Eating a healthy diet can reduce the negative effects of stress on your body and a healthy diet builds a solid, more enduring foundation for your body by reducing oxidation and inflammation and by helping to reduce weight gain. So in this video, we have Dr. J and Evan talking about how we can handle stress while trying to stay fit and healthy.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani
In this episode, we cover:
0:30 Why is it hard to eat healthy?
7:01 Eating unhealthy junk
17:19 Avoid stressing out on eating healthy
25:51 We all have different journey
29:11 Get the momentum
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Hey guys, it's Dr. Justin Marchegiani here today's podcast is going to be all about is your health making you stressed and anxious? Again, it takes a lot of effort and a lot of energy to be healthy. And we want to make sure that those goals are not making you sick and stress at the same time, Evan, how are we doing today man?
Evan Brand: Doing awesome. Let's dive in. First of all, when you say that, why, why does it take so much effort to be healthy? Is it just the modern world, the circumstances, the toxins?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: So my first step out of the gates, it's all about habits, right? It takes no more effort to get what you want than what it does to get what you don't want. It's all about pattern of behavior. And so I always tell patients, the first month is typically the hardest because you're creating new patterns of behavior. So there's like, there's four levels of competence, right? There's the conscious or unconsciously unconfident, meaning you don't know what you don't know. You're just totally clueless right? And then you're unconsciously or then you're, you're, you're basically unconsciously competent, where you kind of know that you don't know something, right, you kind of know that you don't know something. And then you're consciously competent, where you know it. But you really have to be focused on the habits, choosing the right things, doing the right things. So usually, it's the unconscious incompetence, these are people we're not able to help, because they don't even know there's a problem. Once they go from unconsciously incompetent to consciously incompetent, they know that they don't quite have the skills, that's where we're able to help them in stage two. And stage two to stage three is the hardest because this is where we go from, you're consciously competent, you have to focus, you have to think about every little thing you're doing right. What's my analogy, anyone that's driven a standard transmission car, it's tough, like you're driving a car, now you're putting your left foot on the train on the on the clutch, you're shifting gears, maybe you're looking down and make sure you don't go from first to third, right. But at the same time, you still got to fear and keep your eyes on the road. So it becomes this, you may be able to do what you're grinding the gears, but it's a lot of stress and you're consciously competent, that's kind of where most people are at with their health changes. And then there's unconscious competence. That's where we're at, where we're literally on cruise control, because we've done things thousands of times in regards to the clean filtered water that we're drinking, eating good healthy proteins and fats, taking supplements, avoiding toxins, using health devices that help improve air quality and water quality and EMF and all the things that we're doing. It's unconscious, there's literally no effort for us to continue to do or very little effort, right? Kind of like driving once you have a stick. It's like no big deal. You're like shifting gears, your eyes are on the road, you're down shifting No problem, right? Is that a good analogy?
Evan Brand: Yeah, that makes sense. And a lot of people, they get overwhelmed, and then they just give up or they get pressured by their family members or their friends like you and I were talking about before we hit record, oh, just have some gluten. It's not going to hurt you. You know, I've had family members joke like when we're giving them the salt shaker at the dinner table. They'll say, Oh, can you pass me some gluten? And they'll try to like joke, like they're pouring gluten on their meal. It's like, Oh, come on. So you know, you get people like that that will try to influence you. And it may be a joke, but sometimes, I want to say weak people. But when I say weak, I mean people that are symptomatic people that are ill. They've been trapped in those habits for so long, they may actually fall off the wagon, from Aunt Betty saying, hey, try one of my famous cookies that are loaded with sugar and gluten, they may go for it Betty's cookie when they know they shouldn't. But I think number one, I think you have to suffer enough to be able to be more compliant. I don't know if you agree with that or not. But like for me, I've suffered enough to where I don't feel that I want to make those choices anymore. Like, I know that that case would be so friggin delicious. But I don't want to pay the price with my skin. I don't want to pay the price with my gut. So for me, I've suffered enough to be able to make the choices easier. But if you're trying to just convince people just to convince them, I don't think it's as powerful.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: So yeah, I have a couple of thoughts on those are all valid points Evan. So off the bat, it all depends where you're starting, right? The healthier you are, the more adaptable you are, right? So the healthier you are, the more adaptation you are, more adaptable you are, the more you can deal with a stress like gluten like sugar, like being off on your diet, like being off on your sleep. So the healthier you are, you may have a little bit more resilience. And then the question comes down to how do you feel after you eat some crappy food? Right? How do you feel? How long does it take you to get back on track the next day? Is it just you're okay? And that next day? Maybe you're a little bit of a slow startup but then you're good? Or does it take a couple of days or a whole week to kind of get back on track, right? So the healthier you are, the more adaptation your body has, the more you could cheat a little bit. Now there's different levels of cheating is eating a lots of processed sugar and lots of gluten and lots of food allergens that you know you can handle. Now if you don't have an autoimmune condition, and you aren't as sensitive in regards to how you feel afterwards, you may be able They get away with that every now and then not that big of a deal. If you have a diagnosed autoimmune condition like myself, I have hashimotos that I've totally manage under control, I always try to choose the healthy alternative, you know, I'm always going to go grain free or gluten free, I'm always going to go gluten free over gluten full, if you will, right. So like for we had Thanksgiving last week, we got some squash pies from trophy, true food kitchen that were 100% grain free and like lower sugar, they were great, right? Good, better best. So I always try to make the best quality decision I possibly can. Because I know I have I have immune issues. And I want to prevent my immune system from attacking my body. Now if someone doesn't have any diagnosed conditions, and they feel great, they may be able to do more of an 80 20 kind of 90 10. I do an 80 20 90 10. But I still keep it to ideally grain free processed foods or at least gluten free processed foods. And if someone isn't at a stable place in their health or coming to see us during the middle of their functional medicine kind of onramp well, then we got to be a little bit more puritanical. Off, kind of off the the back. So it all depends where you're at, in the plan that you're on.
Evan Brand: Yeah. And even though I'm feeling better, and I could probably get away with more stuff, I just don't go there. Because I know that I don't want to say it's a slippery slope. But I know that if I'm like, Okay, I got away with it once the next week, I may go for it again. And then boom. And then now I've got the skin issue again, or now I've got the gut issue again. So for me, it's very easy to stay on track. I don't feel like I'm missing out. I don't feel deprived. I think one part of this conversation you you're titling this, this talk is, you know, being healthy making you anxious or stressed. And I think where people get caught up in it is because they feel like they're deprived. They look at these other people eating the pizza, and they're like, well, I want pizza, I'm deprived. This is bullcrap. And then they get stressed that they have to eat their their grass fed steak and sweet potato. But for me, once you feel so good, it's not a diet of deprivation. Would you agree? This is not a diet where you feel like you're missing out? I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Well, anytime you're dealing with, you know, eating a bunch of crappy food, you have to look at why. Okay? So in general, a lot of times neurotransmitters play a big role. So a lot of people use a big big whack of sugar to artificially boost serotonin and dopamine. And that we call that emotional eating, they're using a lot of the sugar to get that under control. So with myself, um, if I cheat on anything, it's going to be like the Unreal, coconut dark chocolate, it's going to be my keto cups, like, Is it really a cheat? Probably not. There's barely any sugar in it. But it still gives me that mouthfeel. And not that sense of cheating. Like, like, I'm really eating a whole bunch of bad foods, but it feels good. It feels like a cheat, it feels like a treat, so to speak. So we always try to choose the highest quality one, we try to choose the lowest quality or the highest quality nutrition like good fats, right, avoiding the trans fats good, lower sugar amounts, I try to do more of the organic coconut palm versus, you know, the high fructose corn syrup, maybe with some mercury in there. So we try to choose the better quality types. And how do you feel afterwards, a lot of people, they don't really look at how they're going to feel afterwards. So if you're really bloating, you're gassy and your skin breaks out and it lasts a week. Like if I have a skin breakout that lasts a week, I am like heck no not worth it. So I'm always gonna, you're always playing damage control, you're always making calculated assessments. So when you make a decision to engage in desserts and treats for the holidays, we're going to be choosing the healthiest quality, the lowest sugar, but still have a great time like Well, my kids, we went trick or treating, what happened afterwards? Well, trick or treating bad with all the candy went away, we actually gave it to the fire station. And then we I got some of the Justin's high quality dark chocolate peanut butter cups and some of the Unreal, dark chocolate with a little bit of coconut in there. And that was their substitute. And so they got one or one or two every now and then. And it was low sugar, good fats, the fats are important because it stabilizes blood sugar, prevents cravings and swings and actually makes them a little bit satiated afterwards. And we'll give it to them after a dinner. So we're not creating this blood sugar rollercoaster of eating sugar by itself. And so we'd always just make these really good calculated substitute because I want to give my kids and myself a chance to enjoy life or have a childhood or do things that are really, you know, they're like special, but with that with kind of mitigating the the side effects, if you will.
Evan Brand: Yeah, that's a great point. And I think it's easier if the whole family can get on board, like you mentioned, you're doing this with your kids. So if you got the husband or the wife that's not on board, that's going to be really tough. I don't know if I have many other solutions besides wait until that person is symptomatic enough to get to get on board because they're really not going to do it just out of choice unless they're just a very, very supportive spouse and Wow, good job, you've got a keeper. But in most cases, like I said, it's the husband or the wife making fun of the other one, like I'm going to drink the beer, eat the pizza and do the wine or whatever. And you're going to just go eat your your AIP diet. So try to get family members on board. That's the best advice I can do because Then it gets exhausting man, you've got the husband and the wife cooking double meals, right? They're making the unhealthy meal, and then they're making the healthy meal. And then you got double the cleanup. So just from a sustainability standpoint, it's just really best if you can get everyone the kids on board too, because you don't want Mom, I had one lady, this is gonna sound crazy, maybe not to you, but maybe to others. We had a lady with hashimotos, where we had determined that the reason that she was having flares is because she was touching the bread making her children sandwiches every day, and that she was basically holding it and there was some kind of like a gluten skin reaction, transdermal kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. And so we got her Ah, well, they hit well just quit making sandwiches, or at least go like a grain free bread, if you can find it. And luckily, the antibodies went down just by changing that, because she was already AIP with her diet. And we're like, Well, why are the antibodies continuing to rise? The thyroid, we worked on the gut. And typically that would help but it didn't help and then boom, we figured out it was lady making sandwiches. So in her case, it actually benefited her to help her kids as well.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, most of my patients is the women are tend to be on point, they tend to be 100% on point and to be a little bit more in tune with their health. Also, I think they tend to be a little bit more, let's just say not supported by conventional medicine, right? Women have hormonal issues, what are they given me, if they're cycling ages, birth control pills, right, the people are getting a little bit more cutting edge with hormones as they get into menopausal age, but they were doing horse hormones for the longest time and they weren't fixing any of these underlying issues. And they were just throwing medications that are antidepressants at it. And they kind of most women intuitively knew that something was wrong. Now my other kinds of patients are like my, my, my my guys that are great. They're like the biohackers. They're like the guys that are like optimizing cell performance. They're trying to really get their their level their RPM or performance to a higher level. Those are my two like great patient, my women patients that are really know something's up and want to dive in deeper, and that my guys that are more on the biohacking side and kind of optimizing performance, they kind of know something is up. Now, when I make recommendations for patients, you got to really get focused on the performance aspect. Like you got to feel that people have this satisfaction, feeling of like their mouth and their taste and all that stuff. That's a hard feeling to overcome, right? It's always pain versus pleasure. So you really have to link up a lot of pleasure from the performance that you get from eating great food, whether that is clean skin, whether it's all day energy, whether it's good sleep, whether it's good libido and mood, you really have to internalize the performance enhancements that you get. Now, the more adaptable you get, you can still keep those benefits while you cheat a little bit. Now we just choose the healthiest cheat possible, I already gave you a couple of options. What I do, you can do it going out to eat, you can do it going to steak houses, all kinds of good things you can do when you go to a nice restaurant with steak and vegetables, or if he goes to sushi will avoid the soy sauce. And we'll do MCT oil and coconut aminos. Right. There's a lot of substitutes we're always doing. And it's hard out of the gates because it's stressful. But once you kind of make a habit out of it, you kind of have all of those go to substitutes there at your fingertips. Do you have any things that you do, Evan that, you know, maybe a treat for you, but it's you know, a really good go to?
Evan Brand: Yeah, well in terms of drinks, you know, I think that's a big one, right? Just getting people off of sugary drinks. So Suja I think's done a great job with all of their green juices. They have one I want to say it's called like skin beauty or something. I don't have the label in front of me. But for me in terms of beverages, I mean, I'm typically doing herbal teas, chamomile, ginger, peppermint tea, and then good clean filtered water. That's about it. I know you're super into the total Chico's and some of the other mineral waters, carbonated waters. Those are great. But for me, I think it's called beauty scan or scan beauty something anyway. Suja makes it it's a whole foods. It's like maybe four grams of sugar, but it's like lychee juice and blueberry juice. Man, if I just get something like that. It's a treat for me. And it may have a little bit of stevia or monk fruit in there. Something like that is great for my wife. You know, she had previously used like, you know, we're talking 10 years ago, she had previously use some of the coffee creamers. I know people really do a lot of sugar in those. They'll say oh, I only you know this coffee creamer is only two grams of sugar but it's a gap but you're putting like frickin five tablespoons. You're just pouring it in. So for her. She really loves the rebel like the mushroom. Coffee blend.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I like that one.
Evan Brand: Yeah, like the coffee with the mushrooms and I think it has coconut milk and stevia. So it's basically a no sugar. So for us. Those are kind of our treats that make her feel like she's still getting a good creamy sweet coffee without sugar. And then for me, you know, I used to love as a kid and a teenager man. I love soda. I mean Sunkist and Mountain Dew. I mean, I was into all the garbage for me now if I have that lychee juice, man, it tastes like candy. But it's Yeah, my palates change. That's the thing. The palate has evolved for us. So like you mentioned the treats your level of treat like you I think you and I've talked about blueberries you've done I think you said you've done frozen blueberries with like whipped cream and that's a treat for you.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: That's like a dessert and a cream is great is awesome. Do it, it's a coconut yogurt, it's all about, okay, you know, try to do the right thing 80% of the time, right. And then a lot of the treats that we do is, it may still be part of the right thing, right? If we're doing some almond butter, if you can tolerate knots and Granny Smith, apple and cinnamon, or if you can do some, some blueberries and some coconut cream, those still may be healthy things, right. So the cool thing is if we can choose healthy treats, that that feel like a treat tastes like a treat, but still healthy. That's a win win, because then you can do that more frequently. And that's kind of a it mixes up the monotony of your routine. And then of course, if we're going to go and cheat a little bit, you know, when I go to a restaurant, what's my go to? Well, I'll get like a really nice, homemade, though a couple of restaurants, I go to their steak houses, they'll make a nice ice cream that's kind of a sorbet. Or it's kind of coconut base, that those are really wonderful and tasty. Or I went to Truffaut kitchen and got a squash pie, which was wonderful. Or like a coconut, like is a restaurant down in Austin called Picnic. They have some wonderful autoimmune dessert recipes that are excellent. So you can try to always mitigate a little bit. And then if you something that's really special, I don't know your grandmother makes up especially around the holidays, and it's worth the treat. Well, that's fine. You've earned it, as long as you can deal with the side effects afterwards. And ideally, we don't have an autoimmune condition with active antibodies that could be attacking your body. And it's probably okay.
Evan Brand: Yeah, very, very good. And then of course, we've mentioned the enzymes before too. So you're gonna go get your grandma's secret recipe, you know, there's probably wheat and other crap in there, you may just want to do your enzyme, right? So like you and I both manufacture professional enzymes. So if you're working with us, you're probably already taking those but that'd be a good, that'd be a good strategy. Oh, you know, another treat for us I just started making these recently, is to take the CFA, the soft tortillas, and make like a [inaudible] out of it. So you do like a little bit of coconut oil, or you could just do butter if you want. And then just kind of put it in a pan for 1015 seconds, heat up the tortilla, and then just a little bit of coconut sugar and cinnamon on it. Oh my god. It tastes like when I was a kid, I'd go to the county fair and go eat the what was it the funnel cake or the elephant ear? Like that wheat Yep, thing with a bunch of powdered sugar on it. Oh my god, I love that I know. But this little, you know, the grain free tortilla with the coconut sugar and sentiment, man things delicious. That's a treat.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, and so you can mitigate. So number one, don't feel stressed about being healthy. Just kind of know that first month, the two months is the hardest. If you're coming in to, you know, this new healthy lifestyle and habits with a lot of symptoms. Don't worry about cheating, worried put your focus on developing habits, right? Many people, they go into this place in their head of like, Oh my god, like, I'm not going to ever be able to eat this again. It's like a divorce. It's like a breakup, it's like they're literally grieving the loss of this food I'll never eat again, don't go into it like that go into it with the mindset of Hey, I'm going to focus on eating nutrient dense anti inflammatory, low toxin foods, so I can decrease inflammation in my body, accelerate healing and feel awesome. And then once you're at a good level where you've kind of plateaued, and you work through some of the programs that we're on with hormones and gut and your digestion is better, then we can start adding foods back in. And we're always going to choose the healthiest treat options and the healthiest foods first. And then if your optimal health stays at that great level, then we can you know, if you want to go off the beaten path, here or there, you know, 80 20, 90 10, 95 5, and you're able to maintain your benefits and it doesn't take you too long to get back on track. That's fine as the book out there called the Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss. And Tim Ferriss talks about a cheat day eating, we're at whatever you want for a whole day. That is I'm sorry for most people, it's a terrible idea. Because they go have a cheat day on Sunday, and they're so inflamed. It takes till Thursday, the next week to get back into homeostasis. That's a problem. – go ahead and go ahead.
Evan Brand: Let me interject because I think that you may even be underplaying how bad of an idea that is because you and I've seen just by looking at thousands of people on test results, we've seen you know, gluten antibodies and other antibodies go up for potentially months after certain exposures like that. So you're mentioning possibly a week to reset it could even be months.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: If you have an active autoimmune thyroid issue or active autoimmune issue it could be now you can get your thyroid looked at, you could always do an Array Phi by Cyrax, to look at other silent antibodies that could be there. But if your health is great, and you feel great, and you know you can kind of get back on track the next day, all right, fine, but try to always choose a grain free option for most of your stuff, at least gluten free for most of it. But yeah, so my whole thing is how do you know something's worth it? You should be able to get back on track that next day, if you're not back on track the next day, that's a problem. Now, Evan, you already alluded to what what if those antibodies popped up and we don't know about it, so if you have an active thyroid autoimmune issue, you really Really want to be testing those antibodies or that ANA, or those autoimmune markers? If you have lupus or sjogren, or something kind of under the surface? I would say really choose the healthiest cheat possible. It's just not worth it when tissues being destroyed.
Evan Brand: Yeah, yeah. Well said and, you know, for me, we'd like to leverage the lab testing and show like, look how good you've done. Look, we've got your dopamine back to normal. You mentioned neurotransmitters early on, look, we've got serotonin normalized. Now, doesn't that feel good look at your calprotectin in your gut, we've got your inflammation down 1000 points, look at your Secretory IGA that's starting to come back up because you're removing the foods irritating the gut. Look at some of these infections, we've cleared out because you're not using the sugar to feed the Candida and to feed the other pathogens. So when we use the functional medicine testing, plus just kind of our pep talks and motivation we give to people it's a really good one two punch that keeps people on a sustainable path forever. And it really is a lifestyle. You know, we talked about, oh, this is a lifestyle. It's easy to embrace once you feel good. So I agree with you, you got to focus on Hey, do you want to feel amazing? And then some people will ask the same thing with supplements, right? They'll ask the same question about diet as they do supplements. How long do I have to do this? on their diet? And I'm like, well, and this might always punch back with as well. Do you want to survive? Or do you want to thrive? Well, obviously I want to thrive. Okay, well then do it forever. Okay, that was easy. So for me, that's the that's the default answer. Like when someone's like, well, how long do I need to dial in my diet? I mean, as long as you want to feel amazing is the answer.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, tell patients out of the gates, you may have to be more puritanical. Because you're trying to make up for lost time. It's kind of like, if you're in debt, from decades of poor spending habits, well, we're gonna have to kind of get you on a really lean budget, and you're gonna have to be investing and saving a large percent of what you make. Now as you get on top of that, and you're debt free. And, and you're feeling great. And now you're making investments. And now you're on your way to financial freedom, you can be a little bit more loosey goosey with your spending, right, it's kind of the same thing with your health, just change the the the money equation to health. And it's the exact same thing. And so we always try to look at getting momentum getting you on top of your health, reaching the level of conscious competence to unconscious competence, where it's automatic, because the stress that people feel in that first month or two is just the fact they haven't made a habit yet. And so if you want to live a healthy lifestyle, you have to make you have to let your brain and your physiology shift into unconscious competence. If you're quitting before you get there, you're you're doing yourself a disservice. Because the amount of energy if you're thinking, well, it takes me too much energy to do these things. It's because you're not in unconscious competence yet, and you will be there just give it a little more time people project their energy is going to be on this conscious competence wavelength the whole life, meaning the amount of energy they have to focus in and project has that will be at that level, but it won't, it'll get easier once you make that shift to unconscious competence. Totally, totally. It's so easy, it's so much, it's easy, it's easier for me to stay on the rails than it is to go off the rails like I would have to be, it would take me effort to go off the rails, I'd have to like seek out bad things like what could I do to try to test myself or destroy myself so it's a good place to be 100% so out of the gates, we kind of talked about it you know where you're at, if you're not a mean person, and you have active issues or active things going on that are significant. Do the right thing, do the right thing be on point get momentum, get your symptoms on hundred percent under control, look deeper under the hood regarding hormones regarding everything else that's happening in your body. Work with a good functional medicine practitioner and get your blood sugar, get dysglycemia under control, get inflammation, nutrient density, get toxins under control. That means going organic, clean, filtered water, all that good stuff, hormone free, antibiotic free, get your hormone stabilized and worked on whether it's blood sugar, thyroid, female or male hormones, and then get your gut looked at because the healthiest food. We've kind of alluded to it. If you can't digest it or break it down or absorb it properly, because of stress in the gut, you're going to have a problem. So of course the next thing is we're assuming that because you're eating good foods, you're breaking it down. The next step is going to be working on the gut. And so we don't want foods that are full of inflammatory food allergens affecting your gut if it's not stable yet.
Evan Brand: Yeah, my diet was great, but I had gut infection so my skin was crap. So for me, I put in all the work on the diet and I got frustrated because I thought well, I've got rid of gluten I've got rid of dairy What is wrong with me? And then luckily the functional medicine testing came in and kind of uncovered some stuff so if you're more dialed in, you're still struggling then you know look deeper. And so if you want to reach out to Justin you can do so clinically at his website, JustinHealth.com. That's Dr. J at JustinHealth.com. Me Evan Brand at EvanBrand.com we work with people over the phone, Skype, Zoom FaceTime, however we need to connect we send the labs to your door. You send those back to the lab, we jump on a follow up call to discuss the results and make a protocol. It's very, very awesome. And with everything that's been going on, it's funny that telemedicine has gotten, you know, 10 x more popular. So it's really cool that we were actually ahead of this curve. We've been doing this this way the whole time. So feel free to reach out and we look forward to helping you.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Absolutely. So you guys know where to reach out. And just remember to start with one thing, like, if you're coming into this journey, I find a lot of people who aren't doing the right thing, if you're around them, and you start, you know, being on point and making health changes, sometimes there's this subconscious pull to pull you down, because you making the changes to improve your health sometimes magnifies their inability or lack thereof to make changes in their life. And sometimes they may sabotage you and pull you down. It's a threat. Yeah.
Evan Brand: Yeah, you're saying that you're saying that by you trying to better yourself, you may piss off other people, and then they're going to try to come bring you down with them and their misery just eat the cookie.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, and everyone's on a different journey. So if you're the autoimmune person, and you need to really be on point, because you're starting this journey, and maybe they're a little bit more stable, and healthy, you know, it may not even be something where they're unhealthy and may just be there at a different place than you and they want to indulge this Saturday night, and you aren't quite there. And that's okay, you know, you just got to meet and support people where they're at. And that's, that's a good thing to be at. So it's good to have empathy. And it's good to understand that we're all in different places. And some people may not have even gotten out of the gate yet. They may be at that unconscious incompetence. They don't know there's even a problem yet. And so we just try to always meet people where they're at, provide empathy, and understanding from where they're at.
Evan Brand: Very true. Very true. One last story. So I had a woman. Actually, though, the husband and wife were both working with me and the woman just love baking. I hear the story a lot. The woman loves baking. And so like every Friday, she would make brownies or cookies or cake or something, right? She's always baking some sweet thing. And then she only wants to eat a piece of it. And then she leaves it left for her husband. And if he tries to throw it away, then she's like, no, you're wasting it. You're wasting our money. You're wasting it right. So then he feels up, which I don't know, maybe this is his excuse, maybe not. I'm just sharing the story. I'm just the messenger boy. So he comes in and he goes, Well, she'll get mad at me if I don't eat the whole cake. I'm like, Oh, that's what it is. So you have to eat the whole cake. So she doesn't get mad at you. Okay, interesting. So now we're trying to switch her over to, you know, almond flowers and coconut flowers and whatever. So we're just working better option.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah.
Evan Brand: So we're just working with them on where they're at. But it's funny. He blames her right? Oh, she'll get mad if I don't eat the whole cake. It's like that's a good excuse right there.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And we I mean, you got to take accountability. It's not a valid excuse in the long run, right? You get two people in there and you got to get one to agree. All right, we got to stop this. That's not good behavior. But yeah, I totally get it. And so outside of that there's some really good autoimmune dessert recipes and treat recipes and my go to or some of the Unreal or Justin's dark chocolate brands are pretty good. Or some of the endangered species dark chocolate or just some just some of the berries and coconut yogurt or maybe a hail mary tart, or I'll just choose something that's like a baked Apple, like my paleo apple crisp is a really good one. I just I have a couple of go twos. I tend to repeat that work pretty darn well. I know you did the waffles in the morning, which is kind of a nice treat. I'll do that the keto birch benders waffles. Is there any other go twos that you do? They're kind of a treat for you but still relatively healthy.
Yeah, yeah. You mentioned SWAPO Yeah, they're swap foods is the brand of like a waffle but they're Yuka those are delicious. And then you mentioned earlier the keto cups that's evolved I think company and then I also like the keto bars there are keto bars that perfect keto makes. Yep. Anthony. He's a Chiro who makes those are good. Those are like stevia, monk fruit, I believe. And those are like organic almonds or organic cashews. Those are good. I've done some of Dave's bars, the bulletproof bars, with the MCT and organic cashews, those are pretty good depending on if you could do nuts or not. So those are some good treats that are easy and quick. And then also, bison. I like to do some of the epic bison meats like the bison bites, or Tonka makes really good bison meat. So I'll do those or venison jerky or something like that.
Yeah, and one last thing is for patients or people listening, try to get momentum out of the gate. So really start your first two meals of the day solid, good protein, good fats get momentum. That makes a big difference. If you're coming out of the gates with crappy food. In the morning, a Starbucks mocha frappuccino with a whole bunch of sugar, a crappy lunch, it's hard to get on top of your day, from a physiological hormone, anti inflammatory support, it's really hard. So get momentum out of the gate. It's kind of like starting a race and you just kind of get out of the starting block at a walking speed that you got to sprint out of that walking out of that starting block. Right. Same thing with your health. So start your day with good habits, right whether it's a cold shower, or whether it's clean, filtered water or some minerals, some good protein, some good fat or if you're healthy enough, maybe intermittent fasting again, people that aren't healthy I think they need they need nutrition in the morning they don't need nothing in the morning the healthier you are the more fasting I think provides a beneficial effect just like exercising really hard can be beneficial if you're already fit right kind of like that. So that's kind of where I'm at. I think you put some really good points out there EvanBrand.com for Evan reach out virtually worldwide for support JustinHealth.com for Dr. J myself. We are here for y'all. And you guys have a phenomenal day. Take care y'all.
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