Ep. 62 - Stand Your Ground

A Kentucky farmer got offered $26 million for her land — for an AI data center — and turned it down flat. We loved it. But it also pointed at something we keep circling back to: there are things being quietly traded away that no amount of money should be able to buy.

Then we get into the Modern Ag Alliance, which sounds like it's on your side and is funded by Bayer, and what's already passed in Georgia and North Dakota around glyphosate liability. Girl Scout cookies come up too — independent testing found glyphosate and at least four heavy metals in every sample tested. Eight hundred million dollars a year, and nobody's funding the peer review.

We wrap with things you can actually do — baking soda soaks, eating what's in season, splitting your walks when the full mile isn't happening. Small stuff, done consistently, is still the answer.

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Transcript

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Pharmaphobic is powered by Achieve the Lifestyle, a company dedicated to helping you empower your health, redefine your lifestyle, and all for the health of it. You're listening to Pharmaphobic, where we challenge the state of health in America. I'm Janie, a physician assistant, and I've seen how healthcare keeps people dependent instead of truly healthy.

SPEAKER_00 0:25

And I'm Dan, a veteran Turn Fitness Pro here to uncover the truth and explore simple and sustainable health solutions. From big pharma to big food, we're exposing the conflicts of interest, keeping us sick, and finding better ways to take back our health.

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No fluff, no gimmicks, just real talk, real solutions, and a little bit of fun along the way.

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Hello there. Welcome to another episode of Pharmaphobic, brought to you by Achieve the Lifestyle, where we help you become the strongest, healthiest, and most capable version of yourself.

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Good job.

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I love that you guys can hear already and see my lovely co-host.

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AKA special guest. The one and only the lovely woman that brings peace to the Brown household.

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I am doing great. Thank you.

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Because you do everything. Girl, stop it. I do everything. I do stuff. I do stuff.

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Dan's like Zinn drinking his coffee, and I'm like, take the dogs out. Do the dishes.

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I thank you for that. I do need those moments. I feel like I'm rushing everywhere and my hair is on fire every day, hence, I don't have any. Um anyway, I got some health news for you. You ready? You ready for these health news?

SPEAKER_01 1:56

Why you gotta say it's seductive like that?

SPEAKER_00 1:59

Because I'm I'm trying to get you intrigued. I'm trying to get people to join the in intrigue on what we're gonna talk about today.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Got it.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

Um I think this video went pretty viral. A lot of people posted it.

SPEAKER_01 2:10

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Um Kentucky. In Kentucky, this strong, sturdy woman. And she is stubborn as a bull. Like, I love it. I dig it. Um Kentucky farmers, these AI data center type building people came to their farm and offered them$26 million for their land. And that lady said, uh, no, thank you. Now, here's the thing, uh, you know, looking into it, um in Kentucky, the going rate for farmland and acreage is about$6,000 an acre. They offered them 10 times that per acre, so$60,000 an acre.

SPEAKER_02 3:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

To your to the going$6,000 rate. And that lady said, no, thank you. And she basically her and her mom live on this farm. They have cows, they have all sorts of animals.

SPEAKER_01 3:15

The farm's been in their families.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

The farm's been in their families years and years and years. They've always lived off that land, and she's like, No, I'm not interested. Yep. Um, I think the conversation around this, because everybody is probably thinking,$26 million. Could I have said no to that? First of all, me personally, like people who stand on principle like that, stand on business that way. I love seeing that.

SPEAKER_02 3:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

Because she said, no, this is sacred to us. This is important to me. And your money isn't gonna make me budge on it. Second of all, it's what they want the farmland for. It's not a bigger farm that's coming in, it's not some freaking housing development or something like that that's trying to, which we can get into the questionable of a lot of these are quite housing developments. It's not any of that. They're not gonna house people, they're not gonna do a different way of feeding people. It's for an AI data center. That isn't gonna feed anybody. Oh, you're gonna create jobs. No, you're not. Like the person that cleans.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

Don't the AI data centers they have to be cooled so they end up consuming so much water.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

So AI data centers need a lot of water for cooling and they need a lot of electricity because that's a lot of energy that consumes. Now, here's something that supposedly people are talking about that live close to AI data centers, their power bills went up exponentially.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

So there's the company's not paying for their own power.

SPEAKER_00 4:49

The company isn't necessarily paying their utility bills. And also the cost of that electricity is being offset in the surrounding neighborhoods.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

Isn't it interesting how in places like California they regulate your water consumption? Like I have a friend who lives in California. We recently met up and went hiking in Arizona. And she, when we were staying at the Airbnb, she's like, I love how the water just comes out so like gushes out. She's like, they control the rate at which your water comes out of the shower where she lives in California. But let's get some AI data centers that we just need to cool with all this water.

SPEAKER_00 5:28

And not only that, California is regulating your water, but then they're using a crap ton of water for their little almond season over there. Oh my God, bro. So they can make almond milk. Like that stuff doesn't make sense, guys. Like, come on now. So it records. That that pumped me up because I'm like, yo, these ladies are they're standing on that business. They don't want your stupid money because you they know you're gonna what you're gonna do to the land is rape and pillage it with your stupid AI data center.

SPEAKER_01 5:56

I love how the mom was like, the truth ain't in them.

SPEAKER_00 5:58

Oh, that and funny enough, because that's biblical words right there. That's from Peter, from the book of Peter. I was like, I was reading it yet. Oh, that's why she said that. I call him a liar and the truth ain't in them. I'm like, ooh. Now, it's it's crazy because again, they want to take this farmland that feeds people and turn it into something that does not feed people. And I would contend, like, oh, AI is gonna help us do this, and AI is gonna help us do that. Okay, there's plenty of data centers already. There's plenty of other places you can build data centers. Crap, put it on top of buildings in New York City or something. Why do we have to keep taking from our farmland? Why do like there there comes a conversation here that there's certain things that we should hold sacred, right? I don't need AI to live. Humans have been around for ages without AI. Why are we gonna sacrifice something that feeds us to put data centers on there? Why do these dudes need all that data? Oh, so they could keep selling and marketing stuff to you and storing profiles on you so that they can do targeted ads and basically track your every movement in the future. Got it, tracking. That's where we're going with this.

SPEAKER_01 7:12

But they're gonna need to know where we are at all times in our 15-minute city.

SPEAKER_00 7:16

Oh, yes, they are. And they're gonna need to know when you say something bad about the leader of the world. Yeah, um, so that they could come knock.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

And if you post something bad on social media, you don't get your social credits to buy food.

SPEAKER_00 7:28

Yep, they're gonna need data centers for all of that. So your food, your slop that they're gonna give you, lab made slop.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

Ready, player one.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

Yeah. So it, but there's there's a conversation, and we had part of this conversation when Jake was here last time, where it's like, man, we have to hold something sacred. We have to agree as a society to protect certain things. And I'd say that the land that feeds us, if we designate something farmland, it should stay farmland.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:59

And we, you know, and then we can have the conversation about not letting companies poison us because we hold health and of the population in high regard, right?

SPEAKER_01 8:11

And with and it just like the arrogance of this company, like, oh, I'll give you 26 million. Who can say no to that? Exactly. When let's look at these people, they've lived on that land their entire lives. They grew up on that land, their great grandparents grew up on that land. They have a sense of purpose with their work of of keeping and maintaining that farm, right? They they derive joy from providing for a large amount of people, right? Money can't replace that. Like, sure, you can give them$26 million. I mean, if you saw the video, you saw that their house wasn't anything fancy. It looked like it was built a long time ago and just has had patchwork done to it since then, right? But okay, you know, oh, you could live in this beautiful home, brand new, a high-rise, live in a city. You could that's not gonna bring them joy. That's not gonna give them a sense of purpose. That's all superficial noise to distract them and get them out of the property you want. And these people are staying true to what they know and believe is their purpose. And I think that that's beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

Yep. And they're also holding out, right? Like I'm sure if if you know you have no control what they do with the land after they buy it, because then it's, you know, private somebody else's private property. But I'm sure that the fact that it was for a data center made them say, oh, hell no.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

You know, because it's like that serves no purpose, right?

SPEAKER_01 9:38

And what I really hope is that they have access to a good legal team because I could just see big companies taking advantage of people like that.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

Not today, but I don't years down the line. My thought didn't go to a good legal team. I hope that they have they're gonna need encrypted communications, they're gonna need security, they're gonna need um ammunition, they're gonna need to really patrol their land. Cause I wouldn't be surprised if these people have and God protect them. God protect them, you know, may they be protected and people look out for them and you know, all this stuff, because these are the type of people that end up with mysterious things happening to them, right? Um, your farm catches fire for some reason in the middle of the winter. Um, all your animals die from some crazy bacteria. So now you're you're broke, your products gone, all your crops die from some crazy thing in the soil, or you have a terrible car accident that nobody knows how it happened, or you decide to suicide yourself by shooting yourself in the back of the head three times. You know, like all these things, these are the type of people that these things happen to, right? So we should all eyes on these ladies in Kentucky. Hopefully, they remain in the public eye and people see because a company that can offer you$26 million for your land just like that, that and you say no, and now you're in the way of their little plans, they probably have resources that they could put on your booty and make your life very miserable or cut it very short. That sort of stuff happens.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

But let's not get sad like last week.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

But we admire these ladies, they stood on business, they stood on principle.

SPEAKER_01 11:37

It's refreshing to see that that there's still people out there like that.

SPEAKER_00 11:40

Yeah, that this appeal, uh, all this money thrown at them, they're like, nah, that means nothing to me. This land and what I do here means more. So good job, ladies. And to all of you that are thinking, you should have taken the money, bro.

SPEAKER_02 11:53

Sit down.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

Sit down. Like you need, you need you need to talk to yourself. Judge Judy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

You can sit down.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

Yeah, just just find just find some, like you need some introspection in your life. Let's put it like that. Okay, let's move on. Uh, I saw this. Um, we talked last episode about what's happening with Bayer and Monsanto right now, Supreme Court case, the Defense Production Act. Like, there's a lot of moves being made around the product of pesticides and herbicides, and there's a lot of legislation going on between Supreme Court, DPA, DPA defense production.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

And nourishment is on trial.

SPEAKER_00 12:30

Yep. And a lot of uh there's thousands of lawsuits going on against Monsanto and Bayer for all these cancers and stuff that are popping up from the use of glyphosate, right? There's a little group out there. Um, it's called the Modern Ag Alliance. Modern Agricultural Alliance. Great name, right? Sounds like they're on your side. Yeah. Well, you know what? It does. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

Modern Ag Agriculture Alliance.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

Yeah, it is. Oh, wow. I didn't even think of that. Oh, they went with what's hot. But they also like Or just Ma. Yeah.

unknown 13:08

Ma.

SPEAKER_00 13:10

But they went, you know, Modern Agricultural Alliance. Sounds great, right? We're here for agriculture. Um, it's founded by Bayer. Oof. It's funded by Bayer. Yeah. Um, it's founded by Bayer, and it says it right there on their page that, yep, this is a Bayer agency. And their whole aim, old man filters on.

SPEAKER_01 13:30

It's like um, it's like a sheep security company sponsored by wolves.

SPEAKER_00 13:37

Yeah, yeah. It's a sheep security company, and and it's run, oh, I'll just send you one of my security guards. He's a wolf.

SPEAKER_02 13:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Um, their whole thing is the protecting basically the continued innovation in farming by ensuring that pesticide labeling and pesticides registered with the EPA are sold under label, labels consistent with EPA determinations, meaning EPA said it's good, good to go. We don't need to add any other labels. Well, we talked about it.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

They gave the EPA insufficient studies. Yeah, they gave them the one. The EPA was like, gave them the okie dokie when they didn't give them all the information. So now they're saying, like, but the EPA, let's just follow them because we bought we bought them out. So we're good.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

The one study that was retracted that ignored the four other studies that said the opposite. That study. Yeah. Um, they already got bills passed, so two states already folded because these people basically, it's a lobby group. They go to the all these state legislatures.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Show me a lobbyist that's not and some dirty stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:45

I just yeah, yeah. That I honestly, lobbying should die. Real talk. Like if you they get paid a lot of and not only they schmooze these freaking legisl, they schmooze politicians so bad. Hey, you want to meet with me? Hey, let's meet at this five-star restaurant where plates cost$120, you know, for two ounces of steak. I'll take you there. I'll pay. Don't worry about it, Senator.

SPEAKER_01 15:09

I like how you're not allowed to do that in medicine, but you can in government.

SPEAKER_00 15:14

Ridiculous, right? Twitter. So lobbying, I fully believe that lobbying as a whole career field should die. I don't care if you're lobbying for whatever thing, oh, but this is good. Lobbying should die. If you believe in something and you want some representative to hear it, you should go on your own time and your own dime and talk it up. That's what should be happening. Because people that are fighting for legit causes, they have to do it that way. They don't get paid a gazillion dollars a year to go argue their points, right? But all these companies with all their nonsense have these fancy suits going to Washington and schmoozing with these politicians, probably putting on fancy parties where weird stuff happens so that they can get in their good graces and get these laws passed in the favor of the companies. It's disgusting. The whole thing needs to go away. Anyway, um, this thing, they already, they're they're basically going through the states because as we mentioned in the previous episode, the whole glyphosate thing, it's at the Supreme Court level. But what they want is the federal thing, the EPA thing, to be the law of the land. They don't want states legislating against them to have any ability to legislate against them through state law. So they're going state by state almost where the glyphosate things are coming up and kind of lobbying the state legislature to disregard any of these lawsuits as well. And you call yourself the modern ag alliance, you're like, oh yeah, these guys are good to go. They're here for the farmers. But nope. So already Georgia and North Dakota what the hell are you doing? They have basically legislated in favor of the pesticide makers. So you can't, those two states, pesticide makers, can't be sued anymore for damages. Okay. Georgia doesn't really surprise me. They're all over the place, but North Dakota, what is ya doing, boo-boo? What is ya doing? So you gotta pay attention. You gotta look deeper into these activist groups and these people that claim to be for certain things. It's the same thing with charities and things like that that you donate your money to, and then no money goes to the actual cause. You're just paying somebody's salary. Um unfortunately, guys, the days of just seeing something and taking it at face value are gone.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

Yeah, it's not so different than I don't know if this is if I'm remembering correctly, but it's like the opioid makers uh run drug rehab assilies, like that sort of thing, you know? It's yes, be careful if this company sounds great, who's who's the money behind it? Do they really do they really aim to resolve and help the problem? If a modern agricultural alliance is really trying to improve the quality of our food, but if we take glyphosate away, which is harming us, they um they don't do well, are they really trying to help us?

SPEAKER_00 18:28

You know, so I here's an example of one. Um, because I was listening, Ninjas are butterflies. They had an episode like maybe two episodes ago where they were talking about the World Seed Bank.

SPEAKER_02 18:38

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

And they were talking about how depressive it was. But I'm like, yo, you left out the most important part of the conversation around the World Seed Bank, which is that it is held up by Bill Gates money.

SPEAKER_02 18:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:50

So this place in Norway, in the Arctic Circle, it's literally a huge vault, highly secured facility, holds every seed of every crop that we have in rotation in the world.

SPEAKER_01 19:04

Except some countries don't participate in the world.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

Yeah, there's there's China and there's another country that don't participate in this.

SPEAKER_01 19:12

There's Russia and there was one other one who don't participate.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

No, no, yeah, but you you send seeds of crops that you grow and they keep it in storage in case something's wiped out, they have a seed to start more farms of it, right? Um, and I remember years ago suspect when I yeah, it does sound suspect. It sounds like you want to control the food of the world. But anyway, years ago, when I first learned of this, I you know, Wikipedia did and it said right out right in there in the Wikipedia, it was easy to find that this place was held up by Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

You mean Bill Gates, who's buying all of our land?

SPEAKER_00 19:52

The biggest owner of farmland in the country? Yes, sir. Bill Gates, Mr. Vaccine Expert himself, yes, sir. Bill Gates, Mr. Spray Stuff in the Sky to block out the sun for global warming. Yes, sir. That guy. Bill Gates, Mr. Artificial Meat? Artificial meat. Yes, sir, that guy. Bill Gates, Mr. Um, what else is he into? Make plants that are mRNA based. So now you have mRNA technology going in your body when you eat these plants. Yes, that guy. That, that Bill Gates. Yeah. So here he is yet again injecting himself into something that has to do with food. This guy, he'd never go away. But when I looked it up, I was like, oh, they're they're not discussing the most important part of the world seed bank. But when I looked it up, it was harder to find the information from when I found it years ago. It was right there on the Wikipedia page, right? Hey, your boy's been in rabbit holes for ages now. It's been a couple of years of me diving deep into these rabbit holes. But anyway, now I had to do like a like a three-page Wikipedia search. You know how when you go on Wikipedia, you find this, and then you click on that, and then you find that page. So it's like a like a three pages away where I got to it. Where it's like, okay, the World Seed Bank, who who owns it, who runs it? Oh, it's these conglomerate of uh nonprofits, a NGOs, nonprofits should be raising alarm bells right off the rip. Because no such thing in the world. But it's this thing, the name of it is Crop Trust. That sounds great. Yeah. Crop Trust? You can trust me with your crops, maybe I'm crop trust. Yeah. Then when I went on their Wikipedia, there was it's a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at T T like oh. Oh goodness. Yep. So modern Ag Alliance, you see how they play names with the games, guys. Taking the days of taking stuff at face value, they're gone. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I hate to break it to you. It's time to do research, it's time to read labels, it's time to read small print and fine print.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

But if you want to grow your own stuff, and say I go to the local nursery here and get um seeds, and I'm gonna grow peppers. Okay. How do I know that they're not they haven't been genetically modified or they're not like Bill Gates seeds or things like that?

SPEAKER_00 22:08

Man, that's a good question. That's something that we need to look into. They probably are Bill Gates seeds, you know? Um That's something to look into.

SPEAKER_02 22:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

Yeah, that that's wild. But anyway, just beware, guys. Read the fine print. Take even videos now these days, you can't take anything. Like we're entering a time where everything, if you weren't questioning everything already, you're gonna have to question everything and then some.

SPEAKER_02 22:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

Because what your eyes will deceive you. And people will name themselves good and be evil. And things that are good will be labeled evil. Like this is crazy. We're the way we're going. The world is literally upside down. But anyway, moving on from that. Talking about things that seem great, but when you dig into them, they're not. Girl Scout cookies, baby. Girl Scout cookies, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:02

What was your favorite Girl Scout cookie?

SPEAKER_00 23:04

I never had one. You know what? Because they weren't chocolatey enough for me. Girl Scout cook, like the chocolate Girl Scout cookie has mint in it. That's a that's a sacrilege. That's a Girl Cookie.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

That's a little frozen treat. You put that in the freezer.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

No, no, no, no. That is that is sacrilege. That is a desecration of chocolate. When you put mint on my chocolate, you are slapping me across the face.

SPEAKER_01 23:27

Have you ever had a mint pepper mint patty?

SPEAKER_00 23:29

It's terrible.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

It's delicious. It's terrible. Junior mints?

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Terrible. And then the other cookie that-mary. Um listen, you like girl, girl, you do not put mint on my chocolate. You could put caramel on my chocolate.

SPEAKER_01 23:46

It's like so refreshing.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

I'll do the sweet at the same time. I'll do strawberries on my with my chocolate. Yeah, we could do that. We do coffee with my chocolate, but we were not doing mint with chocolate. That is not a thing.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

He judges me hard if I get mint chocolate chip ice cream.

SPEAKER_00 24:01

The Lord rebuke you. So the thing is. So and the other chocolatey Girl Scout cookie is the Samoas, right?

SPEAKER_01 24:13

Oh, that's that coconut.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

And it's the coconut with the chocolate. That ain't it, Chief. That ain't it. So I never like Girl Scout cookies because they didn't have just the regular chocolatey cookie, like a chocolate chip or a regular chocolatey fudgy goodness cookie. I don't mess with you if you mix it up my chocolate like that.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

Didn't they have a peanut butter cup one?

SPEAKER_00 24:32

They had a peanut butter. They got like a shortbread one. That's the one that I would eat. If somebody would give me a Girl Scout cookie, it would be like the shortbread one.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

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SPEAKER_00 26:38

That sounds horrible.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

No, it doesn't. Oh, well Your opinion is not everyone's opinion.

SPEAKER_00 26:44

No, I know there's some chocolate purists out there. I know y'all out there, right? And you you know what I'm talking about. When you start mixing stuff with your chocolate, it just ain't right. It just ain't right, guys. It just ain't right. Like I remember one time somebody told me that mixing passion fruit with chocolate protein was gonna be fire. Okay. It was gonna be fire.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

So the thing is, here's the thing. Dan can't buy his own stuff for a smoothie. He's like, I want dragon fruit for my smoothie. And I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:13

Dragon fruit goes well with chocolate protein.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

And so I'm like, ah, at the grocery store, dragon fruit and passion fruit are right beside each other. I just grabbed one, right? I accidentally grabbed passion fruit. And he was like, it's passion fruit, not dragon fruit. And I'm like, it's fine. You put in a smoothie, like you put spinach in a smoothie, you can't taste it. I'm like, this will be fine. It was not fine. I grew up with passion fruit. It did not taste good.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

I being from Puerto Rico, I grew up eating a lot of passion fruit, and it is not what you want with chocolate. It was terrible.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

Here's the thing: this is what Dan does is he's not gonna eat it. I'm not gonna eat it. He won't throw it away. Maybe you did finally, but he's not gonna do it. But every time he opens the freezer, just makes another comment about it.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

Oh, frozen passion fruit cubes that we'll never be able to use in a smoothie. It's awesome. But anyway, the whole thing with it is how much do you think Girl Scout cookies and resting my case? I know about chocolate, but my wife doesn't know about chocolate. That's why she's eating peppermint and chocolate.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

Excuse you?

SPEAKER_00 28:23

She doesn't know like that. She doesn't know like she's not a chocolate purist. I'm a chocolate purist.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

Who makes you cookies every time you compete?

SPEAKER_00 28:30

Oh no, those are delicious, but they're all chocolate.

SPEAKER_01 28:32

Right.

SPEAKER_00 28:32

There's no passion fruit in those. So you just can't let things go, can you?

SPEAKER_01 28:37

Just can't let them go.

unknown 28:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

How much do you think Girl Scout cookies make every year?

SPEAKER_01 28:45

One million dollars.

SPEAKER_00 28:47

Oh God.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

That's an Austin Powers reference.

SPEAKER_00 28:50

You gotta put your finger up like this.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

I don't know, like$500,000,$250 billion.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

No.$800 million a year.$800 million.$800 million a year in sales for Girl Scout cookies. That is a lot of money for one product, right? And they put these sweet girls that are doing something great. You know, they're in the Girl Scouts, and a lot of the Girl Scouts are like it's a charitable organization and they do community service and all this stuff, right? So they disguise it really nicely. Um, and I'm not talking about the actual girls that are in the Girl Scouts, like we can discuss later the details of the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts, that's a separate conversation, right? Like little weird stuff that happens in those organizations. But the girls, you know, these are seemingly good entities.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:37

Right.

SPEAKER_01 29:37

And they they are, you know, I don't think they have ill intent when they're trying to sell the cookies to girls themselves.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

No, I I think they're being used.

SPEAKER_01 29:45

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 29:45

They're being used because when these sweet girls that are, you know, they're part of something that seems positive and they're out in these stores, you know, Walmart, Target, wherever they're selling these cookies in front of, you feel bad when they ask you for like, hey, you want cookies? Or somebody, a friend of yours that has a girl in the Girl Scouts, like, hey, it's cookie season. Hey, help me get Kylie to whatever in sales. You're like, yeah, send me some cookies, even though I'm not gonna eat them. I'm just, you know, I'm I'm I'm being I'm being charitable, I'm playing a part in your kid's success, right?

SPEAKER_01 30:19

The best is when you forget about a sleeve of thin mints on the back of the freezer, and then you find them and you're like, oh yes.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

But they're thin mints.

SPEAKER_01 30:28

You know, just get on, just go away. You also were just like pistachio, man, and then I got pistachio ice cream, and you were like, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

No, pistachio ice cream is fire. Yeah, that is fire. That is fire. That is so good. And you put you can put chocolate on that. That's fire.

SPEAKER_01 30:45

Because it's a nut.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

Then you got that Dubai thing going on. Dubai chocolate. Um, so they this um this group, moms across America, they filed a lawsuit against Oh, wait.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

Did you see the Girl Scout who posted up in front of a dispensary?

SPEAKER_00 31:03

Stop it.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

To sell cookies too.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

No, stop it. That's awesome. That's sorry, I just remembered that. That's ingenuity right there. That girl's going places. Um they filed a lawsuit. There was a study conducted, independent study, um, on samples of Girl Scout cookies, and they found that a hundred percent of the samples of Girl Scout cookies had glyphosate.

SPEAKER_02 31:32

Oh yeah.

unknown 31:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:34

Going back to our previous episode where we went in on glyphosate, hundred percent of the samples. And a hundred percent of the samples had at least four heavy metals in them. Okay, so we're talking cadmium, arsenic, lead, mercury. That sounds like stuff you should be eating, especially when you're pounding a whole sleeve of thin mints.

SPEAKER_01 31:55

Yeah, because unfortunately, most people when they get Girl Scout cookies, it's not like I'm gonna have just a couple on the weekend, and that box is gonna last me weeks or months. Gone.

SPEAKER_00 32:06

So when you take your little thin mints that are already terrible because it's chocolate and mint, and now we're taking in glyphosate, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, and lead with your little thin mints. Not to mention that the Girl Scout cookies of 2026 are not the Girl Scout cookies of 1996. Sorry to inform you that the ingredients have been changed for mass production purposes.

SPEAKER_02 32:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

Okay. So there's a lawsuit now filed against these Girl Scout cookies. Um, I think it was 76% of the cookies had the levels of the heavy metals were way above what's allowed in drinking water. We go back to that allowed levels of poisoning yourself. It's crazy to me. But the the cookies exceed the levels of heavy metals that are allowed in drinking water. So sadly, Girl Scout cookies are not something that's gonna lead to a long, healthy life if you're eating them all the time. Um they have these sweet girls that you know are doing seemingly positive stuff.

SPEAKER_01 33:25

Yeah, so you associate the Girl Scout cookies with like innocence and like optimism and and like you know, entrepreneurial spirit, these girls are out there hustling to sell these cookies.

SPEAKER_00 33:36

And I, you know, and you love to see it, right? Like I feel bad if I say I don't like the cookies, I don't like them, so I don't buy them, but I feel bad. I'm like, nah, I'm good because I'm just not gonna eat them. Right. You know, but they're I'm happy for them that they're out there doing something and that they're part of this little group and they have their little friends and they're doing whatever the Girl Scouts it is that they do. But man, you're putting you injected a completely nefarious agenda into this thing. And in the process, you're making$800 million a year.

SPEAKER_02 34:05

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 34:06

Uh so it reminded me of another popular cookie.

SPEAKER_02 34:12

Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 34:13

So, but now the Girl Scouts, this is, you know, this is in litigation still. Um, Girl Scouts are saying, oh, that study's not peer-reviewed. I I hate that. It's like, oh, it's not peer-reviewed. Nobody's gonna fund that study. You're worth$800 million a year. Yeah, you know, so nobody's gonna go ahead and pay for the study so to get it peer-reviewed and let's see what comes out. I bet you won't. You're just gonna sit there and court and say, Oh, it's not peer-reviewed, you should dismiss it. Yeah, you know, but anyway, reminds me of another cookie that was people were jumping on, and I think that we used to jump on it. Yeah, we ate them too. Crumble cookies, man. When they came out, people were going hard on them, cookies. Now I drive past the crumble, and it doesn't seem like people are going crazy over them anymore.

SPEAKER_01 35:01

So I used it because it came with an app and they do a cookie of the week. So every week I'd see what the cookie of the week was, and it was interesting. I would get it, and we would share it for a while there. Um, and then one year for your birthday, because Dan and my brother have birthdays one day apart, and Jake came down um here to celebrate, and in lieu of a cake, because we were also celebrating our niece Nia's birthday, because hers is a couple weeks later, um, I got four crumble cookies for there was what 10 or 12 of us. Yeah, these cookies and it was sufficient.

SPEAKER_00 35:37

Humongous, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:39

So the problem with the crumble cookies are when when it started to get like people like, whoa, what's going on here? When they looked at the ingredient list in these cookies, I mean, we're talking 95 ingredients in some of these cookies. 95 ingredients? That's a that's a crazy ingredient lately.

SPEAKER_01 36:02

You know, it's that perfect balance of what is really gonna hit their taste receptors and light up their brains so that they they want to consume it all and then they want to come back. But the problem is a crumble cookie is a huge caloric load.

SPEAKER_00 36:18

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:18

Huge caloric load.

SPEAKER_00 36:19

Yeah, you eat a crumble cookie, you could probably walk up Everest and come back down with that with the amount of calories you're gonna get. Um and it's crazy how they just turned it into this like popular, like almost cultural movement, right? Where people are lining up at crumble and it was like a thing to do. Go get you a crumble cookie and try these, yeah, these crazy cookies. Yeah, so sad because cookies are awesome. Right? Cookies are awesome. Yeah, like it cookies are a reminder of your childhood. You know, when you give me a cookie, like a chocolate chip cookie now, like a chocolate chocolate chip cookie homemade that Janie bakes. And I'm I feel like I'm 10 years old with my cookie in my hand and eating it like that, you know? I'm serious. Cookies are freaking, it's like a childhood thing, right?

SPEAKER_01 37:07

Yeah, no, it is, yeah. It's funny though, because um Dan recently competed, and so I made cookies because it's a tradition. I make Mexican hot chocolate cookies. So they're chocolate with chocolate chips, the way God intended.

SPEAKER_00 37:22

But amen.

SPEAKER_01 37:24

But I throw some uh chili powder and then I also put a little bit of paprika in there to give it a little kick.

SPEAKER_00 37:32

So and because it has sugar, it's not necessarily spicy, but it gives it like a little, like a little little heat, little, you know, just they're at the end.

SPEAKER_01 37:42

And it's funny because I took them with us to the competition and uh the black belts of our academy, Kelly and Lou, were there, and I gave them a cookie, and Lou knows that Dan and I eat healthy the majority of the time. And so she was like, are these like first she said special cookies, like I was gonna pop weed and some cookies and take them to a jujitsu. I mean, whatever. I'm sure that would have been acceptable anyway. But um, she's like, I mean, are they healthy? And I was like, Yeah. And she was like, and I was like, real sugar, real butter, real milk, like real chocolate without BS in it, and a whole lot of love.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

Yeah, and they taste delicious. Like I would put those cookies against anything you could buy in the store.

SPEAKER_01 38:28

I do use almond flour in lieu of the other stuff because it just makes it a little bit more um I know a lot of people don't like this word, but moist and dense.

SPEAKER_00 38:40

Yeah, I would put those cookies against anything you could buy in the store. Real talk without any of the fake stuff in it. And that's the thing that I always land on when you make a homemade version of something that you know and love. And when I say homemade version, you basically make it the way that it was made for a freaking hundred years before we decided to inject all the fake stuff in it, and it tastes awesome.

SPEAKER_01 39:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:05

You know, ice cream for bears. I was having this conversation yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 39:08

So I did see that ice cream for bears was bought out by a big company. So we just have to keep an eye on the ingredients.

SPEAKER_00 39:15

This is the problem, fam. I go back to my ladies in Kentucky who refuse to sell their farm. Like if you build a business and you build a company and you start doing really well, that's what we want, right? We want people, we like that journey of people that go from small business to from an idea to a small business, and then they grow into a company and they do really well. I love it for you. I'm so happy for you. And you have a really good product and you grow. That that's the story of capitalism. That's the story of America, right?

SPEAKER_01 39:47

Well, let's just hope that they leave the ingredients alone.

SPEAKER_00 39:50

They'll leave them alone for a couple of years. But if you got bought out by Unilever or one of these big companies, these big conglomerates, your product sooner or later, is gonna be a shell of its former self. And that is a guarantee. Whether it takes them a year to do it or it takes them five, they will do it.

SPEAKER_01 40:07

And we do enjoy this. If you cannot make cookies yourself, the siete cookies, they, yes, were bought out by PepsiCo, but they still have good quality ingredients as of this time.

SPEAKER_00 40:19

Yeah, but be on the lookout, keep reading the labels because be on the lookout, eventually those cookies will not be what they are today, which reminds me we should probably hold on to a bag of one so that we can compare it to Siete cookies five years from now.

SPEAKER_01 40:34

This man thinks that we're gonna have a bag of cookies to hold on to in our house. Like he's not. It's 20. Take a picture of the ingredient label.

SPEAKER_00 40:44

That's what I meant. Hold on to it.

SPEAKER_01 40:46

That is not what you meant.

SPEAKER_00 40:47

Yes, take a picture.

SPEAKER_01 40:48

That is not what you meant.

SPEAKER_00 40:49

Take a picture.

SPEAKER_01 40:50

Way to backtrack.

SPEAKER_00 40:53

Just think that's what I meant. I didn't take a picture.

SPEAKER_01 40:55

It's like I know him. It's like, like, let's have cookies. No, Dan, that is the bag that we need to test five years from now what the ingredients are. You wouldn't stand for that.

SPEAKER_00 41:07

Um I mean keep the bag. I'm gonna eat the cookies inside. The bag, the bag, it's say, but the reason why I would hold on to the bag is because in the age of AI, when you make the comparison, you can be accused of making an AI thing. So I would just hold on to the bag.

SPEAKER_01 41:25

Um the other thing is that um when I've talked about this, when we don't make our own food and we don't know where it's come from, we don't grow our own food. Like I understand that common practice isn't allow us all to be our own farmers. And a lot of people have, you know, both adults in the household, or maybe you're just, you know, by yourself, maybe don't have time to set up and bake a lot. But there is that movement with like sourdough, so more people are taking ownership of their food in a way. Same thing with cookies. Now, Dan and I are in a habit that we are breaking this weekend of having a bag of siete cookies every Saturday night. It's kind of like our treat.

SPEAKER_00 42:05

Yeah, what we watch them have dinner at home, watch a movie, and eat some siete cookies.

SPEAKER_01 42:10

But because we're gonna be globetrotters this year, we're traveling so much, therefore eating out so much. And you know, when you travel, you gotta try the sweet treats, right? That's only it's only logical.

SPEAKER_00 42:22

Especially if you're across the pond. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:25

And so we're gonna stop our Saturday tradition of cookies. And I just was thinking how when we outsourced like going to the grocery store, just bagging or grabbing a bag of cookies, how much more easy it is to overconsume it. But like growing up, we didn't have cookies every single weekend because somebody had to make them.

SPEAKER_02 42:44

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 42:44

Right. And now, like, I make cookies for special occasions and which then decreases our load of because cookies are gonna be a little bit more calorically dense, right? And plus, if they're really good, you're gonna eat more likely. I mean, we ate all those cookies on the way back from I know I try I offer them to people and they're like, I don't make very many, and they're like, Oh no, it's okay. And I'm like, no, take them because we're gonna eat them all. But um it's one of those things like I maybe we should get in the habit of making our own cookies instead of buying sientes all the time. So that way it's less frequent.

SPEAKER_00 43:20

Yeah, I and it just when you make your own food, you make your own version of something that is, you know, super conventional, you understand that when you read those ingredient labels in the store, and it's 45, and you're just like you understand that stuff is completely unnecessary, right? I use seven things. I know what every one of those things was, and I made this delicious treat. And you guys are using 50 ingredients, 49 of them are fake, and you make it delicious.

SPEAKER_01 43:52

Quote Yeah, and it goes back to using more real natural ingredients. So my mom loves to bake cookies any holiday. She'll send, you know, cookies. We've had to ask her not to or to send less. And now I've asked her to stop using Crisco in the case.

SPEAKER_00 44:07

She'll send a hundred cookies, literally a hundred.

SPEAKER_01 44:09

And so now she'll make chocolate chip cookies for Dan. Um, because I think you've gained favor, but and but um without Crisco, made with only butter. And when you use Crisco in in cookies, and then those ingredients, they can either just say Crisco or they have to put all the components of it, right? And then that's when the lists can start to get long. But if you're using eggs, butter, sugar, milk, vanilla, salt, baking soda.

SPEAKER_00 44:42

What is it that she puts in those cookies? Is it cinnamon or cinnamon in the chocolate chip cookies?

SPEAKER_01 44:46

She put some cinnamon in it. That's what you like.

SPEAKER_00 44:48

They are fire chocolate chip cookies. Fire.

unknown 44:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:53

Like ridiculously good.

SPEAKER_01 44:54

Yeah. And then, you know, you can prioritize like with the the cookies I made for Dan. I use cocoa powder that doesn't have a lot of BS in it. I use the flour that doesn't have BS in it. And I choose the chocolate chips that don't have a ton of BS in them. So you can have more control that way.

SPEAKER_00 45:13

Make cookies at home, guys. I want you to enjoy cookies. Cookies are part of things that bring us joy. They make you feel good. They make you feel like you're 10 years old again. Make them at home.

SPEAKER_01 45:23

I love a good either shortbread or like oatmeal raisin cookie with a cup of coffee in the morning.

SPEAKER_00 45:27

Yeah. And it's if it's a homemade cookie, you're going to crush it. It's going to be delicious. And then these things start getting you thinking, why am I eating this other stuff when this really good stuff with stuff that I know what it is in it is delicious. It's not like these companies manufacture a flavor that can't be replicated, right? Anyway, we're going to finish up here with some health tips, guys, to protect yourself from the agendas of people that go to islands and do weird things with other people. Um first one, we talked about glyphosate in this episode. We talked about it in the previous episode. Things that you can do to minimize your toxic load. One is washing your produce. Yep. Now, more so than just rinsing it in the faucet with water that probably has glyphosate in it, too. But it depends on what state you're living in. Um you can soak your produce in baking soda. Yep. Especially those higher toxic ones. Like if you're buying strawberries, are very high in sprays, blueberries very high in sprays. You definitely want organic or not, you want to wash that stuff.

SPEAKER_01 46:43

Soaking for about 15 minutes. And is it two tablespoons per liter?

SPEAKER_00 46:49

I believe so. You're the one that does it. I mean so. I mean, just put baking soda in that water, guys, and let it sit for 15 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 46:55

And my whole thing is if I'm not consuming the outside of it, I won't necessarily soak it because I do understand it takes time. So avocados, I don't soak um oranges. If you want to get really neurotic, that when you cut into the avocado, the knife is going from the outside into inside. So technically you should clean it. But I'm choosing not to be neurotic about that. Um, so avocados, oranges, um lemons, limes, what else do I not eat the outside of? Bananas, mangoes, papaya, melons, melons, yeah. But things like kiwis, skin on favor, little hairs, little broom. Yeah. Also a little lazy. Um, so kiwis, apples, strawberries, blueberries, apples and berries.

SPEAKER_00 47:45

Yeah. Apples and berries are highly sprayed. Some of the most sprayed.

SPEAKER_01 47:48

And then you know what I just realized I haven't been soaking that I probably should radishes, cucumbers, peppers.

SPEAKER_00 47:55

Yes, peppers are another one that's super sprayed. Yes, so peppers definitely have to get soaked.

SPEAKER_01 48:00

Because for some reason in my mind, I'm like, only fruit. Yeah. My bad.

SPEAKER_00 48:04

But when you soak them in the baking soda water for a little bit, man, that water looked nasty, guys. That water looked nasty.

SPEAKER_01 48:10

It's hard with strawberries because the seeds, like they're they're out on the outside, you know, and a lot of those will come off. So it's not little bugs, it's the seeds. But it is, you know. Are we a hundred percent sure it's doing something and removing everything? No, but baking soda, the truth is being exposed on baking baking soda more and more, but how powerful of a cleanser it is without the load of toxicity. And so the problem with baking soda and clothes, though, because I tried to use baking soda for our ghee, left a white smudge.

SPEAKER_00 48:45

But you remember baking soda for the tubs for the shower?

SPEAKER_01 48:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:48

How I you drop it on there, soak it, and then come back like 10 minutes later, and that thing is like you're literally spraying the gunk off the thing. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 48:56

Because Dan likes to wear black leather sandals, and then if it rains, that leather bleeds onto the bottom of his foot, and then he gets in the shower and it's like, here's my black footprints.

SPEAKER_00 49:08

And I'm black too.

SPEAKER_01 49:09

Nope. It's not about that.

SPEAKER_00 49:10

I'm literally losing color in the shower.

SPEAKER_01 49:13

Stop it.

SPEAKER_00 49:16

I'm washing this the black off in the shower.

SPEAKER_01 49:19

No, it's your little feet prints. And then depending on the material of the tub, it like it doesn't rinse off. So then I gotta scrub.

SPEAKER_00 49:26

Yeah, but baking soda really helped with it. Like, I mean, just put it on there, wet it a little bit so it makes like a little paste.

SPEAKER_01 49:33

You let it scrub it a little bit, just let it set, and then you can we made a rule in the house, like I'll clean everything else, but you got the tub.

SPEAKER_00 49:38

Yeah, oh, it sprays right off. It's amazing. Um here's one uh seasonal fruits.

SPEAKER_01 49:45

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:46

So I tried to speaking of washing your fruit, seasonal fruits.

SPEAKER_01 49:49

Achieve the lifestyle, um, post seasonal fruits. And we like to follow this account. You can follow them, war on kitchen.

SPEAKER_00 49:56

It's the war kitchen.

SPEAKER_01 49:58

The war kitchen, excuse me. And every month, the beginning of every month, they'll post uh fruits of that month. They'll also promote like spring, summer, fall, winter. But for April, I'll try to pull this off the top of my head. It's going to be strawberries, Meyer lemons, blood orange, papaya.

SPEAKER_00 50:18

The citrus stuff is going away. That's in the it's in later in their season.

SPEAKER_01 50:22

Pineapple. Um, I think avocado's back on. Yes. Is Kiwi still on?

SPEAKER_00 50:30

Kiwi's not still on.

SPEAKER_01 50:32

Okay. And uh passion fruit.

SPEAKER_00 50:36

Passion fruit is on there. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 50:38

Um, asparagus is up.

SPEAKER_00 50:40

I think rhubarb.

SPEAKER_01 50:42

Rhubarb.

unknown 50:43

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 50:45

Check them out. Uh grapefruit maybe is still on.

SPEAKER_00 50:48

Grapefruit is still on. So all the citrus stuff is later in their season. It's citrus is going away as we go into spring and closer to summer. Pineapple, papaya, uh, strawberries, blueberries are on there too that are that are coming into season right now. Um, speak timely thing, right? So we're we're trying to follow the seasons and eat seasonally. It is no joke, the fruits are better when you're eating them in season. No joke.

SPEAKER_01 51:16

And it promotes variety, right? So we're gonna get this type of fruit during the winter, so citrus, so high in vitamin C. And then we're gonna get other nutrients in the spring, other nutrients. So it's this nice variety that you cycle through to allow exposure to your body. And also, like I've mentioned on previous podcasts, um, a lot of the micronutrients can compete for binding in your body. So if you eat something year-round, you may not be getting the full panel of things that you need. But if you allow variety, it gives you exposes you to new things and allows things to attach because they're not being challenged by something else that's there.

SPEAKER_00 51:53

So yeah. Yeah. So check it out, guys. Eat seasonally. Um, we can't stress that enough. You've heard us say it before. I promise you the quality of your fruit is better when you're eating it, when it's in season. Yeah, it also buying it.

SPEAKER_01 52:08

It also allows for more involvement and more fun. Sometimes when I go grocery shopping, it's like I'm on autopilot.

SPEAKER_00 52:16

Yeah, and you just grab the same stuff.

SPEAKER_01 52:18

Same stuff, same stuff, same stuff, right? But especially if you have kids, I can see how this is like, hey, let's plan the menu this week. Why don't you go look up what's in season right now before we go to the grocery store? We're getting more involvement of the whole family into purchasing food that's then going to nourish our body. And then you can like have a little side quest of why is why are pineapples good for us? What does it have? It has bromelin. What does bromelin do? You know, and that I think that's just there's a wealth of knowledge just by making a choice to eat seasonally. And then you can have a lot of um more say and involvement within the whole family of purchasing your food and then making dinners. Now your kids care about what they eat. And how is that going to benefit them when they're an adult?

SPEAKER_00 53:05

Yep. Apricots. I just remembered apricots are under too.

SPEAKER_01 53:08

Oh, okay. I couldn't remember it. Apricots are nectaries.

SPEAKER_00 53:10

So, and it and it's something to, I mean, it just tastes better. Like I said, in season, it just tastes better, guys. Like literally, no crap. You pick a strawberry out of season, and it's like white on the inside, it barely has any taste. You eat it now, and it's redder on the inside. It looks the taste is different, it's juicier. Hey, it's almost like things were ordained to work a certain way.

SPEAKER_02 53:35

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 53:36

Um, and finally, here's a little tip from conversations that we've had this week. Um, gradual exposure to physical activity or building capability. So we had one person approach us that was saying she had an injury or something to her ankle. And if she's she was trying to increase her step count.

SPEAKER_01 53:56

So she has a chronic ankle injury. And if you've injured your ankle significantly in the past, it's pretty unforgiving. It'll all always kind of peek back up because ankles are very they're more of a complex joint and they bear a lot of the weight, and you you got to use them to move your body around, right? Same thing like with the knees. So she had a previous ankle injury, and she's like, I try to go for walks. I know I'm supposed to walk 45, 60 minutes, you know, to get that benefit, but my ankle hurts if I do it once and then I can't do it for two or three more days, and then I just don't want to hurt again, so I don't do it. And a lot of times people just it may sound obvious. Well, well, then don't walk that far, right? But when we're in our thing and we think, oh, I need to be walking a mile, it's hard for us to think of alternatives. That's where seeking out help can be very beneficial. So we just said to her, when does it start hurting? At a mile, right? Okay, so why don't you walk half a mile twice a day or a quarter of a mile three times? Or you know, just try to figure out where that is. She approached us last night. I separated my walk into twice a day, no pain. I'm doing it every day. Great.

SPEAKER_00 55:19

She found her way in, right?

SPEAKER_01 55:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:20

Um, I also had a conversation, somebody, one of my clients, her 80-some-year-old mother, who's pretty ill, um, you know, oxygen tank, all that jazz person didn't take care of herself ever a day in her life. But she wanted to start walking. We're like, ooh, that's good.

SPEAKER_02 55:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:37

She should. And she had this grandiose idea of walking in some park in in Boca. But my clients like, listen, the benches are too far. You're just gonna wear yourself. It's too much. But I was like, nah, take a wheelchair, let her walk a little bit, put her back on the wheelchair. And then let's say you get a hundred steps today. Maybe next week we figure out how to get 110 steps. You know, and just gradually increase the capability. Now, the bigger picture with this that we can draw from these two examples is people that don't work out or they're not doing anything for their health, and then they decide to do everything for their health all at once, right? I love the spirit. I love that you're thinking about it. I love that you want to do something for yourself, as everybody should be doing. But gradual exposure will always work better, more so than opening up the fire hose. Now, there are some people that are successful when they just jump in with both feet headfirst and start doing everything at once. They're outliers, right? The majority of people should probably start with gradual exposures, meaning, I know you want to work out five days a week because you think you you're gonna get this result. You know, you've neglected your health for 20 years, you think that in two months you're gonna get healthy. But really, I want you to work out twice a week to start off. That's right, maybe even once a week, depending on who you are. Maybe even your initial workout is to stand more and not sit as much as you are right now, right? Especially if you're older and you know, we're dealing with people with walkers or something like that. And then from there, we can start getting your step count. So, hey, first workout might be stand for five minutes a couple times a day, whereas you spend the majority of your day sitting. So remember, gradual guys, open up the hose little by little until eventually you're drinking from the fire hose.

SPEAKER_01 57:28

Yeah. And the other thing with her, because she separated it out into two walks at the example we gave. I like that for people. I see a lot of people, I can't do 45 minutes, a mile, an hour walk, whatever. Therefore, I'm just not going to do it. Where I would say, well, then if you don't have time to walk 30 minutes, do you have time to walk 10 throughout the day, like breakfast, lunch, and dinner, or before work, middle of work, after work, or whatever. And I would say, do that. Because if you run late one day and you can't get your morning walk, well, then you have two other walks available for you. And maybe you didn't get 30 minutes, but you got 20. That's great. Or you start your day and then your day goes to hell in a handbasket. Well, you had your 10-minute walk, but the other two didn't happen, but you still walk 10 minutes. That's better than zero.

SPEAKER_02 58:22

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 58:23

And so inserting activity, even if it's not meeting the duration you want, but you're working it into your reality, which I think is hugely beneficial. So let's start doing that. I was, since I'm in the office, my step count went down. And I was like, I need to get back into the habit of getting it back up. And so I got away from doing a walk in the morning after we got Maggie because my time, my schedule shifted. So now I'm like, okay, let me get back into doing this walk. It takes me seven to 10 minutes, and I get a good 1500 to 2,000 steps, depending just to start my day. I now have no problem reaching 10,000 steps a day because I added that walk-in in the morning. Less than 15 minutes of my day. Huge, right? And so let's start adding in things where we can because the little things will build up and provide a cumulative effect for us for the better, instead of just saying, I can't do that, therefore I'm doing nothing.

SPEAKER_00 59:25

Yeah, uh, and that's the takeaway here, right? Like, you know, when you think about reducing your ex your toxic load, not eating as much glyphosate, not eating as much fake ingredients, not, you know, getting more exercise, all these things, you are looking for small victories that will compound and add up over time. Same way microexposures to toxins eventually lead to some sort of disease over the years. Good stuff, micro exposure to good stuff will lead to a big health transformation over the years. So little things done more often are better than big things done for short periods of time. Yes. And that's the gist of this message is that you can actually do more with those little things that you're doing. You can actually do more for yourself than just sitting on your booty and saying, Oh, I can't control it all, so I'm not gonna control any of it. Right? Good point. That's what it comes down to. So with that in mind, guys, that's an episode. Anything you want to leave these people with? I got one thing. These tips that we're given, you know, some of you might be like, oh, I take care of myself, I don't need to listen to this. So whatever. Nah, bro, I want you to take this episode and you like share it. Do that when you share it because it shares better if you do that, okay? Share it with somebody, your mom, your dad, your brother, your sister, your neighbor, somebody, your grandma, somebody you know that isn't doing anything and needs these little tips. Yeah. And share the episode with them. Be like, yo, these people are talking about some stuff that you could do. Go ahead and listen to them. You know?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:06

Or these people are confirming stuff that I've been telling you that you thought I was crazy, but here we go. They're giving you some sources for you to look up this information and realize that uh these island people are out to get you. All right.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:19

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SPEAKER_00 1:01:42

Yep. With that in mind, guys, do some little things that are gonna pay big dividends later in life that are gonna compound into good stuff, good health gains. Um, share this episode. Yep. You found this helpful. And till the next one, guys, I need you to eat seasonal fruit and stay pharmaphobic. Thanks for listening to the pharmaphobic podcast. If you found this conversation interesting, which I know you did, make sure to follow us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And also make sure to check us out on Instagram at Achieve the Lifestyle. And if you're interested in pursuing a stronger, healthier, more capable version of yourself, check out our website at AchievethLifestyle.com.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:26

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