Fasting Space

A friend
recently recommended this book to me.

The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio,

who is a operator of a very large
hedge fund.

So kind of a finance book,
but really, it's like a history book.

This this gentleman's perspective on

investing from the standpoint
of the long cycles of history.

He's going through
kind of a big look at 500 years

and then even out
to 1500 years of history.

And he's talking about the cycles
that we see

in the world and human society.

So I thought if you were with me
yesterday,

yesterday we zoomed out
and were floating over the earth.

We're creating some distance from it

to get a little perspective on the world.

Say the 250 mile view of health.

Today.

We're kind of stretching back in time.

Do the same thing with a little help
from this book.

Stretch back
and think of the human experience

in a little broader fashion.

If there were a subtitle to this book,

it would be looking at history
through the Perspective of cycles.

You know, that would be a real

dry and boring subtitle.

I show you the picture.

This is, you know, if you were to sum up
the whole book in a picture,

you can see just these lines go up
and they go down.

Right.

Easier to draw it out.

Cycle up, cycle down.

He describes it as a new order is formed,

then the rise, the top, the decline,
and then a new order and we cycle.

He even describes our lives in here,
that we're living archetypal lives

that are just patterns that are repeating.

You don't have to agree with that.

Maybe you find this
to be challenging book.

Maybe you find some things in here
offensive in it even.

Perhaps I did, but it's interesting
to think of cycles, he says.

Cycles happen.

The reason that cycles happen is
we just have a human lifetime.

The reason a lot of these

patterns are 80 to 100 years
is that we cycle through generations.

Lessons that are learned are lost
and have to be learned again.

And we keep having these experiences.

And I can see it.

You know, he goes through the rise

and the fall of the Dutch Empire
that hands things off

to the British and then hands things off
to the Americans.

And then he says, well, who is next?

You know, he has his opinions on that.

Opinions and perspectives

sometimes have taken a few books
over the years and say,

can we take some financial perspectives,
bring them

into our health experience?

I, I like that.

I especially like,
you know, investing metaphor,

storing up health for ourselves

today.

I think this the perspective from
this book is a little different.

How does the idea of a cycle, which is
something that we see throughout nature?

It's something that we can recognize.

How does this pattern that he's
identifying

in society more broadly?

How does it both
actually practically impact our health?

The actual cycle of it,
and then how it is just the idea

of seeing a cycle, because that sort of
concept, that archetypal pattern

and present all over the place
and it's certainly present,

you know, in people's experience
of trying to be healthy.

Think of the experience that many people
you can take, the experience of the rise

and fall of a nation,
and you can bring that down into like,

the rise and the fall of some sort
of health routine or practice.

This is what many people, experience.

You know,
you can think, okay, fad diet happens

the same sort of pattern,
any sort of real dietary practice.

And when trying to do if it is not really
resonating, not really thoughtfully done,

does it?

Does it not stick? You know what I mean?

Have you experienced
that something you got in kind

of a good groove with something,
but then it didn't stick.

Probably go through a lot of the same
cycles, a lot of early excitement,

a lot of investment happening
in it, a lot of bringing together

resources, devoting
time, accomplishing something.

And then what he says in this book is
the same sort of thing that we experience.

We've talked through this a lot.

What happens after we have some success?

This is where the next barrier can come.

Complacency can happen, right?

Complacency happens to you.

We kind of sit in the space
we're living off the past production.

This leads to the decline and the fall.

We can think of this in our health space.

Like what?

We want to create something.

Do you think this is fair to say?

A little more linear,
a little more sustainable?

Can we see a cycle that happens?

This is one of the things
that if I were sitting a

with the author of this book that I would
really like to get into is like,

can we get rid of meta
analyzing of these cycles?

Can a society
pull themselves out of it is, you know,

I'm not a big believer in fate,
you know, and things can change

and we can take that idea
into our own perspective when we look

at the tendency of human nature to flow

through cycles of these experiences.

There's a lot of what I'm trying to do
here.

How do we step out of that
a little bit, you know,

how do we see what is usually happening,

the usual flow of things through society
and people's experience,

and plot our own course
in a different direction?

To me, a

fasting space
is something that can help us to do that.

I have been

implementing a fasting practice in my life
for over a decade.

I found it to be a wonderful tool.

I've had patients
some of the first patients

that I introduced
this to, still using this process to help

keep their weight in metabolic health
in a good place,

and that is the type of thing
that I find very encouraging.

One of the frustrating things in a health
space is like,

oh, I find something,
then it doesn't work.

It finds something, it doesn't work.

It's like we invest in something

and then it fades.

It's not durable.

We talked atomic habits got into that
a lot that we've been through about

trying to create a process
that is compounding, right.

There's a great investing perspective.

How do we get, you know,
1% better get a little bit of a return.

We start compounding that over time.

So interesting to think of

compounding as a principle
in the context of these big cycles

that daily
oh is discussing because he goes through

and he says, yes, markets do compound
and they do return for periods of time,

but he goes through for hundreds
and hundreds of years

that markets are also destroyed.

And he goes through it again and again,

a financial panics and crashes and wars
especially.

And you just start
digging into the history.

I mean, look, look how big this
this book is.

This is just war after war
and of people brutalizing each other.

And it's quite a perspective to come to.

He's like,
if we're going to look to a very long

term process,
we have to be aware of the potential of,

Things to wipe out.

Wipe out happened again
and again to people.

So he, gives a couple times

the admonition

that we want to.

Oh, he says avoid leverage.

Right. Cycles happen. Right?

Find your place in them.

You want to be able
to keep your place at the table.

That's a great piece of financial advice.

Finding something stable
in the midst of unsettling

and uncertain
times, in the midst of a changing order.

A lot of things in the air, right?

A lot of things happening
these days in the world

when you start thinking of big cycles
and things that are happening.

How do we be healthy?

In the midst

of this, how do we stay in the game?

This is what I was saying.

If we're trying to get some sort
of health process that is compounding,

we can't get knocked out of a cycle.

This would be the the thing to do.

It would be the thing you want to try to,

do. If you are trying to

create an investment portfolio
like an all weather portfolio, you say,

how do we recognize big cycles
so that we don't have

some catastrophic drawdown
in the midst of a crisis, right.

Diversify.

How do we bring these concepts
into our life in health?

How do we do our portfolio of health?

Right.

This is everything that I talk
about, right?

The fasting space is one tool
of that process to me.

And then of course, every good process
eating the healthiest food,

you bring in that in here,
grow your own food if possible.

Hey, I love that.

I do love that

this is the sort of thing
when we think about changing world order.

One of the,

things that

came into that thought to me today,
and he's touching on it

in here, is just the reversing
of the trend of globalization.

Globalization, if I were to bring it into

our specific health space, is any say.

Well,
there's pros and cons to it in health.

I'm sitting here in Wisconsin
and we can eat avocados now

because they're they're shipped in
and quinoa from the Andes.

And you say, well this is nutritious stuff
and it's good.

Okay.

What is changing in global
order of degree

mean for food and transport
and all these sort of things?

If there's a good side to it,
it would be eating locally and eating

seasonally, which are two things
that I think are very helpful.

So this is a type of thing
when we think about this concept

changing world order, the potential
of things to change drastically.

You look at drastic changes
that have happened in the past,

very unpleasant
for many people to go through

being prepared
for some things like that, very positive.

And this is the way where I say,
can we break out of a cycle

and at least in a way, where we say,
let's bring things down

into a really grounded level, you know,
this is right into our health space.

Everything that I say very grounded.

So food as a tool, exercise as a tool,
our mental health practices

helping us actually to find strength
and meaning, purpose

in our situation,
whatever the external thing is, you know,

if if there is a giant cycle of things
happening in history, say, well, you know,

we're just people that are here in it,
and what are you supposed to do about it?

It's like, well, the things that we can do

is that we can take care of ourselves
in the very best way that we can.

We can make the most
positive impact in our life,

in our friends and families life.

Try to find the best local food possible.

I agree, trying to stay away from gigantic
mega things as much as possible.

Yes, you know, gigantic corporations

that are buying up and buying out
all the little independent farmers.

Yes, eating locally is great.

Thank you.

I was listening to a lecture yesterday.

It was some sort of TEDx talk

that someone brought to me.

Sent to me.

The guy was just ridiculing
people who don't like genetic,

genetically modified food

and, saying that there are basically
the most ignorant people

and they can't read any sort of science
and that they are basically brainwashed.

And and I was,

I was watching it because I just,
I would say philosophically,

as much as anything else.

I feel like, what I want for human beings

myself, for everybody else,
we see ourselves as separate.

This is what I was getting into

yesterday, where we took that global view
from the space station down of Earth.

We see ourselves as separate
from the Earth

and really want to see
we are part of this place.

We are here and like health is happening.

This is a healthy place.

This planet,
this planet is life is created here.

And how beautiful is it?

And really the process toward
connecting into health to me is like,

how do we reconnect
with the natural cycles that support us?

I mean, we are supported by the Earth
here.

And the idea that we sit here,
we think like the Earth makes this food.

We think we know better.
We're just going to get in there.

We're going to change
all of the genetics of it.

To me,

even if I were
if I were arguing with a, you know,

some sort of plant scientist who's
actually doing it and they, they say,

well, I'm bettering the future of humanity
because I'm we need people to eat.

I certainly agree with that.

We definitely need food for people.

I would

just say, my objection to
it is really philosophical,

especially like what is happening here,
you know, what are we doing to this place

and how do we really create
the most thriving?

To me, I think the real sustainable
practice creating natural cycles,

the Earth has been existing here for
billions of years as far as we can see.

And all of a sudden we're going to come in
and we're just going to change it all.

To me, that is so arrogant
and I really don't like it,

just the concept of this.

Thank you for this concept.

The fruit without seeds in it,
you know, it's just the idea of it

creating a world order
in which everything is sterilized,

you know,
in which the control of everything

is literally in the hands
of a few corporations who keep the seeds.

And it's like renting.

It sounds like life is supposed to be out
abundance and flourishing, and everybody

is supposed to be able to grow stuff
like things just supposed to grow.

Like our compost
pile was so fun this spring.

You know, squash is just growing out of it
because the seeds were,

you know, there's seeds in it.

And then and it's just,
you know, abundance and flourishing, not,

you know, these corporate
controlled everything

in tight rows
and everything sprayed with chemicals.

And like, this is just a paradigm to me.

That is.

Something if we can cycle out of it.

This is another thing that gives
me encouragement about reading this book.

A changing world order
doesn't have to mean that change is bad.

There's a lot of things happening here
that are just, you know,

not very positive,

don't feel grounded, don't feel like
we're creating a human experience

where we're really connected to the Earth
and respecting it in an incredible way,

where we're respecting health, where
we're prioritizing happiness, joy,

peace more than money and materialism
and these sort of things.

And so maybe the changing world order,
maybe some of these cycles happen.

Doesn't that actually sound okay?

Actually, as I'm saying it, don't
we need a new order

and some rebirth
and hopefully thoughtful people.

We say bring all the positive energy
that we can have and bring

it into being a new space.

And dark degree, M.D., M.D.

and then my practice internal medicine.

I did my residency training
at the Veterans Hospital here in Madison,

and then I had a practice
for primary care

and hospital medicine
in Madison, here for about 12 years.

And then I left that,
two years ago, been consulting

here in town and online in Wisconsin

with simple fasting for weight and type
two diabetes and type one, I guess. Two.

So, that is me,
because I, have just really been

inspired by the ability of the human body
to practice fasting

from anywhere, from tiny little bits
to even more extended spaces,

and the fact that the body can heal
at least certain things in that space.

Not everything.

I'm not hyping anything, but real healing
I have seen in

that space is is really incredible to me.

It's really fulfilled the answer
to this question for me.

Why did I become a doctor?

You know, I was sitting,

in college and my just, you know,

for for background,
my whole family is ministers,

my dad, minister, grandfather,
that is the track that I was on.

I was on at a small Christian college
in Saint Paul,

and, I just
I just didn't quite feel it, you know,

I felt like, I wonder I just feel like,
you know, I really love science.

I really like the idea of diving in

to some, a process, scientific,
maybe more

what I saw at the time
as more tangible way to help someone.

And it kind of came to me,
I think, talking with family members,

other folks is like just kind of clicked.

I was like, oh,
what about medicine? Medicine?

Very interesting.

Parallels between the two professions,
people walking around in white robes

and one from a spiritual place
and one from a scientific space.

And I thought, you know, I'm
going to dive into some medicine

and see how we can bring health
and healing to people in that way.

And so that's kind of the idea.

And then so I started, I remember
I just go to the hospital and start

shadowing hospitalists and internists
and get into clinics.

I started working in healthcare
during college, and I was like,

oh, this feels like a way to really
meet people in a space that can be helpful

flowing through an entire medical process.

You know, it's it's interesting
going to medical school.

I did not realize somehow,
in my naive space, I did not realize

that the healthcare system
was a relatively dysfunctional place.

It's kind of a learning experience
going into,

you know, through medical schools,
starting to interact with patients,

learning,
like, oh, like people going bankrupt

when they interact with the medical system
and people having

I genic harm
and all of the issues that we have.

And then,

going through the whole process, sitting,
you know,

having a had a very large primary care
practice, it's hard

to get the exact number of it
because patients counted differently.

But somewhere around 2500
people in my internal medicine practice

and then teaching on the resident

wards for many years in the hospital,

the experience that I came to is,

just seeing,

you know, here's the experience,
you know, half of primary care,

we're doing

physicals,
we're doing preventative medicine,

we're trying to help people
to stay healthy.

And it's like the other side of it.

We're dealing
with everything that happens.

You know,

people get sick,

people get injured,
people have this condition develop,

you know, and so like, we're kind of
medicine practices balancing here.

And I always was just so resonated
so much with like

how do we help people
to stay as healthy as possible.

You know, certain

things just going to happen in life.

Like you slip on the ice
and you hit your head and,

you know, like.

But metabolic health to me

resonates so much because,

you think of the main things
that are affecting people in health

in the long term, diabetes
and heart disease and liver disease

and all the orthopedic problems
and inflammatory and autoimmune conditions

and even cancers that are downstream of
metabolic dis health.

And then when fasting came to me
like a gift, like I just saw it,

I saw a patient had to fast
for a medical procedure.

And you just see, oh,
we got to dial their insulin way down.

And so I started experimenting with it
and realizing like,

oh, someone has type two diabetes,
they start implementing fasting.

If we do it in a really gentle fashion.

Here's a practice that we can use to start
dialing down the medications.

You know, like how interesting is that?

And so I started studying
that at the university.

Some wonderful people at the university
helped me get a grant, and

that helped us
do a very cool observational study.

You can find that if you hit
my channel playlists on the channel,

hit deep dives with doctor
Z, then you can find that talks

that I did about my study
and other scientific topics.

More of those to come,
but the study is fascinating.

If I were to say changing

world order in this regard,
one of these talks

that I gave was a global move
to eliminate insulin resistance,

where I did a literature review
of all the studies that are using

fasting in type two diabetes to help

reverse the process, ideally eliminate it.

And this is something
that I really would like to see.

This would be part

if we're going to have like a new cycle
out with the old, in with the new,

whether that is true in some big sense
or we just make it true in our own life.

The processes that I want
are for people about,

personal rejuvenation.

Renewing of our mind, renewing
of our spirit, renewing of the body.

We're not going to get younger. Right.

But bringing health
to it as much as we can.

I've got
so much stuff going on my property.

The comments says,
I don't even know what it is.

Mushrooms, herbs, a hydroponic garden.

I would recommend getting one only $40.

Hey, I've never gotten into hydroponics,
but,

it's a fascinating idea, especially here
in the winter in Wisconsin.

We got some sun through the windows
on some days, and, but, haven't

thought of growing too much personally,
but maybe it would be fun.

It's a good idea.

Oh, my gosh,

what happens when you drink
Coca Cola all the time?

Yeah.

Type two diabetes in a can.

Unfortunately, I've got a continuous
glucose monitor on right now.

I'm running some personal experiments.

I'm eating all kinds of different things.

I'm recording my experience
and then my blood sugar on the phone,

and I am putting them into a video,
which I am making for

you all, and I will be releasing that.

I don't know that I'm going to get it done
Friday.

I wanted it done tomorrow,
but it might be this weekend or next week.

But really interesting experiences.

You know, I used to drink soda a lot.

When I was, you know, in high school

and,

you know, as
I got into practicing medicine,

trying to help people avoid type
two diabetes,

you know, get out of the cycle
and bring healing to it.

You start to realize, like, well,
what is driving insulin resistance?

And you start to see the huge amount
of sugar, and you look at the physiology

of how the body responds to it
and you realize, oh, so much sugar,

so much insulin, insulin
receptor down regulated.

You know, now insulin is not working so
well and the blood sugar is rising, okay.

Everybody understands
this feed forward side of the cycle,

but somehow
nobody is looking at the other side of it,

which is that
the entire process can be run in reverse

when we change our diet
and we get the sugar out,

and we move our bodies in healthy ways
that are naturally burning up to sugar,

and we open up some fasting space,
the most powerful way to do it.

And,

I've worked with hundreds and hundreds,

you know, who even knows how many people,

using a continuous glucose monitor.

Okay.

The one that I have.

This product a lingo.

Okay. I bought it with my own money.

I'm not running a channel
that is sponsored by anybody, okay?

There's no conflicts of interest. Okay?

I just bought this,
and I'm using it for two weeks

to to create an experience.

Hopefully that helps people to see what

a, what a person can do
with a little knowledge.

So this thing has a little filament in it.

This disk got a little filament
pokes into this, interstitial space.

It's under the skin.

But outside of the blood
vessels, there's interstitial fluid there

that is in communication with the blood,
and the glucose diffuses

across that space.

And so the filament can check the blood
sugar.

It's slightly delayed.

It's like 15 to 20 minutes
delayed of what the blood sugar is.

But it has been a fascinating experience
for me.

I'm coming in up on a week of having it
in, like I was saying, I've I've managed,

you know, who even knows hundreds
and hundreds of people with diabetes.

So many people using these things.

But I'm never done it myself.

And so it's like,
I like no glycemic index.

And how does blood sugar rise
for certain foods?

But to actually experience
and and sit with it

all the time has really deepened
my understanding and perspective of it.

Both of like how much the foods
we eat affect our physiology

so profoundly, and to just see the blood
sugar swinging and to think of what

that is doing to the insulin,
and then also the fasting space.

So I did some fasting in there
and you just watch the blood sugar.

Just think what's happening in
that space is chewing up

all the blood sugars,
helping to release energy in the body.

It's just
really, helped bring it to another,

level for me, you know?

Yeah.

This is something
that super is baffling to me.

Why is society the way it is?

You know,
we could sit here a book like this is,

you know, another perspective to, like,
why did the world change to

be the way it is?

You know, you can start to get the idea.

He he kind of gets into it

a little bit in there about just the ways
that society has transformed.

He goes through
like kind of like a freedom index of like

how governments become more authoritarian
and more open over time,

and how these tend to correspond
with war cycles.

And so you think about here in America
about how society was transformed,

especially by World War two,

and we were transformed into this
gigantic military machine.

And it never really stopped. Right.

And like that,
that whole machine took over our society

at the industrial, industrial

nature of

our agricultural system
in a large measure came out of that.

And, so there's a lot of things
that are downstream of that.

And so this has had many secondary effects

for generations on health
that came out of it.

How,

how can we have

all these toxic stuff?

I would call it poison.

I think it's fair to say I have said that,
you know, I've had some videos

where I've talked about like,
what is the definition of a food?

You know, what is food?

You know, it's something,

something most people would say
is like it has calories, it's edible.

Like you can eat it at like
it keeps you alive or something.

Okay.

But there's a certain category of things
that are like food

that give you calories in the short term.

They fill you up, they don't promptly
kill you, but like you do them

also gives you diseases,
you know, so like type two diabetes.

So if something is to me
there's like a lot of an analogy

is like cigarettes, you know,
like you smoke some cigarettes is like

you're not going to drop over,

you know, it's like you smoke it,
you're like, okay, you know, whatever.

But like over time, see,

people would not say that
it is a healthy thing to do, right?

Same thing with high fructose corn sirup.

I think in the past,

people going

to people going to look in the future
and say, you know, that wasn't very wise.

You know, that was why did we make our
an entire population of people chronically

ill by industrially producing this stuff
and, and feeding it to kids every day

and growing people up
so that they end up needing

to take pharmaceutical products
in order to, you know, stay alive.

Basically, like this is a it's crazy.

It's a crazy situation.

I like that word baffled.

It's complex.

Right. People making a lot of money on it.

In my view.

It's because people
just making a lot of money on it.

People buy off the politicians
to create the subsidies for the industries

that make the stuff that feed into things,
and they buy up the whole cycle.

And this is why we have, you know,

it's why very hard to change that.

What is the quote?

It's like it's
very hard to change a man's mind

when his salary depends on his
not understanding it.

Right. So.

I was thinking,

you know, yesterday we, in the view,
zooming out and looking at the world,

you know, or just thinking a lot about.

Maybe it was a few weeks ago.

I watched a video.

I forget the name of it.

It was like,
how to Be Human or something like this.

But they actually went into the rainforest
where they were chopping down

the rainforests
and took to clear room for a cattle ranch

and, so that we can eat more hamburgers.

And it was like just watching
these ancient trees fall down.

It's one thing to say, oh, people
clearing the rainforest, you know, like,

but to watch it happening, I kind of think
everybody should have to watch it

because it was really a it was really
sad thing to watch, actually.

So we got a lot of

a lot of economical systems.

That's what I was getting into yesterday.

We were listening from that astronaut.

What was it Garin was saying?

Man, when you're floating up,
when you're sitting on

the International Space Station
and you're looking down,

it's like there's there's no lines.

There's no countries like you don't see
an economy, you just see a planet.

You know, a planet is here.

And he's like, we're stuck in this space
where when we're down on the ground,

you know, we're experiencing
what this book is saying, you know,

like wars and economic cycles and politics
and everybody's at each other's throats.

And it's just like,
you know, that sort of thing.

But like, you float up in space
for a little while and you look down

and you don't see that.

And so I think, like,
how does your perspective change

when you see something like that
as we zoom out a little bit?

And so as we're trying to be healthy
in a moment,

you know, like this, in the midst of chaos
and confusion

and change and global
conflict and strife and.

Even here,

you see, in America,
we see were relatively

spared from,
you know, right now, like the wars

that are happening,
you know, the bombs aren't going off here,

even if we're making many of them,
you know, which is perverse.

I say, still here in this moment.

How do we be healthy?

How do we be healthy in it?

Start with a healthy mindset.

This is what I want
this space to be healthy.

Mindset starts first.

That's like this astronaut saying
we've got to flip our perspective, okay?

We've got to stop thinking economy
and then politics planet.

We got to like flip this all around
and realize like there is a planet

here, right.

And then let's go from there
and bring it down.

And like, just like, I don't know, I'm
sure in the morass of the,

you know, the current day people,
you know, couldn't even agree.

Like, certainly people won't agree
that we should do it that way.

Or even if we stay planet. Right.

Say the word planet and

and do you see
how like all the politics are infused?

As soon as you say
it, people going to say, well,

now we're into like energy and materials

and it's like all the things it's like,
can we even strip all of this away?

Can we just get back
to some deeper root level,

have a bigger vision?

You know what would be the ideal future
for human beings on this planet?

You know, when I did the talk
the other day, which one was it?

Why I stopped prescribing
GLP ones for weight loss.

I've prescribed.

I'm sure I've written a thousand scripts

for these sort of things,
but I stopped doing it for weight loss.

I still prescribed them for type
two diabetes.

Although my whole perspective
is about trying to help.

People need as few things as possible,
and it is possible

to peel that onion all the way back.

But in that talk,
I dove into some research.

JP Morgan was looking at financial

analysis for, you know, like whatever

they are, Novartis
and these big manufacturers of GLP ones.

And the point I was making about it,
you know, this market is billions

and billions of dollars
for these products.

And we showed graphs that actually,
you know, rates of obesity

in America
going up, up, up for a very long time.

But now they've kind of flattened off
and even come down a tiny little tick.

And so then we were looking at news
articles and saying, oh,

p ones are working.

Because, look,
they've kind of stemmed the tide.

And we've gone down here.

Now in the same talk, I brought out
a paper from the I think it was CDC.

It was a CDC paper that was tracking
incidence of childhood obesity.

So at the same time that people
are celebrating this little micro dip,

you know,

and saying, oh, GLP wants so much better
childhood obesity rates exploding.

So I say, you know,
let's look at the big picture these

yesterday, today trying to zoom out,
look at the big picture of these sorts of

things.

Say we need something much more grounding
when I'm saying think planet first.

Like this
is just a way to try to zoom us out

into the type of mindset where we can get

to a root level where we're actually
solving real problems, right?

Because in the ideal

scenario, wouldn't a child
be able to just grow up in our society

without needing a PhD in nutrition,
if it would even do any good?

You know, to say,
how do we be healthy, right?

Like, think about,

despite all the difficulty
that people have had

across our entire world for all of time
and all the conflict,

the the one problem
that people didn't have, you know,

was the metabolic dysfunction
that we have now, people dealing

with terrible poverty and starvation
and all these sort of things.

Okay.

But like if you can get access to a food,
there is never even such a thing

as an organic food.

There's who even needed a term for it
because there's just food

that came from the earth.

There were no nasty chemicals there.

No. Nothing

genetically modified or changed.

Thank you for being here.

Nice to have the discussion.

Thank you for the comments
and perspectives.

Feel free to have a conversation.

The thing I love about the archive
of everything on YouTube,

pretty much everything I've done
put out there, it's all there.

You can go review it
and we can have an ongoing

conversation about,
any of the topics still.

So that's fun.

The topics
that I am interested in is for sure.

How do we

move forward in hell

for the most people in the biggest way?

The the root of it to me is like
I would like to say is fasting.

I got a fasting channel. Simple.

Fasting is fasting the most important
health decision that we make?

I say maybe no.

Like I don't try to hype anything.

If I had to pick one thing,
it would be eating the healthiest food.

I think it is
the very most important thing to do.

But when I say eating healthy food
always are.

Eating is in balance
between eating and fasting.

We eat during certain hours of the day,
and at least we're sleeping

and we're not eating
during the time where I sleep.

And so you can see there's a balance.

And then the question
where is the balance point?

Like during how many hours is it optimal
for a human being to eat?

And how many times should they eat
in that space?

To me, that is a very fascinating question
to dig into.

Our society many times has things like six
small meals a day,

ends up people always eating and and say,
oh, if you even miss.

I did a video,
I don't know, a live a couple weeks ago.

They say fasting is too stressful,
where I was reviewing this nutrition show

and they were saying, even missing
one meal, you're raising your cortisol.

You're causing stress to the
is is like a bad thing.

You're hurting yourself.

Like, I just want to be here.

My goal
just push back against these things

and what I hope
the upcoming video shows with the monitor

is just like, look what happens
when we take a deep breath.

We just have a little pause.

Glucose level can come down to normal.

We can see what's happening in the body.

So many good things like insulin
resistance, a primary metabolic problem

that we have in medicine today
really is upstream of so many things.

And here is a practice
fasting AA powerful tool.

Not the only tool,

but a
tool in the arsenal, but very powerful

that can help us eliminate that.

I like this thought.

The way I see it,
there's only two kinds of individuals

in the world
those who want to profit off humanity,

those who want to make humanity
prosperous.

That's a really nice way to break it up.

Thank you for that.

And especially if we think more broadly
about what does prosperous mean.

You know, like it doesn't just have to
mean some egalitarian financial process

and everybody is equal and everybody
has the same amount of money.

But like, what are the things that really,
make life a rich, you know what I mean?

Like relationships and connection
in time to think

and exist
and have connection to a place and people.

To me,

this is

the things that are very beautiful,

you know, in a space, these are the things
that have deep meaning.

And if we think about being healthy
in the world.

To me that in a large measure

is about finding a healthy way of being.

I've got a playlist on the channel,

the creative act of weight loss,
weight loss insights from Rick Rubin.

I'd say his book, The Creative Act,
which is meant for artists

and people, painting and things.

And I say,
let's take some of these concepts

into our life and our health process,
like, how do we create joy in a place?

How do we create grounding and connection
in a place

so that our experience of being in
it is possible?

This is like connecting
into the whole point of the show

that I'm trying to do today,
changing world

order and saying, we've got these cycles
flowing through things.

What I really want is just sustainable,

long term process
that we don't get knocked out of.

That was Ray Dalio was big suggestion.

Don't get knocked out
of the investing game during

some wipeout or getting overleveraged
or something like this.

Yeah.

The changing world order.
It's interesting.

Take a big view, zoom out of history
a little bit to me.

Try to bring in the ideas of like.

Wherever we are in that cycle.

To me it's like, let's just bring things
into our own personal situation.

Let's make sure that we are doing our best
to help our personal selves,

our families, our communities, the people
in our little sphere, at least ourselves.

First show love and compassion,
kindness to ourself.

Helping us to be healthy is a big way

that we can do that
and then build up that reserve.

That's like the investment account
that might be the most important,

building up that energetic buffer,
like we said in the other session,

so that we have energy
and kindness reserve that can flow out.

To me.
I feel like that's the type of thing.

If we look more broadly
at a dysfunction in the world.

Hey, let's solve our own problems first.

Get our own house in order,
get our health in the most optimal place

that it can be.

I hope everything that I have on
the channel can help you do that.

And then take that energy out, flow out

in the most positive way that we can.

We'll
be great to share this space with you.

I'll be back tomorrow morning
and look forward

to keeping the conversation going.

Have a great day, everybody.