#407 Ben Azadi: Breaking Free From Metabolic Prison

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[00:00:00] We've been brainwashed by mainstream media, by government guidelines, nutritional guidelines to believe we need to eat more plant-based and low fat. 93% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. It's a 2022 study. 93% of they're in a metabolic prison. They are what I call sugar burners. In the book, they're relying on food for a short burst of energy, primarily carbohydrates.

And that's not a fun way to live because it leads to disease and destruction in a shorter lifespan. But it also, you have to rely on food for short energy. You don't have the ability to burn body fat. You have to eat carbohydrates and snack and graze throughout the entire day just to get by. You rely on stimulants and caffeine and four hour energy drinks and Red Bull just to get by.

That's not the way that God designed the human body. I remember just eating all meat and eggs for the first time, just like breaking the addiction to processed foods, and within 24 hours I was like, dude, I feel amazing. And I'm sure maybe some of that was a little bit mental, but it's also like. Your body is finally giving it the nutrients that it's been craving for years.

That's right. So imagine the way that you could possibly light up. It's almost like you've been going through life with a parking break on, and [00:01:00] imagine how good you could possibly feel, like the way you show up as a, a husband or a wife or in your business just as a byproduct of nourishing your body with the right foods.

Like I just think that's so encouraging.

Mr. Betti, thanks so much for joining us, brother Brett. Man, I'm in Austin. We're gonna have an amazing conversation. We always have so much fun when we link up. We met 2022 Hack Your Keto Con before they rebranded. Hack Your Health, right? You've always just been an unbelievably supportive friend in person to us and our brand, and Harry, and I appreciate you so much, and it's been amazing for us to see just this unbelievable traction with the, with the launch of your book, metabolic Freedom.

How has that been feeling? Thank you and I, you guys support me too. So the feeling is mutual. It feels, uh, overwhelming. Yes. In the best way possible. Mm-hmm. Just to see the book out, the metabolic freedom. Get out into the masses. We just, I was just telling you, we just hit the New York Times list. Congrats, brother.

Which is, thank you. It's so difficult to do. Uh, and and it's cool to say, yeah, I'm a New York Times [00:02:00] bestselling author, but more than that, it means the message of metabolic health, eating red meat, eating saturated fat and cholesterol. It's getting to the masses and it's super exciting to see. I'm very grateful.

I know we're gonna talk about the book today, and it's an honor to be a part of the movement along with you and, and Harry and all the people in our space. Definitely, man, it's cool. Seeing guys like you that have put in so many thousands of hours in reps and iterations because you just believe in this movement so much and you, you're one of those guys where you genuinely just wanna offer up whatever wisdom you have to help people get healthier.

I mean, I'm looking at your YouTube, I'm looking at your pod, you know, thousands of podcast episodes recorded. Thousands of YouTube videos recorded. Yeah. Why was it so important for you to actually create your next form of content in the form of a book versus something visual or audio? Th when you hand somebody a business card, chances are they'll throw it away or they'll lose it.

When you hand somebody a book, um, they'll keep it, or they'll keep it and maybe not read it necessarily, but they might keep it on their nightstand or keep it on their coffee table and it reminds them, Hey, you should probably [00:03:00] pick this up and, and learn something about it. So I, I love the idea of having a resource in a book versus a business card or even social media content, which is fleeting.

If we could get a book into somebody's home or their office, likelihood of them reading it increases versus a video that's out there. With Metabolic freedom. The reason I wrote the book, it's not a niche book. I've written a keto book before, a fasting book before. These are niche books. Metabolic Freedom was written for the masses.

It's a way to introduce what we teach the metabolic health, uh, metabolic living and eating saturated fat, red meat to the masses in a gen gentle approach for them to understand how the metabolism works, why red meat is not the villain, why cholesterol is so important for your cells and how. Uh, we've been brainwashed by mainstream media, by government guidelines, nutritional guidelines to believe we need to eat more plant-based and low fat.

Yes. So I wanted to write this book that was a huge resource for the masses because we see here, you know, this, 93% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. I. It's a 2022 study. [00:04:00] 93%. That means we're in Austin. If we walked around downtown Austin right here, and we saw a hundred people on the street, 93 out of those 100 people have metabolic dysfunction.

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Mm-hmm. And I know God didn't design this, that, uh, that way. I know God, God designed us to be self-healing. So I wrote the book to show the problems. The first half of the book focuses on what causes metabolic diseases. The second half of the book are the solutions Ketosis, fasting, your thoughts, and then it's all wrapped together in a 30 day plan for individuals to now apply what they've learned because we could give them the information, but if they don't apply it, Brett.

It's not gonna change their life. So I wrote the book to give them the game plan, the step-by-step protocol, and get the average person find, uh, following a standard American diet into this metabolic health space of keto and carnivore. And if you're already in this space, like a percent percentage of your audience, I.

There's 265 references and citations. You just learn more about the metabolism. So it fits both, uh, categories there. And that's why I wanted to write the book. Man. It's funny when you sent me the copy and I started scrolling through it without what [00:05:00] you just said, my immediate thought process was this is something that I would actually love to buy and just give to my parents.

Because you put, so you're basically just pulling on these high levers. That I think Americans are missing and they really need, and the problem is like you take my dad for example, who's in relatively good health. He's on Instagram and there's, there's a, there's pros and there's cons of this influx of social media content creators in the health and wellness space.

I would say the pros are that you get access to like alternative medicine that you'd never really get through your conventional doctor. The problem is I also feel like there's so much. Fear porn where people are scrolling, they're like, look, I just wanna lose 30 pounds and get those metabolic health markers in.

Good. In a good stance, but they don't really know where to start. 'cause there's such an in influx of competing information. Yeah. And so when I was reading your book, I'm like, yes, there is really detailed biohacking stuff. You throw those little tidbits in towards the end. But it's really just focusing on pulling the high levers and helping someone like my parents understand like, what foods are good and bad for you?

What should you be doing and not doing? They could read it, [00:06:00] digest it, and hopefully improve their lives. Yeah, brother. Yeah, and I appreciate that. That's exactly why I wrote it. I, I wanted to get out into the masses and it is, you know, yes. We have a lot of copies sold. We hit the list. It's super cool to see.

Just came out a few weeks ago. Mm. Uh, yeah. And we'll take a deep dive into some, some of the principles, but it's a lot aligned with exactly what you and Harry teach, the meat Mafia. Mm-hmm. Team. It's, um. We gotta go back to our, our ancient, these ancient healing strategies. Yes. Ketosis and fasting and, you know, eating animal products.

Mm-hmm. Eating the stuff that the body loves and lowering inflammation. When you do that and remove the interference, the body will heal itself. I don't care if you're 21 or 91, I don't care what your, what your health history is or your circumstances, the body will heal itself as long as you remove the interference.

And I, I think I did a good job kind of showing what those interferences are in the book. Well said and And you absolutely did. It's, it's funny too because you know, you and I have been around the space. You know every single statistic that adds shock and awe, VA value when you hear it. There was something about reading your introduction.

You had mentioned that two thirds of the country [00:07:00] is overweight or obese. And I was just conceptualizing that and you know, whether, you know you're down in Miami, I would say that's a health and wellness bubble. Obviously Austin is a huge health and wellness bubble. And then, you know, I travel a lot. So like I go to the airport and if I do the math in my head I'm like, yeah, it probably is.

Out of every two to three people that I see in the airport outside of the bubble. Are overweight or obese and it just, I don't know. The statistic is so simple, but it just blew my mind thinking about how backwards we've actually gotten. Yeah, it's, it's crazy. And it isn't it, and you're right, we live kind of in our own bubble.

Austin is a health focus city. Miami is a health focus city. And I see the same thing when I go to airports. I see the same thing when I'm outside of Miami. We live in a sick nation and what's interesting and alarming is that we spend $4.6 trillion every year on healthcare in the us. And I learned this from Andy Shun over our buddy over at Join Crowd Health.

And if that was a GDP, it would be the fourth largest GDP in the entire world. Yet we're sicker than ever before and pharmaceutical companies are, are richer than ever [00:08:00] before. And one out of every $4 spent on healthcare is spent on diabetes, primarily Type two, which we know is a metabolic disease that is 100% preventable and 100%.

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Reversible. We are gonna bankrupt this country, yet we are one of the richest nations, if not the rich, richest nation in the world. And we rank around 37 amongst nations. There's our, there are third world countries that are healthier than us. We've got a problem, we've got a huge problem, but we also have the solution.

And I think there's a huge movement now. With the Maha movement, with focusing on metabolic health, that people are becoming aware and they're sick and tired of the status quo. You know, I, I posted a, a podcast, Harry, four days ago on my YouTube channel and my podcast titled 36 Foods, 36 Dangerous Foods, RFK, junior, just banned.

And I just looked at my stats. It has 2.2 million views in four days. Wow. And there are 21,000 comments on it in four days. And when I post. [00:09:00] Things like that. I'm always conscious because I don't want to be political at all. And once you mention Maha, it automatically automatically becomes political. And my audience is mixed and I respect all, you know, left, right in between.

So I was worried that I might get, you know, some hate, some people unsubscribing, ah, I hate Trump. I hate RFK. When I read the comments and I read hundreds of them and I replied to hundreds of them, there were people saying, I hate Trump, I hate RFK, but I agree with this ban. Wow. I hate him. I hate him. He's ridiculous.

His stance on vaccines, he's a kook. But I agree with this stance. I didn't see one person say he's wrong about this. That is super cool, bro. 21,000 comments, not one. Oh, I didn't read all 21,000 to be fair, but I've read hundreds of them. Mm-hmm. And not one of them was saying, I don't agree with this. Even if they hated Trump, hated RFK.

They agree with the movement because we have a problem. We have these toxic ingredients in our food supply. I think we all could see everybody's unhealthy and we need a change. And it's [00:10:00] cool that it's, it's starting to happen. Mm-hmm. It is cool. Um, yeah, it's amazing just to see the response to that video.

The comments, you know, people literally saying, I, I despise Trump, I despise RFK. Yet they still agree to the message. It's like so many Americans have just been waiting for someone, or a body of people to just speak the truth that a lot of us have been implementing in our own lives. Right? Like, you know, my ulcer, ulcerative colitis, completely gone within a few years of eating all red meat.

I know you lost, what'd you lose? 80 pounds. 80 pounds in nine months? Yeah. Unbelievable. Just by deciding to gravitate towards the things that you talk about in this book, and you see family, friends, loved ones, just like. Suffering. Not even living, essentially like dying this really slow death. And you're like, well, this could be so avoidable if they just had access to the right information.

And I think we're gonna get there. And I think your book is a really good step in the right direction. Amen, bro. Let's make it happen. Yeah. For the listener. What, you know, what's the, be, you know, how would you describe your, your overarching health journey to kind of get to this point now too? 'cause I love hearing people's stories and so many guests, and I'm sure you too, outta the [00:11:00] 400 episodes, I would say over 50% of our guests have had this unbelievable healing journey, just gravitating towards the right levers that ultimately was the, the gateway to restore their health.

And that's all they talk about now. Yeah. Yeah. It's a pain to purpose message. Right. Paint to purpose baby. About 400 episodes. Huh? That's over 400 brother. In, in like what, three years? Yeah, about three years. That's crazy, man. That that's. Super cool. That's a lot of episodes in three years. Yes. That's very rare.

Thank you. Uh, the average podcast host who starts a podcast, um, 90% of them don't get past 10 episodes 'cause they see how much work it is. You're at 400 plus. Um, that's respect, bro. I love it. Thank you brother. Yeah. So from, you mentioned it, you know, I was very unhealthy growing up. I was obese as a kid.

People look at me and yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm lean and healthy now. But for 20 plus years I was physically obese, mentally obese. I. Was struggling with as a, as an adult in my twenties, I was struggling with high blood pressure, erectile dysfunction, low testosterone, uh, pre-diabetes, hypertension, [00:12:00] and I didn't know what to do, like so many people out there.

And I made my appointments with my doctor and I explained my symptoms to the doctor. Never once did the doctor ask me, what are you eating? Let's talk about your lifestyle. No, what he asked me is, or what he was thinking, what can I prescribe for this young man? And he prescribed diff different medications, but I felt like I was too young.

23 years old, prescribing medications for high blood pressure and um, wanting to, suggesting to go on testosterone replacement therapy at 23 years old. I felt like that was, I was too young to do any of that. Mm-hmm. But I was hopeless and I was lost and I was actually ready to just give up on life. I was on the internet looking for ways to, to to end my life and I didn't go through with it.

'cause I kept thinking about my mom. I didn't want to cause devastation for her. She is my superhero and I didn't want to cause that for her. So it forced me to figure things out. I was rock bottom. I wanted to give up. I was obese, so at this point I was 250 pounds. I had 34% body fat classified as being obese.

Wow. My transformation actually [00:13:00] started with, with my mindset. I started to read books from Dr. Wayne Dyer and Bob Proctor. And the books helped me take ownership and responsibility, which I believe is the first step to great change. I stopped blaming my genetics, my slow metabolism, my enabling family members, and I took ownership.

And when you take ownership, that's when you start to take a step into a great change. And then I started to eat real food, move my body, and I went through this incredible transformation. I lost 80 pounds, as you mentioned, in nine months. I went from 34% body fat at my highest to 6% body fat at my lowest, which is a complete transformation.

And yeah, I achieved a physical six pack, which is great. Mm-hmm. But I also achieved a mental six pack and all of my mental illness and my depressive thoughts and the suicidal thoughts that went away, and that was 17 years ago. I've kept the weight off. I've gotten healthier ever since I'm 40 now, and actually feel the healthiest.

Uh, that I've ever felt in my entire life. And that's a testament that if I can do it, like anybody can do it, I was in bad shape. Um, so that, that's my pain to [00:14:00] purpose story along the way, I was a personal trainer. I had a gym, I operated a gym in Miami, and then eventually in 2018, I rebranded keto camp and then started the YouTube channel and the podcast and just went full on with that.

But that's kind of the journey, how it started 17 years ago, man, literally from rock bottom, brother, I can't imagine. The mindset you must have been in at 23 years old, seeing you now, your energy, like the care you have for other people, the amount of people you're impacting, and just like one, you know, God forbid, you know, if you chose to make that decision, like how many people would be missing out?

To ultimately what you're tapping into with your mission. I mean, it's like, I think young men really do have a mental health epidemic right now. Like I know multiple young guys that have unfortunately chosen to take their own life. And I dunno, I think there's, I think there's a correlation between a lot of the stuff you're talking about in this book, plus the mindset stuff that Wayne and Bob and Tony Robs and these guys are tapping into.

I think so many men are just like, they're, they're dying to fulfill their purpose. They just don't know what it is. And I think that's, you know, I think that's [00:15:00] partially responsible for this mental health epidemic right now. But. Man, just so grateful that you chose to do the right things and get yourself into the shape that you're in now.

And I also think it's interesting that you started with Bob and Wayne before you got into a lot of these nutritional and dietary lifestyle levers. It was almost like your belief came first and then the healing came second. Is that fair to say? Yeah. Yeah. We think, uh. The old adage is that you have to see it to believe it.

Mm-hmm. But it's actually the opposite. Like you just said. You believe it, then you see it. So yeah, it started with your thoughts. Started with my thoughts and um, taking ownership and responsibility. Uh, I think a lot of people are playing the victim and that doesn't serve you. Yeah. It serves you in the um, moment.

'cause it feels good to blame your problems on somebody else. Mm-hmm. But in reality, it's not serving your future self. I remember reading Dr. Wayne Dyer. He, he said something in his books that really lit me up and made me really take responsibility. He said two things. He said, number one, if you keep blaming other people for your problems like I was, you would have to hire a psychiatrist for everybody in your life in order for [00:16:00] you to get better.

Then he would say, responsibility is where it starts, and that word is responsibility is your ability to respond to life. When your ability to respond to life is poor, you get poor results. When your ability to respond to life is great, you get great results. That is your responsibility, your ability to respond.

And we, there's a, there's a moment between stimulus, Viktor Frankl. Frankl said this, and Man's search for meeting, meaning there's a moment between stimulus and your response to the stimulus. And in that moment. Lies your power. Mm-hmm. Right? So when there's a stimulus, meaning somebody says something about you, uh, you lose your job, whatever the stimulus is a negative, you have the ability to respond or to react to that, and 97% of people are just reacting and blaming.

But when you take responsibility and you respond. Then that that's where your power lies. And I, I think a lot of people have outsourced their, their health and their metabolic powers to their doctor, to the government, [00:17:00] to mainstream guidelines. And we need to take the power back. We need to strip the power away from big pharma and big food.

I. And give it back to us, the people. And I think conversations like this, I know your podcast and your, your work with, uh, Harry is getting the power back to the people and helping them take ownership and responsibility. A hundred percent. Man, it's like all we're trying to do is, I think you see a lot of, um, I.

People in the content creation space, in the health and wellness, content creation space where it almost seems like health is their God in a lot of ways. And I under, I understand why. Like I, I know the feeling of, you know, people following you because you're like the carnivore healing guy that was shooting blood 30 times a day and like I understand how it almost creates this positive reinforcement loop towards that thing.

But I would say now, being in year three of this, we just think about health as like this amazing base layer to go out and do incredible things with your life. And I think what you said about the Viktor Frankl piece is so important. I had this feeling last week where someone had said something to me from a business perspective that [00:18:00] really pissed me off.

And I remember having this feeling of like outside of physical pain. Pretty much everything is that stimulus that I can choose to respond to. Like, yes, this person is saying that thing to me, but it's ultimately me that's putting emotion behind it and taking it personally versus like figuring out whatever response, you know, and downloading the right mental software to be able to deal with that.

So the reason why I'm drilling into this a little bit is like pairing the metabolic freedom. Toolkit that you've prescribed in your book with the mindset and spiritual toolkit. You blend those, those two things together, man, that is a gateway to become an entirely new person, which you're evidence of too.

Yeah. You become, you become unmissable with. Mm-hmm. I think we all want to be unmissable with your unstoppable. Yes. Chapter 10 of metabolic freedom is my favorite chapter, and it's all about how your thoughts influence your metabolism, longevity, or disease and, and destruction, essentially. And that's, that's the most important thing to change your thoughts, to change your, your attitude.

Earl Nightingale called [00:19:00] your attitude, your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions. When you change that, it's an inside out job. When you change that, you want to treat your body better so you eat better food. You cut people out of your life that are toxic, uh, relationships. You, you take a stand for what you believe in.

You have higher conviction. It really starts with that. That was my story in 2008. And to this day, I think 95% of our results, even with our health, will be the mindset part. 5% will be strategy. And chapter 10, I think is the most important piece of, of the book, metabolic Freedom. Okay. Beautiful. I can't wait to dig into that too.

Yeah, you're gonna love that part, bro. Yeah. So for someone that's. We have a lot of guys, probably like 25 to 32 that listen to the show. Okay. I would love for them, like this is kind of a plea to the audience to like take this podcast and send it to their parents as well. Just to get some really good alpha for someone that's listening to the show for the first time and coming across you for the first time, like, what should pe like, what actually what does metabolic freedom actually mean to you and why should people care about it?

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The word freedom. I think we all [00:20:00] desire, um, we want financial freedom. We want time freedom. We want, uh, metabolic freedom. It's a very desirable word. And we live in the United States, the greatest country in the world, and we are blessed to have freedom. I. Unfortunately, most people are not metabolically free.

They're in a metabolic prison. They are what I call sugar burners. In the book, they're relying on food for a short burst of energy, primarily carbohydrates. And that's not a fun way to live because it leads to disease and destruction and a shorter lifespan, but it also, you have to rely on food. For short energy.

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Mm-hmm. You don't have the ability to burn body fat. You have to eat carbohydrates and snack and graze throughout the entire day just to get by. You rely on stimulants and caffeine and four hour energy drinks in Red Bull just to get by. That's not the way that God designed the human body. We were designed to have metabolic freedom where you could take any food, whether it's carbohydrate.

Protein or fat, use it for energy and burn fat and feel good. Or you don't eat food like you fast and you burn your, [00:21:00] your store body fat for energy or your, your stomach, your love handles. You take sunshine for energy. That's metabolic freedom. You take whatever substrate is available for energy, you burn it and you burn fat when you have that sort of life and metabolism.

You could go hours without food. You could go days without food. You don't have to be at the, let's say post office line. And you're hangry because you haven't eaten in two, three hours. So you now you're miserable to the staff there. You're miserable to the people around you. When you're not metabolically free, you're not your truest version of yourself.

Your personality declines, your relationships decline because you're just not healthy, you're not thriving. So we all want to be our true version of ourselves, the way God designed us. And it's not that difficult. It's not about calories. It's not about, uh, the things we've been taught. It's actually very easy.

We don't have to rely on willpower. So metabolic freedom is what I want for everybody, for those watching here. Uh, whether you're a man or a woman of, of all ages, like metabolic freedom is the way that you were designed to live the way God designed you to, to thrive. And [00:22:00] the body is so miraculous. You know this, you're a perfect example.

When you remove the interference, the body will heal itself. Yes. I mean, you are shitting blood 30 times a day. Yes. Truly. Like my life was revolved around where is the closest bathroom? I was on, you know, I remember being on dates when I was 21 years old and the girls that I was going out with thought I was like a coke addict because I was gonna the bathroom three or four times.

I was trying to live my life, young kid in New York City. Wow. And um, you know, essentially welting away and dying and just being told I was gonna be on all these drugs and medications and gravitating towards the things that you talk about in this book. It was the gateway to me getting rid of all the inflammation and the micro inflammation and getting into the best shape of my life.

And I love the word interference because what I've noticed for myself being about. I think I've been off drugs for close to five years. When I put the interference back in, that's when my symptoms come back. When I remove the interference. Mm-hmm. That's when I feel as good as I can possibly feel. So like carnivore, strict carnivore for me is always the, whenever the interference and the inflammation [00:23:00] is, is triggered, I go back to that and whenever I gravitate towards those things, I'll start to feel those old symptoms.

You know, you said, said something really, really interesting there, you said. You paid attention to your symptoms. And I think a lot of people, most people don't do that. They'll look at their symptoms. 'cause we've been brainwashed to, yes, to view the symptoms as the problem. Something that we hate. We, I hate our, my symptoms, uh, let's have a medication or surgery, something to mask it.

But symptoms are something we should actually be thankful for because when you use it the way that you just said, as a check engine light for your body mm-hmm. Then it helps to, helps to guide you into healing, right? Yes. It helps you identify the interference. If somebody went out, let's say last night in Austin and they had two entire pizzas, they drank a whole bunch of beer.

They had, uh, pasta with spaghetti and meatballs. They had, let's say a whole bunch of other desserts like ice cream. They just gorge themselves. This morning, the next morning, they're going to have symptoms. They're gonna have probably acid [00:24:00] reflux, uh, they might be constipated. They might also be, uh, have diarrhea, the opposite indigestion.

And the average person will make an appointment with their doctor because they're experiencing these symptoms. Mm-hmm. And they'll explain the symptoms to their doctor, and the doctor will nod the head and say. No worries. We have an anti, I could write you a prescription for an antiacid anti flatulence.

Uh, here are five prescriptions. Go to the, uh, pharmacy and go pick them up. Now, if the doctor would've just asked the question, what did you eat last night? The person would've list all the things they ate. The doctor could have said. Well, that's why you have the symptoms. Just don't do that again. Remove that interference and you won't have the symptoms.

But instead, we send them off with five medications and they might give them temporary relief, and then it leads to other symptoms, and now they're on this vicious cycle. You could see how big pharma and big food and big gov, it's a brilliant subscription model. So we need to look at those symptoms like you just said, as a gift.

It's your innate intelligence, this inner physician showing you a check engine light. So you could [00:25:00] open up the hood, remove the interference for you. It's going back to carnivore, so those symptoms go away. When you take care of the interference, the symptoms go away by default. One more example, Sarah. Uh, Brett.

Weight gain, obesity, weight loss resistance. I was obese. I never had a weight problem. If you're watching this and listening to this right now and you're overweight, you don't have a weight problem. There's no such thing as a weight symptom. When we focus on calorie counting and cutting calories, it's treating the symptom.

You see, we don't lose weight to get healthy. We get healthy to lose weight, and when we focus on the symptom, which is being overweight, it will lead you to failure when you focus on the cause, which is inflammation. And hormones, the weight comes off as a side effect, right? So it's the same thing with being overweight.

It is your weight symptom, not your weight problem. You can see how it's a paradigm shift for a lot of people. It's, but once you understand that, that is the way the body works, look at your symptoms as a gift, not the actual problem. Mm. I love that. And I love your [00:26:00] approach to intuition too, and I kind of feel like that's the whole end game of your book, right?

If all you did was allow the reader to develop intuition. You would be thriving for the rest of your life. And I, a lot of people know you for your work in the biohacking space, but I view your biohacking work as a means to develop that intuition, which is kind of how I do it too. Like I like wearing an Apple watch.

I like getting my blood work done. I like getting supplements and peptides and things like that. But I'm trying to use that data to gather information so that I can go out and live my life and actually understand what makes me feel good, what makes me feel bad. And not need to necessarily rely on those devices, but know that they're always there.

And I find that for a lot of people, like I love the feeling of, you know, getting a smartwatch or getting an aura ring and tracking a lot of my food in the beginning, but knowing that, hey, the end result of this is to be able to develop intuition. So like last night. I went to Sushi by Scratch, which is this incredible omaze place.

They actually have a spot in Miami too. Oh, yeah. Had one of the best meals of my life. I woke up a little bit bloated this morning, but I'm like, I literally know. It's just, [00:27:00] you know, my, I'm, I'm holding onto water because of all the sodium last night, and then I just get right back on track. Like normally I don't obsess over it.

I don't overthink it. But I think that's intuition as well. That is exactly, and you understood exactly what happened there. Right. You didn't go and get a medication for the, uh, you know, the bloating. Exactly. It's like, okay. You had the sushi, you had a whole bunch of, you had car, a whole bunch of carbs.

Pretty, yeah. Pretty good amount. 18 pieces of, yeah. So that's why, right? Yes. And now you just go back on, on track, and you're right with the, with the, uh, ora ring and the stats out there, they're great tools. Mm-hmm. They, it's great data, but we also don't want an ora ring or an Apple watch or a whoop band to tell us how to feel today.

Mm-hmm. It gives you ideas and trends and clues, but if you wake up and you feel great, even if your aura ring is off, um, don't let that. Change the way you feel, right? Yes. Like you feel great. Great. That's the intuition. Your body is always the best resource for that. Mm-hmm. Like if you have, if you wake up and you feel well rested, your energy levels are great.

You feel focused. Even if your sleep score was poor or your H RV [00:28:00] dropped or whatever it was, that's how you feel is way more valuable than what the ring is showing. Uh, so that it's great data, but it's not the only thing we want to pay attention to. To your point, we want to pay attention to our intuition and how we feel.

Yeah. You still gotta go out and live your life, right? Yes. Even if your sleep score is, uh. 34, whatever the work still has to get done too. Yes. Doesn't mean like smoke yourself with a CrossFit workout if that's what you're supposed to do, but like, you know, tone it back and the work still has to get done ultimately.

Exactly, bro. Um, so from a nutritional standpoint. For someone that's like, just wants to get in the game, they're like, look, I've got, you know, 30 excess pounds of body fat. Maybe they need to, maybe you recommend them getting a DEXA scan. Maybe we could dig into that. But from a nutrition standpoint, like what should they be thinking from a, from a food standpoint, just to like rewire what they're eating.

If they're coming on, maybe they're eating 60 to seven, 70% of their calories in the form of processed foods. Mm-hmm. Like where, what's the starting point for them? Yeah, it's a good question because that's most, 93% of Americans, uh, are are there right now. Yeah. You know, starting point would be to just focus on [00:29:00] Whole Foods.

I know it, it sounds so like repetitive. We hear that before, but I'll give you an example of what I mean by that to really make sense. When we go to the grocery store and we look at, let's say a potato or an avocado or a grass fed beef or eggs, is there ingredient an ingredients list? No. No. I mean, it's just what you see.

It's a single ingredient. It's what you see, but instead of the potato and you go to the inner ion by potato chips. There are 20 ingredients in that potato chip. There are artificial fats, um, there are inflammatory fats, artificial ingredients, so potato to potato chips. That's the processed version. That's the bad version, right?

So we want to eat as much as possible single ingredient foods. That's the starting point right there. Single ingredient foods. And then at the same time, we want to gradually lower our carbohydrate intake. The reason why this is important, the carbohydrate piece, is because insulin is a key player here.

And for those who don't know, insulin is a, a hormone in your body. We have over 600 hormones in the body. Only [00:30:00] one hormone signals fat storage and that hormone is insulin. Mm. That's it. Now, cortisol works with insulin to signal fat storage, but every hormone needs to work with insulin to store fat. Mm.

Insulin is an energy sensor when it signals a lot of energy coming in, like carbohydrates. It tells the metabolism store fat and what's really. Important here is that you could have full blown insulin resistance hyperinsulinemia for six to 14 years without your fasting blood sugars changing at all, or even your A1C changing.

Wow. And that's a Whitehall study too, I put in the book. Mm-hmm. So people go to their annual, uh, doctor's appointment, they get their, maybe their fasting glucose, which is great, get it done. Maybe their A1C, but you could have, if you're not getting a fasting insulin blood test, you're missing the most important piece here because when your insulin levels are high from processed foods, especially carbohydrates, your pancreas will produce [00:31:00] massive amounts of insulin to clear the excess glucose until it cannot.

Then you get diagnosed with pre-diabetes or diabetes, and then that opens up the door for autoimmune conditions. Cancer, heart disease, I mean a whole host of diseases. But if you got a fasting insulin blood test, I make the case in the book, it's the most important blood test to get done for your metabolism.

You want to see that fasting insulin between three and six. If it's over six, there's some work that needs to be done. And what's crazy is that number one, doctors don't order a fasting insulin. That's because there's not a medication to prescribe when you have a high insulin. Only when you have a high glucose.

So why should they run it? So you probably have to pay out of pocket insurance. Might not cover it. The good news is that it's cheap. It's like 30 to 50 bucks. Mm-hmm. So get it done. Yeah. You go into that test, 12 to 14 hours fasting, it's a blood test and the report that comes back is between three and 28, the lab report.

So if it's 17 or 21, it will not be flagged on that report. But no, that is [00:32:00] insulin resistance. You want your fasting insulin to be between three and six, how do you get it there? Eat the single ingredient foods, number one. Number two, gradually lower your carbohydrates because carbohydrates, as you know, Brett will spike your blood insulin more than protein and fat, so you wanna swap out and lower your carbs and swap them out with protein and fat.

You do that and then you eliminate snacks in between meals. You have three meals a day. You do that just for a couple of weeks, you're gonna lower inflammation, lower insulin. You'll start to lose weight, have more energy, get better sleep, uh, have less joint pain, less brain fog, and it happens within days, days in just a matter of days, bro.

Yeah. Just doing those three simple things, right? So lowering carbs, replacing them with, uh, protein and fats, and then eliminating the snacks. That's where I would start with that individual. Yeah. Sometimes, I mean, this could be a bit of a placebo, but I know that if I've, if I've ever get gotten off the rails, or even when I went carnivore for the first time in 2019, I remember just eating all meat and eggs for the first time.

Just like breaking the addiction to processed [00:33:00] foods and within 24 hours I was like, dude, I feel amazing. And I'm sure maybe some of that was a little bit mental, but it's also like your body is finally giving it the nutrients that it's been craving for years. That's right. So imagine the way that you could possibly light up.

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It's like you've been for something that's listening to this. It's almost like you've been going through life with a parking break on. And imagine how good you could possibly feel, like the way you show up as a, a husband or a wife or in your business just. As a byproduct of nourishing your body with the right foods.

Like I just think that's so encouraging. Yeah, it is, bro. And even if it is part of its placebo, I wouldn't negate it either. Yes, placebo is very powerful. Mm-hmm. And I talk about that on chapter 10. You're gonna love chapter 10. Um, I hear this a lot. You might get this too. It, it's expensive to do all these things, right?

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We hear about different biohacks, red light, sole plunge, and then we hear about like eating organic, eating grass fed. And I get a lot of comments and. They'll say, you know, this is expensive. I don't have this in my budget, and I'm respectful of those individuals. You know, you do the best you can with your current resources.

I always say that. And it may be more expensive [00:34:00] to, to be healthier. True. Maybe. Yeah. But you know what's even more expensive? Wait until they hand you the bill for being sick. How much were your treatments when you were going through, uh, the, the issues? Uh, with shitting every time 30 times a day, over, over 50 grand per infusion every eight weeks.

50 grand per infusion every eight weeks. And I was on it for from 2016 to 2021. So you could do it. Oh my gosh. So I think it was over, I think it was a few million dollars total or close to it. Did your insurance cover all of that? Thankfully, yes. I, my, my, uh, my parents had really good insurance and so I was under the age of 25.

So That's rare though. Yes. But imagine if I wasn't, I would be financially crippled for life. You would be, yeah. You'd be in so much debt. Right. So that's a perfect example of what I mean. If you would've spent the money earlier on, on maybe just organic grass fed meat mm-hmm. Um, you would've saved millions of dollars there if you had to pay outta pocket.

Right. So yeah, it might be more, it might be exp expense. The bill for getting healthy is a little bit more money than not being healthy. But when you get sick, that bill is something you cannot pay. Definitely. And when [00:35:00] you treat your health casually, you will end up a casual tea. Yes. It will happen sooner rather than later.

Uh, you mentioned you're not your truest personality, you're not your true self. You don't show up for your husband, for your wife, for your children. You rob yourself of health and you rob your, your, your community of your true personality and the gifts that God gave you. Uh, so it's so important to prioritize your health.

It is the number one asset that we have. Jim Roh used to always say, take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. Mm-hmm. And that is true. We have this soul and the body is this meat suit for the soul. We want to treat it as best as possible so we could fulfill this desire, this unique desire of what, of why God put us here on Earth.

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Definitely. And I, and I agree with you Ben. I do, you know, I do have a lot of sympathy, um, for people that are a little, little bit budgetarily constrained. And what I'm noticing is that like I'll go on DoorDash and just check out prices. 'cause I'm always curious about this stuff, like due to inflation, like McDonald's is not.

As cheap as it used to be. Like, I'm running the numbers, like, look, if the best you can [00:36:00] do is go to Walmart or Target, we live in an area in a time period now where you can actually get like decent quality meat from either of those places. You can get avocados, you can get sweet potato. Um, a lot of you know, this place, they're starting to carry epic beef tallow too.

Like you can get almost all the, the single ingredient row foods that you're talking about at these budgetary grocery stores. The cost is really just the time of learning how to prepare these foods. I feel like, because when I'm running the numbers, I'm like. I don't even think it's cheaper to go to McDonald's than it is to make a basic lunch or dinner that I eat every single day.

Do you think that's true? That's interesting. I haven't ran the numbers on that. Yeah. On the McDonald's and fast food, but with inflation going up, I, here's what I know to be true. If you, when you practice inter intermittent fasting, you, you save money. I. You do save money, you know, 'cause you're skipping a meal.

And I, I did, I did the math. 'cause I do a lot of, uh, like keynotes at, um, entrepreneur events and real estate events and I always talk about fasting for entrepreneurs 'cause it just enhances their brain function. And I say, you also save money. I did the math. If you just, if you skipped one meal a day, let's say you [00:37:00] just, you skipped breakfast and you had lunch and dinner.

And let's say you just did that Monday through Friday, and let's say you spent $15 on that breakfast, but now you, you're skipping that. So you save $15, you saved $3,900 every year doing that, and you get back 4.5 days if it, if you, if you spent like 30 minutes on that breakfast. Wow. So you get time and money back.

Right. So to answer your question, you could actually. Save more money by implementing intermittent fasting, and it's really not that expensive to eat clean these days. To your point, you could, and I will also say this, the cheapest meat at Walmart is healthier than the most processed carbohydrate out there.

Definitely. So even if it's cheap meat, which we don't advocate for, I mean, we advocate for regenerative farming and. Treating the animals well. But if the, I would still, if I had a choice between a bag of chips and like the cheapest ground beef you could find at Walmart, I would go with the cheapest ground beef you could find at Walmart.

It's still a lot healthier than the bag of chips, so make the steps [00:38:00] and progress in the right direction. When you, when you start practicing fasting, you save money and time, then you could apply it to healthier food. A hundred percent. I'm on the same page with you, man. Like when I was 26 and I started, or no, I was 24 when I started carnivore for the first time.

I was getting the budget cuts of meat in the outer aisle, the gro, the budget grocery store in New York City and like guess what? Just switching from the ultra process crap to that. I started to feel amazing and this stuff is all a process, man. Where I do think there are a lot of people that are like, you know, if it's not regenerative grass finished from day one, you're doing it wrong.

I think we, I think we both disagree with that. Yeah. Where it's like, dude, just get in the game and then over time you'll learn more, you'll understand where your food comes from. You'll start maybe building a relationship with a local rancher and researching regen, and then you'll start sourcing your stuff directly from them, like, which is what a lot of you and I talk about.

But just to start, man, if you're just shopping the outer aisle and you feel like crap and you're eating hot Cheetos for lunch and pizza, and you feel like you can't get outta bed in the morning, like just start buying the budget cuts of meat and cooking those meals and doing that for a couple [00:39:00] months, and you're gonna feel like a completely different person, like you guarantee it, you make progress, not perfection.

Definitely even the cheapest eggs out there. Brother or healthier than a bag of chips. Yes. And they're very cheap. Right. So, um, we don't expect anybody to be perfect here, but to make progress. Mm-hmm. And to your, your example of that, like you, you were eating cheap cuts of meat and you made progress, and then you just go to the next level of you're healthier, your next level.

Yeah. And there's a lot of free things we can do for our health as well. I mean, I mentioned fasting. There's also, um, earthing and grounding, walking outside barefoot, getting sunshine. It's a free thing you can do. Um, I can tell you this, my favorite, uh, supplement that I recommend for everybody watching and, and listening.

I outlined it in chapter 10 of the book. It's, it's called Vitamin G, and Vitamin G is anti-inflammatory. It helps with fat loss, brain fog, uc. Davis has a couple studies that I put in the book that showed individuals who took vitamin G had healthier blood pressure levels, healthier blood sugar levels.

Jama. A Harvard published study in JAMA last year that I put in the book was the most comprehensive study ever [00:40:00] done on Vitamin G. It looked at 49,275 nurses. That's a big study, and it showed the nurses who took vitamin G had a 9% reduction in dying from all cause mortality versus the nurses who didn't take vitamin G and a 15% reduction in dying from cardiovascular deaths versus the nurses who didn't take vitamin G.

They also looked at, um, the mitochondria, which is the, these energy power plants in our cells responsible for so many amazing functions. And it showed that caregivers who are under a lot of stress, who took vitamin G at night, they measured their mitochondrial health the following morning, and it showed healthier mitochondria.

In the caregivers who took Vitamin G versus the nurses who didn't. Now your audience, and maybe you, Brett, I'm not sure, might be wondering what is this vitamin G? Is there, uh, an affiliate link and a is, do they sponsor the podcast? That's what I'm thinking about right now. I have never heard of it. So good.

I'm glad that, I'm glad I got you here because vitamin G is, is vitamin gratitude. Mm. It's the feeling of gratitude. All [00:41:00] those studies I just shared are on gratitude. It's free. There's no toxicity limit. Um, you could take it as much as you want and you get all those benefits. And when I say gratitude, it's not practicing gratitude, it's feeling it.

There's a difference. And people who are more left brain, do you know if you're more left brain, more analytical, or are you more right brain like, uh, imagination, creativity, like I think I'm more analytical. Okay. Yeah, you're more analytical. So people who are left brain. They struggle with gratitude.

Absolutely. I do, man. Yeah, yeah. Do you? Yes. I'm always just worried about the next thing and you know. If you were to tell me three years ago, like, this is what I would be doing sitting with you. This is what, this is my life's mission. I would've given every cent I had just to be able to be in the game.

And now I, I just noticed that my default is like, I gotta do this, I gotta do this. And versus just literally taking in like, brother, you're doing, you're doing great. I get that in my brain. What's so funny is when you said gratitude, I was in my immediate thought process was like, shit, I can't buy it as a [00:42:00] supplement.

Because that's the 'cause that, and I'm sure other people are too. I know. Because it's like, we want, even for me, it's like you want the silver bullet, you want the shortcut, tell me the brand to buy the supplement from. Yeah. Versus like, brother, you can literally just sit down, open up scripture, not sit outside, not, and just choose to actually be grateful for these basic but amazing things in your life.

Yeah, 100%. And you know. I'm, I'm very similar to you. I, I have these goals. I hit the goal, and then it's like, what's next? And I don't slow down sometimes and kind of, uh, appreciate what's, what's happened and just look back and all the wins. Gratitude is a feeling, not a, not a, not a practice, right? Mm-hmm.

And when you feel gratitude, it, it just rewires your brain. There's a part of the brain called the reticular activation system, and God put it in our brain to filter out. All of the stimulation we have every day. If you think about it, Brett, there are millions of things that are stimulating the brain every single day from colors and lights and TV and, and off conversations.

And if we didn't have a filter for that, the brain would short circuit. So the [00:43:00] RAS is the size of your pinky and it's in your brainstem, right in your brain. And you, you, you train the RAS to see what you want it to see. It's there for, for survival. But now we don't really need it for that. We just need it to just function.

And when you're focused on the things that are not working for you, the things you hate in your life, all of your problems, you've trained that RAS to see more of those problems. Mm-hmm. But when you train it to be grateful and appreciate all the things in your life now, there's more things that you appreciate.

Yes. Small things that you never would've been grateful for before. And the way this works is if you buy a new vehicle, if you buy, let's say, um. A red Audi and you do research on Autotrader, CarMax, and you're researching red Audi, should I buy new? Should I buy you? Should I lease it? And you finally make the decision after hours of research to drive to dealership and buy that red Audi.

And you notice driving it off the lot that there's a red Audi that you just bought, the RSQ eight, right outta you. Same one right there. [00:44:00] Then as you drive day after day, you notice more red Audis at the stop sign at the parking lot, and you're thinking, man, did everybody buy a red Audi because I bought it?

Mm-hmm. No, you're now seeing them because you've filtered out the Rs to see the red Audis. Same thing with gratitude. When you feel gratitude and intentionally do it every day, you start to see more things to feel grateful for. It's a universal law, what you appreciate it appreciates and what you think about what you think about you bring about in your life.

So I would say this a practice for your audience. A, a, a method, I should say, for gratitude is every morning think about or write down one to three things, moments, uh, people in your life that you're grateful for. And sit in each moment, person or thing for a minute and try to bring as many feelings as possible in, into that, and do that in the morning before you look at your phone, because that's when your subconscious mind is most impressionable.

That's where you get the biggest bang for your buck. Vitamin G Brett, it's the most important thing we can do. Mm. And it's such a basic practice too. And my immediate [00:45:00] thought when you're saying this is like, I know this is something I should do yet for whatever reason, when you're speaking, I'm feeling a little bit of resistance towards it.

And as I'm talking through it more now, I'm like, brother, I. You've done it multiple times. You know how good that mental state and spiritual state change actually is when you do it. So like why do you, I feel like there's so many things that take a few minutes a day that you put off that you know you should be doing.

Mm-hmm. And you compound that over a few years and it's like. Man, the most time we're ever gonna spend is locked up Right up here. Right. In our mind. That's right. So if you could become best friends with yourself through training your RAS, like, why would you not be doing that? Yeah. You know, the problem with it is that it's easy to do and it's easy not to do.

Yes. So we kind of downplay it. I mean, if it was a supplement, like we buy it, have it shipped to us, we would take it. But this is not something you're seeing right away. Mm-hmm. And I think we've been, we talked about this earlier. We've been taught that we need to see it before we believe it. But no, we believe it before we see it.

I would, I would challenge your audience. Do it for 30 days. 30 days every morning, one to three things you're grateful for, [00:46:00] and then report back, you know? Do you feel like you're happier and healthier as a result of doing that, or have you not noticed anything? Well. I haven't seen one person do that for 30 days straight and not notice anything.

You're gonna be happy and healthier, and you're want to keep, continue to do it. I, in my luggage there that I brought here, I have my notebook. In my notebook. I write down every morning what I'm grateful for. 15, 20 things. I take it with me when I travel. I haven't missed a single day in about nine years of writing down gratitude, Brett.

I have notebooks stacked like this, filled with gratitude and goals. I don't miss a day. My new paradigm, the way I operate is from gratitude. And when you do that, not only are you a better person, but the world becomes a better place. You're not part of the problem, you're part of the solution. Mm-hmm. So I think it's, it's, it's an incredible resource that we under utilize.

Man. It's probably really helped you in just like the difficult times and all the adversity you've probably experienced behind the scenes as an entrepreneur, because that seems like the biggest thing is there's so many incredible blessings and there's just a lot of like. Inner pain and [00:47:00] resistance that you experience trying to build something zero to one on your own?

Oh yeah. Yeah, a hundred percent. You become unstoppable, bro. Nobody can mess with me. If somebody messes with me. If I feel offended, I'm giving them permission. Like nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. Yeah. Um, so we give consent to that. And when you operate from gratitude and when you operate from abundance mm-hmm.

All those comments, all the, all the challenges, they just deflect off of you, like water off of a fish. And that's the way that I operate. What was the feeling when you actually got indication that you guys had hit the New York Times bestselling list, which is like the number one, probably the biggest goal of any person that publishes a book ever is to crack that list.

It is because it's so, there's just like this prestige that comes to it. Yeah. What was that feeling actually like for you? It was a weird feeling. Um. I said, holy shit. I got the email from my publisher and I said, holy shit. I ran into my fiance's room. I'm like, I made the list. Uh, it was an amazing feeling.

Um, here's [00:48:00] something that's interesting. You might have trouble understanding what I'm about to share 'cause you're a left brain, and if you're a left brain, you might have trouble understanding what I'm about to share. But six months ago I wrote on a, I wrote on a card. On this card six months ago, I wrote these words.

I'm gonna read to you right now. It says, I'm so happy and grateful now that I'm a, uh, my published book, metabolic Freedom with Hayhouse, is a New York Times bestseller. I wrote this six months ago and I, I have carried this card with me every day for six months. I've read it every morning throughout the day.

I have a vision board of Metabolic Freedom Book cover, New York Times bestseller. So I expected it to happen. So much so that even a month ago I was filming with my videographer and I said, Hey. Let's film a video celebrating hitting the list and edit it. I'll pay you for all that 'cause we're gonna hit the list.

And then I was at Meat Stock last week, three days before the list came out. And there was a documentary from, uh, Steven Thomas from the UK was, uh, doing this documentary. I. And he interview, it was a carnivore documentary. He interviewed me for it [00:49:00] and he said, introduce yourself on the, we're filming here.

Introduce yourself to the audience. And I said, my name is Bedi. I'm the New York Times bestselling author of Metabolic Freedom Days before the list came out. Wow. So, um, I expected it, but it was a weird feeling 'cause there was still some doubt as there always is. Mm-hmm. And the, the, the, it's not about me hitting the list.

I want to make that clear. It's cool. There's ego involved, like I'm a New York Times bestselling author, but more important than that, I was telling you before we hit record, the message of metabolic health is entering the mainstream. Yes, that list is super mainstream. New York Times doesn't like the idea of people eating red meat and saturated fat and practicing fasting, and that's what I talk about in the book.

So the fact that that book got on such a mainstream list. It's a win for you, for Harry. It's a win for all of us, and it's, it's just super cool, bro. I'm very grateful for it. And like I said, I wrote it down months ago and it manifested. Man, that takes stones to introduce yourself that way in a [00:50:00] documentary too.

It's one thing to record the video, which is so cool. Yeah. But to literally be interviewed in a documentary that's gonna be publicly released and just be like, I know, I know it in my bones that this is what's gonna happen. Yeah, brother. I learned that from Bob Proctor. Mm. It it's not a fake it until you make it sort of thing.

Let's be, let's be clear there. Yeah. It's, um. All great actors live their part. And Neville Goddard, who's a great author from the sixties and Bob Proctor, taught me, you use your imagination to bring the future into reality. And that's what I did. I used my imagination to, to bring the future. I'm a New York Times bestselling author into the present.

That's the way it works. And. You know, when I, I spoke at the Biohacker Expo. I did a keynote there in Miami a few months ago, and I brought out the goal card and I told everybody, there were hundreds of people there. I said, my book comes out in a couple months and this is the way you manifest things in your life.

You write it down and here's what I'm going to manifest. I told everybody, like, I'm going to show you in in May when the book comes out that this works. [00:51:00] And I had no idea it was gonna work, but I believed it was gonna work and it worked, bro. Wow. Man, that is, um, that is so powerful. And what's really cool, to piggyback off what you're saying, is I would say the podcast I've listened to the most, the last two years of the Founder's Podcast by David Sra.

He's actually down in Miami. Oh yeah. David and Layla. Yeah. I've never, I've never met him before. I had my book launch party at their house. Oh, are you serious? Sra? The centers. Oh, okay. David Ceren. Okay. This guy's David sra. Oh, so it's different. Who host a different guy? Oh, okay. I'm thinking about, dude, you would, you would love this show.

He does one podcast a week. He reads an auto, he reads a biography every single week and then he podcasts about it. And it's great founders throughout history. I'm writing it down right now. Yeah, he does a couple contemporaries, but it's mostly all founders from like 50 to a hundred years ago. And I think the reason why he does that is that venture capital wasn't really a thing back then.

It was basically just all these guys bulldogging their businesses and who existed existence and changing the course of the us But there's a couple central [00:52:00] themes that he hits on, you know, whether, whether it's James Dyson, John d Rockefeller, um, et cetera, et cetera. It's belief comes before ability. Oof.

So it's like, I love it. And it's so funny 'cause you know Bob Proctor, some people are like, oh, this is, this is hippy dippy woo stuff. And then I meet guys like you or other people that I've met that have been practicing Bob's teachings for. Dozens of years that have completely changed their lives. But then you listen to the Founder's podcast of the men that actually built the United States.

Mm. And they all had belief before ability. So call it what you want, manifestation, belief, et cetera. All these, all these great people that you look up to, they're practicing the exact stuff that you're talking about. And then your evidence of it with what you just did with your book too. Oh my gosh. It's so cool, man.

I'm gonna listen to that podcast. You're gonna love it, brother. I just wrote the note down. Every great thing that was accomplished started. In here with your thoughts, with your mind, your subconscious mind, and I know to some people who are analytical, this sounds woo woo, uh, it sounds like it's crazy, but you know, if you're not living the life that you want right now with your health, your finances, your relationships, your happiness, [00:53:00] then I would argue that your way is not working.

Why don't you try mine? Why don't you try it for 30 days and see what it'll do for you? Mm-hmm. It's so important, that part in Metabolic Freedom, that there's a 30 day plan at the end of the book, a beginner plan, and an advance plan. There's an affirmation I have everybody read as part of that plan. Like there's, there's things in there that are just way beyond just what you eat that's part of that plan.

And if you just do that plan for 30 days, watch what it'll do to change your life. And you could have fear and doubt about what I'm sharing here, which some people do, and that's fair. Or you could have faith and belief. And the interesting thing about faith versus fear. It's the same thing. It's you're putting your energy into something you cannot see.

Why don't you choose something that might actually help you give it 30 days? Bob Proctor said, faith is the ability to see the invisible. To believe in the incredible, which will permit you to achieve what the masses think is impossible. Mm-hmm. That's what faith is. So I would argue just gimme 30 days and, and, and report back and let's see what it does [00:54:00] for your life.

That's amazing. So there you're putting a legitimate playbook at the end of the book that everyone can follow. Yes. I talk about your environment, doing an audit on people in your life that don't support you. There's a gratitude practice, there's a step count that you want to hit each day, and there's a specific affirmation that changes your self image to.

Prevent you from sabotaging yourself, because that's how people, so many people make a conscious decision to get healthier and they end up sabotaging themselves is because of the, something called their self-image. They didn't change what's rooted in their subconscious mind. There's a book from the 1960s called Psycho-Cybernetics.

Have you heard of that before? I've read pieces of it. I've never read the full thing, but I've, I have it on my list to dig into it, dig into it. But people are obsessed with it. Dig, dig into it. Uh, and I'll give you the synopsis here. It was, uh, Dr. Maxwell Maltz wrote the book. He was a world renowned plastic surgeon at the time.

He would work with individuals who had wicked facial deformities. They were, these people that had these facial deformities were, were unhappy, they were depressed. They were self-conscious because of the way they looked. So they would hire Dr. [00:55:00] Maxwell Maltz to perform surgery, plastic surgery, to remove these facial disfigurements.

And he noticed that even after the surgery, Brett, they were still unhappy, depressed, and self-conscious. Mm-hmm. Because at a self-image level, at a subconscious level, they still. Identified with the facial disfigurement. Wow. They would literally look in the mirror even though the disfigurement is gone and they would see themselves with it.

So nothing changed until he changed their self-image and imprinted this new self-image of somebody without this facial disfigurement. Then they got happier, more, more, uh, confidence in their lives. Change. If you identify with your autoimmune disease, if you identify with your diagnosis, if you identify as being overweight.

You can make a conscious decision to get better, but you will find that you'll sabotage yourself. Mm-hmm. Because you cannot outperform your self-image. So in the book I talk about that and I actually give a specific affirmation that you write down and you read every day. Kind of like this gold card I had.

And you read it every day until you [00:56:00] do it enough times within 30 days, and it replaces the old self-image with the new self-image. Then you become unstoppable. So that's part of the 30 day plan as well. I love that you put that practical playbook in there because 30 days is enough where day one to day 30, if you do everything that you're prescribing in the book, you really can transform or see significant improvements that just snowball to the rest of your life.

And you're so spot on where everyone has faith, whether they say they do or they don't. You're, if you're someone that doesn't have faith, you're just choosing to actually put it in the wrong things. These. Negative outcomes that have never even happened that you're just so worried about might happen.

That's right. Like, why not just choose the best for yourself? Why not? Why not, bro? Or at least you'll feel better at a minimum. Exactly. Exactly. Brother, what's the best way for people to get the book? We have, um, a special, uh, opportunity for your audience to get the book with a free course and some exclusive interviews.

So we, I put together, uh, 12 Lessons on the Metabolism, uh, completely free. We're not collecting a credit card and charging you later. It's completely free. And then we have some exclusive interviews in that course with Dr. [00:57:00] Jason Fung, Megan Ramo, Cynthia Thurlow, and Dr. Daniel Pompa. So if you go to metabolic freedom book.com, you could see different retailers to buy the book.

It's available on hardcover, Kindle, and on Audible and Spotify. I narrated it myself as well. It's also available at Barnes and Noble at the bookstores. But if you go to metabolic freedom book.com and buy it there and put your name, email, and order number. You'll get instant access to the course and the interviews.

That's awesome, man. I, um, we'll link to everything in the show notes, but brother, I'm just, I'm so grateful that there's men like you that exist, that are just continuing to fight the good fight. I'm so glad that you just decided to like, put your heart and soul into this book too. Like I was saying. As soon as I started reading it, um, when you sent it over to me last night, I was like, dude, I want to get this for my parents.

There's someone out here that's listening to the podcast and you're thinking about your mom or your dad or someone in your life that just needs these like simple and practical levers to pull that might be able to change your life. I really hope that you share this podcast or buy them a copy of the book.

It's an amazing gift. That's something I love to do, like instead of giving someone a bottle of wine, [00:58:00] bring 'em a book, bring 'em a jar of beef tallow. Yes, just something that can actually help make them better. Um, but man, we're gonna just try and pump it far and wide and I just can't wait to see all the people that you, uh, continue to impact, man.

Let's go brother. Thank you so much, dude. Yeah, thank you Brett. I appreciate that it's the people that we continue to impact you and Harry and the work that you're doing. I love what you're doing, bro. Um, it's been cool to see what you've done in just three years. Just think about where you're gonna be in a year from now.

Yeah, five years from now. So it's exciting times for us. We're in the trenches together. We are, we have the answer, the solution to, um, so many people's prayers and cries out there. So I'm grateful to be on the mission with you and Harry, my friend. Thank you, brother. Until next time. Until next time. Yeah.