0:00 I'm going to tell you something that you may not know about our next speaker did you know when he was still in school he was a star NCC Cadet and he he went to UK to train with the British army the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force did you know that he um he a big believer in production of animals a few years ago Peter ranked him as a person of the year we all know him as an actor but very few of us know that he's a is also a writer and a producer so ladies and gentlemen bring down the
0:51 roof let's welcome Mr R mother [Applause] oh very good afternoon thank you very much well I when I first came in and I saw this setup uh I was blown um I was talking to uh doctor in the evening last night and she was saying this forum should be as big as Ted with this sort of a preparation and the kind of speakers you are I think you'll soon be um as big if not more prominent than Ted in India and so I wish you all the very best for it I'm going to speak to you on my idea of Wellness I am not an authority on
1:38 History nor on the medical sciences that I've bravely ventured out to speak on today but I can tell you with complete certainty that it has worked for me it has really changed the way my life has been um uh proceeding when I was made aware of these facts you know being an actor the stardom was thrust upon me and I was uh more than excited to be called a star and have people share after me and what happens with most successes at an age uh when you didn't expect it is that complacency sets in so after my first a seven eight years in the film industry the kind of films that I was doing was mundane I was getting into doing three films a year and more importantly I was becoming fat and even more importantly deep inside I was getting unhealthy
2:23 mentally as well as physically mentally because complacency uh is one of those stages where it starts um completely you start living in what I call the 30° 30C rule which is you must be aware that when you're in stress and you get up in the morning every day you're brushing your teeth you're thinking about whether to have breakfast before you go to work or have breakfast at work when you're actually having a shower you're thinking uh instead of concentrating on the shower you're thinking as soon as I get out of the shower I have to wear these clothes and then probably take this route to the office when you're driving the car you're living another 30 seconds ahead saying as soon as I reach the office there is a first fall I have to make and what happens is you're never actually in the moment that you're doing a particular activity how many of you all
3:09 really enjoyed a shower recently not had a shower enjoyed a shower when I say Enjoy the shower is actually look at every part of your body that you're uh cleaning and then seeing how it feels being there in that one and that is what meditation is all about it's being in the moment this 302 rule I realized was what happen in my life I was thinking about what I'm going to do after the shot while doing the shot I was thinking about what I'm going to do after uh you know uh the pack up was over when I'm in the shoot and as a result I was never actually present completely in what I was doing and that was never the best formula to excel so when this uh compeny set in and I became unhealthy I decided to go and meet a doctor like all of us do today we
3:56 want to do all the research in the internet before we go and meet the doctor because we want to seem uh sure of what was happening with us and help the doctor in his uh pres you know uh diagnosis of our issues I have a I have a uh a neighbor whose name is Dr Manoj and he tells me a story about how this uh patient came to him after doing all the research he was living in the ghettos in Bombay Abdul he came and said doab my wife is unwell there is something wrong in her stomach you have to do an operation Abdul said yeah doctor said let me let me examine the patient first or why did you bring to me you could have just taken the and done the operation on your own he said see what has to be done and sure enough Dr Mano checked him and they found out that she did have a appendix an infected appendix so they did a appendix surgery
4:43 and uh she was cured one and a half years later doct the Abdul calls doctor again exactly one and a half years later he says Doctor sa I'm bringing my wife she's got appendix again you have to do the surgery and take it off so now Dr Mano is getting a little upset he said listen uh let me be the doctor let me do all the diagnosis you just bring with your wife with a complaint he said no no I'm telling you same thing just take out the appic she'll be fine and doctor got really angry he said listen you going to teach me how to be a medical officer but there's one human being has only one appendix this already been taken out and he's yelling at Abdul and Abdul waited for him to finish and he said ma'am sir I understand that one human being can have only one appendix but a man can have two wives now
5:29 [Applause] so yeah yeah hey hey I find it tough to manage with one I don't know how Mr Abdul does it but uh but the thing is so when I went to the doctor he said um high triglycerides this problem that problem all the issues and I said what do you want to do he said I'm going to give you medicines that was a quick fix but that is the time that I came across some very interesting Notions that were being floated around in the world and more importantly met some very interesting people that changed the way I thought I was going to get cured so let's go back to these interesting notion first something that I believe in very strongly you know human beings are not designed or not were not meant to live past the age of 40 the average age expectancy of of the homo sapians was
6:16 about 40 to 45 everything else starts closing down if you're lucky you manag a 50 the Japanese made it a habit of reaching the 100 now and everybody lives on what I call bonus time now the problem is mentally we do not prepare for the next 40 50 years of our extended life and what happens is many people think that retirement is retirement from life or when a certain sort of uh unhealthy situation sets in they think that's the end of it and the worst curse that my father my grandfather told me in the world today be it youngsters be it students professors or people who are flying high the worst curse today mentally is to be considered irrelevant to be considered Irrelevant in the society that you live in in the
7:01 family that you live in in the environment that you th in you they say old man it doesn't matter don't listen to him and everybody's fight is to stay relevant throughout their age and how do you do that how do you do that within extended 60 years of your life and I was very curious about it because I see my parents I used to see my relatives give up it's like fine I'm happy it's they're happy but they were still alive mentally and it was becoming more more and more difficult to see them lose control of their lives because mentally they were very sedated that's when the research had in there but you know we are supposed to be if you went by the Darin Theory The Descendants from uh Apes right the difference between an Indian Elephant
7:48 the the difference in DNA between an Indian Elephant and an African elephant I mean the similarity is about 98.6% that's how similar the Indian elephant is to an African elephant so there's a difference of about 1.4% do you know what this what the difference or the similarity between human being and chimpanzee is anybody DNA wise 92 99.2% which means we are closer to the monkeys compared to the Indian elephant to the African elephant which means our DN are very much similar and there is something that happened in between which um helped us evolve as human beings and
8:34 then the primat stayed as them so the whole world believed very recently almost 50 years ago that we were descendants of the chimpanzees till they found out and the chimpanzees let me I mean for those of you who don't know the chimpanzees almost live like a humanlike uh Society you know they have uh they have mates they have murders they have conniving they have wars between the two fractions they had they territorial they are omnivorous they are um you know they would they would resort to murder they would steal each other's mates they would result resort to infes decide all sorts of goods and bads that we human beings share in our world today which is very evident from the news and then they discovered a new subspecies of the chimpan which was called the
9:20 bonobos anybody heard about the bonobos anybody I'm I'm I'm creating a biology class here okay but it is true what I tell you is true America there was another breed of chimpanzees called the bonobos very similar to the original chimpanzees only difference is their social buildup was extremely different the chimpanzees were a patriarchal society the bonobos were a matriarchal society they were extremely peaceloving there would hardly be Wars between the communities everything was well shared and equally distributed amongst all and every each and every member of the society sex was used to compensate for violence or any sorts of displeasure I mean they
10:05 had lesbianism homosexuality they in fact had all kinds of uh weird things but all related to peace nothing violent and then you suddenly they suddenly realized that human beings or Homo sapiens were a mix of both these dnas that brings us to a very interesting situation which means basically that there are some of us here in the room if you were to meet somebody who perpetrated a crime against you probably um try to molest your daughter and this guy was brought in front of you and said take revenge some of us however angry we get we would say I hate you cursed to begin and say let Lord take its course and there are yet others in
10:50 another part of the world in the same Society who for a lesser crime will take out a knife and cut somebody's throat not think twice about it which basically means that whatever DNA you have you have it in entirety and it is in your control physically and mentally to activate those da dnas to live the kind of life you lead depending on your conditioning this was very I'm I'm for me it was mind-blowing it was fabulous because the person who informed this told me that suddenly you'll find yourself getting this inhuman strength to do something that you didn't think you were capable of doing or you would take this inhuman uh you know spectacular stand against something in your life that you didn't think you were capable of doing and he says those are the conditionings that help you activate those
11:35 dnas so I said you know what I understood all this but I'm a man who believes in practicality I want tangible results I've told you all this tell me what how do I activate the DNS that I want I want to activate it going back to looking young I want to go back to feeling young tell me how to do it so I went to this um place in Austria I spent a lot of money to go to this place which is uh you know was a Wellness Institute and they had been running that for 150 years and the lessons I learned there were Priceless why I I'm going to describe this entire experience to you and I'm going to tell you the inferences as we go along I went there it was a beautiful place outside a lake spectacular cold I walked in on a Sunday evening they said yeah welcome Mr Madan and uh we'll see
12:20 you tomorrow morning and would you like to have dinner I said yes they give me a Sumptuous dinner I was a vegetarian they gave me the food I wanted the next morning I went and met the doctor and he said well Mr mwan lovely to see you you're from India I see yeah he says uh congratulations then um you know you you've paid us a lot of money and come a long way uh to hear from us what we learned in India I said congratulations he started explaining to me what's going to happen for the next 10 10 days to 15 days that I plan to stay there the first part was I said first thing I said I'm hungry what can I have for breakfast he said so he said the next 3 days Mr Maan you will be having what he showed me was four slices of slightly hard
13:06 bread and a bowl that looked like it had a little bit of urine in it but it was actually um vegetable broth according to him I said uh uh what is this is the appetizer he said no that is your breakfast lunch and dinner for the next 3 days I said only that he said yeah I said give me my passport can I go back to India I'm done this is too radical for me he said no no no listen um and he said the most interesting he said what do you want to eat for breakfast so now I'm looking at him very suspicious I said uh can I have uh egg white omelette I'm trying to go healthy here so egg white omelette maybe a little bit of Oats he said yeah would you like to have some pancakes now the thought of Pancakes had already had already digested the pancakes because he meant it so I said well if you think I should he said yeah yeah I have your pancakes no problem so he said at 8:00 we will
13:54 all go to the dining room and at that place I saw extraordinary people who achieved extraordinary results like the sultan AB BR sister Paula Abdul brother whatever all kind of people and when we went for breakfast we were all sitting in this spectacular Hall facing the lake and everybody was sitting on their individual tables we were categorically told no phones no newspapers no television no nothing you will sit there and you will do as we ask you to and see if it makes a difference in your life so they had taken orders from every one of us people had ordered omelettes bacon fana timana everything and everything was neatly placed on our table it was actually there G Chef had prepared it was looking spectacular I could smell it
14:40 I was ready to have it and they said the we all can have any part of the breakfast you so wish but the only condition is our request is they put this bowl of soup and this four pieces of spelt bread we and said our only request to you is finish this bowl of soup and this bread in the manner that we ask you to and then we are more than happy for you to consume the rest of the breakfast and I said okay great what's the deal they said we're going to follow a principle here called drink your food and and um sip uh chew your water so it's drink your food and chew your water so I
15:27 said what do you mean by that they said take a piece of spelled bread chew it 40 times at least till it becomes liquid till it becomes complet liquid then swallow it it's not going to be easy your mind is not going to allow you to do that it sounds very simple your mind is never going to allow you to do that but I would like you to focus on just that four pieces of bread we've given you and then every time you take a sip of the soup don't don't gulp it down put it in your mouth gagle it in your mouth feel it chew it with your teeth and then swallow it I said no problem the um the pancake was beckoning so I picked up my bread and I started to chew it slightly chewy rubberish and I would you know make it into complete liquid I would actually feel the entire flavor it was not bad it
16:13 was pretty tasty but ladies and gentlemen in 14 minutes I couldn't finish the bread forget about the rest of the breakfast forget about the soup I couldn't finish the bread I was seated and it happened across the board to everybody and we like looking at each other and smiling because we tried you know there was a there's an africanamerican woman she tried to have a little bit of uh the pancakes we couldn't finish it and it was really it we thought oh was my soda there a lot of soda there that's why we feeling full and everything but then the the explanation started and he said to all of us he says Mr Madan the mind or your body knows exactly what it
17:00 wants your mind gets sated after chewing for 14 to 15 minutes whatever you if you calculate every time you've been to a party every time you've been to a dinner you can only eat collectively for 15 minutes what you eat how much you eat and that is a totally different thing but you cannot chew for more than 14 15 minutes because the brain sends a signal to your body saying stop eating we've got enough food I said this is very interesting and so a series of classes started and the essence of which I want to share with you today I was asking him you know I don't understand so how how does this work what in 15 minutes he says when you there is he asked me you know you're going to work out for this film called salak Kus you want to build up muscles you asked me in an email how much
17:45 protein you should eat I said yeah he said um why do you want to eat protein I said because sir I want to put on excess muscles I want the body to look fit he said well in that case why don't you just have eight glasses of protein shakes every day it's great amount of protein don't work out just have eight glasses of protein check you should become muscular I said no maybe that doesn't work because I'm supposed to be working out also he says then why do you need to work out if protein is going to do the job for you I said yeah he says the protein doesn't do the job for you your conditioning of the lifestyle that you're leading while you eat the food will determine what aspect of the food is absorbed in your body he asked me what is the most muscular animal in the jungle so I ask a good question so everybody said elephant basically it was
18:31 the ox the most muscular animal in the forest and he said what does the ox eat just grass it's it's a herbar and even in the herbivore it only eats grass and he says so how does it get all the muscles no protein shake for that o and he says the brain and your body is far more spectacular and smart than you people in your mundane lives are giving it credit for he says the brain knows that there is no Pure Food every piece of food that you put in your mouth is consisting of carbohydrates fats protein vitamin mineral but in different proportions and he says the Bull's brains knows how to just take out the protein from the grass
19:16 that is required and substitute and and and and put it into the body that it means so I was extremely intrigued so he's seeing you're basically saying that I don't need to take a protein shake he said no let me explain to you how what we we learned from India where we say the final point of the whole conversation is people in our shastra say that you are what you eat by that what he meant was your emotional success your emot sorry let me say your emotional your success your temperament the way you look at the world um your your family relationships your professional relationship everything depends on what you eat and that was too much for me I said that is how can my acting depend on my you know popular it of my professional depend on what I eat sir please tell me
20:01 what to eat I only eat that and he said no no no he says when we say you are what you eat it basically means that in today's world people are so stressed out he says that Mr mad if you're not able to give yourself 10 minutes in a day to sit quietly without your mobile phones without your conversations without your television without being distracted to eat your food then you're doing a stupid profession and you're not a successful person all great people in the world who have achieved any sort of greatness were very disciplined on one thing and that was their food bead Alexander the Great to any mahatmas to everybody food was a very important factor not just a food the way they ate it how they ate it and when they ate it so I said uh explain to me I'm not as
20:49 evolved as what you're trying to be and he said the body when you chew it enough when you start drinking your food when you chew it enough the brain takes all the signals from your saliva your sugar and your carbohydrates gets digested in the mouth any doctor will tell you that your saliva sends the signal to your brain saying this gentleman is eating certain certain things so prepare your your your um guts to secrete the acids according to the food being taken so that the right amount of absorption is done for the food most of us wolf down the food which means that you're raining your intestine with one enough without information to your brain with just food and anybody who's in the medical profession will tell you that the food doesn't get digested in time it becomes
21:34 toxic so therefore the brain will leave all other activities including put it it itself at risk to just make sure that the food gets digested how many of you all go to the gym I'm sure you two ladies who absolutely are spectacular ladies the twins that go into the mountains they know you all go to the gym right any men who go and work out oh this is a very healthy uh environment right thank you sir and um anybody who's been to the gym and stying to put on muscles will tell you the moment you start working out you start feeling your muscles getting pumped right it looks larger can you all tell me how the muscle looks larger when you work out or I'm me just going and answer it anybody uhhuh well when you concentrate yeah but how does the muscle become bigger for
22:21 that particular moment when you're working out say that again lactic buildup um no basically basically because the blood rushes into that particular part of the body so when you're working out your chest or you're working out your abdomen or you're working out your biceps or triceps the blood rushes into to those parts to to stop the muscle from getting damaged and therefore it gives a definition and a size and then the more you do it the more the muscle tears the more it becomes uh the fiber increases and becomes bigger and more efficient but where does the blood rush into the muscles from it's a question I asked people who work out in the gym every day I'm saying where did the muscle come from where did it become where did the blood come from and nobody knows where the blood comes
23:06 from it's it's not like you're drinking blood while you're working out anybody say that again yeah other parts of the body and which part of the body specifically brains heart no so that's exactly the answers that I was giving the blood constantly rests in your gut the reason it rests in your gut is it's widely accepted in Chinese mythology as well as the Indian uh sciences that the gut your stomach is your second brain and if your stomach is your second brain you must understand that it knows how to take care of the body when you eat the food so quickly
23:52 will fit down the food rushes to the first small intestines which is going round and around your stomach and is being pushed through it the acids are pouring in trying to make sure that the food whatever little bit they can nourishment can be added it's digested and then it's pushed into the large intestine which goes around your stomach like this and then finally gets excreted right the large intestine has um a layer of bacteria which is like a lawn all right so that lawn is meant to be the bacteria is there and whatever food has been digested comes there the bacteria absorbs the food pushes into the into the blood that's why the blood is always there and then it goes to the rest of your part of the body when the food is gulped down the small intestine is not able to digest it completely so it pushes it to the large intestine with
24:38 undigested food which is actually the food of this bacteria because bacteria is a plant and like all plant it absorbs this particular food and from a lawn it becomes a forest that's why we get our little belly because the large intestine has swollen up it's become hard it's become tough and most importantly the blood flow and the flow of digestive juices through it become very very limited and your body is not now healthy it is unhealthy it is actually functioning below optimal and he says Society cannot grow India as a society mentally cannot grow till you are unhealthy physically which means if you're not if you're just normal it's still not enough your body is capable of functioning optimally all you have to do is give it enough time when you eat food
25:24 I was completely blown by then and I wanted to know tell me more and he said the last thing he said what do I have to do to make sure that this gut doesn't become an ala and my second brain is actually functioning properly and he said Mr maadan the first thing I will tell you is you will not eat food after 6:00 in the evening what time do you go to sleep I said 10: actually lied I go to I go to sleep at 2 but I said 10 I wanted to sound healthy but he said uh if you sleeping at 10:00 you have to make sure that you finish eating your food at least 3 hours before before you go to sleep because that will determine how successful you are in your career I'm like you keep saying this explain and he says the the blood is in the digestive
26:10 system all the time when you lie down in the prone position the blood is kept there and it is meant to digest the food that you've eaten quickly and then rush to the brain the moment you eat food just before you go to sleep the brain says forget me all the blood let it be in the gut and let it just digest the food that you've eaten right now so that if if you don't digest it's going to become toxic in 3 hours and you will die as a result that brain does not that blood from the gut does not travel to the brain and when it does not travel in the alpha state to the brain what happens is the entire Rejuvenation of the body and it doesn't matter what age group you are in young old or anything the entire Rejuvenation that sleep is supposed to do is to the blood carries all the information about which nail is
26:55 not working why the hair is falling why the skin is looking dry which part is being infected which bone is hurt what is hollow all that information that is going to be there has to travel to the brain the brain analyzes it and before you wake up before the beta State before the the state that you wake up all the signals are sent out to every part of your body and once that signal is received everybody is reset you wake up and he says that's when the mind can clearly do the job it is meant to be why do people say don't drink and drive because you'll get into an accident why do you get into an accident or why do you get into a debate that you normally would not do sober why do you get into a you know argument on on a topic that you would not normally get into sober is because at the time that you're drunk the brain is telling you that is right it's perfect you're good enough to drive
27:41 you're saying all your facilities are fine and you're like and bravado sets in and you do stupid things he says if alcohol is capable of giving that negative effect to your brain then be assured that there are many substances that are capable of making your brain work in a positive manner in a more efficient manner and those 10 days that I lived over there I made sure that I ate every day before 6:00 I made sure I chewed my food and uh sorry I drank my food and chewed my water and I made sure I try to follow everything that he had said in terms of um how it is going to help me reset my life when I came out of there I'm telling you ladies and gentlemen I was a completely changed man in 10 days
28:30 before I left he said one more thing he said what I'm telling you Mr Madan does not mean that it will be accepted by your body and your brain at the right time it's a calling your mind mental state you were ripe for me to tell you this and understand that he spoke like a philosopher as a doctor he says sometimes in your life you're not ready to listen sometimes the calling is not there many people have come to this place and done this course mundanely but they were not mentally ready to accept the changes that they that we were trying to say and eventually they went back to going relegating themselves back to the same lifestyle and he say the difference between that and you is what is in your uh culture called karma VII that is going to be the difference between how successful you are and how
29:18 so the reason I was asked telling trying to tell you this is it is very possible for us to activate each one of those dnas that we have the same as the bonobos as well as the chimpanzees this particular conditioning about how you have your food and how you let your environment affect you will determine which of those DN get get activated any given point of time I'm like I said a follower of Simplicity and tangible answers this gave me a serious tangible answer sit down eat your food without being distracted make sure you chew 40 times make sure you drink uh your solid food and chew your water and the day I started doing that it was spectacular every result that was wrong in my blood group came back started getting normalized my hair started growing more healthy I was able to think more clearly
30:03 I did not have to think make notes about things that had to be done during the day and and and from being below average healthwise I was in my opinion functioning optimally and it is very difficult to convince yourself to be young when you're 46 years old and your heroine is 17 years old and uh she's on the set and exhibiting totally different aspects of being an actress as uh I ever been used to where you know hey I got a tattoo here I have a piercing there do you want to see it and I'm no I don't want to see it but but you know it's very difficult to relate to them but sometimes if you have enough stories in your uh in your pocket you're able to be make yourself relevant even to that generation and being and want and feeling like the alpha male on the set feeling like you're the
30:50 healthiest one over there feeling like you were the boss is very important for a hero and for me this experience in Austria helped me get there and that is the story I wanted to share thank you very much for your um patience
