-: Large intestine.
This is where we're going to get
the last bit of our absorption.
The majority of our fermentation should occur here,
and the completion of phase three detox, which is pooping.
So, bifidobacteria ferment fiber here and they digest
resistant starch that creates short chain fatty acids
like butyrate and propynate and whatnot.
Those fatty acids tend to, they tend to be beneficial
to the intestinal lining and insulin sensitivity.
The insulin sensitivity may be direct-indirect
mechanisms going on at the same time,
because the health of the large intestinal lining,
this is where a lot of the electrolytes and minerals
and fluid are reabsorbed.
So basically, if you were looking at the constitution of,
you know, the small intestine when the food and chyme
is there, it's more liquidy, and like I said,
it's like, it's this, it's a straight lane, like no traffic,
and then when we get to the large intestine,
traffic gets slowed down and that's where, you know,
the, one of the mechanisms for slowing that down
is you start reabsorbing the liquid and that starts
becoming more solid stool as it goes through
the large intestine if things are working properly.
That's why there's a very important portion
of this where it is going up, right, 'cause the liquid
is not going to just travel north and, you know, go across.
So basically a lot of our water absorption
is going to be occurring on that portion of large intestine
that is traversing up, right, and then in that, you know,
it works slowly and the rest of it, just working to dung,
but because we're reabsorbing the water, we're,
this is where we're going to reabsorb a lot
of electrolytes, minerals, but it's also where,
if things go too slow, that we absorbed some
of that toxic bile and just things that we otherwise
wanted to eliminate, right, so constipation at the lower GI
leads to more bile recycling and toxic, toxin absorption.
Now, that can be a chicken or the egg scenario as well.
So a lot of times if we're pushing somebody into
a calorie deficit or they're training hard
or they're stressed and their digestive system slows down,
it is because their body's like, trying to all of a sudden
get more stingy and try and recycle more things
and absorb more things.
So focusing on good hydration and mineral
supplementation stuff can be a beneficial way
of kind of counteracting some of the symptoms
of the calorie deficit in terms of constipation there
because we'll be removing that like, oh, we need
to hold on to all of the electrolytes.
It's like, oh, we're getting plenty coming in the front end.
Cool, we can let a little bit more go out the back end.
So when we look at symptoms for large intestine,
we're looking at discomfort, pain, cramps
in your lower abdomen, colon area.
You can even be as specific as to like which side
that's on because you have that kind of like,
the portion that's going up, the ascending portion
of the large intestine versus the descending portion.
So typically like, you know, a lot of more,
more of your, like, you know, people that are passing bricks
will have more symptoms on the descending side.
Emotional stress or bloating, pain, cramps after eating
raw foods, vegetables, basically anything that's got a lot
of FODMAPs or a lot of fiber, right, so we can,
if you're getting too much fermentation
down in that large intestine, or you're not digesting
those things well or you have pathogens like,
different things can be going on.
So one of the things is if you have pathogenic bacteria
or parasites, a lot of times they can, they're, they're,
they, they're eating your food too so, but the difference
kind of, the difference between what makes something good
or bad for us in terms of, you know, the organisms
within us, really comes down to how much we like its poop.
That's like, good bacteria poop things we like.
Bad bacteria poop things we don't like.
So that, that's, maybe that's a little graphic
but that literally is what it is.
I mean, it's like, beneficial like bifidobacteria,
they eat the resistant starch and they poop
short chain fatty acids, and we're like,
yes, your poop is awesome, and you know, pathogenic stuff,
they poop things that are toxic to our
system and invoke inflammatory responses
and you know, all sorts of things.
So really, when we have an imbalance there
then when we eat those things that, that feed that,
if it's a really bad balance of bad to good,
which we're always going to have,
we'll say a symbiotic relationship to bad, good.
You're never going to have 100% good and no bad
because some things, even though they're bad
when they're high may not be bad when they're low.
So like an example is, there are certain things that like,
actually protect us from more aggressive
or even more detrimental pathogens and things like, like,
like, like H. pylori can be looked at as a pathogen
when it's overgrown, but at the right amount
at the right dosage, it can actually work as a gatekeeper,
and it can actually even protect us from some mercury,
you know, mercury sources, which is, you know,
a toxic heavy metal.
So same thing for candida, like candida overgrowth is bad.
Candida at a certain amount actually is like a way
of like, fending off, you know, think of it this way.
You know, you guys probably watch Avengers movies.
You love that, right.
So imagine let's, let's pick a, what would be,
what would be a good one?
Let's, let's just go, let's just go straight to the end.
Let's go to the Thanos arrival.
Right, so you know Thanos has his little minions.
Now imagine, you know, we're in the Infinity War
and I'm sorry if any of you guys
haven't watched the Avengers movies but here's
your call to action right now, right?
So before Thanos comes down and just kicks everybody's butt,
he sends his minions first, right, and we're able to kind of
deal with them but basically Thanos doesn't come
until his minions have failed.
So kind of think of it this way is that by having some
of these, what we would normally consider, you know,
not good because if they get too many, then it's bad
but if they're keeping away something worse,
having them around might be ideal.
So that's kind of where it is, right, so now
Thanos sent a ton, like multiplied his minions.
That's where they could overwhelm the Avengers
and we'd be in trouble, but them being there and busy
and Thanos being like,
"yeah, I'll let them do their thing,"
We're able to manage them, not that big of a deal, right.
So hopefully that metaphor kind of works, but this is why,
like, when you're looking at a stool test
you can't just assume because somebody has a bacteria
or fungi or something that's like, well, that's a bad one.
We can't assume that it's actually causing a problem.
What we have to kind of look at is, are there symptoms
that are coming along with that, and, you know,
because when a lot of times, when we introduce stuff
to kill something like that,
one, it can be a stress on your system.
Two, it can have impact on beneficial things, you know,
and three, a lot of times we're looking at now
going down a long, extensive and expensive process
of having to routinely collect your own poop,
and yeah, that's just not a fun thing
that I think is natural for humans.
I don't know, you know, I've got a field behind my house
that I would take my dog into, like, just so that like,
like I make her poop there first, before we walk around
'cause I don't even like to pick up dog poop,
let alone big, full human poops.
So essentially what you want to try and do
is not blame anything that has just been labeled as bad
unless you have a really good reason to do it.
Okay, let's move to the rest of these
before I get into any more movie references.
Generally constipated or straining during bowel movements,
stool is small, hard, or dry.
I mean, those are signs like, basically anything
that is causing the stool to move either slower
or to come out harder, it means that you are
basically trying to over-absorb what's there,
which means likely, you know, maybe it's
a nutrient deficiency or something,
or a low energy situation, high stress situation
that is leading to that area.
Passing mucus in your stool, right, and so that's where
you essentially like, your poop has, basically has
a mucus coating to it, right.
That can be a sign that we have some inflammation
and stuff going on there.
So there's a, we're making a lot more mucus
in the intestinal tract.
If alternating between constipation and diarrhea,
now that's one where I would definitely be looking north,
but that means that like, you're, you're essentially going
from, you know, the state where your body's like,
we need nutrients, so we're trying to hold on to things
but then it's like, screw it, we're inflamed
and this is bad, out, and then it just switches instead of,
you know pulling the water out it just lets all
that hydration go into the digestive tract,
and then you have, you know, then you have the diarrhea.
So basically you go from being constipated, can't poop,
but then all of a sudden then when you got to poop
and it's liquid, so which, you know, shouldn't,
you, you have to realize that there's something
paradoxal about that, right, 'cause if your stool
was liquid you should have no problem passing it.
So that means that you must be like, flipping that switch
between pushing water in and pulling it out inappropriately
in the lower part of the digestive tract.
Rectal pain, itching, cramping, and that can also be like,
we're looking at that toxic bile and stuff like that
or anything that may be reactive.
So like, you know, you get itchy bum, you know,
liver might be a good place to lower.
Just lowering your toxic burden might be a good idea.
No urge to have a bowel movement, that can be an issue
with, with motility and the, the, the,
the, the sensory portion of the nervous system
down lower in the GI tract, and almost all continually
like, needing to have a bowel movement.
So basically if you just like go, have to go all day long,
basically you're not like, you're not putting the brakes
on that stool, and you're just like,
you're just letting things just like zip through there.
We're not slowing down the traffic, and that can also then
be a sign that we got large intestine stuff.
So the irony is, is that, you know, the large intestine,
one, it's going to be affected by everything above
but also it's the one that should, you know,
is the most impacted by the flora that you have.
It's also the hardest place to get your probiotics
'cause the probiotics gotta make it
through the stomach acid, and then through all the enzymes
and through the small intestine, and then finally,
hopefully get down to the large intestine,
and that's a really, that's a real big limiter
in terms of the application of probiotics
making a difference, especially a significant difference
in the large intestines.
So just keep that in mind that when you have these issues
they may not change fast.
You may need to make sure that you're taking probiotics
that can actually make it to that part
of the digestive tract.
So you'll need to do your research.
Integrative Therapeutics makes one,
I think they're called Pearls, you know,
and basically that's what they're designed to do
is they're designed not to basically release the probiotic
until they get very low into the, the digestive tract.
So if you know you got a large intestine issue,
you may opt more for that type of a probiotic
versus something that just comes in a gel cap
or even an enteric coated cap that is gonna open up
in the small intestine.
So quick review with pictures.
Oral cavity, all right.
I, I can't remember if you guys can see my mouse.
You'll see it on the recording if you can't see it here,
but I'm going left to right.
So you got your oral cavity.
Food comes in, saliva is excreted.
So we've got this purple box and it's got
a little bit of toxin.
That's my guy that looks like a little bacteria or bacteria,
and then we got like, maybe like, you know, a chemical toxin
or whatever, who knows, you know,
maybe it wasn't organic food.
Maybe there's a pesticide or something in there.
So every time we eat, we get a combination of the food
and we get some sort of pathogenic stuff in there as well.
Right, maybe you get the, the, you know, the ice cream COVID
or something like that, coming in here, who knows.
So that makes its way down into the stomach.
Our HCL breaks that down, separates the food, right?
So then we should have a layer of fat, and then
we should have protein, starch, and fibers
all kind of mixed below, and you know, the toxins,
depending on what they are they're going to get
in one of these layers.
Then we have the addition portion.
We've got the liver, it adds toxic bile,
but it also adds co-factors to add the good bile, right?
So I'm representing bile by these little piggies here,
right, and then the pancreas adds in the digestive enzymes
which are the little Pac-Man guys here.
So then we have this recipe of all the stuff
in the small intestine.
You know, we got some bile that's attached to toxins.
We've got some bile that's not.
We got some fiber that's attached to toxin, 'cause fiber
is a really good way of getting rid of toxins too.
We got some toxins that aren't attached to anything,
and then we got all of our food
that's being separated out here.
We got the fat that should be bound to the bile
that's slowly being chopped up by the lipase.
We got the protein that's being chopped up by the trypsin
and the char, the starch should be getting chopped up
by the, the amylase, getting us glucose in the blood,
peptides and aminos in the blood and fatty acids
in the blood, noms for us.
Then we get to the large intestine.
Now, most of that stuff should be gone.
Maybe we've got some fiber left, we've got some water left.
Those are essentially the thing.
So I got some bugs here, represented here.
That's going to be eating at the fiber, chomping that up,
getting us some short chain fatty acids.
We should be reabsorbing some bile and water,
getting that and some minerals back into here,
but we should also be getting rid of some of the toxins,
some of the fiber, and some of the bile into the rectum
and then getting rid of all of that in the stool.
That's how we want everything to go, and if something
isn't working, that's kind of where we're trying
to figure out is which one of those steps likely
isn't working properly and try and find the furthest
to the left or most north in the digestive tract place
that possibly could happen and start there.
I mean, if in doubt, chew your food first,
like chew your food, focus on stress, things like that.
So let's just go through the summary, you know,
what the F was that?
so like I said, the gut deserves an entire curriculum.
Focus on what you can measure and control, right?
You can measure, you can, you can measure like,
well, how many times do you go to the bathroom a day?
You know, what is it like, you know, do you get bloated,
you know, all sorts of different things.
One of the things that I, you know, I will do sometimes,
I'll have people take a morning and evening
waist circumference measurement, because if somebody
is gaining a lot of bloat during the eating hours,
and then they lose it all, you know, we can see like,
okay, do, did we go from you gaining three inches of bloat
to two inches of bloat by making the nutritional
or the lifestyle interventions that we wanted,
or does that start getting worse
if we put you in the wrong training stimulus?
I mean, these are very, very simple things
that we can use, right?
So, you know, stool consistency, stool this, stool amount,
you know, color, smell.
You're, if you are going to work with people
and you want to focus on this, you're going to have
to get them comfortable talking about their poop.
That's just kind of how it goes and then you want
to use trainer-appropriate interventions, right.
So, okay, look and see, how does
your training stimulus affect it?
How does your calorie energy balance affect it?
How does your macronutrient, the distribution affect it,
micronutrients, all of that stuff,
not focusing on trying to become basically, you know,
an Inspector Intenni, if you will, right?
So you want to get in the habit of, when you can't solve it
with re, you know, trainer interventions, refer out, okay.
Guessing wrong, which is very easy to do when it comes
to the gut stuff, does not create confidence or compliance.
You are not an authority on GI pathology.
If you are, then you don't have time to be a good trainer.
Like, I can tell you that much, right, because this is,
that, that's kind of the thing that I've learned is that,
you know, the more, it's like the more I learned
about gut stuff, the more I was like, you know what?
I need to stop trying to be the gut person.
I need to go, and I need to get really good at figuring out
how to take advantage of the tools that I have,
and then knowing where that line is, where like,
look, now we're going to start getting into, into stuff
where my confidence interval is, is very low, right,
and the chances of me looking bad and wasting your time
or making a wrong decision, making things worse, et cetera,
wasting your money, those are getting higher and higher
and higher, not to mention it just takes away
from your time to do the thing that you're trying to do
for that client, which is, you know,
to deliver really good workouts and stuff like that.
So track not just symptoms, but why and when, right.
So cool.
Somebody's got bloat.
That could be anything.
What's going to help me figure out if there's
more specificity, specificity is like why do you get bloat,
and when does it happen, right, after what types of foods
or what types of situations and then
how long after that situation.
So it's like, well,
"I get them when I eat carbs,
"and I get about this much time after I eat."
Cool, I can do something more specific with that,
but if you're just like, well, I'm just bloated.
Like, what are you going to do?
Like, well, I don't know.
If it's after specific trigger foods, food type,
supplements, stresses, you've got to look
for all of this stuff, okay.
You know, you know, 'cause basically if somebody is going
to play Inspector Intenni, it needs to be the client,
like searching for trigger foods, trigger situations.
You're trying to find associations of things
that you can remove or address that are in your wheelhouse
as trainer and client, and then you want to try create
a situation where the gut can self heal.
So that means we have to reduce stress, maybe focus
on becoming more PNS dominant.
So maybe they have to introduce, you know,
some sort of activity, whether that be
a better nighttime routine, whether it be meditation,
breathing drills, a stretching routine, whatever they need
to do to be present and become more PNS dominant,
whether they need to focus on, you know, nasal breathing,
whether or not they need to focus on, you know,
just eliminating some, some source of stress, okay.
Don't let the training be the thing that is preventing them
from getting into that situation where they can heal.
This is where sometimes tough conversations
have to happen where it's like,
okay, you could have somebody where every time
you try and push their training up
they start having negative GI symptoms.
That means their stress cup is already too damn full.
They need to be, they need to help you out
on the lifestyle side to make themselves more trainable.
Okay, don't let your training become the problem here
because that when you start negatively impacting the gut,
you're just, you're depleting your recovery re,
like you're just annihilating it.
So you don't really have the option to,
it's, it's not sustainable.
You can't will yourself through hard workouts and, you know,
training stimulus and hope for a positive outcome
when you're essentially burning the candle at both ends.
So we want to eliminate any possible sources
of inflammation or irritation.
In most cases, remove things before adding them.
So, in terms of, in terms of both, let's say like,
in things you ingest, like through your mouth
but also things that you ingest through life,
anytime we can eliminate a bad food, a bad stress,
that's better because elimination, that has fewer variables.
You take something away, nothing happens, no big deal,
but when we add things in, you know, it's like
you're adding to the chemistry combination that's already
got like 8,000 ingredients and that's really hard,
but you start pulling stuff out.
The recipe that you're working with
just gets simpler and simpler and simpler.
So focus on anything that you can eliminate that would be
a culprit before you start adding things in.
So before I put somebody on, you know, digestive enzymes
and probiotics or herbs or whatever else that I may use,
I'm going to try and re try and remove as many things
that are logistically feasible for that client
that could be the issue because man, if their body
can heal itself by just eliminating some bad things,
that's the best possible outcome, okay,
because a lot of times the things that we add in
are not long-term solutions.
They're putting out the fire, not solving the problem.
You know, for instance, if you supplement digestive enzymes
or you supplement the HCL, it might be like, cool,
but your body still might not be making that on its own,
and that's the ideal situation, right?
The ideal situation is not like,
you take digestive enzymes forever.
The ideal situation is, is like, what do we got to do
to like, get you to, you know do this.
Now, when it comes to digestive support you may have people
that, you know, if they're really pushing their limit,
like, you got physique competitors, people trying
to put on a lot of muscle and stuff where they're,
you know, they're digesting a lot of food
or doing an abnormal amount of training, et cetera,
that you may be proactive with some of those things,
but that's when we're looking at a performance optimization
not a, like I'm just trying to lose fat,
and therefore I need more, more to focus
on the health optimization.
We want to be, basically what we want is,
if somebody is like a transformation client,
they're focusing on health, we don't want to have
to be like, you know, managing all the dysfunctions
in their body by rotating all the supplements in.
We want, if they decided to like stop working with you today
that their body functions, not that it falls apart
because they don't have your magic concoction
of digestive support, and so now, you know,
if they eat a carrot they poop it out whole.
We want people, you know, we want their bodies
to function as well as possible.
When we're talking about people that we would consider
more elite athlete perspective, we know we're putting
an unnatural demand on them from
a training and dietary perspective.
Therefore it makes more sense
to be proactive with interventions.
Another point I want to make on here
is forget what you heard about artificial sweeteners,
organic, non-organic, probiotic, fiber, et cetera.
I know like, a lot of people, especially in
the evidence-based industry that like
to post like, a study of like,
"oh, look, you know, these people, they did, you know,
"they took this artificial sweetener for 12 weeks
"and they did not die,"
or whatever.
I mean, here's the reality.
Any of you guys that are coaches or you may personally
have this experience, these things do matter,
and it's an N of 1 thing, right?
So look, if the thing that makes
your client's digestive system like,
just annihilate everybody in their, in their living quarters
is sucralose, guess what?
I don't care what the research says about sucralose.
We're not going to give them sucralose.
Obviously their body's having a negative reaction to that.
Now it may not be making the particular blood markers
that they ran in that study worse,
but it's having some sort of negative reaction.
So basically if we went in as part of
that elimination process, I'm going to be, you know,
I'm going to be a little paylo, paleo-y, if you will
and say, look, the more chemicals and artificial sweeteners
and things that I can get out of that, the better,
because now I know at least we're working with things
that nature and evolution biology has a better chance
of working with, and then I'm going to continue
to further dissect from there.
Unfortunately, that means a lot of people
may need to part with, you know,
their favorite supplements or whatever, right?
So maybe their pre-workout or whatever
might be full of shit, which is making them full of shit,
or the opposite, who knows, but a lot of times
those are the things and sometimes it's supplements
that you wouldn't suspect, right?
So Adam's probably on here.
You know, ALA is one of those things where when you,
it's, it's an irritation to the intestinal tract if you take
too much of it, especially just the, the, the mixed form,
right, and I believe he bought one 'cause it was like,
600 milligrams or whatnot.
I don't have yet to have anybody
that takes that and has a good experience,
600 milligrams of ALA in one shot.
I mean, basically it just,
(whistling)
like everything through, you know,
but that typically doesn't make the list,
and then like ALA is a supplement that I recommend.
It's a good thing, but in that situation, not a good thing,
and you'd be surprised how certain people may just have
that one thing that all of your other clients are fine.
You give it to that other person, and then
for what other reasons from an absorption permeability issue
or whatnot has a negative.
So N of 1 symptoms are all that matter, right?
This is why when people ask me like,
"Hey, what type of carbohydrate do you like
"intraworkout or post-workout,"
and I'm like the one that digest the best, right?
So I don't care if it's bottarga or cyclic dextrins
or tapioca dextrin or whatever it is.
It all depends on how you digest it, okay.
So, and then also just consider the overall volume
from a food you're eating.
So sometimes especially for people focusing on hypertrophy
like the solution for them may actually be to eat
more refined, quote unquote, junkier food
to decrease the amount of digestive work
that's needed to do that.
So a lot of times you have people that are trying to
clean bulk and they're, they're imposing too much stress
on their system, 'cause I mean, they're basically eating
like, you know, a small forest, you know, trying to get
into all their calories and their food and whatnot,
you know, and it's, that's not good, right.
Basically shitting loofahs at a point in time.
So their, their solution is actually,
hey man, like maybe you should try like, you know,
some cereal and some syrup and things like that.
That's like, you know, that's what it takes.
When you're eating that many calories, we're not really
too concerned about you hitting your fiber minimum.
We're concerned about like, you getting in so much fiber
that like, you know, that you literally give birth,
and then also consider the feeding window.
So when it comes to the gut, you know, the gut
should experience a good window of time where
it is not having to digest your food.
So the ideal time from both a gut detoxification
but also a chrono-nutrition, which is essentially
how food affects our circadian rhythm,
is about at least a 12 hour window of not eating.
So you, regardless of your goal, you should be able
to fit all of your calories in a 12 hour window,
and that's going to help a lot of people out.
All right, almost done here.
Try the basics, do no harm.
Okay, gut's complicated, stick with things
that are the most safe, and that you're the most sure about.
If you aren't sure, refer.
So try safe supplement interventions.
HCL and digestive enzymes tend to be pretty safe.
Just make sure you rule out stomach ulcers
as a, as an issue.
Probiotics, probiotics, I don't want to say
that they're safe.
I mean, they're mostly safe
but you will occasionally give somebody a probiotic
and they have a very bad reaction to it.
So, but it's really simple,
then you just stop taking it, right.
It's not like it's not gonna, you know, 'cause
long-term damage or whatnot, but it's like,
"oh I took this probiotic and I, you know,
"I was farting my butt off or it gave me diarrhea
"or it made me like."
Okay, well that's not the probiotic
that we're going to to go with, or sometimes
when we're looking at gut flora changing,
sometimes it's just like, it's a dosage thing,
like what can we tolerate that's going
to be relatively asymptomatic?
When it comes to aggressive protocols where you're going
to put somebody on something like, I don't care
if you're blowing up the room and pooping out your,
you know, you're levitating off the toilet,
whatever it takes, leave the, leave those types of protocols
up to, up to proper practitioners.
Fiber, fermented foods, something that you can throw in,
and again, adverse scenario, cool, just stop, right,
but it doesn't, it doesn't take, you know,
you have somebody, you know, whatever they like,
whether it's yogurt, sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, whatever,
you give 'em one of those things, see what happens.
Worst case scenario, if it doesn't work out,
it gives you information that, oh, maybe the issue
might be more of a bacterial overgrowth.
It's the fermentation is the issue.
So sometimes these things can actually function
as diagnostic tools as well.
Elimination diets can be very beneficial because really,
what you're doing is we're taking a whole bunch
of things away, and then we can start adding things back in,
and it's a great, very cheap way to start doing
some diagnostics and also get some instant relief, right.
So, I mean, there's different types of elimination diet.
If we're going fad diets, like, the carnivore diet
is the most elimination diet that you can get
where you're just like focusing on meat, you know,
and you're eliminating all sorts
of fermentable food basically, right,
but there's also things that you can do where
you could do like liquid diet with like medical food shakes.
There's an elemental diet where it's basically also a,
you know, a liquid based diet or whatever,
but elimination diet doesn't have to be that extreme,
and you could eliminate, you know, a particular thing.
You could try a little FODMAP, you have lots of options
in terms of how extreme that you would want to go on there,
you know, and I would say that really kind of depends
on the client and what they want to commit
because sometimes like if we use like the carnivore thing
for the, an example, right, like it's the most extreme
but sometimes very extreme is also very simple.
So that may work for somebody.
That's why a lot of times, you know, these quote unquote,
like, fad diets of like, hey just cut out this thing
or whatever, the simplicity is actually what makes people
get decent results on it.
I mean, you can be like, well, yes, the mechanisms
and calorie deficit, but that doesn't take away
from the fact that like, well, this was an easy way
for somebody to achieve a calorie deficit,
and then GI anti-inflammatory nutrients.
You know, you're looking at things like curcumin,
turmeric, ginger, slippery elm, lots of things.
Hold on.
Sorry, thought I was gonna sneeze there.
This is my favorite.
Try a vacation.
Don't underestimate the impact of stress.
So when I was, when I was training, a lot of,
we'll say very busy, successful, business type people
way back in the day when I trained people,
but you'd be surprised, and I'm sure you guys
have these stories too about how many people,
they would go on vacation, they would eat absolute garbage,
but their digestion would get better,
their physique would get better.
Like, like it would just, it would seem like
they were having the best, the best training and nutrition
of their lives when in reality, they were eating,
you know, maybe they were having some drinks
and they're eating a bunch of junk food or whatever,
and their training was minimal, and all of a sudden
their body's getting like, wow, all of this, okay,
but a vacation like that does not have to be limited
to a geographical destination.
You can take a vacation from life per se
or at least things in life.
So a vacation could be more mindset based where it's like,
"look, I am not going to do this thing
"or focus on this thing or whatever."
So it can be taking a break from toxic people, places,
whatever, you know, a staycation, whatever it may be,
and don't forget to consider yourself and the program
you're doing, the gym, et cetera, as possible sources
of that stress because you may have somebody,
they're so focused on the goals that you have set
that they have actually become counterproductive
because of the stress of achieving those goals.
So it, when in doubt, you can do an elimination diet
and then you could do a psychological elimination vacation
as two options to try and clear things out.
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