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Saying it outloud!
Saying it outloud!
EP 100: The Inside Story – How Inflammation Affects Your Health
Get ready to uncork our treasure trove of wisdom as we celebrate our 100th episode! We kick-start the celebration by taking a walk down memory lane and throwing light on a delectable cheat day featuring voodoo donuts, pizza, and cold stone ice cream. But the real treat is our in-depth look into the world of inflammation and its far-reaching implications on health.
Ever wondered how chronic inflammation could be secretly sabotaging your health? We unravel the mystery behind how dietary habits, lifestyle choices, and even certain medications can fuel this silent killer, leading to severe diseases like cardiovascular ailments, Type 2 diabetes, and obesity. We also pull back the curtain on how inflammation can impact weight loss and the crucial role of a comprehensive blood work panel in understanding the internal workings of your body. Brace yourself for an enlightening journey into understanding inflammation's impact and how a balanced lifestyle can help manage it.
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What's going on, everyone and welcome to saying it out loud. A podcast created to help people who want to learn more about fitness and life. Our podcast will help you build a foundation and turn fitness into a lifestyle and help you conquer your life. I will be your host, leo, and my co-host.
Speaker 2:Stephanie, and we're the owners of a HALA athletics coaching business built on our belief that clients aren't just a dollar sign and they're human. Now onto the episode.
Speaker 1:What's going on everyone and welcome back. To say it out loud Come see us live, not a Monday. Today is our 100th episode. I'm pretty sure Don't take that for what it is, because I don't know If it is our 100th episode. We're going to check real quick, yeah, let me check. Okay, I had to fasten each check. Let's check. Let's check a class. Who is checking?
Speaker 2:99. Yeah, dang, we are a level, love it.
Speaker 1:Number 100. That's a good milestone, because when we first started this we never thought one day we'd be doing a podcast. To definitely think we'd begin to 100 episodes. So thank you to everybody who has taken the time out of their day to listen to us and hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, you've got some value out of what we've been talking about.
Speaker 2:Remember when you started that podcast.
Speaker 1:I do remember when I wanted to start the podcast it was originally going to be just me by myself, but after I recorded the podcast I wish I kept that episode just a freaking intro so you guys could hear it. But my was absolutely terrible and I played it for her. She's like hell, no. So then I was like right.
Speaker 2:He was kind enough to invite me as his co-host. Yeah, I was like let's do it together.
Speaker 1:It's meant to be that we do everything together. So here we are, doing the podcast together. God, I wish I would have kept that. I wonder if I still have it. No, because I had a different platform, anyways. So yeah, 100 episodes. Like I said, thank you to everybody who's listening. Now let's talk about our cheat day. So cheat day, saturday, was a good day. We had breakfast as usual. I made some bomb birthday cake.
Speaker 2:Birthday cake cookies, cheesecake cookies.
Speaker 1:I made a chocolate version and then made a regular vanilla version. I didn't try the chocolate because she's done it like chocolate, because she's a weirdo. She was not. Nobody in this podcast thinks chocolate is trash, but you. But I don't like either one of them, per usual Of course, for some reason I don't like anything I bake and they almost like what I bake. So I felt like a lie to me. Just maybe feel better about myself, because that's what we would do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's exactly what we did. I had two cookies, but that's exactly what I would do. Sloth.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so we had the cookies and the biscuits. Ordered voodoo donuts and we ordered voodoo donuts. Now I was shocked with voodoo donuts because I had them before. We had them at what universal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I was absolutely trashed.
Speaker 1:Terrible, but this time the apple fritter. First of all, apple fritter best donut on the face of the planet, but there's no debating that, so don't debate it. It was moist, apple-y and crunchy, freaking amazing. And then we had a bunch of other donuts I don't remember the ones off the top of my head, but they had a bad combination. They had an apple fritter one with peanut butter and chocolate. That's not a combination that goes together.
Speaker 2:But I mean, it's like out of the donuts that we tried everywhere.
Speaker 1:It's like that was definitely top-tier donuts that we've tried out of. But it's not the best, no 501, florida is the best donut I've ever tried in my life, so I've ever been 501. They have one in every in 501. If you're ever in Florida, in Tampa area, go to St Pete and get 501 donuts, or Sarasota and get 501 donuts. You will not be disappointed.
Speaker 2:That's the one that's ever.
Speaker 1:Yes, but then we went to pizza. Where we going? Where we going? Bar Bar, bar, bar Bar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there Bar Bar.
Speaker 1:Bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar Bar. Bar and we had meat lovers, obviously, because nothing else that belongs on pizza. And it was good, it was okay, it was good. Yeah, I had five pizzas, so it was good, and we had garlic knots. And then we went to the best ice cream place. Cold Stone Got me a 32 ounce, ours, and you know, cheesecake and chocolate ice cream with pieces and White moriose with peanut butter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then we showed Mike and ago the first one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let me watch the first anvil. So yeah, you know, same old Saturday, none changes. You know, we were consistent in everything we do, because we practice like we play and we preach it, we live by it. Now, with all that boring life of the other way, let us get into this very, very, very important episode here. Another one now. This one is pretty, pretty important.
Speaker 2:So suppress, and I set that a loss 30 episodes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my boobs about to die in the charger. Okay. So question there have you ever experienced any type of inflammation?
Speaker 2:If you're human and you have.
Speaker 1:Yes, I'm sure you have. So that was your total question of the day. Topic of the day, probably guessing information. Now, why is this important? Because a lot of people don't know, though broad Spectrum of what information in the role it actually plays in the body.
Speaker 2:Get into biochemistry?
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely not because I'm not doing it, the circus we go into, dumb it down Leo's level and I'm gonna give it to you all. In that way. Now, when people think of information is thrown out a lot, like you probably heard about it just about anything that happens inside the body, physically, stress, just anything is like you know you're a flame, but what does that actually mean? Like what is actually happening in the body, and that's where we're gonna go over. So she's gonna kick it off with information. We're gonna go over information, what it does, how it happens.
Speaker 1:I like diseases the diseases that can cause weight loss and hormones. But just a building muscle.
Speaker 2:So I'm gonna go through like the most basic things like what specifically is Information, like just so regular definition of it. So it is a complex and essential biological response that helps the body fight against infections, injuries and harmful stimuli. So we are not meant and this is something we've talked about a lot, we're not meant to have chronic inflammation. It's supposed to be some like short-term thing to get our body to be back to normal and that's it. However, based on everything in our life, like overall stresses, overtraining, the foods we eat, alcohol, etc. And even like if you're drinking tap water and, like you know, like makeup, that kind of stuff If those those things can add up to become chronic inflammation, which is not a state the body was meant to be, which is why there's so many diseases nowadays. So inflammation is a highly regulated process that involves like immune cells, cytokines and other signaling molecules. So we're gonna briefly touch on some, but it's very complex so I don't want to get into that. But acute inflammation again promotes healing, and chronic inflammation is long-lasting and persistent inflammation. That's when a lot of the problems start up. So we're gonna talk about both.
Speaker 2:In itself, what inflammation does is it begins with the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as interleukins. If you've heard of interleukin, what is it? The blood work one I talked about it here but I completely forgot. Now we're gonna talk about the blood work one, but I completely forgot. But it's something that's very popular Tumor and acrosis factors of TNF and it attracts immune cells to the affected area White blood cells such as nitrophils and macrophages. That's something I look up in blood work to Play a crucial role in engulfing and eliminating pathogens or damaged cells. In chronic inflammation, the immune system response persists, which ends up continuously damaging the tissue in itself.
Speaker 1:So, with all that, if you didn't understand, inflammation is an immune system response. So if you get some type of sickness, some type of virus, some type of bacteria, if you work out that elicits the immune system to respond, which releases those cytokines to deal with the inflammation, and it's supposed to be short term and everything was back to normal, okay. But that's not what happens. So that's what we're gonna get into with chronic inflammation. So you got acute, which is the short term. You got chronic, which is prolonged, which is not supposed to happen.
Speaker 1:So when you get chronic inflammation, that's how you get the various diseases, because things start to break down. So, like for cardiovascular disease, the chronic inflammation starts to wear out the arteries and they start to accumulate plaque. So when the arteries start to accumulate plaque, your blood vessels, your arteries constrict, they get smaller because the plaque is getting, is building up more and more, so the blood is having a harder time getting through there. And what happens if there's no blood getting to the heart? Bye, bye. So that's cardiovascular disease. Then you got type 2 diabetes. So we've talked about insulin resistance. We beat that horse a thousand different times, but with chronic inflammation it can blunt the insulin signal to your muscles or to wherever it needs to go. So it makes you resistant to that insulin. So what happens when there's a bunch of insulin in the bloodstream constantly circulating to your body?
Speaker 1:It causes inflammation.
Speaker 2:Then you got obesity. And being overweight is still chronic inflammation.
Speaker 1:So in BCD it elicits the response of the pro-inflammatory cytokines that we just talked about. Because not only are you having, you know, insulin resistance, you also have a metabolic dysfunction On top of that. You got the pro-inflammatory cytokines being elicited now, so you got a whole bunch of problems going on.
Speaker 2:We're meant to have some body fat in our body, but not a lot. That's too inflammatory.
Speaker 1:So body fat and then autoimmune disease. For the most part everybody knows that's where your body attacks itself, so that causes inflammation.
Speaker 2:So some of the triggers that causes inflammation and this is something that I mean because of what we do in our coaching it's something that's important we have to understand, like what could have caused this and what we need to do so when we heal, you don't have the same exposures to these chronic triggers, because then you're just gonna keep spinning your wheels like healing and then you go back, and I see this happen a lot. So one diet is, of course, nutrition in general is gonna be playing a role. When we think about obesity and inflammation, etc. We think like all fast foods which, yes, of course that's part of it Like eating junk food, that kind of stuff. However, that's not all of it. So even though we think like high sugar intake processed foods, high fats or cholesterol whatever it is is bad, sometimes it can be like healthy foods, so like foods that we are marketing as like protein rich foods or just overall foods that have like a lot of ingredients in them, those things are still causing issues and a lot of people don't understand that because they assume that those foods are still healthy, so something to look out for.
Speaker 2:Of course, being sedentary is part of that, so a lot of people will end the opposite too. So like if you're over training, if you're over exercising, in a sense of like you're doing a lot of steps in a day, etc. Both of those ends will cause a lot of chronic inflammation. So that we need to find a balance for your body, like be able to work out and be fine and be able to recover, but you're not like eliciting too much inflammation that you're not going to recover from stress. So again, we should not be having chronic stress and a lot of people have stress like data-based chronic stress. It can be like from relationship, it can be work, it can be just overall, like your family, friends, anything on top of like diet, sleeping, not sleeping, workouts. So all these things do add up in terms of stress. So we want to try to maintain an even balance so that stress does not become chronic inflammation. Of course, smoking that should be like a very obvious thing, even if you're vaping or a hookah or whatever. Still the same response still causes chronic inflammation.
Speaker 2:Alcohol as well. There's just no way around it. Alcohol won't drink at the week. It's still going to cause chronic inflammation regardless, especially if you're in a deceased state that your body cannot effectively get rid of it and then environmental toxins. So a lot of people will think of this as like just overall, like gas emissions, etc. But that is not all. Like it could be fertilizer, it can be, just like our cosmetics if they're not clean, organic cosmetics, our cleaning products too, if they're not clean. All these things do add up. They do actually stress our body as well. Supplements, etc. So you want to keep an eye for these things as well.
Speaker 1:The big takeaway here is everybody is like oh well, I could have an moderation. Okay, sure, say that. But what is an moderation If you're taking a protein supplement, you're eating a protein snack, you're doing a freaking pre-workout, you're just drinking energy drink, you're putting on makeup, you're going outside?
Speaker 2:you're cleaning the house it's no longer moderation, though.
Speaker 1:That's just one day. Who knows what you're going to do the next day? And on top of that, if you continuously do that throughout the entire week, eventually you're going to tax the body to where it can't start detoxing it correctly and that's why you don't experience the metabolic dysfunction, the type 2 diabetes and any other metabolic problem. 10 years later is when you actually experience it, because it adds up over time. It doesn't instantly hit you. So when people are like, well, I'm fine, nothing's bothering me right now. Okay, 10 years later, when you have thyroid disease or you're obese now or you have some type of metabolic function, it's because 10 years ago, when you said, oh, I'm fine, I'm doing moderation.
Speaker 2:Add it up If you no longer can't lose weight easily or whatever, trying the same thing. So you were trying before. That's part of the reason why so you want to. I mean back then like we didn't have as many toxins as we have now. They just keep building up. So I mean for us, like we talked about this before, we live a little talk style, like lifestyle pretty much, and the more toxins-ish that we get is like cheap days pretty much. But other than that, like everything that we eat is super clean, makeup, cosmetics even, like our cleaning products, everything like that. We keep it as clean as possible. We have like filtered water, everything for that reason, just because our body was not meant to have this toxic overload that is going on right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's not like ooh the ingredients, no, it's like fruits.
Speaker 2:It is, it can become a problem.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it does become a problem, yeah eventually it does become a problem, but anyways.
Speaker 2:So part of like it is a buzzword. A lot of people talk about anti-inflammatory diet etc. And there are like a lot of diets if you can Google it, etc. But I mean the one thing that I always tell my clients is like the more whole foods you get, so like single ingredient products, if they're like not gluten-based, like GMO-based and that kind of stuff, because that adds up, it's gonna be anti-inflammatory. So I always preach about like the Mediterranean diet for people that have metabolic resistance, because that's like one of the diets that's like very known to be very anti-inflammatory and it really just depends on your overall lifestyle and your goals. I'm not gonna sit here and say that a plant-based diet is the end-all-be-all for anti-inflammatory, because it causes a lot of issues too. But you do want to have, if you like, fruits and vegetables and you do want to have a good variety of it and also like fatty fish. If not, you're taking like a high-quality multivitamin and fish oil. Emphasis on the high quality, because there's a lot of crop out there for supplements.
Speaker 1:Don't begin your fish oil from Walmart.
Speaker 2:Not even that like first form or whatever, like that's not, it's not clean. I'm sorry If you didn't know, but it's not. So you want to have an even balance and like also, when we're talking about these things, you want to have high protein, but you don't want it to be from processed meats, like deli meat, second and stuff or processed products, and when you're having like sugars, it's fine. You don't want to have too much, that you're like over-consuming in sugars, but you want to have an even balance as well.
Speaker 1:And then we have the lifestyle. So I mean, the biggest thing is it's going to be the diet and then next up you have a freaking lifestyle or those could be swapped around in reality. But you need to make sure that you're exercising some type of exercise, some type of movement. And I say I mean you got to go into the gym five, seven days a week and freaking train super hard.
Speaker 1:That's right, but you need to be giving that glucose a place to go. Yeah, and if you're just eating and you're sedentary, that glucose doesn't need to go anywhere because you don't need to expend it. But if you're working out, building that muscle, and that glucose goes into the muscle, it fills your workouts, it fills your body throughout the day, and then you're more set up to be insulin-sensitive than resistant, because we just talked about it, your insulin resistance. That's how you get the information. But then also stress management. People nowadays will preach about therapy, therapy, therapy, therapy, therapy, therapy, therapy, therapy.
Speaker 1:Ok, cool, but the other way is to handle your mental health and reducing your stressors. It's probably one of the top tier things you can do to improve your life overall. Because if you can manage your stress and you give it to that brain fog and you're thinking clearly, you make better choices. And not only that, your body is going to feel better. So you won't be in a chronic state of fatigue, chronic information, chronic anything. If you can get rid of that stress and manage it, you're going to be better off than you would be if you're just going to therapy. So you need to do therapy. That's going to help you. And then also you need to do stress management, because we're all stressed, something stresses out everybody. We got our loops on and we can tell exactly when and what Incident stresses out, because there are freaking heart rate spikes at that incident and then it comes out which is how it's supposed to work acute stress, anyways, and probably what's important is sleep. If you ain't sleeping, you ain't doing nothing. A bottom line.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I mean those things are important and also understand a proper program workout wise is important for you. So we talked about the money days, et cetera. I've seen a lot of workout programs that are just way too much. Way too much for people and I'll let you my thank Like that's good, it might not be and you're actually going to tax your body even more. So it's something to keep in mind if you're trying to do things on your own. So I want to talk about gut health.
Speaker 2:Gut health again. We talked about digestion so many times because it's one of the most important things. But it does play a role in your immune system. Over 70%, 80% of your immune system is in your gut health. So it does play a role with your inflammation whatsoever. Because if your gut health is crap which most people have terrible gut health and they don't even realize it then one, your immune system is not working properly and also your body is too stressed out so it adds up chronic inflammation. So a lot of people say, just consume probiotic or shoes, prebiotics or shoes, that kind of stuff, and it can help. But the more and more that people go on and that the C stayed without realizing these simple things are not going to be enough. We need to address causing your gut health to be in balance first, so your body can actually be healthy and have a healthier immune system. So we talked about alcohol a lot, but so I don't think we need to talk about that.
Speaker 2:Also, medication in general, even if it's anti-inflammatory medications like Advil, nacinose even though you think it's anti-inflammatory if you're taking it long term, which I've met a lot of people that take it long term because they have aches and pains and whatever. That ends up being inflammatory as well. Any other medication as well, even if it's like your thyroid meds. You're not supposed to be meant to be taking these thyroid meds for years on end, so it starts doing the opposite effect of actually helping your thyroid. It starts just building up overall inflammation. So that's why you see a lot of people on thyroid meds or hormone meds, et cetera, that end up having a lot more issues to lose weight after a while and they start getting more weight because the medication no longer is working properly. It's just adding build up inflammation. So, thank you, but mind, if you are on meds, even if it's like anxiety, depression, they all work the same. They just add more inflammation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Speaking of anti-inflammatories, when I tell you I used to slam yeah, he used to slam Ivory profan, like to the point that he could like one, two would not do anything. I would say give him eight Eight Ivory profan yeah.
Speaker 2:For my pain.
Speaker 1:But here's the kicker, though. We just talked about inflammation, information causes, what Joint pain, aches and everything else. How do you get rid of inflammation? By addressing the root cause of that inflammation. The Ivory profan, the Advil. All that's going to do is put a band-aid in temporary relief, but it's going to come back because you have an address to root cause, and root cause could be what who freaking knows. Which is why you work with somebody to address the root cause, because if you're trying to do that on your own, and you have no data to even start.
Speaker 1:You're going to be at it for a very long time. And now we talked about you can do the Mediterranean style diet, sure, but that diet is not meant to be long term. That's a temporary diet to help reduce information, but it's not addressing the root cause of that information Once again. So this is why it's important to have somebody who set up a plan for you to follow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and also what I was talking about in terms of being six is what I was going to say, which is something that is measured in blood work. However, I don't feel like it is as prevalent as other measures. So when I get blood work from my clients, simple CRP is one of the most important values, but also just the CVC's in general. So like red blood cells, red blood cells, microfages, natural neutrophils those things are something monocytes, like they let me know what's going on. Like if you do actually have a viral infection, you have a bacterial infection, you have an overgrowth, et cetera, which adds to the inflammation. Also an insulin in general, a1c, your glucose those things are also very important for us to see.
Speaker 2:Like, do you have chronic inflammation and you have something going on? So CRP alone again, if you talk to your doctor and you think you have chronic inflammation, whatever, they're just gonna pull CRP. That's one value, a sign up. Interleukin 6 is one value, a sign up. I'd like getting a full blood work panel for us to see what's going on, because they tell us the whole story instead of just focusing on CRP alone and then, yes, you might have inflammation, but you don't know from what. So that's something that's important, like, if you have high cholesterol, it can be because you have, like, high inflammation, but it's mainly because maybe you have an impaired thyroid or maybe you have like impaired hormones, et cetera. So having a full picture is very important, instead of just slamming it on meds because you got one value and this is why we get upset with doctors when they just pull the minimal values for blood work.
Speaker 1:If I were in your shoes, okay, and I was getting blood work done, I wouldn't want to see the whole story of what's going on in my body.
Speaker 2:You're the one that's in pain.
Speaker 1:So when you go to the doctor, you tell them, hey, this is what I'm experiencing, and they shaft you by pulling, freaking I don't know five values instead of giving you the whole picture.
Speaker 2:That's I would be upset. Yeah, so how it works with doctors, why, insurance-wise, they're not gonna be allowed to get full blood work, even if you're going to endocrinologist, obgyn, whatever it is that you think is specialty and hormones they can only get a somewhat level of hormones and that's about it. It's not gonna be a full blood work. Also, most doctors get taught in like one specific area in a sense, or, like you know, inflammation, crp they don't get taught like a full picture. So some doctors don't even know, like what all this is. And on top of that, we're gonna do get blood work. The ranges we've talked about this before are based on 70% of the population, which still beats not a healthy individual. So they're just gonna compare it, see where you're following the range. That's about it. So it's something to keep in mind. If you feel like going to a doctor who's gonna save you money, it's actually gonna not gonna save you money.
Speaker 2:So so inflammation and weight loss. So something that a lot of people don't understand is that chronic inflammation will impair weight loss. Again, even nowadays, even though fiction medicine is growing in its health, people are always preaching like calories in versus calories out. There's a time and a place for that. But as a society we've grown to a point that we are so unhealthy and we are chronically inflamed day to day. You can tell by a lot of people their fusex etc. They just look swollen. They don't look like they're even working out, losing weight etc. And there's reasons for that. So do you want our bodies to be resistant?
Speaker 1:We touched on it a little bit, but basically it's pretty important for a lot of reasons because we need insular to push the sugar or the glucose into the muscles, into the brain, wherever it needs to go. And if you're insulin resistant, your muscles, your cells, everything is resistant to that insulin signaling. So the sugar, the glucose doesn't get pushed into where it needs to go and it just circulates the bloodstream. And that's why when you have insulin resistance and you get a glucometer and you test your blood, some people can get up to 150, 160. And the normal was like 80 to 90 for blood sugar. That's why, because that glucose is still in your bloodstream. This is why you have to do things like lift weights, high intensity cardio correctly to get that glucose to go into the muscle.
Speaker 2:Not yet. It's going to be used If you have like balanced macros one, or if you prioritize most of your carbs around training and that's going to help your body set up for success and also like you can have lower carbs on your rest days, etc. Those things.
Speaker 1:The whole thing is to get your body to utilize the carbohydrates and not just let it sit there.
Speaker 2:But if you're in a disease, state, none of these tips will even work for you, so that's something that's important to keep in mind. So also, apart from that is also.
Speaker 1:It also signals fat storage as well. So if you're insulin resistant, you're by saying, well, I guess we're not going to use this for fuel.
Speaker 2:So guess what? What's your story? Yeah, that's what. That's why the whole notion of cars are bad Came into play. However, you can do this whole process with fats and protein, yes, but it's still possible. So even if you're doing keto, you're going to be doing like high protein, low carbs. You can still have the same process if you're in a disease state, so it's something to keep in mind.
Speaker 2:So, another thing, with inflammation having weight loss resistance, it's something that goes hand in hand. It's a hormonal imbalance with metabolic issues. So when you have a hormonal imbalance, again, not only are your periods messed up, or also like the ability of you build muscle, even if you're a man, like testosterone gets lower, estrogen gets higher, etc. But which causes a lot of inflammation, but a lot of singling hormones, such like ghrelin and leptin, which are your normal, like hunger stimulating hormones, get affected as well. So you might feel like you are hungrier or you might feel like you're not hungrier, causing you to go to a diet pretty much, or you under eat, etc. That starts causing a lot of stress in your body and when you start like storing more body fat, wasting muscle, so inflammation and muscle building. So a lot of people, especially women, are only focused on inflammation and like not being able to lose weight. But, equally as important, you want to build muscle and if you can't build muscle because you have chronic inflammation, that's an issue.
Speaker 2:So, when you have chronic inflammation in your body, something you keep in mind yes, fitness is popular nowadays building muscle quote unquote being toned, etc. But that is not like a truly essential part of our body, like we need muscle to survive, but we don't need a lot for us to look quote unquote good, whatever. So when you have a lot of stress, you have a lot of inflammation in your body, your body will start again storing body fat, wasting muscle. So even though you're crushing it and the gen quote unquote your body is still going to be signaling to lose muscle, sore body fat, even though you feel like you're increasing in strength, etc. It's still going to happen.
Speaker 2:So it's something to keep in mind because it could be just overall inflammation. It also reduces the amount that you recover, so like you might actually be sore for longer, or just overall, like your recovery sucks. Again, something that's very important. You want to make sure that you are recovering from your sessions in order to build muscle. So that's why a lot of exercises hit, crossfit etc. End up being more catabolic, meaning losing muscle and storing body fat versus actually gaining muscle. So it's something that's important to keep in mind. Yeah, I think we talked about everything.
Speaker 1:So that's information on a basic level and hopefully you understand the importance of information now in its role that it plays. Like we said, acute information is a good thing because it's actually good for you, because it's doing what it's supposed to do to eliminate the threats. So that's why you have that information. But the chronic information that persists from longer than assured is what causes the problems. And if you tackle the chronic information onto the chronic stress now, we have a whole melting pot of issues and this is why we keep talking about the importance of okay if you want to do it on your own, share it like and, if that's the way possible, keep wasting your time.
Speaker 1:But if you are just, if you want to get healthy as fast as possible and get to a point to where you're now living a life that you actually enjoy and you're actually struggling for that longevity and you're actually seeing the progress that you want to see, then that's where we're preaching, because we want people to be healthy, to do the things they want to do. Like my client that he's 54 years old and I did a post about him he came off his CPAP machine for sleep apnea. He's no longer using it. Why is that? Because we're addressing his problems at their root cause and, like we keep saying sleep is one of the most important things. And now he's doing that and he's like you know what I've been able to do, things that I love doing that I haven't been able to do in years. That's what we're looking for People are getting their life back.
Speaker 1:But then there's other people who want to go against the grain for some strange reason, because they don't want to pay money for somebody to help them. What I think is too expensive. But you have to throw away thousands of dollars on supplements, on freaking cheap coaching, on freaking self-help books and whatever else to try to do it on your own, instead of just hiring somebody who's going to set you up with a concrete plan and it's going to get you to where you want to be if you just follow the plan. So it's really that simple, especially in today's age. Well, the world is getting crazier and the government is carrying less and less about our health, so it's even more important now to take your health into your own hands and actually start trying to get healthier. 70% of America is overweight and obese. That's crazy to even think of that statistic. I didn't think that fit people should be the outliers. So that's what we preach.
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