Oct. 16, 2012 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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| You got a fake meow now? | ||
| You son of a bitch? | ||
| It's supposed to be meow. | ||
| Meow, by the way, is welded into the desk of the new uh studio desk. | ||
| The uh the foot of the dead, the legs of the desk. | ||
| I had it made, constructed by an artist, our friend Eric, and he did a sick job on it. | ||
| And one of the things that he did just on his own is write the word meow on the side. | ||
| Because this silly bitch says meow at the beginning of every podcast. | ||
| You got to appreciate the little things in life, these gentlemen. | ||
| And Brian brings the bizarre little things. | ||
| Just it's the extra flavor. | ||
| It's the salt on the meat. | ||
| You know what I'm saying, son? | ||
| We will be in Minneapolis this weekend. | ||
| I think there's a couple of tickets left, but it was basically almost sold out. | ||
| And that is at the Pantages Theater. | ||
| It will be Joey, motherfucking Coco Diaz, Brian, Red Band, and Doug Benson is also going to stop in and do a set. | ||
| That should be crazy, yo. | ||
| That's an awesome show. | ||
| Yeah, we're going to have some fun. | ||
| We're going to have some fun. | ||
| And Minneapolis is awesome, and it hasn't frozen over yet. | ||
| So we're going to get to them right before shit freezes. | ||
| Get in, get out. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| We also have a show this Wednesday night at the Ice House, a 10 p.m. show. | ||
| We're going to do these on a regular basis. | ||
| I'm not doing it next week because I'm going hunting like a man. | ||
| Brian Callan, Steve Ranella, and I are going to go deer hunting. | ||
| I'm going to earn my meat, bitches. | ||
| Or not, or become a vegan. | ||
| Freakouts. | ||
| It's very possible. | ||
| Are you going to do any psychedelics while you're out there? | ||
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The world is listening. | |
| Oh, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Jesus, son. | ||
| Jesus. | ||
| But this Wednesday night, it will be Greg Fitzsimmons, Ian Edwards. | ||
| I think, no, Doug Benson can't do it. | ||
| I saw both of those guys at the LA podfest. | ||
| Greg was hilarious. | ||
| Greg's always hilarious. | ||
| He's a great comic. | ||
| Greg and I have been friends for fucking 23 years. | ||
| That's when we started doing stand-up together. | ||
| He's old school, dude. | ||
| Funny as fuck, though. | ||
| He slayed that audience. | ||
| he's a fucking professional I think Duncan's doing it too. | ||
| Hey. | ||
| Okay, so, hey, everybody. | ||
| So this Wednesday night at the Ice House, it's Ian Edwards, fucking hilarious dude. | ||
| Duncan Trussell, of course, hilarious. | ||
| Brian Redman, you know him. | ||
| You love him. | ||
| Brian Redman, he. | ||
| And Greg motherfucking Fitzsimmons. | ||
| So we're going to have a good time. | ||
| That's 10 o'clock. | ||
| It's 15 bucks. | ||
| And we do on a regular basis here. | ||
| We were asked recently to start doing every Wednesday. | ||
| So it's as much of that as I can. | ||
| Sometimes I'm going to be on the road. | ||
| But when I'm in town, we're going to try to do it. | ||
| And just a cool place for all our friends to go and do stand-up. | ||
| And the guys that you'll see are all going to be really funny guys because we don't hang out with any scrubs. | ||
| Yo. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
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I think my fucking flaptops just sound really quietly. | |
| The Jerogan experience. | ||
| Oh, Hired Primate. | ||
| My Hired Primate t-shirts are in, too. | ||
| If you go to hired-primate.com, people have been asking, I finally got all that shit taken care of. | ||
| Look, I'm a fucking terrible businessman, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Tell me about it. | ||
| But I got some dope t-shirts for sale. | ||
| I'm supposed to do my taxes today. | ||
| Whoops. | ||
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Whoops. | |
| You're a terrible business person, too. | ||
| Horrible. | ||
| I was like, all right, I'll just take the whatever, you get fined or something like money, right? | ||
| It's not like you go to prison immediately, right? | ||
| No, I think you get to pay it, but you get fined. | ||
| Just do that. | ||
| Yeah, the type of brain that is really organized, that's not the type of brain that does a silly podcast. | ||
| It's a totally different type of brain. | ||
| I'm convinced of that. | ||
| I fight with my illogical tendencies and my procrastination and impulsiveness and craziness. | ||
| But I think that's the only way comedians' brains work. | ||
| I think it's just a constant struggle to try to mend into society with that fucking whacked out noodle on your head. | ||
| Brian Redband. | ||
| Anyway, hire-primate.com. | ||
| That's the t-shirt company. | ||
| It's all like monkeys and mushrooms and shit. | ||
| And there's a really cool Joey Diaz shirt. | ||
| And they're very soft shirts. | ||
| They're like high-quality shirts. | ||
| They're not regular, like, fucking normal shirts. | ||
| No, it's like the highest quality we can get. | ||
| We got really high-quality, soft t-shirts. | ||
| So it's like a fashion t-shirt. | ||
| You know, that was the options. | ||
| The options were spend a lot of money on really expensive t-shirts or sell cheap ones. | ||
| But I think they come out cool this way. | ||
| They're expensive. | ||
| They're not cheap. | ||
| But they're really well made. | ||
| So that's what it is. | ||
| Onit.com is our other sponsor. | ||
| If you go to O-N-N-I-T and use the code name Rogan, you will save 10% off any of the supplements. | ||
| The explanations for all these supplements are also at Onit. | ||
| I do a terrible job explaining these things. | ||
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Perhaps Stave Asprey could help us because he's far smarter than I in these things. | |
| But I don't really know what's going on. | ||
| I just know when I use it, it's awesome. | ||
| And there's a bunch of studies that say the stuff inside of it is awesome. | ||
| Alpha Brain is my favorite supplement, period. | ||
| It's the one thing that I make sure I don't go anywhere without. | ||
| If I'm doing a podcast, I bring it with me. | ||
| If I'm doing a comedy show, I bring it with me. | ||
| I take it before every UFC. | ||
| It's not going to turn a genius or a moron into a genius, but I really definitely feel like it gives me a mental boost, if that makes any sense. | ||
| And there's been studies that have shown that the ingredients in the doses that we use it have had positive effects in studies. | ||
| So we're doing our own studies right now. | ||
| It takes 10 to 12 months for a double-blind placebo study from this university in Boston. | ||
| And when they're done, they take it and process all the information and figure out whether or not it's legit. | ||
| So we'll have actual studies, but the ingredients that are in the study, or the ingredients rather that are in AlphaBrain and the doses that we use, have shown positive results. | ||
| No one's ever proven that there's a synergistic effect of all the ingredients together. | ||
| That's the controversial aspect of it. | ||
| Here's the deal, though. | ||
| The way we have it set up and on it, you get 100% money back from the first 30 pills if you don't think it works, if it's not your thing. | ||
| Everybody's body's different. | ||
| I don't know what you feel. | ||
| I know some people can't drink. | ||
| I know some people can't smoke pot. | ||
| Some people can't eat peanuts. | ||
| The bodies are different. | ||
| If you don't feel it, I don't know what your sensitivity is. | ||
| If you don't think it's worth it, you get 100% money back. | ||
| You don't have to return the product. | ||
| Nobody's trying to rip you off. | ||
| We're trying to sell you shit that I use. | ||
| Everything we sell on it, whether it's vitamins or the blend tech blenders that are coming in tomorrow, we start selling those. | ||
| Because kale shakes, bitches, you got to get your morning started off correct. | ||
| I'm telling you. | ||
| It's a way to live life. | ||
| It's a healthier way to get out of bed. | ||
| That's my new phrase, by the way. | ||
| I said that all my friends. | ||
| Kale Shake, bitches. | ||
| Kale shakes. | ||
| This fucking guy in the underground said, I went to the supermarket and there was no kale. | ||
| Damn you, Joe Rogan. | ||
| I've noticed restaurants all have like kale everything, like kale Caesar salads now. | ||
| Kale. | ||
| Yeah, when we were in Phoenix, I have kale Caesar salad. | ||
| Yeah, I think kale is becoming more popular now. | ||
| It's just one of the people, it's a superfood. | ||
| I mean, people are realizing how it's really, it's got a lot of protein in it. | ||
| Kale is crazy good for you. | ||
| It's really fucking good for you. | ||
| And when you have it in this massive dose, the way I do it, I take the recipe is available at onit.com. | ||
| My recipe. | ||
| My recipe is pretty extreme. | ||
| It's got a lot of garlic in it. | ||
| It's got a lot of ginger in it. | ||
| And it's got a fucking wallop. | ||
| Like it hits you. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| It's intense. | ||
| But you feel good afterwards. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| Everything just feels just, it's alive. | ||
| Anyway, we also sell kettlebells, battle ropes. | ||
| Like I said, we have the Blentech blenders coming in and the supplements. | ||
| There's New Mood, which is a great 5-HTP and L-tryptophan supplement that enhances your brain's production of serotonin. | ||
| And L-tryptophan converts into 5-HTP and 5-HTP converts into serotonin, right? | ||
| Is that correct? | ||
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Yep. | |
| Yeah, and this is all done. | ||
| This is all scientific studies behind all this stuff. | ||
| And all the information available is not just on Onit.com, but at Google. | ||
| If you Google nootropics, you'll get a better idea whether or not you're interested in anything. | ||
| The most important thing to have on mind, though, is you don't have to worry about it. | ||
| They're just nutrients. | ||
| It's not drugs. | ||
| You're not going to test positive for anything at work, including the hemp force protein. | ||
| That's a big question that comes up all the time. | ||
| If you have the hemp force protein, no, there's no way you can taste positive, or rather test positive for marijuana. | ||
| Hemp is completely non-psychoactive. | ||
| It's just a protein. | ||
| It's just plants. | ||
| It's like a cousin to pot. | ||
| And it's illegal, unfortunately. | ||
| You can grow it and you can buy it and you can sell it, but you can't grow it, which is fucking crazy. | ||
| It just shows you what a silly, silly, silly government we have. | ||
| Because it's an awesome plant. | ||
| It's got all the amino acids in it. | ||
| You can make fuel out of it. | ||
| Henry Ford made one of his first cars out of it. | ||
| And the fiber of the hemp plant is so durable. | ||
| It's really like an alien planet. | ||
| The fact that we don't use it, just the hemp part, forget about the pot, smoking pot, forget about all that. | ||
| Completely pretend that pot didn't exist. | ||
| It was never invented. | ||
| No one ever had it. | ||
| The hemp itself, making something like hemp illegal is one of the dumbest things a human being can do. | ||
| It's almost like making apples illegal. | ||
| It's worse than making apples illegal because you can't make a house out of apples. | ||
| You make a fucking house out of hemp. | ||
| You can construct cars out of it that are stronger than steel. | ||
| It's insane how strong the fibers of this shit is. | ||
| It makes a far superior paper. | ||
| It makes far superior clothing, things that don't rip. | ||
| But the reason why it's illegal is because way back in the 1930s, they invented a machine called a decorticator. | ||
| And the decorticator takes hemp fiber and it breaks it down and it turns it into something that's useful. | ||
| It's a long and lengthy process that they used to use slaves for. | ||
| Then when slavery became illegal, it's much easier to get cotton and use cotton than it is to use hemp. | ||
| So that's why it's illegal. | ||
| They all conspired, all these people that didn't want to lose out to the hemp industry, in the cotton industry, in the paper industry, especially William Randolph Hearst. | ||
| He ran newspapers and he printed stories about Mexicans smoking marijuana and raping white women. | ||
| It was all like just craziness to get this one plant illegal. | ||
| And it was actually for its use as a commodity. | ||
| That's what they were trying to squash. | ||
| Had nothing to do with it being psychoactive. | ||
| It's amazing that that hustle has lasted so long. | ||
| Anyway, we have hemp protein that we buy from Canada and it's the shit. | ||
| It's called hemp force. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
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You can't handle the truth. | |
| Exactly. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| I can't handle the truth either. | ||
| I can't handle the truth because even when I say it, when I say that, like that story that I just told, I know that to be a fact. | ||
| I've read it everywhere. | ||
| It sounds so dumb. | ||
| It sounds so ridiculous. | ||
| It makes me angry. | ||
| It's like people are just beyond stupid, Brian. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Anyway, enough of me. | |
| Go to onit.com. | ||
| That's O-N-N-I-T. | ||
| Ooh, I almost forgot the tangle. | ||
| I got a lot of fucking commercials, man. | ||
| If I was on an internet, I would be complaining about me right now. | ||
| You don't have a lot of commercials. | ||
| You just always go really long on the Onit one. | ||
| Well, you know, here's the thing. | ||
| I go long on anything that I absolutely believe in. | ||
| It's because you're on it. | ||
| I am on it. | ||
| And it also is because I do them in the middle. | ||
| I don't know how everybody else is doing them, but I think a lot of people are sticking them in the conversations now. | ||
| I know that that's what Adam Corolla does. | ||
| He does like podcasts, and then he does commercials, like a radio show. | ||
| I think that fucks with me. | ||
| That's why the flashlight was pretty fun, because I could always bring the flashlight up. | ||
| It's like the Olive Guardian in a conversation. | ||
| Yes, you always could. | ||
| I don't think we should keep it as a sponsor just for that reason. | ||
| Ting is an excellent product, though. | ||
| Everything we sell on this podcast, I guess we're selling things, everything we promote, there we go, everything we're paid to promote is things that we believe in, 100%. | ||
| You don't ever have to worry about us trying to rip you off. | ||
| If there's anything that's being talked about on this podcast, it's always going to be 100% to the best of my knowledge. | ||
| And if I'm ever incorrect, I will definitely let you know that I fucked up. | ||
| And everything that we're selling, whether it's through Onnit or through Audible.com or even Ting, is... | ||
| It's a Ting. | ||
| That's not a Ting. | ||
| That's like a ping pong. | ||
| What is Ting? | ||
| All right, Ting is a cell phone service that you sign up for and they use Sprint's Backbone. | ||
| And they sell cool phones. | ||
| They sell like Android phones, like the Galaxy S3 is a big fucking cool ass one that you see in the commercials every day lately. | ||
| And they have it set up so that you could quit at any time. | ||
| You don't have to have contracts. | ||
| Your minutes can pile onto more than one phone. | ||
| You can share minutes with your wife. | ||
| And you also, if you don't use a certain amount of minutes every month, if you're allotted a certain amount of minutes and you don't use them, you're dropped down and credited to the lower level Of a payment plan. | ||
| So they actually give you money back. | ||
| I mean, it's a really, it's a really, it's like, it's a really fair company. | ||
| It's like, I love the ethical way in which they're choosing to do business. | ||
| They're saying, we make plenty of money. | ||
| Let's just do this really fair. | ||
| Let's sell people a quality product, like all these killer Android phones. | ||
| They have regular phones too if you're into flip phones. | ||
| But what they decided to do is use this big company's network, use Sprint's Backbone, which is a huge name. | ||
| I mean, you can't come up with your own, but then use it in a way that they feel is fair. | ||
| And so they provide an excellent service, and they give you cool phones, and you can quit at any time. | ||
| I mean, there's no contracts. | ||
| It's a beautiful situation, and that's really what I think it should be with every cell phone company. | ||
| It's crazy that you get locked in these contracts, and they rope you in by giving you some crazy discount on this phone, and it's all bananas. | ||
| But the bottom line is if you want to leave because your service sucks, it costs a lot of money. | ||
| Well, not with Ting. | ||
| With Ting, you just bail. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Go to rogan.ting.com and you will save 50 bucks off your first digital cellular device for talking to people through the air. | ||
| And you too could be on Ting. | ||
| All right, bitches. | ||
| Dave Asprey is here. | ||
| We're going to get to the bottom of things. | ||
| We're going to get educated. | ||
| We're going to get experienced. | ||
| Ooh, that's my new tagline to be in a very show. | ||
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It's as cheesy as it gets. | |
| We're going to get to see experience. | ||
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Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. | |
| Dude, we're getting experienced. | ||
| We just got out of it from being on it, and now we're getting experienced. | ||
| We're back in it. | ||
| We're experienced, dude. | ||
| That's how I'm feeling that right now. | ||
| Date, thanks for coming, man. | ||
| Really appreciate it. | ||
| Tate Fletcher is your number one fanboy, so would you please give Tate a big shout out at the beginning of this podcast? | ||
| Tate, you rock, man. | ||
| Tate has bulletproof everything. | ||
| Every fucking tweet he sends. | ||
| Stay bulletproof, my friends. | ||
| That's like he's like the most interesting man in the world, but it's about bulletproof. | ||
| You know, instead of stay thirsty. | ||
| He totally rocks. | ||
| He loves you, man. | ||
| He's got a fucking serious man crush on your ideas. | ||
| Homeboy came in with a jug. | ||
| I love Tate. | ||
| Me and Tate both have the coffee addiction. | ||
| I love him for a bunch of reasons, but that's one of them. | ||
| We both have the coffee addiction. | ||
| And Tate comes in with this fucking ridiculous, like, camping for a month mug filled with bulletproof coffee. | ||
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Nice. | |
| And he poured me some. | ||
| It was pretty badass, man. | ||
| That was my first experience with bulletproof coffee. | ||
| And this is your creation. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And for folks who don't understand what bulletproof coffee is, what it consists of, what's in it exactly? | ||
| It's low-toxin coffee, which has a different mental effect than the normal stuff, the swill you can just buy on any street corner. | ||
| You blend it with grass-fed butter that has certain fatty acids, short-chain fatty acids your brain needs for anti-inflammatory purposes. | ||
| And you blend it with either coconut oil or MCT oil, which is an extract of coconut oil that's six times stronger. | ||
| And you blend it. | ||
| It gets foamy and frothy, just like the best latte you ever had. | ||
| It doesn't taste gross. | ||
| It doesn't taste buttery and oily. | ||
| And when you drink it, you are full for eight hours and you have this incredible focus, this mental focus that it's just insane. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| How is that possible? | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| What is it doing? | ||
| It's causing, it's like a synergistic effect with the butter and the oil and the coffee. | ||
| It makes the stimulant last longer. | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| Well, the hunger part happens because your body's getting the short and medium chain fatty acids that are really hard to get in your diet. | ||
| So because you're doing that, you're already getting a big boost there. | ||
| And then we believe that it probably helps to escort the terpenes that are inside coffee, like cafestrol and calohol, the psychoactive compounds that are not caffeine. | ||
| We think it helps those go into the brain. | ||
| And the other reason that I'm theorizing that it gives you this kind of boost is because the small drops of fat that are formed when you blend it are called micelles. | ||
| And they absorb better into the body, and your body can burn MCT for energy without any digestive process required at all. | ||
| This is a thing that bodybuilders used to get lean and ripped when they're in the shedding phase. | ||
| It also happens to cure Alzheimer's disease and makes you feel really good. | ||
| I put it in my kale shakes. | ||
| I put four big teaspoons or tablespoons of coconut oil. | ||
| And it tastes good. | ||
| It got a good taste to it. | ||
| Everyone should be eating coconut oil unless they're allergic to coconuts. | ||
| It's that straightforward. | ||
| Do you remember when they were saying that coconut oil was bad for you when we were kids? | ||
| It's like the American Soy Association got one in there. | ||
| Is that what it was? | ||
| Yeah, they did a six-week study of hydrogenated coconut oil versus their crap oil. | ||
| And then, what do you know? | ||
| It raised cholesterol. | ||
| And to this day, you ask the average 40, 50-year-old American, you say coconut oil, they say cholesterol. | ||
| And you're like, there's none in there. | ||
| It's cholesterol-free. | ||
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Not that it's a problem if it has cholesterol, but... | |
| People are so silly with salt. | ||
| Salt gives you high blood pressure. | ||
| No, salt is a fucking mineral, you dummies. | ||
| It's an essential mineral, and you can have too little of it. | ||
| Salt is not making you fat. | ||
| That is so crazy. | ||
| That thought that salt is making you fat has always driven me fucking bananas. | ||
| It's going to give you high blood pressure with all that salt. | ||
| Do you know that it raises your blood pressure within the error margin of a blood pressure cuff? | ||
| That's it. | ||
| It's meaningless. | ||
| Why does everybody connect salt to high blood pressure? | ||
| It has to do with the marketing of anti-blood pressure drugs. | ||
| So they found out back in about 1960 that that was a way to lower blood pressure. | ||
| Well, if you get people to basically pee more water out, their blood gets thicker, so then their blood pressure goes down. | ||
| So they started looking at salt's effect on that, and they went down this path. | ||
| And get this, in 1997, the Lancet Medical Journal, which is kind of a badass one, they published a whole thing about how the salt myth didn't work, how there was scientific fraud, how people probably should have gone to jail for spending taxpayer money and making up data. | ||
| And yet, to this day, you still hear government campaigns to lower salt consumption, knowing full well that it makes your adrenals break when you don't get enough salt. | ||
| I do 10 grams a day I have for 10 years. | ||
| I carry a vial of it around with me. | ||
| I wouldn't think of starting the morning without a teaspoon of salt. | ||
| Whoa, every morning you're doing your shake. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay, there's a reason for it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| What kind of salt? | ||
| What's the best? | ||
| I like the Himalayan crystal salt. | ||
| It's dope just because it comes from the Himalayas, son. | ||
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Smoothie, right? | |
| The Himalayas is dope. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Bringing back some fucking Himalayan salt, son. | ||
| You know, and there's other kinds. | ||
| Any kind of sea salt is going to do it, but there's less pollution in the Himalayan stuff. | ||
| And I like the idea that it's mined by one-armed monks. | ||
| It's just. | ||
| Is it really? | ||
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No. | |
| Congrats-fed salt. | ||
| Imagine the only way to get a job there is you have to chop off one of your arms. | ||
| Dudes would do it. | ||
| There's enough people out there that would do it. | ||
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Probably. | |
| People are fucking crazy, man. | ||
| I guarantee you they would do it. | ||
| So, what is the benefit of putting the salt in your body every morning? | ||
| Here's what happens when you wake up in the morning: when you first wake up, your body says, and this is like your reptilian brain. | ||
| The low-level parts of your operating system you don't pay any attention to. | ||
| Oh, the whole thing. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So you wake up and it says, hmm, this body is going to stand up in a minute. | ||
| And when it stands up, I've got to have enough blood pressure in the brain. | ||
| If I don't have enough blood pressure in the brain, he's going to pass out and a tiger's going to eat him. | ||
| So this is like a survival level imperative inside your body. | ||
| So what does it do? | ||
| It goes to your adrenal glands and says, hey, buddy, could you crank up some cortisol and could you change the sodium to potassium ratio? | ||
| I need you to find sodium, which is hard for people to do. | ||
| That's why we used to pay our soldiers in salt instead of in gold. | ||
| And then it says, crank down on potassium, crank up on sodium. | ||
| If in the morning you take your sodium and you drink it soon after you wake up, your adrenal glands don't have to do all that work. | ||
| So then you have that adrenal function for the rest of the day to feel good. | ||
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Brian, I lost one of the headphones. | |
| Where's it plugged into, dude? | ||
| Just right here. | ||
| I'll do it. | ||
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Sorry. | |
| Oh, you pulled it out? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Can you feel the bad adrenaline? | ||
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I don't know where it goes, but I think it's very simple. | |
| So anyhow, what's happening here? | ||
| Sorry, folks. | ||
| Your adrenal glands are more relaxed. | ||
| I actually recommend this, especially for women when they're pregnant, because they have enough stress already. | ||
| I have a book coming out in January about how to have better genes and bigger brains in your kids starting even before you get pregnant. | ||
| Knowing this, having this knowledge in your head, does it infuriate you when you see these lower salt campaigns and you hear people talking about it, like low salt foods? | ||
| What is that? | ||
| It used to infuriate me, but to be honest, I've done enough of the meditation and the brain hacking. | ||
| I don't get mad at stuff like that because it's not worth the cost of getting mad. | ||
| But what I do is I do something about it. | ||
| Like that's why I started the Bulletproof Exec blog. | ||
| There's a lot of this knowledge. | ||
| I used to weigh 300 pounds. | ||
| I was profoundly unhealthy for the first half of my life. | ||
| And no one taught me any of the things that my body can do. | ||
| It's just the knowledge wasn't out there. | ||
| And now it is, but there's credibility problems. | ||
| And I'm like, look, I'm a pretty successful guy, and I wouldn't have been this successful if I hadn't learned all this stuff. | ||
| So here it is. | ||
| And it's free. | ||
| I just give it to people. | ||
| I've got seven people working for me now doing this. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So you were 300 pounds. | ||
| And how old were you when this was going on? | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| I hit 23 years old. | ||
| I hit 300 pounds. | ||
| 297 actually. | ||
| Holy shit, that's big. | ||
| What was that like? | ||
| I mean, it sucked. | ||
| I was fat as a teenager, too. | ||
| Terrible diet. | ||
| Well, I thought I was eating the right stuff. | ||
| In fact, during that time, I worked out six days a week for an hour and a half a day. | ||
| And I ate 1,800 calories. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| If your hormones are jacked, you're not going to lose weight. | ||
| I did eat less than my thin friends. | ||
| I just couldn't lose the weight. | ||
| I was tired all the time, too. | ||
| Did you have thyroid? | ||
| Anything with your thyroid? | ||
| I did have some thyroid issues, but it wasn't just thyroid. | ||
| Like, there's all kinds of toxin and even like swelling that happens in the body. | ||
| If you have chronic inflammation turned on, you're going to be storing a third of your fat. | ||
| Maybe it's not even fat. | ||
| It's just like tissue inflammation. | ||
| So for me, I had to figure out what was causing my inflammation and what's your cortisol level. | ||
| So there's all these delicate hormones that you manipulate through your food and through your environment. | ||
| And the idea that calories in, calories out matters, I tell you, I ran this experiment. | ||
| It was a little crazy. | ||
| I know that the calorie thing is completely broken because we're not robots. | ||
| You know, we're not like a car. | ||
| You put gas in and you get so many miles as long as the wind resistance is the same. | ||
| So I thought I would eat 4,000 calories a day. | ||
| I'd sleep five hours a night or less and I'd stop exercising. | ||
| And I thought maybe I'll gain a couple pounds in a month or two and I'll say, look, I should have gained 10 pounds. | ||
| I gained two pounds. | ||
| I went for two years. | ||
| I posted a picture of a six-pack that grew during that time. | ||
| I should have weighed 616 pounds after two years of this program, not counting the sleep deficit. | ||
| And I weighed 210 at the end of it and actually was more muscular than I was before. | ||
| Of course, I was drinking bulletproof coffee. | ||
| I was doing bulletproof intermittent fasting, which I developed during that time, which is intermittent fasting, but you have only fat in the morning, which gives you this huge boost, the one that Tate was talking about when he was here with you. | ||
| So you can do all these crazy things with the body. | ||
| But I'll tell you flat out, like, fat doesn't make you fat, and calories don't make you fat. | ||
| Calories fuel your brain, though. | ||
| They're useful, but they're not a very good way of measuring your intake of food. | ||
| So what is it? | ||
| How does someone get fat then? | ||
| It turns out things like leptin resistance, things like inflammation in the gut, and things like insulin all play a role there. | ||
| What happens is your mitochondria and your cells also can get weak. | ||
| You actually get used to having to eat every two hours. | ||
| This idea of frequent snacking to keep your energy up. | ||
| What you're doing is you're teaching the body to actually need, to not be able to store, to not be resilient, to not be able to store any kind of calories at all. | ||
| What I do is I teach my body to burn fat, and I keep my calories at at least 50% of my calories are coming from fat, and most of that is saturated fat with some omega-3s mixed in. | ||
| And what happens there is I can eat pretty much as much as I can stand, and I won't gain any weight that way. | ||
| So it's simply what causes obesity isn't one single thing, but I will tell you, one of the unknown things that is a major contributor is synthetic estrogen in the environment. | ||
| A lot of that comes from mold in our food supply. | ||
| It's called xeralinone. | ||
| We actually purify it and feed it to industrial beef. | ||
| We put it in a little waxy pellet in the cow's ear. | ||
| And here's an example of how much this stuff works. | ||
| You use xeralinone, it can increase what they call feed efficiency for livestock by 30%. | ||
| Feed efficiency means if I don't give them this drug and I give them a pound of food, they gain, you know, however many ounces of fat or meat that the cow is going to gain. | ||
| You put this pellet in their ear, change their hormonal function, they gain 30% more weight on the same amount of food. | ||
| That stuff is fat soluble and it bioaccumulates. | ||
| You do not want to be eating hormone-treated beef that was treated to get fat really, really quickly. | ||
| So we know flat out, just because in animal husbandry, if we can change the calories in, calories out equation by 30%, why couldn't we do it in humans? | ||
| And the answer is we can. | ||
| And that's why every time someone tells me, measure how much you eat and measure how much you exercise and you lose weight, it's the biggest myth. | ||
| I have a whole big research, like 30 references blog post about that. | ||
| It's just not true. | ||
| It never was. | ||
| So when someone drops their calories down and exercises and starts losing fat, Well, what are they doing? | ||
| You can do it for a little while, but here's what happens. | ||
| And I can tell you this because I did that lots of times. | ||
| You lose 25 pounds, you gain 25 pounds, you lose 25 pounds. | ||
| So it's a slingshot sort of a thing? | ||
| Yeah, and there's something called epigenetics. | ||
| And epigenetics is like one of the main subjects of this book that I wrote. | ||
| And it's awesome because epigenetics shows how the environment changes the expression of your genes. | ||
| And you get signals from the environment all the time. | ||
| And two of the biggest signals that you can ever send your body that change the way you actually methylate your DNA are there's a threat, there's something chasing me and it won't stop. | ||
| And you do this by going for a run every single day without rest instead of practicing high-intensity interval training or instead of giving yourself some recovery time. | ||
| There's a lot of athletes and even non-athletes who are just playing overtrained. | ||
| They don't get enough recovery time to actually build the muscle up that they should build because they had to go rip it down again by lifting the next day. | ||
| So that's one signal, which is that like there's a threat to my species because I keep getting injured on a daily basis. | ||
| I keep having to run. | ||
| The other signal you can send is there's a famine. | ||
| And you tell your body there's a famine by eating low calories or low fat diets. | ||
| When you do that, it changes your gene expression. | ||
| And we know that people have went through a famine, that their grandkids have a two to three times higher chance of getting type 2 diabetes. | ||
| This stuff passes down through the generations. | ||
| So I'll tell you flat out, like if you're going on especially a low-fat, vegan diet and you're planning to reproduce, your kids are going to be weaker than they would have been before. | ||
| And the evidence there is pretty darn strong. | ||
| It's a multiple generation effect. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So a vegan diet is lacking in what? | ||
| It's lacking in saturated fat, for one thing. | ||
| Is there a way to make up for it with a vegan diet if you're conscious about it? | ||
| You can get some in coconut oil, but coconut oil does not have conjugated linoleic acid. | ||
| It doesn't have a lot of the micronutrients that are present in animal products. | ||
| You can probably get by on a vegetarian, a very careful vegetarian diet, but in terms of being fully optimal, as in kicking ass at the maximum level of what the human body can do, it's going to take more than just egg yolks. | ||
| It's going to take some steak and it's going to take some lamb and it's going to take some cod liver oil and things like that. | ||
| If you're going to be 100% vegan, honestly, I know enough people now who've posted on my blogs, even some close personal friends. | ||
| One of them was a black belt in Aikido. | ||
| He went vegan 18 months later, he's allergic to everything. | ||
| Like he had to go back, but it seriously just decimated his health. | ||
| So it's a careful thing to do. | ||
| But I know people who do it and they're very healthy. | ||
| Guys like Mac Danzig, he's very healthy and he's been a vegan for years. | ||
| There definitely are some very healthy vegans. | ||
| I'm friends with some. | ||
| Aaron Simpson, one of the guys who fights in the UFC, very healthy guy. | ||
| He's a vegan. | ||
| How old are these guys? | ||
| Aaron, I think, is 36, 37. | ||
| So I'm really curious what their blood work looks like. | ||
| I'd love to see an anti-aging panel from one of those guys. | ||
| I don't know if any of them has ever posted it, but I'd love to just go through it and look at their triglycerides from all the fructose they eat. | ||
| I mean, that's one serious thing, the C-reactive protein. | ||
| Every anti-aging physician I've worked with, and when I say that, I've run an anti-aging nonprofit group called Silicon Valley Health Institute, S-V-H-I.com or .org. | ||
| We've been around for 19 years bringing guys in like Aubrey deGray and other big-time anti-aging people to give lectures. | ||
| And to a T, every single one of them except one has said flat out, I won't take a vegan patient because I cannot make them age less quickly. | ||
| Like it just doesn't work. | ||
| And these are guys who like see 10 patients a day with carefully demonstrated panels. | ||
| The bottom line is I would love it if the vegan diet was safe and effective. | ||
| I was a raw vegan for about four months, and after that I became a raw omnivore for another six or seven months before I went off to Tibet and China. | ||
| I'm not eating raw yak in Tibet. | ||
| No? | ||
| No, I was kind of hanging out from the mud wall. | ||
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I'm like, you better cook that. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Yak, huh? | ||
| What does yak taste like? | ||
| It's actually awesome. | ||
| Some of the best meat I've ever had. | ||
| Really? | ||
| It's better than grass-fed beef, even like the best primo grass-fed. | ||
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Really? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Yak, huh? | ||
| Well, you would think people would know about that. | ||
| Well, the problem is it only eats some kind of weird moss that grows at high altitude and it dies when you bring it to low altitude, so it's kind of a constrained supply. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| That's fascinating. | ||
| It's a seriously tough animal, though. | ||
| Yaks? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, they're ginormous. | ||
| Like, most of the things you see are only half yak, half cow, but the real ones are bigger than... | ||
| I would think they'd be like real gamey and yak. | ||
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Yeah, yak pizza, yak filet mignon. | |
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| It was wild. | ||
| So this is an incredibly fascinating subject to me because I've always wondered like what it is about certain people. | ||
| They store so much fat and certain people just stay lean no matter what. | ||
| Some of that obviously is genetics. | ||
| But what is wrong with their diet that takes a person and just blows them up to 350, 400 pounds? | ||
| I mean, there's got to be, there's a critical issue, right? | ||
| Is it sugar? | ||
| Is it what is it? | ||
| Is it pastas and carbs that turn to sugar? | ||
| It's actually sugar plus inflammation. | ||
| So it's that combination of omega-6, like excess omega-6 oils, plus sugar and corn syrup and things like that. | ||
| What you're doing is you're basically just completely wrecking the metabolism when you do that. | ||
| Omega-6 oils have lots of polyunsaturated bonds. | ||
| I'm talking corn oil, canola oil, stuff like that. | ||
| And vegetable oil. | ||
| What happens there, soy oil is another one. | ||
| Every unsaturated bond in that oil can oxidize. | ||
| And what oxidizes it is oxygen, heat, and light. | ||
| So most of these oils get oxidized before you even eat them, but in the body, you try and make cell walls out of them. | ||
| And when that happens, you end up with less flexible cell walls that aren't able to express the insulin receptors very well. | ||
| So we end up with lots of problems like that because we end up getting these oils that oxidize easily. | ||
| When they're oxidized inside the body, they make free radicals. | ||
| So you get general systemic inflammation. | ||
| And you can measure these levels. | ||
| Like if you take a vegan and you look at their omega-6 to omega-3 ratio, it can be 30, 40 to 1. | ||
| The average American on a crap industrial meat diet is at 40 to 1 right now. | ||
| My blood levels are 1.28 to 1 of my omega-6 to omega-3 ratios. | ||
| And that helps me to crank my inflammation way down. | ||
| And it helps me to express healthy insulin receptors. | ||
| So I don't get insulin resistance. | ||
| I don't get leptin resistance. | ||
| And that lets me, even now I can go out, I can eat a relatively heavy sugar meal. | ||
| I don't get a coma from it, even though I used to get a coma from it when I weighed 280 pounds or 300 pounds. | ||
| I can also go 18 hours without eating, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. | ||
| And that's a pretty big difference from, I used to be the guy, I'm like, it's 1145. | ||
| We got to end this meeting right now because I have to eat because if I don't eat, I'm going to kill someone. | ||
| You can go 18 hours. | ||
| Yeah, in fact, I did it yesterday. | ||
| Yeah, I had my last meal at 4 p.m. last night, and then again at 2 today. | ||
| I guess that was more than 22 hours. | ||
| Now, what do you say about people that say that you should have like some sort of a post-workout sugary meal, some like a lot of glucose, high glucose, a little bit of protein? | ||
| What do you think about that? | ||
| I've looked at that, and what you're trying to do there is you're trying to spike your insulin afterwards because insulin, well, we have insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1, which causes you to build muscles. | ||
| It's insulin-like because it has the same effects as insulin. | ||
| So you eat a lot of sugar, spike your insulin, allegedly lay down more muscle. | ||
| There's a couple studies I've seen, and I can't cite sources from memory right now, but what I recall from seeing them is that it looks like that the effect in IGF-1 probably isn't as good as you'd like it to be. | ||
| What I do after I work out is I typically have a good amount of protein, a good amount of fat, and some starch, not a lot, and I choose low-toxin starches, which is kind of hard to do. | ||
| I've got the bulletproof diet up on the site where it's a free, but it's an infographic that basically ranks foods based on three criteria. | ||
| And if you get a bulletproof starch, like a white rice that's properly rinsed and cooked, or sweet potatoes, butternut squash, things like that, what you're doing is you're getting your carbs up enough that you can still even stay in a state of ketosis, maybe, maybe not. | ||
| But what you can do there is you can reduce your stress hormone levels. | ||
| And that eating right after you work out drops your cortisol. | ||
| And if your cortisol doesn't get dropped in that post-workout window, you get a cortisol spike that lasts for 48 hours. | ||
| So you're not going to get as much muscle. | ||
| So it's absolutely critical to eat, but do you need sugar or do you need protein and fat? | ||
| I would tend towards protein and fat with a small amount of starch. | ||
| So how did it get started that people learned how to drink chocolate milk? | ||
| That was like the big thing for a while. | ||
| It was like, chocolate milk is the best post-workout drink. | ||
| You know, there's effects from milk on IGF-1 as well. | ||
| Like, milk will cause you to put on weight. | ||
| It'll cause you to put on fat too. | ||
| But if you want to bulk up, you know, milk works for bulking up. | ||
| Why chocolate milk? | ||
| Because someone said, oh, let's raise the insulin some more. | ||
| But God, look at what's in chocolate milk. | ||
| At least make your own with real chocolate. | ||
| What is in chocolate milk? | ||
| It's usually high fructose corn syrup. | ||
| Like what are the insulins? | ||
| That's terrible for you. | ||
| Yeah, and plus you've got problems with when you homogenize milk, you take those fat droplets that your body really needs and you put them through a super fine screen under pressure, which makes these extremely fine fat droplets that your body doesn't know how to handle that can actually enter cells. | ||
| So homogenization can increase inflammation and it causes weird fat reactions that your body's not ready for. | ||
| And also when they pasteurize the milk, you get casein. | ||
| And casein is an inflammatory compound, depending on how it's processed, but it's a very careful protein. | ||
| I don't need any casein. | ||
| I know lots of people who are just plain allergic to it. | ||
| And I mean, you've probably had people in here talking about the China study. | ||
| That was an incredibly misrepresented book, but one of the key points at the very beginning was that casein can increase inflammation and be linked to liver cancer. | ||
| And that's actually true. | ||
| So, man, in order to get some protein, you're getting casein, which has been pasteurized. | ||
| You're getting fat in the wrong form. | ||
| You're getting high fructose corn syrup. | ||
| I could probably formulate a better post-workout drink using MCT oil, like bulletproof low-toxin chocolate maybe. | ||
| You could use honey even. | ||
| Like raw honey has a different effect than, say, normal sugar does, and normal sugar has a different effect than high-fructose corn syrup. | ||
| What is the deal with corn? | ||
| Why do we use so much corn? | ||
| It's high fructose corn syrup, and corn is in so many different things. | ||
| Everywhere. | ||
| Is that a lobby thing? | ||
| Yeah, corn and soy are lobby things and also farm subsidies, right? | ||
| You know, you grow corn and soy, you get extra money from the government for growing this stuff. | ||
| We've got the whole Monsanto connection there, which is just beyond evil from my perspective. | ||
| It's confusing. | ||
| It's very confusing that it's real. | ||
| It's very confusing that there's a company out there that's trying to make these genetically modified food and then force farmers to grow them. | ||
| And when you see the suicide rates in India, they're absolutely stunning. | ||
| I mean, it's like they're having suicides there every day, all day long. | ||
| People are killing themselves because of Monsanto. | ||
| There's been hundreds of thousands of suicides in India linked to Monsanto. | ||
| It's really crazy, these poor farmers. | ||
| There's even more profound evil going on. | ||
| And one of my pet peeves, things I talk about, and I've studied it extensively, is called mycotoxins. | ||
| And these are toxins that form from fungus in the environment. | ||
| And the combination of DuPont plus Monsanto is a shocking story. | ||
| Like 30 years ago, DuPont made this pesticide called Benomil. | ||
| And what Benomil did is it killed all fungus. | ||
| Like 98% of fungus it touched would just die. | ||
| Unfortunately, the other 2% would get like X-Man mutation turned on. | ||
| So whole plasmid-level mutation, it's called. | ||
| What this means is that instead of one gene mutating like nature does, whole groups of genes would mutate. | ||
| And get this, a fungus can change plasmids like baseball cards with other fungus. | ||
| So what's going on here is we created X-Men fungus that reproduce every 20 minutes 30 years ago. | ||
| And some of these new toxic molds that are like uber vicious, you know, that poison people in their houses and all, and I've had that happen to me. | ||
| You know, Stachybotris and Aspergillus in your kitchen will mess your head up, sometimes permanently. | ||
| And what's going on is Benomil made these toxic, but then you spray Roundup on soil. | ||
| Roundup completely disrupts the soil microbes. | ||
| These are like the probiotics of the planet. | ||
| Like our soil health is really important. | ||
| So now you get mutated X-Men stuff growing in the soil, and then you piss it off with Roundup, and you get 500 times more toxins. | ||
| And then that mold that's left, fusarium, grows in the corn. | ||
| In fact, it's a major pest, it's a major pest for corn in the U.S. You get dried corn with toxic mold forming fusarium in it. | ||
| A majorly large percentage. | ||
| I don't know for this year. | ||
| Some years it's up to 98% of corn has this toxic mold growing in it. | ||
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What? | |
| It's crazy stuff. | ||
| And this is not like any kind of weird, you know, conspiracy theory thing. | ||
| This is documented in agricultural science. | ||
| Just no one in biochemistry that I know of tends to read the studies on mycotoxins because they're all like off in agriculture land instead of in health land. | ||
| So you're saying that 98% of corn has this mycotoxin in it and it's not killed by any production process and turning it into bread or turning it into cornbread or tortillas or anything like that? | ||
| It's a myco, not micro, M-Y-C-O, like as in myco, like mushroom derived. | ||
| Yeah, like my cells, right. | ||
| And some of it is killed. | ||
| We've heard of these mycotoxins before. | ||
| Aflatoxin, everyone knows that's a bad one in peanuts. | ||
| Or penicillin, like a tiny little capsule of penicillin, which is just mold extract, has this profound effect on Your body, right? | ||
| Well, there's other stuff out there that has a profound effect on your body at a parts per million level. | ||
| And I don't know if this year 98% of corn is. | ||
| That's the maximum I found in my data. | ||
| But at least a third, almost every year in the U.S., of corn, of dried corn product that's out there, like animal feed, like masa, like corn tortillas, has stuff in it. | ||
| And fusario makes three classes of toxins that mess with your brain and with your hormones and with your protein formation. | ||
| And that's why on the bulletproof diet, I look first at macronutrients and then I look at anti-nutrients like mycotoxins and heterocyclic amines and all the others. | ||
| And you've got to be a little careful in your food. | ||
| If you want to like really kick ass and be mentally focused all the time, these are the things that get in there and muck with your head. | ||
| Some people are more sensitive than others, but if you reduce the level of these things in your diet, you think better. | ||
| And that's one reason you can do the bulletproof diet in the morning. | ||
| All you're drinking with bulletproof intermittent fasting is low-toxin coffee, low-toxin butter, and toxin-free MCT oil. | ||
| You do that, you had nothing messing with your head, only good stuff, no bad stuff. | ||
| That is absolutely fascinating. | ||
| So everyone's being poisoned, essentially. | ||
| Everyone who's eating all these corn products is being poisoned. | ||
| Yep, at low levels, they are. | ||
| And the links between heart disease and cancer and mycotoxins are very well established. | ||
| In fact, a WHO researcher who's written the most research of anyone on mycotoxins has a whole book this thick called Fungal Bionics, where he cites 900 different studies about the links between atherosclerosis and cancer. | ||
| That's heart disease. | ||
| Direct quote from this author. | ||
| He says, there is a known cause of atherosclerosis, and it is mycotoxins. | ||
| Pig farmers know this. | ||
| They know that if they get these grains that have mold growing in them, they have test kits they can buy where they test the grain because they know they feed too much grain to the pigs, the pigs will get lesions in their arteries, or the pigs will lose their litter before they can deliver it. | ||
| But what they do is they wait till the pigs are far enough along, then they feed the cheaper toxic grain to the pigs or the cows, and that fattens them up faster, and it costs less money, and the fact that some of that stuff is still in the meat, your problem. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So when you're getting pork chops, you're getting it because they eat grain. | ||
| It all depends on who fed the pig. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| So when you're getting steak, you're getting that. | ||
| If you're not eating grass-fed steak, you're making a mistake. | ||
| And that's one of the reasons, you go on a vegan diet. | ||
| If you're eating really good quality, non-moldy vegan food, you're going to get less toxins. | ||
| Like you compare vegan or vegetarian versus standard industrial meat-based meat and hydrogenated fat and MSG diet. | ||
| Man, I would rather be a vegan than a standard American diet any day of the week. | ||
| The problem is that if I want to, for many, many years, have the highest energy levels, the most focus, with the least amount of effort, you're not going to be able to achieve that on the vegan diet. | ||
| And I don't think you'll hit your very top level of performance as 100% vegan. | ||
| You could probably be mostly vegan, but you're going to be missing out on some things over time. | ||
| There's pretty good research on my site about that. | ||
| It's unbelievable that you sound so convincing, but I'm too stupid to know if you're right. | ||
| There's a lot of convincing vegans out there, too. | ||
| Yes, there are. | ||
| Well, you know, there's a lot of people that tell you how much it changed their life, but my point with a lot of those people is that generally, and it's not all, but generally they come from a really bad diet and then they start eating vegetables and they feel better. | ||
| Well, of course you're going to feel better. | ||
| But I think your point really does make a lot of sense as to what is the optimum way to do it. | ||
| This is all stuff that I'd never heard before. | ||
| I'd never heard that all meat has some sort of low-level. | ||
| But it's only industrial meat. | ||
| I have half a cow in my fridge. | ||
| It grew up three miles from my house. | ||
| It cost $3.50 a pound, and it's grass-fed. | ||
| It never ate any grain. | ||
| It was well-treated. | ||
| It was butchered humanely. | ||
| And it tastes awesome. | ||
| Like, it's really good meat. | ||
| So what do you do? | ||
| You have a big freezer? | ||
| Yeah, I just have a, it costs $300 at Costco. | ||
| It's not even that hard to do. | ||
| You just buy the freezer, toss it in the back of the car, bring it home, throw it in the basement. | ||
| And you've got meat that costs a third of what it's going to cost, or 20% of what it would cost at Whole Foods. | ||
| I've got links on my site. | ||
| You can order 100 pounds at a time and just have it shipped to your house. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| But doesn't it taste funky because it's frozen? | ||
| You know, this is a funny thing about meat. | ||
| When they hang meat to let it age, what they're doing is they're letting basically mold and bacteria in the environment work on the meat. | ||
| Well, the links between those molds and human health are not so good. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| This is a mold that likes to eat meat. | ||
| And Joe, you and me are made out of meat. | ||
| So the incidence of low-level fungal infections, like I don't eat dry-age meat that's cooked really rare because there's still active fungus that likes to eat what I'm made out of in there. | ||
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I don't give a fuck. | |
| I don't think man. | ||
| How do I not know about that? | ||
| That's how I burn calories, Joe, is this meat and mold. | ||
| That's it? | ||
| You snort and mold. | ||
| So it turns out you want the freshest of anything. | ||
| As soon as you kill it and you drain the blood, throw it in the freezer and when you're ready to eat it, take it out. | ||
| How many hours from the time it's killed is it butchered and then frozen? | ||
| The stuff that I have, I actually specially requested it. | ||
| It was about two days. | ||
| Two days? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So just meat lays around for two days? | ||
| Yeah, what they do is they hang it in a climate-controlled environment which lets all the blood come out. | ||
| But typical like high-end steak, 21 days, sometimes up to like 64 days. | ||
| Dry-aged steak. | ||
| Yeah, and then, you know, dry-aged meat tastes amazing. | ||
| I'm not going to even say that it's bad, but the difference in how dry-aged meat makes your brain feel versus fresh meat that's been frozen right away and then defrosted and cooked, you will feel like a different human being when you eat that stuff. | ||
| What is killed during the freezing process? | ||
| Is there anything that's killed? | ||
| It's not about the killing, although it can kill parasites. | ||
| Like they use that in sushi. | ||
| You freeze sushi for a while at very low temperatures to kill parasites. | ||
| What's going on is you're preventing the formation of these basically psychoactive compounds that form in addition to those nice yummy flavors that come from the yeast and the fungus sending tendrils into the meat. | ||
| So that nice kind of soft, mushy, dry edge meat, even if it's grass-fed, it has health impacts, including cardiovascular impacts that are not present for fresh meat that was frozen. | ||
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Wow. | |
| But yet so delicious. | ||
| Nature's fucked us again, man. | ||
| I still eat bacon. | ||
| I have no problems with it. | ||
| What is the thing? | ||
| Why does dry edge? | ||
| Because dry age does taste pretty damn good. | ||
| Here's how we discovered dry edge, right? | ||
| How long have we really had good freezers? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Not that long. | ||
| So you're going to kill a giant cow 100 years ago. | ||
| You're going to hang it in the coolest place you can find and you're going to whack off pieces of it and eat it like kind of cow on the cob, right? | ||
| Yeah, I guess so. | ||
| I mean, back then, they must have eaten a lot of rotten meat just to keep it going. | ||
| Now, did that have anything to do with the appendix? | ||
| Or was the appendix for processing fiber? | ||
| What was the appendix for processing? | ||
| I don't think that there's a scientific consensus there. | ||
| I've heard it's a store for probiotics, potentially, like the healthy bacteria. | ||
| that's like the little storehouse for them. | ||
| But I've never heard a definitive, this is why we had an appendix that everyone agreed with. | ||
| So humans for a long time had to be able to deal with a certain amount of fungus and bacteria. | ||
| It's just evolution. | ||
| In fact, Wired magazine just published this whole thing. | ||
| Like, oh, we've been focusing on the genome of the bacteria in the gut, and we just noticed there's just as much fungus growing in your gut as there is bacteria, and we don't know anything about it. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| How weird is it that we have organisms that are essential to human survival and they live inside of our intestinal tract? | ||
| They're essential. | ||
| If you don't have them, you will die. | ||
| The question is, are they apart from human? | ||
| I mean, that's a part of being human, right? | ||
| If you're dead without them, they're just like part of your repair system. | ||
| Yeah, they're the soldiers. | ||
| They're your little soldiers. | ||
| When I tell people about probiotics, I used to get sick a lot when I went on the road until I really started getting into probiotics. | ||
| I like the way it tastes, and I'll drink a couple of those a day, and I'm covered. | ||
| And it's made a huge, significant impact on how many colds that I get. | ||
| I mean, it's just, they stopped. | ||
| They just stopped. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| And the way I explain to people, I go, it's like when you eat healthy bacteria, it's like sending soldiers. | ||
| You have healthy soldiers that are going to go out and whack all the shitty things that you touch. | ||
| Like, it really does work that way. | ||
| But now think about this. | ||
| If you do that, you drink your kombucha, and then you go have a normal ribeye that was fed industrial meat, it's got antibiotics in that meat. | ||
| They use antibiotics because they make animals fatter faster. | ||
| So it's not that they're using it to keep them from getting sick. | ||
| They just want the muscle striations. | ||
| They want the fat to marble through the muscle. | ||
| So now you're eating that, you just wax those nice bacteria that you put in your gut. | ||
| And that's why I'm kind of militant. | ||
| When I go out, I'll eat fish, like non-farmed fish, wild-caught fish, long before I'm going to eat steak at a normal steakhouse. | ||
| If they say, oh, it's grass-fed, grass-finished steak, I'm like, double, you know, load me up. | ||
| I'll have two pounds of it. | ||
| But the rest of the time, when I'm on the road, you'll see in my backpack, I've got, you know, smoked sockeye salmon. | ||
| stuff is as clean as it gets. | ||
| So when you go to a restaurant, what kind of stuff you'd rather... | ||
| A lot of fish is farmed fish. | ||
| Like that weird salmon where they actually change the color of the flesh to try to When you get these prison bitch salmon, the ones that you buy in the supermarket, they have like this pale flesh. | ||
| It's like they just like, fuck it. | ||
| And it's mushy. | ||
| It's gross. | ||
| They're feeding them pellets, you know? | ||
| And the pellets are like soy and corn and antibiotics, plus ground-up sardines. | ||
| They're environmentally destructive. | ||
| Like you shouldn't buy farmed fish on principle because it's bad for the world. | ||
| Like our oceans are already screwed up enough. | ||
| We don't need that. | ||
| It's also like, it seems fucked up. | ||
| I mean, it's fucked up enough that you catch them with nets, you know, and just swoop through an entire environment and kill everything and rope it up. | ||
| That's fucked up enough. | ||
| But at least those are wild. | ||
| They were wild until that moment and then they got jacked. | ||
| But to just live in this fucking kiddie pond while they throw this bullshit on top of you and that's all you have to eat. | ||
| Just seems fucking stupid. | ||
| I think there's certain things that people do to animals that are really arrogant. | ||
| And zoos are one of them. | ||
| Oh, you know. | ||
| Zoos kind of break my heart, even the real natural ones. | ||
| But I've been to zoos like in Cambodia and all. | ||
| And like, you see the stress behavior in animals. | ||
| It's just horrible. | ||
| It shouldn't be allowed. | ||
| I'm a hypocrite because I go because I want my kids to see what animals look like because it's interesting. | ||
| But if I had my choice, I would say, bring me back to the woods, man. | ||
| Let them live in the jungle. | ||
| Let them live where they live. | ||
| This is nonsense. | ||
| Like, you either want to get rid of them because they're dangerous or, you know, leave them the fuck alone. | ||
| Those are the two options. | ||
| The idea that you can take them and just lock them in this little environment so people can stare at them as they pace in circles. | ||
| That's torture. | ||
| That's craziness. | ||
| And don't even let them kill anything. | ||
| And you know what's bad? | ||
| Look what they feed those animals. | ||
| They all die like in a third the amount of time they live in the wild. | ||
| And it's not just stress from being in captivity and having people throw cigarette butts at you. | ||
| It's because they feed them crap. | ||
| And they're sort of figuring that out. | ||
| Oh, look, they keep dying. | ||
| And we keep having surgery and doing all this weird stuff to keep them alive. | ||
| Kind of like they do for people now. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're giving them prison food. | ||
| Poor fucking gorillas. | ||
| So sad. | ||
| It was sad, man. | ||
| Just watching them pace around that thing. | ||
| I was like, wow. | ||
| You know, my two-year-old thinks it's awesome. | ||
| But, you know, to me, it's kind of trippy. | ||
| Eagles, they had eagles in this net. | ||
| The eagles couldn't fly. | ||
| It was crazy. | ||
| They could fly like a little bit and then land and fly a little bit. | ||
| And you're like, oh, my God, they must be going nuts. | ||
| They're fucking bald eagles and they can't just soar. | ||
| Like, they could soar, man, and float around. | ||
| And they want to kill rabbits and things like that. | ||
| I'm pretty sure they're not getting much of that going on. | ||
| They're little eagle pellets. | ||
| They're giving them dog shit in a can. | ||
| It's terrible. | ||
| What are they feeding them? | ||
| They push out a little tray of meat and the eagle eats it. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| We would take away the one thing that nature must have them set up for. | ||
| A massive reward of endorphins and of whatever the fuck their little brains produce or little lizard asshole questions. | ||
| Evil eyes. | ||
| You ever look at the eyes of an eagle? | ||
| What a creepy fucking eyeball. | ||
| Those things. | ||
| That eagle is just representing our country very well, Joe. | ||
| Look at the eagle fly. | ||
| Have you ever heard that video where that crazy dude that used John Ashcroft? | ||
| You remember John Ashcroft? | ||
| Yeah, super crazy. | ||
| Super crazy. | ||
| But he has a song. | ||
| Remember, did we play on the podcast once? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We won't play it again. | ||
| Just look up John Ashcroft, Let the Eagle Soar. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| Or Let the Eagle Fly. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| Add dubstep at the end of it. | ||
| It's probably better. | ||
| It's amazingly crazy. | ||
| Have you seen it? | ||
| A long time ago, yeah. | ||
| It's amazingly crazy. | ||
| Did you watch that skydiver? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That was amazing. | ||
| Did you see that? | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| I was hoping that a UFO was going to snatch him out of the sky on his way down. | ||
| How does he not faint? | ||
| Because isn't that something like, you know, like scaring a bunny rabbit that just your body can't take falling from space? | ||
| He almost did. | ||
| He said he was spinning, and he said that if he spun anymore, he could pass out and die. | ||
| And so he was like, do I pull the rip cord and slow down and not hit the record? | ||
| And he said, I'm just going to do it anyway. | ||
| And he didn't pass out. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Yeah, he was flipping. | ||
| And then he leveled out somehow or another. | ||
| I don't know how he leveled out. | ||
| I guess he did that flying squirrel thing. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Yeah, it was really weird to watch him step off of it, though. | ||
| That was really weird. | ||
| To be right behind him with the camera and watch him just drop out of sight. | ||
| That's pretty epic. | ||
| That dude was in a balloon. | ||
| I didn't know you could take a balloon to space. | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| Did you know that? | ||
| No. | ||
| Who'd want to? | ||
| I didn't know you could take a balloon to space. | ||
| Why haven't we done this already? | ||
| Why aren't there trips to go to space in a balloon? | ||
| Yeah, Richard Branson should check this guy out. | ||
| What's up, Rich? | ||
| And if you're right, here's another question. | ||
| Is it possible you're hit by a satellite? | ||
| Because don't satellites whip around the Earth? | ||
| Sure, it would be. | ||
| Going like 500 miles an hour or something? | ||
| They're usually probably like, you know, like states off, you know, like millions of miles off. | ||
| Like, oh, that almost hit me at like a million miles. | ||
| It's the space junk. | ||
| So we didn't talk about this, but like, I'm a geek. | ||
| Like, I'm a vice president at a computer internet security company, like Silicon Valley guy. | ||
| And yeah, we have like problems with space junk, serious problems where they map it all out and there's like storms where like little nuts from like a Chinese rocket from 40 years ago or whatever is spinning around, probably not 40 years. | ||
| And they're like bullets. | ||
| I mean they're hypersonic. | ||
| And they poke holes in satellites. | ||
| They can kill people in space stations. | ||
| So it's getting to be like. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| It's kind of dangerous up there. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| Could you imagine sitting in the fucking space station and you hear like bolts? | ||
| Yeah, you hear ding and you're like, that's just punched the hole. | ||
| It punches a hole right through the other side. | ||
| And you look down, your leg is bleeding. | ||
| They track all that stuff now so they know if it's coming. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| They track the bolts that are flying in space. | ||
| How many of them are there? | ||
| Like hundreds of thousands now. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| And you have like whole like, you know, leftover fuel capsules and all this stuff, astronaut poop that they ejected them. | ||
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Awesome poop. | |
| I'm serious, like frozen, you know, things they do. | ||
| You're like beamed by a frozen turd when you're out on a spacewalk. | ||
| It can happen. | ||
| I've had a semi-frozen turd beamed at me and it still hurt. | ||
| I can't believe that. | ||
| I can't believe there's hundreds of thousands of pieces of junk up there. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| Yeah, no one's going to clean that either. | ||
| It's not like you can put a net up there and scoop it all up. | ||
| Guess where most of it came from? | ||
| Military exercises. | ||
| Let's blow up a satellite in orbit and see what happens. | ||
| Like, oh, it scatters crap all over orbit. | ||
| Yeah, it's just an environmental problem, just like we have on our oceans or somewhere else. | ||
| The military is so crazy that in the 60s when they first started thinking about going to the moon, they did a thing called Operation Starfish Prime, where they shot a nuclear bomb up into the atmosphere and blew it up. | ||
| They blew it up in the radiation belt. | ||
| Let's see what happened. | ||
| What happened there? | ||
| It's fucking crazy. | ||
| There's nobody there to go, hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? | ||
| Don't you fucking do it to see what happens. | ||
| Are you guys crazy? | ||
| What's the benefit of shooting a nuclear bomb into space? | ||
| You crazy fucks? | ||
| They've gone nuts on that stuff. | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| My grandparents met on the Manhattan Project in Chicago before Los Alamos. | ||
| My grandmother's a master's degree in nuclear engineering and won a lifetime achievement reward for nuclear engineering, like one of two women ever. | ||
| So I grew up in a nuclear family like this, but even they're like, could we stop blowing those things up everywhere? | ||
| They're kind of useful in a war, but maybe blowing up a few hundred of them around the planet isn't a good idea. | ||
| have you ever seen the... | ||
| There's an animated GIF file, or maybe it's a video that shows all of the... | ||
| On the globe, it shows you a map of the world and it shows all of the nuclear explosions in their correct order that have taken place, all the tests, and it's like, boom. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Boom, boom, boom. | ||
| Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That would be awesome. | ||
| You should link to that. | ||
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Pull that up, bro. | |
| I want to see if you can see that. | ||
| See if you want to video of all of the nuclear explosions. | ||
| You'll find it. | ||
| But I've seen it. | ||
| It's fast. | ||
| There's been like more than 100. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| 100 nuclear explosions. | ||
| I did not know that. | ||
| It's really scary. | ||
| And some of the things that happen there, we have a kind of a rise in thyroid cancer. | ||
| And gee, you get radioactive iodine out there. | ||
| And these have an environmental impact. | ||
| And some of the stuff we don't even understand, like low-frequency vibrations on the Earth's crust from those things. | ||
| There's biological effects from the reverberation of the Earth's crust. | ||
| You heard of the Schumann residents? | ||
| When thunder strikes, you get this reflection between the ionosphere and the Earth's crust, and it creates basically a round of 10 hertz. | ||
| I forget the exact 9 point something hertz frequency. | ||
| And if we don't have this, we don't work very well as humans. | ||
| In fact, in the Russian space program, they actually figured out that they were not doing well at all. | ||
| They actually replicate this inside the spacecraft now. | ||
| They make a rumble, like a sound? | ||
| You don't hear it. | ||
| It's like an electrical thing. | ||
| It's a super low-frequency EMF. | ||
| So this EMF that's given out by thunder and lightning actually has a positive effect on human beings? | ||
| Yeah, it's like a timing signal. | ||
| If we don't get it, we don't do so well. | ||
| It's right in the alpha brainwave spectrum. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| In fact, I have a Schumann wave resonance creation thing in my house. | ||
| Like, it's one of the things that lowers biological stress. | ||
| When you have a Schumann resonance that your low-level biological, like, electrical systems can sync to, it lowers the stress. | ||
| If you have Wi-Fi routers and things like that all over the place, your body tries to find a signal and it doesn't get one very well. | ||
| And when it doesn't get one very well, it just raises your cortisol levels. | ||
| Your body's trying to find a signal. | ||
| What do you mean by that? | ||
| So there's an electromagnetic signal on the earth. | ||
| And it sounds kind of goofy, to be honest, but one of the ways you can do this is with an earthing mat. | ||
| And I kind of went out on a limb and I started promoting these as like, this thing rocks. | ||
| And what this is, is a mat that's made out of electrically conductive fibers. | ||
| It's just silver woven into a sheet. | ||
| And you plug it into the round part of the electrical outlet at your house. | ||
| So just the grounding part, or you stick it into the earth, like drop it out the window on a wire and stick it into the ground. | ||
| You do this, and it normalizes your cortisol excretion at night. | ||
| Your sleep improves really dramatically. | ||
| Especially for jet lag. | ||
| I absolutely will not travel without my earthing mat because I don't get jet lag at all anymore. | ||
| Like it's just a non-issue. | ||
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What? | |
| This is craziness. | ||
| Lance Armstrong uses this on the Tour de France in order to recover faster. | ||
| Like you recover from injuries faster when you're grounded. | ||
| And there's an electrical thing you can measure that's happening there. | ||
| There's two effects. | ||
| One is you build up a charge on your body and you can just pick this up with a meter. | ||
| We're walking around indoors. | ||
| We're wearing shoes, like rubber shoes all the time. | ||
| So we basically, just the air over our skin builds up a static charge. | ||
| When you get, you know, a spark, like in the desert, you touch the Most static electricity. | ||
| That's an extreme example of it. | ||
| But our bodies kind of work like big batteries. | ||
| Like we have different electrical fields and different electrical potentials inside the body. | ||
| So when you spend about 20 minutes walking in grass barefoot or laying on earthing mats, being on the beach, what you're doing is you're dropping the extra charge that's built up over time. | ||
| And when you do that, you heal faster. | ||
| You really do recover faster. | ||
| It's profoundly amazing how well it works. | ||
| There's cardiologists recommending this. | ||
| There's a whole book written about this. | ||
| I have heard about people lying in the grass, sleeping in the grass to help them heal. | ||
| I thought this was such BS, but like I used to fly to Cambridge, England every six weeks. | ||
| I was a vice president at a company based out there. | ||
| And I'd fly from the Bay Area out there. | ||
| And that's like the worst commute ever in terms of time zones. | ||
| Like you're flying east. | ||
| And I would go and I'd say, all right, in the morning when I land, I'm going to exercise to raise my body temperature. | ||
| And that's going to be how I hack my jet lag. | ||
| And one day I did yoga in the park because like the only day of the year it was not rainy in England. | ||
| And that time I had no jet lag. | ||
| I'm like, yes, my exercise works. | ||
| And the next time I do it in the hotel room, the same exact thing. | ||
| And I had horrible jet lag. | ||
| I'm like, what is it? | ||
| And I finally understood years later what had really been the variable that I didn't know to look for. | ||
| So this is one of the things, it's like a $70 little item and you try it and you just know it works. | ||
| I wish marijuana was legal to grow because I went to a grow room once and this dude had this, and he was illegal, it was a legal setup. | ||
| I go into this back room and he's got this room larger than this room and it's filled with these really happy cannabis plants and they have they've been taken care of with the perfect fertilizer and the perfect soil composition and there's misters that are going off constantly and they're really healthy and vibrant and you walk into that room and you feel them and it sounds like hippie bullshit but I wasn't even high. | ||
| I walked in that room stone cold sober and I was like whoa. | ||
| This is like they have a frequency. | ||
| It's an intangible thing that I sense. | ||
| I can feel it, but I wouldn't know how to describe what it's doing. | ||
| I do a lot of work at that level with the biohacking I talk about. | ||
| So you have this reptilian brain that's responsible for low-level systems in the body. | ||
| It's the same thing a salamander has. | ||
| And it senses stuff, but it does it so fast that you don't even know it happened. | ||
| Like if you put your hand on a hot stove, you'll pull your hand away before you know the stove was hot. | ||
| That's an example of this thing in action. | ||
| So what it does is it picks up all kinds of stuff from the environment, a lot of stuff we don't even understand yet. | ||
| But it does it and it matches patterns so fast that you might just get like a wisp of an intuition from it. | ||
| But what's going on there is like the animal part of you is totally picking up all these things. | ||
| And you can train yourself to basically be more sensitive to what it's telling you. | ||
| And you can train yourself and train it to behave better. | ||
| Because that reptilian brain is what gets us in a lot of trouble. | ||
| It's how you know when someone's upset at you. | ||
| You know when someone's upset at you, even if they're trying to pretend that they're not, you know there's something off. | ||
| They're giving you a certain feel. | ||
| Now I'm going to sound like a total hippie wacko, which I'm not. | ||
| Too late. | ||
| Darn. | ||
| So you're on this show. | ||
| Fair point. | ||
| I'll take that. | ||
| So I'm an advisor to this company called the Heart Math Institute. | ||
| And HeartMath makes a heart rate variability training device. | ||
| These guys are Silicon Valley geeks. | ||
| They spent 20 years looking at meditation and how you quantify meditation, like what's going on in the body. | ||
| And it turns out, by looking at the spacing between your heartbeats, you can totally change the way your brain works and the way your body works. | ||
| And in the course of their research, they went out and they did some really heavy-duty science. | ||
| And there's actually a magnetic field around your heart. | ||
| It's tipped at like a 12-degree angle this way. | ||
| It's shaped like a torus, like a donut. | ||
| And they know which direction the fields move on it and everything. | ||
| So it's the most electrically active part of your body is your heart. | ||
| And get this. | ||
| When a human walks into a stall with a horse before they touch the horse, the horse's heart rate variability will change to match the humans. | ||
| We have a field effect on the people around us. | ||
| And it's an electromagnetic field that's heart-based. | ||
| And we can measure it. | ||
| People get pissed off when they hear this and then they just think everything I say is crap. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| A, I know the scientists who are behind this. | ||
| And B, I'm a certified heart math executive coach. | ||
| Like I use this to take people who are super high performers, who are tweaking because of their stress, and to teach them to consciously basically use their prefrontal cortex, their human, most evolved part of the brain, to train and take control of the reptilian brain. | ||
| And when you do that, there's measurable changes in the spacing of your heartbeats, and there's a change in the field around your heart as well. | ||
| When you do that, that's what you're feeling there. | ||
| Someone's pissed off of you, they could not say a word, and you might not even see their face, but you just have a feeling. | ||
| My body's letting you know some shit might be going down. | ||
| I'm catching some bad smells. | ||
| In fact, one of my buddies is a special forces guy. | ||
| And he actually wasn't technically, he trained special forces guys. | ||
| He was a long-range patrol officer guy. | ||
| And he told me one day, he said, Dave, what we learned out in the field, he said, if you're in someone's sights, you can feel it. | ||
| He said, if someone's got a gun pointed at you, your body heats up. | ||
| Like, literally, how the heck could this be possible? | ||
| But the bottom line is we have all sorts of weird senses. | ||
| We also know if we hook you up, Joe, to like weird galvanic skin response sensors, and then you're sitting there, if someone's staring at you, we'll be able to measure your body responding to the stare even if they're staring at your back. | ||
| Like there's all kinds of crazy stuff in our bodies we haven't even really explored yet. | ||
| Do you think those are evolving senses or do you think those are just like really sort of intangible senses that we haven't quite defined? | ||
| They're not evolving senses. | ||
| They're old senses. | ||
| Those were there long before. | ||
| What makes the frog move before the eagle dives for it? | ||
| It's those kind of senses. | ||
| It's very, very low-level survival oriented senses. | ||
| You sure they're not evolving? | ||
| They're not getting better maybe? | ||
| I think what's happening is that our ability to access them from our prefrontal cortex is evolving. | ||
| And that's one of the things I spend a lot of my own time on. | ||
| I spent $20,000 and seven days hooked up to an EEG machine to learn how to do like advanced Zen meditation that takes 40 years. | ||
| I did in seven days. | ||
| And what you're really doing there is you're just learning how to have the prefrontal cortex, your human brain, talk to the low-level systems. | ||
| And when you do that, you can unleash creativity and intelligence and intuition in ways that most people aren't that familiar with. | ||
| What do you think is going on when you see people that are kids usually that are autistic, but that are super genius in one area? | ||
| Like there was one kid that was making, he was composing a symphony every nine days or something, something like that. | ||
| And It was really good music. | ||
| And then there's a kid who can look out a window and out of an airplane and draw the entire skyline as he sees it perfectly. | ||
| Like, do you think that that's evolving possibilities in the brain that are just starting to sort of pop up? | ||
| I don't. | ||
| You don't. | ||
| And I say that. | ||
| I had all the symptoms of Asperger's syndrome until I was in my mid-20s, like obsessive, compulsive disorder, oppositional, defiant disorder. | ||
| I didn't know anyone's name. | ||
| Like, I wouldn't make eye contact, all that kind of stuff. | ||
| I stuttered a little bit. | ||
| And I've done a lot of work with the autism community. | ||
| In fact, one of my goals in this book that I'm writing, the Better Baby book that comes out in January, is to have less kids with autism because you can handle neurological inflammation even in the womb. | ||
| So there's less likelihood of it happening later. | ||
| What we can do, though, is we can take a fully functioning, neurologically functioning adult, and we can hit them with really strong magnets in their head, and we can turn on autistic skills in non-autistic people. | ||
| So you can suddenly draw the most amazing thing ever when you have a 10-ton magnet focused on your head. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| So this is some serious brain hacking stuff. | ||
| So it's like that fucking dude from the X-Bed and that Magneto dude. | ||
| I hadn't thought of it like that yet. | ||
| That's exactly what it is. | ||
| He became a goddamn genius with that magnet helmet on, remember? | ||
| Yeah, and they're doing this like in neuroscience laboratories right now. | ||
| Like they have this really focused thing that shines a magnet and it activates a specific part of your brain. | ||
| You can even do it to some extent with the stuff I have in my backpack, like the cerebroelectrical stimulation or TDCS. | ||
| You can run a current through part of your brain and turn it on. | ||
| It wasn't turned on before, and as long as there's electricity there, it's turned on. | ||
| So I think what's going on here is the wiring and autistic kids, they have chronic neurological inflammation that's environmentally mediated, and they usually have problems with the biology in their gut, too. | ||
| So what we can do, though, is we can learn, okay, these autistic kids have these skills. | ||
| All of us have these skills too. | ||
| They're just not trained and they're not turned on. | ||
| If you use technology, you can train your brain to do crazy stuff in very short periods of time. | ||
| So you can gain these kind of powers without having to give up the ability to socialize, for instance. | ||
| But a kid looking out a window and being able to capture the exact skyline and then put that to paper. | ||
| I don't even think he's a classically trained artist. | ||
| I think he just does it. | ||
| That is a really special skill. | ||
| It's a special skill, but I'll bet you that if we took six months and we used those magnets and things like that, we can explore how his brain works and teach your brain to do the same thing. | ||
| There's a lot of things out there that are way teachable that you wouldn't think are. | ||
| It's all just about interfacing with the brain. | ||
| The way we do it now is really inefficient. | ||
| If I have a gigantic magnet on my head, will I play better pool? | ||
| I think it depends on how much the magnet weighs, probably. | ||
| Well, I mean, as far as the frequency, it needs something. | ||
| It's not something you'd wear. | ||
| It's not something you'd wear. | ||
| I mean, these little bracelets. | ||
| When I say 10 tons, I mean like this is a 10-ton thing that changes it. | ||
| And there's various articles from neuroscientists. | ||
| They went in, they did the test, and they drew the most amazing artwork. | ||
| Or in the military, they do other things like that, more with the electricity. | ||
| But they'll say, oh, look, this person got a stimulation here, and they went through the shooting stimulation, and they killed everyone completely, whereas the last time they had no skills at all. | ||
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Really? | |
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| So your brain is such an amazing toy. | ||
| You can completely change it. | ||
| But here's the thing. | ||
| You want to maximize this performance? | ||
| You need to myelinate the nerves in your brain. | ||
| Myelination makes a nerve carry electrical signals 3,000 times faster than a non-myelinated nerve. | ||
| So first you have to form the synapse, which is called synaptogenesis, and you do that through relatively short amounts of practice. | ||
| You know, the first time you learn Well, the first time you learned to balance on your bike, right? | ||
| Like you've learned how to do it. | ||
| It doesn't take long. | ||
| From then on, though, to get it so it's just automatic, that's what repetition does. | ||
| And you've had a lot of pro sports guys in here. | ||
| They talk about 10,000 times and repetition. | ||
| The reason 10,000 times works is because you're myelinating. | ||
| But here's the thing, what's myelin made out of? | ||
| Fat, cholesterol, choline. | ||
| So what you need to do is you need to be cranking up on those kinds of foods. | ||
| And if you're going to be on a low fat or a vegan diet that doesn't have any of the saturated fats and is low in choline, you're probably going to have a harder time myelinating. | ||
| It's going to be harder for your brain to do what it was meant to do. | ||
| So synaptically speaking, it's harder to learn things. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| If you don't have enough fat, you've got to have fat for your brain to function. | ||
| I mean, your brain's made out of fat. | ||
| That's not the wrong fat. | ||
| You don't want fat from a stupid cow that ate corn. | ||
| No, you don't. | ||
| They're all stupid. | ||
| Yeah, and you don't want fat that's been impregnated with toxins. | ||
| So you've got to have grass-fed meat, and you've got to have it from some sort of a reputable source where you know that they're not feeding any antibiotics. | ||
| How do you put the magnets on the cows, Joe? | ||
| That's an awesome idea. | ||
| It just blew my fucking mind. | ||
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Woo! | |
| Magnet-fed beef. | ||
| And the cows start walking up to the fence going, I think we can get through if we just knock one of these fucking things over. | ||
| The magneto helmet with the horns on it. | ||
| Can you imagine if cows started figuring out they could just fuck us up? | ||
| That corn just grows there. | ||
| Just let it grow. | ||
| It'll grow by itself. | ||
| I found that video if you wanted to watch the nuclear explosion. | ||
| Yes, definitely. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| Nuts. | ||
| This is, by the way, just America. | ||
| There's one of the world. | ||
| Oh, this is the whole world. | ||
| Oh, here it goes. | ||
| That would be like Nagasaki, Hiroshima. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This is so creepy. | ||
| We're so nuts. | ||
| You want to hear a crazy statistic that we figured out on the podcast? | ||
| From the invention of the airplane to someone using it to drop a nuclear bomb on someone took less than 50 years. | ||
| That's pretty impressive. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Think about that as like a world-changing. | ||
| Yeah, it makes Moore's Law look kind of sissy. | ||
| That's pretty amazing, you know? | ||
| 50 years later, they're dropping nuclear bombs out of them. | ||
| Russia starts jacking some off here. | ||
| Boom, son. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| It starts just getting crazier and crazier after this, right? | ||
| Now we're up to eight from America, one from Russia. | ||
| Brian, what are you doing? | ||
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That is so not the sound of the YouTube. | |
| How long is this video? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Because for the folks at home, this is 10 minutes long. | ||
| It's about 15 minutes of explosions, but a lot of them are in, There we go. | ||
| Look at all those ones in Nevada. | ||
| It just goes crazy. | ||
| Nevada just lights up like a Christmas tree. | ||
| They're all in Nevada. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Look. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| That's all Nevada. | ||
| Britain, how dare you, you sons of bitches. | ||
| In the ocean, yeah, you cowards. | ||
| Dropping them in the ocean. | ||
| Look at Nevada! | ||
| Oh my god, that's so scary! | ||
| They're all Nevada. | ||
| That explains Nevada, doesn't it? | ||
| Fuck yeah, it does. | ||
| Las Vegas, right there. | ||
| It explains the reason why it's allowed to exist. | ||
| I mean, they do nuclear tests out there. | ||
| It explains the airport. | ||
| They also bury, they bury a lot of nuclear waste out there in Vegas, right? | ||
| Not in Vegas, but in look at Russia. | ||
| It's still going. | ||
| Oh, scary shit, man. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| More Nevada. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| And that's only 1955. | ||
| Dude, look at how many of them are going off in Nevada. | ||
| That is fucking bananas. | ||
| Compare that to the recent nuclear reactor leak in Japan. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| This might be worse. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think, I don't know which one lasts more. | ||
| That's pretty brutal. | ||
| But they also have shit buried out there, too. | ||
| They're storing nuclear waste out there. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Spent nuclear rods and all kinds of other shit that they think will be toxic till the end of time. | ||
| We're just so ridiculous. | ||
| It's just so weird that we would have something like that and just fucking start. | ||
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Look at this. | |
| Wow. | ||
| This kind of sounds like music. | ||
| Look how many bombs have gone off. | ||
| 300 bombs. | ||
| And we're still in the 1960. | ||
| Like, we haven't even gotten into the modern times. | ||
| It's 1959, and there's been 300 bombs. | ||
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Wow. | |
| This is really hard to watch, man. | ||
| No kidding. | ||
| Total downer. | ||
| They were so stupid back then. | ||
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Do you have any Justin Bieber videos we could watch instead? | |
| Yeah, I think we should show that, Brian. | ||
| Are you concerned about the toxic shit that's going to happen from Fukushima? | ||
| Is that going to affect people that live here on the West Coast? | ||
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| I mean, the plume, so to speak, is making its way over here now. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| We're actually finding huge amounts of wreckage that are hitting the shore now. | ||
| In fact, up where I live in British Columbia, it's a big thing. | ||
| They're finding motorcycles and hundred-ton cement docks that sort of wash up. | ||
| And they're like, how do I get rid of this? | ||
| Like, it's indestructible. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| A cement fucking dock that was taken from Japan? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It broke free and it floated all the way over here and it's like on the beach. | ||
| What's amazing is that's a little baby tsunami. | ||
| That ain't shit compared to what could happen. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| So that's happening, but they say that the stuff that's radioactive hasn't reached there yet. | ||
| So they're starting to have Geiger counters on the beach, like for the junk cleanup crews to see if they're finding the stuff. | ||
| So the question is, what's it going to do to fish out here? | ||
| I sure hope that my sockeye salmon is radioactive free. | ||
| And that said, I think taking some iodine is a good idea. | ||
| How does potassium iodine protect you? | ||
| Well, if the form of radioactivity that you're getting is radioactive iodine, it protects you from getting thyroid cancer years later. | ||
| The problem is that some of the radioactive stuff coming out of Fukushima may not be in an iodide form, so iodine may not do much for you. | ||
| There's some evidence that astaxanthin, which comes from krill, is pretty protective as well. | ||
| So that's probably a good thing to take. | ||
| So krill, like krill oil, should you take it in that form? | ||
| I prefer krill oil to fish oil. | ||
| I take krill oil. | ||
| And I put, and I shouldn't say I put, I buy a form that has astaxanthin in it, which naturally occurs in the krill. | ||
| It's the stuff that makes krill red. | ||
| It's just a really potent antioxidant that has a good effect on radioactive stuff. | ||
| This is a podcast that is going to test your writing shit down abilities, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is a podcast we're going to have to go back. | ||
| I use Yak salt, by the way. | ||
| Yak salt's a lot better. | ||
| They don't make yak salt, you liar. | ||
| You're a fucking fibber. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| Yeah, I got to get some. | ||
| I'm going to go right to Whole Foods, right from here, and get some fucking Siberian salt or Tibetan salt. | ||
| Either one's good. | ||
| It tastes pretty good. | ||
| I like taking friends who are not into health, and you're like, just try the salt. | ||
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And like, why do you carry a white violet powder over international borders with you? | |
| Yeah, do you ever get tweaked on? | ||
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Never. | |
| It's weird. | ||
| I mean, I have like my upgraded whey protein and collagen powder and like all kinds of stuff that, I mean, I should look like I'm carrying kilos of random stuff. | ||
| No one ever asks you to test it or they. | ||
| Never. | ||
| Actually, one time I've had my whey protein tested, more often they check my coffee because I don't drink hotel coffee. | ||
| It makes me feel crappy. | ||
| I just drink my coffee. | ||
| So I bring it with me, just like, you know, beans or ground up coffee. | ||
| Every time they go, oh, what's that? | ||
| And then they open it and it seems like they just want to smell it maybe. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Well, it is that also the people hide drugs in coffee. | ||
| Yeah, it's the easiest way. | ||
| Because it stops the dogs from smelling the marijuana. | ||
| You know what's funny? | ||
| Yeah, so we've heard. | ||
| I have a little canister I put in there that's got a designing that like absorbs moisture. | ||
| So I mean, it looks like I've got a little canister of drugs inside my coffee. | ||
| And twice I've had people say, what's in there? | ||
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And like, it keeps the coffee dry, and they just don't stop me. | |
| And I fly like 100 times a year, like very often. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I drink a Trenta of coffee every single day, and then I eat my first meal about 8 o'clock at night. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| Now, does it seem like I should put butter in my coffee now? | ||
| Is that what you would recommend? | ||
| I would try it. | ||
| I seriously would. | ||
| If you're eating nothing else. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I would try just some fat, no sugar, no protein. | ||
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But when you do that, even just a tablespoon, you may find that you have a lot more energy throughout the day. | |
| And Splenda is okay, like artificial sugar, or just stay away from it. | ||
| Just do Stevia if you're going to do anything. | ||
| Stevia. | ||
| Yeah, you can do xylitol too. | ||
| A little bit of xylitol won't raise your insulin enough to matter. | ||
| But if you do a lot of xylitol and you're not used to it, you'll get the runs. | ||
| Tate made the bulletproof coffee with Stevia, and it was fucking delicious. | ||
| Delicious. | ||
| It's really good. | ||
| I was addicted to it. | ||
| It's really good. | ||
| But the problem is, you're a lazy bitch, and you're not going to, let's be honest. | ||
| You're not going to fucking get some grass-fed butter and melt it and blend it. | ||
| You don't have to melt it, man. | ||
| Just like toss the butter in the blender, pour the hot coffee right in there and hit blend for 20, 30. | ||
| You need a slave. | ||
| I might do that. | ||
| Need to get one of you. | ||
| I'll get butter. | ||
| You'll get butter? | ||
| Yeah, you can get it sent to your house. | ||
| Coconut oil, too. | ||
| You know, you know, you could get groceries now just delivered to your house. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| And it's not that much money. | ||
| Like, you just go online and pick out what you want, and then it's just like, all right, we'll see you in an hour, like a pizza. | ||
| That's pretty sweet. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Wow, that's amazing. | ||
| I didn't know that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And plus butter keeps forever. | ||
| You can buy like 20 sticks of it and toss it in the freezer and you'll have butter coming out your eyes. | ||
| So you want to make sure when you go to like organically raised beef is not good enough. | ||
| It has to be grass-fed, organically raised. | ||
| You can take organic corn, organic soy, and organic Twinkies and feed them to an organic cow and still sell those organic meat. | ||
| Like the standards are pretty low. | ||
| Twinkies can be organic? | ||
| If they make one, you can feed it to an organic cow, and it's still organic. | ||
| There's no standards for what the cows eat. | ||
| It's just whether or not what they ate was sprayed. | ||
| Oh, I see. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, for a lot of folks, it's kind of difficult to find grass-fed meat in your area, isn't it? | ||
| Like a lot of traditional supermarkets. | ||
| It is if you're in the middle of nowhere. | ||
| But here's the thing: like, FedEx and UPS deliver everywhere. | ||
| It's cheaper to buy grass-fed meat online than it is to buy a decent cut of meat in your grocery store. | ||
| Like, if you're going to buy grass-fed hamburger from some of the best places on earth, like I've tested different places on my site, like I have a whole series about grass-fed beef, you can get it for five bucks a pound. | ||
| Like, for grass-fed, perfectly treated animals. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That's fucking really good. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And so, like, even if you're on a budget, like, okay, eat a lot of eggs because they're cheap. | ||
| And, you know, supplement with grass-fed beef. | ||
| Eat a half a pound a day. | ||
| It's going to cost you $2.50. | ||
| Do you ever buy just fat? | ||
| Do you say like, send me some fat? | ||
| I've bought beef tallow. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And beef tallow is just rendered beef fat. | ||
| The problem is that the rendering process is really finicky. | ||
| Plus, finicky. | ||
| Well, if you're going to render fat, you need to have enough water in it in order to render it so it doesn't oxidize. | ||
| One of the problems, especially in the paleo community, it drives me nuts. | ||
| People are like, oh, bacon. | ||
| Like, okay, I love my bacon. | ||
| I'm a bacon snob. | ||
| Like, I make my own bacon. | ||
| But what you've got to do, though, is not overcook the oils. | ||
| If it's spitting all over the place and there's smoke coming off the pan and your bacon's all crispy, you've oxidized the fat. | ||
| And one of the things on the bulletproof diet I'm really focused on is like, how do I get inflammation down? | ||
| So if you fry the crap out of your food, then what you're getting is inflammatory oils, even if they came from a good cow. | ||
| You're also getting delicious bacon. | ||
| That's a problem. | ||
| You're getting delicious bacon, but here's the thing. | ||
| You put your stove on like three or four and you cook the bacon for longer. | ||
| All the fat melts out of the bacon. | ||
| The bacon is not going to get all super crispy. | ||
| It's like a chewy bacon, right? | ||
| It's a little chewier, but it's not like bad chewy, like uncooked bacon. | ||
| Still awesome. | ||
| I like chewy bacon, too. | ||
| But I do like that fucked up crispy bacon. | ||
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It's like chick bacon. | |
| Totally. | ||
| It's like we have like fried mozzarella too, but you got to choose where you go on the spectrum. | ||
| What is it about fried things that's so horrible for you? | ||
| What does it do to your body? | ||
| It's mostly the damaged fats. | ||
| They come in. | ||
| Your body's like, what do I do with this fat? | ||
| Just can't process it because it's overcooked? | ||
| Yeah, it's like, how do I detoxify this? | ||
| So it's basically spitting out free radicals, and then you try and build cell walls and hormones out of this fat, and your body's like, how do I do that? | ||
| I don't have the raw ingredients. | ||
| Why is it so fucking delicious? | ||
| That I would love to know. | ||
| I think what happens there. | ||
| For real, right? | ||
| Like Kentucky Fried Chicken. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
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Well, that shit's good. | |
| That's MSG and gluten and stuff. | ||
| Whatever it is. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| Is it really MSG and gluten? | ||
| Yeah, Goddard. | ||
| MSG is in like everything. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| It's goddamn wonderful. | ||
| Don't change the thing, Kentucky Fried Chicken. | ||
| We won't even talk about MSG and obesity after that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let's talk about how to think about food in general, whether it's vegan or not. | ||
| But please explain, though, what it does. | ||
| So when your body takes in just Kentucky Fried Chicken or anything that's something with hydrogenated fried oil. | ||
| Fried French fries and chips. | ||
| So we don't make healthy cell walls or hormones or anything else in our body made out of fat. | ||
| We don't even burn hydrogenated fat very well for fuel. | ||
| So basically the liver has to detoxify it. | ||
| So it goes to the liver. | ||
| The liver's like, oh God, what do I do with this stuff? | ||
| So it starts using up the glutathione in your liver, which is the main detoxing enzyme. | ||
| It starts trying to figure out how to break down these oils. | ||
| Like we're designed to take basically a raw animal in and process it and to break all those fats down and to reassemble them into our body. | ||
| We're not meant to take those things in. | ||
| So what you get is actually a big rush of white blood cells when you eat like heavily cooked meat and the oxidized fried fats. | ||
| And it actually looks like an immune response. | ||
| And your body's like, okay, I got to do something about this. | ||
| So it does what it can to build healthy cell walls. | ||
| But you get hungry after you eat fried food. | ||
| Have you ever noticed that? | ||
| Like you feel full for a while and afterwards like I want like sugar or something. | ||
| The craving that you want for sugar there either comes from the MSG or it comes from your liver. | ||
| It's like, could I have some more fuel to use to oxidize this stuff so I can excrete it now instead of building it in? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I never noticed that. | ||
| I usually feel like such a fat loser. | ||
| Oh yes. | ||
| You don't get like hungry. | ||
| Like your next meal, you're like, like random cravings. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Just pound some more chicken. | ||
| Kentucky fried chicken. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I do like it. | ||
| Like, you know, when I like it, I like it like cold with hot sauce. | ||
| Like I'm watching stupid, something stupid on TV. | ||
| It's a good snack, Kentucky fried chicken. | ||
| You know, the stuff tastes good. | ||
| I don't eat that stuff anymore. | ||
| I'm a delicate flour, I guess, because I weigh 300 pounds. | ||
| I just feel like crap when I eat it now. | ||
| Yeah, I feel like crap when I eat it too, but I don't feel like crap while I'm eating it. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| That's a fact. | ||
| While I'm eating it, I'm loving it. | ||
| I'm loving the crispy outside mixed with the hot sauce. | ||
| I'm loving it. | ||
| So if they had Kentucky fried kale, would you try that? | ||
| I eat kale all the time. | ||
| I mean, I would do. | ||
| I eat kale chips. | ||
| I buy a lot of kale chips. | ||
| I've been eating those lately for snacks. | ||
| But I don't know what they're making their cheese out of, you know, because it's some weird vegan. | ||
| It's usually nutritional yeast, which is, I don't even want to talk about what that does to your health. | ||
| Yeah, it's bad. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| So fucking kale chips are bad? | ||
| Cheesy kale chips? | ||
| Kale chips don't have to be bad. | ||
| It's just what they use to make them cheesy. | ||
| Those motherfuckers, so cheesy kale chips are bad. | ||
| If they're using vinegar to make the cheesy flavor, they're fine, but most of the time they use nutritional yeast. | ||
| And they, dude, I could, I have so many studies about that. | ||
| That's so ridiculous. | ||
| How come I knew they tasted too fucking good? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I knew it while I was up, man. | ||
| These cheesy kale chips are wonderful. | ||
| Why do you think they're so addictive? | ||
| You're just like, ah. | ||
| You fucking... | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| How dare you get me to eat your shit that's bad for you, but yet delicious? | ||
| There's going to be a huge storm on Twitter about people saying nutritional yeast has B vitamins. | ||
| And I'm like, yeah. | ||
| And look at the, just go to PubMed and Google Cancer and nutritional yeast and see what you find. | ||
| So the cheese is not a cheese. | ||
| It's actually a clump of organisms. | ||
| That's what the yeast is? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It's like baker's and brewer's yeast, yeah. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And then how they make it like a cheese? | ||
| They just. | ||
| It actually kind of has a cheesy flavor on its own. | ||
| So they take that and they mix it with some other, usually like a nut, like a ricotta, like a vegan ricotta thing. | ||
| I mean, I've been like a, I still eat a lot of like vegan dishes just under the weird soy and crap. | ||
| But if it's made out of raw vegetables chopped up finely with enough good fat in them, like avocados, that's some of the healthier food out there. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So I'm a pretty good in the kitchen, like with raw food. | ||
| And the problem is, you add nutritional yeast to it, it makes it inflammatory. | ||
| It's just not very good for you. | ||
| So, that's just those kale chips. | ||
| You can get the regular kale chips, but that aren't quite as goddamn delicious. | ||
| I'm sorry, Joe. | ||
| Motherfuckers, I knew. | ||
| I knew it couldn't have possibly been fine. | ||
| It'd be fine for you. | ||
| If you die from cheesy kale chips, you're probably not. | ||
| He's not concentrating on dying, Brian. | ||
| He's concentrating on maximizing your potential. | ||
| That's why I think this is so funny. | ||
| Here's the spectrum. | ||
| Like, okay, if you ate cheesy kale chips every day for the rest of your life, compared to potato chips, you fucking rocked it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That's why everything on the bulletproof diet is a spectrum. | ||
| It's like, this is better than this, but like, this is a lot better than this. | ||
| So you don't have to be perfect. | ||
| If you want to identify a goalpost for perfection, just kind of move in that direction, you'll be way better off. | ||
| And most people fail in their diets because they feel like, oh, I did it wrong. | ||
| Now I lose. | ||
| I'm like, you didn't do it wrong. | ||
| You could have done it a lot worse. | ||
| You could have done it better. | ||
| But you're somewhere in the middle. | ||
| And the truth of the matter is I'm always in the middle too. | ||
| Like, okay, I had a grass-fed cow, but was it slaughtered by an ordained minister? | ||
| Hell if I know. | ||
| But there's probably some way of making it slightly more perfect. | ||
| Was it massaged every day? | ||
| I wouldn't want a minister to kill my cow. | ||
| I don't know if I want my cow dummy. | ||
| I actually tend to tend to you. | ||
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I don't know if I want my cow blessed by bless it before I eat it. | |
| But there has to be some bizarre thing you could do that's better. | ||
| Then again, if someone really believed in the blessing, maybe they would impart some sort of an energy into the thing. | ||
| That sounds ridiculous, but what we were talking about before, about people literally having some sort of an environmental effect, some sort of an effect on all the people around them. | ||
| You don't want some asshole killing your cow. | ||
| I'll tell you flat out, I do not want a cow that was tortured before it was killed. | ||
| It changes the hormones. | ||
| I think it changes the taste. | ||
| And there's an energy thing there. | ||
| I mean, call me a psychohippie or whatever, but I've done a lot of intuitive training of my heart and of other parts of my body with electronics. | ||
| And I don't know, there's something not right about some sadistic asshole torturing your cow, killing it, and then feeding it to you. | ||
| On its face, it's wrong. | ||
| Well, it is. | ||
| And have you ever seen the way they do the kosher cows? | ||
| Oh, it's brutal with those machines. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| Well, it's supposed to be done by a rabbi. | ||
| It's supposed to be done by a rabbi. | ||
| A rabbi's supposed to slice the neck of the cow, but you're supposed to do it that way. | ||
| That's how you kill the cow. | ||
| You slice its neck. | ||
| It takes a while for him to die, and it's not fucking pretty. | ||
| There's videos of them trying to get up and falling down, trying to get up. | ||
| You should see the kosher machines. | ||
| They do have kosher machines. | ||
| Oh, they do now. | ||
| Yeah, as long as it's it? | ||
| As long as it's been blessed, like it's approved for kosher, but it's even worse because it's like the cows go in and they just like rip their throat out with like a rod. | ||
| And it's one of the things where people think that, oh, you know, Dave's the opposite of a vegan. | ||
| I'm like, no, I care a lot about the quality of the animals I eat and the quality of the food I eat, but I also care about the quality of my life and what I'm going to do with it. | ||
| And if I'm slowing myself down by eating inappropriate foods, there's also another thing we've got to talk about, talk about animal suffering. | ||
| I'm in Tibet, right? | ||
| I spent like a couple months, actually three months, walking around Asia, visiting monasteries and stuff. | ||
| And I went to this monastery, the vegan vegetarian diet for, actually I was vegan for like 10 days. | ||
| I'm farting like a machine the whole time. | ||
| And then afterwards, I go to another monastery in Lhasa. | ||
| And there's this giant yak-skin on the prayer pole in the middle of the monastery. | ||
| And so I asked the head llama guy, I said, okay, like, you're a hypocrite. | ||
| Like, you say no killing, and you've got a dead animal hanging on your prayer pole. | ||
| Like, what's the deal? | ||
| And he just looked at me and the way like Buddhist monks kind of do, he just kind of laughed and he said, oh, one death feeds everyone. | ||
| And then he walked away. | ||
| Like, that was his whole thing. | ||
| And I thought about that. | ||
| If I eat two pounds of grass-fed beef every day for a year, I kill 0.7 animals in the entire food chain. | ||
| If I'm vegan and I eat soy nuggets, every bowl of soy nuggets is killing hundreds of animals because the tractor goes through and cuts down the soy, the soy. | ||
| We're not even talking about what it did to the soil microbes, but it cuts down all the soy. | ||
| It chops up the bunnies and their cute little faces and the turtles and the grasshoppers and the worms and all the other stuff there. | ||
| And basically, you look at the number of animals killed to bring you a bowl of grain. | ||
| It's way in excess of what grass-fed beef does. | ||
| The vegan argument is, well, there is enough grass-fed beef for everyone. | ||
| I'm like, yeah, that's because people don't ask for it. | ||
| You ask for it. | ||
| We'll turn the golf courses into basically grass-fed beef manufacturing plants. | ||
| There's plenty of them out there to do that, by the way. | ||
| Like, there's people who've done the math. | ||
| But it would be a smaller cow. | ||
| You wouldn't have nearly as much fat. | ||
| And the taste is different. | ||
| Taste is different. | ||
| Mrs. Rogan doesn't like the grass-fed beef. | ||
| I try to cook the grass-fed beef. | ||
| She doesn't like the taste. | ||
| Can we just say this podcast is grass-fed now by how many turtles the grass-fed is in it? | ||
| Yeah, it just matters. | ||
| It's stamped. | ||
| I would eat a bowl of gravel if I could perform well on it. | ||
| Like, I have no dogma about this. | ||
| Like, I don't care. | ||
| Like, food for me is optimal fuel for human potential. | ||
| That's it? | ||
| Not just delicious as well? | ||
| I mean, I love the deliciousness. | ||
| I have a cookbook out, for God's sake. | ||
| Oh, do you? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's called The Upgraded Chef. | ||
| It's like how do you cook stuff fast to produce the least toxin so you perform better on it? | ||
| Is this so fast? | ||
| Is this a long journey for you? | ||
| Yeah, for 15 years. | ||
| I mean, I spent a quarter million dollars upgrading myself, and I started tracking how I felt and how I was performing. | ||
| And was I gaining weight or losing weight? | ||
| And did my joints hurt and all this stuff? | ||
| And I came to this conclusion that you can't change just one variable and expect something to work. | ||
| You've got to change a lot of variables at once and then start adding things back in. | ||
| Because let's say you're allergic to just milk and wheat, which so many people are. | ||
| Oh, this week I'll eat no wheat, nothing changed. | ||
| This week I'll eat no dairy, nothing changed. | ||
| So you assume nothing happened. | ||
| The problem is there's many things that cause inflammation. | ||
| At its core, the bulletproof diet is about reducing inflammation. | ||
| And here's the secret. | ||
| When you look at a food, there's three ways of looking at it. | ||
| The first one is, does it have the right macronutrients? | ||
| It's like if I needed to eat some protein or I needed to eat some fat, is it in there? | ||
| But here's the funny thing people don't think about so much. | ||
| If we said, look, you need to get 200 grams of protein today, we generally say, yeah, yeah, that's good. | ||
| But wait a minute. | ||
| Okay, this little vial of protein is the active protein that's in black widow spider venom, and this is an egg. | ||
| Okay, how many grams of protein do you want to eat today? | ||
| The bottom line is different proteins do different things to your body. | ||
| So you got to pick the right protein in there. | ||
| And then the fats, do you want hydrogenated vegetable oil or do you want coconut oil? | ||
| They're totally different on what they do to your body. | ||
| So first you got to get those sorted out. | ||
| And then second way you look at your food is something called anti-nutrients. | ||
| And this is something that most modern nutritionists just don't pay attention to. | ||
| Paleo people know about some, but not others. | ||
| And what's going on there is food has a defense mechanism built in. | ||
| If you're a grain, Your job is to reproduce. | ||
| And that means you coat yourself in pesticide to keep the bugs from eating you so you can reproduce. | ||
| It's natural pesticide, it's called phytic acid, and it inhibits whatever eats you. | ||
| It inhibits their ability to absorb minerals from their food. | ||
| So, now, what would I do when I look at food? | ||
| Does it have the right macronutrients? | ||
| Does it have poison in it? | ||
| If so, then I don't want to eat it. | ||
| And finally, does it have a lot of other stuff like B vitamins and minerals and the other micronutrients? | ||
| You get guys like this Andy guy, the aggregate nutrient index guy at Whole Foods, Furman, who, by the way, thinks kale is basically next to God. | ||
| He puts liver like a very low number on there. | ||
| Yet, liver has a lot more nutrients in it than kale does. | ||
| The problem is he decided to divide by calories for reasons that I don't quite understand. | ||
| What's going on there is a focus on micronutrients, ignoring anti-nutrients, and ignoring the function of food as fuel. | ||
| And they're also doing that because they have a pro-animal sort of an agenda. | ||
| Oh, yeah, there's definitely an agenda behind that. | ||
| There's a lot of people, like I've had conversations with people who are vegans, and they'll tell you that it's only for health purposes. | ||
| And then I bring up fish oil. | ||
| And most of them, they don't take fish oil. | ||
| And I say, well, why? | ||
| If it's just for health reasons, fish oil has been shown to be very, very beneficial. | ||
| But it gets squirrely. | ||
| They start talking about eating flaxseeds and shit. | ||
| You know, if you're going to eat flax seeds, flaxseed oil oxidizes the second it sees air. | ||
| Like, it's incredibly unstable. | ||
| Even in Ayurvedic medicine, they tell you, you know, flaxseed oil is a drying oil. | ||
| And your body can convert that to the healthy omega-3s at a ratio of 40 to 1. | ||
| 40 grams of flax oil, you get 1 gram of the good stuff, and you've got to dispose of the other 39 grams that cause inflammation in the body. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| Yeah, that's why I don't recommend flax. | ||
| The effects between fish oil, it actually counteracts that and fights inflammation, which is why it's so great for grapplers. | ||
| Oh, it's huge. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Fish oil guys are always, and a lot of guys are into CrossFit as well, into heavy doses of fish oil. | ||
| Yeah, it's anti-inflammatory, right? | ||
| It's good stuff. | ||
| But I tell you, if you use krill, it's going to work better because krill has the same EP and DHA, but it's phosphorylated. | ||
| It's bound to phospholipids, which means your brain can use it directly. | ||
| Fish oil has got to be phosphorylated. | ||
| It means you need to get extra phosphatylserine or choline to do that in your diet. | ||
| So you have to take choline supplements if you take fish oil to get the optimal. | ||
| Or if you maybe just eat eggs? | ||
| Because eggs have choline? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Because here's the thing. | ||
| Some of the super strong choline supplements, there's no question they have a really beneficial effect in most people. | ||
| In some people, too much choline has a reverse effect. | ||
| And it's probably like maybe a third of people. | ||
| So this is one of those things where if you get it in your food, you're good. | ||
| And if the choline supplements make you feel really good, which they do for the vast majority of people, I'm a fan of choline supplements in general. | ||
| I recommend them on the blog. | ||
| You've got that ingredient in AlphaBrain. | ||
| And by the way, that's just a killer list of nootropic ingredients. | ||
| I fully approve that. | ||
| That's a solo-proof level supplement for sure. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And the thing is, though, if you're one of those choline-sensitive people, you might not want a ton of choline. | ||
| Like you want to limit yourself to a certain amount. | ||
| Yeah, we've had issues with that, with people getting really sensitive. | ||
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They get some people. | |
| Like jaw tension and headaches. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| And those are the people who are choline dominant. | ||
| But here's the kicker. | ||
| You get those people to take anoracetam, like the stuff I've got on my site. | ||
| Anoracetam uses up extra choline. | ||
| So that's an interesting way of using a smart drug. | ||
| And this is actually a drug, not a natural substance, but it's one that'll bring your choline levels down, which means you can benefit from the other stuff that's in alpha brain, but you also get this boost from the other type of nootropic. | ||
| How many different things do you take a day? | ||
| I take probably on an average day about 40 pills. | ||
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Wow. | |
| See, I told you I'm not crazy. | ||
| No, here's the crazy number. | ||
| When I was really focused on getting my health all the way where I wanted it, before I was all the way where I am, I did 187 pills a day for several months. | ||
| Now, what about the actual capsule itself? | ||
| What are those made out? | ||
| Gelatin? | ||
| Is that no big deal for your body, the process? | ||
| You actually need gelatin. | ||
| Our diets are gelatin deficient right now. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And we eat all the muscles in the animal, but in the old days, your mom would boil the chicken and eat all the cartilage and all that. | ||
| So I actually carry gelatin and collagen on the site because when people eat that stuff, their joints get healthier. | ||
| And there's another thing, this whole electrical part of the body is not well known, but you know all those acupuncture meridian points and things like that? | ||
| Well, electricity flows through your skin, not just in your nerves. | ||
| And you need collagen in your skin in order to bring the water into the skin so you can carry electricity efficiently. | ||
| So when you eat enough collagen in the form of gelatin, NOx blocks, whatever, I have grass-fed gelatin that I use. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| But you do that, you actually, you function better on many levels, including on the inflammation level. | ||
| A lot of fighters are starting to take jello. | ||
| I noticed it in, they did this sort of Cribs thing with Minotaro Noguero, the guy who just fought recently in UFC this past weekend. | ||
| And they went to his house, he had a stack of jell-o. | ||
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It's like he said he had, this is make me feel good. | |
| I mean, it works. | ||
| Even for sleep, sometimes it helps. | ||
| Jell-O. | ||
| I did not know. | ||
| The problem is, like, I mean, industrial jell-o is disgusting. | ||
| Like, you don't even want to know what's in there. | ||
| What is in there? | ||
| Like, they're taking hooves and snouts and all these, like, it's like the baloney of protein powder. | ||
| It's not good. | ||
| Well, I mean, it's better than no collagen. | ||
| I've used nox. | ||
| What's the best made of? | ||
| The best is made out of the skin of the animal. | ||
| The skin. | ||
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| So, like, that's the sort of stuff that I use typically. | ||
| In fact, like, next week I'll have a listing for the best kind of it. | ||
| I've been exploring collagen for years. | ||
| So you can take straight collagen, you can take straight gelatin, and it's just a question of basically how you want it to taste and how you want it to be absorbed into your food. | ||
| But the old days, we would make like soup from bones. | ||
| It's too much work. | ||
| So what you do now is you take a couple scoops of collagen powder and you just put it in your smoothie or put it in your soup and you've got all the benefits of bone broth with none of the trouble. | ||
| It's just too much work to make all that broth. | ||
| No, it's just a process. | ||
| They just take the leather. | ||
| They take the outside and turn it into... | ||
| And that breaks it down. | ||
| And it's kind of a useful food. | ||
| It's one of those things that we used to fight for 100 years ago because you had to get enough of it and it was one of the ways of using the whole animal. | ||
| And now we just toss it mostly. | ||
| So in your opinion, and with all those things that you've researched, what you've found is that you can't even just not even, like, eggs is not good enough. | ||
| Fish is not good enough. | ||
| Like, You need animals, you need mammals, you need cows and sheep. | ||
| At least some of the time, I absolutely believe that. | ||
| I also believe, let's face it, you kill a chicken, did one meal to kill that animal. | ||
| And chickens have the worst lives ever, unless they're like super-pastured, crazy, expensive chickens. | ||
| So, like, you want to see a tortured animal. | ||
| Modern chickens can't even stand up on their own because their breasts are so big. | ||
| Like, they're one of the most tweaked species. | ||
| Yeah, they're pretty tweaked. | ||
| It's pretty fucked up when you see one of those gigantic chicken farms and they're all stacked on top of each other. | ||
| And just crapping on each other. | ||
| So, I see these people. | ||
| I could never eat red meat. | ||
| I'm like, dude, one animal will feed two people basically for two years. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If they're eating normal amounts of it, that's less death. | ||
| Yeah, but it's a big death. | ||
| It's like nobody has a problem with killing ants. | ||
| People are not like making protests in front of stores that sell raid ant killing. | ||
| They don't give a fuck about ants because they're too small. | ||
| It's like we have a thing. | ||
| You could take an ant, like you find an ant on your counter, do it with your finger, and do that, and you just flick it on the ground like it went away. | ||
| You can't do that to a rat. | ||
| You can't hit a rat with a hammer and then just throw it on the floor. | ||
| Now you got to clean that thing up. | ||
| You can't do it with a snail. | ||
| Remember when I made that snail video and everyone got pissed off at me? | ||
| Yeah, you can't kill a snail. | ||
| Snail's big enough. | ||
| If you stomped on an ant, no one would have given a shit. | ||
| But you killed a snail, no, like this, son of a bitch. | ||
| I put a snail on a Listerine strip and went to the bottom of the city. | ||
| The thing about cows is good. | ||
| By the way, he's almost 40. | ||
| The thing about cows, though, is that they're big. | ||
| And like, you know, an ant's tiny, and it doesn't really bug us that you can buy poison for ants anywhere. | ||
| If you could sell cow poison at the store, people would freak out. | ||
| Because you can't just kill cows like that. | ||
| But you can't buy rat poison. | ||
| Yeah, the cunts. | ||
| They don't care about rats. | ||
| But then there's people who have rats for pets. | ||
| Like, man. | ||
| And there's a lot of people that actually lived off rats. | ||
| And what was it? | ||
| I forget Peru, I believe? | ||
| Where guinea pigs are like super common? | ||
| I've eaten a guinea pig. | ||
| What was it like? | ||
| In Peru, yeah. | ||
| I went down there to do ayahuasca with a shaman. | ||
| Wow, they have guinea pig food? | ||
| Yeah, it's native there. | ||
| They are, let me see the technical term for it, fucking disgusting. | ||
| There's like no meat on them, and they stuff them with like rice and vegetables. | ||
| They don't taste good? | ||
| There's like five bites of meat on a whole guinea pig, and it doesn't taste very good, the bites you can get, and the rest of it's just like bones and skin. | ||
| Like it was profoundly gross. | ||
| Those people are just trying to get by. | ||
| That's some tough times. | ||
| What I saw was this Anthony Bourdain show, and they went over this guy's house, and they had guinea pigs running around the kitchen, like constantly. | ||
| They were everywhere. | ||
| And they would just pick one up, take them over, snap, kill them, gut them, and start cooking them. | ||
| And all these other dumb fucks are just running around. | ||
| They're like their pets practically until they get killed. | ||
| But they have a constant, you say it's awful, but they have a constant supply of meat. | ||
| And your point of view from Burbank, you know, is very different than their point of view living in Peru. | ||
| They're too adorable, though. | ||
| Yeah, these houses don't even have windows, dude. | ||
| I used to have them as pets. | ||
| They are kind of cute, but if I was hungry, I'd eat one. | ||
| You have children and your children are hungry, you're going to eat the fuck out of some guinea pigs. | ||
| And they're everywhere, dude. | ||
| They have like 30 of them. | ||
| Have you had cat? | ||
| Not on purpose, but I've been to a lot of taco trucks, so I'm not sure. | ||
| Whoa, do you think taco trucks really sell? | ||
| Really? | ||
| Depends on where you are. | ||
| I have a theory. | ||
| Tell me if this theory makes any sense at all. | ||
| But I have a theory that things that are difficult to catch are good for you, like wild fish, wild game, things that run quick, like deer. | ||
| Deer are very good for you because they run fast. | ||
| They're trying to get the fuck away because they know they're delicious. | ||
| They know they're highly sought after. | ||
| And then things like cows that just kind of stand around, probably not as good. | ||
| Is there anything to that theory? | ||
| I don't buy it. | ||
| I don't buy it either. | ||
| Here's why. | ||
| The big humming dirt mark, right? | ||
| The things that can run really fast and sprint don't have enough fat on them. | ||
| Like when the Indians would kill a buffalo, like the first thing you eat is like that big fatty hump on the back. | ||
| And then solid fat. | ||
| Is that like for storing food for them? | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| In fact, if you take a real grass-fed buffalo, that fat is orange. | ||
| It's actually like almost like a salmon color. | ||
| And most of the buffalo you can buy, they finish on grain because no one wants to buy orange fat. | ||
| I'm like, man, give me a big old like two-pound hunk of orange fat. | ||
| Why can they most of it finishes on grain or all of it? | ||
| I mean, can you get it? | ||
| It finishes on? | ||
| I've asked a few butchers at really high-end markets about that. | ||
| And they're like, yeah, one of the guys said, you know, we tried it one time on orange. | ||
| We had to throw it out. | ||
| No one would buy it. | ||
| That's so ridiculous. | ||
| You probably ordered online just to get it 100% grass fat. | ||
| I need to get that. | ||
| I need to get that just to find out what it would taste like. | ||
| It's pretty delicious when you get real fat. | ||
| In fact, bison's good, man. | ||
| Even if you take just the fats in good quality butter versus crab butter, I've had vegetarian friends. | ||
| I'm like, come on over, let me make one of my soups for you. | ||
| And it's butter and I use the MCT oil. | ||
| In fact, next week I've got my bulletproof MCT oil on the shelves. | ||
| I'm super stoked on that. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| It's a six times stronger extract of coconut oil. | ||
| So it's two of the medium chains, the ones that are most responsible for losing weight and for cognitive function, where that's all that's in there and has no flavor. | ||
| So you can make mayonnaise out of it. | ||
| And how is that created? | ||
| They take coconut oil and process it somewhere? | ||
| It's centrifuged, yeah. | ||
| So we spin it and then we pull out just those ones. | ||
| And I have the only brand I've out there. | ||
| How does that work? | ||
| How does that centrifuge work? | ||
| So it's basically you just spin it really fast. | ||
| Same way they do like your blood tubes to separate out the plasma and the cells. | ||
| When you spin it, the different weights of fat line up. | ||
| So we pull out the two most precious ones right in the middle band there. | ||
| And then we take the rest of it and we give that to other people. | ||
| That is ridiculous. | ||
| And this is coming out right now? | ||
| It should be on the site right now. | ||
| You can pre-order it. | ||
| I just thebulletproof or bulletproofexec.com. | ||
| It's bulletproofexec.com. | ||
| Bulletproofexec.com. | ||
| And you have your whole story is up there of how you, so for folks that don't have the patience to go and listen to this podcast again, there's a fuckload of information on this site as well as not just the upgraded MCT oil, you've got upgraded coffee, everything's upgraded. | ||
| Upgraded Chef. | ||
| And here's what it means when it's upgraded. | ||
| Like, I'm looking at the whole process of making something and how do you make that process as good as it can be? | ||
| Like my background, I really am a computer hacker. | ||
| Like I have studied computer science. | ||
| I work in computer security. | ||
| I'm not actively a hacker like I'm an executive, but like I understand the mindset of changing a system to get the outcome you want. | ||
| It turns out like to make the coffee, the problem was actually how the beans get turned into green coffee. | ||
| That's where most of the problems happen. | ||
| So I went through, I learned all about all this stuff from multiple disciplines, pulled it all together, and said, what if I created this new process for making coffee that didn't have the toxins in it? | ||
| And you look at that, we're about done with a study where we're getting advice from Stanford University on the cognitive function of this coffee. | ||
| So we're comparing normal coffee versus this upgraded coffee to show what it does to your response time and your attention. | ||
| And we don't have enough results to be statistically significant yet. | ||
| We're still recruiting people. | ||
| The results I have say, yeah, it works. | ||
| So, it's like this is real stuff. | ||
| And every step of the way, when you create a food, tells you how the food's going to make you perform. | ||
| And what I'm trying to do is help people understand, like, if for one day they can just have the best day ever where their energy and their focus and everything is super clear, and they just feel like a great golden god. | ||
| If you do that one time, you know you're capable of it, and you can start working towards that. | ||
| But most people I know have felt like crap without knowing it most of their life. | ||
| They've never had a wonderful day. | ||
| Once you have that day, you can learn how to kick more ass repeatedly. | ||
| So it's like, get all the crap out of the day. | ||
| Just do it right for a week and just see what can happen. | ||
| You look at the comments on my blog. | ||
| Like, people, they do this. | ||
| It takes like six weeks. | ||
| It's not that hard to do. | ||
| And all of a sudden, like, you know, you have twice the energy you had before. | ||
| Like, that's what I'm looking to do for people. | ||
| And when you have twice the energy, you get twice the shit done. | ||
| I tell you, I mentioned I'm a full-time executive. | ||
| I wrote this book. | ||
| Wiley's my publisher. | ||
| Gary Tobbs introduced me to my agent in New York. | ||
| Like, it's a tier one book with 1,300 references. | ||
| I started the Bulletproof Executive blog, which is in the top 25,000 blogs now. | ||
| 150,000 people a month see it. | ||
| And I'm a dad. | ||
| I have two young kids. | ||
| I see them on a very regular basis. | ||
| Like, for me to be able to do all this stuff, I could have never done this in my mid-20s. | ||
| It's because I trained my brain and because I got my mitochondria functioning and I got my hormones functioning. | ||
| You looked at the body like a computer system. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And are you the first guy to do that? | ||
| You know, there aren't that many computer guys. | ||
| Like, I'm 40, and the oldest computer guys are like 65, right? | ||
| So certainly we've talked for years about this, and there's, you know, the whole cyberpunk thing, which I admit I was a part of, you know, mirrored sunglasses and stuff like that. | ||
| But I'm one of the early guys. | ||
| Like, a lot of the Russians, the Russian space program did a lot of this stuff. | ||
| Like, this is a device. | ||
| This is called an older one, but it's the only one you can get that does programming where you can pick the frequency. | ||
| But I'll run a current across my brain. | ||
| This is actively the same thing you do to a computer. | ||
| When you do that, you can put yourself in the gamma state that's really hard to get into. | ||
| You just stick the electrodes on your head. | ||
| And that puts you in a gamma state, and what's the benefit of that? | ||
| Gamma state is actually a state where the Dalai Lama just announced a cash reward for anyone who could help him get into a gamma state in less than four hours, because that's how long it takes him. | ||
| He's looking for neuroscience ways to do it. | ||
| So literally, you stick these things on your forehead. | ||
| Has the Dalai Lama tried isolation tanks? | ||
| I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me. | ||
| He's pretty open with his neuroscience stuff. | ||
| But you hook this thing up, you turn it on like that, and now it's running used. | ||
| Sounds weird. | ||
| It sounds like you're like a Frankenstein or something. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
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It's a lie! | |
| It's a lie. | ||
| It's grass-fed. | ||
| What I'm doing now, I'm running a systematic and grass-fed drink. | ||
| So what you do with something like that is literally, like, you are changing the waves in your brain like a computer. | ||
| And what is the benefit of that again? | ||
| Like, when you put that on, what does it actively do to you? | ||
| It depends on what setting you put it on. | ||
| If I'm going to be writing like a lot, I'll put it on a gamma state, and you're just in this focused, amazing kind of flow state. | ||
| Although alpha is also something that's more recognized as a flow state. | ||
| So you can control what state your brain is in. | ||
| You want to get rapid recovery during sleep. | ||
| If I'm only going to sleep two hours, I put that on. | ||
| And I put it on 1.5 hertz, which is associated with deep sleep. | ||
| And when I wake up, I feel really good. | ||
| I didn't get all the benefits of memory consolidation and dreaming. | ||
| Do you sell this thing? | ||
| No, you can just buy it. | ||
| Do you explain it on your website or anywhere? | ||
| Yeah, I have a top 10 brain hacks video. | ||
| It's a talk I gave at South by Southwest on this. | ||
| I would love to try that. | ||
| So it's giving a low-level electrical signal. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| what does that do exactly? | ||
| It's running a slight current back and forth. | ||
| Should I try the one too? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I got one. | ||
| You got me one a while ago. | ||
| We were trying to get you to quit smoking. | ||
| It didn't work. | ||
| You never used it either. | ||
| No, I used it a lot. | ||
| It shocked me. | ||
| Stick those things on your forehead. | ||
| Yeah, it clips to your ears, right? | ||
| It was a little freaky. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| This one used to have earclips, but I use the temple things just because they're a little easier. | ||
| And this is actually like a 10-year-old device. | ||
| The problem is most of the new ones have only one frequency, and this one lets you adjust the frequencies, which is helpful. | ||
| Okay, I'm putting it on my head. | ||
| And hit the power button on there, or just hand me the controls if you want. | ||
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Okay, power you up. | |
| Stay posted later. | ||
| All right, that feels weird. | ||
| There's a volume control right here. | ||
| It's stinging my head. | ||
| It feels like there's a control. | ||
| Turn that volume control until it doesn't sting. | ||
| It feels like a bee who's trying to say he's playing a game of just the tip. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| The bee's playing just the tip with a stinger. | ||
| He's not quite stinging. | ||
| Come on, man. | ||
| Just let me get the tip in. | ||
| Just let me get the tip in. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It feels interesting. | ||
| Turn it down so it doesn't hurt, that's for sure. | ||
| What is it at now? | ||
| Yeah, I turned it up. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Is that bad that it hurts? | ||
| No, it's not bad, but it'll still work if you just have a little tiny tingle. | ||
| You don't want to get really smart. | ||
| If I have to fucking suffer through a little bit of pain, I'm down. | ||
| So if you do this for 15, 20 minutes, for the next several hours, the alpha in the front half of your brain will be much higher than it was before. | ||
| Why doesn't everybody know about this? | ||
| This is ridiculous. | ||
| Your iPhone could do this. | ||
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I'm serious. | |
| It's not that hard. | ||
| This could be an app? | ||
| Well, I mean, you'd have to set the iPhone up to do that. | ||
| But this whole quantified self-think I do, like, there's a whole bunch of people looking at this stuff. | ||
| How long before the government arrests you for all this? | ||
| You know, I didn't create super people. | ||
| The only thing that I've invented that's like new, some of the training techniques are different. | ||
| But I didn't invent cerebroelectrical stimulation. | ||
| The Russians did in their space program. | ||
| The reason that this came about is they said it costs a lot of money to send a cosmonaut up into space. | ||
| What if they didn't sleep? | ||
| We could send one-third less cosmonauts. | ||
| So they built this. | ||
| Well, I have one of those turbosonic machines. | ||
| I know you've talked very highly of those things, too. | ||
| Tell me what those do. | ||
| Somebody told me when I bought it and I forgot, but I use it all the time. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| It's awesome. | ||
| Those things rock. | ||
| So I'll tell you flat out, you know, if you can afford 12 or 15 grand, buy the turbosonic. | ||
| I've used one for almost a year. | ||
| It's the most programmable and it's the quietest. | ||
| But it does the same thing that these other ones do. | ||
| Any of the ones that vibrate you up and down only are going to have the same effect. | ||
| There's a whole bunch of cheap ones that do like a side-to-side rocking that messes up your low back. | ||
| And also they tend to break. | ||
| I've broken welds on a couple of the cheap units. | ||
| It's some sort of a sound wave. | ||
| Right? | ||
| A speaker mechanism. | ||
| It's not really a sound wave with turbosonic, but it is a speaker mechanism. | ||
| You you've seen like a woofer, like a heavy-duty subwoofer and it goes doom, doom, doom, you know. | ||
| What's going on there is they took the sound baffles off, but they left the the speaker coil. | ||
| So it moves you up using that really efficient way of moving that a speaker uses. | ||
| So it's very precise. | ||
| The one that I have that costs 10% as much to make it within reach for the normal person, it uses a motor, so it's louder, but it has exactly the same up and down vibration that the turbosonic would have. | ||
| And there's another brand called PowerPlade out there, and they're all based on very similar principles. | ||
| And that's that when you vibrate the body like that, you're triggering something called piezoelectric signals in the bones, so it increases bone density. | ||
| Your muscles have to keep tensing and releasing, tensing and releasing, so you actually can build muscle on those, especially if you hold a kettlebell, just hold it out like this, like all of a sudden 30 times a second, you're doing this. | ||
| And I hate to say it, this is like the adult version of the shake weight, but it's powered and it seriously works. | ||
| And the final thing you get from this has to do with lymphatic circulation in the body. | ||
| So we have this whole waste elimination system called your lymph system. | ||
| And the way the lymph moves is you have to move your body. | ||
| And this is why people say, oh, you have to move. | ||
| Movement is so important for you. | ||
| Movement's important because it moves lymph. | ||
| It's not because it burns calories or doesn't burn calories. | ||
| That's a distraction. | ||
| Movement doesn't burn calories? | ||
| It burns calories, but it doesn't make you lose weight. | ||
| Like compared to, say, a short high-intensity interval will make you lose more weight than going for a walk that burns more calories than the high-intensity interval. | ||
| It's a hormonal effect you're getting. | ||
| This is like Dr. Doug McDuff's work, sorry, McGuff's work, from Body by Science. | ||
| Like there's definitely enormous loads of research there about caloric consumption from exercise and diet, and they don't line up for weight loss. | ||
| They just, in fact, yeah, I have a really good blog post about that. | ||
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Whoa. | |
| In fact, the blog post is called It's Not the Calories Stupid, and it was in response to a New York Times piece where they actually wrote, It's the Calories Stupid, even though the study that they'd written about showed it wasn't the calories. | ||
| Like different people ate the same amount of calories and gained different amounts of fat. | ||
| Like, how did that happen? | ||
| But on the vibration plate, of course, you're burning energy, but you're moving all the lymphatic fluids in the body, and your microcapillaries are getting stimulated too. | ||
| Like, parts of you get shaken that might not normally get circulation. | ||
| So you typically feel like a burst of energy when you're done with it. | ||
| And you tend to slim down. | ||
| Like, I noticed, like, especially if you have inflammation going on, I'm still, because of my health background, I still, I get inflamed. | ||
| I eat the wrong stuff. | ||
| I puff up. | ||
| You do that, and it helps you to dump the extra inflammation. | ||
| So it's amazing detox plus exercise plus general stimulation of your body all at once. | ||
| Like for 15 minutes a day, it's a total bargain just in terms of time spent, whether it's on a turbosonic or the bulletproof vibe. | ||
| They both achieve the same kind of goals. | ||
| But I'll tell you flat out, you've got the Cadillac or the Mercedes of them. | ||
| The Turbosonic's the best made anywhere. | ||
| Yeah, I do 10 minutes of it before I work out. | ||
| I do a 10-minute shakedown. | ||
| I really like getting it. | ||
| And it feels good, doesn't it? | ||
| It feels amazing. | ||
| I love that feeling. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| And then when it really goes, when it's really going fast, for folks who've never tried it before, if you're anywhere near Venice, whoops, I lost one of my fucking Frankenstein lobes. | ||
| If you're anywhere near Venice, the Float Lab has it. | ||
| Crash is the one who sold me mine. | ||
| He's the fucking mad scientist, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| They're giving me an updated tank, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| There's a new tank that Crash has created. | ||
| It's even better. | ||
| He's a mad scientist. | ||
| He's a crazy man. | ||
| But he runs the Float Lab, the best isolation tank. | ||
| It's bar none in the world. | ||
| You might get one. | ||
| How the fuck do you not have one? | ||
| I've been looking at building one, but because I moved up to BC a couple years ago, I'm looking to buy a ranch. | ||
| So as soon as I get the ranch, I'm getting a good tank, but I don't want to move it into the place where I'm living now. | ||
| You should have it right now. | ||
| Crash will set it up and do everything for you. | ||
| You should have one right now, especially you. | ||
| How many times have you used one? | ||
| I've used a flow tank once, like 10 years already. | ||
| How dare you, sir! | ||
| Hooking up these fucking electrodes to your brain, you're not even taking advantage of one of the craziest pieces of machinery. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| It's a huge thing. | ||
| You only did it once. | ||
| I only did it once. | ||
| It's a question of where you live, right? | ||
| If there's not a flow tank near you, then yeah, it's on my list. | ||
| Not for me, it wasn't. | ||
| I did it once, and I was looking to buy a house, and one of the prerequisites for buying the house was having a room for the tank. | ||
| Yep, the house I'm looking to buy right now, same thing. | ||
| It's got to have space. | ||
| I have to have space for a pool table. | ||
| I have to have space for the tank. | ||
| That's non-negotiable. | ||
| Everything else, I can lift weights at a gym. | ||
| But I need a tank in the house. | ||
| It's hard to find a tank, you know, if you don't live near Venice. | ||
| The tank, for me, is something that anyone who's thinking about improving must have. | ||
| For creativity, it's a fascinating tool for self-introspective thinking. | ||
| It's just amazing. | ||
| In fact, it's one of those technologies, and there's a whole bunch of them out there that allows the prefrontal cortex, like the human part of your brain that you think of as you, to become aware of that really fast reptilian brain that runs circles around you. | ||
| You can't even see it happening until you get rid of all the noise. | ||
| And when you get into that flow tank, all of a sudden, like you do that personal exploration, you can do amazing things there. | ||
| You can do amazing things and you learn amazing things out about yourself. | ||
| You start making these drastic improvements in the way you look at things in there. | ||
| Because it's so self-analytical. | ||
| It's so self-observational. | ||
| When you're in there, you don't have anything going on with your body. | ||
| So you're just alone with your thoughts. | ||
| And you have to address them. | ||
| You can't get confused and separated with busy work. | ||
| You're not going to. | ||
| Within 20 minutes, anything that's really fucking with you will come to the surface. | ||
| Have you ever played with neurofeedback? | ||
| What is that? | ||
| This is when you hook electrodes up to your head and you get the signal from your brain. | ||
| This is profound stuff. | ||
| It's on par with a flow tank. | ||
| In fact, I've had my own EEG since 1998. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| Like at home because it's that impactful. | ||
| And what you do there is your brain, it's unable to see itself. | ||
| Like your brain can see the whole world around you, but it doesn't have nerves inside itself. | ||
| That's why like you see brain surgery, they can take the top off your head and like poke at your brain and it doesn't hurt. | ||
| There's no nerves in there. | ||
| There's nerves in your arm. | ||
| Like you cut your arm, then what's going to happen is, well, there's nerves there and the arm heals relatively quickly. | ||
| We get these traumatic brain injuries. | ||
| They don't heal very well because the brain doesn't even know it's broken. | ||
| So it's incredibly good at the world and incredibly bad at itself. | ||
| So what you do is you get the signal from the brain, you play it through an amplifier, it turns it into music and it plays the music back to you. | ||
| And when you think about something, the music gets louder. | ||
| When You think about something else, the music gets quieter. | ||
| So, you can teach the brain to think in a new way. | ||
| So, I've done extensive neurofeedback training, and literally, seven days was the equivalent of 40 years of daily Zen practice. | ||
| This was really, really hardcore, intense seven days. | ||
| It was the hardest thing I've ever done. | ||
| It cost me 20 grand. | ||
| And I was hooked up to like an $11 million EEG machine for at least half that time. | ||
| But, I mean, you want introspection. | ||
| When you look at a, when you hear a sound, your brain can't help but optimize itself. | ||
| Like, it tells you when you're doing it wrong. | ||
| You think of like the meditation path that people are on. | ||
| They're like, oh, I meditate this way. | ||
| Oh, I did it wrong for five years. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| And then they do it over here and they sort of meander. | ||
| And then, you know, their teachers tell them, try meditating this way. | ||
| Well, what if there was a computer and it lit up the path? | ||
| So like on either side of the path, there's like, you know, the sounds get quiet on either side of the path. | ||
| All of a sudden, you can do meditative type of things to yourself that would take you years of focused practice. | ||
| You can do it in days. | ||
| And because synaptogenesis, this part of the brain that makes new synapses, happens within like 20 days, you can totally rewire your head in short, short amounts of time. | ||
| Like unbelievably short. | ||
| So you rewire your head by use of electrical frequencies so you can literally program it to do exactly what you want it to do. | ||
| Right, but we're not putting the frequencies into the head. | ||
| All we're doing is we're using like a mirror because the brain doesn't have any nerves inside itself. | ||
| The brain will on its own figure out, oh my god, that sound, that's me. | ||
| And it'll start doing things to like adjust how it works. | ||
| Like for things like ADD, people who have been hit on the head, these guys, they get improved very dramatically. | ||
| But the kind I did is correlated with a 12 IQ point boost that's stable a year later and like 50% more creativity. | ||
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What? | |
| Wow, that's amazing. | ||
| Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, How do I get in on this? | ||
| Well, I'll hook you up with a guy who does it. | ||
| He runs a private facility out in Canada, Jimmy. | ||
| Takes seven full days and takes 15 grand plus travel expenses. | ||
| Sounds like I'm getting robbed. | ||
| Is it behind a 7-Eleven in the alley? | ||
| This is nonsense. | ||
| The guy is an ex-faculty member from UCSF. | ||
| He's been doing this for 35 years and he runs a private facility. | ||
| By the way, you are getting robbed. | ||
| This should be available on every street corner, and it should be in every school, and it should cost about $300. | ||
| It would transform society. | ||
| The fact that it's $15,000 pisses me off every day, which is why I'm not telling you his name right now, because it would shut his website down anyway. | ||
| Yeah, we will crush your website, son. | ||
| That sounds like, really, for seven days, though, it actually doesn't sound like a ripoff. | ||
| If it turns you into a super genius, it sounds like a ripoff. | ||
| It does. | ||
| I mean, I'd already done a lot of work on myself, but I came out of there and like that voice in your head, that thing that gets in your way, it's your bitch when you're done. | ||
| So you can go there and it just completely rewires your brain in seven days. | ||
| It is hard work, don't get me wrong. | ||
| What do you have to do? | ||
| What is the hard work? | ||
| Well, you sit there in a dark room with a speaker on either side of your head and eight electrodes glued to your head, and then you do whatever you have to do to make the sound louder and make your score go higher. | ||
| And the first three days, you just like your brain's just doing its thing. | ||
| And then after that, you have to dig in on like your most, just like in a flow tank. | ||
| My ultimate fantasy would be that I go there and I'm like super gifted at this and I break the whole building. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| We're getting to that point. | ||
| I want you to do this. | ||
| I think it's a good thing. | ||
| I'll do it with you. | ||
| I've actually been thinking about going back. | ||
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Really? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Can you stay on top of each other? | ||
| Wait a minute. | ||
| Can you get super. | ||
| What if you're like a fucking intellectual vampire and I get dumber and you get smarter? | ||
| What if he hacks you? | ||
| That's what he's trying to say. | ||
| I'm saying, my friend. | ||
| I'd like to remind you, you've got my electrodes on your forehead right now. | ||
| It's already been done. | ||
| Oh, see, I'm not susceptible to this shit, son. | ||
| You're going to need something a little stronger for this fathead. | ||
| What is this thing? | ||
| I think I said on your Twitter about you paying to get hacked. | ||
| What was that all about? | ||
| Paying for what? | ||
| Maybe I hold on. | ||
| Never mind. | ||
| You mean biohacking? | ||
| How much you spent biohacking? | ||
| Oh, the quarter million dollars. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| So over the past 15 years, I've spent a quarter million dollars on everything I can think of that improves human performance. | ||
| I'm like, I'm just going to do it. | ||
| So 20 grand. | ||
| Actually, I did it a couple times. | ||
| So 20 grand and 25 grand, whatever there. | ||
| I've taken ungodly numbers of supplements and smart drugs. | ||
| I've tried all kinds of electronics. | ||
| I have like a whole mad biohacker laboratory at home. | ||
| Like I've got my vibrating plate. | ||
| I've got an ozone generator. | ||
| I've got a couple different EEG machines. | ||
| I have an ozone generator in my tank set up because Crash uses it to purify the water. | ||
| That's the best way to purify water. | ||
| Powerful Crash. | ||
| Are you sponsored by Grass to pay for all this? | ||
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Sponsored by Grass. | |
| The Scott Industries. | ||
| It's actually BC Bud. | ||
| Have you ever looked into eating cannabis? | ||
| As a food? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I've looked at eating hemp, not, you mean eating hemp? | ||
| Actually, cannabis. | ||
| Cannabis is when you don't cook it, it's not psychoactive. | ||
| But you eat it. | ||
| The psychoactive plant of cannabis, if you eat it, does not make you high. | ||
| But it's incredibly healthy. | ||
| Oh, interesting. | ||
| It's beneficial. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I've never tried it, but it sounds kind of cool. | ||
| It's supposed to be really great to juice as well. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| That's really cool. | ||
| Well, if it was legal, it would be so easy and cheap to grow that you could literally eat it that way for health, smoke it, do whatever you want. | ||
| It wouldn't be such a... | ||
| It just throws it everywhere. | ||
| You could throw seeds out the window. | ||
| I mean, it's famous. | ||
| People have been driving their car, they throw joints out the window. | ||
| They drive by six months later, there's a fucking giant bush of marijuana growing there. | ||
| I mean, it really is a super hardy plant. | ||
| And like the protein in there is really high in IgG. | ||
| It's great protein. | ||
| It's a bit high in the omega-6 fats if it's all you're going to eat. | ||
| But certainly you eat some of it, it's fine. | ||
| But if you get those protein, it's one of, in fact, I would say it's the best plant source protein that I know of. | ||
| If you're going to eat a plant-source protein, it's very digestible, too. | ||
| That's my favorite part of it. | ||
| It's one of the few things, hemp with coconut juice and coconut oil, but I use it with C2O, baby, C2O coconut juice, because it is my favorite. | ||
| If I can't get raw, raw is raw is tough to fuck with. | ||
| If you can get raw, but it only lasts for like a little while. | ||
| That's the best. | ||
| You can't really keep it in the fridge. | ||
| But that hemp stuff, hemp forced protein powder, the stuff that I use, you could take it and go to the gym an hour later. | ||
| It's the only thing that I could do jiu-jitsu an hour later because it's so easy for your body to digest. | ||
| It's just not taxing at all. | ||
| The stuff we use, too, is the most expensive because it has the highest ratio of protein to like to, like some of them are more coarse. | ||
| Some of the hearts are more coarse. | ||
| They don't have as high a ratio of protein to be a lot of fun. | ||
| That's what you want to do. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it's really super easily digestible, but illegal to grow, but not illegal to have or sell. | ||
| But illegal to grow. | ||
| Thank you, Canada, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, thank you, the United States, for fucking saying that it's illegal to grow a plant. | ||
| You dunces. | ||
| It's just such, you know, we at Onit, we could have had a farm. | ||
| We were thinking about like Vermont. | ||
| We looked into Vermont because Vermont passed laws. | ||
| But the federal government has clearly said we will lock you in jail if you try to grow this plant. | ||
| Here's how to get past all this. | ||
| I just figured it out. | ||
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Uh-oh. | |
| Monsanto needs to make genetically modified pot, and then it'll be legal to grow everywhere. | ||
| Listen, yeah, but then they'll probably fuck with the pot, and the pot turns you into a Nazi. | ||
| Turn you into an octopus or something? | ||
| Yeah, it's going to do something to you. | ||
| It's going to ruin you. | ||
| I hope they don't do that in case anyone there is listening. | ||
| Yeah, please, Monsanto, leave weed alone. | ||
| Concentrate on sweet potatoes or whatever the fuck you're doing. | ||
| This is scary ass company, man. | ||
| Somebody needs to get those people some mushrooms. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Get those people some mushrooms and understand the impact of your decisions just to put ones and zeros. | ||
| There's some serious therapeutic value to medicinal mushrooms. | ||
| Oh, fuck yeah, there are. | ||
| That's John Hopkins University showed significant improvements in people's personalities years later. | ||
| How many kilobytes is Joe's brain being downloaded? | ||
| That's like a 32 megabyte file? | ||
| You're feeling pretty smart right now, Brian. | ||
| No, he's taking, he just copied and pasted. | ||
| I don't even know what my own memories are. | ||
| I'm actually on my iPad here, I'm looking at what he's thinking about, and I feel dirty. | ||
| Oh, I'm dirty. | ||
| Black oxygen. | ||
| Not black ox anymore. | ||
| That's a flashback. | ||
| Flashback to the past, son. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| Are you feeling anything from the electrodes? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's hard to say. | ||
| I don't feel bad. | ||
| You can be pretty subtle and just see if you're in the zone a little more for the next few hours after this. | ||
| Yeah, I think it feels cool. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| like the fact that I think it does something for me. | ||
| But this other thing, this fucking seven day jammy, that sounds... | ||
| Pretty much most of them. | ||
| When you get there, you check in your watch and your cell phone and you just do it until you're done. | ||
| You don't even pay attention to time. | ||
| It's just like time goes away and all your time. | ||
| How many people have done this? | ||
| 10,000? | ||
| 10,000 people have done this, and they've all reported similar results. | ||
| U.S. Army Special Forces had this guy train them for seven months straight. | ||
| So it's like a Jason Bourne type thing. | ||
| Really? | ||
| So there's a way you can go and you sit down in this fucking place for seven days and there's a permanent change in your IQ and your creativity. | ||
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Yep. | |
| That start a Kickstarter for you, Joe. | ||
| We're going to make a movie about this. | ||
| Damn it. | ||
| Son of a bitch. | ||
| I don't need that, man. | ||
| I'm telling you, man, for you, you talk about ADD, just like kind of having your brain that's a comedian brain that's all over the place. | ||
| You don't lose any of that creativity, but it becomes malleable for you. | ||
| My performance, I did this in like 2008 or 2007. | ||
| I think 2000. | ||
| No. | ||
| Anyway, mid-2000s. | ||
| And I don't know. | ||
| I came back. | ||
| I drive fast. | ||
| I've always driven fast. | ||
| I'm a very safe driver. | ||
| But when someone in a Prius cuts me off, it pisses me off. | ||
| And it's always the Priuses that cut you off. | ||
| So I'd, you know, like, you son of a bitch. | ||
| And when I'm done with this, I came back. | ||
| I'm like, oh, someone in a Prius cut me off. | ||
| But zero emotional cost. | ||
| All the energy that I used to waste on getting pissed off about stuff that didn't matter completely went back to productivity and like just kicking more ass. | ||
| It's amazing what happens when you just teach your brain that you're the boss and you tell your little reptile brain in there to shut the hell up and to do its job to keep you from burning yourself to death or falling off a cliff, but to not be freaking you out the rest of the time for no reason. | ||
| Is it possible to do that without sitting in a room for seven days getting blasted with sounds? | ||
| Give me a feel, like a simulation of what you think this could be like. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Something like that? | ||
| It's kind of like that. | ||
| And then you try and make it louder. | ||
| Except it's more like an orchestra or like a stringed instrument kind of thing or a synthesizer. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's not binural beats. | ||
| They're not putting anything into your head. | ||
| It's all you controlling your head. | ||
| All they're doing is playing back to you. | ||
| It's like if you had a real-time readout on your iPhone right here, it's like, here's what my brain's doing right now. | ||
| Then you could look at it and be like, oh, my brain's getting bigger. | ||
| It's getting smaller. | ||
| I'm getting happier. | ||
| It's like that. | ||
| But it's coaching you to move in the right direction. | ||
| So your brain will be in the same state of someone who spent 40 years doing Zen meditation. | ||
| I had an experience once when I was on a psychedelic and where I started thinking negative thoughts and the imagery that I was seeing got dark, like black and green, and it started folding into itself. | ||
| And it looked bad. | ||
| It looked like rot, like something was going. | ||
| And then I realized it and I forced myself to relax and let go and think positive. | ||
| And then it all, boom, it blossomed in front of me like this incredibly beautiful geometric flower just blossomed out of it. | ||
| And it was like a lesson to me of the actual power of thinking. | ||
| That if you do think negative, it's not if you think negative and do nothing, nothing goes wrong. | ||
| No, if you think negative, you're getting negative energy in your life. | ||
| There's no doubt about it. | ||
| There's a cost to you. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That thought process, the concentration on anything that's negative, is not good for you. | ||
| It's just bad, period. | ||
| And I could see it in a beautiful geometric form. | ||
| It's very strange, but profound. | ||
| And it taught me something that I took from that day and slowly applied to my life. | ||
| When people realize the effect of their negative emotions, like, you know, if I was sitting here right now and I was thinking, you know, this Joe guy's a total prick. | ||
| I'm just glad I'm here. | ||
| Or, you know, even if I was acting all nice, but I was thinking really negative things about you, like, it would cost me more than to sit here and be like, this is fucking cool stuff to be talking about. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Right? | ||
| Or to sit here and just be really thinking nothing and going through the motions. | ||
| You would feel it too. | ||
| Have you ever done an interview with someone and they were like kind of douchey and totally felt this weird feeling where they were trying to be nice to you? | ||
| It's not authentic, even if they're trying their best, right? | ||
| We all pick that up. | ||
| Like we all know it, but then the scientific part of our brain that likes to ignore the brainstem altogether gets all pissed off. | ||
| And like we try to pretend like, oh, it's just me, but it's not. | ||
| And here's the thing. | ||
| We can measure this in your body. | ||
| Your heart rate variability. | ||
| Like people who think negative thoughts, their heart rate variability is low. | ||
| People who think positive thoughts, it goes up. | ||
| And you can actually exercise those thoughts with a $200 little device, the M-Wave 2. | ||
| And it's also the way you think about life. | ||
| It sets patterns. | ||
| And these choices sort of set these patterns that are easier to follow the next time. | ||
| And it becomes something that's sort of a path that you ordinarily go on. | ||
| And if you can Figure out how to get that to a positive, you will benefit. | ||
| In fact, you know what this is? | ||
| Like, you know, you can lift muscles and work on your bicep, right? | ||
| Well, you can do the same thing to your brain. | ||
| And it takes about 20 days of doing something every day for new synapses to form. | ||
| And when you do that, you can work on the synapses for compassion or forgiveness or just calmness and being in the zone. | ||
| Or you can work on ones for being pissed off and cranky, right? | ||
| And like wherever you put that energy, those muscles get stronger. | ||
| So you want a bigger amygdala, be pissed off all the time. | ||
| Is the amygdala bad? | ||
| I bet Joey Diaz is fucking huge. | ||
| I bet his amygdala is like his balls. | ||
| I bet it's just completely oversized. | ||
| That's a serious Twitter right there. | ||
| His amygdala is like his balls. | ||
| Oversized, ready to explode. | ||
| Joey will get mad if you have the wrong fucking salad dressing on a table. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He'll kill you. | ||
| He'll kill you. | ||
| If you try to give him ranch dressing with wings, he'll fucking kill you. | ||
| And it's one of those things where your brain's a muscle, you work it out. | ||
| What I found is using electronics like that, you can work out just the right parts. | ||
| The heart rate variability, when you do that, you work out alpha in the front of the brain, and you live longer, you perform better. | ||
| You've got all kinds of sports athletes now using heart rate variability to look at over-training states. | ||
| If you're over-trained, your body gets weaker. | ||
| But here's the weird thing as a coach, like who uses this with my clients. | ||
| I hook them up to the M-wave. | ||
| It's a little clip on their ear. | ||
| It just looks at the space between their heartbeats. | ||
| And I tell them, make the light turn green on this little machine. | ||
| And they're like, how do I do it? | ||
| So breathe in and breathe out. | ||
| It's pretty easy. | ||
| Five seconds in, five seconds out. | ||
| It turns green. | ||
| Great, you got that. | ||
| Let's turn up to the next one. | ||
| And I say, now you got to focus on your heart. | ||
| Okay, this is ridiculous. | ||
| I'm not that much of a hip yet. | ||
| Focus on your heart and breathe into your heart. | ||
| And like, really? | ||
| I'm like, yeah, just do it. | ||
| Okay, and light doesn't exactly turn green. | ||
| I'm like, great. | ||
| Breathe in through your heart. | ||
| Now think about puppies. | ||
| And the damn light turns green. | ||
| Okay, I don't like it that the light turns green, but they have to think of something that makes them go, aw, like their firstborn, you know, the way their mom hugs them, whatever it is. | ||
| When you consciously bring that thought in and that feeling in, it changes the way your heart beats. | ||
| And you can see it on a little green light. | ||
| There's no question about the fact that it changed your physiology when you changed what you were thinking about. | ||
| You can see it. | ||
| And that shows you how much power your thinking has over your physical body. | ||
| And when you do that, and you do that regularly for about six weeks, 10 minutes a day, you build the synapses for being happy because that's what you're teaching yourself to consciously do. | ||
| And when you're done, you can walk into a meeting where there's some asshole yelling at you, and you realize you're starting to get stressed and you want to kill the guy. | ||
| And you're like, I'm just going to turn on happy. | ||
| You still care that he's yelling at you. | ||
| You're still going to do what you're going to do, but you're totally in control instead of like the part of you that's like, I'm going to kill this guy now. | ||
| Like, no, no, I'm going to kill the guy just the right time. | ||
| Like when someone's talking in a movie theater and just grinds at you. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| You're just ready to fucking kill them. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Dude, you dropped some serious science on this podcast today. | ||
| I don't know if there's ever been a podcast where I know I have to go back over it with a notepad. | ||
| I've got about 50 different things that I need to look into now. | ||
| This has been really crazy. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| It's been fun, Joe. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| Fucking incredibly fascinating guy. | ||
| And go to bulletproofexec.com, folks, and all of Dave's stuff is up there. | ||
| All the different articles, all his different products, the upgraded coffee, the upgraded chef book he wrote, and the whey protein that's made with grass-fed beef and all this, and the upgraded MCT oil that is just coming out now. | ||
| And if they want to follow you on Twitter, it's BulletproofExec on Twitter. | ||
| Dude, you got to do this again, man. | ||
| Three times. | ||
| This is amazing. | ||
| This is really amazing. | ||
| By the way, Mac Danzig wants to debate people that say he does. | ||
| He said that as a vegan, he wants to debate people from a health point of view. | ||
| But I think he might get trounced. | ||
| I told him to bring it on Twitter. | ||
| It'd be cool. | ||
| I love Mac, but he might be out of his league. | ||
| I've converted about three dozen vegans back to eating meat, at least some of the time. | ||
| Well, Mac's a real noble guy. | ||
| He really is. | ||
| Legitimate. | ||
| He's the real deal. | ||
| And I think his issue is with factory farming. | ||
| You know, my issue with the people that say you shouldn't kill animals is guess what? | ||
| There's a responsibility at the top of the food chain, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| You're going to have to either castrate all the males, you're going to have to control population somehow, you have to pin them up, you're going to have to do something because you can't just have no predators. | ||
| And if you do have all these game animals wandering around like deer and cows, and if there's a giant surplus of them because no one's eating them anymore, you're going to have predators. | ||
| They're going to eat your vegetables, too. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're going to eat your vegetables. | ||
| They're going to die of starvation. | ||
| I mean, what are we going to do? | ||
| We're going to be babysitting all the cows to the rest of time. | ||
| We're going to have to fucking figure out how to manage cow societies. | ||
| They don't live forever if you don't eat them, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| I agree that factory farming is disgusting and horrible and horrific, but cows don't live forever and they're delicious. | ||
| And there's a reason why they taste so good is because something has to fucking die for something to taste that good. | ||
| You don't get that from beets. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| You don't get that from celery. | ||
| Although I do love celery and I do love kale shakes. | ||
| And if you go to onit.com, O-N-N-I-T, the Blendech blender. | ||
| What we did is I talk about the kale shakes that I drink every morning so often on the podcast that I have all these people taking them and they're like, what's the best blender? | ||
| For the years I was using a Vitamix, which is awesome. | ||
| If you can get one of those, those are awesome too. | ||
| But it turns out the Blend Tech is supposed to be the best. | ||
| That's what I'm using. | ||
| Are they cheaper than a Vitamix? | ||
| About the same? | ||
| You're dead on it. | ||
| They're the same. | ||
| They're the best. | ||
| I've been using a Blend Tech for a long time, and if you're going to make Bulletproof coffee the right way, you want a Blend Tech. | ||
| So they should go to your site. | ||
| They should buy a Blendech because you get the creamiest foam in a real blender like that. | ||
| You cannot beat that blender. | ||
| Great choice. | ||
| There you go. | ||
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| It's so hard to even go back to an iPhone and try to go online with it. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Send me one, Ting. | ||
| Again, yeah, Ting, hook it up with Brian Redback. | ||
| I need to play with it. | ||
| It's a beautiful, the service Ting is a beautiful company. | ||
| What I like about it is what they do is they use the Sprint Backbone. | ||
| It's a real legit major provider that has coverage everywhere, but they give it to you with no contracts. | ||
| You can quit anytime you want. | ||
| Your minutes roll over into the next, or you get credited. | ||
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| They have no contracts. | ||
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| He fucking hates Ting. | ||
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| Oh, I also, for my boy John Rollo, my friend, if you're anywhere near Baltimore, Maryland, on Saturday, October 20th, this Saturday, my friend John Rollo is running something called Showgun Fights. | ||
| And he's got Frankie Lester versus Calabar as the main event. | ||
| There's 11 total fights. | ||
| Henzo Gracie is going to be there. | ||
| Donald Cowboy Ceroni is going to be there. | ||
| And Big Dan Mergliata is going to be one of the refs. | ||
| He's a great guy and a very good ref as well. | ||
| And there's usually about 5,000 people at these events. | ||
| So if you want to get tickets, you've got to jump on that shit. | ||
| They're really fun to watch. | ||
| If you've never been to a regional show, a lot of the guys you see in these shows, like Shogun Fights, are guys you will see one day in the UFC. | ||
| That's absolutely their goal. | ||
| And there's going to be a lot of talented fighters on this card. | ||
| And it's a really good opportunity to see fights alive and to catch people early in their career that who knows? | ||
| You might see somebody from this card. | ||
| They might win a title one day. | ||
| I mean, it's very possible. | ||
| There's some really high-level talent, and John Rollo is a good buddy of mine, and he's one of Henzo Gracie's black belts. | ||
| So he's a very good judge of talent. | ||
| And this is his promotion. | ||
| So for my boy, John Rollo, go check out Showgun Fights, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| ShowgunFights.com. | ||
| Thank you to everybody that listens to this podcast. | ||
| Thanks to all the cool messages that I get on Twitter. | ||
| Thanks to all the cool people that I run into out there in the field, in the wilds of the world. | ||
| Can I mention we just put on a Dayton, Ohio on sale for the Death Squad tour with me and Tom Segura? | ||
| Tom Segura now. | ||
| And yeah, Doug Benson's going to be in the Columbus show, but it's at DeathSquad.tv. | ||
| DeathSquad.tv is also where you can get Brian's funky cat t-shirts. | ||
| Dose of them available. | ||
| You still have some of the original ones, right? | ||
| I don't need a triple fat sizes. | ||
| Oh, you fat fucks. | ||
| Go out there and buy them if you're a big fatty. | ||
| Or get some MCT oil in your life, son, and get on with the new program. | ||
| DeathSquad.tv is that. | ||
| And Hire Primate, of course, my t-shirt line, which is updated. | ||
| We've got all new ones. | ||
| I'm hiring some people and shit, so I'm trying not to run out of shirts anymore. | ||
| I really appreciate everybody buying them, though. | ||
| Hire-primate.com. | ||
| New designs coming. | ||
| My man Mike Maxwell made some dope ones. | ||
| All right, we'll be back tomorrow. | ||
| Tomorrow on the podcast, we have David Seaman. | ||
| Don't laugh. | ||
| Don't laugh. | ||
| And David is also bringing with him a reporter from RT. | ||
| And she is going to break down some more reasons why the government should be listening in on this show. | ||
| And her name is Abby Martin. | ||
| She seems very cool. | ||
| And she's going to come in with David tomorrow. | ||
| And then Wednesday, we got who else? | ||
| Oh, Victor Conti is on Wednesday. | ||
| And that should be fascinating. | ||
| He's the guy from the Balco scandal, where they were all taking the steroid that was undetectable. | ||
| And he's going to break down performance-enhancing drugs in professional sports. | ||
| And he's going to explain to us what the fuck is going on, you dirty bitches. | ||
| We need to start selling us bulletproof jackets, I think. | ||
| And with that fucking zinger, ladies and gentlemen, thank you, everybody. | ||
| You guys are the shit. | ||
| We love you. | ||
| And we'll see you soon. |
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