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Oct 20, 2023
Shawn Stevenson talks about his health and wellness journey on Sway In The Morning. He has recently written a new cook book called ‘Eat Smarter’ to help others on their way to a better life.
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like your thoughts are literally
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creating this change in your
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biochemistry your thoughts are literally
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causing this change in your
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biochemistry I just told somebody last
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night that was
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joking and being self-deprecating to
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themselves to stop doing that and they
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said well it's only a joke I'm joking
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with myself I said at the time you said
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the joke the mind didn't know the
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difference stop doing that this is
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really important man we got a guy who we
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had a chance to speak to um during the
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pandemic when we were all locked up and
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from that one conversation I remember we
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were discussing it um I was very
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enlightened and very inspired and I just
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really kind of just like the dude like I
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felt like if I meet him in person we
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could hang out you know and and he's
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someone that Tracy uh speaks extremely
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highly of and and and when he first came
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on the show Tracy kind of gave me some
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Intel and um I'm really proud and and
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we're really lucky to have him here
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today Tracy could you do the honest yeah
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I mean this man is one of the easiest
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recommendations I could make to anyone
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who is trying to explore upgrade their
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mental health their physical health
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their spiritual health he is a health
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experts favorite health expert I must
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say he is the um host of the number one
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Health podcast right now that has almost
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a thousand
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episodes that been working listen every
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corner of this industry he's a
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best-selling author he's a father he's a
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husband he is a stellar human and he is
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here to promote eat smarter the family
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cookbook Sean Stevenson yeah we got it
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go let's go yes yes yes welcome welcome
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welcome in
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person amazing and his podcast is called
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the model help show wow Sean how did
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this all begin for you were you like
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this as a kid when did when did Health
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become a priority oh man you want to
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take it back to the beginning beginning
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let me tell you why all right a lot of
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us are at our beginnings yeah that part
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again yes how many times do we come to
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the beginning
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of Third born what was it that made you
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take health so seriously yeah yeah you
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know I grew up in a culture similar to a
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lot of people listening you know and
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we're just inundated with poor health
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yeah that's all we really knew just kind
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of living in what we call today this
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kind of glorified food desert mhm but
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even when you say food desert I think
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it's a little it sounds a little bit
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exotic still yeah it's not it's not it's
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not exotic at all I think like a jodessy
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video or something in the desert
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but damn
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you water's run dry but it's not it's
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not like that kind of desert this is a
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desert where we're deprived of real food
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and access to Wellness uh when I made
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this transformation personally I was
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living in Ferguson Missouri um and I was
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trying to get my degree first person in
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my family to go to college let alone
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graduate from college mhm thank you
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congratulations that that needs to be
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acknowledged and at the time there's no
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there's no gems in my neighborhood
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there's no access to to real healthy
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food I'm surrounded thanks to zoning
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laws they allow all these ultr processed
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fast food companies to just be inundated
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in the in the community and also liquor
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stores on every corner check cashing
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places just people that are take
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advantage of the community and I was
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just engulfed in it because that's all I
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knew and so at the age of 20 I was
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diagnosed with the so-called incurable
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spinal condition so my my spine was
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deteriorating rapidly and actually at
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track practice I was an aspiring athlete
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I ran a 45 you know right around 14 15
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you know did you do that way yeah yeah
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go ahead go ahead but actually as that
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track practice I was doing a 200 meter
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time trial and my my hip broke just from
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running and so that was speaking to how
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low my bone density was that's crazy
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right it's a kid breaking their hip and
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so finally at 20 I get this diagnosis
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when I'm living in Ferguson
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and my life just spiraled downward man
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you know I was definitely struggling
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with my mental health I was struggling
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with my physical health I was in a lot
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of pain but ultimately I decided to get
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well I decided to get well because I'd
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been pointing the finger asking why me
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why won't these doctors help me why
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won't you know my my family whatever the
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case might be I was pointing the fingers
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at all these other people and finally
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fortunately I looked within and I made a
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decision to get well most people never
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do that it's more like wishful thinking
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you know like I'm see what happens I'll
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give this a try when you decide
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something you cut away the possibility
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of anything else but that thing I was
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going to get well and not only that I
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began to have an audacious goal which I
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encourage people to have so think Beyond
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what's even comfortable I asked myself
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how can I be the healthiest person in
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the world I went from why me why am I so
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sick why won't anybody help me to how
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can I be the healthiest person in the
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world and it changed my perspective I
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started to see all these things in my
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environment that were there the whole
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time because lowkey there was a farmers
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market in Ferguson the whole time the
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whole time and the good part of Ferguson
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you know a lot of communities have a
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good part and it was just like 5 minutes
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from my house it was next door to the
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police station you know so I I might
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have just kind of had tunnel
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vision you wasn't on that frequency you
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probably walked by it a thousand times
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kept seeing it yeah my family sitting
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right over there we started to have this
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practice of going to the farmers market
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together you know every week and you
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know my kids being able to talk to the
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farmers to you know get little treats
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and make this kind of a family affair
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and long story short with that
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transformation within a n 9mon period
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when I got my scan done in my spine I
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had regenerated the spinal tissue my two
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herniated disc had retracted L4 L5 S1
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and but I didn't look like a person who
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just kind of like lost weight I looked
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like a person who was healthy you know
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and so people at my campus just kept
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coming up to me they're like what did
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you do I was like you know was it a
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problem or something no they was like
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you look so healthy can you help me do
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what you did and so that was the
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birthing of my career jesz my
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god
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wow oh that's amazing man the power of
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the Mind MH why don't we this I don't
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even have a question for this but why is
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it that we're not why do you think we're
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not in tune to that power when it was
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something you utilized found on your own
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and actually have results why isn't this
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taught more as we grow up in public
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education
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man you already know why you know this
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the the system that we exist in is not
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about empowerment you know there's a lot
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of farming of sick people and just
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keeping people in a condition where we
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don't understand our power farming of
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people yeah and truly our mind is the
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first domino in anything you know
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whether it's making choices about what
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we're eating our movement practices
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sleep Wellness all that stuff it start
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it starts with the mind and so if we're
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not taught about that and what I used to
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do I worked as a nutritionist for many
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years so people would come into my
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practice and we were very good at what
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we were doing you know helping people
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that coming in on you know let Cil and
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metform and all these things all these
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cronic conditions and helping people get
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well but a lot of times I would
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recommend Behavior changes for people
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but then send them into a culture that
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was fighting against them to be healthy
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yeah right and that was the problem it's
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kind of like I was helping them to treat
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a symptom like this conventional system
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was doing and not addressing the root
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cause and so I had this Revelation to
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instead of trying to get them to change
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their behavior how about I help them to
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change the culture around them in
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particular their microculture and their
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household and so we can make healthy
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choices easier so I stopped working with
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people and I started working with
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families right and I stopped working at
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individuals at businesses and I started
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working with the business itself right
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so now I'm going into like these major
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corporations and all this other cool
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stuff that I would have never thought
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possible you know and from there I
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started to see this this incredible
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ripple effect and then that landed me
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with you know book deals and the number
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one Health podcast and all these other
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things but but it's because I stopped
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thinking about helping people to change
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individually and making the culture
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around them making healthy choices
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easier if that makes sense that makes
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sense that's man Round of Applause every
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time he speaks you know I just invited
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torch on my guest P to Equinox I'm kind
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of walking in the same SE right Sean
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that's what you're saying right we going
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team up the Buddy movie let go um I have
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a friend who goes to um who mainly goes
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gluten-free here in the US
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right uh cuz she's severely intolerant
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but when she goes uh to other countries
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she's able to relax a bit and eat UNG
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glutenous foods and not have the same
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effect yeah ain't that something what's
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going on I could I could share there's a
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couple of reasons but I'll share one
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major one with you so I'm from St Louis
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and Monsanto is a home base there and
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you know they would come to the job
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fairs at my college all the time you got
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to explain who they are okay I mean
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they're they're a multinational
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corporation that are involved in our
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food system deeply involved in our food
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system a lot of genetic engineering and
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you know pesticides and things like that
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to help to grow crops all right so I'm
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just going to give them a you know an
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efficacious intro so they would come to
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the job fairs and I want to work there
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it was like one of my like top jobs to
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get a good job in Monsanto you know and
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you know one of the studies I actually
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published in this new each marter family
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Cookbook by the way there's over 250
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scientific references in a cookbook it's
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never been done before in this one
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cookbook that's a able now eat smarter
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family cookbook all right and with that
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being said but it's also delivered in a
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way that we're talking like right now in
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a way that's entertaining that makes
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sense that's fun and so a study that
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that was conducted and published in the
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in the East Mar family cookbook was done
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by the who who's got a lot of press the
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last couple of years and they affirmed
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that one of monsanto's products called
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glyphosate is a class 2A carcinogen so
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that means it probably causes cancer in
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humans yeah and the environmental
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working group they did an analysis of
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products on us store shelves of all the
10:04
grain products and they found that 80 to
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90% are contaminated with glyphosate
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again this causes cancer probably
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probably causes cancer all right not not
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100% okay all right so this is part of
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the problem with the grains it's not
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just the gluten itself it's also how
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it's grown and the contamination with
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all of these other toxicants and so this
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is why when people go to other countries
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and their grains are not grown like that
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their wheat isn't grown like that they
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can eat it and they don't get sick so
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that's just one of the reasons and I
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could break down a couple more but
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that's one of the primary things yikes
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so when I travel outside the
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country I see a lot of
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foods here that are banned in other
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places in the world yeah banned banned
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you can't even sell it legally in a
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grocery store and it's everywhere here
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in the United States crazy yeah what is
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that
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I mean there's a whole plethora of foods
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that are that are like that in
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particular certain additives that we use
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in the in the US like certain food dyes
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are outlawed you know many of them have
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been found to contribute to ADHD and
11:11
children and also carcinogens and also
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there's this new category of
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contaminants that we have a lot of data
11:18
on now called obesogens right so these
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are obesity causing agents and so our
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food system because and here's the
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overarching
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reason so have you guys talked about
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like the difference between Ultra
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processed food and processed food before
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I was going to ask you that part too but
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go for it yeah all right so humans have
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been processing Foods forever yes all
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right cooking a food is processing the
11:40
Food baking a sweet potato cooking a
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steak you know uh getting you know
11:46
cooking some spinach and by the way I
11:47
just thought about how that big box of
11:48
spinach goes to that tiny little mouth
11:50
when you cook it but you're changing the
11:52
chemical structure of the food
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processing has been done by humans for a
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long time taking the olives and pressing
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the oil out or coconuts pressing oil out
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so processing is not the issue you can
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still tell where those Foods came from
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right right when you press the oil out
12:05
of a coconut it's like oh okay they came
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from the coconut that's processed foods
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Ultra processed foods these are foods
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that when you see like a a field of corn
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or field of Wheat and somehow that [ __ ]
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becomes Pop-Tarts or a bowl of Lucky
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Tarts right or funions uh right it's so
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far removed from anything real you can't
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really even tell where it came from like
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if I was to present a a bag of funions
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to a hunter gather a tribe and be like
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where did this come from you don't look
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at you like you're crazy like that's not
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even food and so we have that starting
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point plus all the additives and
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preservatives and toxic food dyes and
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all these other you know I mentioned
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with glyphosate the list goes on and on
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why are they allow why is our government
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allowing this to happen yeah all right
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so I'm GNA just tell you straight up so
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I'm asking you all right so here and I
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of course I asked this question and I
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really the thing the thing about me is I
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try to remain in a place of neutrality
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that's fine and try to see the best in
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things right okay and do that because I
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don't want no Target on
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you that part that part so an analysis
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that was published in the Journal of the
13:11
American Medical Association looked at
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how this is happening how can we go to
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Jack In The Box and get two for 99 cent
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tacos but an avocado cost $3 one avocado
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that falls off a tree cost more than two
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cost intensive tacos including all the
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the meat all the so-called vegetables
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the all the the processing of making it
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the wrapping the marketing all that
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stuff is very cost intensive how does
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that cost less and what it is is because
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of government subsidies so this study
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found that the US government had
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contributed about $200 billion doll over
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this 15-year time span to companies
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processed food companies essentially
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that are making products that end up
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coming through the drive-through window
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and then processed foods so genetically
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modified wheat
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corn soy because when we go to the
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grocery store it looks like a whole
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whole bunch of diversity but it's a lot
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of that's made from the same [ __ ] and so
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our government is literally funding this
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issue and then this other analysis found
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that they looked at who's consuming
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these government subsidized Foods they
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found that in particular low-income
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communities and people who had the
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highest intake of government subsidized
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Foods had a 30% greater incidence of
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having obesity type two diabetes
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inflammation all these things and then
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that by by nature and this is another
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one of the things that's proven in the
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science when we reach these states it's
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more difficult to make it out of poverty
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and so it becomes this Vicious Circle Y
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and so the truth is the system that we
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have allowed to be built is profiting
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from our from our sickness it's
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profiting from our ignorance it's
14:47
profiting from our pain we have a $4.2
14:50
trillion doll Health Care system and we
14:53
have the sickest nation in the history
14:54
of humanity something's not adding up
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and so I'm a big fan of looking at at
14:58
the results we're not doing okay because
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we're allowing people to take advantage
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of us and that [ __ ] is over now come
15:06
come on Sean Stevenson is here yep it's
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all a part of it you just made the
15:10
correlation of health insurance
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diabolical so the food is making us sick
15:15
the health insurance is give you the
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pills give you the pills that don't heal
15:20
that keep you sick and then we pay
15:22
health insurance every month and the
15:24
moment you try to stake a claim it's
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like they pack up in the building
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ain't that something I've seen buildings
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disappear man Sean Stevenson I don't
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want to hog my brother anybody Tracy
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okay hold on let's do this let's do this
15:39
let's take a uh play a song we're going
15:40
to come back it and and take some calls
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too
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888 you can't pay for this y'all this
15:47
the one there's nothing more important
15:50
[ __ ] a bag Chase your health there's
15:53
nothing what you going to do with the
15:55
bag if you don't have good health right
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how many rich people people who are sick
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wish they could be poor with great
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health M so if you tuned in if you look
16:04
at this man's book he has his entire
16:07
family he has amazing family and very
16:09
easy recipes to follow that's what I
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loved about it each smarter family
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cookbook and he included his family on
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there yes and it's healthy Twist on old
16:17
classics so these are dishes that we are
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more than familiar with yep 888 742 3345
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get your mind right get your health
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right call us yeah man we talking soul
16:27
food Sean Stevens the author of his new
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cookbook e smarter family cookbook 100
16:32
delicious recipes to transform your
16:34
health happiness and connection I'm glad
16:36
folks are calling out to ask this man
16:38
questions he's truly a guru before I
16:40
throw this to Heather and Tracy um uh we
16:44
handed you a bottle of water right right
16:47
and I wanted to see your reaction to
16:49
this
16:50
water like you look like you cringe to
16:53
sip this water so let me ask you a water
16:55
question about water because mhm you
16:59
know we see these high pH bottles of
17:01
water like um smart water or Essentia
17:05
and they selling this I got a
17:07
fstep um infiltration um um filtration
17:12
system at my house yeah but it doesn't
17:14
have it's not a Reverse Osmosis System
17:17
um what are your thoughts on Water I
17:20
heard that all of these plastic bottles
17:22
of waters that we are drinking yeah it's
17:24
actually not good for us all right so
17:27
number one if you don't have a filter
17:28
you become the filter so having any type
17:30
of filter is going to be helpful okay um
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damn think about that but here's the
17:36
thing all right so yeah when when I
17:38
received this water I I blessed it you
17:41
know I was grateful that my my brother
17:42
gave me this water to quit my thirst and
17:44
I know that yes this water has and by
17:47
the way I'm not just saying this because
17:49
it sounds good like my colleague one of
17:52
my colleagues is a board certified
17:54
toxicologist yes all right in the lab
17:57
studying this stuff and the way the pl
17:59
Plastics these are fossil fuels all
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right so we're talking about the same
18:02
stuff that is put into your gas tank
18:05
right coming from the same source and
18:07
what we're using when we had the
18:08
discovery there's naturally current
18:10
Plastics by the way but when we
18:12
discovered the ability to take these
18:14
fossil fuels and turn them into
18:16
basically anything what what had to be
18:18
done was to use plasticizer chemicals
18:20
that soften it to mold it and some of
18:23
those are BPA BPS there's so many
18:26
there's dozens of them and what these
18:28
Plastics are these plasticizer chemicals
18:31
they are clinically proven to be
18:33
something called xenoestrogens so these
18:35
are estrogen likee compounds that come
18:37
from ex external from your body that fit
18:40
into estrogen receptor sites in your
18:41
body and turn on programs that mimic
18:45
estrogen so this could lead to the
18:48
increased incidence of breast cancer
18:49
this could lead to uh the development of
18:52
breast tissue in men the list goes on
18:53
and on talk about it so there's there's
18:56
there's many different so got titties
18:58
I'm feeling myself instead of the bra
19:01
instead of the bra you get yourself a
19:02
bro all right bro bras for the Bros so
19:06
and here's the thing so a lot of plastic
19:07
bottles now will say BPA free right but
19:09
that's really just kind of Health
19:11
washing and I maybe they're trying to
19:13
take an attempt but the reality is again
19:15
there's BPS there's there's again dozens
19:17
of other plastic Sizer chemicals that's
19:20
not this is really inappropriate to put
19:21
water in because and here's the bottom
19:23
line plastic doesn't biodegrade like
19:25
other things it photodegrades so even
19:27
light being on this plastic bottle
19:30
breaks it down faster into the water
19:32
into the water so you're and water is
19:33
called the universal solvent so anything
19:35
that it touches it integrates with so
19:37
you're drinking plastic tea you're
19:39
definitely drinking microp microplastics
19:41
and nanoplastics if you're drinking
19:42
water hey man take give me that water
19:44
take mine I give that se when you go out
19:48
listen what about this hold up hold up
19:49
he just passed me a paper cup that will
19:51
come from like a nice Starbucks this is
19:53
paper why isn't this [ __ ] melting when
19:55
the water's in it because it's plastic
19:57
lined in the cup oh give me my cup back
20:00
and last piece and I'm not trying to be
20:02
the bear of bad news no we need to hear
20:04
this last piece so what happens when you
20:06
put a hot liquid into that paper cup at
20:08
Starbucks you find out Santa Claus is
20:10
not
20:11
real ho ho ho so here's here's what we
20:15
found again toxicologist peer reviewed
20:17
study you're getting you're consuming
20:19
about
20:20
25,000 microplastics per serving of hot
20:24
coffee all right and our cells are not
20:27
very good metabolizing these plastic
20:29
compounds it's a newly invented thing
20:31
and so my question to you is since you
20:33
are what you eat you are what you drink
20:35
and we're becoming more plastic are we
20:38
becoming like Barbie and KS out this
20:40
month damn you look like a k doll the
20:43
way your body is I see what you mean by
20:45
that right look
20:48
like the Barbie movie what so Sean this
20:52
is not a commercial for any anybody
20:54
right it's not a commercial for any
20:56
company but let's just say you out with
20:58
family something happens you left the
21:00
water that you carry in a car you're
21:01
walking around New York City is 90° you
21:03
go into a store you see the 15 choices
21:05
what would you what would you buy yeah
21:08
great question so ideally we'd get if
21:11
we're buying water out somewhere we get
21:12
it bottled in glass that would be great
21:14
stainless steel is is good as well by
21:17
the way what the M the main thing is we
21:19
want to approach this with some Grace we
21:22
don't want to be crazy and erotic about
21:24
it because again like I just took took a
21:26
sip there was a time again when I found
21:28
out the science I was like ah I'm never
21:30
I'd rather I'd rather not you know and I
21:33
went like we went on a long ass flight
21:36
and we got off and I couldn't get access
21:37
to water I was crazy dehydrated and so
21:39
it's just understanding like cost
21:42
benefit analysis it's better to be
21:43
hydrated with a water that's been
21:45
purified or sourced from a a spring and
21:47
that's the other point too is getting a
21:50
water filter at your home is the best
21:51
option like he mentioned reverse osmosis
21:53
would be good um but what that does is
21:56
it creates a water that is essentially a
21:57
blank late right it's it's eliminating
22:00
all the naturally occurring minerals as
22:01
well and so here's another truth is that
22:05
there isn't any pure quote H2O in nature
22:10
anywhere all right and I put that in
22:11
quotes because that's what we're taught
22:13
in school H2O drink your H2O Bobby bue
22:17
right drink your high qualtity water you
22:18
know the reality is we will not find
22:21
water nobody got that water boy quote
22:23
I'm just letting you know my man I saw
22:25
you though I saw you
22:28
torched it I smiled but you're not going
22:32
to find pure H2O anywhere in nature by
22:34
itself because water is a universal
22:36
solvent it's always integrating with
22:38
what's in its environment wow and our
22:40
ancestors would always set up our trib
22:43
set up our communities where the water
22:45
was all right and water's going to be
22:47
naturally presented in certain
22:49
environments namely through springs that
22:51
was a primary spot now we can also we
22:54
have the technology to create Wells
22:56
right and so we're drilling down
22:58
basically they're underground Lakes
22:59
they're called aquifers and in the
23:01
aquifer when the water's coming out in
23:03
the spring is basically going through
23:04
the Earth's filtration process yeah when
23:06
you buy that water filter they're just
23:07
replicating what the Earth does
23:09
naturally okay so they got like the
23:11
sedimentary layer charcoal all that kind
23:13
of stuff and so when you drill down into
23:14
a well there's going to be a lot more
23:16
minerals that maybe it's too high in
23:18
minerals right something called TDS or
23:20
totally total dissolve solids and so you
23:22
need to filter that water as well that
23:25
because that water is well it's well I
23:27
get it I got there right right right but
23:30
ideally Spring Water spring water is
23:33
best bottling glass or get your own
23:35
filtration system at home and add
23:37
minerals back to the water so that the
23:39
water has structure all right so when we
23:42
drink water it's not just automatically
23:44
nourishing our cells there's an
23:46
interface between our cell and the water
23:48
itself and they're these little protein
23:50
Bridges they're called
23:52
aquaporin and so your basically if the
23:56
water doesn't have structure
23:58
from minerals it's not going to have
24:00
that kind of access path like to get up
24:02
here in the building to get across and
24:03
get into your cells if that makes sense
24:05
so you can be drinking a lot of pure
24:07
water or distilled water and not really
24:09
get your cells hydrated in the way that
24:11
they naturally would so I hope all that
24:12
makes sense bottom line add to the water
24:14
then Sean you said if you had Spring
24:16
Water what what would I add to it or is
24:19
it just safe to drink the spring water
24:21
spring Himalayan salt what is the thing
24:24
with Himalayan salt okay there's so many
24:26
different types of salt again our
24:28
ancestors there's even the word salary
24:30
is derived from the word salt as well
24:33
because people's getting paid in salt so
24:35
valuable and animals in nature you ever
24:37
saw those goats that like climb up on
24:39
the side yeah they trying to get some
24:41
salt you know that's the that that has
24:44
them doing that kind of the mountain
24:46
because of the minerals the electrolyte
24:47
yeah electrolytes you just said the
24:49
magic word so what are electrolytes
24:51
these are minerals that carry an
24:53
electric charge M and these minerals
24:55
enable your cells to communicate so
24:57
something called signal transduction
24:59
among other things so basically the
25:01
trillions of cells that make you up sway
25:03
can't talk to each other efficiently if
25:04
you're deficient in electrolytes and
25:06
these are just really salts all right so
25:09
there's sodium salt there's potassium
25:10
salt there's calcium salt there's so
25:12
many different types of salt but we look
25:13
through this tunnel vision of just
25:15
sodium salt right and also it's
25:18
villainized when one of the studies that
25:20
I cited in the book for example is from
25:21
researchers at McGill University they
25:24
found that sodium functions as an onoff
25:26
switch in the brain for turning on
25:28
neurotransmitters that protect your
25:29
brain from neurodegenerative diseases
25:32
all right we need sodium and they also
25:34
there's another study from researchers
25:35
at Harvard that found that having too
25:37
low sodium intake increases insulin
25:39
resistance so this makes you at much
25:42
higher risk to developing diabetes
25:44
excessive belly fat the list goes on and
25:45
on Sean Stevenson is here no hold up to
25:48
we got only a little bit of time left I
25:51
want to get to callers I'm going to get
25:52
Tracy um and I think you you you you're
25:56
overselling right now let him buy the
25:58
book cuz I'm trying to buy the book
26:00
right now there's a lot of books that
26:02
you can buy he got a lot of books but
26:03
the new book is e smarter family
26:05
cookbook 100 delicious delicious recipes
26:07
and again I just want to stress a lot of
26:09
times people are afraid to buy cookbooks
26:11
cuz they feel like I don't have those
26:12
ingredients I can't get this you guys
26:14
citizens this is super easy to follow
26:17
you did a great job Sean with breaking
26:19
down the recipes um I love to cook at
26:21
home this is so easy to follow seriously
26:24
we got Brian on the line from Oakland
26:26
we're going to take a few callers be go
26:27
ahead what you want to say to Sean real
26:29
quick yeah B oh boy I just got a salute
26:33
I worked uh 10 years in plant-based meat
26:36
and that's just with the intent of
26:38
feeding people not turning people vegan
26:42
not this or
26:43
that and it's coming at it from an
26:45
inclusionary perspective we're trying to
26:48
do the hand toand combat and feed people
26:50
most effectively Sean you're on the same
26:53
Mission I got all the love thank you for
26:56
putting this book out wow I receive that
26:58
man and listen this book is inclusive he
27:01
just said it's not necessarily about
27:02
converting someone to veganism or
27:04
vegetarianism from all ends of the
27:06
spectrum from from vegan to carnivore
27:09
everybody's included into this party
27:10
because people that are really about
27:12
that life were INF fighting about minua
27:14
we need our citizens eating real food
27:16
and less ultr processed food which
27:18
here's the punchline for what I shared
27:20
earlier according to the bmj British
27:22
medical journal one of our top tier
27:23
Journal journals American adults diet is
27:26
now 60% fake food Ultra processed food
27:29
we're eating fake food it's worse for
27:31
our kids we this is the first book
27:34
publishing this new data this is publish
27:35
in jamama the Journal of the American
27:36
Medical Association they looked at
27:38
childhood Ultra process intake for 20
27:40
years in 1999 our kids diet was 61%
27:44
Ultra processed food by 2018 it's almost
27:46
70% wow all right we're making our
27:48
babies bodies out of fake food and this
27:51
is why in the same time period by the
27:53
way childhood obesity is almost tripled
27:55
we have to stop this and again
27:58
Heather said it thank you so much for
27:59
that acknowledgement we're taking Hood
28:01
Classics we're taking real food we're
28:03
taking things that we grew up with and
28:05
we're just making it with real food
28:07
ingredients that's itas to follow my
28:10
gosh we got Brian thank you a citizen
28:12
Brian I'm going take one more Alfie and
28:14
Baltimore go ahead what would you like
28:15
to say hey Alfie hey good morning y'all
28:17
how y'all feeling today excellent go for
28:20
it all right uh quick thing um this
28:23
interview Hit me hard because I'm just
28:26
coming through I'm just from the doctors
28:28
i' I've been going through the same
28:29
thing from my C3 down to my C uh five
28:33
and six hch buing so I've been going
28:37
through the same thing with um spine
28:39
deterioration and everything yeah I
28:41
changed my diet real heavy in
28:43
20120 I stopped eating meat in 2017 but
28:46
2020 I was at my best and but I've been
28:50
just now all the sudden I you know my
28:52
diet I I end up slipping eat more sweets
28:54
and things like that so make things
28:56
shorter
28:58
I've been going now it's like re revers
29:00
now from after I didn't have my surgery
29:02
and listen to what you're saying and
29:03
everything like man this you know I I
29:06
need to get this book because it hits me
29:08
hard it hits me to you know what I'm
29:10
going through and I called them before
29:12
to talk to Tracy about impostor syndrome
29:15
because you know now you know going
29:18
through this you know I feel like I'm
29:19
not you know the person that I was
29:21
because you know you know with the nerve
29:22
pain and things like that so it goes
29:24
down to a lot of things I've been doing
29:25
like podcasting and things like that
29:27
feels like I don't feel like doing these
29:29
things anymore because I don't you know
29:30
the stress from not being you know
29:34
strong as I used to be you know it it
29:35
trickles down you want to talk to him
29:37
about that absolutely yeah so just a
29:40
huge acknowledgement to you man I know
29:41
how much pain that can be you know and a
29:43
lot of people don't understand it
29:45
because sometimes you can look okay but
29:47
if something's wrong with your spine
29:48
like it is it is a lot of suffering and
29:50
so he just mentioned you know being able
29:52
to upgrade your diet because you're
29:53
providing the raw materials to make new
29:55
tissues and if you give your body the
29:57
wrong materials it knows what to do we
29:59
just sometimes got to get out of the way
30:01
and also you know he mentioned you know
30:02
kind of slipping falling off but this
30:05
isn't like you know this isn't something
30:07
that we can't upgrade as well because we
30:09
have to treat ourselves you know we have
30:11
this innate desire as human beings to
30:13
seek tasty things that's not the problem
30:16
food manufacturers have manipulated our
30:19
desire to eat tasty things that's the
30:21
problem yeah and so even you know like I
30:24
mentioned living in Ferguson Missouri if
30:26
I got up time I get to McDonald's get
30:28
the hot cakes and sausage so my family
30:31
also we we love brunch so we put
30:33
together these delicious sweet potato
30:35
pancakes right to upgrade that so you
30:37
hit that sweet sweet note you hit that
30:39
sweet note you get that deliciousness
30:41
but in a in a much more advantageous
30:43
package because that sweet potato is
30:45
going to provide these anthocyanins that
30:47
are found to improve your memory also
30:49
improve your gut health the list goes on
30:50
and on that right so this what we're
30:53
doing again we're just upgrading foods
30:55
that we already love and also we got
30:57
Snicker bites in here okay in the book
30:59
in the book well that's the thing that's
31:01
surprising about the book is that you
31:02
would think oh my gosh well he's a
31:04
health guy and his I'm not going to like
31:06
this food like I I can't there's no
31:08
bread there's no Meats there's no this
31:10
and that's not the case here that's not
31:11
what it is yeah it's good food Tracy you
31:13
want to jump in yeah I mean citizens you
31:16
already hear it we're in conversation
31:17
with a master Sean Stevenson like all
31:19
the salutes in the world are not even
31:20
enough what I love about this book is
31:24
you get so many different health
31:26
benefits like emot health benefits
31:28
because what I've noticed with families
31:30
we don't have dinner together so even
31:33
the connection and cooking together
31:35
learning together and appreciating our
31:37
time also you touched on bro the
31:40
cognitive benefits because your memory
31:43
the amount of scientific facts and these
31:45
like really crazy you know um terms that
31:48
you're able to just spew out in a second
31:51
is so impressive and so I want to know a
31:54
bit more about that as well as when it
31:56
comes to families the adults food can
31:59
also impact your libido your sexual
32:02
health that part yeah speak on that CU I
32:04
think a lot of folks don't realize it
32:06
nobody wants that nobody wants that so
32:09
thank you so much for for that
32:11
acknowledgement as well like you know
32:13
I'm not innately just some kind of
32:15
superhuman this is the capacity we all
32:17
have yeah you know I was not this person
32:20
20 years ago and the reality is again
32:23
just by providing the right food isn't
32:25
just food is information right providing
32:27
ourselves with a different quality of
32:29
information is literally changing what
32:31
our what our DNA is doing it's changing
32:33
the copies that are getting printed of
32:35
us you know we have this new field of
32:36
epigenetics that's really where science
32:38
is now determining how our genes are
32:40
expressed and so one of the most
32:42
remarkable and when we started this show
32:44
I mentioned changing the microculture
32:46
and this is one of the biggest takeaways
32:48
for everybody and this is the reason I
32:49
wrote this book
32:52
so changing the microculture really has
32:54
to do with our family and the people
32:56
that we love
32:58
and we've been fractured we've been
33:00
fractured as a people we've been
33:02
fractured as families we evolved if we
33:05
go all the way back we evolved in tribes
33:08
then we started to kind of par out and
33:09
we had communities but we still live
33:11
close by to extended family now we moved
33:14
to a place where a lot of us don't live
33:16
near our mothers fathers aunties that
33:18
kind of thing and then now we have a
33:20
place where even inside our own
33:21
household we're all separated because of
33:24
our devices exactly our devices have
33:26
divided us completely our video games
33:28
our phones all of this cool technology
33:31
shout out to all those things I I I love
33:33
them but we need real face time and the
33:35
scien has found this so researchers at
33:37
Harvard found that families that eat
33:38
together on a regular basis consume
33:40
significantly more real food and by
33:43
Nature significantly higher intake of
33:45
essential nutrients that prevent chronic
33:46
diseases in those family members and
33:48
less processed food Ultra Food Ultra
33:50
processed foods and I was just like
33:52
knowing from my practice that people
33:54
want change but they often don't want to
33:56
to change that much to get it I was like
33:59
what's the minimum effective dose how
34:01
often do we need to eat together to get
34:03
these benefits seen in the data two
34:05
studies one was published in Pediatrics
34:06
looking at kids and another was for
34:09
adults which I'll get to in a second the
34:10
one publish in Pediatrics found that
34:12
eating together with your family three
34:13
times a week dramatically reduces the
34:15
incidence of of obesity in those
34:17
children and dramatically reduces the
34:19
incidence of Eating Disorders in those
34:20
children three times a week at least and
34:23
you could pick what those days are align
34:25
it to your lifestyle right it could be
34:27
Monday Wednesday family dinner and then
34:29
brunch on Sundays that's kind of how we
34:31
roll actually okay all right fit it on
34:33
your lifestyle but here's my my my
34:35
objective for everybody schedule it put
34:38
it on the calendar we put all this other
34:40
[ __ ] that's not as important as our
34:41
family on the calendar instead of
34:43
putting the thing and I would ask people
34:44
in my practice like why why do you want
34:46
why do you want to get these benefits
34:48
why do you want to improve your health
34:49
right and they would often say it's my
34:52
family my family is the most important
34:54
thing to me but then we look at their
34:55
calendar and it doesn't really match up
34:58
there was a mismatch and so schedule it
35:01
make it real put some permanence on it
35:03
and last one I'll share with the adults
35:05
this was conducted by some uh Tech
35:08
workers at IBM and they found that when
35:09
they were able to have family dinners
35:11
consistently regardless of how stressed
35:13
they were at work and I know work can be
35:14
stressful cuz my man over here dropping
35:16
[ __ ] right now it's just like like
35:18
what's going on live on there so work
35:22
can be stressful but they found when
35:23
they were able to make it home for
35:24
family dinner consistently their work
35:26
stress stayed negligible if they were
35:29
able to neutralize it essentially their
35:30
work morale stayed high and productivity
35:32
stayed high but as soon as they were
35:34
prevented from having consistent meals
35:35
with their family work morale plummeted
35:38
productivity went down and stress went
35:39
up why does this matter this is publish
35:41
in jamama as well upwards of 80% of
35:44
doctor visits today for stress related
35:46
illnesses stress is killing us because
35:48
as we started off with your thoughts
35:49
create chemistry in your body all right
35:51
so this is protective eating together
35:54
with the people that we love last thing
35:56
one minute I'll tell you why when we're
35:59
together like this our chemistry changes
36:02
MH because we know each other it's
36:04
oxytocin starts to get produced and
36:06
oxytocin has been found to neutralize
36:08
cortisol all right so that's number one
36:10
number two this is a switch over from
36:12
our sympathetic fight ORF flight we're
36:14
always in to parasympathetic rest and
36:17
digest that's the nickname of that part
36:19
of the nervous system and the last part
36:21
is the psychological part because we get
36:23
to see each other we get to actually see
36:25
the people that we love because a lot of
36:27
our communication is not verbal it's
36:30
nonverbal and also there's an energy as
36:32
well so I can see my kids I can see my
36:35
wife I can see where they are in life
36:37
amen I can let them feel seen and
36:39
acknowledged which is a deep
36:41
psychological human need I can go on and
36:42
on but that's why it works you're doing
36:44
amazing Sean Stevenson this is such a
36:47
great and follow him I just followed you
36:49
on IG he say Sean Model S h a w n model
36:54
m o d e l and the book is available
36:56
where
36:57
everywhere books are sold hey Sean
36:59
Stevenson Sean model follow him there
37:01
you did an excellent job today I want to
37:03
say thank you I knew we were cut from a
37:06
similar cloth we played soul food and he
37:08
was trying to name the different members
37:10
of Goodie Mob and right then and there
37:12
it was just like an electrolyte uh just
37:15
sent a program to one of my CES that
37:18
went straight up into my mind and in my
37:21
mind I felt like he was a
37:23
hyena I knew he was a hyena in
37:27
with bars with
37:29
bars bars heal bars drop a beat on them
37:32
man I feel like he's a hyen right here
37:35
we got Sean Stevenson on the mic by
37:37
special
37:39
request okay I can't believe this is
37:41
happening the morning yeah yeah listen
37:45
to me yeah okay holy I can't believe
37:49
this smart bars early in the morning
37:52
let's go you want a freestyle this style
37:55
ain't free if you trying to get healthy
37:57
you should come see me rolling with my
37:59
son Jordan spell with a e and my little
38:03
son b o we we in here with sway all the
38:07
Legend come here to stay oh I'm getting
38:10
kind of hungry get the cookbook won't be
38:14
hungry you won't be tonry that's tired
38:17
and hungry and angry and
38:19
mungry I just made up a word uh [ __ ] it
38:23
that's a turd uh that means I'm the [ __ ]
38:27
yeah about to get
38:31
my let's go Tracy G we up in here doing
38:36
it live oh my God I can't believe they
38:38
let us outside yeah we crazy in here eat
38:43
smarter family cookbook this year get it
38:50
we we
38:52
got
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yeah Sean I still need a name of a water
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drink spring water Spring Water Mountain
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bottle in a bottle in a glass in a glass
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