Is Your Diet Making You Dumber? | Nate Belmar DSH #843

Right, like if you're eating hyper-palatable foods, 30 minutes in, you want another round, right?

You eat a healthy bone broth or wonton soup or a ramen bowl, you're satiated for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours.

So people don't realize like what you eat also influences certain metabolic regulations of whether or not the body wants more food or it's good and it can fast and it can be fine.

All right, guys, got Nate Belmar here today.

We're going to learn some health hacks today: Health,

wealth, longevity, and just overall human optimization.

Love them, man.

And anime.

Ooh, I love anime.

We'll start with anime then.

Let's start with anime.

What's your favorite anime?

Best of all time.

So I don't have one.

Like, I don't have a favorite.

I feel like old school anime is a lot better.

than what's currently going on now.

I feel like now they're just using the medium as propaganda.

But old school anime, Samurai Shamblue, Shambleu, Naruto,

Bleach, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z,

like all the old Akira, like all these old school animes that convey a message with a heroic arc.

I'm an aficionado of that.

Now, what got me into anime?

Naruto.

Like, that got me into anime.

I was like, officially into anime.

I used to watch other things like Captain Tsubasa, you know, the soccer one.

Doraimon, which is like the Japanese blue cat, always helping Novita because he's basically like the noob that needs help.

But I would watch that.

But what got me into anime, like the ecosystem, the genre, the style, the medium of storytelling was Naruto.

Yeah, Naruto got me into.

When do you start watching Naruto?

Probably high school, and then I got into Bleach.

Then I watched Samurai Shampoo, which is in my top three.

Yeah.

That's a classic.

I wish they made more of that one.

Yeah.

I never got into One Piece, though.

Well, One Piece, it's a long anime.

So

it's where I tell people, people, it's kind of like, if you haven't watched it since you started, like, don't watch it.

Or go to those websites where you can cut all the fillers out.

All the OVAs, all the fillers.

You just watch straight canon.

I used to skip fillers.

Yeah, dude.

It's so annoying.

They're like, okay,

we need some time for the next story.

Let's start spamming.

I know.

I didn't know Anime got compromised, though, with programming.

Well, I mean,

all it is is programming is symbols, stories, and they use the medium, which is a very viable medium because you're able to express emotion in a potentiated way that you cannot with human because you have the human intrinsic factor which is faulty, right?

That's why people go to auditions because they practice, practice, practice.

They put people under pressure who can perform well.

So you have human error.

Now when you can create something, draw it, animate it, the factor of being able to potentiate emotion without it looking cheesy is a lot more plausible.

Epic fights, epic scenes, epic confrontations.

So I feel like once the medium blew up, people people looked at it and they're like, well, there's a lot of traction in terms of S-curp adoption of this current medium of information.

So I feel like now they realize perhaps it's a more viable option to give information than a cartoon because cartoons are dumb.

Yeah, I never got as emotional with cartoons than anime.

Why do you think that is?

Good question.

No, think about it.

Like, think about it.

Give me a few ideas.

Like, what's the difference between cartoons and anime?

I think the fights for me are what got me emotional.

Okay.

But with the anime, I guess there's more character arc and character build-up, right?

Think deeper.

Think of it like the archetypes, like the character archetypes.

Okay, so let's put this.

Every healthy home, every healthy environment needs a father figure, needs a mother figure.

There has to be that duality for there to be certain homeostasis.

Now, you look at cartoons, look at the father figures.

What do they portray at a conscious and subconscious level?

dumb irresponsible can't pay their bills goofy simpsons american the list goes on one dumb character after the other so a child that watches this at the age of four five six at a subconscious level can relate a lot of the attributes of the cartoon to their dad

and then there's conflict now if you watch anime you look at the hero type going through battles and then you look at your dad like damn bro he's probably going through hell like it shifts your perspective because it's not about propaganda it's more about like story type archetype the hero type

and i feel like one

is just pure dumb entertainment and dopamine the other one there's actually like intrinsic value in storytelling

and something that's been lost in society is communication right we become a scientific society that has gotten rid of certain storytelling habits from the past in the past, you would have the storytellers, the

sage class that would grab stories or key concepts that were pivotal for society, whether it's information that they wanted to distill for the common crowd, and they would do it through stories.

Anime is stories.

Absolutely.

What do you do with it?

It's up to the person.

I love that.

Yeah, anime is important.

I know you incorporate it in your business too.

Well, it's not even business.

It's like a lifestyle, bro.

Like like the way i dress the way i think and i'm not saying like anime is the end-all be-all like i have a lot of beef with it and i've say i say all the time in anime shreds but there's a lot of good stuff in it that you can't find anywhere else in my opinion i'll i'll vouch i'll vouch yeah greatest uh anime fight of all time who you got okay

i'll give you like

top top three fights i was like dang okay these were epic and naruto so the first fight this is what kind of like got me into like dude i need to level up was Rock Lee Gara.

Oh, classic.

Yeah.

I still rewatch that.

Yeah, I re-watch it.

And when they make the remake, I'll re-watch it.

It's like that first scene where he's like, oh, guys, I'm say, can I take my ankle?

He's like, okay, do it.

He just like drops it.

And you're like, okay, shit's about to go down.

And shit went down.

Those things, like, imagine a human being try to do that.

Like, it just looks cheesy.

Like, what?

You know, nah, it just doesn't work.

So the medium's there.

The medium's cool.

So say Garo.

Rock Lee,

Naruto, Sasuke.

When Naruto tries to stop Sasuke with going to Rochimaru.

And I would probably say that Jiraiya Pain battle, bro.

That literally got me, bro.

Yeah.

So that one got me.

But in terms of like epic, epic fights, I think Naruto overall just has probably some of the best fight scenes.

Naruto Pain is my favorite fight of all time.

Great.

I've watched that one probably 50 times.

I've watched that a lot as well.

Yeah.

That's a really emotional one.

And think about it.

They both come from the same stem, like they both stem, like the origin, the storytelling from the same teacher.

Their paths were completely different.

Right.

So

that shows the virtue of information

in complete harmonious relationship to free will.

Because they both chose complete different paths,

regardless of the same information that was distilled to them.

Right.

Yeah.

There's a deep message there hidden.

That's what I'm saying.

All you have to do is try to pick up the hidden pieces of information within the story.

Right.

And it's very hard to do that, stemming back to what I was saying.

We become a society that's very scientific.

So we're all about numbers and we're all about getting stuff done right we're not about like

back in the day people would

tell stories like you would pass down storytelling from father to son and son grows up to be a father to tell hit it was just an archetype that we've lost now we're just fed information fed information fed information and then we've become scared to speak out in public Like what's the purpose of learning something if you're not going to try to is it just for yourself?

Is it just for self-entertainment?

Right.

And I feel like that's a lot of cartoons.

And I'll just sit down and watch SpongeBob.

I'm like, okay, I've lost some of my IQ points here.

Like, I'm being like, yeah, like, yeah, maybe smoke a joint, watch Rick and Morty, but like, okay, how many times are you going to do that before your dopamine levels are so fried that that's all you depend on?

Yeah, I don't want my kids ever watching like cartoons.

I would tell them, like, don't watch that.

Like, that's, I'll tell them, watch that, but if you watch that, you'll become dumb.

And when I see them, like, yeah, you look a little bit dumber today.

Like, I'll tell them, like, but, but you have to give people free will.

I feel like with your kids, like, if you tell them don't do it, like, like, oh, don't watch porn.

Or, like, no, like, you have to, like, tell them why and give them your opinion and be open about it.

People are open about it, right?

People condemn other people, put themselves on a pedestal, and live a fake life, right?

Everybody's wearing masks.

That being said, going back to anime, top three characters in Aruto,

Jiraiya.

Ooh.

First Hokage.

First Hokage.

Anitachi.

Was that the wooden one?

Yeah, he's Hashirama.

Wow, I've never heard that in a top three list.

Hashirama, for sure.

Why do you like him so much?

He's like probably one of the, he's probably the most powerful ninja if you really think about it.

Like, he could take on Madara, which all the Kage's together couldn't, but he's still a free spirit.

Like, he didn't really care, dude.

Like, he wasn't flexing his power and used it for his own good.

Like, he was just trying to create something, which was Konoha, which was the Leaf Village, right?

And they tried to include Madara in the operation, but then you see how stuff goes down because he chose his path, which is...

I'd like to tell somebody like if you look at hollywood if you look at movies there's one common theme and this is something i learned about 10 12 years ago in storytelling most of the stories are correlated with vengeance

yeah some sort of retribution right

all the superhero movies everything

like i can i can off the top of my mouth i can tell you vengeance vengeance and it manifests itself in different ways some of it we could look at it and condemn it be like oh he deserves to go to jail some some of it we'd look at it like well the bastard he killed deserved it so based on our

emotion or biases we can villainize somebody or put them and on a pedestal and it can become a hero but there's that theme of vengeance right like something so it's kind of like i get and you see that a lot and sometimes in anime you don't see that bro it's kind of like you see that in our to all the time bro like homie gets whacked and he doesn't care there's there's a meme i think is it's like i know you that you know me that i know you and i was like yeah he gets it so it's that whole like forgiveness aspect that has been lost also in society and the reason it's been lost is there's so much propaganda, there's so much hate, there's so much information.

People are so unoptimized in terms of their health, inflammation, that they're more reactive, right?

They don't think pragmatically.

You don't sit down and be like, okay, it's all reaction, emotion, emotion, emotion, emotion, because there's a lot of inflammation.

So I feel like it's like all the programming, like what music are you listening to?

You're listening to terrible rap music, heavy metal, then you're watching

dumb cartoons, you're eating terrible food, you're doing tap water, like things go compounding.

They're like, yeah, bro, bro, I'm like drawing, but I don't know why.

I'm like, bro, your baseline is so low that no wonder everything seems like bad.

All right, they're getting hit from so many angles.

And they don't know it.

That's the worst part.

Yeah, because people just assume the food, but there's so many other.

Well, people assume, oh, that person is on a diet or that person eats healthy.

He's like, no, that person eats like a normal human would a thousand years ago.

Right?

That's considered healthy now.

Now it's considered healthy.

It's like, no, you're eating inorganic matter that is changing your biology and you don't even realize it.

Right.

Processed food.

Processed food.

80% of the American diet now.

I mean, yeah.

And not only here, worldwide.

Oh, yeah, it's other countries now.

I mean, I wouldn't say all the countries, but I travel a lot and you'll see a lot of the packaging is different.

The ingredients are different.

The prices are different.

But the

medium of it not being organic matter that's good for you is still there.

High seed, like inflammation in terms of seed oils.

Chicken, like, yeah, maybe the chicken is not from that inorganic farm that pumps it with GMOs, but the way you still treat it is ineffective and not good.

So I'm always looking like for grass-fed, organic.

And the truth is, if you can learn how to feast and fast and not doing like tons of meals a day,

you realize that you don't need that much food in order to build a good physique and have a good lifestyle.

That's just more or less how I approach it.

And there's like a million reasons why.

But one of them is satiety, right?

Like if you're eating hyper-palatable foods, 30 minutes in, you want another round, right?

You eat a healthy bone broth or wonton soup or a ramen bowl, you're satiated for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours.

So people don't realize, like, what you eat also influences certain metabolic regulations of whether or not the body wants more food or it's good and it can fast and it can be fine.

And that's all metabolic flexibility, and that's a whole different topic.

But we went like from like anime all the way to like, yeah, but that's fine.

I know you're coming off a fast.

How often are you fasting right now?

So it's all like cycles.

So I'm like in anime shreds, I do two things.

It's the way vitality for people who want to shred and the way of the builder for people who want to put on muscle.

But the same process is the same.

Like there's certain pillars that have to be addressed, like metabolic flexibility.

Like you tapping into fat just as well as you can tap into carbohydrates, right?

Regardless of the path being feasting and fasting.

and more fasting than feasting because you're trying to shred and create more movement.

But honestly, I don't track, bro.

Like I'll go two-day fasts, three-day fasts, sometimes eight hours, sometimes 16 hours.

I don't really track.

I do try to push myself, though.

Like, and I'll, and I'll, and I'll do, I, I have certain protocols, like, to get rid of hunger regulation.

And it's, but I'm not like

setting heavy PRs or anything.

Like, in May, when I launched anime shreds, I stopped working out.

Like, I didn't do it.

I didn't do sit-ups.

I didn't do push-ups.

I didn't do anything.

That didn't mean I didn't live a dynamic lifestyle.

That didn't mean I didn't go through heavy periods of like fasting or stretching or walking.

I just had a hypothesis that you could still maintain good muscle composition if you're metabolically flexible, if you can fast, right?

And

if you can tap into that fat that's there.

So what I had done was I bulked up to like almost 220.

I had some fat on me and I'm like, okay, but I was already a little frightened because I was putting myself under a lot of heavy pressure, a lot of weight.

It was a cold environment.

I was up in the mountains.

I'm like, okay, I need a shred.

Now, I could take the approach of like doing cardio, all this and that, but I'm like, no, I need to get a lot of work done.

There's a lot of things I need to do.

So, dude, it was like waking up, digestive tea potions like uh going on walks focusing on my breathing getting sunlight like a lot of things that helped me going through the fast but what people don't realize is you could do fast within a fast right like a genjutsu within a genjutsu it's kind of like you do a fast of

of autophagy so you do 15 calories or less and you push that as long as you can

And then once you feel like you can't go any more, that's fine.

Do a fast for from food.

So you can drink structured water, do like fruits or juices or teas, right?

Just do liquid state or even smoothies or like a bone broth, but you're still giving your body a break from actual matter and solid food, right?

That's just been my whole take on it.

And I feel like it's completely shifted my paradigm in terms of like approaching fitness.

Because I'm like looking lean, I'm good, but I realized I started losing muscle composition.

Like a month and a half in, I probably looked some of the best I've ever looked.

Wow.

Because I'd lost a fat and the muscle is still there, right?

And when you become metabolically flexible, you become a lot better at sparing

like protein, muscle, everything.

The issue is you need to become metabolically flexible first.

The issue also is I put on a lot of weight.

So I had a lot of wiggle room to like reduce.

Why was I fine with this?

Because I know recomp is always easier.

Like if I start reintroducing carbohydrates now, which I've done high levels of creatine, because I cut a lot of supplements, everything on purpose.

I want to do like a detox.

When you reintroduce it, your body absorbs it just like that.

Just like that.

So now I started like alkanizing the body.

I was telling you, i was in order and doing all the protocols and now what i'm doing is i'm going to do a lot of body weight probably full body workout

body weight and bands get warmed up alkalinized two weeks in i'll probably start

breaking so i'll do top body uh and then in a symbiotic relationship stretch the bottom part and then switch it around

and then after a week i'll probably start doing the normal splits like chest and triceps, back and biceps, legs, shoulders and abs.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

So it's, it's, and it's like understanding that the gym is just one facet of fitness or like people don't get like you looking jacked or having a six-pack doesn't mean you're healthy.

You could sell out visceral fat.

Visceral fat, you could have inflammation, you could have scoliosis, you could have pinched nerves, you could have a million things that you don't know of.

You could have, yeah, you could have tons of nanoplastics in your testicles or you could have

potential heart attack risk because there's not enough circulation or you do tons of chronic chronic running, tons of carbohydrates, tons of inflammation.

You're putting a lot of stress on the valves.

And that's why you have all these guys that were marathon runners 50, 60, 70 years ago on the carb-centric diet that they're all preaching about, that people were spending thousands of dollars listening to.

They're all dying at a young age because they put so much stress on the body with such high levels of inflammation that what atrophyo, which basically

caused

the purpose of the heart with the valves is for it to be soft, right?

Because you're pumping the blood and it's constantly moving.

If you're hardening it, what happens?

If you get a cut or a scar, the tissue that comes back might look like the skin, but if you keep getting cut and cut and cut, it's going to harden and harden.

It's that issue is putting that much strain on the valve that the valve becomes hardened.

So the older you become, if the valve is hardened, it's a lot harder for the heart to do its proper function, which is to circulate the blood.

People don't realize this.

The heart can't do all that by itself.

Like, you need to aid it with movement, with pressure like there's a lot of things that you can do to instigate blood flow that's going to aid in the heart it's like people are working their heart overtime right and as they go from a sedentary lifestyle to chronic cardio thinking that's going to help and then they become hungry and go back to eating carbohydrates like the whole paradigm is like dumb yeah because they tell thought people to run

i see people bro on the street just like you see in their face bro they're like they're hurting dude it's not even like pain it's like pain from inflammation you just see it i'm like dude and then they're rubbing they're running on wrong shoes and their foot's not even like their brain dude it's just a disaster And I see it.

And if they'll ask me, like, if I'm like shirtless or walking, they'll be like, bro, what are you doing?

I'll be like, bro, honestly, you should fast, do some teas and go for a walk and like stretch.

And that's way easier than it's way easier.

So less taxing and you can pull it off in a fasted state.

Right.

Like if you run a lot or you swim a lot, you'll probably get hungry.

With running, I feel like.

Right after I get thirsty, but an hour after, I'll be hungry.

But I can mitigate that if I'm just like walking, stretching, maybe doing like zone two training with bands or body weight or even like stretching.

Yeah, so it is possible to get shredded without lifting though.

Yeah, you can get shredded.

You can get shredding with feasting and fasting cycles, metabolic flexibility, and understanding how to tell your brain to tap into fat, not carbohydrates.

The issue is most people have the keto flu, which is not really the keto flu.

It's just you go from a terrible lifestyle and the pendulum swing hit so hard.

and your homeostasis became disrupted and your body's not your body your brain's freaking out because it went through all the sugar and all these years.

What do you do?

You give it sugar, and now you're not giving it sugar.

So the brain, of course, is going to freak out.

So we have to do is go reducing the amount of sugar with percentages and see how your body feels.

Like, I don't do ketone, stick-peeing, nothing of that.

It's all like, there's certain signals naturally that if you look at and you pay attention, your body will tell you, okay, you're metabolically flexible.

Or, hey, you can tap into fat.

Yeah.

Because you're not doing cardio and you're just shredding.

Makes a lot of sense to me because there's other people that say you should eat five to six meals a day.

Botted.

Now,

under certain parameters for the regular individual that has a 95 family, all that, imagine him trying to eat tons of meals.

First of all, most of the meals are microwaved because of the convenience.

So we address that.

Okay, so let's not microwave it.

How are you doing that?

Not a lot of people are doing tons of meals without microwaving.

That's the first problem.

I can name you five more, but that's the first one.

So let's address the first one.

What's the problem with microwaves?

Microwaves, it basically bastardizes all the nutrients in the food.

So you're just eating matter.

So if you want to to fill your stomach, you might as well just drink water.

Wow, so it cooks out all the vitamins and menu?

I believe so.

Wow.

Especially over long periods of time.

And what people don't realize is food by itself automatically has already been bastardized.

Like we're not absorbing as much nutrients as we used to, right?

The soil, they don't practice like back in the day what they would practice in terms of seasons of harvesting the soil, right?

And using the soil and then giving it sabbatical.

People don't give the soil sabbatical.

People just bastardize it and commercialize it.

That's the biggest problem.

Then the second problem is you're getting that bastardized meal and then putting it into a microwave and you're bastardizing even more.

And then you're putting into your stomach, oh, protein, protein, yeah.

But how much of it is actually bioavailable?

How much protein are you actually getting there?

Wow.

So, you got to cook it on a grill or not.

Really?

I'll tell you what I do.

Idea is understanding spices, understanding blends, understanding that what you have to focus on is saving time, right?

So, what kind of meals do I do?

Air fryer, of course, ceramic.

You're not going to do Teflon.

So, it's very basic: spend five to ten minutes spicing your meal however you want whether it's wings, meat, burger, whatever.

You put it A first on the

on the air fryer, but I wouldn't suggest doing air fryer for people who are trying to get shredded.

And I have a thesis behind it or a hypothesis behind it, but we can address that later.

I would suggest more of an approach where you're actually using like

the oven, right?

So what I would do is instead of grabbing my ground beef, this is what I see a lot of people cooking cast iron.

They're charring it and making it crazy.

And I feel like it's not that good on the body in terms of oxidative stress because of the incineration that's occurring on the meat.

And then you have the opposite spectrum, which is people that eat the raw, raw meat, right?

Which I don't eat raw food, and I have many reasons as to why I don't eat it.

Do I agree with some parts?

Yes.

Do I disagree with other parts?

Yes.

But that's a whole different podcast.

What I like to do with my meat is I'll cook it in coconut water.

I'll cook it in bone broth.

I'll cook it in

either water or fat soluble in a basically

glass tray.

And I'll put the meat and I'll put like bone broth.

I'll even like, if I'm trying to bulk, I'll put a whole piece of like stick of butter.

And I'll put all my spices.

I can do.

So I think something you want to address is how can you facilitate?

digestion.

And one great thing is ginger.

So something I would do is always fresh grated ginger on top of all my meat and I would let that cook in there, stew in there.

Prep time, five minutes.

By the time it got down there, it would be ready 30 minutes, an hour.

What I was doing, I was working out.

I was working.

I was getting shit done.

The alarm went off.

Okay, food's ready.

I'm not in there cooking.

You know what I'm saying?

You got to optimize.

So baking your food, crock pot, like all these things are super useful.

Like, I can tell you, I can make an amazing

pack of punched.

in terms of boosting testosterone, in terms of you tapping into fat, in terms of caloric surplus, in terms of

benefits that you can extrapolate from food if you're in a fasted state, it being more bioavailable because it's in a liquid form, you're in a fasted state and you're drinking it warm.

And that's like doing bone broth, like doing your own bone broth.

And it doesn't take a long time.

This is most people either buy bone broth, which can be expensive.

So what I would do is kind of like be like, okay, if I'm going to be cooking like wings or I'm going to be doing a whole rotisserie chicken or two, like save the bones and use that the next day.

And you're like, okay, I'm going to go on a fast.

And then, so you're kind of like sequencing based off of the resources you have and based off of the goal that you have, which is if it's fasting, I would do sparkling water, coffee, shredder gourd, like keep it very light.

I'm like, okay, I'm starting to get hungry.

Perfect.

Instead of breaking my fast right away, because your stomach's also a little bit smaller.

If you eat a ribeye, you're going to feel it.

Give it bone broth, heat, warm, cayenne, stimulate the body, go for a walk, chew on something, pretend that you're eating so you stimulate the body, like mastigum or whatever.

Right.

Then you come back and then the food's ready because you ate that.

But that thing took me five minutes to make and I left it over two days, all the ingredients and that's what I'm drinking first thing.

Sounds amazing.

And you know what I do?

It's to tap in protein right from the bone broth and then fat.

So when I break my fast, I'm introducing fat, not carbohydrates, as the resource for my body to use.

And if I do that over long periods of time, guess what happens?

The body starts using fat.

Right as its resource.

So that's why when people are like, oh, bro, I go on fast and I feel great.

And yes, because you're using fat.

If not, you're going crazy.

Like, give me sugar.

Wow.

That is brilliant.

I love that.

I was on your Twitter.

So you bring a shower filter where everywhere you travel.

Yes, yes, sir.

And you put it in the hotel shower?

In the hotel showers?

Yes.

Why?

So, 101, if you want good skin, healthy skin, you have to realize it's an organ.

You have to realize that there's micro-tears occurring all the time.

You have to realize that when there are lesions, when there are cuts, right, there are microabrasions that if the wrong

or if not the ideal

things that you want your body, like toxins, metals, come in there over long periods of time, you absorb it.

Things, particles in the air, things in the water.

So people are like, bro, what cream can I use?

What exfoliation?

What mask?

I'm like, no.

101 is put a filter on, get rid of all the debris, get rid of all the metal.

All I have to do, I don't have to be a rock and size scientist, a conspiracy theory, like nothing.

All I have to do is have half a brain cell, look at the pipes, and be like, okay, that's where the water's going through.

That's what I'm getting.

That's it.

Like, that's, at least for me, I don't have to go into numbers.

I don't have to go into the,

how many metals are in this or that?

And it's like, no, just use common sense.

The issue is people prefer spending $1,000 on a Gucci bag or something like that than spending $50 on a good water filter.

Like, I'll take it with me all the time.

And when I go in airports, I don't scan.

Like, I don't go through the screen.

Oh, you don't go through the body scan?

I don't pride myself.

It's like, yes, I shall enter into the microwave.

Blast me.

I'm like, no, I opt out.

And they'll pat you down.

I need to start doing that.

Yeah.

So what people need to understand is

you're an electrical being, right?

Like we're not, we're not just body.

That's what people don't understand.

When you start realizing there's, it's, it's, it's, we're like, I'm not saying multi-dimensions like we're living in altered states, but there's a lot more that meets the eye in terms of the human potential.

Electricity is one of them.

So when you realize you're in an airport, that's why I'm wearing an EMF hat right now.

Oh, that's an EMF hat.

This is EMF.

I'm I'm not wearing just a hat just to look cool.

This is silver threading inside.

It's full EMF.

I'm just not wearing a tinfoil hat.

This is my tinfoil hat.

Would I wear a tinfoil hat if I was in those kind of situations?

100%.

Damn.

They'd probably more look like a samurai hat or something because it fit the theme.

And those are blue light blockers too.

These are blue light blockers.

Yeah, you can actually try them on later.

They're actually very convenient.

And I have different hues for different times of the day.

Wow.

And sometimes I'll realize, like, especially here in Florida, I'll go out in the sun.

And if I don't have my blockers on, like just the brightness of the sun hitting the white pavement and hitting my eyes, like I feel it.

So I'll put those on, get into the day, ease in, and then I'll take them off.

I'll feel good.

I'll get a few hours of blue light.

Like it's fine.

And then as the day progresses, I start putting different, and I have tons of hairs, bro.

Yeah.

Damn.

So you're really worried about the EMF and the light damage?

Yeah, 100%.

Like people don't realize how bad it is.

It's that bad.

It's that bad.

Like it's that bad.

And I'm saying from personal experience, and when you go on long, long fasts and you're not eating food, everything's amplified.

Like I don't sleep on a normal bed.

I sleep on a Japanese futon with a PMF mat on top of it.

Wow.

And I put a silver, uh, a silver,

what do you call it, sheet or cotton sheet on top.

And that's what I sleep on.

And I feel phenomenal.

Damn.

Because I'm charging all night, right?

And

I'm not going to say everything that I do, but that's one of the things I do.

And the whole purpose and idea behind it is

understanding that most people

right so i'm going to do this for the camera so they understand context

humans throughout society look different based on how society operates and based on the jobs and the roles that take at play most of the roles that take at play now are sedentary it's a lot of pushing motion right it's a lot of moving forward it's a lot of hunching it's a lot of curving right that's affecting the spine that's affecting the scapula right and then you have all the gym bros that want big chests.

So adding more pushing movement, right?

No retraction.

So then you have all this imbalance, right?

That's automatic based on how society is already

like how society already operates.

Like it's simple things like you being in the car driving, right?

Like if you have a wallet, a big wallet in your butt, over long periods of time, that's going to cause a hip imbalance.

Wow.

If you don't learn how to sit properly, you always sit on one side like this.

That's going to cause an imbalance.

Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not in a week, but over a year two years it will so it's just like learning how to adopt certain stances that are good for the body like and it's just doing over time and it goes compounding

simple stuff power stances right power it doesn't even have to be power stance it's like human stance like what like how are you how like power stance is more like dominating right like or like i need to feel more powerful because i i i feel insecure right now so people like do this whatever There's definitely like poses that you can tap into in terms of anchors that work.

It's just like adopting a normal stance of like rolling your shoulders back and just like almost do the counteraction of what everybody's doing.

So rotate and just pull back.

And then when you go to the gym, don't do tons of pushing exercises, like just simple things, like grab a band,

you anchor it against a pole or whatever.

You can high anchor it, medium anchor it or low anchor it.

And you do the opposite of what everybody's doing.

So if everybody's pushing, you're pulling and it's just slow and you're not doing heavyweight because you're not counteracting heavyweight because that's not not what you're doing is micro things every day so you have to do micro workouts to counter it right if you do eight reps with heavy weight that's you building muscle not counteracting the problem so grab a band pull it back stay right here and do a few pulses

hold it retract boom and just do it over time and then when you're in the car driving you can roll your your shoulders back and grab the handle like this and just try to maintain that position and just And then when you catch yourself, just go back.

And it goes compounding over time, right?

And what you're doing is is mitigating the posing force that's causing you to not be in a state of homeostasis yeah which is all that pushing motion so it's just a lot of things that's what i'm saying it goes beyond having a good chest or a six bag like dude that's interesting do you think beds are bad for posture for most people yeah especially soft beds i feel like harder beds and it's how you sleep as well i sleep on my back and usually with something under my oh the leg pillow the leg pillow because you want the elevation i notice a difference sometimes when the last thing you want to do is go into a hotel room and get in bed the way you have it with those tight sheets and everything.

I hate those tight sheets.

This is what they do with your feet, bro.

Like, they wreck your feet and people sleep in them.

Be like, I'm so cozy.

And this is their feet over time, over time, or over time.

And they don't realize it's all loose, bro.

Like, all loose.

That's the first thing I do when I walk in a room.

I fucking lift the sheets up.

Fuck those tight sheets.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Literally.

I don't know how people think that's comfortable, honestly.

People are just programmed, bro.

They go in there the first time, they try it, and they don't even think about it.

Like, people just don't think.

When did you realize you were programmed?

Was it in your 20s, teenagers,

20s?

Yeah, same here.

About 20, 24, 25.

Yeah.

Around the same.

Yeah, I grew up super Democrat, which is cringe.

Like, grew up in Jersey, watching the news every day.

So programmed, dude.

At least you're watching anime.

I know.

Anime might have been.

To counteract a little bit, the bodying.

For real.

Dude, it was bad, though.

Was it like a big wake-up moment for you?

For sure.

It was a very aha moment.

And it all stemmed from like the food, like what we're eating.

Because I realized, I'm like, bro, if I can, if what people don't understand is like what's your baseline like how low or high how high is your baseline in terms of your health because if it's really low and you're in your 20s and 30s you can pull it off when you hit 40 to 50 you're gonna get wrecked right look at your dad look at your mom look at your grandparents if you do the same things they're doing in terms of genetics and then epigenetics because of the lifestyle you're doing you have a pretty decent blueprint what your life is going to look like.

So you have to go like full dojo and like counteract that shit, bro.

Like work out, work out.

So when you stop and you plateau, your baseline is so much higher that you're not worried.

And then if you want to coast for a while, you can coast for a while and then you keep going to the next level and the next level.

Because I'm telling you, bro, like the last thing you want to be 40, 60, 70, 80, knowing that you're in your 20s and you had the information of like, oh, I could have.

And I'm not talking about getting massive injection.

I'm talking about flexibility, reducing inflammation, optimization, like reducing stress, like.

being able to squat down, a pistol squat, being 70, squat down and pick up your child, scratching your back, like normal stuff, dude.

Not like setting a new world record with a bench press.

It's cool to have a good chest.

chest it's cool to have a six pack or eight pack or a four pack whatever but it's like

people don't understand that having an elite physique is not going to make you happy right like it's cool like you'll break necks and everything in the street but like a good physique is not meant to

to use as a tool for your own benefit regardless of how that looks we already know like the stereotype which is smash like oh yeah i want to go get chicks um

do you want to do it because you realize like your your baseline, the way you operate, is just so much better.

Yeah, like everything feels good.

Like,

and I'm not saying it can't get better, it can get better, but I can tell you, my baseline right now is so much better than years ago.

Like, wow, I couldn't read a book, and I feel like I was dumb or ADD or whatever.

There's all the tap water, all this stuff.

And I was just like, bro, I'm reading pages and I can't remember anything.

Am I dumb or whatever?

Like, but drinking like tons of all the bad energy drinks.

Like, that used to be me, too.

Tap water, monster energy, all that shit.

And like, every day I'd do two, three, four, I'd be like, bro, I'm like, I'm like burning out, moldy coffee like everything dude.

I would forget the sentence I read.

It was that bad.

Yeah.

Now

you think you're dumb like that's the problem.

So guys if you're at home you feel like you're dumb you're not dumb you just need to change the energy input for long periods of time through discipline and your baseline will be a lot higher.

Yep.

Food pyramid is a scam, right?

Well food pyramid was a construct by whom and what was the intention?

I don't know actually.

Oh, okay.

So the food pyramid is basically a beautiful triangle called propaganda that that is not optimal for human optimization.

Going back to what we were talking about before, become metabolically flexible and tapping both into

fat, just as well into protein, just as well into carbohydrates.

You can't do that in a carb-centric pyramid.

Very simple.

Yeah, because carbs is the biggest one, right?

Well, it's not only carbs, it's the quality and the quantity over long periods of time with carbs.

Carbs, I don't think they're bad.

If they're good, healthy carbs, and if you know how to cycle them and when you take them, like you eating the right carbohydrate before or after work is completely different than you smashing your face 30 minutes before you go to sleep.

Right.

With a pizza, yeah.

Right.

Ecocopia carbs are good, but not the right time.

Plus, the grains here are fortified.

Fortified?

Like, I don't even want to get started with that.

Like,

fortified for destruction.

No, it's just not optimal.

Like, what we need, you know what we need?

Mana.

The issue is those are things from the past.

Those are things from the old.

So the idea now is like, what are the best ways to hedge yourself against everything that's occurring?

And fasting at tophiche is one of the most powerful ways.

But if you're a typical gym bro, that has to be every three hours, four hours, good luck trying to fast.

If everything, if the world goes, ham, I know I can fast X amount of days based on the fat percentage or my body composition.

Yeah, I'm not saying like I'm streading for that, but I'm saying is like if I need to go through periods of fasting, I can go through periods of fasting and I'm fine.

I'm not going crazy.

I'm actually feeling exuberated.

Because what people don't realize, when you become metabolically flexible, right?

It's almost like back in the day, your hunters and gatherers, they go through periods of fasting, their body starts being like, okay, we need food, better eyesight, better hearing, better concentration, better cognition, more speed, right?

And it's a lot easier to amplify those resources if you're metabolically flexible and you got fat.

Because what people don't realize is like, people ask me Big Bang.

I'm like, bro, if you study the human body,

just where fat is stored, right?

Like imagine if fat was stored around your neck, like all the fat starts here or your shoulder.

No, it's like we're bipedal creatures.

We walk, right?

And the fat is stored around our stomach like a fanny pack.

It's literally energy.

It's literally potentially energy that one can tap into if you know how to use it.

So I almost look at it as that.

And I'm not saying fat is good.

What I'm preaching is don't listen to the common crowd.

Being shredded in a holistic manner is healthy.

Because people are like, oh, bro, you look great.

You look shredded, but you're probably unhealthy.

You probably feel terrible.

I was like, no, bro, I feel amazing.

So do not put your pragmatic and dogmatic views based on a carb-centric diet.

And your paradigm can't be broken because you can't tap at the fat.

Like, don't put me in that box, brother, because I will shatter it every day and every day.

Yeah, there's a limit.

I mean, you see the bodybuilders, they're dying pretty young, but.

But they're also in carbs, bro.

And when they cut carbs, you see them, bro.

They feel like they're fainting on stage.

They feel like they're dying.

Bro, I can tell you,

I'm not bashing their workout style because their workout style is for hypertrophy and building a big muscle.

I feel is phenomenal.

But their prep and how they, I think they could be way optimized.

Yeah.

Like way optimized.

And I'm not saying like take out anything they're doing.

I'm just saying adding on things that would make like you not fainting on stage.

Like, that's that's not healthy.

When you're not metabolically flexible, you can't tap into fat, you don't feel good in a fasted state, and you're pushing yourself.

You're eating ice cubes because you want to drop water weight.

No, you could be drinking a liter of water and still look shredded.

But it's like, How do you drink the liter of water?

That's a whole different topic.

Oh, how do you drink it?

I've never heard that.

How do you drink water?

Like, there's a technique you're saying, not a technique, it's just like common sense.

Like, common sense for the people that understand it for what it is.

It's like like not eating food and drinking water at the same time, like stuffing your face, right?

Because

your body, when you're drinking water,

this is what I do.

I don't, I don't, and this, if you want to get shredded, first of all, warm water, room temperature water, not cold water.

Really?

Yes, 100%.

If you want to clean bulk or you want to put on size, or you don't care about your current composition, do cold water.

For me, doing the shredded water, like the digestive tea in hot water was a game changer because you're toning the body from within.

Wow.

And then room temperature water, and it almost became like its own unique flavor, right?

Because of the room temperature.

And it had cold water.

I'm like, no, this is kind of gross.

Now I'm drinking cold water because I got used to it, but I'm still going back to the hot and cold.

It's 30 minutes, 40 minutes before your meal.

Drink something, it can be also even a digestive potion with like

chlorophyll, apple cider vinegar, maybe a shot of lemon, maybe a little cayenne.

You could do it in water.

Yeah.

Go for a walk, come back.

Truth is,

I feel like

most people don't take time to actually think, bro.

I think it literally boils down to that.

Like, most people see what's on TikTok, most people see what's going viral, and everybody hops on a trend without realizing, like, what's the purpose of the trend?

Or, like,

everybody's doing bench press a certain way.

Like, is this the most optimal way?

Like, do it, but is this always ask yourself, is this the most optimal way?

And I tell people, like,

stink.

Who are you listening to?

Like, I even, I tell people, like, I feel like the best teachers are the ones that tell their students to be wary of their influence.

Wow, that's deep.

And you know what's the opposite?

Follow my lead.

A cult leader.

Yeah.

Do everything I say.

Do everything I say, and I put you into certain trance states with certain psychedelic subjects or whatever.

It's all manipulation.

So I think that's what I'm, I tell people, everything, even in what I say, take it with a grain of salt.

Like, you can, there's things that may be wrong, there's things that may be right, but take it with a grain of salt.

Right.

Because there's new information coming out, new studies, health is constant.

A couple years ago, cigarettes was great.

Everybody was smoking.

Now everybody has cancer for that, but it's the other reason.

That's a different story.

And then sugar, they're pushing sugar, energy, whatever, whatever, whatever.

And now it's like...

metabolic syndrome.

Right.

They said kale was a superfood a couple years ago.

That's what I'm saying, bro.

And everybody jumps on the bandwagon.

Everybody gets emotionally with their bias because they attach this new dogmatic view.

And they start hating each other.

Vegans start cursing the meat eaters.

Meat eaters start saying how

lame and pathetic the vegan diet is.

And people just, I'm in, they're in the middle.

Just like.

Yeah, that debate's been so overplayed.

I don't even care, bro.

You're vegan fine.

Just like, I did the vegan diet.

And I had, I, so, this is what I can say for the vegan diet.

Most vegans are unhealthy.

Why?

Because, first of all, their vegan diet is not a good vegan diet.

Their vegan diet perhaps that are not organic.

Or it's tons of carbohydrates, right?

But also there's certain essential nutrients like retinol, vitamin A, that you get from eggs.

All right.

Where can you find that in the green spectrum?

I'm not talking about like beta-carotene, right?

And then your absorption, how much bioavailable is pure retinol vitamin A, right?

Talking about straight up, like if you're like, if you're a vegan, I tell vegans, eat eggs and eat

honey.

Like do that.

Like if I was a vegan, I would do those two things.

Vegetarians, pescatarians, you're a little bit more lenient, but I feel like meat, bro.

I love meat.

Yeah.

Can't give it up.

Only vegan I know killing it right now is Brian Johnson.

But he's a vegan with a lot of money and a lot of resources that can complement his lifestyle.

Not everybody has the same budget, bro.

Right.

He's spending a million plus a year.

And it's spending a lot on pills, bro.

Like, not everybody has that budget, bro.

Like, that's the truth.

So if you look up to him, you have to be like, okay, how much of it is actually useful for me?

I'm not bashing the guy.

I think he's great.

I love what he's doing with

like...

bringing awareness with the gamification aspect so people can see.

I'm not about numbers.

Like I don't even check.

Like I have to check my weight just to like.

You don't measure your blood at all?

Really?

No.

Now, I will soon, because i have a theory a game that i want to like record with a thesis

even like testosterone i don't check my testosterone levels now i would be down to do like a terrible not terrible but like a less dojo like diet and supplementation protocols to reduce it like the baseline get the test done not look at the numbers and be like okay give me a month and a half and like up the numbers and then do the test and look at both numbers.

I'd be down for something like that.

But not like checking and freaking out, like my aura ring.

Like, oh, did I sleep well?

No, like, bro, since I've been fasting, I only sleep three, four hours.

Sometimes I'll sleep five hours, six hours, and I feel phenomenal.

You serious?

I'm being dead serious.

Now, guys, I'm not saying it's healthy.

Like, I'm not saying I feel like sleep is paramount and pivotal.

What I'm trying to convey is your body operates in different manners.

And when I was like clean, bulky, and I was putting a lot of weight, I had to sleep 10, 11, 12 hours.

Tons of carbohydrate, tons of hypertrophy.

I was up in the coal in the mountains like hibernating.

So my lifestyle was, also my goal was different, right?

But I was sleeping a lot more.

And I didn't feel like, oh, it's a waste of time or whatever.

I was like, no, bro, I really need to sleep because I need to rest and charge up.

And now, like, cause I'm not killing myself at the gym either.

You know what I'm saying?

So now if I was training more, eating more carbs, adding more protein, yeah, I would need seven, eight hours.

But I had a lot of work to get done, a lot of movement.

And I felt good.

Like, honestly, I feel pretty anxious.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'd be curious.

Your tea is probably pretty good, though.

I think so.

For all the stuff you're doing.

Yeah.

I mean, in an optimized way, it can probably be better.

But what I'm trying to convey is like, don't pursue numbers, right?

Like, I feel like, and go back to scientific mind, bro.

I'm not saying it's good.

Like, I think, like, there's certain key parameters, like, especially if you're unhealthy that you want to check, right?

Like,

vitamin D level, magnesium.

Like, so every, there's essential things.

What I'm saying is, I feel really good right now.

Maybe there's a few things I might be off.

I could check,

but I know, I know myself, and I know once I get into it, I'm gonna already start like geeking out.

And I'm like, I just don't want to go down that because I don't do aura ring.

I don't do any of that.

How do I feel?

Because imagine, bro, like the, I feel like placebo effect could be a thing.

It could be.

I don't like the trackers just because of the EMF, too.

Okay, fair.

I mean, that's already a great point by itself.

It's already in your house everywhere.

The Wi-Fi.

Like, why are you adding another one?

Are you just adding another one?

I just found out I'm getting fried in my Tesla, especially when I'm charging it.

And I just found out yesterday that when you use your lab, your MacBook while you're charging it, some guy put an EMF meter up to it.

It was 700.

Yeah, it was amplified.

Crazy.

Well, it's connected to the source.

No, it.

But think about it, bro.

It's just, it's simple things that are super, like, also anything generator, right?

So let's say all the stacks of the negative things that we mentioned before, you're going with that.

You're like, okay, I'm going to change my life.

I'm going to get my shit together.

You clean up your dye, you do everything.

And then you still feel like crap.

There could be mold in the house.

You could be sleeping your bed right next to a plug or a generator or on the other side of the wall.

There could be a fridge.

And that.

So all those things play a huge role.

And you're like, dang, bro, this keto diet's not working.

It has nothing to do with a keto diet.

It's just people don't sit down and be like, okay, what's my environment?

Where am I living in?

Like, nothing, bro.

Like, people just like go in there, all the perfume.

Like, bro, I go into rooms with, I'm like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I hate perfect.

Throw up, I'm gonna throw up.

I used to use deodorant in cologne.

It's so cringe looking back at that.

I mean, it's it's what you've been propagated, right?

It's what to get girls, yeah.

To get girls to smell good, so you don't have to smell yourself, but no, do chlorophyll, do a detox, cleanse your, your, your body.

What I do is I'll do uh coconut oil

just a little bit for your deodorant for deodorant.

I'll do a little bit coconut oil.

I'll do one drop of aloe because aloe is

I'm not sure in terms of potentiation of like going deep into skin its correlation in terms of which one's stronger castor oil or aloe oil but it's lighter it's not a base oil so it's almost like a one of the it's almost like tea tree or a peppermint oil where you only use a little bit the reason we use it is seep into the skin so do coconut oil aloe oil and then one drop of tea tree oil.

First of all, it smells great.

It's an antiseptic.

It it cleans so if I put that and then I'm in a fasted state I'm drinking chlorophyll.

I'm cleaning cleansing myself.

I'm on a fruit diet.

I'm reducing my meat a little bit.

I'm not doing tons of protein powder scoops, right?

Because those guys fart in a room, bro.

You can smell it like a mile away.

Those powders are literally dying.

Like, and I'm not saying protein powder is bad.

Like, I think grass-fed, like, it's fine.

I'm just saying the regular stuff that you're getting in the market with all the fillers.

Like,

yeah, I used to be on those powders.

Bro, same, same, same.

It's like you go to Walmart and just get the cheapest one.

It's like 20 bucks.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

And they taught you that was how you got ripped.

Yeah.

This guy, get jacked, get this protein.

Yeah.

Eat one gram of protein for every body weight.

And I can tell you, like, if I start doing that crappy, crappy protein powder and take out the shower filter, right?

Two stuff like that, I'll start getting acne.

I'll start like just

terrible acne as a kid.

And they taught you to buy the creams for it.

Like that would do.

So it's all outer solutions, and it's not.

It's outer and inner solutions that have to combine together to create a certain state.

Right.

So it's cleansing the body from within and without.

Because what people don't realize also is like you can have a great diet, but if you live in a tropical environment, if you have tons of dead skin, you need to exfoliate that.

You need to get rid of that.

It doesn't matter how clean your body is, you still have dead cells on you.

So exfoliation is great.

You can do like in the shower,

get some sort of organic soap, maybe a little baking soda, exfoliate your face with your hands.

Yeah.

Take that out.

Maybe a little witch hazel with no alcohol.

Slap your face a little bit.

The reason you want to slap, I don't slap my face all the time, maybe like once a week, but ideally like just one big slap?

No.

Or just continuous?

Continuous slaps.

Interesting.

So what you do is you put on the witch hazel and you slap your face.

Yeah.

The reason is you're causing micro like tears.

And what you're doing is almost like the skin's opening up and it's absorbing all the witch hazel, right?

So then your face is skin.

Your face is clean, base level.

And then that's when you add the oils.

You can do your coconut oil.

You can choose whatever oil you want based on your goal.

But the idea is clean baseline.

So what people do is like they don't exfoliate their face, then they go and put something with alcohol, it dries their face even more, and then they put lotion with 50 ingredients.

And some of them are carcinogens, yeah, dude, crazy, body wash, yeah, shampoo conditioner.

Yeah, I mean, most of the conventional stuff is all garbage, bro.

It's nuts, dude.

And people were using that every day for years.

Yeah, body's resilient, but at a certain point, it's going to catch you at a certain point.

Your bad habits catch up with you.

What you, what you, what you sow is what you reap, it's just a matter of time, absolutely.

Um, so you're top five on school.

Yeah.

That's crazy.

I mean, it is kind of crazy.

Honestly, I didn't really hear about school.

Like, I'd heard about school when Hormozy announced that he was in school, but I didn't really pay a lot of attention to anything.

And then I was talking with a friend of mine.

I'm like, dude, I really want to watch the dojo now in my shreds.

But I don't.

Here, give me a second because I didn't drink.

My throat was like so dry.

Recharge.

Okay.

Top five on school.

You're on the leaderboard.

So the leaderboard.

Top on school.

Yes.

So talking about school.

I love school.

And I'll give you a plethora of reasons and vernaculars to look at it as to why I feel like it's a more optimized version for digital tribes, ecosystems, whatever.

First of all, the layout, the structure, the team.

First thing.

Second thing is, look at social media as a whole.

It's an interesting dilemma because it's not what it used to be a couple years ago.

And it always goes shifting and morphing based on a lot of factors that I'm not going to get into.

Instagram is great, but now, like, recently I've been doing Instagram and I'll like log in and they're soft porn, bro.

Yeah.

Like, and I'm not even following the accounts.

I don't even know who the bodied girl is.

Like, I have no idea.

And it's, like, if I'm going to watch, I'm going to go on the internet on a private browser.

I'm not going to search on Instagram.

So, like, and i don't i have an issue with it like i have an intrinsic problem with it the issue is like i'm at an age where i can look at it and be like oh whatever but if you're a young kid

if you're eight or nine yeah like you're opening up pandora's box right there right in a negative manner that's one thing school doesn't have that second thing it's all built like the whole layout everything is intrinsically designed for communities So I joined school in May.

I checked out the whole ecosystem for two weeks.

I'm like, okay, this is cool.

Let's launch.

So I just told everybody, hey guys, I'm opening the dojo there.

And it's been really good.

And honestly, like, it's been really cool to meet people in real life that have linked with one another over calls or whatever.

It's like, bro, game changer.

Yeah.

Because what happens is social media is not even

social media almost has to be looked at the vernacular as hyper con, like hyper connection, but no human interaction.

It's all feed.

It's all stimulus.

It's all scrolling what's next.

What's next?

What's next?

There's no human interaction.

Like try chatting in under a post on Instagram.

Like good luck.

That's not going to happen.

No point.

No.

And then on Discord, like it's not feasible.

So I feel like they did a really good job in layout for communities.

Now, the problem is that's just raw potential.

You have to come in there and be like,

how do you serve the community?

How do you build a community?

What's your goals?

Like, people ask me, like, who's your avatar?

I'm like, the avatar was my young self.

Like, if I was a young kid that didn't know anything about Fedora, what would I do?

That's where I started.

Like, the Doge, that all came from there.

Like, it all stemmed from there.

Smart.

Like, I would like somebody that watches anime, like, why not?

And the whole anime shreds thing was like anime shreds whole ecosystems to be disruptive in terms of like,

I'm not saying go against the grain, none of that thing, but like question everything and realize that you can achieve a holistic, shredded physique, almost like the aesthetic of an anime character in a holistic manner.

Like you don't need steroids.

You can do peptides here and there that it can be beneficial, but you don't need steroids.

And there's a lot of things that people are preaching.

There's a lot of things I'm seeing.

I'm like, okay, bro, like if if somebody doesn't talk about this, like, it's just going to keep going.

Like, the whole trend, like, all that, I think it's dumb.

Yeah.

Now, if it was beneficial and good for you, I'd be the number one advocate or I'd be a top advocate about it.

But I don't think it's beneficial or conducive in any way.

And it's only growing more and more in popularity and it's only going more and more up in the market.

And there's only more and more people interested in the gold rush, aka make the steroids.

And they're even worse because it's just not all so serious.

The quality of, and then,

bro, people have lost nipples on steroids.

So

yeah, what the fuck?

Yeah, I haven't heard about it.

It's not like they fall off, but what happened?

They had to, like, yeah, they had to get rid of it.

Oh my gosh, and all stemmed from steroids.

So, that's what I'm trying to convey.

It's like just looking at everything from a different lens.

But the whole like anime shreds and body your hero came from like that anime archetype, right?

Yeah, so if it came very organic, it took a long time.

Um,

but the truth is,

like, I see a high correlation between the meta of fitness and self-development realm and anime, that heroic arc.

And it's kind of like meshing those two and telling people, like, you can become a better version of yourself in a holistic manner.

And there's a good community that can surround you.

Yeah.

So it's all about curating.

Like, if there's negative people in there, they're out.

I don't care about 22 bucks.

Like, you're 20, and you can do nothing.

But the people and the relationships that are forged there, because it's not like, oh, hey, bro, how you doing?

It's like, oh, no, hey, bro, you're also in Miami.

Okay, like, let's link up.

And people like link up and everything is super cool.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

You built a community.

Well, what I did is, yeah, it's kind of like, I mean, yeah, the community was built there, but like the whole idea, like the whole anime, all that, I've been pushing that for years.

Like, and I didn't pitch Anime Shreds once, and I've had Anime Shreds for years, like three years.

Oh, even before school, you had it?

Oh, I've had it for three years.

People, I've had it for three years.

So people think Anime Shreds is school.

So Anime Shreds is one facet is school.

Like the actual anime, what Anime Shreds is, hasn't been revealed yet.

Oh, okay.

School is just a proxy for community and ecosystems that we want to forge.

So something I've been working on for a long time, but I feel like it's really cool to have,

especially like now it's not as weird, right?

Like anime is not as weird.

Back when I was young, it was super taboo.

Like you're a freak.

If you watch anime, I was a shame to even tell you.

And in the States in Argentina, bro, if you watch, you're weed, bro.

Like, you're weird, bro.

And I was into that.

Like, I was doing the whole like running with the, with a,

yeah, 100%, bro.

I was like nerding out, trying to see if I could do jutsu's and stuff.

And it was almost like, dude, this is what I watched.

Like, this is my thing.

And, and dude, and I learned a lot of things from those character and character archetypes and the stories and the messages trying to convey that I couldn't get from real life people

because the truth is you can create the story and the archetype and aspire to be something when humans are flawed like you see preachers all the time though great preacher good preacher 50 years later they had sex with some with with their assistant or whatever and everybody then vilifies them it was just a mistake like that's fine but and this is kind of like bro he just fought Madara but

stakes are high

he just fought so I like that bro and I'm all about that I'm a nerd I've always been a nerd and i'm i've never shied away from it and yeah i guess some people are also nerdy that want to kind of like and i also have people in anime stress that don't watch anime at all like they're not in it like they're like bro i've never watched an anime episode but they're all about like working out in the sun with bands oils like post they're all about that so you join so it's cool got both yeah you got both nerds are running the world now though i mean nerds are smart people like ideally you want smart smarter people like making those kind of decisions and i feel like smarter people realize like i have to do something with my life because if not things get pretty pretty hard.

Yeah.

Especially as you get older.

Nate, where can people join your program and find out more about you, man?

All right, guys.

So school.com, S-K-O-O-L, anime shreds is there at the top.

If you want to look like an anime shred character, shredded, peeled, but not pursuing it in a manner for materialistic endeavors or

potentially getting laid, but you actually want to change your life.

And you want to take it to the next level in a holistic manner, I'll be waiting inside the dojo.

There we go.

We'll link it below.

Thanks for coming on, man.

Yeah.

Thanks for having me, bro.

Absolutely.

Thanks, David.

So, what's your favorite character in Naruto?

Let's finish with this.

Yeah, like top three characters.

All right, top three in Naruto.

I hate to be basic, but Naruto's up there.

I'm going to go Jiraiah.

Yeah.

And I'm going to go Gara, but pre-Shipputin, Gara.

Pre-Shipputin.

Yeah, I didn't like how they did him in Shippuda.

Just like Rock Lee, they nerfed Rocky.

Oh, they nerfed Raphael.

And then in Boruto, like, dude.

I can't even watch Boruto.

I just pretend I just watched the Naruto show with Rock Lee and I never watched Shippudin.

I'm like, yeah, Rock Lee, yeah, he's epic.

He's goaded and original.

All All right, guys, good stuff.

Yeah.