Eat Smarter - Shawn Stevenson

most folks when they think about diet and nutrition automatically folks related to weight in our culture yeah but food is so much more than that i already just mentioned the impact that it can have on your cognitive performance food literally determines how your memory functions period [Music] hey my name is bedros cooley and welcome to another empire show and this guy flipping through his own book is mr sean stevenson the author of the new book eat smarter and of course the new york times best-selling author of sleep smarter welcome to the show bro so good to be back all right guys and gals this is another inside look and unlike other inside looks uh sean is a close friend and he's actually introduced me to a couple cool things in st louis which we'll get into in a moment um where the food is concerned but uh this book eat smarter for entrepreneurs is something that every single one of you should get and before you go get it what i want to do is prove to you why you need to go get it just like i did with his first book sleep smarter because i look at us entrepreneurs as athletes and i believe we have to always stay at our height of our peak performance and for that to happen obviously the amount of water the amount of food the amount of sleep our social environment all those things matter and thus making money and impact and meaning and significance so with that said um dude you went from writing a book about sleeping to writing a book about eating that's right yeah why so i'm a nutritionist first of all like the sleep expertise came out of necessity really you know i had folks coming into my clinical practice all the time day after day after day and you know we might get the very best nutrition protocol done very best exercise protocol but i found that if folks weren't sleeping adequately they weren't getting the results everybody else was getting so it's just a big gap in the market and now it's just exploded so that was back in like 2013 now there's been all of these waves of books i just did a a talk for tom brady's company yeah and they've got like sleep wellness coaches now and they're using my language that i've embedded into culture and they don't even know me they've never heard of me some of them first of all is that a weird feeling it's super weird it is super weird but that's the nature of any great idea it's going to it's going to spread you know it's viral you know it's a meme it has this viral capacity and so but this is really my i feel like i was born to write this book because as i'm looking at you i'm seeing the food that you've eaten it's that powerful yeah you know it makes everything about us from our from our eyes to the brain you know the dendrites our axon terminals that allow us to have thoughts and feelings and emotions it's all made from food our heart is made from food the tiny people hearing the tiny bones in our ears that are vibrating and sending those electrical signals it's made from food everything is made from food and so this is one of the most powerful dynamic entities in our universe and we get to choose what we make ourselves out of and now what i really want to bring forth and eat smarter because in our culture and you know this most folks when they think about diet and nutrition automatically folks related to weight in our culture yeah but food is so much more than that i already just mentioned the impact that it can have on your cognitive performance food literally determines how your memory functions period and we'll talk about that today which which actually when uh this was two and a half years ago my mom was diagnosed with alzheimer's disease i reached out to you and you were like dude get her off of gluten uh we got her on the four sigmatic mushrooms yeah the lion's mane and uh anyway like so much of it has helped and it's it's it's food that controls every element i think a combination of between food and sleep and hydration like i believe like 98 of your ailments could be solved as a someone who's experienced it myself that's it these are called epigenetic controllers so these are above genetic control these are things that are determining what your genes are actually doing the kind of copies that are getting print out and printed out of you are determined by your environment and also the environment you create in yourself and also even your thoughts have a big influence on your genetic out picturing because and that might sound a little bit woo-woo but every thought you have has correlating chemistry by the way all of it's made from food but you can have a stressful angry thought and it's going to create chemistry in your body that makes that everything kind of correspond sure and we don't realize in our culture oftentimes that we have the ability to choose how we want to think you know most of the time our thoughts are fed to us and so a big part of this is also being able to take your power back because the ability to manage that that indoctrination is to feel good it's so much easier to choose how you want to think to choose what you want to do in your life when you feel good not that you can't when you feel like it's just harder and the same thing and some of the data in each smarter and my favorite segway it's hard to say my favorite section but talking about how food affects our ability to connect with other people yeah and the data is just going to knock people's socks off even our proclivity towards violence is heavily influenced by our nutritional status if we're deficient in certain things our brain just doesn't work right and we're going to have a bigger issue and being able to perspective take to have patience to have empathy right dude we needed all of those things patience empathy and perspective in this previous year so here we are in 2021 we're january of 2021 ladies and gentlemen and we saw what a year 2020 was and we lacked compassion we lacked empathy we lacked understanding we lacked kindness we lacked perspective and and you're absolutely right i mean this couldn't be more timely but um dude being a smarty pants that you are i'm going to reel you back for a moment i'm going to reel you back and you said epigenetics yeah meaning these are the way you eat the thoughts that we have that we can control yeah are beyond our genetics right like someone might say for example uh hey heart disease runs in my family well that's a genetic component these are beyond is that what epigenetics mean absolutely and so even in this in the in the creation of this book i consult with the very best people in the field so the person who impressed epigenetics that term into culture is dr bruce lipton and so i just had a conversation with him the other day and this is the this is the top science everything else is below that and a lot of our medical system is still largely based on newtonian science which is just these kind of this thing causes this thing and we're basically a victim to the cars that were dealt but the truth is less than one percent of our diseases actually come from a true genetic defect that's what i was going to ask you is what percentage so less than one percent percent yeah yet what do we do as humans is we go oh my god i guess i'm predisposed to being fat unhealthy negative victim minded really we succumb to the idea that almost 99 of it is just a byproduct of genetics or outside influence and i don't have much control we could talk about that specific gene i've talked about a little bit in the book the fto gene which is an obesity-related gene and the large number of people who've never actually become obese but yet have that gene it's just not getting activated in a sense but one of the other big issues this goes hand in hand with epigenetics and i think everybody should know this is this new term i'm impressing upon culture called epicoloric control all right explain the loric so when i was in in college in my nutritional science class i was taught the very first day that if you can manage calories you can manage your body composition if you can manage calories you can manage your health which they say calories in calories out and so my teacher was borderline obese all right he's a smart guy but he was doing the thing he was teaching he wasn't just like running out and you know just beer bonging i don't know sure freaking skittles milkshakes that was the food pyramid time he was just like i just need more fiber i need more brown stuff you know and he was doing the thing to his detriment and this is one of the big issues with there's so many wonderful diet frameworks and i know all the guys we know all the guys but each of them can be limiting because they might eliminate a food that your ancestors have been eating for centuries that might be feeding a specific strain of bacteria that's protecting you from autoimmunity all right or it's adding in something that's not right for you and you're supposed to eat you know five avocados a day but it's like you know giving you hemorrhoids or something you know what i mean right so what it really boils down to is our metabolic uniqueness and so epic caloric control there's seven factors i'll share two with you really quickly one of them and this is one of the most interesting things any smarter is this was published in the journal cell they found a specific strain of bacteria that actually block your intestine your intestines from absorbing as many calories from your food all right now here's the thing when when allopathic medicine hears that it's just like we need to bottle up whatever bacteria that is and sell it smell it so people can continue eating and it'll stop them from absorbing as many calories so explain this for dumb people like me allopathic medicine is what like the pharmaceutical companies yeah like uh conventional medicine got our conventional system of medicine got it which is like a drug you know pharmaceutical model right we find this thing let's make a drug out of it and the problem with the system is that it sees humans in parts this is why we have side effects but they're really direct effects right we're trying to treat something for you know giving you a statin trying to trying to manipulate cholesterol in your body now we find out 30 increase incidence of diabetes when you get on a statin tree all right because the human body doesn't operate in a vacuum right and so when they come out and they get it back they give you the bacteria strain that blocks your intestine from absorbing as many calories that might also block your microbes from being able to produce b12 for you sure or to protect your gastrointestinal tract because they're making these little scaffolds these short chain fatty acids to protect your gut so here's the other side of this so they find this bacteria and in my clinical practice i could literally send out and have somebody get a stool sample done and i'll never even see the person they can send the report back and i can tell based on the makeup of their microbes whether or not they're obese with about 80 to 90 accuracy that's scary dude so now what we know today and this is again above caloric control there's a certain micro makeup in our gut that's associated with insulin resistance obesity and here's what was cool so they took they found the strain in mice right but you know we're human so what they did was they took fecal samples from humans who had this micro makeup associated with obesity and they implanted it into mice lean mice and then they took a healthy human make microbiome sample and implanted into lean mice those leave my state lean the mice who received the fecal sample from humans who have the the gut microbiome associated with obesity these mice became insulin resistant they gained weight and gained body fat simply by changing their microbes so this isn't talked about when people you know well-meaning doctors are saying just cut your calories this is not addressing the real issue your microbes are determining whether or not you're absorbing calories and your rate of expenditure and that's the second part so i'll share this with you this one's going to be pretty simple for folks to understand so this was published in the journal food and nutrition research the reason this is something we've been talking about for many years now we've got the data they want to find out what would happen at for your rate of calorie burn when you eat a meal of processed foods versus a meal of whole foods okay even if the meals are the same same yeah and so they had some folks that eat a whole food sandwich all right so they deemed this to be whole food was whole grain bread and cheddar cheese all right so that was one group of test subjects they had another group to consume a meal of processed foods right a processed food sandwich so this is white bread and cheese product and if you're like this cheese product that's craft all right so they can't legally call it cheese because there's not enough cheese in the cheese it's craft cigarettes right so they have folks to consume they're the same amount of calories same amount of fats proteins and carbohydrates but here's what happened the folks who ate the processed food sandwich had a 50 reduction in calorie burn after eating that sandwich versus the folks who ate the whole food sandwich holy smokes what this processed food did was create what i call these hormonal clogs it changed the way the metabolism was working making their body more stingy and retaining that energy and holding on to it it was gumming up the system it was creating some kind of a hormonal clog as i mentioned but some kind of a of chaos like a hormonal chaos is that a reaction to the fillers and the processing chemicals they put in i guess fake food processing that's the key it's fake it's not even real food is the body reacting to it like why why by 50 uh there's a reduction 50 caloric yeah burn this goes back to this epigenetic term our genes expect us to do certain things we've evolved thousands hundreds of thousands of years in this current state to eat real foods to eat things that come somewhat close to nature we can cook and cooking has created a massive like a quantum leap in the development of the human brain but when we start to get away from that this is why even all that's happening in the world today as soon as any mandates start happening that change what our genes expect us to do i get a red flag that goes up i know i have a cognitive bias i have a bias towards like what is what does our dna expect from us what are things that we know to be true that humans need we need sunlight we need fresh air we need community we need real food all of these things create our overall picture of health potential health with our genes when we take away community when we take away exposure to sunlight when we take away the ability to have movement practices all of these things start to degrade our health rapidly and one of the things that's not been talked about and this is in new york city this is like ground zero for so much trauma that's taking place there's about a 300 percent uh increase in deaths from diabetes and heart disease that nobody's talking about nobody said a thing about it and we now since the beginning of this thing as a culture we are far sicker far more susceptible when we say this thing are you talking about this covet virus yeah yeah so march of 2020 am i hearing you say that there's a 300 increase just in new york city yeah in the preceding months right after that of deaths related to diabetes and heart disease specifically yeah no one's talking about it the facts are out there because the numbers are out there but no one's talking about it yeah and so again why would we see such big spikes in these other conditions it's because we're moving away from the things that make us human and also one of the things that i specifically talked about with with dr lipton again renowned cell biologist epigenetics is in our lexicon because of him he shared with me the biology of fear and i mentioned how every thought has correlated chemistry we're just 24 7 fear we're just tapped into it and one of the studies i actually just shared with the group today and how we get addicted to fear and addicted to stress and we go looking for we go on to the social media looking for the thing that makes us feel something you know feels fear feel like we've got a common enemy right and so we really have to again to take back control of our minds we have to get our citizens healthier again it's not that it's impossible it's just harder if you don't feel well they control your own mind right why and i know this isn't nutrition related but i respect you so much and having known you for so many years now i'm asking for your opinion i know i realize this isn't science uh why do you think it is that people have gotten so addicted to fear in this time because i know i can put myself in check like everyone else i'm a human i run a big fitness franchise and all of a sudden my gyms across the world are being asked to shut down or have depending on the state they're in have limited capacity or zero capacity open okay now you're closed and so i definitely get caught up in the fear cycle but i also have a almost a self-check mechanism yeah where i go hey dude all right now you're venturing in this place where you're going down the rabbit hole and this seems like it's going to be bad for me and i know how to back off what is missing what is going on with the people who don't have that that they go down that rabbit hole and they go into this darkness of depression and the stay inside and fear mongering etc yeah that's such a great question so first and foremost you have to understand our evolution of the human brain itself we're a little bit hard-wired not a little bit but quite a bit hard-wired to look for problems all right we have to stay on guard for things that threaten our life that's a survival mechanism yeah sure but we've we've evolved this highly complex prefrontal cortex that enables us to have like executive decision making to distinguish between right and wrong for social control you know things that we can actually deceive like okay is this threat a real threat is this actually going to hurt me and nine times out of ten in our culture it's it it's just it's framing it's not actually a threat there's something that's going to hurt you framing explain that that's beautiful beautiful i love your mind so and this is i just shared this with the group today as well you know our our system of media it's got decades of data to find out what is the thing that's going to keep you glued to the station the longest what can we do and the number one driver that they use a psychological trigger is fear that's the thing that really connects you to the newscast you know something that makes you feel like your your safety's in being threatened and also to have the an enemy that you need to be on guard for and if you watch the newscast you will repeatedly see them framing things there's something you need your your safety is threatened and there's an enemy all right over and over and over again and so it's the framing even if the threat isn't imminent it's still going to be something that's because it keeps you tapped in they're not going to give you the good news report my wife just driving over here i was like babe can you check the numbers set what is it 900 million confirmed cases wait i'm sorry scratch that 90 million confirmed cases 90 million confirmed cases 90 million confirmed cases of covet if you get any epidemiologist and again like i'll just bring on the top epidemiologist have a conversation any epidemiologist any epidemio is worth their salt will tell you when we have a confirmed amount of cases at minimum there's 10 to 15 times more of those cases in the population so that takes us up over a billion over a billion this is no longer pandemic this is endemic this is something that's just built into our culture but you don't hear about the 99.99 of people because once we do that you just these are simple math that you do who are okay all you hear about is the threat not to say that the threat isn't real not to say that but what about the people who are okay did they survive how did 900 million people would you say at the lower end well what do we have seven billion people on on this planet right and so that's like one out of seven yeah we'll have it it's crazy yeah and mostly 99.6 or 99.9 will be just fine their own immune system that's designed to build antibodies and cure them what we're not talking about it at all and again this is not to say that there isn't a threat because that doesn't trigger fear yes we don't have the good news report hey we have all of these cases but it's cases without context yeah all you're seeing is cases go up but as the cases go up that just puts the mortality rate down lower and lower but it doesn't matter because the the framing of fear is already there so again if we can put in context what is the most important thing for us to do what is the number one susceptibility to this virus and all viruses being healthy healthy being a healthy resilient human being but the media will frame it up perfectly healthy people are dying too i said this in the very beginning because i went and looked at the data in italy and i was like oh we're in trouble because they saw the rate of chronic diseases and how that skyrockets your susceptibility sure enough i'm not saying i'm nostradamus but the data is right there the cdc published their study in september and anybody can go and look this up compiled all the data and looked at all the deaths here in the united states 94 of the folks the souls that we lost in relationship to covet whether you agree with the the the the tracking of the deaths 94 of them had an average of 2.6 pre-existing chronic diseases 94 of them so am i hearing you say that even when they say hell even healthy people are dying you may look healthy that's the six percent of the ninety four percent they're just like those ninety four percent the media is going to frame the college student is 19 who's prob again you and i we can be as healthy as we want to be but if we get stressed we start you know we're taking a bunch of flights we're not sleeping well we're not getting into nutrition you know maybe we're just eating an airplane food all the time whatever i've got data and we can talk about some of these things your immune system will be suppressed we carry around with us we have trillions both of us everybody here in this room we have over 400 trillion viruses in and on our bodies right now this is normal all the time many of them are opportunistic or pathogenic they can make us sick or kill us and it happens when our immune system is suppressed very simple i'm going to make an observation one i understand why you're so frustrated like you understand so much i don't know if you remember this you stood right there a few years ago and i was we were talking i had you on the show for sleep smarter and i was like okay i've got you here i'm gonna be like how can i optimize my health because if it's gonna help me with my health it's going to help my audience right and one of the key things you said i was like dude how much water do i need to drink and you're like 30 ounces of water first thing in the morning i think i was drinking like 15 at the time or whatever this is 16.9 this arrowhead dude no joke every single day even like when i'm traveling at hotels i just have 30 ounces of water that i just chug a lug and drink because like well sean is so neurotic about getting the facts and the information and not just kind of you know social media knowledge but actual scientific knowledge and so i imagine knowing what you know not just the headline that the rest of us see on news media or social media you know what you know your frustration level is high yeah and i see that passion come out like when you made the face mask um i guess actually documentary is what it was right it was like a 40-something minute it seemed like documentary um what what is your take what what is ha and i'm not asking you to be political or you can be political but i'm not like why is this happening why didn't they use a virus two years ago three years ago for you like why this why right now what have you heard from the people that you're connected to okay so first thing i got you brought up the the mass documentary just in case anybody's curious i went in and looked at the data early on but i'm looking at randomized controlled trials so real world like what happens in the real world many of the statistics people see and they see the cool like photography but what they're missing out on these are projective models those are theoretical models of how viruses might operate what happens in the real world so i went and looked at the randomized controlled trials and every one of them every single one people go look one up from the bmj and it concluded masks are not effective cloth masks specifically with 13 times folks who wore cloth masks versus surgical masks had 13 times higher rate of infection just right there we should at least be like well maybe we don't want to wear cloth mask but that's missed on people because it doesn't fit with the narrative i'm curious to know why people who wear a cloth mask so what they did what the researchers found again anybody can go look this up or they can go to the model health show dot com forward slash mask facts and they've got i've got all the studies there for you you could just geek out but i also frame them so you can understand them a little bit better and so what the researchers conclude in the study was that the the the it creates basically especially with the cloth mask a wet micro climate as time goes on the more this is happening just even within a few minutes but especially folks are wearing them for hours a day is creating a vector of just nastiness you know so it's like a climate inside of your mask and so it's it creates a lower resistance for part virus particles to travel in and out of the mask is what the researchers concluded and so they advised against wearing cloth masks specifically but even still and by the way so in the study they found that there's a 97 percent uh penetration by virus particles through cloth mask right and it was 44 for surgical mask which is not good yeah that's still if you're penetrated it's still it still counts you know what i mean yeah you don't need to be a rocket scientist so and then what these pitchers negate when you see the the cool photography was like clearly the mass stops the if you could actually see the amount of viruses in the room you couldn't see anything else but that we are in it we're absolutely immersed and inundated with viruses and so what i was pointing to was not to say i wanted them to be effective i looked at the data trying to find what is the best method to go about that's why i was looking into it i wanted to make sure we do this in a way that's advantageous and not venturing to the ridiculous because i saw my neighbor you know late 20s early 30s because of he's tuned into the this was 108 day 108 degree day he came outside full-on gas mask arms covered long-sleeve shirt long pants gloves on just to walk from his door to his car all right so i want to make sure we don't venture into the ridiculous but still find a way this effective now here's where we're at today and again people can go and look this up but most folks will miss miss this because it's not front page news sure so the cdc did a randomized controlled study to find out and this was just a couple months ago the effectiveness of mask in the real world all right how did it actually pan out with covid cases so even as i mentioned the bmj that was with different viruses so then people are like well go if it's different now we got data so they compiled factual um uh uh proven cases of covat they just took a random group of people who had confirmed cases of covet and what they discovered there's a chart that has all these numbers and i was just like i couldn't believe how obvious it was but what they found was that when you would see this and with the media frame let me preface this before i share the result the media frames it like all of these cases are being driven by folks who are just out here raw dog in the air and super spreader events and all these things like if everybody would just wear a mask this would go away in reality once they compiled the data they took a random just a random selection of a few hundred folks with confirmed cases of covet and they found that 70 of them were people who always wore their mask they always wore their mask and yet they still contracted covet and then people the thing might come up what's not about you it's about protecting other people yes that was great propaganda by the way because then you feel like an [ __ ] and you're made to feel like an [ __ ] by society and that's the same concept of again i'm wearing this perforated holy condom that is definitely going to protect you but it doesn't protect me okay you're safe and it's just not based on reality but okay to continue on but there's no greater level of safeness or safety for them right these folks were around okay so 70 of them always wear their mask another 15 often to always wear the mask so that was 85 of people tested the folks who never wore masks three percent of the people who had a confirmed case of covet all right now here's the biggest this is what's different from somebody like me that has 20 years of experience and like looking at this stuff and just looking for what are the real world applications the randomized controlled trial it wasn't for people who got coveted and people who didn't this was people who got covet and people who got other all right they the researchers came into it with their own cognitive bias they were trying to find out why people wearing a mask still were getting coveted infections that was their mission because they believe it works so they're trying to mansplain a way that it works and so they found was that folks who contracted covid were more likely to go out to eat so they took their mask off to eat and that's when covert is going to manipulate you all right so that jumps right in when you take that mask but here in the other group who had confirmed viral some type of viral bacterial infection they were symptomatic carriers of something they just didn't test positive for covet 74 of them always wore their mask and they didn't go out to eat as often this was totally negated in the study you know 74 of them always wear their mask and then coupled with folks who often always you know same thing almost 90 and just two to three percent of folks never were mass contracted these viruses we should just talk about this stuff because the data exists i'm not trying i don't want to be controversial i just want to get everybody healthy you know what i mean but if the thing doesn't work this is what the media's framed it are our health policies you know are the task force has framed it as just this preventative metric if you use this piece of fabric it's going to stop the spread the thing that will stop the spread or stop sickness from it is getting our citizens healthier but not once have you seen a major media not once have you seen a task force member talk about the number one susceptibility 94 of the people who died 2.6 pre-existing chronic diseases in the beginning beteros when i would share this data there are a couple of households they're just like we saw you're right sean but unfortunately we can't get people healthier overnight it's been almost yeah not one person has said anything about it because they never say anything about it and they never cared about it that's not how the system is made it's based on a pharmaceutical model that we're going to try drug our way out of something but it never works right now here in america every year pedro's every disease gets worse and worse heart disease keeps going up diabetes obesity alzheimer's here in the united states 200 million people are overweight or obese right now it's a business right i mean it's a business this is just the reality is it's a business and at some point you can justify your way out of it by saying well look people have a choice to get fat they can choose to be lean they just need to do the research but the average person doesn't go out there and do the research and if you are in the news media there used to be a time that news media would share facts and not opinions and not misinformation but at some point if the lobbyists control the politicians and the politicians are putting out information that is designed to stimulate fear to sell more of the stuff the lobbyists sell might be the pharmaceutical company it might be the mass companies it might be whoever and of course the mouthpiece of all that is the mainstream news media like in that way the business makes sense because i'm a marketer i understand like i'm to first i'm going to drive leads and i'm going to put you in a funnel that indoctrinates you and gets you to feel a certain way that you're not making enough money and that your profit margins aren't high enough and then i'm going to get you to know like and trust me and it's easy to do that when you're seeing someone in your house on a screen of some sort right television does that it's like oh wow you know walter cronkite came into my house via this thing but at some point walter cronkite back in the day was not controlled by big pharmaceutical lobbyist or any other kind of lobbyist there so i i share all this because i see as a marketer like oh they drive leads the audience they indoctrinate them through fear right and watch out there's a common enemy and they go but here's what you ought to do and what they do is once we begin to choose to lean into fear instead of taking control of our lives then we go just tell me what to do i don't know what to do anymore and i remember sean i took my son andrew to the chino air show when he was four years old and he likes stuffed lions that have like the little wispy mane hair yeah you know and he had this one particular one that he liked to carry around with him and i happen to be holding it and he's looking at the fighter jets going by and when a fighter jet is going by and it's got his afterburners on literally the jet goes by in silence and then like like one second two seconds three seconds later you hear the crash sound travels a lot slower right than the speed of that jet and so when the crash happened andrew panicked and you know he was just standing there just looking and then he you hear the crash of that the the sonic boom and he runs between my legs and goes into a panic and i just give him his little lion and holds on to it and he gets calm again and i see what's happened now is these masks have become the little fuzzy lions the little security blankets that society can hold on if i put on my mask then i have this false sense of andrew wasn't any safer if that that jet had munitions it could have killed us right even if he's between daddy's legs i can't stop a missile but he believes that if i'm between daddy's legs and i'm holding my line i'm safe and he calmed down and he relaxed and he was just hanging out watching the jets go by and i thought of that now in this area i'm like holy crap we create all this fear and then go but if you just wear this piece of whatever it doesn't even matter anymore across your mouth you're gonna have some false sense of security about something you can't control when all the different elements you can't control your sleep your thoughts the people you surround yourself with your attitude your mindset your emotional discipline your food your food yeah your hydration none of it matters that i don't know about that yeah yeah thank you for that man that's such a great analogy and by the way again just for everybody listening this is not to be controversial the data exists i want everybody to be able to suspend their disbelief and just look at the data because there's going to be conflicting stuff everywhere and not to say that they can't be effective in some metric you know but at the end of the day what's the most important thing and why is it not being talked about because again our system is never really talked about and this this is why a book like this it came out the first week it came out became the the number one new release in america yeah which is crazy which by the way let's let's uh you know you were just telling me right before the camera started rolling the book was up there with obama obama matthew mcconaughey right but this isn't about celebrity it's not about fanfare it's not about politics it's about health yeah people do care about this you know but we have to sometimes we don't realize we're not part of that frustration that you mentioned earlier you know i definitely because i thought we were better than this in the beginning i really did i thought we were better than this but we are we just don't know it and we really reverted back even people that we know colleagues reverted back to that primitive like everything is scary and not really understanding how powerful we are and all of a sudden they're listening to just quote follow the science listen to the scientists i'm a scientist 20 years i'm telling you there's another side of the story and that side is being censored now we can actually take all the data and just have a rational conversation when they make mandates about shutting down businesses let's talk about the downstream effects of that when we make mandates about shutting down our schools let's have a conversation let's bring in some experts and talk about what are the downstream effects of that what is the psychological impact it's going to have on our children who need social interaction for the development of their thank you are they going to be permanently scarred are we raising a generation of dexter's because they don't know how to relate and socialize with other human beings and understand the parents aren't there 90 of the time they can't turn their world upside down to now be a homeschooling teacher right so they're not nobody nobody in this chaos is being served and talking with the top psychologists psychiatrists epidemiologists everybody can agree the top folks the treatment for for this issue is far likely going to be far worse than the issue itself yeah 1 000 you know but here's the great thing after all is out of the doom and gloom i love it i love it that this happened now because again i thought we were better than this but i knew we weren't i knew we weren't but i was like lying to myself because we get into our bubbles sure where we're around healthy people right we see this certain type of message the great news is this these systems that we've upheld as being of of integrity are not our medical system that's being real it's fluxed up right now there's a lot of of turbulence happening with it our medical system again anybody can go look this if anything that i said today go look this up and then go look at everything else take this study i'm about to share with you as the number one thing to start to have more trust in what i'm saying go to dr google look up johns hopkins third leading cause of death medical error all right look that up the third leading cause of death in the united states every [ __ ] year number one is heart disease number two is cancer number three is death by doctor death from the health care system every year and it's just it's as if it doesn't exist bro it's as if and my argument is that it's really number one because of how poorly it treats number one and two right all right right right exactly we have to understand that as a template from now here's the good news again that system is being shaken up now it might not be the way that we want it to look right now as far as being shaken up but there's so many problems with it when something becomes more malleable it's easier to change before it was very rigid kind of firmly in place we've had more integrated physicians coming in functional medicine you know it's taking so long people keep dying we needed the shaking of the snow globe to happen and as you're saying i'm glad it happened over a long period of time because like you i was like i thought we were better than this and again it's because one i lean into optimism we lean into optimism right so it's like i i think humanity's better than this and then two you're right we hang out in a bubble where people are healthy and optimistic and caught up on real facts and science and not necessarily fear and so i was like oh maybe we're not better than this but enough time has gone by where people realize wait a minute they're telling me masks no mask six feet no feet they're telling me go back to school don't go to school etc like bro i'm not a scientist i just saw that when the first time i put the mask on to go to the grocery store maybe i'm a mouth breather i don't know but sean by the time i got to the grocery store with my wife and we spent maybe 15 minutes in there yeah bro it was all like humid in here right i'm like all right something tells me if it's humid stick who knows what kind of bacteria and germs and [ __ ] is sticking and i'm not going to do this and so immediately the wife and i decided if our kids were going to have to go to school because school was like hey they can come to school but they're going to have to have the mask on all day long no in 15 minutes i had a goddamn turkish bath going on right here there's no way bro there's no way my daughter or son are gonna wear a mask for eight hours yeah incredible right crazy so i was like all right they're gonna do the homeschool version of it and that's that and that's but but so many people are like well that's okay and the reality is look we have someone at home that could watch they could be there with our kids we've got a full-time housekeeper and marlon's a badass and she's like there and adults they're all most people don't have that so they're like well i'm gonna have to mask up my kid and then when i hear stats like you're sharing you know and never mind what it's taken away from their immune system that mask what it's doing to their self-confidence like bro i'm a grown man and i can't tell when someone's got a mask on like are they smiling at me do they understand what i just said what is it doing to our communication but anyway all that said this goes back to what we can control which is what we're eating our food all right and one of the sections that i really love most is section two and i think that's selfishly because i want to know how i can optimize myself my audience how can they think better how can they feel better how can they control their mood their energy their metabolism so that they can operate better because our audience on the empire show here knows one thing that money is a vehicle to meaning and i want to help them create more money so they can have meaning donate to the churches the causes the charities you want to donate to i want them to buy back their time and freedom and i want them to have a have an awesome experience with their family and money does buy us those things and so how do we operate better from section two like what how do we eat what time should we eat what do we eat what are the things that we can do to optimize ourselves where eating is concerned perfect perfect so the most important thing and for me this is a habitual question i ask when i'm trying to identify a root issue or a root solution like at its core what is the thing i asked what is it made of where did it come from right so in talking about cognitive performance this has to do with our brains and uh uh theoretical physicist michio kaku said that the human brain is the most powerful entity in the known universe all right it is powerful beyond measure it created everything that we see here in this room right it's so so remarkable but we don't get an owner's manual you know largely we don't know anything about it and there's this thing in it's really out of the world of personal development we only use like five percent of our brain ten percent it's not like there's parts of your brain that are just like sitting on time out they're just like i'm not playing with you guys our whole brain works all the time we just don't use it very well there's so much more potential for our brains and so to be able to be more productive to have a better memory to be able to focus during especially when you're under stress and distraction at this time in human history we've got data on how we can do that so first question is what is your brain made of number one answer is made of water so when you mention your your water routine your inner bath you take every day in our bath i love that yeah the first thing and just to give a little metabolic side for folks and what this is one of the great studies that's any smarter there's something called water induced thermogenesis so what the researchers did was have folks who just consumed 17 ounces of water in just a couple of minutes and it led to a dramatic increase in their metabolism and we might think try to maintain it well it's the water the body's keeping the water up but no it just makes everything work better it doesn't matter the temperature of the water and what they found was that the folks their metabolic rate went up to the degree that they they burned about 25 to 50 more calories simply from drinking water so you're drinking something with no calories and it makes you burn calories and now in our culture some is good more is better so it's just like well i should just drink you know right three gallons right there are diminishing returns right because there's a level there's your extracellular fluid and the cells themselves and i talk about hydration a lot in the book but here's why this matters for the brain one of the studies found that just a two percent drop in the test subject's optimal kind of baseline hydration level led to uh decreased reaction time decrease ability to focus decrease spatial recognition so like being able to manage yourself in space like mac rep recognition so basically you become dumber all right you become more like the lloyd christmas that's just two and that's just two percent yes that's it it doesn't take much you know so that's a small amount that's just small that's a pretty small amount but most folks are walking around and like their baseline is like right under dehydrated you know and so simply by getting and by they reverse the issue by getting them hydrated so what does that look like um i go i go through and give a big kind of uh dissertation on water in a way that's fun in a way that makes sense there's so many different little nuances with it but and i don't really like to give specifics at all like this that's not what you're gonna find in the book eat this thing don't eat that i'm gonna tell you what the data shows but everybody is unique you need a different amount of water than shack you know what i mean you need a different amount of water than simone biles this cookie cutter of like drink eight ounces eight glasses of eight ounces a day whatever but i do give a baseline of like take your body weight divide it in half that number you come up with target that amount of ounces but even that i don't like to do because the number one metric on how much water you should drink is your brain and your body telling you right but we're so externally focused we're not getting that data and that has to do with your hypothalamus and you know maybe we could circle back to this but so number one is water but number two and this is this goes hand in hand with the water so it's very important what i'm about to say electrolytes all right listen dude one of the craziest studies was on the impact of sodium in the brain so electrolytes literally are needed to make the electrical impulses in the brain for your brain cells to talk it matters we know about electrolytes from gatorade you know what i mean right right right this is literally talking about your brain being able to talk to it's your brain cells being able to talk to themselves so they found that deficiency in sodium lead to decreased cognitive performance so getting adequate amounts of sodium but the real game changer was magnesium which is another electrolyte and so one of the studies found that uh folks with already uh documented cognitive decline right so they're on there they're in their 50s to i believe 50s or 70s they already have cognitive decline taking place by increasing their intake of magnesium after the study was complete they found that the folks who got their their magnesium levels optimized had brains that were operating as if they were nine years younger holy crap on the decade of youth dude when we talk about issues like dementia alzheimer's in conventional medicine today it's just all you can do is try to slow it down there's nothing about making it better the data exists your your body magnesium is responsible for over 625 biochemical processes in your body that means there's 625 things your body can't do if you're deficient in it all right selfish question um i take magnesium at night uh 400 i think it's milligrams to go to you know just to help with going into deeper sleep do i need to spread my magnesium out throughout the day in addition to what i take at night or does my body know all right i got that i'm gonna spread it out that's a great question so this is why i love having you here i love having smart people on the show because i can just selfishly ask all the right questions and help everybody this is what smarter is all about man is looking at the bigger picture there's so when i was in my nutritional science class in college we were taught you know make sure you get your essential vitamins and minerals amino acids but you can get just get a multivitamin there's so many different types of magnesium there's not just one the multivitamin has [ __ ] one is that the one that you need there's different types of vitamin c there's different types of omega-3s there's different types of b12 there's different types of everything food has it all that's what makes food so remarkable and it has biopotentiators and co-factors that come along with it that make your body be able to use it better circles right too whole food so that's the number one tenant is when we're talking about magnesium we want to make sure we're getting in a variety of high quality food sources but what i want folks to realize is that because it's responsible for so much it's really has a lot to do with modulating stress in the body modulating your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system and modulating you know your muscle contractions and so with all that said modulating your nervous system what's our life like today how's our nervous system doing we're stressed so it's getting just burned through your body is using so much of it this is why it is the number one mineral deficiency in our country documented in the book about 60 of people are chronically deficient in magnesium based off of the best studies that we have so this is not something to take lightly or joke about so folks are what this kind of impact on our cognitive performance folks are walking around and their brains are not working right wondering why we're so pissed off wondering why we're so irritated when just having a conversation about math let's talk about it nah i can't can't you know so number one food first what are some good food sources anything that's green there's another thing we talk about in the book as well these powerful clues that is just provided in nature and there's a science we also go to the science of flavor right so i'll circle back to that in one second it's really cool but these the green pigment is an indicator that it's high magnesium food and coincidentally a study from rush university medical center found that the test subjects who consumed at least two servings of green leafy vegetables each day had on average brains that were 11 years younger compared to folks who got less than two servings a day bro whoa so that goes hand in hand right so we've got uh anything green chocolate is actually a great source of magnesium very high in magnesium but you don't want the shitty you know the right the shirt hershey's whatever right it's my you know whatever um and not to say that you can't have it that's the thing too like everything has its place but that's not gonna if you want to get magnesium from chocolate or that experience let's upgrade it let's get something higher quality um different nuts and seeds you know hemp seeds are a great source of magnesium you know there's a whole different list there's many different it's kind of hard it's so needed nature's made it very available but one of the biggest like you get stacked when you get those green leafy vegetables so and that's what you're after yeah but yeah so let me let me first of all say something to you and this isn't just blowing smoke up your ass you did this with sleep smarter and you've done it with eat smarter you have a gift my friend of taking complex science and making it simple understandable and i'm even going to use the words fun you do that with the model health show when you do your documentaries or when you want to rant on a podcast you do that here in your book too and so i want to encourage all of you watching this right now i want you to buy two copies one copy for yourself one copy to give to a friend because no media no government official no food organization corporation is going to tell you the facts that are in here in a simple easy to understand way because everyone wants to kind of sell us on the idea that look nutrition is complex so just take your multivitamin and you know eat the stuff that says high in fiber and you'll be good but that fiber doesn't even get used in your body and so if you really want to understand science and have it broken down to you in an easy to understand in a fun way the dude's done it right here so get two copies but with that said going back to cognitive function yeah like high level of mental performance as an entrepreneur i see myself as an athlete i my sleep is scheduled i sleep at the same time wake up at the same time seven days a week my water the thoughts that occupy my mind the people i surround myself with the food what other i don't know i'm gonna use the word hacks yeah tips this is do we need to know the big one right here what i'm gonna share because like i said it's still if you're eating real food you're going to be you're going to get your magnesium all right this one right here is a game changer and it's stacked on so many different levels the first part of the book is dedicated to metabolism and teaching everybody the science around that how your metabolism actually works nutrients that create the hormones that make the magic happen but it's also a big player in your cognitive performance now you've heard this before but we're going to take it to another level all right so the american journal of clinical nutrition they were testing folks on cognitive performance and found that simply by increasing their intake of omega-3 dha specifically dha and epa we're going to talk about the difference dha and epas getting those in specifically led to improved memory just within a matter of days improved memory improved ability to uh to focus under stress so that's one side that sounds cool okay cool here's the other side with here's what happens when you don't get enough and so these researchers took and they did mris actually went and actually looked at the brain and found that the folks who had the lowest intake of dha and epa specifically have the highest rate of brain shrinkage ooh all right and this isn't like it's cold outside and you know you're maybe you're like you're doing a cold plant shrinkage this is like permanently can mess you up shrinkage and so but here's the thing it was just the bar was 1.2 teaspoons a day 1.2 teaspoon under that brain shrinkage just 1.2 teaspoons can protect your brain from go from atrophying all right so how do we do this dha and epa now here's the the bigger arching thing because there's different types of omega-3s sure as i mentioned when i was in my clinical practice when i first started i was just telling people to get their omega-3s in ala is the plant form and it does some cool stuff but it's not what the brain uses so we say platform am i thinking flaxseed flaxseed chia seeds hemp seeds these are all great gotcha and they're they're they're they're cool but and the br the body is so hungry for dha it can actually convert some ala into dha okay but you you can lose upwards of 90 in the conversion process so for you to get the amount of dha you need you're going to need to literally consume clinically speaking ass loads of chia seeds every day that's a clinical term i know yeah yeah this is how we do it write that down so it's just not viable and also you just need to you might as well just put your office into a porta potty as well sure right because you're just [ __ ] all the way because it gets that gel you know but it's not that those foods are not wonderful but here's the difference with dha and epa we have something we have the brain being the most powerful entity in the known universe that we know about it doesn't come to the party without protection because it is incredibly delicate as well your brain is about the consistency of soft butter it's very delicate and to be the most powerful thing but super delicate it's kind of like crang in the ninja turtles yes yes brave but he's got this he needs this metal body protective he's like super gushy that was actually really good a metaphor there that was really the first time i thought about that so there's a whole generation that has no idea what the [ __ ] we're talking about because that was kind of more our error but anyway so the we have it's the only organ that's fully encased in hard hard bone right it's got we've got a built-in helmet the cranium but your brain is so sensitive and it's so important you also have an internal security system as well it's called the blood brain barrier and i picture it like it's a toll booth on what's allowed to get into the brain only as literally a couple dozen nutrients are actually allowed to get into your brain you might eat all this stuff but your brain has its own diet we call it neural nutrition all right and i i picture it is that this toll booth is duane the rock johnson clones of him sitting at all the different toll booths kicking unwanted nutrition nutrients asses and toxins asses and taking names later kind of thing but there's an express pass for dha and epa like they can just shuttle in because of this the fats on our bodies the fat that we're trying to burn those are storage fats your brain doesn't have storage fats those are called structural fats if your brain was made of storage fats and during times of famine effectively your brain would eat itself right it's like homemade zombie food right so our brain is made of structural fats dha and epa are used to create to literally create the the physical structure of your brain cells the plasticity and something called transduction so this makes them able to talk to each other this is how important dha and epa are okay so what i'm saying we need to absolutely get this in our diet i'm not just saying this i didn't know it was this important when i went into this project i knew it was important but not this important and so how do we do this plant sources that's cool but not for your brain if you're taking a vegan or vegetarian approach we have to address this we evolved having food sources animal sources of omega-3s of dha and epa now we can take based on and we can be successful on many different diet frameworks but we don't want to do something that hurts us to our detriment so number one most of the studies 99.5 of the studies on dha and epa are done on fish oil all right it just it works in the data it works and i've got some really mind-blowing studies on fish oil effects food first though where's the fish come from the journal neurology this journal one of the most prestigious focused on cognitive health the journal neurology found that folks who eat just one seafood meal a week do in fact perform significantly better on cognitive skills tests than folks who get less all right just one a week all right but if you're not doing the you know seafood thing or if you just like don't like fish at all like you can't even [ __ ] watch aquaman you know what i mean if if you're like that with fish there's also eggs there's also grass-fed beef there's other sources but now we move down the rung from fish oil to krill oil right krill microscopic shrimp but when i say shrimp that might put off if somebody's doing a vegan or vegetarian approach it's microscopic shrimp you'll probably kill more sentient organisms like licking the air you know what i mean like a few times a day but even still just to respect our our own ethics if that doesn't fit into your but by the way that other one percent of studies on that those include krill oil it's shocking how how effective krill oil is because it's it's red it's rich in astaxanthin and it makes the omega-3s work even better so krill oil next level full plant source if you're doing if you're taking a vegan protocol and you're not and your ethics don't allow for you to get more of a food source i want you no matter what get yourself an algae oil all right algae algae oil now here's the issue and this is the thing that's different from me i'm not just going to blow smoke up your ass we don't have much clinical evidence of its effectiveness in placebo-controlled trials but we do know that the dha and epa are there so chances are they're probably going to work well all right at what point on the rung or on the ladder does like omega-3 you know the capsules come come in or the so are you suggesting like eat krill like take krill oil by way of those capsules yeah so food food first yeah so fish um fatty fish specifically yeah right fatty fish cold water fish then we get into fish oil capsules yeah but that's a that's a whole food extraction sure right krill oil is another whole food concentration right so you're not going to go and just start like opening your gut like a whale and scooping right krill you know so you're going to take the bills right right and you want to just of course when it comes to these things make sure you're sourcing good and folks who are trying to do things sustainably bro i'm going to ask you a question and and to your beautiful brain sean it's going to be like oh you got water right down there oh dang yeah i'm going to ask a question and and to your to your beautiful brain this question that might sound um like i'm a neophyte but i remember hearing when the whole farm-raised fish came about that like man you don't want to do that because they're feeding those fish they're in tight quarters and so they're feeding them antibiotics and so you don't want to go down that route now i'm out at high-end restaurants and it's almost like they're touting the fact that it's like you know farm-raised i'm like what just happened like i thought that was bad i don't want farmers i want like fresh caught yeah am i did they change something in farm-raised where it's okay now or is that just am i being marketed to yeah yeah i mean because it could be fed organic food right it can be identical but that doesn't mean that it's okay either you know because fish should be eating things fish catch naturally anytime you feed an animal including us that is not designed to eat they get sick sure and so you know a lot of these farm-raised fish of course they're fed like chimos soy all this what like whatever right but then some people have better you know higher standards of feeding organic fish food but the real fish food is the fish being out in the ocean actually doing this thing and being healthy right you know what i mean so fish too but now then we get into issues with sustainability you know there's so many this is a this is a nuanced thing there's there's so much to consider but what's best for us is wild food for sure that we might have to make some concessions and this is the thing too we don't have to be perfect if you're eating some farm-raised salmon and you know you're getting in you know maybe taking some krill oil you're drinking getting your your hydration you know you're making sure you're getting plenty of magnesium through your leafy greens you start stacking conditions where like it's okay you don't have to be neurotic even the water we're drinking out of in the plastic bottle there was a time i would have told myself like i probably drink my pee before i drink out of a plastic bottle because of the bpa one of the studies i show share in e-smarter really looked at the impact and the data exists and it's crazy that bpa has on fertility for both men and women it's going to shock you but the thing is when your body is always constantly choosing better than once you get a better source of something whether that hydration is coming from your food whether it's coming from another source of water it's gonna outplace the other stuff sure you know but you know the number one thing is getting hydrated rather than having this huge because i'm the guy like i had huge conversations about the best types of water yeah yeah but in reality in our world today man there's so much there's so much to talk about so much to debate about we just need to do the overarching important things first most 90 of people here in the united states don't have those things remotely dialed in so we're like preaching to the choir debating about minutia you know we got a paleo versus a vegetarian protocol we got you know keto protocol versus uh you know carnivore protocol we need to get our citizens eating real food like first and foremost amen but so what what i did was i wanted to create nine these are all my friends i love these guys you know from the person who made lectins you know the big thing you know the the plant paradox dr gundry i was just with him the other day i love these guys my mission was to create something that is a unifier that takes the best because i can see it i can see it looking because they'll get tunnel vision with their own framework yeah it's a natural human tendency i did this in my practice i'm grateful i did it if i was doing something my clients were gonna do it but it got to a point where i realized it was like a revelation i have to do what's best for this person and this person their ancestry might be from you know they might be greek so like let's go let's take a look at what are some of the food sources you know what what happened when you got like when did you i start digging and we find out what's best for you right now and even that can change that's what i want to give people the tools to do is to be able to adapt and change as they adapt and change sure because nobody in the history of humanity has a metabolism exactly like pedro's never and will never in the future nobody but the point is you next week your metabolism will not be the same as today sure it's different it evolves so health is fluid it's dynamic we need the tools to learn how to take care of ourselves diet frameworks are wonderful but what i do is i give an overarching understanding of here's the things that make every one of these diets successful let's do these things here the things that can hurt you no matter what diet you're doing let's really nail these things down and get our citizens healthier brilliant so again you you cover it all in here and what i love about you is you seek out knowledge and then you acid test the knowledge and then you feed it to us in a way that's understandable you take the complex like i said earlier and you make it understandable easy and i dare say fun uh eat smarter guys and gals each more to get two copies one for you one for a friend you love and you want to see live longer and live happier um now i would be remiss if i didn't talk about my st louis trip and um bro bro i don't know what that restaurant was we don't have it in california but the appetizer one of the appetizers we ordered was fried chicken skin for all our friends here that are probably foodies like i am like you are by the way i okay well i'll get to this by the way in just a moment what was the name of that restaurant in saint louis went to uh salt and smoke salt and smoke yeah i knew the salt i didn't know salt and smoke i got to tell you i've been there twice there with you now and um just a spectacular place and again going back to what you said you could eat at a softened smoke if you keep everything else dialed in yeah right people were like wait a minute you just had this great conversation now you're talking about eating fried chicken skin like how many ways you just poison yourself but you can do that and be just fine and then we went to a place that it wasn't ice cream ted drew's frozen custard man let me tell you the st louis experience bro bro i don't know if i ever told you the uber experience back from ted drew's i'm going to tell you that in just a second but guys and gals first of all you got to go and experience this in st louis and then from there you're going to go after eat the fried chicken skin you're going to eat uh at ted cruz show up with cash because they don't take credit cards if i remember correctly that was crazy right yeah the line the whole place this custard shack there's not even an indoor it was twice the size of this desk and they had like three windows and the lines were long crazy bananas they were nice and we were there pretty late yeah yeah and so first of all they're making money hand over fist which is great i love businesses that do that but then we said our goodbyes and me and the family i call an uber i kid you not bro have you seen the movie friday of course right with ice cube and the worm and chris tucker there's like a low rider that one of the one of the dudes uh one of the mexican gangbangers shows up in and he's like hey smokey come here this this cat pulls up in a i like cars there's a badass lowrider but we get in and the kids are looking at me the wife's looking at me i'm like guys this you know it's uber so maybe there's some level of right but you know we we definitely got the thug life vibe off our driver and anyway he ended up being the coolest cat ever you were just rapping about the car the whole time it was an oldsmobile um from the early 90s and he just he spent so much dough on it like it was sick it was sick and i'm guessing now he's like ubering just you never told me this yeah yeah that's crazy yeah but what what what um i was like hey man uh this is a sweet looking ride and that's all i had to say and he went from just being the dude that was driving to like man let me tell you all the work i did on it and it was just a great experience so just capped off the date perfectly wow perfectly awesome all right so how can people get their sweet little hands on eat smarter sure perfect well when this is coming out when this episode is coming out it'll probably be back in stock and amazon was completely sold out of them we're good and they we know that they're available at target stores target.com dude it's in target it's in target every target store in america you and jane fonda i know it's crazy i used to work at target when i was a kid man so now my book is there also of course barnes and noble uh independent bookstores you can get it wherever books are sold amazon and yeah amazon if they're back in stock which it should be when this comes out and also the audiobook is is just taken off it's just incredible did you record the audiobook yeah okay good so it was it's such an experience and also whenever you hear sean talk anyway get the audio book because if you listen to it at night because you're having issues falling asleep your sweet mellow voice will just put anyone to bed and there's there's not going to be any today okay right you know well there is one little samuel l jackson part that i talk about in the book but other than that yeah did you ever see pulp fiction of course i love that i just 26 times six times holy moly do you know what was in the briefcase i don't remember when vincent vega and jules samuel jackson and uh john travolta went into the kitchen to get marcellus wallace's briefcase and remember when vincent vega opens the briefcase and he opens it up and he's looking at it and it's glowing and he just doesn't have any words and then jules is like vinnie vinnie did we get what we're looking for and he's like yeah it's beautiful you know what was in there that was so beautiful what was he you really don't know i don't remember i'm gonna change your life right now and this is the truth it was it was marcellus wallace's soul and remember these guys were thugs right they were his muscle marcellus wallace was a gangster and they were his muscle and really the the narrative of the movie is that even a thug gangster deep down inside all of our souls are just beautiful and immaculate and i thought that was the low rider that pulls up at ted drews man i'm telling you see that you just brought it full circle there it is all right guys and gals thank you so much for watching this episode of the empire show with my dude sean stevenson get yourself two copies of eat smarter and above all when this episode comes out take a screenshot share it in your stories tag sean tag myself and as always don't forget to tell your mama we'll see you guys later

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