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The Hidden Roots of Health: Dr. Gary Whitaker's Family Secret 🌿 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Apr 2, 2024
🍃 Subscribe to Sway’s Universe for more exclusive content: Dr. Whitaker's Plant-Based Blueprint: A 103lb Weight Loss Journey 🍃 Witness an incredible transformation and a journey of determination as Dr. Gary Whitaker, founder of Plant Based Fitness, sits down with Sway In The Morning. Unveiling his personal blueprint to shedding 103 pounds through a holistic and plant-based lifestyle, Dr. Whitaker not only shares his profound weight loss journey but also dives deep into the science and philosophy behind his life-changing approach. From discussing the importance of sunbathing as a form of therapy to tackling toxic relationships and their impact on health, this interview is packed with groundbreaking insights and heartfelt stories, including a touching tribute to his grandfather, a naturopathic doctor who inspired his journey. Don't miss this deep dive into how Dr. Whitaker transformed his life and is now guiding others to do the same. For more exclusive interviews with music's biggest names and discussions on health, wellness, and social change, hit that subscribe button. Dive into our playlist for more from Sway In The Morning, and follow us on social media @SwaysUniverse for the latest in hip-hop, gospel music, and beyond. Visit our website for #RoyalFlush, #KirkFranklin, #dee1, and more!
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
1:05 - Consistency Importance
6:57 - Toxic Relationships Analysis
11:35 - Depression Toxicity Discussion
13:56 - Dr. Gary Whittaker Insights
18:35 - Plant Based Fitness Inspiration
19:35 - Plant Based Fitness Origin Story
22:00 - Plant Based Fitness Serendipity
22:57 - Dr. Whitaker's 103 Pound Weight Loss Journey
25:15 - Generational Health Exploration
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[Applause]
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there you go citizens that's a game
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that's a blueprint yeah a lot of people
0:04
talk a good game especially if you
0:05
looking on social media but they ain't
0:06
got the backing to support it that's the
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blueprint they don't have the
0:10
credentials to support it that's the
0:11
blueprint some people just speak it to
0:13
you how they feel but there's no proof
0:15
of concept what you just heard was a
0:17
blueprint created by the one and only
0:19
and this is blueprint wasn't created not
0:22
only because of the way he studied he
0:25
actually studied Heather be and got got
0:27
a got credentials as a PhD and holistic
0:30
Health Sports Nutrition from the
0:31
University in College of Natural Health
0:34
it's not just that you know at a point
0:36
in his life he was living an unhealthy
0:38
life and wanted to change it right okay
0:40
and so he took the proper steps to lose
0:43
103 PBS wow to get to the place where he
0:47
is today I met this man at a family
0:50
reunion okay did not even know him but I
0:53
knew we had something in common cuz we
0:55
had the same sneakers on and I said well
0:58
that got to be family right there right
1:00
and then when I found out what he does I
1:02
wanted to make sure at some point we get
1:04
a chance to connect he's the founder and
1:06
owner of plantbased Fitness he's known
1:09
as Dr Whitaker I want to welcome him to
1:11
the show this is a family member this is
1:13
my cousin please welcome the one and
1:15
only Dr Gary Whitaker to the show
1:18
today up baby what's going on y'all how
1:20
y'all doing I'm doing fantastic and
1:23
incredible at the same time shout out
1:25
our family name man yo shout out to the
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won shout out to the W
1:30
shout out to the swans shout out to
1:32
everything that brought us here
1:33
collectively today yes indeed man we met
1:36
how many years ago was that probably
1:37
like about three three four years ago
1:39
three or four years ago he was remember
1:40
when you went you remember that yeah and
1:42
I talked about it I met all these
1:44
beautiful amazing yeah different people
1:45
from different sides of the family and
1:47
you weren't even going to go no yeah my
1:49
my my aunt was like come on down and I I
1:52
came through and yeah it was a good time
1:54
I you know it was it was magical because
1:57
it's just like you don't you think about
1:58
the Six Degrees of Separation
2:00
and you don't know who you actually are
2:02
connected to and I think that that was
2:04
like a serend dip at this moment I'm
2:05
like wow that's pretty dope yo that's s
2:08
yeah walking up yeah just walking around
2:11
like nothing too with a plate in my hand
2:14
I was going to say where was the you had
2:16
your Mighty fork with you yo man I
2:19
listen I was talking to people I had
2:20
never met in my life like we grew up
2:22
together that's how family reunion
2:24
supposed to be right and then you know
2:26
my grandmother who has since
2:28
transitioned uh that's I was there with
2:30
Elsie Waters Elie Waters Elie Waters she
2:33
was so happy that we were all there that
2:35
day and I remember we got family
2:37
pictures all sorts of stuff from that
2:39
day man definitely I'm glad we shared
2:41
that so Dr Whitaker and I stayed in tune
2:43
and we've been in touch ever since
2:45
Heather be and I invited him to come up
2:47
here to talk about his company because
2:49
citizens right now we are all even in
2:51
this room Heather be went to the gym
2:53
yesterday nice why you telling my
2:56
business I went last night um
3:00
correction Dr Whitaker I went last night
3:02
but I found myself um I'm going to go
3:05
back a few months just wanting some
3:08
discipline and consistency in that area
3:11
and it's not much but I just do 45
3:13
minutes a day I'm not I take the
3:16
weekends off just because that helps me
3:19
look forward to Monday or whatever day
3:22
but I give myself two days just to rest
3:24
and then get back on track again and I
3:26
noticed that being consistent and having
3:28
that discipline when I do miss or if I
3:31
happen to miss more than two days I feel
3:33
like I need to be in there something
3:35
feels a little off I also find myself
3:37
now even though I live on the east coast
3:40
um wanting to get out and get more sun I
3:42
love the sun anyway I'm I don't have
3:45
that issue of you know I can't stand
3:47
being in the sun I get hot too fast I
3:49
love it but I make it my business just
3:51
to step outside even if it's in my
3:53
backyard for five minutes a day just to
3:55
take it in even if I don't see the sun I
3:57
get out so little by little for me I'm
3:59
not a person that just you know Dives
4:02
right in oh I'm going to make this big
4:03
change in a week um it takes time for me
4:06
to to do it and so I'm making little
4:08
adjustments yeah definitely I I think
4:10
one of the key things that you said that
4:12
was really powerful is that you are uh
4:15
taking the time to develop the
4:17
consistency and I think that um when we
4:19
are trying to uh embark on a new habit
4:23
it's important for us to get those
4:25
little wins and those little wins lead
4:27
up to bigger things because if anything
4:30
the the key that we want to implement in
4:31
our life is just the consistency you
4:34
know what I mean like it's the
4:35
consistency of the Habit because the
4:37
thing about what we're trying to do is
4:39
we have a subconscious which is like 95%
4:41
of our our brain and we have our
4:43
conscious which is 5% and we're trying
4:46
to fight against that 95% with only the
4:48
5% effort right you know what I mean and
4:50
so that that that right there is really
4:53
Paramount to you getting that in the
4:55
habit and then also too you know in
4:57
places where we don't get a lot of
4:58
sunshine the thing is is like we are we
5:01
are we're in buildings you know what I
5:04
mean like before we were out and about
5:06
we were run walking around we're doing
5:07
different things we're getting more Sun
5:09
than we actually are now and a lot of
5:11
people suffer from vitamin D
5:13
deficiency and so with vitamin D
5:16
deficiency it leads to a lot of other
5:18
illnesses and stuff like that and back
5:20
in the day uh in Natural Health they
5:23
used to actually do sunbathing as a form
5:25
of therapy really yeah and so and so
5:28
there was actually prescriptions where
5:29
they would get people they would put
5:31
them out in the sun for a certain period
5:32
of time and it would help to uh Aid in
5:36
the healing of certain health conditions
5:39
and so the thing is we live in colder
5:41
places that's why we talk about right
5:42
temperatures we live in we live in
5:44
colder places now sometimes um but we're
5:47
tropical people you know what I mean
5:49
like like we we have a relationship with
5:51
the sun we need the sun yes you know and
5:53
I think that um by you knowing how to
5:57
get that you know I mean and Implement
5:59
that in your life because also you got
6:00
to think about too if you live in a
6:02
place where it's cold seasonal
6:03
depression is real M Seattle yeah yeah
6:07
and so I I lived in the Midwest for
6:09
about 10 years and I came back to Cali
6:13
and the one thing that I didn't notice
6:14
was that I was lightweight depressed
6:17
like it it was to the point where I
6:18
wanted to stay in the house and I didn't
6:20
want to come outside and I was like and
6:22
it's bright sunny and I'm like man why
6:24
don't I want to come outside and I was
6:26
like man I'm I had to look it up and it
6:28
was seasonal depression and I think uh
6:31
even when we think about the violence
6:33
that goes on in a lot of places a lot of
6:36
that is related to
6:39
depression wow Dr Gary Whitaker man
6:41
let's give out to yeah yeah I know then
6:43
he dropped the mic all of a sudden got
6:44
quiet you know like for something to
6:46
think about here follow him what's your
6:48
Instagram uh my Instagram is Dr Gary
6:51
Whitaker drr period gar Whitaker at drr
6:55
period Gary Whitaker um another thing
6:58
you talked about is is um toxic
7:01
relationships oh that should have been
7:03
number one
7:05
right you know I I think so we we could
7:08
talk about uh the health aspect right
7:11
yeah so a lot of times we focus on just
7:13
the nutrition and the exercise and we
7:15
don't realize how the relationships that
7:17
we hold can be killing us too as well
7:20
like for example if you are stressed out
7:22
in your home it's like a it's like a
7:25
response that you can't escape because
7:27
your home is probably where you spend a
7:29
a lot of time at supposed to be Refuge
7:31
exactly so so if you are there and you
7:34
don't have a quality relationship with
7:36
your partner that relationship can
7:38
potentially be killing you because it's
7:40
producing stress hormones cortisol is a
7:43
stress hormone and that's what happens
7:44
when you have any type of conflict it's
7:46
like a fight ORF flight response so if
7:48
you more than likely when people come to
7:51
work they have some form of that you
7:53
know what I mean like it's usually in
7:55
workplaces where they're talking about
7:56
like you know antistress uh meditation
7:59
relaxation they even have pods where
8:01
people go to relax and so now if you
8:04
take that and you don't get no break
8:06
from that and you transfer that to your
8:08
house then you're you're putting
8:10
yourself in a toxic environment
8:12
consistently and that's where diseas is
8:14
actually come it it comes from your your
8:17
internal environment being uneasy
8:21
disease disase second time we heard that
8:25
yak yes Dr Yak awaken came by the show
8:30
disas disease and then it's compounded
8:33
because it depending on how many people
8:35
in your household if Heather and I live
8:38
together and and horse we kind of do s
8:41
over the house all the time cin all
8:44
right but then Heather might bring in
8:46
whatever she dealt with that day I'm
8:48
bringing in what I dealt in that day
8:49
torch got what he dealt with that day
8:51
and it is like a cocktail it's a
8:53
toxicity cocktail right how do you
8:57
address that though like most families
8:58
don't even realize that's happening well
9:00
I I I think the biggest thing is that um
9:03
it starts from one person taking the
9:06
stance of uh being a leader you know
9:09
what I mean like you have to set the
9:11
tone um it and then you also have to
9:14
work on like good communication you know
9:17
what I mean I think that's the biggest
9:18
thing is like a lot of people don't work
9:21
on becoming good communicators and and I
9:24
think a lot of people are emotion
9:26
emotionally immature you know what I
9:28
mean and so when you when you're in that
9:31
environment you have to just set these
9:33
rules and these standards like hey this
9:35
is how we're going to we're not going to
9:36
go to bed mad at each other that's
9:39
that's that's number one like if you
9:41
have a argument sometimes you might need
9:43
space you know what I mean like and then
9:45
you know what's really powerful this is
9:46
one thing that happened that um I did
9:48
start with my son is we had a meditation
9:51
time you know and every day yep at what
9:54
time when when he was with me before we
9:56
went to bed we had a meditation and then
9:58
in the morning we had meditation wow how
10:00
long it's it's usually about 30 minutes
10:02
or so you know but for him I I just I
10:04
said with kids I said for however old
10:07
you are you have to do one minute okay
10:10
so so my son was 11 at the time so he
10:12
knew that in his daily routine that was
10:14
11 minutes and so it progresses as he
10:17
gets older too as well and I think even
10:19
for even for adults like you know not
10:21
everybody's used to sit and still like
10:23
meditation is not becoming a master it's
10:26
about just Stillness and in that
10:28
Stillness so many things come to you you
10:31
know what I mean and so um that's the
10:33
one thing like I I will recommend to
10:34
anybody that's listening that wants to
10:36
start meditation I would say start with
10:38
two minutes two minutes two minutes okay
10:41
two minutes of just sitting still and
10:43
focusing on your
10:57
breath yep and and uh I just saw the
10:59
future yeah definitely and and through
11:01
that and through that practice cuz when
11:03
you get more oxygen inside of your body
11:06
a lot of things happen like I remember
11:08
one time I had a toothache and I didn't
11:10
know what to do I didn't have no pain
11:12
pills or anything like like that so what
11:14
I did was I sat down on the desk I put
11:16
my head down on the desk and I was like
11:17
man I'm just going to breathe and I and
11:20
and by the time and I I was at this when
11:22
I was working at the
11:23
YMCA uh I went to go told my manager I
11:26
need to go sit down I sat down put my
11:29
head on the desk started breathing and
11:31
my toothache went away no
11:33
lie wow wow okay can the toxicity and a
11:38
depression work the opposite way cuz you
11:40
mentioned coming into a home where
11:42
there's a bunch of noise if you well but
11:46
what about for people that come home to
11:48
empty home um I have a lot of friends
11:51
who live by themselves now divorce
11:54
different things like that or just
11:55
single and it's interesting because they
11:58
wanted to be sing single for a long I'm
12:00
doing me I'm blah blah blah blah blah
12:02
and then that one year turned to three
12:04
turn to 5 to 10 15 and I can notice
12:09
sometimes anger possibly some bitterness
12:13
and maybe depression yeah um does can
12:16
that happen as well in the reverse it
12:19
can because the one thing about us as
12:21
humans is that we we need each other we
12:23
we we need connection like if a baby is
12:26
not touched when the baby is born a baby
12:28
will die mhm M like like like we need
12:30
that and I think that um when you get to
12:33
a point where you are in your home alone
12:36
the biggest thing that you could do is
12:37
cultivate the relationship with yourself
12:40
like I remember I had a friend and uh
12:43
she actually her son was leaving right
12:45
leaving going on uh to you know to
12:48
school and I I told her I was like Hey I
12:50
was like this is a real this is a
12:52
beautiful time for you like I was like
12:54
this is your time to really get to know
12:56
yourself and I think the problem is is
12:59
that a lot of people don't put the
13:01
energy into themselves to know
13:03
themselves you know what I mean like and
13:04
when you're alone sometimes people feel
13:07
space with other people so so it's a
13:10
it's a mixture of like it's a mixture of
13:13
solitude and
13:15
togetherness because we need that
13:17
balance but now what happens is some
13:19
people fill that space with pets yeah
13:22
and and and and that could be a problem
13:24
too because now you don't know how to
13:26
relate to human beings human beings you
13:28
know what I mean like and so when you
13:30
don't know how to relate it it makes you
13:32
you get kind of it gets weirder you know
13:35
what I mean like your interactions with
13:36
people get weird you start saying things
13:38
like dogs are better than humans or pets
13:40
are better than humans and there's
13:42
nothing that could replace human
13:44
interaction yo wow I got a friend that
13:47
be buying straight wardrobe per season
13:50
for the dog per season like a new season
13:53
of clothes for the dogs dogs Dr Gary
13:56
Whitaker is here I want y'all to follow
13:58
him at Dr period Gary Whitaker uh d uh D
14:02
sharp just called and said man that's
14:03
great you got Coach G up here oh yeah
14:05
what's up D sharp okay you know D SHP ma
14:08
off the maze you know the DJ for the
14:10
Warriors hether you know D SHP sway I
14:14
just want to get you
14:16
know look Heather sway is the ambassador
14:19
of Oakland thank sway is all he does a
14:22
good job of being an ambassador and
14:24
making sure Oakland is put on the map
14:27
but Dr Whitaker not just Oakland
14:29
California he's decided now anything
14:31
Oakland even Oakland Michigan with the
14:33
basketball team he started claiming that
14:35
after he called them bootleg a week
14:37
before uh I'm for
14:40
it I can't win
14:43
citiz that's family right there um your
14:46
father owned a gym no so so this is the
14:49
thing um my grandfather okay was a was a
14:53
naturopathic doctor okay and so the the
14:56
craziest thing is this right um so I'll
14:58
tell you y the story real quick so so
15:01
basically um in
15:04
2018 I I was outside of my gym and
15:07
something came in my head and it was
15:09
like check to see if your grandfather's
15:11
alive right and I was like hm that's
15:14
inter because I never heard about my
15:16
grandfather dying my my just my dad I I
15:18
had a upbringing where my mom was
15:20
definitely on drugs my dad was on drugs
15:23
and you know like he didn't do a good
15:25
job of letting me know who my family was
15:27
on my dad's side MH so at 36 years old
15:30
that's when I met all of my dad's side
15:32
of the family at at 36 grown man wow
15:36
grown man and so so then I met my
15:39
grandfather so I I called my aula I was
15:42
like hey aula uh is my grandfather still
15:44
alive and she was like well I haven't
15:46
heard about him dying so let me see let
15:48
me see if I got a number for him so she
15:51
found his number I looked him up on
15:53
Google and and he had won the lottery he
15:55
won like $10,000 on the lottery but that
15:57
was the first time I seen a picture of
15:58
him
15:59
right and so uh so then I call him up
16:03
and I you know I'm thinking all these
16:04
feelings going in my body I'm thinking
16:06
about the rejection all that yeah I'm
16:08
like hey is this Dr is this Herman
16:10
maiden and he was like yeah this is me
16:13
and I was like do you have a son named
16:14
Gary Waker because I'm a junior and and
16:17
he was like he was like yeah I got a son
16:19
named Gary Whitaker I was like I think I
16:20
might be your grandson and he said I
16:23
think you are my grandson and and so and
16:26
so then uh my family had had a family
16:29
reunion on my Whitaker side they had a
16:31
family reunion so I go out to the family
16:33
reunion and I met my grandfather for the
16:36
first time and I I literally I was
16:38
crying tears yeah man just balling and
16:41
it was because like he he came in his
16:44
lab coat he had his doctor's coat cuz he
16:46
worked for the VA and he had his own
16:48
practice inside of the VA and so I spent
16:51
four hours with my grandfather and this
16:54
was the the most powerful four hours of
16:57
my life Wow you know what I mean like I
16:59
I got a chance to uh kick it with him we
17:02
talked about herbs he told me about my
17:04
great great grandmother she was a
17:06
herbalist and that's who he learned from
17:09
and then um uh also I went inside of his
17:12
house he had this room it was a 12x 12
17:15
room and it had nothing but degrees and
17:18
certifications it was like a he had a ma
17:20
he had a uh Bachelor's in mathematics he
17:24
had a um he was a doctor of iridology he
17:26
was a a holistic doctor um a natural
17:29
path like it was just it was bananas
17:32
that I seen this and and I was just like
17:35
so in awe and then uh in 2019 December
17:39
like I used to call him so I would call
17:40
him every day yeah I'd be like hey you
17:42
know what I'm saying like what's up
17:43
Grandpa and you know we just chop it up
17:45
and then he would uh before he died it
17:48
was interesting because before he died I
17:50
asked him I said hey Grandpa I was like
17:53
can you give me your library if if
17:55
something ever happens to you and he was
17:57
like yeah he was like you can have my li
17:58
Library so I was I call I tried to call
18:01
him around Christmas uh he wasn't
18:03
picking up the phone and then my my
18:06
uncle who I never met answered the phone
18:08
and was like he's dead and so at that
18:11
point in time you know like I look at it
18:14
like everybody has a hero's journey
18:16
right and so for me I I I wish I had
18:20
more time with my grandpa but he showed
18:22
me everything that I needed to see about
18:25
who I was and where I come from yeah
18:28
yeah man man that's a beautiful story
18:30
say his name three times Dr Herman
18:32
Maiden Dr Herman Maiden Dr Herman Maiden
18:35
rest in peace SP wow so was he the
18:38
inspiration behind plant-based Fitness
18:40
so so plant-based Fitness came out
18:42
because uh in 2012 I was working at the
18:46
YMCA right and so what I was thinking
18:49
about like I was I worked a lot of sales
18:51
jobs you know so working those sales
18:53
jobs I was always on the other end of
18:55
customer
18:57
complaints
19:02
receiving and so I remember one time it
19:04
was this uh customer was yelling at me
19:06
on the phone and I was like Hey I was
19:09
like I I just listen and I was like the
19:11
only way I could help you is if you calm
19:17
down sorry and I was like it's all good
19:20
and so I helped them so I got a lot of
19:21
good customer compliments but I just
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didn't like being on the receiving end
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of that so there Health was my thing cuz
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I was a wellness coach at that time then
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I me to think about like being
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Innovative I was like what is missing I
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I had already been vegan for 14 years
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okay or during that time it was since
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2009 so I was probably about five or six
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years and I was
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like so I Incorporated a plant-based
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diet and exercise I was 46% body fat at
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one point in time
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I got myself down to about the lowest
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I've ever been was 10 and you know like
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to lose that amount of body fat
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percentage it lets people know that it's
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not really about weight because if we
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know about BMI BMI for is not always
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accurate for people of color and it's
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because it it was what is BMI BMI is
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body mass index okay right and uh body
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mass index was created during the
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military times so they could quickly get
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people into uh military access yeah
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service
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so I did that on myself and I was like
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Wow Let's combine these two things
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together and so at first when I first
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came out my logo was PB Fitness and
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people was like what's PB Fitness and I
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was like it's plant-based Fitness and so
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at that point in time I just kind of
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spread it out and then I started
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training people and the one thing that I
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started noticing is that people's body
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start changing you know what I mean like
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every person that I would put through
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this process it would happen just like
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that like body fat down muscle mass up
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and I was doing a lot of body weight
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string training during that time so I
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was working at another gym and then that
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that situation kind of changed a little
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bit you know like I had some things
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where people were stealing clients so I
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was like all right let me let me Branch
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off and do my own thing so I had a dream
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about a work live space right so I go
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online and I start looking up on
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Craigslist for work live spaces and then
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this space popped up and then at first I
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didn't think I was going to get it I I
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had did really well in business but I
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didn't know about the credit thing I was
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like I'm not sure if I'm going to get
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this and so at the end of the day it was
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uh April April
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2018 and I moved in on May 15th 2018 so
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so that that was when I got the uh my
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actual gym location and so I started off
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by doing uh classes yeah and then I was
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doing uh semi-private training and so
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that was the birth of plant-based
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Fitness where is it located uh it's in
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Oak California so right so so now this
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is the thing go ahead and clap him up T
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come on man come on yeah man that's for
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real so so this is the thing um
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everything is serendipitous in in my
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opinion right um I had a nice run you
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know I mean like in 2018 from 2018 to
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about this year actually I had to close
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my doors you know what I mean because
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the fitness industry had changed you
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know what I mean the fitness industry
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changed in a way to where I thought
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people were going to be ready to come
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back back and do inperson training it
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didn't pan out and so I had to close
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that location I still do the plant-based
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Fitness Services it's just online now so
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I had to make a pivot oh that's smart
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yeah so online how can they reach you uh
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they can reach me through my website at
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www.pl fitness.com you can also reach me
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on Instagram drgary dr. gar Whitaker and
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uh I'm I'm that on all all platforms
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okay www . plb
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fitness.com how long did it take you to
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that's my last question how long did it
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take you to lose 103 pounds so the 103
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pounds was over different periods of
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time so basically the first time I I was
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like 260 I got myself down to 190 all
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right I I learned something because what
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happened was I gained it back wow so
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that's another thing too is that people
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don't understand the process of like if
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if you don't put yourself in the right
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habits because what happens is this is
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when you start losing weight you start
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looking good and when you start looking
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good people people start to get
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comfortable yeah that's happening with
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me right now go ahead cousin right and
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so and so Charlie
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Brown please look and so when you start
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looking good you you stop doing the
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habits that got you there yeah you know
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what I mean and so the reason why I'm so
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effective at helping people to lose it
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because I know the process like like I
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know what it's like to lose it gain it
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back in the emotional state state that
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you're in when you do gain it back yeah
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cuz then you got to do it all over again
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and so then I lost it again and then I
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lost it I was at 240 I got down to 193
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so you know what I'm saying so so that
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process and that's why I say um it's a
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journey like like like your health is a
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journey you're going to go through
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different phases of your health uh you
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might not be vegan you might be eating
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meat but then eventually there's
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different levels of nutrition like you
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know what I'm saying like uh like uh Dr
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Yaki was saying he talks about
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fruitarianism yeah that's the highest
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level of nutrition you know what I mean
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like because you getting all your
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enzymes and everything is available is
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bioavailable and so but a lot of people
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ain't ready for that because because we
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have to come to a point where we are
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stepping ourselves up so just think
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about that it's just a ladder you know
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what I mean like every time you stepping
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you stepping up and as we get older it's
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imperative that our nutrition changes
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the problem is that we keep eating the
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same things that killed our family
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members before yeah and and then and
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then we want to get mad and say F cancer
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cancer ain't the issue it's your bad
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it's your family bad habits it's the
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choices you're making right yep Dr Gary
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Whitaker I want to thank you my cousin
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for coming through man look at our
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family Heather y y got
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doctors I got doct right all
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right can you can you talk consult
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Heather and her family too yeah I I I
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got so the thing is like at the end of
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the day my my goal is to help people
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through generational Health yes you know
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because because we talk about
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generational wealth yeah but we don't
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say nothing about generational health
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and I and I say this they say the
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revolution will not be televised and
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it's actually true because the
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revolution starts with what you put in
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your mouth and the only person watching
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is
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you Dr Gary with I want to thank you for
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coming
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by
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