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Health Experts – Coaching Lesson

Hi, this is AJ and welcome to this month’s coaching lesson. The topic: health, health experts, another health lesson. Let’s talk about it. This is a confusing topic nowadays, right? I read a lot of books. I read a lot of books about nutrition and health and fitness and exercise. There are so many now, right? Diet books, health and disease prevention and longevity and on and on and on and on. There are lots and lots and lots of them.

And let me tell you, it’s confusing. Oh my god, it’s so confusing. Y’know, like you read some books and they talk about hormones, it’s all about hormones, it’s managing your hormones, the testosterone and estrogen and, oh then there’s the stress hormones. There’s cortisol and leptin and insulin and you’ve got to eat correctly so that these hormones are in the right amounts and the right balances and that will cause you to be healthy and, y’know, thin and fit and strong, right?

And then others they talk about, y’know, the macronutrients, the big nutrients: protein and carbohydrates and fats, right? And some say, oh well, you need a high-fat diet. High fat, high protein, low carb, that’s the secret to health. But others will say no, no, no…no, no, no, you need moderate amounts. You need about an even amount of each one. You have to be in the right zone of proteins and carbs and fats. And others will say no, no, no…fat is terrible, it’s bad for you, you need a low-fat diet. And too much protein’s not good.

Oh my god, and they all quote research studies. This study says this. This study says that. How do I know which study is correct? Do I have to read every research paper? Even if you read them, how do you know? Really, how do you know if it’s a good study? Did they design the study well? Who paid for that study? Right, was it the sugar industry? Was it some other industry? Was it a drug company? It’s so, so complicated.

I mean, do I need a Ph.D. in biochemistry just to be healthy? Well, if you read enough of these books, you will feel like it. You’re going to get very confused. You’ll feel like, good god, do I have to go back to school and get a doctorate just to understand all of this stuff? It’s so complicated. It doesn’t matter what the topic is. If it’s general health, longevity, losing weight, building muscle, getting stronger. Oh my god, it’s so, so complicated.

And people get overwhelmed. It’s like, oh it’s too much. People get very upset and stressed about it. So here’s what we’ve got to do. What’s the solution? We’ve got to push all that aside and we’re going to do what’s called chunking up, chunking up. This comes from NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, it’s a psychology system.

You see, in life, y’know, let’s say we have chunks which are big pieces, right? Or we could also think of it as levels, level up or down. So we can look at things, for example, a country, we can look at the United States of America. That’s a country. That’s one level, right? The whole country of 300 million or whatever. Or we could look at the states, right? Now we have 50 different states. That’s a level below, right? All the 50 states make the one country.

The country is the high level, or we could go higher and look at the whole world, the whole earth. And then we have the America, then we have the 50 states, then we can look at all the cities and towns and counties. And we can keep going all the way down to individual people, all 300 million people. And we have to examine and look at and study all 300 something million people, right? That’s the low level.

And if you look at things at that low level, it seems overwhelming. It’s so complex. There’s so many little pieces and parts. And so what we need to do sometimes with our minds, to understand things, to have a useful strategy, to have success, we sometimes have to jump up to a higher level so we can look at things, right, at the bigger level.

In English, we say we have to see the forest from the trees. It means if you have a forest, it’s a lot of trees, maybe millions, hundreds of thousands. If you just look at every individual tree, it’s too much, you can’t see the whole forest so you have to step back and you can see the whole thing and understand all of it. So we call that chunking up or leveling up.

We need to do this in health because looking at biochemistry or hormones, it’s too complicated. It’s at a very complex low level. We’ve got to jump up to a much simpler level so that we can very quickly, very easily, very simply know what to do to be healthy and strong and fit, live long lives, feeling good.

Well, how should we decide this? My strategy is modeling, this is also something from Neuro-Linguistic Programming. I look at people who have lived a long time and, and, and, and stayed healthy and strong. I want both of those things. So there are many people who live a long time, they are 80 or 90, but they’re walking around like this and they look terrible. They’re not strong. They don’t look healthy. They’re super weak. Their minds are not working well. We don’t want that. I don’t want that, I don’t know about you.

So I want somebody who, say lives to be in their 80s or 90s and during almost their whole life, right up until they die, they’re still physically strong. They’re active. Their minds work really well. They’re happy. They’re social. They’re still living their life really well. And my two favorite models, my two favorite role

models, my two favorite heroes for this are Jack LaLanne and Paul Bragg. I talk about them a lot because I think they’re great examples.

Paul Bragg was Jack LaLanne’s teacher. When he was young, Jack LaLanne had many, many, many health problems, terrible health problems, skin problems. He was miserable. And he thought his whole life was going to be full of misery. But then he met Paul Bragg and Paul Bragg taught him how to become healthy and Jack LaLanne became this super health guru, teacher.

Both of these guys lived to be over 90. I think Jack LaLanne died at age 97 and he was strong and healthy right up until the end. Paul Bragg, I can’t remember, I think it was something like that, 96, it was in his 90s. He lived strong and healthy right to the end. In fact, Paul Bragg died in a surfing accident. He was surfing on his last day of life in his 90s. Impressive. That’s what I want. I don’t know about you, but I want that kind of life.

So these guys, if you read their books, they both wrote books, Jack LaLanne and Paul Bragg. They don’t talk about biochemistry. They don’t talk about individual nutrients. They don’t talk about the balance between protein and carbs and fats. They don’t talk about insulin. They don’t talk about cortisol. They don’t talk about the nitrogen balance in your muscles, none of that stuff. These guys, very, very simple. They’re at a very high level. They’re looking at it at a very simple high level.

I think we should copy them because they lived it, right? It’s not just as research study. It’s not just ideas. These guys lived it. They showed us. And they were very simple. Here are their rules of thumb. A rule of thumb is like a simple general rule to follow for success. These are very simple.

Number one, the rule of thumb for both Jack LaLanne and Paul Bragg, number one: eat natural foods. Eat natural foods. So avoid processed food. Jack LaLanne said, y’know, if it comes from man, spit it out, right? So he’s talking about if it’s in a box, even if it’s in a can, that’s not so healthy. It’s been processed. And the more it’s processed, the less healthy it is for you to eat.

The best food, the perfect situation would be you walk into your backyard garden and you pull up a vegetable, a carrot, you wash it off and you eat it, right? Unprocessed and completely natural, right from the earth. Or, if you’re eating meat, you walk in your backyard and there’s a chicken and you break his little neck and you’d eat him right then, right that same day. That’s the perfect level, the most natural.

Of course, most of us can’t do that, especially if we live in cities, but you can at least buy natural whole foods that are unprocessed. Unprocessed, don’t buy the stuff in a box. Don’t buy the stuff they’ve added

chemicals to, right? Instead, buy, what this means basically, buy organic and unprocessed or at least minimal processing. The least amount of processing, right? So the basic, basic organic natural meats, vegetables and fruits.

Number two, the big one, the really, really huge one, they both agree on, everybody agrees on this: lots and lots and lots of fruits and vegetables. Natural fruits and vegetables, fresh fruits and vegetables, lots and lots and lots of them. Now Jack LaLanne recommended juicing. He was a big fan of fresh juicing, vegetable and fruit juices.

I also am a big fan because for me, it’s hard for me every day to eat raw vegetables in big amounts. I don’t know why. I just…probably because when I was a small child we didn’t eat many vegetables and I like them but I just can’t eat huge amounts of them every day. But I can juice them, no problem. So I have a home juicer and I just put them in the juice, and drink down a glass.

And one glass gives me like five or six veggies or fruits. It gives me the nutrition from them. So if you get a good juicer and you juice each day, oh it’s fantastic. You can get so much nutrition from just one glass. Now, I note, again, you don’t want processed. This is a kind of processing but it’s minimal, right? You’re taking a fresh fruit or vegetable. You’re doing it in your own house and you’re immediately drinking it.

Don’t buy stuff from bottles and cans in a store. That juice is just sugar. They process it meaning they actually cook the juice and they kill a lot of the nutrition. Plus, it’s sitting there in the store in the bottle or the can for a long time. And they also add chemicals to it and stuff. You don’t want that so you just want to make it fresh yourself at home every day. And another great thing, you can just make huge big salads every day if you like that.

So fresh veggies and fruits, that’s number two. Number one, natural food in general, natural, natural food, unprocessed or minimally processed. Number two, fresh veggies and fruits and eat them raw, juice them, salads, whatever, lots and lots of it.

And number three, very general high-level physical activity every day. Physical activity every day. So again, this is simple, right? I’m not going to make it complicated. Y’know, you must do this amount of cardio and this kind of weightlifting and…no, no, no, no, no. Physical activity every day. It can be different every day.

In general, you want to get out there and move around for, y’know, at least an hour every day. That can be a walk every day. You can jog if you like that. You can ride a bike. You can swim. It doesn’t matter.

And also, it’s good to lift heavy stuff sometimes, once or twice a week. Lift heavy stuff. That might be your own body, pushups, pullups. It might be a kettle bell. It might be a weight set. It might be boxes in your house, whatever, right? But move your body.

And it’s good to vary the movement, right? I’m a runner so I like running sometimes and I love walking. But that’s the same movement, right? So you don’t want to do exactly the same movement, that’s your only exercise. You need to vary it, different movements every day. Get your arms over your head sometimes. Lift some heavy things sometimes. Stretch a little bit sometimes. Run around, play with your kids sometimes. Climb something. Swim around in the water, right?

Enjoy it. Have fun. But physical activity every single day. We’re born to move. When you move you feel better. You mentally feel better. You emotionally feel better. And you physically feel better. That’s it. That’s the simple, simple, simple way. The simple rules of thumb for good health. I’m going to review them one last time. This is the highest, most simple level. You don’t need biochemistry. Here we go.

Number one, eat natural foods. That means avoid processed foods, processed foods like anything with sugar added. Processed sugar kills. It’s poison. Don’t eat it. Number two, boxed foods, anything in a box where they’ve added a bunch of chemicals and salt and sugar and stuff. Boxed food sucks. It’s poison. Processed meats, again they add chemicals and stuff like, y’know, hot dogs and those lunch meats, poison. Anything where they’re adding chemicals, poison. So natural foods, fresh foods.

Number two, lots and lots and lots of vegetables and fruits. Juicing is a good way to get that. And number three, move your body a lot every day. That is the simplest health advice I can give you. I can’t even write a book about it because it is so simple. Alright? So don’t worry about all the crazy diets and biochemistry and hormones and blah, blah, blah. Follow those three rules. You’re going to be healthy. You’re going to feel great and you’ll probably live a long time, too.

Alright, see you next time. Bye for now.