Breaking Fast, Not Yourself

This episode explores the origins of common health myths like breakfast being the most important meal, the benefits of intermittent fasting, and how understanding our body's natural rhythms can lead to better health. R.L. Malpica shares insights on natural healing, the importance of elimination, and practical tips for implementing fasting into your lifestyle.

Key Topics

• Origins of breakfast myth and marketing influence
• The science and benefits of intermittent fasting
• The importance of understanding and aligning with natural body rhythms

Chapters

00:00:12 The Breakfast Myth and Rethinking Morning Eating
00:09:44 Intermittent Fasting as a Path to Health
00:18:09 The Healing Power of Fasting
00:27:08 Fasting, Spirituality, and Connection to Nature
00:30:06 Healing Pets and Extending Natural Health
00:34:46 Understanding Energy Management Through Fasting
00:44:49 The Path to Holistic Health
00:49:02 Making Conscious Dietary Choices

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Transcript

The Breakfast Myth and Rethinking Morning Eating

SPEAKER_00 0:12

So they're still saying that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Um, it's really, really funny to me um how manipulative a lot of these companies are and um these corporations and how they you know utilize different aspects of emotion to manipulate your emotions and ultimate ultimately make you do things that you know you're you're not supposed to be doing. You know, breakfast just in itself um has really taken over, you know, mainly with the breakfast is the the most important meal of the day. But if you look at the origins of where that came from, like that's almost over a hundred years ago, 1944. General Foods puts out a campaign to entice you and to manipulate you into thinking that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so they can sell more cereal. You know what I'm saying? And um, and and it happened before that too, that that was the specific campaign that really pushed it on people, but it started, you know, in like 1910 with Kellogg. You know, they were you know putting that in people's minds of how important breakfast was supposed to be, all for the all for the reasoning of trying to sell you more cereal, something that isn't good for you by any means. You know what I'm saying? So when you think of the origins of why you believe certain things or why some of these things have been embedded into your culture, into your lifestyle, into your habits, you start to realize and pull back those layers and see that wow, we've been programmed, we've been conditioned to think these things think these things. I I thought it my entire life. You know, breakfast was so important. If there's anything you're gonna do, make sure you have a good breakfast. You know, that's just something that's embedded in us. And it couldn't be further from the truth, you know what I'm saying? When you truly look at how the body works and the rhythms of the body, there's absolutely no reason that you should be eating anything heavy that early in the morning. You know, it just goes against, you know, everything that is natural about you, you know. Um, and just going to the origins of the name breakfast, you're breaking your fast, right? The key word in there is fast. You know, when we sleep, that is our longest fasting period naturally, right? Because obviously we're not eating while we sleep. So that gives our body the chance to recoup, regroup, you know, assimilate, and ultimately push to eliminate and then get back to digestion. If people just understood how much of an energy burden digesting is and how that correlates and corresponds with how your body functions and processes, it would be a lot easier for us to get on the path to health, you know. And, you know, I try to um implore people and try to share this light as much as I can on how imperative it is to understand that concept in any way that I can. In this specific episode, you know, I'm I'm gonna try to dive as deep into that as I possibly can because making this simple change right here, you know, implementing an uh an aspect of intermittent fasting into your life just by itself will do wonders for you. Because at the end of the day, when you keep it as simple and basic as possible, we just eat too damn much. And that's by design. Like we just, you know, cultures and traditions and society all pushing us to eat way more than we need to eat, you know, and the more we eat, the worse off we are. And if you look at marketing and you know, how the idea of eating, everything is about what the food is going to give you. Like that's the the target, that is the angle of almost every campaign of some type of food or even supplement, it's all about what it's going to give you. But once we understand that anytime we eat anything, it is automatically going to be taking away something. It doesn't matter what it is, even fruits. Because, like, even though eating fruits is the most optimal thing you can eat, and what your body is designed to eat, it still has a light low, uh, uh light burden on your body because you still have to digest it. That is still energy being utilized. Now, the beauty of fruits is that it provides you so much additional energy, so much electricity, so much nutrition that it outweighs the amount of energy that it takes from you. But all of these other foods, all of these other things that they're selling you on TV and in ads and commercials and whatnot, they're not telling you what that food is taking from you. They're just telling you all these minute things that it's giving you. But those things that it's giving you, like, is from the mindset of thinking that you can heal yourself by receiving food. This food's gonna help you with your eyesight, this food's gonna help you with digestion, this food's gonna help you with inflammation, all these different things that almost like these magic elixirs that we're going to consume and it's going to fix everything that's going on. No, the only way you fix what's going on is by eliminating, not adding. It's about elimination. And that's where the concept of fasting and intermittent fasting truly come into play. Until we understand and grasp that, it's gonna be very difficult for anybody to truly get on the path to health. That's why like I continuously reiterate energy efficiency. You know, the first letter of my my philosophy, my eat philosophy, energy efficiency, because that's what it truly comes down to. Providing our body with conditions so it can do some healing and revitalizing and replenishing. And the only time it does that is when it has a surplus of energy and it has rest. When it's not eating. You know, getting healthy isn't about adding fruits to your diet. Getting healthy is about eliminating all the other shit that you're eating and replacing it with fruits. Because in that process, you are gaining more vital energy, and that's what your body ultimately utilizes to heal itself, to replenish itself, to revitalize. All these things that we were not designed to eat, our body is not designed to eat nor digest. We're constantly hearing how these things are good for us. What's good for you in the morning is to not eat and to drink water. That is what is good for you. It goes back to the word break fast breakfast. We're breaking our fast. We don't want to break our fast until our body is ready to break the fast. Our body has a design, a rhythm that it goes by. And it goes, you know, it's in alignment with the energy of the earth and the universe. It's an eight-hour shifts. There's 24 hours in a day from 12 p.m. noon to 8 p.m., your body is in digestion mode. That's the rhythm of how your body works. That is the optimal time for your body to digest food. That's the window in which you should be eating your meals. You shouldn't be eating before that, and you should not be eating after that, because if you do, it disrupts the rhythms of the other. It disrupts the rhythm of assimilation, which takes place from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. That's when your body's going to take all the nutrition and it's going to disperse it throughout the body. It's also when your body is going to go through the healing process, the revitalization process. It's the reason why people get sick in the middle of the night. Or as they start getting ready for bed, they start getting stuffy, they start feeling worse. It's not by accident, it's by design. That's what function your body is focusing on. All right. So when we eat after eight o'clock and our body is still in digestion mode, it disrupts that function of the body.

Intermittent Fasting as a Path to Health

SPEAKER_00 9:44

If we eat before noon, that is the elimination period from 4 a.m. to 12 p.m. is when we eliminate. That's why when we wake up, we have to pee. That's why we when we wake up, most of the time we have our bowel movement, our major bowel movement is in the morning. That is the elimination period. That's why we sometimes, you know, depending on your diet, you might wake up extra stuffy in the morning. It's not by accident, it's not by coincidence. That's how your body's rhythms work. But if we are eating prior to that, we are starting the digestive process early and not allowing the allocation of energy to finish eliminating. So when we talk about intermittent fasting, that is ultimately the main focus here. All right. Now there's some added benefits to it that I'm going to talk about specifically for myself, because I'm, you know, I applied this to myself when I really started understanding how it worked, and it had tremendous effects for me, and I'm going to focus on that. But like you have to understand that implementing intermittent fasting in your life is going to change the the way your body thrives and how it's and how optimal it starts to work. And you'll start to see those things immediately. Um, but people have to get off the concept of thinking that adding stuff to their diet or adding supplementation is going to make them healthy, is going to fix anything. It will never fix anything. It might provide stimulation, it might alleviate a symptom, but it will never fix anything. You fix when you allow the body rest and provide it, and rest and and it has a surplus of energy to utilize. That's why fasting itself is so powerful. And this is something that's been done since the beginning of time. If you look in nature, that's what animals do. Look, we all have had an animal or a domestic, you know, some type of domestic animal. And look, being domesticated obviously changes some things, right? But it's the closest thing we have to really understand nature besides watching National Geographic or some of these documentaries, right? Like we're not out there in the jungle with these animals filming them for years and shit like that. Like we were provided information now and we can watch it and see what resonates. You know, a lot of those things are sponsored by, you know, major corporations as well. You gotta understand that that it's it all funnels to one place, but you know, there's some great information out there. And when you look at nature, you'll see that when animals aren't feeling well, they fast. Naturally, they don't want to eat. And these are animals. Animals that gorge themselves, animals that that eat until they can't move. But if they're not feeling well, or if they ate something bad, or they're they're sick, they're not going to eat. They're not looking for something to fix it. They know that their body itself naturally will fix it. And that's what we have gotten away from because man slash woman has continuously tried to outsmart nature. So when we have our colds, they want us to take Sudafed and Nyquil and Dayquill. Right? Instead of allowing the body to go through that process to eliminate what is not supposed to be there, to eliminate that toxicity, that mucus. We have to understand that truly healing and truly becoming healthy is in the rest, is in the fast. You take all the vitamin C you want. It might make you feel good in the moment. It is not helping the situation. We don't want to do anything to suppress our body's uh function of elimination, our body's process of eliminating acids and eliminating toxicity from the body. We never want to stop that. But the concepts that we continuously see are to add to ourselves. You know, I remember growing up, if I wasn't feeling well, my mom would tell me, well, you should probably eat something. All the time. Obviously, she didn't understand. And look, how could she? Right? Look what you're look what we're exposed to environmentally. We're not exposed to the truth, we're not exposed to things that are truly for the betterment of us. We're exposed to something that's always connected to some other motive, some other angle. That just that that switch in mindset will change so much in your life from a health perspective. You know, we're we're taught from an early age we need to take our vitamins, right? Flintstones vitamins. Remember that? I'm a Flintstones kid. You know what I'm saying? We're told that from an early age. We gotta take something, you know, we gotta go to the doctor to get our checkups to make sure our blood looks good, all these different things, and we gotta take our medicine, and you know, when we're diagnosed with something early on in life, you know, we succumb to that and we accept that reality and know that we're going to have to take these measures in order to manage our condition instead of understanding that everything is healable if given the right conditions. Now, does that mean that everything will heal? No. Because you gotta have the right conditions and you have to have time. But given those two things, anything can be healed. We have to start believing that. Our body, we are we have a we are a self-healing organism. Now there are stages and levels, of course, and the deeper you get into those levels, the harder it is to get you know, get yourself back. But the ability to do it is there, and you'll never be able to get where you want to get and be who you want to be unless you understand that concept. Because you could take all the medicine you want, you could have all the surgeries you want, it's never gonna get to the root of the issue. You know, I was um I had a video with um the great Lauren Ferris, she was Lauren uh Whitman at the time, um, about natural hygiene and natural health and the terrain model. And this was years ago. This is before I even got heavily into it. I was just learning, I was right at the beginnings, and she was a huge mentor of mine. Um, and she's fantastic. She has a website, The Raw Key, has a group on Facebook called Terrain Model Refuge Germ Theory, with, you know, shoot, I want to say almost 50,000 people in that group right now. And it's just a plethora of of information. So I had her on my podcast and um my podcast before this, um, before nature over everything, and you know, she's just laying all these things out, and she started out with animals like dogs and and cats and rescuing them and nursing them back to health through natural principles, right? Feeding them the correct diet and fasting, you know, and she'd be able to get the take these animals in and heal them and bring them back and let them live out their lives, you know, healthy and with vitality and you know, the way they're the way it's supposed to be, not dying

The Healing Power of Fasting

SPEAKER_00 18:09

in of some, you know, uh continuous chronic disease, you know, that most of these animals end up succumbing to because they're eating kibble their entire life. You know, she would bring them back to their natural diet, implement fasting so they can fast and ultimately heal what's going on. Well, you know, I got some comments on my my YouTube page, uh, and this video has been out for a long, long time, but just recently, some comments of some people, you know, saying that she should be arrested and put in prison because she's starving these animals, this, that, and the other. And it's just like, you know, people just don't understand. You know, they don't know what they don't know. And once we realize that in nature, there are going there, there's a reason we have this mechanism, this self-healing or uh, the self-healing body. And the way to tap into it is to ultimately allow your body to allocate the energy that it does have to one thing, and that is to heal. But you can't do that if you are eating continuously. You can't do that if you're working out or running or stressing out and doing all these other things. Our worlds have become so discombobulated and so focused on so many things that it's almost impossible for our body to truly dig deep and heal because of all the different things we have going on. And these people saying, you know, like I said, she needs to go to prison and you know, just saying some really nasty stuff because she fasted her animals seven to 14 days sometimes. Look, your body is going to utilize every bit of energy it can. And look, there's a lot of us that can that can succumb a lot more than a 14-day fast. We all can. We just haven't, we haven't been taught these things. We've been conditioned to look the other way, to think that, oh my God, if I don't eat, I'm gonna get sick. No, you're not going to get sick, you're going to start healing. Now look, I I've never done a lengthy fast in my life. I haven't. In fact, I don't know how I don't know if you guys have ever heard of Lauren Lockman before, but he's what I would consider the the the guru, the um the king of what of fasting, fasting to heal. You know, he I don't know if he still does. I think he still does. He has a um a um facility in Costa Rica where he takes in patients, they'll come and they'll do his program um and fast for I think it's like 21 days or something like that. I'm gonna say that again. Fast for 21 days. Now it's not a dry fast, it's a water fast. Um but he's had miraculous results. And he's been doing this for decades. The reason is because he understands how the body works. We have decades, and not only decades, we have generations of horrible eating and lifestyle habits, of eating meats and processed foods and alcohol and drugs and you know, bad environmental things, and majority, if not all, cooked foods. Like all those things are not like our body's not designed for that. So, from a generational standpoint, look, you're a snapshot of your mom and dad when they when you were conceived, those genetics, those genes. They come over. You're also a um result of your mother's terrain, her inner terrain during the gestation period until you were birthed. All those things matter. And then you grow up eating foods that you shouldn't be eating. You know, maybe you didn't get breastfed. And even if you did get breastfed, guess what? The breast milk's only as healthy as your mother is. And if not, if it's not breast milk, what is it? You're getting formula. Formula. Processed milk that's most likely dairy.

unknown 22:45

Right?

SPEAKER_00 22:45

And then we, you know, we grow up with these bad eating habits through conditioning, societal conditioning, our environment, our family, traditions, all those different things, right? Until, you know, maybe one day we listen to an RL Malpika podcast, or we, you know, get into a Lauren Ferris uh Facebook group, or we read a book by T C Fry, or we happen to catch a Dr. Morse video, or you know, a reel from Yaquy pops up or something, and then it clicks in our head. Oh God, maybe I've been doing this the wrong way. You know? And then it finally finally clicks. And then you start making some changes, but look, you have a backlog of generations that we have to clean up, that we have to clean out. You know, it's not it's not something that happens overnight, and we just live in such a microwave society that, you know, it just doesn't, it doesn't resonate with us sometimes. Because we go a week and we start having headaches, or we do something, we start, we have a detoxing event, you know, we get sick, and then all of a sudden we think, oh, this isn't working for me. I need to try something else. That goes back to our conditioning. You have to trust your body, you have to trust nature. And everything in nature tells us that when an animal, when a creature is sick, that the best way for them to get better is to fast. So if you have been diagnosed with something or dealing with something and you're thinking, man, what can I do? Most people are gonna go the allopathic route, they're gonna go the medical route. And look, I'm not a medical practitioner, I'm not a doctor, but from my philosophy and my perspective, and everything I've learned from the natural perspective, is that those things are just helping you manage what's going on and never get to the root of the issue. Allowing your body the conditions to heal is your best bet. You know, so from an intermittent fasting standpoint, when we're talking about breakfast being the most important meal of the day, look, for me, like when I about four years ago, you know, when I made the realization based on my studies and everything, that fruit, that being a frugivore is the optimal diet for the human species. Like we are frugivores by nature. And the closer we can get to that, the healthier we'll be, right? Once I came to that conclusion and started shifting my diet that way, it started with intermittent fasting. Because I had hit my apex and in at least how I felt like, oh my gosh, I'm just I'm going down the wrong path. Even being vegetarian. Being vegetarian and still gaining weight and just not feeling good, not confident in myself, you know, just mentally not feeling there, physically feeling horrible, didn't even want to get on the scale anymore because it just kept going up, you know. So once I made that decision, and I started with a 30-day uh 30 days of just fruit, like that's kind of how I jumped it off. Um, but I implemented intermittent fasting. And the intermittent fasting had such a such an impact on so many different things in my life, physically and emotionally and mentally, that it's something that I've kept from that moment on and have never really strayed from. Like there'll be moments where I I have eaten a little bit before 12 and have eaten a little bit after eight, but very, very, very few and far between. It is something that I have instituted into my life and my lifestyle. You know what I'm saying? So, and it's something that I will for the rest of my life. And in fact, I'm um I've pretty much shortened that window, you know, for more like a almost a try to do like a one to six because I saw the power of

Fasting, Spirituality, and Connection to Nature

SPEAKER_00 27:08

giving my body more rest. And I saw the power of allowing my body to be in its natural rhythm. The first thing you'll notice is, man, when you stop eating breakfast, like the weight is you're gonna lose weight. You're definitely gonna lose weight, you're not eating as much. It's not the first thing you do when you wake up, and your body's gonna start eliminating more. And yeah, you know what? You have to get used to it because if you're used to waking up and having eggs, toast, and sausage every day or multiple times a week at nine o'clock in the morning, 9 30, and now you're not having it anymore, yeah, you're gonna feel some things. You know, people talk about hunger pains a lot, and and it's because they don't understand what true hunger is. True hunger is almost like thirst, right? It's a it's a satiating feeling. Like it's uh it's very similar to being thirsty to me. But hunger, when you have that actual hunger pain, that's not real hunger. What that is, is the bacteria and the parasites and the fungus, all those things that have accumulated from eating these bad foods for so long, they need that to survive because they are pleomorphic, right? They adapt to the terrain and they can't survive in their current state without you continuously giving them those foods. And those foods are so lacking in nutrition that the body that is constantly screaming for more nutrition, specifically that bacteria, because it cannot survive without it. That's what those feelings are. And if you drink water and allow yourself to go through the process of feeling that it will succumb. It will succumb. Not only in the future, but in that moment. You just have to go through it. But no, we've been taught that when we feel that, we need to eat immediately. We need to eat right now, we need to eat something. And yeah, there's a transition, there's a process, and all these things. You might have some headaches once in a while, things like that, right? Because your body is truly going through a detoxing period, a heavier detoxing period. It's going through changes, it's going through a transition. But you gotta ride it out. Because once you get to the other side of it, you'll never look back. I know I haven't. Gave up coffee uh, you know, a few years ago, and I've said this ad nausea, but worst detox I've ever had was after coffee for a week, but after that week, I was fine and have never looked back. I mean, you even look at from a cultural standpoint, you know, you've got the you know, Muslims in Ramadan, you know, they do their their their fasting, and then even uh Jewish people, Jew, Jews

Healing Pets and Extending Natural Health

SPEAKER_00 30:06

in uh Yom Kippur, right? Or they do their their little little fasting period. And while it's more for spiritual thing, remember it's all connected.

unknown 30:16

Right?

SPEAKER_00 30:16

It's all connected because if you look at it from a physical sense, obviously we've talked about that throughout this entire podcast, how it's going to help heal the body because you're giving your body access to the the surplus of energy that you've built up and the amount of energy that you have left, right? But when you do that, guess what? You're a cleaner vessel, you are a cleaner conduit, meaning you can connect better spiritually, energetically to source or to God or to the universe, whatever you want to call it, because you are a cleaner vessel. You are operating at a different frequency now. It all connects. And if you go back in time, like it is it is of my opinion, the further you go back, the more connected the individuals were. Because once again, as man slash woman tries to outsmart nature continuously, it's only gonna get worse and worse and worse. We have lost our connection to nature, we have lost our connection to our higher self, we have lost our connection to source. And understanding the power of fasting and truly understanding the power of your body, of the human body, is you know, it's gonna be life-changing for you. It truly is. You know, look, we have right now we have two dogs and two cats, and they're all fed their natural diet. Um, you know, the cats are carnivores, 100% carnivores, so they eat meat, right? Straight up meat. Now we have one cat that we bought, or that yeah, that we bought when we first moved into our house. So she was about two or three, and she had been fed kibble, you know, her entire life. And then we bought a cat for our teenage daughter as a kitten, and she's been fed raw her natural diet her entire life. And if you could see, now look, everybody's genetics are different, you know, all that stuff too. So I'm taking that into account. But if you could see the difference in the two cats, it's mind-boggling. Because the cat that was fed kibble took a long time to try to adapt back to the natural diet. Now she loves it, but at first it there was a struggle there because with kibble, it's very stimulating. Number one, it's cooked. Number two, it is, you know, has additives in there that are addicting. And once again, that bacteria that builds up in their body, those parasites or whatnot, are screaming for that that kibble. So the cat doesn't understand that because the cat naturally should have never even been in that predicament in the first place. Their body is not built for that. So she had the struggle of transitioning over. But just from the few years of eating the kibble, she has had so much lymphatic congestion in her head that she gets these earaches really bad constantly. Because even though she's eating meat and her body can break it down, it's still acidic. So the only time she can ever truly heal for a little bit is when we fast her. So, well, she gets fasted a decent amount of time because we're still dealing with the issues that she, the issues in the habits that she built when she was eating kibble to this day. And she's, I think, about eight years old. And unfortunately, she's just not a very happy cat. And I love the cat. That's Akasha. That's my that's my baby. You know, I named I named a company after her. But she has struggled. Now she's eating much better, and she's getting a little better. You know, throughout time, she's starting to get better and better and better, but she's still dealing with what she dealt, what she had to go through the first few years

Understanding Energy Management Through Fasting

SPEAKER_00 34:46

of her life. And I also think the owner that she had wasn't, you know, I don't know if this wasn't the most friendly or whatever, but she's got some personality quirks too that go into it. But the food does not help. You know what I'm saying? And you on the other hand, and they're the same, and and both cats are the same breed, right? And if you look at the other cat, Hazel, fed raw her entire life, has never been sick, not one time, is the most loving cat in the world, loves to be around people, loves to play, even gets along with the dogs. It's like night and day. We have two dogs. One dog, we um it's kind of like a rescue. So my wife grooms dogs, and her this dog's owner um didn't want him anymore. Kind of smelled bad. Um, she said he was dealing with cancer and she felt like he was gonna pass soon anyway. And in an indirect way, it almost seemed like she wanted him to. So my wife comes to me and she um asked me, Hey, can we take in this dog, blase blase? I want to see if I can, you know, um utilize these natural principles and and bring them back to health. And at first I was very dismissive of it. I just we had another dog at the time, and I was just like, look, we got too much going on. Now we're gonna bring in a dog, and we know what kind of responsibility that is, this, that, and the other. But ultimately she talked me into it, and um, we ended up taking them in, right? And started initially fasting him, putting him on the the correct diet, this, that, and the other. So when we got him, and he's what is he? I think he's eight now. We've had him for about two years. He had cancer, um, huge tumor coming out of his chest. Um smelled horrific. And but was a very happy dog, per se. So we've made the switch for him, and he this his cancer tumor has shrunk tremendously, tremendously. He still stinks, right? Um, he has this bacteria that is literally coming out of his head constantly, consistently having this nasty bacteria coming out of his ears. I shouldn't even say this bacteria. That's probably the wrong word. It's more like um discharge, right? Acidic discharge that comes out of his ears and it just stinks. And we've noticed that at first it was kind of clearish, and then it got a little more greenish, and then a little brownish, and now what's coming out is black. And if anybody's watched Dr. Morse, Dr. Morris talks about how when you start getting to the deep, deep-rooted toxicity and acidity within your body, it's black. And that's what's starting to come out now, and it'll stink. I'm telling you, he eats, he's not, he smells. You know what I'm saying? But that's what we're dealing with. Six years of him eating horrific foods in horrific conditions, where his body was already in the latter stages of disease to where it's, you know, he has a tumor, he has a cancer tumor, he might have more internally. And a lot of people, at least what most people have been taught is let me take him to the doctor. And what the doctor is going to do is ultimately let you know how much time he has left, right? Unless you want to do some form of surgery on him or some other manageable practice that's going to add more acidity and toxicity to his body than actually take it out. Or they're gonna tell you to put him to sleep. But we're allowing his body to do what it does, let it remove all of that. Because eventually, because he's not, he doesn't have the input anymore, he's not eating the the the kibble consistently every single day. Now he's eating the foods that he was designed to eat, he has an opportunity to completely heal himself and revitalize his entire life. Now, that may not happen. He may run out of vital energy. That's that's a part of nature as well, but we're giving him the opportunity to do so, right? So, and also we got a new puppy who's um like five months old and she is completely raw, not completely raw. Uh yeah, completely raw. I'm sorry. She's completely eating her designed um uh diet. So we'll have that to go by as well. But you know, just a snapshot and just of looking at nature and how it works, right? And when our dogs get sick or they're not feeling well, they don't eat. That's natural, that's nature. And we need to take cues from that. It's imperative that we do. You know, so intermittent fasting is just it's a fantastic way, specifically if you're making the transition, because not everybody can do a fast now, and not everybody should. Because remember, like if your body, if you're used to eating a lot of cooked foods, or mostly cooked foods, and you know, meats and and processed foods and heavy starches and seasonings and all those different things, your body internally has created um what I call like safety mechanisms, coatings inside your uh GI tract and in your stomach and your and your um intestines and whatnot to protect it, to protect the tissue from these acidic elements. So what happens is if you go on a fast and you're eating like that, and you go on a lengthy fast, your body is going to ultimately eliminate that protection. And then you come back off your fast, and all of a sudden, you eat those same foods that you were eating beforehand, and it's gonna it can really mess up your connective tissue and just your tissue in general, because that coat that that protection is not there anymore because of what you were eating before and what you started eating after the fast. So that's why I like intermittent fasting as a lifestyle choice, because not everybody is ready to do any form of lengthy fast, even though you'll see reels that'll tell you to do a three-day fast and it's gonna do this, that, and the other, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you know, maybe doing a one or two-day fast might not do as much damage per se, but to me, it's imperative that you're at least, at least majority eating raw fruits and leafy greens before you even entertain doing any type of actual fast. But intermittent fasting, you can start doing immediately, right? Start shortening that window, start giving your body more rest than it ever had before when it comes to um when it comes to um, you know, the process, you know, the your your your schedule of how you of of how you usually eat, you know. Uh start eliminating things like the coffees, like the energy drinks, stuff like that. But the intermittent fasting is great because you shorten that window, you get your body used to eating during a certain time, you get start to you, you start understanding what true hunger really feels like, and um you build off of that. You know, I obviously I credit fruit, you know, switching my diet to to majority raw fruit, a fruit-based lifestyle as the the number one culprit to my transformation, but intermittent fasting is right there with it. Like it's right there with it. And I know that the combination of two is ultimately, you know, what has produced uh the results that I've received. And those results are everything from eliminating eczema, eliminating um stomach issues and digestive issues, eliminating chronic headaches, and eliminating a lot of weight. You know, I lost somewhere around 30, 35 pounds by implementing those two things. You know, so it's just imperative that we understand that, you know, breakfast is something that looked, I mean, there's restaurants dedicated to breakfast, right? You know, there's certain foods that we connect to breakfast that we're addicted to, you know, whether that be biscuits or eggs or cereal, granola bars, you know, things that just correspond with, you know, society's idea of breakfast. Coffee, obviously, is a huge one. But we don't need to be digesting that early. Let our body work on eliminating, you know, let our body ease into the digestive period. Because when we digest, that's a lot of energy taken from us. And it's just simple stuff. Like we know that when we eat, we're tired afterwards. Especially if we're eating things that are not on the right side of energy efficiency. Right? I know that when we eat fruits, we have energy. We feel good. We're not jumping out, you know, plopping down on the couch and unbuttoning our pants and rubbing our stomach. We're not doing that when we eat fruits. I know that. Because I eat a lot of fruit. You know what I'm saying? I mean, I could I could body 10 bananas at a time and I never feel that way. But when you eat something else, you know, you go out to breakfast at first watch, or I don't know, just use iHop or something like that, and you had a stack of pancakes, you can't

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move. Because your body is depleted of energy because of how much energy it takes to digest that stuff. Your body, it's very simple. You know, it's the profit and loss system, you know? You want to eat high-energy foods that cause low digestive burden. So that means that the extra energy you're getting, your body can take that and parlay it and continue to build on it. So it has a surplus of energy. So when it needs to heal something serious, something really tough going on is look, over time may happen because your body is, you know, a product of your choices. So to be able to have that surplus of energy to tap into, it's gonna allow you to do some really deep healing when you do have you know the the the moments to do that, you know, whether that be sleep or intermittent fasting or a long fast. But when you eat foods that are low energy foods, and I'm not talking calories here, I'm talking electricity, nutrition, that cause high digestive burden. That's gonna be your cooked foods, that's gonna be your starches, that's gonna be your meats, your fish, your processed foods, your coffees, your you know, any type of toxic, you know, alcohol, whatever, right? Low and give you low amount of energy, high amount of digestive burden, man, you're not building upon your energy, you are reducing the amount of energy you have. You are tap, you are pulling from the vital energy that you were born with, right? And when you start doing that, that's shortening your lifespan. Because at the end of the day, once you run out of vital energy, that's it. You're done. It's over. And nobody knows how much vital energy they have, what's in their energy tank or their battery pack, I like to say. We don't know. But what I do know is that every day I want to build upon that versus take away from it. I want to be able to add to my vital energy bank, my vital energy battery pack versus pull from it consistently because I'm always at a negative when it comes to how much energy I'm receiving versus how much energy I'm expending. You know, and when we're talking about fasting, people have to understand this too, especially when it comes to exercise and working out and things of that nature. And it's imperative that we exercise. If you don't move it, you lose it. It's great for your lymphatic system and you know, and and whatnot. Um, but when we're not feeling well and we're trying to heal something, we don't need to be expending extra energy doing anything. You need to rest, relax. Because you want your body to be able to utilize every bit of vital energy it can to focus on what is currently wrong, what is out of balance at the moment. But if you're working out and you're burning 500,000 calories or however much it is, and you're eating, where's your body gonna pull the energy from? That's why fasting is so powerful, that's why it's so important. So start with these little steps, start with the intermittent fasting, you know? If 12 to 8 is is is too tough, you know, start at 11. You know, get just an inch closer to that window,

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and start looking at health from that perspective that my body is self-healing, and the only way it can truly heal is that if it has the correct conditions, right? It needs rest, does not need digestive burden, does not need energetic burden, does not need stress burden. All of it matters. You know, going back to what I talked about with Lauren Lockman, you'll go to his facility and you know, he provides a ton of ton of um education as well while you're there, but you know, you're gonna go on this fast and you're not gonna do anything but sit. I mean, I shouldn't even say sit, lay down and sip water throughout the day. You're gonna allow your body the the surplus, you know, to tap into that surplus of energy that you have to start doing some real, real deep cleansing and healing, and you're also rehydrating your body by sipping the water. I never recommend a dry fast because we're just dehydrated by nature. There's no reason we should ever allow our body to get even more dehydrated because when you get dehydrated, guess what? Your body starts pulling water from your organs, from your tissue, from your bones, and that's not good for anybody. So make sure you are drinking water. But yeah, I mean, you go down the Lauren Lockman's facility in Costa Rica, and that's what you do, you know. 20 days, 21 days, no food, just water. And some of the stories he has are just unreal. Unreal. You know? You know, I plan, me and the wife, we really want to do it. We just don't have um, we don't have the the the I shouldn't say the time, it's more along the lines of the the situation right now because we got a young daughter, but once we get the opportunity to do it, we're gonna do it. Because I I know, look, I'm four decades in of bad eating habits and generations beyond generations of of bad eating within my family. Um, I know I have a lot of cleansing to do. Like I know that the right side of my body body is out of balance with my left. Most of my symptoms or things that I've dealt with have been on my right side to this day. I mean, I still deal with stuff on my right side of my body. That means that my right side is overstagnated, my lymphatic system on that side is overstagnated, not to mention my kidney on that side is probably not working as good as the other side. Therefore, it's not filtering as well. Um and and whatnot, and and just the entire process of what's going on on my right side is not working as well as my left, you know, and and I could just tell based on my entire body, you know, my right eye is bad. Um, you know, I lose more hair on my right side than I do my left. Um, I've got a swollen lymph node on my right arm. My right, my right big toe does not look uh is not uh Tonya is not nearly as clean and nice as my, I shouldn't say clean, isn't as nice as my left one. My right ankle um periodically gets hurt more than my left. You know what I'm saying? Like all these different things. I have inflammation sometimes that pops up on my right hip, not my left. So a lot of different things that happen on my right side, and I'm probably missing some. I lost uh years ago, I lost a tooth on my right side. You know what I'm saying? Like these aren't coincidences. This is this is bodily, this is systemic. You know, so even though, you know, I'm at a place where my diet is intact, right? Uh, you know, I'm I'm living this fruit-based lifestyle. I'm not perfect. I've made major strides, major achievements, but I'm not anywhere near perfection. But I know what the gold standard is, and I'm trying to get as close as I can to it. But it's going to take time for me to truly heal everything that's going on in my body. And that'll be a continuous thing for as long as I for as long as I'm here. But in the meantime, I feel better, I look better, you know, um, I just energetically I feel much, you know, just like I'm at my best. And I know that for the rest of my life, I'm going to be living, I'm not going to be marching to death. You know what I'm saying? Because that's that's that's the the real contrast of the mindset of a lot of people, and it's and it's based on what they go through. You know, I got a lot of people that tell me all the time, man, just wait, man, wait till you get old, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, I understand that thinking, and they're dealing with things, and I totally get it. But those things are manifestations and results of their choices. So the sooner you start making better choices, remember, the betterment of me or the detriment of me, the sooner you start making the better choices, the longer you're gonna be able to live in a sense of harmony. Because no one lives forever. The body will ultimately break down, but you want to ride it out as long as you possibly can. And not only just ride it out, but ride it out in a way that, you know, you can enjoy your life. Instead of, man, I can barely walk anymore. Well, man, you know, I've worked my entire life. I finally retired, and I can't even enjoy shit because I'm on 17 pills. Or I gotta go to the doctor every Wednesday, and I gotta go to physical therapy every Thursday, or you know, three multiple times a week. And I gotta use a walker, I gotta use a cane. I can, you know what I'm saying? I can't drive anymore, I can't have sex anymore. I don't have any testosterone left, or you know, from a female side, you know, the same things emotionally. I'm I'm going through different things and I don't have enough estrogen, and you know, now they're telling me this, that, and the other. All these different things, right? They're all manifestations of our choices. And how do we know this? Well, we look at different cultures, right? You know, there's the blue zones, and I'm sure if you guys have ever watched the blue zones on Netflix, you'll see people that live well into their hundreds. And a common theme, there's a lot of common themes in there. You know, less stress, purpose, cleaner diets, activity, right? All those things correlate to to a you know to help these people live longer lives. And of course, gen X is a part of it too. You look at America, man, we are we're on a struggle bus when it comes to all that. It just is what it is. You know, we you really, really, truly want to enjoy your life, you know, you have to start putting these things into practice immediately. Give yourself the best opportunity to live the best life. Now, if making the decision of giving up a steak or giving up hamburgers is not going to make you live a happy life, if you're sitting there saying, man, well, if I can't have these foods, then shit, is life even worth living? I think you got some reflecting to do. If eating those foods and foods that make you feel a certain way is that important to you, I think there's some deeper issues there. You know what I'm saying? Maybe, maybe you're not happy with yourself, or maybe you haven't found your true passions or been able to truly start living your site living your life for yourself if food and that type of food is that important to you. You feel what I'm saying? You know, there was that joke, um, and I'll probably butcher the joke, but I'll give you the gist of it about the the person who was vegan for 60 years of their life and then they died, and this last thing he said was it wasn't worth it, or some shit like that. Obviously, uh that joke was created by a meat eater. Because, like, when you start going this route, this plant-based route, like you don't even think about that stuff anymore. Like, I'm what am I, almost nine years of not eating any meat. And like eating meat doesn't even cross my mind anymore. Like, it's not even a thing, it's not even a thought, it's not even an idea anymore. There's no cravings for that stuff or anything like that. The only thing I crave now is cooked food once in a while. You know what I'm saying? Um, that's my battle is continuously, you know, living a you know, majority raw lifestyle. You know, that's my battle. Take those incremental steps, you know, intermittent fasting, just implementing that, the the window of 12 to 8, right, is is going to do wonders for you. And understanding, flipping that switch of understanding that, okay, okay, my body's gonna heal itself. There's nothing out there that's going to help my body. As long as I'm giving it the right conditions, eating the right foods, or I'm I'm trying to eat the best foods I possibly can and giving it the proper rest. Look, most of us, most the average diet is somewhere along the lines of what 40-50% fat, like the calories are 40 to 50 percent fat. That's the average diet out there right now. So that means the average individual, and based on American numbers, the majority of individuals have a lot of fat that they can burn off. What does that mean? Well, guess what? What do um animals do when they go into dormancy or hibernation? Right? They try to pack themselves up, right? So they can stay dormant or sleep for long periods of time and still have the energy to survive because it can feed off the fat. And most of us got a lot of fat that we can we can utilize. So we can we can go long periods of time, guys, without any food. We will be okay. I promise. This whole concept of when we gotta eat, man, I gotta eat something. You don't want me to get hangry, all these different things, right? Excuses. And just understand what true hunger is. It is not that pain that you feel in your stomach. That pain is a result of the choices. How do I know that? Well, when you start going down this path and you start feeding yourself the right things, and your body starts to change, it becomes more aware, it becomes more, it becomes, it starts giving you a better ability to communicate with yourself. And your body will let you know what's truly going on. So when I started transitioning and I got to the point where you know I was eating majority fruit and leafy greens, when I would eat cooked food, the next morning, I'd be extremely hungry when I woke up. Or I'm sorry, not extremely hungry. I would feel that quote unquote pain in my stomach that we um we think is actual hunger.

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We misdiagnose as hunger. And I started noticing that. Like when I ate the correct diet, I wouldn't feel that. I'd wake up, I'd feel good, I'd go throughout my day, and everything would just go. It would flow every day, Monday into Tuesday, Tuesday into Wednesday. But the moment I ate cooked food for dinner, I'd go to sleep, and I'd wake up and I'd feel extremely hungry in the morning. To this day, same thing. It's because it's not true hunger. Like I said, it is that bad bacteria, those parasites, that fungus within your body that is screaming for that because that's the only way they survive. That's what's going on. It's not true hunger. Like I said, true hunger, it feels like being thirsty in a way. Because you're getting, when you're eating the right diet, when you're eating the optimal diet, you're getting so much hydration from that food. And remember, we are all chronically dehydrated just from years and generations and generations of eating dehydrating diets. It's the only reason we have to drink water, because as a human, we are not built to drink water. We're supposed to only get water from our fruits. Another thing Lauren Lockman says is since he has been doing this for decades, right? He barely ever drinks water anymore because he doesn't need it. Because he has cleaned his body out so well and he's so hydrated now, he doesn't really need to sip water. But the rest of us, we are so chronically dehydrated, we have to drink water. If you're eating a raw, majority raw diet, you need it, you need at least a gallon a day. And that's not easy, but you can work your way up to it. I don't get there every every day, but I try to. And if you're eating cooked food, majority cooked food, you need like two to three gallons a day just to compensate. You have to understand that to even have a bowel movement, your body has to pull a tremendous amount of water to do that, especially when the foods that you're eating are dehydrating. Because you're not getting it, you're not getting the water from the food, you have to get it from somewhere. So your body starts pulling it from other parts of your body. That is a very bad practice. That is why people, when they start to get in their 40s, 50s, and 60s have trouble walking. All of a sudden their joints hurt, their bones hurt, they can't move the way they used to move because they are turning into uh dried up, you know, stone, basically. Literal stone. Not to mention the amount of salt people eat. Remember, salt is absolutely dehydrating. That's why nothing can live in the Dead Sea. Because there's so much salt. So when we're eating tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of salt, guess what it's doing to our body? It's dehydrating it. So taking all those things into account, you'll understand why it is imperative, you know, to eat more uh water-based foods and to implement intermittent fasting. So, you know, if you need some more tips on intermittent fasting, I do offer coaching. I offer free consultations on my website, the links in the description, or you can go to the eatcoach.com. Um, I also do customized dietary plans, right? So just reach out with that, with whatever you're looking to do to get yourself on the path because it's not easy, right? We could think it's easy, it's not easy. It's something that takes time, right? You know, I've worked with plenty of people, and what I do is I I look at your current lifestyle, specifically how you eat, your your nature-based lifestyle, what do you look like from a mindful, mindful, emotional perspective? And I build this plan around you, right? Specific to you. That's why it's customized to help you to have a plan in place that is uh built for you to be most successful. Because that's ultimately what we want. We don't want to give you something and you know, or give some cookie cutter plan to you that you know you might try for a week and then you're just gonna stop because it's not really tailored to you and how you live. So, and what your goals are at the end of the day. So, anyways, so yeah, reach out to me if you have any questions on that. And look, I I eventually want to take this podcast to a video format, but I'm only gonna do that. Only gonna do that once I get 20 reviews, right? I need 20 reviews, whether that be on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, um, I need 20. Right? If I can get 20 reviews. I'll make a video. I'll make the video format of this. All right. So we'll see. So if you want to help the show out and help more people see it, definitely leave me a review. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it and whatnot. But other than that, I'll be back next time. But remember, look, just start slow, right? Start start with an incremental change of maybe one day a week, you do 12 to 8, or you just shift it to 11 because 12 might be too far. But you start there and we'll see where we get. All right. Peace, love, and light, everybody. You guys be good.