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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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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are working to get it as a team to overcome
the tackle obesity epidemic.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I want us talk.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
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 bids. What about the children, And
one of the things that gets overlooked is the fact
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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 weight on a thirty percent higher clip during the
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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 lack of activity from not having a structured environment,
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not moving 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 consume is the types of food that we consumed.
We are addicted to processed foods, and having more access
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to processed foods is never a good thing. Children are
sitting around eating cookies, crackers, chips, popcorn, whatever all day long,
and so this is causing a problem. Accumulating evidence shows
that children in the USA from two thousand and seven
to twenty seventeen gaated average of twelve pounds during the
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summer months. That's a significant amount of weight, twelve pounds
on average that they gained.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
During the summer months.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So we need to focus on not only making sure
that our children have more activity and maintain that activity
during summer unths, but we need to monitor the foods
that they eat. So I encourage you all definitely get
some support on what you can offer to your children.
We have some amazing content on our website, Attackling with
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bcdal House. Specifically look at the doctor Nerd segments where
we talk about different things that you can offer to
your children as alternatives instead of processed foods and encourage
your children to be more active and to eat better.
So these are ways that we're going to work to
get to overcome this problem that we're seeing during the
summer buds. Now that we have talked about that issue,
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I want to focus on our two amazing teammates that
I brought all today. One of them is our og,
the man who has been there from day one, mister
Russ Allen. He is the director of the NFL Alumni
Wellness Program. He is the brain shout of the Tackle
of BA City program. He's the one that I bet
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in Vegas when I was hoarding chips, crackers, the cookies
near thing in four hundred plus pounds. And here I
am today. So I'm so so grateful to half of
Here are we doing today.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Russ Richard, I'm doing fantastic And so he's so great
to see you and be able to share the things
we're learning about tackling our obesity. You know, my story
was I lost fifty pounds, but before picture was literally
in front of the sign in Death.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Valley, so you could do it.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
After that, my wife lost seventy.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
So as a couple, we really took this on together
and it's really taking a new direction in my life.
And just like you, I had 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 answers. He
is a gurup in this battle against obesity from the
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perspective as a medical professional. Obviously you know he's a cardiologist.
He's got infinite amount of experience dealing with people that
are dealing with this obesity crisis. But he also has
a personal pivot to this as will and I'm gonna
let him talk about that as well.
Speaker 8 (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 world because now you're our teammate.
We no longer even call you a gift. You're now teammate,
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a new teammate, Doctor Gregentille.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Thank you Richard, and thank you Russ. It's been a
pleasure to work with us and tackle obesity and fight
against diabetes for a couple of years now. And thank
you so much and proud of both of you. For
what you do, all the people you're helping is fantastic
and it's a beautiful day, and we should start out
with some gratitude and know why we're here. Have the mindset,
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and why we're here is to improve well, actually we're
here not just to prevent and not just to better manage,
but to reverse chronic disease and writing it out. We're
flooded with an epidemic of chronic disease in our country.
And what that means is it's the leading cause of disability,
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greatest reason for healthcare spending, greater than ninety percent of
health health care spending, and greatest cause of premature death.
And we're talking about things like stroke, heart attack, Alzheimer's dimension, dementia,
premature dementia, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, and actually all
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these things are a symptom of the flame that's out
of control inside us from the exposures we have all
the time. And what I want to do is make
this very real to people, because the purpose of this
today is to tell you how we can do this.
It's very doable. It's just oftentimes we're not aware of things.
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And that the NFL alumni are legends, models for society,
models for kids, and have a tremendous impact. And each
of us suffers with one chronic illness for another. Our
families do the people around us, and there's a lot
that we can do to help ourselves and help other people.
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And that's what we're going to go through today.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Doctor Natello, I'd love for you to share a little
bit about your own experience as a youth and struggling
with type two diabetes and yeah, we'll leave it.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Let you go.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Well, Ross, I'll tell you when I was in my
early teenage years, I had diabetes and my mother, who
grew up on a farm but worked as a professional
waitress in Philadelphia at the pub and my father was
a barber, and my mother just wouldn't stand for it.
My mother like went out of control when the doctor said,
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here's insulin. You know, at age I don't know, eleven
or twelve, and I would d very overweight. I was obese,
and my mother just wouldn't have that. And my mother
imposed on me her lifestyle habits having grown up on
a farm, and actually reversed my diabet And at the time,
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it's kind of interesting because at the time, it was
called adult onset diabetes versus like one diabetes, right, type
type one diabetes about five percent of people, but overwhelmingly
ninety five percent of diabetes is type two. And uh
and at the time we didn't know that. That doctor said, oh,
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you're you're going to die without insulin. My mother took
a risky chance and straightened my life out and what
I eat and what I ate and what I was
exposed to, and actually resolved me of diabetes, which has
come back at times we're threatened to come back in
my life. But I lost the obesity. I lost the
diabetes for good pretty much, and uh, I'm forever grateful
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for that. And I'll show you that 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 interventional cardiology carrying Twinkies around in
my pocket and drinking cokes and not sleeping for years.
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The difference same, BMI. But I'm going to show you
the difference between health and illness. And then and again
in my adult life, I uh, Richard and Russ, I was, oh,
there was something wrong with me, and I had to
go to one doctor after another, and everybody said, Oh,
you're just working too hard. Don't worry about it. You
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was just working too hard, and I said, no, there's
something wrong with me. And actually I was pretty sick.
And finally I got a diagnostic label. And then they
tried to just put different layers of paint on the
hood without addressing the engine under the hood and without
getting to the heart of the matter, and they all
meant well. And then I was privileged because I could
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go back to everything I had learned but maybe didn't
learn during my education into Cleveland Clinic over the last
hundred years of the history. They set every day to
save lives and care for life. Right, So went back
and kind of was privileged to go back and get
re educated rather than just putting stents and heart attack patients,
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which is fantastic and honorable. But even the first doctor
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
a disease. And we know that because we do a
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bypass and someone comes back with the stroke where they
still have a high blood pressure. They're all different faces
of the same internal inflammation. And Richard, I don't want
to bore your audience with oxidative stress at immune dust regulation,
but there's an internal flame that gets out of control,
and then it's manifests as chronic diseases, of which there's
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all a handful of which obesity and overweight our major issues.
At about forty percent of Americans are overweight, and if
you combine about three out of four Americans are either
overweight or obese, about forty five percent or obese. And
we'll talk about what obesity means a little bit as
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we go on. So, yeah, I have had to walk
to talk. I've had to learn and go back and
get enlightened repeatedly and at many years doing that, Richard,
and had to kind of change my whole career focus,
my whole vocational focus, and get enlightened. Unfortunately, I had
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the resources to go do that and save my own
life as well and then learn a better way to
help people. Actually, and you know, the way that I
view life now is to help people with their lifespan,
with their lifespan, their health span. Right, it's not just
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how long you live. But you want to have a
health of me. You want to be vigorous if you
want to go out and you want to pick up
your your grandchildren or your kids or whatever whatever you
want to do. You want to be able to do
that for as long as possible and have a vibrant, exciting,
happy life.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Right.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
So that's what about and that's what we're going to
talk about today. How to do that.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I'm glad you brought up to the fact that you
you had to re educate yourself on what OBESTI is
and specifically to you, how you treat it. So I
noticed this sort of a pain with a broad brush.
But how do we re educate our medical community because
I think a lot of the people that are in
practice right now, you know, forgive me if i'm speaking here,
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but it seems like a lot of people that are
in practice are dealing with the Bacian versus prevention. So
how do we turn that curve where we're educating our
medical officials to focus on prevention versus treatment.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Well that's a good point, and Richard, the way I
look at it, it's not just prevention, okay, it's also
about improving how we manage chronic disease and furthermore, reverse it,
reverse it, reverse that ascrossis put diabetes and remission, get
rid of things that are driving these chronic diseases, and
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turn chronic diseases around and turn lives around. But to
answer your question, I don't want to be derogatory or
negative at all, but you know, we're talking about things
that have been going on for generations now, and what
we've developed since World War Two is a hammernail. Okay,
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everybody's in a hammer nail, and it neglects the biologic
differences between you, me and Russ and the things that
are driving that and those faces of chronic disease. So
we really 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.
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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 every day and how we feel and how we function,
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how long we live is due to how well our
orchestra works. There're all pieces in the symphony in our body,
and we call it systems biology, and it's all connected.
Your gut is connected to your brain. Your gut goes
faster as your brain than your brain goes to your gut.
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But all these things are so intimately related, and that
determines who we are, Richard, and how we feel and
function every day. And I'm going to give you some
a group of common things that holds the answer to
how we can optimize that and optimize our function and
vibrance in life. 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, but
you can't give someone this in a fifteen minute off
his visit.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Doctors are really pounded now, you know. And again the
medical schools are starting to implement this a better education.
But then as far as delivery, it's not possible to
deliver this in brief office visits, let alone have and
and a doctor may not have time in her life
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to go back and learn or gain a more enlightened
perspective now, but certainly they have an obligation, I believe
to provide access to a system that will help them
a patient learn that and put those things into their
daily life in a happy, joyous way. And it's not
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about restricting or you can't eat this. It's about opening
the abundance of life giving and life saving things 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,
that's been presented to us as normal, and it's not normal.
So things are upside down and backwards, and people have
been programmed like kids think Tony the Tiger is a
wonderful thing with flags and sugar right and in Again,
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I'll say thirty or forty years ago, there were three
hundred and fifty products in the grocery store. Today there's
thirty five thousand. But if you really look at it,
if you really look at it, ninety five percent of
them are all the same thing. There're feed oils will
make it six things heavily priced ult what we call
ultra processed food, and we have definition for that. But
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a way to look at that would be if you
take an apple and then you compare it to getting
the apple pie and McDonald's, there's no correlation with the
nutritional intention of the apple. But yet people are buying that.
Or you think about kids are getting apple juice right right, Well,
they're getting the ballster sugar and IV sugar. Ballster instally
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goes up chronic insulin and then for a year you
develop insulin resistance, which is the precursor to it's chronic inforammation,
and it's a precursor to pre diabetes and diabetes at
obesity and all those things. So what I'm trying to
say is, but yet people think I'm going to see
my kid apple juice. It's a wonderful thing. It's not.
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You're hurting your kid. And there's so many things, but
you think you're doing the right thing. So our society
has really misfled us, you know. And it's economically driven
by the four or five food companies basically that we
have in the world. And so we really have to
just help people get an awareness, but more importantly than
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we have to show them the abundance of things for
their life that they don't know about.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Absolutely, that's a great point That's where I was going
with the next question, is that one of the things
that we really emphasize on this show and through all
of our content is that I like used to saying
that your food is your medicine, and if you don't
focus on it that way, then your medicine will become
your food.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Absolutely, And in fact, it's interesting, Richardter. We are some
groups of medicine, you know, the functional medicine people, which
I'm one of them, and I'm also American College of
Lifestyle Medicine kind of person. And so there's a big
emphasis now to bring these everyday things that we do
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every day in our life, you know, to bring these
things into what becomes our habits, our mindset, our emphasis.
So we're trying to do this and unfortunately, if we
had all the leaders in our country, because this is
it's a global issue now, but if we had all
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the people in our country, all the leaders for health
and business together and make a stand, you know, it
would make a fast difference. For right now, it's going
to depend on the individual.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
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Speaker 5 (23:09):
Richard. Maybe in RUSS maybe I could just say a
couple of key things, like six pillars of health, go
for it. Okay. One is what we eat. And when
we're talking about like I said, minimal to no processed food,
sugary beverages, gator A fruit thoas they're all actually toxins
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and poisons. And I don't want to bore you with
the biology which I'm excited about, but we talked about
mitochondria liver disease. You don't know this, maybe you do,
but there's a thing called fatty liver disease and it
was first discovered in nineteen eighty. Okay, this is unbelievable,
and you know it was discovered in kids, and I said,
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wait a minute, you have alcoholic liver disease. But you're
eight years old. You're not drinking.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Alcohol, are you?
Speaker 12 (23:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Wow? Will you have this thing called fatty liver disease
which now you know affects like a gigantic number of kids,
a gigantic number of adults for a long term. Uh.
It's uh silent disease. Doctors too often don't look for it.
It's negotiated with diabetes and has a lot to do
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with what we eat, like fruit toasts and sugar is
glucose and fruit toase, fruit TOAs goes right to your
liver and starts poisoning your liver, okay, and leads to
chronic liver disease. What is the most common caut of
chronic liver disease? And it is becoming the number one
reason for liver transplants in the world now, in this
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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 when you and
I are sitting on a park bench, Richard at hanging
out in Houston or Atlanta. I don't know. I just
look around and I see everybody with the big waste, thinking, God,
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I got to have a talk with you because I
love you, right, And then on my waist gets big,
I say, oh God, what are you doing? And I
can always find out? But so one is we call nutrition,
but it is what we eat, it's what we drink.
We should be drinking water. It's purified reverse osmosis. Green tea, Okay,
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and I get green tea that's decaffeinated, and green tea
is really healthy, but in a stecaffeinated a certain way
Swiss water method, not with all the toxic chemicals and
what we drank the water out, plastics. This will scare you.
It's a real thing, okay. But a study came out
a couple months ago where crodded artery surgery patients, right
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half of them, half of them had plastic and the
prodded arteries.
Speaker 13 (25:54):
Wow, and the plastic and the prodid arteries predicted you're
gonna die earlier. You're gonna do be sicker than the
person who already has a bed of course, because they
have crowded disease. It didn't have the plastic, so what
I'm trying to say is what we put on our skin,
the water we drink, all this, what we might.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Wave things in.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
You wave your food and plastic, you're heating it up,
moving those molecules into the food.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
You've got, right, plus or ceramic cannot use plastic.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Right, Glass all the time, and I packed everything in
glass on the refrigerator very important. I got a water filter,
I got this, I got that. But I'm not crazy.
What I'm trying to say is I used to think
this was crazy stuff, but now I know the biology
of it, and I know the data. But the other thing, Russ,
thank you for pointing out it's not just the food
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we're talking about. And the best food is the food
that doesn't have labels. It's hidden in the corner of
the grow restore, right. And we have to teach people crucifers, vegetables.
There's a gazillion of them, you know, But any anyway,
we have to teach people and that there's an abundance
of wonderful things out there, abundance if we just let
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people know that and then how to prepare it and
what cooking oils to use and not to use, like
you know, like olive oil is like improves your life.
All these other the Omega three, but all the Omega
six oils are very harmful to your health. But also
the packaging is what I wanted to mention. The packaging
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is full of poisons and things were called toxins and chemicals, so.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
And again eating at home with the community and all
that love also is all molecules of emotion and your biology. Okay,
and that also improves your health. And eating out is
a very treacherous road if you gonna do that a lot. Yeah.
So that's a little bit on nutrition. And then I
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want to talk about I don't use the word exercise,
and I don't use the word diet ever, because we're
talking about dietary patterns right, not dying it. Diets are
not sustainable. They don't work. You can be able to
a thousand diets. You have to get a healthy dietary pattern.
And whatever we call it, if we call it, it
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doesn't matter the Blue Zone diet or the Mediterranean dietary pattern.
It's all the same. They're all commonalities. What I told you, Okay,
there's no difference here. And but and then joyous movement
is the point I don't like the word to use exerciy. Yeah,
I'd likelorious movement and wherever you are if you need
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to get off the couch, if you need to go walking,
and yeah, I have my warr ring. Okay, that tells
me heart rate variability. It tells me how I'm doing,
and if I wake up, it says, Greg, You're gonna
feel terrible today. It's right. But I like it Richard
and Russ, because it tells me how many steps I
walk a day, and most importantly for me, by contrast
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with a lot of the other things available, it tells
me about heart rate variability, which is a balance of
my red battery cable and my blue and my black
battery cable. We aught our bodies run on two cables,
and it's called the automatic nervous system. And that's why
my blood vessels constrict when I stand up and I
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don't pass out, and that's my heart rate, and my
pupils get big and small, I sweat or don't sweat.
It's the two cables in your body, the automatic nervous system,
and it impacts everything and we have to have that imbalance.
And then that's another thing. Vaguel Tone we could talk
about and too much. We live in a life where
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we're in the room with a lion, so our rocket
fuel are att is going sky high all the time,
and that hurts our brain and our body. It causes
accelerating aging and premature death, heart failure and other things.
So we have to have a balance to the vague tone,
the rest and digest and regenerative phase. And that's what
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my heart rate variability monitoring tells me. The numbers aren't important.
What's important is to trend over weeks and months anyway.
So joyous activity, we could talk about it all day,
but it's essential. It prolongs your life, and no physical
activity in itself will not get you healthy. It's fantastic,
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and it's all these things are synergistic. But if you're
eating all the stuff that's not good for you that
we talked about, you can exercise all you want, it's
not gonna matter.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Now.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
The other thing I want to talk about is stress,
real fast stress is a physiologic thing, and whether you're
aware of it or not, and whether it's physical stress
or emotional stress, bad relationships, toxic relationships. This is all
biology pouring into you and forms of stress, we're aware
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of it or not. Not sleeping is a terrible form
of stress. Stress, disrupture, metabolism and all the things we
talk about that are critical for life, your mitochondrial function,
this and that. So it's truly important that are we're
aware how to manage stress, is my point, and that
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has to do with the balance in the autonomic nervous
system and things we can do to increase our vagal tone.
The other thing that's really critical that people don't get
is restorative sleep. One of the most important things for
health and obesity and everything else. And when you don't
get the sleep that you need on a routine basis,
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This is all biology. It's not somebody's opinion on the street.
But it will make you eat. It changes all the
hormones and nerves in your body. It changes everything everything
that you makes you who you are. You can't do
it effectively without restorative sleep. And we have a whole
course on sleep. Breathing is important. The other thing I
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wanted another pillar is social connection. And we know that
we have an epidemic now isolation in America. Okay, people
are on social media. Well we're on social media now,
so don't count this but.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Whatever, we whatever, Well, but this is this is a
good thing, though, doctor, because we're doing film study and
we're breaking this down. So don't think we're that way.
You just think we're in locker room. Yeah, we're going
through the excess and notes. That's what we're doing exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
I'm with you, guys. But the point I'm getting that
is social connection. Isolation is now been declared a major
public health crisis and also leads to chronic disease and
premature death. So all these things are real biological issues. Yes,
r Uss, I.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Want to add hydration, and you mentioned a filter that
uses I have a Burkey filter, so it uses a
stone to.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Sandstone to filter the water.
Speaker 7 (33:24):
Yes, it eliminates ninety nine of the toxins and so on,
costs nothing once you.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Buy it last forever. I don't have to throw away
all those plastic bottles that held my water in him
and gotten hot and cold and hot and cold. So
whatever that plastic was shedding at that time went into
that water.
Speaker 7 (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 going to get.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
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 tap witter again and get rid of plastic.
I used to buy the glass bottles with the pollogrino,
but that's difficult all that, So I'm going to go
(34:13):
with tap witter 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.
And you have no idea. I will just share with
your audience what's in drinking water. There's everything from depic
code and anti seizure medicines and estrogens and poisons and
(34:34):
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, there is one product
of plastic bottled water. When I had to do it,
I go to that because it's reversed osmosis. Whether they
get it from a tap or wherever they say they
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get it. Most of these spring waters are nonsense from
the paths somewhere, but as long as they have reverse osmosis.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
And what is for our audience. When is reverse osmosis, it's.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
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 decaffinate things. But this Twitter method is real and
non chemical. But anyway, I will just and then I'm
(35:30):
going to just go through this briefly. But I'm going
to say social connection, okay, community, love, spirituality, all these
things are critical to who you are biologically and how
you are expressed every day in life, and we all
(35:50):
need that. And also it also has to do with again,
when I was growing up on my Italian relatives driving
me crazy.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Talking what the meal went forever?
Speaker 5 (36:02):
And my chinks got pissed a thousand times. Actually, when
we eat slower and we eat with intention and we
with community, everything physiologically and biologically is better. Is the point.
It's not someone's opinion. This is all evidence based science.
(36:23):
And spirituality also makes a big difference in how we
feel and how we function and how long we live
a healthy life. The last thing I'll say is avoiding
things that are risky. And here's the question. This is
the real challenge to educate people between health promoting and
(36:47):
health adverse because most of us don't know that, right,
and there's so many things in our everyday life. I
don't want to get carried away, all right, But I'll
just think about what I've gone through over the last
couple of years. It's not crazy stuff. My father was
a fireman and a barber, so I saw people die
from house fires. Today they don't do that. What I
(37:12):
mean is emerger responders. Firefighters don't put out of fires today.
What they do is they save lives with CPR and
healthcare issues. Right. But the point is everybody has a bed,
and most people don't realize all the toxins and flame
retardant stuff that's in a bed. And then I'll realize
(37:33):
they can get an organic bed without all that stuff
for less expensive than they can get a toxic bed.
But the point is, Wow, the creating products that we use,
or the stuff that we put on our hair and
our skin, and all those things keep adding up over
the lifetime to cause over time, it's all these things
(38:00):
that up to kind of hurt your biology and hurt
your metabolism, and all these things then lead to high
blood pressure. Obesity, and all these things are symptoms. They're
not diseases. I know, yeah, we want to call it
a disease, and it is. It's not an emotional thing
that your obeses are overweight. All these things are biologically mediated,
(38:20):
is what I'm trying to say. Oh wait on my floor,
eure obese. It's called it's one of the things contributing
to obesity. And talking about you said briefly, I'll say, Okay,
I don't know if you guys know this, but more
than ten percent of diffidence are obese. Did you know that?
And what we know for example, when we're talking about
(38:42):
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 that did leading work years ago showed you just
took somebody walking down the street in New York City
(39:04):
and they had a lot of toxins. And we call
them obesogens carcinogens. But there are things that are adverse
to health, is what point. So all these things is
what we have to teach people. And the last thing
I'll say too about obesity is that it reduces how
long you live by about fifteen years, guys by about
(39:28):
fiften to fifteen years. And that incredible. So again, this
chronic disease epidemic, of which obesity, mental health crisis, overweight
and you know, and I've listened to your shows, Richards
are fantastic. You're hitting on all these things is tremendous.
(39:49):
Thank you and Rus your efforts are fantastic. But I
think it's important that we really get what matters here,
and it's not somebody's opinion, you know, And we had
so many opinions out there that unfortunately aren't really based
on real life, on real things, on science, on evidence
(40:11):
evident based, right. So that's what we have to really
be careful of and be critical of before we go
and ask people to apply it to their lives. And
that's why I'm trying to say, it's just like six
or seven pillars of health. And again, these chronic diseases
that we have are just a few, and they are
(40:32):
all different faces of the same. What we 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. And that's what we're all here to do, right, absolutely, yeah,
and rush forgive me. I don't forgive me, Russ, I
don't care.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
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 figured it
out in the film room. We get on the whiteboard.
We don't have to agree sometimes, you know, we we
we get a little chippy, but we got we have
the same mission, we have the same mindset. Work it out.
(41:29):
We're gonna work it out when we get all the field.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
And you know, Richard, I'm with you. And it's funny
how we've been influenced by a lot of the same people,
and you know, it's kind of interesting. Again. The whole
point here is if you look back in your life
at the people who have touched your life, okay, and
it's the same thing they have influenced to our biology
and who we are, just like all the things that
(41:54):
we eat and and if we're sedentary or have joyous
movement and our life and uh yeah, those film rooms
taught me a lot Richard, And uh absolutely and yeah yeah,
very special moments. But I will share this with you too.
I had a problem one time, Richard.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Oh yeah, well I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (42:19):
And okay, so I'm on the offensive line, I didn't
know where my first step was on my right.
Speaker 14 (42:33):
Foot where backwards at forts? And it should always be forward?
And when Joe wanted me to do that in high school,
I was on his first team.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
What a privilege, coach Mobli And uh, you know what
about the point I'm getting at, it's once we teach
people the joy of doing the proper technique, then we
all facilitate succeeding. And I never missed a trap block
(43:06):
after I finally learned that away.
Speaker 15 (43:11):
Okay, yeah, probably he probably got put on your butt
less dimes do it?
Speaker 5 (43:18):
Yes, And that's the whole point. When you take that
little step. Now, if you're a five hundred pound you know,
offensive guard, maybe you can cheat and get away with
that from a guy like me who had no talent,
I had no ruby cheat. So if I didn't do
the technique right, I'm not going to succeed, and that's
not we're all the field.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
At least you were on the field.
Speaker 5 (43:41):
Left out probably better off not on the field, because
I gotta tell you when Joe Mowglia, Okay, he's a
d nail at Coast Carolina, but he was at a
fordum at Fordham Prep at Fordiam University and his first
job he apply the two hundred and fifty six schools
to be a head coach out of college at high school.
(44:04):
Only one school took them. What a blessing. Archberr Academy
in Delaware, Claymont, Delaware. But and I know we still
care about it, Russ. Maybe you're better off not on
the field. Why I say that because we had sticks
and stones and rocks and broken class and I know
we hate people to do that at night on our
practice field. No terurf speak. But the point is all
(44:28):
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, 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
(44:49):
the team talk about food labels, and I know this is.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Important to me.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
But like in the nineteen nineties, people like doctor Stelli
from Framing in Art Study and Dean Orangish a bunch
of people, they fought to get any food labels on.
They fought for that for years, and now the food
labels are just inadequate. And I love that a lot
of the European countries now have colors, right, and that's
(45:21):
sort of food table and like one means WHOA, You're
in trouble, and another color means hey, good choice. You know,
but I will tell people, you know, when you look
at food labels, if there's more in a couple ingredients
on it, then you shouldn't be eating it, right. And
if you don't know the names of it, and sugar
has it as I last counted, I don't even know
(45:44):
how many names it has, but you know, And that's
another thing that is roy dangerous is the amount of
sugar that we get. And again, sugar is glucose and
fruit toast pumps up for insulin, which is not good,
and and then fruittose, the other part of sugar, goes
(46:04):
right to your liver and damage at your liver and
the major epidemic now you know. But the point is
this is all positive. We can help so many people,
and we need a program. You need a way to
help people learn this and implement it. And you can't
just do it and a brief visit. It's got to
be like a program over time. Like we need unity,
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we need support.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
We didn't get here overnight, and we're not going to
lead this condition overnight. But it all starts with awareness
and it definitely starts with caring and sharing. So that's
my call to action for all of you.
Speaker 5 (46:40):
Share this great and Richard, that's a great call to action.
Speaker 15 (46:44):
Absolutely, so doctor to tell if you would please, we
ask each of our guests to say, obesity is a
medical condition, not a character flaw.
Speaker 7 (46:55):
Please learn more about it and watch my video on
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Speaker 8 (47:00):
Oh I agree with that, Russ, Well, why don't you
give it a try.
Speaker 5 (47:06):
Again. You know that I'm committed to tackle ab You
know that I'm committed to tackle and the fight against diabetes.
And it's real thing. It's a real thing to me.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Where are you going to find out about that?
Speaker 5 (47:19):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (47:20):
Where are you going to find out about more more information.
Speaker 5 (47:24):
Yes and uh. Again, so I admire what you guys
do and yes, uh and again you notice thing with
you know, Russ, this thing with obesity is a disease.
Speaker 7 (47:36):
Hm.
Speaker 5 (47:37):
Yeah. I could go on about that all day, and
it's been recognized as a disease for a long time.
And what we've tried to do here is talk about causes,
multiple causes, and as Richard said, cumulative over time. And
again this other word with co morbidities, we have to
get rid of that because these aren't co morbidities. There
(48:00):
are different faces of all the same abnormal biology. Whether
you call it obesity, hypertension, diabetes, they're all just a
few different fases of the same internal metabolic arrangement with
the same causes. Right. So again, when you're treating the
(48:22):
whole person and you're improving your biology, that's why if
you treat one or two of these things, then you're
risk for all these bad things. That goes down dramatically.
And again the point is that it takes time. But
I'll give you an example, high blood pressure. Right, If
(48:45):
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 call it
good medicine. And now even beyond that, it's good life. Right.
(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 other bad things. Right,
So one I'm going to say is small steps, and
small steps are really meaningful. And then eventually small steps
turn into gigantic leaps. And you're not going to make
(49:53):
an interception and run it back for seventy yards if
you haven't started with twenty.
Speaker 3 (49:59):
Yard sprints exactly. But this is this is all phenomenal information,
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Speaker 5 (51:17):
Richard, I have to say this. I have to screen
this out. Okay, okay, There's always a way to help someone.
There's always a way to help ourselves, and there's always
a way to help someone, and there's always a way
to help others, and it's small steps. Be encouraged, be enthusiastic.
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There's always a way to get better. There's always a
way to do it. And just have faith, have a plan,
have community, have support, have a trusted health guide, health
success guide, and you can do this. Small steps at
a time lead to wonderful health and a vibrant life
(52:04):
and health span. So again I want to leave everyone
with a note of encouragement. You can write your own chapter.
It doesn't matter what age it is. You can write
to be the hero of your story. There we go again.
I want to thank both of you for the privilege
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I want us talk.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
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 bids. What about the children, And
one of the things that gets overlooked is the fact
(01:34):
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 weight on a thirty percent higher clip during the
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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 lack of activity from not having a structured environment,
(02:19):
not moving 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 consume is the types of food that we consumed.
We are addicted to processed foods, and having more access
(02:43):
to processed foods is never a good thing. Children are
sitting around eating cookies, crackers, chips, popcorn, whatever all day long,
and so this is causing a problem. Accumulating evidence shows
that children in the USA from two thousand and seven
to twenty seventeen gaated average of twelve pounds during the
(03:07):
summer months. That's a significant amount of weight, twelve pounds
on average that they gained.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
During the summer months.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So we need to focus on not only making sure
that our children have more activity and maintain that activity
during summer unths, but we need to monitor the foods
that they eat. So I encourage you all definitely get
some support on what you can offer to your children.
We have some amazing content on our website, Attackling with
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bcdal House. Specifically look at the doctor Nerd segments where
we talk about different things that you can offer to
your children as alternatives instead of processed foods and encourage
your children to be more active and to eat better.
So these are ways that we're going to work to
get to overcome this problem that we're seeing during the
summer buds. Now that we have talked about that issue,
(03:58):
I want to focus on our two amazing teammates that
I brought all today. One of them is our og,
the man who has been there from day one, mister
Russ Allen. He is the director of the NFL Alumni
Wellness Program. He is the brain shout of the Tackle
of BA City program. He's the one that I bet
(04:18):
in Vegas when I was hoarding chips, crackers, the cookies
near thing in four hundred plus pounds. And here I
am today. So I'm so so grateful to half of
Here are we doing today.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Russ Richard, I'm doing fantastic And so he's so great
to see you and be able to share the things
we're learning about tackling our obesity. You know, my story
was I lost fifty pounds, but before picture was literally
in front of the sign in Death.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Valley, so you could do it.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
After that, my wife lost seventy.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
So as a couple, we really took this on together
and it's really taking a new direction in my life.
And just like you, I had 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 answers. He
is a gurup in this battle against obesity from the
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perspective as a medical professional. Obviously you know he's a cardiologist.
He's got infinite amount of experience dealing with people that
are dealing with this obesity crisis. But he also has
a personal pivot to this as will and I'm gonna
let him talk about that as well.
Speaker 8 (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 world because now you're our teammate.
We no longer even call you a gift. You're now teammate,
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a new teammate, Doctor Gregentille.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Thank you Richard, and thank you Russ. It's been a
pleasure to work with us and tackle obesity and fight
against diabetes for a couple of years now. And thank
you so much and proud of both of you. For
what you do, all the people you're helping is fantastic
and it's a beautiful day, and we should start out
with some gratitude and know why we're here. Have the mindset,
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and why we're here is to improve well, actually we're
here not just to prevent and not just to better manage,
but to reverse chronic disease and writing it out. We're
flooded with an epidemic of chronic disease in our country.
And what that means is it's the leading cause of disability,
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greatest reason for healthcare spending, greater than ninety percent of
health health care spending, and greatest cause of premature death.
And we're talking about things like stroke, heart attack, Alzheimer's dimension, dementia,
premature dementia, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, and actually all
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these things are a symptom of the flame that's out
of control inside us from the exposures we have all
the time. And what I want to do is make
this very real to people, because the purpose of this
today is to tell you how we can do this.
It's very doable. It's just oftentimes we're not aware of things.
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And that the NFL alumni are legends, models for society,
models for kids, and have a tremendous impact. And each
of us suffers with one chronic illness for another. Our
families do the people around us, and there's a lot
that we can do to help ourselves and help other people.
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And that's what we're going to go through today.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Doctor Natello, I'd love for you to share a little
bit about your own experience as a youth and struggling
with type two diabetes and yeah, we'll leave it.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Let you go.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Well, Ross, I'll tell you when I was in my
early teenage years, I had diabetes and my mother, who
grew up on a farm but worked as a professional
waitress in Philadelphia at the pub and my father was
a barber, and my mother just wouldn't stand for it.
My mother like went out of control when the doctor said,
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here's insulin. You know, at age I don't know, eleven
or twelve, and I would d very overweight. I was obese,
and my mother just wouldn't have that. And my mother
imposed on me her lifestyle habits having grown up on
a farm, and actually reversed my diabet And at the time,
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it's kind of interesting because at the time, it was
called adult onset diabetes versus like one diabetes, right, type
type one diabetes about five percent of people, but overwhelmingly
ninety five percent of diabetes is type two. And uh
and at the time we didn't know that. That doctor said, oh,
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you're you're going to die without insulin. My mother took
a risky chance and straightened my life out and what
I eat and what I ate and what I was
exposed to, and actually resolved me of diabetes, which has
come back at times we're threatened to come back in
my life. But I lost the obesity. I lost the
diabetes for good pretty much, and uh, I'm forever grateful
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for that. And I'll show you that 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 interventional cardiology carrying Twinkies around in
my pocket and drinking cokes and not sleeping for years.
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The difference same, BMI. But I'm going to show you
the difference between health and illness. And then and again
in my adult life, I uh, Richard and Russ, I was, oh,
there was something wrong with me, and I had to
go to one doctor after another, and everybody said, Oh,
you're just working too hard. Don't worry about it. You
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was just working too hard, and I said, no, there's
something wrong with me. And actually I was pretty sick.
And finally I got a diagnostic label. And then they
tried to just put different layers of paint on the
hood without addressing the engine under the hood and without
getting to the heart of the matter, and they all
meant well. And then I was privileged because I could
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go back to everything I had learned but maybe didn't
learn during my education into Cleveland Clinic over the last
hundred years of the history. They set every day to
save lives and care for life. Right, So went back
and kind of was privileged to go back and get
re educated rather than just putting stents and heart attack patients,
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which is fantastic and honorable. But even the first doctor
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
a disease. And we know that because we do a
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bypass and someone comes back with the stroke where they
still have a high blood pressure. They're all different faces
of the same internal inflammation. And Richard, I don't want
to bore your audience with oxidative stress at immune dust regulation,
but there's an internal flame that gets out of control,
and then it's manifests as chronic diseases, of which there's
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all a handful of which obesity and overweight our major issues.
At about forty percent of Americans are overweight, and if
you combine about three out of four Americans are either
overweight or obese, about forty five percent or obese. And
we'll talk about what obesity means a little bit as
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we go on. So, yeah, I have had to walk
to talk. I've had to learn and go back and
get enlightened repeatedly and at many years doing that, Richard,
and had to kind of change my whole career focus,
my whole vocational focus, and get enlightened. Unfortunately, I had
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the resources to go do that and save my own
life as well and then learn a better way to
help people. Actually, and you know, the way that I
view life now is to help people with their lifespan,
with their lifespan, their health span. Right, it's not just
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how long you live. But you want to have a
health of me. You want to be vigorous if you
want to go out and you want to pick up
your your grandchildren or your kids or whatever whatever you
want to do. You want to be able to do
that for as long as possible and have a vibrant, exciting,
happy life.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Right.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
So that's what about and that's what we're going to
talk about today. How to do that.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I'm glad you brought up to the fact that you
you had to re educate yourself on what OBESTI is
and specifically to you, how you treat it. So I
noticed this sort of a pain with a broad brush.
But how do we re educate our medical community because
I think a lot of the people that are in
practice right now, you know, forgive me if i'm speaking here,
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but it seems like a lot of people that are
in practice are dealing with the Bacian versus prevention. So
how do we turn that curve where we're educating our
medical officials to focus on prevention versus treatment.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Well that's a good point, and Richard, the way I
look at it, it's not just prevention, okay, it's also
about improving how we manage chronic disease and furthermore, reverse it,
reverse it, reverse that ascrossis put diabetes and remission, get
rid of things that are driving these chronic diseases, and
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turn chronic diseases around and turn lives around. But to
answer your question, I don't want to be derogatory or
negative at all, but you know, we're talking about things
that have been going on for generations now, and what
we've developed since World War Two is a hammernail. Okay,
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everybody's in a hammer nail, and it neglects the biologic
differences between you, me and Russ and the things that
are driving that and those faces of chronic disease. So
we really 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.
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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 every day and how we feel and how we function,
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how long we live is due to how well our
orchestra works. There're all pieces in the symphony in our body,
and we call it systems biology, and it's all connected.
Your gut is connected to your brain. Your gut goes
faster as your brain than your brain goes to your gut.
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But all these things are so intimately related, and that
determines who we are, Richard, and how we feel and
function every day. And I'm going to give you some
a group of common things that holds the answer to
how we can optimize that and optimize our function and
vibrance in life. 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, but
you can't give someone this in a fifteen minute off
his visit.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Doctors are really pounded now, you know. And again the
medical schools are starting to implement this a better education.
But then as far as delivery, it's not possible to
deliver this in brief office visits, let alone have and
and a doctor may not have time in her life
(16:58):
to go back and learn or gain a more enlightened
perspective now, but certainly they have an obligation, I believe
to provide access to a system that will help them
a patient learn that and put those things into their
daily life in a happy, joyous way. And it's not
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about restricting or you can't eat this. It's about opening
the abundance of life giving and life saving things 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,
that's been presented to us as normal, and it's not normal.
So things are upside down and backwards, and people have
been programmed like kids think Tony the Tiger is a
wonderful thing with flags and sugar right and in Again,
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I'll say thirty or forty years ago, there were three
hundred and fifty products in the grocery store. Today there's
thirty five thousand. But if you really look at it,
if you really look at it, ninety five percent of
them are all the same thing. There're feed oils will
make it six things heavily priced ult what we call
ultra processed food, and we have definition for that. But
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a way to look at that would be if you
take an apple and then you compare it to getting
the apple pie and McDonald's, there's no correlation with the
nutritional intention of the apple. But yet people are buying that.
Or you think about kids are getting apple juice right right, Well,
they're getting the ballster sugar and IV sugar. Ballster instally
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goes up chronic insulin and then for a year you
develop insulin resistance, which is the precursor to it's chronic inforammation,
and it's a precursor to pre diabetes and diabetes at
obesity and all those things. So what I'm trying to
say is, but yet people think I'm going to see
my kid apple juice. It's a wonderful thing. It's not.
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You're hurting your kid. And there's so many things, but
you think you're doing the right thing. So our society
has really misfled us, you know. And it's economically driven
by the four or five food companies basically that we
have in the world. And so we really have to
just help people get an awareness, but more importantly than
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we have to show them the abundance of things for
their life that they don't know about.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Absolutely, that's a great point That's where I was going
with the next question, is that one of the things
that we really emphasize on this show and through all
of our content is that I like used to saying
that your food is your medicine, and if you don't
focus on it that way, then your medicine will become
your food.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Absolutely, And in fact, it's interesting, Richardter. We are some
groups of medicine, you know, the functional medicine people, which
I'm one of them, and I'm also American College of
Lifestyle Medicine kind of person. And so there's a big
emphasis now to bring these everyday things that we do
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every day in our life, you know, to bring these
things into what becomes our habits, our mindset, our emphasis.
So we're trying to do this and unfortunately, if we
had all the leaders in our country, because this is
it's a global issue now, but if we had all
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the people in our country, all the leaders for health
and business together and make a stand, you know, it
would make a fast difference. For right now, it's going
to depend on the individual.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
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Speaker 5 (23:09):
Richard. Maybe in RUSS maybe I could just say a
couple of key things, like six pillars of health, go
for it. Okay. One is what we eat. And when
we're talking about like I said, minimal to no processed food,
sugary beverages, gator A fruit thoas they're all actually toxins
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and poisons. And I don't want to bore you with
the biology which I'm excited about, but we talked about
mitochondria liver disease. You don't know this, maybe you do,
but there's a thing called fatty liver disease and it
was first discovered in nineteen eighty. Okay, this is unbelievable,
and you know it was discovered in kids, and I said,
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wait a minute, you have alcoholic liver disease. But you're
eight years old. You're not drinking.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Alcohol, are you?
Speaker 12 (23:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Wow? Will you have this thing called fatty liver disease
which now you know affects like a gigantic number of kids,
a gigantic number of adults for a long term. Uh.
It's uh silent disease. Doctors too often don't look for it.
It's negotiated with diabetes and has a lot to do
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with what we eat, like fruit toasts and sugar is
glucose and fruit toase, fruit TOAs goes right to your
liver and starts poisoning your liver, okay, and leads to
chronic liver disease. What is the most common caut of
chronic liver disease? And it is becoming the number one
reason for liver transplants in the world now, in this
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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 when you and
I are sitting on a park bench, Richard at hanging
out in Houston or Atlanta. I don't know. I just
look around and I see everybody with the big waste, thinking, God,
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I got to have a talk with you because I
love you, right, And then on my waist gets big,
I say, oh God, what are you doing? And I
can always find out? But so one is we call nutrition,
but it is what we eat, it's what we drink.
We should be drinking water. It's purified reverse osmosis. Green tea, Okay,
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and I get green tea that's decaffeinated, and green tea
is really healthy, but in a stecaffeinated a certain way
Swiss water method, not with all the toxic chemicals and
what we drank the water out, plastics. This will scare you.
It's a real thing, okay. But a study came out
a couple months ago where crodded artery surgery patients, right
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half of them, half of them had plastic and the
prodded arteries.
Speaker 13 (25:54):
Wow, and the plastic and the prodid arteries predicted you're
gonna die earlier. You're gonna do be sicker than the
person who already has a bed of course, because they
have crowded disease. It didn't have the plastic, so what
I'm trying to say is what we put on our skin,
the water we drink, all this, what we might.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Wave things in.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
You wave your food and plastic, you're heating it up,
moving those molecules into the food.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
You've got, right, plus or ceramic cannot use plastic.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Right, Glass all the time, and I packed everything in
glass on the refrigerator very important. I got a water filter,
I got this, I got that. But I'm not crazy.
What I'm trying to say is I used to think
this was crazy stuff, but now I know the biology
of it, and I know the data. But the other thing, Russ,
thank you for pointing out it's not just the food
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we're talking about. And the best food is the food
that doesn't have labels. It's hidden in the corner of
the grow restore, right. And we have to teach people crucifers, vegetables.
There's a gazillion of them, you know, But any anyway,
we have to teach people and that there's an abundance
of wonderful things out there, abundance if we just let
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people know that and then how to prepare it and
what cooking oils to use and not to use, like
you know, like olive oil is like improves your life.
All these other the Omega three, but all the Omega
six oils are very harmful to your health. But also
the packaging is what I wanted to mention. The packaging
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is full of poisons and things were called toxins and chemicals, so.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
And again eating at home with the community and all
that love also is all molecules of emotion and your biology. Okay,
and that also improves your health. And eating out is
a very treacherous road if you gonna do that a lot. Yeah.
So that's a little bit on nutrition. And then I
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want to talk about I don't use the word exercise,
and I don't use the word diet ever, because we're
talking about dietary patterns right, not dying it. Diets are
not sustainable. They don't work. You can be able to
a thousand diets. You have to get a healthy dietary pattern.
And whatever we call it, if we call it, it
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doesn't matter the Blue Zone diet or the Mediterranean dietary pattern.
It's all the same. They're all commonalities. What I told you, Okay,
there's no difference here. And but and then joyous movement
is the point I don't like the word to use exerciy. Yeah,
I'd likelorious movement and wherever you are if you need
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to get off the couch, if you need to go walking,
and yeah, I have my warr ring. Okay, that tells
me heart rate variability. It tells me how I'm doing,
and if I wake up, it says, Greg, You're gonna
feel terrible today. It's right. But I like it Richard
and Russ, because it tells me how many steps I
walk a day, and most importantly for me, by contrast
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with a lot of the other things available, it tells
me about heart rate variability, which is a balance of
my red battery cable and my blue and my black
battery cable. We aught our bodies run on two cables,
and it's called the automatic nervous system. And that's why
my blood vessels constrict when I stand up and I
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don't pass out, and that's my heart rate, and my
pupils get big and small, I sweat or don't sweat.
It's the two cables in your body, the automatic nervous system,
and it impacts everything and we have to have that imbalance.
And then that's another thing. Vaguel Tone we could talk
about and too much. We live in a life where
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we're in the room with a lion, so our rocket
fuel are att is going sky high all the time,
and that hurts our brain and our body. It causes
accelerating aging and premature death, heart failure and other things.
So we have to have a balance to the vague tone,
the rest and digest and regenerative phase. And that's what
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my heart rate variability monitoring tells me. The numbers aren't important.
What's important is to trend over weeks and months anyway.
So joyous activity, we could talk about it all day,
but it's essential. It prolongs your life, and no physical
activity in itself will not get you healthy. It's fantastic,
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and it's all these things are synergistic. But if you're
eating all the stuff that's not good for you that
we talked about, you can exercise all you want, it's
not gonna matter.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Now.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
The other thing I want to talk about is stress,
real fast stress is a physiologic thing, and whether you're
aware of it or not, and whether it's physical stress
or emotional stress, bad relationships, toxic relationships. This is all
biology pouring into you and forms of stress, we're aware
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of it or not. Not sleeping is a terrible form
of stress. Stress, disrupture, metabolism and all the things we
talk about that are critical for life, your mitochondrial function,
this and that. So it's truly important that are we're
aware how to manage stress, is my point, and that
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has to do with the balance in the autonomic nervous
system and things we can do to increase our vagal tone.
The other thing that's really critical that people don't get
is restorative sleep. One of the most important things for
health and obesity and everything else. And when you don't
get the sleep that you need on a routine basis,
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This is all biology. It's not somebody's opinion on the street.
But it will make you eat. It changes all the
hormones and nerves in your body. It changes everything everything
that you makes you who you are. You can't do
it effectively without restorative sleep. And we have a whole
course on sleep. Breathing is important. The other thing I
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wanted another pillar is social connection. And we know that
we have an epidemic now isolation in America. Okay, people
are on social media. Well we're on social media now,
so don't count this but.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Whatever, we whatever, Well, but this is this is a
good thing, though, doctor, because we're doing film study and
we're breaking this down. So don't think we're that way.
You just think we're in locker room. Yeah, we're going
through the excess and notes. That's what we're doing exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
I'm with you, guys. But the point I'm getting that
is social connection. Isolation is now been declared a major
public health crisis and also leads to chronic disease and
premature death. So all these things are real biological issues. Yes,
r Uss, I.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Want to add hydration, and you mentioned a filter that
uses I have a Burkey filter, so it uses a
stone to.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Sandstone to filter the water.
Speaker 7 (33:24):
Yes, it eliminates ninety nine of the toxins and so on,
costs nothing once you.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Buy it last forever. I don't have to throw away
all those plastic bottles that held my water in him
and gotten hot and cold and hot and cold. So
whatever that plastic was shedding at that time went into
that water.
Speaker 7 (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 going to get.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
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 tap witter again and get rid of plastic.
I used to buy the glass bottles with the pollogrino,
but that's difficult all that, So I'm going to go
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with tap witter 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.
And you have no idea. I will just share with
your audience what's in drinking water. There's everything from depic
code and anti seizure medicines and estrogens and poisons and
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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, there is one product
of plastic bottled water. When I had to do it,
I go to that because it's reversed osmosis. Whether they
get it from a tap or wherever they say they
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get it. Most of these spring waters are nonsense from
the paths somewhere, but as long as they have reverse osmosis.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
And what is for our audience. When is reverse osmosis, it's.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
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 decaffinate things. But this Twitter method is real and
non chemical. But anyway, I will just and then I'm
(35:30):
going to just go through this briefly. But I'm going
to say social connection, okay, community, love, spirituality, all these
things are critical to who you are biologically and how
you are expressed every day in life, and we all
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need that. And also it also has to do with again,
when I was growing up on my Italian relatives driving
me crazy.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Talking what the meal went forever?
Speaker 5 (36:02):
And my chinks got pissed a thousand times. Actually, when
we eat slower and we eat with intention and we
with community, everything physiologically and biologically is better. Is the point.
It's not someone's opinion. This is all evidence based science.
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And spirituality also makes a big difference in how we
feel and how we function and how long we live
a healthy life. The last thing I'll say is avoiding
things that are risky. And here's the question. This is
the real challenge to educate people between health promoting and
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health adverse because most of us don't know that, right,
and there's so many things in our everyday life. I
don't want to get carried away, all right, But I'll
just think about what I've gone through over the last
couple of years. It's not crazy stuff. My father was
a fireman and a barber, so I saw people die
from house fires. Today they don't do that. What I
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mean is emerger responders. Firefighters don't put out of fires today.
What they do is they save lives with CPR and
healthcare issues. Right. But the point is everybody has a bed,
and most people don't realize all the toxins and flame
retardant stuff that's in a bed. And then I'll realize
(37:33):
they can get an organic bed without all that stuff
for less expensive than they can get a toxic bed.
But the point is, Wow, the creating products that we use,
or the stuff that we put on our hair and
our skin, and all those things keep adding up over
the lifetime to cause over time, it's all these things
(38:00):
that up to kind of hurt your biology and hurt
your metabolism, and all these things then lead to high
blood pressure. Obesity, and all these things are symptoms. They're
not diseases. I know, yeah, we want to call it
a disease, and it is. It's not an emotional thing
that your obeses are overweight. All these things are biologically mediated,
(38:20):
is what I'm trying to say. Oh wait on my floor,
eure obese. It's called it's one of the things contributing
to obesity. And talking about you said briefly, I'll say, Okay,
I don't know if you guys know this, but more
than ten percent of diffidence are obese. Did you know that?
And what we know for example, when we're talking about
(38:42):
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 that did leading work years ago showed you just
took somebody walking down the street in New York City
(39:04):
and they had a lot of toxins. And we call
them obesogens carcinogens. But there are things that are adverse
to health, is what point. So all these things is
what we have to teach people. And the last thing
I'll say too about obesity is that it reduces how
long you live by about fifteen years, guys by about
(39:28):
fiften to fifteen years. And that incredible. So again, this
chronic disease epidemic, of which obesity, mental health crisis, overweight
and you know, and I've listened to your shows, Richards
are fantastic. You're hitting on all these things is tremendous.
(39:49):
Thank you and Rus your efforts are fantastic. But I
think it's important that we really get what matters here,
and it's not somebody's opinion, you know, And we had
so many opinions out there that unfortunately aren't really based
on real life, on real things, on science, on evidence
(40:11):
evident based, right. So that's what we have to really
be careful of and be critical of before we go
and ask people to apply it to their lives. And
that's why I'm trying to say, it's just like six
or seven pillars of health. And again, these chronic diseases
that we have are just a few, and they are
(40:32):
all different faces of the same. What we 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. And that's what we're all here to do, right, absolutely, yeah,
and rush forgive me. I don't forgive me, Russ, I
don't care.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
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 figured it
out in the film room. We get on the whiteboard.
We don't have to agree sometimes, you know, we we
we get a little chippy, but we got we have
the same mission, we have the same mindset. Work it out.
(41:29):
We're gonna work it out when we get all the field.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
And you know, Richard, I'm with you. And it's funny
how we've been influenced by a lot of the same people,
and you know, it's kind of interesting. Again. The whole
point here is if you look back in your life
at the people who have touched your life, okay, and
it's the same thing they have influenced to our biology
and who we are, just like all the things that
(41:54):
we eat and and if we're sedentary or have joyous
movement and our life and uh yeah, those film rooms
taught me a lot Richard, And uh absolutely and yeah yeah,
very special moments. But I will share this with you too.
I had a problem one time, Richard.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Oh yeah, well I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (42:19):
And okay, so I'm on the offensive line, I didn't
know where my first step was on my right.
Speaker 14 (42:33):
Foot where backwards at forts? And it should always be forward?
And when Joe wanted me to do that in high school,
I was on his first team.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
What a privilege, coach Mobli And uh, you know what
about the point I'm getting at, it's once we teach
people the joy of doing the proper technique, then we
all facilitate succeeding. And I never missed a trap block
(43:06):
after I finally learned that away.
Speaker 15 (43:11):
Okay, yeah, probably he probably got put on your butt
less dimes do it?
Speaker 5 (43:18):
Yes, And that's the whole point. When you take that
little step. Now, if you're a five hundred pound you know,
offensive guard, maybe you can cheat and get away with
that from a guy like me who had no talent,
I had no ruby cheat. So if I didn't do
the technique right, I'm not going to succeed, and that's
not we're all the field.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
At least you were on the field.
Speaker 5 (43:41):
Left out probably better off not on the field, because
I gotta tell you when Joe Mowglia, Okay, he's a
d nail at Coast Carolina, but he was at a
fordum at Fordham Prep at Fordiam University and his first
job he apply the two hundred and fifty six schools
to be a head coach out of college at high school.
(44:04):
Only one school took them. What a blessing. Archberr Academy
in Delaware, Claymont, Delaware. But and I know we still
care about it, Russ. Maybe you're better off not on
the field. Why I say that because we had sticks
and stones and rocks and broken class and I know
we hate people to do that at night on our
practice field. No terurf speak. But the point is all
(44:28):
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, 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
(44:49):
the team talk about food labels, and I know this is.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Important to me.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
But like in the nineteen nineties, people like doctor Stelli
from Framing in Art Study and Dean Orangish a bunch
of people, they fought to get any food labels on.
They fought for that for years, and now the food
labels are just inadequate. And I love that a lot
of the European countries now have colors, right, and that's
(45:21):
sort of food table and like one means WHOA, You're
in trouble, and another color means hey, good choice. You know,
but I will tell people, you know, when you look
at food labels, if there's more in a couple ingredients
on it, then you shouldn't be eating it, right. And
if you don't know the names of it, and sugar
has it as I last counted, I don't even know
(45:44):
how many names it has, but you know, And that's
another thing that is roy dangerous is the amount of
sugar that we get. And again, sugar is glucose and
fruit toast pumps up for insulin, which is not good,
and and then fruittose, the other part of sugar, goes
(46:04):
right to your liver and damage at your liver and
the major epidemic now you know. But the point is
this is all positive. We can help so many people,
and we need a program. You need a way to
help people learn this and implement it. And you can't
just do it and a brief visit. It's got to
be like a program over time. Like we need unity,
(46:27):
we need support.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
We didn't get here overnight, and we're not going to
lead this condition overnight. But it all starts with awareness
and it definitely starts with caring and sharing. So that's
my call to action for all of you.
Speaker 5 (46:40):
Share this great and Richard, that's a great call to action.
Speaker 15 (46:44):
Absolutely, so doctor to tell if you would please, we
ask each of our guests to say, obesity is a
medical condition, not a character flaw.
Speaker 7 (46:55):
Please learn more about it and watch my video on
tackleobesity dot.
Speaker 8 (47:00):
Oh I agree with that, Russ, Well, why don't you
give it a try.
Speaker 5 (47:06):
Again. You know that I'm committed to tackle ab You
know that I'm committed to tackle and the fight against diabetes.
And it's real thing. It's a real thing to me.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Where are you going to find out about that?
Speaker 5 (47:19):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (47:20):
Where are you going to find out about more more information.
Speaker 5 (47:24):
Yes and uh. Again, so I admire what you guys
do and yes, uh and again you notice thing with
you know, Russ, this thing with obesity is a disease.
Speaker 7 (47:36):
Hm.
Speaker 5 (47:37):
Yeah. I could go on about that all day, and
it's been recognized as a disease for a long time.
And what we've tried to do here is talk about causes,
multiple causes, and as Richard said, cumulative over time. And
again this other word with co morbidities, we have to
get rid of that because these aren't co morbidities. There
(48:00):
are different faces of all the same abnormal biology. Whether
you call it obesity, hypertension, diabetes, they're all just a
few different fases of the same internal metabolic arrangement with
the same causes. Right. So again, when you're treating the
(48:22):
whole person and you're improving your biology, that's why if
you treat one or two of these things, then you're
risk for all these bad things. That goes down dramatically.
And again the point is that it takes time. But
I'll give you an example, high blood pressure. Right, If
(48:45):
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 call it
good medicine. And now even beyond that, it's good life. Right.
(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 other bad things. Right,
So one I'm going to say is small steps, and
small steps are really meaningful. And then eventually small steps
turn into gigantic leaps. And you're not going to make
(49:53):
an interception and run it back for seventy yards if
you haven't started with twenty.
Speaker 3 (49:59):
Yard sprints exactly. But this is this is all phenomenal information,
and as I mentioned this, this is this is a movement.
So make sure that you share this content. Subscribe on
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want to invite everyone to be a part of this.
This is a movement and we need more members of
(50:41):
the team. We have an a formidable opponent. We have
one heck with squad that we're putting on the field
against the battle obilicity. We thank you so much to
our teammate, doctor Greg Matillo. You will see his page
on the Tackle Obesity website and all this information. You
got to see this content and if you have anything
that you missed, feel free to go to our YouTube
channel and watch this video again. The great Russ Allen,
(51:05):
the we call him the Mountain Muscle, always a critical
player in all this and we think you to need
today And Richard.
Speaker 5 (51:17):
Richard, I have to say this. I have to screen
this out. Okay, okay, There's always a way to help someone.
There's always a way to help ourselves, and there's always
a way to help someone, and there's always a way
to help others, and it's small steps. Be encouraged, be enthusiastic.
(51:40):
There's always a way to get better. There's always a
way to do it. And just have faith, have a plan,
have community, have support, have a trusted health guide, health
success guide, and you can do this. Small steps at
a time lead to wonderful health and a vibrant life
(52:04):
and health span. So again I want to leave everyone
with a note of encouragement. You can write your own chapter.
It doesn't matter what age it is. You can write
to be the hero of your story. There we go again.
I want to thank both of you for the privilege
(52:26):
of joining too wonderful and handsome guys today. Peder, Oh
my god, he's gonna stay alive. He's gonna get wrong.
Speaker 3 (52:36):
All right. Well, thank you both, Thank you so much
for joining us. There one again to check out tackle
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