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Seven Big Issues in Training

some of the clues um that you might be healthy on the outside, but not healthy on the inside, or that you might be having an issue with achieving ultimate human performance, but it coming back to bite you um I won't have people raise their hand if they get gas frequently. Although I will certainly tell you that until I fixed my diet and began to stray away from what would be considered the status quo, healthy athletic diet. And we're gonna talk uh tomorrow we're gonna have an awesome food demonstration and jess and I were going to show you guys how to take all these super tasty, nutrient dense foods and make them really healthy for your body. But gas is a big issue if you're an athlete, if you're exercising a lot and you get gas and you get bloating and people just tell you, oh, that's because you're eating a lot more calories to support your lifestyle or you're exercising and you've got blood going away from your stomach so you're not able to digest. That's not true. It's not normal t...

o get gas bloating and indigestion, even when you're training hard and eating a lot more food. Um sadness, tiredness, the whole gut brain connection and heart brain connection is something that tends to cause brain fog issues and neurotransmitter issues that we'll talk more about in the brain section, but know that if you experience these types of things, especially in like the afternoon or as you're sitting here during these sessions, you find yourself just like All of a sudden you've checked out for five minutes and you come back and you're like what we're talking about for the past few minutes. You know what, what happened if this type of stuff happens to you on a frequent basis. It's a pretty good sign that there are neuro transmitter issues going on or that there's some kind of a disconnect in terms of that gut brain connection or heart brain connection um cravings, food cravings, appetite cravings. Once again, this is one of those myths that's out there, that you're just always gonna get nighttime cravings if you're an athlete or if you're if you're training a lot or if you start to get ready for an iron man, you're playing football or something like that. It's not true. You actually can go through life without craving carbohydrates without craving snacks at night. If you've actually learned how to turn yourself into a fat burning machine and address neurotransmitter issues and we're gonna learn how to do both those things. Um, low libido once again, um, if you're say like too tired at night to have sex and people tell you it's because you you were training too hard or something along those lines. That's not necessarily the case. A lot of times are some pretty serious hormonal deficits that are the issue and not the fact that you that you lifted weights that day, for example, um bloating insomnia, uh sleep is a big issue among athletes among high performers, um uh you know, I'll raise my hand right now, I've had some serious issues with sleep. Um and it's either stemmed from gut issues or it stemmed from hormonal issues. And when I fix those issues, my sleep has been fine. And when I've let those issues run amok um you know, as far as like waking up at 1234, am having a hard time getting to sleep at night, waking up too early in the morning. These things happen a lot all the time again for some of this stuff. I'm not having you guys raise your hands, but I know that that, you know, just from having, you know, talk to people privately one on one during consoles. This is a huge issue among athletes. Um and then of course the brain fog that I mentioned earlier. So, really, what it comes down to is seven big issues that that tends to cause the type of qualitative issues. I just talked about number one and we're gonna learn how to how to get rid of all this stuff over the next few days uh connective tissue in ages. You guys know what ages are? I know what Ages stands for. We have prize giveaways. If I asked a question like this, Okay, Ages stands for advanced publication and products. What happens in your body. Is that glucose or sugar can combine with proteins or it can combine with fats to cause what are called advanced application and products when glucose attaches to a protein in this manner, it can damage collagen. So when you look at the face of someone who's been training a lot or who has been exercising a lot and you see this a lot when you go to like fitness conventions and you you come up close to people and they look great from the outside, then you get closer and their skin is just all wrinkled and red and they look like they're almost like inflamed. A lot of that is advanced location and products. A lot of times it's it's diet related. It can be training and inflammation and you've a UVB rays from the sun related but many times it's diet related. What happens is a sugar attaches to a protein and that causes this advanced location end product that can damage collagen in your skin. And so basically when it comes to anti aging and you know, looking good as you get older, if you can avoid the formation of advanced location end products by stabilizing blood sugar levels and by limiting the amount of glucose surges that occur in your body throughout the day, you can actually eliminate wrinkles or slow down the aging process that's occurring not only on the outside, but remember if you see somebody and their skin is wrinkled and it looks like they're aging faster collagen is not just on the outside connective tissue is not just on the outside, it's what your joints are made up of. It's what your ligaments, tendons, parts of your muscles are made up of. So if there's that kind of degradation occurring on the outside, it's also occurring on the inside. So an inflammation is a buzz word that gets thrown around quite a bit. Um muscle inflammation is I think something that we've all been able to identify an experience. It's essentially just soreness when your muscles look like World War Two after you've torn all those little muscle fibers after a workout. Nerve inflammation is something that tends to fly under the radar a little bit more. But nerve inflammation is something that can occur with something such as blood sugar spikes. I'm gonna teach you guys in the next session how to identify whether or not you're burning fat as a fuel or whether or not you're having high surges of blood glucose instead. But nerve inflammation. You hear about diabetics, having neuropathy and nerve issues and things of that nature. A lot of that is due to blood glucose fluctuations. Well, you want your nerves to be healthy as an athlete if you want power. If you want speed. If you want performance, you have to have what are called the myelin sheaths that cover your nerves or what's called your Myelin nation. You need to have that optimized. And you also need to ensure that your nerves are not inflamed. Brain inflammation is also another huge issue? There's a really great new book out that I just finished called Why isn't my brain working. Um I think it's a great book for, for practitioners. It's a good book for for anybody who's kind of interested in this brain stuff to read, but he's got some really good sections in there on brain inflammation. And it's scary how inflamed our brains can come, can can become from a toxic lifestyle um from exposure to pollutants, to household cleaning chemicals, to things in our diet that might cross the blood brain barrier to even like, like some people get into detoxing and like heavy metal calculation and, you know, all these things to clean out their bodies and they don't realize that as you do, that a lot of this stuff winds up in your bloodstream crossing your blood brain barrier causing brain inflammation. So if you're not doing something to shut that down, that can also be a huge issue as well. So, autoimmune reactions, these are another issue that you tend to see pop up quite a bit. Um auto immunity is simply when your body identifies something that you have eaten or been exposed to as a foreign invader or something that is going to attack your your body in a negative way. And so it mounts an immune reaction or an inflammatory reaction against that type of that type of thing that you've consumed gluten is a perfect example of something that tends to cause an autoimmune reaction in a lot of people. A perfect example of a case like this would be, say, somebody has a hard time losing weight and they're eating a lot of gluten. The protein portion of gluten, which you'll find in in wheat and things of that nature is called gladden. And Glad in closely resembles the same type of protein that makes up your thyroid tissue. Now the thyroid is responsible for keeping your metabolism elevated. So if your body mounts an inflammatory reaction against Gladden to destroy these Glad in proteins that are present in your body, it can also cause damage to your thyroid tissue. And that's how something as simple as an autoimmune reaction to eating something like wheat can cause you to become fat and lower your metabolism and damage your thyroid. That's all autoimmune that all falls under that category. Gut damage is a little bit different than an autoimmune reaction, in that there are certain things that can actually damage the lining of the gut. For example, there are a lot of people who take high fiber supplements like supplements full of, of psyllium husk or Metamucil or things that are designed to clear out the body or to help with constipation, things of that nature that can actually damage the lining of the small intestine and it can cause issues with what's called leaky gut training hard and having high levels of cortisol throughout the day can also cause damage to your gut and cause these issues with with what's called leaky gut syndrome which is where the actual gaps between the cells in the lining of your gut becomes so large that undigested protein particles and food fragments can cross into your bloodstream and cause those autoimmune reactions above. So, gut damage is another big issue among athletes and a lot of times that's related to two things present in the diet that either cause autoimmune reactions or cause damage to the gut nutrient depletion is another big issue that we tend to see among people who are trying to achieve ultimate human performance a lot of times. That's just because you are asking your body to do more than what the body really was kind of meant to do. Like you're asking yourself to go over and above. This is one of the reasons that people ask me why I take supplements. It's not because I feel like food is crappy or my body somehow isn't able to digest food. It's just that I know that I'm doing way more than what my body really should be doing. And so nutrient depletion tends to be an issue. You can go out and you can test your actual nutrient status, I'm going to tell you the name of the exact test that you need to do to find out every single micronutrient that you might be deficient in in the next section on how to test your body. There's an actual test that you can order to your house that will tell you it's that will give you a rundown of every single nutrient that you might be deficient in. And then finally neurotransmitter deficits. This one really flies under the radar but it is the culprit for basically like the depression, the brain fog sometimes the drop in libido, the tiredness, things of that nature. What happens is that when you're out exercising you have a much much higher amino acid turn over, your muscles have to repair themselves at a much higher rate than the general population. And so depression and brain issues actually tend to be a big issue among athletes because when you're low on amino acids, those same amino acids that are used to help muscles repair and recover are also used to create neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine. And one called gamma amino butyric acid which you might know is G. A. B. A. Which can help you to sleep at night. Um and there's a whole range of neurotransmitters that tend to be affected by amino acid deficiencies. But many times these type of neurotransmitter deficits are seen among athletes just because we've got such rapid turnover of amino acids. So we've got a section on how to fix your brain as well where we'll talk about how to overcome some of these neurotransmitter deficits. So I totally feel like I'm just sitting here scaremongering people right now. I promise. I'm not gonna do this whole time. But I want to really make you guys aware of why I'm even teaching this session in the first place, because honestly, it's not that hard to go out and figure out how to train hard and beat up your body and do a workout. But what is hard is to figure out how to do it without creating some of these issues.