell you how important is metabolic health.
But what inspired this book is what are we going
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to expect? Because to me, this is going to be
the one of the first ones I get on my shelf.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Son, Oh well, I can't wait for you to read it.
I'm really really excited about the book. It's really aligned
with your amazing work. You talk about prevention over prescription,
and that is the case, right. Einstein said, intellectual solve problems,
geniuses prevent them. We want to prevent these problems. We
want to be proactive. And I say something similar, I
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say education, not medication. And that's what the book is
all about. It really first of the first half of
the book, it's split into two parts. The first part
is all about the problems. I mean, you know this.
In the United States, ninety three percent of Americans are
considered metabolically unhealthy. And I remember referencing a study in
the book from the Male Clinic in twenty sixteen where
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they were set to determine and find out how many
Americans live an active, healthy lifestyle, and they based it
off of four characteristics criterias. Number one, they don't smoke cigarettes.
Number two, they exercise either moderate to vigorous exercise for
about one hundred and fifty minutes total per week. The
third characteristic was that they eat eight what they consider
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a healthy diet, which is just a minimally processed diet.
And the fourth characteristic was that if they're a female,
they have a body fat percentage under thirty percent and
a male under twenty percent. And the studies showed that
only two point seven percent of Americans hit that criteria.
And that was before COVID. You talked really boldly about COVID.
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We know what happened with COVID. It probably got worse,
So we know we have a big problem. So the
first half of the book is about the problems. Number one,
I talk about why being a sugar burner and not
burning fat, not entering kotosis rexure metabolism that ages you rapidly.
Those ninety three percent of Americans that are metabolically unhealthy
I call them being in a keto deficiency. They just
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forgot how to burn fat, So we discuss that. We
discuss how environmental toxins, these obesogens create fat cells, and
these new classifications of toxins like diabetogens disrupt beta self function,
the pancres, leading to diabetes, and a whole set of
other issues like lack of sleep, stress. So that's the
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first half, but it's not all bad news. So the
second half of the book gets into the solutions and
these ancient healing strategies. Ketos is fasting, using your thoughts
to heal your body, and it's all wrapped together in
a thirty day plan that gives you a step by
step guide to achieve at a bog freedom in thirty days.
So that's why I wrote the book, being somebody that
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will struggled with obesity both physically and mentally for twenty
plus years, as somebody who lost my dad to a
metabolic disease, diabetes and the complications that came with it.
He suffered a stroke and took his life in twenty fourteen,
so I had this book in me. I've been in
this space for now for seventeen years. I've interviewed incredible
people on my podcast. You're going to be one of them.
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I'm going to interview soon over nine hundred episodes. So
it's kind of the synthesis of all of my research,
my experience taking five thousand people through my protocols, and
then all the interviews I've done, and I put it
together in this book called metaboc Freedom.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
This is incredible And what I like about it, Ben,
is like you're really giving people the ability to take
agency and to be able to take care of their
current situation. As you said, Ben, so many people are
metabology unhealthy right now. And I don't know if you
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get into the it into into the book, but in
all the interviews and guests that you've had in your
own research, like what disease states do you think of
when you think of metabolic syndrome? Because what is fascinating
to me is when I learned in medical school that
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reach of or metabolic health has significantly expanded into other areas.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah, you've seen it in the front lines, on the
front lines, and that's exactly it. You know, I talk
about insulin, how high levels of insulin. It's the first
domino to fall before we get this metabolic disease. Right first,
it's the high insulin. Then it's the maybe high blood pressure,
maybe it's the way game that leads to obesity, and
of course the pre diabetes and eventually diabetes, which leads diabetes.
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It's nobody really dies from diabetes. It's what it leads to,
the cancers, the kidney failures, the strokes, the debilitating neuropathy
where their feet feel like it's on fire. This a
lot of this happened to my dad. But it's really insulin.
And what's interesting about insulin is that I was looking
at some of the research that I put in the book,
and there was a study called the white Hall Study
number two and some other studies, and it showed that
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you could have insulin resistance, meaning high levels of insulin
for about six to fourteen years on average, without any
of your blood sugar's changing, Meaning your A one C
looks perfect, your fasting glucose looks perfect. Why because your
pancreas is just screaming out insulin to shuttle out the
glucose until your cells go deaf to the screams, and
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then all of a sudden you're pre diabetic and then diabetic.
And of course we measure that A one cs a
marker for diabetes. If you're over six point four percent,
you're considered type two diabetic or even type one diabetic.
But the high insulin levels, that's the first thing we
want to track. It's like the most important blood test
is a fasting insulin. That is the starting point. If
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we can get our fasting insulin to the single digits,
it erases a lot of these metabolic syndromes and symptoms
that people are dealing with.
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Hey, welcome back to Prevention over Prescription Radio on SAGA
nine sixty. Absolutely, and I like the way you put it, Ben,
just to give people a sense of how long this
process can can look okay, like you could have be
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years of having normal blood sugars, but you're in your
your penguins could be screaming for help. I think I
think that's a really good uh premise and and what
I've been finding really fascinating, ben to it is the
amount of you know, like we know about heart disease,
we know about stroke, and really sorry to hear about
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your dad. I know what that's like. And it's losing
your old men's is hard. So I just want to
want to say sorry about that, thank you. And but
like other disease states like that, they're coming up now,
the mental health side, the fertility side, like it's just
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it's to me, what's baffling is how more and more
things are tying to metabolic syndrome. And this is why
your book right now metabolic freedom probably has never been
more important than it has been today.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Amen, bro Amen, I agree. And the amazing thing you
know this the body is so incredible. It has the
ability to heal itself, like God has built our body
to be self healing. There's just interference, and the interference
are the symptoms that are expressed from the interference, meaning
the symptoms are not the problem. If you're overweight, you
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have a weight symptom, you don't have a weight problem.
That's really important to understand. Nobody has a weight problem
is a weight symptom. But the symptoms we have, whether
it's acid reflux, gird digestive issues like constipation or bloating,
or diarrhea, or even headaches, fatigue, lethargy, wan, whatever it is.
There's thousands of symptoms those None of those are the problem.
They are a result of the problem. It is the
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inner physician within us that's communicating to you, Hey, something
you're eating, something in your environment, something you're doing is
taking this metabolism, this innate intelligence off course, and I'm
going to present to you a symptom. I'm going to
communicate with you so you could take it back on course. Unfortunately,
conventional medicine chases the symptom and mask the symptom. It's
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like putting. It's like if there's your check engine light
turn on in your vehicle, it's like covering it up
and you keep driving that that's going to be a
big problem. Instead, we want to pull the car over,
open up the hood, and find out what's going on.
And I think I did a good job in the
book of explaining how to do that.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, I bet based on your content, then I know
it's going to be going to be awesome. The area
that is a bit of a mystery to me that
I'm starting to pay more attention to, but admittedly I
thought was a little bit of woo woo back then
was the idea of some of the environmental toxins that
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we were that are affecting our health. And one of
them that I think is now pretty mainstream anyway, was
in terms of the plastics and how that affects our hormones.
And so I'm wondering just to get a sense from you,
what are some of the high level ones that have
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caught your attention, or maybe even some that you would
highlight in the book.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. You know, maybe five ten years
ago it might have been considered Yeah, toxins. I mean,
come on, we have detoxification systems, so can we just
like detoxic And we do have detoxification systems, but the
amount of toxins we are bombarded with, we just can't
keep up. So you mentioned the microplastics. I do talk
about that in the book, and some studies are showing
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it's found in testicles of men, it's found in our arteries.
They're accumulating over time. So I give some simple things
to do in regards to the plastic. One of the
studies before I kind of give some of the protocols here.
One of the studies that I found was University of
Newcastle study, which you may or may not know, but
this study came out a couple of years ago and
it showed that the average American consumes about five grams
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of plastic every week, which is the size of a
credit card, Meaning the average person eats a credit cards
worth of plastic every single week. So if we think about, okay,
how are we getting exposed to this? Of course plastic
water bottles. So here on my desk, I have a
glass water bottle. We want to switch from plastic water
bottles to glass. And you might say, yeah, but Ben,
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I don't heat up my plastic water bottles. I should
be saying, if I don't leave it in my car, Well,
you don't know what happened as they transfer that plastic
water bottle to your convenience store. Probably wasn't high heat,
and that plastic leaches into the water. That's one exposure.
So glass over plastic whenever you can, that's going to
be important. And of course other ways that we are
exposed to plastic, like plastic tupperware, putting into the microwave,
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it's leaching into the food. Even plastic cutting boards, you
have all the microplastic. There's microplastics and certain salts and food.
So we want to use wooden cutting boards. We want
to purchase salts from high credible companies that test for microplastics.
So that's one source of toxins. But then we have
cash register receipts, and I talk about BPA, and there
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was a study that showed that cash register receipts have
about two hundred and fifty times more of the toxin
BPA than canned food. So another protocol here would be
say no to cash register receipts. If you touch it,
it goes in your skin, goes in your bloodstream. We
put it in our pocket, our pocket gets contaminated with
bp I see a lot of women that like whole foods,
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get their receipt and put it in their bra that's
being absorbed as well. So we want to say no
to cash reord diisture receipts. Those are low hanging fruits.
Then we have these supertoxins like heavy metals mercury, aluminum,
and lead, which is a food supply. I know for me,
I was exposed to mercury through silver amalgam fillings. I
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had mercury poisoning back in twenty eighteen from my silver
fillings I had in my mouth for twenty plus years
and it was leaching into my brain my hypothas pituitary.
So I got them safely removed. I did a detox
protocol to help remove some of the mercury out of
my body. And we have something in common because I
know we both have rainos syndrome. Yeah, and for me,
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my RAINOUDS was really bad. Now I live in Miami,
year in Canada a different story. I get that, But
my RAINODS was really really bad. It was flaring up
almost every single day. And I'm happy to share that.
Like I could jump my cold punch for four minutes
at foury nine degrees fahrenheit and get no flare up,
but it wasn't always the case. I've done things to
reduce my toxic load and my stress bucket, and I
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believe anybody could do that as well.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That's it. This is to me. It's fascinating, it really is.
As you mentioned, you go back ten years, this sounded
like crazy, crazy stuff, but like you mentioned the plastics,
like there was a New England Journal articles showing like
in our I think it was in our reproductive organs,
they were seeing levels of microplastics. And this is to me,
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the lesson is just don't like take anything seriously, like,
don't just dismiss some of these these these theories and
and really taking time to think about it and to
explore them, because I don't know, there's some significant consequences
that could happen, but some of these exposures and I'm yeah,
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I must say, as someone coming from the traditional symptoms,
traditional systems. Sorry, like, my eyes are open, dog like,
my eyes are open. Like I am not calling anything
wooo anymore. I'm hearing the people's opinion on this and
really exploring this stuff because I think I think we're
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you know, we're putting our foot in our mouths too often.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
But yeah, respect by the way, respect that you have
an open mind on that.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh thank you. I mean, honestly you have to now,
like I just yeah, and I appreciate you you're saying that.
I'm curious too about some of the the mind body
connection aspect of the book too, because I once again
to sound woo woo, I was not much of a
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believer of this in terms of you know, there's mind
body connection talk and but at a personal level, and
once again kind of looking at my experience with my
old man past, started to have all these like weird symptoms.
I had these heart palpitations, end up getting a calcium
score done, and all these things. And I remember talking
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to one of our social workers that works in prillative care,
and she was not shocked at all of this. She
was saying, Yeah, you're under a lot of stress and
manifests in different ways for people. So I'm curious then,
like what to expect in the book? How did you
even learn about some of this? What can we expect?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, it's actually my favorite part of the book. Chapter
ten is all about how your thoughts influence your metabolism.
I mean, I learned this through some of the greats
Bob Proctor, Tony Robbins, zig Ziggler, Jim Rohan. I could
go on around Less Brown, Lisa Nichols, I could go
on and on about these incredible people who have I've
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stood on the shoulders of these giants and I've read
their books, taking their courses, gone to their seminars, and
it's made the biggest difference in my life more so
than like getting my macros correct or exercising and all.
That's great, avoiding seed oils and all that's great, but
the mindset part, because I have found number one that
your self image of yourself plays such a significant role,
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and I'd love to unpack that right now, you know mine. Yeah,
So the self image is how we view ourselves. And
I remember when I was obese as a teenager and
as an adult, my self image of myself was, you're
an obese person, You're an obese man, You're unhealthy. That's
how I viewed myself because that's how I grew up.
And when I started to lose weight, I started to
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discover that I kept sabotaging myself to put on the
weight to match myself image of myself. And a lot
of people do that. They go on a weight loss program.
Let's say they cut their calories and they start losing weight.
But if your self image is that of an obese
person and an overweight person, and then you'll find ways
to get the weight back on. So if you want
to lose five pounds, you'll lose the five pounds and
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then you'll find seven more pounds the next month. Right,
It's like when you lose your keys, you go looking
for it, similar to this concept of your self image.
It was and look, I lost eighty pounds in nine months.
I went from thirty four percent body fat to six
percent body fat. Yet I was looking in the mirror
at myself with my shirt off, six pack abs, and
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I still saw myself as an obese person. So I
kept finding ways to get the weight back on. It
wasn't until I changed that self image that I was
able to stop sabotaging myself. And that could be applied
to everything. If you identify with your disease, your diagnosis,
and that's your self image, and you try to get health,
you'll keep going back to match that self image of yourself.
So we need to change the self image and you
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do that. There's only two ways to change it that
I have found, and I learned this from Bob Prokker.
The first way is an emotional impact, where it just
it's a wake up call, near death expirit, losing a
loved one like we lost our dads'. That's a near
that's an emotional impact, and that changes the way you think.
It changes yourself image. It changes what's called your paradigm. Ideally,
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we don't want to go through that route because it's
nine times out of ten negative experience. But that's one
way to change the self image. The other way, which
is thefer way, and I talk about this in chapter ten,
is constant spaced repetition of the new self image, meaning
you physically write down that new identity of yourself that
you know God has created for you in this life,
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that new self image, and you actually read it every
single day, and you affirm that from your conscious mind
into your subconscious mind. I'll give you an example. Right
here on my desk, I have these these goal cards,
and on the goal cards or my new self image
is what I want to accomplish. And it starts off
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by saying, I'm so happy and grateful now that and
then I write that self image and I keep reading
this until it really ends or is my subconscious mind
and now I behave like that person and you shift
into that person. And I talk about how to do
this in the book. It's so crucial because our thoughts
determine that self image. And in the book I talk
about psychologists did studies on how many thoughts do we
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have every day? And the answer was about sixty thousand
thoughts every day, and they determine that ninety percent of
those thoughts are the same thoughts from yesterday, and eighty
five percent of them are negative thoughts. Zig Ziggler used
to call it stinking thinking, and I say, if you're
thinking is thinking, your dreams are shrinking. So those thoughts
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influence yourselves. This is not w WU anymore. Doctor Bruce Lipton,
in his book Biology of Belief, has shown that your
thoughts are a frequency that penetrate your cell membranes and
communicate directly with your DNA. And he has shown that
if you constantly have negative thoughts, hateful thoughts, angry thoughts,
resentful thoughts, you're constantly sending this signal to your DNA
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to produce and flammatory proteins and cytokinds in your body,
shortening your telomeres, damaging your DNA and essentially shortening your lifespan. However,
if those thoughts are loving thoughts, grateful thoughts, abundant thoughts,
a lot of the things that you preach, then the
signal scent and it creates anti inflammatory proteins. It protects yourself.
So this is really cool because if we have sixty
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thousand thoughts a day, which we do, that means we
have sixty thousand opportunities to put the body in a healing,
anti inflammatory state. And I think that's the greatest biohack
you could ever learn and ever apply. And of course
I go even deeper in chapter ten of the book,
but that's my favorite part of the book.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
We right back on Prevention over Prescription feature at ben Azati.
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Who are listening to Prevent over Prescription with doctor King.
Oh my chills. Listen to that vitamin G too, viam
and G Yes. I love that gratitude. But I think
there's so much to this. I not only I mean,
first of all, the self sabotage part. I literally was
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having this conversation with a colleague about this today and
I'm about to do a post on it because I
think people get like I never didn't relate it to
their own self image. I was more relating it to
I'm not actually sure like what the root of it is.
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But sometimes when people are after an exercise program and
they want initial plan was to work out for an hour,
but they only got they only got twenty minutes, so
then like I'm not gonna do it, or they did
a cheated on their quote unquote diet and now they're
just off the wagon. And there's like sometimes this self
sabotage movement that happens, and maybe that's the answer right there,
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Actually is like the self image that needs to be modified.
And I truly believe like having those negative thoughts, having
that pro inflammatory state is a killer. I truly believe that.
I believe having that extra stress, that extra quotos, all
that extra inflammation. I've seen it too many times clinically
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where something significant happens in someone's life and it leads
to significant like physical damage and sometimes death. So I
really love this ben and I think, I mean, just
hearing that alone makes makes me think that people will
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get a ton of value from the book because we
don't spend enough time, in my opinion, on mindset where
we need to go mentally, the positive thoughts that we
have in our we need to put our heads. We
talk a lot about sometimes we talk about gratitude. Sometimes
we don't talk about being mindful, but manifesting putting that
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positive thoughts in your head. And I got to say.
One of the things that I'm I'm going to take
out of this, which is like even promoting that with
my kids. I got three boys. I think you know,
they already get the healthy living aspects that you get
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enough protein today that when we're working now was go.
But having that kind of positive self image and really
encouraging that, Ben like that, that's an inspiration. So thank
you for that.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I love that. I love that you're going to apply
to your three boys. That's that's prodible. When I have children,
I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to
make sure they understand this concept. I mean, I wish
I understood it when I was a kid. I wish
my parents taught it to me. They don't teach it
to you in school. We know that for sure. They
teach you all about the intellectual mind, but not the
subconscious mind. That's a big part of it. Like we
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when we were kids, we used to use our imagination,
we used to dream, We used to just have all
these amazing ideas in our mind, and we lose that
as we grew up, and that's not good. You know.
One of the things that I talk about in the
book is the obesity crisis we have in the world.
Harvard is saying that by twenty thirty, fifty percent of
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Americans will be obese. And a lot of people think
it's just like a genetic thing, and it's just it's
not your fault, it's your genes. And I remember last year,
a couple of years ago, there was somebody from the
government on sixty Minutes saying that like, look, if you
have obesity, it's not your fault. Maybe take this medication.
And we still hear this to this day. But it
makes them the victim. It doesn't make them take for responsibility.
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It puts them on a medication so they could manage it.
But obesity is not a genetic problem. We know in
the United States around nineteen thirty it was around one
to two percent obesity rates in the US, and now
it's going to be fifty percent or our genes don't
change that fast. And of of course obesity is multifactorial.
But I believe this doc. I believe that we don't
necessarily have this obesity problem because of what people are eating.
(30:26):
I believe we have this obesity problem because of what's
eating people. They hate their lives, they hate their job,
they're not living a life on purpose with their purpose.
So they fill the void with high dopamine producing foods,
sugar or alcohol, whatever it is, because they lack purpose.
You don't have no energy, and you're not fatigued because
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you're pretty much unhealthy, although that might be the case.
You probably don't have energy because you're not inspired. You
probably don't have energy because you're not And I see
this with you, like you are clearly living on purpose
with your purpose. It's no coincidence that you're healthy, you're vibrant,
you have amazing energy levels, you got an amazing attitude
because you're doing what you love and that's what we
want to do. When you live on purpose with your purpose,
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you have all the energy, you have all the resources.
And I really believe a lot of people that are
obese it's because of this. One of the things that
I talk about is this quote from a guy named
Robert Heinland. It's one of my favorite all time quotes.
Here's the quote. He said, in absence of clearly defined goals,
we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately
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we become enslaved by it. Right that daily trivia is
sugar addiction, poor an addiction, video game addiction, whatever it is.
I suffered with a lot of those things because I
didn't I wasn't clear on my goals. When I got
clear on my goals, this addictive personality that I had
my entire life turned into a superpower. Meaning your addiction
could be a superpower if you harness all that energy
(31:53):
you put into your addictions, which we use a lot
of energy. If you harness that and put it into
something you love, you are now all a super human
that's going to take off and crush it. I was
addicted to video games so much so that I was
one of the top players in the world and Call
of Duty and Matt and I put so much energy
into it, right. But when I got clear on my
values and my goal is I transfer that. Now I
(32:15):
want to be the best at what I do. Right,
So I believe addiction can be a superpower.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I can't I can't tell you how much I'm getting
from this conversation, man, because it's funny. I've been thinking
a lot about our book. So I wrote a book
on leadership and then and then we've got a book
coming out on ways to get healthy and the most
effective ways, in my opinion, to get and stay healthy.
(32:43):
And one of the things that I didn't really piece
it together till I heard you say it was how
people need purpose. And I talk a lot about values
and not letting fear overwhelm your leadership and decision making.
But the power of aligning with your values is that
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you do find that purpose. You do find that that direction,
you have a reason to get up every day. And
when you have that, you're more aligned. You're not gonna
be searching for all that junk. You're gonna be looking
looking for thingings that they're going to energize you, that
are going to keep you on track. And so this
(33:25):
is it's such a good point to make. It's that
if we look at society right now. I was actually
ironically having this conversation earlier today too. They're a lot
of our youth, especially like the twenties and early thirties
spokes I don't know, gen Z whatever you want to
call gen W, I don't know, but they seem to
(33:48):
lack jump. They seem to be lacking a little bit
of drive, a little bit of purpose, and and you
know what that could lead to is not only on
a mental health crisis and considential mental health, but also
physical health like the risk and metabolic syndrome and so forth.
(34:09):
So you know, hearing that it really resonates with me.
Ben And I don't know how you came to this conclusion.
Is it maybe from your own experience as you mentioned,
But I think this is a conversation that we could
be having more off To be honest.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Absolutely absolutely, it's something I lived my life right. I
saw that for myself and when I got clear on
my goals and everything just changed, it shifted right away. Unfortunately,
I would estimate ninety seven percent of people don't have
that passion. They don't have that purpose. They're what Earl
Nightingale used to say, tiptoeing their way through life, hoping
to land safely on death's door. We don't want to
(34:48):
live that way. LUs Brown always talks about the richest
place in the world. It's not Beverly Hills, it's not Dubai.
It's the cemetery. That's where everybody goes with their dreams,
their aspirations and goals that they never ever went for.
And I think a big part of that, I know
a big part of the reason why people don't go
for it is because they are scared to fail. They're
(35:10):
scared of what others would think of them. They're scared
that society would view them in a certain way. If
they were one way their entire life and they decided
to make a change, it can be scary, absolutely, And
Joseph Campbell said, the cave you fear to enter holds
the treasure that you seek. It's going to be uncomfortable,
it's gonna suck. I did it myself. When I continue
(35:32):
to do it myself, I continue to stretch myself and
put myself in uncomfortable positions. But I have a personal
philosophy if you want to call that, I follow, and
that philosophy is suck, suck success right and raise the suck.
It'll be uncomfortable, but you'll end up being successful. And
the amazing thing about your purpose, it's unique to you.
(35:54):
Everybody has a unique purpose that God has put you
on this planet. For the Greeks call it teleology, the
study of purpose, the study of chief aim. But that's
unique to you. You know, a mom who has a family,
her purpose could be being the best mom in the
world for a family, raising the most incredible children, as
being there for them, that's a worthy goal. Like, if
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that's what you want to do, that's what you do.
Like for me, my purpose is I want to be
the best student and the best teacher I could ever
be on this planet, so I could take what I'm
learning and give it to people as much as possible.
Like that's my worthy ideal, my goal that I've fallen
in love with. But everybody has a different goal. Find
out what that goal is and then live on purpose
with it. And yeah, people are going to say things
(36:38):
to you, and yeah, it's going to make you feel uncomfortable,
but who cares. I know when you change, you become
a threat to people in your life. You don't change,
but who cares. You don't want to be in your
deathbed and say, man, I wish I would have gone
for it, but my neighbor would have thought I would
have been stupid, So I never went for it.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Right.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
You don't want to be in your deathbed thinking about that.
I saw that with my dad, I see it with
so many people. I don't want to be like that.
I want to go to my grave empty. I want
to give it all, my God, all I got and
live on purpose with my purpose and I want to
go into that grave empty.
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Welcome back to Prevention over Prescription Radio on SAGA nine
six And this is I live on. My job is
dealing with dim patients and often there were regret is
what they didn't do, and it's fear driven, it's image driven.
(38:06):
And so to reinforce that folks swing the bat. This
weekend we went to a funeral of a guy, uh
my age, great guy, father of three and one of
(38:27):
the most viable lessons that I heard from his z
eulogy and all the people that that spoke was that
he lived that life of like not leaving, not not leaving.
As I said, he swung the bat if he if
(38:47):
he had an aspiration of dream, he was going to
go for it and he lived a beautiful life as
a result of it. And so to me, it was
just reinforcing what you're saying, Ben, you got and his
This is a guy that had strong values of serving
others and being there for his family, creating these memories
and experiences for the loved ones around them, and and
(39:11):
that just reinforced that message to me, Ben, is that hey,
let's let's swing the bat and it's going to be
a much more fulfilling life. You live a healthier life
as a result of it. It's it's and it's what
I feel in some ways is what society needs is
visionaries like yourself, people that are going to help move
(39:32):
the needle. And in our case it's it's health and wellness.
But this is what we need right now, and I
think the timing bend of the book has never been
more important.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Thank you they I love the saying swing the bat.
That's so good. I'm going to use that. I'll give
you credit, but I'm going to use that.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
I like that absolutely. I don't need that butt note you.
But let me ask you, Ben, as we're coming to
a close, what would be what would be a win
for the book? Like in terms like we all have
like metrics that we have in our head, but what
(40:10):
would be either a feeling or or anything that would
ultimately tell you that you know, what put an out
metaballic freedom was a good thing.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Great, great question. Nobody has asked me that yet. If
I could just have one person read the book or
listen to the book, it's available, It's going to be
available on audible as well, and I'm narrating it as well.
If I could have one person finish the book, apply
what they've learned, and reverse their type two diabetes, just
one person, it would make it all worthwhile. Because I
(40:49):
saw how my dad suffered. I suffered, everybody around him suffered.
He was in he was bedridden for nine months, paralyzed,
the inabilities speak from the stroke. So if I could
help one person prevent that, that would mean every it
would be worthwhile. Now, the goal is to have five
(41:11):
hundred thousand people read or listen to the book in
twelve months, so I'm praying that many people accomplish that.
But if I could have just one person accomplished that,
to me, that is worthwhile.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Damn straight. And you know the beautiful thing is and
you and I both know this because of the book,
Because of this episode right here, It's going to hit
somebody and it's gonna that's a beautiful thing. Like I
like a lot of people. Are you a doctor, that's amazing. Yeah,
it is cool you're when you're treating the patient and
(41:44):
so forth. But this a platform like this, having people
things on media and print. The reach is what I'm
addicted to, is that you can affect so many lives.
And Ben, I'm telling you, metabolic cream is about to
affect so many people's lives. It's so it's so exciting,
(42:08):
it's so exciting, and I just I'm just really proud
of you, Ben and what you've been able to do
over the course of I don't know how many years
of Cuto camp and all these things, but you're killing
the game. And I can't wait to support this book
and get that word out there. First of all, Okay,
so we're up against it, but where can people find
a book? Where can they learn more about you? Where
(42:30):
do we get more of you on social media? When
can we When does all the magic happen?
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Yeah? Well, and thank you for those words, and you
inspire me. I love your work. I'm excited to bring
you on my podcast in and you're just a rock
star in this space and excited to see you consider
to take off and whatever I can do to support
your mission and we're in this together. Right. People need us.
They're crying out for answers, praying for answers, and I
believe we have some really good answers for them. The
(43:00):
book is available May thirteenth, twenty twenty five. It'll be
available of course, on Amazon, but all bookstores. Hopefully you
can see it at the airport. It'll be available on Audible,
and we're doing something special actually where you could actually
pre order the book right now and you'll get access
to a free course. The course has twelve lessons I
(43:20):
put together on the metabolism and exclusive interviews in the
course that you cannot find anywhere else, not on my
YouTube channel, not on my podcast. These are interviews that
I've did with doctor Jason Fong, Megan Ramos, Cynthia Thurlow,
Gary Brecca, and doctor Daniel Pompa. This is all in
a course that you get for free. All you need
(43:41):
to do is go to Metabolicfreedombook dot com and purchase
the book and then put your order number on that
page and you'll be automatically sent this free course. So
that's the best place. You could also learn about me
over at Benizadi dot com and has my courses and podcasts.
But I would love if there's one action for your
audit to take to go to metabog freedom book dot
(44:01):
com and pre ordered the book and then get access
to the free course.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Consider it done, folks. You'll see us amplify it May thirteenth. Well,
we'll have to do a live on that launch day.
We wanted that thing to get to number one on
everything everything. Let's go, Ben, thank you so much for
doing this. I love your brothers.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Maybe right back man, thank you for your work.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Right quldcrastination aging parents. This is what we're talking about
because I have had so many people approach me in
the last little while here struggling with their parents, saying
they're in this funny area where they are have their
young families, but they're also having those aging parents where
(44:48):
they're seeing demensia, mobility issues, disposition issues, as in where
they're going to live, where they're gonna how are we
going to be able to take care of them. They're
experiencing more falls, they lose weight, and I gotta tell you,
I want to I wanted to come on to say,
like if I had my parents were still with me,
(45:08):
how about of it? Approach things. How about I approach
things if I knew I was having that aging parent
and do everything I can to mitigate their risk of
becoming frail, losing their independence, keeping them sound of mind.
And honestly, the framework is simple. It's very similar to
(45:31):
many of the things that we talked about. And the
first thing we'll talk about is the nutrition side. As
we see people age, their appetites go down, they become
more frail, they lose their body, they're leaning muscle mass.
So as you can imagine, my emphasis is on protein intake.
(45:52):
How do we guarantee our parents, our grandparents get enough
protein intake during the day, And sometimes it's about choosing
foods that really peel to them. If it's for example,
on the ethnic side, my parents were Ganyian. They have
a lot of rice dishes that have a little bit
of protein in it. I always say, just double up
(46:15):
the protein in that in the rice dish, jell of rice.
Those that know what I'm talking about Ganians and Nigerians
at double the chicken that's that involved there, and that
will go a long way. In terms of supplement. You'll
see people get boost, which is better than nothing. But
in my opinion, tons of sugar highly processed. I'm a
(46:38):
big fan of just throwing some protein powder in the mix.
If you're not if your mood is down, if you're
all this is going to decelerate. And we saw that
during the pandemic, with all the loneliness and inability to
connect on how that and how we saw a significant
decrease in quality of life and loggy of some of
(47:00):
our elderly population. So I think really putting that emphasis
on how grandma, mom, grandpa is going to sleep, I
think it's super important. And the last part I'll say
is about creating that connection, and that could be through exercise,
which I think is the nice way to kill two
birds with one stone. Are you going to get to
(47:22):
be part of an exercise group Awkua aerobics. I don't
care what it is, that's it's it's so important.
Speaker 5 (47:28):
To have that that that that connection, that that psychological
aspect where you you feel purpose and feel like you're
part of something.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
And so that could be through family making sure you
can now to see grandma and grandpa enough clubs, uh,
whether that's BATCHI, whether that's card games, whatever it is
that they feel connected at the time is really important
and so added Foster that you could be creative, but
(48:03):
to me this is this and the other part of
that is like enhances their mood. You don't want them
to be down and out. So these are these are
the aspects for me if my parents were still around,
what I would kind of focus on to try and
get them the best health spent and not just lifespan,
(48:23):
but health spent being healthy during the latter half of
their life or a lot of third of their life.
So once again on the nutrition sides, focus on protein,
focus on keeping that lean muscle so avoid frailty. Get
them move in. My bias is on the resistance training
of some sort, but honestly, if they're not interested in
(48:44):
that any form of movement, walking more the sport, if
it's swimming, I don't care. But get them move in.
For sleep is vital in terms of maintaining cognition, being
sharper during the day. We'll trying be more energetic so
you avoid those falls, better appetite, better mood, more willingness
(49:07):
to try things. So get that sleep on point. And lastly,
making sure that they're feeling connected, feel that purpose, that
there's their value and that could be in in terms
of cooking together, working out together, exercising together, whatever works
to me. This is such an important message, all right,
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been trying to land this Jim, this baller, this influencer, author, podcaster,
freaking all things Ben and Zotti in the house. We
are so excited to have you, Ben, thank you so
much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh it's an honor, brother. I love what you're doing.
I know that we at first I'm low carb Denver.
About two years ago, we've been trying to coordinate this.
We made it happen. We're gonna have a lot of
fun today.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
We are going to have a lot of fun and listen, Ben,
I maybe I normally I'll get into a bit of
your backstory, but I'm just really excited about the book.
First of all, metabolic Freedom, because I'm the lost person
to need to tell you how important is metabolic health.
But what inspired this book is what are we going
(05:29):
to expect? Because to me, this is going to be
the one of the first ones I get on my shelf.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Son, Oh well, I can't wait for you to read it.
I'm really really excited about the book. It's really aligned
with your amazing work. You talk about prevention over prescription,
and that is the case, right. Einstein said, intellectual solve problems,
geniuses prevent them. We want to prevent these problems. We
want to be proactive. And I say something similar, I
(05:54):
say education, not medication. And that's what the book is
all about. It really first of the first half of
the book, it's split into two parts. The first part
is all about the problems. I mean, you know this.
In the United States, ninety three percent of Americans are
considered metabolically unhealthy. And I remember referencing a study in
the book from the Male Clinic in twenty sixteen where
(06:17):
they were set to determine and find out how many
Americans live an active, healthy lifestyle, and they based it
off of four characteristics criterias. Number one, they don't smoke cigarettes.
Number two, they exercise either moderate to vigorous exercise for
about one hundred and fifty minutes total per week. The
third characteristic was that they eat eight what they consider
(06:39):
a healthy diet, which is just a minimally processed diet.
And the fourth characteristic was that if they're a female,
they have a body fat percentage under thirty percent and
a male under twenty percent. And the studies showed that
only two point seven percent of Americans hit that criteria.
And that was before COVID. You talked really boldly about COVID.
(07:00):
We know what happened with COVID. It probably got worse,
So we know we have a big problem. So the
first half of the book is about the problems. Number one,
I talk about why being a sugar burner and not
burning fat, not entering kotosis rexure metabolism that ages you rapidly.
Those ninety three percent of Americans that are metabolically unhealthy
I call them being in a keto deficiency. They just
(07:22):
forgot how to burn fat, So we discuss that. We
discuss how environmental toxins, these obesogens create fat cells, and
these new classifications of toxins like diabetogens disrupt beta self function,
the pancres, leading to diabetes, and a whole set of
other issues like lack of sleep, stress. So that's the
(07:43):
first half, but it's not all bad news. So the
second half of the book gets into the solutions and
these ancient healing strategies. Ketos is fasting, using your thoughts
to heal your body, and it's all wrapped together in
a thirty day plan that gives you a step by
step guide to achieve at a bog freedom in thirty days.
So that's why I wrote the book, being somebody that
(08:03):
will struggled with obesity both physically and mentally for twenty
plus years, as somebody who lost my dad to a
metabolic disease, diabetes and the complications that came with it.
He suffered a stroke and took his life in twenty fourteen,
so I had this book in me. I've been in
this space for now for seventeen years. I've interviewed incredible
people on my podcast. You're going to be one of them.
(08:25):
I'm going to interview soon over nine hundred episodes. So
it's kind of the synthesis of all of my research,
my experience taking five thousand people through my protocols, and
then all the interviews I've done, and I put it
together in this book called metaboc Freedom.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
This is incredible And what I like about it, Ben,
is like you're really giving people the ability to take
agency and to be able to take care of their
current situation. As you said, Ben, so many people are
metabology unhealthy right now. And I don't know if you
(08:59):
get into the it into into the book, but in
all the interviews and guests that you've had in your
own research, like what disease states do you think of
when you think of metabolic syndrome? Because what is fascinating
to me is when I learned in medical school that
(09:19):
reach of or metabolic health has significantly expanded into other areas.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah, you've seen it in the front lines, on the
front lines, and that's exactly it. You know, I talk
about insulin, how high levels of insulin. It's the first
domino to fall before we get this metabolic disease. Right first,
it's the high insulin. Then it's the maybe high blood pressure,
maybe it's the way game that leads to obesity, and
of course the pre diabetes and eventually diabetes, which leads diabetes.
(09:47):
It's nobody really dies from diabetes. It's what it leads to,
the cancers, the kidney failures, the strokes, the debilitating neuropathy
where their feet feel like it's on fire. This a
lot of this happened to my dad. But it's really insulin.
And what's interesting about insulin is that I was looking
at some of the research that I put in the book,
and there was a study called the white Hall Study
number two and some other studies, and it showed that
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you could have insulin resistance, meaning high levels of insulin
for about six to fourteen years on average, without any
of your blood sugar's changing, Meaning your A one C
looks perfect, your fasting glucose looks perfect. Why because your
pancreas is just screaming out insulin to shuttle out the
glucose until your cells go deaf to the screams, and
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then all of a sudden you're pre diabetic and then diabetic.
And of course we measure that A one cs a
marker for diabetes. If you're over six point four percent,
you're considered type two diabetic or even type one diabetic.
But the high insulin levels, that's the first thing we
want to track. It's like the most important blood test
is a fasting insulin. That is the starting point. If
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we can get our fasting insulin to the single digits,
it erases a lot of these metabolic syndromes and symptoms
that people are dealing with.
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Hey, welcome back to Prevention over Prescription Radio on SAGA
nine sixty. Absolutely, and I like the way you put it, Ben,
just to give people a sense of how long this
process can can look okay, like you could have be
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years of having normal blood sugars, but you're in your
your penguins could be screaming for help. I think I
think that's a really good uh premise and and what
I've been finding really fascinating, ben to it is the
amount of you know, like we know about heart disease,
we know about stroke, and really sorry to hear about
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your dad. I know what that's like. And it's losing
your old men's is hard. So I just want to
want to say sorry about that, thank you. And but
like other disease states like that, they're coming up now,
the mental health side, the fertility side, like it's just
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it's to me, what's baffling is how more and more
things are tying to metabolic syndrome. And this is why
your book right now metabolic freedom probably has never been
more important than it has been today.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Amen, bro Amen, I agree. And the amazing thing you
know this the body is so incredible. It has the
ability to heal itself, like God has built our body
to be self healing. There's just interference, and the interference
are the symptoms that are expressed from the interference, meaning
the symptoms are not the problem. If you're overweight, you
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have a weight symptom, you don't have a weight problem.
That's really important to understand. Nobody has a weight problem
is a weight symptom. But the symptoms we have, whether
it's acid reflux, gird digestive issues like constipation or bloating,
or diarrhea, or even headaches, fatigue, lethargy, wan, whatever it is.
There's thousands of symptoms those None of those are the problem.
They are a result of the problem. It is the
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inner physician within us that's communicating to you, Hey, something
you're eating, something in your environment, something you're doing is
taking this metabolism, this innate intelligence off course, and I'm
going to present to you a symptom. I'm going to
communicate with you so you could take it back on course. Unfortunately,
conventional medicine chases the symptom and mask the symptom. It's
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like putting. It's like if there's your check engine light
turn on in your vehicle, it's like covering it up
and you keep driving that that's going to be a
big problem. Instead, we want to pull the car over,
open up the hood, and find out what's going on.
And I think I did a good job in the
book of explaining how to do that.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, I bet based on your content, then I know
it's going to be going to be awesome. The area
that is a bit of a mystery to me that
I'm starting to pay more attention to, but admittedly I
thought was a little bit of woo woo back then
was the idea of some of the environmental toxins that
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we were that are affecting our health. And one of
them that I think is now pretty mainstream anyway, was
in terms of the plastics and how that affects our hormones.
And so I'm wondering just to get a sense from you,
what are some of the high level ones that have
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caught your attention, or maybe even some that you would
highlight in the book.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. You know, maybe five ten years
ago it might have been considered Yeah, toxins. I mean,
come on, we have detoxification systems, so can we just
like detoxic And we do have detoxification systems, but the
amount of toxins we are bombarded with, we just can't
keep up. So you mentioned the microplastics. I do talk
about that in the book, and some studies are showing
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it's found in testicles of men, it's found in our arteries.
They're accumulating over time. So I give some simple things
to do in regards to the plastic. One of the
studies before I kind of give some of the protocols here.
One of the studies that I found was University of
Newcastle study, which you may or may not know, but
this study came out a couple of years ago and
it showed that the average American consumes about five grams
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of plastic every week, which is the size of a
credit card, Meaning the average person eats a credit cards
worth of plastic every single week. So if we think about, okay,
how are we getting exposed to this? Of course plastic
water bottles. So here on my desk, I have a
glass water bottle. We want to switch from plastic water
bottles to glass. And you might say, yeah, but Ben,
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I don't heat up my plastic water bottles. I should
be saying, if I don't leave it in my car, Well,
you don't know what happened as they transfer that plastic
water bottle to your convenience store. Probably wasn't high heat,
and that plastic leaches into the water. That's one exposure.
So glass over plastic whenever you can, that's going to
be important. And of course other ways that we are
exposed to plastic, like plastic tupperware, putting into the microwave,
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it's leaching into the food. Even plastic cutting boards, you
have all the microplastic. There's microplastics and certain salts and food.
So we want to use wooden cutting boards. We want
to purchase salts from high credible companies that test for microplastics.
So that's one source of toxins. But then we have
cash register receipts, and I talk about BPA, and there
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was a study that showed that cash register receipts have
about two hundred and fifty times more of the toxin
BPA than canned food. So another protocol here would be
say no to cash register receipts. If you touch it,
it goes in your skin, goes in your bloodstream. We
put it in our pocket, our pocket gets contaminated with
bp I see a lot of women that like whole foods,
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get their receipt and put it in their bra that's
being absorbed as well. So we want to say no
to cash reord diisture receipts. Those are low hanging fruits.
Then we have these supertoxins like heavy metals mercury, aluminum,
and lead, which is a food supply. I know for me,
I was exposed to mercury through silver amalgam fillings. I
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had mercury poisoning back in twenty eighteen from my silver
fillings I had in my mouth for twenty plus years
and it was leaching into my brain my hypothas pituitary.
So I got them safely removed. I did a detox
protocol to help remove some of the mercury out of
my body. And we have something in common because I
know we both have rainos syndrome. Yeah, and for me,
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my RAINOUDS was really bad. Now I live in Miami,
year in Canada a different story. I get that, But
my RAINODS was really really bad. It was flaring up
almost every single day. And I'm happy to share that.
Like I could jump my cold punch for four minutes
at foury nine degrees fahrenheit and get no flare up,
but it wasn't always the case. I've done things to
reduce my toxic load and my stress bucket, and I
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believe anybody could do that as well.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That's it. This is to me. It's fascinating, it really is.
As you mentioned, you go back ten years, this sounded
like crazy, crazy stuff, but like you mentioned the plastics,
like there was a New England Journal articles showing like
in our I think it was in our reproductive organs,
they were seeing levels of microplastics. And this is to me,
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the lesson is just don't like take anything seriously, like,
don't just dismiss some of these these these theories and
and really taking time to think about it and to
explore them, because I don't know, there's some significant consequences
that could happen, but some of these exposures and I'm yeah,
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I must say, as someone coming from the traditional symptoms,
traditional systems. Sorry, like, my eyes are open, dog like,
my eyes are open. Like I am not calling anything
wooo anymore. I'm hearing the people's opinion on this and
really exploring this stuff because I think I think we're
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you know, we're putting our foot in our mouths too often.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
But yeah, respect by the way, respect that you have
an open mind on that.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh thank you. I mean, honestly you have to now,
like I just yeah, and I appreciate you you're saying that.
I'm curious too about some of the the mind body
connection aspect of the book too, because I once again
to sound woo woo, I was not much of a
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believer of this in terms of you know, there's mind
body connection talk and but at a personal level, and
once again kind of looking at my experience with my
old man past, started to have all these like weird symptoms.
I had these heart palpitations, end up getting a calcium
score done, and all these things. And I remember talking
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to one of our social workers that works in prillative care,
and she was not shocked at all of this. She
was saying, Yeah, you're under a lot of stress and
manifests in different ways for people. So I'm curious then,
like what to expect in the book? How did you
even learn about some of this? What can we expect?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, it's actually my favorite part of the book. Chapter
ten is all about how your thoughts influence your metabolism.
I mean, I learned this through some of the greats
Bob Proctor, Tony Robbins, zig Ziggler, Jim Rohan. I could
go on around Less Brown, Lisa Nichols, I could go
on and on about these incredible people who have I've
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stood on the shoulders of these giants and I've read
their books, taking their courses, gone to their seminars, and
it's made the biggest difference in my life more so
than like getting my macros correct or exercising and all.
That's great, avoiding seed oils and all that's great, but
the mindset part, because I have found number one that
your self image of yourself plays such a significant role,
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and I'd love to unpack that right now, you know mine. Yeah,
So the self image is how we view ourselves. And
I remember when I was obese as a teenager and
as an adult, my self image of myself was, you're
an obese person, You're an obese man, You're unhealthy. That's
how I viewed myself because that's how I grew up.
And when I started to lose weight, I started to
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discover that I kept sabotaging myself to put on the
weight to match myself image of myself. And a lot
of people do that. They go on a weight loss program.
Let's say they cut their calories and they start losing weight.
But if your self image is that of an obese
person and an overweight person, and then you'll find ways
to get the weight back on. So if you want
to lose five pounds, you'll lose the five pounds and
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then you'll find seven more pounds the next month. Right,
It's like when you lose your keys, you go looking
for it, similar to this concept of your self image.
It was and look, I lost eighty pounds in nine months.
I went from thirty four percent body fat to six
percent body fat. Yet I was looking in the mirror
at myself with my shirt off, six pack abs, and
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I still saw myself as an obese person. So I
kept finding ways to get the weight back on. It
wasn't until I changed that self image that I was
able to stop sabotaging myself. And that could be applied
to everything. If you identify with your disease, your diagnosis,
and that's your self image, and you try to get health,
you'll keep going back to match that self image of yourself.
So we need to change the self image and you
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do that. There's only two ways to change it that
I have found, and I learned this from Bob Prokker.
The first way is an emotional impact, where it just
it's a wake up call, near death expirit, losing a
loved one like we lost our dads'. That's a near
that's an emotional impact, and that changes the way you think.
It changes yourself image. It changes what's called your paradigm. Ideally,
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we don't want to go through that route because it's
nine times out of ten negative experience. But that's one
way to change the self image. The other way, which
is thefer way, and I talk about this in chapter ten,
is constant spaced repetition of the new self image, meaning
you physically write down that new identity of yourself that
you know God has created for you in this life,
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that new self image, and you actually read it every
single day, and you affirm that from your conscious mind
into your subconscious mind. I'll give you an example. Right
here on my desk, I have these these goal cards,
and on the goal cards or my new self image
is what I want to accomplish. And it starts off
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by saying, I'm so happy and grateful now that and
then I write that self image and I keep reading
this until it really ends or is my subconscious mind
and now I behave like that person and you shift
into that person. And I talk about how to do
this in the book. It's so crucial because our thoughts
determine that self image. And in the book I talk
about psychologists did studies on how many thoughts do we
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have every day? And the answer was about sixty thousand
thoughts every day, and they determine that ninety percent of
those thoughts are the same thoughts from yesterday, and eighty
five percent of them are negative thoughts. Zig Ziggler used
to call it stinking thinking, and I say, if you're
thinking is thinking, your dreams are shrinking. So those thoughts
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influence yourselves. This is not w WU anymore. Doctor Bruce Lipton,
in his book Biology of Belief, has shown that your
thoughts are a frequency that penetrate your cell membranes and
communicate directly with your DNA. And he has shown that
if you constantly have negative thoughts, hateful thoughts, angry thoughts,
resentful thoughts, you're constantly sending this signal to your DNA
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to produce and flammatory proteins and cytokinds in your body,
shortening your telomeres, damaging your DNA and essentially shortening your lifespan. However,
if those thoughts are loving thoughts, grateful thoughts, abundant thoughts,
a lot of the things that you preach, then the
signal scent and it creates anti inflammatory proteins. It protects yourself.
So this is really cool because if we have sixty
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thousand thoughts a day, which we do, that means we
have sixty thousand opportunities to put the body in a healing,
anti inflammatory state. And I think that's the greatest biohack
you could ever learn and ever apply. And of course
I go even deeper in chapter ten of the book,
but that's my favorite part of the book.
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Who are listening to Prevent over Prescription with doctor King.
Oh my chills. Listen to that vitamin G too, viam
and G Yes. I love that gratitude. But I think
there's so much to this. I not only I mean,
first of all, the self sabotage part. I literally was
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having this conversation with a colleague about this today and
I'm about to do a post on it because I
think people get like I never didn't relate it to
their own self image. I was more relating it to
I'm not actually sure like what the root of it is.
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But sometimes when people are after an exercise program and
they want initial plan was to work out for an hour,
but they only got they only got twenty minutes, so
then like I'm not gonna do it, or they did
a cheated on their quote unquote diet and now they're
just off the wagon. And there's like sometimes this self
sabotage movement that happens, and maybe that's the answer right there,
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Actually is like the self image that needs to be modified.
And I truly believe like having those negative thoughts, having
that pro inflammatory state is a killer. I truly believe that.
I believe having that extra stress, that extra quotos, all
that extra inflammation. I've seen it too many times clinically
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where something significant happens in someone's life and it leads
to significant like physical damage and sometimes death. So I
really love this ben and I think, I mean, just
hearing that alone makes makes me think that people will
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get a ton of value from the book because we
don't spend enough time, in my opinion, on mindset where
we need to go mentally, the positive thoughts that we
have in our we need to put our heads. We
talk a lot about sometimes we talk about gratitude. Sometimes
we don't talk about being mindful, but manifesting putting that
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positive thoughts in your head. And I got to say.
One of the things that I'm I'm going to take
out of this, which is like even promoting that with
my kids. I got three boys. I think you know,
they already get the healthy living aspects that you get
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enough protein today that when we're working now was go.
But having that kind of positive self image and really
encouraging that, Ben like that, that's an inspiration. So thank
you for that.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I love that. I love that you're going to apply
to your three boys. That's that's prodible. When I have children,
I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to
make sure they understand this concept. I mean, I wish
I understood it when I was a kid. I wish
my parents taught it to me. They don't teach it
to you in school. We know that for sure. They
teach you all about the intellectual mind, but not the
subconscious mind. That's a big part of it. Like we
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when we were kids, we used to use our imagination,
we used to dream, We used to just have all
these amazing ideas in our mind, and we lose that
as we grew up, and that's not good. You know.
One of the things that I talk about in the
book is the obesity crisis we have in the world.
Harvard is saying that by twenty thirty, fifty percent of
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Americans will be obese. And a lot of people think
it's just like a genetic thing, and it's just it's
not your fault, it's your genes. And I remember last year,
a couple of years ago, there was somebody from the
government on sixty Minutes saying that like, look, if you
have obesity, it's not your fault. Maybe take this medication.
And we still hear this to this day. But it
makes them the victim. It doesn't make them take for responsibility.
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It puts them on a medication so they could manage it.
But obesity is not a genetic problem. We know in
the United States around nineteen thirty it was around one
to two percent obesity rates in the US, and now
it's going to be fifty percent or our genes don't
change that fast. And of of course obesity is multifactorial.
But I believe this doc. I believe that we don't
necessarily have this obesity problem because of what people are eating.
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I believe we have this obesity problem because of what's
eating people. They hate their lives, they hate their job,
they're not living a life on purpose with their purpose.
So they fill the void with high dopamine producing foods,
sugar or alcohol, whatever it is, because they lack purpose.
You don't have no energy, and you're not fatigued because
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you're pretty much unhealthy, although that might be the case.
You probably don't have energy because you're not inspired. You
probably don't have energy because you're not And I see
this with you, like you are clearly living on purpose
with your purpose. It's no coincidence that you're healthy, you're vibrant,
you have amazing energy levels, you got an amazing attitude
because you're doing what you love and that's what we
want to do. When you live on purpose with your purpose,
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you have all the energy, you have all the resources.
And I really believe a lot of people that are
obese it's because of this. One of the things that
I talk about is this quote from a guy named
Robert Heinland. It's one of my favorite all time quotes.
Here's the quote. He said, in absence of clearly defined goals,
we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately
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we become enslaved by it. Right that daily trivia is
sugar addiction, poor an addiction, video game addiction, whatever it is.
I suffered with a lot of those things because I
didn't I wasn't clear on my goals. When I got
clear on my goals, this addictive personality that I had
my entire life turned into a superpower. Meaning your addiction
could be a superpower if you harness all that energy
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you put into your addictions, which we use a lot
of energy. If you harness that and put it into
something you love, you are now all a super human
that's going to take off and crush it. I was
addicted to video games so much so that I was
one of the top players in the world and Call
of Duty and Matt and I put so much energy
into it, right. But when I got clear on my
values and my goal is I transfer that. Now I
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want to be the best at what I do. Right,
So I believe addiction can be a superpower.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I can't I can't tell you how much I'm getting
from this conversation, man, because it's funny. I've been thinking
a lot about our book. So I wrote a book
on leadership and then and then we've got a book
coming out on ways to get healthy and the most
effective ways, in my opinion, to get and stay healthy.
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And one of the things that I didn't really piece
it together till I heard you say it was how
people need purpose. And I talk a lot about values
and not letting fear overwhelm your leadership and decision making.
But the power of aligning with your values is that
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you do find that purpose. You do find that that direction,
you have a reason to get up every day. And
when you have that, you're more aligned. You're not gonna
be searching for all that junk. You're gonna be looking
looking for thingings that they're going to energize you, that
are going to keep you on track. And so this
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is it's such a good point to make. It's that
if we look at society right now. I was actually
ironically having this conversation earlier today too. They're a lot
of our youth, especially like the twenties and early thirties
spokes I don't know, gen Z whatever you want to
call gen W, I don't know, but they seem to
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lack jump. They seem to be lacking a little bit
of drive, a little bit of purpose, and and you
know what that could lead to is not only on
a mental health crisis and considential mental health, but also
physical health like the risk and metabolic syndrome and so forth.
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So you know, hearing that it really resonates with me.
Ben And I don't know how you came to this conclusion.
Is it maybe from your own experience as you mentioned,
But I think this is a conversation that we could
be having more off To be honest.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Absolutely absolutely, it's something I lived my life right. I
saw that for myself and when I got clear on
my goals and everything just changed, it shifted right away. Unfortunately,
I would estimate ninety seven percent of people don't have
that passion. They don't have that purpose. They're what Earl
Nightingale used to say, tiptoeing their way through life, hoping
to land safely on death's door. We don't want to
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live that way. LUs Brown always talks about the richest
place in the world. It's not Beverly Hills, it's not Dubai.
It's the cemetery. That's where everybody goes with their dreams,
their aspirations and goals that they never ever went for.
And I think a big part of that, I know
a big part of the reason why people don't go
for it is because they are scared to fail. They're
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scared of what others would think of them. They're scared
that society would view them in a certain way. If
they were one way their entire life and they decided
to make a change, it can be scary, absolutely, And
Joseph Campbell said, the cave you fear to enter holds
the treasure that you seek. It's going to be uncomfortable,
it's gonna suck. I did it myself. When I continue
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to do it myself, I continue to stretch myself and
put myself in uncomfortable positions. But I have a personal
philosophy if you want to call that, I follow, and
that philosophy is suck, suck success right and raise the suck.
It'll be uncomfortable, but you'll end up being successful. And
the amazing thing about your purpose, it's unique to you.
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Everybody has a unique purpose that God has put you
on this planet. For the Greeks call it teleology, the
study of purpose, the study of chief aim. But that's
unique to you. You know, a mom who has a family,
her purpose could be being the best mom in the
world for a family, raising the most incredible children, as
being there for them, that's a worthy goal. Like, if
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that's what you want to do, that's what you do.
Like for me, my purpose is I want to be
the best student and the best teacher I could ever
be on this planet, so I could take what I'm
learning and give it to people as much as possible.
Like that's my worthy ideal, my goal that I've fallen
in love with. But everybody has a different goal. Find
out what that goal is and then live on purpose
with it. And yeah, people are going to say things
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to you, and yeah, it's going to make you feel uncomfortable,
but who cares. I know when you change, you become
a threat to people in your life. You don't change,
but who cares. You don't want to be in your
deathbed and say, man, I wish I would have gone
for it, but my neighbor would have thought I would
have been stupid, So I never went for it.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Right.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
You don't want to be in your deathbed thinking about that.
I saw that with my dad, I see it with
so many people. I don't want to be like that.
I want to go to my grave empty. I want
to give it all, my God, all I got and
live on purpose with my purpose and I want to
go into that grave empty.
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six And this is I live on. My job is
dealing with dim patients and often there were regret is
what they didn't do, and it's fear driven, it's image driven.
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And so to reinforce that folks swing the bat. This
weekend we went to a funeral of a guy, uh
my age, great guy, father of three and one of
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the most viable lessons that I heard from his z
eulogy and all the people that that spoke was that
he lived that life of like not leaving, not not leaving.
As I said, he swung the bat if he if
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he had an aspiration of dream, he was going to
go for it and he lived a beautiful life as
a result of it. And so to me, it was
just reinforcing what you're saying, Ben, you got and his
This is a guy that had strong values of serving
others and being there for his family, creating these memories
and experiences for the loved ones around them, and and
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that just reinforced that message to me, Ben, is that hey,
let's let's swing the bat and it's going to be
a much more fulfilling life. You live a healthier life
as a result of it. It's it's and it's what
I feel in some ways is what society needs is
visionaries like yourself, people that are going to help move
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the needle. And in our case it's it's health and wellness.
But this is what we need right now, and I
think the timing bend of the book has never been
more important.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Thank you they I love the saying swing the bat.
That's so good. I'm going to use that. I'll give
you credit, but I'm going to use that.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
I like that absolutely. I don't need that butt note you.
But let me ask you, Ben, as we're coming to
a close, what would be what would be a win
for the book? Like in terms like we all have
like metrics that we have in our head, but what
(40:10):
would be either a feeling or or anything that would
ultimately tell you that you know, what put an out
metaballic freedom was a good thing.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Great, great question. Nobody has asked me that yet. If
I could just have one person read the book or
listen to the book, it's available, It's going to be
available on audible as well, and I'm narrating it as well.
If I could have one person finish the book, apply
what they've learned, and reverse their type two diabetes, just
one person, it would make it all worthwhile. Because I
(40:49):
saw how my dad suffered. I suffered, everybody around him suffered.
He was in he was bedridden for nine months, paralyzed,
the inabilities speak from the stroke. So if I could
help one person prevent that, that would mean every it
would be worthwhile. Now, the goal is to have five
(41:11):
hundred thousand people read or listen to the book in
twelve months, so I'm praying that many people accomplish that.
But if I could have just one person accomplished that,
to me, that is worthwhile.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Damn straight. And you know the beautiful thing is and
you and I both know this because of the book,
Because of this episode right here, It's going to hit
somebody and it's gonna that's a beautiful thing. Like I
like a lot of people. Are you a doctor, that's amazing. Yeah,
it is cool you're when you're treating the patient and
(41:44):
so forth. But this a platform like this, having people
things on media and print. The reach is what I'm
addicted to, is that you can affect so many lives.
And Ben, I'm telling you, metabolic cream is about to
affect so many people's lives. It's so it's so exciting,
(42:08):
it's so exciting, and I just I'm just really proud
of you, Ben and what you've been able to do
over the course of I don't know how many years
of Cuto camp and all these things, but you're killing
the game. And I can't wait to support this book
and get that word out there. First of all, Okay,
so we're up against it, but where can people find
a book? Where can they learn more about you? Where
(42:30):
do we get more of you on social media? When
can we When does all the magic happen?
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Yeah? Well, and thank you for those words, and you
inspire me. I love your work. I'm excited to bring
you on my podcast in and you're just a rock
star in this space and excited to see you consider
to take off and whatever I can do to support
your mission and we're in this together. Right. People need us.
They're crying out for answers, praying for answers, and I
believe we have some really good answers for them. The
(43:00):
book is available May thirteenth, twenty twenty five. It'll be
available of course, on Amazon, but all bookstores. Hopefully you
can see it at the airport. It'll be available on Audible,
and we're doing something special actually where you could actually
pre order the book right now and you'll get access
to a free course. The course has twelve lessons I
(43:20):
put together on the metabolism and exclusive interviews in the
course that you cannot find anywhere else, not on my
YouTube channel, not on my podcast. These are interviews that
I've did with doctor Jason Fong, Megan Ramos, Cynthia Thurlow,
Gary Brecca, and doctor Daniel Pompa. This is all in
a course that you get for free. All you need
(43:41):
to do is go to Metabolicfreedombook dot com and purchase
the book and then put your order number on that
page and you'll be automatically sent this free course. So
that's the best place. You could also learn about me
over at Benizadi dot com and has my courses and podcasts.
But I would love if there's one action for your
audit to take to go to metabog freedom book dot
(44:01):
com and pre ordered the book and then get access
to the free course.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Consider it done, folks. You'll see us amplify it May thirteenth. Well,
we'll have to do a live on that launch day.
We wanted that thing to get to number one on
everything everything. Let's go, Ben, thank you so much for
doing this. I love your brothers.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Maybe right back man, thank you for your work.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Right quldcrastination aging parents. This is what we're talking about
because I have had so many people approach me in
the last little while here struggling with their parents, saying
they're in this funny area where they are have their
young families, but they're also having those aging parents where
(44:48):
they're seeing demensia, mobility issues, disposition issues, as in where
they're going to live, where they're gonna how are we
going to be able to take care of them. They're
experiencing more falls, they lose weight, and I gotta tell you,
I want to I wanted to come on to say,
like if I had my parents were still with me,
(45:08):
how about of it? Approach things. How about I approach
things if I knew I was having that aging parent
and do everything I can to mitigate their risk of
becoming frail, losing their independence, keeping them sound of mind.
And honestly, the framework is simple. It's very similar to
(45:31):
many of the things that we talked about. And the
first thing we'll talk about is the nutrition side. As
we see people age, their appetites go down, they become
more frail, they lose their body, they're leaning muscle mass.
So as you can imagine, my emphasis is on protein intake.
(45:52):
How do we guarantee our parents, our grandparents get enough
protein intake during the day, And sometimes it's about choosing
foods that really peel to them. If it's for example,
on the ethnic side, my parents were Ganyian. They have
a lot of rice dishes that have a little bit
of protein in it. I always say, just double up
(46:15):
the protein in that in the rice dish, jell of rice.
Those that know what I'm talking about Ganians and Nigerians
at double the chicken that's that involved there, and that
will go a long way. In terms of supplement. You'll
see people get boost, which is better than nothing. But
in my opinion, tons of sugar highly processed. I'm a
(46:38):
big fan of just throwing some protein powder in the mix.
If you're not if your mood is down, if you're
all this is going to decelerate. And we saw that
during the pandemic, with all the loneliness and inability to
connect on how that and how we saw a significant
decrease in quality of life and loggy of some of
(47:00):
our elderly population. So I think really putting that emphasis
on how grandma, mom, grandpa is going to sleep, I
think it's super important. And the last part I'll say
is about creating that connection, and that could be through exercise,
which I think is the nice way to kill two
birds with one stone. Are you going to get to
(47:22):
be part of an exercise group Awkua aerobics. I don't
care what it is, that's it's it's so important.
Speaker 5 (47:28):
To have that that that that connection, that that psychological
aspect where you you feel purpose and feel like you're
part of something.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
And so that could be through family making sure you
can now to see grandma and grandpa enough clubs, uh,
whether that's BATCHI, whether that's card games, whatever it is
that they feel connected at the time is really important
and so added Foster that you could be creative, but
(48:03):
to me this is this and the other part of
that is like enhances their mood. You don't want them
to be down and out. So these are these are
the aspects for me if my parents were still around,
what I would kind of focus on to try and
get them the best health spent and not just lifespan,
(48:23):
but health spent being healthy during the latter half of
their life or a lot of third of their life.
So once again on the nutrition sides, focus on protein,
focus on keeping that lean muscle so avoid frailty. Get
them move in. My bias is on the resistance training
of some sort, but honestly, if they're not interested in
(48:44):
that any form of movement, walking more the sport, if
it's swimming, I don't care. But get them move in.
For sleep is vital in terms of maintaining cognition, being
sharper during the day. We'll trying be more energetic so
you avoid those falls, better appetite, better mood, more willingness
(49:07):
to try things. So get that sleep on point. And lastly,
making sure that they're feeling connected, feel that purpose, that
there's their value and that could be in in terms
of cooking together, working out together, exercising together, whatever works
to me. This is such an important message, all right,
(49:30):
So let me know where your thoughts are on agent
population and your parents and grandparents. If you have any questions,
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preventative side, on that proactive side, so that you show
up as your best self, show up guide a strong baby.
Here we go. Let's do this all right people. I
(50:15):
hope you're feeling a little bit more jumping your step
after that episode. Thanks for listening. Talk real soon, pace.
Speaker 3 (50:22):
Yeah. It's like, if you want to rhyde with me,
you don't even know what rod is looks.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
If you want to get clean, you want to get.
Speaker 5 (50:28):
Dirty, you want to go left right, this.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
Is what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
Want us to knock up. Let's just rock forty one, right,
do you.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
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