5: Nutrition & Metabolism

I look at our blood, our oxygenated blood versus de-actimated blood, like our salt award is an unsalted award. I look at our tissues out in our organs, like our confidence and the people, especially ourselves, the animals who are specialists of doing the job to maintain those people's system, displace those. And once we get to value ourselves, nobody's helping you know what we're talking about. As I think is a tremendous important thing. This interesting thing is, is that the utmost. We are what you need for sure. You are listening to the view of a dawn, Hawkeyes. Alright, we're on back in another episode. Today we're going to talk about nutrition and metabolism, how it affects the human body's processes, how it affects vitality in life and lifestyle and what you should do and take some things out of this and what you should implement in your life and be better at your nutrition for your specific goals in life. Today's special guest is Phil Croke, coming all the way from San Diego, California, brother from another mother, both from the South. So he's going to tell you a little bit about his experience, how he should play in fact in his life and also some things he's seen with others and his clients. Phil, can you do a quick introduction? Thanks for having me, Don. For those who don't know me, my name is Phil of A Crocean. I'm a practitioner of human movement science. We optimize in the space of metabolism, create the great supplements. So right now we have a black swan which is a creative team based pre-workout on the market. We also optimize in the orthopedic rehab and performance arenas. So I'm the founder of the Soul Founder of I'm Creature Science. We started Atlanta, Georgia, did pretty well there and now moved to San Diego and just looking to test lives, nutrition has been a big reference point for me. Awesome, awesome. Tell us a little bit more about your philosophy when it comes to your clients and yourself, where's your overall coaching philosophy when it comes to nutrition. That's a great question. In fact, it's probably the most important. My philosophy towards nutrition is to first establish a reference point and that reference point is homeostasis. So when we're looking at the body, particularly internal working, the inter-confunction, we need to know what we are made of all the way down to a mineral balance and then what we put in our bodies is what we become. So a term that I've coined is biologically integrating foods. You and I are kind of spoke about having a tool to be in. All that really means is you want to have a ratio of at minimum 51% of the food product that you're putting in your body has an immediate job to do. So for instance, I eat a lot of water-based foods, things that I water-bounce. I love fruit because of it. I like to make sure that my mineral balance is taken care of. I like to know that what's going in my body is going to either help me build something. I was going to go towards a process pretty immediately rather than me having to break it down, extract the waste, get rid of the waste and put too much of my metabolic process, my energy, trying to get rid of that stuff. So have a reference point. That would be the first thing I say is what is the food that you're putting in your body? What is it doing first? As soon as it gets into you, is it going towards increasing your blood plasma? Is it going towards improving your EC-conferring due to its mineral balance? Is it going towards an antibiotic process to build your muscles? If those things are secondary based on what you're putting in your body, then I would think twice on it. And it's not that you can't eat any of the food, just understand the cost of what you're putting in your body. You're going to have to spend a few more calories breaking those foods down if you're going to put something that's not the best thing in your body. If you're prepping for a performance or just everyday life, if you're trying to improve your health, these need to be the things that are on your mind. A lot of great points. I'm going to circle back to the water thing. Water is life. We know this, but how much do we really get the basics? When it comes to the solar nutrition thing, which I hope you can take away from this episode, it's people because we talked about this being an age and a lot of information, but a lot of misinformation. So with that, we want to really clarify things a lot. So I think what it starts, I know for me, on a very basic level, my clients do an immediate, they do a food journal. And for seven days, they write what the glass of water they have and they're drinking and what they're eating for seven days. And that way, we can attack it from a behavioral standpoint. Because usually most of the time, people are usually skipping bills. They're not getting enough water. So let's focus on the basics. Your body is around 66-2% water. Right? So when you're about 60% minerals, then you have carbohydrates and 16% protein. So water is also not only just 62% of our body, but we're talking about blood plasma. It's 90%. The other 7% coming from the minerals. So starting with just water, turns out regular non-bodies would be amazing. And okay, cool. You don't have the mind to make time. Very fun. How about you eat well-hydrated foods? How about you eat some watermelon, some tomatoes, things that have water in them so your body can do its job and extract the water from them. You know, a lot of times in the Western diet, we complicate things because there are so many processed foods. But really, it's the easiest thing to do. If you're a reference point, my reference point is I'm going to choose to eat from the earth first. All your minerals are found in the soil. All of the plant-based foods are going to be water days. So eat from the soil, that's a nice base to stick to, right? And turn the refoundation. When it comes to eating the water, you can have days where, let's say, watermelon and it is your base. But if you are, I know people who say, "I don't want to have fruit all day and I don't want to carry a jug around." Breaking things down to their simplest form just doesn't do something digestible, makes it easier. I tend to tell people this. I keep a water bottle that has two cups. 500 ml of water in terms of its volume. And when they look at it, visually, they see it's very small. Smallest shaker bottle you can get. One of those every hour that you are awake. For most people, that's going to come for about 12 hours. But they'll end up doing it. We did this for about 12 hours when it didn't go out. Now if you don't stick to that and you miss two, three, four hours at the day, you're still going to do very well. So once you give yourself some type of strategy, you can easily achieve just the minimal base of what you need for water. You don't necessarily have to walk around with a gallon all day long. That can become for some. I don't do that myself. But if I think every single hour, only hour, have I gotten at least 500 ml of water, that's easy to do. I could take three or four big goals if I'm busy. And I'm taking care of it. You're eating foods outside of that. Oh, yeah. Like I said, I like the, I can't say I coined this one, but I like the way it sounds. Eat your water. For sure. I like that. I love to make sure I eat my water first. And once I do that, a lot of times when people feel it's hunger, it's really just the physiology of the muscles have a change in it. We don't even allow our muscles to kind of shred up and compress against the spine until we have some gassy as removal. And that initially that feeling is very similar to hunger, but once we take time to understand what we're going through, we're actually just expelling gas and getting stronger because we're improving the neuromuscular connection from the mind to the muscle and back to the brain. So. Nice. Yeah. So I want to use myself for an example here. I actually did a bit of second, and though I'm not perfect, really believe it. and what hydrate, well hydrated foods, alkaline foods, foods that are higher on the higher end of the pH skill, right? Fun facts. So, liars are an alkaline food, right? And really what kind of circling back to what we were saying about keeping balance job to buy, because that's the body's whole job. It, that's really the main function, besides just not dying, this is just everything's working to keep you balanced. It's like, oh fuck, he's eating too much acidic food, so your body starts working, and my contract starts pumping things out. Like, you know, and your body's job is funny, how it all works. But, so in the morning, my water, usually earlier the day, is my mug here, and it's filled with, it's filled with cucumber slices, lemon slices, and lime slices. And if I have some fresh mint, I'll put some mint leaves in there, fiction on breath, don't say it, but, oral health and all, but that's, ideally, a well-balanced cup of water, that I can, and along with the benefits of the cucumber, and the lime and the lemon, along with the benefits they bring, the detox the body, from my fasting that I've done all night, which is what the body does as in the sleeps. So to break my fats, I want it detox, right? So, but fun fact, lime, it took me a while to even realize to a chemical standpoint that limes are an alkaline food. So again, so I have an acidic, which is a lemon, and then alkaline, which is a lime. - That, you know, that's the cool part about understanding biochemistry, you know? And these things, at this point, they're easily found on Google. - Yeah. - I think that understanding key terms can be quite helpful to people's education. So rather than looking up what is an acidic food versus an alkaline food, search for acid forming foods. And base forming foods, right? So when you look at a key lime, to the untrained eye, the assumption is going to be acidic, right? But once we think about what it does within our body, we start looking at the biochemistry of it. How does this break down bond with the extracellular hydrogens, which are the acidic components in our body? How does this bond with the extracellular hydrogens? Then break down, it leaves us with mostly water. And at the way it bonds with the hydrogens, it's something that we can breathe on, like a carbon dioxide, you know? - Exactly. The beautiful job breaking that down, yeah, it is a base, you know, because of the calcium oxide, because of the calcium oxide base of that, right? The hydrogen, the hydroxyl is what makes it, it makes the limit, the citric part of it, also makes the limit acidic. So some chemical differences there. I didn't do too well in organic chemistry at Alabama, so I'm not gonna say I completely understand, but yeah, yeah, we want to say the base. - For President Schneider, you know. - For President Schneider, oh God, he wouldn't do that. - Yeah. - But his organic energy was a mother. (laughs) - Yeah, it was a tough class, but here we are. Here we are using it, so, you know. - That's the way. - There we go. For sure. So yeah, like again, yeah, eating more alkaline foods, eating more well hydrated foods, right? And it's not to say that eating acidic things are bad, you want to stay more on alkaline side, obviously. It's not to say that acidic things are bad, so don't feel bad if you eat something to more acidic, acidically based, or whatever. Just have to understand, okay, I know what my reference one is, and I know what I'm eating now, because I'm more conscious about what I'm eating, and I have this, and I have this in to an eating that, and now I understand I need to eat some more base foods, the balance out of acidic foods that I've got. - And the part of that is just cultural awareness, you know. It's different if you have a paleo diet, you know, or you grow up in a pretty, you're different concern from a Western diet. And it's not that, let's say Western, I'm gonna let someone reflect on how we eat in the United States, largely, right, not everyone. But a lot of the alkaline foods that we would normally get, especially in this region of the world, are missing from the diet, just like vitamins. You know, how many of the fat soluble vitamins are we missing? How many of the micro-nutrients are we missing in the Western diet? A lot, a lot. So it's important for us to have certain nutritional interventions, like having alkaline water, because we need to balance the things out. I think a lot of times, I don't call myself a vegan vegetarian, anything like that, because I understand the tablet. I understand nutrition, right? My base point is to eat from the soil. Just as a reference, I enjoy eating from the soil. I like being light, you know. But if I ever needed to eat in a place where there's poor vegetation, you know, and I need to know where to get my minerals from, I wouldn't hesitate for a moment. There is a balance there, everything. So if you have access to those things, school that a lot of times we need to eat for healing. Eating for healing, I think that's where I was headed. The criticism that you might get with terms like veganism and vegetarianism is, it's not, once you understand philosophically what is being achieved here, it's really, it's a nutritional intervention. You're eating for healing in a sick environment. And if you don't have the reference point to realize that you live in a sick environment, then go to any of the 50 states in drink for the tab. - Yeah. - You're just saying the same thing to do. You're gambling, you know? So the minerals have been extracted from the water. And so once we're able to look at these things and call us baby, is you're just eating for healing and then take that information and apply it to your data. Like, 100% but unfortunately, for you, I am in New York. We have some of the best time water in the country. Can't say the same about California. So. - Where are I am? I'm sorry. (laughing) - It is safe enough to drink from the tab. But if we met somewhere in the middle, from San Diego to New York, we have a problem very likely. You know, it's just up in the air. You know, I don't know if you're going to to adapt in Mississippi anytime. So, you know, but if you do, even if the water crisis is over, right? You drink from the tab. - I'm still probably not gonna drink from it. - Too far from Michigan, you know. The media is uncovering what the water crisis is going to plant, but it's still there. And these are just some of the most popular examples. You know, so this is just things to be aware of. You know, where I've finished out my undergrad, you know, the water consistency there was a lot of oil secretions. So, we were actually, we were told that we should keep water bottles with this because you know, so it's, you've got as part of the politics, but eating for healing is something that you, it's actually a part of life. And understanding your balance. - Yeah, definitely should have found a water thing. So, you know, a fun fact, actually, if a lot of New Yorkers don't know this, but New York has to best bagels in the pizza in the world. But that is because of the water, right? The water, when it, yeah, when the water is mixed with, so we have, you have two types of water, you have soft water, and you have hard water. Hard water, which is one of the California side, and some other parts of the country. It's not particularly bitter or anything. If you drink water a lot, you can taste the difference of what soft water and hard water tastes like. But the soft water and the hard water difference is, on the hard water side, you have more calcium deposits in it. And more calcium deposits, and underneath that second, most is magnesium. And all water has those things in it, but it's just more abundant, which makes it quote unquote hard, right? There's more, there's a better balance of those minerals in the water that flows from the Catsky Mountains in New York and that ultimately becomes our drinking water here, which is why we get this nice. fresh gooey dealt. I was supporting a friend, he had a bodybuilding competition, my girlfriend here in Mezanado and we went to a pizzeria after where the Chicago style pizza and one of the I'm speaking to one of the servers and they were explaining the same thing to me. I think they have the similthing the heart versus songboarder. He didn't break it down into the chemistry of it but he was saying that the heart versus songboarder is what allows you to get this type of style of the crust and the dough was made up of. Oh god it makes sense. Yeah that's the secret to the pizza. That's the secret. That's it. Alright let's go. Alright so we're back here. Great conversation about water. I understand that the body needs regulation. The body requires balance. The body aims for balance on a daily basis. The body ultimately is always working as processes to create balance. Luckily for us these are things that we don't have to press a button for. We don't have to you know we don't have to turn a switch on and off for a reset or a day we do. We have a beautiful machine that our soul lives and our spirit lives and that kind of does these things for us and we just have to feed it the right stuff. So we're about 62% water or we're a 16% protein. 16% fat and 6% minerals and 1% coagulacres. That is the makeup of the human body. So we understand the water. We understand a couple of the minerals here. Vitamins A through K are all fat soluble besides vitamin C. So vitamin C is the only thing that could be absorbed without fat. Also helps with balance and everything else which is my vitamin D. You hear like oh the sun is vitamin D. Yeah well your skin and epidermis of your skin has a molecule that converts sunlight rays into vitamin D and that passes through the fat. So the fat that is underneath the layer of your skin right into a bloodstream. That's how we absorb vitamin D on the skin and such. I do want to touch on protein just a little bit so that people understand like a little bit more in depth in depth that you know there are 20 amino acids. We hear about essential amino acids. It's essential amino acids and I want to make sure people understand why they're essential right. So we have these 11 not essential you know trip myocin and things like that that are already in our muscles. They're already in our saccharides. They're already in our bodies and our bodies can make them more their own but you have nine essential amino acids which we have to ingest. That's why they're called essential. You know so want to make sure people understand that. And yeah so and I also want to touch a little bit more on to wrap up kind of with the processes look like our bodies. You mentioned anabolic processes of the body which is you know when our bodies say we eat a meal you know hopefully it's a good clean meal eating eating to be 80% full and you know you know bulging ourselves but two processes are going to happen. There's a metabolic as a metabolic process is going to happen it's going to be broken up into anabolic process is going to be that food is going to be taken and adjust it and it's going to be nearly be used store for energy and liver through the pancreas and through and to deliver story and converted into glucose and then other is hopefully going to be going to muscles and and and and our tendons and and our organ walls and hopefully not much race after that. The other process is going to be catapult. Now this there is not a lot of storage of energy actually not a catapultism process the catapultic processes of that food they would just eat it's going to be for immediate energy right so that's you know you have you have three you have your basal metabolic rate your resting metabolic rate which is about 60% revining your total energy expenditure each day you know another large percent of that comes from you just digesting and eating your food you know so that is stress stress extra stress I needed stress on the organs of my body right that's that kind of process I guess let's talk a little bit more about lifestyle choices and things that we're kind of consuming you know we talked about being more light we are like being so we want to eat you know foods that are from the light from the sunlight it's literally from the soil essentially and I understand you know and to say an age people are very distracted all the time and we consume we're consuming a lot of things directly and indirectly within something we see or something we're ingesting and then that consumption it makes it easy to get distracted from something that we said yesterday I'm eating something I'm eat clean then you go off and get distracted you know I don't know if you know this or not before you said if you go to our website at iincreascience.com the first nutritional intervention that you'll find there is what we call clean of homeostasis and cellular rejuvenation and it is a 21-day clean that is going to optimize your individual levels on an optimized your hydration level and we should do that before we start anything else on average and here's the kicker on average people lose about 15 pounds in three weeks right but there is no wasting if you don't need those 15 pounds your body is going to be a rid of it because of the 15 pounds waste so we can do this with our high performance athletes as well as our personal is just looking to get into their health journey and it affects them it affects them relative to what they need if you have someone has a bunch of muscles they're not gonna lose their muscle at all they're going to actually they'll get bigger but they'll be older along with it if you have someone who's obese and they're trying to drop it they use those people for like 25 pounds because the body doesn't want to hold that extra that extra weight because it's hard to enjoy so it's very interesting that you say that that's what they have and I mean psychologically makes a lot of sense but it also makes a lot of sense video actually because our body is always in a state of rejuvenation is always a regentist different cells have different half-life of course but you know by the time the year is over your whole new body 100% and look check this out so yeah there are people let's talk about it we'll talk we'll go we went inside out let's go outside and for a second here so there are people if you're if you're someone out there you know you're still with acne or or or any type of cosmetic issues and I don't be as a drug metallurgist or I don't work at a beauty salon or anything like that hey hey look anyone who anyone who's hooked me recently or is later frequent we can tell you I got some soft ass skin well hydrated well well all right here we are here we are you know I've had some trauma to my body I've you know I have a sense of car accidents and all and I still look pretty so check this out I mean try to be as much as I can you know if the things I ingest and very conscious always happen so you know the human body the human skin replaces itself depending on the person from 27 usually from 27 to about 35 days Deliver regenerates itself at every two months and along and the lungs every six weeks so The single other sort of second if I'm struggling with the Mac knee or Any cosmetic issues and might have died isn't right? Some spend it said money on such products to put on top of your skin, right? How about we how about we clean up what we order in from groceries and what we're going to get from the store and Start with our beauty from the inside, right? And how about we focus on that for 21 27 days and by the time my skin reaches its self again. I got some good-looking new skin Because it's not just shedding right you've changed the programming you triggered your body to To create a different type of protein and That and your skin is just proteins, right? We don't store proteins because we're made up or protein So genetically well once you once you stimulate or once you trigger the body to Have a different type of protein synthesis It's not going to be made with the same issues or the same imbalances that you have before because you are different and the skin They'll take a minute or so something it be large or in on the body or in the body And the part of it's just the largest one and it's still that intelligent. So you you your skin care routine starts at the store as well 100% yeah, the technical system which is your skin it is in fact the largest organ in the human body Therefore around the human body and so I just got done a big Well, I'm gonna have some kind of angelic Civilizations of things when I'm a big nerve when it comes to ancient civilization specifically Egyptian culture and We're just is that the Met Museum great museum here in New York and they have some great plus on display of ancient Hellenistic periods of Greek and ancient Egyptian periods and Friend asked a comment on on the facial structures of some of the Depictions if you will the pharaohs and and some of the gods and goddesses are there are their facial structures were so Looked almost carved even you know kind of just very strong jaw lines and the female faces were very very carved in cheap bones high and these things that you know Obviously, honeywood does a lot of implants to get on that infection a lot of both they don't have the Botox back then Those are So you know the thing is back then to understand especially if you were really to you obviously you were getting the best of the best foods And the best of the best foods were the best meats but also the best thing you have to understand those people were offer they were daily offerings date daily offerings and and You know if you're an effort TV you You basically have a fresh Walmart at your disposal because there were lines of people Outside of these temples outside of these you know pyramids outside of these structures lines of people coming from far far away Like like here. Here's my finest meat my lord my finest fruit my lord my best cattle my lord that I Ray since you know these are people so we're talking about biological integrated foods Yeah, you know these are people who had it down back then You know I'm saying the best fruit 100% And so you know like I said that beauty that beauty is but so skin deep and it starts starts to what we're just so Excellent excellent point there man. Excellent point. Yeah, yeah, one of the you know 60% protein is is that Carroton That is the main protein that forms the layers of our body The forms of layover on skin choosing of the integrity system. So 100% right on that. I'm glad you mentioned that. Oh, yeah That's a great perspective that you just put it in that was as you were describing that I was Visioning that the whole process of Getting the best crops there the best cow That consumption you know just when you travel you know travel to a place and like friends and eating seafood closer to the world is Now that it tastes better but it gives you a better nutritional benefit Especially again when talking about my catabolic foods Fish is one of those things That has an immediate process Due to the carbon mud You know, so yeah Make last set I want to make sure that My people start bringing me food Give me your best As if is it Yeah, man, it's it definitely It makes a lot of you know, there's a lot going on there you have these things, you know, I think in Hollywood They have these kind of the they're like jaw dentures Because we're in society where we have these quick meals and we're slurping things down all the time our facial structures are starting to droop And on jala we're literally melting away because we're not by we're not really biting and chewing our foods anymore You know, we're not like biting into apples anymore biting into the fruits anymore, you know We're kind of just slurping things away and that had you have to understand you have a joint You know not just almost your pulses in your face that you know are attached so like that has a big difference on how your face looks One thing about your username, which is a huge process what they are make you know Swerving what are you? The submit making process if you use this this brittle Now it is submit that maybe already has some moisture in it and you're trying to put it together gonna fall apart You know, you're looking at the quality these muscle fiber Well you are what you know 100% 100% [Music] The voice series on nutrition and metabolism I want to thank Pete Crowe of what Phil Crowe can find him at iamcreaturescience.com and iamcreaturescience on Instagram that's Instagram @iamcreaturescience and iamcreaturescience.com You have a lot of follow look at his stuff a brilliant brilliant mind when it comes to the human body Again, people waste up a little time so next up we got Sharon Sanders registered in licensed dietitian that finished off this segment Stay tuned