KCAA: Wellness Jocks (Sat, 7 Jun, 2025)

KCAA: Wellness Jocks on Sat, 7 Jun, 2025

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Welcome to Wellness Jocks, where athletes meets Wellness Innovations, starring
Rich Walker and Russ Allen.

Speaker 6 (00:34):
Good morning, Ereyone.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
My name is Richard Walker was placed to have you
here another Saturday morning, and I am here today with
a very dear friend of mine, mister Russ Allen, aka
the Wellness crash Dummy, and he is here to enlighten
us on so many different topics as it contain us
to the battle against so VS the Russ Stakes.

Speaker 6 (00:55):
You for joining us today, Richard.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
As you say, we're dear friends and the this is
such a joy to be able to spend this time
with you and the people often ask Russ, how did
you get that name? So why don't we start with that?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
And absolutely yeah, I'm sure everyone's listening wants to know why?
Oh is the will does crashed on me?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
All right?

Speaker 6 (01:14):
Any?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Why are you?

Speaker 6 (01:15):
Why should we listen to a dummy.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
The answer is Richard I have. I've been a businessman
since I was twelve, and I always felt tremendous responsibility
to bring home the bacon. And honestly, by the time
I was thirteen, my parents were borrowing money from me
because we didn't have a lot, and I worked real hard,
and as I raised my family, I put a lot

(01:39):
of pressure on myself. So I had a lot of
pressure in my life, and as a result, I ended
up with a heart attack in my early fifties. And today,
the more I learned about these things, the more that
your internal state can affect tremendously the hormonal cascade of

(02:01):
events that happens in your body and the metabolic results
of that kind of stress. And so I ended up
with two stamps in my heart, and that wasn't much fun.
And I started to look around and say it's time
to take some changes, because if I didn't, life was
going to deal with me. And so I ended up

(02:25):
changing my career and went in in about twenty ten
to really the wellness business. And so I've been involved
in wellness for the last but thirteen years and have
learned a lot. My background in college was I was
an exercise physiology and psychology major at UC Berkeley in California,

(02:46):
and I was intrigued with healing and health and actually
was thinking I was going to go originally into medicine.
Then when I found out that medicine wasn't interested in me,
because medicine at that stage, this is like nineteen seventy
two and three. I remember my first aid UCLA. They
brought everybody that was pre med into a meeting and

(03:10):
they said, everyone is here that wants to go into
medicine because you want to help your fellow men in
their moment of need. And I was in the second
row having a Sally Field moment, waving my hands. That's
me and that's me. They said, medicine is a business.
We don't care what your motivation is, and we're going

(03:30):
to get rid of everyone that doesn't fit our mold.
And I did the instant equation and I realized that
I shouldn't let the door hit me in the butt.
So I ended up transferring from UCLA to Berkeley, and
in my junior year, I had been a volunteer on
campus trying to learn about physical therapy and the different

(03:51):
departments in the hospital and met up with a couple
guys who are students, but they lived in wheelchairs because
they were they had broken their necks. They were trauma badriplegic.
One had broken his neck in a football game in
San Francisco and the other had broken his neck. He
was a world class high jumper, and he flipped his
van down near San Diego. And Tim and Bill and

(04:13):
Russ moved into a house together four blocks off Telegraph Avenue.
So I played the good wife and did the cooking
and the cleaning and the shopping, and they paid the
rent because they had solid security money coming because they
were severely disabled. And that was right at the point
when America was beginning to mainstream severely disabled. So I'd

(04:36):
had a Forest Gump moment, and I did. I was
at the city and said, got the first eighty A
laws enacted in the state of California. And yeah, I
don't know if you've ever been around someone with so
rebel palsy, but they have a seizure that results from
that condition. So they have these aspastic movements that quite

(05:00):
honestly make people pretty uncomfortable. So one of the assemblymen
in the state of California was dragging his feet on
this legislation. So we pulled him out of his chair
and left him in front of the door of that assemblyment.
Neadress to say that log got an active faster than
any law in theory in the state of Calvin. And

(05:21):
I went on from there to actually starting a little
company to build equipment for me enabling a disabled person
to do whatever they needed to do. And I would
sit down with them and they tell me I wanted
to be able to take a leak, or I want
to be able to open that door. They wanted happiness,
they wanted to film it in a career, they wanted

(05:42):
to feel good about getting up every day, and all
of that doesn't change if you have a traumatic accident.
And so as I began to look at that, my
guess spiritual went off on my quest and ended up
living like a monk and ran and started a food
bank that I ran for seven years in East okel
And so I was a little white kid right around

(06:03):
these to boat Clifton and I would go and arrange
for farmers and wholesalers to give us donations a quote,
and we ended up shipping food all over the world.
And it was a great experience. So my life as
it took this change, I started looking for more and
more solutions. Meanwhile my own health, I had gained a

(06:24):
lot of weight. I had sleep apne for gosh, thirty years,
thirty five years now, which is in itself a very
It's a difficult thing. People don't realize so serious for
some people. Anyway, I would sleep atne I would literally
get so tired. If I had lunch, I had to
stand up the rest of the afternoon because I was

(06:45):
getting so little sleep. At night, I'd literally fall asleep
sitting down.

Speaker 6 (06:50):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, And when you're driving a car, that's extremely dangerous.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
Absolutely four kids in them.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
So anyway, I've faced all that. Went through that art
attack and then subsequent to that, had another heart So
I've had two of them, and I will tell you
neither one were fun and I survived. Fortunately they got
both of them. But in the process, I began to

(07:18):
learn more and more about what's going on with my body,
how to change my life going forward.

Speaker 6 (07:23):
And so.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
That said, I still lived like this kind of wild
young guy as I got older. It didn't change.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
People.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
They look at me and they go, you're seventy hour.
That just doesn't wash because my energy ever turned down.
I don't know what the problem is. But so as
I began to learn more and more things began to change.
But also I had to because I had the heart disease.
I had to deal with medications and a diminishing strength

(07:53):
in my heart. So I was fortunate to be able
to connect with a wonderful doctor who used a I
saw me called external counterpulsation, and that device you lay
on it and it basically has a routine, it realms,
and it was able to strengthen my heart muscle and
open up much of the vessels in my house. And

(08:14):
so I began to recover and began to look for
more and more ways to do that. Now, in the
process of developing heart disease, they begin to give you
all these medications you don't really know white all you
need to know. And I was prescribed one medication that
I was supposed to be taking it twice a day,
and I was only taking it once. So in my

(08:36):
late sixties, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. And this
was an interesting moment because I had a PSA that
was elevated. So I went to the doctor and said
what do I do? He said, you're watching you wait
and wait for what you wait for the cancer to
get bad enough, we can.

Speaker 6 (08:57):
Do so for you. Wow, And I thought, there you go.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I felt like a cow and a feed line kind
of wait, but went through the whole thing. Things got worse.
I tried this tree bark from New Mexico, different exismes.
I tried everything to not have a radiation treatment or
a surgery. Things did get worse and ended up doing

(09:23):
twenty eight rounds of radiation. Now, I will tell you
that's not something that you really want to look forward to.
And as a result of that, of course, as you
age and lay that on with some heart disease and
high blood pressure and everything else, you inevitably develop ed.

(09:43):
I don't for a minute understand the complexity of the
human body. And what I've grown to learn is nobody
else says either pieces of it, and that's why doctors specialized,
because it gets so complex and so evolved that they
really can't And of course that's why we go to
medical specialists. Problem is you don't get to see those

(10:04):
guys to prevent the disease. You get to see those
guys when the intern is general practitioner says, yeah, you
got this, go zem Or and that's a little thing.
And so what I decided was, well, then what we
need is a business a wellness model that incentivize physicians

(10:27):
to keep us well. It pays them more to do that.
Then wait until we're sitting, let's moved the cheese from
her over to here. And that seems like this most
obvious thing to do, and it is. You know, you
look at the nation of Japan. They see the doctor
four times more often and they spend one seventh what

(10:49):
America does and their healthcare one more time. They see
the doctor four times more, but they spend one seventh.

Speaker 6 (11:01):
Because they're more focus on the front end.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
They prevent the disease formation and they've lived five years longer.
Now you have a genetically selected pool of people and
they live on anihilands, so they're big on fish and
doing a lot of healthy things, and Americans aren't. Our
health is somewhere in the lower middle and not really

(11:24):
in the middle. We're Americans are not healthy people. In fact,
we're dying younger as we go.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, so this is an interesting dynamic that you brought
up for us the unfortunate state of affairs as it
pertains to the overall way that we approach wellness in America.
There's that dynamic of the cost factor, which unfortunately we're
at the mersity of the insurance companies, and they have

(11:53):
a business that they run where they collect the premials
and they want to do whatever they can for the
long gain to premach you from cashing in and utilize
the benefits. So what is it that we can do
as Americans to turn the boat? What is it that
we can do on a personal basis to improve our

(12:14):
overall wellness? With that in mind, let me add something
to what you just said.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
To start, insurance companies by legislative action could only make
more money based on the gross not on a net
profit basis. So what do I mean by listen? That
means the only way they make more money is you
spend more. They can't increase their margin. That's fixed supposedly,

(12:41):
I don't believe it, But so they're incentivized for their
costs to go up. Is if they want to make
more money, the costs got to go up, right, So
if you're fixed at three percent, you're at one hundred million,
you're three million dollars profit right, but fixed. But if
you're a billion then it's all good. So it's even

(13:05):
broken that way, Richard. That was to your point. The
insurance companies, and they're not incentivized because people change their
insurance company every two years two to three years on average,
so they don't even do long term thinking around you
because you're not gonna be around. So everything is in
this financial model that works against the interests of the individual.

(13:28):
In fact, I came up with what I hope will
be adopted, although I'm not a doctor, by healthcare professionals,
as the new oath, and it's do what is optimal.
Doctors used to be the highest rated trusted people in America,
and now they're way down there with car sALS. So
everything goes and ask the nurse because she has no

(13:50):
financial interests in what's going on, so they used her
as the fly in the wall. If the doctor leaves
their room, they pay the nurse and started out and
they're trained not to answer questions.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
And I think that's the fuel behind your vision and
your passion, and that's also the motivating factor. I think
that encourages you to reach out to help others. So
fast forward and you and I meet at the radio
road during the Super Bowl in Los Angeles, when the
Rams and the Bengals met. And at this point in
my life, I am well over four hundred and twenty pounds.

(14:26):
Like I had a scale that stopped at around four twenty,
and what I stepped on it used to say error,
So I'm not even sure what the actual number was.

Speaker 6 (14:35):
I know that I weighed more than I was over
the four twenty because my.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Scale stopped working. So I'm walking through them, you know
the area radio the green room where all the radio
talents go to take a break and eat snacks, and
they serve lunch and all that stuff.

Speaker 6 (14:52):
So all them get.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Cremated like a while bag. And we just got out
to here, and I'm starving, and I'm just taking whatever
I can give my hands on. All the chips, cooked,
these crackers, candy, you name it.

Speaker 6 (15:03):
I got.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
I had well pargo, I remember, I had cargo pants,
and I had pockets everywhere, and like each pocket was
like filled with all types of goodies. And if you
remember that the cartoon series The Grinch, where he stole
all the food from the villagers, that that's almost that's
how I was behaving to the green room, like I
was just taking everything for myself, soda soda cans in

(15:25):
my pockets, all kind of stuff, and out the corner
cause this guy he approaches me, and I'm like, he's
gonna bust me for taking all the food and what
and so we just started talking and the entire conversation
was just centered around, Hey, this is what I do.
I run a wellers program. Would you be interested to
enjoy it? And for the back of my head, I
was like, hey, this is something that I really need

(15:48):
to do because I tried and filled so many times,
so many different fanise and I tried everything I knew
I needed to lose the weight, but I just didn't
have an actual game play. But going through the wellness
challenge and going through having all the different symptoms, the
high blood pressure, I had recurring gout issues. I was

(16:10):
actually in the middle of a gout attack when I
got back on the air. I couldn't even walk to
the car. It took me like an hour to make
what should have been like a ten minute walk because
I had a gout attack that happened while I was on.

Speaker 6 (16:24):
The air after eating all that junk food, eating the
two or three stakes. I was a soda at it.
I was so bad.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
I would have three twelve packs of soda and I
would refuel every week. So every Sunday I'd go to
the store and buy three twelve packs, one for the car,
one for the house, one for the office. That's how
bad it was. So through the course of the wellness
program that Russ and I worked on, I was able
to educate myself, motivate myself, keep myself on track, and

(16:52):
lose ninety one pounds in just over six months, and
immediately all of the comorbidity started on. Wait, my blood
pressures drop. I go to my doctor and he's what
the heck are you doing?

Speaker 7 (17:04):
Man?

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Whatever, it is great because I'm gonna take this blood
pressure medicine away for me. I run a blood panel,
which I had no idea. I was pre dimitic, and
my ae C dropped below five point seven, which is
back to a Nogo state. I haven't had a gallon
of tax since then. I say that to say that
the intervention literally changed the course of me because we

(17:30):
tried everything from even from a medical perspective. They changed
my dosages from my blood pressure. They I was saying,
and my wife and I were joking about the other day.
She was like, when I had gallt of tacks, they
would just treat me with the steroid packs.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
So they were just.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Prescribed in stereoid packs, and I would say something for later. Okay,
I'm feeling a little better now, let me say these
four or five steroids talblents in case I have a
really band wad of getting down the road, so in
case I'll have time to go to the doctor, So
around town with steeroid tablets in a car, in case
I need to pop a couple of them with my
knee or my ankle starts acting that we get having

(18:07):
a change in nutrition. There's a definitely a correlation between
that and your willness. I was speaking for Testamon and
can you can you speak on that where it's about
the correlation between what we eat and our willness.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, let me address something else, Richard. What really worked
was you had a coach, Yes, and it changed the dynamic.
If you try, and I will tell this everybody that's listening,
if you try to diet on your own, try to
change your behavior around food on your own, your chances
are one in ten of succeed. The skill you should

(18:45):
have been looking at was your percent body right. All
of those loss and prol morbidities fundamentally is because you
would reduce your body fit and that's the real gold
stand for understanding how healthy you'll And what I would
will tell you is that, uh, when you look at

(19:07):
a percent body fat, but you're really looking at is
how much father is around your organs. And to improve
that lowers all those colverbidities that you develop that result
from the number one thing we can do and that
I focus on the reverse the financial and really do

(19:27):
the sad the condition of Americans is to focus on weights.
But from a point of view of coaching, I don't
want to get you know, there are now these amazing
medications that are coming out. They have some issues, but
for the most part, people are having remarkable results. Historically,
what we did through the Wellness Challenge was we used

(19:47):
a meal workplace that works, and then people have used
just whole food diets that they reduce their caloric intake
and adjusted things. So all of those can work. But
you need to coach, and you need to be trained,
and need to be held accountable, and you need to
learn and then you can establish behavioral changes that will

(20:09):
sustain you. It's one of the things, right you. I
don't want to talk out of school here, but when
you stop doing certain things, you found some of that
weight again, Sure it did. So what I've been working
all the last two years is a train to maintain
program because I hit my You know, I ate one
hundred and five pounds and I've stayed within five pounds

(20:30):
of that for two years. And I eat a lot,
but I learned how to eat in ways now people
look at me and said, well, so you could still
lose a couple of walks. Don't stop.

Speaker 6 (20:41):
Now.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
What I am doing now is I'm using some supplements
I've learned about that are actually converting more and more
of my body to muscle. So as you get more musculature,
you're able to actually enjoy food more because you burned more. Well,
being active is no big deal. Is you just naturally

(21:04):
want to go and do things, and you don't feel
like you're gonna slot it out and push this old
donkey up the hill, but instead you can enjoy getting
rounded like and doing it all.

Speaker 6 (21:17):
Hey, I agree with you.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
I used the mindset that in regards to a wilderness mindset.
We should reach for the stars, and you may never
touch that star, but if you reached the top of
the mountain in the process, you're a heck of a
lot better off than you were in the valley.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Much better healthy overweight than being obese. Absolutely, and that's
really when you trip that switch and you head into obesity,
the springs start flying. Absolutely, that's really true or true,
it's really fundamentally true.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
And also you spoke on the fact that I did
deviate from the principles that got me to the ninety
one pound weight loss, but it was very easy to
get back on the wagon once your coach. Players are
gonna make mistakes where people every people are gonna make mistakes.
People are gonna deviate from the script.

Speaker 6 (22:07):
That's just in life.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Everyone has a discipline threshold, everyone has a compliant streshold.
But when you have that little voice in the back
of your head, or sometimes it's literally the voice in
your ear, in your ear of a coach saying, hey man,
what are you doing? Oh, you know what, You're right,
and you get back on course.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
So that's what let's go back and cover the basics.

Speaker 6 (22:30):
What do you do right? Drink?

Speaker 3 (22:32):
We're here to support you, get you through the tough
times and the rough times. Russ one of the the
monakers that ourself shall say that you go by as
the wellness crash, gummy talking that you've been on the
show before, talking about your media experiences with your own
health issues, and then all show your passion for pursuing
health and was for others. This is a very ffyfical subject,

(22:55):
especially for men, because we'll talk about it. There's a
group of men who have ed, and then there's a
group of men who lie about not having ed. And
it's just it, that's just the way it is, and
there's a core morbidity. There's a correlation, I should say,
between your overall willness and a rentilenessfunction. You have taken

(23:16):
on the moniker as the cute unquote albard Stern of ED,
which I think very interesting. Uh So tell us about ED,
tell us about what? What are you aware of it?
And what do we need to know about it?

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Thank you Richard, and thank you Howard, because the thing
about Irish Journey's been fearlessly talking about one subject for
about four.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
And I'll tell you why not.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
It's seventy years old. I'm going to put it out there,
erect out this function ed, whatever you want to call it, Limp, Larry,
it's all there is something, interestingly enough, that has actually
gotten worse while as America has gotten down the road.
And what used to be something men in their seventies
and eighties would have to address, we have men in

(24:06):
their forties now on thirties, even men in their twenties
who are dealing with erect heil dysfunction. I've done a
study of it, and I've identified over twenty things that
can give you a rectile dysfunction. Interestingly enough, and I
was just reading listening to your podcast today, it hormones,

(24:27):
which everybody thinks is the cause of a rectilis function,
but is responsible for about three percent of a rectilis function. Now,
what would you say to if I told you the
number one thing is diabetes?

Speaker 6 (24:43):
Really?

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Oh yeah, fifty percent of men with diabetes have rectals function.
The other half lie about it. So it's it is
a bare foul impact on your body when you have diabetes.
And what is the number one cause of diabetes this country?
O b SA te right, So the golden gift of

(25:08):
obesity is elliptic. It really is a rectilis function. And
so what's hopeful is that by tackling your obesity, you
actually liberate your ability, in many cases, to have a
joyful life of healthy sex. Now, a lot of the

(25:32):
drugs that are used to treat the code morbidities of
obesity cause ED. Probably the number two is heart high
blood pressure. Is when a man reports CD to a doctor,
the first thing he wants to do is check his
heart disease. One of the earliest symptoms of heart disease
is a rectilis function. So when you started adding up

(25:54):
and then quite honestly, men they don't want to talk
about it, but performance and anxiety it comes to be
its own triggering event to cause a rectile dysfunction. Interesting,
huwh So we'd sell sabotage because we can't achieve proper
erection and we can't have full intercourse. So then guess

(26:17):
what You've prophesied your own doom. So what I've learned
about it, what I'm learning about it is and again
my ide really didn't start until I went through my
processed cancer. Somehow, twenty eight thousand bouts of radiation, you
come out the other end with all kinds of things,

(26:40):
not working, one of which is the direction. But a
lot elves didn't work. You have urinary function issues and
obviously being able to hold your whatever, just can't make
it to the bathroom in time. Now all kinds of things,
and unfortunately, the ninety plus percent of men, if they

(27:00):
live long enough, will develop process cancer the inevitability for men,
and seventy percent of men at seventy have the d
to start with, even without the coorbidity, because the vessels weaken,
the heart weakens, what has What's interesting about the rectile
function is it's like you've got to a road. Then

(27:23):
there's all these lights in the road. For all the work,
all those lights have to be in the green. So
what we do, of course, as we get older, is
you start hitting those yellows.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
At that and there's some boy, you just hit the
red and it.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Ain't gonna work, and so you begin to and which
red light. It depends on where you're at in your life.
But what you can be certain of is if you're OBEs,
you are fighting sitting all from the ghost because you
have a high risk of diabetes heart diabetes three to
four times risk for heart disease diabetes. An eed it's

(28:05):
the same word. They call it diabeesity. Type two diabetes
is the result of in ninety percent of the cases obesity.
So part of the best way to treat your ED
is to lose your.

Speaker 6 (28:19):
Weight, right. I tacked the underlying cause absolutely.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Now there are other treatments you can do, and I've
gone through some of them. There's a sound wave therapy
that they treat the vessels around the growing area and
on the penis, and they open up those vessels to
make sure that the blood is growing properly. The other
thing was use it or lose it if you stop,

(28:44):
and at different times in our life of my case
with protistate cancer, they give you a hormone that drops
your testosterone to single digits to me, and the goal
is to prevent answer for progressive.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
And I'm just thinking out loud as well. When you're obese,
you're probably less likely to engage in a physical activity
like sex. So your amount of shall we say, full
contact or the not only the frequency but also the
length of it is shortened because you just you're obese.

(29:21):
You can't just can't perform like that. So wouldn't that
also it's like an avalanche or effect. Where you gain
the weight, you start to have the real lighte issue
as you mentioned, then you don't have a lack of frequency,
which just kind of continues to revolve itself.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
All that and as your bodies slow down, which happens
when you're obese, flow in your vessels slow also calcify
those vessels, and again all of which creates the inability
of the penis to normally respond to stimulation.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Nothing is more or the brain is your number one
sexual or And if you don't feel confident either an
initiating sex or completing it, guess what you are going
to sabotage it, tie it again. And it's just as
you mentioned, if you're obese, you don't feel that confidence.

(30:19):
So even if every of a plumbing is all working,
let's just give that the brain is still going to
nail you because you're just you're not going to get
the arousal is. You're gonna be worried about what is
she thinking? Or I can't or I can't breathe, I can't,
you know, because or I can't exert myself as I
normally would to create the friction to make the magic happen.

(30:45):
My heart won't hold up and what they say, talk
to your doctor, make sure you're helving off for sexual activity.
They're not kidding. That is one of those barriers is
that your actual physical health can prevent you from being
able to achieve erection and complete the sexual function. So
and you're missing a lot of good stuff. Life is

(31:07):
meant to be joyful throughout and right, honestly, that's part
of it.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
So this is a very touchy and uncomfortable subject. So
how do you approach it? We'll start with the phillis,
because of course we're difficult. So how did get to
a point where you said that, all right, well I
have a problem to the god asked listening that.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
I had to reach a point where, first of all,
I was ready to tell myself I got a problem
and I got to deal with this. And given that
I'm involved in the wallless industry and I just run
my mouth non stop. Anyway, it was okay, Allen, you
gotta deal with the fact that things already happening. And
because I was taking this armor suppression for two years, Richard,

(31:53):
two years, I had a hormone testosteral level in the
single digits, normally to be in the seven uther eight thousand,
but I had seven.

Speaker 6 (32:05):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, and remarkably things sometimes even work. Wow, not always,
and to the last and then obviously as you get older.
So what I've learned, though, is that you can recover
This is the most inspiring part of the whole thing,
is that you can recover sexual function. Not everybody, And

(32:29):
but you've got to find out which of those lights
has gone red and which ones are yellow, and which
ones aren't even on the road, because you're not even
looking that far now, I would encourage there are doctors
who are specifically involved in sexual help, and I'm seeing one.
She's a seventy year old lady from Wardnat from Jamaica,

(32:54):
wonderful gal, lover and no nonsense, smartest the whip and
and is really straightforward with me and very helpful. And
I'm very fortunate to have found her. And you've got
to find somebody that is your coach, you know, Richie.
When she saw my survey when I first went to her,
and it was like, you have this scoring thing and

(33:16):
it's like one to ten, and if your score was
like twenty or something, is we got a shot here
At thirty, I was a score of about six.

Speaker 8 (33:28):
It was like side was really really, I was gonna
lie to her, and I wanted to lie to myself,
so that we just a quick side note.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
My wife of forty one years, right after she quit
her law practice, she found out she had a brain
treat and fortunately he was not cancerous and they were
able to remove it. But after they removed it, she
looked in the mirror and she went, I'm obese, and
she made up her mind that she was going to

(34:02):
lose that weight. And she went and lost seventy pounds
at seventy years old.

Speaker 6 (34:07):
Incredible, but she.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Had to lose her brain. Toldren, because that mental block
that's in our minds is a big part of what
we have to address. So whether it's your obesity or
your ed or whatever else is holding your health back,
you have to be frank with yourself. And again, having
a coach, whether it's just weight loss or in wellness,

(34:32):
is an extremely valuable thing. Now we tell people, take
your body fat, to be your weight, cut it in half,
and drink that many ounces of water. Okay, So Richard,
you should have been drinking like two hundred and fifteen
ounces of water.

Speaker 6 (34:49):
Right you were.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
It was all terrible soda it's a prop right. Great,
it wasn't water, and it wasn't just nonploric, it wasn't anything.
It was remotely healthy eat. So part of what helped
you lose all the weight you did, you stopped drinking
all that. So that was like number one, I stopped
drinking in the alcohol. Help me lose weight, help me

(35:11):
keep it all Because alcohol is basically sugar. So part
of what we train you to understand is the cycle
of sugar in your body. And that's to evolve for
this conversation. But your body runs on sugar. That's it's
natural fuel. It called deeps, but it's sugar. And everything

(35:36):
in processed foods is some form of sugar. They go
it enriched wheat, flour and this thing and that, but
it's really sugar. Now, the interesting thing is your body
has different energy sources protein, carbohydrates, and fat, and we
teach you about those things, and we teach you about
protein timing, we teach you about hydration, We teach you

(35:58):
about night stress eating, We teach you all those sakes.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
So you've mentioned, you actually did mention the importance of
managing intate to make a pun of it. So you
have to manage your sugar. If you want to get
some sugar, that's right. It's interesting that no one really
highlights the correlation between these three monsters.

Speaker 6 (36:21):
So to speak.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
You have the high blood pressure, I should say the
blood sugar regulation issue. You have the obesity issue, and
then that those two monsters FEEDD they're very heavily. I
would never have thought that the number one reason for
we D would be obesity, and I think there should.

Speaker 6 (36:41):
Be a lot of awareness around that.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
The reality is obesity causes high blood pressure. What you
get is another major culprit. It creates a higher risk
for our disease, another major culture. There are two hundred
colorbidities of obese. Two hundred. So basically, if you want
your engine to quit working, you could pour some sand
or just get.

Speaker 6 (37:03):
It over.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Pretty much it. So that's what we have to learn,
is that and America used to be a lot trimmer.

Speaker 8 (37:14):
What happened did the livestock So they must have passed
out of fact bill because.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Since the sixties, remember Jimmy Stewart, it's a beautiful live
waterfly water, he is a whip. What happened in the
sixties we started mass production highly processed food, that's what happened.
So now we're there, we're eating that processed food and

(37:41):
it's causing so many of these problems to emerk. So
power train you to do this? Howat how when did
when to hydrate? How to deal with things? Look, if
you have some drinks, what do you do? I just
drank a bunch of sugar, so you hydrate more. So, yeah,
drink two glasses of whatever of water of some kind.

(38:03):
And people don't they go the other way. They start
to think of the water because they go they want
more of that, and the impact of the alcohol a lot.

Speaker 6 (38:11):
That I ever did that, and as the clients do
me no way.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
In fact, is another big ed factor, another red light.
And elicit drugs another red light. So supposedly good drugs,
all the bad drugs, it all screws up. So as
you learn where are the red lights? What is causing
my idea? First and foremost, it is your mental state,

(38:39):
and it'll be there at the last as well, because
you've got to get past the fact that you're dealing
with it. So that's like the first red light in
your head. And then at the end you've got to
get past the fact that you've struggled with it, and
now you've got to reapply yourself and deal with probably
some moments of failure or less than spectacular performance, and

(39:01):
work with your partner to find ways where now your
body responds this way. Is that the other thing is
that I was talking to my way the other about
I said, honey, used to be somebody shut the door
and the web. So well, what we learn is that

(39:27):
as we age, everything changes, and you know, we have
to be different for our partner. You need the same lover.
You gotta be. And it's interesting because there are so
many things that change in her body and and her
willingness and and again you know all of that. I mean,

(39:47):
you know the happens in this sequence of green lights.
So you get all the way up to that last light.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
Maybe if someone's so on the dark side in front
of you as you're trying to cross to you, tod,
I think that analogy is gonna stick with a lot
of people, with a lot of it's gonna be driving
through city traffic thinking about the real lights.

Speaker 6 (40:06):
Man, This is a sedilary.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
There's a reason why they call you the ours stir
obd man. That's something very eloquently put this whole dynamic
between ed and obesity. It's just it's just a crazy
dark didn't even think about man too. We are talking
today about our future, the youth, the YouTube of mirror, uh,

(40:30):
and we know that Reci's studies have shown that we
have a very significant issue with childhood obesity.

Speaker 6 (40:38):
In a mirror studies showed.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
That on average right now, we're currently trending at about
a forty percent obesity rate amongst our youth. So who
are brought Russey used to talk about this topic? So
Russ tell us what are your thoughts on the issue
with the child little BC in America today?

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, about our children either overweight or obese, twenty percent
of the obese range, and as they get older, it
goes to thirty percent of adults are overweight, and now
forty percent of adults are in the obese range. So
the question that comes to mind, how is this happening?
Why is this happening? Is there something in the air?

(41:15):
Did we drop a bomb somewhere we didn't know it happened.
The reality is, in about nineteen sixty we began to
introduce how the process into the American diet and what
we saw as a result of that is a hockey
stick of the average weight of Americans go up. And

(41:36):
when you start thinking about it, when did McDonald's show,
When did Duncan adult Is show?

Speaker 6 (41:41):
Right?

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Did then happen?

Speaker 6 (41:43):
Now?

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Back then you.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
Drove to McDonald's, who was a big thing. I remember
as a kid calling to McDonald's, this big thing and
got to get your shake and you get then Wendy's
opened up. Now a Wendy's frosty used to be something
you just about to have a cosmic expense eating. The
reason is that as seventeen sugar spoonfuls of sugar in

(42:06):
a small one, Wow, in a small one wow. And
so you are mainlining sugar. And so what's happened is
are as parents. And I don't want to guilt trip
to parents, because we've all been led down the road
here by what I call the medical industrial complex. It's

(42:27):
give us the food, we get sick, fix us with
the medications we get sicker, and it just goes around
and a runner, and our costs of elthcare have gone
up right along with our weight. So our children now
today are the worst part is they're not nearly as active.

(42:48):
One of the things Richard when you lose weight, people
forget I have to become more active as I lose
weight or I won't continue to lose weight. That has
been the reality. Also, what we've got to learn is
that processed foods are the culprit our. Children need to

(43:08):
learn from their parents' example how to eat healthy. Otherwise
do as I say, not as I do will never work,
absolutely never work. And so as adults and as parents.
And it's just people in the community. If they see
us chopping down on a bag of chips after we

(43:28):
have our soda, our big cheeseburger, what are they thinking.
The other things is that it becomes normative, meaning if
everybody's obese or overweight, then I'm just fitting in. And
so what my family with Daddy and mommy are obese
and overweight, it's just natural. What I was in Arizona

(43:50):
with the Super Bowl last year, I worked a little
bit with the Indian tribes there and I learned that
some of the Native American communities, they have the highest
rate of diabetes in America and one of the highest
rates in the world. And the children in these tribes
literally talk about when they become diabetics. It's a discussion

(44:13):
one as it's simply inevitable in their life that they
will become diabetic.

Speaker 6 (44:20):
That's so unfortunate, Yeah, so unfortunate.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Yeah, well, and creates a drug dependency, like it or
not that you have to be on a drug to
keep yourself from your limbs, from going wealth, from going blind,
from your heart disease, for me, from the nerves stop
working in your feet, all those impacts of diabetes. And
what the most easy disease to cure it in this

(44:43):
country is to type two diabetes, and it is sort
of addressing the underlying cause of obese. So with our children,
what of the there's really a two prome attack you
got to have? What is they going to learn how
to eat al too? They got to increase their activity
and the way to do it as you lead them
by example. And I'm sorry that's a terrible thing to

(45:04):
say as a parent. I'd fallen short all that many
times in my life. These are disease. You know why
am I the crash on me? If I gave you
the list of all the things, I got two art attacks,
but a stroke, cancer. I've been all these different melodies
during my life, and many of them were stress related

(45:25):
and not eating bravely. So as I've seen the lights
so to speak, that I'm learning every day. What I'm
learning is nothing impacts people like a good.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Example, absolutely, and I think there are beyond just a
core group of our youth. The future is impacted by this,
The pipelines for so many different caveats of society or
impacted by this. One of course, is the US military.
And I recently saw a taed X talk that General

(45:59):
Mark Hurtling did it where he who literally said that
the obesity issue with our youth is a concern of
national defense. He feels as though it is a national
defense threat to US because the future pipeline soldiers is
very quickly diminishing. And he expressed that parently, the US

(46:21):
Army is seen about a sixty percent rate of people
who wanted a list of the military who simply can't
because they're obese. And we're talking young men and women
around the age of eighteen to twenty and want to
list to the military, but they can't. And it starts
with them being obese's children. They grow through their teen
in puberty years and they're abe, says young adults, and

(46:42):
they're unfit to serve because of that.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
And they cannot be on any kind of medications and
serve because you're going to be ready to go into
battle if you're in the military.

Speaker 6 (46:53):
It's just not so.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yes, I think it's a huge problem with and honestly,
the more where a bees, the more are cognitive function diminishes.
It's not good for the brain, and it's obviously not
good for our bodies and are longevity and our activity levels.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Yeah, that's an interesting point that you bring up, because
I know that they're someone listening their parents out there
that's saying, hey, I get it.

Speaker 6 (47:21):
I understand. I know that I work at nine to five.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Sometimes, especially given our the dynamics of this economy that
we're in, sometimes nine to five looks more like nine
to nine or eight to.

Speaker 6 (47:32):
Nine or six to nine.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
Just to get the bills paid and you got the kids,
so you have to You don't have time to prepare
a nutritious, healthy meal, so you grab fast food restaurant.
A I'm not going to put them out there. When
you grab a fast food restaurant, you feed your family
and get them drifts back to bed, muscle and bustle,
do it again, five.

Speaker 6 (47:53):
Six, seven days a week. So there's that dynamic.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
How do you as that parent that has that incredible
busy lifestyle. You have all these moving parts, do you
have the children done when they have activities? And then,
as you mentioned, the lack of activity with the phones, computers,
the technology, these kids are out played anymore.

Speaker 6 (48:15):
How impactful is it public?

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Sorry, physical education out of the school?

Speaker 3 (48:20):
Correct?

Speaker 2 (48:20):
So now we got to mainstream erect get you ready
for college. If you don't have a healthy body, what's
where you going? And that's really unfortunate.

Speaker 6 (48:29):
Man.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
I can't even think of not having pe. During high school.
It was every day you went out and you worked out,
ran around, screw around, talked to your friends or whatever.
But you got some movement. Now don't happen.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
For the most vivid example of this that I recall,
I recall visiting my son's school one day and what
they call quote unquote physical education. It's not like, well,
we used to light up and do squad thrusts and
spreads and we run track and play basketball, football and

(49:03):
tag and flag football and soccer and very active sports.
It's almost like it's just outdoor classroom environment. And what
I'm with this was a group of young kids sitting
in a circle on their phones texting each other. Oh,
like that's absolutely counterproductive, Like the whole.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Talking to each other.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
They're not even talking to each other. They're in they're
in a circle and they're giggling and laughing and they're
sharing whatever it was they're sharing in a circle on
their phones. They had their phones and they were out
texting each other. And we're talking about high school kids
in they're in like ninth to tenth grade. So that's
just a it's an unfortunate dynamic. How do we break out?

(49:45):
So that parent that's listening to wondering, how do we
break out of this? What's the game play? How do
we get out of it?

Speaker 2 (49:50):
One of the things that that we discussed Richard's is
the possibility of doing kids and activities like flag football,
which is it's a great team sport. People we'll get
to and we're going to be involved in that, and
we'll do a future episode about that. But and a
lot of parents are incredibly conscientious and getting their kids
out and getting them as involved as they can and

(50:10):
after school programs and it's not all bleak and whatever.
The reality is though, there is those that can and
those that can't. And so what we want to look
at is ways of which it is a longer discussion
because it's really a societal change. It's going to happen.
It's it's not that simple. But as individuals we could

(50:32):
set a good example that on its own we can do. Now, Richard,
you at one point told me you were drinking thirty
six scans of soda per week, per week, so we
fingered decision that you weren't going to do that. Nobody
made that for you. Nobody told you're a bad guy,
and nobody You just said, this doesn't make sense anymore?

(50:53):
Am I going to do it? So as individuals we
can look at our lives and say what am I
doing that I should wouldn't be And what is a
decision I need to make to then do something different?
And I do that different. So that's pebbles in the pod,
that ripple effect. You can't necessarily know how that's all

(51:14):
going to wash out. What you can do is make
a difference. And so part of coaching people for me
is to encourage them to do what they know in
the first place, and then from there, from there then
we can really do something.

Speaker 6 (51:30):
Absolutely, it is so critical folks to get coaching. We're
speaking from testimony, not for theory. Here.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
I when in russ and I hit at the Super
Bowl in Los Angeles. I was well over for in
twenty pounds. I don't know what the actual number was
because my steel stopped at four in a twenty. I
can't when I step on a steel, it would just
say to be continued, I will probably have to go
to another skill to get the number, and sure instead bad.
But getting coaching is what really changes the dynamic, where

(52:02):
not only do you have the accountability, you also have
the information. There's so much that you can learn about
proper nutrition, about protein timing, about proper hydration, and also
about dealing with the other variables in your life, about
dealing with the stress, about getting proper sleep. Those are
two things that I never thought about. How chaotic my

(52:24):
average day was and how to control that. We know
we spoke about the fact that you know our military,
for example, you know they're struggling to find recruiting. We
know that there is a heavy correlation between obesity and
productivity in the workforce. Having a healthier workforce at a
younger age is gonna We're gonna see a healthier, stronger

(52:48):
workforce in the future. And these are our future leaders.
So we need to invest in them. We need to
pour it into them. We need to support them, we
need to love on them, and we need to take
care of them. And it starts with things such as
helping them to manage their wellness at a young age
and when they learn those core principles, even if they
veer off the path, which we sometimes do. We're human.

(53:11):
We're not expecting a little job or JD to have
a six pack there from sixth grade into the grave.
But we know that at a minimum, they will at
least understand what's going in them, and they will understand
how to control and maintain their willness, and they will
have long, healthy lives and they will be great contributors
to society. So think of that as your legacy point.

(53:35):
I'm going to pour this into my child, I'm going
to afford this into my family, and these are the
type of this is my brick on the road to society.
Is my contribution through wellness, we're able to do some
great things in society. I just think this is a
very dynamic opportunity for all of us.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Wonderfully great Richard fantastic sassing.

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