Transcript of Episode 65: Get Fit for Summer!
With Dr. Daniel Pompa, Warren Phillips, David Asarnow and special guest Meredith Dykstra.
David:
Good morning. We’re live.
Meredith:
Hello.
Warren:
We’re live, so welcome to Cellular Healing TV, Episode 65. How to be healthy and look great during the summer, this is a hot topic. It’s May, and we brought on one of our key team members, Meredith. You’ve seen her in the past, and you know that she’s got great wisdom and great recipes, and she lives it. So she knows how to look great, and feel great, and have more energy during the summer months to do those fun activities. Get into that swimsuit that you might not be able to get into right now, but you will in just a few short minutes after we share some great strategies with you this morning. Thanks for joining us. Dr. Pompa, David Asarnow, and Meredith Dykstra, let’s rock out these top strategies for the summer.
Meredith:
All right.
Dr. Pompa:
Right, I think Meredith brought up a good point. She said, “Dr. Pompa, everybody this time of year starts to worry that they aren’t going to look good in their bathing suit.” It’s that time of year. So David’s outside, so he’s going to get into his bathing suit. We’re going to judge him.
David:
I’m already wearing it.
Dr. Pompa:
No, but it is. It is. Everywhere I’ve looked it was about getting ready for summer, right. I mean, it was all the diet things come out and every…
Meredith:
I can’t hear anything right now, so I don’t know if what—what’s happening. Sorry, technical issues. We’re having sound issues.
Dr. Pompa:
That’s all right. I’ll just lead it off. I really want—ah, there. She’s going to be able hear now. You can hear me now can’t you?
Meredith:
Yes. Well—yeah, I can.
Dr. Pompa:
I spoke to one of my patients this week, and she said, “I’ve been going back and watching all the Cellular Healing TVs,” and she says, “I think about 90% of the time you guys have technical difficulties.” I said, “I think you’re right. I think you’re right.”
David:
Google updates their Hangouts all the time, the technology.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it is. Thank you, David. Right, it’s not always our fault. They’re always changing things, and we’re trying to always scramble to keep up. And that actually happened today, didn’t it? Google’s changing some things.
-Technical Issues-
Meredith:
All right, so I don’t know, really, what I missed, but let’s rock it out.
Dr. Pompa:
You missed everything. No, I was saying that how you encouraged me to do this show because you were saying, “Hey, everyone wants to get ready for summer,” and I was like, “Yeah, that’s a good idea.” Then after you told me that, literally, I saw things everywhere about getting ready for summer, and different diets, and food, I mean, everything about looking good in your bathing suit, so here we are. But we can pull in a lot of great topics that we’ve talked about in the past. So I don’t know if we have—someone could look at some of these episodes. Get the numbers for people so they don’t have to search through because we’re going to talk about some topics that we’ve talked about before. And we won’t, today, have time to go into great detail, but we have whole shows on these things and many articles. Meredith, I’ll let you talk about it because you thought these were some great topics and some really important topics to get our viewers ready for summer.
Meredith:
Yeah, and it is. It’s around the corner, and we have—we’ve got four different past articles that are really relevant for just getting your body ready. To just get lean, debloat, lose that weight, and there’s still time, so it’s okay. So this is a good time right now to jump in and to recommit to getting to your best state of health. So we thought—obviously, this is kind of a no-brainer, this first article, but we had a while ago talked about the top ten toxic foods that you should avoid at all times and, ideally, year round., all of the time that you would be avoiding these foods. But right now, it’s particularly pertinent for you to just avoid these foods if you want to really start to get lean, and get your body ready. So the Top 10 Toxic Foods, we’ll link to this article, and it’s on Dr. Pompa’s website, drpompa.com, D-R-pompa.com. But these kind of toxic foods—and I don’t need if I need to mention all ten of them, but some of these keys ones, I think, are just really key to debloat and lose weight. So first toxic food would be grains so you want to tell us why that leads to weight gain and the issues with grains?
Dr. Pompa:
I think that in that subject we’ve talked a lot about grain, right? I think that grain is become more of popular today. Hold on. Let me back up. It’s probably more gluten, right? Some people think it’s just gluten. We wrote an article, I don’ t know, this, probably, past year, and it was It’s Not Just Gluten, right. And we talked about all of the pitfalls of grains.
Look, the first argument is this. I don’t care what society you’re in. I don’t care if you believe in low-carb, high-carb, whatever it is. Today humans as a population—I don’t care what type of genetics you are. Humans today eat too many grains, bottom line. We ingest too many carbs. Even what they would consider a low-carb diet in many of the studies is still a high-carb diet according to human standards, right? I always say that, look, you can’t pick one diet for everybody. Some people can do better with higher carbs, higher fat, higher protein, but today everybody really is consuming higher carbs.
But here’s the thing, Meredith. Everybody looks at the sugar, the sugar, the sugar, and I’m not making an argument for sugar. Sugar is really bad, but the hidden sugar is grains. Grains raise glucose more than sugar. I mean, Bill Davis made it popular. That two slices of whole, whole grain bread is equivalent to drinking a 12 ounce soda as far as what it does to your glucose. Look, you want to get fat fast, eat grains. In the summertime, people eat far more grains, and Meredith, probably—and the big surprise is in the form of chips. So people eat a lot of the chips, and the salsa, and stuff.
Meredith:
The cookouts, the barbecues. Yeah.
Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely, yeah, so quickly, GMOs, we have this surge when they’re eating chips of all the—GMO is the genetically modified organisms in the corn. If it’s not 100% organic, you’re ingesting GMO corn, massive problems with that. It causes leaky gut, causes massive weight gain because of it, autoimmune. The list goes on. So there is multiple problems with grain. Yes, it’s a glucose riser and a super sugar because of the hybridization. In the 70's, 80's, they hybridized grain. They changed grain. It is now what we call a super sugar. That’s why it raises glucose more than…
Warren:
Uh-oh, we lost Dr. Pompa. He’ll come back on.
Meredith:
All right, he will.
Warren:
There was an experiment, speaking of grains—and the other big important thing about grains—and I know a lot about this topic, obviously. It’s a big one. It’s the one that saved my life, just eliminating those grains. I talked to a couple gentlemen yesterday, and it’s amazing to me, Meredith and David, how people just don’t understand how addictive grains are, bread. Even whole healthy grains, how addictive it is. The dopamine spike, the insulin and glucose spike, obviously, that leads to so many weight gain.
If I go away—and sometimes if I go away, I’ll do a diet variation, and I’ll eat healthy bread for a course of four days, possibly. In that four days, I probably gain four pounds of fat just from eating, maybe, two pieces of bread with dinner. And then maybe some non-GMO risotto at a nice restaurant, and do some more carbs. And it’s amazing how much fat it puts on me immediately. If I ate bread, one slice of bread every day, I would gain—in the next month, I would gain at least 10-15 pounds.
David:
But I think it puts your whole body in the whack too.
Warren:
Yeah, inflammation.
David:
Yeah. I mean, you and I have talked about with—if I do the same thing, I experience the same thing. Here’s a question I have.
Warren:
Yeah, you did. You went on a little thing there, and you gained 20 pounds again.
David:
Well, 15, but close to it.
Warren:
And then you went back to your fasting, and it melted away.
David:
Just like that. Now here’s a question for you. They advertise GMO-free organic bread. Now, organic bread, it’d still be the hybridized wheat, which still causes the problems. Correct?
Warren:
Yeah, I mean, typically you use more whole healthy grains, but that’s what Dr. Pompa’s point was. It doesn’t matter what kind of grain. An organic grain, some of the more ancient grains have more fibers and stuff in it. Kamuts, is that what’s it called, Meredith?
David:
Kamut.
Meredith:
Yeah, mm-hmm, kamut.
Warren:
Kamut grain, and then the other one is….
David:
Kaniwa.
Warren:
It’s come out of Italy.
Meredith:
Farro.
Warren:
Farro, is it farro? So some of those are better, also, obviously, spelt, and the reason those are better they just have more fiber. More things to knock down that glucose spike, but—ah, there he is. Good. So the organic healthy grains, if you go and get your organic gluten-free bread, that’s potato starch, tapioca sugar, tapioca starch, you’re spiking your glucose like crazy, and you’re pounding on the fat. Your body is storing fat in the response to this massive insulin and glucose spike. So that’s very, very key. So your body adapts by storing fat. But if you want to get lean through the summer, cut out the grains. Dr. Pompa, you were saying—GMOs.
Dr. Pompa:
Hi, buddy. Well, hello. Good morning. Good morning, sleepy.
Warren:
Dr. Pompa’s got his puppy. He’s happy.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I know. He came up to me. We’re having technical difficulties today. Is everyone else on?
Meredith:
Yeah.
Warren:
You might want to turn your picture off Dan, maybe, and just do the—I don’t know how to do that, but just do your…
Dr. Pompa:
My signal’s strong. I think there’s something malfunctioning in my computer.
Warren:
We’ve got the computer malfunction. We understand. I had that this morning.
David:
When in doubt, reboot.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, a cat laid on my computer, and he got it wet, so.
Warren:
Those animals and you want more in your house, I know, more problems.
Dr. Pompa:
Okay, are we good?
Warren:
Yeah, you’re good, go for it.
Dr. Pompa:
If you want more problems, have more kids.
Warren:
That’s anti-scriptural, Dr. Pompa. The Bible says…
Dr. Pompa:
Animals are easy. They’re easy.
Warren:
Comparatively, yes. So you were talking about GMOs, and leaky gut, and weight gain.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, there’s multiple problems with grains. That’s the issue is that there’s so many hidden things in the grains. I mean, they were hybridized. Sixties, 70's, 80's, all the way to the 90's these grains have been hybridized. They’ve been changed. And now they’ve become super sugars. So they’re glucose risers. That’s why they raise glucose more than regular sugar. Not to mention the fact that we have GMOs that started after the hybridization phase so big thing to avoid. So we have a lot to go over, so move on.
Meredith:
Yeah, and just case you’re wondering what to do, okay, if you’re equated in grains, we just put out an article about two weeks ago or so, and it’s on Dr. Pompa’s website. And there’s just a lot of ideas for great meals that don’t incorporate grains. So, for example, instead of that hamburger with the hamburger bun at a picnic you could do a lettuce wrap. Instead of a little pizza for dinner you can do a portabella mushroom as the crust. And I made a great pizza last night too without any grain in it, so I’ll be putting that recipe out on the website. We’ll try to get that out today too for you.
Warren:
What were you using? The cauliflower, or is it like coconut, or…
Meredith:
No I used coconut flour and arrowroot starch for the crust.
Warren:
Oh, good.
Meredith:
And it was awesome. More of a flatbread but—yeah, so we’ll get that out for you. Another topic…
Warren:
What’s the name of that article, Meredith? Because that’s a—it is a powerful article.
Meredith:
It’s Eat Fat, Lose Fat: Meal Ideas and Recipes. And yeah, that’s on the website. So some other toxic things you need to avoid to lose weight. Vegetable oil is a big one, so you want to talk about that Dr. Pompa?
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, as we mentioned, that everyone’s ingesting all the chips, and crackers, and these things that we eat at barbeques. They’re just, generally, in the summer. They’re loaded with vegetable oil. Vegetable oil will drive cellular inflammation. Look, cellular inflammation is the cause of hormone resistance. Insulin, leptin, ghrelin, every hormone involved in weight loss, thyroid hormone.
So the problem today isn’t about lacking hormones as much as it is the cell not hearing the hormones because it’s inflamed. Well, vegetable oil is one of the big drivers of this problem. So avoid it like the plague, and it’s hidden in the forms of canola oil and many other things. So know what you’re eating. Read the ingredients.
Meredith:
Yeah, soy bean oil. And it’s true, and so many restaurant meals in restaurants do use those toxic vegetable oils. So really important to avoid those and…
Warren:
I’m going to make a point on oils and fats because this always goes through my head. Folks think fried foods are bad so fat is bad, right? So they think it’s the fat in the fried foods that they’re avoiding because people avoid—I just got rid of fried foods, and I lost weight. Well, it’s not because it was the fat in the oil. It was because of the denatured canola vegetable oil blend that they’re cooking it in that’s so stinking denatured and so toxic to your cells that your body can’t hear—it takes, whatever, 300 and almost a year to get rid of it all on the cell membrane, causing cellular inflammation, causing hormone receptor—hormone issues so that you can’t burn fat for energy so that you can’t metabolize fat. Your hormones can’t hear correctly. That you insulin can’t get into the cell to let sugar in, that opening block, like a key, to let sugar. I mean, that’s the issue. So we think it’s the fat, but really, it’s not the fat. If you eat fat, you’ll lose weight, but if you eat bad fats, fried foods that have denatured fats, that’s the culprit. Just like Dr. Pompa said.
Meredith:
Yeah, it’s so true. But good fats are so key to weight loss, another 180° Solution. So coconut oil is a great thing to use. I fry a lot of my foods in coconut oil. Grass-fed butter is awesome as well. MCT oil, which we have here in our store, is one of my favorite things for fat burning. MCT, it stands for medium chain triglycerides, and they’re the type of fatty acids that compose about 60% of coconut oil. But when you ingest this MCT oil, which is clear and has no flavor, it’s just really easy. You can mix it right into your coffee or tea in the morning, and it goes right into the liver. It gets really quickly metabolized, so it’s not stored as fat. And it also helps your liver to produce ketone bodies, which are the preferred source of fuel for your brain. It’s just awesome stuff, and it’s really, really amazing for fat burning so just a really good fat to keep in mind to help with accelerating weight loss.
Warren:
Meredith, you sound like Dr. Pompa. Holy cow, look at you. You’re throwing stuff out there that I forgot.
Meredith:
Oh, I’m just trying to learn.
Warren:
It’s amazing. You’re not trying. You are. You’re learning it sister.
Dr. Pompa:
One of the things though—we have other topics we have to move into, but one of the hidden dangers in the summer, and this is probably the most toxic of all the things that we talked about, grilling. When you grill on outside grills, it’s the HCAs that—these things. What is it? Heterocyclic amines, it’s the charring that happens on the meat. So when you put your burger and your chicken on the grill—look, there’s more studies, actually, showing that the cancer causing properties of that. I mean, it’s ridiculously high. I mean, you might as well just eat heavy metals. You might as well just eat other things because those things are actually more toxic.
So people don’t realize that when you’re eating that burnt stuff from a grill—even the smoke that comes from the grill because of the charring on the grill goes into the food, and that’s the flavor that people like. But it’s cancer causing. It’s extremely toxic. It cost your body days of upregulating glutathione and detox pathways just to get rid of that stuff. So you all know I don’t eat food from a grill. It’s something I just don’t do because of the multiple things that I’ve read about the dangers of that. Stay away from it. Cook it on the inside. Have fun outside.
Warren:
Another thing before we wrap that up. There’s a really important—two important points I want to make that move into the summer months, and just show you the importance of eating healthy fats. There’s a company called Skinny Coconut Oil. The reason they named it Skinny—we carry it on revelationhealth.com. The reason they call it Skinny—and it got on Oprah or something, so they even raised their prices a little bit. But is that people were eating it, and they’re actually getting skinny because of it upregulating your metabolism, because you’re getting the healthy fats.
And the other benefit for you, for all of us—I’m in my—I’m early 40's. I’m 40 years old. Of course, brain function is so important, and there’s studies on coconut oil and MCT oil for brain function. We had Ruth here last night, Dr. Pompa, and she’s like,” Oh, my gosh. I’ve been just doing that coconut oil.” She’s lost like—I don’t know how—like 75 pounds and she couldn’t walk. She had joint pains before she started eating the Cellular Healing Diet. She was just telling her story that she was so sick before she met you Dr. Pompa, and—but that coconut oil, she talks about brain function and not having brain fog is really key.
Dr. Pompa:
Do you know why that is? Because medium chain triglyceride and it burns, it causes a fat burning, okay, because the body, literally, wants to burn fat when you take in these medium chain triglycerides. The byproduct of fat metabolism is something called ketones. Ketones, the brain loves. It heals the brain, which when we talk about diet variation, we put people often times in keto-adaptation. Where we get their cells to be a fat burner and not use sugar. Therefore, they make more of these ketones, which has a healing effect on the brain. It’s an instant effect. People notice the difference right away when they eat those types of fat burning fats.
Warren:
And the last fat point that I think is really key—and Dr. Pompa, you taught me this, and man, the difference it makes. I’m really fair-skinned. I burn really easily, or at least, I used to. And it’s amazing. I was out five hours on a boat and got cooked because I was being dumb, and most people would’ve been in the hospital for—I mean, you can see how white I am. I’m as white as white can get. I’m almost a redhead white. But I’m a very light-skinned, Northern Italian gene, or something going on here. But I don’t have the ability—I burn really easily. So these high fats, when you’re out sunbathing, Dr. Pompa, tell them how important that is to the cells. Not getting age spots, obviously, and then, also, not burning as easily.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, it’s a really easy thing to use coconut oil or shea butter, both really amazing fats that have a natural blocking of the sun. But the big misconception—and I don’t want to get to far off track here, but sunblock that you buy in the store, does it keep you from burning? Yes. But the problem is is it allows the—it blocks the UVB rays. That’s the ones that burn you, but the ones that actually cause cancer are the UVA rays. And it doesn’t block those so people stay out longer with sunscreen on. And they’re actually increasing the damage and, obviously, the dangers of cancer because they’re getting more of the UVA rays.
And again, I believe, just like in nature, there’s a balance. The UVB rays are there to let us look at ourselves, and realize, okay, we need to move out of the sun. I mean, so together, the UVA and the UVB make up a perfect balance. And you get that balance when you utilize the natural oils whereas when you use synthetics, you don’t get the balance. You’re getting more of the UVAs. So I believe there’s greater danger for sun cancer—skin cancer and other damage when you actually utilize those. And again, that’s not my opinion. There’s many studies on the dangers of sunscreen from a chemical standpoint and because it only blocks one of the rays so good thing for summer. Go ahead, Meredith. Take us to the subject.
Meredith:
Yeah, a couple more, just toxic foods to avoid and then we’ll move on to something else. But avoiding conventional meats and dairy, really, really important over the summer too to help you lose weight. What’s the problem with those conventional meat and dairy products?
Dr. Pompa:
Well, they’re loaded with grain. So now we bring up our grain topic, right. Conventional meat is grain-fed, all the wrong fats, all the wrong ratios. Again, the list goes on. Toxic meat, toxins are the number one cause of cellular inflammation, and therefore, weight gain. So when we say cellular inflammation, we’re talking hormone resistance. We’re talking not just weight gain, but a drop in energy. Don’t feel well.
And really, the true cause of most diseases is in fact inflammation. So that’s a big reason to avoid those toxic meats. And they are loaded with chemicals from steroids, hormones, but the hidden danger is the fact that they’re grain-fed. They’re not meant to eat grain, and that’s a big problem.
Warren:
And you hear about it all the time, Dan. I was talking to someone the other day, and he’s like, “Oh, you know, I”—oh, I know who it was. But it was from—I think you know who it was now, but it was at where we were just at a little bit ago, and one of the leaders there said, “Oh, yeah. I’ve got my mom to stop eating dairy, and she lost 15 pounds, 20 pounds just like I did. We stopped eating dairy, and then we lost all this weight.” Now, the reason they lost weight, why we’re telling you to avoid toxic dairy, non-grass-fed dairy, is because, yeah, the conventional dairy that Dr. Pompa’s talking to you about, it’s not like a vegan diet or whatever. Get off of all animal products. If you eat raw grass-fed cheeses, and dairy, and grass-fed meat, you actually lose weight the research would show. But if you’re eating the toxic conventional dairy, you actually gain weight. So when they removed that from their diet, got her mom to remove that, she lost weight because, again, the cause of weight loss resistance is inflammation and hormone dysregulation. So I want to make that important point. We can’t drive that home enough. Removing dairy from your diet is a bad idea. Removing toxic conventional dairy from your diet is a great idea.
Dr. Pompa:
It’s one of the most toxic foods because of what they do to the animals in multiple ways, and it comes through in the meat. But real dairy, I mean, every healthy culture on the planet ingests it, but again, you have to find the real deal. So it’s important.
Meredith:
It’s key. All right, so review. So toxic foods, so to really—to lose weight, we’re going to drop the grains. Get rid of the conventional and toxic vegetable oils. Drop the refined sugar, which goes along with the grains as well. And switch from conventional meats and dairy to grass-fed, pastured, cultured, really healthy sources of animal products so awesome. All right, so some toxic foods to avoid, but what’s next? All right, so you…
Warren:
A little incentive real fast because we just said that and most people are like, “Yeah, I can’t do that because I’m addicted to sugar.” But you can expect—and some people, if you’re overweight, you may—if you start eating this way and getting rid of those things—not that losing weight means health. Not that losing weight is calorie restriction. You’ll never lose weight. I’m not saying that, but you could lose up to a pound a day when you do that. Especially if you’re toxic and eating a lot of these toxic things. Your body will respond and be very happy. So try and incentivize, you guys. If you do this stuff, you can lose a lot of weight in that first month, and be ready for the July summer months coming up.
Meredith:
Yeah, it can be very dramatic. And you feel so much better, and your brain starts to work better. And it’s such a win-win. So but you got to jump in, and make the commitment. You can do it. All right, so next, to another just really relevant topic and trick, I think, that really makes sense, so you’re—so you implement some of these diet strategies, and maybe you’re not seeing quite the results you’d like to see. Dr. Pompa has a little trick, and it’s called diet variation. So you want to tell us about that Dr. Pompa.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean diet variation, I believe, this is what something that humans are just meant to do. In the—our ancestors, they had to diet varied because they had to. Meaning, things changed. They didn’t have certain foods at certain times. Whether it was from the weather, or whether it was just from scarcity. But diet variation we know works for people who can’t lose weight and weight loss resistance.
So what do we mean by that? Meaning that, look, there’s a lot of talk about lowering carbs to the point of keto-adaptation. We love that, right? There’s major benefits. I put people in and out of keto-adaptation, which I call an Advanced Cellular Healing Diet because it heals the brain. It heals other things. I mean, major benefits occur during times of ketosis.
But here’s what happens. The body goes through an adaptation survival when you switch from diet to diet, meaning that you start to now raise your carbohydrate intake to healthy carbohydrates but a higher level of them. Just like what happened in the old days. So winter would come. It would force people to eat mostly meats and fats because they could store those. They had the animals. They didn’t have the fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. Spring comes, and now they’re so sick of the meats and the fats, now they switch to a higher carbohydrate diet.
Again, higher in their terms is not higher today, but that variation would actually do some amazing things in the body. The body’s hormones would shift in this adaptation. And we would see this amazing shift occur where people would become lean again. Even on a higher carbohydrate diet. I discovered this, really, by accident. Putting people into keto-adaptation, some people wouldn’t go in. They wouldn’t become these efficient fat burners, and again, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, we have two articles on keto-adaptation. Read them.
But people wouldn’t go into this fat burning stage, and I would—after four months of them being very strict, lowering their carbs under 50, even under 20 or 30, or 30 or 20, they still would not go in. Then we would—I said, okay, let’s bring them back to a regular Cellular Healing Diet, which is little higher in healthy carbs. Now, all of a sudden, they would lose five, ten pounds where they weren’t able to when they first started the diet months ago. All of a sudden, it would stop, that five or ten pounds. So another three, four months, I said, “Now let’s go back into ketosis. And low and behold, they would go into ketosis, and they would break right in like it was no problem. And they would lose weight in that diet.
So I learned to vary the diet utilizing this adaptation that our bodies are set up to do. To change diets. Hormones go up in these states, evidently, and that is a key, a trick to losing weight. Vary your diet. I believe it’s adaptation. I believe it’s all about hormone manipulation. But all I know is this. There’s very little in the scientific literature about this, but my belief is is it is hormone manipulation. It is about survival, and what the body does in times of plenty, in times of starvation. And it moves the hormones.
And I said it a zillion times. The key to weight loss is more about hormones than even what you eat. Diet variations proved my point. Really, I think that it’s deserving that one day I will write a book just about diet variation. That’s how well it works. So right now, I’m back into ketosis. Through most of the winter, I went higher healthy carbs. I raised my carbs up to about 150 healthy carbs a day, which by the way, was actually a little harder for me, and then even when I’m in ketosis. Now I’m under 50 carbs a day, back into ketosis. So that benefit is really neat to see. So that’s diet variation, and we did write an article on that, Meredith.
Meredith:
Yeah, check it out, and it works. It’s just such an awesome trick, so try it for yourself.
Warren:
I have one other thing I want to add to that because—and I’ve seen this in your clients over and over again. I remember in the clinic. The diet variation also goes with the food allergy thing. Because if you have a food allergy—say you’re eating corn chips all the time, and we’ve had clients like this. They’re eating corn chips every day, every day. They tried every diet on the planet, and they still can’t lose weight. They cut out the corn chips, and all of a sudden, the weight starts blowing off of them. Even in the Cellular Healing Diet Program.
So what happens is if—with leaky gut, glyphosate, a lot of us have leaky gut. I still have a little bit of a leaky gut, and I’ve been at this along time. It takes a long time to heal, man. It takes seven years for your cells to turn over in your body, so it is a process of doing the right things over and over again, day-by-day, step-by-step, and you get there. But the food allergies from a leaky gut causes what, Dr. Pompa? Inflammation and then inflammation can cause hormone dysregulation, so you can’t lose weight. So diet variation and switching the foods that you’re eating and the types of foods that you’re eating goes along with a little bit of different concept, but don’t eat the same dang foods every day. If you can’t lose weight—go ahead Dan.
Dr. Pompa:
When you look at most of those allergies tests, people are allergic to the foods they eat all the time. There’s a danger in people who just eat the same food day in, day out, the same diet year after year. I believe it’s unhealthy. You need to vary your diet. It really makes a difference. It really does. I mean, there are seasons. It’s seasonal. Things grow.
Now there’s today because we can get fruit in the winter. In the old days you couldn’t do that. I mean, there was just certain times that certain things grew. So diet variation is how our human bodies are set up. And Meredith, we see—and we talked about this in the article. Even when we have someone in ketosis, keto-adaption, one day a week doing a high carb day, that diet variation kicks weight loss in like crazy. I mean, two days after I do a high-carb day when I’m in ketosis, two days later, I mean, I am leaner visibly. Vascular, the difference is crazy.
Why? Because I told my body it’s not starving. I told my body it has plenty. And what happens? Hormones adjust. The body burns fat. When you stay in ketosis without any higher carb days, the body starts to get nervous. The body wants to hold onto fat because it knows it’s only energy source is fat when you’re in ketosis, so it wants to hold onto it.
And it does very clever things to survive. It will make—it will blunt some insulin receptors. It will plug fat cells with water, so here someone is in this only burning fat mode of ketosis, and yet, they start gaining a little weight around their waist. Why is that? Survival, it’s about hormones. How do you beat it? Vary the diet. You want high-carb days once a week. Even a whole day of fasting once a week. That’s variation.
It works. It works every time. Read the article. It’s a really, really good article.
Meredith:
Yeah. And the variation principle is the same with exercise as well. If you’re exercising in the same way all the time, are you going to get results? No. They’re going to stop. So you want to talk about why that happens?
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. I mean, again, it’s the stress, rest philosophy. In other words, when you’re doing the same exercise day in, day out, or every time you exercise, it really doesn’t bring much stress, a healthy stress, to the body. Remember, how you get stronger is adapt to stress, right? I mean, athletes know that they really make good progress when they’re resting. Not when they’re exercising. But if you don’t stress the body enough, then there’s nothing to adapt to. It doesn’t get stronger.
When you vary the exercise, the body has to adapt, change, adapt, change. The same is happening with the diet. The body has to change and adapt, and it does it with hormones, same with exercise. After you do a new workout, and it’s a stress, the body raises up growth hormones, testosterone. The key is variation.
Meredith:
Mm-hmm. And this perfectly leads into our next trick for weight loss is fasting and burst training. So you want to tell our viewers how that works to really accelerate weight loss?
Dr. Pompa:
I already opened it up by saying the trick to really being lean and breaking weight loss resistance is hormones, right? Well, a trick is when you exercise on an empty stomach. Again, it’s all about survival and hormone adaptation. The body goes, uh-oh, we are lacking energy. You’re burning up your stored sugar, your glycogen, right? What happens is it raises up its growth hormone to hold onto the muscle, and therefore, it goes into this major fat burning mode. So exercising on an empty stomach is actually magic to raise growth hormone, anabolic hormones, to kick your body into fat burning. Not just for that moment, but for 36 hours. And that’s really the magic of burst training.
High-intensity training burns the sugar. Not the fat. And then your body has to replace that stored sugar. Why? It’s about survival. It knows it needs it, and fight or flight. So to do that it raises up growth hormone and anabolic hormones just so it could become an efficient fat burner to replace it. It burns the fat. It doesn’t want to burn the muscle to replace the stored sugar that it needs to survive.
So it’s hormone manipulation, exercising your stomach. So I intermittent fast daily. I don’t eat breakfast. So I eat dinner. I fast all through the night. I fast through the morning, and I love to exercise. I’ve been too busy lately to do this, so I’m off my game. But I love exercising sometime in the morning on an empty stomach. You get the growth hormone spike, and it really makes a difference for people who struggle to lose weight.
Meredith:
Yeah, it really does. Doing it on a fasted stomach, it makes…
Warren:
I’m doing better already through the summer just listening to you guys.
Dr. Pompa:
There’s an article that I wrote, and I talked about—it wasn’t—it talked about skinning, right, and there’s me with the top of the mountain with my…
Meredith:
We’re going to link to that, yeah.
Dr. Pompa:
Exactly, we’ll link to that article, and I talked about that principle. So try it. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Meredith:
Yeah. And it goes against all of the conventional wisdom too of eating before you exercise, eating after you exercise. It’s totally a different concept, but…
Warren:
It’s a 180°.
Dr. Pompa:
180° concept.
Meredith:
It’s a 180° concept, and it really works. So yeah, so we’re going to link to the article, and you can read a little bit more about that. It’s your first time watching, you’re like, “What are you talking about, intermittent fasting and burst training?” Well, we’re going to break it down a little bit more, and you can link to those—all right, we’ll link to those articles.
Warren:
Is that going out in an email, Meredith?
Meredith:
It will be going out in an email. I think we’re shooting to get it out either today or tomorrow. And we’re going to have these four articles we’re referring to. So the top ten toxic foods to avoid, diet variation, fasting and burst training, and how that really affects your brain and your body for weight loss, for increased brain function. And then this last little article we’re going to link to is top ten travel tips to staying healthy while you’re on the road.
Warren:
Some of our viewers aren’t on our email list. How do they get on our email list, Meredith?
Dr. Pompa:
Oh, good point.
Meredith:
Go to our website, all right.
Warren:
I was testing you, Meredith. You’re so sweet.
Meredith:
Yeah, I failed. I failed the test.
Warren:
That is so sweet of you. You’re a good customer service. That’s why you’re such a team player. But I mean, you could write Meredith if you want to. That’s fine. But go to our website, D-R-P-O-M-P-A-dot-com. And there’s multiple ways to opt in. The ones that I love is just that you get a free eBook.
And so find that little link on our website, and it’s right there on the sidebar, and then you—on the right side of the website. You click on that. Put in your email. And then if you put your email right now, you’ll be getting our emails immediately right after that, so we’ll attach this next article.
Meredith:
Yeah, be on the lookout.
Dr. Pompa:
We call Meredith our little action hero. Give it one of these for us now. Let’s just see what you’ve got there. Look at that girl. She is ripped.
Meredith:
Well, I haven’t even been exercising too. I know, like you said, I haven’t burst trained for a good while, but when you change your diet and you just—you really make the commitment, you don’t need to exercise as much as you think you need to maintain a lean body. Because the diet, it seems, what, 70-80% of your physique is just really determined by what you eat. And yes, the exercise is so important. Fasting, and burst training, and even some endurance work is really important as well, but so much of how you look is just predicted by what you eat. I know we say the same thing all the time, but people need to hear it.
Warren:
It’s a process, day-by-day, man.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, Meredith’s right. I mean, people think that the lack of exercise is why they’re fat. Uh-uh, zero. Exercise is the cherry on the top. Exercise, we love it. It’s good for many things. However, the key to weight loss is the hormones and more diet than it is exercise.
Warren:
I told—this is good story. I think it’ll add some value to those watching just to break out of their mindsets. I talked to two very overweight fellas the other day, and I’m like, why do you think—I asked them, why is running—if you thought you were going to lose weight, what would you think of doing? Exercising more, going out for a run. That’s how you lose weight. That’s how you’re healthy. And again—and the reason why folks my age, a little bit younger, all the way into your 60's, they were taught through TV, through aerobics, through burning exercise with –what’s his name?
-Cross talk-
Warren:
Richard Simmons, all this stuff. They really believe that it’s—and then the weight lifting movement. Eating just high protein, and rice, and then just burning tons of calories. And that’s how we were raised. We were raised to believe that. So you have a culture code, they call it.
And America still markets to you that way. Nike does. All these people, they market to you. You go out and buy a pair of running shoes, and you’re going to lose weight. You’re going to look better. You’re going to be great. That’s in your mindset. You’ve been brainwashed to believe that.
So I’m telling you this right now. We are telling you this right now on Cellular Healing TV, and you’re going, nah, it’s not true. And how I know that is I’ve talked to my brother, my family members, people who believe this brainwashing that you’ve gotten over the last 20 years. That exercise and running equals weight loss. It’s a culture code. Rocky, Rocky I, through Rocky V, through Rocky VII has taught you that. It’s wrong. It’s bad science. It’s not even science at all.
And it’s still being taught, and we’re drinking that Kool-Aid. So stop drinking that Kool-Aid. Kool-Aid does make you gain weight because it’s sugar. So you want to stop drinking that, and you want to stop believing what you were taught over those 20 years.
Dr. Pompa:
Rocky actually also started people drinking raw eggs so good point. You’d be better off drinking the raw eggs. So we’ll give Rocky some kudos, but I would tell you if you drink too many raw eggs, you could actually have a biotin deficiency, just saying. But anyway, so those are 180° concepts, man. We always say it. But okay, sake of time here, we have a few minutes left to hit some of these travel tips, Meredith, and there’s nobody that travels more than me. And I don’t go off my plan, right? I mean, how is it possible? And I hear it all the time when people go on vacation in the summer. Their diet falls apart. They come back thinking they’re going to get back on it. But now their cravings are back, and they fall off, and it happens all the time, so what do you do, Meredith?
Meredith:
Yeah. Well, what do you do? Because, I think, yeah, we do kind of the same thing. You stayed prepared. You’re prepared. I never go on a trip if I, especially on a flight, if I don’t’ have healthy snacks and healthy fat as well. Sometimes—last time, when we were just in Atlanta for the last seminar, I took a little jar of coconut butter, and I just had that straight up. Sometimes I like to mix a little sea salt with it, but I keep it in my purse. So if I am hungry, or I feel like my blood sugar’s dipping a little bit, I just have a couple spoonfuls of coconut butter, and it really helps me feel good. Helps me turn my brain back on and give me energy until we get to the next meal or until the next time when I can actually have a real meal. So that’s a little trick that I use.
So what are some things that you take with you as you travel? But when you’re fasting, as well, you don’t—and you’re in that ketogenic fat burning zone, you can go for much longer periods without eating, and you’re blood sugar remains stable. And you don’t need to eat as much, or feel victim to airport food.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly. I can travel, and I usually use that as a fasting day. I don’t eat. I can go hours and hours without eating, and my body just burns the fat, so it keeps my blood sugar very level. That’s the key to anti-aging. Keep your glucose and insulin level. That’s key. And you’re right. You being an efficient fat burner, that’s a hormonal thing. That’s the key to that.
But what do I do? I mean, first of all, today it’s so easy. Every city I go in you can find healthy restaurants. Look, when in doubt, meat and vegetables. Nix the bread. In almost every restaurant today, I mean, they’re having grass-fed things. Carl’s Jr. has grass-fed burgers for goodness sakes. A hundred percent grass-fed, that’s what they’re saying. I haven’t looked into it enough to know is that true or not? But they advertise 100% grass-fed. I mean, Carl’s Jr., I mean, this is a fast-food restaurant. So I mean, this is—it’s easy to do. Most lamb on the menu—let’s say they don’t have grass-fed. Lamb is grass-fed. So there’s so many things. You could do a chicken salad. I mean, look, there’s a thousand things to do when you’re traveling to not break the diet. I think in the article you gave some other tips. So give them—I mean, traveling with stuff is key. I mean, you can always bring your foods in case you get trapped. I bring my powders, my weight proteins, things like that, but it’s so easy to eat healthy today.
Meredith:
Yeah. There’s really no excuses anymore. So if you keep your healthy snacks with you, you can make good choices at restaurants, sticking to protein, vegetables, and good fat. And there’s really no excuse.
Warren:
I have a little daughter, and we always have to bring snacks. We’re always bringing blocks of raw organic grass-fed cheese. We bring that block with us, and leave it in there. We bring Mary’s Gone Crackers, which is a grain-less cracker made of seeds, and then we take nuts and seeds. And between those things, we could feed ourselves for half the day. I feed all three of us on a block of cheese, various nuts, cashews, almonds, walnuts, and there’s others, pecans. Obviously, all organic sprouted is better because it’s not hard—it’s harder to digest on your stomach. It doesn’t bloat you. So if you’re bloated by nuts, get the sprouted versions, and you’ll notice a massive difference there. But that’s what we do when we travel with the family.
Meredith:
The EPIC bars too. The meat bars from bison, grass-fed beef, and lamb. Those are a nice snack option as well.
Dr. Pompa:
The mistake most people make in restaurants, it’s the oils, right? If you hear us, we ask these questions. We ask, what’s the dressing? Can we have olive oil on the side, right, because dressings are a disaster. I mean, that’s where you’re going to get all your hidden sugars, artificial sugars, sweeteners. Colorings, bad fats, vegetable oils, it’s all in there. So do you have olive oil? Oh, yes. They bring out the olive oil. That’s what we do, right?
So leave that stuff off, and then you’re going to at least—look, you may not be able to get organic lettuce, but you eat 100% organic at home. When you’re on the road, do the best you can. But listen, again, today it’s easier and easier to get organic. It’s easier and easier to get grass-fed meat so not hard at all.
Warren:
I’m going to show you guys a tip, a look what we do. And everyone likes to know what Warren and Dr. Pompa do, but if you want to see how we store all of our nuts and seeds, you can see that we have almonds, walnuts, raisins, dates. I mean, those are sugar, but you can eat those sparingly. Those are more for my daughter or for baking. Organic cashews, organic raw pumpkin seeds, raw sunflower seeds, more pumpkin seeds, organic popcorn, pecans, Brazil nuts, chia seeds, cherries, there’s some other things, pinto beans, lentils, and we don’t eat a lot of that stuff, but right there you have diet variation, a whole bunch of different seeds, different B vitamins, all kinds of goodness. And that’s just one drawer in my house. So I thought that that would inspire some of you to run out there, and buy some mason jars, and kill it.
Meredith:
Right. I have a little question for you, Dr. Pompa, too. Sometimes while traveling, this is kind of relevant, if I have a meal that I don’t feel was healthy, and I knew that there was some not so good ingredients in it, sometimes I take the Bind product we have, which contains the super activated carbon charcoal to attach those toxins that I’ve ingested. To help them move out of my body a little more quickly. What do you think of that trick?
Dr. Pompa:
We do it too. All of us right here, we don’t travel without Bind, and I take more GCEL too just to keep my glutathione levels up. When I travel on airplanes, of course, GCEL is very important. Also, I take TMI iodine because you want to mitigate some of the radiation that you get from flying and traveling. That’s often times what makes people really feel bad and wiped out. It’s just the radiation amounts. The body’s not used to it.
Some people say what about flight attendants? Well, they actually raise up. They adapt to the radiation. People that live in elevation get more radiation but we adapt. So there is a protective mechanism, but when you’re not doing it all the time, you’re not adapted, so your body has to take the radiation hit. And that’s one way to mitigate some of that.
Warren:
What I do just as a—before I get on the plane I take two TMI. I’ll put two MoRS, two ROX antioxidants, again, sometimes GCEL as well, and I’ll stick those in my pocket. And before I get on—go through security—and sometimes I take them through security, but a lot of the times, before I get in security I pop all those, and then I’m good for the flight. And then I have some of those with me for the flight home just to protect myself when I’m flying. Because there are some more challenged folks that are out there that are traveling and they travel on it. And Dan, you know with me, I get so sick when I would travel. And I do that now, and I know I’m doing everything that I can for myself. I’m raising up my methylation. I’m raising up my glutathione levels taking those specific antioxidants. Just to melt down the oxidative stress of travel and the stress of getting ready to travel. As you know, packing your bags can be one of the most stressful things you can go do to your health.
Dr. Pompa:
That’s one of the most stressful things Warren does because he’s—I throw it in the bag. It takes me 20 minutes. I don’t even….
Warren:
I stress, and my wife packs most of it.
Dr. Pompa:
The ASEA is really good because…
Warren:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Dr. Pompa:
Redox molecules and it comes in travel packs, so you’ll see those in my bag all the time. The Redox molecules you need to make glutathione work. You need Redox molecules for cell-to-cell communication. So Redox really is the reduction and oxidation. You need the oxidation part to keep your immune system up. You need the reduction to reduce the inflammation. ASEA brings that perfect balance. And many people have normal glutathione levels, but they really don’t get the benefit of it because they’re lacking in Redox molecules. So it’s a product that I travel with everywhere I go.
Warren:
Yeah. That’s a very good product.
Dr. Pompa:
It really is. It’s an incredible product. We love it. I always say it’s the only product that really covers all of the 5R's, cellular healing and detox so an amazing product. If you went down in my kitchen, you’d see it down there. My kids take it. We take it. Most athletes love it, and that’s why I take it. Even for athletic performance. So another great tip. So I think we’re out of time.
Meredith:
It’s an amazing product, and you can learn more about that product on drpompa.com too, if you’re wondering what ASEA is. So yeah, so we’re going to send out this email. It’s going to talk about the toxic foods to avoid and diet variation, how to incorporate fasting and bursting to lose weight, and then some healthy travel tips. So be on the lookout for that.
Dr. Pompa:
All right, thank you, Meredith, that’s…
Meredith:
All right, thanks. It’s time leave.
Warren:
Good job, Meredith.
David:
Thanks, everyone.
Warren:
All right, have a great weekend.
Meredith:
Bye.
Warren:
Get healthy, all right, blessings. Bye.
