[00:00:00] Carl Lanore: [00:00:00] Hey, welcome back to another episode of super Yuma radio. Today is February 8th, 2021. We are deep into 2021. Now hopefully many of you, you have maintained your commitments to your health and fitness. Nobody's given up yet. We have a good show today. We're going to have Dr. Anthony Bell doozy. Come on and talk about his fit.

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[00:02:24] It's a big commitment. Okay. So without further delay, we're going to bring Dr. Anthony Balducci on. How are you doing Dr. Bell doozy?

[00:02:34] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:02:34] Amazing happy to be here, or you got me excited about tasty pastries. Now who's looking

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[00:03:11] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:03:11] Nice. Yeah.

[00:03:13] Carl Lanore: [00:03:13] Tasty pastries, tasty pastry. So let's talk about you. Uh, first of all, you need to tell your story, your journey, um, before you became a physician, uh, and, and where you are now with your mission.

[00:03:26] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:03:26] Yeah. Well, my journey into health and fitness. Came from watching my own. Dad get very sick.

[00:03:35] Basically, my dad was like a lot of dads. He worked himself to the bone to put food on the table for me, my mom, my little brother and working huge nights, missing out on healthy eating, skipping exercise, and eventually got so sick that he passed away at 42, he had a cancer diagnosis and he died at 42. So I was nine at the time.

[00:03:56] My little brother was six. And it [00:04:00] devastated our family. I mean, to see all the suffering the dad went through and then in my mind was like, how are we going to pull this together for, for our family? So I started at a young age looking into nutrition and exercise because I wanted to make sure that I was going to be around to take care of my mom, my little brother.

[00:04:16] Um, and I wanted to be around for my kids and to see my grandkids grow up. Um, and so I, I got a deep passion for health and fitness from this young age. And I started studying everything I could about nutrition, exercise, sleep, the immune system, how to build muscle. And that started at a young age and kind of just propelled me forward into, um, fitness, competitive bodybuilding, eventually medical school.

[00:04:37] And now what we do with the fit father project is we basically help busy guys like my dad. And their forties, fifties, and sixties who want to, um, both do all the things they want to do with their busy career. Um, but also be able to have a sustainable health routine where they can, you know, lose the fat, extend their lifespan, build muscle, maintain a healthy metabolism and just feel [00:05:00] better as they age instead of worse and sick.

[00:05:02] Because right now, if you don't do anything, society's pushing men in the direction of getting weaker. Fatter dumber. It's just, we have bad food. And, and, and, and this is why you look at, uh, you know, the obesity statistics for men over 40. It's like, uh, like 50% of people overweight, right? And a lot of those are morbidly obese and, and they estimate that for men over 40, who are overweight, like 50% of them British journal of cancer says the 50% of them may have experienced some kind of cancer in their lifetimes.

[00:05:28] Because, you know, when you screw up the metabolism, you screw up the immune system from, from this bad living, this, so many of us are trapped in. Bad things happen. So it happened to my dad and I'm on a mission to make sure it doesn't happen to other dads. Um, and so that's what we do with the fit father project.

[00:05:40] And I'm really happy to share. That our team has helped around 50,000 families in our program, um, and over a hundred countries. So it, it's amazing and we're just getting started. So what I'm happy to share here is some of the stuff that we figured out that works. We'll talk about testosterone. We'll talk about turning back the clock.

[00:05:57] We'll talk about how to make health sustainable. [00:06:00] This is my, my life passion, and I really love sharing with people because this is the stuff that can really change your life. So

[00:06:05] Carl Lanore: [00:06:05] one of the unique things that you have in your wheelhouse, that a lot of. Quote, unquote anti-aging physicians don't is, uh, your early love of physical culture.

[00:06:17] Yeah. Yes. Early on, you know, there's a lot of, um, you know, meetings, stream health gurus, but they don't really understand the value of a progressive resistance training. Right. Making the organism stronger. Right. We, we talk about hormetic effects of, Oh, you don't take your antibiotic long enough. What you basically did was made that.

[00:06:38] Microbes stronger now got pathogen has gotten stronger because you didn't kill it. And the old saying what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. So making the organism stronger. Is not just about the immune system, which we know is in the gut, but it's about the structure. We know that muscle is now part of the endocrine system, right?

[00:06:57] So that's one of the things I see that's different about [00:07:00] you because you are a fan of progressive resistance training. You're saying, Hey, this is, this is part of the prescription. Talk about what you learned as a bodybuilder that actually works its way into modern medicine today for you.

[00:07:12] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:07:12] Sure. Well, I think first off, I'm going to make a bold statement here.

[00:07:16] I think it's more important for people over 40 to strength train than it is for people in their twenties and thirties, hands down. So, so important. Um, because what's essentially happening is we'll take this from a couple of different angles. As we age. If we do nothing, we lose our muscle mass. We lose it.

[00:07:37] It's just age-related muscle mass sarcopenia, the body use it, use it or lose it kind of thing. So when we start losing our muscle mass, a couple bad things happen, first off, we start losing our metabolic engine. Muscle helps us keep our metabolism high. The more muscle you have as you get into later in life, the better your metabolism is going to be.

[00:07:52] And that is huge for you because if you have a metabolism that's faster than most average guys in their forties and fifties, you're not [00:08:00] going to gain as much fat. Maybe you'll be even losing fat while still enjoying a larger number of calories. And this is super important because if you start gaining weight and losing muscle, this is like the triad where your hormones start getting screwed up like crazy.

[00:08:13] Right. When you have more adiposity, which effectively is going to start converting some of your testosterone to estrogen and you have a lower metabolic rate that is a recipe for disaster. Now, what also happens to happens with our immune system, but it also happens with the energy producers in our muscles, um, is our mitochondria.

[00:08:30] Start to get weaker and less functional as we age, especially if we're having a bad standard American diet, blood sugars, all over the place. We get this stuff called mitochondrial dysfunction. So inside ourselves, we have these energy producing mitochondria. Uh, we need to keep them working as good as possible.

[00:08:44] We want to keep them young. We want to keep them healthy. And guess what actually causes mitochondrial biogenesis strength training exercise does. So when you exercise, you actually get the mitochondria to regenerate, which means you have more cellular energy. So eat all the calories you want. [00:09:00] Ultimately this stuff needs to get into your cells and it needs to produce ATP for your body, the energy currency that you do use.

[00:09:05] So if we can essentially get your machinery working younger, turn back the clock there you're in so much better shape. Um, I actually looked this up cause I shot a video for our YouTube channel a couple of days ago. And this was amazing to me. What they found was that people who strength train their entire lives when they're in their nineties have more muscle mass than those who are in their fifties, who don't live.

[00:09:26] You could have more muscle at 90 than at 50 if you're not active. So I think there's two things you can take from that one. You get a compounding effect of strength. So it doesn't matter if you haven't strength trained in 20 years and you're, you're 50 right now. Like get going now start investing in that bank account.

[00:09:43] Cause it's gonna pay off for years, um, in to the stuff is so much more than just your muscles and your metabolism. Like this is, this is the functioning of your body at a cellular capacity. So this is really cool. Well, there's, we're now really on the frontier of this, this boom in longevity and anti-aging medicine.

[00:10:00] [00:09:59] And in, in some way, things we're realizing is there's the genes. These are two in genes, that code for these two, two and enzymes. I'm sure you guys have talked about on the show, right? So two are very positively associated with longevity. We're still trying to figure out exactly what they do, but they extend telomeres and do some other really cool stuff like that.

[00:10:15] Um, guess what raises her twins? Strength training raises or tunes like crazy. So ultimately what we want to do is find a way to make your strength, training time efficient, because you're a busy guy, you got to get it in. Right. You know, it's important, but we got to make sure you can get it into the routine.

[00:10:31] You gotta make sure you modify some exercises. So these good compound exercises, but make them safe for your joints when you're in your forties, fifties, sixties, I mean, You know, it's just, it needs to feel good for you to be doing it over the long haul. Um, and that's what we do with the fit father project.

[00:10:44] Right. We help you strength, train, probably even if you're doing lifting like two, even three times, two to three times a week of like some proper strength training is enough stimulus to get your body. Like we're talking like an hour and a half strength training can, can change your life as you age. So it's [00:11:00] amazing

[00:11:00] Carl Lanore: [00:11:00] stuff.

[00:11:01] Well, interestingly enough, you know, the whole senescent cell has become. Uh, front and center in the discussion of, of, of aging. Um, this metabolic debris that builds up these senescent cells, they become zombies. Uh, they produce a lot of inflammatory cytokines. They poison all the healthy cells around them.

[00:11:18] Eventually those cells go bed too. And a single bout of resistance training can eliminate 70% of senescent cells in muscle tissue. Now, when you think about this and it's impact muscle tissue, if you. Our big guy or big gal, chances are you have, uh, maybe at least 40 to 50% of your tissue is muscle tissue.

[00:11:43] And the idea that you can immediately vanquish 70% of senescent cells just by one single resistance training about, and they, and here's the interesting thing about the study. They fed these men high, medium, and low [00:12:00] protein diets to see if. Leucine turning on M tour reverse the effects of vanquishing, these senescent cells.

[00:12:09] And it didn't because meeting well, everybody, everybody P people have M to a wrong right now. Right? Right now it's like, Oh, shut off. MTR. I'll live forever. No, M two is responsible for making memories because it has to fold proteins. Proteins are basically you're the storage form of a memory. Um, MTOR is required to maintain muscle mass M Tor plays a large role in so many different functions in the body.

[00:12:35] Now, the idea of. Shutting off  in hopes that it'll help you live longer is actually asinine. It's stupid. Those people out there who are avoiding anything, that'll turn on em, tour in hopes that they can live forever are going to be sadly, sadly mistaken when they get older and they can't get out of a chair and they can't remember anything bad move.

[00:12:56] So. But the interesting thing about this research was [00:13:00] that even though MTR was stimulated by the high protein consumption, we're talking about one gram of protein per pound of body weight, which the average bodybuilder and athlete is eating it. Yes. The senescence cells was still removed. From the, from the, and you know, that's probably part of the process of actually stretching the muscle.

[00:13:18] Uh, we know that stretching the muscle increases androgen receptor biogenesis into, so there's so much value on misunderstood and really completely ignored by the medical orthodoxy to resistance training. It's actually met it's medicine. It's a form of medicine.

[00:13:37] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:13:37] It is you get the immediate hormonal effects, which are obviously beneficial, right?

[00:13:40] Strength, training raises testosterone growth, hormone after training, which is amazing. And I want to talk about that. Uh, you know, the. The just cause it's a fascinating topic, which you just brought up. Um, and I, I want to share my perspective on like the M tour, uh, perhaps the bigger picture here, so right.

[00:13:57] Um, I'm sure everyone listening is familiar, right? mTOR, [00:14:00] anabolic signaling downstream from, from insulin turns on from term-based it turns on muscle protein synthesis inside the cells, like very, very important for an anabolism. Now what's fascinating. And what I know about your personal routine Carl, is that I believe for longevity.

[00:14:15] What we need is we need to maintain, um, this, this kind of balance in our systems between anabolism and catabolism. We need both and they need to work together. And it's unfortunate because it's almost like we have, um, fitness people right now. And physical culturists. We're trying to maximize anabolism as much as possible taking all sorts of shit, right.

[00:14:35] Anything we can do to rev up that engine. And it obviously causes tissue growth, but there may be problems associated with unchecked. Anabolism like different things grow, you know, certainly cancers are very, very anabolic right now. At the other side, we have catabolism. So it's like, let's go on a super low protein diet.

[00:14:51] Let's shut down mTOR. Uh, let's just make sure that, so there's this catabolic effect that's here. Well, we need. Both this body as a union yang perspective. And so what [00:15:00] I love that you do is you incorporate intermittent fasting. Right, which is a very controlled and almost targeted form of catabolism because we want our bodies to break down, uh, D nature, protein cellular junk.

[00:15:12] We want that autophagy's auto license to happen. And our bodies are built to fast. A lot of great things happen when we fast and we want, if we want to be catabolic with our fat tissue, right. Anabolic with our muscle tissue. So we need this stuff to kind of like happen in a balance. So yeah. Well, we do with our fit fathers is we give them like these anabolic pulses, right?

[00:15:30] Where they're getting these, uh, these strength training workouts that are pulsing the anabolism. We, we, we do advocate a higher protein diet for sure. Um, you know, we, we we're, we're big fans of that, but we also do intermittent fasting and cyclical. Calories essentially, because he gets to turn on some of those beneficial catabolic signals.

[00:15:48] Um, and when the body's in a, in a catabolic state during a fast, there's actually good stuff that happens to neuronal biogenesis, like you get new neurons, um, there's grow raises to growth hormone when insulin super low. So [00:16:00] a lot of beautiful things we need to manage the yin and the yang, not just leave it unchecked.

[00:16:04] And then you look at it like a lot of bodybuilders from the golden era who, you know, they didn't even have the same kind of drugs that are available today, but a lot of those guys are dying early. And I think because if you just do unchecked anabolism for a long, long time, probably not great for your heart probably does increase some cancer risks.

[00:16:19] But if you're balancing this out with the body's natural catabolic machinery, that creates a yin yang, you're in good shape. And that's my, that's my, that's my stance on it.

[00:16:26] Carl Lanore: [00:16:26] That was a study that we talked about on this show and neither around 2019. So people think that autophagy only occurs during time restricted feeding.

[00:16:38] And it doesn't, there is a baseline of autophagy happening all the time. It has to be right us to function. Well, this study showed that the protein synthetic response of both training and protein consumption was enhanced when Bazell autophagy was elevated. So this idea that, Oh, you know, [00:17:00] um, you're not going to build muscle if you're turning on autophagy all the time.

[00:17:04] Cause you're starving yourself. No, you could have better response. Yes, it actually, because you know why. Because the body operates, I like to call this phenomenon, the phenomenon of, of, of abundance and, and, and scarcity. Like we know, we know like, like this was discovered early on. So children who suffer from idiopathic short stature, let's just say they give them five.

[00:17:31] I use of growth hormone every day for a week. That is 35 hour user growth homeowner seven day a week. If they give that same 35, I use of growth hormone, haphazardly seven. I use one day four. I use two days later. Those children have a greater growth trajectory than getting the same amount day in and day out.

[00:17:52] Look at omega-3 fatty acids. Okay. We evolved to eat fish. We probably ate it when it was available, but we didn't have [00:18:00] it all the time. When you take omega-3 fatty acids, w w with this idea of scarcity and abundance, maybe you take a bolus dose on a Monday. You don't have any for three days, they have another, you actually get more of it's stored in fat cells.

[00:18:15] If you take a daily the same amount, the body starts to oxidize it and use it as energy because it, they showed this, this is, this is an abundance. We'll just burn it up. There's it's so important to oscillate these phenomenons in the body. You actually have better results.

[00:18:32] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:18:32] Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. It's absolutely amazing.

[00:18:34] So fascinating. Um, and I love it and it kind of comes down to, I like to keep things, you know, as we're on the frontiers of science, um, and really started to uncover some of the mechanisms behind these things and fine tuning. I'm a guy who just likes to use a little bit of logic and look at like, from an evolutionary perspective, like why is our machinery the way it is.

[00:18:52] Because we didn't have constant food access it's because we caught fish once in a while we got a big bowl of soup omega-threes it's because we were meant to fast and [00:19:00] we were meant to feed it's because we had intermittent bouts of high intensity exercise and low levels of just general robotic and walking.

[00:19:06] Like, this is what the species like grew up on. So a big part of what my perspective is like, How do we help realign ourselves with some of this foundational stuff, optimized with science, where we know it can be and get back to a more natural way of living. And this is where it's almost like a nice segue into testosterone because it's like one of the biggest things when looking at increasing testosterone levels is not just the stuff we want to talk about.

[00:19:30] Like nutrition and strength, training supplementation. It's like your circadian rhythm too. Like, you've got to get your circadian rhythm, right? If you want high test levels. Cause what we do know is that there is a Seesaw relationship between cortisol and testosterone. Cortisol is high test levels are low.

[00:19:45] Like it's just how it is. They actually studies. They show that they will inject you with exogenous cortisol. Right? They can, they can do it. I am, or I V. And it will immediately lower your circling testosterone, like within minutes of being injected. Why? Because when the body's in a stress state, [00:20:00] cortisol is high fight or flight response, like you're not looking to use testosterone.

[00:20:04] You want to like mobilize sugar. You want to run, you need to get out of Dodge. You need to figure something else out. Right? It's not like testosterone is when you're in a relaxed, high fed. Good training, good

[00:20:15] Carl Lanore: [00:20:15] mood. The environment, the environment is, is not hostile. Think about it. When women starved like female bodybuilders, they lose their period.

[00:20:24] Why? Because their body is going, wow. We must live in a really hostile environment. The last thing we want to do is have a baby because she can't even feed herself. How is she going to feed the baby? They shut off the machinery. They shut off the sex machinery.

[00:20:37] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:20:37] Yes. And when we have the, exactly such a good, such a, such a great point, because the men's, we do the same thing, we just don't have the huge signal of the, of the period in our hormones don't fluctuate quite as much, but at the same thing.

[00:20:48] So when it comes optimizing testosterone, man, we gotta get the circadian rhythm. Right. Which requires in my opinion, Is getting out in the sun in the morning, getting sunshine in your eyes. Cause [00:21:00] we think of our circadian rhythm. We, we think of this as just sleep, but no, it's this whole light, dark cycle we need to manage.

[00:21:05] And, and what the body does best on is getting out in the sunshine in the morning, we get sun in the eyes, triggers an area of the brain called the Supercars medic nucleus, and actually triggers the brain to create serotonin. And serotonin, is this feel good? Neurotransmitter has so many benefits. The brain makes serotonin in response to sunlight that later in the day is converted to melatonin at night, which is anti-inflammatory from the brain helps us relax.

[00:21:27] Uh, it's amazing. Right? So we want this cycle, so guys need to get sunshine. And ideally, if we're in a perfect world, you want to talk about boosting your testosterone. You you're a naked in the sun. You get sun on your testicles. There is profoundly cool stuff showing that either red light or full spectrum sunlight directly on the testicles, right?

[00:21:44] Gives that vitamin D and actually helps, uh, increase testosterone levels. So that's probably not possible for most of us, right? We don't have the luxury of being, you know, thousands and thousands of years ago, we can go outside and just sunbae their test scores, but it does show that if our body has this response, it is like the natural way we're [00:22:00] supposed to be bathing in this light.

[00:22:01] And it's something that we can take advantage of, get more sunshine for the vitamin D and for the rhythm. And that will help control your cortisol actually. So cortisol naturally spikes in the morning we want of cortisol. We just don't want it to be unchecked. All the time where it's like chronic stress and the sunshine actually helps smooth out that cortisol response in the morning.

[00:22:19] So for guys who want to raise their tea, you got to look at stress and to look at stress, you gotta look at your circadian rhythm.

[00:22:24] Carl Lanore: [00:22:24] So, so setting up the body for a good night's sleep. It's interesting that you talk about this. I'm a big fan of getting outside first thing in the morning. And I do, I walk out on the deck and maybe the sun's not out, but it's still daylight that I'm getting.

[00:22:37] Yes. So there's a mildly popular peptide. Called DSIP deep sleep peptide. Okay. And people take it, they take it an hour before bed. They take it a half hour before bed. It wrecks their sleep. And then they'll post a question on a forum somewhere and I'll chime in. I'll say you got to take it in the [00:23:00] morning.

[00:23:00] And sure enough, they'll take it first thing in the morning and they'll say to me, wow, I slept so good because DSIP is produced when daylight hits your eyes in the middle. It's not the name implies eyes that you take it at night at bed, right? Deep sleep inducing, peptide. It is a deep sleep inducing peptide, but it's not produced before you go to bed.

[00:23:23] It's produced first thing in the morning when you're exposed to sunlight. And then as soon as they take it in the morning, which is completely counter-intuitive. Yeah, they'll say, Oh my God, I slept so good last night. And that's because again, from an evolutionary perspective, DSIP is produced in the brain when you're exposed to daylight.

[00:23:41] First thing in the morning, it sets up the start of the day that starts, that starts the synchronicity of the circadian rhythm and other organ clocks.

[00:23:52] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:23:52] Yes. Oh man. So good, good health and good sleep starts in the morning. Get more sunshine. I think that's like the first thing to say. And also, I mean, the [00:24:00] research is pretty clear too.

[00:24:00] Like most guys could benefit fit from optimizing their vitamin D three level. And when you do optimize the D three level testosterone levels do go up naturally, um, and stress burns through D three and the best form of T3 you can get is that's sulfated vitamin D three through your skin too. So yeah.

[00:24:15] Lots of benefits when possible to get outside in the sunshine. Absolutely huge. Um, and then just also, I need to say this too is just like managing your stress too. Like if you know, there's unchecked areas of stress in your life and you're having this chronic stress kind of thing going on, you got to find the outlet you got, whether it's meditation, where there's prayer, whether it's exercise, whether it's talking to somebody like those things are important for test levels.

[00:24:36] Like guys who have low test are often, like, it's like a vicious cycle, you feel depressed, you feel anxious, you feel like shit. But also those kinds of thinking patterns reinforced that kind of hormonal profile and test levels can rise very quickly and rapidly in response to external stimuli, right? You send a guy around and attract a female for a small conversation.

[00:24:54] Test levels can rise like 20, 30%. You put a guy like the Amy Cuddy that famous Ted talk power [00:25:00] posting. Like you put people in dominant poses, or even pretending to be in dominant positions, test levels rise. So imagine if we're kind of doing this whole psychological negative caging thing to ourselves.

[00:25:09] It's impacting our test production all the time. So they, it is a variable. And even though we don't talk about is traditional health and fitness, the mind body access is so important. So we love to address that in our program.

[00:25:19] Carl Lanore: [00:25:19] Well, we're gonna, we're going to take a quick commercial break before we do that.

[00:25:22] I just want to, uh, give folks some information. So if you want to learn more about the fit father project, uh, you can either go to SHR network.biz/fit father, or what is your actual website? It's fit father project.com.

[00:25:35] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:25:35] Should follow the

[00:25:35] Carl Lanore: [00:25:35] project.com. Yeah. So you'd go there. And in fact, if I'm correct, you have a free meal plan there

[00:25:40] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:25:40] don't you.

[00:25:41] Yup. Free meal plan. Free workout. Yeah. So love like those are absolutely free. You go to fit father, project.com, click some buttons, enter email. We'll send you the meal plan and the workout today.

[00:25:51] Carl Lanore: [00:25:51] Yeah, free is good stuff. Anything that's free. I like, I love free,

[00:25:54] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:25:54] free and good. This is free and effective, free and effective yet.

[00:25:59] Carl Lanore: [00:25:59] We're going to [00:26:00] take a quick commercial break. When we come back, we've got more to discuss with Dr. Anthony Bell doozy. Don't forget. Listen for the secret word during the commercial break and then email it to on air at super human radio. Dot net. We'll be right back with more superhuman and radio. Open my microphone.

[00:26:17] Welcome back. We're talking with Dr. Anthony . He is the person who started that fit father project, and now they have the fit mother project. So they're actually helping families. And you know, you have to do this as a family. Uh, I believe that my journey to save my own life. Was the demise of my relationship because my ex wife had no interest in any of the things that I became interested in and the right way to do this is for you and your wife or your partner.

[00:26:49] Uh, to do this together and reinforce because you're going to start eating differently. And then when they, you sit down at dinner time, then you get this look like, Oh, aren't you going to eat with [00:27:00] us while I am eating? I'm just eating my chicken and broccoli, but I'm eating with you. Well, no, that's not good enough.

[00:27:04] So you really need to do this together. The other thing that that is worth mentioning is I had this conversation with more than a dozen men over the years who wanted to get in shape. Who wants to get healthy, but there are always obstacles. And so I'm a kind of in your face, Brooklyn guy, you know? And so I would say to them, if you can do this for yourself, do it for your kids and your wife.

[00:27:32] Do you really want them to have to take care of you because you gave yourself an illness. And so now you can't work anymore and they have to wait on you and eventually start wiping your ass because you can't even go to the bathroom like that is that's what's in your future. That's what's in your future.

[00:27:49] If you can't do it for yourself, do it for your children. You're a model for them. Do you want them to lead this life? Do you want them to become sick and frail and unable to be productive in their [00:28:00] lives anymore? Do it for them. And you know, guys will respond to that because we, we know we are here to serve our families.

[00:28:09] Yeah. And you can turn

[00:28:10] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:28:10] the tables. Well, you know, this is something we've found from our tens of thousands of programmers. We found the exact same thing. Like it's not that when it comes to health and fitness, there's any lack of information out there. I mean, you go on YouTube, right? You could find. Every workout, conceivable for free all the nutrition advice, you can find it online.

[00:28:31] You can listen to this podcast, you can look at other stuff. That's not the reason why we fail at our health and fitness. We fail because of our behaviors. We fail because of our habits, because we allow the obstacles of life to get in the way. So this is why a key part of our approach at the fit father project is before we have the guys actually start their meal plan or their workout, we have them do some deep reflection and deep journaling, and they write themselves a mission statement.

[00:28:55] And the way they come to that mission statement is by actually doing exactly what you talked about, [00:29:00] which we call it like future casting, where you basically get very real. And you're like, if I continue doing the exact behaviors that I've been doing, if I'm eating like crap, if I'm not exercising, if I'm not taking care of my stress and my sleep, where am I going to be in five, 10, 15 years.

[00:29:16] Where does that road go? And what, what does that, what are the costs of that road in every area of my life? I care about what is the cost financially? What is the cost to my family? What's the cost of my spirituality to my relationships, to my parenting. So what we need to do is make these neuro associations and connections between our behaviors, with our health.

[00:29:35] All of the things we care about because the mistake that guys make when they say I'm too busy for health is they think that their health is over here and the rest of their life is over here. That these are separate things, but they're not this body, the clarity of my thinking, our energy levels, how I look and feel I'm doing, I'm taking that with me everywhere I go.

[00:29:55] You're taking that with you everywhere you go. So if you can get this right, everything else in [00:30:00] your life elevates. And at the same time, if this foundation crumbles. Everything else in your life crumbles. I saw what happened to my dad. I mean, he lost the ability to see me and my little brother grew up.

[00:30:08] You know, he lost his ability to make memories of my mom, um, all because he lost his health. So the important charge here is that we need to address and really make a deep, emotional connection. You know, some people call your why. My, why is. Largely rooted in what I saw happened to my dad years, which you shared largely happened through your divorce, where you got really serious about doubling down on this stuff and like directing your life in this direction.

[00:30:30] So every guy listening to this, you have your own unique, why and your story, the question is what is it and how deeply have you connected to that? Because when you do connect, you get this willpower reservoir and you have so much greater meaning to everything that you do where it's not just like skipping a workout because I'm busy, right?

[00:30:47] This is more like your integrity on the line. This is like, everything is moving in this right direction. And now what that gives you is power, power to stick to it, power, to be consistent. If you can be consistent over a year, over two years, over three years, [00:31:00] then you make amazing changes. And the cool thing when it comes to weight loss too, is you can lose a lot of weight and really recomposition your body in a very short period of time.

[00:31:08] I mean, if you get serious about this in three to six months, You can make massive progress with weight loss, fat loss, muscle building. So that's the cool thing. And we're huge proponents of, of getting very clear on your why. Getting that motivation mission statement. We do that before we even get you on the workouts.

[00:31:25] So the meal plan at the fit father project.

[00:31:27] Carl Lanore: [00:31:27] So, um, let's talk about the website again for a second. Okay. So I'm going to put this up real quick. You can, you can, there's two ways to get there. You can go to fit father, project.com or if you could help us out SHR network.biz/fit father, and you can get. A free meal plan, free workout plan right there.

[00:31:44] So there's a lot of really free stuff there. At what point in time do people start to go, okay, I need to, I need to join the membership. And what does it cost to join?

[00:31:54] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:31:54] So our program fit father program gives you meal plan, workouts, mission statement, [00:32:00] accountability, coaching. We basically hand you everything you need to succeed.

[00:32:02] And you're in groups with tens of thousands of other guys in our coaches, trainers myself personally like walking you to success for $97. Just a hundred bucks, literally a month. That's it. One pay 97 way. Yes way. And the reason we're doing this is because I didn't, there are a lot of people that sell multi thousand dollar health programs.

[00:32:23] They're only a fraction as good as ours, but for us, it's like this, that company started this company, like remembering my dad and what he went through. And I want to give guys no freaking excuse because here's the deal. What we, what I do know is one, we want to make this as affordable, impossible for every guy.

[00:32:37] But number two, we also value things we pay for. Our free. Stuff's great. And we get emails from people that say, Hey, Dr. Ray, I used your free stuff all last year and I lost 50 pounds. You're the man. Thank you very much. But by and large, though, when we get free stuff, it's amazing. But what we really get us to commit is when we put money on the line, we're like, yup, I'm in, like, I'm going to do this.

[00:32:57] This is, this is, it's like an energetic [00:33:00] commitment. So $97 for the program. You get everything we walk you through. Now we have advanced programs down the line and stuff like that that are additional, but straight up 97 bucks, if you want to start transforming with fit father, project, that's all it is.

[00:33:14] Carl Lanore: [00:33:14] So, um, do you have.

[00:33:16] Clients who go on to compete. And, you know, there's a lot of a more aesthetic categories of, of, uh, bodybuilding today, right? They, they have, uh, uh, they have physique now where it's just, you know, if you're got a beach body, you know, do you have guys who they lose the weight? They realize, Oh my God, I look so good.

[00:33:35] I think I'm going to go get on stage.

[00:33:37] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:33:37] Yeah, we have a couple of guys that do, especially when they go through their weight loss journey, they get lean, they get sub 10% body fat, and then they start doing some, some more focus, muscle building strength training. We have a couple of guys that do that. A lot of guys, you know, more often than that, we actually have a lot of guys that actually just start running races, like fun races, because they're like, man, I was 350 pounds.

[00:33:56] My knees have hurt for two decades and now I can actually run. [00:34:00] So like they're into that and they just get going and moving their bodies. But yeah, and we actually put together teams of our guys. I think we actually put a team together for like a Ragnar race across the state Arizona. I think we ran like 200 miles.

[00:34:10] There was a bunch of us and I'm not exactly like a runner. I like, I prefer more strength training, but we've got a group of guys, I think in total, they'd lost around 900 pounds, this group of guys, and we ran 200 miles across the Arizona desert, which is amazing.

[00:34:20] Carl Lanore: [00:34:20] So how does that work? How does that work?

[00:34:22] Do you. Run sleep, run, sleep, or is it like

[00:34:26] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:34:26] rotating a runner? Someone's always running. You're in a, you got a couple of vans and you're doing like way points as you're going through. It's called a Ragnar race. They do them all over the world. They're they're really fun. I mean, yeah, it's, it's a, it's a super fun thing that is

[00:34:38] Carl Lanore: [00:34:38] exciting.

[00:34:38] That really, really sounds like that's

[00:34:40] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:34:40] just adventurous and that's, and here's the deal. But the thing is like whether or not Iran, whether or not you put on the board shorts and hop on a bodybuilding stage when you get your health right. You get a new lease on life? Yes. I mean, I think like, like literally 60, if you do things right, 60 is the new 40, right.

[00:34:56] You know, like if you do it right, and I know you preach this and you live this stuff totally. So [00:35:00] like you can regenerate your body. Our body has the capacity to do this. Now we have some of the medical technologies to do this. And the cool thing is it's the foundational stuff is like, This, this proper calorie balanced, like non-processed diet with strength training, with good circadian rhythms, and then being consistent with that and icing on the cake is all the other stuff I know you talk about here on the show, and it's about getting your routine in your system.

[00:35:26] One thing I think is really important and to kind of get into like the behaviors aspect of this is like every man. Needs to find his own unique health plan. Like the diet plan that works for you or the meal timing setup that works for you might be different than the word works for me, not just because we may like different foods, but because we have different schedules.

[00:35:45] So one thing we're huge proponents over the fit father project is we give guys when they get the fit father meal plan, one of the first things we do is we talk about meal timing, and we give you five different meal timing, setups that all work. And we help you find which one's going to fit you. Is it intermittent fasting [00:36:00] plan?

[00:36:00] Are you a guy that absolutely loves breakfast and you prefer to do that? Are you working a night shift or a third shift? Um, and are you doing a hybrid of some of these plans, but you got to get that structure in first because. The structure of your nutrition is kind of where you hang your entire routine.

[00:36:14] Oh, I know you have your structure, right? You, you fast throughout the morning, you do your exercise and then you have a meal afterwards to really maximize the anabolic proteins. Since the fact that works great for you. It works great for a lot of guys, but the key thing is you gotta find the one that works for you.

[00:36:28] Um, and it helps to kind of have that laid out because when you have it laid out, your nutrition is no longer reactive. It is proactive. And when you and Trisha becomes proactive, you can be consistent and stuff becomes a lot less complicated.

[00:36:39] Carl Lanore: [00:36:39] What is your opinion on HRT? Let's say you got a guy and you know, he's sleeping well, and he's doing all the things and he's a little bit above the age where maybe his gonads aren't going to respond properly anymore.

[00:36:51] Um, are you a proponent? Like, okay. Get up, get on some hormone replacement therapy.

[00:36:56] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:36:56] Yeah. I mean, this is an individual decision for every single person. And I [00:37:00] think what, what I, what would I say about HRT is I hate, I hate hearing the stories of guys who, who, when they start HRT, don't take it seriously enough and they hop on and hop off and they like, they miss they miss shots and their levels all over the place.

[00:37:13] My philosophy and order of operations is this. One, we get blood work too, demise, everything. We can naturally three. We're always looking at your symptoms. How are you actually feeling? Because a lot of times you can treat, you can treat lab work and treat numbers versus treating what someone's actually experiencing.

[00:37:31] And those are different things. And then number four, if a guy is like, you know, I really want to optimize my test levels. I know I'm 55 now. And, and I know they're not getting necessarily any better. I want to hop on HRT, then I'm saying, go for it. But you gotta be consistent. Meaning you gotta find the type of HRT that you're going to be able to do.

[00:37:48] Long-term. Um, which means the kind of stuff that you and I actually have talked about off calls. Like if it's a cream, are there considerations with kids in the household? Because that could be a problem, right? You don't want to get cream on your, on your 12 year old [00:38:00] daughter if you're shot. So you sure you can actually be consistent with these, if you do a pellet or something like that, it there's so many different avenues, but when you do it, you commit.

[00:38:09] And you get on it. No more of like this hop on, hop off. Cause that's very tough on the body. Right. And there's a lot of guys that, that don't take it seriously, that, that miss shots hop off their levels go crazy. But overall, yeah, I'm a proponent. If a guy wants to do it, if you've done what you can to maximize naturally good.

[00:38:24] What I would say though, There are probably a big contingency of guys that, that don't get the foundations, right. Don't address. There are not optimized on their training. Nutrition is not great. Stress is not controlled. And then they just, uh, they, they take TRT, but then like, Yeah, you will get benefit from that still, like, which is fantastic, but it's not nearly as good as it could have.

[00:38:44] And I like to build a house on a strong foundation. So that's why we really talk about that stuff. First.

[00:38:49] Carl Lanore: [00:38:49] Are there certain disease States that you see respond faster than others? When a guy starts getting his sleep, right? His hormones start to come up. Uh, he loses, he's losing body fat. [00:39:00] He's increasing lean mass.

[00:39:01] Are there certain cause we have a lot of diseases today. That are very popular, neuropathies, have nothing to do with diabetes. We now know you see any of those things going away.

[00:39:11] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:39:11] Well, yeah, I mean, I mean the main stuff, I think most guys were 40 struggle with some, some bit of metabolic syndrome, you know, some bit of dysregulated, blood sugar, some bit of insulin resistance.

[00:39:20] Like those are the things that actually changed the fast. And that's also probably the best for longevity, especially looking at like brain health too, is like cleaning up your blood sugar control, getting your body more insulin sensitive. Very good. What also tends to improve pretty quickly is, is actually some arthritis and joint conditions and inflammation.

[00:39:37] When you start eating right and losing weight, your body. Okay. It has a lower level of information than it did previously. And your joints can feel substantially better when your joints feel better, you're more motivated to exercise. So everything just starts like piling on there. Uh, that's very good. And I'll say another thing, like mental health too, like let's just call it like depression or stress that a lot of guys feel like they're going through that uncertainty, that stuff changes super fast.

[00:39:58] When you feel like you're on your game, you're [00:40:00] moving forward. So I would say, you know, blood sugars, insulin, you know, metabolic syndrome stop, um, Any, any kind of inflammatory conditions either of the gut, but particularly of the joints respond very well when you start getting blood to those joints exercising properly.

[00:40:12] Um, yeah. And, and certainly these are things that do do

[00:40:15] Carl Lanore: [00:40:15] improve. We're going to take our last commercial break. We have some questions that have come in, uh, from some live viewers. Uh, again, this we're talking about the fit father project with Dr. Anthony Bell doozy. You can go to SHR network.biz. Slash fit father, uh, and get on board immediately for free.

[00:40:33] And if you want to join hell $97 a year, that's shocking to me, but

[00:40:39] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:40:39] that's really one time. Yeah, I know.

[00:40:42] Carl Lanore: [00:40:42] But yeah. Well, not even a year for five years, for as long as you use. That's pretty cool. Yeah, stay tuned. We'll be right back. We have some questions. We'll get a post and a wrap it up. Sit tight. There we go.

[00:40:59] welcome back to [00:41:00] super human radio. We're talking with Dr. Anthony Bell doozy about the fit father project. They have a fit mother project too. So ladies, uh, w what's the website for that, that, uh, for the ladies.

[00:41:11] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:41:11] Fit mother project.com. There you go. Also have a meal plan, free workout. Um, yeah, I would definitely start there.

[00:41:17] Uh, we'll send those straight to your email. Okay. We also have a YouTube channels

[00:41:21] as

[00:41:21] Carl Lanore: [00:41:21] well. Yeah. Your YouTube channel is amazing. I mean, you get millions of views and every day you putting, or is it every day or every few times a day, a week, you're putting new videos

[00:41:30] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:41:30] up right. Thousand videos where you have like a shot, a shot yesterday.

[00:41:33] I'm like. Five 10 videos. So we're, we're shooting a lot of videos.

[00:41:37] Carl Lanore: [00:41:37] No, you gotta do that. You gotta do that. I, so here's the first question that comes from Robert Thompson. He says any Bev benefits to what happened? What'd he go? Oh, any benefits to bovine, colostrum, uh, and aging and M tour.

[00:41:53] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:41:53] Man. I I'll be honest with you.

[00:41:55] This, this one's a little out of my wheelhouse. I have not personally played with claustrum. I know there are some great benefits. I [00:42:00] don't know how it cellularly affects MTR. Carl, do you know? You may know more about this. Yeah,

[00:42:04] Carl Lanore: [00:42:04] yeah. It, it, it, so I did an experiment with another guy of this is about four or five years ago where I was consumed.

[00:42:10] We had a colostrum sponsor. It was not cheap. The company was called PIR COBA and, uh, I was consuming. A pound of colostrum. Every two days I was replacing some of my whey protein with it. And I saw a noticeable changes in my physique very, very quickly. Um, I don't know how much of that has to do with the fact that it has a lot more fat.

[00:42:39] Yeah. And I was actually, my calories went up, you know, through fat. Or the purported growth factors that are in colostrum. Uh, back then I was already using a couple, I use of growth hormone a day. I have a prescription I've been taking two, two. I use a growth hormone, uh, a day for at least, [00:43:00] Oh, well, I've taken some vacations from it, but for about 15 years.

[00:43:04] But I did notice some changes in my physique. And there was, there was another guy who did it and he claimed to put on 10 pounds in about three weeks. But again, wow. Claustrum is very, very, very fatty. It's usually about 50% protein, 50% fat. So it's hard to say if it was from the added calories that were not called hydrate based.

[00:43:25] So my insulin wasn't going through the roof. Uh, but it, it, it is an interesting, and in fact, Robert turned me on to something. So there's a company in most ruralized cities called tractor supply. We have one here in Kentucky and. They sell a bovine colostrum in very large quantities at very reasonable prices.

[00:43:45] And I plan on getting some and using it because I'm going to start, I feed my deer. We have a lot of deer on the property and I'm going to stop buying my corn and sweet feed from tractor supply because it's cheaper than the pet food store that I buy it from. So it gives me a reason to go there and get [00:44:00] that.

[00:44:00] Um, but yeah, colostrum is very interesting to me. Very, very interesting to me. Yeah, it definitely is. Uh, bill Bergman asks this question. I think the timing was around when we were talking about, uh, stress. So ashwagandha is one of the popular, uh, adaptogens. What do you think of it?

[00:44:19] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:44:19] Well, I, I'm a huge proponent so much so that we, we formulated a, a test booster specifically for fit father project called TBR X.

[00:44:29] And the main things we've put in that test booster was the best form of ashwagandha. KSM 66 is like the one that has the best research on it. Um, and I'll start the other things we throw on there. We throw some like basic ZMA complex, zinc, magnesium. We throw some boron in there as well. I think there's some strong research on bore on there.

[00:44:48] Uh, we throw some Sheila G in it. It's a really cool resin has some good energy and kind of some adaptogenic effects too. Um, and we may have a little long jacket in there as well, but ashwagandha is the base of our booster. And the [00:45:00] reason that, uh, we put it in there is because I think the research is very strong for two reasons.

[00:45:04] One, a lot of studies of the benefits of ashwagandha can increase free and total tests, but more importantly, It's phenomenal for decreasing cortisol levels and being a good, strong adaptogenic herbs. I think it's one of the best herbs for men. Um, we do recommend guys take it at night. Can help improve your sleep as well.

[00:45:19] Ashwagandha root, super solid get high quality ashwagandha. Now one thing of note, uh, it can actually increase your thyroid output. So if you're on thyroid medication, some guys do find that they have some interactions. It happens. I wouldn't say it's a super common thing, but, but something to look out at, but ashwagandha, great male herbs.

[00:45:37] Good adaption helps the body with memory as well. Uh, just, um, I'm a huge fan and we use that KSM 66 form in, in our tests.

[00:45:46] Carl Lanore: [00:45:46] I don't know what this says, Robert, that I see, or one C or LLC. I I you're going to, Oh, L-carnitine what about L-carnitine any interested in that? You know

[00:45:58] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:45:58] it's yeah. It's, it's, [00:46:00] here's my, here's my take on it.

[00:46:01] And I'm not gonna say I'm, uh, the, the, the expert on L-carnitine, but I'll, I'll give you some, some thoughts. I think the, the N-Acetyl L-carnitine. Good for brain health, right. Anything we can do to cross the blood-brain barrier, get in there, optimize brain function. I let's be honest as we age, you know, we want to keep the body right.

[00:46:17] But I think keeping the mind, the mind and the brain health is probably even more important for having a good quality life as we age. So there's benefits there. Um, you know, there is potentially some concerns with. Um, L-carnitine converting to TMAO and we're still trying to figure out like, what exactly, you know, how big of a thing is TMAO.

[00:46:36] Um, and I don't know, maybe, maybe if we do more injectable L-carnitine, that'll bypass like a first pass metabolism. That's a possibility there. Um, I, I don't know. I used to supplement with L-carnitine when I was doing more bodybuilding stuff. Um, just because it kind of makes sense when you look at the biochemistry, this could, this could probably help with fat loss, right?

[00:46:54] I can't say except to say that it actually did help. I think the studies that have show that there may [00:47:00] not be a huge benefit of it, but I think there's some good use cases for it. I don't take it every single day. I think L-carnitine just find through, uh, if you have animal protein sources in your diet, you're getting it there.

[00:47:10] And if anything, I'd use it for brain health. We do, we do have inositol L-carnitine in. Um, and I think one of our hearts supplements for fit father project. Um, but, uh, yeah, that was

[00:47:20] Carl Lanore: [00:47:20] Sinatra Dr. Sinatra. That was his, uh, protocol for congestive heart failure.  magnesium and cocuten

[00:47:31] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:47:31] right. Let's get the hard energy.

[00:47:33] We put Coke, we, and acetylcarnitine, uh, we use, I think we actually have some boswellia and we actually have a couple of things in there, but anyways, in magnesium and cookie 10, right. Um, Yeah. So I think L-carnitine can be good for heart health. Uh I'm I'm a little mixed. I'm not gonna recommend it. We don't recommend it as like a staple supplement, like things like curcumin, vitamin D three quality probiotic sources.

[00:47:55] Like I consider these a little more foundational than L-carnitine, but I think there are some, some [00:48:00] benefits.

[00:48:00] Carl Lanore: [00:48:00] Yeah. I L-carnitine, the magic is supposed to be. That it allows the mitochondria to more readily use fatty acids as a subdistrict and the acids. Yeah. And that's what growth hormone does by the way, you know, growth hormone makes the changes, the substrate desire of the mitochondria to more.

[00:48:20] A fatty acid. So if you're like a keto guy, those things are interesting to you, but I've never, I've never been a fan of, uh L-carnitine. I am a fan of N-acetylcysteine for liver function, liver health. Uh, it, it also, if you're someone who tends to be congested easily or health respiratory health. Yes. Yeah.

[00:48:40] So that's, that's one that I do take every day,

[00:48:43] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:48:43] but. Yeah. And I'd see, I'm, I'm a Mo I definitely am. I see something I recommend more than supplemental or L-carnitine. Yeah.

[00:48:50] Carl Lanore: [00:48:50] If you're fat adapted already, if you're a low carb guy and you're using time restricted feeding, you're fat adapted already. I mean, you might have

[00:48:58] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:48:58] contrary cranking, right?

[00:48:59] Yeah.

[00:48:59] Carl Lanore: [00:48:59] I [00:49:00] mean, I haven't eaten since six o'clock last night and I'm not brain fog. I have plenty of energy. I feel like I'm going to go to the gym later and train fasted. And if, if you're, if you're like that you don't need something to. Tweak the mitochondria to, to use. Fatty acids more because you're already doing it.

[00:49:18] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:49:18] You're already doing it. It's like when it comes to fat loss, you're pulling the levers more through the type of macronutrient you're feeding and being in a calorie deficit. And I think even when I'm a big fan of is this, uh, you know, w we, you mentioned keto, so we'll talk about it for one quick, second.

[00:49:31] I'm big. I'm a bigger fan of being metabolically flexible. And again, this kind of comes down to the fact that I take this evolutionary perspective on things and it's like, there was a Kita, wasn't like a thing back then. If they found berries, they were eating berries. If there was scarcity in certain like winter times, you're not getting as many carbohydrate foods there was that.

[00:49:48] So I think the cool thing about intermittent fasting is we can get into ketosis. We're eating a, we're keeping our insulin levels and blood sugar levels stable all the time. You're not advocating a shitty carb diet, but if you're having carbohydrates, sometimes [00:50:00] that's good. Other times you're, you're getting, you're getting in and out of ketosis.

[00:50:03] I don't know how good it is for long-term keto on the gut microbiome. I think it does shift your, your gut gut. Gut bacteria into, into not great things. It sounds like, you know,

[00:50:12] Carl Lanore: [00:50:12] where it's worse than that. So I did a show a year or two ago with Joel green. Joel is brilliant, brilliant. And, uh, there were quite a few good studies that I sent to Joel, and I said, I want to talk about the real.

[00:50:26] Potential dangers of Keat the ketogenic diet, because the ketogenic diet became like a fad thing, right? Like everybody's Oh, my, my blood ketones at 3.2. And it was like, you know, how big are your biceps and how deep into keto can you get? And there's excellent research that shows that as an example, a guy and a girl they're big into the keto diet.

[00:50:51] They're both like deep Quito. They're always in ketosis and she gets pregnant. The germlines actually change because [00:51:00] wow. From an evolutionary perspective, the, the body, the body pays attention to what is abundant and what is scarce. And when it starts to build a human, it builds a human that will be compatible with this environment that the baby is going to be born into.

[00:51:17] So what you're basically doing is you're telling your body, like all we have access to is fat. We're pretty much always kind of starving we're depending on ketones to keep us going. So you need to build a metabolically thrifty baby, because this environment, this environment kind of sucks. So end up with a baby that is imprinted to develop insulin.

[00:51:40] Yeah. Resistance.

[00:51:41] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:51:41] Yeah. Right. You're getting fat all the time. Insulin resistance. Totally. And so,

[00:51:45] Carl Lanore: [00:51:45] so, you know, I did this and I got a lot of back flack. In fact, I was on Tom bill, you show, um, uh, health, uh, um, uh, I Q health health question. I forget what the name of this one show he was doing. And, [00:52:00] uh, and we, I discussed this and Tom was really into keto at the time and he, but he, he didn't like challenge me.

[00:52:06] He was like, wow, this is interesting. And I got a lot of flack from people like, Oh yeah, I'm getting 3000 calories of fat every day. Yeah. My body thinks it's starving. Well guess what ketone bodies are produced when the potty is starving and it doesn't have available carbohydrates. I mean, so, so don't, don't make fun of me.

[00:52:25] I'm telling you. And there's science that shows that both the egg and the sperm  germline change to build a thrifty baby and thrifty baby means that baby could probably eat anything and it's going to get fat.

[00:52:39] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:52:39] Right. Exactly right. And we do know as well. It's like from early on, early on adiposity and kids, like before.

[00:52:46] 10 15 before puberty is a big determine of how many fat cells they do have, how easy they can gain weight later in life. So that's a consideration. And then I'm also thinking about like the gut microbiome, right? We know how important this is for inflammation, neurotransmitter production, your immune system.

[00:52:59] Like [00:53:00] when we think of ourselves as human, we are our microbiome too. It's a big part of this whole concert ecosystem. And those guys love fiber. Not to say you can't get fiber on a, on a keto diet. You absolutely can't if you do it right. But like fiber diversity seems like a very important thing for human health.

[00:53:14] Um, and so. It's very possible. If someone does a keto diet poorly and they're just eating, like something like bacon thinking they're doing good for themselves. Like they're, they're really, probably not doing great for their gut microbiome longterm now. Yeah, right. There you go. And I mean, putrifactive bacteria that kind of bad bacteria are going to ultimately the populations that are gonna, or the ones that are getting the substrate, you're feeding it.

[00:53:34] So if you're only having like a carnivore diet, for example, only protein, only fat, like absolutely no like an extreme of a keto diet, the kind of gut bacteria you're going to, you're going to have are the ones that love to ferment amino acids. And those guys are not nearly as good for you as ones that like to ferment fiber into short chain, fatty acids.

[00:53:49] And let's also talk about one last thing. It's, it's it's that if we look at even just evolutionary biology, huge fan of looking at this stuff, like the reason humans develop color vision is so that we could find a rightness of [00:54:00] fruits, like our color vision as a symbiotically developed. So we can look at ripe fruits and then fruits level when we eat them.

[00:54:06] Cause we poop out there. We, we eat them and we put out their seeds and then they get to go. Like, we have a completely symbiotic relationship with fruit trees. And so you can kind of imagine that humans like. It's like, we are meant to eat fruit. We

[00:54:19] Carl Lanore: [00:54:19] were selected, selected for it because the ones who could tell the difference between fruit ripeness and not they're the ones that stayed alive and had offspring.

[00:54:27] So we're literally that selection pressure at its best.

[00:54:31] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:54:31] It is. And so obviously a good food source for us. So this is why I'm a big fan of like this kind of cyclical, cyclical, intermittent, fasting, like eat good sensible foods, but let's not get crazy about this stuff. Like get your sick, get your it's your wild caught salmon or your sardines for those omega-3 pulses.

[00:54:47] Okay, cool. You have low carb days cause you're doing intermittent dinner to dinner, fast intermittent fasting. Great. You're getting some greens for some fiber diversity. Okay. You got some blueberries. Post-workout totally great. Like. Man, we don't need to, like, we it's, [00:55:00] it's, it's very easy to almost get too extreme, major in the minors and, and miss the bigger picture.

[00:55:03] Carl Lanore: [00:55:03] Sure. Yeah, I agree. I, listen, it's been great having you on we'll have you on again, you and I are literally like separated at birth because a lot of the things you said today, my audience has heard me say, and so I love what you're doing. One more time. We'll get quite the banner ad up and uh, let people go to.

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[00:55:43] Get on the fit father, project wagons. I will talk to you again soon. Okay, Anthony. Thanks talk soon. So stay tuned. When we come back, we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about stabilized our lipoic acid. I done shows about this. It's an [00:56:00] amazing any, any oxidant, but more importantly, it could actually help you lose a lot more body fat.

[00:56:06] And Chris, Zach is going to join us from pure nootropic. Stay tuned. We'll be right back. Welcome back. We're joined by Chris Zack from pure nootropics. Hey Joel. I think the last time we, we did a show together was before the holiday. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds right. Oh, happy holidays. Happy, happy new year. Yeah.

[00:56:26] Very good. Very good. How about you

[00:56:28] Chris Dziak: [00:56:28] doing well? Doing well, just going along, you know,

[00:56:31] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:56:31] new year, right? Yeah.

[00:56:32] Carl Lanore: [00:56:32] Yeah. Hopefully a lot less stress than last year. Let's see. Great. Nowhere to go, but up. Yeah, that's it. It's the truth. That's the truth. So I did a show. I've done several shows about alpha lipoic acid over the years.

[00:56:45] Um, back in the day. When the thing was to have 80 grams of dextrose, 40 grams of whey protein, and one to 200 milligrams of alpha lipoic acid as your post-workout [00:57:00] drink. And the theory was that alpha-lipoic acid would help shuttle, uh, w had kind of an insulin mimetic type effect. Now we know that that wasn't accurate, but it does have a glucose clearing effect.

[00:57:15] Uh fast-forward to. Uh, earlier this year, uh, we did a show that showed that, uh, alpha-lipoic acid, our alpha specifically could cause dramatic loss of body fat. Um, in average people without changing anything about their diet. But the dose was pretty high. And I think the dose was pretty high because this was not a stable life form of, of our ally.

[00:57:42] And you, because we asked you to, we said, you know, our audience could really use a good, uh, our alpha product at a re really reasonable price because the doses have to be fairly, you know, like 400 milligrams a day. You could take it across a couple times, but [00:58:00] four to 600 milligrams a day. Seemed to be where the magic was, but that was because it was not a stabilize our allies.

[00:58:07] So talk about what you've brought to the audience today.

[00:58:11] Chris Dziak: [00:58:11] Yeah. So, um, you know, LA has been a objective interest for probably about the past 30 years. And what happened is, is it was basically made in a lab. And what we did realize is that, although. R a L the knee is something that the body produces naturally and occurs in plants and animals.

[00:58:35] The lab made version was a received mic mix. It had S a L a as, as part of that. And so, uh, you know, part of the problem is, is that a lot of the research into ALA and, and its benefits have been done with the risk CIMIC mix. And so, uh, there's. People that theorize that [00:59:00] when you have the SSI summer, in addition to the are that they're competing with each other.

[00:59:06] And so in, in a best case scenario, the S is simply ineffective. And a worst case scenario is actually Detrick. Yes,

[00:59:16] Carl Lanore: [00:59:16] because there was a study that was published that showed that taking ALA. Actually shorten the lifespan of rodents and th and that was attributed to the S form, uh, being in the body.

[00:59:30] Chris Dziak: [00:59:30] And it was super high doses by the way.

[00:59:34] Carl Lanore: [00:59:34] Yeah. None that I would ever take. Right.

[00:59:36] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [00:59:36] Right. And now it

[00:59:37] Chris Dziak: [00:59:37] was weird because they had longevity studies in mice with. Basically showed that it enhanced life, that it reduced life and that it had no effects. It's kind of all over the map or the spectrum, if you will. But it definitely has some cool aspects that, um, you know, come from studying just L [01:00:00] itself and, and you've alluded to a couple of them.

[01:00:03] Uh, one of the big things is that it's an essential co-factor for the. Enzymatic mitochondrial reactions. And so what you were getting at, is it, um, it helps increase fat metabolism basically. And so like they did a study that showed that, um, compared to placebo, ALA reduced, um, people lost weight basically, but they didn't, it was more so in, in a BMI reduction.

[01:00:34] So it was, you know, replacing. Fat with leaner muscle. Right. In essence, that's, what's really neat about it. And, and, and so like, what you're saying is absolutely true, is it, the, our version is far superior. And so the issue is, is that you can't just get the R version. You need a stabilize shelf, stable version.

[01:00:58] And that's why it's bound to the, [01:01:00] the sodium molecule. Right. Basically. But you know, it has a whole host of benefits that are. You know, already known with ALA it's just the Aria NLAs and far superior

[01:01:13] Carl Lanore: [01:01:13] version, right? Yeah. So, so, uh, for those people who don't know this, the history behind the, our form of ALA, um, the chemical giant VASF invested millions of dollars to study the art isomer of ALA, because they wanted to introduce it as an anti-diabetic drug.

[01:01:35] So there's a, there's a lot of research on the benefits of our ALA. The problem was that because our ALA is naturally occurring in foods, they couldn't patent it. So they abandoned these millions of dollars of research and just threw it aside and said, well, you know, we can't make any money about it. Why should we.

[01:01:56] Tell people how good this stuff is. It's not going to benefit [01:02:00] us. That's that's the pharma companies for you, you know, that's the companies. And on top of that BSF through the long arm of organizations, like the FDA and the FDA's, uh, the British FDA version have suppressed on top of everything. They've suppressed the information.

[01:02:21] So if you write an article about, uh, our Allah. And say, here's what it's good for. Based on BAS F's own studies they'll they they'll crush you. I know a guy named Larry Baroody who introduced our Allah and got it into like CVS and called it like gluco solve and it was selling. And then the people in the diabetes community were like, Oh no, F no, that's not happening.

[01:02:50] And they crushed him. But now what's happening is. Now what's happening and that's turning the tide is you have independent, uh, uh, [01:03:00] universities, uh, researching our ally. That is, that is aside from anything that BSF has had like this, this recent study we talked about on the show where they just magically makes fat disappear, and most importantly, visceral fat, the fat that causes harm.

[01:03:17] The fact that is like an endocrine system causing inflammation. It targets visceral fat. And now we can talk about it because this isn't , which anymore it's fascinating to me really is. So let's talk about the supplement. Let's talk about the supplement. Let's let's talk about the supplement. So you've been kind enough.

[01:03:39] And we have a lot of really deep discounts for this audience that aren't available anywhere else at all. But you have put together a 60 caps with 250 milligrams per day. So really logistically you just have to take one of these twice a day to see some of the results, but this is the [01:04:00] stabilize. This is bound to sodium.

[01:04:01] Correct? Right. And if my audience goes to SHR network.biz/pure. And uses the code SHR 30. They'll not only get this ridiculously low priced product, which everything pure nootropics does is like, is, is like buying direct from the manufacturer because you are. But on top of that, they're giving us an additional 30% off of use the code SHR 30, which means that you'll be able to buy enough of this stabilized our ally.

[01:04:34] To use every day for months and months and months, and actually see the changes in your body fat, because who cares about these studies? If you can't afford to emulate the end results, it doesn't matter if you've got to break the bank because our ally is not inexpensive. It's not by any means. And while you're there, you can also get 30% off of da , which is the anti, uh, [01:05:00] uh, hangover.

[01:05:00] I liked to call it anti hangover, uh, product. The superhuman stack, you get 25% off or just 10% off. Site-wide SHR 10. So this is a company that bends over backwards to not only produce products that we want, but to give them to us at a ridiculous price, SHR network.biz/pure use the code SHR 30 to get 30% off the new stabilized our Allah.

[01:05:28] Thank you so much for doing that by the way, because I know that you had to go out and source it. Cap it bottle it make labels and then stock it inventory wise to make it available to my audience. You did this just for us.

[01:05:42] Chris Dziak: [01:05:42] Yeah. It takes time. But I mean, we, we, uh, we know, you know, what you're talking about.

[01:05:47] And so, you know, we had an Ella product, but it was just at the  version. And so it kind of been on our radar, but definitely after talking to you, I went back with my head of research [01:06:00] and. Looked at it. And it looked like something that fit with what we want to do as well, because it has a whole host of benefits as you know, I mean, like just all over the map, it's a very good, just general wellness supplement.

[01:06:17] And in addition to the, to the weight management aspects of it, I mean, like you can pair it with a lot of other supplements in it. And it has a con kind of, I hate to use the word synergy, but like a synergistic type of fact where when it's taken with creatine and it enhances, uh, Must be a total community

[01:06:40] Carl Lanore: [01:06:40] uptake.

[01:06:41] Right.

[01:06:42] Chris Dziak: [01:06:42] Right. And it's, it's often paired with Alex and a lot of the studies. Um, you guys were just talking about that, right? When I hopped on with Dr. Anthony, um, you know, ALA is paired with Al Carr because of the mitochondrial effects and, and it has [01:07:00] favorable effects on mitochondrial decay in, in aging models and in diabetes and hypertension is.

[01:07:07] As you kind of alluded to. So, I mean, it's got some really neat properties and, and one of the neatest ones in, in my opinion, is it, it kinda serves to regenerate and I'm sure like you've covered this already with, with your. Allah expert with it basically regenerates other used anti-oxidants. So like glutathione, when it donates that electron to, to scavenger free, radical, it becomes kind of a free, radical itself.

[01:07:40] And it can take an electron from LA and, and become a, uh, an active glutosiome scavenger once again. And it works with good with IO and co Q 10. Vitamin C vitamin E and it, it it's cool. Cause it also reduces, um, markers of [01:08:00] inflammation and oxidative stress. So, I mean, it's, it's definitely like one of those daily supplements.

[01:08:07] It is pretty innocuous. Cause it's very safe. Your body produces it naturally. And so we want, we want you guys to have it because we know that once, once you take it, you'll, you'll like, it you'll see benefits from it. And that's why we wanna get you on it, um, because, and give you a good price cause, uh, it's going to work for you.

[01:08:29] And if it doesn't we've we offer money back guarantee. So

[01:08:33] Carl Lanore: [01:08:33] try it out, explain what the sodium does to stabilize. Cause I'm thinking, okay, so you have an acid and you have a salt. And we know that from early chemistry in high school, right. The base and acids and salts, they all have like this relationship.

[01:08:50] So what does the, uh, the bonding of the sodium do that, that stabilizes it? I think

[01:08:56] Chris Dziak: [01:08:56] in, um, um, don't recall exactly, but [01:09:00] I think it prevents the oxidation of the, our ally. Yeah, it is what it, what it's an essence doing because it'll degrade over time and

[01:09:09] become

[01:09:09] Carl Lanore: [01:09:09] a pro-oxidant vitamin C. Does that people don't realize if you buy an old bottle of vitamin C a portion of it may no longer be antioxidant, maybe pro oxide, because it's oxidized already.

[01:09:19] It's the antioxidant value has been fighting off the air in that bottle all along, so, right. Yeah. So this is the product folks we've been waiting for it. I am going to be using it. This is a stabilized, our Allah that will help you lose body fat improve mitochondrial function. It's a powerful antioxidant.

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[01:10:10] I think we've covered it pretty thoroughly. Don't you?

[01:10:14] Chris Dziak: [01:10:14] I, I think you're right. We sure have, if there's any questions, feel free to forward them to our customer service and we'll try and get back. Um, or if your audience has any,

[01:10:25] Carl Lanore: [01:10:25] now we can try and yeah, I mean, he could post questions, but if not, you can send them to, you want them to send them directly to your customer service.

[01:10:31] You want them to send them to me. I forward them to you,

[01:10:34] Dr. Anthony Balduzzi: [01:10:34] your call, whatever

[01:10:35] Chris Dziak: [01:10:35] is easier for your

[01:10:36] Carl Lanore: [01:10:36] audience. I don't even want to be in the middle. Give, give you a customer service, a contact email.

[01:10:42] Chris Dziak: [01:10:42] Yeah. So, uh, just our email is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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