Dr. Jeff Golini, PhD
As little as 10 extra pounds of body-fat increases a post-menopausal woman's risk of aggressive invasive breast cancer. If that fat occupies the trunk (belly) to a greater degree the increased risk almost doubles. Here's why. PLUS Carl had a second foot surgery and isn't bouncing back as fast as he'd hoped. But he has a plan to make 2019 his best year ever.
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[00:00:00] Welcome back. Excuse me. I was drinking water right as the show is starting welcome back to super human radio. We have a great show planned for you today. I'm going to be joined and just a moment with my by my co-host. Dr. Jeff golini. We're going to talk about the link between a belly fat menopause and breast cancer recent study links [00:01:00] them very closely and we're going to talk about this in the context of what we already know about obesity and cancer then later in the show.
[00:01:08] I'm going to be sharing my personal story with the audience. I've gotten lots of messages from people asking about my surgery how it did. I'm hesitant to post a picture of my foot on Facebook because I'm afraid that gross too many people out. I actually have a Frankenstein foot right now, but I'll talk about that later in the show.
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[00:02:11] And that's because dr. Jeff who is sentimentally known as a supplement Santa believes that no one should buy anything until they've tried it first and he puts his money where his mouth is so check that out show him some love. This is science for humans with dr. Jeff golini. How you doing? Dr.
[00:02:30] Jackie O, But get a little better than you brother. Yeah, you see I sent the picture of my foot to Jeff. So what do you like? What do you think? Do you think I should put that on Facebook or like gross too many people out. Go ahead man. I can only maybe they'll put me in Facebook jail if I put that up there.
[00:02:50] They might I mean if Facebook bands you, you know, you finally made it. Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah, my foot looks pretty funky. It really does. It's got three scars stitch [00:03:00] stitch, you know stitches that sutured that are approximately four inches long one down the big toe into the middle of the foot second toe into the middle foot and third toe into the middle of foot and the foot is swollen and it hurts all the time, but you know what?
[00:03:17] I'm on the mend. And it can only get better from here. Absolutely. So let's talk about this study that we were going to talk about it last week, but I asked to take off because I didn't feel good about from my surgery. I was still kind of under the anesthesia whether public a study was published on December 10th that linked body fat levels and breast cancer risks in postmenopausal women.
[00:03:44] Were you surprised first of all? Not really, you know, I was glad that a journal like Gemma oncology actually published something that would maybe get people's attention. [00:04:00] But no, I was not surprised when I saw the study and I read through the statistics. So so before we talk specifically about the study, I want to throw some numbers out.
[00:04:11] And so globally every single year you ready for this globally. Every single year. there are 33 million eight hundred and three thousand new cancer diagnosis. Oh my gosh, I think about that 33 million globally and of those a study that was published a couple months ago says. And they're wrong that this this study is really way under but they said four percent of all Global cancer diagnosis.
[00:04:48] Are the result of body fat? Excessive body fat so let me give you the number what that means. That's 1 million three hundred fifty two thousand people [00:05:00] a year are diagnosed with cancer because they're obese because they're fat. Wow, and so, you know, we're all about you know, oh don't fat shame and we're all about having a positive body image even though your but you know, this is this is madness that we can't talk openly and say to people who are fat and and remember I was 330 pounds so nobody come after me because I have a card in my wallet.
[00:05:28] I'm a card-carrying fat person, but why we can't have an honest discussion. About people's overweight and and obesity situation putting such pressure on the globe a healthcare wise. Well, you know and I agree with you, you know, I get fed up with you know, the media be yourself member few years ago this whole.
[00:05:57] Oh, it's okay to be a [00:06:00] plus-size just be yourself. No, it's not. You know, I mean our bodies were designed to whole body fat as Reserve energy, but that's really an ace. Getting ready for the winter hibernation hibernation mode type thing. You know, we just got to close our mouths. I mean at the end of the day we eat too much.
[00:06:24] We don't know how to control our appetites and we're eating the wrong thing. So, I mean, well, I'm Pato a postmenopausal women have a special problem. So I want to let's let's so the study was with the 3460 women in the United States between the ages of 50 and 79. They all had gone through menopause.
[00:06:43] And this data was extrapolated from the ever used Women's Health Initiative that was done many years ago that actually put the kibosh on on HRT and let me tell you why they were so far off. So women who [00:07:00] go through menopause think about this dr. J. When a woman goes through menopause. She theoretically stopped producing estrogen.
[00:07:07] Right, right? Okay. Meanwhile she develops. A higher propensity to develop estrogen dependent cancers. Why isn't anyone in the medical office doxy going this doesn't that we're chasing the wrong road. We're going up the wrong road here. Why are women who are no longer making estrogen developing estrogen dependent cancers?
[00:07:30] If anything they should develop those when they're young when the estrogen levels of highest. Right, right. Okay, and here's why and this is what this is what the medical author doxy doesn't tell their female patients. When you go through menopause your body still wants estrogen and since your ovaries aren't making it they have to find a new way to make it and guess how they make it.
[00:07:53] Dr. J those of us in the bodybuilding Community. We know an aromatase Inhibitors are right. Right. Well, your [00:08:00] body fat is where aromatization takes place. So your body says the ovaries aren't making estrogen anymore. So we're going to help this gal increase body fat because that in turn will increase estrogen.
[00:08:15] Mmm, no one is discussing this with their female patients that oh, the reason you're getting fatter. Now that you've gone through menopause is your body is found a new way to manufacture estrogen. And then on top of that the fat causes an increase in the Cascade of inflammatory cytokines. That we know disrupt the mitochondria and make the mitochondria prone to going to anaerobic respiration which leads to cancer.
[00:08:43] So you've got the perfect. You've got The Perfect Storm. You got a body that's producing excess amounts of estrogen and inflammatory agents simultaneously if you put that woman on HRT and you get her hard estrogen levels dialed in she loses the [00:09:00] body fat that doesn't make any sense because doctors aren't being honest with their female patients.
[00:09:05] Well, and let's talk about that because we know the reason HRT does not make us make as much money as all these Cancer drugs. Oh, yeah went without the revenue from cancer drugs. They would be bankrupt. Think about $100 $33 million people a year are diagnosed with with a new cancer. Now think about cancer treatment oncology think about cancer research that's failing by all standards and you know, they still going after the genetic model and it has nothing to do with genetics.
[00:09:40] It's all metabolic all. I know I know and they know this I mean and I think that's the frustrating thing is we look at this and go. Yeah, this makes sense and they're supposed to be the smart ones and you know, when we talk about obesity ladies I use the picture for today's show specifically for a reason because [00:10:00] these are women who are used as model.
[00:10:02] For body positive images of women who are overweight today the study found that just as little as 5 kilograms. Let's say 10 pounds of excess body fat exclusively body fat increases the risk by. 28% and the same increase if the fat is in the trunk not in the bot not in the legs, but it's in the trunk where most women are carrying it out because they look like barrels.
[00:10:32] The increase was 46 percent higher risk of invasive breast cancer. Think of that just 10 pounds. That's amazing, you know and and you know, I was looking at this car laughs one of the things I was I was thinking of, you know, okay, I understand as women age. It's tougher to lose weight, but you know what?
[00:10:54] It's the same for men. You know, why does it seem like there are there are so many [00:11:00] obese women that they don't care about it. You know, I don't know. Well, I don't think it's that they don't care about it. I think they're chasing chasing a false. Hope without being hormonal e optimize it becomes rather difficult for women to lose body fat.
[00:11:17] There are women out there who legitimately are starving themselves. Um, so they're doing it all the wrong way. Yeah, their metabolism is just shutting down and it's making fat and there's a lot of people out there within the physical culture Community who are like Diet gurus who say well, you know, that's nonsense if they move more and they ate less that's probably some truth to that and I don't want to say it's all hormonal because I don't want women to think.
[00:11:45] Oh see. I got a pass. It's all hormonal. It's not all hormonal. If know if someone starved you you'd lose weight, you know what I mean? There's no doubt about it. You could not starve too, you know. And I'm I'm one of those people I [00:12:00] love observing and one of my I guess my hobbies is I love looking at what people have in their grocery carts.
[00:12:07] Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don't know about you. But but you know, I have talked with so many people that say oh, you know II just can't lose weight, especially women and you know, I don't eat bad I eat this and then I'll see them in the grocery store and it'll be we'll wait a minute you got alcohol in your cart.
[00:12:26] Hmm calories, you got sugary stuff. I mean, come on. Don't tell me you eat healthy, you know when I look what's in your cart, so I think a lot of times. They fool themselves to you know alcohol is a big one. I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah women when they go through menopause, they start drinking, you know, it starts out with a glass of wine in the evening after work to kind of unwind quote unquote.
[00:12:52] Becomes two glasses becomes a bottle and alcohol has been linked to mitochondrial [00:13:00] dysfunction and mitochondrial dysfunction has been linked to the development of cancer so we can extrapolate back and say well alcohol probably contributes to cancer and there's research out there that shows that now they're aiming to decide research that alcohol does contribute to the development of cancers.
[00:13:15] So. When these women go through menopause, they feel horrible. They feel depressed. They feel like life doesn't have anything left for them. They have this dull sense of Despair all the time. So glass of wine or two or three or four it takes the edge off what they don't realize is. That's a double whammy because not only is it contributing to the development of cancer?
[00:13:42] But it's also contributing to the development of body fat that's been shown and in fact, right a recent study showed that in. I forget if it was in women more than men are men more than women. But either way alcohol blunts the anabolic [00:14:00] response of protein synthesis. So what you end up with is more fat less muscle and lots of inflammatory cytokines plus other things messing with your mitochondria.
[00:14:12] So you're gonna develop cancer. It's just a matter of time. But here's the other thing too is women who who get into this conundrum where they are one glass three glasses for glasses. They're also eating along the way. Yes. They're not just doing that and starving. But but you know again, I'm sorry man.
[00:14:32] I know a lot of women who are in the fifty to seventy nine range who have gotten their butts in the gym. Yes, you know a lot of it is mental, you know, you have to wake up in the morning and go you know, what today is going to be a good day. I'm going to do something different. I hear so much times.
[00:14:50] I'm going to start something on Monday on Monday on Monday on Monday. Monday never comes start today. You know, right it doesn't take but [00:15:00] 30 days to start a new habit and you know get into the gym. I mean start exercising it's not going to hurt you, you know, right well and this is a good time to talk about that right?
[00:15:10] Because the holidays are coming and people are going to go I can't worry about the diet right now because it's the holidays. Okay. So fine give yourself that and give yourself the January Rush. Okay, fine do that, but. Promise to stay committed through June. I don't care what it takes. Just promise to stay committed through June.
[00:15:29] Don't be the january/february I bail out now because I'm not Congress. And don't do the Jenny Craig's or the keto for three weeks and it doesn't work for you. And then you you go back. You know, I mean, it's a lifestyle change, but I tell people Carl why wait till January, you know, enjoy the holidays.
[00:15:49] It's warm everywhere. You can get out and walk. Okay, maybe like you you can't walk right now, but I can't wait till you can walk again. I really can't I know you can but but most [00:16:00] people didn't just have surgery. So there's no reason why and don't tell me you're too busy because I see how many hours you spend on social media bam you have time, you know you have time to exercise.
[00:16:11] You don't even need to leave your living room walk in place jumping jacks push-ups. I mean, there's so many things that you can do versus sitting on the couch drinking and eating. So again, you know, I get a little frustrated when I see things like this going. Okay, this could all be prevented, you know.
[00:16:31] Excluding, you know medical conditions where you can't there's always something you can do, you know, there's always something you can do, but you said it kind of earlier on that, you know, if you switch to a vegetarian diet, I guarantee you lose weight. I mean so you always can do something. If you can't exercise for some medical reasons, dude, I'm getting ripped and I haven't even been in the gym in two weeks because since I haven't been dreaming I'm eating so much less.
[00:16:56] I just don't have the appetite. In fact Eliza got mad at me. She [00:17:00] said. You're not going to heal fast. If you keep starving yourself, I'm eating one meal a day. I'm going like 20 20 hours a day without eating. See, you're like me, you know, our brains realized that when we're exercising we can enjoy more food.
[00:17:15] But you know if I have to take a day off because you know clients are in town or something. Boom. My calories go down that day, you know if I'm going to take a week off, I don't eat the same amount, you know, because again our bodies know that we don't need it, you know, it's not the healthiest eat one meal a day.
[00:17:32] But again, it's not a difficult thing. You know, you just have to train yourself to get the keep the hands out of the cookie jar and don't bring it in the house. I mean once it's in the house, it's gone there. Nobody's making you stick that in your cart. There is a female competitor named Tammy nesland.
[00:17:53] I follow her on Facebook and she recently did a photo shoot. I think she's either 56 or [00:18:00] 58 Tammy. I'm sorry if I'm wrong. She just did a photo shoot. Dr. J very Tastefully done with with very little clothing on and if it wasn't for her gray hair, she you know, she let her hair grow out. She stopped dying and she said she got tired of it her and she let it go.
[00:18:18] She's a beautiful woman got a beautiful face. She has very short hair. She can pull it off because she has a very feminine look but at her age, she's she's got single-digit body fat and I'm telling you something even if she isn't on a. He or she is I don't know but what I do know is she post pictures of her meal prep your she preps a meals she trains she does the same boring thing day in day out for months.
[00:18:45] That's what makes it happen. The consistency the problem is people give up especially women. They they get on the scale if they're a week into a diet and it's not down a pound into their like this isn't working. No, it's working give it a few months. [00:19:00] Yeah, you know how long did it take you to gain that weight?
[00:19:02] You didn't gain it in a weekend. It took you years to put it on you know, and and again, it's just a little bit of it's what you know, it's really you have to want to do it. I mean nobody can make anybody do anything that they don't want to do. So to me people don't want to but you know the consequences I mean right here is a study you're going to be in the 56% of the 46 percent.
[00:19:26] Of a hive percentile and the I mean, you know there have been so many so many studies that link body fat to cancer and you know, why because that body fat goes hand-in-hand with insulin resistance people. Generally you put on body fat they tend to also have fairly high sugar levels all the time.
[00:19:48] And you know, we know what's going to happen from there. You're going to have heart issues. You're going to be diabetic. I mean kidney is Liberty. I mean when you look [00:20:00] when you look at all the diseases that are associated with insulin resistance insulin resistance is killing the world. It's giving them cancer and heart disease and every other friggin thing, but oh you can't talk about that because when you talk about that, you also have to talk about fat.
[00:20:17] Yeah, we don't want to offend anybody. We don't want to offend anybody. Let them die a miserable life. Yeah. Yeah, if you want to die early and leave your kids and your grandkids then again, you know continue on but you know, we discuss these things we share these topics because we're trying to help people, you know, I mean, I look at the picture that was in this study and I feel bad when I see somebody who is overweight.
[00:20:42] And I want to just stop and go guy gal, you know, come on, you know, do you not care about your family your kids and honey. And dr. J. The the fact that some of these women had normal BMI eyes. [00:21:00] Yes, but had excessive body fat. The BMI has failed us we have to stop even thinking about these women fit into a size 3 dress or size 5 dress, but the amount of body fat on their bodies is excessive again as little as 10 pounds overweight increases the risk for breast cancer.
[00:21:21] But yeah, I think I want to take a break and when we come back, I want to talk about something else. I want to talk about is for a long time. We talked about the Willy Wonka of program that you had when you were putting thousands of dollars giving away thousands and thousands of dollars in karbolyn, and we actually had our first gold ticket winner, right?
[00:21:45] Two of them now two of them back. Okay after six months crazy, let's do this. Let's take a break when we come back. I want to talk about that stay tuned. You're listening to supremum radio. This is science for humans. Welcome back. [00:22:00] So literally for a couple of months we talked about the promotion that was going over at EFX Sports they had seeded.
[00:22:08] Some bottles of karbolyn with tickets that had cash values to them in the some of the some of them were thousand dollars, right? Dr. Jay. Yeah, there was a total of $5,000 in three of them were 1,000 dollar tickets. So and we kept talking about it. And I know you were scratching your head because he liked we shipped their own house.
[00:22:28] Nobody getting these tickets, right? Well, it was because we had several thousand bottles of 333 grammars that are absolutely free and then the bonus size four point five kilos. A lot of them were sold. A lot of them went to stores and they have reordered and the tickets. I personally placed and they were dispersed in sections of 5 so that you know as the first five section went out there was guaranteed [00:23:00] to be two golden tickets so that you know, and I'm going no golden tickets.
[00:23:04] We almost are out of all of this karbolyn. And this week we had I think the same day or you know, one day after another two golden tickets. So the first gentleman, I believe got one of the $50 tickets in the second got a $250. So, you know, they range from 50, there's 250. I think there's someone hundreds and of course there's there's three one thousands and the majority of them are cash a few of them are for redeemed in product.
[00:23:36] But they are out there and probably sitting on your store shelf could possibly be that thousand dollars in cash you go out you go out and spend a few bucks and come home with a grand. I mean doesn't get much better than that. So, do you know the name for that are buying condoms? What's that? Oh, no, I don't have yeah, I didn't I didn't look at how the water hammer and I think I have one guy's name whole good he could keep talking for a second.
[00:23:58] Yeah, it's going to say that people that [00:24:00] are buying these are carbon and people anyhow, who they really like the raspberry lemonade. They're telling us it's our best flavor. So it's not like people are just buying it to try to win a ticket. So it's kind of a bonus to you, you know. Yeah, I'm looking for a golden ticket right now here.
[00:24:14] Is that it now? No, no. No. No, I got to find it. I know he let me try this. Let me try EFX. Warts it's probably on the Facebook page. I have winner number one winner number one was a Nicholas lar I guess lah are lar. Yeah English law and so he was the first one and now you tell me you have the second winner.
[00:24:36] We have a second one there. Just you know, what they're doing is the guy has to now take a picture with the ticket and then they'll publicize that so, you know, we get a little bit of PR. But yeah, there was a second one second guy one it was either later that day or the very next morning. We're like, wow, nothing for Bud sit down all of a sudden two back-to-back.
[00:24:55] Yeah, and I got a filter of Nicholas. He's holding his karbolyn shake [00:25:00] his body. And is his golden ticket isn't a nice plastic bag and he told that they don't pick it up. Yeah, I was afraid maybe people didn't look at it and threw it out. I mean the they one thing that's big bottle. They thought it was a desiccant.
[00:25:15] They thought it was the desiccant. You know what I mean? No. Two inches by 8 inches long A. My tickets are big. Yeah, you can't miss those really can't miss them. Well, that's all great stuff. So to summarize today's discussion. If you are a woman your perimenopausal or postmenopausal and you're carrying more than 10 pounds of body fat.
[00:25:38] You really need to consider my personal advice to you is if you're perimenopausal go see a good HRT doctor. We have a good sponsor ReNew Life are x.com and they work with women too. But absolutely you need to start thinking about this now because it's going to make you more prone. To breast cancer and to [00:26:00] truth is all sorts of cancers not just breast cancer uterine cancer ovarian cancer.
[00:26:05] I mean PCOS is linked to insulin resistance insulin resistance and body fat and accumulation. It just it's just mind-boggling why we are not talking more about the link between a variety of diseases and obesity on the news every night. There should be something drumming it into people's minds. You got to lose the fat.
[00:26:24] You got to lose the fat you got to laugh at. So well, maybe it'll be a change sometime in the future. I hope so because it's I'm like you it makes me sad. It really does it really does is it is so there you go. What do you oh so now next week is well this weekend is Christmas will be off the air next week, I guess right Tuesday is Christmas.
[00:26:46] Yeah. Dr. Jeff is going on vacation. So I'm gonna disappear go off the grid as they always say, are you going to stay in Billings? Or you can really going out of town? No, I'm saying it Billings, you know, we [00:27:00] everybody comes to my house. So I did so much traveling this year. I'm just looking forward to family and literally just recharging.
[00:27:09] Would it be nice if you got some snow I bet you get snow for Christmas in Billings. It's in the fifties. No snoring no snow for forecasted. That's crazy. Well, I know there was no snow forecasted in the movie with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye either and white Christmas. So maybe we'll get some snow for Christmas.
[00:27:28] Who knows? Who knows maybe that would be a little dicey. If not Santa Claus gonna have to break out his rubber tires. So Merry Christmas to all the glean he's okay. Thank you so much. And also do you my friend? Okay. Talk to you soon. Okay. Bye we're going to take one quick commercial break and when we come back, I'm going to talk about my foot surgery.
[00:27:46] It's a pretty ugly mess. I dare not post this picture on Facebook because I have a feeling that a lot of people would really be pissed off stay tuned. Welcome back. I'm just messaging with Sean Wells on Facebook. He had surgery last week to [00:28:00] and those of you who follow him and follow me know that he and I share a birthday in June the 11th.
[00:28:04] I think it's ironic that he had surgery. I believe it was to repair a torn labrum in his hip. And he's using peptides just like I am to help with recovery. So I had the surgery a week ago Tuesday and this past Monday was my one-week visit. They took the cast off and took an x-ray and the doctor is super super happy with the results.
[00:28:36] So. I had surgery in March and the truth of the matter is my foot was so effed up that we knew that one surgery wasn't going to get it done. And so I had the second surgery this week. I was under four for four hours for each surgery. It was under general anesthesia for four hours for each surgery.
[00:28:58] Those of you don't know anything about [00:29:00] surgery don't realize that I'm 60 years old, and I've had two for our surgeries. And in under 10 months and I really bounce back fast from the surgery and Mark because I went right back into the gym as many of you may remember with my cam Bhutan. I was doing leg extensions and leg curls and I was training the heck out upper body and loving it and I felt really good very quickly after the surgery.
[00:29:25] I mean, in fact I felt like. Why do people complain about surgery like this is no big deal. I mean it is a pain in the ass not being able to use your foot. You have no idea and I'll talk more about that in a minute. But this surgery really knocked the sh out of me you really did. I'm still I still don't feel back to normal.
[00:29:45] I feel like a little foggy in my head all the time. I am weak noticeably week and this is what people talk about about surgery. Ohhh, you come out of surgery. Sometimes it takes months to recover. I'm like after March was like what [00:30:00] even my tricep surgery. I was back in the gym training lower body and and and and right arm, you know while my left arm was in a sling.
[00:30:10] This is the first time I haven't gone right back into the gym under the doctor's orders. In fact, it's so funny. So after the surgery, dr. Childress said to me, you know, no Jim. I said, okay when I went in on Monday, he said man your foot looks good. Everything looks good. We've got to keep it like this not mess with anything.
[00:30:31] Let it all heal and be solid just where it is right now. And so I said to him can I get can I go back to the gym? Can I start training upper body? I'll just train up a body. He said no. I don't want to jinx it. He says, you know, you may plant try to plant your foot, you know, if you're if you're doing a rowing movement or something and I don't want to shift these bones.
[00:30:54] It took him three hours using a live X-ray and [00:31:00] manipulating the four toes. Getting the big toe lined up and all the other toes lined up so that the the sole of my foot would all the toes would bear the weight of my foot. And tell he told me he said this this this surgery was three hours of manipulating taking a picture.
[00:31:25] Manipulating taking a picture and 3 hours of that and then once he had the foot right where he wanted it, then they literally shot a giant staple. And a she would looks like a sheetrock screw directly through the main joint of the big toe. So my big toe Flexes in two of the three places that it's designed to flex the big joint, which is where people get bunions that doesn't move anymore.
[00:31:54] It literally has a sheetrock screw and what looks like a giant. The other two [00:32:00] toes actually the other three toes he did the third he did Tone number two and tone number three saw the heads off from line them up. He actually cut the the tendons. To to lengthen them so that they would not pull the toes back up where they were and then he saw the head off of the third toe didn't put a pin in it and left it free floating.
[00:32:26] He said this way. Toe does it start to hammer later on from bearing an uneven amount of weight? He didn't want that bone to be pressing down on the sole of my foot. So the foot actually when I looked at it I could see that the foot was so much narrower than it used to be at fact. In fact, it was as narrow as my right foot.
[00:32:50] They kept looking at my right foot and using that as a template as well for the width of the. And the big toe doesn't [00:33:00] move right now the two next hose have pins in them the third and fourth to the fourth and fifth toe are just kind of doing their own thing. Like they always did I have stitches. In the top of my feet three of them going from the top of the big toe all the way back to not all the way to the ankle, but probably a couple inches short of the ankle.
[00:33:22] So each of those sutured areas is like 4 inches long 3 of them one one from the middle toe and one from the third toe going straight back. The foot is not nearly as swollen as I thought it was going to be I got to tell you. I can see that the swelling is probably going to go down a lot faster that could be because of the cast to he put me in a cast instead of a cam boot because he wanted that that pressure of Conformity.
[00:33:48] He wanted the foot to be locked into that place and into that shape. They took the cast off the other day to day do X-rays and then they put a new cast back on and [00:34:00] yesterday. I'm sitting here working. I get a foot phone call. It's Audubon Foot and Ankle. That's the hospital that I had this done it and I'm like, uh, And I thought well, they must be calling to confirm my next appointment which is the day after Christmas the 26th.
[00:34:15] He's like really keeping a close eye on this and that's something else that the surgeon in Ohio did not have the luxury of doing which is a problem because you want to have lots of follow-ups because then you can address problems right away and fix them before they become out of hand and. It was foolish of me to force that surgeon to do my surgery in retrospect.
[00:34:39] It was selfish of me. I wanted him to do the surgery. But the reality was he was just too far away and it wasn't practical and I'm a douche and I need to take responsibility for that. Okay with that being said, I'm getting in every week to see this surgeon. And so yesterday I get a phone call and I'm like, oh, [00:35:00] they're probably calling a confirm the day after Christmas because.
[00:35:03] Like pop people on holiday and the girl calls me and she says hi. This is so-and-so from dr. Children's his office. We just want to make sure that you brought you promised. Dr. Children's you wouldn't go to the gym. We want to make sure you're not going to go to the gym this week. I said no. I'm not I'm staying off the foot as much as possible because what you mean as much as possible.
[00:35:24] Well, I have to step on it. Sometimes I can't take my nice scooter up the stairs with me. I do have to step on it going up the stairs, but I'm using the heel and locking the knee and she goes well, dr. Childress just doesn't want you. To disrupt those pins. They're afraid I'm going to pull the pins out.
[00:35:43] I said no, I'm not going to the gym for another week next week. I come in for my next appointment and I'm hoping that he'll clear me to go to the gym after that. I feel terrible. This is this I feel worse than when I [00:36:00] was fat and sick right now. In fact, it's scary to me because I'm 60 years old and I just had two major surgeries in 10 months and.
[00:36:10] I understood the risks. In fact, I went deep into ketosis before the surgery. Because I knew they were going to make me fast anyway, and I wanted the ketones I didn't want the carbs and sugar in my body days before because I know that that helps to affect inflammation and the response to the surgery.
[00:36:31] So I went pretty deep into ketosis before the surgery and that also supposed to help with rebounding from the anesthesia. I think the reason I feel so horrible is because both times I went right back into the gym within days. And training actually made me rebound faster. I feel like crap. I'm foggy.
[00:36:56] I just don't feel like I'm with it. I don't feel [00:37:00] fully awake as the best way. I could put it and the pain in. My foot is horrible. It really is the foot hurts. I keep it elevated all the time. I've got an elevated right now. Dr. Childress is listening to this. I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. I use my knee scooter to go everywhere man.
[00:37:19] I went to Kroger's this morning and I almost ran people over. I was buzzing through Kroger's like I was a kid on a skateboard. It was so funny. But I'm sticking to the plan. I'm doing what I'm supposed to do and I am very hopeful that in five more weeks the cast will come off. I'll start rehabbing the foot and I just want to walk I want to just walk without pain.
[00:37:43] I haven't walked without pain in three friggin years. You have no idea. When people talk about living with chronic pain, you can't have you can't conceptualize what it's like to live with chronic pain unless [00:38:00] you've lived with it. There's no way to explain it in a way that would make someone understand.
[00:38:06] It just takes all the joy out of life. So the idea of what I'm just gonna and in fact, I'm gonna. I want to take a break and when we come back, I want to talk about my training because what I'm going to do is probably something I should have done a long time ago, but I've got a plan for training that is really bottom-up plan.
[00:38:28] I want to share with you and I also want to share with you what peptides I'm using right now to help me rebound from the surgery stay tuned. We'll be right back with more superhuman radio. What the. There's a ghost here. I guess we don't need the music if I started talking ready. I so what I'm doing for Rehab I'm doing quite a few things and this should interest you because I predict that I'm going to heal faster than any thing this doctors ever seen.
[00:38:58] By the way. This doctor told me [00:39:00] this is the worst foot he's ever done. And he really has a vested interest in seeing it be fixed because it's kind of like a challenge to him. So I started this protocol two days before surgery to I use of growth hormone twice a day 500 micrograms or half a milligram of bpc 157 twice a day.
[00:39:29] Thomason beta for 2 milligrams every other day. And there's something missing here bpc 157 growth hormone. But anyway, okay, so I'm doing those peptides. Oh mechanical growth factor of 500 micrograms a day. I'm doing those. Consuming bone broth by the court as well as using collagen protein. I'm taking my 1000 mg of vitamin C A Day from live on Labs because I want [00:40:00] that bone and collagen.
[00:40:03] I'm using a product from metagenic called SPM active which has a bunch of good research science. They've done clinical trials with this. This is a this is a fraction eyes isolated Marine lipid so they take fish oil and. Extract from it the things that are in the fish oil that are related to being a resolving something that resolves inflammation in its speeds healing.
[00:40:35] I'm taking six of those a day. What else am I doing for my foot? Obviously, you know a lot of the other things I'm doing that I do normally supplements. I use and stuff aren't necessarily for my foot, but they're probably contributing to the healing but clearly the peptides alone are going to make a huge difference and I predict that just like that surgery in March.
[00:40:57] No one could believe how fast the sutures [00:41:00] healed in March. And once again, I predict we're going to see the same thing here. This doctor is going to probably comment and he's very interested in what I'm doing because he's interested in using it if he can with other patients. So that's what I'm doing right now to heal when Once the boot the the cast comes off and I can start training again.
[00:41:24] I'm going to do nothing but walk. I'm going to do nothing but walk. I'm not even going to go to the gym. I may do some body weight stuff, but I am literally going to strip myself down to the bare basic blocks that I started with 20 years ago when I was sick, all I did was walk back then that's how I started.
[00:41:45] I want to build my Foundation. Just like I did 20 years ago because I could see I could go to the gym and jump right back. But I feel like I don't want to this time. I feel like I want to really allow my [00:42:00] body to gently reconstruct itself because I want 2019 to be a banner year for me. I want to I'm getting leaner because I'm not eating as much I can't believe Lisa keeps joking with me.
[00:42:10] She's like, I can't believe that you're losing weight and you're not what not working out. Well, I'm not eating a lot before I go on I do have to mention something real quick. Those of you who have routers all of us. And you know that your router sucks because you have to keep resetting it or you have low signal in different parts of the house.
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[00:43:40] On imts mobile telephone system had anywhere from 10 to 20 channels that meant you could only have 10 to 20 phone calls at one time. Think about that in the context of cell phones today and I am TS mobile phone system that I operated in Las Vegas, Nevada had 20 channels that meant you could [00:44:00] only have 20 phone calls at one.
[00:44:03] With Eero like cellular, you've got three different units that you can send data through and push out. So you don't have the problems with bandwidth when you and someone else in the family is online, especially if they're hitting a beacon and you're hitting a different Beacon. The arrow product really is a well-thought-out product and they offer so many valuable things in the one that I want to focus on it that you look they have the best network protection I've ever seen I have one now at the house and one at the office.
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[00:46:35] But I am telling you that if you have a router right now that you have unplugging and plugging it back in to reset it. You can't get you can't go upstairs in the bedroom to work because it's too far away from from the router get rid of that and get Eero because life is just too short for bad Wi-Fi.
[00:46:55] So check them out. So getting back to my discussion [00:47:00] about my training. I am going to definitely probably not hit the gym nearly as much, you know, I have the the X 3 bar at home. I've got a really nice gym at home. I've got kettlebells. I've got power blocks. I just want to get an elliptical machine at home and.
[00:47:17] I am just going to start out with just walking and nothing else just walking and I'm going to my goal is after the foot is healed and out of the cast and I am given the green light to start rehabbing it. I'm going to start gently walking 15-20 minutes in each direction away from the house and slowly make that a half hour so that I'm walking an hour a day, and I'm going to do that at least every day.
[00:47:40] Three weeks four weeks before I even consider going to the gym again. And I'm going to I'm going to let everybody know how my progress is because I got to be honest with you. I'm a little scared. I'm 60 years old. I've had two surgeries both of them for hours long and under 10 months [00:48:00] and. I've already had some other problems, right?
[00:48:02] I had a I had to take off from my therapeutic phlebotomy. Remember I had iron overload. In fact the doctor commented about how stiff my muscles were in my feet and I said that's because of iron overload and I gave him an earful and he's like, wow that is so interesting. I took off from the therapeutic phlebotomy because I didn't want to have any issues with not enough blood if I'm on the the table for four hours as I was while there while they're operating on.
[00:48:27] So I will get back on my therapeutic phlebotomy and night 2019 is going to be a year for me to do it again. Do what I did 20 years ago by saving my own life when I was obese and had a hard problem. But now my challenges are a little different and I'm hoping that 2019 I coming out the other end more muscular than I went in ripped and.
[00:48:52] Able to run a mile again and that people like run a mile. That's it. Look if you saw my foot you'd [00:49:00] understand why running a mile would be a big deal for me. So that's it. That's what I'm hoping for and you know, I'm not trying to cop out here and say oh, I'm 60 years old, but that does play a role.
[00:49:16] Even with the advanced peptides and obviously I'm on HRT testosterone. I take other supplements. I am still 60 years old and my body has a certain limit on what it will give me. And so now I have to gently squeeze as much out of it as I possibly can and if you're interested, I'll start blogging about it.
[00:49:39] If you're interested, you know, let me know email me at on are at supremum Radio dotnet if I get ten emails, I'll stop blogging my progress. I'll start taking pictures. I'll start doing what I can do because this is not going to be an easy Journey for me. It's not I'm being honest. It scares me because now I'm going to find out if I really can live up to the [00:50:00] Superhuman.
[00:50:03] Monica if you will or or name or lifestyle because I don't my body doesn't want to move right now. And I know it's a lot of it has to do with the anesthesia. So that's it. I'm trying to get dr. Mikhail black is going on on the show tomorrow. There's some really exciting news on the anti-aging front serious legitimate legitimate.
[00:50:28] Approach to extending life in humans and there have been over 200 patients that have already done it and are seeing amazing results in the reversal of disease in the Improvement of cognition the Improvement of Mobility Improvement of strength looking better feeling better and. I want to get on it myself as part of the 2019 protocol.
[00:50:52] So I'm trying to get him on the show tomorrow, but he hasn't committed yet. So I'm hoping that [00:51:00] that's the show tomorrow. If not, we'll have something good for you. Thanks for listening today. Don't forget to check out EFX Sports. Go to super young radio dotnet click the FX Sports Banner ad get your freebies now, and we'll talk to everybody tomorrow.
[00:51:16] Thank you.
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