Ep. 8 - The Impact of Changes in Your Life on Overall Well-being

Changing life

Welcome to episode eight!

Today we are discussing changes in your life. What I mean by that is every single thing that you do to change your daily routine, your diet, your sleep schedule, your supplements, your medications, your work habits, what you sleep on, what you drive, your shoes—everything in your life that has an implication for your health is affecting your overall well-being.

Think about it like this.

You decide, "I need some new shoes." And you go to the store and you buy them. You try them on, you're like, "Oh, these feel great." And then two days later, your knee hurts. Or you buy a new mattress and they say, "We have a warranty, but you must sleep on the mattress for a minimum of 30 to 60 days," something like that.

Or you get a new car and you're trying to figure out your seat, you're fiddling with it, and you don't feel good. You see where I'm going with this? Basically, your body has to adjust to what's going on around you, what you're forcing your body to adjust to. You can't expect your body to function exactly the same way once you've changed things out of its norm.

So your diet or your health journey will change how you feel. Let's look at it like this. Let's say you decide, "I'm gonna go keto." Well, you could do that, but you must understand the implications, which we've talked about earlier, but basically, you need to know if you do that, your body's gonna change. This is one of the epitomes of natural health, like we talked about earlier.

You need to know what you're getting yourself into. This is more specific than that, meaning that if you want to change your diet, let's say you will have, let's just say consequences, if you know what I mean. Those consequences could be constipation or diarrhea. They could be headaches or muscle twitches or pain in the joints, low strength, tiredness, whatever, because you change things.

So you must be aware of the fact that any single input of change can change you. Shoes can make a dramatic effect on how you feel. Some people have no idea that their shoes are literally killing them. Your mattress you sleep on is literally killing you. You don't even know it. The car you drive, the seat is not set for you in what your body needs.

You think it's a car seat. Like what? Why would it be any different than any other one? Well, there are differences, and you can reset those. Some chiropractors will set those seats for you.

If you think that by changing your health program to something beneficial, let's say your food, your diet, supplements, exercise, etc., you must expect that things are gonna change and they're not always in a positive way. Some things will change in a positive way right away. Those things are awesome, but most things are not.

Most people live in what's called homeostasis. You must understand this concept. This is vital to understanding most things that you deal with on a regular basis. Anything living, for sure. It's called homeostasis. The living thing, whatever it is, is finding a balance. That balance is its comfort zone.

You know your comfort zone. I bet you. Well, that comfort zone translated is your homeostasis. It's where everything functions exactly the way the host wants it to. Some hosts don't want it to function in a comfortable state. It must be in an erratic state or an energetic state. Some want it very slow, very comforting, rest state. If you remember our conversation on the sympathetic. It must be in an erratic state or an energetic state. Some want it very slow, very comforting, rest state. If you remember our conversation on the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, this makes a lot of sense to you. Your body and other living organisms are always trying to find a balance, and their nervous systems, whether they're single-celled or multi-celled, are like everything else trying to find their balance.

When you decide to change something drastic, such as a diet or the nutrient profile that's entering your body on a regular basis because you started your new health journey maybe two weeks ago, you've fluxed more nutrition than you ever had before, or maybe you have had, but you decided to increase or change it up, so now the nutrient profile is different.

You must expect that things will change, and they will. You have to know what those changes could be. I'll help you with that in the future, but basically, you must know most people will feel negative. I am pushing this because this is the number one reason why people fail or think their program isn't working for them, or they believe they are allergic to certain foods or that those foods don't agree with them. Are you sure? Are you positive? Because a lot of times, it's not that you are sensitive to those foods, but that those foods have changed the way you feel.

Maybe they started cleansing you. Maybe they started healing you. Sometimes healing is painful. Most of the time, though, you're going to feel negative more than positive at first. That will change. You will get better, I promise.

Most negative states in the body will change. They will stop. Your body will repair itself. It'll change things. But if you keep doing the same things over and over and over again without change, that's creating a homeostasis. That homeostasis does not want to be interrupted. So this is where you need to think about if I have a can of Coke every single day for lunch, your creos stasis, midpoint of your day, you're putting in sugar. That sugar has an effect for the rest of your day until you go to bed. It could even affect you for the next several days, which, by the way, it does. It has carbonation, it has acids, the food you're eating it.

Foods have substances that will either interact with or they will cancel each other out. For example, if you eat an orange, you know the orange has sugar. I know some people don't realize this. It sounds so stupid. They think an orange is so healthy. It has sugar, and a lot of it. And you say, "But it also has vitamin C."

Well, it doesn't have as much vitamin C as you think, but okay, 60 milligrams on average. Did you know that vitamin C and glucose, being sugar, are almost the same? They compete with each other. You think you're getting 60 milligrams of vitamin C by eating an orange. You're. The glucose, the sugar, is much greater in orange and is canceling out the vitamin C for the most part. Not all of it, but for the most part, you must understand that items in your food compete with each other. And at other times, they work synergistically. That means things like fat and vitamin B1 work together. Protein and vitamin B1 work together, vitamins and minerals work together. For example, vitamin C and iron work together or compete depending on your health status, what you're doing, and what foods you're consuming.

I know this sounds really confusing at first, but understand that when you simplify your diet and remove things that compete, you can actually feel better.

Now let's talk about how things physically affect you in terms of exercise. Just by changing your exercise routine, you know, you feel more. So right there, your body has to adjust. There are physical changes going on with your muscles, ligaments, and tendons. You're putting pressure on areas that you've never put pressure on recently or ever before.

Your body has to adjust to that. It's sore, and it changes. If you think that if you just buy a better mattress and go back to exercise, if you just work out differently, you're going to get better results. Well, you will because your body has to adapt to the new changes. And those new changes could be much more beneficial for you.

And that's actually the key to physical changes. You want to stimulate different areas all the time so that you can be more well-rounded, which is much better for your health. You already know that. I don't need to go into that with you right now. I want to bring you the reality. And the reality is the things you don't think about, the things that you may not understand.

Exercise, in and of itself, is pretty easy to understand. Work out differently. You may not feel good for a little while, but then you decide you're going to buy a new mattress. Well, you need to be fitted for a mattress. I do have somebody that I work with who is the best mattress manufacturer, period.

You spend a third of your life sleeping. I know you've heard this in all the commercials and all this stuff. A third of your life sleeping, you've heard this your whole life. But have you actually really thought about it? A third of your life, everything that you've dealt with in your day has only been two thirds.

Your whole life, you've only experienced two-thirds, one third of your entire life you know nothing about. You can't remember all your dreams. And when you're not dreaming, you don't remember anything, you're in hibernation.

Most of your life is awake, but a huge portion isn't. But in that portion that isn't, that's where you repair. By the way, this is where you lose weight, while you're sleeping. Your body does not burn fat during the day all the time, it burns more fat while you're sleeping. It refreshes you, changes your brain chemistry, brain waves, and mitochondria. Plus, you have rest. You were designed to have rest. That rest is amazingly potent for your life. And if you can't rest properly, then you degrade, and if you degrade, you can't rebuild. You can see where this is going. Your sleep is—I'm gonna say this. Yep, I'm actually gonna say this. Your sleep is probably the most important thing in your life.

The more I learn about it and its effects on the body, I believe that it's the most important thing that you can concentrate on. The greatest thing about sleep is once you learn how to sleep properly, which is very easy, and we will have full sleep episodes in the future, it's very simple. You don't have to think about it.

It's not something you consciously have to do and work towards. You just do it, and it takes care of itself, which is pretty cool.

You literally just get ready for bed. You go to bed, and you wake up and you go on with your life. The two thirds are much harder. It's a war. It's every day dealing with all the crap that you don't want to deal with, plus all the stuff you do wanna deal with, all mixed in as one huge soup of life, two thirds of your life.

So the choices you make during the day have impacts on your sleep. During the day, the food you eat, the nutrition that you consume, the negative things that you consume, everything from food to beverages to physical exertion, to the air, to the water that you are in contact with. Think about it like if you took a really nice car, would you wash it with bleach or acid? Probably not. You would probably wash it with very mild soap. Why? Because you know that those other two compounds would destroy the car. Well, your life is everything you put into your body or on your body is either mild, maybe even beneficial, which we hope, or it ruins you. It destroys you. You have that choice. Two-thirds of your life can either be beneficial or destructive.

Let that sink in.

Alright, let's get a little bit more involved in the basics. Basic number one, your digestion. You decide you want to go on a diet because you heard this diet is fantastic and it's this and it's that. Okay. Well, we're going to get into real diets in the future and why you would want each one of them, and if you're going to do them, I'm going to help you or I want you to make the best of that diet.

Whatever you feel is necessary, there'll be some opinion in that, but for the most part, I'm going to make sure that you do that diet the best you can. We will get into all the different diets in the future. Dieting is probably the primary subject most people focus on, and they're right. What you put into your body, basically through food because it's a large quantity that you're putting in, has a big overall effect. Small quantities being supplements, for example, are small amounts that might be very strong and accumulate quickly, while some things will take longer. But basically, food and supplements are a little bit different based on their profile, what they can do for you, what they don't do.

You must understand that when you change your diet or the things you put into your gullet—yep, I just said gullet because it's a great word that's never used anymore—your gullet, what you put into your gullet, it's going to change your microbiome. Your microbiome doesn't like things it hasn't achieved homeostasis with, so when you say, "I'm going to become a carnivore," it's going I have issues with what you put into it.

Keto. It'll have its issues. Low fat, high fat, low protein, high protein. How about this one? If you think your microbiome does not change based on intermittent fasting, let me tell you, it has a huge impact. Sometimes it's positive, other times it's negative. Intermittent fasting is not all it's cracked up to be.

Intermittent fasting or fasting alone, we will talk about in the future pretty soon. In fact, not too far away. I'm going to help you understand what fasting does to your body and why, and if you should or shouldn't do it.

If you change your mattress, you're going to sleep differently. If you change your shoes, you're going to walk differently. If you change your food, you're going to digest differently. So what makes you think that if you change things in your life, you're not going to have some effect from it? You absolutely will have a negative effect from it.

So the point is to mitigate the negative effects and uplift the positives.

The reality is you can uplift the positives and down-regulate the negatives. You can do it. I will help you with this in the future.

Understanding the changes in your health each time you change something. Something large, something small, it doesn't matter. If you understand what those things could be, it's much easier to deal with. Now, you can't always know what those things are, but you can at least have the understanding that yes, I know if I change from stopping eating carbs, I'm probably going to go through withdrawals and I'm going to want every piece of sugar I can see.

If you decide, "I'm not going to do that," but if you decide, "I see that chocolate, I see those donuts, pizza, bread, whatever, and you decide those hurt me, I'm not going to do that anymore." Know that for a little while until your body adjusts, you're going to feel it, and it's not going to be pleasant. Other people don't feel anything.

It's weird. Some people just literally don't feel anything. That's great. I will say I'm kind of one of those people. I don't really have side effects when stopping or increasing certain things. I don't feel herbs, vitamins, and other things very often. That's just how it is. There's a small portion of people who have this situation. Other people might feel a little bit of something here and there, while others feel a moderate amount or experience side effects or positive effects very quickly. Those people are hypersensitive to these issues. This is part of the Foundation series, meaning if you don't understand that even small changes in your life can have effects, you might quit what you're doing and say, "I don't want to deal with this." It could be something so small but have a major impact on how you feel, just because you look at something in your diet or life and think it's inconsequential.

To how I feel, and you change just a little bit, it can have an effect on how you feel. You might say, "Oh, nope, I'm stopping right here. This is wrong." You can't always do that. You need to learn why that's happening. If you've been consuming high oxalate foods your whole life, that's an antinutrient in foods. Oxalates, oxalic acid. And if you decide to stop that, even slowly, you will feel it. So you might say, "Oh, well, whatever I'm doing isn't working because I feel bad." You feel bad because you're experiencing oxalate dumping. So the key is to know how to handle oxalate.

Oxalate dumping is a real situation. It's probably the worst feeling or experience you can have by changing up your diet. If you get rid of foods with oxalates, you will notice that, it's a fact. There's something you will notice. For me, I had my own issues when I stopped consuming oxalates. It was brutal. Other areas weren't brutal, they were a pain in the butt. You're going to deal with those other things that I got rid of. I didn't notice them at all, never felt a thing. Like I said earlier, I'm one of those people, I don't feel differences with a lot of things. But you could be more hypersensitive.

So I believe that the things you are more hypersensitive to, you will feel more when you eliminate or introduce them into your diet, supplements, or life.

This is one of those topics where...I could support it with hundreds of studies, thousands of anecdotal stories, and testimonies from people. But the bottom line is every change in your daily life in order to create health, you're going to have a side effect. It may be small, it may be large, or it may even be something you don't notice.

That's an absolute fact. I didn't notice some of the things for me. I do notice oxalates, but I don't notice other things.

You will experience changes, and you need to accept those changes, understand them, and learn about them. Once you learn about those changes, you'll know what they were associated with. Is it oxalates? Is it saponins? Is it tannins? Is it polyphenols? What is it? Once you understand, then you'll know that you shouldn't consume things that contain those substances.

Learning about these experiences is part of the journey to health. Most people don't realize that such small changes can have such a large impact on their lives. Other times, large changes have no impact at all. How does that work?

It's the human body. If you know how to mitigate symptoms, that's great. If you have no symptoms, that's awesome. That means you're good with those changes.

I know it seems like this is very simple, but this is one of those things that seems simple, yet it's one of the things people complain about the most. Why do they complain about it? Why do they worry about it? Why do they spend time wondering what the heck is going on when all they did was change something super small or something really significant?

Why is that? It's because little or large things can have small or large consequences on your journey.

The one thing that mystifies me more than anything else is the microbiome. When you change what you put into your body,

it's a mystery for many things.

Some of the smartest minds that understand the microbiome say, "I don't understand what's happening." Even people who study the microbiome on a daily basis don't understand what's happening. The microbiome is probably the most mysterious thing in your body. We probably know more about DNA than we do about the microbiome.

It's always changing. It's signaling and non-signaling. It is mysterious.

So what you consume will have a positive or negative impact on the biome. The biome determines how you feel, so being careful and understanding what you consume will help you avoid dealing with unwanted consequences or bring about positive changes.

This topic is so vast that I'll keep it to about a half an hour. However, understand that we will revisit it in the future because we will explore certain aspects in more detail. Those aspects are important, especially if you have a genuine interest in learning about this aspect of the body.

Minor changes can lead to major changes, and sometimes major changes can result in minor changes. Why would you think a major change would always lead to a major change? Well, most of the time, that's not the case. And you might expect a minor change to have only minor effects, but often it's not the case. It can create significant change. So it's an interesting phenomenon to explore.

It will help explain many more things than I have covered so far. But at least now you have the foundation. You understand that whether you make small or large changes in your life, there will be consequences or benefits. It may sound really simple, but think about it. Who has experienced major changes from a seemingly minor change in their life? You will see that it matters.

Alright, let's consider this a more nuanced approach to understanding that the choices you make for yourself have consequences.

In the future, we will delve deeper into this topic. But in the meantime, thank you for listening. This might be something new for you, although I'm pretty sure you already understand that when you make changes in your body, you're going to feel it. However, many people automatically assume that if they feel something, they should stop it. That's not always the case, and we will explore that further in the future. Thank you for listening, and stay tuned for more fascinating subjects in the future.