0:00 I was one class away from graduating college. One class, speech class. All I had to do is stand up, talk for 10 minutes, and not soil myself. And my brain's like, "Nope, absolutely not. I'd rather wrestle a raccoon in a porto pie." So, it's the last day. Everybody's lined up to give their speeches. I pull the professor aside and I whisper and I say, "Professor, I can't do this. I'm terrified." And he gives me this Hallmark Channel reply, like a pep talk, like he's I don't Tony Robin for something. He goes, "Then don't worry. You got this. We all support you." And I'm like, "Yep, totally. You're
0:45 absolutely right, professor. Thank you. I just need to use the restroom real quick." So, I sprint to my car, drove home, and never came back. That's right. I dropped out of college because of a 10-minute speech, two years of tuition flushed because I was too afraid to make eye contact with Brenda from biology. And now here I am not only standing in front of you, I'm also a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner. It's a mouthful. So I dropped out of college because I was too afraid to speak for 10 minutes and then I voluntarily signed up for a career where I give speeches about
1:31 for millions of poop. It's crazy how things become full circle. Today's presentation is about obesity. It's about inflammation. It's about longevity and why I believe conventional doctors got it wrong. Sugar, carbohydrates, not the number one cause of obesity. Something else is. So, what I want to do is you I want to go through some stats here, some statistics. According to the CDC cancer.org, one in three women are diagnosed with cancer within their lifetime. For us men, it's about one in two. About 60% of Americans are pre-diabetic or full-on diabetic. They're projecting by the year 2032, not too far from now, one in two children
2:18 will be born on the autism spectrum. We know that heart disease, number one killer in the US, in most first world countries. Somebody dies from heart disease every 33 seconds here in in the United States. I've been on for a couple minutes here. There's already a few people who have died from heart disease here in the US. It's about 700,000 people every year. And when we think about the United States, this amazing country that we live in, the stats are insane. You know, we spend 4.6 trillion dollars on healthcare every year in the US. If that was a GDP, it would be the fourth largest GDP in the world. So, we spent a lot of money on healthcare. That must mean this nation is a healthy nation. Top five, right?
3:04 We must be top 10 in health in the world. Top 20, 37, 37. Yet pharmaceutical companies are richer than ever before. And us were sicker than ever before. And get this, there are only two countries in the world that allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise on TV. Just two. New Zealand and the United States because nothing says healthy democracy like a TV commercial that starts out with ask your doctor if this pill is right for you. These TV commercials are absolutely ridiculous. You've seen them. They're absolutely ridiculous.
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5:26 So, we have a big problem. We've been brainwashed. You all get that. You're part of this amazing organization called Shen with Shannon IHA. And I love being a part of this. Obesity is a big topic these days because Harvard put out a paper a couple years ago that said about 5 years, 2030, 50% of the population in the US will be obese. 50. Yet, if we ask most people, they will tell you that it's because of our genetics. These stats that I gave you on heart disease, cancer, autism, it's because of genetics. As a matter of fact, there was even a representative from the government a couple years ago in 60 Minutes making that case. Check this out. >> If you diet, you lose weight, right?
6:11 >> The number one cause of obesity is genetics. That means if you are born to parents that have obesity, you have a 50 to 85% likelihood of having the disease yourself, even with optimal diet, exercise, sleep management, stress management. So when people see families that have obesity, the assumption is what are they feeding those kids? >> Let's use her premise and say she's right that it is genetics. And it wouldn't explain this here where in the 1930s the obesity percentages were 5%. Right now it's around 42%. I just made a case that they're saying it's going to be closer to uh 50% in just 5 years. Do
6:59 our genetics change that fast? No. So there's something else going on. It's epigenetics. You know South Park nailed it many many years ago. It's a lot of what we've been taught. It's kind of the opposite, isn't it? And it really starts with uh with inflammation, right? So, let me go back a second here. So, cellular inflammation, this is where we're going to come to this part of the presentation here. How many of you have seen Dr. Daniel PMPA before present? Have you ever seen him draw the cell? Okay, we're going to do that real quick. So, if you have a piece of paper, uh, which I think you do in a pen, I'd love for you to go along with me and draw this. Or you can just pay attention and listen to, uh, what I'm going to show you here. All right. So, what we're going to do is I'm going to draw a cell.
7:46 So, I want you to draw with me, which is just a circle. And we know we have about 70 50 to 70 trillion cells inside of the body. This is one cell. Every cell has this lipid membrane around it called the cell membrane. Of course, it's made up of fat, lipids, cholesterol, saturated fat, proteins. Inside of the cell, we have the DNA nucleus. This is where we were just talking about genetics. And it's true, the genes that you inherited from your parents and uh grandparents and so on, you can't change those genes. You got them. That is true. However, we've heard the expression genes load the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger. So, epigenetic spools. Then we have these organels which Hbot loves to
8:34 support and that's going to be the mitochondria that produce energy. What's amazing about Hbot, as you all know, is that it helps with mitochondrial biogenesis. It helps with ATP production. You know what's interesting is that ketosis and HBOT have a lot in common because they both do that same thing. They help with mitochondrial biogenesis. We know that these cell membranes have these receptor sites, these integral membrane proteins. There's about 30,000 of these receptor sites on a single cell. And they're kind of like cell phone antennas. They're communicating. They're connecting with a message. The message that's being sent, it's coming from
9:19 hormones. So you can write that on your piece of paper. Hormones are messengers. We have nutrition. So nutrients are messengers. We have oxygen of course as a substrate. So and then we also have thoughts and different things. But these are sending signals to the cell. The cell receptor site hear the message and then it tells the cell to perform a certain job. So if it's like T3 or testosterone or leptin, these are hormones that signal produce produce energy, burn fat. This is the way we're designed. But there's one reason why we have all these symptoms. There's one reason why we have all these uh obesity, heart attacks, cancer, etc. It's cellular inflammation. We know that cellular inflammation was
10:04 the name of the game. And cellular inflammation is very different than acute inflammation. Acute inflammation would be a sprained ankle, a sore shoulder from a workout, short-term inflammation. Your body sends the proper signals. Maybe you do H spot and you repair and you're you're fine. This is different. This is chronic cell inflammation. When we have chronic cell inflammation, these messengers cannot connect, cannot get into the cell. There is going to be interference. There's going to be blockage. Kind of like if I hit mute on my mic here, the sound guys, the AB team would hate that because you would not be able to get my message. I'd have to take Oh, there you go. like that. >> Yes, I love it. Uh I have to take
10:51 hormones to shove the message inside and we could do things like that. We could take artificial exogenous things and force the message until we can no longer do that. So what happens is this amazing human body that God designed will start to show us symptoms when we have cell inflammation. might start with some brain fog, some joint pain, maybe some afternoon fatigue and it can progress into some more severe symptoms. But what we have been taught is that those symptoms are the problem. We should take a medication. We should uh get surgery. We should mask the symptom. But those symptoms are actually a gift from your innate intelligence. They're a gift from your inner physician. It's your body's check engine light. So there's a lot of doctors in
11:36 the room. What are the top symptoms of the patients you work with? I'm just going to write a few down here. Just shout it out. What are some top symptoms of the patients you work with? Pain and fatigue. Okay. Pain and fatigue. What else? Brain fog. That's very, very common. Give me two more. Yep. Hormone imbalance. Exactly. Hormones. So, hormone imbalance. One more. >> GI upset. >> GI upset. Yep. So GI issues. Okay, I can go on and on and on. Keep listing all the symptoms. Let me ask you this very important question. Is the actual problem here or is it here >> at the cell level? So the ultimate goal
12:22 is to find out what has contributed to cell inflammation, remove that interference, and now the body goes to heal itself. I would add one more thing here. Obesity and weight gain or being overweight as a symptom. This is an important premise because for 20 plus years I was obese and overweight and I used to think I had a weight problem. I used to think my problem is that I have a weight problem. But I discovered that nobody has a weight problem. It's a weight symptom. And when we look at the body like I need to lose weight to get healthy that's so many people go and on the internet how do I lose weight how do I lose weight that's the wrong premise because we don't lose weight to get healthy we get
13:09 healthy to lose weight when you get healthy and lower cell inflammation the symptoms go away that includes the extra weight the visceral fat the obesity so the focus should be on health not on the symptom one of the main contributors to this cell inflammation are these processed fats, seed oils, vegetable oils. And there's a lot of controversy these days and discussion about this. It's kind of gone mainstream, which is great. But you can see the global production of these oils, these processed, and when I talk about seed oils, I'm talking about the processed variety, not the unprocessed. But the global production in the early 1900s was very low and it shot up dramatically. And this correlates not causation but it
13:56 correlates with exactly the rise in different uh diseases and symptoms. And here's the issue with that and this is taken from page 85 of metabolic freedom. Many of you are going to get a signed copy after this. Dietary fatty acids incorporate into the cell membranes within hours after consuming them through a process called lipid membrane reorganization. Yes, you really are what you eat. And it happens a lot faster than you think. Meaning when you consume these fats, within hours, I was going to point the laser on this. Within hours, they make up the cell membrane, the mitochondrial membrane. And you might think, all right, no big deal. My body has these detox pathways. We could get rid of them in a few hours or a few days, maybe a few weeks.
14:44 Well, we'll talk about that in a second because it's a lot longer. This study from a toxicologist, Dr. Martin Grouch, analyzed French fries cooked in vegetable oil. And he analyzed aldahhides. Aldahhides are carcinogenic. When we smoke tobacco cigarettes, we produce aldahhides, which increases the risk of cancer. And he essentially said a large order of McDonald's French fries contains about 20 to 25 fries, which he saw was the same amount of 20 to 25 tobacco cigarettes smoked. In other words, one French fry cooked in vegetable oil is equivalent to a tobacco cigarette smoke. They are highly inflammatory.
15:29 And this is the point I was trying to make earlier. This is how long it takes for it to leave your body. The halflife of linoleic acid is 680 days. Two years. Which means if you stop eating it today, two years later, half of that will remain in your cell membranes creating inflammation. And it takes about 6 years to get rid of 95% of it. Now the cool thing is you could do some things to speed that process up. Autophagy, mphagy, HBO, fasting. There's things you can do, but for the average person, it's not happening that fast. So here's a list of the ones that we want to remove when they're processed and the ones that are safer. And let me let me unpack this for you. So we have canola. If you're from the UK, it's called rape seed oil. Corn, soybean, cotton seed,
16:16 safflower, peanut, if it's refined, sunflower, grape seed, rice bread. I know fish oil is not a seed oil, but it's also a very unstable fat. It has more double bonds than a seed oil, making it very unstable, and most uh fish oil is is processed and rancid. So, these are called collieaturated fats. The word collie means many. It has many double bonds. The more double bonds a fat has, the more it reacts to oxygen, heat and pressure. That's exactly how they process it. So these fats are rancid before they're even bottled and then cooked again. These are stable fats, saturated fats, no double bonds, monounsaturated fats, a single double bond. They're much more stable. Olive oil, avocado oil, those are the monins. The rest are going to be saturated.
17:02 Grass-fed, butter, ghee, duck fat, lard, coconut oil, beef towel. And you know what's crazy? Um, when I was a kid, I was obese. I already shared that and you saw that with the intro. Not chunky, not husty. No, I was I was fat. Guess where my mom worked? >> Kentucky Fried Chicken. Can't make this out. This is a true story, but that's like a cocaine addict's mother working for the Colombian drug cartel. Not good. She'd come home after work and I would yearn her and I would say, "Here comes the colonel." And she'd hand over a bucket of fried
17:48 chicken and I would just devour it. It was like a like a feeding frenzy. But, you know, sometimes she'd come home without anything. And those were dark dark days. And I I would say to my mom, "Oh, what the heck? Where where's my chicken?" And she'd look at me dead in the eyes and say, "Ben, they're still frying in the same oil." And I'm like, "So what, mom? I don't care." And she says, "B, you don't get it. It's been 14 days. The oil is supposed to be crystal clear. This oil is pitch black. It looks like motor oil." And as a kid, I'm like, I don't care, Mom. Like, where the hell is my damn shaking? I make this point because when we go to restaurants and they're using the bat oils, they're using it over and over and over again. Not just fast food
18:34 like KFC, but even restaurants over and over. So, we want to be really diligent when we go to restaurants. And that's why you have in front of you a gift that I provided for you. One of the free gifts or two gifts and that's this right here. This is what I take to all the restaurants I go to. Everybody have it in front of you. Raise your neck if you have them in front of you. Okay, everybody does. If you don't, we can get you one. Uh, it's called a sea oil allergy card and it says, "Dear chef, I have food allergies to the to vegetable oils in order for me to avoid allergic reaction. I must avoid everything marked off below." So, it lists that fats, gives you the alternatives. You if Yeah, sounds extreme for some people. I get it. But remember, these fats go in your cells within hours. They're there for years. So, I don't want to take this hit. I would recommend you use that card
19:20 and use it wisely. It's one of the gifts that I'm giving you. I have something else to talk about a little bit later on. Okay, after this book signing right out there, we're also excuse me, after the lecture right out there, we're doing a book signing. So, I can't wait to meet many of you, sign your book. But let's get into some more stuff here. This is my favorite part. How your thoughts influence your health, longevity, or even disease. Chapter 10. How many of you have read or listened to chapter 10 of metabolic freedom? Anybody get there yet? I'm excited for you to read or listen to that Melissa S. Thank you, Melissa. That's the best chapter in the book. Don't skip. You just go there, but get there. But how your thoughts influence metabolism. Okay. What's interesting is that your thoughts are messengers. They
20:07 communicate. It says the power of thoughts. Just cut off. Your thoughts communicate with every single cell in your body. How many of you know Dr. Bruce Lipton, cell biologist, biology of belief? He has proven this with this research that your thoughts are frequency that communicate directly with your DNA uclus. If it's a angry thought, hateful thought, bitter thought, the signal sent to your DNA signals cytoines, inflammation, it shortens your tieumirs, damages your DNA and eventually shortens your lifespan with a single thought. But if your thought is loving, abundant, grateful, happy, healthy, same signals sent, but now it signals to the DNA produce anti-inflammatory proteins. It protects
20:53 your tieers and it protects your DNA and extends your lifespan with a single thought. And psychologists estimate that we have 60,000 thoughts every single day. And they also determined that 90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts from yesterday and 85% of those thoughts are negative thoughts. What Zig Ziggler used to call stinking thinking. And I said in the book, if you're thinking is thinking, your health is shrinking. So if you have 60,000 thoughts that needs, you have 60,000 opportunities to put your body in a healing anti-inflammatory state every single day. That is the greatest bio act I've ever learned. Your thoughts are so
21:41 important. You are the most influential person you'll speak to today. But here's the thing. Just because we have thoughts doesn't mean we are thinking mental activity thoughts doesn't mean we're thinking. Let me explain this. How many of you talk to yourself every day? I want you to raise your hand if you talk to yourself every day. Raise your hand. Okay. There were a couple of you couple of you who didn't raise the head and you're thinking, "Do I talk to myself?" I don't think I do. Oh, Ben's right. I do talk to myself. But are we actually thinking? That's the question. We're going to do this. It's It says silk. It's just cut off there, but the word silk. We're going to do
22:27 this little test to see who's thinking and who's not. So, you see here on the screen the word silk. S I M L K. Silk. What we're going to do is we're going to repeat this word out loud five times. Silk. Silk. Silk. Silk. Silk. I'll do it with you. And then I'm going to ask you a question right after and out loud you're going to answer that question. Got it? Make sense? Are you ready? Anyone? Doesn't sound like it, right? Silk. Five times in a row. Answer the question. One, two, three. Silk. Silk. Silk. Silk. Silk. What do y'all drink? >> Water. >> If you said milk, raise your hand. We
23:13 keep it up and look around. Keep it up and look around. Beth Beth's seen me do this before. Okay. Cows drink water to your point. They reduce milk. Silly example to show you. We're just kind of going through the motions. And if you said no, don't feel bad. I said milk the first time I heard it, too. Can't believe Bev is still saying milk. She see me say like he was the five times. Don't you own a cow here? So that's just an example there. Okay. So here's the thing. 2% of the population actually think, 3% of the population, they think they think, and 95% of the population would rather die than think. It's true. George Bernard Shaw nailed it
23:59 many uh very long time ago. And there's a book called The Hidden Messages of Water by Gawkri Modto. Many of you know that book. Well, they put a piece of paper u with a word on that piece of paper next to a body of water and used high-speed photography to see if it changed the water crystals. And you can see when they wrote love and gratitude, it changed the crystals to the the water to this beautiful crystal. You disgust me to this ugly crystal. You know, you might be thinking, okay, how's that relevant to me? Well, your the human body is about 70% water. So all those conversations we're having, whether it's a hateful thought or a loving thought or a grateful thought, is changing the chemical structure of yourselves every single second. Pretty cool, but also pretty scary if you don't control the thoughts. And the most important thing that I learned in
24:44 my life is something called paradigms. We're all controlled by paradigms. How many of you understand paradigms really, really well? The word paradigms. Like if I brought you up here to explain it for five minutes, I'm not going to do that. But you would feel confident to explain paradigms. Anybody? Okay. I see I see seen the It's a It's a tough one. It's a tough one. Um essentially paradigms are all your behaviors are in your subconscious mind. About 99% of your behavior with subconscious mind you're just on autopilot and that's where your paradigm is. So sometimes we have a paradigm that uh I'm obese because my genetics or a paradigm because I'm I'm never going to make this income because of XYZ. something that holds us back. Typically, paradigms are usually a battle. It wants
25:31 to keep you safe and comfortable. And you usually develop that paradigm throughout the first seven years of your life. And in that paradigm is something called your selfimage. The way you view yourself, not at a conscious level, but at a subconscious level. This is really important to when we work with patients for us to understand this because once I understood this and I started to apply it with tens of thousands of people, it changed their results. I could tell them I want you to do H spot for this amount of time, this amount of sessions. I want you to get into ketosis, get some autophagy, do some cardio supplements, bioact. But if they don't work on the self-image phase, start sabotaging themselves. I'll share with you what I mean by that. If somebody's overweight, with a lot of people that I work with, diabetics, insulin resistant, when they
26:17 when they're overweight, and I'll read this to you because it's kind of cut off. Let's say that person decides to go on a diet. They make a conscious decision. I'm going to do keto or I'm going to go on a diet, whatever it is. So, they move into action because they made that decision that usually happens January 1st. They start to lose weight because of whatever changes they've made, but something happens a few weeks in or for some people a few months in. The weight they've lost is now found. When a person who's overweight goes on a diet plan or makes some changes without altering the self-image, they will never outperform the self-image. If they see themselves as an overweight person, if they see themselves identifying with that disease, the autoimmune, whatever it is you're working with them on, they will find a way to sabotage themselves until
27:04 we change the image in their subconscious mind. To be successful, we need to change the image, the paradigm, and release the weight. So, what do I mean by that? There's something called a psych cybernetic instrument. There is a book from the 1960s called psychoscybernetics. Anybody read that book before? Wow, it's impressive. This book, I'll give you a synopsis of this book. A plastic surgeon, Dr. Maxwell Waltz, wrote the book, and he worked with individuals who had wicked facial deformities. They were unhappy, they were depressed, they were self-conscious. So, they would hire this doctor, Dr. Waltz, to perform plastic surgery because he was one of the best in the world. He noticed with thousands of patients that about 50% of them after
27:50 the surgery were still self-conscious, still depressed, and still had low self-esteem because their self-image identified with that facial dysphor. So, it wasn't until you changed their self-image that they were able to break through and experience all the things they wanted to after getting the surgery. So, we the example is an airplane. How many of you flew to Pensacola? That's awesome. First of all, give yourself a round of applause for traveling here. Give yourself a big round of applause for traveling here. That's awesome. You can admit I flew from Miami here. And when we hop on that airplane, the pilot set autopilot and the airplane is off course about 90% of the time. Sorry, different things happen, but autopilot sets them back on
28:37 course. That is the what's called a cybernetic instrument for the airplane. That's correct. Autocorrect. Autocorrect. We do the same thing with our self-image. We go on a plan, you want to make changes, but we keep course correcting to the old version of ourselves. So, how do we change that? An example of what I've seen is that people start to binge. They start to break their diet plan. They start to break whatever plan they're on. And it's an example of course correction by the self-image in psychocybernetics. And there's only two ways to change this. First of all, I love this quote. You cannot escape a prison if you don't know you're in one. Right? So many of our patients are in a mental prison and the doors are wide open. So how do you change it? We make them aware of it. And there's only two ways to change that
29:23 self-image in the paradigm. An emotional impact is one. An emotional impact is usually a negative experience. It's unpredictable and it's usually negative. It's a a near-death experience. It's a diagnosis of something scary. Many of you have dealt with that before. And that changes the way you state, changes the way you live your lives. I think some of you have been through that route before. That's an emotional impact. Now, ideally, we don't want to take that route because it's again a lot of tame. It's negative and it's unpredictable. The only other way we change this self hence to change the paradigm is the way that it was built. Repetition. Constant space repetition. You take the new idea of this person you want to become or the person your patient wants to become and you literally write it down and affirm it
30:10 enough times. Usually it's about 30 to 60 days where it replaces the old subconscious mind, the old self-image. Repetition is how you know your name. When I was a kid and I was born and my parents named me Ben, imagine if they would have just said when I was a baby, "Ben, your name is Ben. Don't you ever forget it. And they never told me again this one time. No, they had to tell me over and over and over until I I'm dead then, right? You're Sean, you're Beth. You're Jason. Right. So, this is repetition. You say it enough times where it embeds into the subconscious mind. So, what I talk about is this right here. And affirmations to some people are woo. There's a lot of science behind this when you look at it. I'll present some of that science, but
30:56 affirmations is how I've changed it with thousands of clients. And I literally have them write this down. This is an example for somebody who's overweight, but I have them write this down on a car. I'm so happy and grateful now that I'm at my perfect weight. I'm looking good. I'm feeling great. The perfect help I seek is now seeking me. I remove any blockages between us. And I have them read this every day for 30 days in the morning before bed. Even if they think it's bogus, even if they don't believe it works, they think it's woo woo. What I tell them, and you might be feeling that bl as well, and that's fine. What I would say is that, hey, if your way is not working, why don't you try them on? Give me 30 days. And what I found, if they do this for 30 days, it changes the self-image. They change their behaviors, and it changes their
31:42 life. And some studies to back this up, you're only as old as you feel. I know it's cut off, but there was a psychologist in 1981, Dr. Helen uh excuse me, Ellen Langanger from Harvard, and what she did, this is a cool experiment. She had her graduate students take an entire building and redecorated as if it was in the 1950s, so 22 years prior. And she told the uh men living there, the eight men, I want you to act as if you were 22 years younger. Talk about per period appropriate items. um we're not going to give you any assistance if you have to pick something up or you're going to pretend like you're 22 years younger. And by the end of the study, the men, this is just five pits, the men
32:28 showed improvements in hearing, eyesight, memory, dexterity, and appetite. Those who needed canes walked without them. And all participants displayed increased independence and vitality because they pretended. They acted as if they were 22 years younger. It's the way they started to see themselves younger. Our environment determines the thoughts, determines the self-image, determines that paradigm. Training fleas requires a glass jar with a lid. The fleas are placed inside the jar and the lid is then sealed. They are left undisturbed for 3 days. When the jar is opened, the fleas will not jump out. The fleas will never jump higher than the level set by the lid. Their behavior is now set for the rest of their lives. When these
33:14 fleas reproduce, their offspring will automatically follow their example. >> Fleas in a jar. Fleas in a jar experiment. So our environment molds us. It molds our offspring. It molds our children's. It's passed on through genetics. So it's important to take care of that. And what happens is that subconscious mind gets filled by something called weakness of attention. There's an author from the 1950s, Neville Gard, who said, "We are only limited by weakness of attention, poverty of imagination." So, our environment starts to mold us, start to change the way that we think, our behavior, our belief system. This is a test of art. >> That's I I did that by accident. So, here's what I want to do. Some of you have seen this video before because I'm making the point here that
34:00 our environment is intended to distract us for us to kind of look at what they want us to look at versus seeing the truth. So, I'm going to share this video. Some of you may have seen it, but I want you to do the exercise and pay attention to how many times they pass the basketball, but it'll explain it. So, check this out. >> This is a test of selective attention. >> Count how many times the players wearing white pass the basketball.
34:52 How many passes? I already count. The correct answer is 15 passes. But did you see the gorilla? Who didn't see the gorilla the first time? Melissa. The gorilla was there the whole time. >> This video is from research by Daniel Silence and Christopher. >> So it's an example of our environment distracted. One of the things that I love to get into is the longevity, the research on longevity as it pertains to having purpose and goals in life. And what I always say is stop following the crowd, start following your purpose and your passion. And one of my favorite quotes
35:39 because I lived by this is by Robert Heinland. He said, "In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by that daily trivia. I was obese for 23 years. I was enslaved by daily trivia, drugs, video games, alcohol. When I got clear on my goals and my purpose, all that changed. The addiction turned into a superpower. And I believe we have an obesity crisis. I know it's cut off, but I'll read it to you. I believe we have an obesity crisis not because of what people are eating, the sugar, the carbs. I believe it's because of what's eating people. They lack purpose. They lack goals. That was my life for 23 years. So goals are so
36:26 important. There was a study done by Dr. Larry Gossy, medical doctor, and showed that more people have heart attacks in the United States Monday morning between 8 and 9:00 a.m. About 85% of the American public. What does Monday morning at 8 to 9:00 a.m. have to do with anything? You see it there. They going to jobs they hate. They're stressed out. Heart attacks. Number one killer in the US, heart disease. And Erlang used to say most people would tiptoe their way through life coping to land safely on death's door. And he has the best definition of success. He says success is a progressive realization of a worthy ideal. An ideal is a goal that you have fallen in love with. Like Melissa Stars
37:11 has a book coming out uh next year, connection code. This is a goal that she has fallen in love with, right? And I'm sure she wakes up and she's energized. She's passionate. She has vitality. She's working towards something. She's closing the gap between the idea I want to write a book to then publishing it with Hay House and getting out the world. And every day she closes that gap, she's successful and successful. And the cool thing about this definition is it could be to anything you think is important. Anything that lights you up, being the best mom in the world, being the best podcaster in the world. As long as you're closing the gap between where you are and where you want to be, you are successful. And I found this on Tik Tok. Tik Tok sometimes give you some good stuff. And this lady explains, I'll let her explain it actually, but it's making the point that goal setting
37:57 might be the key to check it out. May I ask how old you are? I'm 93 going on 94. I don't have that much longer in the world. >> What's one of your biggest regrets? >> My name is Raalin. I was born in Highland Park, Illinois. Then I married and I lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And I was there for many maybe for 40 years. Oh, wow. And now I live very near to Washington Square Park. Yay. >> That's awesome. >> I know. >> Are you happy? Yes, I am happy. >> Why? >> I'm happy because I I'm doing what I want to do. That I get to come out to Washington Square Park and watch all this crazy stuff. >> Yeah. >> And because I have my own work. >> How do you stay happy?
38:43 >> I stay happy by being involved with my with projects. That's part of it. And with friends. >> So for someone who wants to be happy, what advice would you give them? >> I would tell them to find something that interests them. interests them very very much and to pursue that interest and I would tell them to reach out to other people but to be happy in their own company. Thus I have spoken. When someone looks at you what do you think they see? I never think about it. What would you like them to see or what do what would you like them to know about you? Then I'm a good person.
39:30 Is that enough? >> Yeah, that's enough. What's one thing you wish you could change about the world? >> Oh my god. I'd stop all the wars. Yes, I'm very unhappy about those and about what the future may be. >> Do you have any regrets? What's one of your biggest regrets? >> I should have regrets, but I really don't think I do because I have what I want in my life. I have my work. I have grown children. I have a good family. >> May I ask how old you are? >> I'm 93 going on 94. >> Wow. I thought you were like much younger, like 70s or 60s. So, >> come on. >> So, tell me, how does it feel to be that age? >> Well, my feet hurt.
40:15 Otherwise, well, I know that I don't have that much longer in the world and I don't feel sad about it because my feet hurt and other things hurt and it my physical condition is just going to get worse. But otherwise, I have a good life and I enjoy it. >> Well, thank you so much for this amazing interview. She's awesome. you know, she was she mentioned a few times like I have my work, I have my purpose, I have my goals. I believe that's the number one thing keeping her aligned and she'll keep going because of it. I think for all of us as well and what's interesting to back this up with the study, same um psychologist Ellen Linger did a house plant study in
41:02 the 19 uh late 1970s. So what she did is she had two different groups of u patients here, nursing home residents. And what she did to one group is she told them she gave them a house plant and she said, "I want you to take care of this house plant. You also have full control over your schedule. So do whatever you want. It's your schedule." The other group she also gave a house plan to but said the staff will take care of the house plant and you don't have control over your schedule. We'll control it for you. After 18 months, twice as many people in the group given goals for their house plan, given full autonomy over their schedule were alive compared to other group that didn't have any goals, didn't have any control, right? Something as simple as that,
41:48 taking care of a house client and controlling your own schedule. Pretty cool. So, what I've learned over the years by Bob Proctor, how many of you know Bob Proctctor? The best the best. He's the goat of self-development. He's passed on now. But he talks about ABC goal setting. And you can see there are three different types. An A type goal, a B type goal, a C type goal. Okay, an A type goal is what most people set if they set any goals. It's something they've done before. I want to lose 10 pounds. They've lost 10 pounds before. They set another goal to lose 10 pounds. Not that exciting. I want a raise at my uh job that I work at. I want a 2% raise. They've got ahead before. they'll get it again. Okay, that's an A type goal. It's not
42:33 exciting. A B type goal is something that does stretch you a little bit. Takes you out of your comfort zone a little bit. And but you could kind of put the pieces together and think about if this person pays you, if I get this opportunity, if I get this deal, I could hit this goal. That's kind of a B type goal. What we want to do for ourselves and for our patients is identified a C type goal. A seat type goal is a goal that is not rational, not logical, and you have no idea how you're going to get it. But it's something that if you just let yourself sit down in a room and dream, this is what you think of. Something you've always wanted to do. You have no idea
43:19 how you're going to do it, but you really want it. Scares you, excites you. That's a CE goal. As I explain that C type goal, I'm curious. Is there anybody here that has a C type goal? Anybody who would like to That's impressive, by the way. I see more than what I usually see. I'm I'm impressed. Shannon, I'm not surprised. You got a great group here. Anybody want to share? Okay. Can we get a mic real quick? Is there possible to get a mic? Yeah. Thank you, Justin. So, he's gonna bring it over here. What's your name? >> Samarpon. I like the blue blockers like me. Okay, Samarpon is going to share his C tag calls. There's the mic.
44:06 Thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak my vision into existence. I have been working in the Amazon rainforest with recently contacted tribes for the past 10 years. And I was recently tasked with the opportunity of creating a preventative healthcare education program to help tribes navigate the metabolic challenges that they're starting to face as they're starting to engage with the same things that have gotten us sick. So, it's a lot of dealing with outside variables like the federal government, language and cultural barriers, and just personal limiting beliefs, but it's going well. Progress is being made, and it's just one step in front of the other. So, it's how it's been so far. >> That is awesome. Tomorrow, give a big round of applause.
44:55 >> That's really cool. Do you have any idea how you do that? How I'm going to do it? >> Yeah. You have any idea how you're going to do all of that? You don't have to tell me how. I just want to know. Do you know in your mind? Do you have a game plan about how you're going to do all that? Because the reason I'm asking you is because a C type goal is something you have no idea how you're going to do, but you're going to do it. You'll figure it out. >> Yeah. It's somewhere transitioning from a C to a B, I guess you could say. >> Yep. That's it. Okay. So, you start off with the seat tag goal. I want to do this big vision. I don't know how to do it. And now you're mapping it out. Turn it into a beat. That's what you said. >> Yeah. I love that's awesome. Give a big round of applause again. Great. And I give you don't have enough time, but I'd love to hear more maybe when we when we chat later about C type goals. But here's on your um on your desk, you
45:41 all have this as well. This changed my life. Every client I work with, I have them do this. I have them write down the date of when they attend to hit their ski type goal. And I write it down in the present tense. I'm so happy and grateful now that it's already written out for you. And then you write in the present tense that you've accomplished that goal and you literally read it every day over and over and over. Let me show you how this works. Let me just see the next slide. Okay, let me go back a second. Back in December of 2024, I knew I was coming out with this book, Metabolic Freedom. I knew it was coming out in May of 2025. So on my C type goal that I wrote down on a gold farm that I carry with me all the time. I have four in my pocket right now was I'm so happy being grateful now
46:27 that my published bookw house is a New York Times bestseller. I'm a worldrenowned mainstream author and I write on there, glory to God for helping me achieve this. So I wrote that down. I had no idea how I was going to do it. Yeah, I hired Bev. You her team category 3 to help with the launch and all that, but I've never done this before. This is a total C type goal. I want you to understand that there are 33 million books and only 10 books make the New York Times list in a certain category every single weekend. 10. So, I wrote this in December. A book was coming out about five, six months later. But every day, I would read it. I recommend every day you read your C type goal. It was with me all the time. I'm at a red light, pull out the C type
47:12 goal, read it. Sometimes I would get in hump decks now it gets top 10 but I would read that C type goal and then what happened is I was I would also act as if I was a Europe times bestselling author. You act as if you've already hit that goal. What do I mean by that? A month before the book came out. I had a videographer at my house reporting content and I said, "Okay, the book's coming to me out in a month. Let's report a video celebrating hitting the New York Times list. I also want you to edit it. I'll pay you. Let's take care of it. We'll get it scheduled for release for when the list comes out next month. A week before the book end, I was speaking in Gatlinburg, Tennessee at an event called Meatstock. That's the Hindi event. It's a carnivore event. And there was a carnivore documentary crew there and they asked if they could interview me. And I said, "Sure." So they miked me
47:59 up, got the cameras on me, and they're like, "All right, Ben, I want you to introduce yourself." You know what I said? I said, "My name is Ben Aadi. I'm the New York Karm's bestselling author of Metabolic Fridge." This is a week before the book came out. Scary to say something like that. Like what if I don't hit the list? I have to contact them and say got to edit that part out. But I acted as if and then the list came out and the goal was accomplished. [Applause] >> That's how it works. It scares you. It excites you. You write it down and you read it every single day. So you have that in front of you. I want you to do that every single day. This leads me to the last part here. The strong, don't give this away. You know what vitamin G
48:45 is? Keep it to yourself because some of you don't know what vitamin G is. The strongest vitamin in the world is vitamin G. Okay, vitamin G. Jobenza has done actually I want to give this book to you for your C type goal because I love that you shared it and I hope you enjoy this book and I'm happy to sign it for you after the lecture. Yeah, congratulations. Congrats on already achieving that, right? We're celebrating you already doing that. So Joe Despensza did a workshop on hundreds of participants where he took did blood work and he saw when they took vitamin G cortisol dropped, IgA levels went up, supported the immune system. He also noticed 1,200 different chemical processes take place in the brain, GABA, serotonin, and oxytocin when they take vitamin G, which you can see here, all
49:31 these chemicals that repair the body. This study from Harvard published in JAMA last year looked at 49,275 nurses and it showed the nurses who took vitamin G had a 9% reduction in dying from all cause mortality and a 15% reduction in dying from cardiovascular disease compared to the nurses who didn't take vitamin G. U Davis shows vitamin G lowers blood pressure, lowers blood sugar, A1C levels as well. And there's also a study done on mitochondrial health when caregivers took vitamin G and it showed they had healthier mitochondria. Okay. Where can you purchase vitamin G? What's vitamin G?
50:16 It's the feeling of gratitude. And notice how I said the feeling, not the practice. My left brain friends. It's not a checklist. It's a feeling. All those studies are in gratitude. Vitamin G. gratitude. It'll shift the way you feel about yourself. It'll change that reticular activation system. You'll start to see more things you're grateful for. It's gratitude. Psych. Um, and I'm going to share this quick video with you and then I'm going to wrap it up. So, check this out. Psychologists have scientifically proven that one of the greatest contributing factors to overall happiness in your life, how much gratitude you show. Yeah, think about that. Go ahead and marinate on it for a second. You can thank me later if you want. It'll make you feel better. According to this study, we gathered a selection of volunteers to act as our
51:02 subjects. We asked them to close their eyes and think of somebody who was really influential in their life, somebody who did something really amazing or important for them. We had them write down as much as they could about why this person was so important and tried to get them to call that person and read what they wrote about them. Thank you, Jessica. We're going to have to have you call your mother. So, who is that right person for you? >> Person is my sister, Erica. >> We're going to give Erica a call. >> Okay. >> Who'd you end up picking? friend of mine, uh, Craig Ains. Her name is Dora, >> my college accounting instructor. >> Really? >> Is this somebody you're still in touch with today? >> No, I'm assuming that he's passed on. >> That's That's true. >> I don't know number by heart, dude. This is awful. >> That's fine. I don't know my mom's number by heart. >> If it's true that uh those who are going on are looking down on us, maybe he read my scratch.
51:50 >> Hey, sweetheart. >> Hey, how you doing? Um, you got a second? Where you at? in the hotel. >> I am. I'm in the hotel. Uhhuh. You scared me when you asked if I had a second. Something's wrong. >> No, I'm on this I'm on like this little TV show and they told me to talk about the person that influenced me the most and I picked you and then and they're making me call. They're making me call you. >> Oh, wonderful. >> Hello. >> Hi. >> Hi, >> Erica. It's me. >> All right. So, I got to read you this paragraph. Can you hear me? >> Yes, I can. Go ahead, sweetheart. >> All right. The person that influenced me the most would be my mother, Milo Dawson. She is a single mother of two. She is a very hard worker and dedicated to her family. Hey Craig, this is Loey.
52:37 Um, this is going to be a funny little voicemail, so I hope you enjoy it. >> I'm so sorry for calling you at 4:00 in the morning. >> Is everything okay? >> Yes, but I have to read this out loud to you. The person who has had the biggest impact on my life outside of Jesus Christ who is responsible for my existence was my college accounting instructor. He had a joy and enthusiasm for his job like no other teacher I have ever known. >> I love her to death and she keeps me going with positive talk. She is a woman that knows what she wants and won't give up until it is achieved. >> Oh function. I I don't know what I'm about to cry because that's so beautiful. I I I have I haven't say that. It's It's
53:25 wonderful. >> I first met Craig on an independent feature film set in Whitefish, Montana. I recently have been sending Craig a lot of positive thoughts as he suffered a series of health problems. Despite his medical problems, he's continued to work and take pleasure in the small things in life, like sitting quietly with his wife Janine on the porch. Erica is my older sister and my best friend. Sometimes it even feels like we are twins. She's my number one fan and my number one supporter. She makes me happy because despite all my mistakes and my decisions, she still loves me no matter what. Your friendship is everything. And you are you are one of the most important person in my life. Even when she has a kid and many children, I will love her more than her kids. Okay, maybe
54:12 not. I will never forget when she flew 3,000 miles at the drop of a phone call to save me from a breakup. >> I'm being blessed by having the fun like you. I love you. >> Bye. [Music] Before we let them go, we gave our subjects one more happiness test. For those who took the time to actually write something down but couldn't make the phone call for whatever reason, we saw happiness increase between two and 4%. Now, for those who actually picked up the phone and personally expressed their gratitude, we saw increases between 4 and 19%. So either way, expressing your gratitude
54:57 will make you a happier person. But you want to know something really interesting? The person who experienced the biggest jump in happiness was the least happy person who walked in the door. What does that mean? That means if you're having a particularly tough time, trying this out will more likely have a greater impact on you. Trust me, I'm in a lab coat. What I want you to do is every gra I'm going to give you about 45 seconds here and I want you to text somebody first person that comes to mind that you're grateful for and send them a text. I'm going to do the same thing and maybe you could play music for 45 seconds. I'll give you 45 seconds. Go ahead. I'll do the same
55:44 thing. Again, >> 15 seconds.
56:32 Okay, >> you know what's going to be interesting and good job doing it is that they're going to reply if they haven't done so already and they're going to say, "Is everything okay? Has it happened yet? You'll get it." Why? Because it's not normal or common for us to do something like this. It shouldn't get any normal. I actually bet it'll be awkward if she texts me. But I texted back my my gratitude. Um something like that, right? So here's the the dosage of gratitude one minute. So you spend a minute on gratitude, something you're grateful for, a person you experience, and go on to the next thing. So three minute exercise every morning. You could also journal. But the last thing is a short
57:18 video, 45 seconds of her. >> How do you think you've lived to be 97? Like how do you think you made it this many years? >> I don't know. I don't know because I'm naughty. I eat sugar. I eat butter. I eat things that I should not eat and I have all my life. >> Well, what do you think is the secret? You know, people ask me and I tell them that you um you pray a lot. You have faith. >> I do have faith. Yes. I and I really spend like I I cannot end my day without being grateful. I never take anything for granted. >> So that's that's probably the secret.
58:03 That's how you've lived to be 97. I don't >> because you never end your great your day without being grateful. >> I don't know. I really don't. That >> you have a lot of gratitude in your heart. >> Yeah. She's awesome. You are a big clap. Shift. [Applause] We're going to go out there and do a book signing. The last thing is to grab your right hand. Grab your right hand just like this. It's not a trick. I promise. Put it over your right ear. I want you to keep it there as I say this message. Your body was built to heal itself. Self-heal. It's got an incredible innate intelligence. You are a masterpiece because you are a piece of the mask.
58:49 Remove it. What was up with that? Well, I didn't want it to go in one ear and out the other ear. Keep it there. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good. I for Thank you. Thank
