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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 (00:24):
Hey, listen up, bring it in another Tackle Obesity other.
Thank you all for joining us again. We are so
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we are working to get it as a team to
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overcome the tackle obesity epidemic. I want us talk real
quickly before 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 bodies. What about the children, And one
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of the things that gets overlooked is the fact that
during the 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
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weight on a thirty percent higher clip during the summer
months than 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
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lack of activity from not having a structured environment, not
moved from class to class. They're parked in front of
the TVs, their tablets and video games the 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.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Consume is the types of food that we consumed.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
We are addicted to processed foods and having more access
to processed foods. It's 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
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to twenty seventeen gained average of twelve pounds during the
summer months. That's a significant amount of weight, twelve pounds
on average that they gained during the summer months. So
we need to focus on not only making sure that
our children have more activity and maintain that activity during
the summer months, but we need to monitor the foods
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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 bcdut
how 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. Encourage your children
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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 months.
Now that we have talked about that issue, I want
to focus on our two amazing teammates that I brought
alf today. One of them is our og, the man
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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 in Vegas
when I was hoarding ships cracker of the cookies near
thing in four hundred plus pounds. And here I am today.
So I am so so grateful to half of Here
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are we doing today.
Speaker 5 (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 tackling our obesity. You know, my story
was I lost fifty pounds, but before picture was literally
in front of the sign in Death Valley, so you
could do it. After that, my wife lost seventy. So
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as a couple, we really took this on together and
it's really taking a new direction in my life.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
And just like you, I had.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
A transformative journey and it really is such an honor
to be here.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Absolutely and It is a pleasure and honor. Guys, bring
out your no parents, drop questions in a chat. If
you have any email us doctor when we'll get the
questions to doctor Ntello to provide you with answers. He
is a gurup in this battle against obesity from the
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perspective as a medical professional. Obviously you know he's a cardiologist.
He's got 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. He is a
trusted medical professional in this business, has been dealing with
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patients 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 this word, because now you're our teammate. We no
longer even call you a gift. You're now a teamate,
our new teammate, doctor Gregentale's.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Thank 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.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Well, actually, we're here.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Not just to prevent and not just to better manage,
but to reverse chronic disease. And right now we're flooded
with an epidemic of chronic disease in our country. And
what that means is it's a leading cause of disability,
greatest reason for healthcare spending, greater than ninety percent health
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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
these things are a symptom of the flame that's out
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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
things and that the NFL alumni are legends, models for society,
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models for kids, and have a tremendous impact. And each
of us suffers with one chronic illness or another. Our
families do the people around us, and there's a lot
that we can do to help ourselves and help other people.
And that's what we're going to go through today.
Speaker 5 (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 4 (08:13):
Let you go.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Well, Ross, I'll tell you when I was in my
early teenage.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Years, I had diabetes and my mother.
Speaker 6 (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 4 (08:43):
I would very overweight.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I was obese, and my mother just wouldn't have that.
And my mother imposed on me her lifestyle habits having
grown up on a farm, and actually reversed my die beats.
And at the time, it's kind of interesting because at
the time it was called adult onset diabetes versus like
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one diabetes. Right, type type one diabetes about five percent
of people, but overwhelmingly ninety five percent of diabetes is
type two. And uh and at the time we didn't
know that that doctor said, oh, you're you're going to
die without insulince. My mother took a risky chance and
and straightened my life out and what I eat and
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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 come back in my life. But
I lost the obesity. I lost the diabetes for good
pretty much, and uh.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I'm forever grateful for that.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
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 intervention cardiology, carrying twinkies around in my
pocket and drinking cokes and not sleeping for years. The
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difference same, bm I. But I'm going to show you
the difference between health and illness.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
And then and again in my adult.
Speaker 6 (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, Oh, you're
just working too hard.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
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
meant well. And then I was privileged because I could
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go back to everything I had learned but maybe didn't
learn during my education at the Cleveland Clinic over.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
The last years of the history.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
They set every day to save lives and care for life, right,
So went back and kind of was privileged to go
back and 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, your A five Blaro Cleveland Clinic, said
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athoscrosis is a disease, and I can do bypass surgery,
but I'm not treating 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 oxidative stress
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at immune disregulation, but there's an internal flame that gets
out of control, and then it's manifests as chronic diseases,
of which there's all a handful of which obesity and
overweight our major issues. And about forty percent of Americans
are overweight. And if you combine about three out of
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four Americans or either overweight or obese, about forty five
percent or obese. And we'll talk about what obesity means
a little bit as we go on. So, yeah, I
have had the 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
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my whole career focus, my whole vocational focus, and get enlightened. Unfortunately,
I had the resources to go do that and save
my own life as well and then learn a better
way to help people.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Actually, and.
Speaker 6 (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. You
want to be vigorous if you want to go.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Out and you want to pick up.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
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 6 (13:22):
So that's what work.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
About, and that's what we're going to talk about today.
Speaker 6 (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 obestie is
and specifically to you, how you treat it.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
So I noticed the.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Sort of a pain with a broad brush. Well, 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, but it
seems like a lot of people that are in practice
are dealing with the vacuian versus prevention. So how do
we turn that curve where we're educating our professionals to
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focus on prevention versus treatment.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Well that's a good point, and Richards, 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 scrossis put diabetes and remission, get
rid of the things that are driving these chronic diseases,
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and turn chronic diseases around and turn lives around. But
to answer your question, I don't want to be derogatory
or negative at all.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
But you know, we're talking about.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Things that have been 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 that are driving
that and those faces of chronic disease. So we really
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have 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 4 (15:13):
We have guys that are in hypertension.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
But we've not been educated to listen to what we've
already learned.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Since the nineteen forties.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
That we are what we are in life every day
and how we feel and how we function, how long
we live is.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Due to how well our orchestra works.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
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, and how we feel and
function every day.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
And I'm going to give you some a group.
Speaker 6 (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 7 (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, but
you can't give someone this in a fifteen minute office visit.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
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 have and
and a doctor may not have time in her life
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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 into their
daily life in a happy, joyous way. And it's not
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about restricting or you can't eat this. It's about opening
the abundance of life giving and life saving things.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
That people are not aware of.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Unfortunately, we live in a society today that things are
upside down, right and inside out, meaning that everything that
is health adverse has been presented to us since the
nineteen eighties and nineteen seventies and nineties. That's been presented
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to us.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
As normal, and it's not normal.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
So things are upside down and backwards, and people have
been programmed like kids think Tony the Tiger is a
wonderful thing with flags and sugar right and in again,
I'll say thirty or forty years ago, there were three
hundred and fifty products in the grocery store.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Today there's thirty five thousand.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
But if you really look at it, if you really
look at it, ninety five percent of them.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Are all the same thing.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
There are feed oils, MAGA six things heavily priced ult
what we call ultra processed food, and we have.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Definition for that, but.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
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. But yet people are buying that.
Or you think about kids are getting apple juice right right, Well,
they're getting the balls to sugar and IV sugar ballster
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instantly 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
my kid apple juice. It's a wonderful thing. It's not.
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You're hurting your kid, and there's so many things, but
you think you're doing the right thing. So our society
has really misled 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
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we have to show them the abundance.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
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 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 6 (20:09):
Absolutely, And in fact, it's interesting Richardster. We are 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 every day things that we
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do every 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
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the people in our country, all the leaders for health
and business together and make a stand, you know, it
would make a fast difference. For right now, it's going
to depend on the individual.
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Speaker 4 (23:09):
Richard maybe and Russ Maybe.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
I could just say a couple of key things, like
six pillars of health, go for it. Okay. One is
what we eat. And when we're talking about like I said,
minimal to no processed food, sugary beverages, gator A fruit,
those they're all actually toxins and poisons. And I don't
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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's discovered in kids.
And I said, wait a minute, you have alcoholic liver disease.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
But you're eight years old.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
You're not drinking alcohol, are you? No?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Wow? Will you have this thing called fatty liver disease
which now you know, effects 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 fruittose and sugar is glucose
and fruit toose. Fruit toase goes right to your liver
and starts poisoning your liver, okay, and leads to you know,
chronic liver disease. What is the most common cast of
chronic liver disease? And it's 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 4 (24:48):
It's all in there together.
Speaker 6 (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, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
And I can always find out?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
But so one is we call nutrition, but it is
what we eat, it's what we drink. We should be
drinking water. It is purified reverse osmosis. Green tea, Okay,
and I get green tea that's decaffeinated, and green tea
is really healthy, but in it ste caffeinated a certain
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way Swiss water method, not with all the toxic chemicals
and what we drank the water out plastics.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
This will scare you. It's a real thing, okay.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
But a study came out a couple of months ago
where crodded artery surgery patients, right half of them, half
of them had plastic, and the prodded arteries. Wow, and
the plastic and the prodid arteries predicted you're gonna die earlier.
You're gonna to be sicker than the person who already
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has a bed of course, because they have crowded disease
but 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.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Wave things in. You waved your food and plastic, you're
heating it up, moving those molecules into the food. You've got, right,
LUs or Ceramic cannot use plastic.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Right, Glass all the time, and I packed everything in
glass on the refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Very important.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
I got a water filter, I got this, I got that.
But I'm not crazy. 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.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
The food we're talking about.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
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. 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
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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.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
All these other the.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
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.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
You know.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
And again, eating at home with the community and all
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.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
So that's a little bit on nutrition.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
And then I want to talk about I don't use
the word exercise, 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 4 (28:18):
They don't work.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
You can be able to a thousand diets. 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 4 (28:33):
They're all commonalities.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
What I told you, Okay, there's no difference here. And
but and then joyous movement is the point. I don't
like the word to use exercise. 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 4 (28:53):
Okay, that tells me heart rate variability.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
It tells me how I'm doing, and if I wake up,
it says, Greg, You're gonna feel terrible today.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
It's right.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
But I like it Richard and Russ, because it tells
me how many the 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
my blue and.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
My black battery cable.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
We aught 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.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
It's the two cables in your.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
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 nephron is
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going sky high all the time, and it 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
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monitoring tells me. The numbers aren't important. 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.
It prolongs your life, and no physical activity in itself
will not get you healthy. It's fantastic, and all these
things are synergistic, but if you're eating all the stuff
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that's not good for you that we talked about, you
can exercise all you want, it's not gonna matter.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Now.
Speaker 6 (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 make you eat. 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
(32:17):
on sleep. Breathing is important. The other thing I wanted
another pillar is social connection. And we know that we
have an epidemic now isolation in America. Okay, people are
on social media. Well we're on social media now, so
don't count this but whateur a we what hour?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Well, but this is this is this is a good thing, though, doctor,
because we're doing film study and we're breaking this now.
So don't think we're that way. You just think we're
a lock and roll. Yeah, we're going through the exs
and note that's what we're doing exactly.
Speaker 6 (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. It also leads to chronic disease and
premature death. So all these things are real biological issues. Yes,
for us.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
I want to add hydration, and you mentioned a filter
that uses I have a Burkey filter, so it uses
a stone to sandstone to filter the water. Yes, it
eliminates ninety nine of the toxins and so on, costs
(33:29):
nothing once you buy it last forever.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
I don't have.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
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 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 4 (33:53):
Absolutely and you.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Know Russ to support that that there are systems that
I think are wonderful. I'm going to get one that
I can put under the sink so I can use
topwitter again and get rid of plastic. I used to
buy the glass bottles with the pellagrino, but that's difficult
all that, So I'm going to go with tapwitter that
(34:14):
I know has a 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,
(34:37):
so you really 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 have 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
(34:57):
of these spring wooters are nonsense from the paths somewhere.
But as long as they have reverse osmosis, And what
is for our audience when is reverseis 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
(35:18):
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 going to just go through
this briefly, but I'm going to say social connection, okay.
Speaker 10 (35:36):
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 need that.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
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 chininks
got pissed a thousand times. Actually, when we eat slower
and we eat with intention and we with community, everything
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physiologically and biologically is better.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
Is the point.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
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. The last thing I'll say is avoiding
things that are risky.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
And here's the question.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
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 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
(37:04):
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 the fires today.
What they do is they save lives with CPR and
healthcare issues.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Right.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
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 don't realize they can
get an organic bed without all that stuff for less
expensive than they can get a toxic bed. But the
point is, Wow, the creating products that we use, or
(37:45):
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 that up
to kind of hurt your biology and hurt your metabolism,
and all these things then lead to high blood pressure, obesity,
(38:08):
and all these things are symptoms.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
They're not diseases. I know. Yeah, we want to call
it a disease, and it is.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
It's not an emotional thing that your obeses are overweight.
All these things are biologically mediated, is what I'm trying
to say. Oh wait on my floor, eure obese? What'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.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
More than ten percent of diffids are obese.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
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 couple of years years ago showed ambilical
cord the baby had two hundred and fifty toxins and chemicals.
Another study from UH people that did leading work years
(39:01):
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 there are things
that are adverse 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
(39:22):
it reduces how long you live.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
By about fifteen years, guys.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
By about fiften to fifteen years. And that incredible. So again,
this 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.
(39:50):
Thank you and Rus your efforts are fantastic. But I
think it's important that we really get the what matters here,
and it's not somebody's opinion, you know, And we have
so many opinions out there that unfortunately aren't really based
on real life, on real things, on science, on evidence
(40:12):
based right, So that's what we have to really 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
(40:33):
different faces of the same. What we have 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 from those things.
(41:00):
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 (41:07):
This is locker room talk, Doc, There's there's no forgiving
in the locker room.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
We notice.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Teams that are successful figure it out in the locker room.
They figured out in the film room. We get on
the whiteboard, we don't have to agree. Sometimes, you know,
we get a little chippy, but we got we have
the same mission, we have the same mindset.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
Work it out.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
We're gonna work it out when we get on a field.
Speaker 6 (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. Again. The whole
point here is if you look back in your life
at the.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
People who have touched your life, Okay, and.
Speaker 6 (41:46):
It's the same thing they have influenced to our biology
and who we are, just like all the things that
we eat and and if we're sedentary or have joyous
movement in our life. And uh yeah, those film rooms
taught me a lot Richard and h absolutely and yeah yeah,
(42:11):
very special moments.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
But I will share this with you too.
Speaker 6 (42:14):
I had a problem one time Richard. Oh yeah, well
I'll tell you. And okay, so I'm on the offensive line.
I did you know where my first step was? On
my right foot?
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Where backwards?
Speaker 6 (42:36):
At Fords?
Speaker 4 (42:38):
And it should always be forward?
Speaker 6 (42:41):
And when Joe wanted me to do that in high school,
I was on his first team. What a privilege, coach,
Bobli 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, then we all facilitate succeeding. And
(43:05):
I never missed a trap block after I finally learned that.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Okay, yeah, probably you.
Speaker 6 (43:13):
Probably got put on your butt less dimes do it? 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,
(43:33):
I'm not going to succeed, and that's not we're all
the field.
Speaker 5 (43:39):
At least you were on the fields, just left out.
Speaker 11 (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.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Ford Um at Fordham Prep at Fordham University, and his
first job well to two hundred and fifty six schools
to be a head coach.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
Out of college at high school.
Speaker 6 (44:04):
Only one school took them. What a blessing. Archberr Academy
in Delaware, claim my Delaware. But uh, and I know
we still care about it.
Speaker 4 (44:13):
Russ.
Speaker 6 (44:14):
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 terf.
But the point is all these are 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
(44:36):
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 food labels,
and I know this is important to me. But like
(44:57):
in the nineteen nineties, people like doctor Castelli from Framing
in Art Study and dean Orage, a bunch of people,
they fought to get any.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
Food labels on. They fought for that for years. And
now the food labels are just inadequate.
Speaker 6 (45:11):
And I love that a lot of the European countries
now have colors, right, and that's what food table and
like one means WHOA, You're in trouble, and another color
means hey, good choice.
Speaker 4 (45:29):
You know, but I will tell people, you.
Speaker 6 (45:32):
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 names it has, but
you know. And and that's another thing that is roy
dangerous is the amount of sugar that we get. And again,
(45:52):
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 and damage is
your liver and a major epidemic now you know. But
the point is this is all positive.
Speaker 4 (46:13):
We can help so.
Speaker 6 (46:14):
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. 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 searing. So that's
my call to action for all of you.
Speaker 6 (46:40):
Share this great and Richard, that's a great call to action.
Speaker 5 (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 6 (47:01):
I agree with that. Russ, Well, why don't you give
it a try again. You know that I'm committed to
tackle a b that's you know that I'm committed to
tackle and the fight against diabetes. And it's a real thing.
It's a real thing to me.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
We're gonna find out about that.
Speaker 5 (47:20):
Huh, where are you going to find out about more
more information.
Speaker 4 (47:24):
Yes and uh.
Speaker 6 (47:25):
Again, so I admire what you guys do and yes,
uh and again you notice thing with.
Speaker 4 (47:31):
You know, Russ, this thing with obesity is a disease.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (47:37):
I could go on about that all day, and it's
been recognized as a disease for a long time. 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 co morbidities, we have to
get rid of that because these aren't co morbidity. They're
(48:00):
different faces of.
Speaker 4 (48:02):
All the same abnormal biology.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
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 whole person and you're improving your biology, that's why
(48:29):
if you treat one or two of these things.
Speaker 4 (48:32):
Then you're risk for all these bid things. That goes
down dramatically. And again the point is that it takes time.
Speaker 6 (48:41):
But I'll give you an example, high blood pressure. Right,
If we apply 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.
Speaker 4 (49:02):
Medicine, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (49:03):
I call it good medicine. And now even beyond that,
it's good life. 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
(49:24):
we treat high blood pressure with or without drugs, even
just a little 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.
(49:47):
And then eventually small steps turn into gigantic leaps. And
you're not going to make an interception and run it
back for seventy yards if you haven't started with twenty
yard sprints exactly.
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we thank you to Need today and Richard.
Speaker 6 (51:17):
Richard, I have to say this, I have to screen
this out. Okay, okay, There's always a way to help someone.
There's always a way to help 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.
(51:40):
There's always a way to get better. There's always a
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Speaker 4 (51:57):
Small steps at.
Speaker 6 (51:58):
A time lead to wonderful health and a vibrant life
and health span. So again I want to leave everyone
with a note of encouragement.
Speaker 4 (52:15):
You can write your own chapter.
Speaker 6 (52:18):
It doesn't matter what.
Speaker 4 (52:19):
Age it is. You can write to be the hero
of your story.
Speaker 6 (52:23):
There we go again. I want to thank both of
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we're here for because we know that tackle obesity is
a medical condition, it is not a character flaw, and
we are working to get it as a team to
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overcome the tackle obesity epidemic. I want us talk real
quickly before 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 bodies. What about the children, And one
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of the things that gets overlooked is the fact that
during the 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
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weight on a thirty percent higher clip during the summer
months than 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
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lack of activity from not having a structured environment, not
moved from class to class. They're parked in front of
the TVs, their tablets and video games the 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.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Consume is the types of food that we consumed.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
We are addicted to processed foods and having more access
to processed foods. It's 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
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to twenty seventeen gained average of twelve pounds during the
summer months. That's a significant amount of weight, twelve pounds
on average that they gained during the summer months. So
we need to focus on not only making sure that
our children have more activity and maintain that activity during
the summer months, but we need to monitor the foods
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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 bcdut
how 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. Encourage your children
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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 months.
Now that we have talked about that issue, I want
to focus on our two amazing teammates that I brought
alf today. One of them is our og, the man
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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 in Vegas
when I was hoarding ships cracker of the cookies near
thing in four hundred plus pounds. And here I am today.
So I am so so grateful to half of Here
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are we doing today.
Speaker 5 (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 tackling our obesity. You know, my story
was I lost fifty pounds, but before picture was literally
in front of the sign in Death Valley, so you
could do it. After that, my wife lost seventy. So
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as a couple, we really took this on together and
it's really taking a new direction in my life.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
And just like you, I had.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
A transformative journey and it really is such an honor
to be here.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Absolutely and It is a pleasure and honor. Guys, bring
out your no parents, drop questions in a chat. If
you have any email us doctor when we'll get the
questions to doctor Ntello to provide you with answers. He
is a gurup in this battle against obesity from the
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perspective as a medical professional. Obviously you know he's a cardiologist.
He's got 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. He is a
trusted medical professional in this business, has been dealing with
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patients 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 this word, because now you're our teammate. We no
longer even call you a gift. You're now a teamate,
our new teammate, doctor Gregentale's.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Thank 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.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Well, actually, we're here.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Not just to prevent and not just to better manage,
but to reverse chronic disease. And right now we're flooded
with an epidemic of chronic disease in our country. And
what that means is it's a leading cause of disability,
greatest reason for healthcare spending, greater than ninety percent health
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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
these things are a symptom of the flame that's out
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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
things and that the NFL alumni are legends, models for society,
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models for kids, and have a tremendous impact. And each
of us suffers with one chronic illness or another. Our
families do the people around us, and there's a lot
that we can do to help ourselves and help other people.
And that's what we're going to go through today.
Speaker 5 (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 4 (08:13):
Let you go.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Well, Ross, I'll tell you when I was in my
early teenage.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Years, I had diabetes and my mother.
Speaker 6 (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 4 (08:43):
I would very overweight.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I was obese, and my mother just wouldn't have that.
And my mother imposed on me her lifestyle habits having
grown up on a farm, and actually reversed my die beats.
And at the time, it's kind of interesting because at
the time it was called adult onset diabetes versus like
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one diabetes. Right, type type one diabetes about five percent
of people, but overwhelmingly ninety five percent of diabetes is
type two. And uh and at the time we didn't
know that that doctor said, oh, you're you're going to
die without insulince. My mother took a risky chance and
and straightened my life out and what I eat and
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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 come back in my life. But
I lost the obesity. I lost the diabetes for good
pretty much, and uh.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I'm forever grateful for that.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
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 intervention cardiology, carrying twinkies around in my
pocket and drinking cokes and not sleeping for years. The
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difference same, bm I. But I'm going to show you
the difference between health and illness.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
And then and again in my adult.
Speaker 6 (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, Oh, you're
just working too hard.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
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
meant well. And then I was privileged because I could
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go back to everything I had learned but maybe didn't
learn during my education at the Cleveland Clinic over.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
The last years of the history.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
They set every day to save lives and care for life, right,
So went back and kind of was privileged to go
back and 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, your A five Blaro Cleveland Clinic, said
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athoscrosis is a disease, and I can do bypass surgery,
but I'm not treating 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 oxidative stress
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at immune disregulation, but there's an internal flame that gets
out of control, and then it's manifests as chronic diseases,
of which there's all a handful of which obesity and
overweight our major issues. And about forty percent of Americans
are overweight. And if you combine about three out of
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four Americans or either overweight or obese, about forty five
percent or obese. And we'll talk about what obesity means
a little bit as we go on. So, yeah, I
have had the 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
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my whole career focus, my whole vocational focus, and get enlightened. Unfortunately,
I had the resources to go do that and save
my own life as well and then learn a better
way to help people.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Actually, and.
Speaker 6 (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. You
want to be vigorous if you want to go.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Out and you want to pick up.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
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 6 (13:22):
So that's what work.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
About, and that's what we're going to talk about today.
Speaker 6 (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 obestie is
and specifically to you, how you treat it.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
So I noticed the.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Sort of a pain with a broad brush. Well, 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, but it
seems like a lot of people that are in practice
are dealing with the vacuian versus prevention. So how do
we turn that curve where we're educating our professionals to
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focus on prevention versus treatment.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Well that's a good point, and Richards, 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 scrossis put diabetes and remission, get
rid of the things that are driving these chronic diseases,
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and turn chronic diseases around and turn lives around. But
to answer your question, I don't want to be derogatory
or negative at all.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
But you know, we're talking about.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Things that have been 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 that are driving
that and those faces of chronic disease. So we really
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have 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 4 (15:13):
We have guys that are in hypertension.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
But we've not been educated to listen to what we've
already learned.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Since the nineteen forties.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
That we are what we are in life every day
and how we feel and how we function, how long
we live is.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Due to how well our orchestra works.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
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, and how we feel and
function every day.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
And I'm going to give you some a group.
Speaker 6 (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 7 (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, but
you can't give someone this in a fifteen minute office visit.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
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 have and
and a doctor may not have time in her life
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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 into their
daily life in a happy, joyous way. And it's not
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about restricting or you can't eat this. It's about opening
the abundance of life giving and life saving things.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
That people are not aware of.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Unfortunately, we live in a society today that things are
upside down, right and inside out, meaning that everything that
is health adverse has been presented to us since the
nineteen eighties and nineteen seventies and nineties. That's been presented
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to us.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
As normal, and it's not normal.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
So things are upside down and backwards, and people have
been programmed like kids think Tony the Tiger is a
wonderful thing with flags and sugar right and in again,
I'll say thirty or forty years ago, there were three
hundred and fifty products in the grocery store.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Today there's thirty five thousand.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
But if you really look at it, if you really
look at it, ninety five percent of them.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Are all the same thing.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
There are feed oils, MAGA six things heavily priced ult
what we call ultra processed food, and we have.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Definition for that, but.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
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. But yet people are buying that.
Or you think about kids are getting apple juice right right, Well,
they're getting the balls to sugar and IV sugar ballster
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instantly 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
my kid apple juice. It's a wonderful thing. It's not.
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You're hurting your kid, and there's so many things, but
you think you're doing the right thing. So our society
has really misled 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
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we have to show them the abundance.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
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 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 6 (20:09):
Absolutely, And in fact, it's interesting Richardster. We are 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 every day things that we
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do every 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
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the people in our country, all the leaders for health
and business together and make a stand, you know, it
would make a fast 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 9 (22:10):
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Speaker 4 (23:09):
Richard maybe and Russ Maybe.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
I could just say a couple of key things, like
six pillars of health, go for it. Okay. One is
what we eat. And when we're talking about like I said,
minimal to no processed food, sugary beverages, gator A fruit,
those they're all actually toxins and poisons. And I don't
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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's discovered in kids.
And I said, wait a minute, you have alcoholic liver disease.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
But you're eight years old.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
You're not drinking alcohol, are you? No?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Wow? Will you have this thing called fatty liver disease
which now you know, effects 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 fruittose and sugar is glucose
and fruit toose. Fruit toase goes right to your liver
and starts poisoning your liver, okay, and leads to you know,
chronic liver disease. What is the most common cast of
chronic liver disease? And it's 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 4 (24:48):
It's all in there together.
Speaker 6 (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, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
And I can always find out?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
But so one is we call nutrition, but it is
what we eat, it's what we drink. We should be
drinking water. It is purified reverse osmosis. Green tea, Okay,
and I get green tea that's decaffeinated, and green tea
is really healthy, but in it ste caffeinated a certain
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way Swiss water method, not with all the toxic chemicals
and what we drank the water out plastics.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
This will scare you. It's a real thing, okay.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
But a study came out a couple of months ago
where crodded artery surgery patients, right half of them, half
of them had plastic, and the prodded arteries. Wow, and
the plastic and the prodid arteries predicted you're gonna die earlier.
You're gonna to be sicker than the person who already
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has a bed of course, because they have crowded disease
but 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.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Wave things in. You waved your food and plastic, you're
heating it up, moving those molecules into the food. You've got, right,
LUs or Ceramic cannot use plastic.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Right, Glass all the time, and I packed everything in
glass on the refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Very important.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
I got a water filter, I got this, I got that.
But I'm not crazy. 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.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
The food we're talking about.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
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. 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
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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.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
All these other the.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
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.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
You know.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
And again, eating at home with the community and all
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.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
So that's a little bit on nutrition.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
And then I want to talk about I don't use
the word exercise, 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 4 (28:18):
They don't work.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
You can be able to a thousand diets. 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 4 (28:33):
They're all commonalities.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
What I told you, Okay, there's no difference here. And
but and then joyous movement is the point. I don't
like the word to use exercise. 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 4 (28:53):
Okay, that tells me heart rate variability.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
It tells me how I'm doing, and if I wake up,
it says, Greg, You're gonna feel terrible today.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
It's right.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
But I like it Richard and Russ, because it tells
me how many the 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
my blue and.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
My black battery cable.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
We aught 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.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
It's the two cables in your.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
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 nephron is
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going sky high all the time, and it 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
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monitoring tells me. The numbers aren't important. 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.
It prolongs your life, and no physical activity in itself
will not get you healthy. It's fantastic, and all these
things are synergistic, but if you're eating all the stuff
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that's not good for you that we talked about, you
can exercise all you want, it's not gonna matter.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Now.
Speaker 6 (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
(31:35):
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.
(31:57):
This is all biology, somebody's opinion on the street, but
it will make you eat. 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
(32:17):
on sleep. Breathing is important. The other thing I wanted
another pillar is social connection. And we know that we
have an epidemic now isolation in America. Okay, people are
on social media. Well we're on social media now, so
don't count this but whateur a we what hour?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Well, but this is this is this is a good thing, though, doctor,
because we're doing film study and we're breaking this now.
So don't think we're that way. You just think we're
a lock and roll. Yeah, we're going through the exs
and note that's what we're doing exactly.
Speaker 6 (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. It also leads to chronic disease and
premature death. So all these things are real biological issues. Yes,
for us.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
I want to add hydration, and you mentioned a filter
that uses I have a Burkey filter, so it uses
a stone to sandstone to filter the water. Yes, it
eliminates ninety nine of the toxins and so on, costs
(33:29):
nothing once you buy it last forever.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
I don't have.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
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 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 4 (33:53):
Absolutely and you.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Know Russ to support that that there are systems that
I think are wonderful. I'm going to get one that
I can put under the sink so I can use
topwitter again and get rid of plastic. I used to
buy the glass bottles with the pellagrino, but that's difficult
all that, So I'm going to go with tapwitter that
(34:14):
I know has a 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,
(34:37):
so you really 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 have 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
(34:57):
of these spring wooters are nonsense from the paths somewhere.
But as long as they have reverse osmosis, And what
is for our audience when is reverseis 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
(35:18):
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 going to just go through
this briefly, but I'm going to say social connection, okay.
Speaker 10 (35:36):
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 need that.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
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 chininks
got pissed a thousand times. Actually, when we eat slower
and we eat with intention and we with community, everything
(36:15):
physiologically and biologically is better.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
Is the point.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
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. The last thing I'll say is avoiding
things that are risky.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
And here's the question.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
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 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
(37:04):
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 the fires today.
What they do is they save lives with CPR and
healthcare issues.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Right.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
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 don't realize they can
get an organic bed without all that stuff for less
expensive than they can get a toxic bed. But the
point is, Wow, the creating products that we use, or
(37:45):
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 that up
to kind of hurt your biology and hurt your metabolism,
and all these things then lead to high blood pressure, obesity,
(38:08):
and all these things are symptoms.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
They're not diseases. I know. Yeah, we want to call
it a disease, and it is.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
It's not an emotional thing that your obeses are overweight.
All these things are biologically mediated, is what I'm trying
to say. Oh wait on my floor, eure obese? What'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.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
More than ten percent of diffids are obese.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
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 couple of years years ago showed ambilical
cord the baby had two hundred and fifty toxins and chemicals.
Another study from UH people that did leading work years
(39:01):
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 there are things
that are adverse 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
(39:22):
it reduces how long you live.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
By about fifteen years, guys.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
By about fiften to fifteen years. And that incredible. So again,
this 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.
(39:50):
Thank you and Rus your efforts are fantastic. But I
think it's important that we really get the what matters here,
and it's not somebody's opinion, you know, And we have
so many opinions out there that unfortunately aren't really based
on real life, on real things, on science, on evidence
(40:12):
based right, So that's what we have to really 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
(40:33):
different faces of the same. What we have 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 from those things.
(41:00):
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 (41:07):
This is locker room talk, Doc, There's there's no forgiving
in the locker room.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
We notice.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Teams that are successful figure it out in the locker room.
They figured out in the film room. We get on
the whiteboard, we don't have to agree. Sometimes, you know,
we get a little chippy, but we got we have
the same mission, we have the same mindset.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
Work it out.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
We're gonna work it out when we get on a field.
Speaker 6 (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. Again. The whole
point here is if you look back in your life
at the.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
People who have touched your life, Okay, and.
Speaker 6 (41:46):
It's the same thing they have influenced to our biology
and who we are, just like all the things that
we eat and and if we're sedentary or have joyous
movement in our life. And uh yeah, those film rooms
taught me a lot Richard and h absolutely and yeah yeah,
(42:11):
very special moments.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
But I will share this with you too.
Speaker 6 (42:14):
I had a problem one time Richard. Oh yeah, well
I'll tell you. And okay, so I'm on the offensive line.
I did you know where my first step was? On
my right foot?
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Where backwards?
Speaker 6 (42:36):
At Fords?
Speaker 4 (42:38):
And it should always be forward?
Speaker 6 (42:41):
And when Joe wanted me to do that in high school,
I was on his first team. What a privilege, coach,
Bobli 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, then we all facilitate succeeding. And
(43:05):
I never missed a trap block after I finally learned that.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Okay, yeah, probably you.
Speaker 6 (43:13):
Probably got put on your butt less dimes do it? 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,
(43:33):
I'm not going to succeed, and that's not we're all
the field.
Speaker 5 (43:39):
At least you were on the fields, just left out.
Speaker 11 (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.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Ford Um at Fordham Prep at Fordham University, and his
first job well to two hundred and fifty six schools
to be a head coach.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
Out of college at high school.
Speaker 6 (44:04):
Only one school took them. What a blessing. Archberr Academy
in Delaware, claim my Delaware. But uh, and I know
we still care about it.
Speaker 4 (44:13):
Russ.
Speaker 6 (44:14):
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 terf.
But the point is all these are 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
(44:36):
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 food labels,
and I know this is important to me. But like
(44:57):
in the nineteen nineties, people like doctor Castelli from Framing
in Art Study and dean Orage, a bunch of people,
they fought to get any.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
Food labels on. They fought for that for years. And
now the food labels are just inadequate.
Speaker 6 (45:11):
And I love that a lot of the European countries
now have colors, right, and that's what food table and
like one means WHOA, You're in trouble, and another color
means hey, good choice.
Speaker 4 (45:29):
You know, but I will tell people, you.
Speaker 6 (45:32):
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 names it has, but
you know. And and that's another thing that is roy
dangerous is the amount of sugar that we get. And again,
(45:52):
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 and damage is
your liver and a major epidemic now you know. But
the point is this is all positive.
Speaker 4 (46:13):
We can help so.
Speaker 6 (46:14):
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. 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 searing. So that's
my call to action for all of you.
Speaker 6 (46:40):
Share this great and Richard, that's a great call to action.
Speaker 5 (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 6 (47:01):
I agree with that. Russ, Well, why don't you give
it a try again. You know that I'm committed to
tackle a b that's you know that I'm committed to
tackle and the fight against diabetes. And it's a real thing.
It's a real thing to me.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
We're gonna find out about that.
Speaker 5 (47:20):
Huh, where are you going to find out about more
more information.
Speaker 4 (47:24):
Yes and uh.
Speaker 6 (47:25):
Again, so I admire what you guys do and yes,
uh and again you notice thing with.
Speaker 4 (47:31):
You know, Russ, this thing with obesity is a disease.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (47:37):
I could go on about that all day, and it's
been recognized as a disease for a long time. 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 co morbidities, we have to
get rid of that because these aren't co morbidity. They're
(48:00):
different faces of.
Speaker 4 (48:02):
All the same abnormal biology.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
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 whole person and you're improving your biology, that's why
(48:29):
if you treat one or two of these things.
Speaker 4 (48:32):
Then you're risk for all these bid things. That goes
down dramatically. And again the point is that it takes time.
Speaker 6 (48:41):
But I'll give you an example, high blood pressure. Right,
If we apply 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.
Speaker 4 (49:02):
Medicine, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (49:03):
I call it good medicine. And now even beyond that,
it's good life. 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
(49:24):
we treat high blood pressure with or without drugs, even
just a little 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.
(49:47):
And then eventually small steps turn into gigantic leaps. And
you're not going to make an interception and run it
back for seventy yards if you haven't started with twenty
yard sprints exactly.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
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Speaker 6 (50:39):
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Movement and we need more members of the team. We
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thank you so much to our teammate, doctor Greg Matillo.
You will see his page on the Tackle Obesity website
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The great Russ Allen, the we call him the Mountain
of Muscle, always a critical player in all this, and
we thank you to Need today and Richard.
Speaker 6 (51:17):
Richard, I have to say this, I have to screen
this out. Okay, okay, There's always a way to help someone.
There's always a way to help 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.
(51:40):
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 health guide, health
success guide, and you can do this.
Speaker 4 (51:57):
Small steps at.
Speaker 6 (51:58):
A time lead to wonderful health and a vibrant life
and health span. So again I want to leave everyone
with a note of encouragement.
Speaker 4 (52:15):
You can write your own chapter.
Speaker 6 (52:18):
It doesn't matter what.
Speaker 4 (52:19):
Age it is. You can write to be the hero
of your story.
Speaker 6 (52:23):
There we go again. I want to thank both of
you for the privilege of joining too wonderful and handsome
guys today. Pled Oh my god, he's gonna stay alive,
He's gonna keep wrong all right.
Speaker 3 (52:37):
Well, thank you both, Thank you so much for joining us.
There one again to check out Tackle of BC duck
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