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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nineteen thirty two dot org.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to another Tackle Obesity show featuring Coach Richard Walker,
our host, members of the NFL alumni, lifestyle weight loss experts,
and key social media influencers that are making a difference now.
Coach Richard Walker.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hey, listen up, bring it in another Tackle Obesity other.
Thank you all for joining us again. We are so
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We're so glad to have all of our wonderful teammates
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we're here for because we know that tackle obesity is
a medical condition, it is not a character flow, and
we are working to get it as a team to
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overcome the tackle obesity epidemic. I want to talk real
quickly before we get started today about summer. We're at
the final few weeks spring where transitioning summer kids are
going to be out of school. Beaches are open party
summer parties, and many of us as adults, we focus
on our summer bodies. What about the children, And one
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of the things that gets overlooked is the fact that
during the summer this is a pitfall for obesity in
our children. In a recent study by the National Institute
of Biotechnology Information and the National Library of Medicine, it
shows that during the summer months, children tend to gain
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weight on a thirty percent higher clip during the summer
months than they do during school year. Primary factors include
the fact that there's less activity. Some of the children
are not getting out and playing. In the South, we
have the issue of you know, possible heat exhaustion due
to extreme temperatures, and then there's just a general overall
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lack of activity from not having a structured environment, not
moved from class to class. They're parked in front of
the TVs, their tablets and video games phones all day,
So there's a there's a there's a downtick in activity,
but there's a huge uptick in the amount of food
that they consume, and not only the amount of food
that they.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Consume is the types of food that we consume.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
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,
and so this is causing a problem. Accumulating evidence shows
that children in the USA from two thousand and seven
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to twenty seventeen gained average of twelve pounds during the
summer months. That's a significant amount of weight, twelve pounds
on average that they gained during the summer months. So
we need to focus on not only making sure that
our children have more activity and maintain that activity during
the summer months, but we need to monitor the foods
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that they eat. So I encourage you all definitely get
some support on what you can offer to your children.
We have some amazing content on our website, Attackling bcdut House.
Specifically look at the doctor Nerd segments where we talk
about different things that you can offer to your children
as alternatives instead of processed foods. Encourage your children to
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be more active and to eat better. So these are
ways that we're going to work to get to overcome
this problem that we're seeing during the summer months. Now
that we have talked about that issue, I want to
focus on our two amazing teammates that I brought all today.
One of them is our og, the man who has
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been there from day one, mister Russ Allen. He is
the director of the NFL Alumni Wellness Program. He is
the brain shout of the Tackle of b City program.
He's the one that I bet in Vegas when I
was hoarding ships cracker of the cookies near thing in
four hundred plus pounds. And here I am today. So
I am so so grateful to half of Here are
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we doing today.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Russ Richard, I'm doing fantastic And so he's so great
to see you and be able to share the things
we're learning about tackling our obesity. You know, my story
was I lost fifty pounds, but before picture was literally
in front of the sign in Death Valley, so you
could do it. After that, my wife lost seventy. So
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as a couple, we really took this on together and
it's really taking a new direction in my life.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
And just like you, I had.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
A transformative journey and it really is such an honor.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
To be here, absolutely and it is a pleasure and honor. Guys,
bring out your no parents, drop questions in a chat.
If you have any email us doctor when we'll get
the questions to doctor Ntello to provide you with answers.
He is a gurup in this vallot against obesity from
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the perspective as a medical professional. Obviously you know he's
a cardiologist. He's got infinite amount of experience dealing with
people that are dealing with this obesity crisis. But he
also has a personal pivot to this as will and
I'm gonna let him talk about that as well.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
He is a trusted medical professional in this business, has
been dealing with patients and and and the co morbidities
of obesity. So it is such an honor to have
you here doctor, doctor greg Ntello. This is the last
time I will use this word, because now you're our teammate.
We no longer even call you a gift. You're now
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a teamate, our new teammate, doctor Gregentale's thank.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
You, Richard, and thank you Russ. It's been a pleasure
to work with us and tackle obesity and fight against
diabetes for a couple of years now. And thank you
so much, and proud of both of you for what
you do, all the people you're helping is fantastic and
it's a beautiful day, and we should start out with
some gratitude and know why we're here. Have the mindset,
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and why we're here is to improve well, actually, we're
here not just to prevent and not just to better manage,
but to reverse chronic disease. And right now we're flooded
with an epidemic of chronic disease in our country. And
what that means is it's a leading cause of disability,
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greatest reason for healthcare spending, greater than ninety percent health
care spending.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
And greatest cause of premature death.
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
All the time.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
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, models for kids,
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and have a tremendous impact. And each of us suffers
with one chronic illness or another. Our families do the
people around us, and there's a lot that we can
do to help ourselves and help other people. And that's
what we're going to go through today.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Doctor Natello, I'd love for you to share a little
bit about your own experience as a youth and struggling
with type two diabetes and yeah, we'll leave it.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Let you go. Well, Ross, I'll tell you when I
was in my early teenage years, I had diabetes and
my mother, who grew up on a farm but worked
as a professional waitress in Philadelphia at the pub and
my father was a barber, and my mother just wouldn't
stand for it. My mother like went out of control
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when the doctor said, 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
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grown up on a farm, and actually reversed my die beats.
And at the time, it's kind of interesting because at
the time it was called adult onset diabetes versus like
one diabetes. Right, type type one diabetes about five percent
of people, but overwhelmingly ninety five percent of diabetes is
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type two. And uh and at the time we didn't
know that that doctor said, oh, you're you're going to
die without insulince.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
My mother took a risky.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
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, I'm forever grateful for that.
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And I'll show you though as we go on, and
I'm just going to show a few slides, but I'll
show you as a college football player versus later on
as a busy intervention cardiology, carrying twinkies around in my
pocket and drinking cokes and not sleeping for years. The
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difference same, bm I. But I'm going to show you
the difference between health and illness.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
And then and again in my adult.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Life, I uh, Richard and Russ, I was, oh, there
was something wrong with me, and I had to go
to one doctor after another, and everybody said, Oh, you're just.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Working too hard. Don't worry about it. You was just
working too hard, and I said, no, there's something wrong
with me. And actually I was pretty sick. And finally
I got a diagnostic label. And then they tried to
just put different layers of paint on the hood without
addressing the engine under the hood and without getting to
the heart of the matter, and they all meant well.
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And then I was privileged because I could go back
to everything I had learned but maybe didn't learn during
my education at the Cleveland Clinic over the last 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
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educated rather than just putting stents and heart attack patients,
which is fantastic and honorable. But even the first doctor
that the doctor that did the first bypass surgery, you'r
a five blaro Cleveland Clinic said athoscrosis is a disease,
and I can do bypass surgery, but I'm not treating
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a disease.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
And we know that because we do a bypass.
Speaker 7 (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 disregulation, but
there's an internal flame that gets out of control, and
then it's manifests as chronic diseases, of which there's all
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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 4 (12:17):
Means a little bit as we go on.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
So, yeah, I have had to walk to talk. I've
had to learn and go back and get enlightened repeatedly
and at many years doing that, Richard, and had to
kind of change my whole career focus, my whole vocational focus,
and get enlightened. Unfortunately, I had 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. Actually, and
you know, the way that I view life now is
to help people with their lifespan, with their lifespan their
health span. Right, it's not just how long you live,
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but you want to have a health of me.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You want to be vigorous, if you want to go.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Out and you want to pick up your your grandchildren
or your kids or whatever, whatever you want to do.
You want to be able to do that for as
long as possible and have a vibrant, exciting, happy life.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Right.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
So that's going to work.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
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 obestie is
and specifically to you, how do you treat it?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
So I noticed a.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Sort of a pain with a broad brush. Well, how
do we re educate our medical community because I think
a lot of the people that are in practice right now,
you know, forgive me if I'm speaking here, but it
seems like a lot of people that are in practice
are dealing with the backian versus prevention. So how do
we turn that curve where we're educating our professionals to
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focus on prevention versus treatment.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Well that's a good point, and Richards, the way I
look at it, it's not just prevention. Okay, it's also
about improving how we manage chronic disease and furthermore, reverse it,
reverse it. Reverse that scrossis put diabetes and remission, get
rid of the things that are driving these chronic diseases,
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and turn chronic diseases around and turn lives around. But
to answer your question, I don't want to be derogatory
or negative at all.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
But you know, we're talking about.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Things that have been going on for generations now, and
what we've developed since World War Two is a hammer nail. Okay,
everybody's in a hammer nail, and it neglects the biologic
differences between you, me and russ and that are driving
that and those faces of chronic disease. So we really
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have become very siloed. And I could talk all day
about we have guys that are into the brain thing,
we have guys that are into the GI microbiome. We
have guys that are in hypertension. But we've not been
educated to listen to what we've already learned since the
nineteen forties that we are what we are in life
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every day and how we feel and how we function,
how long we live is.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Due to how well.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Our orchestra works. There're all pieces in the symphony in
our body, and we call it systems biology, and it's
all connected. Your gut is connected to your brain. Your
gut goes faster as your brain than your brain goes
to your gut. But all these things are so intimately related,
and that determines who we are, Richard, and how we
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feel and function every day.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
And I'm going to give you some a group of.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Common things that holds the answer to how we can
optimize that and optimize our function and vibrance in life.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Terrific.
Speaker 9 (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 7 (16:32):
But you can't give someone this in a fifteen minute
office visit. Doctors are really pounded now.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
You know.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
And again the medical schools are starting to implement this
a better education. But then as far as delivery, it's
not possible to deliver this in brief office visits, let
alone have and and a doctor may not have time
in her life to go back and relearn or gain
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a more enlightened perspective now, but certainly they have an obligation.
I believe to provide access to a system that will
help them a patient learn that and put those things
into their daily life in a happy, joyous way.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
And it's not about.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
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 been presented
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to us since the nineteen eighties and nineteen seventies and nineties.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
That's been presented to us.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
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, I'll say thirty or
forty years ago, there were three hundred and fifty products
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in the grocery store. Today there's thirty five thousand. But
if you really look at it, if you really look
at it, ninety five percent of them are all the
same thing. There are feed oils, MAGA six things heavily
priced ult what we call ultra processed food, and we
have definition for that But.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
A way to look at that.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
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.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Apple juice right right, Well, they're getting the balls to
sugar and IV sugar ballster instantly goes up chronic insulin
and then for years you develop insulin resistance, which.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
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 4 (19:17):
It's a wonderful thing. It's not. You're hurting your kid,
and there's so.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
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.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
And so we.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Really have to just help people get an awareness, but
more importantly than we have to show them the abundance
of things for their life that they don't know about.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Absolutely that's a great point. That's where I was going
with the next question, is that one of the things
that we really emphasize on this show and through all
of our content is that like to use the saying
that your food is your medicine, and if you don't
focus on it that way, then your medicine will become
your food.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Absolutely.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
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
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every day things that we do every day in our life,
you know, to bring these things into what becomes our habits,
our mindset, our emphasis. So we're trying to do this
and unfortunately, if we had all the leaders in our country,
because this is it's a global issue now, but if
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we had all 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.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
For right now, it's going to depend on the individual.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
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Speaker 4 (23:09):
Richard maybe and Russ Maybe.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
I could just say a couple of key things, like
six pillars of health, go for it.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Okay. One is what we eat.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
And when we're talking about like I said, minimal to
no processed food, sugary beverages, gator A fruit, those they're.
Speaker 12 (23:28):
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. You don't know this,
maybe you do, but there's a thing.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
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. But you're eight years old. You're
not drinking alcohol, are you?
Speaker 13 (23:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Wow?
Speaker 14 (23:57):
Will you have this thing called fatty liver disease which
now you know effects like a gigantic number of kids,
a gigantic number of adults for a long term.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Uh, it's silent disease.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
Doctors too often don't look for it. It's negotiated with
diabetes and has a lot to do with what we eat,
like fruittose and sugar is glucose and fruit toose, fruit
toase goes right to your liver and starts poisoning your liver, okay,
and leads to chronic liver disease. What is the most
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common cause of chronic liver disease? And it is 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.
It's all in there together. And so when I see
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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
you doing? And I can always find out.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
But so one is we call nutrition, but it is
what we eat, it's what we drink.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
We should be drinking water. It is purified reverse osmosis.
Green tea, Okay, and I get green tea that's decaffeinated,
and green tea is really healthy, but in a steak
caffeinated a certain way Swiss water method, not with all
the toxic chemicals and what we drank the water out, plastics.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
This will scare you. It's a real thing, okay.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
But a study came out a couple of months ago
where prodded artery surgery patients, right, half of them, half
of them had plastic, and the prodded arteries, wow.
Speaker 15 (25:55):
And the plastic and the prodid arteries predicted you're gonna
die earlier. You're gonna to be sicker than the person
who already has a bed of course, because they have
crowded disease.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
But didn't have the plastic. So what I'm trying to
say is what we put on our skin, the water
we drink, all this, what we might.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Wave things in.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
You wave your food and plastic, you're heating it up,
moving those molecules into the food. You've got, right, LUs
or Ceramic cannot use plastic.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Right, Glass all the time, and I packed everything in
glass on the refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Very important.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
I got a water filter, I got this, I got that.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
But I'm not crazy.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
What I'm trying to say is I used to think
this was crazy stuff, but now I know the biology
of it, and I know the data.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
But the other thing, Russ, thank you for pointing out.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
It's not just the food we're talking about. And the
best food is the food that doesn't have labels. It's
hidden in the corner of the grocery store, right. And
we have to teach people crucifers, vegetables. 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
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out there, abundance. If we just let people know that
and then how to prepare it and what cooking oils
to use and not to use like you know, like
olive oil is like improves your life. All these other
the Omega three, but all the Omega six oils are
very harmful to your health. But also the packaging is
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what I wanted to mention. The packaging is full of
poisons and things were called toxins and chemicals, so you know.
And again, eating at home with the community and all
that love also is all molecules of emotion and your biology, okay,
and that also improves your health. And eating out is
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a very treacherous road if you're gonna do that a lot. Yeah,
So that's a little bit on nutrition.
Speaker 16 (28:04):
And then I want to talk about I don't use
the word exercise, and I don't use the word diet ever,
because we're talking about dietary patterns, right, not dying it.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Diets are not sustainable.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
They don't work.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
You can be able to a thousand diets. You have
to get a healthy dietary pattern. And whatever we call it,
if we call it, it doesn't matter the Blue Zone
diet or the Mediterranean dietary pattern, it's all the same.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
They're all commonalities.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
What I told you, Okay, there's no difference here. And
but and then joyous movement is the point I don't
like the word to use excerci.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah, I'd like the joyous movement.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
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.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
It's right.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
But I like it Richard and Russ because it tells
me how many the steps I walk aday 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
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bodies run on two cables, and it's called the automatic
nervous system. And that's why my blood vessels constrict when
I stand up and I don't pass out, and that's
my heart rate, and my pupils get big and small.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I sweat or don't sweat. It's the two cables in your.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Body, the automatic nervous system, and it impacts everything. And
we have to have that imbalance and then that's another thing,
Vaguel tone we could talk about and too much.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
We live in a life where we're in the room.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
With a lion, so our rocket fuel are at nephron
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.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
The numbers aren't important.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
What's important is to trend over weeks and months anyway.
So joyous activity, we could talk about it all day,
but it's essential. It prolongs your life, and no physical
activity in itself will not get you healthy. It's fantastic,
and it's all these things are synergistic. But if you're
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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 4 (30:50):
Now.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
The other thing I want to talk about is stress,
real fast stress is a physiologic thing, and whether you're
aware of it or not, and whether it's physical stress
or emotional stress. Bad relationships, toxic relationships, This is all
biology pouring into you and forms of stress. We're aware
(31:13):
of it or not. Not sleeping is a terrible form
of stress, stress, disrupture, metabolism and all the things we
talk about that are critical for life, your mitochondrial function,
this and that. So it's truly important that are we're
aware how to manage stress, is my point, and that
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has to do with the balance in the autonomic nervous
system and things we can do to increase our vagal tone.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
The other thing that's really.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Critical that people don't get is restorative sleep.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
One of the most.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
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 somebody's opinion on
the street, but it will make you eat. It changes
all the hormones and nerves in your body. It changes
everything everything that you makes you who you are. You
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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 epidemic now isolation in America. Okay,
people are on social media. Well, we're on social media now,
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so don't count this, but what hour a week?
Speaker 4 (32:40):
What hour?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Well, but this is this is this is a good thing, though, doctor,
because we're doing film study and we're breaking this now.
So don't think we're that way. You just think we're
in lock and roll. Yeah, we're going through the exs
and notes. That's what we're doing exactly. I'm with you, guys.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
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.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Yes, for us.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
I want to add hydration, and you mentioned a filter
that uses I have a Burkey filter, so it uses
a stone to sandstone to filter the water. Yes, it
eliminates ninety nine the toxins and so on, costs nothing
(33:30):
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.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
At that time went into that water.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Instead, I get it from the tap which came from
the reservoir through the filter. It's about as healthy as you're.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Going to get absolutely and you know Russ to support
that that. There are systems that I think are wonderful.
I'm going to get one that I can put under
the sink so I can use topwitter again and get
rid of plastic. I used to buy the glass bottles
with the pellogrino, but that's difficult all that, So I'm
(34:13):
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.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
And you have no idea.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
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 hate to say it, but well,
(34:45):
there is one product of plastic bottled water that when
I had to do it.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
I go to that because it's reversed osmosis.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Whether they get it from a tap or wherever they
say they get it. Most of these spring wooters are
nonsense from the paths somewhere but as long as they
have reverse osmosis, and what.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Is for our audience when is reverse moss.
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 12 (35:58):
Me crazy talking what the meal went forever and my
chinks got pissed a thousand times.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
Actually, when we eat slower and we eat with intention
and we with community, everything physiologically and biologically is better.
Is the point. It's not someone's opinion. This is all
evidence based science. And spirituality also makes a big difference
(36:27):
in how we feel and how we function and how
long we live a healthy life. The last thing I'll
say is avoiding things that are risky. And here's the question.
This is the real challenge to educate people between health
promoting and health adverse because most of us don't know that, right,
(36:52):
and there's so many things in our everyday life. I
don't want to get carried away, all right, but I'll
just think about what I've gone through over the last
couple of years. It's not crazy stuff. My father was
a fireman and a barber, so I saw people die
from house fires.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Today they don't do that. What I mean is.
Speaker 7 (37:14):
Emerger responders. Firefighters don't put out of fires today. What
they do is they save lives with CPR and healthcare issues.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Right.
Speaker 7 (37:24):
But the point is everybody has a bed, and most
people don't realize all the toxins and flame retardant stuff
that's in a bed.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
And then you'll.
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
To cause.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Over time, it's all these things that up to kind
of hurt your biology and hurt your metabolism and all
these things then lead to high blood pressure, obesity, and
all these things are symptoms.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
They're not diseases. I know.
Speaker 7 (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 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 17 (38:34):
But.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
More than ten percent of diffidits are obese.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Did you know that?
Speaker 7 (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 UH people that did leading work years ago showed
(39:02):
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.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
But there are things that are adverse to health, is
what point? So all these things is what we have
to teach people.
Speaker 7 (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 4 (39:30):
Isn't that incredible.
Speaker 7 (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 have so many opinions out there that unfortunately aren't
really based.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
On real life, on real things, on science.
Speaker 7 (40:10):
On evidence based right, So that's what we have to
really be careful of and be critical of before we
go and ask people to apply it to their lives.
And that's why I'm trying to say, is just like
six or seven pillars of health. And again, these chronic
diseases that we have are just a few, and they
(40:32):
are all different phases of the same. What we have
medical terms for internal immune dysregulation and oxidata stress and
that's what we mean by chronic low grade inflammation. And
now we know what feeds that, right sort of speak,
and we know how to stop that process, and then
we know how oftentimes we can repair the damaged metabolism
(40:58):
from those things. We're all here to do, right, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
And Russ forgive me. I don't forgive me, Russ, I
don't care.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
This is locker room talk, Doc, There's there's no forgiving
in the locker room. We notice teams that are successful
figure it out in the locker room. They figure it
out in the film room. We get on the whiteboard.
We don't have to agree sometimes, you know, we we
we get a little chippy, but we got we have
the same mission, we have the same mindset. Work it out.
(41:30):
We're gonna work it out when we get all the field.
Speaker 7 (41:32):
And you know, Richard, I'm with you. And it's funny
how we've been influenced by a lot of the same people,
and you know, it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Again.
Speaker 7 (41:39):
The whole point here is if you look back in
your life at the people who have touched your life, okay, and.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 7 (41:48):
They have influenced to our biology and who we are,
just like all the things that we eat and and
if we're sedentary or have joyous movement in our life.
And uh yeah, those film rooms taught me a lot Richard,
And uh absolutely and yeah, yeah, very special moments. But
(42:12):
I will share this with you too. 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 right.
Speaker 18 (42:33):
Foot where backwards at Fords? And it should always be forward?
And when Joe wanted me to do that in high school,
I was on his first team.
Speaker 7 (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
(43:07):
after I finally learned that.
Speaker 6 (43:11):
Okay, yeah, probably you probably got put on your butt
less dimes do it?
Speaker 7 (43:18):
Yes, And that's the whole point. When you take that
little step. Now, if you're a five hundred pounds you know,
offensive guard, maybe you can cheat and get away with
that from a guy like me who had no talent,
I had no ruby cheat. So if I didn't do
the technique right, I'm not going to succeed.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
And that's not we're on the field.
Speaker 6 (43:39):
At least you were on the fields, just left out.
Speaker 7 (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,
well to two hundred and fifty six schools to be
a head coach out of college at high school. Only
one school took them. What a blessing. Archberr Academy in Delaware,
(44:09):
claim my Delaware, but h and I know we still
care about it.
Speaker 4 (44:13):
Russ. Maybe you're better off not on the field.
Speaker 7 (44:15):
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 we're all here to help people,
but we have to do it in an honest way.
And we're really overwhelmed today, Like I've heard Richard say,
(44:39):
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 in the nineteen nineties, people like doctor Castelli
(45:01):
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.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
And I love.
Speaker 7 (45:14):
That a lot of the European countries now have colors, right,
and that's what food table and like one means WHOA,
You're in trouble, and another color means hey, good choice.
You know, but I will tell people, you know, when
you look at food labels, if there's more in a
(45:34):
couple ingredients on it, then you shouldn't be eating it,
right And if you don't know the names of it
and sugar has it as I last counted, I don't
even know how many names it has, but you know.
And and that's another thing that is roy dangerous is
the amount of sugar that we get. And again sugar
is glucose and fruit toast pumps up for insulin, which
(45:58):
is not good, 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, and we need a program. You need a
way to help people learn this and implement it. And
(46:20):
you can't just do it and a brief visit. It's
got to be like a program over time. Like we
need unity, we need support.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
We didn't get here overnight, and we're not going to
lead this condition overnight. But it all starts with awareness
and it definitely starts with caring and searing. So that's
my call to action for all of you.
Speaker 7 (46:40):
Share this great and Richard, that's a great call to action.
Speaker 5 (46:44):
Absolutely so doctor to tell if you would please, we
ask each of our guests to say, obesity is a
medical condition, not a character flaw. Please learn more about
it and watch my video on tackle obesity dot com.
Speaker 7 (47:01):
I agree with that, Russ, Well, why don't you.
Speaker 6 (47:04):
Give it a try again.
Speaker 7 (47:06):
You know that I'm committed to tackle a b that's
you know that I'm committed to tackle and the.
Speaker 4 (47:13):
Fight against diabetes. And it's a real thing.
Speaker 7 (47:15):
It's a real thing to me.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
What are you going about that.
Speaker 5 (47:20):
Huh where are you going to find out about more
more information?
Speaker 4 (47:24):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (47:24):
And uh again so I admire what you guys do
and yes, uh and again you notice thing with.
Speaker 4 (47:31):
You know, Russ, this thing with obesity is a disease. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (47:37):
I could go on about that all day, and it's
been recognized as a disease for a long time. And
what we've tried to do here is talk about causes,
multiple causes and as Richard said, cumulative over time. And
again this other word with co morbidities, we have to
get rid of that because these aren't co morbidity. They're
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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 fases of the same internal metabolic arrangement with the
same causes.
Speaker 4 (48:18):
Right.
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 4 (48:37):
And again the point is that it takes time. But
I'll give you an example, high blood pressure.
Speaker 7 (48:43):
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. I
(49:03):
call it good medicine. And now even beyond that, it's
good life.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Right.
Speaker 7 (49:08):
But because you're again, we call hypertension of disease, but
it's not a disease. It's a symptom of inflamed blood vessels.
And so we have if we treat the whole person
everything eventually, and even if we treat high blood pressure
with or without drugs, even just a little bit of
(49:31):
improvement in that blood pressure a couple millimeters translates to
a dramatic reduction in stroke and.
Speaker 4 (49:39):
Other bad things.
Speaker 7 (49:40):
Right, So, one I'm going to say is small steps,
and small steps are really meaningful. And then eventually small
steps turn into gigantic leaps. And you're not going to
make an interception and run it back for seventy yards
if you haven't started with twenty yard sprints exactly.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
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This is a movement and we need more members of
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Speaker 7 (51:16):
Richard, Richard, I have to say this. I had to
screen this out.
Speaker 4 (51:23):
Okay, okay, there's always a way to help someone. There's
always a way to help.
Speaker 7 (51:29):
Ourselves, and there's always a way to help someone, And
there's always a way to help others. And it's small steps.
Be encouraged, be enthusiastic. There's always a way to get better.
Speaker 4 (51:43):
There's always a way to do it.
Speaker 7 (51:46):
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 a vibrant life and.
Speaker 4 (52:07):
Health span.
Speaker 7 (52:10):
So again I want to leave everyone with a note
of encouragement. You can write your own chapter. It doesn't
matter what age it is. You can write to be
the hero of your story. There we go again. I
want to thank both of you for the privilege of
joining too wonderful and handsome guys today. Pled Oh my god,
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he's gonna stay alive. He's gonna keep wrong.
Speaker 4 (52:36):
All right.
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Welcome to another Tackle Obesity show featuring Coach Richard Walker,
our host, members of the NFL alumni, lifestyle weight loss experts,
and key social media influencers that are making a difference now.
Coach Richard Walker.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hey, listen up, bring it in another Tackle Obesity other.
Thank you all for joining us again. We are so
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a medical condition, it is not a character flow, and
we are working to get it as a team to
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overcome the tackle obesity epidemic. I want to talk real
quickly before we get started today about summer. We're at
the final few weeks spring where transitioning summer kids are
going to be out of school. Beaches are open party
summer parties, and many of us as adults, we focus
on our summer bodies. What about the children, And one
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of the things that gets overlooked is the fact that
during the summer this is a pitfall for obesity in
our children. In a recent study by the National Institute
of Biotechnology Information and the National Library of Medicine, it
shows that during the summer months, children tend to gain
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weight on a thirty percent higher clip during the summer
months than they do during school year. Primary factors include
the fact that there's less activity. Some of the children
are not getting out and playing. In the South, we
have the issue of you know, possible heat exhaustion due
to extreme temperatures, and then there's just a general overall
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lack of activity from not having a structured environment, not
moved from class to class. They're parked in front of
the TVs, their tablets and video games phones all day,
So there's a there's a there's a downtick in activity,
but there's a huge uptick in the amount of food
that they consume, and not only the amount of food
that they.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Consume is the types of food that we consume.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
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,
and so this is causing a problem. Accumulating evidence shows
that children in the USA from two thousand and seven
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to twenty seventeen gained average of twelve pounds during the
summer months. That's a significant amount of weight, twelve pounds
on average that they gained during the summer months. So
we need to focus on not only making sure that
our children have more activity and maintain that activity during
the summer months, but we need to monitor the foods
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that they eat. So I encourage you all definitely get
some support on what you can offer to your children.
We have some amazing content on our website, Attackling bcdut House.
Specifically look at the doctor Nerd segments where we talk
about different things that you can offer to your children
as alternatives instead of processed foods. Encourage your children to
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be more active and to eat better. So these are
ways that we're going to work to get to overcome
this problem that we're seeing during the summer months. Now
that we have talked about that issue, I want to
focus on our two amazing teammates that I brought all today.
One of them is our og, the man who has
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been there from day one, mister Russ Allen. He is
the director of the NFL Alumni Wellness Program. He is
the brain shout of the Tackle of b City program.
He's the one that I bet in Vegas when I
was hoarding ships cracker of the cookies near thing in
four hundred plus pounds. And here I am today. So
I am so so grateful to half of Here are
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we doing today.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Russ Richard, I'm doing fantastic And so he's so great
to see you and be able to share the things
we're learning about tackling our obesity. You know, my story
was I lost fifty pounds, but before picture was literally
in front of the sign in Death Valley, so you
could do it. After that, my wife lost seventy. So
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as a couple, we really took this on together and
it's really taking a new direction in my life.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
And just like you, I had.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
A transformative journey and it really is such an honor.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
To be here, absolutely and it is a pleasure and honor. Guys,
bring out your no parents, drop questions in a chat.
If you have any email us doctor when we'll get
the questions to doctor Ntello to provide you with answers.
He is a gurup in this vallot against obesity from
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the perspective as a medical professional. Obviously you know he's
a cardiologist. He's got infinite amount of experience dealing with
people that are dealing with this obesity crisis. But he
also has a personal pivot to this as will and
I'm gonna let him talk about that as well.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
He is a trusted medical professional in this business, has
been dealing with patients and and and the co morbidities
of obesity. So it is such an honor to have
you here doctor, doctor greg Ntello. This is the last
time I will use this word, because now you're our teammate.
We no longer even call you a gift. You're now
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a teamate, our new teammate, doctor Gregentale's thank.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
You, Richard, and thank you Russ. It's been a pleasure
to work with us and tackle obesity and fight against
diabetes for a couple of years now. And thank you
so much, and proud of both of you for what
you do, all the people you're helping is fantastic and
it's a beautiful day, and we should start out with
some gratitude and know why we're here. Have the mindset,
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and why we're here is to improve well, actually, we're
here not just to prevent and not just to better manage,
but to reverse chronic disease. And right now we're flooded
with an epidemic of chronic disease in our country. And
what that means is it's a leading cause of disability,
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greatest reason for healthcare spending, greater than ninety percent health
care spending.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
And greatest cause of premature death.
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
All the time.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
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, models for kids,
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and have a tremendous impact. And each of us suffers
with one chronic illness or another. Our families do the
people around us, and there's a lot that we can
do to help ourselves and help other people. And that's
what we're going to go through today.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Doctor Natello, I'd love for you to share a little
bit about your own experience as a youth and struggling
with type two diabetes and yeah, we'll leave it.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Let you go. Well, Ross, I'll tell you when I
was in my early teenage years, I had diabetes and
my mother, who grew up on a farm but worked
as a professional waitress in Philadelphia at the pub and
my father was a barber, and my mother just wouldn't
stand for it. My mother like went out of control
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when the doctor said, 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
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grown up on a farm, and actually reversed my die beats.
And at the time, it's kind of interesting because at
the time it was called adult onset diabetes versus like
one diabetes. Right, type type one diabetes about five percent
of people, but overwhelmingly ninety five percent of diabetes is
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type two. And uh and at the time we didn't
know that that doctor said, oh, you're you're going to
die without insulince.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
My mother took a risky.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
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, I'm forever grateful for that.
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And I'll show you though as we go on, and
I'm just going to show a few slides, but I'll
show you as a college football player versus later on
as a busy intervention cardiology, carrying twinkies around in my
pocket and drinking cokes and not sleeping for years. The
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difference same, bm I. But I'm going to show you
the difference between health and illness.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
And then and again in my adult.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Life, I uh, Richard and Russ, I was, oh, there
was something wrong with me, and I had to go
to one doctor after another, and everybody said, Oh, you're just.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Working too hard. Don't worry about it. You was just
working too hard, and I said, no, there's something wrong
with me. And actually I was pretty sick. And finally
I got a diagnostic label. And then they tried to
just put different layers of paint on the hood without
addressing the engine under the hood and without getting to
the heart of the matter, and they all meant well.
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And then I was privileged because I could go back
to everything I had learned but maybe didn't learn during
my education at the Cleveland Clinic over the last 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
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educated rather than just putting stents and heart attack patients,
which is fantastic and honorable. But even the first doctor
that the doctor that did the first bypass surgery, you'r
a five blaro Cleveland Clinic said athoscrosis is a disease,
and I can do bypass surgery, but I'm not treating
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a disease.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
And we know that because we do a bypass.
Speaker 7 (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 disregulation, but
there's an internal flame that gets out of control, and
then it's manifests as chronic diseases, of which there's all
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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 4 (12:17):
Means a little bit as we go on.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
So, yeah, I have had to walk to talk. I've
had to learn and go back and get enlightened repeatedly
and at many years doing that, Richard, and had to
kind of change my whole career focus, my whole vocational focus,
and get enlightened. Unfortunately, I had 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. Actually, and
you know, the way that I view life now is
to help people with their lifespan, with their lifespan their
health span. Right, it's not just how long you live,
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but you want to have a health of me.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You want to be vigorous, if you want to go.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Out and you want to pick up your your grandchildren
or your kids or whatever, whatever you want to do.
You want to be able to do that for as
long as possible and have a vibrant, exciting, happy life.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Right.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
So that's going to work.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
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 obestie is
and specifically to you, how do you treat it?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
So I noticed a.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Sort of a pain with a broad brush. Well, how
do we re educate our medical community because I think
a lot of the people that are in practice right now,
you know, forgive me if I'm speaking here, but it
seems like a lot of people that are in practice
are dealing with the backian versus prevention. So how do
we turn that curve where we're educating our professionals to
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focus on prevention versus treatment.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Well that's a good point, and Richards, the way I
look at it, it's not just prevention. Okay, it's also
about improving how we manage chronic disease and furthermore, reverse it,
reverse it. Reverse that scrossis put diabetes and remission, get
rid of the things that are driving these chronic diseases,
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and turn chronic diseases around and turn lives around. But
to answer your question, I don't want to be derogatory
or negative at all.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
But you know, we're talking about.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Things that have been going on for generations now, and
what we've developed since World War Two is a hammer nail. Okay,
everybody's in a hammer nail, and it neglects the biologic
differences between you, me and russ and that are driving
that and those faces of chronic disease. So we really
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have become very siloed. And I could talk all day
about we have guys that are into the brain thing,
we have guys that are into the GI microbiome. We
have guys that are in hypertension. But we've not been
educated to listen to what we've already learned since the
nineteen forties that we are what we are in life
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every day and how we feel and how we function,
how long we live is.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Due to how well.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Our orchestra works. There're all pieces in the symphony in
our body, and we call it systems biology, and it's
all connected. Your gut is connected to your brain. Your
gut goes faster as your brain than your brain goes
to your gut. But all these things are so intimately related,
and that determines who we are, Richard, and how we
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feel and function every day.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
And I'm going to give you some a group of.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Common things that holds the answer to how we can
optimize that and optimize our function and vibrance in life.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Terrific.
Speaker 9 (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 7 (16:32):
But you can't give someone this in a fifteen minute
office visit. Doctors are really pounded now.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
You know.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
And again the medical schools are starting to implement this
a better education. But then as far as delivery, it's
not possible to deliver this in brief office visits, let
alone have and and a doctor may not have time
in her life to go back and relearn or gain
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a more enlightened perspective now, but certainly they have an obligation.
I believe to provide access to a system that will
help them a patient learn that and put those things
into their daily life in a happy, joyous way.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
And it's not about.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
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 been presented
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to us since the nineteen eighties and nineteen seventies and nineties.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
That's been presented to us.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
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, I'll say thirty or
forty years ago, there were three hundred and fifty products
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in the grocery store. Today there's thirty five thousand. But
if you really look at it, if you really look
at it, ninety five percent of them are all the
same thing. There are feed oils, MAGA six things heavily
priced ult what we call ultra processed food, and we
have definition for that But.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
A way to look at that.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
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.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Apple juice right right, Well, they're getting the balls to
sugar and IV sugar ballster instantly goes up chronic insulin
and then for years you develop insulin resistance, which.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
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 4 (19:17):
It's a wonderful thing. It's not. You're hurting your kid,
and there's so.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
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.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
And so we.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Really have to just help people get an awareness, but
more importantly than we have to show them the abundance
of things for their life that they don't know about.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Absolutely that's a great point. That's where I was going
with the next question, is that one of the things
that we really emphasize on this show and through all
of our content is that like to use the saying
that your food is your medicine, and if you don't
focus on it that way, then your medicine will become
your food.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Absolutely.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
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
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every day things that we do every day in our life,
you know, to bring these things into what becomes our habits,
our mindset, our emphasis. So we're trying to do this
and unfortunately, if we had all the leaders in our country,
because this is it's a global issue now, but if
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we had all 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.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
For right now, it's going to depend on the individual.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Stay tuned for the Tackle Obesity Show. We'll be right back.
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Speaker 4 (23:09):
Richard maybe and Russ Maybe.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
I could just say a couple of key things, like
six pillars of health, go for it.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Okay. One is what we eat.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
And when we're talking about like I said, minimal to
no processed food, sugary beverages, gator A fruit, those they're.
Speaker 12 (23:28):
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. You don't know this,
maybe you do, but there's a thing.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
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. But you're eight years old. You're
not drinking alcohol, are you?
Speaker 13 (23:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Wow?
Speaker 14 (23:57):
Will you have this thing called fatty liver disease which
now you know effects like a gigantic number of kids,
a gigantic number of adults for a long term.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Uh, it's silent disease.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
Doctors too often don't look for it. It's negotiated with
diabetes and has a lot to do with what we eat,
like fruittose and sugar is glucose and fruit toose, fruit
toase goes right to your liver and starts poisoning your liver, okay,
and leads to chronic liver disease. What is the most
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common cause of chronic liver disease? And it is 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.
It's all in there together. And so when I see
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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
you doing? And I can always find out.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
But so one is we call nutrition, but it is
what we eat, it's what we drink.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
We should be drinking water. It is purified reverse osmosis.
Green tea, Okay, and I get green tea that's decaffeinated,
and green tea is really healthy, but in a steak
caffeinated a certain way Swiss water method, not with all
the toxic chemicals and what we drank the water out, plastics.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
This will scare you. It's a real thing, okay.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
But a study came out a couple of months ago
where prodded artery surgery patients, right, half of them, half
of them had plastic, and the prodded arteries, wow.
Speaker 15 (25:55):
And the plastic and the prodid arteries predicted you're gonna
die earlier. You're gonna to be sicker than the person
who already has a bed of course, because they have
crowded disease.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
But didn't have the plastic. So what I'm trying to
say is what we put on our skin, the water
we drink, all this, what we might.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Wave things in.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
You wave your food and plastic, you're heating it up,
moving those molecules into the food. You've got, right, LUs
or Ceramic cannot use plastic.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Right, Glass all the time, and I packed everything in
glass on the refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Very important.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
I got a water filter, I got this, I got that.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
But I'm not crazy.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
What I'm trying to say is I used to think
this was crazy stuff, but now I know the biology
of it, and I know the data.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
But the other thing, Russ, thank you for pointing out.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
It's not just the food we're talking about. And the
best food is the food that doesn't have labels. It's
hidden in the corner of the grocery store, right. And
we have to teach people crucifers, vegetables. 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
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out there, abundance. If we just let people know that
and then how to prepare it and what cooking oils
to use and not to use like you know, like
olive oil is like improves your life. All these other
the Omega three, but all the Omega six oils are
very harmful to your health. But also the packaging is
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what I wanted to mention. The packaging is full of
poisons and things were called toxins and chemicals, so you know.
And again, eating at home with the community and all
that love also is all molecules of emotion and your biology, okay,
and that also improves your health. And eating out is
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a very treacherous road if you're gonna do that a lot. Yeah,
So that's a little bit on nutrition.
Speaker 16 (28:04):
And then I want to talk about I don't use
the word exercise, and I don't use the word diet ever,
because we're talking about dietary patterns, right, not dying it.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Diets are not sustainable.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
They don't work.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
You can be able to a thousand diets. You have
to get a healthy dietary pattern. And whatever we call it,
if we call it, it doesn't matter the Blue Zone
diet or the Mediterranean dietary pattern, it's all the same.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
They're all commonalities.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
What I told you, Okay, there's no difference here. And
but and then joyous movement is the point I don't
like the word to use excerci.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah, I'd like the joyous movement.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
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.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
It's right.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
But I like it Richard and Russ because it tells
me how many the steps I walk aday 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
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bodies run on two cables, and it's called the automatic
nervous system. And that's why my blood vessels constrict when
I stand up and I don't pass out, and that's
my heart rate, and my pupils get big and small.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I sweat or don't sweat. It's the two cables in your.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Body, the automatic nervous system, and it impacts everything. And
we have to have that imbalance and then that's another thing,
Vaguel tone we could talk about and too much.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
We live in a life where we're in the room.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
With a lion, so our rocket fuel are at nephron
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.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
The numbers aren't important.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
What's important is to trend over weeks and months anyway.
So joyous activity, we could talk about it all day,
but it's essential. It prolongs your life, and no physical
activity in itself will not get you healthy. It's fantastic,
and it's all these things are synergistic. But if you're
(30:44):
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 4 (30:50):
Now.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
The other thing I want to talk about is stress,
real fast stress is a physiologic thing, and whether you're
aware of it or not, and whether it's physical stress
or emotional stress. Bad relationships, toxic relationships, This is all
biology pouring into you and forms of stress. We're aware
(31:13):
of it or not. Not sleeping is a terrible form
of stress, stress, disrupture, metabolism and all the things we
talk about that are critical for life, your mitochondrial function,
this and that. So it's truly important that are we're
aware how to manage stress, is my point, and that
(31:35):
has to do with the balance in the autonomic nervous
system and things we can do to increase our vagal tone.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
The other thing that's really.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Critical that people don't get is restorative sleep.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
One of the most.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
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 somebody's opinion on
the street, but it will make you eat. It changes
all the hormones and nerves in your body. It changes
everything everything that you makes you who you are. You
(32:12):
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 epidemic now isolation in America. Okay,
people are on social media. Well, we're on social media now,
(32:34):
so don't count this, but what hour a week?
Speaker 4 (32:40):
What hour?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Well, but this is this is this is a good thing, though, doctor,
because we're doing film study and we're breaking this now.
So don't think we're that way. You just think we're
in lock and roll. Yeah, we're going through the exs
and notes. That's what we're doing exactly. I'm with you, guys.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
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.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Yes, for us.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
I want to add hydration, and you mentioned a filter
that uses I have a Burkey filter, so it uses
a stone to sandstone to filter the water. Yes, it
eliminates ninety nine the toxins and so on, costs nothing
(33:30):
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.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
At that time went into that water.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Instead, I get it from the tap which came from
the reservoir through the filter. It's about as healthy as you're.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Going to get absolutely and you know Russ to support
that that. There are systems that I think are wonderful.
I'm going to get one that I can put under
the sink so I can use topwitter again and get
rid of plastic. I used to buy the glass bottles
with the pellogrino, but that's difficult all that, So I'm
(34:13):
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.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
And you have no idea.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
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 hate to say it, but well,
(34:45):
there is one product of plastic bottled water that when
I had to do it.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
I go to that because it's reversed osmosis.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Whether they get it from a tap or wherever they
say they get it. Most of these spring wooters are
nonsense from the paths somewhere but as long as they
have reverse osmosis, and what.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Is for our audience when is reverse moss.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
It's just a mechanism by which they purify water, you know,
I don't think, Okay, yeah, it's just a mechanism by
which they do it, just like for mechanisms by which
they decafinate things. But this Twitter method is real and
non chemical. But anyway, I will just and then I'm
(35:30):
going to just go through this briefly, but I'm going
to say social connection, okay, community, love, spirituality, all these
things are critical to who you are biologically and how
you are expressed every day in life, and we all
(35:51):
need that. And also it also has to do with again,
when I was growing up on my Italian relatives driving.
Speaker 12 (35:58):
Me crazy talking what the meal went forever and my
chinks got pissed a thousand times.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
Actually, when we eat slower and we eat with intention
and we with community, everything physiologically and biologically is better.
Is the point. It's not someone's opinion. This is all
evidence based science. And spirituality also makes a big difference
(36:27):
in how we feel and how we function and how
long we live a healthy life. The last thing I'll
say is avoiding things that are risky. And here's the question.
This is the real challenge to educate people between health
promoting and health adverse because most of us don't know that, right,
(36:52):
and there's so many things in our everyday life. I
don't want to get carried away, all right, but I'll
just think about what I've gone through over the last
couple of years. It's not crazy stuff. My father was
a fireman and a barber, so I saw people die
from house fires.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Today they don't do that. What I mean is.
Speaker 7 (37:14):
Emerger responders. Firefighters don't put out of fires today. What
they do is they save lives with CPR and healthcare issues.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Right.
Speaker 7 (37:24):
But the point is everybody has a bed, and most
people don't realize all the toxins and flame retardant stuff
that's in a bed.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
And then you'll.
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
To cause.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Over time, it's all these things that up to kind
of hurt your biology and hurt your metabolism and all
these things then lead to high blood pressure, obesity, and
all these things are symptoms.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
They're not diseases. I know.
Speaker 7 (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 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 17 (38:34):
But.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
More than ten percent of diffidits are obese.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Did you know that?
Speaker 7 (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 UH people that did leading work years ago showed
(39:02):
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.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
But there are things that are adverse to health, is
what point? So all these things is what we have
to teach people.
Speaker 7 (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 4 (39:30):
Isn't that incredible.
Speaker 7 (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 have so many opinions out there that unfortunately aren't
really based.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
On real life, on real things, on science.
Speaker 7 (40:10):
On evidence based right, So that's what we have to
really be careful of and be critical of before we
go and ask people to apply it to their lives.
And that's why I'm trying to say, is just like
six or seven pillars of health. And again, these chronic
diseases that we have are just a few, and they
(40:32):
are all different phases of the same. What we have
medical terms for internal immune dysregulation and oxidata stress and
that's what we mean by chronic low grade inflammation. And
now we know what feeds that, right sort of speak,
and we know how to stop that process, and then
we know how oftentimes we can repair the damaged metabolism
(40:58):
from those things. We're all here to do, right, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
And Russ forgive me. I don't forgive me, Russ, I
don't care.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
This is locker room talk, Doc, There's there's no forgiving
in the locker room. We notice teams that are successful
figure it out in the locker room. They figure it
out in the film room. We get on the whiteboard.
We don't have to agree sometimes, you know, we we
we get a little chippy, but we got we have
the same mission, we have the same mindset. Work it out.
(41:30):
We're gonna work it out when we get all the field.
Speaker 7 (41:32):
And you know, Richard, I'm with you. And it's funny
how we've been influenced by a lot of the same people,
and you know, it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Again.
Speaker 7 (41:39):
The whole point here is if you look back in
your life at the people who have touched your life, okay, and.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 7 (41:48):
They have influenced to our biology and who we are,
just like all the things that we eat and and
if we're sedentary or have joyous movement in our life.
And uh yeah, those film rooms taught me a lot Richard,
And uh absolutely and yeah, yeah, very special moments. But
(42:12):
I will share this with you too. 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 right.
Speaker 18 (42:33):
Foot where backwards at Fords? And it should always be forward?
And when Joe wanted me to do that in high school,
I was on his first team.
Speaker 7 (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
(43:07):
after I finally learned that.
Speaker 6 (43:11):
Okay, yeah, probably you probably got put on your butt
less dimes do it?
Speaker 7 (43:18):
Yes, And that's the whole point. When you take that
little step. Now, if you're a five hundred pounds you know,
offensive guard, maybe you can cheat and get away with
that from a guy like me who had no talent,
I had no ruby cheat. So if I didn't do
the technique right, I'm not going to succeed.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
And that's not we're on the field.
Speaker 6 (43:39):
At least you were on the fields, just left out.
Speaker 7 (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,
well to two hundred and fifty six schools to be
a head coach out of college at high school. Only
one school took them. What a blessing. Archberr Academy in Delaware,
(44:09):
claim my Delaware, but h and I know we still
care about it.
Speaker 4 (44:13):
Russ. Maybe you're better off not on the field.
Speaker 7 (44:15):
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 we're all here to help people,
but we have to do it in an honest way.
And we're really overwhelmed today, Like I've heard Richard say,
(44:39):
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 in the nineteen nineties, people like doctor Castelli
(45:01):
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.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
And I love.
Speaker 7 (45:14):
That a lot of the European countries now have colors, right,
and that's what food table and like one means WHOA,
You're in trouble, and another color means hey, good choice.
You know, but I will tell people, you know, when
you look at food labels, if there's more in a
(45:34):
couple ingredients on it, then you shouldn't be eating it,
right And if you don't know the names of it
and sugar has it as I last counted, I don't
even know how many names it has, but you know.
And and that's another thing that is roy dangerous is
the amount of sugar that we get. And again sugar
is glucose and fruit toast pumps up for insulin, which
(45:58):
is not good, 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, and we need a program. You need a
way to help people learn this and implement it. And
(46:20):
you can't just do it and a brief visit. It's
got to be like a program over time. Like we
need unity, we need support.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
We didn't get here overnight, and we're not going to
lead this condition overnight. But it all starts with awareness
and it definitely starts with caring and searing. So that's
my call to action for all of you.
Speaker 7 (46:40):
Share this great and Richard, that's a great call to action.
Speaker 5 (46:44):
Absolutely so doctor to tell if you would please, we
ask each of our guests to say, obesity is a
medical condition, not a character flaw. Please learn more about
it and watch my video on tackle obesity dot com.
Speaker 7 (47:01):
I agree with that, Russ, Well, why don't you.
Speaker 6 (47:04):
Give it a try again.
Speaker 7 (47:06):
You know that I'm committed to tackle a b that's
you know that I'm committed to tackle and the.
Speaker 4 (47:13):
Fight against diabetes. And it's a real thing.
Speaker 7 (47:15):
It's a real thing to me.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
What are you going about that.
Speaker 5 (47:20):
Huh where are you going to find out about more
more information?
Speaker 4 (47:24):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (47:24):
And uh again so I admire what you guys do
and yes, uh and again you notice thing with.
Speaker 4 (47:31):
You know, Russ, this thing with obesity is a disease. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (47:37):
I could go on about that all day, and it's
been recognized as a disease for a long time. And
what we've tried to do here is talk about causes,
multiple causes and as Richard said, cumulative over time. And
again this other word with co morbidities, we have to
get rid of that because these aren't co morbidity. They're
(48:00):
different faces of all the same abnormal biology. Whether you
call it obesity, hypertension, diabetes, they're all just a few
different fases of the same internal metabolic arrangement with the
same causes.
Speaker 4 (48:18):
Right.
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 4 (48:37):
And again the point is that it takes time. But
I'll give you an example, high blood pressure.
Speaker 7 (48:43):
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. I
(49:03):
call it good medicine. And now even beyond that, it's
good life.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Right.
Speaker 7 (49:08):
But because you're again, we call hypertension of disease, but
it's not a disease. It's a symptom of inflamed blood vessels.
And so we have if we treat the whole person
everything eventually, and even if we treat high blood pressure
with or without drugs, even just a little bit of
(49:31):
improvement in that blood pressure a couple millimeters translates to
a dramatic reduction in stroke and.
Speaker 4 (49:39):
Other bad things.
Speaker 7 (49:40):
Right, So, one I'm going to say is small steps,
and small steps are really meaningful. And then eventually small
steps turn into gigantic leaps. And you're not going to
make an interception and run it back for seventy yards
if you haven't started with twenty yard sprints exactly.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
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Speaker 7 (51:16):
Richard, Richard, I have to say this. I had to
screen this out.
Speaker 4 (51:23):
Okay, okay, there's always a way to help someone. There's
always a way to help.
Speaker 7 (51:29):
Ourselves, and there's always a way to help someone, And
there's always a way to help others. And it's small steps.
Be encouraged, be enthusiastic. There's always a way to get better.
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There's always a way to do it.
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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 a vibrant life and.
Speaker 4 (52:07):
Health span.
Speaker 7 (52:10):
So again I want to leave everyone with a note
of encouragement. You can write your own chapter. It doesn't
matter what age it is. You can write to be
the hero of your story. There we go again. I
want to thank both of you for the privilege of
joining too wonderful and handsome guys today. Pled Oh my god,
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he's gonna stay alive. He's gonna keep wrong.
Speaker 4 (52:36):
All right.
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In 1997, actress Kristin Davis’ life was forever changed when she took on the role of Charlotte York in Sex and the City. As we watched Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte navigate relationships in NYC, the show helped push once unacceptable conversation topics out of the shadows and altered the narrative around women and sex. We all saw ourselves in them as they searched for fulfillment in life, sex and friendships. Now, Kristin Davis wants to connect with you, the fans, and share untold stories and all the behind the scenes. Together, with Kristin and special guests, what will begin with Sex and the City will evolve into talks about themes that are still so relevant today. "Are you a Charlotte?" is much more than just rewatching this beloved show, it brings the past and the present together as we talk with heart, humor and of course some optimism.
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