20+ Healing Foods Most People Have Never Heard Of | Jordan Rubin
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The transcript explores a wide range of natural, peptide-rich foods and wellness products that support healing, longevity, and immune function. It begins with Ultra Fit running shoes, emphasizing natural movement and comfort for ultra-distance runners. It then shifts to Apple Watch Series 12’s advanced heart health monitoring, highlighting its role in wellness diagnostics. A section promotes Mint Mobile’s affordable wireless plan, accessible to all users. The core focus is on food-based medicine: organ and glandular foods like liver, thymus, and bone marrow are highlighted for their natural peptides that aid organ regeneration and hormone balance. Other key foods include colostrum, deer antler, spirulina, and kefir, all rich in growth factors and immune-boosting compounds. Special attention is given to fermented foods like natto, which contains powerful compounds for cardiovascular and bone health. Indigenous and traditional foods—such as honey, black seed, mulberries, and sumac—are praised for their long-standing use in healing, backed by modern research. Finally, nutrient-dense foods like duck eggs and fish roe are presented as essential for brain health and cellular repair. The overall message is that ancient, overlooked foods offer potent, accessible tools for long-term health and disease prevention, especially when combined with traditional practices and modern science. The content concludes with a call to action for individuals to explore these foods and wellness resources to improve their health and well-being.
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What are your thoughts on dearie alert? If you are weak, if you are older, and you want
to be young again, dear antler is absolutely awesome. And so talk to me a little bit about
be bread. So the Bible says eat a little honeycomb, and it is good for the bones. When you
were dealing with Crohn's and colitis, it was the number one food you consumed on a daily
basis. Keifer has more peptides than yogurt because of the unique fermentation with bacteria
and yeasts. Why sheep milk over maybe, you know, cow's milk? There is twice the amount
of way protein or lact albumin in sheep milk. Four times the amount of vitamin D talked
to us about natto and what makes it such an incredible healing food. Josh, this is the
super food that nobody's ever heard of that would transform the cardiovascular health
of this nation, transform our bone health. I don't even know where to start because it's
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So you've heard of turmeric. You've heard of ashwagandha. You've heard of amazing healing
foods like salmon and pomegranate. But what if there were foods that you were unaware
of that could be your secret to health and healing? Well, today I've brought on Jordan
Ruben, one of the world's leading experts in using food as medicine and today we're going
to dive into over 20 foods that you've maybe never heard of that could help you experience
a breakthrough in your hormones, your immune system, fighting cancer, and experiencing
longevity. Welcome to Dr. Josh Act Show and Jordan Welcome to the show again. It's great
to be here. I'm super excited to share these powerful hidden gems that people can consume
every day that people have been consuming around the world as condiments, as side dishes
may be even as beverages or desserts that can bring healing to the body and the mind.
Well, no, you've got a lot of experience with this and curing yourself. You cured yourself
many years ago, along with, of course, God's help of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease
and autoimmune disease. You healed yourself of cancer using food based medicine. So these
are foods and we say they're healing. They have incredible healing properties. And what
I would love to sort of just dive right into from the start here is I want to talk about
peptide rich foods. There's this whole, we see this ground swell today of people talking
about peptides like BPC157, TB500, GHKCU. But the original peptides are found in foods.
In fact, body protective compound that BPC157, it's found in stomach acid and stomach lineias.
So organs and glandulars have been used for a long time as these peptide rich superfoods.
Let's start there and talk about peptide rich superfoods specifically organs.
Absolutely. And it is something that could take up the entire show because bovine pancreas,
which has been called sweet breads, along with thymus, has been used and consumed for thousands
of years. And right there, you've got something that mimics insulin in pancreas. And then
thymus is where they get TB500 from. You can consume these as foods. They're not super
tasty, but you can or as supplements, but organs are amazing. Kidney is amazing. Liver
is amazing. The peptides and organs attract to your body's organs and tissues like a magnet.
And they have all the nutrients you need to restore your own organs and tissue. Thyroid
is so amazing. Testes or orcic extract has bioidentical testosterone in it, mammary glands,
as well as uterus and ovary has estrogen and progesterone in very small doses and the
peptides to trigger your body to make its own hormones. That's the ultimate peptide source
if you ask me. Yeah, it's pretty incredible. You know, coming
on the show, I wanted to do some continued just sort of research on thymus gland. And it
really is amazing. Again, people are using TB500 today. That's naturally found in thymus
glands. So is thymus in alpha one, so is violin. So there's all of these peptides that
we've sort of isolated, but those are found naturally in thymus gland. There's actually
studies on using thymus gland in its extracts at fighting and treating cancer, at boosting
immunity, fighting infections. And the great thing is people can do these organ and glanulas
as supplements, but also as food. You know, liver, of course, is one. Sal tied it up in,
you know, olive oil and coconut oil with garlic and onions. You do it with some ketchup
or barbecue sauce. Listen, it's not everybody's favorite. Probably the best way to do
it is you could buy a brand like forces of nature. You know, it's got hard in there and
liver and you don't really taste much really any of the glandular in there, which is that,
which is a great way to go as well. But yeah, these are, if you want to get more peptide
denaption, your diet, eat more organs. Yes. And if you're daring, I may have last
week brought a water buffalo liver home from the Missouri farm and sliced it up and swallowed
some raw pieces warning that's only for people that are very daring. But bottom line doesn't
taste great. It has this weird bitter, acrid flavor to it, but there's a reason. And when
you see the red color of an organ, when I opened up that I brought a heart, a kidney and
a liver home with me, it is amazing. It's like purple, blue, red, loaded with blood. It
was the original blood transfusion. My grandmother suffered from polycythemia when she was younger
and she also had certain issues with her blood. She had pernicious anemia and she consumed
in the hospital. Josh, this is crazy. Raw liver in the 1940s. That was a medicine instead
of a blood transfusion. Now we can get it today in capsules or as you mentioned in a mix
with ground beef. I even think about thyroid glandular as
an example. You know, today, a lot of times the, you know, when somebody's taking level
thyroxin, which by the way, I mean, studies have come out showing it is 90% of people on
the drug don't need it. It's not really doing them any good. There are studies out or
that there are, you know, what some people do instead is they'll take armor or nature
throid and basically that's their bovine or pig glandular or the extract where they take
the T4 and T3. They use that as more of a bio identical hormone for the thyroid gland.
The reality is you can take thyroid gland as a supplement and it has some inactivated
T4, T3, but it also has peptides. It also has a compound called T2 as numerous compounds
that are going to support thyroid function. Now, the way these work on your body is you're
not going to feel as immediate of an impact as you would taking, let's say, a concentrated
peptide. But over time, you're building up your resources, you're improving some of
their communication and people will notice a difference in long-term health and improving
things like their thyroid health, whether testosterone or their immune system by taking
these organs and glands. One in particular I'd love for you to talk about is bone marrow.
Bone marrow is absolutely amazing. It has stem cells that are floating in it. And bone marrow
is a delicacy for animals and humans. I take bones from our water buffalo, which I just
talked about and I give it to my small dog. I'll spoon out the marrow.
she will lick it till it is completely dry.
There is something about bone marrow
that's beyond just the fats,
beyond the small amount of proteins
that make all animals love it.
It quite literally is like a bone marrow transplant
in the sense of oral consumption.
And so if you can consume bone marrow,
sometimes at finer restaurants they have it,
people don't think about that much as a healing oil,
even topically bone marrow and its stem cells regenerate tissue.
- It's powerful, yeah, there's a supplement I love to take too.
And many, I love doing bone broth,
I love doing bone marrow supplements.
And the thing is people can go and buy
these organs and granulars,
they're very easy to consume as the actual organ
or actually as a supplement.
And again, incredibly powerful.
Now there's another one that I've heard you talk about
many years ago.
And this isn't an organ per se,
but it is an animal product and it's colostrum.
And this is an incredibly peptide rich food,
and a lot of times I don't think we were aware
of all of the benefits of colostrum and its peptides.
- Colostrum's so powerful that it is banned by the NCAA
because it contains actual IGF1,
which is the peptide that increases growth hormone in your body.
So if you want something that is rejuvenating,
bovine colostrum is amazing,
whether you're consuming it raw and frozen,
like some local farms will have it sells out quickly.
So if you're someone who is part of a raw milk co-op,
ask them if they have any colostrum.
And by the way, don't worry about the babies,
the calves being robbed of their colostrum
because modern milk breeds animals to produce enough milk
for about five calves.
There's always extra colostrum.
And the reason that it is saved, Josh,
which is amazing, farmers use colostrum to treat calves
that have diarrhea, which can kill them.
This is not just normal loose bowels or infections
because colostrum not only contains peptides,
but it contains immunoglobulins and so much more.
Colostrum may not be the miracle that some purported to be,
but it is a super rich source of peptides
and it's been consumed for thousands of years.
- It's amazing.
You know, one of the things that you know that I've talked
about a lot, even on this show,
is not only looking at what the science says,
but also what does ancient wisdom say.
And in Chinese medicine, you know,
they would really look at different parts of the animal
and they understood the different areas of the animal
would support organs.
So we've talked about this principle,
you and I have both taught on this
and that's like support, like.
So if somebody is consuming something like,
we talked about organs and glandulars.
Thyrwood supports your thyroid, liver supports your liver,
heart supports your heart.
In addition, there are certain foods
that have these unique peptides and properties
that support different organs and areas of the body.
One of those is deer antler.
And this is something that was used
predominantly in Chinese medicine building,
for building something we would call yang and chi energy.
So it's like your mitochondrial health.
It's more inabolic and androgens supporting in the body.
What are your thoughts on deer antler?
- I love it.
And deer antler and colostrum are two of the richest foods
in growth factors.
So if somebody has failure to thrive,
say that you have a child
who is not growing and developing properly,
both colostrum and deer antler contain that IGF1.
Deer antlers also banned in both Olympic
and NCAA competition.
Why is it banned?
Because the deer antlers are shed each and every year
that velvet and it regrows almost like magic.
And that growth is captured in deer antler extract.
It is probably one of the most masculine, powerful,
traditional Chinese, not herbs, but substances known demand.
If you are weak, if you are older and you want to be young again,
deer antler is absolutely awesome.
Years ago, I had a group of friends who went on a 40-day
workout program using kettlebells and other equipment.
And part of the deal was, you had to take a shot
of deer antler extract before and after the workout.
It was a 10-year-old aged extract that when you open the jar,
it smelled raw and rotten.
Now you can get deer antler and capsules, et cetera,
mostly from New Zealand.
And I've been to these farms where they're raising the deer.
The antlers are beautiful, they're amazing.
Traditional cultures have consumed deer antler velvet
around the world wherever animals were hunted.
Elk the same, moose the same.
They are truly the regenerative parts of an animal
and they are powerful when consumed in supplement form.
- I love it.
There's one more peptide rich category of foods I want to talk about.
And people are somewhat familiar with this category.
But still not talk about very often.
That's certain types of seaweed.
It could be spriulina, it could be chlorella.
But these are foods that are incredibly rich in peptides as well.
What's really unique about spriulina chlorella,
and you know this because I heard you speak on this first,
spriulina chlorella really are more microbial in nature.
They're kind of in the family of bacteria, right?
In terms of their properties,
but also they are very rich in peptides.
Talk to us about these amazing blue-green algae.
- A blue-green algae's are truly unique
and they're part of the protest kingdom.
They are cyanobacteria, some people call them phytoplankton.
They're single-celled organisms that have everything needed
for life.
I remember years ago, Josh, before I was even an adult,
I read a book on the power of spriulina.
It was so popular in health food stores,
there used to be these green footsteps
that you could walk and follow to get to the display.
People called it mana from heaven.
Spriulina and chlorella are very rich in proteins.
They're rich in peptides.
They're also rich in nucleic acids.
They literally have RNA ribonucleic acid that you can eat.
They also have chlorophyll.
They are amazing.
Now with chlorella, you wanna buy cracked cell
because the cell wall is hard to digest,
whereas spriulina is not.
And not only is spriulina amazing as a standalone,
but there are minerals that have been bound to the peptides
in spriulina called peptide-powered minerals
that can amplify the effects of magnesium, iodine,
chromium, zinc, et cetera.
And that technology is awesome.
So spriulina is something that's great.
It's becoming popular again.
You can add it to smoothies.
Kind of a little fishy tasting.
It also has a quote unquote plant version of B12.
So you're gonna get mild energy from it,
but most of the benefits in spriulina,
I believe, come from the 60 plus percent protein,
primarily in peptide form that signals the body
to repair itself.
- That's pretty incredible.
You know, I wanna move into a different category.
We talked about a lot of these incredible peptide-rich foods.
Now there's another compound that's rich in peptides as well
in proteins, and it is something called B-bred.
Okay, so I wanna talk about the super foods
and compounds found that bees make.
And so talk to me a little bit about B-bred.
- B-bred is absolutely amazing.
B-bred is a combination of a few things.
There's a little pollen.
There's a little propolis, et cetera.
And if you can get it, it is so amazing.
Josh, I've done a few things over the years
that made my wife very frustrated.
And in this case, the UPS guy,
I used to get honey from North Carolina
where the apiary and the beekeeper would not even spin it.
He cut it out with a room temperature knife
and shipped honeycomb in glass jars only
with B-bred all the goodies.
And I used to think that the kombucha I ordered
from California, this is before people were drinking kombucha.
Then I thought that sour crowd that I ordered
was hard for the UPS guy to bring over with this like explosion,
but the worst was honey.
Imagine the UPS guy coming with honeycomb dripping
from a jar that broke.
But I would eat that every day.
Not only was their benefits from the pollen,
the propolis, there's a little bit of royal jelly
that I would add to it, but the honeycomb itself has peptides.
So the Bible says eat a little honeycomb
and it is good for the bones.
It has proline, which we now know is one of the three amino acids
that are necessary for collagen.
And so we think of honey as a sweetener,
but honey actually has amazing properties
in its unfiltered, unheated form
that is absolutely regenerative for your skin
and for your body.
And they are only discovering more benefits of honey.
And what couldn't be amazing in something
that can last for 10,000 years?
There is honey that we find that is thousands of years old.
It destroys bacteria.
It destroys yeast.
It is a powerhouse.
But one thing it can do with its peptides in tact
is help you become less sensitive to allergies.
And you can build strong muscles
from consuming the small amount of peptides in honey products.
- I love it.
You know, I think, you know, I was reading up on,
you know, years ago on B-Bread and also learning
it's fermented.
You know, it's something that they ferment,
which of course, unlocks even some more of those
nutrients, those peptides, make it more absorbable.
This is not something, I mean, I rarely ever see B-Bread anywhere.
Now, you can go online and order it,
but tremendous benefits there.
And I also want to say, there are a lot of other compounds
that are healing in honey, such as royal jelly,
such as, you mentioned propolis already with that.
What are some of the benefits of royal jelly and propolis?
- Royal jelly is the food of the queen bee.
And so it was chosen to specially take a normal bee
and make
it larger and more powerful.
The Queen Bee lives longer, is more beautiful if you're into bees.
I'm thinking the bee movie right now, it's just absolutely awesome.
It is known as a rejuvenative food in traditional Chinese medicine.
And propolis is highly anti-infective.
So it is great for your throat.
It's an amazing throat spray.
It is very sort of tannic.
It's resinous.
It dries things out.
So if you've got excess flemmar mucus, it's drying, soothing, and it prevents the beehive
from getting ruined from rain and from all kinds of sort of outside influences.
So propolis can help you become resilient in your immune system, but it is amazing
for infections.
You know, one of the things I was reading about honey in general is that one of the reasons
why it's last thousands of years, one, it's of course it's so incredibly rich in phytonutrients
and peptides and a number of just things.
But also, it has an ability to create the perfect moisture levels.
And so if you put it on your skin in your body, one of the reasons why, you know, I'm thinking
about this.
So when R1 was really little, she wouldn't be getting cradle cap on her head.
And we had tried several things.
We tried aloe.
We tried silver.
We tried a number of things.
None of them really seemed to move the needle.
We went and put honey on her head and in four days went 100% completely gone.
It was really, really incredible.
And part of the thing there is is when you have eczema or psoriasis in any of those issues,
sometimes it's too damp.
Sometimes it's too dry.
It tends to be too damp, typically.
So honey helps create that perfect moisture level also has these natural antibiotic properties,
especially manuka honey, which is why it's a great sort of face mask for acne, a lot
of benefits there.
And propolis, the other thing that's amazing about honey and propolis is that they're also
gentle.
Like, we have at home a propolis product we use with our daughters, and as long as your
child is one year old or older, they can start using propolis at one year's old.
So it's an immune modulator and I mean booster, it's general enough for kids, but really also
still incredibly powerful.
So I love these honey products and of course, again, you know, but you know, one of the
problems is a lot of these, you know, there's a study out of Texas A&M that found that 76%
of honey products are fake honey.
They've been stripped of all of their pollen, they've been stripped of all of their nutrients
and it's basically just, you know, sticky sugar, right?
And so when you're buying honey, do it the way Jordan talked about good your local farmers
market, go buy manuka honey online or just get a good local honey, that that's where you're
going to get the greatest benefits of these amazing, you know, longevity foods.
And if you have honey that's crystallized, which usually means it's unheated and has some
of the yucky brown stuff on top, which really is be bread, take a scoop of it.
I just like to put it in my mouth and let it dissolve.
It is absolutely awesome for a throat fix.
You can add some propolis and maybe a drop of lemon oil.
It's like a lasinge without it and I'm a big fat guy that didn't sound right, but I love
fat.
Sometimes I will take raw butter and honey and just like let it dissolve in my mouth,
it is absolutely awesome.
It's so powerful.
Well, I want to talk about another incredible superhood food that maybe some people have heard
of a few times, but maybe never.
And that is Nado.
Talk to us about Nado and what makes it such an incredible healing food.
Josh, this is the superfood that nobody's ever heard of that would transform the cardiovascular
health of this nation, transform our bone health.
But think about this, Nado, which is traditionally made from either fermented soy or fermented
garbanzo beans, you can use other legumes as well, is a condiment in Asia and Indonesia.
They consume it regularly and it has three of the most powerful nutrients or compounds
known to man.
Number one, Nado kinase.
If you're somebody who has micro vascular issues or and this is huge, if you have received
the COVID shot experienced COVID or long COVID, Nado kinase is absolutely amazing.
It breaks down scar tissue in the body called fibrinogen and can actually lower the risk
of cardiovascular disease by a massive amount.
Nado kinase is produced in Nado and I can't think of a better cardiovascular booster than
Nado kinase from eating Nado.
Also, it's great for the heart.
It helps put calcium in your bones and where it belongs like your teeth instead of your
arteries.
So that's a one-two punch for cardiovascular health.
And number three, Nado is made with the fermentation of bacillus subtilus, which is my favorite
probiotic.
We call it a soil-based organism.
I formulated with it since 1998.
I started using it in '96.
It helped me overcome Crohn's colitis and I still use it and consume it today.
I love it.
That makes Nado Nado.
If that wasn't enough, there's a compound called genestine that is part of Nado, whether
it's soy or whether it is garbanzo beans that helps your bones, helps your hormones.
It is an amazing women's health booster.
I read an article on it this morning that it outperforms certain hormone replacement
therapy in head-to-head studies.
We know that everybody in America, if not the world, either had COVID, received a shot
or was with somebody who experienced COVID or had the shot and they have some kind of
a viral shedding and spike protein.
We can't say it when promoting a product, but if we're not promoting a product, I will
tell everybody that this is something I would recommend using for three to six months for
everyone on the planet.
My mom's staying with me for a few days and she has circulation issues.
I lost both my grandfather's to heart attacks, one at 55, one at 62.
I'm now taking these Nado ingredients as well as giving them to my mom and you can find
Nado in an Asian market.
You can find it in really any ethnic market frozen or fresh.
You just need to consume a little bit every day.
You can consume it with rice as it was traditionally done.
It's a little stinky, which is why people don't consume it.
But I would have to say Nado is a top five superfood and Nado is loaded with peptides.
The soy or garbanzo being when it's fermented by bacillus subtlest breaks down into powerful
peptides.
They could suppress appetite, boost your gut and more.
I can't think of a better superfood and we were talking off the air, Josh.
I bet one tenth of 1% of Americans have heard of Nado much less consume it.
The other thing is I'm thinking in my head about some of the benefits when you combine
these together.
If you're combining Nado along with royal jelly together for women with menopause, it
is one of the most powerful combinations on the entire planet.
I actually have my mom on this as well, when some people are still getting different
strains of COVID and it's still causing some of these issues.
My mom was slow to recovery this time around and she started taking this Nado along with
some other supplements and helped her start to experience a break through.
Really that in a stragglist where the two she started doing and propolis and seeing a big
break through with.
To your point, in one of the issues with COVID, it's causing this blood coagulation.
We need spike protein issues and of course, Nado has sort of actually this proteolytic enzyme
in a way of helping break that down, get the blood moving, that sticky blood moving and
flowing again, maybe better than anything else out there.
Very exciting.
That phybrinogen is causing the clots or it's part of the clots and when you break that
down, things can be smooth and it's a great brain booster.
Vitamin K2 is amazing for the brain and so is Nado kinase.
I think Josh, in general, Nado kinase is going to be huge on the rise as a supplemental
ingredient because in a post-COVID nation and world, we need things that help us thin
out our blood, but in a way that's not like a blood thinner, so to speak, in a healthy
way, but also boosting micro-circulation, supporting the gut.
I call it, I got to remember this, like a cardio, osteo, immunometabolic gut stack.
Yeah, it's so good.
I want to talk about the next food here and this is a food that actually, I would say,
I believe you said this, is that when you were dealing with Crohn's and Colitis, it was
the number one food you consumed on a daily basis, healing yourself, and it's Kiefer.
It is, and I remember Josh, probably when I was a teenager, because my dad is a chiropractor
in a naturopath.
He had kombucha under the sink and he had something that they called, what is it, like
the Himalayan mushroom or something, and it was really Kiefer grains and we would make
different milks out of it and man, combining kombucha and Kiefer warm in the kitchen
was some kind of odor.
But Kiefer is absolutely amazing.
Kiefer is very similar to the beverage that Dr. Eli Mechnikov found when he saw the longest
live cultures in the caucus region, the Georgian Republic and surrounding regions.
He saw 85 to 90-year-olds, spray and healthy, very different from the civilized cultures
he was observing even over a hundred years ago, and he wrote a book called The Prolongation
of Life, and he said that the dairy beverage that these Caucasians were drinking, that was
fermented, was the leading cause of their longevity.
Some people thought it was the probiotics, which helped somewhat, but I know, and science
shows us now. It was the combination of peptides and
nutrients. And if you get a full fat preferably raw keifer because you can make it yourself,
it is truly amazing. It can help people that are underweight, that are weak, that are sick. And
especially if you make it raw, people have consumed keifer exclusively for 40 days and even in
convalescence. Like where they didn't move at all, they would gain muscle and inches on their
thighs if they were emaciated. It is literally a bodybuilding food for men and women if you don't
exercise. And it's also a rich source of highly digestible calcium, phosphorus, B12, and so much more.
It has dozens of strains of probiotics. They have it flavored at health food store groceries,
which are fine, but look for an A2 version if you can find it or better yet. Order some keifer
grains online. It's easier to take care of than a sourdough starter and make it yourself with
raw or organic A2 milk. I'll tell you, so we're working on our homestead, you know, we're building
here in national areas. So Chelsea's incredibly excited for us to, you know, get our own cows and
have those on a daily basis because right now she's doing sourdough, she's got that starter going,
looking forward to getting the keifer starter going as well. Here's one I've actually never
talked about on the, well, it's actually probably been once on the show before. Mastic gum.
Mastic gum is very interesting because it helps with something that so many people deal with,
which is heartburn, gird, and more in particular, H. Pylory. So helicobacter pylory is a leading cause
of ulcers and upper GI distress, but it also causes more than that. Mastic gum is such a great
remedy for this. Now we talked earlier about propolis being resinous and tannic. Resins of trees
are amazing. So think about frankincense. Think about mer. We often avoid these or ignore these,
and most Americans have never even tried it, but Mastic gum was chewed back in the old days
for people to help their digestion. Now interestingly enough, typical gum that you chew even
with sugar alcohols versus sugar artificial sweeteners actually robs you of your digestive juices.
Mastic gum does the opposite. By consuming it in supplement form or chewing it if you can find it,
it can destroy H. Pylory, help with ulcers, help with gird and so much more, and it really is a
hidden gem in herbalism. And you know, Josh, I've been doing this for over 30 years and I've seen
things become popular, then they fade away, then they become popular. This is one that is just
a hidden gem that people don't know about. And when you combine it with something like zinc,
it has even more gut healing properties, even extending to remedying gut hyperperpermeability
or leaky gut. Yeah, you know, I've started to see people using a different, you know, combining
this, you know, mastic gum with things like zinc carnacene and other compounds glutamine for,
you know, kind of full on gut healing, which is really powerful. There's another one, glutamine.
You know, there's so many things that, you know, there are so many peptides, people don't realize
they're peptides. Glutathion is a peptide, creatine is a peptide, right? And so it'd be,
oh, these, I mean, these super, these peptides, these foods, and almost every superfood we're talking
about today, these are also incredibly high in peptides. Now there's another one I want to talk
about. I know you and I, by the way, this episode is making me so reminiscent of when you and I
started doing a lot of videos and content together. I mean, you know, so many years ago. And one,
I remember was talking about very early on, which it kind of, it's funny. It kind of goes in waves.
It's like it's, people talk about it and then they don't, you don't hear about it for a long time.
Black seed or black cumin. Talk to us about this. First of all, cumin is amazing. In the Bible,
Jesus was blasting the Pharisees for all the outward things they do, but for shaking, loving God
and loving people. He said, you tie the dill mint and cumin. If they were tithing, dill mint and
cumin, it must be valuable resources worth their weight and gold. He didn't say gold and silver
and copper. He said, dill mint and cumin, cumin along with many other spices is so amazing. Black
cumin in particular, not only has these incredible benefits that cumin has, which the number one is
the respiratory tract. Cumin is clinically studied to support respiratory health, improve breathing,
even endurance, etc. It's also a great antimicrobial as all spices are, but black cumin also has
powerful antioxidants, such as anthocyanins, which you'll find in blueberries and grapes, etc.
So it is absolutely a superstar. You'll see people say that black seed raises the dead. I don't
quite know that, but it contains powerful compounds in its oil form. What I love, if I can get it,
is finding black cumin when the oil's already been extracted and having the pressed
pomos or cakes and consuming it. It is absolutely amazing. Cumin is something that we might use in
Chile occasionally, but that's a spice that people have sitting in their cabinet for like 10 years
when it should be used. Find recipes. Lamb goes great with cumin. Cumin or black cumin,
use it in your food. Like the other spices we love, it can be a huge benefit. But really,
think about endurance and respiratory health for the long term. Not necessarily if you're fighting
a cold or a flu, but you just need to build that endurance. C-O-P-D is a great condition that
so many people have that natural remedies don't seem to be a fit for, but black seed or black
cumin would be excellent for them. Yeah, when I look at the size, I mean the biggest thing is
maybe one of the greatest inflammation reducers of the respiratory track and body. Absolutely.
So powerful. And of course, it's also one of the main ingredients in Middle Eastern hummus.
Yes, recipes. And so, you know, that's of course, you know, I'm sure Jesus had some hummus in his
day. I mean, that was part of the, you know, sort of Israeli diet for a very long period of time.
But black seed is sort of the relative of cumin you have cumin and then you have this black cumin
that is even more potent, but it's great to get both in your diet on a regular basis.
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All right, we're now going to turn to ancient longevity superfoods, okay? And one of the first
here I want to ask you about is a berry that has been prized and talked about an Ayurvedic medicine
for thousands of years. In fact, it's part of a berry, a blend of three berries that's used as
medicine in Ayurvedic medicine. And that's umla berry. Umla berry, umla locky,
emblema, Indian gooseberry, there's all kinds of names. It is truly amazing. It is loaded
with polyphenols and a lactic acid. And I can almost do a mic drop because when it comes to cellular
health, there's hardly a combo that is better than a lactic acid combined with other polyphenols.
When you consume emblema, umla locky or omla berry, it is very astringent because it is loaded
with tannins. And these tannins are hydrolyzable tannins, which help things move through the body
and add moistening to the digestive tract, which is why emblema or omla is one of three fruits
in the trafala or trifala remedy that is known as the number one colon conditioner detoxifier
and now prebiotic in all of Ayurveda. Another thing that it does, it helps the nutrients you consume
from food work better because it opens up your cleansing channel through the bowel. It doesn't
work like a harsh, laxative. It works like a bowel conditioner and it can be consumed regularly,
even every day, which I consume at every day, just as an overall booster for health. But it is
absolutely awesome. And again, I would say 99% of people have not heard of omla berry or Indian
gooseberry, but in India, everybody consumes it at one part of their life or another if they're
constipated, if they have loose bowels, if they have a sluggish liver, all of that is
helped and improved through consuming omla berry or the trifala or trifala combo.
Well, and one of the nutrients you didn't mention there with it too, that makes it so powerful is
one of the most vitamin C rich superfoods in the world. I mean, again, think about a legic acid
with vitamin C with these antioxidants with these polyphenols. I mean, these are some of the things
when you're talking about beauty, when you're talking about longevity, when you're talking about
cellular health, I'm an incredibly powerful and I try to follow. I remember you and I doing some
research in the past and studying this and also looking at it in an animal stays for longevity,
being incredibly beneficial. Of course, you mentioned the gut health constipation.
I know these are things that you reference, but again, there's so much good research on
omla and trifala, and you know, I think a lot of times people are having digestive issues,
they're turning to like, psyllium husk.
But really, trifala has so many more benefits even beyond just what we think of with, you
know, pretty healthy bowel movements.
And the longevity study you mentioned, which I am shocked, has not made worldwide news
many times over. Combining trifala with a probiotic helped increase longevity in fruit
flies by nearly 67%. And you might think, well, who cares about fruit flies? Fruit flies
are one of three animals or insects where most of the longevity research is done in laboratory
setting before it's consumed in humans. There's something about the drifila fruit fly that
has similar attributes. So when we're talking about calorie deprivation, akito diet, et cetera,
they tested in fruit flies. So consuming a probiotic, which we do every day, along with
trifala and omla is the main ingredient, game changer for longevity.
I love it. Another thing, you know, you actually talked about this not too long ago is sea
buckthorne. Sea buckthorne is one of my new favorite fruits. Not only is it a hallmark
in permaculture and regenerative agriculture, also known as sea berry, it is amazing as
a source of omega fatty acids, including omega seven and omega nine, which is mono unsaturated.
But the newest research on sea buckthorne, which I'm so excited about, is that it stimulates
stem cell production by over 100% in a matter of hours. And if that weren't enough, it
increases nitric oxide, boosts SOD, glutathione and catellase. So it's a peptide and stem cell
stimulator de jour. So Jordan, I just had a stem cell expert on the show here. And he was
telling me he was on a trip. I think it was somewhere in Asia. And he asked them, hey,
what is the most, you know, the greatest longevity food out there in supplement? And he was expecting
to hear ginseng. Yes. Don Klai, you know, Foti. And this whole group of people said, no,
it's sea buckthorne. Sea buckthorne is awesome. You can get it frozen again in Asian markets.
It actually is a berry that contains a lot of fat in it. And we grow it on our farms in
very small amounts. I wish I could grow it everywhere. But it is really amazing. The oil
is wonderful, but the fruit itself, if you can find it or find it in supplements, will help
you boost your general stem cell production, nitric oxide circulation. And it contains pro-anthosianidins
that I believe are more powerful than grape seed and pine bark picnogen also. It is really
going to be, I think, experiencing its heyday very soon. That's amazing. I want to talk about
indigenous berries and how maybe those are unique to, and also I'd love for you to talk
about how even eating the things that are local to where you live can positively impact our
health, our longevity. And again, and I know there's one you're going to mention here that
everyone's going to be like, why? I've never heard of that before, but of course it's
everywhere in the United States. Yeah. It is so awesome when you can understand that the
plants we consider maybe even ornamental are absolutely powerful for us. I call them
America's Forgotten Superfoods. And as I began studying seven years ago, the benefits of fruit
tree leaves and edible fruits, it totally opened my mind. Now, if you live in a development,
you're mostly spraying these particular plants, which is going to cause all kinds of health
issues. But we look at longevity foods. Mulberry is so high at the top. So Josh, I didn't tell you
this, but recently I found a farm in California and I ordered Pakistani mulberries frozen,
that variety. And I've been making mulberry blueberry smoothies for the last two weeks.
Not only are they rich in anthocyanins, but they contain loads of pectin, making smoothies
a little early. And I'm having to spoon them because the combination of blueberry and mulberry
is so rich in pectin. Mulberries are something people have heard about. They've heard about the
songs and the nursery rhyme. Yeah, and then the pectin, that's going to make it gelatinous.
Yes, it is. So growing up in Ohio, we would have, my grandparents had this amazing lake. I would
go to in the summers in Swamab and they own 50 acres, but mulberries grew everywhere. So we would
harvest them and make pie, mulberry pie, every summer. So good. And then the leaves, I just saw
a study yesterday, a group reached out to me. There is an herbal drug that extracted certain
compounds from mulberry leaf and they're using it for diabetes. And I myself have seen multiple
people consume mulberry leaf as a tea and have a major lowering of blood sugar and even healthy
metabolic rate and weight loss. Mulberries were consumed by the Hunza's and the Hunza's are known
as the longest-lived people on the planet. So they used to make these Hunza trail mixes with
certain dates and mulberries. The reason you don't see mulberries in a store is because they are
more perishable and have not been hybridized as much as blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries,
which we see all the time. If you go again to an Asian market, you can find frozen or fresh mulberries,
very infrequently. It's kind of like fresh figs. It's something you need to buy all that you can
when you find it. I absolutely love mulberries, but I'm going to throw a couple other berries out there
that people haven't heard of. There's a plant species called Viburnum. It's actually a genus
and they have different members. One is high-bush cranberry. So these are cranberries that would grow
in our area right here in Tennessee and we planted many of them. They are delicious and they're
amazing. And then there's another that's known as Rusty Blackaw or by multiple names, but you'll
know it, Josh, for its bark that is prized called cramp bark. So cramp bark is great for people that
have heavy menstruation, PMS or hormone imbalances. The berries of the cramp bark are Rusty Blackaw
or Blackaw. They're a Viburnum species. They are delicious. They're beautiful. They're rich in
tannins and they grow everywhere. I was in my neighborhood and now that I am completely obsessed
with trees. I take pictures of different trees, plug it into AI to see what it identifies as.
We have ornamental mulberries, ornamental papas, ornamental persimmons. There's like a food forest
that our neighborhood, now the trees are likely sprayed and not to be consumed. People don't realize
that there's medicine all around them. Even something like American beauty berry, which is
this beautiful purple color, small berries, they are absolutely amazing. We've talked about this
before, a little more popular Aronia berry or choke berry. It's called choke berry because when
you eat it, it'll make you choke at the end. But Aronia berry is believed to be richer in
antioxidants than Machi berry, Asai berry and far greater than blueberries and others. Again,
because it hasn't been tampered with or hybridized. It is absolutely awesome. And here's the last one.
No one's going to recognize this unless you're in the Middle East. This is sumac berries. So sumac,
we think of poison sumac. But sumac, smooth or staghorn, those berries are used in a Middle Eastern
spice that is rich in illagic acid again, is rich in anthocyanins and vitamin C. They use it to
make what they call poor man's lemonade. And we grow this on our farms as well. And when I drive
throughout Middle Tennessee, it is everywhere. Sumac is amazing for coughs, colds, flus, upper
respiratory health and more. And literally it is growing in ditches and in alleys on the side
of the road. You'll see these sort of beautiful purple cones that would be like a staghorn sumac.
Now, if you're wondering, well, Jordan, how do I know if it's poisonous? Poison sumac is white
and kind of yucky looking. Sumac that we can consume as a spice or as a condiment or as a fruit
or as a lemonade substitute is brightly colored shades between red and purple. And it blooms usually
around the fall. Now, let's move away from the berries. By the way, I will say, you know, a lot of
the berries we talked about now, mulberry, I would not include in that category. A lot of these
berries, they are very sour and astringent. So you mentioned chokeberry makes me think of. So
sometimes if I want to kind of support my digestion, I'll do trifala. But I do it as a straight powder.
And I almost choke on it every time because it is so sour and astringent. One of those berries,
along with some of the others you talked about. But, you know, these are great things. Again,
you can get them in powder form, some of them in form. You can get the real thing. Of course,
mulberries, you know, great, you know, you can actually, Chelsea and I did this recently. We went
and we bought some plants. We also got some from the farm. And, you know, we're planting berry
plants all over the place. And I know even growing up, my dad had blackberry bushes and raspberry
bushes. And every summer we would eat those. And they were fantastic. So a great thing to do at
home. So now this isn't a berry. But this is a food that's consumed in one of the longest
living cultures in the world. And it's purple sweet potatoes. Purple is a color of health.
There are cultures that consume their base carbohydrate staples. And instead of just getting
energy, nutrients, they're getting powerful antioxidants called anthocyanins. I love purple sweet
potatoes, especially the ones that don't just have purple on the outside. They're delicious. And
it just makes me happy to look at them. Put a little butter on that purple sweet potato.
It doesn't taste
as sweet as a yam or an orange sweet potato,
but it is powerful.
Purple corn is similar.
So if you look at cultures around the world,
they will eat brightly colored foods
because it doesn't simply feed and nourish them.
It is anti-inflammatory.
It's great for the heart.
And anthocyanins are great for the eyes.
That's why Billberry is so good for the eyes
or one of those reasons.
Billberry is a blueberry cousin.
Purple sweet potatoes are amazing.
If you're going to consume sweet potatoes,
mine is well-consumed purple.
And you can get them at most health grocery stores today,
year-round.
They are awesome.
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- I think about some of these foods we've talked about
looking at the longest living country,
one of the top two longest living countries
or heirs of the country in Japan
and specifically looking at Okinawa.
And they're doing a lot of natto.
They're doing a lot of purple sweet potato.
They're doing a lot of seaweed.
I mean, these are just staples
in their diet supporting longevity.
Now, I want to move into a fully different category
here and close out with this is looking at foods
that have what I would call go be on fats
that really help regenerate and heal
the cell membrane of ourselves.
And so what I want to talk about is something that I think
I'd probably had at your house for the first time
and that is duck eggs.
- Duck eggs are awesome.
I'm an egg fanatic, I will say.
And not only do we produce the world's healthiest eggs,
not for everyone's consumption, unfortunately, just ours,
but I studied all the different species of eggs.
Chicken eggs are great.
Now, our chickens eat 100 different foods every day
because we pick up food scraps from Sprouts Farmers Market
and Urban Market and other local stores.
So they're the healthiest eggs in the world.
But as you look into other cultures,
they consume quail eggs.
They're super tiny and they're hard to crack.
You almost have to get a device to do it.
They are less allergenic and more nutritious.
Goose eggs are amazing.
Turkey eggs are one of my favorites,
but by far the most sustainable egg that is produced
by an animal that's great for the environment
that could replace chickens if we were willing
are duck eggs.
So we raise ducks and ducks perform duties on our farm.
They are natural pesticides.
Our ducks can consume all of the pests
in a four square foot radius.
I'm talking about ticks.
I'm talking about you name it aphids.
They'll literally eat aphids right off of our plants.
We have them in our orchards to provide pest control
and the gift they give us is the most nutritious,
commonly consumed egg in the world called a duck egg.
The cholesterol level is almost triple.
Now people might be saying, oh my gosh, that's terrible.
I disagree.
If you want to know what the best brain food is on the planet,
it's an egg yolk.
Josh, there was a study recently that showed
people who consume one egg a week have a 47% less likelihood
of developing Alzheimer's disease, 47%.
Now we know infrared sauna helps
with age-related neurodegeneration.
So eat eggs, go on the sauna.
You're gonna be around for a long time in body and mind.
Duck eggs have more protein.
They have more vitamins, more minerals, more antioxidants
like lutein, cryptosanthin, ziazanthin.
And you can see when you crack a duck egg,
there's much more yolk than there is white.
Duck eggs are prized in Asia.
In fact, I've consumed what you call century eggs.
They are duck eggs that Asians will bury
and consume 10, 20 or 30 years later.
They are black, which is a little frightening,
but they believe in these eggs so much they consider
that a sacred food, they consume it with natto,
which again, would be like the most disgusting, amazing combo ever.
I have consumed six, 12 or more duck eggs a day.
This was the staple for my son who played college football
with, I don't wanna say skinny jeans,
meaning like skinny jeans.
My wife and I are definitely on the thin side
to build a 265 pound college football player.
It took a lot of work and even skin repair,
there was a study, Josh, done that consuming
copious amounts of egg yolks, particularly duck eggs,
could help repair burn victims better than testosterone
or an anabolic steroid, which is so amazing
because think about it, an egg yolk has everything it takes
to build your body.
It is the perfect food.
- Yeah, yeah.
I've been thinking about, when you look at the research,
I mean, the vitamin E levels are radically higher,
the colon is so much higher.
And so those are so crucial for healing.
You know, I am, you know, by the way,
I've got several thoughts here.
One is this, when you had talked about this sort
of combination of the black duck egg with natto,
my daughters love the TV show, Bluey.
And so they make this concoction for like the date night
for the, you know, for the parents.
And it's like a concoction of like the grossest stuff
in the refrigerator, leftovers that's like unedible.
And I'm thinking about, you know,
if we would make the worst plate of what we talked about,
or you've got, you know, you've got the black egg,
you've got the, you've got the natto, you know,
dust it off with some, you know, omla berry,
and then maybe some, I don't know.
But it would be a little pancreas on the side.
- There you go, pancreas on the side.
So, but these foods are so incredibly healing.
And the next category, it's an egg that I want to talk about.
But it might be the most nutrient dense of all of the eggs,
and that is caviar and fish row.
It might be the most nutrient dense food on the planet.
If eggs are good for the brain, fish eggs
are uber good for the brain.
And my favorite is salmon row.
They're a little larger.
And you can get this again in an Asian market.
It seems like that, those Asian markets,
I see the whole food. - Yeah, online as well.
You don't need to get caviar from the beluga fish
that is so expensive.
But salmon row or fish eggs, not only has EPA and DHA,
it has EPA, which is a powerful lesser known omega-3 fatty acid.
It's got phospholipid bound protein.
So we talked about egg yolks and colon.
This has an entire protein source and fat source combined.
And these phospholipids work directly on the brain.
Fish row or fish eggs is also one of the richest sources
of vitamin D in your diet.
And it blows away any omega-3 supplement.
It blows away any protein powder.
Honestly, I'm surprised that people
don't consume more of that.
And the salty taste actually is a hydration pack all in one.
So think about it.
It's like a protein powder omega-3 hydration formula
all in one.
It's an acquired taste.
But again, we keep pointing back to these ancient cultures,
particularly in Asia, that prize these foods.
Dr. Weston A. Price traveled the world.
He was a acclaimed dentist.
He quit his practice and visited the 14 healthiest cultures
on the planet in the 1940s.
And he found that those who lived near rivers and streams
were in waterways, ocean were among the healthiest people
on the planet.
And when young people were getting close to conception age,
they would always consume things like fish row.
And look at the infertility crisis we're facing.
Every food we talked about today, Josh,
can boost fertility from sea buckthorn to spirulina,
to natto, to organs, and definitely fish row and duck eggs.
These are the super foods that are not as popular today.
They're not found in every store,
but we've formulated with them.
We order them, we've searched for them.
And it gives a variety of nutrients and compounds
in our diet that no one else has.
I've talked to people like you do every day
that are suffering from serious diseases.
Terminal cancer is, I can't even count
how many people contact me about that on a daily basis.
And when I say to them, you're not going to be a statistic.
You're not going to be the same as everybody else
who was given this death sentence.
Why?
Because you're going to eat different foods.
You're going to think different thoughts,
and you're going to move differently.
The foods that we talked about today,
if you will incorporate just some of them into your diet.
Black human, you will become more resilient
and you will not fall prey to the statistics
that everyone who's 80 years old
is on 12 medicines in the US, or people can't walk,
or you have to go to assisted living,
or you forget things, you can be an overcomer
by how you fuel your body.
- Yeah, absolutely agree.
And one of the other things that's so incredible
about caviar and fish row, and salmon, in particular,
salmon row, is it has these high levels of phospholipids,
like phosphatotocoline.
I mean, talk about amazing for repairing the cell membrane
and supporting the exchange of nutrients
in and out of the cell,
and also great for conditions like MS,
in any sort of neurological care.
condition, incredibly powerful and reparative.
And so it's one of nature's greatest healing foods.
And I totally agree.
I think thinking about what is your health struggle
or what is your goal?
Adding in some of these super foods into your diet
has tremendous benefits.
And if you don't like the taste,
the great thing is you can get them typically packaged
in a way where you hardly taste them
or don't taste them at all here in most cases now.
- Yeah, I don't wanna belabor the point on fish eggs,
but Sam and Rowe also contains astasanthin,
which very few foods do.
And that's why I always say if someone's gonna eat a protein,
sockeye salmon's hard to beat,
because not only does it have great sources of protein,
omega-3s, but also astasanthin,
which is one of the only antioxidants
that can cross the blood brain barrier
and quench singlet oxygen radicals.
All the berries we talked about are amazing.
Greens are amazing.
Black humans amazing, but astasanthin stands alone
and it's found in salmon, particularly wild sockeye salmon
and salmon and Rowe.
Now there's two last foods I wanna hit on here.
And by the way, the last one that we're gonna hit on
is maybe the single most powerful
or at least up there for fighting cancer
and balancing hormones specifically
and women men as well, incredibly powerful.
But the next one I wanna hit on before that is sheep milk.
And I know you're probably gonna
be trying to bring buffalo, water buffalo milk
in the mix, but why is this type of milk
from things like sheep and buffalo superior
to most cow milk today?
Well, just this morning, Josh, you know,
even though I love water buffalo milk,
I made sheep milk smoothies for the family,
including my mom who's visiting.
And I'm so excited to do that
because sheep tend to produce less milk
and concentrate the nutrients.
There is twice the amount of way protein
or lact albumin and sheep milk.
- Really?
- Four times the amount of vitamin D.
If you consume it as a yogurt or a kefir,
you need no thickeners because it has so many solids.
You're getting more bang for your buck.
My mom was like, can you water down my smoothie
a little bit?
It's too rich.
I'm like, come on, mom, it's nutritious.
Sheat milk is absolutely amazing.
It tastes delicious.
And here's the thing, you don't have to own
and raise sheep like we do.
I found a great sheep milk yogurt at Costco
that has one ingredient, sheep milk,
cultured with probiotic.
So sheep milk is a treasure.
You can usually find it parts of the year
'cause sheep don't produce milk year round.
Goat milk's good, sheep milk's better.
It also, you'll love this, has five to 10 times more
medium chain triglycerides as other dairies do.
And it tastes great.
I don't know if I told you,
but my favorite ice cream in the world
is a sheep milk ice cream.
And for one of my kids' birthdays,
I had it flown in from the only place they make it,
which is in California.
And if you travel to Europe,
brebbe is the name of sheep milks.
You can get sheep milk.
Yogurt, sheep milk, that's raw.
And anywhere, Costco, whole foods, sprouts,
publics, crogr, you can find sheep milk cheese
called Manchego or other cheeses.
Try for raw, but even pasteurized sheep milk
is very good for you.
It's a super food.
And if you want a food bar,
take two ounces of sheep milk cheese
and you're gonna get 18 grams of protein,
great fats and more calcium
than you probably get in a day.
- Wow, amazing.
Our last super food here.
- Sprouts and microgreens.
So we've heard of things like broccoli.
What about broccoli sprouts?
What makes those so powerful?
- Broccoli sprouts are amazing as are onion sprouts,
as are lettuce sprouts.
I love sprouts.
When you take a plant that can form into a mature seed,
but you consume it at the sprouting stage,
it's like potential health benefits consumed.
Now broccoli's good.
Broccoli sprouts have been shown repeatedly
in major research studies,
including at Johns Hopkins University,
to be anti-cancer because of compounds
that are typically sulfur based,
one is known as glucoraphanin.
And there's one other called myrosinine
that you'll also find in mustard seeds, et cetera.
Consuming sprouts that, by the way,
you can grow yourself in your kitchen.
At our farms, we have these amazing sprouts,
'cause we'll feed sprouts to our animals sometimes
when it is in the winter,
but it is absolutely wonderful.
If you are somebody who wants to prevent cancer,
aid in detoxification, or if you're a female
who wants to balance your hormones or a male
that wants to lower those toxic estrogens,
zenoestrogens and zenobiotics,
caused by plastics, consume broccoli,
or kale, or cabbage sprouts.
In fact, I would rather consume the sprouts
than the mature vegetables.
Some people find those hard to digest,
but broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale sprouts
are much easier to digest.
They're delicious, you can add 'em to salads,
you can juice them, puree them.
They're like the eggs of the plant kingdom.
- Yeah, one of the main compounds
that you, that was sort of partnered
with the other compounds you talked about,
is sulfurophane, and this compound to your point,
great in cancer studies, helps get rid of excess estrogen,
especially if you have a male or woman
who has hormone in balance, and for men,
we know that excess estrogen causes their testosterone
to drop, for women it increases
a risk of estrogen and ovarian-based breast cancers,
doing that on a daily basis is incredible,
and clearing that out, balancing hormones.
And there are so many misconceptions about hormones
that you mentioned, the importance of cholesterol.
I mean, that's what you make your hormones out of.
If you want the testosterone and progesterone
and progesterone, your body makes a lot of those
from cholesterol, you have to have that in order to heal.
And these super foods give the body nutrients,
it gives them peptides, it brings in these incredibly
important fat-soluble compounds that help the body heal
at the cellular level, at the organ level.
And these are a lot of the foods
that our ancestors might have eaten
or certain cultures locally, you know,
all had, as we talked about, their kind of local superfoods
to their area, but a lot of these are sort of mist on us
and we're not getting these anymore today.
- Absolutely, and here's a hot take.
If you want to find someone who's a high achiever,
who's got brain power and drive,
find someone with high cholesterol, particularly HDL,
but even total cholesterol.
And if you want to find someone that's unmotivated,
that has low libido and low brain power,
find someone who avoids egg yolks, avoid saturated fat,
and is on a statin drug to lower their cholesterol below 100.
You show me someone who has a cholesterol level of 96
who's getting straight A's from their doctor,
I'll show you someone who you don't want to be around.
Cholesterol is the super molecule for your brain,
for your hormones and for your body,
and that's why consuming fish roe, duck eggs and organ meats
is the way to live a long and vibrant life.
- One of the things you and I have both been passionate about
is finding the world's most healing foods
for various conditions.
So what are those foods most healing for hormones?
What are those foods most healing for gut issues
in the immune system?
And so this was funded today to cover
some of these healing foods that maybe you're unheard of
that could be the secret for somebody who's listening
unlocking healing in their body.
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If you follow him on Instagram,
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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Ultra Fit running shoes provide extra toe room for natural movement, enhancing comfort, balance, and performance in long-distance runs.
The Apple Watch Series 12 offers precise heart rate tracking and heart rate variability monitoring to assess health readiness and potential imbalances.
Mint Mobile offers a $15/month wireless plan accessible to all, with easy switching and a three-month introductory rate, though taxes and fees apply.
Organ and glandular foods like liver, thymus, thyroid, and bone marrow are rich in natural peptides that support organ function, immune health, and hormone balance.
Peptide-rich foods such as colostrum, deer antler, spirulina, chlorella, and kefir offer powerful healing properties for immunity, longevity, and chronic conditions like Crohn’s disease.
Natto, a fermented soy product, contains Nado kinase and genestine, which support cardiovascular health, bone strength, and gut function post-COVID.
Traditional foods like honey, black seed, and indigenous berries (e.g., mulberry, sumac, chokeberry) have long been used for healing, with modern science validating their anti-inflammatory and regenerative benefits.
Duck eggs and fish roe are nutrient-dense, rich in antioxidants and essential fats, supporting brain health, tissue repair, and overall cellular regeneration.
Summary:
The transcript explores a wide range of natural, peptide-rich foods and wellness products that support healing, longevity, and immune function. It begins with Ultra Fit running shoes, emphasizing natural movement and comfort for ultra-distance runners. It then shifts to Apple Watch Series 12’s advanced heart health monitoring, highlighting its role in wellness diagnostics.
A section promotes Mint Mobile’s affordable wireless plan, accessible to all users. The core focus is on food-based medicine: organ and glandular foods like liver, thymus, and bone marrow are highlighted for their natural peptides that aid organ regeneration and hormone balance. Other key foods include colostrum, deer antler, spirulina, and kefir, all rich in growth factors and immune-boosting compounds.
Special attention is given to fermented foods like natto, which contains powerful compounds for cardiovascular and bone health. Indigenous and traditional foods—such as honey, black seed, mulberries, and sumac—are praised for their long-standing use in healing, backed by modern research. Finally, nutrient-dense foods like duck eggs and fish roe are presented as essential for brain health and cellular repair.
The overall message is that ancient, overlooked foods offer potent, accessible tools for long-term health and disease prevention, especially when combined with traditional practices and modern science. The content concludes with a call to action for individuals to explore these foods and wellness resources to improve their health and well-being.
FAQs
Ultra Fit gives toes more room to move naturally, so every step is strong, balanced, and comfortable. It is designed to help you go further and feel better.
It measures your heart rate every five seconds and tracks heart rate variability, which can show when something is off. It also provides a readiness score to help you know when to rest or push.
The introductory rate is $15 per month for the first three months with an upfront payment of $45 for the three-month plan. After that, full price plan options apply, and taxes and fees are extra.
Organs such as liver, kidney, thymus, and pancreas contain peptides and nutrients that support the body's own organs and tissues. They can be eaten as food or taken as supplements.
Natto contains nattokinase, which helps break down fibrinogen and supports cardiovascular health, along with vitamin K2 for bones and a probiotic fermentation that aids gut health. It is traditionally made from fermented soy or garbanzo beans.
Kefir is rich in peptides, nutrients, and dozens of probiotic strains, and it is especially beneficial when made from full-fat raw milk. It can support underweight or weak individuals and provides highly digestible calcium, phosphorus, and B12.
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