KCAA: Tackle Obesity (Tue, 17 Sep, 2024)

KCAA: Tackle Obesity on Tue, 17 Sep, 2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nineteen thirty two dot org.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to another Tackle Obesity show featuring Coach Richard Walker,
our host, members of the NFL alumni, lifestyle weight loss experts,
and key social media influencers that are making a difference
now Coach Richard Walker.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hey, listen up, bring it in another Tackle Obesity other.
Thank you all for joining us again. We are so
glad to have you on the show, and make sure
you follow us life, share, subscribe, tackle obcity dot com.
Also follow us on social media or eady platform tackle
Obesiti at tackle Obesiti. We're so glad to have you.
We're so glad to have all of our wonderful teammates

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past the prison.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
If you know anyone who needs support, who.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Is in the battle of against obesity, have them joined us,
Tag them on social media, courage them to go to
Tackle Obesity website sign up for That's what we're here
for because we know that tackle obesity is a medical
condition and is not a character flaw, and we are
working to get it as a team to overcome the
tackle obesity epidemic. I want us talk real quickly before

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we get started today about summer. We're at the final
few weeks spring where transitioning summer kids are going to
be out of school. Beaches are open party summer parties,
and many of us as adults, we focus on our
summer bids. What about the children, And one of the
things that gets overlooked is the fact that during the

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summer this is a pitfall for obesity in our children.
In a recent study by the National Institute of Biotechnology
Information and the National Library of Medicine, it shows that
during the summer months, children tend to gain weight on
a thirty percent higher clip during the summer months than

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they do during school year. Primary factors include the fact
that there's less activity. Some of the children are not
getting out and playing. In the South, we have the
issue of you know, possible heat exhaustion due to extreme temperatures,
and then there's just a general overall lack of activity
from not having a structured environment, not moving from class

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to class. They're parked in front of the TVs, their
tablets and video games phones all day, so there's a
there's a there's a downtick in activity, but there's a
huge uptick in the amount of food that they consume,
and not only the amount of food that they consume
is the types of food that we consume. We are

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addicted to processed foods, and having more access to processed
foods is never a good thing. Children are sitting around
eating cookies, crackers, chips, popcorn, whatever, all day long, and
so this is causing a problem. Accumulating evidence shows that
children in the USA from two thousand and seven to

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twenty seventeen gaated average of twelve pounds during the summer months.
That's a significant amount of weight, twelve pounds on average
that they gained 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 summer uns,
but we need to monitor the foods that they eat.

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So I encourage you all definitely get some support on
what you can offer to your children. We have some
amazing content on our website, Attackling with bcdal House. Specifically
look at the doctor Nerd segments where we talk about
different things that you can offer to your children as
alternatives instead of processed foods and encourage your children to

(03:45):
be more active and to eat better. So these are
ways that we're going to work to get to overcome
this problem that we're seeing during the summer buds. Now
that we have talked about that issue, I want to
focus on our two amazing teammates that I brought a
law 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 Bcity program.
He's the one that I bet in Vegas when I
was hoarding ships, crackers, the cookies near thing in four
hundred plus pounds. And here I am today. So I'm

(04:26):
so so grateful to half of Here 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 fackling our obesity. You know, my story
was I lost fifty pounds, but before picture was literally
in front of the sign in Death.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Valley, so you could do it. After that, my wife
lost seventy.

Speaker 5 (04:50):
So as a couple, we really took this on together
and it's really taking a new direction in my life.

Speaker 4 (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.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Guys, bring out your.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
No parents, drop questions in a chat. If you have
any email us doctor when we'll get the questions to
doctor Ntello to provide you answers. He is a gurup
in this battle against obesity from the perspective as a
medical professional. Obviously you know he's a cardiologist. He's got

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infinite amount of experience dealing with people that are dealing
with this obesity crisis. But he also has a personal
pivot to this as will and I'm gonna let him
talk about that as well.

Speaker 6 (05:42):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
He is a trusted medical professional in this business, has
been dealing with 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 is word, because now you're our teammate.
We're no longer going to call you a gift. You're

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now teammate, a new teammate, Doctor Gregentale.

Speaker 4 (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

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mindset and why we're here is to improve well, actually,
we're here not just to prevent and not just to
better manage, but to reverse chronic disease and writing it out.
We're flooded with an epidemic of chronic disease in our country.
And what that means is it's the leading cause of disability,

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greatest reason for healthcare spending, greater than ninety percent of
health care spending, and greatest cause of premature death. And
we're talking about things like stroke, heart attack, Alzheimer's dimension, dementia,
premature dementia, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease. And actually all

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these things are a symptom of the flame that's out
of control inside us from the exposures we have all
the time. And what I want to do is make
this very real to people, because the purpose of this
today is to tell you how we can do this.
It's very doable. It's just oftentimes we're not aware of

(07:40):
things and that the NFL alumni are legends, models for society,
models for kids, and have a tremendous impact. And each
of us suffers with one chronic illness for another, our
families do the people around us, and there's a lot
that we can do to help ourselves and help other people.

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And that's what we're going to go through today.

Speaker 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. Well, Ross, I'll tell you when I
was in my early teenage years, I had diabetes and
my mother, 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

(08:35):
when the doctor said, here's insulin. You know, at age
I don't know, eleven or twelve, and I was very overweight,
I was obese, and my mother just wouldn't have that.
And my mother imposed on me her lifestyle habits having

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grown up on a farm, and actually reversed my diabetes.
And at the time, it's kind of interesting because at
the time it was called adult onset diabetes versus like
one diabetes. Right, type type one diabetes about five percent
of people, but overwhelmingly ninety five percent of diabetes is

(09:17):
type two. And uh and at the time we didn't
know that, and the doctor said, oh, you're you're going
to die without insulince. My mother took a risky chance
and straightened my life out and what I eat and
what I ate and what I was exposed to, and
actually resolved me of diabetes, which has come back at
times we're threatened to come back in my life. But

(09:39):
I lost the obesity. I lost the diabetes for good
pretty much, and uh, I'm forever grateful for that. And
I'll show you though as we go on, and I'm
just going to show a few slides, but I'll show
you as a college football player versus later on as
a busy intervent cardiology, carrying twinkies around in my pocket

(10:03):
and drinking cokes and not sleeping for years. The difference same,
bm I. But I'm going to show you the difference
between health and illness. And then and again in my adult.

Speaker 7 (10:14):
Life, I uh, Richard and Russ, I was, oh, there
was something wrong with me, and I had to go
to one doctor after another, and everybody said.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Oh, you're just working too hard. Don't worry about it.
You was just working too hard, and I said, no,
there's something wrong with me. And actually I was pretty sick.
And finally I got a diagnostic label. And then they
tried to just put different layers of paint on the
hood without addressing the engine under the hood and without
getting to the heart of the matter, and they all

(10:47):
meant well. And then I was privileged because I could
go back to everything I had learned but maybe didn't
learn during my education at the Cleveland Clinic over the
last year of the history. They set every day to
save lives and care for life. Right, So I went
back and kind of was privileged to go back and

(11:09):
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 Fi Bolaro Cleveland Clinic, said athoscrosis is a disease,
and I can do bypass surgery, but I'm not treating

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a disease. And we know that because we do a
bypass and someone comes back with the stroke where they
still have a high blood pressure. They're all different faces
of the same internal inflammation. And Richard, I don't want
to bore your audience with oxydative stress at immune dust regulation,
but there's an internal flame that gets out of control,

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and then it's manifests as chronic diseases, of which there's
all a handful of which obesity and overweight our major issues.
At about forty percent of Americans are overweight, and if
you combine about three out of four Americans are either
overweight or obese, about forty five percent or obese. And

(12:15):
we'll talk about what obesity means a little bit as
we go on. So, yeah, I have had to walk
to talk. I've had to learn and go back and
get enlightened repeatedly and at many years doing that, Richard,
and had to kind of change my whole career focus,
my whole vocational focus, and get enlightened. Unfortunately, I had

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the resources to go do that and save my own
life as well, and then learn a better way to
help people. Actually, and 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

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how long you live, but you want to have a
health of me. You want to be vigorous, if you
want to go out and you want to pick up
your your grandchildren or your kids or whatever, whatever you
want to do. You want to be able to do
that for as long as possible and have a vibrant, exciting,
happy life.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Right.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
So that's about and that's what we're going to talk
about today. How to do that.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
I'm glad you brought up to the fact that you
you had to re educate yourself on what OBESTI is
and specifically to you, how you treat it. So I
noticed the sort of a pain with a broad brush.
But how do we re educate our medical community because
I think a lot of the people that are in
practice right now, you know, forgive me if i'm speaking here,

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but it seems like a lot of people that are
in practice are dealing with the backian versus prevention. So
how do we turn that curve where we're educating our
medical professionals to focus on prevention versus treatment.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
Well that's a good point, and Richard, the way I
look at it, it's not just prevention, Okay, it's also
about improving how we manage chronic disease and furthermore, reverse it,
reverse it, reverse that. A scrossis put diabetes and remission,
get rid of things that are driving these chronic diseases,

(14:26):
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, but you know, we're talking about
things that have been going on for generations now, and

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what we've developed since World War Two is a hammer nail. Okay,
everybody's in a hammer nail, and it neglects the biologic
differences between you, me and Russ and it things that
are driving that and those faces of chronic disease. So
we really have become very siloed. And I could talk

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all day about we have guys that are into the
brain thing, we have guys that are into the GI microbiome.
We have guys that are in hypertension. But we've not
been educated to listen to what we've already learned since
the nineteen forties, that we are what we are in

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life every day and how we feel and how we function,
how long we.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Live is.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
Due to how well our orchestra works. There're all pieces
in the symphony in our body, and we call it
systems biology, and it's all connected. Your gut is connected
to your brain. Your gut goes faster as your brain
than your brain goes to your gut. But all these
things are so intimately related, and that determines who we are, Richard,

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and how we feel and function every day. And I'm
going to give you some a group of common things
that holds the answer to how we can optimize that
and optimize our function and vibrance in life terrific.

Speaker 8 (16:20):
Well, one of the things that you know, we really
really I'm sorry we probably didn't answer, but what we're
doing now is we have it's not just medicine.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
But you can't give someone this in a fifteen minute
office visit. Doctors are really pounded now, you know. And
again the medical schools are starting to implement this a
better education. But then as far as delivery, it's not
possible to deliver this in brief office visits, let alone

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have and and a doctor may not have time in
her life to go back and relearn or gain a
more enlightened perspective now, but certainly they have an obligation.
I believe to provide access to a system that will
help them a patient learn that and put those things

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into their daily life in a happy, joyous way. And
it's not about restricting or you can't eat this. It's
about opening the abundance of life giving and life saving
things that people are not aware of. Unfortunately, we live
in a society today that things are upside down, right
and inside out, meaning that everything that is health adverse

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has been presented to us since the nineteen eighties and
nineteen seventies and nineties. That's been presented to us as normal,
and it's not normal. So things are upside down and backwards.
And people have been programmed like kids think Tony the

(18:04):
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.
Today there's thirty five thousand. But if you really look
at it, if you really look at it, ninety five
percent of them are all the same thing. There are

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feed oils, Mega six, things heavily priced ult what we
call ultra processed food, and we have definition for that,
but a way to look at that would be if
you take an apple and then you compare it to
getting the apple pie and McDonald's, there's no correlation with
the nutritional intention of the apple. But yet people are

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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 instally 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.

(19:13):
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. 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 misfled us, you know,
And it's economically driven by the four or five food
companies basically that we have in the world. And so

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we really have to just help people get an awareness,
but more importantly than we have to show them the
abundance of things for their life that they don't know about.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Absolutely, that's a great point. That's where I was going
with the next question, is that one of the things
that we really emphasize on this show and through all
of our content is that I like to use the
saying that your food is your medicine, and if you
don't focus on it that way, then your medicine will
become your fruit.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Absolutely, And in fact, it's interesting, Richard, were some groups
of medicine, you know, the functional medicine people, which I'm
one of them, and I'm also American College of Lifestyle
Medicine kind of person. And so there's a big emphasis
now to bring these every day things that we do

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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 fair difference. For right now, it's going
to depend on the individual.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
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Speaker 10 (22:10):
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Speaker 4 (23:09):
Richard maybe and Ross Maybe I could just say a
couple of key things, like six killers 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

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and poisons. And I don't want to bore you with
the biology, which I'm excited about, but we talked about
mitochondria liver disease. You don't know this, maybe you do,
but there's a thing called fatty liver disease and it
was first discovered in nineteen eighty. Okay, this is unbelievable,
and you know it was discovered in kids and I said,

(23:50):
wait a minute, you have alcoholic liver disease. But you're
eight years old. You're not drinking alcohol, are you? No?

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Wow? Will you have this thing called fatty liver disease
which now you know affects like a gigantic number of kids,
a gigantic number of adults for a long term. Uh,
it's silent disease. Doctors too often don't look for it.
It's negotiated with diabetes and has a lot to do

(24:17):
with what we eat, like fruit toasts and sugar is
glucose and fruit toase. Fruit TOAs goes right to your
liver and starts poisoning your liver, okay, and leads to
chronic liver disease. What is the most common cause of
chronic liver disease and is becoming a number one reason
for liver transplants in the world now in this incredible

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fatty liver disease, right, And it's all associated with obesity
and diabetes, inflammation, all this stuff. It's all in there together.
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,

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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? And I
can always find out? But so one is we call nutrition,
But it is what we eat, it's what we drink.
We should be drinking water. It is purified reverse osmosis.
Green tea, okay, and I get green tea to decaffeinated

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and green tea is really healthy, but in a steak
caffeinated a certain way Swiss water method, not with all
the toxic chemicals and what we drank the water out plastics.
This will scare you. It's a real thing, Okay. But
a study came out a couple of months ago where
crodded artery surgery patients, right half of them, half of

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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 persone who already
has a bed of course, because they have crowded disease.
It didn't have the plastic. So what I'm trying to
say is what we put on our skin, the water

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we drink, all this what we might wave things in.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
Wave your food and plastic you're heating it up, moving
those molecules into the food. You've got, right, clus or
ceramic cannot use plastic.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
Right, Glass all the time, and I packed everything in
glasses on the refrigerator. Very important. 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 the food

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we're talking about. And the best food is the food
that doesn't have labels. It's hidden in the corner of
the grocery store, right. And we have to teach people crucifers, vegetables,
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

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people know that and then how to prepare it and
what cooking oils to use and not to use, like
you know, like olive oil is like improves your life.
All these other the Omega three, but all the Omega
six oils are very harmful to your health. But also
the packaging is what I wanted to mention. The packaging

(27:37):
is full of poisons and things were called toxins and chemicals,
so you know. 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

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gonna do that a lot. Yeah. So that's a little
bit on nutrition. And then I want to talk about
I don't use the word exercise, and I don't use
the word diet ever, because we're talking about dietary patterns right,
not dying it. Diets are not sustainable. They don't work.
You can be able to a thousand diets. You have

(28:21):
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.
They're all commonalities. What I told you, Okay, there's no
difference here. And but and then joyous movement is the point.

(28:42):
I don't like the word to use exerciy. Yeah, I'd
like theorious 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. Okay, that tells
me heart rate variability. It tells me how I'm doing,
and if I wake up, it says, Greg, you're going
to feel terrible today. It's right. But I like it

(29:03):
Richard and Russ, because it tells me how many steps
I walk a day, and most importantly for me, by
contrast 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 my
black battery cable. We all our bodies run on two cables.

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And it's called the automatic nervous system. And that's why
my blood vessels constrict when I stand up and I
don't pass out, and that's my heart rate, and my
pupils get big and small, I sweat or don't sweat.
It's the two cables in your body, the automatic nervous system,
and it impacts everything and we have to have that imbalance.

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And then that's another thing, Vaguel tone we could talk about,
and too much we live in a life where we're
in the room with a lion, so our rocket fuel
are at the nephrine is going sky high all the time,
and that hurts our brain and our body. It causes
accelerating aging and premature death, heart failure and other things.

(30:10):
So we have to have a balance to the vague tone,
the rest and digest and regenerative phase. And that's what
my heart rate variability monitoring tells me. The numbers aren't important.
What's important is to trend over weeks and months anyway.
So joyous activity, we could talk about it all day,

(30:31):
but it's essential. It prolongs your life, and no physical
activity in itself will not get you healthy. It's fantastic,
and it's all these things are synergistic. But if you're
eating all the stuff that's not good for you that
we talked about, you can exercise all you want, it's
not gonna matter. Now. The other thing I want to

(30:52):
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.

(31:13):
We're aware 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,

(31:34):
and that 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

(31:55):
a routine basis, 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

(32:17):
a whole course 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 whatever a we what hour.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Well, but this is this is a good thing, though, doctor,
because we're doing film study and we're breaking this down.
So don't think we're that way. You just think we're
in locker room. Yeah, we're going through the excess and notes.
That's what we're doing exactly.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
I'm with you, guys. But the point I'm getting that
is social connection. Isolation is now been declared a major
public health crisis and also leads to chronic disease and
premature death. So all these things are real biological issues. Yes, Russ, I.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
Want to add hydration, and you mentioned a filter that
uses I have a Burkey filter, so it uses a
stone to.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Sandstone to filter the water.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
Yes, it eliminates ninety nine percent of the toxins and
so on. Costs nothing once you buy it last forever.
I don't have to throw away all those plastic bottles
that held my water in him and gotten hot and
cold and hot and cold. So whatever that plastic was
shedding at that time went into that water. Instead, I

(33:47):
get it from the tap which came from the reservoir
through the filter. It's about as healthy as you're going
to get.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
Absolutely, and you know, Russ, to support that, that there
are systems that I think are wonderful. Oh, I'm going
to get one that I can put under the sink
so I can use tap witter again and get rid
of plastic. I used to buy the glass bottles with
the pollogrino, but that's difficult all that, So I'm going
to go with tap witter that I know has a

(34:15):
good filter. The problem I'm finding is I can't find
a good filter that I can count on to get
all the plastics. And you have no idea. I will
just share with your audience what's in drinking water. There's
everything from depic code and anti seizure medicines and estrogens
and poisons and plastics and forever chemicals, so you really

(34:38):
need and the best filter so far mechanism is reversed osmosis.
And I hate to say it, but well there is
one product of plastic bottled water that when I had
to do it, I go to that because it's reversed osmosis.
Whether they get it from a tap or wherever they
say they get it, most of these spring waters are nonsense,

(35:00):
are from their path somewhere, but as long as they
have reverse osmosis, and what is for our audience.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
When is reverse osmosis, It's just.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
A mechanism by which they purify water, you know, I
don't think, Okay, yeah, it's just a mechanism by which
they do it, just like mechanisms by which they decaffinate things.
But this Twitter method is real and non chemical. But anyway,
I will just and then I'm going to just go

(35:31):
through this briefly. But I'm going to say social connection, okay, community, love, spirituality,
all these things are critical to who you are biologically
and how you are expressed every day in life, and
we all need that. And also it also has to

(35:54):
do with again, when I was growing up on my
Italian relatives driving me crazy talking what the meal went forever?
And my chinks got pissed a thousand times. Actually, when
we eat slower and we eat with intention and we
with community, everything physiologically and biologically is better. Is the point.

(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. And here's the question. This is

(36:42):
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 of fires today.
What they do is they save lives with CPR and
healthcare issues. Right. But the point is, everybody has a bed,

(37:27):
and most people don't realize all the toxins and flame
retardant stuff that's in a bed. And then I'll realize
they can get an organic bed without all that stuff
for less expensive than they can get a toxic bed.
But the point is, Wow, the creating products that we use,
or the stuff that we put on our hair and
our skin, and all those things keep adding up over

(37:52):
the lifetime to cause over time, it's all these things
to add up to kind of hurt your biology and
hurt your metabolism, and all these things then lead to
high blood pressure obesity, and all these things are symptoms.
They're not diseases. I know, yeah, we want to call

(38:13):
it a disease, and it is. It's not an emotional
thing that your obeses are overweight. All these things are
biologically mediated, is what I'm trying to say. Oh wait,
my floor eure obese. It's called it's one of the
things contributing to obesity. And talking about you said briefly,
I'll say, Okay, I don't know if you guys know this,

(38:34):
but more than ten percent of diffidence are obese. Did
you know that? And what we know for example, when
we're talking about this stuff Richard and Russ that wow.
A study a couple of years years ago showed ambilical
cord the baby had two hundred and fifty toxins and chemicals.

(38:57):
Another study from people that did leading work years ago
showed you just took somebody walking down the street in
New York City and they had a lot of toxins.
And we call them obesogens carcinogens. But they are things
that are adverse to health, is what point. So all
these things is what we have to teach people. And

(39:18):
the last thing I'll say too about obesity is that
it reduces how long you live by about fifteen years, guys,
by about fiften to fifteen years. And that incredible. So again,
this chronic disease epidemic, of which obesity, mental health crisis,

(39:40):
overweight and you know, and I've listened to your shows,
Richards are fantastic. You're hitting on all these things is tremendous.
Thank you and Russ your efforts are fantastic. But I
think it's important that we really get what matters here,
and it's not somebody's opinion, you know, And we had

(40:01):
so many opinions out there that unfortunately aren't really based
on real life, on real things, on science, on evidence
evident based, right. So that's what we have to really
be careful of and be critical of before we go
and ask people to apply it to their lives. And

(40:22):
that's why I'm trying to say, it's just like six
or seven pillars of health. And again, these chronic diseases
that we have are just a few, and they are
all different faces of the same. What we we have
medical terms for internal immune dysregulation and oxidata stress, and

(40:42):
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. And that's what we're all here to do, right, absolutely, Yeah,

(41:04):
and rush forgive me. I don't forgive me, Russ, I
don't care.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
This is locker room talk, Doc, There's there's no forgiving
in the locker room.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
We notice.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
Themes that are successful figure it out in the locker room.
They figured it out in the film room. We get
on the whiteboard. We don't have to agree sometimes, you know,
we we we get a little chippy, but we got
we have the same mission, we have the same mindset.
Work it out. We're gonna work it out when we
get all the field.

Speaker 4 (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 people who have touched your life, okay, and
it's the same thing they have influenced to our biology
and who we are, just like all the things that

(41:54):
we eat. And if we're sedentary or have joyous move
in our life. And uh yeah, those film rooms taught
me a lot Richard, And uh absolutely and yeah yeah,
very special moments. But I will share this with you too.
I had a problem one time Richard. Oh yeah, well

(42:19):
I'll tell you. And okay, so I'm on the offensive line,
I didn't know where my first step was on my
right foot?

Speaker 3 (42:34):
Where backwards?

Speaker 4 (42:36):
At Fords? And it should always be forward? And when
Joe wants me to do that. In high school, I
was on his first team. What a privilege, coach Boglia
And uh, you know what about the point I'm getting at,
it's once we teach people the joy of doing the

(42:58):
proper technique mm hm, then we all facilitate succeeding. And
I never missed a trap block after I finally learned
that away.

Speaker 11 (43:11):
Okay, yeah, probably you probably got put on your butt
less dimes do it?

Speaker 4 (43:18):
Yes, And that's the whole point. When you take that
little step. Now, if you're a five hundred pounds you know,
offensive guard, maybe you can cheat and get away with
that from a guy like me who had no talent.
I had no ruby cheat. So if I didn't do
the technique right, I'm not going to succeed, and that's
not we're all the field.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
At least you were on the fields, just left out.

Speaker 4 (43:44):
Probably better off not on the field, because I gotta
tell you when Joe Mowglia, Okay, he's a d nail
at Coast of Carolina, but he was at a fordum
at FORIDAM Prep at Fordham University and his first job
applied to two hundred and fifty six schools to be
a head coach out of college at high school. Only
one school took them. What a blessing. Archberr Academy in Delaware,

(44:09):
claimont Delaware. But and I know we still care about it, Russ.
Maybe you're better off not on the field. Why I
say that because we had sticks and stones and rocks
and broken class and I know we hate people to
do that at night on our practice field no turf spere.
But the point is all these are good lessons in life,

(44:30):
and we're all here to help people, but we have
to do it in an honest way. And we're really
overwhelmed today, Like I've heard Richard say, before you walk
into the grocery store and it's overwhelming, right, I could
just all made to feeling to us. And I know
I've heard Richard and the team talk about food labels,

(44:53):
and I know this is important to me. But like
in the nineteen nineties, people like Doc Castelli from Framing
in Art Study and Dean orang Ise a bunch of people,
they fought to get any food labels on. They fought
for that for years. And now the food labels are
just inadequate. And I love that a lot of the

(45:16):
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. You know, but I
will tell people, you know, when you look at food labels,
if there's more in a couple ingredients on it, then

(45:36):
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, sugar is glucose and fruit toast
pumps up for insulin, which is not good. And then fruittose,

(46:03):
the other part of sugar goes right to your liver
and damage at your liver and it's a major epidemic now,
you know. But the point is this is all positive.
We can help so many people, and we need a program.
You need a way to help people learn this and
implement it. And you can't just do it and a
brief visit. It's got to be like a program over time.

(46:26):
Like we need unity, we need support.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
We didn't get here overnight, and we're not going to
lead this condition overnight. But it all starts with awareness
and it definitely starts with caring and sharing. So that's
my call to action for all of you.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
Share this great and Richard, that's a great call to action.

Speaker 11 (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.

Speaker 5 (46:55):
Please learn more about it and watch my video on
tackle obesity dot com.

Speaker 4 (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 ab You know that I'm committed to tackle and
the fight against diabetes. And it's real thing. It's a
real thing to me.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
Where are you 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 again, so I admire what you guys
do and yes, uh and again you notice thing with
you know, Russ, this thing with obesity is a disease. Yeah,
I could go on about that all day, and it's
been recognized as a disease for a long time. And
what we've tried to do here is talk about causes,

(47:46):
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
different faces of all the same abnormal biology. Whether you
call it obesity, hypertension, diabetes, they're all just a few

(48:13):
different fases of the same internal metabolic arrangement with the
same causes. Right.

Speaker 12 (48:19):
So again, when you're treating the whole person and you're
improving your biology, that's why if you treat one or
two of these things, then.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
You're risk for all these bad things that goes down dramatically.
And again the point is that it takes time. 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

(48:54):
their need for multiple medications, just with If you want
to call this a better lifestyle, if you want to
call this functional medicine, it doesn't matter. I call it
good medicine. And now even beyond that, it's good life. Right.
But because you're again we call hypertension of disease, but

(49:14):
it's not a disease. It's a symptom of inflamed blood vessels.
And so we have if we treat the whole person
everything eventually, and even if we treat high blood pressure
with or without drugs, even just a little bit of
improvement in that blood pressure a couple millimeters translates to

(49:35):
a dramatic reduction and stroke and other bad things. Right, So,
one I'm going to say is small steps, and small
steps are really meaningful. And then eventually small steps turn
into gigantic leaps. And you're not going to make an
interception and run it back for seventy yards if.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
You haven't started with twenty yard sprints exactly. But this
is this is all phenomenal information, and as I mentioned this,
this is this is a movement. So make sure that
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(50:40):
and we need more members of the team. We have
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We 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 Muscle,
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Speaker 4 (51:16):
Richard, Richard, I have to say this. I have to
screen this out. Okay, okay, there's always a way to
help someone. 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,

(51:39):
be enthusiastic. There's always a way to get better. There's
always a way to do it. And just have faith,
have a plan, have community, have support, have a trusted
health guide, health success guide, and you can do this
small steps at a time. Lee to wonderful health and

(52:01):
a vibrant life and h health span. So again I
want to leave everyone with a note of encouragement. You
can write your own chapter. It doesn't matter what age
it is. You can write to be the hero of

(52:22):
your story. There we go again. I want to thank
both of you for the privilege of joining too wonderful
and handsome guys today. Peder, Oh my god, he's gonna
stay alive. He's gonna get rope all right.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
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