Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)

meet you. There are a limited number of VIP experiences for a private Q and a intimate meditation and a meet and greet with photos. Tickets are on sale now. Head to Jsheddy, dop me Forward Slash Tour and get yours today. How many times have you promised yourself that this is the year you're going to change to a healthy diet. Maybe it's been your New Yar's resolution, maybe it's been a goal before the summer, whatever it is. I want this year to either year that you finally

achieve it. Do you feel like you try and eat healthy but you're constantly tied about three PM, or maybe you're trying to cut out junk food but you're finding it really difficult, Or maybe you're someone who wakes up in the morning and always feels bloated. You even took get a step further and had the labs done that were fine, but you knew something was off. Or maybe you're one of those people was thinking, Jay, I need to get a gut test. I need to know what's

going on because I'm not feeling great. If any of those are true for you, this episode is for you. The number one health and well Inness podcast, Jay Sety Jay Setty set So why did we put this episode together? I know that the amount of information out there on how to be healthy and what you should eat or not is so overwhelming. There are so many podcasts, there are so many articles. There is so much advice, even short thirty second tiktoks telling you what's perfect for you.

What I wanted to do was help you understand how

there is no one size fits all. I wanted you to hear from the best experts we've had on the show so that we can simplify and clarify some of these things that feel really complicated. So much of what we eat is marketed as healthy, but it's often working against us. Today's guests break down how to read your body's signals, improve your diet with protein and vegetables, and

choose supplements that actually support your goals. Whether you're trying to feel better daily or prevent chronic disease down the line, these insights will help you make smarter and most importantly, sustainable nutrition decisions. I can't wait for you to hear it. One of the biggest things I've learned about health is that the more proactive you are, the more prepared you are. I'm sure you've felt it before. You feel healthy, you feel good, You get a test done when you're wondering,

how did I not know that? How did I not feel that? How did I not see that? Now? Some people are scared of getting tests done, scared of getting their lab results. But here's the reality. It's much scarier being surprised or shocked by something in the future than it is to be aware right now and start making changes. This clip is from doctor Ksey Means, who talks about how we can be proactive and how we shouldn't wait

for illness to start caring. I hope this inspires you to get more data, to get more tests done, so that you can be proactive in your health journey. Remember, you're the only person who has to live in your body, with your body and whatever you're going to go through. Let's not set ourselves up for failure. Let's be prepared for a long, healthy life. I wanted to talk to you about this because a lot of people have said this to me, and I just invested in a company

called function Health. I don't know if you've come across them them.

look at that list and you're like, well, where do I go from here? Like, where do I start? What do I do? What does HDL mean? What does you know? Homer IR mean? What does you know? Uric acid, Like, what is all of this stuff? It's so out of our vocabulary. And like you said, nine percent of doctors in the book you talk about this, nine nine percent of doctors don't understand it or will say don't worry

about it. That's that's what I've been told as well many times before I was able to start getting tested by my holistic doctors. All I was hearing is don't worry about it, don't stress about it. It's not a big deal. You're young, you're healthy. And I'm like, I know, I'm young and healthy, but I want to stay young and healthy, and I believe that requires a bit more effort than me saying I'm young and healthy. It doesn't matter. And I've learned about early stages for me of LDL, of

my predisposition to diabetes because of my heritage. And you know, there's so many things that I'm so happy I know about today, which has reduced my intake of certain things that I love or I enjoy, or I've been addicted to for years, whatever it may be. So how do people make sense of what to do with those two hundred biomarkers.

say is start simple and start free. Every year, if you go to the doctor, they're going to order a very basic set of tests that usually involves a cholesterol panel and a fasting glucose test. They're going to take your blood sugar, your blood pressure as well. So a lot of people might be asking, how do I figure out if I have good energy or bad energy? And it's very simple. You start with five essentially free biomarkers.

Fasting glucose, triglysrides, HGL, cholesterol, waste circumference, and blood pressure. They generally come stand around a physical and if you have a fasting glucose less than one hundred milligrams to test leader an HDL, cholesterol above forty for men or

fifty for women. Triglyphs rides less than one hundred and fifty milligrams per duest leader, a blood pressure less than one thirty over eighty five, and a waste circumference less than thirty five for women or forty for men, and you're not on medication, you buy our standard criteria fit the category of essentially having good energy, that is essentially saying you are metabolically healthy. Shockingly, people who meet all five of those criteria not on medication currently comprise less

than six point eight percent of American adults. Ninety three point two percent of American adults, based on the most recent research, have at least one of those metabolic biomarkers off or not in the optimal range. So that's just step one is just nowhere you stand, and you can literally like log into your electronic health record right now and get a tape measure for your waist and figure out those things. And I think a simple way just I'll just simply say kind of what those tests mean.

So fasting glucose, like I mentioned, if that's rising in the blood, it's a symbol that deep inside your cells, the mitochondria are overwhelmed. The mitochondria overwhelmed from all the lifestyle things we talked about that are under our control, and they are saying we cannot process any more of this into energy. Therefore we are blocking it from coming into the cell. Therefore it rises in the blood stream.

That's why fasting glucose matters. It is a sign that deep inside the belly of your cell, the cell is overwhelmed and is blocking the entry, so it's rising in the blood. Triglycerides are totally related to that because when that glucose is high and has nowhere to go and as in being converted in that miraculous cosmic process to human energy, it converts to fat so it can be stored because the body does not want the blood sugar to be super high. High blood sugar is a problem

in lots of ways. It sticks to things and causes dysfunction, It causes inflammation. The body converts it to fat and stores it in within cells or in fat cells. So that's what trichglytride means. Triglyrides is basically saying there is again damage within the cell. The cell is overburdened and we are becoming metabolically dysfunctional, so we have to print fat to take care of this excess that we can't process. HGL is a helpful part of the cholesterol family, high

density lipoprotein cholesterol. It's a type of cholesterol lipoprotein, so a molecule that floats around in the blood that actually takes cholesterol from the arteries back to the liver to be processed and excreted. So it's a way of taking it cholesterol from where it could be causing problems in the blood vessels and putting it back to the liver.

And unfortunately, when the liver becomes dysfunctional because of the way we're living today and becomes filled with fat, do the other do I just spoke about with tregisrides, this process of creating the right amount of HGL gets dysfunctional and we start to see HDL decline and that's a problem. So HGL is quote unquote good cholesterol, and when it's low, that's basically means that we can't pull the damaging cholesterol

from the blood vessels back to the liver. So, simply put, that's like, that's a lot of what you to know about metabolic biomarkers. There are so so so many more. But and then waste circumference. That one's kind of interesting because it's really a proxymetric waste circumference for how much fat is around your internal organs. This is a type of fat that we're hearing about more and more called visceral fat. There's three types of fat. Subcutaneous fat, which

is the fat you can see. It's the fat that you know, we kind of try to get rid of because if we don't look as good in a bathing suit.

It's actually not the fat that's going to kill us. You know, this fat, it's not going to kill us. Then there's visceral fat, which is the fat that is around our organs that makes the organs dysfunctional. And then there's intracellular fat, which is literally fat that's built up

inside the cell that causes massive dysfunction. Visceral fat and intracellular fat are the two types of fat that are going to shorten your lives your life, and those are both driven by in slim resistance, that process that we talked about that is fundentally rooted in mitochondrial dysfunction. So the waste conference is just a way of basically telling you how much fat is around my organs and therefore

how insulin resistant might I be. And then the last one is the fifth one that I spoke about, which is blood pressure and blood pressure again, it roots right back to glucose and insulin and metabolism. As our insulin levels in the body rise, and they rise again. Just let's make it really simple. The cell, the mitochondria is broken,

it's not working properly. It can't process the glucose. It creates insulin resistant because insulin resistance because insulin is the hormone that's secreted to help glucose get into the cell. But if there's an insulin block, essentially the insulin can't do that job, and glucose rise in the blood. But the body's like, oh no, the glucose is rising. We need to actually secrete more insulin to drive glucose into the cell, which of course adds more burden to the mitochondria.

So insulin levels rise well when insulin levels rise, as a compensatory mechanism for this mitochondrial dysfunction and the rising glucose levels. Another impact it has is to block nitric oxide production. And nitric oxide is the chemical in the blood that dilates our blood vessels and keeps our blood pressure under control. So hopefully it's a little complex, but those five things all link back to the exact same thing, which is mitochondrial dysfunction, which is caused by the lifestyle

pillar as we talked about. So just to summarize, those five simple tests that usually come on every annual physical are the best place to start understand where you stand

on those compared to the range as I mentioned, and that will give you a sense of where you are. And then it's really implementing the basic dietary and lifestyle strategies to give your body what it needs. So we can free up the strand on the mitochondria and bring those things down. They will all start coming back in a normal range as you free up the mitochondria to do better work, which we do through our daily choices.

Quickly speaking to function health, that is like the next level, and that is if it's something that's accessible to you. I recommend every single person in the world do this if they can, because it's over one hundred biomarkers, like you said, for less than five hundred dollars, less than the copaid that you would pay at the doctor's office for like ten labs. And what that will do is actually give you a hyper granular picture of what's going on.

Side your body and your metabolism. And I mentioned that there are three hallmarks of bad energy. There's chronic inflammation, there's oxat of stress, and there's mitochondrisfunction. And the beauty of the Function health test is that they actually have tests that will tell you about each of those, so you can really know what's going on, and beautiful functional medicine interpretations that actually help you understand what they mean.

and so forth. And what's really interesting is that for the biomarkers that we do not have a good drug for, we ignore them. Like triglyst rides, you rarely hear about triglyps rides, even though they are more associated with heart disease than LDL. We only hear about LDL because we have a medication for it. If uric acid is high, here's alipurnoal. So we focus on the biomarkers that have a drug for them, and what they don't learn is how to look at the labs in concert with each other,

to read the tea leaves of what the labs are saying together to tell you about your core physiology. So what I just shared with you about fascinating glucose treylis rides, HDL, blood pressure, and waste circumference is frankly more than what we even learn in medical school of how they all

relate back to metabolic dysfunction. And so I think it's just really important for everyone to find the resources like the book that explains it in clear detail, and you can sit down with the book and your lab tests and understand for yourself where you stand.

those with you. That you break down one of the big ones that I've struggled with for a very long time, because I remember feeling like I had to do this quick and fast forever. You talk about eating slowly, which I think sounds like the easiest, simplest but underestimated habit. So could you woke us through that?

you're eating, and that does change everything. The average American family is eating fewer than three meals per week at a table with the family, like this is the This has become so normal now that we don't eat with other people, We eat in our cars, we eat while we're walking, we eat on the go, And I think just the key message here is that the more you can invest in sitting down at a table and eating slowly and mindfully, it's literally going to have a profound

impact on your core metabolic health.

sugar's fine, it's not that bad. But the truth is, spikes in our glucose are over intake. Processed foods, which are packed with those hidden sugars, are what's causing our crushes and later down the line, illnesses and diseases that we don't want to have to go through. My next guest is one of my favorites of all time. Jesse in Chope, also known as the Glucose Goddess, gives the most practical, simple daily habit changes. You don't need to buy anything, you don't need to learn a new skill.

You can start applying these insights right now and it will change your life. I've been following these words as closely as possible, and I felt the benefits, and I can't wait for you to feel it as well. If you feel like you're struggling with your sugar intake, your cravings, your crashes, this clip is for you. What are some of the hidden places glucose is that we may not see or may not understand, that we can't figure out

on a day to day basis. Because I feel like when I went to that test of the no sugar cereal in my head that didn't have glucose, only for me to understand it was the rice that it was made from that was having that impact on me. So whereas are there any others that you know that are hidden?

Breakfast foods huge hudre defenders. And then kind of like funny things that you wouldn't expect, like eating a lot of grapes. Y, if you eat fifty grapes, that's actually a lot of sugar because the fruit that we eat today has been bread to be extremely high in sugar and concentrated in sugar. But I think breakfast foods are one of the biggest ones.

in an orange juice or whether sugar came from a beetroot and is now in a can of Coca cola, Right, those sugar molecules will both lead to a glucose spike.

and you're gonna feel quite awful. An important switch to make is to switch from a sweet breakfast to a savory breakfast built around protein. Right, whatever kind of protein you like. Maybe it's dairy, maybe it's tofu, Maybe it's protein powder, Maybe it's left over fish from last night, maybe it's eggs, whatever kind of protein you want that's going to keep your blugose levels nice and steady. Add some healthy fats in there, and you can have some starch,

like a slice of bread for taste. But importantly, a savory breakfast contains nothing sweet, except if you want some for taste, some whole fruit. Right, and you know, all those sweet breakfast foods that you love, you don't have to say goodbye to them completely.

the whole day. And I think switching from a sweet breakfast to a savory breakfast is almost like you know in the movies when they go through the mirror. It's a parallel universe. Yeah, And you really feel so differently.

a lot of different things that come with it. Talk to us about why it's so addictive. Yeah, obviously beyond the fact that we love the taste of it, Why is it so addictive and how does it.

but with less impact in your glucose levels. And listen, sugar is addictive, right, and that dopamine is very very, very very addictive, and as human beings eating something sweet is a very easy way to get a hit. Now, what you're talking about can also be due to if somebody completely cuts out carbs, so starches and sugars completely. Let's say from today to tomorrow you cut out all carbs.

That can cause issues because if you've been eating carbs your whole life, your body expects these carbs every two to three to four hours, and your body's actually just burning glucose for energy. So all of a sudden you cut off its supply of glucose and it becomes a little bit stressed out, especially if your body's not used to also burning fat for fuel.

the grass from under the foot too quickly. That's going to be difficult.

the internal health of your body, right. And if you're just focusing on I want to lose weight, I want to lose weight, there are very unhealthy ways to do that that might actually make your health way worse.

lose weight. For example, in my experiment, about half the people lost some fat on their body without trying to, without counting calories, without cutting out foods, just because naturally that's where their body wanted to be and it readjusted right. But the objective is not weight loss. The objective is being craving free and not feeling victim to finding sugar three times a day or not a victim to the

pot of ice cream at the back of your freezer after dinner. Good energy, so you can actually live the life you want to live and go after your dreams, you know, that's the point, and play with your kids and have time for yourself, and then improving any medical condition you might have, from mental health to infertility to diabetes. Well, that's consequence, but it's not the whole point. It's not a diet, you know.

on weight, then I must be healthy. And that's such a I mean, it's such a rudimentary belief around what health and well being is.

feel that post meal slump anymore because generally that slump comes from your glucose having spiked and now dropping because after every spike, there's a drop, and this drop can make you feel really, really, really tired. So if you feel those symptoms of the post meal crash, the best thing to do is to start with your breakfast, So have a savory breakfast. Then the second thing I would recommend is that at lunchtime, make sure that you start your meals with a specific type of ingredient that is

going to help balance your glucose levels. And before I tell you what that is, I want to tell you about this amazing research study Jay So researchers looked at a meal and they found that if participants ate the elements of that meal in a specific order, they could reduce the glucose spike of the meal by up to seventy five percent.

It turns out that when you start your meals with vegetables, the fiber in the veggies when you eat it first, has time to coat your upper intestine and create a sort of protective mesh okay, like a shield on the walls of your intestine. And that shield then slows down how quickly the rest of the meal is going to access your bloodstream. How quickly, the molecules from the rest of the meal are going to make their way into your bloodstream, and so veggies first. Is this very important hack.

Now the scientist.

minutes later you're crashing. And that's when the waiter comes over and is like, Hi, anybody would like some dessert. And at that point you're feeling this intense creating for sugar because of that glucose drop, So you're going to order dessert.

the energy crash. So that's another super important hack. And if you do nothing else, just at your next meal, eat what.

parallels in cultural habits. So you know, I'm French and in France we have this tradition of kuditi at.

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the code on Purpose. So I already said that we have too much information on health and nutrition or there's lots out there, and a big part of that is we have a lot of information about vitamins and supplements, and there are so many on the market it's hard to know what we actually need, what's right for us. And if you're someone who's trying to figure out how you can boost your energy, boost your immune system and stay healthy and want to know which vitamins and supplements

you should be on, this clip is for you. This next clip is from cleans expert and holistic nutritionist Elissa goodman. It's going to help you figure out which vitamins you should be taking, which supplements you should avoid, and what you should look out for on the packaging and the key nutrients we all need to live healthy, energy filled lives. If you're trying to figure this part of your health out, listen to this. Now walk us through in a practical sense,

how does someone make a choice? What do they need to read on the back of a box or a bottle with vitamins and supplements, Like, what should they be looking for and what should they be looking at to make sense of it from a technical standpoint, not just the intuition standpoint.

for you to be able to digest them. So a lot of times, you know, or like it's expensive to have the supplement be all you know, liposolmal C or B or whatever, vitamin D. So a lot of times they add that the additives so that it isn't as costly. So it really is a struggle because a lot of people don't do well with these additives and they don't know that. So micro crystalline cellulars is one that's in a lot of supplements and it gives you digestive issues

if you're taking too many. So you could see a lot of people's supplements and they can all have microcrystalline cellulose. I mean it's wild so it or soy lesse than you know, or just these addits, just like in foods. You know, it kind of maintains the shelf life of the supplement as well. So it's hard to find supplements without that because they're costly and a lot of people can't afford that. So that's why, you know, I try to go more like with the food and that you know,

lead with the food and then supplements come second. But there are some settlements out there that we absolutely do need. You know, Vitamin D is one of them. I mean since COVID, the studies that have been done on vitamin D and especially leposomal D because liposomal is a fossil liipid outside of a you know, supplement, and basically is better to absorb, easier to absorb like lipolsomal C and

lepelsomal gluedethia on all those things. And so basically, you know D. When you raise your D levels, you.

battle every day meditation and mindfulness and everything else. And then I realized I was like, actually, I would have been a much better meditator if I just took a supplements of vitamins early on, because then your body's actually helping you with that focus and with the physical activity or movement and exercise right whether it's hiking or sport

or whatever it may be. And it's so funny now that you're naming all these things, I'm like, I've seen all these things on the backs and never known what that means. And it's so easy to just feel so uneducated. And I've definitely felt that way in this space. You know, without having good people around you, it's so hard to really know whether what you're doing is good for you

or not. Walk us through like if we took a random stack of snacks right now, and I don't want to pick on any brands or anything like that in any way, but if you were to teach someone how to read the back of a snack pack, what should they be looking out for? Because this is something that

I believe has changed the way I snack. And I generally, i'd say my diet is like maybe I don't know at this point, like five percent processed or packaged foods in any if that, probably when I'm traveling, I'll have like a protein bar that I travel with or something like that, But generally it's not I'm on the whole food's diet and everything else. But it wasn't that way before. I used to think that if I ate healthy snacks

then that was okay. So I would eat package goods and then fifty percent of my diet was packaged goods, or maybe thirty percent. Walk us through what we should be looking out for, because I think so much is hidden on these.

the protein bars too, you know, every so often it's not bad to have some of these things that do have these you know, all these things in them, because you're not going to be perfect. But I would say seventy five percent time eighty percent of the time to try to look for, you know, those things on the back and just try to do things with less additives because your system doesn't know how to process it doesn't

know how to digest it. And the more you add these additives into your body, I think more toxic you become. And also the digestive system, like the digestive issues are crazy out of control, Like I created a digestive cleanse because it's been like everybody has digestive issues. Everybody calls me like my every time I eat, I get bloated.

You know, I can't eat anything now, or I can't go to the bathroom, like the constipation for days on end, like it's really crazy, or the other side of it, where they're going in the bathroom too much, that's an epidemic, like the hydration.

doesn't taste as good though, no it doesn't know. I had a protein by the other day because I was an expo and I had a protein bar and I was like, oh great, like this literally had three ingredients on it. I was so excited to eat it, and I tried it and it was so bad compared to the one that I've been programmed to love, which has all the other thirty things that you'd say I shouldn't eat and they're not good for me. And it's so frustrating because I'm like I wish I was trained to

believe that whole natural foods were tasty and healthy. Whereas because I've been so spoiled by my taste buds have been ruined by all of this other stuff that now feels captivating and exciting and tasty.

bone broth or a vegan broth. Our bone broth is really gelatinous and so there's a lot of collagen, which I love. And then we get you get different salads for the week, different salad dressings, fermented vegetables. You get different soups for the for the nighttime, and then you

get lattes for the evening. Then you also get digestive enzymes and you get magnesium, so to make sure that everything's working properly, because people going from an animal protein diet into a plant based legooms and beans can disrupt their stomach and also a lot of vegetables can as well. So there's that one. There's a three day.

the Tonic's been on there for nine years. The Bar's been on there, like it's crazy that things are still popular. People buy the tonics and the bars separately. And then the Gut Cleanse has activated charcoal on there, so what activated tarcole? So I love activated turcle because it lowers bacterial loads in your gut.

So they get activated charcoal, they still get the enzymes, they get the magnesium, but they get chia pudding, they get sour kraut, they still get the detox tonic. They don't get the bar because a little too much sugar. I don't want sugar for them because the bacteria. And then they get everything else that's pretty similar. And the nighttime is a tulls t You know that Holy Basil is one of my favorites. It's anti inflammatory and great

for the gut, great for sleep. So that's my That's the other cleans that I love, And so what I'm trying to do for people is really clean them out. Those clients are the ones that have a little bit of conservation issues, like aren't going to the bathroom regularly, and they're by the end of the week they're going two and three.

adequate amount of protein. Also, if you're struggling to figure out which milk to be drinking thing thinking about how it impacts your blood sugar levels, or thinking about what's good for you, this clip will make a difference. I think the challenges is, we know with health and wellness there's always a new fad, a new trend, a new kind of thing that comes up and everyone gets behind it, and then afterwards a few years later we realized that

there was more research to it. I think one of those big areas is around there's two areas in the book that you cover really well that I want to dive into. One is around where we get our protein. We know protein's important. I mean, remind us how much protein we need to get every day. Like good protein, you.

They councel each other's out. It doesn't work like that. Protein's the same way. So different proteins send different signals to the body. And there's something called amino acid availability score, and it turns out that animal proteins score much higher than plant based proteins. And I say this as a former vegan, a former raw vegan, and you just cannot get enough protein from plants unless you're doing heavy industrial processing of the plants, and that calms out a cost.

But even then, the highest quality of plant based protein powders don't hold a candle to dairy protein, which is vegetarian, or egg protein, which is a vegetarian or sort of the king of proteins is beef or buffalo or bison. As a vegan. I had a problem with this because why was a vegan. I was in Tibet at a monastery, and Tibetan monks love to argue. They're trained since they're

about eight years old. They have an eight year old sitting on the ground surrounded by older kids standing up all arguing at the same time, doing these aggressive things, and it's to teach you to be calm in the face of arguments so that you can still be at peace. And it's beautiful to watch. So I knew this, and so I'm kind of teasing the head lama. I said, well, you tell me no killing, but you have a yak skin on your prayer pole, so I think you're a hypocrite,

and he starts laughing and it looks at me. He goes one death feeds everyone. I'm like mind blown because I had been a vegan until I went to Tibet, and I was I cannot be a vegan in Tibet because there's just very little food and if there's some yak butter tea or there's a little bit of meat, you just eat it because there's just not enough food. So I really thought about it, and that led me

to think about death's per calorie. And as a guy has built a regenerative farm on Vancouver Island and raised all of my own animals for most of the last eight years, I will tell you that a cow will feed you for an entire year, and if it's grass fed and from a local farmer, no other animal died unless the cow stepped on a frog. I mean, it

is literally one death. And if the cow was treated with respect and ethically, then you are killing fewer animals than an industrial plant protein because when they do those, the tractor comes through and it chops up every creature that's there, including the bunnies and the mice, and the butterflies and all the ugly ones like worms that no one likes that are important for life. So I feel

really clean about it. But the most important thing that I can say if you choose to eat animal protein, which I do, is that practice gratitude before you eat. I believe because of my shamanic training, because of all the spiritual work that I do, that humans are energetic field as a species made a sacred agreement with the animals that we've domesticated, and they come here to nourish us in exchange for our gratitude. So if you are going to eat meat, you practice gratitude because that's the

deal we made. And if you disrespect the animal and you're eating industrial meat and you're eating it with mindlessly, I.

or something, and it doesn't work very well. But the reason is that, gee, that saturated fat is very nourishing for you, and that you actually need that you don't get it from a chicken. And also one chicken to get the amount of protein I need a chicken a day. I'm killing three hundred and sixty five chickens a year.

That doesn't feel very good. In addition to that, real chickens, the kind that I grow on my farm, take nine months to mature, and their fat is rich and yellow and full of vitamins, even though it's not the best kind of fat. But the chickens they eating at the store takes six weeks to get that big because they've been modified and bread to have these incredibly large breasts,

and they're terribly mistreated. So unless the chicken is pasture raised and heritage breed, at which point, it's not affordable. They're terribly expensive to raise. Chickens exist to make eggs. Eggs, if you're not allergic, are really a good source of fat and protein. And when you eat eggs, you want to cook the whites and leave the yolk running and then you get the most nutrients that way.

but even from a nutritional standpoint. I mean, as so, me and my wife are both plant based, but plant protein is like not a big part of our diets at all. My wife's like not into eating any of the burgers or any of the meat, so it's probably a good fake meat is not good. Yeah, it's yeah, explain why, because I think that's slightly the challenge for a lot of people who try and make that switch. And I feel everyone who turns to that then goes back because it's not satisfying.

I explain the virtues of ghi, where no animals die to make ghi and ghee helps to escort the nutrients from plants into the body, so you make better use of the plants. So sometimes adding tablespoon of gie a day gives you like a healthier skin glow and it feels more nourishing. And people can choose to do that or not choose to do that. And people get mad because I tease vegan. Dude, I was a vegan. Like it's teasing guys. It's not a disrespectful thing. It's in

my case, it actually harms me. And some things like spinach, kale, even raspberries and almonds are very high in oxalic acid, which I write about in the book, and it causes crystals to form. Seventy percent of kidney stones are from plant based compounds, not from eating meat and beer thirty percent or from meat and beer, and so you can overdo either direction, right, So I want people to say,

choose the right plants when you're plant based. And I would consider if I was plant based, adding hemp based protein powder, even though it is a processed food, it's going to be a process food that has the best amino acid score that you can get.

It works for people, maybe it doesn't work. Stopping dairy milk from my diet helped me with my gut. But I also don't drink a lot of oat milk or almond milk. That's not really that's not really part of my diet. I don't I don't have cereal and stuff like that, so I'm not drinking that. But then there's a lot of debate on that side of it as well.

touch it. Butter and ghee usually are acceptable, especially gee won't trigger allergies, and mucous like that for almost anyone. Well what about the fake milks? Right, so these are all industrial products unless you make it yourself. And what they figured out with almond milk was, oh, we can take leftover parts of almonds and you know, the ones that are broken and unsightly, and we can use those

to make milk. And it's just a few almonds and some canola oil and some high fryctose corn syrup, some flavorings and we blend it up. And we sell it for like eight dollars as a health food product. It's not a health food product. So almond milk is high in phytic acid that sucks minerals out of your bones. You have to take more minerals. And it's also high in oxalates, which are the things that are causing kidney stones and things that are causing gout and joint pain

when you wake up. Even if you have really bad skin and you're eating a ton of these high oxylate foods like almond milk and kale smoothies and all, this can be why because it's making tiny razor sharp calcium oxolate crystals in your skin that are coming out. So I don't recommend almond milk. Also if you're a vegan. For animals, the number of bees about a third of all bees dye pollinating almonds every year, like it is

not a particularly clean product. So then we say, well oat milk, Okay, that is the biggest scam on the planet right now. It raises your blood sugar as much as drinking a coke. It is not a health food and it usually has glyphisse and it's high in fidic acid that sucks minerals out of your body.

even coconut milk, there is no protein. So the coconut yogurt you like, it doesn't work because it doesn't have protein. So you have to take that and add way protein or add scoops of maybe hemp protein if you're doing plant based, but you've got to add a whole bunch of protein to it because normal yogurt has that. Most people tolerate grass fed yogurt pretty well. I still don't. I can't touch cow's milk unless it's ghee for the

most part, or I could do some butter. But if I was to have, you know, two tablespoons of regular milk, it messes me up. My gut's wrong, it's just not right. So that's an immune response. So I just want to tell you're not getting protein in your plant milks, and you're getting stuff you don't want in your plant milks.

comes to quality sleep and focus. Check it out. Let's talk a bit about supplements and vitamins, because I think that there's a lot of mixed messaging out there about what's needed, how much of it's needed. Some people are like, well, none of it really gets absorbed and does it make a difference, And there's always a debate about it. How do you go about figuring out what someone needs as an individual as opposed to just taking what everyone's taking, because you keep hearing about it everywhere.

extremely important. The number that I've seen in a lot of fitness and nutrition gurus talk about is it's a big number. It's like eight hundred grams of vegetables, just about a quart of vegetables, right, So once again, get your scale and measure this out and see what it is. It's not a small amount. It's like two full salads a day, but that's kind of what we need to work up to. So if you're doing that, the need for supplementation is minimal to none. Actually, I'm not a

big supplement pusher. I'd much rather people get it in your diet. The reality of the situation is, however, it's really hard to get that much protein and that much vegetable product into your diet right And of course we can't talk about vegetables without talking about making sure you're buying organic. You know, you're buying as local as possible. And if you can't, go to EWG dot org Environmental

Working Groups website. They'll give you a list of what are the most toxic vegetables and the least toxic out there right now, So look at that website and don't give you the list. So, if you're not getting enough vegetable intake into your diet, the next step is to

add some supplementation to that. The most common supplements I recommend for people are vitamin D. We don't get enough sunlight to produce it, We're not getting enough in our diet, so most people do need some vitamin D. It needs to be dialed in in based on a blood test, so you do a blood test. I like the vitamin D level to be around fifty to eighty and the vitamin D form that I like people to take is vitamin D three K two. The K two is also

another vitamin added in. It prevents over absorption of calcium with the vitamin D and deposition of calcium in your blood vessels. So vitamin D three K two. Then fish oil supplement as well for the vegetarians and vegans out there. There's some great non fish sources of fish oil as well, so I would do that as well. Magnesium is something that we're all very deficient in, so I would do magnesium as well. And then creatine. Believe it or not, it is amino acid that has a lot of research

behind it. Do you do creatine? Yes, yeah, five to eight milligrams every morning, just put a scoop in your coffee and mixes in with anything. I think that's another really interesting good one. And then I kind of then, you know, kind of do it based on what I ate the day before. Right, So if I got a couple of good salads in fine, I don't need to

do anything else. If I didn't, I'll take a packet of AG one, which is like a phyto nutrient powder, which I really like, and or a multivitamin sometimes as well. I'll do that too, And then protein powders are pretty much always a staple for me as well. That's the other supplement that I use.

There's other things you can do, Like if you're having trouble sleeping, there's ashwa Ganda, there's glycine. If you're having trouble with stress, ashaganda is another good one for that. But then I'm really selective about which ones to use.

experiencing as a symptom. It's important to take it seriously because you don't want to be at a ten.

are the key KPIs of your health. There's only about ten of them, skeletal muscle mass being one of them, body five percentage being another, Vitamin D level being another.

You got to keep that dialed in right, because the other point I want to make with you is that when your vitamin D level is low, like at this age, and you don't take care of it for twenty to thirty years, that's when the lack of vitamin D leads to the higher risk of Alzheimer's, leads to the higher risk of heart attack, leads to the higher risk of hormone problems. It all started twenty to thirty years before, when you barely felt it, you see what I mean.

So looking at those numbers twenty to thirty years ahead of becoming sick is the key to becoming CEO of your own health and then making all those diseases a non issue, making all the things that people die of a non issue fantastic.

of these other metrics that we're talking about here today, whether it's your glucose levels, whether it's your vitamin D levels, magnesium, et se, try you mentioned so many other vitamins and supplements. I just don't think we're trained to know where to look and what to look at, and therefore we're basing it on I feel tired today, I feel and I think this is something I want to mention as well,

that the mind and the body are so connected. But I think so often our physical challenges, we think are a mental challenge. So we think we're tired because we have we're not focused enough, or we're not excited enough, we're not motivated enough. We make the physical issue a mental issue, but it isn't. It's purely a physical and I know that because I feel so purposeful and love what I do, and I'm so joyful about it, and

I'm so excited about it. So if my body's not working to the degree I want it to, I'm very clear that you can have all the mental stuff down, but if you're not taking care of your body, it doesn't just you can push it a bit further, but that's not going to get you up the hills. I really hope that this helped simplify and clarify your health journey. See real health starts with what you eat and how you fuel your body, but understanding blood sugar, protein needs, supplements,

and vitamins puts your health back in your control. All I want for you is to live long, healthy, happy lives, and in order to do that, we have to take our physical health seriously a lot of people are talking about mental health today, but our physical and mental health are so connected. If we learn how to eat better, we'll actually feel better mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually. If this year, you're trying to live longer, live happier, live healthier.

Go and check out my conversation with the world's biggest longevity doctor, Peter Attia on how to slow down aging and why your emotional health is directly impacting your physical health.