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Welcome back to the Chasing Eden podcast, where we rediscover
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our body's divine design. I'm your host, Carolyn Thompson, and
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today we're diving into something that affects almost everyone listening,
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whether you realize it or not, your metabolism. Now, most
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people think of metabolism as one simple thing, how fast
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do I burn calories? But that's not really what it is.
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Your metabolism is your body's entire energy system. How you
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convert food into fuel, how your cells communicate, how your
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hormones regulate, how your body either thrives or slowly breaks down.
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And here's the truth. Most people today are living with
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a slowed, damaged metabolism and they don't even know it.
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They feel tired, they gain weight easily, they struggle to focus,
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They deal with inflammation, brain fog, cravings, poor sleep, and
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they think it's just normal aging. But it's not normal.
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It's the result of a system that has been slowly
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disrupted by the modern world, modern food and modern habits.
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And today we're going to walk through what's really slowing
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your metabolism down. The hidden roll of insulin resistance, the
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toxins and processed foods working against you. Why sunlight, sleep,
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and hydration matter more than you think, and most importantly,
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natural practical ways to speed it back up, because your
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body was designed to function well, to heal, to adapt,
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and to thrive, and when you return to that design,
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everything begins to change. So let's start by clearing something up.
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Your metabolism is not just about calories. That idea that
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everything is calories in versus calories out has led millions
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of people into frustration because they eat less, the exercise more,
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and nothing changes or worse, their metabolism slows down even more.
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Your metabolism is controlled by a network of systems, hormones,
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especially insulin, cortisol, and thyroid mitochondria, your cellular energy engines,
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nervous system balance, nutrient availability, detox pathways, and it's dynamic
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and constantly adjusting. According to doctor Berg, quote, a slow
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metabolism is almost always a hormonal problem, not a calorie problem.
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That's a big shift because it means if your hormones
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are off, your metabolism will be off. Even doctor Barbara
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O'Neil says, I find that the missing link with weight loss, well,
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it's the hormones. Unquote. Most people today aren't just slow metabolizers,
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they're experiencing something deeper, metabolic resistance. Your body becomes resistant
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to burning fat, using glucose properly, responding to insulin, and
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producing energy efficiently. And over time, this leads into something
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you've probably heard of, insulin resistance. Let's talk about this briefly,
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but clearly. Insulin is a hormone that helps move sugar
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from your bloodstream into your cells, and that's a good thing.
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But when insulin is constantly elevated, your body stops listening
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to it. That's called insulin resistance. Well, what causes it
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and what's the biggest driver? Processed food and constant eating.
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According to doctor Josh Axe, he says this quote, frequent eating,
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especially refined carbohydrates and sugars, keeps insulin elevated all day long,
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eventually leading to resistance unquote. And once that happens, your
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body stores more fat, you feel hungry more often, your
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energy crashes, and your metabolism slows down. Human biologist Gary
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Brecca explains it like this quote. If your body can't
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efficiently use oxygen and glucose, your cells literally can't produce
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energy properly unquote. Now think about that, this isn't just
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about weight. This is cellular energy failure. So there is
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a problem with processed foods. So let's get real for
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a moment. Modern food is not neutral. It is engineered,
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and many of the ingredients in today's food supply is
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they're working directly against our metabolisms. For instance, refined sugar,
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it's one of the biggest metabolic killers, especially the high
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fructose corn syrup, as well as industrial seed oils like soybean, canola,
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corn oil, and others. We have artificial additives and preservatives,
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ultra refined carbohydrates like white flour and package snacks, and
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the hidden sugars in the so called healthy foods. These
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are the biggest metabolic killers now. According to doctor Stephen Gundry,
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he says this quote, the modern diet is filled with
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compounds that damage the gut lining and disrupt metabolic signaling.
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And here's where it gets deeper. There's a gut metabolism connection.
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Your metabolism is tied directly to your gut health. When
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your gut is inflamed, nutrient absorption drops, inflammation rises, and
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your hormones become disregulated. Your body goes into something called
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energy conservation mode. Meaning it slows everything down. So now
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we see the problem. Hormones get disrupted, insulin resistance rises,
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and processed foods overwhelm your system. But here's the encouraging part.
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The body can recover and when it does, the metabolism
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doesn't just improve, it begins to wake up. Now, before
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we talk about supplements, before we talk about advanced strategies,
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we need to talk about the foundations, because if you
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ignore these, nothing else will work the way it should.
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Sunlight is your metabolic switch. This one is massively underestimated.
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Sunlight is not just about vitamin D. It's about circadian rhythm.
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Your body runs on a clock, and when that clock
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is off, your metabolism slows down. Now I follow Justine Stanger.
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She is a cellular health expert. She says this about sunlight.
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We've ignored the actual regulator of metabolism, and that's sunlight.
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When you cut yourself off from the sun, get you
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cut off communication with leptin. That's spelled l e P
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as in paul tin, and that breaks the leptin milano
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cortin pathway. This is the signaling loop between your fat
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cells and your brain. It actually tells you when to
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stop eating So there is a connection between sunlight and
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the communication of something called leptin and mello melano cortin,
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and it's a pathway, and it's a signaling loop between
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your fat cells and your brain, and it tells your body,
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it tells you when to stop eating. So if you're
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not getting enough sunlight, just think about that. You could
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just eating all day long and never getting satisfied because
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you're not getting that signal because it's been disrupted, because
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you're ignoring something that is natural and a part of
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the body's natural rhythms and needed, and it's one of
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the main things that keeps us eating properly. It's a
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very important component of our health that is taken for granted.
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And with so many people being inside, including children on
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the internet playing games and not getting out in the
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sun as much, and especially adults who might work inside,
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work on their computers, work in an office building and
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not getting enough sunlight, this explains a lot of problems
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that could be solved just simply by intentionally getting more
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sun Now. Doctor Barbara O'Neil says this quote, the body
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was designed to rise with the sun and rest with
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the dark. When we break that rhythm, we break our health. Unquote.
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Morning sunlight helps regulate cortisol properly, It improves insulin sensitivity,
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it boosts mitochondrial function, and it increases energy naturally. Now,
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another important component of metabol health is sleep. And this
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is a tough one because so many people have trouble sleeping.
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If you're not sleeping well, your metabolism is struggling. Period
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Poor sleep leads to increased cortisol, increased insulin resistance, increased
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hunger hormones, and decreased fat burning. Even one night of
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bad sleep can reduce insulin sensitivity significantly. Another impotent and
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poor component of metabolic insulin and metavolcon and student resistance
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is hydration. So many times we get too busy and
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we don't drink enough water throughout the day, or we
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don't drink the right kind of water, or we're not
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sure what kind of water to drink, or we're drinking
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sugary drinks. So that one that's I can really get
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into this whole thing about what we're supposed to drink.
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I know doctor artists his family likes to drink distilled water.
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A lot of health experts will tell you to drink
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spring water. Then there's ozonated water, and there's all these
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different types of waters. You know, you can do your
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own research and decide which one you want to do.
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I know that I will just take filtered water, input
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doctor Berg's electrolytes in it. Sometimes I will put some
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Baja salts in my mouth and just drink planet old
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filtered water with that. There's all different ways to get hydrated.
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I like to keep distilled water around. I'm kind of
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one of those people that thinks, Okay, look, if there's
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all these benefits and there's so many different experts out
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there giving me a case for drinking each one of
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these things, then I'm just gonna rotate all of them
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because I don't know which one to drink, So, you
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know what, I'm just going to rotate them. So I
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have spring water and glass that I like to drink,
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and I just kind of think, Okay, you know, maybe
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for a few days I'll drink distilled water, and then
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for another few days I'll drink some spring water because
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there's some good things in that. And so you can
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just kind of figure that out for yourself, because the
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problem is is it's information overload when it comes to water,
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Like you just get to a point you're like, I,
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I just have no idea what to do. Now. There's
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too many options, and there's too many good things about
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each one, and there's too many experts out there touting
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which one you should be drinking and insisting that's the one.
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So the hydration part, it sounds simple, but it's powerful.
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Your metabolism depends on water and every cellular process requires hydration. Now,
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according to Jordan Reuben, he says this quote, dehydration slows
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every metabolic process in the body, from digestion to detoxification unquote.
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And here's something most people miss. Many hunger signals are
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actually thirst. Now there's another component that Barbara O'Neill will
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talk about and Jordan Reuben and doctor X, and that
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is also the hormone component of metabolic health. Jordan Ruben.
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He will list out things like sleep, exercise, resistance training,
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eating a diet of healthy fats, and then he mentions
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a if you're having hormonal problems, there is a supplement
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called shot Tavari s r I DASH eighty one and
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that is spelled s h A t A v a
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r I s r I DASH eighty one Sha Tavari. Now,
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if you want to know more about that, you could
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just you know, look it up on the internet, do
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a little Google search or whatever. And or maybe if
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you're on Instagram, type in Jordan Rubin our doctor axe
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hormone health, and chances are you're probably gonna see them
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talk about it and what it does for your health.
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So we're just getting started, and when we come back,
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we're going to talk about intermittent fasting, detox pathways, natural
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ways to actually speed up your metabolism, not just to
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maintain it. So stay with us, we'll be right back.
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Welcome back. Now that we've laid the foundation, let's talk
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about one of the most powerful tools available today, intermittent fasting.
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When you eat constantly, your body never gets a break,
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Insulin stays elevated, fat burning stays turned off. But when
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you fast, everything shifts. According to doctor Eric Berg, quote,
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fasting lowers insulin and allows the body to finally access
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stored for energy unquote. And not only that, fasting triggers
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something called a tophagy. Your body begins to clean out
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damage cells, repair tissues, and improve efficiency. It's kind of
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like the body's garbage guy coming through. Autophagy coming through
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and cleaning up all the junk and getting rid of it.
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So that and helping to repair the cell tissues and
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helping them to function more efficiently. Now, there's lots of
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metabolic benefits to fasting, as I'm sure you've probably already know.
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It improves insulin sensitivity, it increases fat burning, it boosts
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growth hormone, and it enhances mitochondrial function. Human biologist Cary Breca.
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He has a perspective on this. He says this quote,
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the body thrives in cycles of feast and famine, not
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constant consumption unquote. And that's exactly how we were designed. Now,
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you don't need to go extreme. You can start with
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a twelve to fourteen hour overnight feats and then gradually
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move to a sixteen hour fast with an eight hour
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eating window. That's my favorite one. I think that's the
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easiest one, is the sixteen hour fast with an eight
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hour eating window. And you can just do it like
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wake up in the morning and go, okay, if I
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maybe I'm not hungry, toll eleven. That means my eating
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window is eleven to seven. It's pretty simple. Eleven to seven.
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That's pretty good. So now that starts to help activate
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your system. But we're not done because one of the
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biggest missing pieces in modern health is this detoxification. Your
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body is constantly detoxing through the liver, the kidneys, skin
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lymphatic system, but today those systems are overloaded. So what's
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overloading the body pesticides, heavy metals, plastics, food additives, environmental toxins,
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and according to doctor X quote, he says this toxin
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build up can impair metabolic pathways and lead to fatigue,
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weight gain, and inflammation. Unquote. There's a lot of detoxing
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going on out there in social media everywhere I look.
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Now everyone's talking about parasites and detoxing heavy metals and
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the plastics and the pesticides, and they're looking for different
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ways to detox but they oftentimes will forget that if
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you're going to start the detoxing, you also need to
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be taking a binder. And so you could be knocking
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out all of these things, you know, like you could
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be knocking out the parasites in your gut, but then
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you've got a bunch of dead parasites floating around your gut.
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So you're going to need something like a binder, like
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a charcoal capsule that you take before bed that can
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grab onto these like a magnet and pull them out
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of your body. And then you I've got to drink
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a lot of water, so and you want to do
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it carefully and you don't want to be too drastic
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because you can cause too many things to go on
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at once. You could end up with a lot of
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detox symptoms. The die off can make you feel sick,
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it can give you headaches, it can cause skin rashes.
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I would think if you could see a nature path
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that would be a great start because they can walk
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you through that detox process. There's natural ways to detox,
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like sweating through a sauna or exercise. There's also just
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simply going on a clean, whole foods diet. This one
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I like it's bitter herbs because I love the fact
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that it helps to detox your liver. And our liver
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does so much and it's so busy, and most people
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have fatty liver and they don't even know it. Even
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skinny people can have fatty liver, and that's a whole
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other thing. Rabbit a hole to go down. Adequate hydration
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helps with detox support as well, and just simply reducing
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your toxic exposure by trying to drink out of glass
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and you know, maybe having a good water filter on
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your sink or on your shower head. Simple things like that,
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not wearing polyester, switching out to cotton, linen, silk as
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much as you can the natural fabrics, because now everyone
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is talking about the how all the clothes are made
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out of plastic. They just call it. They give it
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a special name like polyester or I can't even think
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of the names. But what happens is when you're sweating
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in the polyester, your pores open up and now you're
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absorbing toxins from your clothing. And that's like a whole
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new thing that is really crazy. So I've been working
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on switching my wardrobe out to natural fabrics, So that's
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another thing that you can work on. Those are things
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that maybe aren't as extreme, but they do make a
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difference in the long run. Now, doctor Stephen Gundry, he's
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famous for talking about the lectins with the sea in
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certain foods and how they cause inflammation, and that can
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be a bit controversial, but he has a lot of
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really great insight and input when it comes to inflammation,
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and he says this quote, when inflammation is reduced, metabolism
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improves naturally unquote. When we come back, we're going to
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go deeper into specific ways to speed up metabolism naturally,
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foods and habits that activate fat burning, and how to
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keep your metabolism strong long term. Stay with us, we'll
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be right back. Welcome back. We've talked about what slows
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your metabolism down. We've talked about insulin resistance. We've laid
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the foundation with sunlight, sleep, hydration, fasting, and detox. Now
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let's get into what you really came here for. How
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do you actually speed your metabolism up, not just maintain
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it and not just stop the damage, but truly activate it.
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So one of the fastest ways to stimulate metabolism is
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through protein, and why because well, protein requires more energy
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to digest than fats or carbs. This is called the
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thermic effect of food. According to doctor Josh Ax, he
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says this quote, protein supports muscle growth and repair, which
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directly increases metabolic rate unquote. And there's a deeper layer.
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Muscle equals metabolic currency. The moralene muscle you have, the
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more calories your body burns at rest. You know, this
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makes me think of Katie. I believe it's Katie Hopkins.
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She's a British woman. I can't remember like she's most known,
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I think for just political stuff. But she did like
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a documentary and she's really thin and she's very fit.
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She rides her bike miles and miles and she stays
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in shape and she's really like there's no fat on
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her body at all. She just it's a trip. Like
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she's really disciplined. And she she did this documentary where
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she intentionally was going to put on a bunch of
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weight and then show everybody how you could take the
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weight off. Well, what happened was because she has a
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lot of lean muscle and she's in such great shape,
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she was eating like crazy and she kept going to
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the to get weight and they would tell her you're
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not you're not putting on weight. Your body's just burning everything.
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It just keeps burning it. And she's like, you gotta
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eat more, you gotta eat more. And they get to
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the point where they're like you've just got to sit still,
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like you can't don't walk, you know. She's like, well
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I stop. You know, she stopped a lot of her
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exercise but they're like, you just don't move, you need
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to become like immobile. So then, like the show, her
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sitting on the beach and she's stuffing her face and
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it's hilarious. So she finally does put some weight on.
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In England they call it I don't they call it stone.
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They don't call it pounds like we do. So she
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puts the weight on and then you know she has
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to take it off, but it is so funny because
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it's a great example if you watch the documentary and
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I think it's on YouTube, of how when you're in
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really good shape and you have a lot of lean
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muscle mass, you're burning stuff. You're burning a lot of it.
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So you can technically get away with you a weekend,
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a cruise and pork out if you want, and come
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back and you know, go back to normal because you're
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in such great shape and you have all this lean
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muscle mass, so muscle equals metabolic currency. I mean, I
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watched it happen right there on the documentary. So what
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this looks like practically is clean, high quality protein like
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grass fed beef, pasture raised meat. When possible, avoid the
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ultra process protein powders loaded with additives and balance the intake.
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Don't overdo it, but don't under eat either. You don't
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want to do that. Now, if you want to change
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your metabolism, you must change your muscle. And cardio has
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its place, but it does not build metabolic strength the
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way that resistance training does. According to biologist Gary Brekka,
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he says this quote, muscle is one of the greatest
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regulators of blood sugar and metabolic health. Unquote. That's huge
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because when you build muscle, insulin sensitivity improves, glucose is
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used more efficiently, and fat burning increases. So a simple
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starting point two to three sessions per week, focus on
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compound movements squats, push, pull, keep it sustainable and not overwhelming. Now,
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if you're older and you want something that isn't quite
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as intense, you can do something like Okay, there's a woman,
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Greer Childers, and she has a program called body Flex.
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It was kind of it was pretty popular back in
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the nineties. She was I think on HSN or KVC
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selling her program. She had books out. I did the
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body Flex, I lost inches, I lost weight. I was
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in my thirties back then, and then it just kind
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of faded out, you know, because you go on to
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the next fad that's happening. She's back on Instagram and
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she has a new program and she was saying it's
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easier than ever, and it just I think it's only
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three or four positions. And the body flex is interesting
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because it's a form of breathing and sustaining certain exercise
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positions that burn fat and it's a trip. She explains
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the whole thing. But she also has at least she
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used to have a program, and I have it. I
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actually have it with a resistance band, and I think
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it's great because if you're older and maybe you don't
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want to go running around the block, or you don't
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have gym clothes, you know, maybe just you can't, maybe
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you work from home and you're just tired. You can
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just sit in a chair and do the resistance band
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and the breathing exercises and get some benefit through that.
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So that's just a little plug for greer childers and
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body flecks. I can really recommend that if you can't
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afford a gym, you don't have one nearby, maybe you
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live in a busy area and you know it's not
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practical for you to take a walk or the air
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is not that clean out there. Maybe that's something you
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might want to think about looking into. Now this is controversial,
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I know, because people are starting to come out against this,
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but cold exposure like cold showers or cold plunges, can
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increase metabolic activity. And this is because your body has
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to generate heat and that activates the brown fat, and
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this is a special type of fat that burns energy
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to produce heat. This has been kind of a thing
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for a while, and I'm sure you've probably seen all
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these people doing these ice dunks that they're doing and
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then the body has to use energy to warm back
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up again. So what they say is that it's going
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to burn your brown fat, and the brown fat's supposed
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to be the most stubborn fat. You do have some
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experts coming out saying, hey, this isn't for everybody, okay,
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because just like the guy who goes out with a
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snowplow and starts plowing and he has a heart attack,
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this could be the same difference as in if your
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blood is really already too thick and then you get
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into a cold plunge and then your heart rate starts
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to speed up and it's trying to push that blood
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through it could be detrimental for somebody who's not in
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very good shape. And to be honest with you, I
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don't think I'm in terrible shape. It just sounds miserable
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to me. So it's not something that I've tried cold showers.
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I've done that a few times. I've never done a
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cold plunge, and I just think, Okay, there's got to
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be another way. This doesn't look like any fun. But
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the benefits are increased calorie burn, improved insolent sensitivity, and
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enhanced resilience. And you do get more used to it
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over time. I will say this because when I was
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doing it regularly many years ago, after a while, I
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was like, oh, this is nothing. You basically just end
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your shower with thirty seconds of cold water and then
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you just kind of build from there. Now, this might
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surprise you to hear that certain natural foods can also
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gently stimulate metabolism, and these include cayenne, pepper, ginger, turmeric,
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and cinnamon. According to Jordan Reuben, quote, God placed powerful
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healing compounds in natural foods that support digestion and metabolic
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function unquote. These foods help improve digestion, stabilize blood sugar
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and reduce inflammation. Here's another one, caffeine, but use it
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wisely because let's be honest, this one does matter. Caffeine
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can increase metabolic rate, but it can also backfire because
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when it's overused, it spikes cortisol, disrupts your sleep, and
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actually worsens insulin resisess distance. The balance is to use
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it in moderation, avoid late day consumption, and don't rely
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on it as your primary energy source. You might want
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to switch to green tea or maybe some Macha green tea.
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So now we're not just repairing, we're activating. But there's
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another layer we need to address, because even if you
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do everything right, if your food is still working against you,
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you're fighting an uphill battle. So let's talk about foods
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that heal versus foods that harm. And let's talk plainly here.
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Food today is one of the biggest drivers of metabolic dysfunction,
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not just overeating, but what we are eating. So there's
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some foods that slow your metabolism. And here are the
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biggest culprits. Ultra processed packaged foods, refined sugars, industrial seed oils,
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artificial sweeteners, and low nutrient, high calorie foods. So when
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I see the word ultra process packaged foods, you know,
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if you think about things like cereal and chips and
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cheese balls and things like that, there's sneaky things in there.
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Most of the chips and the like the cheeseballs and
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the veggie sticks and all that. They it's like a
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double thing because they have industrial seed oils in them,
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and so if you're going to be eating them, you
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need to look at the ingredients very carefully. So if
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you're a person who likes veggie sticks like my grandson's,
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look for the ones that are made with avocado oil
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or an alternative healthy oil and not the seed oils.
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According to doctor Gundry, he says this quote, the standard
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modern diet creates chronic inflammation, which shuts down metabolic efficiency unquote.
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You know, I've heard this inflammation over and over again
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from so many experts, and I think it's one of
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those things. It's like in your face, but it's always
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being overlooked as a component, and so many times people
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will do everything right, but they don't address the inflammation.
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And they also don't realize that not getting enough sleep
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can cause inflammation, and that leads to a slowed metabolism,
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so something as simple as that. So these foods they're
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damaging because they spike your insulin rapidly and they create
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the inflammation. They damage your gut lining, and they disrupt
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your hormones over time. So you might not feel that
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difference immediately, but over time of constantly consuming these things,
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you're going to have hormone problems. Your body adapts by
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slowing down. So here's the good news. There are foods
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that work with your body. So some metabolism supporting foods
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are the healthy fats like olive oil, avocado, and grass
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fed butter and ghee, your clean proteins, whole vegetables, fermented
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foods because they support your gut health, and mineral rich foods.
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According to doctor Barbara O'Neill quote, she says this, when
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we return to whole, natural foods, the body begins to
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repair itself remarkable quickly. This is simple but powerful. The
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closer your food is to how God created it, the
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better your metabolism will function. Now, I do want to
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insert something here that may be controversial to some people
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or hard to accept, and I'm going to try not
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to go on a big long rabbit trail, because the
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closer your food is to how God created it, the
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better your metabolism will function well. A lot of people
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gave up bread, and they gave up bread for various reasons,
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and it's understandable, like you don't want to eat bread.
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But if you understand the story behind bread and you
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see how many times the word bread that bread is
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used in the Bible, you realize it's not a bad food.
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What's bad about the bread is what we did to
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it at the turn of the century. So if you're
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interested in looking to food in its natural form that
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is actually a superfood in nutrient dense, you might want
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to go do some research into milling whole wheatberries yourself
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and creating your own bread at home or your own
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cream of wheat. Me and my husband just started this
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a couple of weeks ago, and I have a VitaminX.
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I don't have a bread mill, but I grind it
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up and we are eating cream of wheat again. We're
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enjoying it because we have the wheatberries. And when you
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research and find out how there's a bunch of all
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the bee vitamins are in there, but the B twelve,
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there's the iron in there, and iodine and zinc and
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magnesium and all these wonderful things that you can they're
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bioavailable because when you grind the wheatberry on the spot
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and you bake or eat it right after you grind it,
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you are retaining all the nutrients versus the bread you
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get in the store where it was ground up and
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the outside skin was taken off and separated, and it
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was because it's the nutrients are no longer in it.
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They try to put it all back with lab created
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things like full late and all these things which are
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inferior to it in its natural form. It causes all
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of these issues for people. But if you eat it
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in its natural form, you're going to get so many
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health benefits. So I didn't mean to go on this
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big long thing about it, but I just thought i'd
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throw that in there, because that is another wonderful thing
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that we If we eat that food the way God
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created it, we're going to get benefits. So when we
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come back, we're going to bring this all together a
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simple daily rhythm to support your metabolism, how to sustain
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these changes long term, and how to truly return to
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your body's natural design. Stay with us we'll be right back.
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Welcome back. Now, let's take everything we've talked about and
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simplify it into something you can actually live out, because
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information is great, but transformation comes from implementation a simple
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daily rhythm. Here's what a metabolism supporting day might look like.
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Morning you wake up, get sunlight within thirty days or51200:39:47.760 --> 00:39:53.079
thirty days sorry, thirty minutes of waking. Hydrate with clean water,51300:39:54.159 --> 00:39:58.559
and delay your food slightly, supporting a fasting window that51400:39:58.800 --> 00:40:03.679
you've created for yourself. In the midday, break your fast51500:40:03.760 --> 00:40:08.559
with a nutrient dense meal. Prioritize protein and healthy fats,51600:40:09.480 --> 00:40:15.719
and avoid sugar because you don't want the spikes. Strength51700:40:15.800 --> 00:40:19.400
training or walking at some point throughout the day, try51800:40:19.400 --> 00:40:25.320
to stay active and not sedentary. By the evening, dinner51900:40:25.360 --> 00:40:32.360
should be light. Avoid over eating late. Reduce your artificial52000:40:32.440 --> 00:40:36.440
light intake. And I know that's hard. I've been switching52100:40:36.480 --> 00:40:42.880
out our lights from LED to incandescent lights and that52200:40:42.880 --> 00:40:45.800
can get a bit expensive. And the LEDs that we52300:40:45.840 --> 00:40:48.000
have in the ceiling that are left, I'm always telling52400:40:48.039 --> 00:40:50.000
my family, don't turn those on. Don't turn those on.52500:40:50.599 --> 00:40:52.800
And there's a whole reason why, you know, because it's52600:40:52.840 --> 00:40:55.719
supposed to disrupt your nervous system. There's a flickering that52700:40:55.760 --> 00:40:57.920
happens that your brain can see, but you can't see52800:40:57.920 --> 00:41:01.000
from with the naked eye, and it actually disrupts your52900:41:01.079 --> 00:41:06.639
your nervous system and you're sleeping. So also reduce your53000:41:06.719 --> 00:41:10.199
artificial light, but also prepare for quality sleep, and that53100:41:10.360 --> 00:41:12.039
is there's a whole list of things that you can do.53200:41:12.119 --> 00:41:17.320
You can get blackout curtains, keep the room cold, don't53300:41:17.559 --> 00:41:22.880
get on your devices too close to bedtime, don't eat53400:41:23.320 --> 00:41:27.920
three hours prior to going to sleep. Some people swear53500:41:27.960 --> 00:41:30.840
by making sure they shower before bed so they're nice53600:41:30.880 --> 00:41:33.360
and clean when they climb under the covers and they53700:41:33.400 --> 00:41:36.559
can sleep better. You want to aim for a deep,53800:41:36.599 --> 00:41:39.800
restorative sleep and keep the timing consistent. Try to go53900:41:39.840 --> 00:41:42.199
to bed every night at the same time and try54000:41:42.199 --> 00:41:45.719
to wake up every morning at the same time. So54100:41:46.079 --> 00:41:48.840
this is a big shift. You know. This isn't about54200:41:48.880 --> 00:41:53.639
dieting or restriction or punishment. It's about alignment, rhythm and design.54300:41:55.039 --> 00:41:59.440
Jordan Reuben says this. I love his book The Bibliodiet.54400:41:59.679 --> 00:42:03.599
He said this quote. Health is not about extremes, It's54500:42:03.639 --> 00:42:09.119
about returning to the patterns that support life unquote. If54600:42:09.159 --> 00:42:12.800
you take nothing else from this episode, take this. Your54700:42:12.880 --> 00:42:19.039
metabolism is not broken. It's responding to your lifestyle. It's54800:42:19.119 --> 00:42:23.239
adapting to the changes that you make. It's adapting to54900:42:23.280 --> 00:42:26.760
the inputs that you give it. And when you change55000:42:26.800 --> 00:42:32.599
those inputs, your body begins to change. Your body was55100:42:32.760 --> 00:42:36.639
not designed to struggle endlessly. It was designed to function,55200:42:37.000 --> 00:42:40.639
to heal, to thrive. But in a world filled with55300:42:40.719 --> 00:42:47.039
processed food, constant stimulation, disrupted rhythms, it's easy to lose55400:42:47.159 --> 00:42:50.639
that design, and the good news you can return to55500:42:50.679 --> 00:42:54.960
it one step at a time, one habit at a time,55600:42:55.639 --> 00:42:59.400
one choice at a time, one day at a time.55700:43:00.199 --> 00:43:04.599
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