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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nineteen thirty two dot org.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to another Tackle Obesity show featuring Coach Richard Walker,
our host, members of the NFL alumni, lifestyle weight loss experts,
and key social media influencers that are making a difference
now Coach Richard Walker.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hey, listen up, bring it in another Tackle Obesity other.
Thank you all for joining us again. We are so
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for because we know that tackle obesity is a medical
condition and is not a character flaw, and we are
working to get it as a team to overcome the
tackle obesity epidemic. I want us talk real quickly before
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we get started today about summer. We're at the final
few weeks spring where transitioning summer kids are going to
be out of school. Beaches are open party summer parties,
and many of us as adults, we focus on our
summer bids. What about the children, And one of the
things that gets overlooked is the fact that during the
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summer this is a pitfall for obesity in our children.
In a recent study by the National Institute of Biotechnology
Information and the National Library of Medicine, it shows that
during the summer months, children tend to gain weight on
a thirty percent higher clip during the summer months than
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they do during school year. Primary factors include the fact
that there's less activity. Some of the children are not
getting out and playing. In the South, we have the
issue of you know, possible heat exhaustion due to extreme temperatures,
and then there's just a general overall lack of activity
from not having a structured environment, not moving from class
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to class. They're parked in front of the TVs, their
tablets and video games phones all day, so there's a
there's a there's a downtick in activity, but there's a
huge uptick in the amount of food that they consume,
and not only the amount of food that they consume
is the types of food that we consume. We are
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addicted to processed foods, and having more access to processed
foods is never a good thing. Children are sitting around
eating cookies, crackers, chips, popcorn, whatever, all day long, and
so this is causing a problem. Accumulating evidence shows that
children in the USA from two thousand and seven to
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twenty seventeen gaated average of twelve pounds during the summer months.
That's a significant amount of weight, twelve pounds on average
that they gained.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
During the summer months.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So we need to focus on not only making sure
that our children have more activity and maintain that activity
during summer unths, but we need to monitor the foods
that they eat. So I encourage you all definitely get
some support on what you can offer to your children.
We have some amazing content on our website, Attackling with
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bcdal House. Specifically look at the doctor Nerd segments where
we talk about different things that you can offer to
your children as alternatives instead of processed foods and encourage
your children to be more active and to eat better.
So these are ways that we're going to work to
get to overcome this problem that we're seeing during the
summer buds. Now that we have talked about that issue,
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I want to focus on our two amazing teammates that
I brought a law today. One of them is our og,
the man who has been there from day one, mister
Russ Allen. He is the director of the NFL Alumni
Wellness program. He is the brain shout of the Tackle
of b City program. He's the one that I bet
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in Vegas when I was hoarding ships, crackers, the cookies
near thing in four hundred plus pounds. And here I
am today. So I'm so so grateful to half of
Here are we doing today.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Russ Richard, I'm doing fantastic And so he's so great
to see you and be able to share the things
we're learning about fackling our obesity. You know, my story
was I lost fifty pounds, but before picture was literally
in front of the sign.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
In Death Valley, so you could do it. After that,
my wife lost seventy.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
So as a couple, we really took this on together
and it's really taking a new direction in my life.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
And just like you, I had.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
A transformative journey and it really is such an honor.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
To be here.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Absolutely and it is a pleasure and honor.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Guys, bring out your.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
No parents, drop questions in a chat. If you have
any email us doctor when we'll get the questions to
doctor Nintillo to provide you answers. He is a gurup
in this battle against obesity from the perspective as a
medical professional. Obviously you know he's a cardiologist. He's got
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infinite amount of experience dealing with people that are dealing
with this obesity crisis. But he also has a personal
pivot to this as will and I'm gonna let him
talk about that as well.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
He is a trusted medical professional in this business, has
been dealing with patience and and and the co morbidities
of obesity. So it is such an honor to have
you here doctor, doctor greg Ntello. This is the last
time I will use is word, because now you're our teammate.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
We're no longer even call you a gift.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You're now teamate, a new teammate, Doctor Gregentaleank.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
You, Richard, and thank you Russ. It's been a pleasure
to work with us and tackle obesity and fight against
diabetes for a couple of years now. And thank you
so much. And proud of both of you for what
you do. All the people you're helping is fantastic and
it's a beautiful day, and we should start out with
some gratitude and know why we're here. Have the mindset
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and why we're here is to improve well, actually, we're
here not just to prevent and not just to better manage,
but to reverse chronic disease and writing it out. We're
flooded with an epidemic of chronic disease in our country.
And what that means is it's the leading cause of disability,
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greatest reason for healthcare spending, greater than ninety percent of
health care spending, and greatest cause of premature death. And
we're talking about things like stroke, heart attack, Alzheimer's dimension, dementia,
premature dementia, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease. And actually all
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these things are a symptom of the flame that's out
of control inside us from the exposures we have all
the time. And what I want to do is make
this very real to people, because the purpose of this
today is to tell you how we can do this.
It's very doable. It's just oftentimes we're not aware of
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things and that the NFL alumni are legends, models for society,
models for kids, and have a tremendous impact. And each
of us suffers with one chronic illness for another, our
families do the people around us, and there's a lot
that we can do to help ourselves and help other people.
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And that's what we're going to go through today.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Doctor Natello, I'd love for you to share a little
bit about your own experience as a youth and struggling
with type two diabetes and yeah, we'll leave it.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Let you go. Well, Ross, I'll tell you when I
was in my early teenage.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Years, I had diabetes and my mother.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Who grew up on a farm but worked as a
professional waitress in Philadelphia at the pub and my father
was a barber, and my mother just wouldn't stand for it.
My mother like went out of control when the doctor said,
here's insulin. You know at age I don't know, eleven
or twelve, and.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
I would drawy overweight.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I was obese, and my mother just wouldn't have that.
And my mother.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Imposed on me.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Her lifestyle habits having grown up on a farm, and
actually reversed my diabetes. And at the time it's kind
of interesting because at the time it was called adult
onset diabetes versus like one diabetes, right, type type one
diabetes about five percent of people, but overwhelmingly ninety five
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percent of diabetes is type two. And uh and at
the time we didn't know that, and that doctor said, oh,
you're you're going to die without insulince. My mother took
a risky chance and straightened my life out and what
I eat and what I ate and what I was
exposed to, and actually resolved me of diabetes, which has
come back at times we're threatened to.
Speaker 8 (09:37):
Come back in my life. But I lost the obesity.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
I lost the diabetes for good pretty much, and uh,
I'm forever grateful for that. And I'll show you though
as we go on, and I'm just going to show
a few slides, but I'll show you as a college
football player versus later on as a busy intervent cardiology,
carrying twinkies around in my pocket and drinking cokes and
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not sleeping for years. The difference same, bm I. But
I'm going to show you the difference between health and illness.
And then and again in my adult.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
Life, I uh, Richard and Russ, I was, oh, there
was something wrong with me, and I had to go
to one doctor after another, and everybody said.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Oh, you're just working too hard, don't worry about it.
You was just working too hard, and I said, no,
there's something wrong with me. And actually I was pretty sick.
And finally I got a diagnostic label. And then they
tried to just put different layers of paint on the
hood without addressing the engine under the hood and without
getting to the heart of the matter, and they all
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meant well. And then I was privileged because I could
go back to everything I had learned but maybe didn't
learn during my education at the Cleveland Clinic. Over the
last year of the history. They set every day to
save lives and care for life. Right, So I went
back and kind of was privileged to go back and
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get re educated rather than just putting stents and heart
attack patients, which is fantastic and honorable. But even the
first doctor that the doctor that did the first bypass surgery,
you'r a fi Blaro Cleveland Clinic, said athoscrosis is a disease,
and I can do bypass surgery, but I'm not treating
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a disease. And we know that because we do a
bypass and someone comes back with the stroke where they
still have a high blood pressure. They're all different faces
of the same internal inflammation. And Richard, I don't want
to bore your audience with oxydative stress at immune dust regulation,
but there's an internal flame that gets out of control,
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and then it's manifests as chronic diseases, of which there's
all a handful of which obesity and overweight our major issues.
At about forty percent of Americans are overweight, and if
you combine about three out of four Americans are either
overweight or obese, about forty five percent or obese. And
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we'll talk about what obesity means a little bit as
we go on. So, yeah, I have had to walk
to talk. I've had to learn and go back and
get enlightened repeatedly and at many years doing that, Richard,
and had to kind of change my whole career focus,
my whole vocational focus, and get enlightened. Unfortunately, I had
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the resources to go do that and save my own
life as well, and then learn a better way to
help people.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Actually, and.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
You know, the way that I view life now is
to help people with their lifespan, with their lifespan their
health span. Right, it's not just how long you live,
but you want to have a health of me.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
You want to be vigorous, if you want to.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Go out and you want to pick up your your
grandchildren or your kids or whatever, whatever you want to do.
You want to be able to do that for as
long as possible and have a vibrant, exciting, happy life.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Right.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
So that's about and that's what we're going to talk
about today.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
How to do that.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I'm glad you brought up to the fact that you
you had to re educate yourself on what OBESTI is
and specifically to you, how you treat it. So I
noticed the sort of a pain with a broad brush.
But how do we re educate our medical community because
I think a lot of the people that are in
practice right now, you know, forgive me if i'm speaking here,
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but it seems like a lot of people that are
in practice are dealing with the back in versus prevention.
So how do we turn that curve where we're educating
our medical professionals to focus on prevention versus treatment.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Well that's a good point, and Richard, the way I
look at it, it's not just prevention, Okay, It's also
about improving how we manage chronic disease and furthermore, reverse it,
reverse it. Reverse that ascrossis put diabetes and remission, get
rid of things that are driving these chronic diseases, and
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turn chronic diseases around and.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
Turn lives around.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
But to answer your question, I don't want to be
derogatory or negative at all. But you know, we're talking about.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Things that have been.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Going on for generations now, and what we've developed since
World War Two is a hammer nail. Okay, everybody's in
a hammer nail, and it neglects the biologic differences between you,
me and Russ and it things that are driving that
and those faces of chronic disease. So we really have
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become very siloed. And I could talk all day about
we have guys that are into the brain thing, we
have guys that are into the GI microbiome.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
We have guys that are in hypertension.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
But we've not been educated to listen to what we've
already learned.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
Since the nineteen forties.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
That.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
We are what we are in life every day and
how we feel and how we function, how long we.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Live is.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Due to how well our orchestra works. There're all pieces
in the symphony in our body, and we call it
systems biology, and it's all connected. Your gut is connected
to your brain. Your gut goes faster as your brain
than your brain goes to your gut. But all these
things are so intimately related, and that determines who we are, Richard,
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and how we feel and function every day.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
And I'm going to give you some a group.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Of common things that holds the answer to how we
can optimize that and optimize our function and vibrance in
life terrific.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
Well, one of the things that you know, we really
really I'm sorry we probably didn't answer, but what we're
doing now is we have it's not just medicine.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
But you can't give someone this in a fifteen minute
office visit. Doctors are really pounded now, you know. And
again the medical schools are starting to implement this a
better education. But then as far as delivery, it's not
possible to deliver this in brief office visits, let alone
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have and and a doctor may not have time in
her life to go back and relearn or gain a
more enlightened perspective now, but certainly they have an obligation.
I believe to provide access to a system that will
help them a patient learn that and put those things
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into their daily life in a happy, joyous way. And
it's not about restricting or you can't eat this. It's
about opening the abundance of life giving and life saving
things that people are not aware of. Unfortunately, we live
in a society today that things are upside down, right
and inside out, meaning that everything that is health adverse
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has been presented to us since the nineteen eighties and
nineteen seventies and nineties. That's been presented to us as normal,
and it's not normal. So things are upside down and backwards,
and people have been programmed like kids think Tony the
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Tiger is a wonderful thing with flags and sugar. Right
and again, I'll say thirty or forty years ago, there
were three hundred and fifty products in the grocery store.
Today there's thirty five thousand. But if you really look
at it, if you really look at it, ninety five
percent of them are all the same thing. There're feed oils,
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MAGA six things heavily priced ult what we call ultra
processed food, and we have definition for that, but a
way to look at that would be if you take
an apple and then you compare it to getting the
apple pie and McDonald's, there's no correlation with the nutritional
intention of the apple.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
But yet people are buying that. Or you think about
kids are getting apple juice right right, Well, they're.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Getting the balls to sugar and IV sugar ballster insinally
goes up chronic insulin and then for years you develop
insulin resistance, which is the precursor to it's chronic inflammation,
and it's a precursor to pre diabetes and diabetes at
obesity and all those things. So what I'm trying to
say is, but yet people think I'm going to see
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my kid apple juice. It's a wonderful thing. It's not.
You're hurting your kid.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
And there's so many things, but you think you're doing
the right thing.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
So our society has really misfled us, you know, And
it's economically driven by the four or five food companies
basically that we have in the world. And so we
really have to just help people get an awareness, but
more importantly than we have to show them the abundance
of things for their life that they don't know about.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Absolutely, that's a great point. That's where I was going
with the next question, is that one of the things
that we really emphasize on this show and through all
of our content is that I like to use the
saying that your food is your medicine, and if you
don't focus on it that way, then your medicine will
become your food.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Absolutely, And in fact, it's interesting, Richard, were some groups
of medicine, you know, the functional medicine people, which I'm
one of them, and I'm also American College of Lifestyle
Medicine kind of person. And so there's a big emphasis
now to bring these everyday things that we do every
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day in our life, you know, to bring these things
into what becomes our habits, our mindset, our emphasis. So
we're trying to do this and unfortunately, if we had
all the leaders in our country, because this is it's
a global issue now, but if we had all the
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people in our country, all the leaders for health and
business together and make a stand, you know, it would
make a fair difference. For right now, it's going to
depend on the individual.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
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Speaker 5 (23:09):
Richard, Maybe in RUSS maybe I could just say a
couple of key things, like six pillars of health, go
for it. Okay.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
One is what we eat.
Speaker 13 (23:18):
And when we're talking about like I said, minimal to
no processed food, sugary beverages, gator A fruit thoas they're
all actually.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Toxins and poisons. And I don't want to bore you
with the biology, which I'm excited about, but we talked
about mitochondria liver disease. You don't know this, maybe you do,
but there's a thing called fatty liver disease and it
was first discovered in nineteen eighty. Okay, this is unbelievable,
and you know it was discovered in kids. And I said,
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wait a minute, you have alcoholic liver disease. But you're
eight years old. You're not drinking.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Alcohol, are you?
Speaker 7 (23:55):
No?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Oh? Wow? Will you have this thing called fatty liver
disease which now you know affects like a gigantic number
of kids, a gigantic number of adults for a long term. Uh,
it's silent disease. Doctors too often don't look for it.
It's negotiated with diabetes and has a lot to do
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with what we eat, like fruit toasts and sugar is
glucose and fruit toase fruit TOAs goes right to your
liver and starts poisoning your liver, okay, and leads to
chronic liver disease. What is the most common cast of
chronic liver disease and is becoming a number one reason
for liver transplants in the world now in this incredible
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fatty liver disease right, And it's all associated with obesity
and diabetes, inflammation, all this stuff.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
It's all in there together.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
And so when I see when you and I are
sitting on a park bench Richard at hanging out in
Houston or Atlanta, I don't know. I just look around
and I see everybody with the big waste, thinking, God,
I got to have a talk with you because I
love you, right, And then on my waist gets big,
I say, oh God.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
And I can always find out? But so one is
we call nutrition, but it is what we eat, it's
what we drink. We should be drinking water. It's purified
reverse osmosis. Green tea, okay, and I get green tea
to decaffeinated and green tea is really healthy, but in
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a stecaffeinated.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
A certain way Swiss water method, not.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
With all the toxic chemicals and what we drank the
water out plastics. This will scare you. It's a real thing, Okay.
But a study came out a couple of months ago
where crodded artery surgery patients, right half of them, half
of them had plastic in the prodded arteries. Wow, and
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the plastic and the prodid arteries predicted you're gonna die earlier.
You're gonna to be sicker than the person who already
has a bed of course, because they have crowded disease.
It didn't have the plastic. So what I'm trying to say,
is what we put on our skin, the water we drink,
all this what we might wave things in.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Wave your food and plastic you're heating it up, moving
those molecules into the food you've got, right, plus or
ceramic cannot use plastic.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Right, Glass all the time, and I packed everything in
glass down a refrigerator very important.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
I got a water filter, I got this, I got that.
But I'm not crazy.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
What I'm trying to say is I used to think
this was crazy stuff, but now I know the biology
of it, and I know the data. But the other thing, Russ,
thank you for pointing out it's not just the food
we're talking about. And the best food is the food
that doesn't have labels. It's hidden in the corner of
the grocery store, right. And we have to teach people crucifers, vegetables.
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There's a gazillion of them, you know, But any anyway,
we have to teach people and that there's an abundance
of wonderful things out there, abundance if we just let
people know that and then how to prepare it and
what cooking oils to use and not to use, like
you know, like olive oil is like improves your life.
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All these other the Omega three, but all the Omega
six oils are very harmful to your health. But also
the packaging is what I wanted to mention. The packaging
is full of poisons and things were called toxins and chemicals,
so you know.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
And again eating at home with the community and all.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
That love also is all molecules of emotion and your biology. Okay,
and that also improves your health. And eating out is
a very treacherous road if you're gonna do that a lot. Yeah.
So that's a little bit on nutrition. And then I
want to talk about I don't use the word exercise,
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and I don't use the word diet ever, because we're
talking about dietary patterns right, not dying it. Diets are
not sustainable.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
They don't work. You can be able to a thousand diets.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
You have to get a healthy dietary pattern and whatever
we call it, if we call it, it doesn't matter
the Blue Zone diet or the Mediterranean dietary pattern. It's
all the same.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
They're all commonalities. What I told you, Okay, there's no
difference here.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
And but and then joyous movement is the point I
don't like the word to use exerciy. Yeah, I'd like
the larious movement and wherever you are if you need
to get off the couch, if you need to go walking,
and yeah, I have my warr ring.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
Okay, that tells me heart rate variability.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
It tells me how I'm doing, and if I wake up,
it says, Greg, you're going to feel terrible today. It's right.
But I like it Richard and Russ because it tells
me how many steps I walk a day, and most
importantly for me, by contrasts with a lot of the
other things available. It tells me about heart rate variability,
which is a balance of my red battery cable and
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my blue and my black battery cable. We all our
bodies run on two cables. And it's called the automatic
nervous system. And that's why my blood vessels constrict when
I stand up and I don't pass out, and that's
my heart rate, and my pupils get big and small,
I sweat or don't sweat. It's the two cables in
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your body, the automatic nervous system, and it impacts everything
and we have to have that imbalance. And then that's
another thing, Vaguel tone. We could talk about and too much.
We live in a life where we're in the room
with a lion, so our rocket fuel are at the
nephrine is going sky high all the time, and that
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hurts our brain and our body. It causes accelerating aging
and premature death, heart failure and other things. So we
have to have a balance to the vague tone, the
rest and digest and regenerative phase. And that's what my
heart rate variability monitoring tells me. The numbers aren't important.
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What's important is to trend over weeks and months anyway.
So joyous activity, we could talk about it all day,
but it's essential.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
It prolongs your life.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
And no physical activity in itself will not get you healthy.
It's fantastic, and it's all these things are synergistic. But
if you're eating all the stuff that's not good for
you that we talked about, you can exercise all you want,
it's not gonna matter.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Now.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
The other thing I want to talk about is stress,
real fast stress is a physiologic thing, and whether you're
aware of it or not, and whether it's physical stress
or emotional stress, bad relationships, toxic relationships, This is all
biology pouring into you and forms of stress, we're aware
(31:13):
of it or not. Not Sleeping is a terrible form
of stress. Stress, disrupture, metabolism and all the things we
talk about that are critical for life, your mitochondrial function,
this and that. So it's truly important that are we're
aware how to manage stress, is my point, and that
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has to do with the balance in the autonomic nervous
system and things we can do to increase our vagal tone.
The other thing that's really critical that people don't get
is restorative sleep. One of the most important things for
health and obesity and everything else. And when you don't
get the sleep that you need on a routine basis.
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This is all biology, somebody's opinion on the street, but
it will.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
Make you eat.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
It changes all the hormones and nerves in your body.
It changes everything everything that you makes you who you are.
You can't do it effectively without restorative sleep. And we
have a whole course on sleep. Breathing is important. The
other thing I wanted another pillar is social connection.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
And we know that we have an epidemic.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Now isolation in America. Okay, people are on social media.
Well we're on social media now, so don't count this but.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
Whatever a we whateur.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Well, but this is this is a good thing, though, doctor,
because we're doing film study and we're breaking this down.
So don't think we're that way. You just think we're
in locker and roll. Yeah, we're going through the excess
and notes. That's what we're doing exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
I'm with you, guys. But the point I'm getting that
is social connection. Isolation is now been declared a major
public health crisis and also leads to chronic disease and
premature death. So all these things are real biological issues. Yes, Russ, I.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Want to add hydration, and you mentioned a filter that
uses I have a Burkey filter, so it uses a
stone to.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Sandstone to filter the water.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Yes, it eliminates ninety nine percent of the toxins and
so on. Costs nothing once you buy it last forever.
I don't have to throw away all those plastic bottles
that held my water in him and gotten hot and
cold and hot and cold. So whatever that plastic was
shedding at that time went into that water. Instead, I
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get it from the tap which came from the reservoir
through the filter. It's about as healthy as you're going
to get.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Absolutely, And you know, Russ to support that that there
are systems that I think are wonderful. Oh, I'm going
to get one that I can put under the sink
so I can use tap witter again and get rid
of plastic. I used to buy the glass bottles with
the pellogrino, but that's difficult all that, So I'm going
to go with tap witter that I know has a
(34:15):
good filter. The problem I'm finding is I can't find
a good filter that I can count on to get
all the plastics. And you have no idea. I will
just share with your audience what's in drinking water. There's
everything from depic code and anti seizure medicines and estrogens
and poisons and plastics and forever chemicals, so you really
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need and the best filter so far mechanism is reversed osmosis.
And I hate to say it, but well, there is
one product of plastic bottled water that when I had
to do it, I go to that because it's reversed osmosis.
Whether they get it from a tap or wherever they
say they get it, most of these spring waters are nonsense,
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are from their paths somewhere, But as long as they
have reverse osmosis.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
And what is for our audience when is reverse osmosis.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
It's just a mechanism by which they purify water, you know,
I don't think, Okay, yeah, it's just a mechanism by
which they do it, just like for mechanisms by which
they decafinate things. But this Twitter method is real and
non chemical. But anyway, I will just and then I'm
(35:30):
going to just go through this briefly, but I'm going
to say social connection, okay, community, love, spirituality, all these
things are critical to who you are biologically and how
you are expressed every day in life, and we all
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need that. And also it also has to do with again,
when I was growing up on my Italian relatives driving
me crazy talking what the meal went forever and my
chinks got.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Pissed a thousand times. Actually, when we eat slower.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
And we eat with intention and we with community, everything
physiologically and biologically is better. Is the point. It's not
someone's opinion. This is all evidence based science. And spirituality
also makes a big difference in how we feel and
how we function and how long we live a healthy life.
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The last thing I'll say is avoiding things that are
risky and here's the question. This is the real challenge
to educate people between health promoting and health adverse because
most of us don't know that, right, and there's so
many things in our everyday life. I don't want to
(36:56):
get carried away, all right, But I'll just think about
what I've gone through over the last couple of years.
It's not crazy stuff. My father was a fireman and
a barber, so I saw people die from house fires.
Today they don't do that. What I mean is emerger responders.
Firefighters don't put out of fires today. What they do
(37:19):
is they save lives with CPR and healthcare issues. Right.
But the point is, everybody has a bed, and most
people don't realize all the toxins and flame retardant stuff
that's in a bed. And then I'll realize they can
get an organic bed without all that stuff for less
expensive than they can get a toxic bed. But the
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point is, Wow, the creating products that we use, or
the stuff that we put on our hair and our skin,
and all those things keep adding up over the lifetime
to cause over time, it's all these things to add
up to kind of hurt your biology and hurt your
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metabolism and all these things then lead to high blood pressure, obesity,
and all these things are symptoms.
Speaker 8 (38:10):
They're not diseases.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
I know, yeah, we want to call it a disease,
and it is. It's not an emotional thing that your
obeses are overweight. All these things are biologically mediated, is
what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Oh wait on my floor.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
Eure obese. It's called it's one of the things contributing
to obesity. And talking about you said briefly, I'll say, okay,
I don't know if you guys know this, but more
than ten percent of diffidence are obese. Did you know that?
And what we know for example, when we're talking about
this stuff Richard and Russ that wow. A study a
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couple of years years ago showed ambilical cord the baby
had two hundred and fifty toxins and chemicals. Another study
from people that did leading work years ago showed you
just took somebody walking down the street in New York
City and they had a lot of toxins. And we
call them obesogens carcinogens. But they're things that are adverse
(39:11):
to health. Is what point? So all these things is
what we have to teach people and the last thing
I'll say too about obesity is that it reduces how
long you live by about fifteen years, guys, by about
fiften to fifteen years. And that incredible. So again, this
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chronic disease epidemic, of which obesity, mental health crisis, overweight
and you know, and I've listened to your shows, Richards
are fantastic. You're hitting on all these things is tremendous.
Thank you and Russ your efforts are fantastic. But I
(39:54):
think it's important that we really get what matters here,
and it's not somebody's opinion, you know, And we had
so many opinions out there that unfortunately aren't really based
on real life, on real things, on science, on evidence
evident based, right. So that's what we have to really
(40:15):
be careful of and be critical of before we go
and ask people to apply it to their lives. And
that's why I'm trying to say, it's just like six
or seven pillars of health. And again, these chronic diseases
that we have are just a few, and they are
all different faces of the same. What we we have
(40:36):
medical terms for internal immune dysregulation and oxidata stress, and
that's what we mean by chronic low grade inflammation. And
now we know what feeds that, right sort of speak,
and we know how to stop that process, and then
we know how oftentimes we can repair the damaged metabolism
(40:58):
from those things. And that's what we're all here to do, right, absolutely, yeah,
and rush forgive me. I don't forgive me, Russ, I
don't care.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
This is locker room talk, Doc. There's there's no forgiving
in the locker room. We notice teams that are successful
figure it out in the locker room. They figured it
out in the film room. We get on the whiteboard.
We don't have to agree sometimes, you know, we we
get a little chippy, but we got we have the
same mission, we have the same mindset. Work it out.
(41:30):
We're gonna work it out when we get all the field.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
And you know, Richard, I'm with you. And it's funny
how we've been influenced by a lot of the same people,
and you know, it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 8 (41:38):
Again.
Speaker 5 (41:39):
The whole point here is if you look back in
your life at the people who have touched your life, okay,
and it's the same thing. They have influenced to our
biology and who we are. Just like all the things
that we eat and if we're sedentary or have joyous
(41:59):
move in our life. And uh yeah, those film rooms
taught me a lot Richard, And uh absolutely and yeah yeah,
very special moments. But I will share this with you too.
I had a problem one time Richard.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Oh yeah, well I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
And okay, so I'm on the offensive line, I didn't
know where my first step was on my right foot?
Speaker 4 (42:34):
Where backwards at Fords? And it should always be forward?
And when Joe wanted me to do that in high school,
I was on his first team.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
What a privilege, coach Mobli And uh, you know what
about the point I'm getting at, it's once we teach
people the joy of doing the proper technique mm hm,
then we all facilitate succeeding. And I never missed a
trap block after I finally learned that.
Speaker 6 (43:10):
Anyway, Okay, yeah, probably probably got put on your butt
less dimes do it?
Speaker 5 (43:18):
Yes, And that's the whole point. When you take that
little step. Now, if you're a five hundred pounds you know,
offensive guard, maybe you can cheat and get away with
that from a guy like me who had no talent,
I had no ruby cheat. So if I didn't do
the technique right, I'm not going to succeed.
Speaker 8 (43:35):
And that's not we're all the field.
Speaker 5 (43:39):
At least you were on the field.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
It's just left out.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
Probably better off not on the field, because I gotta
tell you when Joe Mowglia, Okay, he's a d nail
at Coast of Carolina, but he was at a fordum
at Fordham Prep at Fordham University and his first job
applied to two hundred and fifty six schools to be
a head coach out of college at high school. Only
one school took them. What a blessing Archberr Academy in Delaware, Claymont, Delaware.
Speaker 8 (44:10):
But and I know we.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
Still care about it. Russ. Maybe you're better off not
on the field. Why I say that because we had
sticks and stones and rocks and broken class and I
know we hate people to do that at night on
our practice field no turf speare.
Speaker 8 (44:27):
But the point is all these are.
Speaker 5 (44:29):
Good lessons in life, and we're all here to help people,
but we have to do it in an honest way.
And we're really overwhelmed today, Like I've heard Richard say,
before you walk into the grocery store and it's overwhelming right,
I could just all made to feeling to us. And
I know I've heard Richard and the team talk about
(44:50):
food labels.
Speaker 8 (44:53):
And I know this is important to me.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
But like in the nineteen nineties, people like Doc Castelli
from Framing in Art Study and Dean orang Ise a
bunch of people, they fought to get any food labels on.
They fought for that for years, and now the food
labels are just inadequate. And I love that a lot
of the European countries now have colors, right, and that's
(45:21):
what food table and like one means WHOA, You're in trouble,
and another color means hey, good choice. You know, but
I will tell people, you know, when you look at
food labels, if there's more in a couple ingredients on it,
then you shouldn't be eating it, right, And if you
don't know the names of it and sugar has it
as I last counted, I don't even know how many
(45:44):
names it has, but you know, and that's another thing
that is roy dangerous is the amount of sugar that
we get. And again sugar is glucose and fruit toast
pumps up for insulin, which is not good. And then fruittose.
The other part of sugar goes right to your liver
(46:05):
and damage at your liver and the major epidemic now
you know. But the point is this is all positive.
We can help so many people, and we need a program.
You need a way to help people learn this and
implement it. And you can't just do it and a
brief visit. It's got to be like a program over time.
(46:26):
Like we need unity, we need support.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
We didn't get here overnight, and we're not going to
lead this condition overnight. But it all starts with awareness
and it definitely starts with caring and sharing. So that's
my call to action for all of you.
Speaker 5 (46:40):
Share this great and Richard, that's a great call to action.
Speaker 6 (46:44):
Absolutely, so doctor to tell if you would please, we
ask each of our guests to say, obesity is a
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Speaker 5 (47:01):
I agree with that, Russ, Well, why don't you give
it a trot again. You know that I'm committed to
tackle ab that you know that I'm committed to tackle
and the fight against diabetes, and it's real thing. It's
a real thing to me.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
What are you gonna find out about that?
Speaker 5 (47:20):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (47:20):
Where are you going to find out about?
Speaker 14 (47:22):
More?
Speaker 5 (47:22):
More information? Yes? And uh again, so I admire what
you guys do and yes, uh and again you notice
thing with you know, Russ, this thing with obesity is
a disease. Yeah. I could go on about that all day,
and it's been recognized as a disease for a long time.
(47:43):
And what we've tried to do here is talk about causes,
multiple causes, and as Richard said, cumulative over time. And
again this other word with comorbidities, we have to get
rid of.
Speaker 8 (47:57):
That because these aren't co morbidity.
Speaker 5 (48:00):
They're different faces of all the same abnormal biology, whether
you call it obesity, hypertension, diabetes, they're all just a
few different fases of the same internal metabolic arrangement with
the same causes. Right. So again, when you're treating the
(48:22):
whole person and you're improving your biology, that's why if
you treat one or two of these things, then you're
risk for all these bad things that goes down dramatically.
Speaker 8 (48:37):
And again the point is that it takes time.
Speaker 5 (48:41):
But I'll give you an example, high blood pressure.
Speaker 8 (48:43):
Right, if we apply.
Speaker 5 (48:46):
Just some of these things to people with high blood pressure,
we could dramatically de prescribe, take away their need for
multiple medications, just with If you want to call this
a better lifestyle, if you want to call this functional medicine,
it doesn't matter. I call it good medicine.
Speaker 8 (49:05):
And now even beyond that, it's good life.
Speaker 5 (49:07):
Right. But because you're again we call hypertension of disease,
but it's not a disease. It's a symptom of inflamed
blood vessels. And so we have if we treat the
whole person everything eventually, and even if we treat high
blood pressure with or without drugs, even just a little
(49:31):
bit of improvement in that blood pressure a couple millimeters
translates to a dramatic reduction in stroke and other bad things. Right, So,
one I'm going to say is small steps, and small
steps are really meaningful. And then eventually small steps turn
into gigantic leaps. And you're not going to make an
(49:54):
interception and run it back for seventy yards if you
haven't started with twenty.
Speaker 3 (49:59):
Yard sprints exactly. But this is this is all phenomenal information,
and as I mentioned this, this is this is a movement.
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This is a movement and we need more members of
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Speaker 5 (51:16):
Richard, Richard, I have to say this. I have to
screen this out, Okay, Okay, there's always a way to
help someone.
Speaker 8 (51:27):
There's always a way to help.
Speaker 5 (51:29):
Ourselves, and there's always a way to help someone, And
there's always a way to help others. And it's small steps.
Be encouraged, be enthusiastic. There's always a way to get better.
There's always a way to do it. And just have faith,
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health guide, health success guide, and you can do this
small steps at a time to wonderful health and a
vibrant life and health span. So again, I want to
leave everyone with a note of encouragement. You can write
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You can write to be the hero of your story.
There we go again. I want to thank both of
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Gonna stay alive. He's gonna get wrong all right. Well,
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we get started today about summer. We're at the final
few weeks spring where transitioning summer kids are going to
be out of school. Beaches are open party summer parties,
and many of us as adults, we focus on our
summer bids. What about the children, And one of the
things that gets overlooked is the fact that during the
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summer this is a pitfall for obesity in our children.
In a recent study by the National Institute of Biotechnology
Information and the National Library of Medicine, it shows that
during the summer months, children tend to gain weight on
a thirty percent higher clip during the summer months than
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they do during school year. Primary factors include the fact
that there's less activity. Some of the children are not
getting out and playing. In the South, we have the
issue of you know, possible heat exhaustion due to extreme temperatures,
and then there's just a general overall lack of activity
from not having a structured environment, not moving from class
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to class. They're parked in front of the TVs, their
tablets and video games phones all day, so there's a
there's a there's a downtick in activity, but there's a
huge uptick in the amount of food that they consume,
and not only the amount of food that they consume
is the types of food that we consume. We are
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addicted to processed foods, and having more access to processed
foods is never a good thing. Children are sitting around
eating cookies, crackers, chips, popcorn, whatever, all day long, and
so this is causing a problem. Accumulating evidence shows that
children in the USA from two thousand and seven to
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twenty seventeen gaated average of twelve pounds during the summer months.
That's a significant amount of weight, twelve pounds on average
that they gained.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
During the summer months.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So we need to focus on not only making sure
that our children have more activity and maintain that activity
during summer unths, but we need to monitor the foods
that they eat. So I encourage you all definitely get
some support on what you can offer to your children.
We have some amazing content on our website, Attackling with
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bcdal House. Specifically look at the doctor Nerd segments where
we talk about different things that you can offer to
your children as alternatives instead of processed foods and encourage
your children to be more active and to eat better.
So these are ways that we're going to work to
get to overcome this problem that we're seeing during the
summer buds. Now that we have talked about that issue,
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I want to focus on our two amazing teammates that
I brought a law today. One of them is our og,
the man who has been there from day one, mister
Russ Allen. He is the director of the NFL Alumni
Wellness program. He is the brain shout of the Tackle
of b City program. He's the one that I bet
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in Vegas when I was hoarding ships, crackers, the cookies
near thing in four hundred plus pounds. And here I
am today. So I'm so so grateful to half of
Here are we doing today.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Russ Richard, I'm doing fantastic And so he's so great
to see you and be able to share the things
we're learning about fackling our obesity. You know, my story
was I lost fifty pounds, but before picture was literally
in front of the sign.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
In Death Valley, so you could do it. After that,
my wife lost seventy.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
So as a couple, we really took this on together
and it's really taking a new direction in my life.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
And just like you, I had.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
A transformative journey and it really is such an honor.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
To be here.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Absolutely and it is a pleasure and honor.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Guys, bring out your.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
No parents, drop questions in a chat. If you have
any email us doctor when we'll get the questions to
doctor Nintillo to provide you answers. He is a gurup
in this battle against obesity from the perspective as a
medical professional. Obviously you know he's a cardiologist. He's got
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infinite amount of experience dealing with people that are dealing
with this obesity crisis. But he also has a personal
pivot to this as will and I'm gonna let him
talk about that as well.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
He is a trusted medical professional in this business, has
been dealing with patience and and and the co morbidities
of obesity. So it is such an honor to have
you here doctor, doctor greg Ntello. This is the last
time I will use is word, because now you're our teammate.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
We're no longer even call you a gift.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You're now teamate, a new teammate, Doctor Gregentaleank.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
You, Richard, and thank you Russ. It's been a pleasure
to work with us and tackle obesity and fight against
diabetes for a couple of years now. And thank you
so much. And proud of both of you for what
you do. All the people you're helping is fantastic and
it's a beautiful day, and we should start out with
some gratitude and know why we're here. Have the mindset
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and why we're here is to improve well, actually, we're
here not just to prevent and not just to better manage,
but to reverse chronic disease and writing it out. We're
flooded with an epidemic of chronic disease in our country.
And what that means is it's the leading cause of disability,
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greatest reason for healthcare spending, greater than ninety percent of
health care spending, and greatest cause of premature death. And
we're talking about things like stroke, heart attack, Alzheimer's dimension, dementia,
premature dementia, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease. And actually all
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these things are a symptom of the flame that's out
of control inside us from the exposures we have all
the time. And what I want to do is make
this very real to people, because the purpose of this
today is to tell you how we can do this.
It's very doable. It's just oftentimes we're not aware of
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things and that the NFL alumni are legends, models for society,
models for kids, and have a tremendous impact. And each
of us suffers with one chronic illness for another, our
families do the people around us, and there's a lot
that we can do to help ourselves and help other people.
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And that's what we're going to go through today.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Doctor Natello, I'd love for you to share a little
bit about your own experience as a youth and struggling
with type two diabetes and yeah, we'll leave it.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Let you go. Well, Ross, I'll tell you when I
was in my early teenage.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Years, I had diabetes and my mother.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Who grew up on a farm but worked as a
professional waitress in Philadelphia at the pub and my father
was a barber, and my mother just wouldn't stand for it.
My mother like went out of control when the doctor said,
here's insulin. You know at age I don't know, eleven
or twelve, and.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
I would drawy overweight.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I was obese, and my mother just wouldn't have that.
And my mother.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Imposed on me.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Her lifestyle habits having grown up on a farm, and
actually reversed my diabetes. And at the time it's kind
of interesting because at the time it was called adult
onset diabetes versus like one diabetes, right, type type one
diabetes about five percent of people, but overwhelmingly ninety five
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percent of diabetes is type two. And uh and at
the time we didn't know that, and that doctor said, oh,
you're you're going to die without insulince. My mother took
a risky chance and straightened my life out and what
I eat and what I ate and what I was
exposed to, and actually resolved me of diabetes, which has
come back at times we're threatened to.
Speaker 8 (09:37):
Come back in my life. But I lost the obesity.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
I lost the diabetes for good pretty much, and uh,
I'm forever grateful for that. And I'll show you though
as we go on, and I'm just going to show
a few slides, but I'll show you as a college
football player versus later on as a busy intervent cardiology,
carrying twinkies around in my pocket and drinking cokes and
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not sleeping for years. The difference same, bm I. But
I'm going to show you the difference between health and illness.
And then and again in my adult.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
Life, I uh, Richard and Russ, I was, oh, there
was something wrong with me, and I had to go
to one doctor after another, and everybody said.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Oh, you're just working too hard, don't worry about it.
You was just working too hard, and I said, no,
there's something wrong with me. And actually I was pretty sick.
And finally I got a diagnostic label. And then they
tried to just put different layers of paint on the
hood without addressing the engine under the hood and without
getting to the heart of the matter, and they all
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meant well. And then I was privileged because I could
go back to everything I had learned but maybe didn't
learn during my education at the Cleveland Clinic. Over the
last year of the history. They set every day to
save lives and care for life. Right, So I went
back and kind of was privileged to go back and
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get re educated rather than just putting stents and heart
attack patients, which is fantastic and honorable. But even the
first doctor that the doctor that did the first bypass surgery,
you'r a fi Blaro Cleveland Clinic, said athoscrosis is a disease,
and I can do bypass surgery, but I'm not treating
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a disease. And we know that because we do a
bypass and someone comes back with the stroke where they
still have a high blood pressure. They're all different faces
of the same internal inflammation. And Richard, I don't want
to bore your audience with oxydative stress at immune dust regulation,
but there's an internal flame that gets out of control,
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and then it's manifests as chronic diseases, of which there's
all a handful of which obesity and overweight our major issues.
At about forty percent of Americans are overweight, and if
you combine about three out of four Americans are either
overweight or obese, about forty five percent or obese. And
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we'll talk about what obesity means a little bit as
we go on. So, yeah, I have had to walk
to talk. I've had to learn and go back and
get enlightened repeatedly and at many years doing that, Richard,
and had to kind of change my whole career focus,
my whole vocational focus, and get enlightened. Unfortunately, I had
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the resources to go do that and save my own
life as well, and then learn a better way to
help people.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Actually, and.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
You know, the way that I view life now is
to help people with their lifespan, with their lifespan their
health span. Right, it's not just how long you live,
but you want to have a health of me.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
You want to be vigorous, if you want to.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Go out and you want to pick up your your
grandchildren or your kids or whatever, whatever you want to do.
You want to be able to do that for as
long as possible and have a vibrant, exciting, happy life.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Right.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
So that's about and that's what we're going to talk
about today.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
How to do that.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I'm glad you brought up to the fact that you
you had to re educate yourself on what OBESTI is
and specifically to you, how you treat it. So I
noticed the sort of a pain with a broad brush.
But how do we re educate our medical community because
I think a lot of the people that are in
practice right now, you know, forgive me if i'm speaking here,
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but it seems like a lot of people that are
in practice are dealing with the back in versus prevention.
So how do we turn that curve where we're educating
our medical professionals to focus on prevention versus treatment.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Well that's a good point, and Richard, the way I
look at it, it's not just prevention, Okay, It's also
about improving how we manage chronic disease and furthermore, reverse it,
reverse it. Reverse that ascrossis put diabetes and remission, get
rid of things that are driving these chronic diseases, and
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turn chronic diseases around and.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
Turn lives around.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
But to answer your question, I don't want to be
derogatory or negative at all. But you know, we're talking about.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Things that have been.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Going on for generations now, and what we've developed since
World War Two is a hammer nail. Okay, everybody's in
a hammer nail, and it neglects the biologic differences between you,
me and Russ and it things that are driving that
and those faces of chronic disease. So we really have
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become very siloed. And I could talk all day about
we have guys that are into the brain thing, we
have guys that are into the GI microbiome.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
We have guys that are in hypertension.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
But we've not been educated to listen to what we've
already learned.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
Since the nineteen forties.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
That.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
We are what we are in life every day and
how we feel and how we function, how long we.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Live is.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Due to how well our orchestra works. There're all pieces
in the symphony in our body, and we call it
systems biology, and it's all connected. Your gut is connected
to your brain. Your gut goes faster as your brain
than your brain goes to your gut. But all these
things are so intimately related, and that determines who we are, Richard,
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and how we feel and function every day.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
And I'm going to give you some a group.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Of common things that holds the answer to how we
can optimize that and optimize our function and vibrance in
life terrific.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
Well, one of the things that you know, we really
really I'm sorry we probably didn't answer, but what we're
doing now is we have it's not just medicine.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
But you can't give someone this in a fifteen minute
office visit. Doctors are really pounded now, you know. And
again the medical schools are starting to implement this a
better education. But then as far as delivery, it's not
possible to deliver this in brief office visits, let alone
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have and and a doctor may not have time in
her life to go back and relearn or gain a
more enlightened perspective now, but certainly they have an obligation.
I believe to provide access to a system that will
help them a patient learn that and put those things
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into their daily life in a happy, joyous way. And
it's not about restricting or you can't eat this. It's
about opening the abundance of life giving and life saving
things that people are not aware of. Unfortunately, we live
in a society today that things are upside down, right
and inside out, meaning that everything that is health adverse
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has been presented to us since the nineteen eighties and
nineteen seventies and nineties. That's been presented to us as normal,
and it's not normal. So things are upside down and backwards,
and people have been programmed like kids think Tony the
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Tiger is a wonderful thing with flags and sugar. Right
and again, I'll say thirty or forty years ago, there
were three hundred and fifty products in the grocery store.
Today there's thirty five thousand. But if you really look
at it, if you really look at it, ninety five
percent of them are all the same thing. There're feed oils,
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MAGA six things heavily priced ult what we call ultra
processed food, and we have definition for that, but a
way to look at that would be if you take
an apple and then you compare it to getting the
apple pie and McDonald's, there's no correlation with the nutritional
intention of the apple.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
But yet people are buying that. Or you think about
kids are getting apple juice right right, Well, they're.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Getting the balls to sugar and IV sugar ballster insinally
goes up chronic insulin and then for years you develop
insulin resistance, which is the precursor to it's chronic inflammation,
and it's a precursor to pre diabetes and diabetes at
obesity and all those things. So what I'm trying to
say is, but yet people think I'm going to see
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my kid apple juice. It's a wonderful thing. It's not.
You're hurting your kid.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
And there's so many things, but you think you're doing
the right thing.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
So our society has really misfled us, you know, And
it's economically driven by the four or five food companies
basically that we have in the world. And so we
really have to just help people get an awareness, but
more importantly than we have to show them the abundance
of things for their life that they don't know about.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Absolutely, that's a great point. That's where I was going
with the next question, is that one of the things
that we really emphasize on this show and through all
of our content is that I like to use the
saying that your food is your medicine, and if you
don't focus on it that way, then your medicine will
become your food.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Absolutely, And in fact, it's interesting, Richard, were some groups
of medicine, you know, the functional medicine people, which I'm
one of them, and I'm also American College of Lifestyle
Medicine kind of person. And so there's a big emphasis
now to bring these everyday things that we do every
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day in our life, you know, to bring these things
into what becomes our habits, our mindset, our emphasis. So
we're trying to do this and unfortunately, if we had
all the leaders in our country, because this is it's
a global issue now, but if we had all the
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people in our country, all the leaders for health and
business together and make a stand, you know, it would
make a fair difference. For right now, it's going to
depend on the individual.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Stay tuned for the Tackle Obesity Show. We'll be right back.
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Speaker 12 (22:10):
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Speaker 5 (22:23):
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Speaker 5 (23:09):
Richard, Maybe in RUSS maybe I could just say a
couple of key things, like six pillars of health, go
for it. Okay.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
One is what we eat.
Speaker 13 (23:18):
And when we're talking about like I said, minimal to
no processed food, sugary beverages, gator A fruit thoas they're
all actually.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Toxins and poisons. And I don't want to bore you
with the biology, which I'm excited about, but we talked
about mitochondria liver disease. You don't know this, maybe you do,
but there's a thing called fatty liver disease and it
was first discovered in nineteen eighty. Okay, this is unbelievable,
and you know it was discovered in kids. And I said,
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wait a minute, you have alcoholic liver disease. But you're
eight years old. You're not drinking.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Alcohol, are you?
Speaker 7 (23:55):
No?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Oh? Wow? Will you have this thing called fatty liver
disease which now you know affects like a gigantic number
of kids, a gigantic number of adults for a long term. Uh,
it's silent disease. Doctors too often don't look for it.
It's negotiated with diabetes and has a lot to do
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with what we eat, like fruit toasts and sugar is
glucose and fruit toase fruit TOAs goes right to your
liver and starts poisoning your liver, okay, and leads to
chronic liver disease. What is the most common cast of
chronic liver disease and is becoming a number one reason
for liver transplants in the world now in this incredible
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fatty liver disease right, And it's all associated with obesity
and diabetes, inflammation, all this stuff.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
It's all in there together.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
And so when I see when you and I are
sitting on a park bench Richard at hanging out in
Houston or Atlanta, I don't know. I just look around
and I see everybody with the big waste, thinking, God,
I got to have a talk with you because I
love you, right, And then on my waist gets big,
I say, oh God.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
And I can always find out? But so one is
we call nutrition, but it is what we eat, it's
what we drink. We should be drinking water. It's purified
reverse osmosis. Green tea, okay, and I get green tea
to decaffeinated and green tea is really healthy, but in
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a stecaffeinated.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
A certain way Swiss water method, not.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
With all the toxic chemicals and what we drank the
water out plastics. This will scare you. It's a real thing, Okay.
But a study came out a couple of months ago
where crodded artery surgery patients, right half of them, half
of them had plastic in the prodded arteries. Wow, and
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the plastic and the prodid arteries predicted you're gonna die earlier.
You're gonna to be sicker than the person who already
has a bed of course, because they have crowded disease.
It didn't have the plastic. So what I'm trying to say,
is what we put on our skin, the water we drink,
all this what we might wave things in.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Wave your food and plastic you're heating it up, moving
those molecules into the food you've got, right, plus or
ceramic cannot use plastic.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Right, Glass all the time, and I packed everything in
glass down a refrigerator very important.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
I got a water filter, I got this, I got that.
But I'm not crazy.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
What I'm trying to say is I used to think
this was crazy stuff, but now I know the biology
of it, and I know the data. But the other thing, Russ,
thank you for pointing out it's not just the food
we're talking about. And the best food is the food
that doesn't have labels. It's hidden in the corner of
the grocery store, right. And we have to teach people crucifers, vegetables.
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There's a gazillion of them, you know, But any anyway,
we have to teach people and that there's an abundance
of wonderful things out there, abundance if we just let
people know that and then how to prepare it and
what cooking oils to use and not to use, like
you know, like olive oil is like improves your life.
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All these other the Omega three, but all the Omega
six oils are very harmful to your health. But also
the packaging is what I wanted to mention. The packaging
is full of poisons and things were called toxins and chemicals,
so you know.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
And again eating at home with the community and all.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
That love also is all molecules of emotion and your biology. Okay,
and that also improves your health. And eating out is
a very treacherous road if you're gonna do that a lot. Yeah.
So that's a little bit on nutrition. And then I
want to talk about I don't use the word exercise,
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and I don't use the word diet ever, because we're
talking about dietary patterns right, not dying it. Diets are
not sustainable.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
They don't work. You can be able to a thousand diets.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
You have to get a healthy dietary pattern and whatever
we call it, if we call it, it doesn't matter
the Blue Zone diet or the Mediterranean dietary pattern. It's
all the same.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
They're all commonalities. What I told you, Okay, there's no
difference here.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
And but and then joyous movement is the point I
don't like the word to use exerciy. Yeah, I'd like
the larious movement and wherever you are if you need
to get off the couch, if you need to go walking,
and yeah, I have my warr ring.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
Okay, that tells me heart rate variability.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
It tells me how I'm doing, and if I wake up,
it says, Greg, you're going to feel terrible today. It's right.
But I like it Richard and Russ because it tells
me how many steps I walk a day, and most
importantly for me, by contrasts with a lot of the
other things available. It tells me about heart rate variability,
which is a balance of my red battery cable and
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my blue and my black battery cable. We all our
bodies run on two cables. And it's called the automatic
nervous system. And that's why my blood vessels constrict when
I stand up and I don't pass out, and that's
my heart rate, and my pupils get big and small,
I sweat or don't sweat. It's the two cables in
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your body, the automatic nervous system, and it impacts everything
and we have to have that imbalance. And then that's
another thing, Vaguel tone. We could talk about and too much.
We live in a life where we're in the room
with a lion, so our rocket fuel are at the
nephrine is going sky high all the time, and that
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hurts our brain and our body. It causes accelerating aging
and premature death, heart failure and other things. So we
have to have a balance to the vague tone, the
rest and digest and regenerative phase. And that's what my
heart rate variability monitoring tells me. The numbers aren't important.
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What's important is to trend over weeks and months anyway.
So joyous activity, we could talk about it all day,
but it's essential.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
It prolongs your life.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
And no physical activity in itself will not get you healthy.
It's fantastic, and it's all these things are synergistic. But
if you're eating all the stuff that's not good for
you that we talked about, you can exercise all you want,
it's not gonna matter.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Now.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
The other thing I want to talk about is stress,
real fast stress is a physiologic thing, and whether you're
aware of it or not, and whether it's physical stress
or emotional stress, bad relationships, toxic relationships, This is all
biology pouring into you and forms of stress, we're aware
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of it or not. Not Sleeping is a terrible form
of stress. Stress, disrupture, metabolism and all the things we
talk about that are critical for life, your mitochondrial function,
this and that. So it's truly important that are we're
aware how to manage stress, is my point, and that
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has to do with the balance in the autonomic nervous
system and things we can do to increase our vagal tone.
The other thing that's really critical that people don't get
is restorative sleep. One of the most important things for
health and obesity and everything else. And when you don't
get the sleep that you need on a routine basis.
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This is all biology, somebody's opinion on the street, but
it will.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
Make you eat.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
It changes all the hormones and nerves in your body.
It changes everything everything that you makes you who you are.
You can't do it effectively without restorative sleep. And we
have a whole course on sleep. Breathing is important. The
other thing I wanted another pillar is social connection.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
And we know that we have an epidemic.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Now isolation in America. Okay, people are on social media.
Well we're on social media now, so don't count this but.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
Whatever a we whateur.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Well, but this is this is a good thing, though, doctor,
because we're doing film study and we're breaking this down.
So don't think we're that way. You just think we're
in locker and roll. Yeah, we're going through the excess
and notes. That's what we're doing exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
I'm with you, guys. But the point I'm getting that
is social connection. Isolation is now been declared a major
public health crisis and also leads to chronic disease and
premature death. So all these things are real biological issues. Yes, Russ, I.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Want to add hydration, and you mentioned a filter that
uses I have a Burkey filter, so it uses a
stone to.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Sandstone to filter the water.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Yes, it eliminates ninety nine percent of the toxins and
so on. Costs nothing once you buy it last forever.
I don't have to throw away all those plastic bottles
that held my water in him and gotten hot and
cold and hot and cold. So whatever that plastic was
shedding at that time went into that water. Instead, I
(33:47):
get it from the tap which came from the reservoir
through the filter. It's about as healthy as you're going
to get.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Absolutely, And you know, Russ to support that that there
are systems that I think are wonderful. Oh, I'm going
to get one that I can put under the sink
so I can use tap witter again and get rid
of plastic. I used to buy the glass bottles with
the pellogrino, but that's difficult all that, So I'm going
to go with tap witter that I know has a
(34:15):
good filter. The problem I'm finding is I can't find
a good filter that I can count on to get
all the plastics. And you have no idea. I will
just share with your audience what's in drinking water. There's
everything from depic code and anti seizure medicines and estrogens
and poisons and plastics and forever chemicals, so you really
(34:38):
need and the best filter so far mechanism is reversed osmosis.
And I hate to say it, but well, there is
one product of plastic bottled water that when I had
to do it, I go to that because it's reversed osmosis.
Whether they get it from a tap or wherever they
say they get it, most of these spring waters are nonsense,
(35:00):
are from their paths somewhere, But as long as they
have reverse osmosis.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
And what is for our audience when is reverse osmosis.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
It's just a mechanism by which they purify water, you know,
I don't think, Okay, yeah, it's just a mechanism by
which they do it, just like for mechanisms by which
they decafinate things. But this Twitter method is real and
non chemical. But anyway, I will just and then I'm
(35:30):
going to just go through this briefly, but I'm going
to say social connection, okay, community, love, spirituality, all these
things are critical to who you are biologically and how
you are expressed every day in life, and we all
(35:51):
need that. And also it also has to do with again,
when I was growing up on my Italian relatives driving
me crazy talking what the meal went forever and my
chinks got.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Pissed a thousand times. Actually, when we eat slower.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
And we eat with intention and we with community, everything
physiologically and biologically is better. Is the point. It's not
someone's opinion. This is all evidence based science. And spirituality
also makes a big difference in how we feel and
how we function and how long we live a healthy life.
(36:34):
The last thing I'll say is avoiding things that are
risky and here's the question. This is the real challenge
to educate people between health promoting and health adverse because
most of us don't know that, right, and there's so
many things in our everyday life. I don't want to
(36:56):
get carried away, all right, But I'll just think about
what I've gone through over the last couple of years.
It's not crazy stuff. My father was a fireman and
a barber, so I saw people die from house fires.
Today they don't do that. What I mean is emerger responders.
Firefighters don't put out of fires today. What they do
(37:19):
is they save lives with CPR and healthcare issues. Right.
But the point is, everybody has a bed, and most
people don't realize all the toxins and flame retardant stuff
that's in a bed. And then I'll realize they can
get an organic bed without all that stuff for less
expensive than they can get a toxic bed. But the
(37:41):
point is, Wow, the creating products that we use, or
the stuff that we put on our hair and our skin,
and all those things keep adding up over the lifetime
to cause over time, it's all these things to add
up to kind of hurt your biology and hurt your
(38:03):
metabolism and all these things then lead to high blood pressure, obesity,
and all these things are symptoms.
Speaker 8 (38:10):
They're not diseases.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
I know, yeah, we want to call it a disease,
and it is. It's not an emotional thing that your
obeses are overweight. All these things are biologically mediated, is
what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Oh wait on my floor.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
Eure obese. It's called it's one of the things contributing
to obesity. And talking about you said briefly, I'll say, okay,
I don't know if you guys know this, but more
than ten percent of diffidence are obese. Did you know that?
And what we know for example, when we're talking about
this stuff Richard and Russ that wow. A study a
(38:49):
couple of years years ago showed ambilical cord the baby
had two hundred and fifty toxins and chemicals. Another study
from people that did leading work years ago showed you
just took somebody walking down the street in New York
City and they had a lot of toxins. And we
call them obesogens carcinogens. But they're things that are adverse
(39:11):
to health. Is what point? So all these things is
what we have to teach people and the last thing
I'll say too about obesity is that it reduces how
long you live by about fifteen years, guys, by about
fiften to fifteen years. And that incredible. So again, this
(39:34):
chronic disease epidemic, of which obesity, mental health crisis, overweight
and you know, and I've listened to your shows, Richards
are fantastic. You're hitting on all these things is tremendous.
Thank you and Russ your efforts are fantastic. But I
(39:54):
think it's important that we really get what matters here,
and it's not somebody's opinion, you know, And we had
so many opinions out there that unfortunately aren't really based
on real life, on real things, on science, on evidence
evident based, right. So that's what we have to really
(40:15):
be careful of and be critical of before we go
and ask people to apply it to their lives. And
that's why I'm trying to say, it's just like six
or seven pillars of health. And again, these chronic diseases
that we have are just a few, and they are
all different faces of the same. What we we have
(40:36):
medical terms for internal immune dysregulation and oxidata stress, and
that's what we mean by chronic low grade inflammation. And
now we know what feeds that, right sort of speak,
and we know how to stop that process, and then
we know how oftentimes we can repair the damaged metabolism
(40:58):
from those things. And that's what we're all here to do, right, absolutely, yeah,
and rush forgive me. I don't forgive me, Russ, I
don't care.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
This is locker room talk, Doc. There's there's no forgiving
in the locker room. We notice teams that are successful
figure it out in the locker room. They figured it
out in the film room. We get on the whiteboard.
We don't have to agree sometimes, you know, we we
get a little chippy, but we got we have the
same mission, we have the same mindset. Work it out.
(41:30):
We're gonna work it out when we get all the field.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
And you know, Richard, I'm with you. And it's funny
how we've been influenced by a lot of the same people,
and you know, it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 8 (41:38):
Again.
Speaker 5 (41:39):
The whole point here is if you look back in
your life at the people who have touched your life, okay,
and it's the same thing. They have influenced to our
biology and who we are. Just like all the things
that we eat and if we're sedentary or have joyous
(41:59):
move in our life. And uh yeah, those film rooms
taught me a lot Richard, And uh absolutely and yeah yeah,
very special moments. But I will share this with you too.
I had a problem one time Richard.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Oh yeah, well I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
And okay, so I'm on the offensive line, I didn't
know where my first step was on my right foot?
Speaker 4 (42:34):
Where backwards at Fords? And it should always be forward?
And when Joe wanted me to do that in high school,
I was on his first team.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
What a privilege, coach Mobli And uh, you know what
about the point I'm getting at, it's once we teach
people the joy of doing the proper technique mm hm,
then we all facilitate succeeding. And I never missed a
trap block after I finally learned that.
Speaker 6 (43:10):
Anyway, Okay, yeah, probably probably got put on your butt
less dimes do it?
Speaker 5 (43:18):
Yes, And that's the whole point. When you take that
little step. Now, if you're a five hundred pounds you know,
offensive guard, maybe you can cheat and get away with
that from a guy like me who had no talent,
I had no ruby cheat. So if I didn't do
the technique right, I'm not going to succeed.
Speaker 8 (43:35):
And that's not we're all the field.
Speaker 5 (43:39):
At least you were on the field.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
It's just left out.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
Probably better off not on the field, because I gotta
tell you when Joe Mowglia, Okay, he's a d nail
at Coast of Carolina, but he was at a fordum
at Fordham Prep at Fordham University and his first job
applied to two hundred and fifty six schools to be
a head coach out of college at high school. Only
one school took them. What a blessing Archberr Academy in Delaware, Claymont, Delaware.
Speaker 8 (44:10):
But and I know we.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
Still care about it. Russ. Maybe you're better off not
on the field. Why I say that because we had
sticks and stones and rocks and broken class and I
know we hate people to do that at night on
our practice field no turf speare.
Speaker 8 (44:27):
But the point is all these are.
Speaker 5 (44:29):
Good lessons in life, and we're all here to help people,
but we have to do it in an honest way.
And we're really overwhelmed today, Like I've heard Richard say,
before you walk into the grocery store and it's overwhelming right,
I could just all made to feeling to us. And
I know I've heard Richard and the team talk about
(44:50):
food labels.
Speaker 8 (44:53):
And I know this is important to me.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
But like in the nineteen nineties, people like Doc Castelli
from Framing in Art Study and Dean orang Ise a
bunch of people, they fought to get any food labels on.
They fought for that for years, and now the food
labels are just inadequate. And I love that a lot
of the European countries now have colors, right, and that's
(45:21):
what food table and like one means WHOA, You're in trouble,
and another color means hey, good choice. You know, but
I will tell people, you know, when you look at
food labels, if there's more in a couple ingredients on it,
then you shouldn't be eating it, right, And if you
don't know the names of it and sugar has it
as I last counted, I don't even know how many
(45:44):
names it has, but you know, and that's another thing
that is roy dangerous is the amount of sugar that
we get. And again sugar is glucose and fruit toast
pumps up for insulin, which is not good. And then fruittose.
The other part of sugar goes right to your liver
(46:05):
and damage at your liver and the major epidemic now
you know. But the point is this is all positive.
We can help so many people, and we need a program.
You need a way to help people learn this and
implement it. And you can't just do it and a
brief visit. It's got to be like a program over time.
(46:26):
Like we need unity, we need support.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
We didn't get here overnight, and we're not going to
lead this condition overnight. But it all starts with awareness
and it definitely starts with caring and sharing. So that's
my call to action for all of you.
Speaker 5 (46:40):
Share this great and Richard, that's a great call to action.
Speaker 6 (46:44):
Absolutely, so doctor to tell if you would please, we
ask each of our guests to say, obesity is a
medical condition, not a character flaw. Please learn more about
it and watch my video on tackle obesity dot com.
Speaker 5 (47:01):
I agree with that, Russ, Well, why don't you give
it a trot again. You know that I'm committed to
tackle ab that you know that I'm committed to tackle
and the fight against diabetes, and it's real thing. It's
a real thing to me.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
What are you gonna find out about that?
Speaker 5 (47:20):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (47:20):
Where are you going to find out about?
Speaker 14 (47:22):
More?
Speaker 5 (47:22):
More information? Yes? And uh again, so I admire what
you guys do and yes, uh and again you notice
thing with you know, Russ, this thing with obesity is
a disease. Yeah. I could go on about that all day,
and it's been recognized as a disease for a long time.
(47:43):
And what we've tried to do here is talk about causes,
multiple causes, and as Richard said, cumulative over time. And
again this other word with comorbidities, we have to get
rid of.
Speaker 8 (47:57):
That because these aren't co morbidity.
Speaker 5 (48:00):
They're different faces of all the same abnormal biology, whether
you call it obesity, hypertension, diabetes, they're all just a
few different fases of the same internal metabolic arrangement with
the same causes. Right. So again, when you're treating the
(48:22):
whole person and you're improving your biology, that's why if
you treat one or two of these things, then you're
risk for all these bad things that goes down dramatically.
Speaker 8 (48:37):
And again the point is that it takes time.
Speaker 5 (48:41):
But I'll give you an example, high blood pressure.
Speaker 8 (48:43):
Right, if we apply.
Speaker 5 (48:46):
Just some of these things to people with high blood pressure,
we could dramatically de prescribe, take away their need for
multiple medications, just with If you want to call this
a better lifestyle, if you want to call this functional medicine,
it doesn't matter. I call it good medicine.
Speaker 8 (49:05):
And now even beyond that, it's good life.
Speaker 5 (49:07):
Right. But because you're again we call hypertension of disease,
but it's not a disease. It's a symptom of inflamed
blood vessels. And so we have if we treat the
whole person everything eventually, and even if we treat high
blood pressure with or without drugs, even just a little
(49:31):
bit of improvement in that blood pressure a couple millimeters
translates to a dramatic reduction in stroke and other bad things. Right, So,
one I'm going to say is small steps, and small
steps are really meaningful. And then eventually small steps turn
into gigantic leaps. And you're not going to make an
(49:54):
interception and run it back for seventy yards if you
haven't started with twenty.
Speaker 3 (49:59):
Yard sprints exactly. But this is this is all phenomenal information,
and as I mentioned this, this is this is a movement.
So make sure that you share this content, subscribe on
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want to share, We want to see different perspectives. We
want to invite everyone to be a part of this.
This is a movement and we need more members of
(50:41):
the team. We have an a formidable opponent. We have
one heck with squad that we're putting on the field
against the Batbilicity. We thank you so much to our teammate,
doctor Greg Matillo. You will see his page on the
Tackle Obesity website and all this information. You can see
this content and if you have anything that you missed,
feel free to go back to our YouTube channel and
watch this video again. The great Russ Allen, the we
(51:06):
call him the Mountain Muscle, always a critical player in
all this and we think you tune you today.
Speaker 5 (51:16):
Richard, Richard, I have to say this. I have to
screen this out, Okay, Okay, there's always a way to
help someone.
Speaker 8 (51:27):
There's always a way to help.
Speaker 5 (51:29):
Ourselves, and there's always a way to help someone, And
there's always a way to help others. And it's small steps.
Be encouraged, be enthusiastic. There's always a way to get better.
There's always a way to do it. And just have faith,
have a plan, have community, have support, have a trusted
(51:53):
health guide, health success guide, and you can do this
small steps at a time to wonderful health and a
vibrant life and health span. So again, I want to
leave everyone with a note of encouragement. You can write
(52:16):
your own chapter. It doesn't matter what age it is.
You can write to be the hero of your story.
There we go again. I want to thank both of
you for the privilege of joining too wonderful and handsome
guys today.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
Pledure. Oh my god, he's.
Speaker 5 (52:32):
Gonna stay alive. He's gonna get wrong all right. Well,
thank you.
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