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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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 another.
Thank you all for joining us again. We are so
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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
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we are working to get it as a team to
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
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on our summer bodies. What about the children, And one
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
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shows that during the summer months, children tend to gain
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
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to extreme temperatures, and then there's just a general overall
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 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
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that they consume, and not only the amount of food
that they consume is the types of food that we consume.
We are 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,
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and so this is causing a problem. Accumulating evidence shows
that children in the USA from two thousand and seven
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
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our children have more activity and maintain that activity during
summer months, but we need to monitor the foods that
they eat. So I encourage you all definitely get some
support on what you can offer to your children. We
have some amazing content on our website, Attackling BCD at Houns.
Specifically look at the doctor Nerd segments where we talk
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about different things that you can offer to your children
as alternatives instead of processed foods. Encourage your children to
be more active and to eat better. So these are
ways that we're going to work to get to overcome
this problem that we're seeing during the summer buds. Now
that we have talked about that issue, I want to
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focus on our two amazing teammates that I brought law today.
One of them is our og, the man who has
been there from day one, mister Russ Allen. He is
the director of the NFL Alumni Wellness program. He is
the brain shout of the Tackle of b City program.
He's the one that I bet in Vegas when I
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was hoarding ships cracker of the cookies near thing.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
In four hundred plus pounds.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And here I am today. So I'm so so grateful
to half of Here are we doing today, Russ.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
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 as
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a couple, we really took this on together and it's
really taken a new direction in my life.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
And just like you, I had.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
A transformative journey and it really is such an honor to.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Be here, absolutely and it is a pleasure and honor.
Speaker 1 (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 with answers. He is a
gurup in this vaallet against obesity from the perspective as
a medical professional. Obviously you know he's a cardiologist. He's
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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 patients
and and and the co morbidities of obesity. So it
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is such an honor to have you here doctor, doctor
Greg Ntello. This is the last time I will use
this world because now you're our teammate. We no longer
even call you a gift. You're now teavate, our new teammate,
doctor gregential.
Speaker 1 (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 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 a leading cause of disability,
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greatest reason for healthcare spending, greater than ninety percent of
health health care spending.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
And greatest cause of premature death.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
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
of control inside us from the exposures we have all
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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 4 (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.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, we'll leave it.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Let you go.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
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 when the doctor said,
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here's insulin. You know at age I don't know, eleven
or twelve, and I would ververy overweight. 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 diabeta. And at the time,
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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 type two. And uh
and at the time we didn't know that that doctor said, oh,
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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 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 5 (09:44):
I'm forever grateful for that.
Speaker 1 (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.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
As a college football player.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Versus later on as a busy interventional cardiology carrying twinkies
around in my pocket 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 5 (10:14):
Life, I uh.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
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.
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
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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.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
And then I was privileged because I could go back.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
To everything I had learned but maybe didn't learn during
my education at the Cleveland Clinic over the last hundred
years of the history. 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,
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which is fantastic and honorable. But even the first doctor,
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 a disease.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
And we know that because we do a bypass.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
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 at immune dyst regulation,
but there's an internal flame that gets out of control,
and then it's manifests as chronic diseases, of which there's
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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
we'll talk about what obesity.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Means a little bit as we go on.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
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 my whole career focus, my whole vocational focus,
and get enlightened. Unfortunately, I had the resources to go
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do that and save my own life as well, and
then learn a better way to help people.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Actually, and.
Speaker 1 (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 out
and you want to pick up your your grandchildren or
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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 6 (13:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So that's work 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.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So I noticed the.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
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 if I'm miss speaking here,
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
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medical officials to focus on prevention versus treatment.
Speaker 1 (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, or 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. 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 the things are
driving that and those faces of chronic disease. So we
really have become very siloed. And I could talk all
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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.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
What we've already learned since the nineteen forties.
Speaker 1 (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 due to how well our orchestra works.
There're all pieces in the symphony in our body, and
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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. And I'm going to give you some
a group of common things that holds the answer to
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how we can optimize that and optimize our function and
vibrance in life.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
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.
Speaker 1 (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 learn 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 has.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Been presented to us.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
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 Tiger is a
wonderful thing with flags and sugar right and in again,
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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.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Are all the same thing.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
There're feed oils, MAGA six things heavily priced ult what
we call ultra processed food, and we have definition for
that But.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
A way to look at.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
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 intinally goes
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up chronic insulin and then for a year you develop
insulin resistance, which is the precursor to it's chronic inflammation,
and it's the 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.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
It's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
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 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
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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 used 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 1 (20:08):
Absolutely, And in fact, it's interesting, Richardster, 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 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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We know most of America struggles with lifestyle and food
choices that result in added weight. That weight impacts our wellness. Today,
we have many options to address this condition most importantly,
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Speaker 1 (23:09):
Richard maybe and Russ Maybe. I could just say a
couple of key things, like six pillars of health, go
for it.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
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 want to bore you with the biology,
which I'm excited about. But we talked about mitochondria liver disease.
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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 5 (23:52):
But you're eight years old.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
You're not drinking.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Alcohol, are you?
Speaker 10 (23:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (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
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with what we eat, like fruittose and sugar is glucose
and fruit toose.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Fruit toase goes right.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
To your liver and starts poisoning your liver, okay, and
leads to you know, chronic liver disease. What is the
most common cause of chronic liver disease? And it's becoming
a number one reason for liver transplants in the world
now in this incredible fatty liver disease, right, And it's
all associated with obesity and diabetes, inflammation, all this stuff.
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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, I got to have a talk
with you because I love you, right, And then when
my waist gets big, I say, oh God, what are
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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 that
is purified reverse osmosis. Green tea, okay, and I get
green tea that's decaffeinated, and green tea is really healthy,
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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 them had plastic and the prodded arteries. Wow,
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and the plastic and the prodid arteries predicted you're gonna
die earlier. You're gonna do be sicker than the person
who already 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 wave
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things in.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
You wave your food and plastic, you're heating it up,
moving those molecules into the food. You've got, right, cluss
or ceramic cannot use plastic, right.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Glass all the time.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
And I packed everything in glass down a refrigerator.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Very important.
Speaker 1 (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 the food we're talking about. And the
best food is the food that doesn't have labels. It's
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hidden in the corner of the growth free 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
that and then how to prepare it and what cooking
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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 is full
of poisons and things were called toxins and chemicals, so
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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.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
And eating out is a very treacherous road if you're.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Gonna do that a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
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.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Diets are not sustainable. They don't work. 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. They're all commonalities.
What I told you, Okay, there's no difference here and
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but and then joyous movement is the point I don't
like the word to use exercise. Yeah, I'd like the
joyous 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 gonna
feel terrible today. It's right. But I like it Richard
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and Russ, because it tells me how many steps I
walk a day, and most importantly for me, by contrasts
with a lot of the other things available. It tells
me about heart rate variability, which is a balance of
my red battery cable and my blue and my black
battery cable. We aught 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.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
I sweat or don't sweat.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
It's the two cables in your body, the automatic nervous system,
and it impacts everything. And we have to have that imbalance.
And then that's another thing, vaguel tone we could talk
about and too much.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
We live in a life where we're in the room.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
With a lion, so our rocket fuel are att ef
is 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
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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, but
it's essential.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
It prolongs your life.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And no physical activity in itself will not get you healthy.
It's fantastic, and it's all these things are synergistic. But
if you're eating all the stuff that's not good for
you that we talked about, you can exercise all you want,
it's not gonna matter.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
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.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Forms of stress. We're aware of it or not.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
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 has to do with the
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balance in the autonomic nervous system and things we can
do to increase our vagal tone.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
The other thing that's.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
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, this is all biology.
It's not somebody's opinion on the street. But it will
make you eat. It changes all the hormones and nerves
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in your body. It changes everything everything that you makes
you who you are. You can't do it effectively without
restorative sleep. And we have a whole course on sleep.
Breathing is important. The other thing I wanted another pillar
is social connection. And we know that we have an
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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 week, what hour?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
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 1 (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, I want to add hydration, and you mentioned
a filter that uses I have a Burkey filter, so
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it uses a stone to sandstone to filter the water.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Yes, it eliminates ninety nine percent of the toxins and
so on, costs nothing once you buy it last forever.
I don't have to throw away all those plastic bottles
that held my water in him and gotten hot and
cold and hot and cold. So whatever that plastic was
shedding at that time went into that water. Instead, I
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get it from the tap which came from the reservoir
through the filter. It's about as healthy as you're.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Going to get, absolutely, and you know Russ to support
that that.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
There are systems that I think are wonderful.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Going to get one that I can put under the
sink so I can use tapwitter again and get rid
of plastic. I used to buy the glass bottles with
the pellogrino, but that's difficult all that, So I'm going
to go with Tapwitter that 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.
(34:21):
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 need and the
best filter so far mechanism is reversed osmosis. And I
(34:43):
hate to say it, but well there is one product
of plastic bottled water that when I had to do it.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
I go to that because it's reversed osmosis.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Whether they get it from a tap or wherever they
say they get it. Most of these spring wooters are nonsense.
Are from their paths somewhere.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
But as long as they have reverse osmosis.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
And what is for our audience when is reverse osmosis?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
It's just a mechanism by which they purify water. You know,
I don't think, Okay, yeah, it's just a mechanism by
which they do it, just like for mechanisms by which
they decafinate things. But this Twitter method is real and
non chemical. But anyway, I will just and then I'm
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going to just go through this briefly, but I'm going
to say social connection, okay, community, love, spirituality, all these
things are critical to who you are biologically and how
you are expressed every day in life, and we all
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need that. And also it also has to do with again,
when I was growing up on my Italian relatives driving
me crazy talking what the meal went forever, and my
cheeks got pissed a thousand times. Actually, when we eat
slower and we eat with intention and we with community,
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everything physiologically and biologically is better. Is the point. It's
not someone's opinion. This is all evidence based science. And
spirituality also makes a big difference in how we feel
and how we function and how long we live a
healthy life.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
The last thing I'll say is avoiding things that are risky.
And here's the question.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
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.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
It's not crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
My father was a fireman and a barber, so I
saw people die from house fires. Today they don't do that.
What I mean is.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Emerger responders. Firefighters don't put out of fires today.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
What they do is they save lives with CPR and
healthcare issues. Right. But the point is everybody has a bed,
and most people don't realize all the toxins and flame
retardant stuff that's in a bed.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
And then you'll.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
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, there creating products that we use,
or the stuff that we put on our hair and
our skin, and all those things keep adding up over
the lifetime to cause over time, it's all these things
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that 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.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
I know.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, we want to call it a disease, and it is.
It's not an emotional thing that your obeses are overweight.
All these things are biologically mediated, is what I'm trying
to say. Oh, wait on my floor, you're 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
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know if you guys know this.
Speaker 12 (38:33):
But.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
More than ten percent of diffidens are obese.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
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 Well that did leading work years ago. I showed
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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.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
So all these things is what we have to teach people.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
And the last thing I'll say too about obesity is
that it reduces how long you live by about fifteen years, guys,
by about fiften to fifteen years.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Is't that incredible.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
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. Thank you and Russ your efforts are fantastic.
(39:53):
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 so many opinions out there that unfortunately aren't
really based on real life, on real things, on science,
on evidence based right. So that's what we have to
(40:14):
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 different phases of the same. What we we
(40:35):
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
(40:58):
from those things. And that's what we're are all here
to do, right, absolutely, Yeah, And Russ forgive me.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
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. We notice teams that are successful
figure it out in the locker room. They figure it out.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
In the film room.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
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 in a field.
Speaker 1 (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 and if we're sedentary or have joyous
movement in life. And uh yeah, those film rooms taught
me a lot Richard, and uh absolutely and yeah, yeah,
very special moments.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
But I will share this with you too.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
I had a problem one time Richard. H yeah, well
I'll tell you. And okay, so I'm on the offensive line,
I didn't know where my first step was on my.
Speaker 13 (42:32):
Right foot where backwards at quids? And it should always
be forward? And when Joe wanted me to do that
in high school, I was on his first team.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
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 I never missed a trap block
(43:06):
after I finally learned that.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Okay, yeah, probably.
Speaker 14 (43:13):
Probably got put on your butt less dimes do it?
Speaker 1 (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 on the field.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
At least you were on the fields, just left out.
Speaker 1 (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 ford
um at Fordham Prep at Fordham University, and his first
job he applied the 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
(44:07):
in Delaware, claim my Delaware. But and I know we
still care about it.
Speaker 5 (44:13):
Russ.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
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.
But the point is all these are good lessons in life,
and and we're all here to help people, but we
have to do it in an honest way, and we're
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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,
and I know this is important to me. But like
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in the nineteen nineties, people like doctor Stelli from Framing
in Art Study and dean Orage, a bunch of people,
they fought to get any food labels on. They fought
for that for years. And now the food labels are
just inadequate. And I love that a lot of the
European countries now have colors, right, and that's what food
(45:21):
table and like one means WHOA, You're in trouble, and
another color means hey, good choice.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
You know, but I will tell people, you know.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
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
that's another thing that is roy dangerous is the amount
of sugar that we get. And again sugar is glucose
(45:53):
and fruit toast pumps up for insulin, which is not
good and and then fruittose, the other part of sugar
goes right to your liver and damage a your liver
and a major epidemic now you know. But the point
is this is all positive. We can help so many people,
(46:15):
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 (46:28):
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 1 (46:40):
Share this great and Richard, that's a great call to action.
Speaker 14 (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 4 (46:55):
Please learn more about it and watch my video on
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Speaker 1 (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. What are you going
about that? Huh? Where are you going to find out about?
(47:21):
More more information?
Speaker 5 (47:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (47:24):
And uh again so I admire what you guys do
and yes, uh and again you notice thing with.
Speaker 5 (47:31):
You know, Russ, this thing with obesity is a disease.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (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 morbidities, are
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different faces of all the same abnormal biology. Whether you
call it obesity, hypertension, diabetes, they're all just a few
different phases of the same internal metabolic arrangement with the
same causes.
Speaker 5 (48:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (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 you're risk for all these
bid things that goes down dramatically. And again the point
is that it takes time. But I'll give you an example.
(48:42):
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 medicine, it doesn't matter.
(49:03):
I call it good medicine. And now even beyond that,
it's good life. Right.
Speaker 5 (49:08):
But because you're again, we call hypertension.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Of disease, but it's not a disease. It's a symptom
of inflamed blood vessels. And so we have if we
treat the whole person everything eventually, and even if we
treat high blood pressure with or without drugs, even just
a little bit of improvement in that blood pressure a
couple millimeters translates to a dramatic reduction in stroke and
(49:38):
other bad things. Right, So whate 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 you haven't started with twenty yard
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sprints exactly.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
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Speaker 1 (51:16):
Richard, Richard, I had to say this. I had 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,
(51:38):
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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 lead to wonderful health and
(52:01):
a vibrant life and health span. So again I want
to leave everyone with a note of encouragement.
Speaker 5 (52:15):
You can write your own chapter.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
It doesn't matter what age it is. You can write
to be the hero of your story. There we go again.
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summer parties, and many of us as adults, we focus
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on our summer bodies. What about the children, And one
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
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shows that during the summer months, children tend to gain
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
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to extreme temperatures, and then there's just a general overall
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 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
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that they consume, and not only the amount of food
that they consume is the types of food that we consume.
We are 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,
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and so this is causing a problem. Accumulating evidence shows
that children in the USA from two thousand and seven
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
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our children have more activity and maintain that activity during
summer months, but we need to monitor the foods that
they eat. So I encourage you all definitely get some
support on what you can offer to your children. We
have some amazing content on our website, Attackling BCD at Houns.
Specifically look at the doctor Nerd segments where we talk
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about different things that you can offer to your children
as alternatives instead of processed foods. Encourage your children to
be more active and to eat better. So these are
ways that we're going to work to get to overcome
this problem that we're seeing during the summer buds. Now
that we have talked about that issue, I want to
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focus on our two amazing teammates that I brought law today.
One of them is our og, the man who has
been there from day one, mister Russ Allen. He is
the director of the NFL Alumni Wellness program. He is
the brain shout of the Tackle of b City program.
He's the one that I bet in Vegas when I
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was hoarding ships cracker of the cookies near thing.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
In four hundred plus pounds.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And here I am today. So I'm so so grateful
to half of Here are we doing today, Russ.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
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 as
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a couple, we really took this on together and it's
really taken a new direction in my life.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
And just like you, I had.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
A transformative journey and it really is such an honor to.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Be here, absolutely and it is a pleasure and honor.
Speaker 1 (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 with answers. He is a
gurup in this vaallet against obesity from the perspective as
a medical professional. Obviously you know he's a cardiologist. He's
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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 patients
and and and the co morbidities of obesity. So it
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is such an honor to have you here doctor, doctor
Greg Ntello. This is the last time I will use
this world because now you're our teammate. We no longer
even call you a gift. You're now teavate, our new teammate,
doctor gregential.
Speaker 1 (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 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 a leading cause of disability,
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greatest reason for healthcare spending, greater than ninety percent of
health health care spending.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
And greatest cause of premature death.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
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
of control inside us from the exposures we have all
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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 4 (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.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, we'll leave it.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Let you go.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
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 when the doctor said,
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here's insulin. You know at age I don't know, eleven
or twelve, and I would ververy overweight. 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 diabeta. And at the time,
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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 type two. And uh
and at the time we didn't know that that doctor said, oh,
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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 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 5 (09:44):
I'm forever grateful for that.
Speaker 1 (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.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
As a college football player.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Versus later on as a busy interventional cardiology carrying twinkies
around in my pocket 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 5 (10:14):
Life, I uh.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
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.
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
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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.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
And then I was privileged because I could go back.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
To everything I had learned but maybe didn't learn during
my education at the Cleveland Clinic over the last hundred
years of the history. 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,
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which is fantastic and honorable. But even the first doctor,
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 a disease.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
And we know that because we do a bypass.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
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 at immune dyst regulation,
but there's an internal flame that gets out of control,
and then it's manifests as chronic diseases, of which there's
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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
we'll talk about what obesity.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Means a little bit as we go on.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
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 my whole career focus, my whole vocational focus,
and get enlightened. Unfortunately, I had the resources to go
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do that and save my own life as well, and
then learn a better way to help people.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Actually, and.
Speaker 1 (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 out
and you want to pick up your your grandchildren or
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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 6 (13:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So that's work 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.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So I noticed the.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
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 if I'm miss speaking here,
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
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medical officials to focus on prevention versus treatment.
Speaker 1 (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, or 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. 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 the things are
driving that and those faces of chronic disease. So we
really have become very siloed. And I could talk all
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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.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
What we've already learned since the nineteen forties.
Speaker 1 (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 due to how well our orchestra works.
There're all pieces in the symphony in our body, and
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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. And I'm going to give you some
a group of common things that holds the answer to
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how we can optimize that and optimize our function and
vibrance in life.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
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.
Speaker 1 (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 learn 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 has.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Been presented to us.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
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 Tiger is a
wonderful thing with flags and sugar right and in again,
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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.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Are all the same thing.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
There're feed oils, MAGA six things heavily priced ult what
we call ultra processed food, and we have definition for
that But.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
A way to look at.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
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 intinally goes
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up chronic insulin and then for a year you develop
insulin resistance, which is the precursor to it's chronic inflammation,
and it's the 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.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
It's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
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 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
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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 used 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 1 (20:08):
Absolutely, And in fact, it's interesting, Richardster, 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 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.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
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Speaker 1 (21:20):
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Speaker 8 (21:23):
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Speaker 9 (22:10):
The NFL Alumni Tackle Obesity Program serves our members and
the public with free training on how to tackle our obesity.
We know most of America struggles with lifestyle and food
choices that result in added weight. That weight impacts our wellness. Today,
we have many options to address this condition most importantly,
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as we adjust our lifestyle and our food choices, the
benefits to our wellness are rapid. By learning new habits,
we can prevent diabetes, reduce heart disease risk, and enhance
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Speaker 1 (23:09):
Richard maybe and Russ Maybe. I could just say a
couple of key things, like six pillars of health, go
for it.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
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 want to bore you with the biology,
which I'm excited about. But we talked about mitochondria liver disease.
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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 5 (23:52):
But you're eight years old.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
You're not drinking.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Alcohol, are you?
Speaker 10 (23:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (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
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with what we eat, like fruittose and sugar is glucose
and fruit toose.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Fruit toase goes right.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
To your liver and starts poisoning your liver, okay, and
leads to you know, chronic liver disease. What is the
most common cause of chronic liver disease? And it's becoming
a number one reason for liver transplants in the world
now in this incredible fatty liver disease, right, And it's
all associated with obesity and diabetes, inflammation, all this stuff.
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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, I got to have a talk
with you because I love you, right, And then when
my waist gets big, I say, oh God, what are
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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 that
is purified reverse osmosis. Green tea, okay, and I get
green tea that's decaffeinated, and green tea is really healthy,
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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 them had plastic and the prodded arteries. Wow,
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and the plastic and the prodid arteries predicted you're gonna
die earlier. You're gonna do be sicker than the person
who already 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 wave
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things in.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
You wave your food and plastic, you're heating it up,
moving those molecules into the food. You've got, right, cluss
or ceramic cannot use plastic, right.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Glass all the time.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
And I packed everything in glass down a refrigerator.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Very important.
Speaker 1 (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 the food we're talking about. And the
best food is the food that doesn't have labels. It's
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hidden in the corner of the growth free 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
that and then how to prepare it and what cooking
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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 is full
of poisons and things were called toxins and chemicals, so
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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.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
And eating out is a very treacherous road if you're.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Gonna do that a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
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.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Diets are not sustainable. They don't work. 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. They're all commonalities.
What I told you, Okay, there's no difference here and
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but and then joyous movement is the point I don't
like the word to use exercise. Yeah, I'd like the
joyous 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 gonna
feel terrible today. It's right. But I like it Richard
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and Russ, because it tells me how many steps I
walk a day, and most importantly for me, by contrasts
with a lot of the other things available. It tells
me about heart rate variability, which is a balance of
my red battery cable and my blue and my black
battery cable. We aught 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.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
I sweat or don't sweat.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
It's the two cables in your body, the automatic nervous system,
and it impacts everything. And we have to have that imbalance.
And then that's another thing, vaguel tone we could talk
about and too much.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
We live in a life where we're in the room.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
With a lion, so our rocket fuel are att ef
is 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
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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, but
it's essential.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
It prolongs your life.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And no physical activity in itself will not get you healthy.
It's fantastic, and it's all these things are synergistic. But
if you're eating all the stuff that's not good for
you that we talked about, you can exercise all you want,
it's not gonna matter.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
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.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Forms of stress. We're aware of it or not.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
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 has to do with the
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balance in the autonomic nervous system and things we can
do to increase our vagal tone.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
The other thing that's.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
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, this is all biology.
It's not somebody's opinion on the street. But it will
make you eat. It changes all the hormones and nerves
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in your body. It changes everything everything that you makes
you who you are. You can't do it effectively without
restorative sleep. And we have a whole course on sleep.
Breathing is important. The other thing I wanted another pillar
is social connection. And we know that we have an
(32:26):
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 week, what hour?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
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 1 (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, I want to add hydration, and you mentioned
a filter that uses I have a Burkey filter, so
(33:18):
it uses a stone to sandstone to filter the water.
Speaker 4 (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
(33:46):
get it from the tap which came from the reservoir
through the filter. It's about as healthy as you're.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Going to get, absolutely, and you know Russ to support
that that.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
There are systems that I think are wonderful.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Going to get one that I can put under the
sink so I can use tapwitter again and get rid
of plastic. I used to buy the glass bottles with
the pellogrino, but that's difficult all that, So I'm going
to go with Tapwitter that 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.
(34:21):
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 need and the
best filter so far mechanism is reversed osmosis. And I
(34:43):
hate to say it, but well there is one product
of plastic bottled water that when I had to do it.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
I go to that because it's reversed osmosis.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Whether they get it from a tap or wherever they
say they get it. Most of these spring wooters are nonsense.
Are from their paths somewhere.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
But as long as they have reverse osmosis.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
And what is for our audience when is reverse osmosis?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
It's just a mechanism by which they purify water. You know,
I don't think, Okay, yeah, it's just a mechanism by
which they do it, just like for mechanisms by which
they decafinate things. But this Twitter method is real and
non chemical. But anyway, I will just and then I'm
(35:30):
going to just go through this briefly, but I'm going
to say social connection, okay, community, love, spirituality, all these
things are critical to who you are biologically and how
you are expressed every day in life, and we all
(35:50):
need that. And also it also has to do with again,
when I was growing up on my Italian relatives driving
me crazy talking what the meal went forever, and my
cheeks got pissed a thousand times. Actually, when we eat
slower and we eat with intention and we with community,
(36:14):
everything physiologically and biologically is better. Is the point. It's
not someone's opinion. This is all evidence based science. And
spirituality also makes a big difference in how we feel
and how we function and how long we live a
healthy life.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
The last thing I'll say is avoiding things that are risky.
And here's the question.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
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.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
It's not crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
My father was a fireman and a barber, so I
saw people die from house fires. Today they don't do that.
What I mean is.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Emerger responders. Firefighters don't put out of fires today.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
What they do is they save lives with CPR and
healthcare issues. Right. But the point is everybody has a bed,
and most people don't realize all the toxins and flame
retardant stuff that's in a bed.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
And then you'll.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
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, there creating products that we use,
or the stuff that we put on our hair and
our skin, and all those things keep adding up over
the lifetime to cause over time, it's all these things
(38:00):
that 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.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
I know.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, we want to call it a disease, and it is.
It's not an emotional thing that your obeses are overweight.
All these things are biologically mediated, is what I'm trying
to say. Oh, wait on my floor, you're 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
(38:33):
know if you guys know this.
Speaker 12 (38:33):
But.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
More than ten percent of diffidens are obese.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
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 Well that did leading work years ago. I showed
(39:01):
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.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
So all these things is what we have to teach people.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
And the last thing I'll say too about obesity is
that it reduces how long you live by about fifteen years, guys,
by about fiften to fifteen years.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Is't that incredible.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
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. Thank you and Russ your efforts are fantastic.
(39:53):
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 so many opinions out there that unfortunately aren't
really based on real life, on real things, on science,
on evidence based right. So that's what we have to
(40:14):
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 different phases of the same. What we we
(40:35):
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
(40:58):
from those things. And that's what we're are all here
to do, right, absolutely, Yeah, And Russ forgive me.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
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. We notice teams that are successful
figure it out in the locker room. They figure it out.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
In the film room.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
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 in a field.
Speaker 1 (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 and if we're sedentary or have joyous
movement in life. And uh yeah, those film rooms taught
me a lot Richard, and uh absolutely and yeah, yeah,
very special moments.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
But I will share this with you too.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
I had a problem one time Richard. H yeah, well
I'll tell you. And okay, so I'm on the offensive line,
I didn't know where my first step was on my.
Speaker 13 (42:32):
Right foot where backwards at quids? And it should always
be forward? And when Joe wanted me to do that
in high school, I was on his first team.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
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 I never missed a trap block
(43:06):
after I finally learned that.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Okay, yeah, probably.
Speaker 14 (43:13):
Probably got put on your butt less dimes do it?
Speaker 1 (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 on the field.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
At least you were on the fields, just left out.
Speaker 1 (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 ford
um at Fordham Prep at Fordham University, and his first
job he applied the 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
(44:07):
in Delaware, claim my Delaware. But and I know we
still care about it.
Speaker 5 (44:13):
Russ.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
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.
But the point is all these are good lessons in life,
and and we're all here to help people, but we
have to do it in an honest way, and we're
(44:36):
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,
and I know this is important to me. But like
(44:57):
in the nineteen nineties, people like doctor Stelli from Framing
in Art Study and dean Orage, a bunch of people,
they fought to get any food labels on. They fought
for that for years. And now the food labels are
just inadequate. And I love that a lot of the
European countries now have colors, right, and that's what food
(45:21):
table and like one means WHOA, You're in trouble, and
another color means hey, good choice.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
You know, but I will tell people, you know.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
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
that's another thing that is roy dangerous is the amount
of sugar that we get. And again sugar is glucose
(45:53):
and fruit toast pumps up for insulin, which is not
good and and then fruittose, the other part of sugar
goes right to your liver and damage a your liver
and a major epidemic now you know. But the point
is this is all positive. We can help so many people,
(46:15):
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 (46:28):
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 1 (46:40):
Share this great and Richard, that's a great call to action.
Speaker 14 (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 4 (46:55):
Please learn more about it and watch my video on
tackleobesit dot.
Speaker 1 (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. What are you going
about that? Huh? Where are you going to find out about?
(47:21):
More more information?
Speaker 5 (47:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (47:24):
And uh again so I admire what you guys do
and yes, uh and again you notice thing with.
Speaker 5 (47:31):
You know, Russ, this thing with obesity is a disease.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (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 morbidities, are
(48:00):
different faces of all the same abnormal biology. Whether you
call it obesity, hypertension, diabetes, they're all just a few
different phases of the same internal metabolic arrangement with the
same causes.
Speaker 5 (48:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (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 you're risk for all these
bid things that goes down dramatically. And again the point
is that it takes time. But I'll give you an example.
(48:42):
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 medicine, it doesn't matter.
(49:03):
I call it good medicine. And now even beyond that,
it's good life. Right.
Speaker 5 (49:08):
But because you're again, we call hypertension.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Of disease, but it's not a disease. It's a symptom
of inflamed blood vessels. And so we have if we
treat the whole person everything eventually, and even if we
treat high blood pressure with or without drugs, even just
a little bit of improvement in that blood pressure a
couple millimeters translates to a dramatic reduction in stroke and
(49:38):
other bad things. Right, So whate 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 you haven't started with twenty yard
(49:59):
sprints exactly.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
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The great Russ Allen, the we call him the Mountain Muscle,
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Speaker 1 (51:16):
Richard, Richard, I had to say this. I had 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,
(51:38):
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 lead to wonderful health and
(52:01):
a vibrant life and health span. So again I want
to leave everyone with a note of encouragement.
Speaker 5 (52:15):
You can write your own chapter.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
It doesn't matter what age it is. You can write
to be the hero of your story. There we go again.
I want to thank both of you for the privilege
of joining two wonderful and handsome guys today. Pleduer, Oh
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Speaker 5 (52:36):
All right.
Speaker 3 (52:37):
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