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We're live.
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Welcome, Eddie Ice.
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What's up, man, brother?
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Brother.
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Good to do.
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What's going on?
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So the, episode
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Number 1, the full fuel podcast.
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Dude, I'm so excited about this.
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It's so exciting that long time coming.
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Yeah, man.
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We just been planning
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it out.
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We're like, let's ticket now.
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So we got Blake behind the scenes.
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We got Austin.
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I love I love what's going on here.
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Dude.
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Dude, the vibe to set up everything.
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Dude, it's perfect right But, let's dive in a little bit.
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Tell, you know, tell the
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people who you are, and then I'll go next.
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Yeah.
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So my name's Doctor Opper Lessi.
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I am a chiropractor, functional medicine doctor, and integrated health practitioners,
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like the stuff that I don't know today.
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It's something I work on at.
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And, Essentially, what all that means is I help people get to the cause of health issues.
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Right?
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And that's kind of the the a lot of the background of this podcast.
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Yeah.
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You and I resonate heavily on the on the same side of let's not just survive.
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Right?
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Let's not just get through my and scrape through your days, which I've been there.
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I've been, I've lived that life.
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100%.
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This is kinda like not very fulfilling.
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It's not very fulfilling.
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Right?
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Feel again.
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I'm back to the name of
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this show.
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Right?
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But but honestly, man, like, that's that's the whole purpose of yours.
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Like, how do we help people take even little steps, man, baby steps towards optimizing
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themselves, their their family, their health, their career all day.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Touch on all that stuff, I believe.
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So
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how'd you become a chiropractor?
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How'd you not a chiropractor, man.
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I'm, like, talking you down already, dude.
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You're more than that.
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Yeah.
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Obviously, but that's
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where my my license is.
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Right?
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But, yeah, man, it was, I started as a personal trainer, right?
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So I, in college, was where it was steady excess science, personal training, and I loved
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it.
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Honestly, he was a good fit for me because I've only been happy for a whole So, yeah.
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Played college across at, UCF, was was personal training, and then really the shift was I had
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an injury.
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So I separated my shoulder, grade 5 separation.
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Basically, every ligament that holds your shoulder together is just is gone toward
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shredded.
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Yeah.
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The only thing that didn't happen was my clavicle didn't come out of the skin, so that
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was cool.
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But other than that, it was gone.
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So, you know, I went to the hospital and they were basically like, you could have surgery
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and, you know, operate function again.
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Yeah.
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If you elect to not have surgery, you'd probably never use it.
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I was like, well, I kinda wanna be able to use the arm.
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Yeah.
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It's pretty important.
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Yeah.
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So, yeah, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna not do that.
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So, yeah, so they had surgery and and really, man, the surgery went well, but there were just
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like lingering issues, pain, developed arthritis, nerve pain, and I'd go to the doc
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and they were kinda like, is just gonna be part of what it is.
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Yeah.
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You can deal with that.
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I don't know why, like, I couldn't accept that.
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Like, I don't that sucks.
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Like, I don't, you know, I don't wanna take that as, like, the, the the end all.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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So had a friend who was in chiropractic school, and he was like, man, you should you should go
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see a chiropractor.
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So I went and saw a guy.
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We did laser, which I nothing.
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I mean, nothing about the last 4 lasers.
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It's like a hot laser.
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There's different levels of laser obviously, but, did laser, like, for an hour.
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I was just as soon as off laser in the background.
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And then he would adjust me.
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He would obviously get, we did some functional neurology.
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So he's like resetting the way the muscles in the brain.
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I love to interact Yeah.
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Right?
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So you every muscle has alpha motor neurons that are directly back to your your brain.
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Your brain is able to tell you when to move muscle, right, the system doesn't happen
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automatically.
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Yeah.
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But that connection gets disrupted when there's injury or when there's swelling, right, and
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things like that.
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Right?
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So, like, retraining how the, the shoulder girdle it actually operates and meant pain
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free, like, within 2 months of doing those treatments.
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And I was like, So this guy's on to something.
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And so for me, that kind of sparked like, yeah, I should look into this and, and see what it's
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all about.
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So I enrolled, got in chiropractor school, I was originally gonna be a PT school.
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I wanna see a PT.
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So glad I did that.
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Nothing against PTs, man.
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I just I for where my my personality and the way I I things that come back inside perfectly
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good.
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Dude, that is, like, that is the point.
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I'm like, this podcast right there.
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Is knowing, like, now knowing that, that story behind it.
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And then we're gonna get, like, all sorts of nerdy, just like you just for a second on,
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understanding kind of that that association between, how you can get to the root cause and
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really live pain free, kind of no matter where you're at.
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Right?
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I I I truly believe
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it doesn't even matter what age you're at.
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Yeah.
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If you make a decision, you could be done pain free.
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You just gotta identify what the root cause is.
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You did that.
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Obviously, you've now made it a career.
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And, now we're hosting this podcast to help people, you know, what amazing things.
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I'm at tech,
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yeah, talk about yourself, bro.
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Dude, I, you know, for for me, little bit little bit less of a crazy journey.
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But one of the things that, like, resonates what you're saying is that you've always been
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an athlete.
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For me, I thought that I had to give up on my athlete.
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Right?
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I I considered myself a failed athlete after high school.
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I, I was getting looks, but did get the quality looks that I wanted, in terms of scholarship
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offers.
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I was planning on playing bass ball.
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My whole goal through that was to play Division 1 basketball and, didn't get offers from
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Division 1 Schools was getting looked at.
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But didn't get the the official offers.
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And, like, so I wanted to do this, like, pity fest and was like, screw basketball.
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It's all on my coaches.
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And, then led me to Oakland University, which, you know, to be honest with you, I freaking
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dominated it.
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It's, like, double digits of those sports.
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I was like, so you know what's funny about that?
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This is, like, hilarious, but, my dad got in it into.
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I'm going off on a rabbit, chasing a rabbit right now, but, this all, I'm sure happened
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often, by the way.
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But the, my dad got inducted in the basketball hall of fame, which is part of the reason why I
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wanted to play division 1 My dad went to the university in North Dakota.
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He's a 2 sport athlete.
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Not a star, but just like, he was he was the guy.
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And, his basketball team got deducted in the hall of fame.
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2 years ago.
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And it actually just came up on my Facebook feed that it got inducted.
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He got, like, the the memory popped up.
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So, anyways, I fly out to North Dakota.
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He's getting inducted in the hall of fame.
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And, his team is they go up on the stage.
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It's a really, really cool weekend.
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And I'm like, dad, you'll have to come back to Oakland when I get ducked at the intramural.
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He's like, you.
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So Anyways, I blamed it at, you know, I just blamed his blame game, like, after high school,
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went through college, still, like, lifted weights and did all these other things.
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And, man, I'm so grateful I went went through that season.
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I wouldn't wanna go back to it, but, like, I wouldn't say my mind say my my mindset was
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good, but it also led me into this, this, like, kind of, like, area of depression of, like,
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man, I'll I'll never be able to play sports again.
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Now it's, like, work.
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Right?
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Right.
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And, it's over.
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Path.
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It's over my my my my best best days behind me.
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And, man, over the course, you know, speed it up.
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I you know, went through, say their depression in my mid twenties of just like thinking, you
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know, my best, you know, my best days are gone.
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And, you know, I I really don't have anything really to, but look forward to.
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And then, honestly, Ben, we resonate on a faith component.
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God just really got hold of my heart, and I'm twenties.
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And he's like, look, man.
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Get it together.
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So, like, my my testimony really is I went into the celebrate recovery program, and I thought
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it was for drug addicts.
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I'm like, I don't need this.
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You know?
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But I had a deteriorating headspace.
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I just honestly got married And then, came out of that with, honestly, where I'm in that now
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today.
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I had one mission in life, and that was to empower and encourage.
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And he said, I had to empower and encourage my wife.
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You know?
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That was the first thing that I had to do because at that point, when I wanted to divorce
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my wife, And I can stand sit here.
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And on this podcast, say, like, 12 years later, coming up on 12 years of marriage that, I'm
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abundantly blessed, that it is like, been an amazing, amazing journey.
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And, you know, faith is a really big component in my life.
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But through this process, has become of, like, I'm still an athlete.
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Yeah.
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And, I don't have to give up on my athlete, and I can bring things into my life that allow me
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to be a dominant physical individual.
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Yeah.
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And, over the course of, I would say the better part of 5, 6 years, I've gotten to the root
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cause of maybe, you know, some lingering, like, knee issues and various things.
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And I'm like, do I have to accept the aging process, or do I not accept that and live like,
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through with a lot of vitality, the remainder of my days.
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And so, dude, that that's my, that's where I'm here.
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I'm not a doctor, but, but I sure have done a lot of research.
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And, obviously, started now a company called nutritious, where it's basically we wanna get
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to some of these root causes, and I empower people to be the absolute most dominant version
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of themselves.
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So super excited about that, man.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, kinda expounding on that, man.
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It's like, you can't accept that if you wanna do that.
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Just gonna age.
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You're gonna get old.
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You're, you know, you can totally that
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can be your mindset.
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Uh-huh.
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But then that's, you know, you're gonna live a pretty more, you can say, Hey, what can I do to
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delay that and ultimately push that aging, process off?
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Right.
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And there's so much we can do.
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I mean, that's wow.
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Wanna segue.
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This is naturally gonna organically become when I talk about how we're gonna leg layout the
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show.
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Yeah.
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They're gonna touch on what we call, like, the 6 pillars of optimization and performance and
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longevity.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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That being the fuel, you put in through body to augment your work, right, like what what, you
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deliver purpose into spirit.
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There's a spiritual component there as well.
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I don't make that even make sure let's do it, man.
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Yeah.
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As well as the physical.
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Yeah.
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We touched on that.
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Your mind and your and your sleep.
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Right?
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Because those are the 2 big ones.
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If you're not sleeping, man, You know what that does, everyone?
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I'm, yeah, I'm so excited to actually go over that season.
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Yeah.
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Obviously, just the hormonal balances and people.
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How long are people don't understand the chemicals.
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Right.
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The chemical reactions that sleep is the narrative of that kind of sets the baseline.
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So I'm super excited about that.
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Yeah.
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And so, you know, I I with the show.
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What we're gonna do is we're gonna break into seasons.
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And I'd love to, like, expound on each one of those topics over a few episodes, right, get
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into some nitty gritty stuff, touch on different points.
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Bring in some people.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I know you know people, letter leaders in the fields, and as well as myself.
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So bringing in guests and interviewing and just human human entertaining management.
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Yeah.
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We're doing a certain people, obviously, but, not putting love it.
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And then what we're gonna do so setting expectations for the show, we're gonna do about
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3 up so it's per season,
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but we might go a
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little bit longer if it's a little bit more in-depth of how how we wanna do it.
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So we'll let you guys know how how long we're gonna go with the seasons and as far as per
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episode, because we might do 4 or 5.
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Let's say if sleep does take us in a direction where we wanna dig a little bit deeper.
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We bring some people on.
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Yeah.
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We can always go a little bit longer.
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And then and then, what we're going to do, we have a few questions from, you know, from
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audience today, but we're gonna end every episode with audience questions that we can
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answer, yep, to the best of our knowledge.
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And then if we have to bring in some other expertise at a higher level that we can tap
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into, we sure can certainly can do that, you know, because one of the, you know, most
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important things about life is obviously curiosity and being able to say, actually don't
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know the answer to that question.
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Yeah.
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And, and then being able to find it out.
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And that's why I enjoy most about life is just, tapping into new questions that I don't know.
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That lead to new answers and, cultivating new mindset.
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So, yeah.
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Alright.
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That that's, I think a wrap for intro.
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Number 1, a full field.
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You got anything else, brother?
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Yeah.
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I mean, I'm not sure we can always cut this part out, but, like, we could roll right into
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what we're gonna talked about for our perception.
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I mean, just go right into it.
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What
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do you think, Blake?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Let's just do the pilot.
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Cut it there.
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That could actually be all it.
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Don't cut any of that.
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Right?
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I look
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Super transparent.
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I'm excited, man.
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So, yeah, I think, I think that the trajectory of what we're gonna talk about gonna help a lot
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of people.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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A lot of the stuff, man, it's it sounds like maybe common knowledge.
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Like, everyone knows I need to see.
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Everyone knows we need to eat help.
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Be, like, but do you.
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Right?
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But what does that look like?
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Right?
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So many people are out there, man.
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Just could grab a hold before we wrap up, but,
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This is, alright, is this on air?
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Like, are we on air right now?
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Yeah.
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Let's do
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it on air.
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Let's go let's keep going.
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Yeah.
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I mean, just like people thinking that what they're eating is healthy.
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When realistically, it's, being touted as healthy by, you know, these companies that are
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trying to make money.
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Yeah.
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So they say it's healthy.
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They put organic on the label.
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They put super food on it, but that where is that coming from?
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Right?
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What is that product actually doing through your body?
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So taking that also a lot of what I my practice is finding the individuality testing.
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So, yeah, what might be healthy for me, you might not be healthy for you.
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Yeah.
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If I have delayed, such activities to certain foods, even if they're touted as a healthy,
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it's gonna inflame my body.
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Right?
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So it caused me to have gut issues and stuff like that.
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Yeah.
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So knowing really what your body responds to.
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Yeah.
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So if you, you know, and we're gonna do, obviously, games that we know all this stuff.
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Yeah.
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Well, let's, so that we'll we'll just segue now.
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Like, this was the end of episode intro, we should say.
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Intro.
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This was our introduction.
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You kinda got familiar with who we are.
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But now we're we're tapping into nutrition.
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Right?
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And so we're gonna go through, fuel.
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Fuel.
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We're gonna tap into the pillar of fuel.
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So that's a wrap for, the introduction here.
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And, we're gonna hadn't, episode number 1.