Mind Over Matter: Strategies for a Healthier Brain with Dr. Ryan Williamson

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a brand new episode. Now, let's dive into the

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show. Welcome to another episode of the Crazy

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Fitness Guy Show slash Weekly Motivation with

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Crazy Fitness Guy. Before we get started, and

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I'll worry about that later. Before we get started,

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I have to say, did you know that neurologists,

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well, the people in the neurologist office I

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went to yesterday, well, let's just say... They

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held a special place somewhere because, holy

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moly, trying to get an appointment, non -existent.

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They're like, you need a referral. And I was

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like, I called your office 12 times and now you're

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telling me I need a referral? And I was like,

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and the reason why they couldn't get back to

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me because they were watching movies on their

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phone. Oh, geez. Sorry to hear that. I'm like,

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perfect. Love it. Yeah. I think they need to

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get their own brains checked out. They have once.

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I'm not going to name any names, but yay. Yeah,

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that was my day yesterday. I'm like, what else

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can go wrong this week? We all have weeks like

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that, don't we? Yep. I love those weeks, but

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welcome, Dr. Ryan, for coming to the show. Thank

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you so much for having me. So before we get started,

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can you tell us a little bit about who you are,

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what you do, how you got started, and why you

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got started? Yeah, of course. So again, Ryan

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Williamson. I'm a board -certified neurologist.

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I'm the owner and founder of Transcend Health

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and author of my new book, The Incredible Brain,

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which actually comes out September 9th. So pretty

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excited about that because we're right around

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the corner. But before I did any of that, we

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kind of go back to the early years of my life.

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I witnessed a lot of suffering. And this was,

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at the time, I really didn't fully appreciate

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where this would, I guess, send me or what it

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would do. But I lost a lot of people I was close

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with when I was young. And that certainly turned

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some early gears in terms of how I questioned

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what life meant, why people died or why did bad

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things happen. So that pushed me into a career

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in medicine. And it really wasn't until I finished

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My medical training where I became a neurologist

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because the brain certainly is fascinating. I'm

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sure we'll get into that at some point here soon.

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But once I got into clinical practice, you know,

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Jimmy, your story actually hits the nail on the

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head because I felt like I couldn't provide the

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care that I wanted to to my patients. And, you

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know, Western medicine is very siloed. It's very

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reactive. We don't really have a health care

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system. We have a sick care system. Doctors are

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trained to treat their tiny little corner of

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the body. And even in many cases, they subspecialize.

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So within neurology, we have people that just

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do stroke or just do headache. And it's like

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that in the surgical subspecialties everywhere

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else. So that system produces world -class experts,

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but it doesn't do a whole lot for keeping people

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healthy because doctors are paid to really solve

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the problem that's in front of them, not necessarily

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keep people in a healthier state. And again,

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for what I do, I mean, I see a lot of people

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that suffer from conditions like Alzheimer's,

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which is the most common type of dementia, strokes,

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where part of the brain dies due to a blood clot

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in the wrong place, or even worse problems like

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brain death. And it took me a while to figure

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this out, but so many of these problems are so

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preventable. And very few people are talking

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about... how they're preventable, why they're

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preventable, and what we can do to actually avoid

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them in 90 plus percent of cases, which is what

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the medical literature shows us. So the last

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few years, I've been on this journey to help

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educate my patients and my clients through my

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coaching practice and just get this message out

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to as many people as I can, which is part of

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why I wrote the book and part of why I'm on your

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podcast. That's kind of the CliffsNotes version.

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We can go in any direction you want after that.

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Well, I definitely want to read your book because

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I'm interested about the brain as well, especially

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when I come across some people who might not

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have a brain. I'm not going to name any names.

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My insurance company. And I'm invited to them

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currently, which is very fun. But I want to ask

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you a quick question, and I'm going to detour

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on this. A slight little detour on this, but

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I want to ask you. So, hypothetically, I don't

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know the exact numbers off the top of my head,

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and I don't have them in front of me, just being

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honest and transparent. So this is going to be

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a wordy question a little bit. So, I don't know.

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how much med school costs just for a primary

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care doctor, let alone a neurologist and all

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the other specialty kind of doctors. So where

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my question is going, so obviously there's some

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type of doctor on their insurance side of the

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company to just deny, deny, deny, deny. But I

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was curious, they might be in knowledge in a

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few areas, like they might have read a book about

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something and whatnot. And you might not know

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this answer, but let's just say hypothetically,

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if somehow somebody knew everything had a degree

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and every little specialty out there, like I

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said, hypothetically. because I haven't met somebody

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like that, but just hypothetically, if they went

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to every single schooling degree for every single

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doctorate degree out there, for every specialty

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out there, just so that they can work in insurance

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and whatnot, wouldn't they be pretty much in

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a couple of million dollars in debt? Yeah, it's

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a good question. So kind of a multi -part question

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here, if I heard you right, Jimmy. But to answer

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the first part, whether you ultimately become

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a surgeon or a family doctor, primary care neurologist,

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everybody that goes through four years of medical

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school through the traditional Western route,

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which is to become an MD like me or a DO or something

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equivalent, that's four years of medical school

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in the United States. And that, whether you're

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at a... You're an in -state student at a state

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university or you're maybe out of state versus

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going to a private school. Gosh, anymore, I mean,

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that tuition can be $30 ,000, $40 ,000, $50 ,000,

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or maybe even approaching $100 ,000 a year, depending

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on where you are, not including living expenses

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and materials, et cetera. So, yes, medical education

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is very expensive. I was in the Navy for about

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12 years, which is something I always wanted

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to do. And one of the incentives for me to go

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through that training was to have the military

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pay for medical school. That's certainly not

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the only reason I commissioned, but that was,

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again, that's sort of part of the agreement and

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that contract. But if you were to go through

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multiple residencies, which is what happens after

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you go through four years of medical school,

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neurology takes four years, for example, internal

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medicine, family medicine, three years. And the

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neurosurgery, for example, is a seven -year training

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after medical school. It's very lengthy. You

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can very quickly get into a multi -decade training

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pathway where, yes, you might be acquiring relevant

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skills and certainly always learning, but the

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practicality of recouping some of that investment,

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to your point, if somebody has a multi -six -figure

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student loan burden and they're making maybe

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I don't know, $50 ,000, $60 ,000 a year as a

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resident, which is fairly average pay depending

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on where you are throughout the country, which

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is fairly equivalent depending on what you do.

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So i .e. a family doctor and a neurosurgeon don't

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make that. Their training pay is not much different,

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even though their attending pay when they're

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fully trained and board certified after could

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be quite different. Sort of a loaded question

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in a lot of different directions, but yes, you

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could very easily rack up a ton of debt if you

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were going through all these different educational

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programs and systems, or maybe you got a master's

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in public health, or maybe you wanted to go to

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law school. I mean, that could be very expensive

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in a hurry. And if you weren't actively working

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toward paying off that debt or generating an

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income, that could be a problem. And then back

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to the insurance, I think you also bring up a

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really important point here. This is back to

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this whole issue that we have with our sick care

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system is that insurance companies are for profit.

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So, you know, by definition, they cover people,

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quote unquote, for their health care needs. And

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everybody pays into a giant pool of funds that

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the insurance company goes and invests and tries

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to make some money on that money. And by definition,

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they're trying to pay out as little as possible

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to keep as much profit as they can. Right. That's

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how the game works. And ideally, they're helping

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people along the way that need financial assistance

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through their insurance. Well, if we zoom out

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from that, because I don't think that's a great

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model in general, maybe it's necessary, maybe

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it's one of the better models we have. But if

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we keep people healthier and we keep them out

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of the hospital more and we keep them out of

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a clinic more or out of an emergency department

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or wherever, there's a lower burden on the insurance

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companies so that there's more capital or more

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funds reserved for people that need the more

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emergent treatments rather than kind of chasing

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our tail on problems that are preventable in

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the first place. So there is, I suppose, a more

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systemic or even financial reason that I'm doing

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this to try to just help educate people on how

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to take better care of themselves. Because that

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does free up more money and more resources for

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people to go see a neurologist sooner and not

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have a long wait list or to not have to fight

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with insurance companies that are really trying

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to claw back every dollar that's in the pool

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of their funds. Well, the reason I asked that

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question was because, well, it is because when

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I learned about that there's a doctor in every

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single insurance company, my thought is like,

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they can't be a possible expert on everything.

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It's like, you might have read a book on something,

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but it doesn't mean you're an expert. And it's

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like, there's a person, it's like, yeah, you

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might've read something about neurology, but

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you're not a neurologist. You can't possibly

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be everything. And if you can possibly be everything,

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then you must be like freaking Google or something.

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But, and I'm not saying you personally, I just

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mean the doctor in the insurance company, because

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like, it's, There's no possible way. And it's

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like, you would have to be in a couple million

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dollar debt. And I was like, well, it sucks to

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be you, but again, not you personally. I mean,

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just that person over there. Yeah. No, of course.

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Well, and so in my experience, physicians that

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work for insurance companies tend to be more.

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generalists, meaning they're maybe internal medicine

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trained, where they've got a very broad array

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of conditions that they're familiar with. But

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no, I mean, by definition, they can't, I mean,

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none of us can be an expert in everything. Our

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brains are amazingly complex, but they don't

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quite work that well. So it is frustrating to

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be in a situation where people are denied coverage

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or care. because they're at the limitation or

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the mercy of a provider somewhere who denies

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a prior authorization, which is a common process

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to have a reimbursement approved. But I will

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say that, again, back to that baseline level

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of education that every doctor has because they

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go through that training pipeline, while they

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may not know the specifics or the ins and outs

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of every nuanced disease, they have the framework

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within which to think and understand if they

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were to go look up, person A comes in with this

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condition and they've got this diagnosis and

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they need these treatments or they've failed

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first, second, third line therapy and now they

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need to be approved for something else. They

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should be able to think their way through that

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logically rather than needing to be a quote unquote

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expert on that specific condition. Because again,

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that would be very difficult. And that opens

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up another interesting path of discussion. I

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don't know how much you or your audience follow

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the trends in AI. But we are almost at a point

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where these large language models are good enough

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to be able to do most of that heavy lifting and

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act as every expert in the room because of the

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vast amount of information that it's trained

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on and the general processing power of these

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models. They're not perfect yet. And certainly

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in healthcare, I still think they have a ways

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to go, but they're getting there very, very quickly.

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And again, there may even be some models that

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I'm unaware of that are probably already there,

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whether they're released or not. But I think

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we're headed there in short order as far as that

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being a big tool. And certainly on the patient

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care front, but maybe even to be utilized by

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insurance companies. Well, you know, honestly,

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it's funny that you brought up the AI because

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I had someone else on here who was also a doctor

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said that AI is right now is in... favor of the

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insurance companies and uh rolling in their favor

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all the time and it's like we gotta train it

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to be in our favor and i was like i was like

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i like i got stinking because it's like i'm not

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saying like i'm abby little nook and cranny but

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i said to someone a tongue -in -cheek kind of

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joke but also some truth behind it If I had to

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pick between my two insurance companies, mental

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health one and the regular health one, and pick

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between those two and AI, I would literally choose

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AI as my health insurance provider because at

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least, you know, even if it rejected something

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right off the bat, at least it would show some

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remorse. where the insurance company has no feeling

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whatsoever. And I know it's just a person relaying

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a message on the phone and whatnot, but it's

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like, well, at least AI has some like, oh, I'm

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sorry you feel that way versus insurers just

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don't cold, pretty much like serial killer type

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cold. Well, Jimmy, I'm certainly sorry to hear

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you've had that experience. And again, I think

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you bring up another interesting point in that

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in kind of a faceless, nameless organization,

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certain organizations don't have feelings, but

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people should. But as we're training AI, they're

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becoming better and better at mimicking human

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behavior. But there's a real debate around consciousness,

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around to what degree does a large language model

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become an entity? That it could generate its

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own thoughts, you know, or have its own feelings.

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Certainly, by definition, you know, an AI can't

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have human feelings because it is not in fact

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human, but it can emulate them very well. And

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that's a, I've come across some interesting conversations

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with people that, you know, where humans are

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interacting with AI and developing sort of this,

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you know, one -way relationship where they feel

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attached to this. computer or this agent because

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they believe that the machine is providing companionship

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or maybe even loving them back. And we're in

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a very interesting paradigm there as far as what

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that means for the world. So there's a lot of

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directions we could go with that. But anyway,

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we have some new puzzles in front of us to say

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the least. Yeah. I'm not getting any of my names,

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but I had some people said around me that I was

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like, yeah, you know, maybe since he can't get

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any girlfriends and whatnot, he's going to have

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an AI girlfriend. And I was like, I can't comment

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on that. I was like, I don't think he want my

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comment on that. So I'm just going to keep my

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mouth shut. There it was. Five or maybe 10 years

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ago, there was a movie with Joaquin Phoenix called

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Her. Did you ever see that? No. I've seen bits

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and pieces of it. I've never watched it all the

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way through, but I think it's a prescient movie

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because he plays this human who I believe falls

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in love with an AI or an assistant. And it kind

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of goes through what is that like? That seemed

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like science fiction in 2015 or 2016. I forget

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when the movie came out. It wasn't that long

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ago. But now these are potential real -world

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problems that people are facing, which is just

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interesting. What is the movie called again?

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I believe it's called Her, H -E -R. You look

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up Her, Joaquin Phoenix. That should pull it

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up. I'm definitely going to look that up because

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that piqued my interest. I'm not going to get

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any sick ideas, but I'm just... I'm not that

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crazy. Please don't. So I was curious. So why

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do you find the brain so interesting? And before

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I have you answer that, I think for me, what

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I find interesting about the brain is that from

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my own artistic point of view, having to... think

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outside the box my brain sees in patterns and

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I kind of like to think that I mean I don't think

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I mean I wouldn't say I think higher than people

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but sometimes I like I see the smallest details

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like for instance I spotted something when I

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was traveling to Florida for a conference and

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I noticed on the boarding passes on mobile devices

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if you add it to your wallet like apple wallet

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or google wallet it doesn't show you the group

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number that you're supposed to board with i'm

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like you would think somebody would test that

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out and it's like come on developers billion

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dollar industry you can't get somebody good come

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on it's like this is amateur hour anyway that's

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my soapbox but so that's why i find the brain

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interesting because it's like You know, I think

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different. I know everybody thinks all differently

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and everything, but I like to see how nitpicky

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my brain is and see that small little details.

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Sometimes my parents kind of think it's kind

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of ridiculous. Like, Jimmy, you really have to

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spend so much time on the small details? He's

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like, not on every nook and cranny, but I can

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tell when something is off. boarding pass stuff

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and whatnot. It was like something a smidge off,

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like in an image. I was like, eh, you know what?

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It's not going to bother me. But it was just

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like, just something like as basic as the group

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stuff. It's like, oh, come on. That's supposed

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to be basic. Yeah. Well, again, Jimmy, you ask

00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.099
great questions and you bring up some very interesting

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topics. So for me, I think the brain is, easily

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the most fascinating organ in the human body.

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I mean, there may be some of my other specialist

00:23:09.170 --> 00:23:11.670
colleagues would disagree. I mean, nephrologists

00:23:11.670 --> 00:23:14.289
get pretty wound up about the kidney and cardiologists

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like the heart and we can't live without critical

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organs, but without our brain, we can't experience

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what it means to be human. Without a brain, we'd

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be zombies. Exactly. Exactly. So we can't, I

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mean, this gets into philosophy of life and consciousness

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and meaning and humanism and behavior, all kinds

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of interesting topics. But the brain is the place

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where we make sense of the natural world around

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us. So your brain is this giant supercomputer.

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And it processes all of the millions of bits

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of sensory information that are streaming into

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it every second. It gets about 11 million bits

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every second is what your brain actually receives.

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Although what's interesting is the number of

00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:06.519
bits that can only make it to your level of conscious

00:24:06.519 --> 00:24:08.599
perception is on the order of like 50 bits a

00:24:08.599 --> 00:24:10.440
second. So it's a very, very small amount that

00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:13.559
we can actually focus our attention on. But I

00:24:13.559 --> 00:24:17.059
say all that to say that it's very nuanced. It's

00:24:17.059 --> 00:24:20.049
incredibly special. It's trainable, so you can

00:24:20.049 --> 00:24:21.789
modify it throughout your life depending on what

00:24:21.789 --> 00:24:24.049
you do with it or, you know, what you read or

00:24:24.049 --> 00:24:26.289
what podcast you're on or where you travel or

00:24:26.289 --> 00:24:29.930
what you eat. So it's this plastic or sort of

00:24:29.930 --> 00:24:34.230
flexible organ. And you're right. I mean, every

00:24:34.230 --> 00:24:38.670
brain is different. And everybody in their life

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circumstances and the differences in their neural

00:24:41.309 --> 00:24:44.130
architecture, their structure, you know, what

00:24:44.130 --> 00:24:46.349
their experiences have been, their education.

00:24:46.890 --> 00:24:49.950
all arrive at different conclusions and generate

00:24:49.950 --> 00:24:52.210
different behavioral outputs that make us all

00:24:52.210 --> 00:24:56.390
unique. And people that have autism in particular,

00:24:56.450 --> 00:24:59.190
or they're on the autism spectrum, have a different

00:24:59.190 --> 00:25:02.670
brain than other people. And so to your point,

00:25:02.789 --> 00:25:06.710
you are very good at noticing specific details

00:25:06.710 --> 00:25:09.250
that the average person probably wouldn't even

00:25:09.250 --> 00:25:14.970
recognize if you asked him 10 times. And I find

00:25:14.970 --> 00:25:17.309
that interesting because... Neurology in particular

00:25:17.309 --> 00:25:20.890
is a very nuanced field and it pushes a lot of

00:25:20.890 --> 00:25:24.029
doctors away because a lot of doctors don't really

00:25:24.029 --> 00:25:26.289
like it, quite frankly. So there's some job security

00:25:26.289 --> 00:25:29.470
for me, I guess. But I don't think this has ever

00:25:29.470 --> 00:25:31.490
been studied. This is pure conjecture on my part,

00:25:31.549 --> 00:25:33.609
just an anecdotal observation. So please take

00:25:33.609 --> 00:25:36.849
that with a grain of salt. But it appears to

00:25:36.849 --> 00:25:39.990
me that neurology tends to attract more people

00:25:39.990 --> 00:25:42.750
on the autism spectrum and people with, say,

00:25:42.769 --> 00:25:45.130
Asperger's, for example, that go through medical

00:25:45.130 --> 00:25:47.809
school. Because of the particularities and because

00:25:47.809 --> 00:25:49.970
of the kind of nuances, for whatever reason,

00:25:50.089 --> 00:25:52.430
I've just made this observation my entire career.

00:25:52.549 --> 00:25:54.269
No matter where I go or what hospital I work

00:25:54.269 --> 00:25:56.430
in, it just tends to attract that kind of person,

00:25:56.569 --> 00:26:00.690
which is interesting. But, you know, think about,

00:26:00.789 --> 00:26:03.450
I mean, look at Elon Musk, right? I mean, he's

00:26:03.450 --> 00:26:05.349
maybe he's taken a lot of political heat lately

00:26:05.349 --> 00:26:08.670
for the election cycle and the Doge thing and

00:26:08.670 --> 00:26:10.230
whatever. But, I mean, forget about that for

00:26:10.230 --> 00:26:13.579
a minute. He's arguably the most successful,

00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:16.000
if not one of the most successful people on the

00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:19.559
planet or to have ever lived. And he has a very

00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:21.880
particular way of viewing the world and solving

00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:25.579
problems that most other people don't. And he

00:26:25.579 --> 00:26:28.579
has Asperger's. And his brain is wired very differently

00:26:28.579 --> 00:26:31.420
than the average person. And he has gotten very

00:26:31.420 --> 00:26:33.980
good at making optimal use of that, which I think

00:26:33.980 --> 00:26:37.440
is just a fascinating case study of how an autistic

00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:40.180
brain, excuse me, is different than a non -autistic

00:26:40.180 --> 00:26:44.940
brain. for what that's worth. I mean, one thing

00:26:44.940 --> 00:26:49.299
I've also, I mean, even though I find the brain

00:26:49.299 --> 00:26:53.839
fascinating, I couldn't go into, go for it for

00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:56.640
science and whatnot because me and science do

00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:59.799
not work together. And I'm currently in my final

00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:04.759
class for my associate's degree, which I had

00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:08.400
to take for science, but I'm taking the very

00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:12.819
most basic science whatsoever, only because I'm

00:27:12.819 --> 00:27:18.740
not in a science major whatsoever. But I do find

00:27:18.740 --> 00:27:25.859
it interesting, which says a lot from my point

00:27:25.859 --> 00:27:28.839
of view, because growing up in public school,

00:27:29.079 --> 00:27:34.759
we did nothing, I mean, except for I think seventh

00:27:34.759 --> 00:27:40.019
grade and eighth grade. science class we got

00:27:40.019 --> 00:27:43.759
to do different kinds of experiments but in high

00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:47.880
school everybody's like i basically hyped it

00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:50.579
up so much it's like oh you got to do cool experiments

00:27:50.579 --> 00:27:54.319
i must have been in the lamest science class

00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:58.660
in high school because we didn't do squat the

00:27:58.660 --> 00:28:02.640
only thing we got to do was and uh for anybody

00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:05.619
who's listening to this If you're eating, you

00:28:05.619 --> 00:28:09.519
might not want to eat after this or listen to

00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:14.720
this part or make sure you allow yourself enough

00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.259
room to digest what you're eating because what

00:28:18.259 --> 00:28:21.000
I'm going to say right now is totally disgusting,

00:28:21.140 --> 00:28:23.279
and I don't mean to sound totally disgusting.

00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:27.259
Luckily, I have not eaten my lunch yet. So if

00:28:27.259 --> 00:28:30.359
you puke later on, please don't blame it on me.

00:28:30.500 --> 00:28:35.319
So there's the warning for you. So the only thing

00:28:35.319 --> 00:28:39.359
that we did in one of my high school science

00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:42.599
classes as an experiment, we melted the fat off

00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:46.660
of Cheetos. And it was pretty cool and gross

00:28:46.660 --> 00:28:50.200
at the same time. And it stunk up the whole hallway

00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:54.039
for the whole rest of the semester, for the whole

00:28:54.039 --> 00:28:58.440
rest of school year. And I was like, so every

00:28:58.440 --> 00:29:04.119
time when people, there was a, I think a... There's

00:29:04.119 --> 00:29:08.519
like three, I think there's like three floors

00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:13.119
to our school, maybe two or three. And so every

00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:16.180
time when somebody went down the flight of stairs,

00:29:16.299 --> 00:29:21.279
or up the flight of stairs to where a lot of

00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:23.740
the science classrooms were, people were like,

00:29:23.779 --> 00:29:25.980
oh, what's that smell in the hallway? And it

00:29:25.980 --> 00:29:29.660
would just remain there. Just think of the smelliest

00:29:29.660 --> 00:29:32.240
thing. If you think, I don't know, let's say,

00:29:32.700 --> 00:29:35.339
somebody house smells or they don't take a shower

00:29:35.339 --> 00:29:42.380
well this was beyond that uh yeah it was gross

00:29:42.380 --> 00:29:45.119
but it was cool that well and i can never eat

00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:49.700
cheetos ever again that sounds pretty gross yeah

00:29:49.700 --> 00:29:55.380
um yeah it so yeah the well could go a lot of

00:29:55.380 --> 00:29:57.460
directions with that in terms of kind of how

00:29:57.460 --> 00:30:00.680
how maybe burnt or decomposing flesh smells but

00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.579
i'll table that as well to not gross people out

00:30:03.579 --> 00:30:05.740
further, but you bring up an interesting point

00:30:05.740 --> 00:30:08.500
about Cheetos and that, you know, if you, if

00:30:08.500 --> 00:30:10.380
you look at the ingredients on a bag of Cheetos,

00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:13.619
I mean, it's, it's like, I don't know the actual

00:30:13.619 --> 00:30:16.319
number, but call it 30 or 50 ingredients long.

00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:19.660
And most of those are some version of a processed

00:30:19.660 --> 00:30:21.960
or an ultra processed molecule or substance.

00:30:22.660 --> 00:30:26.799
Right. Well, they're back, back to, you know,

00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:28.359
kind of doctors being in insurance companies,

00:30:28.500 --> 00:30:31.990
you know, Frito -Lay or whoever owns. Cheetos

00:30:31.990 --> 00:30:34.450
or Fritos, all the above. Maybe it's the same

00:30:34.450 --> 00:30:38.710
company. They hire these scientists to actually

00:30:38.710 --> 00:30:43.670
engineer food to taste better and to have palatable

00:30:43.670 --> 00:30:49.210
texture and to appeal to us. So people tend to

00:30:49.210 --> 00:30:51.269
gravitate towards bright colors because that's

00:30:51.269 --> 00:30:54.309
just how our visual cortexes are designed to

00:30:54.309 --> 00:30:57.029
be attracted to bright items or things like this.

00:30:57.450 --> 00:31:00.250
Our brain likes different textures, so crunchy.

00:31:00.700 --> 00:31:04.579
And maybe savory or salty or spicy. So these

00:31:04.579 --> 00:31:07.180
food companies spend a great deal of time, energy

00:31:07.180 --> 00:31:11.920
and money on making these processed foods create

00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:15.519
this experience that causes your brain to crave

00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:18.740
more and more of it so that you're sort of subconsciously

00:31:18.740 --> 00:31:22.140
addicted to them. And, you know, to your point,

00:31:22.180 --> 00:31:24.220
when you sort of melt all the fat off and you

00:31:24.220 --> 00:31:26.000
see what's left and there's this horrible smell

00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:27.500
and there's this disgusting looking thing in

00:31:27.500 --> 00:31:29.960
front of you, that's what you're putting in your

00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:32.880
body. And there's certainly some emerging data

00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:35.200
that people who consume ultra -processed foods

00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:38.420
have shorter lifespans. They have a much higher

00:31:38.420 --> 00:31:41.720
percentage or degree of chronic diseases. And

00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:44.019
again, they are more likely to end up with these

00:31:44.019 --> 00:31:46.299
conditions like dementia and strokes that I mentioned

00:31:46.299 --> 00:31:50.059
earlier compared with people who just eat a whole

00:31:50.059 --> 00:31:52.440
food, unprocessed diet. which is what we're just

00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:56.220
designed to eat. So I think you're probably doing

00:31:56.220 --> 00:31:59.019
everyone a favor by sharing how gross the Cheeto

00:31:59.019 --> 00:32:02.279
experience is, because that is certainly not

00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:04.720
something that we should be consuming, if ever,

00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:10.319
on a regular basis. Yeah. To be honest, I used

00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:14.700
to eat a lot of different Cheetos growing up,

00:32:14.740 --> 00:32:21.349
but I stopped a long time ago. I mean... I occasionally

00:32:21.349 --> 00:32:24.230
have a bag of pretzels. I mean, the little small

00:32:24.230 --> 00:32:26.809
ones. I mean, I get they're high in sodium, but

00:32:26.809 --> 00:32:29.029
it's not like I have them every single day. It's

00:32:29.029 --> 00:32:32.609
like, okay, I was at the beach. I was wanting

00:32:32.609 --> 00:32:37.650
something with my sandwich. Sure. I mean, again,

00:32:37.769 --> 00:32:40.549
I think this is a kind of a progress over perfection

00:32:40.549 --> 00:32:43.690
situation, you know, where if for anybody in

00:32:43.690 --> 00:32:45.450
your audience, you know, if you are somebody

00:32:45.450 --> 00:32:49.289
who leans on or consumes processed foods regularly,

00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:52.099
I just, I have a plan, you know what I mean?

00:32:52.099 --> 00:32:55.460
And eliminate one thing at a time and, or even

00:32:55.460 --> 00:32:57.420
better yet, you know, when you go to the store,

00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:00.200
think about what you're shopping for, because

00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:02.160
if something doesn't end up at your house or

00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:05.220
at home, it's very difficult to eat it. It takes

00:33:05.220 --> 00:33:08.359
a lot of resistance, or at least a lot more steps

00:33:08.359 --> 00:33:11.299
to have to go get in the car, drive to the store,

00:33:11.380 --> 00:33:15.220
go buy the thing that you're craving. And I suppose

00:33:15.220 --> 00:33:17.759
we've maybe done ourselves a disservice with

00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:20.680
instant food delivery services. I mean, whether

00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:23.119
it's Uber Eats or DoorDash or Picka Service,

00:33:23.619 --> 00:33:27.200
even Walmart and different grocery stores have

00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:29.500
instant services where they can still drop things

00:33:29.500 --> 00:33:31.940
off at the door. So that resistance has lowered

00:33:31.940 --> 00:33:35.279
some. But even still, if you are intentional

00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:38.920
about what you buy and what you bring home. and

00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:40.940
you leave it in a visible place. And one of my

00:33:40.940 --> 00:33:43.380
favorite examples of this is, rather than having

00:33:43.380 --> 00:33:45.339
the bag of Cheetos on the counter in the kitchen,

00:33:45.500 --> 00:33:50.519
if you have fresh fruit, say an apple or an orange,

00:33:50.619 --> 00:33:53.240
or maybe you open the fridge and instead of,

00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:55.640
I don't know, candy or cookies or something,

00:33:55.819 --> 00:33:59.279
you have vegetable sticks and maybe some sort

00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:01.599
of a healthy protein, that's what you're going

00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:04.940
to eat because that's what's there. And back

00:34:04.940 --> 00:34:07.119
to that kind of neuroplastic feature of your

00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:10.159
brain where your brain rewires itself based on

00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:13.340
the experiences that you deliver. Most people,

00:34:13.380 --> 00:34:15.519
when they get over that initial craving or that

00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:18.059
urge to continue to consume processed foods,

00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:21.239
when you start to eat a whole food diet and you're

00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:24.000
giving your body the appropriate micronutrients,

00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:26.739
which are the little kind of microscopic vitamins

00:34:26.739 --> 00:34:29.619
and minerals that actually help run the cellular

00:34:29.619 --> 00:34:31.420
machinery of your body and all the enzymatic

00:34:31.420 --> 00:34:33.690
reactions that we need to be healthy. And then

00:34:33.690 --> 00:34:35.329
the macronutrients, which are like the building

00:34:35.329 --> 00:34:37.409
blocks and that give us the energy to do the

00:34:37.409 --> 00:34:39.110
work in the first place. When you're putting

00:34:39.110 --> 00:34:41.269
the right fuel in your body that you're designed

00:34:41.269 --> 00:34:45.610
to actually consume, I mean, people feel a thousand

00:34:45.610 --> 00:34:49.590
times better. I've watched inflammation disappear.

00:34:50.250 --> 00:34:51.750
I've watched people that have struggled to lose

00:34:51.750 --> 00:34:54.230
weight their whole life. The pounds melt off

00:34:54.230 --> 00:34:57.409
like a Cheeto fat. They build muscle. They want

00:34:57.409 --> 00:34:59.590
to go to the gym. They sleep better. I mean,

00:34:59.610 --> 00:35:02.670
it's amazing what appropriate nutrition does

00:35:02.670 --> 00:35:05.849
for people. I mean, it really is striking. And

00:35:05.849 --> 00:35:08.250
it's crazy to me that we live in a world where

00:35:08.250 --> 00:35:12.929
the norm is to just have a box of, you know.

00:35:13.469 --> 00:35:17.409
Cheetos, Fritos, a box of cookies. When you actually

00:35:17.409 --> 00:35:19.010
look at what's on the packaging, it's like, oh

00:35:19.010 --> 00:35:24.050
my gosh, what are we consuming? Honestly, and

00:35:24.050 --> 00:35:27.570
this is not a sponsorship for this company, but

00:35:27.570 --> 00:35:30.789
honestly, if you don't really have any time to

00:35:30.789 --> 00:35:32.710
cook, you don't really want to go to the grocery

00:35:32.710 --> 00:35:37.750
store a lot because pretty much if you add it

00:35:37.750 --> 00:35:42.239
all up and like your grocery bill on a weekly

00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:48.099
basis or monthly basis, you probably could do

00:35:48.099 --> 00:35:52.199
like HelloFresh. I mean, even if you don't want

00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:54.460
to do the cooking part of it, you could, like

00:35:54.460 --> 00:35:59.340
they have prepared meals now. And I mean, everything

00:35:59.340 --> 00:36:02.500
is not, it's not even frozen meals. It's already

00:36:02.500 --> 00:36:07.099
cooked for you. They put it in a box with ice

00:36:07.099 --> 00:36:10.500
around it. So, you know, fresh is not like, Oh,

00:36:10.500 --> 00:36:13.219
yeah, it's frozen from the grocery store, and

00:36:13.219 --> 00:36:17.260
you have all the additives and whatnot. Mm -hmm.

00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:21.239
I looked down. I looked like either HelloFresh

00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:27.239
or HomeChef or whatever. I mean, yeah, it can

00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:30.719
look pricey at first, but if you think about

00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:34.000
going to a grocery store these days with, let's

00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:36.699
say if you have a family of, I don't know, two

00:36:36.699 --> 00:36:41.230
or three, And it could be like anywhere at $300,

00:36:41.590 --> 00:36:45.829
$400, $500 something dollars. Well, gee, what

00:36:45.829 --> 00:36:48.849
if you got a couple of those meals? You don't

00:36:48.849 --> 00:36:52.170
have to make anything. Save yourself time. Save

00:36:52.170 --> 00:36:57.070
yourself gas. Again, I'm not saying go do it.

00:36:57.130 --> 00:37:01.650
I'm just saying if you're like me, I'm like,

00:37:01.769 --> 00:37:04.489
okay, you know, I go to karate three to four

00:37:04.489 --> 00:37:07.840
times a week. I run my business. If I'm going

00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:09.719
to do any cooking, I'm probably going to do it

00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:12.139
on the weekend. I'm not going to go do it during

00:37:12.139 --> 00:37:15.179
the week. And I'm also in college, so it's like,

00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:20.340
yeah, what am I going to cook? Yeah, some of

00:37:20.340 --> 00:37:22.000
my friends said, well, you could cook everything

00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:24.340
on the weekend. Oh, yeah, I'm going to make at

00:37:24.340 --> 00:37:27.639
least three things on the weekend, make a big,

00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:33.619
huge mess, and package it all up. And yeah, realistically,

00:37:33.980 --> 00:37:38.219
how realistic is that going to be for me? None.

00:37:38.219 --> 00:37:42.360
Because the free time I want to have and the

00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:45.039
only time I have literally is on the weekends.

00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:49.179
You think I'm going to cook? Not at all. Right.

00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:51.019
Yeah. I mean, I think you bring up a great point

00:37:51.019 --> 00:37:54.059
in that having a meal delivery service provides

00:37:54.059 --> 00:37:56.719
a great convenience. And again, it's back to

00:37:56.719 --> 00:37:59.599
lowering that resistance for people. So rather

00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:01.900
than having to, like you said, get in the car,

00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:04.480
burn the gas, drive to the store, buy the things,

00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:08.769
come back. unpackage, chop up, mix, cook, prepare,

00:38:08.909 --> 00:38:12.530
and then eat. It's a lot of steps. And that's,

00:38:12.530 --> 00:38:13.869
you know, just to have something show up at your

00:38:13.869 --> 00:38:17.230
door is incredibly convenient. I guess I would

00:38:17.230 --> 00:38:19.610
just encourage you and your listeners in particular

00:38:19.610 --> 00:38:24.409
to vet whatever the source is. So meaning, you

00:38:24.409 --> 00:38:27.329
know, I don't, HelloFresh versus any of the other

00:38:27.329 --> 00:38:29.809
companies, I've not vetted any of these. I'm

00:38:29.809 --> 00:38:31.590
aware of them. I'm just not, I haven't used them

00:38:31.590 --> 00:38:35.050
as a service. Blue Apron, that's another one

00:38:35.050 --> 00:38:37.969
I've heard of. But anyway, in either case, make

00:38:37.969 --> 00:38:40.449
sure that you know, again, what you're getting

00:38:40.449 --> 00:38:42.750
and what you're putting in your body. Because

00:38:42.750 --> 00:38:46.309
if you can't verify the source of a product and

00:38:46.309 --> 00:38:48.869
you don't know that it's truly organic, that

00:38:48.869 --> 00:38:50.989
it's in line with whatever your dietary needs

00:38:50.989 --> 00:38:54.050
or considerations are, that can potentially cause

00:38:54.050 --> 00:38:57.329
problems. And again, depending on everyone's

00:38:57.329 --> 00:38:59.650
budget and where they live and their access to

00:38:59.650 --> 00:39:04.139
quality nutrition, The cost of a service like

00:39:04.139 --> 00:39:07.820
that can be prohibitive for some people. So again,

00:39:07.900 --> 00:39:10.119
depending on where you live, there are local

00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:12.780
farmers markets where people, you can verify

00:39:12.780 --> 00:39:15.380
that farmers are actually organically harvesting

00:39:15.380 --> 00:39:18.579
their crops. And so you're buying direct rather

00:39:18.579 --> 00:39:21.119
than having to pay for shipping and to buy through

00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:23.960
a store or something like that. So there are

00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:26.960
economical ways that you can make sure that you're

00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:30.699
getting quality food that may be, again, more

00:39:30.699 --> 00:39:33.719
affordable, maybe minus some of the convenience.

00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:38.239
But again, the delivery services, I'm sure they've

00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:40.239
made it priced competitively enough for the right

00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:41.980
people that it works or else they wouldn't have

00:39:41.980 --> 00:39:45.139
a business model. yeah and like i said to everybody

00:39:45.139 --> 00:39:47.900
listening i'm not like telling you go do it and

00:39:47.900 --> 00:39:51.980
i'm just saying just like if it makes sense make

00:39:51.980 --> 00:39:56.079
sense and i mean i used to get the frozen meals

00:39:56.079 --> 00:40:00.320
from uh on the grocery store and then when i

00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:02.199
found out there's so many additive ingredients

00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:04.719
it's like oh what's this word and when i looked

00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:06.920
it up and i mean i'm not even gonna give you

00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:08.820
an example of the word i looked up and i was

00:40:08.820 --> 00:40:15.239
like oh that's what that is I mean, I promise

00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:17.360
I'm not going to gross everyone out again. But

00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:19.659
I mean, when I looked at it, it was like, oh,

00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:22.579
you know, sometimes it's not nice to look at

00:40:22.579 --> 00:40:26.440
things on Google. This is like, this is just,

00:40:26.599 --> 00:40:31.099
oh. And I think one time when I did that, I even

00:40:31.099 --> 00:40:33.000
threw it up in the back of my mouth a little

00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:37.780
bit. It's like, yep, I'm done. Yeah, I cringe

00:40:37.780 --> 00:40:40.920
when I think about my... my lack of knowledge

00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:43.960
of nutrition when I was younger. I'll never forget

00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:47.199
when I was in high school, I took advanced placement

00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:50.360
biology. So I always enjoyed science, which is

00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:51.800
again, part of what got me into medical school.

00:40:51.900 --> 00:40:55.760
But I had AP bio third period, and we had this

00:40:55.760 --> 00:40:57.780
small break in between first and second period.

00:40:58.039 --> 00:40:59.820
And I'd always go to the same vending machine

00:40:59.820 --> 00:41:02.340
in my high school, and I would buy a Mountain

00:41:02.340 --> 00:41:05.579
Dew Code Red and this big Texas cinnamon bun,

00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:09.219
which had like the absolute worst combination

00:41:09.219 --> 00:41:12.639
of sugar and food coloring and processed chemicals

00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:15.320
that you could possibly imagine. So God knows

00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:17.880
what I was doing to my body. But anyway, I'd

00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:20.320
knock all this stuff back and then I couldn't

00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:22.760
stay awake in class because, you know, my glucose

00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:25.400
would probably spike to who knows what. And then

00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:27.199
I would have this, this massive insulin release.

00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:31.219
And so I just, I'd tank. I'd fall asleep in class

00:41:31.219 --> 00:41:35.019
and have no clue why. Now, thankfully I was.

00:41:35.630 --> 00:41:37.070
competitive rower in high school. I was very

00:41:37.070 --> 00:41:40.030
active, so the calories were gone by the end

00:41:40.030 --> 00:41:42.849
of the day, but I just think of the actual quality

00:41:42.849 --> 00:41:44.409
of some of that stuff. I'm like, oh my God, what

00:41:44.409 --> 00:41:48.449
was I doing to myself? And look, everyone, I

00:41:48.449 --> 00:41:52.610
still have the occasional ice cream here and

00:41:52.610 --> 00:41:55.650
there. Not much from, not anything from the store.

00:41:58.530 --> 00:42:01.710
Rarely from the store and rarely from an ice

00:42:01.710 --> 00:42:06.550
cream parlor. I mean, I like dessert, but if

00:42:06.550 --> 00:42:08.630
I'm going to have something, it has to be something

00:42:08.630 --> 00:42:12.030
I can't get easily. Yeah, of course. I mean,

00:42:12.070 --> 00:42:14.309
and again, back to what I was saying about progress

00:42:14.309 --> 00:42:17.809
over perfection. I think it's okay to allow yourself

00:42:17.809 --> 00:42:20.170
to have a treat every now and then to celebrate

00:42:20.170 --> 00:42:23.730
doing well. But this should be the vast majority

00:42:23.730 --> 00:42:27.570
of what anybody focuses on, again, for their

00:42:27.570 --> 00:42:30.239
nutrition. which again impacts your performance.

00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:33.320
I mean, like me with my Mountain Dew and my big

00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:36.500
Texas cinnamon bun or whatever it was, honey

00:42:36.500 --> 00:42:40.079
bun, not a great performance enhancer as it turns

00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:45.260
out. No, yeah, but if you were to have a bowl

00:42:45.260 --> 00:42:50.199
of like oats or maybe Greek yogurt. and a quality

00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:52.460
fruit or some fiber, I mean, that can really

00:42:52.460 --> 00:42:55.019
provide sustained energy for a period of time.

00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:57.679
You know, healthy fats, I mean, like a piece

00:42:57.679 --> 00:42:59.739
of salmon or, you know, have an egg that's got

00:42:59.739 --> 00:43:02.340
some protein. I mean, there's so many better

00:43:02.340 --> 00:43:04.820
choices that can appropriately fuel your body

00:43:04.820 --> 00:43:07.599
to help you with performance at your job or if

00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:09.500
you're a student or like you, going to school

00:43:09.500 --> 00:43:11.440
and running a business and going to karate and

00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:15.019
being physically active. And again, I mean, you

00:43:15.019 --> 00:43:17.820
know, at your age, maybe mine, we tend to think

00:43:17.820 --> 00:43:21.480
about these things less. But the process of aging

00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:24.500
starts the moment you are born. Actually, you

00:43:24.500 --> 00:43:26.119
could argue that it starts before we're born.

00:43:26.159 --> 00:43:28.300
Once we start forming as a little, you know,

00:43:28.300 --> 00:43:31.539
kind of fetus or blastocyst or whatever stage

00:43:31.539 --> 00:43:35.179
we want to talk about. But we age the moment

00:43:35.179 --> 00:43:39.599
we are created. And there are things that speed

00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:42.219
that up and there are things that slow that down.

00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:45.340
And certainly eating processed and ultra -processed

00:43:45.340 --> 00:43:48.789
foods, not being physically active. dealing with

00:43:48.789 --> 00:43:52.010
increased levels of stress, not sleeping well,

00:43:52.090 --> 00:43:53.530
not eating the right stuff, so on and so forth.

00:43:53.630 --> 00:43:57.190
Those all accelerate premature aging in the body.

00:43:57.610 --> 00:44:00.389
And it's not always visible, which is really

00:44:00.389 --> 00:44:03.570
a funny thing to think about because these mechanisms

00:44:03.570 --> 00:44:05.969
take place within our cells and we can't see

00:44:05.969 --> 00:44:09.170
that because it's microscopic. And it's only

00:44:09.170 --> 00:44:11.230
until we hit a threshold where a new symptom

00:44:11.230 --> 00:44:14.010
shows up, you know, where an organ system starts

00:44:14.010 --> 00:44:16.750
to fail or God forbid a tumor grows or whatever

00:44:16.750 --> 00:44:19.510
happens that... that this stuff starts to go

00:44:19.510 --> 00:44:23.329
haywire. And at that point, it's not that things

00:44:23.329 --> 00:44:26.449
are irreversible, but it's way easier to maintain

00:44:26.449 --> 00:44:29.070
a healthy system while it's still operating at

00:44:29.070 --> 00:44:32.670
top function than to try to catch it once the

00:44:32.670 --> 00:44:34.730
wheels have come off the wagon, so to speak.

00:44:36.090 --> 00:44:40.869
So I was curious, and I was curious about this.

00:44:43.260 --> 00:44:45.840
I've heard some people say that you should not

00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:51.760
eat while watching TV or reading because then

00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:55.460
your brain signals like, oh, I want to keep eating

00:44:55.460 --> 00:44:57.679
and whatnot. What is your thoughts about that?

00:44:58.900 --> 00:45:02.519
Well, I think it's less about eating during a

00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:06.679
certain activity and more about eating, being

00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:09.579
intentional about what you eat, how much you

00:45:09.579 --> 00:45:11.679
eat, and then when. And the reason I say that

00:45:11.679 --> 00:45:14.059
is that if you are eating, if you're consuming

00:45:14.059 --> 00:45:18.239
a whole food diet, it is very difficult to overeat.

00:45:18.280 --> 00:45:20.519
And what I mean by that is that say you have

00:45:20.519 --> 00:45:24.239
like take my lunch today was a mixed salad that

00:45:24.239 --> 00:45:28.480
has all kinds of mixed greens, peppers, tomatoes,

00:45:29.019 --> 00:45:34.860
red onion, avocado, pistachios, broccoli, sprouts.

00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:38.079
I mean, it's a whole mix of stuff in there. And

00:45:38.079 --> 00:45:40.099
then I put some fresh organic olive oil because

00:45:40.099 --> 00:45:42.280
actually there's some evidence that that lowers

00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:45.139
your risk of dementia and has some healthy polyphenols

00:45:45.139 --> 00:45:49.119
in there that help as antioxidants. So when I

00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:51.320
eat that and then maybe I'll do like a bowl of

00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:53.059
Greek yogurt for a little extra protein after,

00:45:53.260 --> 00:45:57.760
like I am full for hours. And it is very difficult

00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:01.480
for me to want to consume anything after because

00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:04.039
when we look at back to these things I was saying

00:46:04.039 --> 00:46:06.039
that accelerate or slow down aging, those are

00:46:06.039 --> 00:46:08.519
called the hallmarks of aging. And one of the

00:46:08.519 --> 00:46:11.219
hallmarks of aging is a deregulated nutrient

00:46:11.219 --> 00:46:14.460
sensing system. And if you can't appropriately

00:46:14.460 --> 00:46:17.039
sense nutrients coming into your body, or you

00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:18.980
don't have adequate fiber to help your gut feel

00:46:18.980 --> 00:46:22.179
full, you're actually not getting the appropriate

00:46:22.179 --> 00:46:25.159
signals from your brain, from your gut, that

00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:29.019
you've actually consumed enough. You know, if

00:46:29.019 --> 00:46:31.940
you crack open a tin of Oreo and 10 or whatever,

00:46:32.019 --> 00:46:35.019
a tray of Oreo, excuse me, you know, or maybe

00:46:35.019 --> 00:46:36.659
a tin of Pringles. There we go. There's a tin

00:46:36.659 --> 00:46:38.719
can or something, the little tennis ball looking

00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:41.000
thing that they come in. You can plow through

00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:44.059
those in a hurry because they are very calorically

00:46:44.059 --> 00:46:47.420
dense, but they're nutrient poor. And so your

00:46:47.420 --> 00:46:50.059
body's not getting the feedback to say, hey,

00:46:50.179 --> 00:46:53.280
I've had enough calories or I've had enough stuff.

00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:56.639
And very quickly you've overeaten. And now you've

00:46:56.639 --> 00:46:58.909
got this problem where. Your body just thinks,

00:46:58.969 --> 00:47:01.309
all right, well, we got lucky and we got more

00:47:01.309 --> 00:47:03.369
calories than we need. We're going to store that

00:47:03.369 --> 00:47:06.650
for a rainy day, which was a great survival system,

00:47:06.750 --> 00:47:08.710
you know, back when we were hunter -gatherers.

00:47:08.969 --> 00:47:12.690
And, you know, maybe you came upon a rabbit or

00:47:12.690 --> 00:47:15.329
maybe a deer and, you know, could eat what you

00:47:15.329 --> 00:47:17.829
could, right, while it was there until you had

00:47:17.829 --> 00:47:19.929
to walk another couple days to go find food again.

00:47:20.630 --> 00:47:23.570
So, you know, our ancestors regularly went days

00:47:23.570 --> 00:47:26.309
without a time, without a meal, but they were

00:47:26.309 --> 00:47:28.510
able to store fat. They could then, their bodies

00:47:28.510 --> 00:47:31.750
could burn as energy. We inherited those mechanisms,

00:47:31.929 --> 00:47:35.409
but we have food abundance like we've never had

00:47:35.409 --> 00:47:38.429
in our culture. So all we have to do is, you

00:47:38.429 --> 00:47:41.570
know, reach for another handful of, you know,

00:47:41.570 --> 00:47:45.250
Cheetos. You don't have to go walk for two days

00:47:45.250 --> 00:47:47.849
to go to Costco or to go find the next thing.

00:47:47.949 --> 00:47:50.769
So, you know, it's... I think it's less about

00:47:50.769 --> 00:47:53.289
are you reading or are you watching TV? It's

00:47:53.289 --> 00:47:56.130
more about are you putting the right thing in

00:47:56.130 --> 00:47:59.610
your body to, again, work with how we're designed

00:47:59.610 --> 00:48:01.989
rather than to work against it. It's really easy

00:48:01.989 --> 00:48:05.409
to overeat and overdo it otherwise. I think it

00:48:05.409 --> 00:48:08.969
also has to do – I think it – and from my point

00:48:08.969 --> 00:48:13.429
of perspective, gee, if I can even talk, holy

00:48:13.429 --> 00:48:18.840
crap. I think from my point of view, I think

00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:21.559
it's also due to all the food commercials on

00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:26.199
TV and where it was like, oh, where can I get

00:48:26.199 --> 00:48:31.159
that right now? And I think that's why I don't

00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:33.340
really eat and watch TV at the same time much

00:48:33.340 --> 00:48:36.800
anymore. I mean, if I'm on vacation, yeah, I

00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:40.159
treat myself. But if it's like, yeah, TV, I'm

00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:44.409
bored. Yeah, sure. So again, back to the... Kind

00:48:44.409 --> 00:48:46.409
of the scientists that make the foods taste healthy,

00:48:46.510 --> 00:48:48.929
or taste healthy goodness, taste good because

00:48:48.929 --> 00:48:51.190
they're very unhealthy processed foods. Bing.

00:48:52.030 --> 00:48:54.570
You know, they hire marketers too to, you know,

00:48:54.570 --> 00:48:57.789
make an experience of whatever it is that they're

00:48:57.789 --> 00:49:01.130
getting people to buy or consume to be enjoyable.

00:49:01.789 --> 00:49:03.550
You know what I mean? Think of the, like, the

00:49:03.550 --> 00:49:05.829
leprechaun on the Lucky Charms commercial and

00:49:05.829 --> 00:49:07.530
how much fun the kids are having eating Lucky

00:49:07.530 --> 00:49:09.489
Charms, right? And it's magically delicious.

00:49:10.489 --> 00:49:13.409
There you go, right? Tony the tiger with their

00:49:13.409 --> 00:49:15.369
great or whatever, whatever we grew up with listening

00:49:15.369 --> 00:49:18.389
to, um, again, that that's, that's marketing

00:49:18.389 --> 00:49:21.070
to try to get kids or people or anybody to buy

00:49:21.070 --> 00:49:23.130
the area, the parents to buy these products because

00:49:23.130 --> 00:49:27.230
it creates a desire to, to consume them. Um,

00:49:27.389 --> 00:49:30.849
which to me is quite frankly, insane. I should

00:49:30.849 --> 00:49:34.050
just be educating people on how to feel our bodies

00:49:34.050 --> 00:49:37.179
and what, you know, what works the best. So I

00:49:37.179 --> 00:49:40.099
was curious, how can people rewire their brain

00:49:40.099 --> 00:49:44.480
to not be tempted so much at certain things like

00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:47.840
eating unhealthy stuff and replacing it with

00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:51.039
something else? There are a handful of techniques,

00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:53.039
Jimmy, and I do get into a lot of these in The

00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:55.460
Incredible Brain, and I talk about this a lot

00:49:55.460 --> 00:49:57.460
in my company, Transcend Health, with my clients.

00:49:57.619 --> 00:50:00.159
So if anybody's interested, again, our website

00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:02.760
is transcendhealthgroup .com. I'd be more than

00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:06.619
happy to share more there. But kind of as a broad

00:50:06.619 --> 00:50:10.360
brushstrokes overview, anything you can do to

00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:14.019
maintain agency or control over your choices

00:50:14.019 --> 00:50:18.739
will help. And what I mean by that is that you

00:50:18.739 --> 00:50:21.659
want to maintain control or regulation over the

00:50:21.659 --> 00:50:24.739
choices you make rather than being a passenger

00:50:24.739 --> 00:50:30.150
and being controlled by the external world. When

00:50:30.150 --> 00:50:33.070
you, again, crack open your Fritos and you reach

00:50:33.070 --> 00:50:35.710
for one and your brain gets the signal that this

00:50:35.710 --> 00:50:38.789
is savory or spicy or crunchy, it's bright, you

00:50:38.789 --> 00:50:41.650
know, whatever. That's this overstimulation that

00:50:41.650 --> 00:50:45.969
creates this feedback loop of reward. And you

00:50:45.969 --> 00:50:47.389
reach for more, you reach for more, reach for

00:50:47.389 --> 00:50:50.369
more. And the more you do that, the more you're

00:50:50.369 --> 00:50:53.650
actually rewiring your brain around anticipating

00:50:53.650 --> 00:50:57.309
that same reward in the future, or at least similar

00:50:57.309 --> 00:51:01.260
rewards. It's very easy to break that cycle with

00:51:01.260 --> 00:51:04.260
a series of interventions. And again, I talk

00:51:04.260 --> 00:51:07.119
about that a lot with my audience about how to

00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:11.719
do this. But I mean, meditation, breath work,

00:51:11.940 --> 00:51:14.840
different types of exercise, quality sleep, choosing

00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:17.480
the right nutrition, getting around like -minded

00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:19.699
people that do the same thing. There's a whole

00:51:19.699 --> 00:51:23.440
just array of ways we can do this, all of which

00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:26.079
independently can help increase that agency and

00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:31.900
that control. That seems like helpful tips. My

00:51:31.900 --> 00:51:37.719
last few questions for you is, how many people

00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:42.800
do you think realistically want to improve their

00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:46.260
brains versus, I'll just eat whatever I want

00:51:46.260 --> 00:51:51.539
and go well? That's a good question. I think

00:51:51.539 --> 00:51:56.300
most people don't realize how conditioned we've

00:51:56.300 --> 00:52:00.679
become. to the external or how many people have

00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:04.960
really lost control of where they are. But I

00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:06.960
think more people are waking up to it. At least

00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:10.880
that's been my observation. And I think, again,

00:52:10.940 --> 00:52:14.380
as the saying goes, you're a reflection of the

00:52:14.380 --> 00:52:17.559
five people you spend the most time around. As

00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:19.340
we start to see more communities and more groups

00:52:19.340 --> 00:52:24.119
of people... wake up and take control and just

00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:26.719
live a healthier, better, more intentional life.

00:52:27.039 --> 00:52:30.019
That has a very positive contagious effect, you

00:52:30.019 --> 00:52:32.880
know, among different groups of people and sort

00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:35.059
of being able to model behavior after those that

00:52:35.059 --> 00:52:38.400
have actually done it. So I, you know, as far

00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:40.659
as a percentage of the population, I would say

00:52:40.659 --> 00:52:42.980
probably most people haven't quite gotten there

00:52:42.980 --> 00:52:45.119
yet. At least again, when we look at the statistics

00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:48.039
on metabolic health and weight and blood pressure

00:52:48.039 --> 00:52:50.320
and all these things. But I'm very optimistic

00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:53.119
that it doesn't take much to turn the tide and

00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:56.219
get us back to where we need to be. I know for

00:52:56.219 --> 00:53:01.960
myself, sorry. I know for myself, one of the

00:53:01.960 --> 00:53:05.860
things I like to do, even if it's something quick,

00:53:06.219 --> 00:53:08.519
well, not like quick, I mean, depending on how

00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:12.900
good you are at it, I like to do word searches.

00:53:13.800 --> 00:53:18.489
And some people might say, word searches jimmy

00:53:18.489 --> 00:53:22.030
i was like how can that be uh good for the brain

00:53:22.030 --> 00:53:24.730
i was like well interesting enough it's like

00:53:24.730 --> 00:53:28.769
when you're looking for words uh diagonally backwards

00:53:28.769 --> 00:53:32.570
forwards uh keeps your brain on your tippy toe

00:53:32.570 --> 00:53:37.190
well metaphorically tippy toes and uh kind of

00:53:37.190 --> 00:53:39.449
helps you think outside of the box like where

00:53:39.449 --> 00:53:44.889
can i find this and ironically i've done a couple

00:53:44.889 --> 00:53:49.409
so far i mean i got a reading app that includes

00:53:49.409 --> 00:53:54.909
it in the app, so I didn't have to download something

00:53:54.909 --> 00:54:02.650
else. Another one, I can't remember the word

00:54:02.650 --> 00:54:06.110
I was going to look for, but just one functional

00:54:06.110 --> 00:54:10.210
app for one thing, and it also includes different

00:54:10.210 --> 00:54:16.760
puzzles, and it's just kind of cool. I like multifunction

00:54:16.760 --> 00:54:19.480
kind of apps because it's like, oh, wait, if

00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:24.820
I want to do an actual puzzle, I have to download

00:54:24.820 --> 00:54:30.340
another app or make a mess of some room in my

00:54:30.340 --> 00:54:34.219
house to do a puzzle. It's not that I'm lazy,

00:54:34.380 --> 00:54:38.280
but I just like, yeah, you know, I got 20 minutes

00:54:38.280 --> 00:54:42.130
somewhere versus... I have to dump all the pieces.

00:54:42.489 --> 00:54:44.630
Hopefully I don't lose a piece, and hopefully

00:54:44.630 --> 00:54:49.510
my dogs don't eat a piece. Right. The brain likes

00:54:49.510 --> 00:54:52.389
puzzles, and anything that challenges the brain

00:54:52.389 --> 00:54:54.329
or increases what we call the cognitive load,

00:54:54.510 --> 00:54:57.650
the more it preserves function and, again, helps

00:54:57.650 --> 00:55:01.309
maintain a healthy brain from here forward. Yeah.

00:55:01.309 --> 00:55:04.489
So my last question for you is where can people

00:55:04.489 --> 00:55:06.610
follow you, find you, learn more about who you

00:55:06.610 --> 00:55:09.309
are and what you do? And part two to that question,

00:55:09.610 --> 00:55:13.570
ha ha, you think I was going to be done? Where

00:55:13.570 --> 00:55:16.710
can people find your book and buy your book,

00:55:16.889 --> 00:55:20.650
et cetera? Yeah. Well, thanks, Jimmy. So again,

00:55:20.710 --> 00:55:24.869
our website is transcendhealthgroup .com. And

00:55:24.869 --> 00:55:27.349
we can provide that certainly for your show notes.

00:55:27.949 --> 00:55:29.650
If you get there, that'll link you anywhere.

00:55:30.279 --> 00:55:34.480
But the book title is The Incredible Brain. That's

00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:36.039
probably easier to type out. But if you just

00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:39.420
search for that, it's on Amazon, Barnes & Noble.

00:55:39.900 --> 00:55:43.119
Pretty much most bookstores will have it. So

00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:45.760
that release is September 9th. So we're six days

00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:47.639
away. Very excited about that. Although maybe

00:55:47.639 --> 00:55:49.159
it should be out by the time this episode is

00:55:49.159 --> 00:55:52.940
live. Or we are alive. There we go. Yeah, that's

00:55:52.940 --> 00:55:56.480
right. So yeah, The Incredible Brain, you can

00:55:56.480 --> 00:55:59.099
search it. And otherwise, transcendhealthgroup

00:55:59.099 --> 00:56:01.820
.com. That'll link to all of our social media

00:56:01.820 --> 00:56:04.699
and everywhere else. Awesome. I'm definitely

00:56:04.699 --> 00:56:08.159
going to check out that book because, well, let's

00:56:08.159 --> 00:56:13.159
just say, wink, wink, I had some gift card money

00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:16.420
from Barnes & Noble. So I was like, yeah, I'm

00:56:16.420 --> 00:56:19.559
going to go buy that damn book right now. I appreciate

00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:23.340
your support, Jimmy. It's awesome. I mean, seriously,

00:56:23.579 --> 00:56:26.579
I'm going to do it because, I mean, I always

00:56:26.579 --> 00:56:30.199
like to learn new things. It actually depends

00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:33.380
on what the new thing is. I'll give you an example

00:56:33.380 --> 00:56:36.960
real quick. It was this huge, big automation

00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:39.940
process that I'm making for my business. Well,

00:56:40.019 --> 00:56:42.760
I'll just say I have hit so many different roadblocks.

00:56:42.780 --> 00:56:46.119
It's like, why won't you play them work? That

00:56:46.119 --> 00:56:48.519
just gets annoying after a while because, like,

00:56:48.750 --> 00:56:51.710
Oh, come on, I already figured this crap out.

00:56:51.829 --> 00:56:54.590
This supposed to just been working. But nah.

00:56:55.289 --> 00:57:00.170
But yeah, that's the only thing I get annoyed

00:57:00.170 --> 00:57:02.469
when I have to do the same thing over and over

00:57:02.469 --> 00:57:05.369
again. It's like, if something breaks once in

00:57:05.369 --> 00:57:09.150
a blue moon, it's like, okay, crap happens. But

00:57:09.150 --> 00:57:11.409
when it's the same crap over and over again,

00:57:11.449 --> 00:57:15.760
it's like, hmm, can I give AI the... biggest

00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:19.579
middle finger that there's possible can. Because

00:57:19.579 --> 00:57:22.940
I'm actually using ChatGPT to help me think outside

00:57:22.940 --> 00:57:26.179
the box on how to do X, Y, and Z. And sometimes

00:57:26.179 --> 00:57:28.239
it gives me really great answers. And sometimes

00:57:28.239 --> 00:57:30.199
it's just like, it gives me the same thing over

00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:32.039
and over again. It's like, why won't you freaking

00:57:32.039 --> 00:57:36.639
work, you little bastards? But that's my rant.

00:57:36.739 --> 00:57:38.400
But thank you for being a guest on the show.

00:57:38.599 --> 00:57:40.820
And I would love to have you back on in the future.

00:57:41.079 --> 00:57:42.380
Appreciate you, Jimmy. Thank you for having me.

00:57:42.840 --> 00:57:49.289
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makes me want to drink more water throughout

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the day because, you know, there's nothing worse

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than drinking warm water. Go to Hydroflask .com

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and use the link in the show notes. And yes,

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I do get a small commission from Hydroflask,

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which also helps support the show. So tell them

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I sent you. Use the link below. And yeah, check

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out Hydroflask .com for more information.