Join our upcoming Caribbean Cruise: The New Science Behind Reshaping Your Body

Considering joining us on our Caribbean cruise scheduled for Feb-March, 2027? Here's a conversation between me and JJ Flizanes on what you can expect. 

We are packing the schedule full of educational presentations and demonstrations that well The New Body Blueprint, encouraging you to think a new way on how to shape your body while obtaining magnificent health. And you will also enjoy a total of 8 days on a beautiful MSC cruise ship with several Caribbean ports of call. 

Transcript

Welcome And A New Assessment

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to the show. Today, everyone, I'm J.J. Flazaines, and with me again is Dr. William Davis. We have an exciting new conversation to have with you. The new science behind reshaping your body. Welcome back to the show, Dr. Davis.

William Davis, MD 0:12

Thank you, JJ. Always a pleasure. So what we're doing here is we're combining our expertise. I bring some of the science, of course, grounded much in the microbiome and some other issues. And JJ brings many decades of experience and personal training and having great insight in the emotional contribution to these kinds of things. One of the things they're trying to do is get everyone to get rid of this outdated and actually dangerous idea of just losing weight. You're not told that, are you? The doctor never says that if you just lose weight the wrong way, which is almost always, by the way, bad things will happen. Not tomorrow, not next month, but in several years. And you will do such things as shorten your life and bring disability and loss of independence. So JJ and I are putting our heads together to bring a whole new program to take advantage of some of the newest science in how to grasp hold of these ideas.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

Absolutely. And we're very, very excited to share this with you today. And I want you to, as you're listening or watching this, to think of this as an assessment. So while we might not be able to walk you through all of the personalized things that we might recommend for you, which we can't anyway on any show, and we do have something to announce a little bit later in today's episode that we want to invite you to to get some more personalized information about these things. We want this to, we want you to look at this like an

Why Weight Loss Alone Backfires

SPEAKER_01 1:32

assessment. What are the pieces that are missing from me looking at how I can reshape my body in the healthiest, best, most sustainable way that doesn't have side effects on like some of the drugs that are out there right now, right? That every day we're hearing more and more about the side effects of these weight loss drugs. And people are on them and they feel great because they finally can lose the weight, but at what cost? And we're looking at the long-term effect of your own, you know, we've had many, many conversations on both of these shows. And uh, and one thing that I've said over and over again is that when it comes to your body and your health, when you do nothing, unlike in any other aspect of life, when you do nothing, it's not that nothing happens. Something happens, you decline. So it's not, so you not taking charge of what your self-care looks like, not doing the things that we're going to be recommending for you today in order to get the result that you want, doing nothing equals actually backsliding and declining. So I want you to listen today, maybe take some notes about what are the aspects of health that you haven't considered yet, especially if you're dealing with a diagnosis that you haven't been able to heal, or maybe you've made some progress or backslid, or maybe you're not where you want to be yet, and you think you've tried everything. We want to cover those aspects today. So, Dr. Davis, from your point of view, what are some of the things that you're gonna recommend people to look at that maybe they haven't before? Obviously, we all know microbiome is one of the biggest ones for you.

William Davis, MD 2:55

So, as you know, JJ, uh, just doing things the way people have been doing it for the last many decades does not work. Or it yields temporary outcomes. Such things as exercise more, move more, eat less, reduce your calories, push the plate away, all the things that people thought. And at first, right, at first blush, these things sound like they're they're effective. They're not. They're temporary solutions, they're not long-term answers. And so I think what you and I are after are durable long-term solutions. Because the last thing we want to do, right, is lose 25 pounds, lose muscle, reduce our metabolic rate, and find out that at age 73 you're using a walker or a scooter, you're having to live in a in a assisted living center, and you're subject to falls and frailty and fractures, and you die several. This is this is what's happening. This is what's happening in the real world. We know this with good science, good confidence. And so we want to educate people. Now it's that sounds scary, but the solution to a lot of these problems are relatively straightforward. But a lot of it's uh because of the newest science and such things is appreciating such

Gut Muscle Liver Axis Basics

William Davis, MD 4:10

things as the gut muscle access. Who would have thought that the microbes in your gut influence how much muscle you have, and the muscle also talks to your gut, and there are other conversations going on in the body, the gut talking to the fat in your abdomen, abdominal visceral fat, and vice versa. Your gut talking to the liver. You know, the the gut drains directly to the liver. There's a venous system called the portal venous system, and so the liver is the first recipient of all the byproducts from the gastrointestinal tract that go to the uh liver in the portal vein. And so when toxic compounds from microbes, overgrown, overproliferated microbes, enter the bloodstream, they go right to the liver. And that's a major player in weight, how much abdominal visceral fat you have, how uh able you are to rebuild or restore youthful muscle. And by the way, people get scared when we talk about muscle, right? Ladies will say this to me, say, I don't want to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Don't worry, JG will tell you you go to the gym, there's no way a woman's gonna look like Arnold Schwarzenegger by just uh doing some resistance training or taking other steps to restore youthful muscle. That's what this is about. It's restoring youthful muscle, it's just helping you distribute fat where it belongs, it's about regaining control over a broken, disrupted gastrointestinal microbiome. It's about regaining control over emotional health. That's where JJ comes in, right? Because not only will we address the microbial comp uh contribution to emotional health, but JJ also has some of the social, emotional, other contributions to emotional health, right, JJ?

SPEAKER_01 5:48

Absolutely. We're gonna talk about that in depth because I'm so passionate about people understanding that you weren't taught this in school. You weren't taught how to process emotions, you weren't taught how to have needs. And this is sort of the foundation of how our container, so I'm gonna call our energetic system and our bodies our container. And while all while the microbes, and I do believe there's, you know, there's the outside in versus the inside out, and both approaches can work. And sometimes people are doing one of them and they get some results, but they don't do the other. And then when you add both ways, now we have a whole system that can react accordingly to whatever you're you're acting you're giving to your body. And when it comes to the nervous system, if you're in fight or flight, everyone, if you're in fight or flight, that is that is a nervous system setting. It's a default setting that says, I am under attack and I need to survive. And blood flow stops going to your gut. Your gut stops working because it is your body wants to survive and it sends blood to your extremities, to your arms, to your legs, so you can run, so you can survive. Everything else shuts down. Your immune system shuts down, your digestion shuts down. Everything in the middle goes haywire because that is not the goal. The goal is to survive. And when you live in that state long enough, I don't care how much good stuff you're taking for your body, because it isn't gonna work, because it's gonna get overridden by your nervous system saying, I need to survive. That is the only thing my conscious brain, subconscious brain, is focused on right now. But before we get into that, I want to go back to the uh the gut muscle axis and the microbiome's role in that and with the liver, because that's something you and I actually have not talked about ever on my show, uh, because I'm super interested in you know, in the liver's role in fat loss and metabolism and and in that way. And I've actually been experiencing myself recently some improvement in that area by addressing my liver. But how would someone test that? Would someone test that? Or would you just recommend someone start taking or using certain uh microbes in order to improve function?

William Davis, MD 7:47

That's a lot to cover. But uh, yes, but I don't want people to hear take liver detox supplements because that's nonsense. It's addressing several factors. So, in a nutshell, addressing that flood of microbial breakdown products. We say endotoxin, endotoxin or endotoxemia in the portal venous system. That's a major driver of the process of insulin resistance. That is, your body's inability to respond to insulin. Your brain, your muscle, your liver don't respond properly to insulin, and your porpancreas compensates by producing huge amounts of insulin, the hormone of fat gain, of fat expansion. And so if you have this microbial disruption that causes an increase in microbial breakdown, microbe breakdown products into the portal venous system, it amplifies liver insulin resistance. And that has a whole bunch of consequences also, by the way, for heart disease risk, because it amplifies the production of the particles in the bloodstream. And JJ, you know, I'm shocked that to this day, 60 years of wasting time with this focus on saturated fat, LDL cholesterol, and statin drugs.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

Says the cardiologist, by the way. Says the cardiologist.

William Davis, MD 9:05

We all know there's a hundred million dollar new wing on your hospital to deliver cardiovascular. Why would that if prevention of heart disease was so effective, why do they need all these multi-million dollar facilities? Because prevention, conventional prevention, does not work. But you know what? You just can't take a drug to reduce some cholesterol value and walk away. That's not how it works. So know that what we're doing here is addressing the microbiome that benefits liver, muscle, emotions, brain, does things like help you lose abdominal fat, reduces triglycerides, reduces fatty liver. By the way, the the epidemic, JJ, of fatty liver, that is typically somebody has an ASTALT blood test, and it's way up, and then the doctor says it's not hepatitis, and it's not liver cancer, you don't have metastasis from colon cancer, it must be fatty liver. Well, what's fatty liver? Unfortunately, that's an unfortunate that's an unfortunate name because it sounds like fat caused it. It's not caused by fat, it's caused by a disrupted gastrointestinal microbiome combined with a poor diet rich in carbohydrates and sugars, because the liver is very good at processing those things into things that disrupt the liver and get into the bloodstream and cause heart disease. So you can see this has nothing to do with cholesterol, but that's the pathway, by the way, by which much heart disease is caused. As also the pathway, by the way, by which abdominal fat expands and muscle is lost. So, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna talk about how to reshape your body, how to redistribute fat away from the abdomen, how to regain youthful muscle, and thereby regain control of your metabolic rate. But, you know, we might not even have a chance to talk about this in full, but it also addresses cardiovascular risk and your potential for type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's dementia and Parkinson's disease. In other words, yeah, it's about body shape and body composition and taking control of health, but all kinds of wonderful things happen also.

Exercise Advice Beyond Move More

SPEAKER_01 11:16

You had mentioned uh exercise more in the beginning about you know advice that a doctor has given to patients, which I've heard over and over again. And uh, because I I want to say that exercise is important. We all do need to move, uh, but it's how we exercise and what that means. And when someone's given a prescription, so to speak, from a doctor says exercise more, uh that's as that's as random as go to the store. Okay, well, what store? What am I buying? What's it store? Eat better. Yeah, what does that mean? Right, but that is such a prescription. And that, and I I that has really irritated me for so long as someone who studied the sciences of exercise, and there are a lot of them, to boil it down to exercise more. I'm like, all exercise isn't created equal. Hello? Uh, what do you mean exercise more? And what's the goal? And what do I do? And how often do I do it? And when do I do it? Like, all of these factors are really important for making decisions about how to apply resistance and or movement to your body and and what you expect from it. So we can't, we're not gonna go into all of that today, but I do want to just mention, because you just mentioned about new muscle mass, goal is to gain muscle mass, and you can do it through many different ways in terms of like we need more than just one thing. If you're out of balance in your microbiome and if your diet is crazy, and if you're on a bunch of medication, you have leaky gut and you have SIBO, and then you're going and you're lifting in the gym. And most of you probably aren't even doing that efficiently. Sorry, I've been a personal trainer too long to be able to see it's really hard to go to the gym sometimes and look around because of people doing crazy things. Cause and and it's not a judgment. No one's taught you. They they give you a bunch of equipment, they say, here's a gym, good luck, figure it out. And if you don't hire a trainer who also didn't study any science, you don't know what you're doing. You don't understand your joint mechanics or how to preserve your joints, you're gonna go get injured. I get very uh excited to want to share with people what it looks like to do it correctly. And correctly, I mean add the appropriate amount of resistance that stimulates your body to make more muscle while doing it in good form to not degenerate your joints. Because if you break down your joints, you will stop moving. So there is a huge science to exercise that people don't give credit for. They just think if I throw around some weights enough that I'll build some muscle. And there's actually a lot of physics involved and biomechanics involved in exercise. So we we do want to focus on on the muscle mass. So let's let's go over a little bit of a list for people who are listening to this or watching this in terms of, you know, they are struggling with some kind of diagnosis. They have been attending to their health and they have been changing their diet. I've heard from a lot of your clients and a lot of your listeners uh how they have sort of like they get to a certain point with their exercise in their diet, and they're like, okay, cool, I've seen the results, and then now what? And same thing with mine. Okay, now what? What's the next step? What do I focus on now in order to keep my progress going? So let's assume, and I don't mean to assume because I'm gonna say most of you do need some help in this area. Let's assume that you've got the diet piece under control and it's well and you're doing a good job, and you've got the exercise piece and you understand all of the progressions on how not to plateau, how to build muscle appropriately and do it safely. And so your lean muscle mass goes up and your body fat percentage goes down. Let's assume you have all of that under your belt. Okay, so now what are we looking at? What are we assessing to get to the next level of success with our body, with our fat, with fat loss, with our muscle building, and with healing some of these degenerative diseases that we get from our lifestyles?

How To Measure Real Progress

William Davis, MD 14:41

That's one of the things I will cover, of course. That is the ways to assess or measure your success. Sometimes you should look in the mirror and you can tell. But there are times where there's actual benefit to measuring something, and these are optional, of course, but it could be something as easy as grip strength. Not that your grip itself is important, but a grip's the strength of your grip is an index of overall musculature and strength, or just a simple bioimpedance scale, so they can measure just how much fat is distributed in the abdomen versus fat distributed elsewhere. Because it's the stuff in the abdomen that has the real health consequences, including for heart disease and dementia. And so there are ways to measure it. But one of the sad things, JJ, is this is you're going to do this cruise and talk about as much as we can about new findings. But it's getting tougher and tougher, and there are more and more people hurting. If it was just about diet, okay, we can do that. If it's just about exercise, we can manage that too. If it's just about microbiome, we can we can handle that too. But it's also becoming about microplastics accumulating in our organs. It's about PFOS, the so-called forever chemicals. It's about glyphosate and other pesticides that are causing such conditions as Parkinson's disease, they explode. So, yeah, I we want you to be slender, muscle, muscled, and vigorous and flexible, but we also don't want you to have Parkinson's disease at age 72 or dementia in your late 60s. And that's part of the conversation. That won't be the total focus, but it's part of the conversation here. It is getting tougher, right? I think one of the toughest things we can do, JJ, is minimize our exposure to microplastics. How about that toothbrush? That plastic toothbrush most people are using with plastic bristles. You're right there. You can't, you definitely you swallow some of it. Yet there's so much here to talk about. I I fear a week is not enough, right? It's a great start, though. And I know you're a you're a you're a genius at developing learning products, so that's gonna be part of this, also. That yeah, you'll be there for a few days, and we'll do our best to convey as much information and share and demonstrate, I hope too, about all these things you can do. But I hope also engage you in a long-term conversation that lasts for many years. Because the battle's not over. The battle will not be over just because you went on a cruise. It'll be the start of a battle, a very powerful start, but there's more to do.

SPEAKER_01 17:06

So uh we actually haven't talked about what we're doing yet. Um, but now that you've mentioned it, let's let's tell everybody what we're doing. So

New Body Blueprint Cruise Reveal

SPEAKER_01 17:14

in February of 2027, Dr. Davis and I are putting on a cruise. It is called the New Body Blueprint Cruise. And it's also a new body blueprint program, which is actually what we're kind of talking about right now and some of the new sciences that are going to be included in the new body blueprint. And uh as of as of the moment of this recording and when we publish it, we've got about half of those cabins filled. Uh, so I just want to talk a little bit about the program in itself, because whether you join us on the cruise, we are going to be able to offer you a course, an online study course later, not now, uh, that because we're gonna be filming everything that we do on the cruise because it is such rich information and it is so important that we capture what we're talking about, not only for the attendants who are coming on the cruise who are gonna get this home study course included, but for those of you that can't come on a cruise or it just doesn't work in your schedule, but you really want the information, we're gonna be offering the online study course for you. Uh, but let's talk about what that nobody blueprint entails, all the different sessions that we're gonna be talking about, all of the different, I mean, we've already started talking about them. It's everything we've talked about from the beginning of this podcast until now, which is gonna cover obviously microbiome. That's Dr. Davis's number one. But then in terms of all the other aspects that that you need to consider. And so I know you were gonna talk about. So why don't you talk a little bit about the, because I had someone ask me who's on the list already, who already has a cabin, is this cruise for younger people? It seems like it's geared towards younger women. I'm like, no, it's geared towards anyone who wants to be healthier and who wants to age well, um, especially for people. In fact, I want my parents to come. I want my neighbors to come. I want people to come who who still are at that place where they can turn some things around. Not that everybody's having like huge issues, but like here, we can plan for your aging process by attending to these things that people aren't doing. So why don't you talk a little bit about some of the sessions you're gonna be presenting on the cruise and in this program?

William Davis, MD 19:08

You know, one thing that I think we both recognize is that not not everybody comes at this for the same reason. Some people come at it because they're tired and they feel awful. Some people come at it because they want to lose weight. Some people do this because they have some diagnosis, type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, they're infertile. Um, they they they don't fit in their size six dress anymore. And there's a whole bunch of reasons that people do this. So as much as possible. One of the great things, though, about the approaches we have is that benefits tend to occur regardless of the reason you started. Let's just pretend somebody says I'm a 5'4, 270-pound woman, I'm pre-diabetic, hypertense with triglyceride level of 350. And that's a person at risk for amputation, carotid disease, stroke, heart disease, kidney disease. Well, we're not going to address all those things individually, but we engage in the approach we're talking about that it covers changes in diet, because everybody's starting at different levels of sophistication. Some people I say, oh, I've been done this, dude, I've been part of your program for five years. Okay. But there are people who say, I'm this is the first time. I'm brand new. In fact, I'm still not a GLP1 agonist or something like that. So we've got to accommodate as many different perspectives as possible. So, but let's say that woman does this, and we start with diet. We talk about ways to address common nutrient deficiencies that are common towards everybody, that impact factors like insulin resistance. We've got to talk about ways to identify and then address a disruptive gastrointestinal microbiome, including addressing SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, how to recognize the consequences of endotoxemia, how to overcome hurdles, including JJ's area of expertise, emotional, social hurdles, but also other hurdles, physiological hurdles, such as not recognizing just how much abdominal visceral fat you have, or one of those other things we talk about. What if you're exposed to microplastics that are causing some of your health problems? So this woman does this for the purposes of losing weight, but she finds her prediabetes is now gone. Her blood pressure is now normalized, her triglycerides no longer 350, they're 48. In other words, you start with that issue that's relevant and important to you. But you're going to find what we're really doing here is helping you regain overall health. And I hope help you learn to understand the principles so that you get more. You can't you can only accomplish so much in a week, right? You know, if you have to lose 73 pounds, you won't lose that that week. But you can get started on it and then take the lessons you learn during the cruise, during all the sessions we're gonna have. and then continue those lessons. And I hope also continue the conversation with us.

SPEAKER_01 22:05

Oh, absolutely. I can definitely see us doing like a group after it's over to keep continue this conversation. One of the things that I I think is exciting and I want to have everyone who's listening, if you've been a member of my audience or Dr. Davis's audience, you know, even when it comes to learning, there's only a small percentage that you actually retain. So like say you read a book, you listen to this podcast, what is it, like 10 10% maybe or less that you actually retain from what you learn, which means when you hear it over and over again, when you're at a different level, you're going to hear it differently and maybe you're going to hear it for the first time. There are things that you will take that from whatever content, whatever podcast or or course or cruise, and they'll be the hottest item for you because you'll know, oh, I really need to address this item. And you're going to focus on that item and you're going to not really retain all the other items, which is why I want to make sure we we record this cruise so that people don't have to feverishly be taking notes and wondering, oh my God, am I going to remember this? Because I want it to be a package deal where you're going to be able to revisit the information over and over again in the future. And

Stress, Cortisol, And Healing States

SPEAKER_01 23:07

then if you can't come on the cruise and you want the home study course, again, you can address one of these issues at a time. Because as we know the physical body and the mental emotional connection is the gut brain access connection also. What I didn't mention physiologically is that when you're in fight or flight, you also are pumping cortisol. You're pumping cortisol the whole time. Right. So the the emotional piece is the foundation of this bubble that you is your body and whether or not it allows you to heal or not. It's a very simple concept that people can't get. I don't know why. Because it's it because if you're not in a positive frequency, if your body doesn't feel you need two things to heal when it comes to the the energetics of the body you need to feel safe and love yourself. And then the body will take and heal itself by all the things that you're doing to it. It'll be actually able to use what you're putting in your body. But if you're pumping your body full of stuff and you're in fight or flight all the time I have worked with so many cancer patients over the years who are on overdrive of doing so many things that they never like they never address feeling calm. That's why I don't know I know we've mentioned once before Dr. Kelly Turner did a study called radical remission and she covers people who have radically remiss from cancer that doctors think they're going to die. The doctors send them home and say you're going to die. There's nothing else we can do if you you're going to die. They go home and they do what? They change their lifestyle they decide to be happy they decide to travel they decide to not work they laugh a lot and then they heal is it actually magic? No. It's that their nervous system finally calmed down and the body could heal itself like it was supposed to in the first place. So there's a combination of both of these factors that people have to understand that this is not airy fairy sparkle dust kind of shit that I'm talking about. Like this is literally the vibration of how you walk around life and if it's and if you're always in a your shoulders are up and you're tense and you're type A and you're getting everything done and you're a control freak and you're not happy guess what? You're not healing. That is not a healing state healing state is when you're in parasympathetic, not sympathetic. So all this emotional fluffy stuff that you're afraid of because it means you have to face your shit okay this is what this is my area of expertise because it heals people right and if it's the missing piece for you we need to start having these conversations. It doesn't have to be hard but it does have to move your energy so we're going to take the sciences of all of these things and put them together. So I think that's enough on my soapbox of like why everybody needs to understand your emotional world because it's literally how the body responds. When you're in a sympathetic state for your nervous system cortisol starts pumping your immune system shuts down your gut shuts down you're forget about it. That's it. You're how many people know someone who has gained weight just because they've been in a stressful situation for a long time I've had I can tell you countless stories of someone that I've known or seen who has gained 30 pounds in less than two months taking on a new job, exercising the same, eating the same supplementing the same but all of a sudden this weight gain why? Because cortisol was pumping because their nervous system was in fight or flight. And then when they quit their job, boom, they lose that 30 pounds in like 30 days because why? They can calm down and their body can do what it's supposed to do and heal itself. So again there are many sciences that get applied to the body and depending on who where you're coming in the door from whether it be me or Dr. Davis you know you have a predisposition to understanding and wanting and being comfortable with one of these things. Oh I'm a science person. I can do the science like I can do that. Oh emotions no that's too messy. I can't do that. Right. But this might be the missing piece of what you need or someone who's really really emotional who's very in touch with what's going on with them and loves diving into that but then doesn't want to do the hard work of going to the gym or changing their diet. I have had this year, uh I've had my third round of my date your body program and the first round of my eight week body reset. And I have repeat clients because they come back because as I learn more, they learn more as they plateau the next program gets them to the next level. And it's so when we're not just repeating the same information we were talking about even two years ago. As we're learning, we're giving you the newest greatest things that we're learning and experiencing ourselves. And that's how we keep because the body when your body to me, your number one job, everyone's number one job is your health now you may not do that because you may not value your health I'm guessing that you do because you're listening to this podcast. But for me, your number one job is your health everything that you do is a reflection of where you're going and an investment of how your body's going to react in the future. So if that's your number one job and as you age and your circumstances and your body start to change you need more information. You need new information. You need to understand all the factors that are at play that create the body that you're living in. And it's not always going to be just diet and exercise. That's why every woman it drives me crazy for the last 25 years as a personal trainer because there is a new slew of women going through menopause. And all of a sudden they're like, oh my God, I gained weight why I'm like really we're still having this conversation because you lost hormones you lost muscle mass and now you now all of a sudden the same amount of food and and movement is too much for the body or is not enough. The movement's not enough and the food's too much. And again we have gut complications and leaky gut that happens over time and our gut microbiome gets all skewed because of the medications that you're on and all the things right so aging you have to be an expert you have to start to learn about your body in a different way and let go of these old beliefs and old ideas and bad science about hormones causing cancer or about that it's all about diet and exercise or I need to eat diet food or I can't have too much fat or I need to have substitute chemical laden cancer causing sugar substitutes right these are all this stuff is really important for you to understand and we want to make sure that you that you that we help you get there.

William Davis, MD 28:36

But I want to miss cruise we combine JJ's fiery passion with my cold sober science I believe.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

You're not cold sober you're pretty passionate too.

William Davis, MD 28:47

You might say it's oil and vinegar I say it's two plus two equals 11. That is the combined output I think is being very and let me lay aside some of the concerns people expressed to me having done five cruises where I was a host uh pre-pandemic we stopped doing this with the pandemic and this is our first attempt to resurrect this effort. Having been on a number of distant cruise lines people always say well can I eat safely on the well you know I find it easier on the cruises because you have such an extraordinary choice of foods also of venues these ships have over typically over a dozen restaurants to choose from and I I find the staff almost always extremely accommodating so if you find this it's always a little difficult navigating safe foods on land I find it easier on the ship. But of course you'll have exercise facilities if you want to take part as well as uh too many to engage in social activities. I will tell you having done this a number of times it is really fun and we combine all these educational experiences and we'll do our best not to overload you because you're going to be here to have fun too.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

We recognize

Cruise Schedule, Food, And Balance

SPEAKER_01 29:59

that yeah we have so the website is the newbodyblueprint dot com. So let me just go over let me go over the itinerary we're only presenting on the days that we're at sea and there are three days at sea. So we leave out of Miami on February 27th and the first two days so February 28th and Monday March 1st will be program days. And the program sessions start from 9 30 to 1230 that'll be the morning session. Then we take a nice leisurely lunch break an hour and a half and then we come back from two to four and then you're done for the rest of the day. So then we start getting to the ports and by the way we are celebrating my birthday on this cruise. So on Tuesday March 2nd we're going to be in Phillipsburg St. Martin on Wednesday March 3rd we'll be in St. John's Antigua and Barbuda on it does say Barbuda and I keep thinking isn't it Barbados? No it's Barbuda. Okay so Thursday March 4th we're in uh St. Thomas and on my birthday we're in the Dominican Republic and then we're back at sea on Saturday March 6th and again we have a little bit shorter program time. We're going to start from 10 to 12 with a lunch break and then you got a two hour lunch break and then a two to four. We don't want to overload you. And then somewhere in this I'm going to be teaching a salsa class and we're going to be doing a live podcast recording. So it's a pretty easy schedule it's an eight day cruise and again it leaves out of Miami. They are double occupancy rooms so there are no single rooms. If you want your own room you have to buy out both uh both seats if you will but I can give you a little reduced rate at the second seat if you want to have your own cabin. And we are limited with the amount of cabins that we have right now I believe we have about 35 left. But we can open up another second block if it gets filled hopefully with you know this where we are in the timeframe. If you are watching or listening to this after November 1st 2026 it's probably already booked. But uh that doesn't mean we're not going to do another one and it doesn't mean you can't get access to the information. We will be making this accessible to you as a course so you can have the same amount of information everyone else got you just won't get some of the fun things because we're going to go have a good time. And imagine taking all this in in a place where you're actually relaxed like where you're where you're on vacation and so now you're able to subconsciously even take in some of the information more than you would be if you were hyper ready to learn. So we want to have a good time. We want to show you and live through what does that look like when you're out in the world I did a cruise in November as a three week cruise and uh you know we we're going to share with you some of the things that you can do on a cruise like for instance they every cruise has a grill and well and they do hamburgers and hot dogs and chicken and things like that. And you could just go have the hamburger or the chicken. I wouldn't recommend the hot dog but if you want the hot dog but just don't eat the bun right like don't eat the bun just get the protein and that's a great way to get some pro a very you know clean protein in on the cruise and the buffet offers a bunch of things. We're going to work on trying to get a section in the back that's for us because for for me when I went on my cruise it was to Hawaii it was out of San Francisco. There were a lot of um Indian descent people on the cruise and someone had booked I think 50 cabins of and so they had like a whole section in the back of Indian food which is exactly where I was every night because it was amazing. And yes, there are very accommodating to gluten free, grain free you just ask for what you want. So we're going to do the best that we can to personalize it. But if we can't we're going to arm you with the way to go about a cruise in a in a healthy way and with balance because again it is a vacation so we don't want you to feel like you need to be on your best behavior but let's look at ways in which I just came back from Italy and I can give you know we can look at ways in which you deal with when you do have more sugar or when you're eating something that you don't normally eat. What can you take? What can you do? How can you offset it? How can I eat protein before I have anything else that way my blood sugar doesn't spike so we can talk about all the ways in which you can be the best you can be and have a good time on a cruise but um and and I'm going to also I want to read through just some of the sessions because again there's a lot of things on this website. It's the newbodyblueprint dot com. All right so we're going to one of the sessions is called the battle for your microbiome why your gut may be determining your future health we're going to get change your shape and body composition the new paradigm for weight loss and metabolic health protect your future heart health brain health and longevity women's health the conversations most doctors aren't having. Move your body the right way and rewire your nervous system. So those are the sessions that we're going to be focused on on this cruise and in this program, the New Body Blueprint program. And uh I don't know what else do you want to say about you know you know part of this message of this podcast besides an invitation to join us on the cruise or to take a part of take part in the online study course in the future is to really look at your reshaping your body differently and to let go of and move forward from the archaic old outdated idea as Dr. Davis said in the beginning that it's just diet and exercise that is shaping your body. Yes?

William Davis, MD 34:57

Absolutely JJ And of course you'll see us wandering the ship you'll find JJ at times in the gym you'll find me sitting at one of the restaurant bars having a glass of wine so join us. It doesn't have to end at the uh at the educational sessions.

SPEAKER_01 35:12

No and well and I've created a Facebook page for anyone who's taking the cruise there are about $4,000 worth of bonuses that you get also for taking a part of the cruise that's uh a couple months of a membership with Dr. Davis a couple months of membership in my metabolic transformation studio whole bunch of products and programs a ticket to my live event there's a whole bunch you get the recordings. So take a look at the page thenewbodyblueprint.com and um and obviously if you're interested grab one of those cabins while they're still here and uh or else let us know that you're interested in this online study course. Before we complete today's invitation and request uh what else do you want people to know about the new sciences? I know we mentioned the liver and we looked at the gut brain access and the gut liver access. Are there other new sciences that you're excited about sharing in the future either on this cruise as well as in the course or on your show or things that you're sort of digging into and discovering like okay what is what is this about? Because I know you love to get in there and figure it out. Like who is this new thing? I got to learn about this and figure out how it works.

William Davis, MD 36:11

I'm a big fan, JJ, of doing things that are accessible that you can do in your own kitchen that are inexpensive. So this is not about fancy equipment it's not about expensive devices. It's about practical street level things you can do. And so there's a bunch new already and we have many months now for other things to appear and we adopt those things and refine them. And that'll be part of I think the conversation and the demonstrations how to incorporate some of these new ideas into your routine some of these ideas by the way are really powerful. And so it's I'm looking forward to it change it's going to be a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01 36:48

And in case anyone's wondering we are going to be making yogurt on the cruise so if you finally would like to see how it's done it's going to be a demo we're going to make yogurt then we're going to ferment it and then we're going to eat the yogurt. So make sure to come on the cruise so you can get your root rye uh all in check with the yogurt that Dr. Davis is going to make and a lot more. So I'm excited about this cruise. It came about Dr. Davis and I were talking offline I think it was after one of our conversations and interviews and I think it was before I was getting ready to go on the cruise and I sort of kind of complained that I don't love cruises and mostly it's because of the food or uh you know I think it was mostly the food. And uh and and again I did very well on the last cruise that I did. So in terms of food I was able to find all the things that satisfied me and I had a good time. But you had mentioned that you did cruises for five years and that you loved cruises and it was fun for you and I thought well I would do a cruise with you. And that's how this all started. So I kind of took the bull by the horns and said well how do we do this and bring that back to your people and by the way they're responding right now I mean people are already I sent the email out yesterday and people are paid half the cabins are gone. So because they're very excited and they can't wait to book their excursions and they can't wait to be on the cruise. So for those of you that are looking for a healthy way to learn and have fun and maybe for some of you maybe it's a write-off and maybe you're in the health industry guess what? It's tax deductible if you're a personal trainer if you're a nutritionist if you're someone who deals with products if you are someone there's products and want to sponsor any part of the event and get your stuff into the swag bag reach out to me and let me know because we're going to have a very specific audience in front of us that we want to offer products and services that we appreciate, that we support, that we believe in that help support this goal of reshaping the body from the inside out from the outside in in all the ways that are sustainable, healthy and long term and also have no side effects or have no negative side effects. So that's always the goal. So I'm looking forward to this and uh any last words Dr. Davis?

William Davis, MD 38:42

No just thank you JJ really looking forward to it.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

Excellent. We hope to see you all there or hope to see you all into the course.