Chasing Peace
I'm going to share some reflections with you today.
From this book, Dear Artist by Jaya John.
we can, dive in on this thought.
listening to what, this gentleman says to us today.
He says you isolate endlessly
between chasing money and chasing peace.
But peace cannot be chased down like a prey animal.
Peace must be gardened.
If you choose, this path you're chasing of money may soften
from a desperate stalking into a clarified invitation
for holistic wealth to join you in your Paradise.
Have ceremonies for remembering who you are, as you seek
the means to pay for your life and to survive and to sustain,
and to feed your people.
Sustaining yourself in soulless systems
requires continuous remembrance.
When you go outside of yourself to fetch your sustenance,
come back home.
Bathe in your own soul.
Water.
You need not worry too much about your transition.
As your eyes adapt to the darkness
and to being in your own soul.
Water, you see more of all that is this world of soul.
That is a section on chasing peace from John.
How did that sit with you?
I really liked, thinking about it.
Big concept, that I, resonate with.
Health in the mind. Health in the body.
Same thing we are a mind body entity.
And so diving into a passage like this, you say,
is this really is this, yeah.
The physical health. Mental health, all the same thing.
Flow it together.
Driving in my thoughts today on this, reflection piece.
Not something you can chase down. That's his line here.
A big thing that I try to communicate on this channel.
Finding a place of peace and contentment, to me,
is like the ultimate goal
of what we are trying to do in life and health.
So, like, we're in a health space,
we're trying to move forward in some way.
We say we have certain goals. Okay.
Is there an underlying goal under that?
You know, a fasting space?
To me, like the you say, what what good is that?
You know, the first things that I would say,
okay, here is a space that can help someone lose weight, okay?
Something very sought after in our society,
something that people spend
a lot of money on and invest a lot of time on.
Yet despite that, is is difficult and a struggle.
And even with a huge, amount of,
energy investment,
still people, can struggle to find success.
And so, everything that I, want to do is to help people
flow towards such a thing in the most gentle, thoughtful,
peaceful, way so that it can become sustainable.
And part of that is like, bring the pressure down.
We put so much pressure on ourselves.
And, and so we want to,
Widen our time horizon is something that talk about
so that we can bring down the intensity,
find a way of being in the world
that is, peaceful, like this is saying.
And and I really love this next line.
Peace must be guard.
And maybe that's what we're trying to do on this show here.
Garden some peace.
Marie. Am I seeing that right?
Everything on my screen I've tried to balance.
You know, I'm.
I'm figuring all this out. My words are so tiny down here.
I think it is. Marie.
Great mindset tips from Atomic Habits and the mountain.
As you I am struggling with actually starting fasting.
Can't seem to give up cream in the coffee
and I drink 5 to 6 cups each day.
Hey, thanks for sharing. This perspective.
And I say this like, welcome to the space. Like it's all okay.
And,
if you've been following along with some of that stuff, then,
you know, I would say, don't judge yourself too harshly.
We're on a journey. Right?
And we are here, in a space.
And, you know, one of the big concepts that I try to, bring
is that a practice of awareness,
a practice of openness,
and just sitting with things is part of the process.
So the fact that you can even write a sentence like that,
like you've got to feel
pretty good about it to realize, like, hey,
we've identified something here.
And here's the struggle, which just means it's an opportunity
and it's something to work on,
and it's not something to bring any stress about.
It's something to feel good about.
That's what I would say is to say, hey, look,
I am here in this space, and I am, working on these things.
And it is beautiful, like a sunrise.
And here we are in a space.
And, I hope, I hope you feel like everything is good.
Everything is good.
People define a fasting in a in, you know,
in, in different way, different ways.
And, if you saw my fasting Aids video, then I
say, well,
here are some practices that might not be pure fasting.
But they can certainly be, good enough and helpful.
And, if you saw did you see the coffee video
that I have way back in the beginning?
Coffee is all you need.
I got the little section and cream and sugar in there.
I say, you know,
so I say, can I keep cream and sugar in my coffee?
You know, I love it so much.
And I say there's no rules for weight loss.
Did you catch that one? Right. There's no rules.
There's just things that serve you and things that work
and things, that don't.
And so, you know, if someone accomplished
every goal they ever wanted
and never actually practiced a pure fasting,
but they were having a happy, happy, existence,
and they felt at peace.
And they got their weight where they wanted, like, you know,
I wouldn't say anything about it.
It's not like we're handing out, gold medals or anything.
So here is just a space, to work on it now.
And someone is in a space where they say, man,
I'm drinking, like, and,
5 or 6 coffees, a 5 or 6 cream and sugars, like.
Well, I would never tell anyone to do it.
And I would say,
if you're not getting the results that you want,
if you say, hey, I want to, open up, some more space
to actually get this physiologic effect, like you're saying,
you know, I say, well, look, we have a little space
to work at with it, and you could, I will
I will give you, if you would
like, some, potential, things that I'm thinking about,
about how you might work on it.
One thing to think about is like,
it doesn't have to be all or nothing.
You know, we,
we get in a very all or nothing, thinking, in.
So many things.
And I know I do that when I am in the journal
and I'm writing at man, I'm I'm very much like that.
And a lot of people, you know, are.
But it doesn't have to be like an either
I'm having cream or sugar
in all 5 or 6 cups of my coffee, or none of them.
Like, we don't have to go all at once
and one, way to approach it that I might start,
if you want to try to train yourself to,
do it is I might split out the cream and sugar.
Like, if I had to pick only one,
I would say I would try to get rid of the sugar first.
Like that.
The sugar is what is driving the insulin, the most.
The blood sugar the most.
That's what is building
the barrier into, body fat access the most.
And so if you are trying to work on that, like,
think of atomic habits, right?
Think of trying to break things down
into the smallest possible steps.
What if we just took sugar out of one coffee
and kept it for all the others?
And just like sat in that you know, sort of space for a bit,
then you're still enjoying it.
You're still doing it is like like that sounds good.
And and could you have a process of so slowly
bringing, the sugar out?
What if you did that for a week or two and you're like,
now I can move it to two coffees
and it's like half the coffees with the sugar.
We're keeping the cream.
See, we're just stepping, toward it in a way,
that you can get used to it.
Another way to do it would be to say, I'm going to do it
like some days of the week, like,
you know, maybe this would be a progression
where you could work your way out of it most days of the week
and you say Friday or Saturday or whatever
it is, I'm going to,
have it in all of it, you know?
You know, some people get in a nice groove with that.
They're like,
can you train yourself to handle the coffee black?
If you can do that, that's like pure fasting.
The caffeine is a natural appetite suppressant.
Definitely helps with fasting, helps
people flow through a space.
So yeah, the pure state, the ideal scenario
have have the coffee black.
I think Pat has like like some recipes.
She has done different, things to make like,
even a pumpkin spice coffee or something
that isn't with sweeteners, you know, different,
things people have different things that they will add to
coffee and replacement for, sugar.
You know, some people get into cinnamon,
some people get in a cocoa, some,
you know, other
sort of things like this that you can, bring in.
I've never been too into it. Anybody share it?
You know what?
Are there certain things that you do,
that have helped you in that transition?
But my, best, perspective
that I've seen with people
is just to have some slow, tapering process
starting with the sugar,
at least most of the time, see what results you get.
And then if you can do it, start bringing out the cream.
And it's yeah, it doesn't have to be all or nothing.
Say, could it be just a little bit?
See, I'm just going to do half of what I used to.
That would be another way to do it.
Half the sugar, half the cream, some sort of process
of bringing down the total amount and training for it
at least some of the time.
And then if you say Saturday is the day,
then you can, just enjoy it more on that day,
what you might find in that space
as you're starting to open up,
that space and you're getting used to having,
less sugar, you're starting to tolerate it, starting
with appreciate
the actual coffee flavor on its own, a little bit more.
You know, you might find is like, what?
What fasting does a lot is it is a reset in so many ways.
One of the ways it's a reset is, is like resetting the palate,
you know,
resetting the sensitivity of, what,
you know, we're used to what we think is normal.
And I know this has been my experience.
I used to have cream and sugar all the time because why not?
You know, this is so good. Henna.
But then, then as I got into it and, and I got used to it,
so then to come back to it is like, whoa.
Like,
I can't even handle it. It's like so much sugar, you know?
And it kind of puts it in perspective.
So just have an open mind, that things can change over time.
And, and then and that, of course, would be
a really positive thing.
Let me know how those, thoughts are sitting
if that's something that,
you would like or if you have, other thoughts about it.
Thinking more on this, little, what do you call this?
It's not really a poem.
It's like a it's just a little phrase. It's a thought.
You know, this is kind of, books, a book of little fragments
of helpful thoughts, I think, in this thought piece.
Must be gardened.
Can't really chase it
if we're struggling and striving for peace.
Right.
It's like that.
That process in and of itself is something that,
it's like almost the opposite of peace.
It's like a a paradox, like,
how do you strive after your peace?
Like by not striving for it, you know?
Thank you.
Pat says, I allow myself anything I want,
but I stick to total amount limits and balancing
what I really want
versus what I can do, what I owe, what I can do without.
And that particular day.
Yeah, I love that. Thank you for sharing that.
Bring it into balance.
I was sharing a thought the other day.
Fasting.
Okay.
In society, fasting you talk to somebody can be so intense.
Can be a very, and and people
if you come from a certain framework.
I was, talking, to a wonderful therapist
that I'm at the other day.
I recorded an interview,
two days ago that I'm going to be posting on the channel.
Maybe this weekend.
I get it out.
Just a nice conversation that we had.
At the new office space that I'm leasing.
So I look forward to sharing that with you, you know?
But, you know, coming from a therapy perspective,
especially as we're getting into a space
with food and struggles with food, of course,
a lot of people can struggle greatly in a relationship
with food, including, you know, severely restricting ourselves
from eating, which in a certain space
can be very detrimental, and something that I would never want
someone who is struggling with it to do.
And so from any perspective, fasting,
not for everybody and even for people who it's for, right?
You're
you're trying to lose weight, you're trying to open up space.
You never want to use it in a practice that feels restricting.
Fasting is, to me, a process of openness.
It's opening up space.
It should be always pursued from mindset
of openness and curiosity and joy, honestly.
And so, so many diets, you know, putting us in a space
where we're always restricting things is one of
they're not sustainable.
To me, what I want is like fasting, freedom, just fasting.
Open up some more amount of freedom,
like Panda saying where you can enjoy anything that you want.
There's like the thing of it
is, it's not like we're locked into some pattern
when we feel called, to it and open to it.
You can explore this practice like you don't have to eat.
I really I love that live session that we did. It did.
You don't have to eat in order to lose weight.
This is the message of every diet.
Like keep eating and lose weight
at the same time is actually very, very difficult to do.
It's not really the physiology of the body,
the physiology of the body as we have food
when we have enough food,
we'll just always run off the food
and we'll save the storage, for later.
If we're trying to access that energy.
Like that energy is for the time when there's not food there.
Like,
and so one of the reasons I, believe very sincerely that this
the struggle to lose weight
is, is so difficult and often fruitless.
And our society is people try to lose weight
by never stopping eating.
And then in order to do that, you have to restrict the amount
that you're eating ever into baby little tiny morsels
that aren't really satisfying.
And it sets up a lot of internal conflict in the body,
both physically and emotionally.
Because we derive mental satisfaction
from eating satisfying meals
that fill us up and we feel good,
and then that's such a healthy thing to do.
And then and then to have a little bit, we ask, like,
where is the rest?
And we want more, you know.
If fasting is a part of dietary freedom where we like
we we create spaces for ourselves.
That's why I bring artistic books
like how do you create something?
You know, you have to get into the mindset
of like bringing something new or different into the world,
which is like our expression of health,
where we can flow through a space where we're feeling good.
This is the only way that I want
somebody flowing through a fasting space,
finding joy in it, and curiosity and openness and positivity.
Then when you flow through it, it's
actually a wellness practice.
You're not having to burn up our mental capital and all this,
you know, limited, mental horsepower that we have.
We're saying no. And feeling charged up here.
This is what I want for people.
If make it a win win.
This is this is the path here.
Like we're saying in the book,
how do you find a place of peace?
You got to find win
wins with it, where it's like I'm doing this practice
that is opening up a health space and making my life better.
And I'm actually charging up, you know, in that sort of space.
This is, possible to do in a fasting space.
And this is why we approach it gently and thoughtfully
and never force anything.
When you find a space like that of openness, freedom,
then it is like opening up
more ability in the diet,
like to say to have, things that you want.
It's like, I love that perspective, you know,
say I'm not strong enough
just to, like, boom into something and like.
Even if you were like, say,
you know, it's like nobody's giving you a silver star.
And, and what if the process wasn't even, enjoyable?
Like,
I just want people doing things that are enjoyable and, like,
I really think, like health
and think about what health is in a broader sense.
It's a space of well-being.
Like the whole point is we want to be feeling better.
We want to be feeling good.
We want to be having more joy and positivity
and love and light in our day.
And so even if you say,
I could brute force my way into something like,
would that really be a path of health and wellness?
You know what I mean?
Like, can I here chasing of money, right.
This is hustle culture.
This is everybody's stressed out of their minds,
trying to earn more money
because we think that money,
is going to make us happier on some level.
Of course it does on some level.
And we need some amount of it.
But the line especially that I would say in our society,
how many people are trying to earn money
that they don't don't really need,
that is coming at the expense of health?
I see a lot of that.
And then there's a lot of cliche scenarios, right?
Do you think of some Wall Street
or this is, in my mind, was fabulously wealthy,
but they're stressed out of their mind,
trying to meet their targets.
So they get another bigger bonus
so we can buy another fancy thing.
You know, I say like that mindset.
It's like, how much like, could you just like, cut that back?
Like, how much would you spend after the heart attack?
Can you say to buy the health back?
You know, it's like not really something you can buy.
You can buy some things that support health.
You can buy a trainer.
You're some fabulously wealthy person.
You buy a whole gym and a staff
and it probably could help you, you know?
But it's like actually like just taking a walk
might be even better, you know, like, no pressure.
They say here.
Seek a clarified invitation for holistic wealth.
This is this defining wealth in a way
that isn't just financial, because of course, it isn't.
We did the session back, wherever it was on fasting wealth,
which I thought was a fascinating concept.
We think of the wealth that exists in our friendships
and relationships.
And do we sacrifice that for what society
would tell us that wealth is allowed,
and a wealthy people very lonely,
and so that wouldn't, like be a good thing.
Like, I wouldn't want to trade the wealth of my family
or relationships for any dollar amount of any kind.
And so when we start getting into that space,
this is like a fasting space to me.
This is what you see on the interview,
that we were talking about
is like when you open up a space in, life.
It could be fasting space, could be a meditation
space, could just be healthy eating space.
Somebody who's here, you say, hey,
I haven't totally dove in the fasting.
Like I'm just happy to have anybody here
who wants to head toward health.
And we have a conversation about it.
But you start opening up
spaces of any type of health practice.
These things are intersecting with our emotions
in a big sort of way.
And often. Do you find this the case?
Many people find this to be the case that it's it's
not it's it's really the emotional things
that we have to work through on a health path,
you know, is what I'm trying to say.
Holistic wealth is like that holistic
health experience, very connected.
The things that really bring the well-being, to our life.
Healthy food that is nourishing the body,
healthy relationships, that are supporting, this process,
healthy movement practices are bringing strength to the body,
like all of these things exist, apart
from any sort of financial consideration.
Like.
Well, doesn't that sound good? You say? Okay, it sounds good.
How do you build something like that and cultivate it?
He says, have ceremonies for remembering who you are
as you are seeking the means to pay for your life.
Like that is really beautiful.
I just think so
because we are sitting here in this, existence.
Whatever you think of it, this modern moment,
I would say this consumption culture, I describe it as where
it's like, okay, like we're trying to be grounded and centered
and focused on these beautiful things.
We're discussing avenues of health
that bring lifelong, wellness to us.
But we say, well,
we are interacting with a culture that doesn't value that.
We're interacting with a culture
that that values money and consumption.
And, and, and we have highly sophisticated
algorithms
that are attempting to manipulate us everywhere we look.
And we're being data mined and tracked so that increasingly
we get personalized advertising about, you know, everything
that some algorithm somewhere has determined
is going to extract financial value from us.
And, yeah, that's pretty bizarre when you just kind of
speak it out that way is very, very bizarre.
I spent my day yesterday, yesterday afternoon
from 1:00 until 8 p.m.
I was at, University of Wisconsin
at an AI summit, which was which is very interesting.
I live right by campus here in Madison.
And so they were hosting an event from a new center on campus.
The center for the study of AI and
uncertainty is a fascinating title.
I found, this whole session to be very fascinating.
So as I said, there are five professors who are studying
AI in different, facets.
And then this intersection with uncertainty,
because all of them will tell you, like,
we don't really know what is going on like these here.
These are expert people. We're studying it.
They have AI labs and research labs
and like anybody who tells you
that they know what the future is going to be
is just trying to sell you something that one guy said.
And, but they're studying it, like studying impacts
on relationships and adolescent development
and, the economy and,
the world and education and so many things.
And so sitting in that space,
I say, this is what this guy is saying,
like we're interacting with something
that even the brightest minds like around
don't really know what is happening, but
recognize that it's powerful and it's a different moment.
And it's it's just something new and different.
And people are like like, look, Lewis,
look at the pros and cons of it.
And it's like very many beneficial things
that these researchers are doing,
building systems to help people with mental health
disorders and substance use disorders.
The one guy's lab lab does like I can
I friend like with you
that is helping to support you if you're trying
to stop drinking like, you know, really thoughtful
things like, could that help someone?
I really think it could.
And they're researching it to try to prove it, you know?
But at the same time, like we were saying then,
there's all these other influences trying to shape us,
knock us out of our peace. We're in this session.
We're trying to say we're trying to stay calm and centered
and thoughtful
and grounded and trying to take a step in.
And a fasting space is trying to help us
take a snap out of a consumer culture a little bit,
to try to build strength and resilience inside of ourselves,
where we say, you know what, I'm good here.
You know, I don't need another, thing here right now.
Have power and energy. Within myself.
Like this, would you say, is fair to say this in
general is not a message that you hear very much in society.
A message from society, especially from advertising,
tells you that you are weak
and that you can't do it on your own.
And you need to buy my special product only 995
and order now before supplies run out.
Like, yeah, right.
And so I love that have ceremonies for remembering your life,
and remembering who you are as you seek
the means to pay for things.
Well,
we are interacting with a society where, like, we're going
outside of ourselves, we gotta earn money is like, we can't.
We can't get away, without it. Okay?
But let's not lose our grounding in that space as we do it.
Throw a ceremony for yourself.
Really? Remember? Like,
that's a very powerful word, a ceremony.
Oh, man.
I mean, that's not something that I resonate with doing.
But maybe I should.
You know, I think about it before we go out, you know?
How would you even define that?
I don't know, define it for yourself,
you know, just means a special time,
perhaps to say, like before, I'm
heading out on my day,
before I'm going to work, before I'm going shopping.
Like, let's who am I?
And that's what we were getting into that,
you know, mountain is you and Atomic Habits
is like trying to really define that, like the core identity,
you know, that we are determining for ourselves
and going down to that before we start our day.
Like, this is like,
I guess, a big idea of what I'm trying to do here.
Put it in the morning fasting space, easiest
for most people to do in the morning
and then center the thinking.
Just like this is saying before we go out, we gotta survive,
gotta make money, gotta get food to feed our people, right?
Absolutely. I love that.
This is a powerful word.
You might not resonate with it, but, you know, I'm.
I'm just reading it.
Say, sustaining yourself in a soulless system
requires continuous remembrance.
Like, do you feel that that is too harsh
about our present moment, or do you feel it's right on?
You know, I don't know.
I'm stuck in between it, you know, and I think this conference
that I was at yesterday,
I think a lot of people kind of stuck in between
and like we're seeing like the, the good and the potential
and then we're seeing like potential negatives and you know.
I loved,
you know, technology here. Look how much I'm using it.
I recorded on cameras and I processed things on a computer.
And like, here we're connecting with this stuff,
which I think is wonderful.
And, you know, we're capturing moments
and, and trying to leverage technology to,
share positive, healthy ideas like, see,
I really resonate with that.
And so, is it fair, like this guy, to say, like,
is this a solar system
or is it not like, well, and it it feels pretty, pretty judgy.
Obviously,
there's a lot of people trying to do a lot of good things.
And like, like even in a system where we say
it could be exploitative and there's certain parts of it
are taking advantage of people.
It's like, but there's also good to
you want to see the good looking to the light.
I think that's why I like a sunrise so much,
because it's like looking at the light.
It's just a reminder, like starting the day.
Look, the the new day is here. The light is here.
Like let's look toward the positive.
Let's try to make the best out of everything.
I liked that, little passage, I liked it.
That is going to be my, framing and thinking, for the day,
looking toward the light, finding peace, trying to find
peace like a gardener is finding,
a fruitful garden,
you know, is just providing the conditions for it.
We want to provide the conditions
for health to flourish in our life.
Like,
this is, the things, choosing the most healthy, nourishing
food is like, a basic, requirement of that.
Moving the body in healthy ways is an incredible,
practice to bring health and wellness to the body and,
the mind opening up a fasting space
to the extent that you can do it
in a joyful and thoughtful fashion is,
in, in my experience, such an incredibly powerful practice,
when it is approached, thoughtfully
and then putting it all in a framework of, mental health.
That's what I suggest everyone to do, that
we carve out the time, for, ourselves to.
But the distractions aside.
Give, give the things that are in there.
The trauma, the stress, the things it.
Can we just brain through that, open up that space a bit.
And, that is the path that I have found, right?
I did that chronic inflammation talk. I went back into that.
I added chapters to it now
to try to help make the video more accessible to the ideas.
But but chronic inflammation in the body
at the root of almost all
chronic disease is inflammation at its base.
And all of these practices. Right.
The healthy food is keeping toxins out of the body
that can cause inflammation.
The movement is is mobilizing energy that can help to
we can sweat toxins out of the body
in a fasting space is anti-inflammatory.
And then our mental health practices, the breathing
we focus on right in itself
anti-inflammatory that this process, the brain can communicate
even into the immune system, say calm everything down.
That's why I say all these practices flow together
and support each other
as we're looking toward a path of holistic health and healing.
These are the, things to do.
We say we want a way of being in the world
that is peaceful, like this.
Look at the look at the surface of the lake today.
Right? Peaceful is like a mirror. It's reflecting the light.
It's it's just, gentle and at peace.
Right?
Like, to me in my day, I want to be like this, like a
just the gentle little waves of,
peaceful, calm, lake.
Right.
If we can envision the mental and emotional state in our body
like that,
nobody's doing cannonballs off the dock and dish
rack in the water right?
So, yeah.
How do we bring our internal emotional space
and state, you know, to be like this?
Everything I just talked through,
these are the best, practices that I have encountered.
In, my time in medicine, my time, and,
this beautiful jewel of a planet.
And that's what I would say.
The time here.
And, I encourage you, I think these things
share your thoughts and reflections on the day.
What is it like, chasing peace.
Like, do we have the mindset?
It's like, okay, but how do you do it? More like a guard.
And how does that go for you in, this day,
sitting, sitting and watching a garden is like,
got to be patient.
Fasting, a big exercise in patience.
This is how we build our patients with a practice
like fasting, okay.
That can flow out into the rest of our life.
Do you want to be a more centered and patient person?
Okay. Fasting can help teach you that.
And maybe you say the lesson from that.
I only want a tiny bit today.
Okay. Let's just say I want a tiny lesson.
How about ten minutes?
You know, a little bit.
It's like totally fine.
Nothing for strep push, but everything open, right?
And then the process like,
this is how you can learn and grow and build that.
Into something very, very powerful.
And, you know,
this is the, the exciting thing to me about fasting, okay.
It can be approached very,
very gently under no time pressure or horizon of any kind.
But it is very powerful and, and
and you can sink very, very deep into it.
And, don't we need something powerful?
And this is the other side of it.
Don't we need something that is very,
very strong in order to counter,
you know, forces that are also very,
very strong and powerful that you cannot find?
I mean, I'm pretty feel pretty fair
to say you cannot find a dietary practice that is stronger
than fasting is like the ultimate dietary
expression of, you know, a weight loss process,
totally eliminating every other thing for a period of time.
Just for the amount of time that,
brings wellness into a space and never pushed beyond it.
I say simple fasting.
I call, everything I'm doing here, simple fasting,
which is not extended.
Fasting.
I think there is great value in extended fasting.
I'm reading a book right now.
Which is floating somewhere around my office here.
And, extended fasting from Doctor Gold Hammer,
who has a whole center built on extended fasting.
I've done a couple in a couple talks.
I've dove into some papers
on what is happening in the body in an extended fasting space.
Simple.
Fasting, to me, is not that.
It's saying how what what is the very most benefit?
Basically, that we can get
from the very least amount of fasting that can work.
You know, I say fasting within a day.
Because, when you're fasting within a day,
maybe you're eating two times in a day, in a
6 to 8 hour window,
maybe you're doing some omad, you're just eating once in a day
and then having a big
you know, 22 or 23 hours food free sense
that till you eat,
you know, you're still getting nutrition every day.
And, it is bringing things into a balance
that can become part of a routine.
And then, you know, I always tell people,
look at all my disclaimers,
talk about any dietary process
that you are doing with your medical team.
I'm not anybody's doctor.
I'm some random guy on the internet just providing,
you know, perspectives to people.
But as a general rule, is somebody still eating every day.
It's like you get enough nutrition
that not nothing can get so far
out of whack with any kind of electrolytes,
any kind of anything.
You know, it's
somebody who has, a period of an extended fasting.
Can it run into trouble?
Could someone have some issue with kidney function or liver
function?
Could the electrolytes get out of whack?
Theoretically, there is risk.
Everybody who does, runs medical practices,
who has people on extended fasting regimens, monitors
those people,
with a physical exam, vital signs and laboratory monitoring
very frequently to make sure that nothing, goes awry.
Can't really do that, you know, to somebody is like,
just put it out on the,
internet, I say, but people can have a simple fasting process.
Is something that anyone can do, talk with your,
you know, medical team about it.
So I see the thing
that is the most accessible to people that doesn't cost money,
that doesn't need tons of monitoring and things
in order to make sure it's safe.
It's just a simple fasting process to go,
you know, within a day, maybe up to a day of fasting.
I say alternate daily fasting is kind of the pinnacle,
simple fasting process.
Or is like to train yourself to eat,
and a day and some frequency, and then to have a fasting day.
You do appreciate the beauty of nature. Absolutely.
Even when stuck inside,
I can still appreciate the birds out my window.
I totally, appreciate that. Yeah.
Thank you for sharing.
That's why I, you know, I try to bring in some nature scenes.
I try to I, you know, I live in this city.
I'm fortunate enough we got a little lake
in the middle of our city here in Madison.
That is within a running distance of my house.
So I try to get down and,
you know, because we can generate inside from it.
That's what I experience.
Even for a few minutes in a day.
I captured 12 minutes of the sunrise this morning.
And then, you know, here I'm spending
even some more time with it.
And so, I agree, spending time in nature
is, highly, highly advised.
I have a reference.
I haven't actually read the study, but somebody
sent it to me, and I've got to find the time to read it.
But they did an interesting study in Japan.
I saw where they, took people with type two diabetes,
and they randomized,
half of the group to spend in,
I think it was only something like two hours a week.
Slowly walking through a forest.
And then the other group was walking through the city
and they were finding, haven't I haven't read the study.
I think I read the abstract.
That was like people who are spending time in forest
they call forest bathing,
had a measurable impact on their blood sugar
and improvements from spending time in nature.
And, so I think there is something very profound to it.
And I think this is part, you know, I've another,
thing that I'm trying to communicate
in, on the channel is that we are nature.
Like we think about like, oh, we go to nature and we don't
even think of a human being as hardly natural anymore.
But a human being is nature.
We are, you know, literally like the Earth.
We are part of this, experience.
This whole web of life is supporting each other.
And like, we have, like, totally separated ourselves from it,
and we don't even can think of ourselves as part of it.
And I think even on a psychological level, that is like a type
of alienation that many people have never experienced.
You know, many people, you know, that we would judge
as primitive and, you know, do they even know anything,
saw themselves and felt themselves
as connected and part of this, natural world.
And I think.
At the at the very least,
it is just such a healthy thought and,
so I think, it is not surprising to me.
We'll see if, you know, can a study like that be replicated?
You know, I don't know, you know,
but it would not surprise me to,
find that even just the,
The mere spending of time,
the mere spending of time in nature, you know, around
natural things that in and of itself
could bring some measure of health
to the body, that it just makes, sense.
It's like coming home, you know,
I just feel like we could use a dose of that.
You think about, like,
we can't go into nature like a vacation.
And it's something that we plan for and, and love and value.
And so if you think about, like, well,
if taking a vacation helps us feel
better, helps us to process things like,
obviously it is a health practice
and, getting to a natural place, whether it's a beach
or by the ocean or a forest or something like someplace
with like, less synthetic and constructed things,
and more things in their natural, state, of course, is good.
It's the very least
if you're like me, living in the middle of a city, hopefully
try to find your park or your thing where you can go.
And at the very least, look up at the sky.
That's what I, say.
You know that.
At least the sky most of the time there won't be a plane over,
and you can just see natural, things and especially a cloud.
I have, a fun little video on the channel
if you haven't seen it.
Under the fasting space series,
I did fasting with clouds,
where I spent an afternoon, with my camera
just, staring off at the clouds, and,
and then I filmed it into a time lapse
and, gave some reflections about learning from
clouds, and, I just, I loved that.
See, that is like a to me is the type of thing I get into.
Just like, how do we deeply connect, with nature?
In a way, the lightness and the freedom of a cloud, isn't it?
As we're chasing peace right
now, I'm dialing into that space again.
Like I loved that.
Like to think like we want to be like a cloud, right?
At least I do.
Light and floating and, Yeah, I did love that.
One of the guys on the, panel, the AI panel
yesterday was, a philosopher of economics.
He wasn't an economist.
He was a philosopher of economics.
The funny guy, that's what he was saying.
He's like, so, you know, basically that means I sit around
and look at clouds and think of interesting questions, things.
It's like, well, that sounds, that sounds pretty nice.
I appreciate the beauty of nature.
Thanks for sharing the space with me today.
I hope you, liked these, reflections.
And, the sunrise.
I wish you the very best.
In, this day, send me, thoughts and feedback, and,
I will look forward to sharing more thoughts with you
tomorrow.
Have a great day, everybody.
