[SPEAKER_01]: your listening to the Adventure Sports podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for adventuring with us as we discover what incredible athletes and outdoor enthusiasts are doing all over the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now here's your host, Kurt Linville.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey friends, thanks for joining the Adventure Sports podcast today.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have Lori Ballou with us and you may have noticed that I've started doing kind of a more health-related podcast about once a month or so.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what today's episode is about and I think this is one of the most important health-related topics that we've covered on the Adventure Sports podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just gonna read some stats that I just looked up because I want you to know what we're talking about.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about metabolism today.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about being overweight and being healthy weight and being obese and diabetes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, these things will shut down your adventures.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're gonna talk about ways to restore your health.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna talk about ways to stay healthy in the first place.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this is really a much bigger crisis in the United States and around the world than you may know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just looked up from the National Institutes of Health, a breakdown of people that are overweight and obese or overweight or obese, which, you know, what's the difference?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know, but get ready for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the United States pre-schoolers, we're talking about 2 to 5 years old, 27 percent, that used to be almost zero.
[SPEAKER_00]: You, thin adolescence, 36 percent, we're talking about people under the age of 20, 36 percent.
[SPEAKER_00]: Younger adults, 20 to 39, 67 percent.
[SPEAKER_00]: Middle age, that's 40 to 59,
[SPEAKER_00]: and seniors actually are doing slightly better, but it might not be for the right reasons, 75%.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lori, welcome to the program.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lori blew her business as aging adventurously, and her practice is metabolic restoration.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she's a metabolic restoration practitioner.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a mouthful, but Lori, thank you for coming on so that we can learn more about how to manage this crisis and how we can be more adventurous.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for having me and one of the things that I started thinking about was on my last Grand Canyon hike.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like passing up these ladies that are maybe in their 40s, they're struggling, they've got pain in their legs and they're really struggling getting up the hill.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I turned around to talk to them and said, well, are you getting enough protein?
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you know, what are you doing to support your protein and muscle growth?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I know it was just an interesting conversation because that's when I noticed that I was doing really really well on my recovery and pain free hiking, so it was pretty exciting to realize that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Lori, I think that people can't tell from your voice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you're 58.
[SPEAKER_00]: You said I'm 58.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I always joked that I'm 23 that I'm 23 at heart, but I've also begun to learn that as a 58 year old sometimes you have to manage things differently than when you're 23, but the mistakes we make when we're 23 can lead to a lot worse 58 or 63.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, so this is a lifelong thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, if you start working on being aware of your health so that if you start thinking, okay, we think about retirement and that we need certain amount of money at 60, but have you thought about your muscle growth and the health of your body so that when you hit 60, you could make 90 or 100.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you want to be able to live an active lifestyle over 60 over 50.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you don't actually think about that at a younger age because you're not aware of it,
[SPEAKER_02]: and you're not listening to podcasts like this, then you're going to be short-changing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And from those statistics that you mentioned, the other side of those statistics is because those are so high, what they're noticing is cancer rates are going lower and lower.
[SPEAKER_02]: and then diseases that used to start in the late 60s are now starting in the 40s.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I had a friend who lost his son in his 40s who from cancer.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we do say, cancer is going lower.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're saying they're happening to people at younger and younger ages.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, because that right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Correct, in the food system.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so obesity triggers a lot of other things.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, so when you have obesity, it is a higher insulin load on the body.
[SPEAKER_02]: which creates more growth factors and it also causes issues with detoxification.
[SPEAKER_02]: So your body is growing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we have all have cancer cells.
[SPEAKER_02]: If we are not getting insulin in a regulated state, normally as athletics, we're burning through the glucose.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're getting better insulin sensitivity.
[SPEAKER_02]: However, they've noticed with a lot of studies that even athletes who are pounding down too much sugar on their races or in their endurance athlete trials,
[SPEAKER_02]: They are looking at them and noticing that they're insulin resistant, even though they're still burning through their glucose, they are higher insulin resistance, leading to more disease build up in the body.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it, you could be skinny fat or in thinner and still have insulin resistance leading to pre-diabetes because of the type of fuel that you're using.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Skinny Fat is you look thin on the outside, but you could be riddled with a visceral fat on the inside.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so you can have inflammatory fat that doesn't show, but it's inside the body.
[SPEAKER_02]: And often that's what happens with athletes who are creating too much oxidative stress, who aren't actually burning their visceral fat naturally, you're building it up and becoming inflammatory, it's the inflammatory process that keeps us from having
[SPEAKER_02]: the energy and the motivation to get out and move more is if we feel sluggish and our motivation turns off it could become inflammation building up in the body from higher insulin load on the body.
[SPEAKER_00]: We interview many people on the show who are alter endurance athletes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're amazing, and I love to hear their stories.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not quite there, so yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, but I have heard that people that do a lot of long-distance endurance type activities actually can be at higher risk for that skinny, fat experience.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, and I, you know, I constantly study and listen to what I know is going to grow my information.
[SPEAKER_02]: and I love listening to Dr. Wallick in one of the things he states, stated recently, is the lack of selenium for the heart and all the athletes who just drop dead young, who look completely fit and just are not getting nutrients into their heart, into their body, and there could be combinations of the visceral fat.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you're not getting good fat for the body and absorbing fat soluble nutrients and you're not getting selenium, you're going to have a heart issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: And wow, because I mean, we hear of people who are just helping to just drop dead.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why?
[SPEAKER_02]: What's going on inside their body?
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's a beautiful introduction for what we're going to dive into more.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to hear your personal story, though, because it is also remarkable and by way of introduction to your personal story, I just jumped on to your Instagram and you had a, you know, a little real there of you sprinting down the road and you were hauling, I mean, you were going so fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was barefoot, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: you were barefoot on a gravel road.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you were running like, I mean, that was impressive.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I come back to 63 years old running like a 20 year old, but that wasn't always the case.
[SPEAKER_00]: So will you tell us your story?
[SPEAKER_02]: So I, in my early 30s, had reached 225 pounds.
[SPEAKER_02]: And my weight lost journey kind of started at that moment because on that very day that I'm thinking about I walked into my living room and my then husband was sitting on the sofa never looked at me and just asked me when am I going to lose the weight.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so at that moment I got an exercise bike I started thinking about diets and I started my my journey of figuring out how to get my body back under control it took me 30 years to figure all this out.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a long time, but I, but it, my actual, um, the diet change that worked for me specifically because I'm an obesity survivor at this point was a low carbon attrition.
[SPEAKER_01]: I could not do this without low carbon attrition, keto saved my life.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there is a very, you know, keto can be something that scares people away, but what they've noticed in the studies is,
[SPEAKER_02]: If we're getting the right fuel for our body, we can reduce the visceral fat, reduce the inflammatory lower in our body and have more energy for exercise.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what this did for me was it enabled me to turn my brain back on, get more motivation, have more energy to get more movement.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's when I started increasing my movement and started being able to reverse my asthma because I couldn't be active enough while I had the asthma.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so once I got rid of the asthma, I was able to start increasing it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I could start half marathon because my body became capable.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so losing the weight made a big difference for me, but it wasn't just the weight.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was the visceral fat.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was the inflammatory lower my body.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was the pre-diabetes.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was the breakdown of my metabolism that I had to correct, which I really didn't know what I was doing at the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just want to lose the weight and I want to feel better in my body.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that was the goal.
[SPEAKER_02]: It had been the goal most of my life
[SPEAKER_02]: I had depression as a child, and it turns out that I had a lot of food sensitivities that were causing me to have the asthma, to have the brain fog, to have the depression, and when I took those out, I was able to then focus on correcting my metabolism step-by-step and then building up motivation and ability to walk and then start running jogging and just
[SPEAKER_02]: doing a half marathon at Zion and that was the greatest thing ever.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, I get to go outside and nature and be near these these beautiful mountains and all this color just gave me so much energy and I had no pain whatsoever.
[SPEAKER_02]: My very first half marathon.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had totally dialed it in, you know, just everything I did was just perfect and and hold where you when you did that and that was back in 2020.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that was, well, five years ago, yeah, so 58.
[SPEAKER_02]: 57.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's impressive.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to highlight something you just said there.
[SPEAKER_00]: You said I had to get rid of the asthma So many people say I have asthma.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're almost saying I am asthma.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what that is a lot people Have these conditions and it's almost like that's who they become that's who they are But I never accepted the asthma and I dealt with that since my 30s if not earlier
[SPEAKER_02]: And I remember going to myologist and telling him, I said, I didn't want to be on an inhaler, but he told me I would always be on an inhaler.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was what he considered truth.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't choose that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I went out of my way to figure out how to get rid of the asthma.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I eventually threw away my inhaler through my breathing machine, changing, and taking out, see, this is the thing that's the easiest thing for people to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just find your food sensitivities.
[SPEAKER_02]: What are you reacting to?
[SPEAKER_02]: you can get rid of the asthma if you do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I did is, you know, if you just have to decide to spend that quality time on yourself and figure it all out.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when I did that, I no longer have asthma.
[SPEAKER_02]: If I go back to dairy during a specific inflammatory response to me, this happened a few months ago, I went straight into an asmatic episode, which I hadn't had in years, what I had some, I had some kefir
[SPEAKER_02]: something that knocked me out.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was only a day and I'm aware that I'm hypersensitive to knowing what reacts to my body and I'm able to course correct very rapidly to make sure that my body is
[SPEAKER_02]: not going to go into any more inflammation than it needs to.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will back it right out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just like I don't get sick.
[SPEAKER_02]: If I start to get a virus, I just back it out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know exactly what I need to do to not get sick.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you're not eating foods that you're sensitive to, you can keep the mucus under control.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you can stop the mucus, not get sick.
[SPEAKER_02]: And stay healthy.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's part of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of steps to it in some ways.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I live it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I've
[SPEAKER_02]: My metabolic restoration process based on everything that I've done and created a body that healthy at 63 that can climb up the Grand Canyon in five hours from the river and relatively easy and no pain passing up people who are younger than me and getting to the top and thinking okay well that was fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a huge contrast with where you were.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so, you know, I said some people almost like I am asthma, but people do say I am obese or I am fat and they start thinking, well, this is the way I'm made it's genetic.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's my metabolism.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just always going to be this way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm glad you're bringing that up because that runs in my family.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can turn on or off your disease causing genes by how your environment is, how you react with your environment and how you put food into your body's information.
[SPEAKER_02]: So my grandmother was one that was more overweight back in the day when people weren't overweight.
[SPEAKER_02]: All of my brothers and sisters have either had cancer or diabetes are both and I've already lost three siblings to obesity and disease.
[SPEAKER_02]: DNA as the gun and then what's the trigger for that gun to pull that DNA to cause it to create cancer or diabetes in your body or even obesity if you know what can reverse that it's more environment than it is DNA.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cancer is not genetic, it's a metabolic dysfunction in our body.
[SPEAKER_02]: If we get to the point that we start early, like you know, 20s and 30s, if we're not aware of what sugar does to the body, you're building up towards a cancer in your body over time because of the expression of the DNA in a bad way, as opposed to turning it off and correcting it and keeping it healthy long-term.
[SPEAKER_02]: and that the thing that most people who are adventuring out there who are endurance athletes, what they're doing is burning through the glucose so it doesn't build up as readily or as fast, but you could still be in an insulin resistant state.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you know, my whole family was, is have that issue for diabetes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I turned mine off.
[SPEAKER_02]: I reversed my pre-diabetes before I got to be diabetic.
[SPEAKER_02]: I helped my brother reverse his diabetes.
[SPEAKER_02]: and these are all things that everybody can do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because if you look back at the studies of the Pima Indians, there's a study of anybody can pull this up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Half of those Pima Indians went on a reservation.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are the most obese population.
[SPEAKER_02]: Their eat in subsist on white flower, white sugar, and they're immobile.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're not mobile.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're not getting outdoors.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're not living off the land.
[SPEAKER_02]: You take the other half, they move to Mexico, they're in this remote area, they're living off the land, they're super slender, they're muscular, they're healthy, they have no diabetes.
[SPEAKER_02]: No disease, what's the difference, it's the lifestyle, it's how you express your DNA.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, here's a question then about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people find themselves a little overweight or a lot overweight and their low energy and they hear someone like you say you can fix this and they're like, are you kidding me?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm exhausted.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I, how would I even start?
[SPEAKER_02]: One of the things is the self-care you were talking about is making that choice to take care of yourself, and to figure out what it is that you need to do, what could be the first step to take, to get some more energy.
[SPEAKER_02]: One of the biggest things that we can do is make sure we're outside grounding and getting morning sunlight because that is energy to our body.
[SPEAKER_02]: that will help us feel more motivated and help us sleep better at night because if we're sleeping better at night we have more energy during the day.
[SPEAKER_02]: So circadian balance is one way that we can do that and that was one of the things that helped me is that I liked being outside barefoot and I'm able to get energy by being outside and doing that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I have a really hard time coming inside outdoors gives me energy.
[SPEAKER_02]: The light gives me energy grounding does.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that is one of the
[SPEAKER_02]: The other thing that was the biggest healing opportunity for me was finding out my food sensitivities.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is one of the things that helped me determine that I am red sensitive to wheat and dairy.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was causing depression, inflammation and lack of motivation.
[SPEAKER_02]: and keeping me pre-diabetic, I did not have any energy to do the movement that I did today because of those foods that I was eating.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not everybody reacts that strongly, but I had depression as a youngster and gained 200 pounds in my adolescence and I had to reverse that and stabilize.
[SPEAKER_02]: In my mom helped me do that, but she put me on an atkins diet back when I was a child, which helped me reset my metabolism then.
[SPEAKER_02]: but I didn't know then what I know now that I have to keep those foods out of my diet to stay healthy and I've made that choice.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you can't make that choice if you don't understand why you're doing it.
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of the times people just think they're on a diet and they just have to be on a diet, cut their calories, and maybe exercise more so they could lose the weight.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did that my whole life in it never worked.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the things I figured out what your food sensitivity's worth.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so I didn't right away going on a low carb diet,
[SPEAKER_02]: It takes the wheat out of your diet.
[SPEAKER_02]: It takes the sugar out of your diet.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was able to at that point get a brain start functioning better so I could think better and have more energy and get excited about living.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I took at the MRT food sensitivity test by Oxford and it is a blood draw.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what it does is it checks your food sensitivities at the white mediator cells.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when you do that, it shows what your blood is reacting to.
[SPEAKER_02]: mine was reacting to Darry and I didn't know that, but I still had congestion and asthma, even until I took out the dairy because I didn't know I was reacting to it until I had that food sensitivity test.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did get, I've always had flum.
[SPEAKER_02]: I always had congestion when I had dairy.
[SPEAKER_02]: If I have a weight protein shake, I react with congestion and flum, so I don't use any way unless it's very minimal.
[SPEAKER_02]: but I try to stay away from it.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you get this information, what's the that's the very first thing we need to do is how can we get our carbohydrates lower so we could get our brain to function with better ketones rather than glucose because even though the brain needs glucose to work, if your insulin resistance that glucose is not letting your brain work and so you're going to be filtered and you're going to feel inflamed and you're not going to
[SPEAKER_02]: And even coconut oil or something as simple as the ketone IQ, what that does is help you get better brain energy to help focus that along with figuring out what your food sensitivities are helps you have a brain that functions so that you could be more motivated and start to feel.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, this really works.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is giving me information.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just had a client say she goes, oh my god, the test that she ran with me.
[SPEAKER_02]: She goes that blue her way because she now knows what to focus on is she didn't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: at 72 that these are the things that she needed to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: She was eating well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Her triglycerides were good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Her HDL was good.
[SPEAKER_02]: She still was overweight and couldn't get the motivation and the energy she needed.
[SPEAKER_02]: The other thing that was going on was too much blue light at night.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, there's, there's can be many things and I hope I, I'm not going too far down the rabbit hole here, but getting the sleep organized.
[SPEAKER_02]: gives you more energy during the day and it's all connected to circadian rhythm, unlike exposure.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then when we figure out what our food sensitivities are, that can be a very good step to figure out how can we stop the inflammation in our body so we can get more energy to move more.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what turned off my asthma and reduced it and helped me start reducing obesity and prediabetes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Laurie, I'm going to be the devil's advocate just a little bit here, because I know people are thinking this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you're offering people sounds to good to be true in the sense that they've tried the diets.
[SPEAKER_00]: They've tried, you know, they've they've they've felt defeated by it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, many people say you were talking about taking away foods, but food is how I cope with life and they may say it's it's not even worth it because food is how I get by.
[SPEAKER_00]: And food does become an addiction.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mmm, it does.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is food isn't addiction.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a drug.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've heard other people say, well, my food is my medicine, which is a little different attitude.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what you're talking about is, let's get rid of the foods that we're sensitive to.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that right there is almost a non-starter for some people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have any recommendations?
[SPEAKER_02]: So the way I did this, because I was addicted to all the foods.
[SPEAKER_02]: And
[SPEAKER_02]: What is interesting is I'm a baker, my grandmother was a baker.
[SPEAKER_02]: I made everything low-car.
[SPEAKER_02]: If I wanted to eat something and I wanted to feel good in my body, I needed to feel good in my body.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was stuck and I just made everything low-car.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have a recipe book that I use.
[SPEAKER_02]: I made cookies, I make bread, I just make sure that it's low-car.
[SPEAKER_02]: The other day, somebody said, oh, you know,
[SPEAKER_02]: And she says, well, I'm eating all these cinnamon rolls.
[SPEAKER_02]: I said, well, make them low carb.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you eat them low carb, you feel full.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to, most of the part of the problem is people are not getting right amount of protein into their body and into their brain.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they can't focus on feeling good because they're not getting protein into the body and into the brain to get that satiation.
[SPEAKER_02]: Saciation needs to be met.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you meet Saciation, you don't crave the other foods.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're able to say no to them and find other things that make you feel good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I use coffee.
[SPEAKER_02]: I use collagen.
[SPEAKER_02]: I made coconut flour biscuits that I had this morning and I ate that with peanut butter.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't go without food.
[SPEAKER_02]: I still eat.
[SPEAKER_02]: I made keto cookies.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am turning my boyfriend's health around right now and helping him reverse his diabetes and his cancer risk because unlike you just hear I sent him home with all this food here's the cookies here is some bread to eat and here is some biscuits and here's a meal.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean if we prepare and think beyond what the daily moment feels like it's I feel is can be done.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I have noticed with my clients is they're not eating enough protein.
[SPEAKER_02]: Once they start eating enough protein, the food addiction goes away.
[SPEAKER_02]: You feel better.
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't crave that anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, you're going to crave it right away.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you go off these foods, you're going to have cravings because it's an addiction.
[SPEAKER_02]: And your brain is expecting that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so what you do when you nourish your body,
[SPEAKER_02]: and you start to feel excited and you have more energy, that self-care then becomes your motivation to feel better.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you don't feel good and you want to feel better, there's if you give yourself two weeks to give a trial on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Get your carbs lower, just do it a little at a time.
[SPEAKER_02]: get it a little bit lower and clean up the quality of your food and start that could be a really good step to do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not on a diet.
[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't been on a diet since I was 53.
[SPEAKER_02]: I transitioned into low carb living and it saved my life.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I reversed pre-diabetes in asthma and that was a choice I did make.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is not going to be easy for everybody.
[SPEAKER_02]: It took me seven years but it was my whole
[SPEAKER_02]: getting wheat out of my brain.
[SPEAKER_02]: And because you got to look at wheat is gluten, gluten, okay, there is, um, it's called gluteomorphine.
[SPEAKER_02]: You, it goes into your morphine receptors in your brain.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it acts like it lights it up, like morphine will.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what gluten does.
[SPEAKER_02]: And people are not aware of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk just a moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's the whole food pyramid thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: right and that was introduced I don't know the 1950s or something I have to go look that up but the federal government decided it was a good way to feed a society and you know they they say well the base of the pyramid is your breads and cereals the carbs that's what you're supposed to live on and then above is that crazy and then above that they would put like your fruits and vegetables right and your dairy and at the very very top there's like okay
[SPEAKER_00]: What you're saying is that pyramid flipped on its head.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, no, you don't need the carbs, you need the protein.
[SPEAKER_02]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we have generations of Americans that were raised with the food pyramid, you are what you eat.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it's working for us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, look at those statistics you stated on obesity and the cancer rates of people getting sick
[SPEAKER_02]: But what's happening is people have, this is what happened back in the, back in the 50s, nobody was obese, unless you had a really DNA issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what they were doing were still eating three meals a day.
[SPEAKER_02]: They were eating their protein.
[SPEAKER_02]: They were getting their natural fats.
[SPEAKER_02]: They did not have as much grains and they didn't rely on a lot of sugar.
[SPEAKER_02]: What happened after the 70s is they started doing the food pyramid, increasing more carbohydrates took out the good protein, took out the fat, those were protective.
[SPEAKER_02]: then people started getting sick more and having more issues with diabetes and heart disease back in the 1900s with a natural diet there was not even a cardiologist did not even exist there was no such thing that's fascinating you know so many people were raised during the time period and you could call it a great food experiment it was an experiment on us and
[SPEAKER_02]: to this experiment on the human race.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's crazy as a young man.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought the food pyramid was a way to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I ate almost no meat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very, very low protein, very high carb.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was exhausted all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was sick all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Literally.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, my gastrointestinal health was very poor.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when I would climb 14ers, you know, I might be a 12 or 14 hour day.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the only way that I could do it was to have a constant flow of carbs.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I would have to carry enough carbs in my pack that I could be nibbling something all day long.
[SPEAKER_00]: One day on a 14 or I thought, man, I'm really just filling gas.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need to, I need to, I need to, more energy.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I stopped and I ate a brownie.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was full of white flour and sugar.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought, okay, I should be fueled now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll go.
[SPEAKER_00]: It took away all my strength.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, uh, zapped me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought, wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what's supposed to be energy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I started looking into it more and more eventually.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was diagnosed as, um, almost silly.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, I, I, I, I call it gluten intolerant, but I have a severe reaction to gluten.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that got me away from the carbs, and I started feeling better.
[SPEAKER_00]: And little by little, I learned if I have a protein forward diet, I just do a heck of a lot more.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fats and proteins, and not unhealthy fats, healthy fats.
[SPEAKER_00]: But so sometimes we learn by the school of heart knocks, so we have to flip the food pyramid upside down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that for everybody or just some people?
[SPEAKER_02]: These statistics are showing that everybody will do better on this process.
[SPEAKER_02]: Look again, back to the 50s and even the early 1900s.
[SPEAKER_02]: There was less disease and heart attack risk back in the early 1900s.
[SPEAKER_02]: And even in the 1950s, there was no very little obesity.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very little.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you look at beach pictures, people were not obese.
[SPEAKER_02]: They were eating meat.
[SPEAKER_02]: They were eating very minimal grains, and they were not relying on sugar, and they were eating natural fats.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it does help us stay healthier.
[SPEAKER_02]: What was I wanted to get at?
[SPEAKER_02]: I liked, I like bringing up Dr. Tim Knokes in South Africa.
[SPEAKER_02]: He wrote the book on running.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was one of the professors that had a book out on running.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he believed that, like you said, everybody should have that carbohydrates to be fueled.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then he got diabetes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's like, well, I've been following all these rules and I have diabetes and then he started doing his research and he started following the information on low carb nutrition and he started doing that as well and he started to correct his diabetes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then he tore up his book and he said, well, this is all wrong.
[SPEAKER_02]: And a South Africa took him to court for four years to battle the fact that he changed his mind on nutrition.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a, there's a book out on it that's really interesting, but he, um, he was an advocate for high carb eating and he's doing studies to this day showing people that when you do that, you will have insulin resistance.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there are studies out on that now, even as athletes burning through the glucose, you are still raising your body and damaging it with insulin resistance
[SPEAKER_02]: correct to your regardless of age.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for the younger people that are out there, you're just tearing it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I applaud you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fantastic what you do with an adventure focus lifestyle.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just blown away by by what you're doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It, you gotta get this stuff right because it's not age related.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like, oh, when I hit 50, I better have more protein.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and that's what I like to say, it's not age, it's metabolism because when I was in my early 30s, I was battling, I wanted to have another child that I'd already had one baby and I seemed to have some infertility.
[SPEAKER_02]: I went to the doctor, told me I had PCOS, and that is polycystic PCOS, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and it is a, I did not know back then what that was but
[SPEAKER_02]: dominant state where actually testosterone is higher, you become less fertile and most a lot of women to stay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Currently, a lot of women are stuck in that position and there's a lot of less fertility because of this process.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, if I'd known then what I know now, I never would have lost my 30s and 40s to obesity and being as medic and depressed and not being able to get out and have adventures, I didn't start adventuring until later in my early 50s
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, looking at hiking.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like to get you now doing some hiking, but I could never go very far with asthma.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's really kind of hard to take a breather machine out camping and you have to use your breather machine during spring.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, that makes a really loud noise, been there done that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, what about joint pain?
[SPEAKER_02]: I used to have joint pain.
[SPEAKER_02]: I used to have excruciating knee pain.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when I first started hiking the Grand Canyon back when I was 53, about 10 years ago,
[SPEAKER_02]: I hike down to the Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and excruciating knee pain.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hobbled all the way down it took me nine hours to get down there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I would just over the years I started low carb right after that and my knee pain cleared up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't have any knee pain to this day.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's all gone.
[SPEAKER_02]: I completely cleared it up by reducing inflammation, eating, we're protein bringing in the good fat and taking out the foods that were inflammatory to my body.
[SPEAKER_02]: No more knee pain, the last take I did in the Grand Canyon and I've been down five times.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was completely painless.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: So many people kind of give up on activity because of the pain.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I just can't do anything when I'm too old.
[SPEAKER_00]: right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or young people are having these experiences now.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many people are like, oh my knees are killing me, I can't do it, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember feeling creaky and back in my 40s climbing up, I mean, I didn't do a lot of hiking, so but I would climb up the stairs at a theater and I could feel neat pain in my knees.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't know then what that meant.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it started way back in my 40s at least.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I would lose weight and gain it back.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I was on a weight loss journey.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I could lose weight, but I could not keep it off.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I would gain it back each and every time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I would just stay depressed, stay as minute.
[SPEAKER_02]: Interesting thing is, even if I lost the weight, I never lost that inflammation.
[SPEAKER_02]: I never stopped the allergies that asthma, the sinusitis, the bronchitis, and it's always there.
[SPEAKER_02]: No matter what, until I went low carb and actually reduced the inflammation
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, what is your focus?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, metabolic restoration, first of all, let's just go back to the basics a little bit, but I want to dive into this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know with all the dietary stuff that we've been talking about, we're actually already talking about metabolic restoration.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: We haven't put the word to it, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, what is metabolism?
[SPEAKER_00]: People generally know, but what is metabolism?
[SPEAKER_02]: metabolism, it is the way your body uses energy and it is how your body functions at the root level of using insulin, getting energy, your ATP energy, your mitochondria.
[SPEAKER_02]: everything that works together to create the body we have it.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's minerals that needs to run, where we, where we, where we like spark plugs, we run on minerals.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's part of the metabolism.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've got your thyroid, your hormone, your, um, all of that supports a metabolism.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's functioning correctly.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we need to find our mineral balances.
[SPEAKER_02]: We need to find our hormone balances.
[SPEAKER_02]: We need to support the thyroid.
[SPEAKER_02]: all of this is supporting a process that gives us energy so that we can move and have optimal health.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I heard someone the other day, Lori, and I thought, oh, well, that's fascinating.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've heard most of my life, people say things like, well, as you age your metabolism slows down.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just going to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to gain weight.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to be able to keep the weight off as easily you lose energy and I've heard this.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I heard someone the other day say, well, that's not actually true.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happens is, as you accumulate more and more years of not doing the right things, your metabolism starts
[SPEAKER_00]: to be restricted or it suffers from the accumulated effects of bad habits, but it's not your age that's doing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's how you're behaving this doing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you speak to that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so what is I call it the hidden finding hidden healing opportunities or there is on the functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner that's where I started.
[SPEAKER_02]: and have become more of a metabolic restoration practitioner through all of my lived experience.
[SPEAKER_02]: But one of the things that we look at is hormones, immune, digestion, detoxification, the energy and nervous systems.
[SPEAKER_02]: to find out what's going on with your metabolism and to help you put your body back together again.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we use diet or something called functional diagnostic nutrition and uses the direct process where it's diet, rest, exercise, stress, and supplementation.
[SPEAKER_02]: when we actually look at all of this, what we are doing is supporting a metabolism that can function again.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you take away the blocks that block the healing, when you have digestion that's not functioning, you're not absorbing the right nutrients to have the energy that you want to have.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're not able to digest the fat and you have fat malabsorption, you're not going to get your fat soluble nutrients absorbed.
[SPEAKER_02]: You could have protein malabsorption
[SPEAKER_02]: to absorb your protein and this can cause blocks further down the digestive tract.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so if your digestive tract is not functioning, that could mess up your hormones as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: And as women get to be over 50, even men, we lose the hormones that we had in our youth.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that can make us feel more tired because we don't have the hormone energy support that we need.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so we need to be able to balance our
[SPEAKER_02]: and get that all supported.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's part of the metabolism.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's why the metabolism's filled slow.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've been running on adrenaline, and we've been running on high cortisol levels.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've been eating the foods that are causing our insulin levels to go up and down continuously.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we run out of hormones, and we just start to feel tired.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what we've been struggling with is trying to work at that optimal high adrenaline load.
[SPEAKER_02]: Our journals are burnt out.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't have the right amount of nutrients.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't have the right amount of minerals.
[SPEAKER_02]: All of these are causing that metabolism to slow down or feel like it's slowing down.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's restricted.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like she said, I love that word.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's feeling it is restricted.
[SPEAKER_02]: What is blocking your metabolism from working the way it is?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I did.
[SPEAKER_02]: I took the blocks away.
[SPEAKER_02]: I fixed my stop eating the food that I'm sensitive to because I chose to.
[SPEAKER_02]: have more energy energy as a choice.
[SPEAKER_02]: We can choose to have energy where we could get stuck in that in just assumed that that's just normal.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I started moving more.
[SPEAKER_02]: I started getting excited about life.
[SPEAKER_02]: I re-trained and re-educated myself into functional diagnostic nutrition.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did all of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I just kept getting excited to listen to podcasts like yours.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like where's the information?
[SPEAKER_02]: Who do I follow?
[SPEAKER_02]: And the more I followed successful people, the more
[SPEAKER_02]: I was able to figure out what was going on in my body.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had, you know, if you're sodium and potassium or low and you don't know it, you're going to struggle going uphill on those 14 years.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, that when I first submitted Mount Baldi, I did have to add in a little extra salt, but the salt got me up there till that was something I was aware of.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can do 10,000 feet now and feel perfectly comfortable.
[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't done 14 yet, but I have done up to 10,000 feet.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I feel comfortable there.
[SPEAKER_02]: But in the very beginning, I used to get dehydration and altitude sickness because I didn't know my minerals were too low.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so that's another area to focus on.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're feeling sluggish, let's bring in the right mineral balance for the body.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why electrolytes are so important.
[SPEAKER_02]: But if you don't know how low you are,
[SPEAKER_02]: you don't know if it how important that could be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yes, digestion is huge, huge, is huge.
[SPEAKER_02]: You gave us an acronym.
[SPEAKER_00]: You gave us an acronym a little bit ago, and I would like to bring a back up so that people can think about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the acronym was was, uh, I don't even remember already.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why I want it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's, I know, rest was in there, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Dures diet rest exercise stress and supplementation.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I focus on.
[SPEAKER_02]: low carb nutrition for low insulin lifestyles so you build your carb code around what you need to do and how fast you want to get there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I use, um, you know, their sleep is in critical and also getting the right light in our at night.
[SPEAKER_02]: So blocking blue light at night helps you sleep better and getting morning light for circadian balance helps you sleep better.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then movement, exercise and movement is, you know, if you're not out there getting
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we like to do our major hikes or major excursions and get out there and exercise, but what are we doing on a regular basis every day?
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're not getting a minimum of one mile a day and getting some movement or staying active and looking at 10,000 steps a day, those are the movements that we need on a regular basis, even though we're trying to work and try to do things if we're not getting up and moving and fidgeting and doing some squats and doing some push-ups and running around just a little bit, we're gonna have higher blood pressure.
[SPEAKER_02]: A friend of mine just did a two-week challenge on trying to get 12,000 steps a day.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's not an athlete.
[SPEAKER_02]: She just wanted to see what that would do and get more movement, dramatically lowered her blood pressure.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she's not overweight, oh, the then 10 or 15, 20 pounds.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's not obese per se.
[SPEAKER_02]: But she lowered her blood pressure just by getting that extra movement.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then stress, if you're not managing stress and looking at what is causing your stress and just being aware of it,
[SPEAKER_02]: that is another big healing opportunity.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then supplementation.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, people, some people think, oh, I don't want to take supplements, but what if Selenium could keep you from having a heart attack?
[SPEAKER_02]: You need to know that on your HTML hair tissue mineral analysis, how much Selenium is being absorbed and utilized in your body?
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a question, because I hear people debate this quite a bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: People will say, well, I don't need to supplements because I have a really healthy diet, or if I had the right diet, I wouldn't need to supplements.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've heard other people say that may have been true with Virgin soils a hundred and fifty years ago, but we have depleted soils now and it's hard to get the nutrition from our food.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where do you land there?
[SPEAKER_02]: I land there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am grateful.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I can't get to the night without magnesium.
[SPEAKER_02]: We stress uses of magnesium.
[SPEAKER_02]: We live in a very stressful world.
[SPEAKER_02]: We
[SPEAKER_02]: If we do not get potassium, sodium, and magnesium, we could have more risk for heart disease.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so these are some things that are critical that we need to be aware of.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, I won't go without magnesium at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: I take selenium every day.
[SPEAKER_02]: On my hair tissue mineral analysis, I know I need boron, I know I need cronium.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know that I need to keep adding in potassium.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I know that I do better with salt than without salt.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't need to add calcium
[SPEAKER_02]: in my soft tissues.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am not absorbing enough of it because of my stress because we, you know, we all have stress.
[SPEAKER_02]: We just need to learn how to balance it with the right supplementation and right lifestyle.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also like to look at, I mean, if your woman over 50 and you're not adding back in your hormones that are gone, you're going to struggle more.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so do we want to feel useful and be active?
[SPEAKER_02]: Or do we want to just decline?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, those are some things to think
[SPEAKER_02]: I like to do based on lab work, help people get targeted supplementation for specifically what they need.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you have digestive dysfunction and you're not actually a absorbent, you food, you don't know if you're absorbing your food.
[SPEAKER_02]: A digestive enzyme is better than a multibitamin.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's something that you need to help you absorb what you need.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even recommend multibitamin's like customized, which vitamin my clients need.
[SPEAKER_02]: because what's another one that's important?
[SPEAKER_02]: We're your D3K2, that's always important.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you have a celiac issue and you're using tablets instead of liquids, you may not be absorbing those.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's so many things that we could do.
[SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate supplementations because it is information to our body just like food.
[SPEAKER_02]: So food is information to your body but so are supplements.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you get a good quality one and they're not fake, that's important too.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so what how do you do that with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, they're you don't want to always buy it from Amazon because there's been a lot of fakes, but if you get it directly from a company that is offering it that is a good quality company, I'm well, that's something I study too.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a supplement specialist as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I, as a practitioner, I have a full script supplement company account where I help my clients get their customized supplementation on a regular basis.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the other thing that's really important, you know, we don't know or sometimes people are not getting the right amount of protein and if you're over 60 or over 50, the body no longer absorbs protein away it used to, we become less protein efficient.
[SPEAKER_02]: We put on more weight gain because of that and if you're feeling sluggish depressed and not able to get motivation, one of my secret hacks.
[SPEAKER_02]: And thank you for listening to all the way through for on this program is amino acids, free-formed amino acids are an amazing, as a multiple, like a multivitaminid's way, but you get this free-formed amino acids, it immediately goes past digestion into the brain, into the body to be utilized to help you build muscle, because what happens after 50 and 60 we start to lose muscle mass, but what if we could build it up by using this supplementation?
[SPEAKER_02]: this is cheating, this is endurance, this is getting past all the blocks and utilizing nutrition, this is how I got up the Grand Canyon last time without any pain in my body because I increased my protein, I brought in the amino acids, I used fat fueled, I mean, I barely ate, while I was down there, I basically had a keto brick which was 1,000 calories of fat and some protein, some ultra fat packets from Vinny Tortorich, which is almond butter, MCT oil and
[SPEAKER_02]: and using the ketone IQ to help fuel my mitochondria.
[SPEAKER_02]: When we know exactly how to fuel the body and bring in the supplement set support exactly what your body needs, that's information to the body.
[SPEAKER_02]: That will make you feel more energized and help you make the choices you want to make to be an adventurer.
[SPEAKER_02]: To live life adventurously without pain, if you could turn it off, if you could turn off the inflammation, stop the pain,
[SPEAKER_02]: Why wouldn't we want to do that?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a tool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, uh, you just asked a question.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why wouldn't we want to do that?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a very hard question for most people to answer.
[SPEAKER_00]: They, they start thinking in terms of should's and it sounds weighty and like, I don't know man.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how do you even get started?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's, and here's a,
[SPEAKER_00]: something I thought about doing on Instagram, but they don't really do much Instagram, but I just thought it was funny because I was sitting down to a half-stake and a glass of water.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's often my meal.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I laughed because I could say, well, when I was in my 20s, it would be a full stake, a baked potato, you know, a huge salad and a couple of beers, and, you know, there it also be a dinner roll and a dessert, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that was, and I was skinny as a rail.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you could say, well, in my 30s, you take away the dessert and the dinner roll and okay, maybe a beer and then you get your 40s and it's well now I have the potato, but it's not loaded with anything yummy anymore and the steak got a lot smaller and I'm drinking water and then you get your 50s and it's like, okay, it's a half steak and a glass of water.
[SPEAKER_00]: And
[SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of been my life experience actually, and I think it is for a lot of people, and it is because of changes as we age, but what you're pointing out is, it has a lot to do with, well, we were eating the wrong things to start with perhaps, but our metabolism gets blocked, and we can get that back again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, you can unblock it and restore your metabolism by discovering where the blocks are, reduce the fixing digestion, fixing your downstream digestive process, finding out whether you have Candida, H. Pylori, and dyspiosis and correcting those, so you've got functions better.
[SPEAKER_02]: Our immune system is in our colon, in our gut.
[SPEAKER_02]: If your gut's not functioning and the food you're feeding, it's not giving your body the nutrients that needs or you're not absorbing your nutrients, your immune system's going to be dysfunctional.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if the paincreas is suffering and it's pancreatic insufficiency, we're not going to be not going to be able to utilize the glucose or to get the energy you need because your paincris is suffering.
[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds like there's a whole lot of stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's why, as a practitioner, I run six diagnostic labs to find all these hidden healing opportunities, and then unblock them, put your body back together with targeted supplementation, and then in a six-month period, you're on the other side, and you're feeling better, and you know what to do, and you know how to build your own carb code.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you need more or less depending on whether you're diabetic, pre-diabetic, or what your
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Lori, I'm going to throw this out there again, kind of playing devil's advocate.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you say to someone who says, Lori, I have tried everything and I'm exhausted.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, I just don't think any of it works.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all baloney and I give up.
[SPEAKER_00]: So why should I try this?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I used to live there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was rock bottom, 225 pounds.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't feel good in my body.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had asthma, pre-diabetes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't want that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to live.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what I just did was I started reading things from my doctor.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I know there's a lot of things that I did that helped me get to that point.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a reader.
[SPEAKER_02]: I studied.
[SPEAKER_02]: I learned.
[SPEAKER_02]: I understood why we get fat.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I knew what I needed to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sugar addiction is hard.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wheat and sugar are addictive food sources.
[SPEAKER_02]: As long as we eat them,
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is, that can be really hard, but it could also be what can we do to make the changes.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have to build a vision in a goal.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do we want to be sick and get cancer?
[SPEAKER_02]: Or do we want to be healthy and active?
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it comes down to that self-care you were talking about.
[SPEAKER_02]: We get to make a choice for more energy.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, the foods we're eating kept caused us to feel this way.
[SPEAKER_02]: If we, um, to get out of feeling that way, the best way I can say it, I mean, you can, I,
[SPEAKER_02]: I can give you the link to my recipe book if you just make everything low carb for two weeks to 30 days and you could drop 20 pounds and feel better and get your energy back is that a good challenge to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: If that was something you could did and you had a road map in front of you and you could do that, why not try it?
[SPEAKER_02]: If you can then plan, you know, go to
[SPEAKER_02]: Take an adventure, head to the green canyon.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now plan a hike.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, let's get your body back on track.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see about reducing the insulin load on the body and reducing the foods that make you feel tired if you get your carbs under a hundred.
[SPEAKER_02]: and try to eat everything a low carb and then you get your energy back and you can drop 15 to 20 pounds and you felt better.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then you start making more choices so you don't have to make the full 100% do exactly what I'm doing now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm 10 years into this process.
[SPEAKER_02]: You start where you're at.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's why, and when you hire someone like me, I take you where you need to go, so it's easier.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you're not alone, you're not struggling, you're not guessing.
[SPEAKER_02]: you're actually testing instead of guessing and you'll get your help back on track.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so the very first thing to do is just to stop eating foods that make you feel tired and if you try to eat low carbon-stead, and if your goal is to lose 10 to 20 pounds, do that and see how you feel and then reevaluated.
[SPEAKER_00]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's a good place to start.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I have that recipe book of all the things that I did.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, I'm helping my boyfriend reverse is diabetes.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know that bananas causing your diabetes, you gotta make a choice.
[SPEAKER_02]: I understand you're trying to balance your blood sugar, but you've got a bigger reason now.
[SPEAKER_02]: You need to not have other problems.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that banana has got to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: But bananas are fruit and fruits are good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fruit is still glucose.
[SPEAKER_02]: So how much glucose can your body tolerate in the disease state you are in?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and that's, I said that, obviously, but before we had the ability to freeze things and store them indefinitely and eat the same foods every season, you know, the human race for many, many, many, many thousands and thousands of years, had to eat seasonally and fruit was not something that you ate year around and every meal and all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was wild, it was bitter, it wasn't
[SPEAKER_02]: They were small and half of them were poisonous, so I mean you had to learn which one's to eat and which one's not to eat, but there were no bananas that were lovely and lush like they are now.
[SPEAKER_02]: All the fruit has been recreated to have a higher sugar load on the body.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's as a species if we are in, there is something called a polio pathway.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we are designed to survive winter and famine.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we will become more insulin resistant to store more body fat.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is how we are designed.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fruit, it comes out in the summer to help fatten people up to survive winter.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why it's there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so if that pathway is on 24, 7, 365 days out of the year, we have fat development and inflammation in our body all the time making us tired.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you're aware of this, it might be easier to make the choice to make the change because now you're aware you can do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: If I did it and come from being as medic and prediabetic to reversing my risk from melanoma cancer, diabetes cancer, because I reversed my risk from melanoma cancer.
[SPEAKER_02]: A year after I started keto, I detoxed out of my body and it's never come back.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was my book.
[SPEAKER_01]: So like what's your book?
[SPEAKER_01]: What are you running away from?
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you not want?
[SPEAKER_02]: to not eat the stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: But maybe you don't have to worry about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I was sensitive to blueberries, so I don't eat blueberries that much.
[SPEAKER_02]: My brother was sensitive to strawberries.
[SPEAKER_02]: Take out the foods you're sensitive to.
[SPEAKER_02]: Run a NMRT food sensitivity test.
[SPEAKER_02]: Stop that one thing right there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Three to six months, take out your food sensitivity, how does your body feel?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you have more energy?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you feel more motivated?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, those are some things that we can always always experiment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Health is a hobby.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are all training for life.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are out there getting movement.
[SPEAKER_02]: We love adventure.
[SPEAKER_02]: That keeps us more motivated and the standard person.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we have more motivation to get out there and be more active because we don't want to be in pain.
[SPEAKER_02]: We want to get out and hike places like the Grand Canyon and 14 years.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we want to do all that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But how can we get our body to stay active after 60?
[SPEAKER_02]: We have to stop the pain of inflammation and that is looking at your diet.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what is it doing to you?
[SPEAKER_02]: And how can you support that?
[SPEAKER_02]: And yes,
[SPEAKER_02]: there are there's a lot into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to try to make it complicated, but there are steps we can do, but starting with food sensitivities is where I started I started with low carbon attrition and then I went from there and started to fine tune it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd like to share something that happened to me over the weekend because I'm hoping that maybe it'll connect with somebody.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I wrote a book a year and a half ago that's called 99 words and the whole premise of the book is developing belief systems that are healthy for us and allow us to to live better lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: We set a foundation that we can build on.
[SPEAKER_00]: So to speak, it's a
[SPEAKER_00]: that are in chapter two and the point of the words is you read the words and something will always jump off the page at you is oh that's something that is meaningful to me right now that I maybe I should learn from so this week and I thought man I haven't read the words in a while I'm going to read the words and see what jumps off the page it's just a little bit of a prompt right
[SPEAKER_00]: The word that jumped out to me was loyalty.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I stopped and I said, well, that's really weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm an extremely loyal person.
[SPEAKER_00]: Loyalty is not a problem of mine.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I pondered it briefly.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, man, I've been loyal to my family.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm loyal to my faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm loyal to my work.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm loyal to my employer.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm loyal to, I'm not loyal to myself.
[SPEAKER_02]: Self-care.
[SPEAKER_00]: Self-care.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that kind of, you know, kind of not me on my butt, Lori, because I was like, wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Taking care of everything else, but not me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know if that helps anybody out there who hears about your program lawyer and they're just saying, it's too much.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's too much.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just can't do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, but yeah, you can do it yourself.
[SPEAKER_02]: You just, I didn't do it by myself.
[SPEAKER_02]: I followed other people.
[SPEAKER_02]: I listened to a podcast.
[SPEAKER_02]: I read books.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've studied and studied and studied for the last 30 years.
[SPEAKER_02]: And even in that time period, it was only the last 10 that I started implementing it because I didn't have somebody to guide me into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I had to get the weed out of my brain to be successful.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was following Dr. William Davis in reading his book and how he talked about all the case studies of what we do to the body.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I experimented with the HCG diet.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the HCG diet is a 500 calorie diet where you take the weed out and you eat just a little bit of protein.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you take these drops that help with it's kind of like the
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not human growth hormone, but more of the pregnancy hormone to help kind of stimulate survival mechanism in the body to drop weight and to lose fat, but protect the baby.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that worked really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what that did was took the weed out of my brain and I could feel a difference in my body.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the motivation came more easily.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was more motivation.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I could see how this would work for my body.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I didn't like living on a fat free diet and every time I would stop, I would gain the weight back and I didn't want that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I learned more about why we get fat.
[SPEAKER_02]: We get fat because our carbohydrates are too high.
[SPEAKER_02]: But they're also, if you look at functional nutrition, they're also causing it is a food addiction and it's makes your brain depressed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't want, I've been depressed most of my life.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was repressed, depressed, and didn't wanna live like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so when I started getting those moments of clarity, it really made a lot of sense to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when I discovered the bulletproof program and the ketogenic diet, there are now doing Georgia eat as one of them, and there's another doctor, their psychiatrist, and they're using metabolic psychiatry to reverse depression, schizophrenia, and bipolarism.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you take out the wheat out of the diet and lower your inflammatory response,
[SPEAKER_02]: be very low carb.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can at the brain to function better.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so that's where I need it to be.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what that's how I need to live.
[SPEAKER_02]: I chose to do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I chose to have that type of energy for my body.
[SPEAKER_02]: It gave me my life back.
[SPEAKER_02]: It helped me retrain into who I am.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm able to now help other people.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm now an endurance athlete.
[SPEAKER_02]: I jog and dance on half-marathon because they make me happy.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the last one I did at Glacier was my best time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't do them fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just enjoy them, but I managed to get my energy levels to where I needed to be.
[SPEAKER_02]: My mitochondrial functioning.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am happy because I made the choice to be happy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I gave myself that self-care.
[SPEAKER_00]: May I sum that up in one word?
[SPEAKER_00]: You're offering hope.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: it's hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we've burned through our time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your information is amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so much of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the best way for people to find you?
[SPEAKER_00]: I know you're everywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what would be if someone just says, well, how can I connect?
[SPEAKER_00]: What do they do?
[SPEAKER_02]: Just go to my website LoriBallu.com.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot there.
[SPEAKER_02]: You could find me at Instagram.
[SPEAKER_02]: You could email me
[SPEAKER_00]: And Laurie is filled.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, R-I.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, L-O-R-I.
[SPEAKER_02]: And blue is value with the B.
[SPEAKER_02]: So B-A-L-U-E. And I was hopeless.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had no hope.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had no joy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I chose.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got lucky.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I've discovered the keto diet and the bulletproof plan.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I followed Dave Aspie because he was 300 pounds overweight.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he had had all the problems that I had.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I studied everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: I absorbed every single podcast here, but put out until I could internalize it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I went to two of his conferences.
[SPEAKER_02]: I dived in and I was gonna do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did it 100%.
[SPEAKER_02]: I took out the fruit, the fruit gave me prediabetes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I stopped at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: A year after going keto, I detoxed that melanoma out of my body.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: We can choose this.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have hope.
[SPEAKER_02]: we just have to unblock the metabolism and get it to function for us so that we have the energy we want to live and age eventually.
[SPEAKER_02]: We can all do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not special.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was just determined.
[SPEAKER_02]: We just have to decide what the goal is, what the vision is.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, one of the things I've got is just a group program I just started up for aging eventually.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's to build a capable body.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let your body naturally lose the weight or whatever you are.
[SPEAKER_02]: but also get out to the green canyon and plan a vision and a goal and a dream and get out and have a health venture.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because if we're not doing not, if we're not thinking about that, we're going to lose the hope as to why we're doing it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's what's kept me alive is having these health adventures and getting out and going to national parks to have half marathon and to hike.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, there's nothing, nothing like walking down into the
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Lori, thank you very much for your time today.
[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate what you've shared.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you are offering hope.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is a huge deal.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we get our life back.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, how much?
[SPEAKER_02]: This is, we do not have to decline in age and get sick and be decrepit and die from cancer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or Alzheimer's.
[SPEAKER_02]: We can turn it all around before it gets there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we could do our best to reverse it when we do get there.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we have to support the metabolism.
[SPEAKER_02]: start to live life as an adventure if you want to live better without pain and have the adventure then let's start with your metabolism put it back together then.
[SPEAKER_00]: Beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right we'll Lori thank you again for being on the program and for everyone out there.
[SPEAKER_00]: This might be the door to walk through so that you too can get out there and have some fun.