309. Alright. Let's talk about FOOD

Good food follows: Instagram @drcaseyskitchen, @drosborne @drmarkhyman We love to think about food, talk about food, smell food, eat food. Food is kind of an addiction. Especially if you live in America. No snarky comments if you don’t live in America. We know we love food. And we also know it has become a HUGE problem in more than one way. We’re bigger than ever. We’re unhealthier than ever. Our food in a lot of cases doesn’t even constitute as food, it’s designed to look and taste like food but it is not giving any nutrition to our body whatsoever. Some of the ingredients we use are illegal in other countries. Literally illegal. So yeah. The so called “food” that makes up about 60% of the American diet isn’t even food at all. I can say this without a doubt because I looked up the definition of food. Here it is: any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth. So if you eat something that is causing your body harm and has no nutritious value at all, it isn’t food. It’s something else. We think that just because the food industry wraps it up and puts it into a grocery store, well it’s food. But food in order to be food has to have nutritious value, ok so then it’s not actually food. And studies show that’s If it’s not actually food, and that’s the majority of what we are eating, how are we still functioning? Well I’m gonna just say it. Barely. Most of us are not even close to functioning at our best, not even close and we don’t realize it because that’s just become the norm. When I was eating the way I talked about in the beginning of this episode, I can tell you I had headaches all the time, which I would take ibuprofen for a lot. Sometimes I would have a headache because I hadn’t had sugar for an hour or so and my body was craving it and I knew more sugar would fix that headache but only temporarily, so I’d grab a Twix bar to fix it and it would! My body was literally demanding certain foods or it would revolt. I had created a monster that was always hungry. And I didn’t know why when I exercised I was still putting on weight. So I started cutting out things little by little No more pizza, no more regular margaritas no more frozen yogurt no more blueberry pancakes and mimosas. I started cutting things out and it helped a bit but I still felt tired. And when I had finally had enough I decided to get my bloodwork done with a functional nutritionist Dr Osborne and wow when he came back and told me “You are basically malnourished”. Your cells are not getting nutrition. I realized taking things out that were hurting me was only part of the equation. I had to add whole foods, foods with actual nutrients, actual food back into my diet. And it’s super confusing if you listen to people who are supposed to be in the know as far as food goes, because they don’t know either. When you hear trainers tell you that you don’t eat enough. I think that is one of the most confusing things. I used to be super frustrated when I heard that. Eat enough what? They are not saying you don’t eat enough bread or pasta or cheese or energy drinks or protein shakes. But if that’s what you want to hear then you start eating more and we know where that ends up.  And look they may have heard that or read it somewhere and they may not even know exactly what that means. They just know, same as you know that something isn’t working. You’re not getting enough something to build muscle or feel good or balance out your weight.  Listen in to the episode to hear the entire episode.  Love you guys!