Naked Truth With Jessa Greenfield - Japan Edition

Naked truth, baby. What do you think? Should we do it?

Are you talking to me?

I'm talking. We're recording right now.

Yes. Yeah, I'm ready.

All right. Hey. We're in Japan. We're literally not our usual. Not our usual home office. We're on a bed right now in a tiny, tiny hotel room.

Miniature.

Miniature. This is where like both on our stomachs on the bed. Got like a cup of cold sake on either side of the microphone. Finished.

Finish your race.

Crossed the finish line of half Ironman Japan about two hours ago. And we wasted no time grabbing a nice bottle of sake from the airport nearby. And here we are.

Live in the flesh, barely little jet lagged. Not gonna lie. This is what this is all about, right?

Are you jet lagged?

A little bit. I'm tired. Yeah. I don't travel as much as you do, so I.

You know what, though?

I haven't turned it into an art.

Form yet, so I don't know if this has anything to do with me being less. Like. I usually barely get jet lagged anyways. But this trip I've slept like a million bucks. Felt like a million bucks. And I haven't had any of the jet lake issues. And there's one thing that I. That I did differently on this trip. No, it was.

I do know what it was, but they don't.

Do you? No. Do you know what it was? Are you.

Your little pill.

My pill thing?

Yeah, your Chinese herb thing.

No, no, I did that.

What's your new. Okay, the Chinese.

The Chinese herbs are. They're called jet lag. You could google them. They're called jet lag. I bought them in a Chinese herbology store coming back from Vietnam. I bought them in the Hong Kong airport and you take one every two hours while you're flying. And they're a homeopath. But I've done those before and they do help. But the Earth running sandals.

Do you think that's what it is? Huh?

They've got the copper node in them that keeps you grounded or earthed while you're walking or whatever. And I put those on.

I mean, like, I just don't wear shoes at all.

Yeah.

Just teasing.

You can't walk around Nagoya with no shoes.

They're pretty strict about things around here. You can. There's a lot of rules. There are a lot of rules.

Yeah. But I. I wore the. The Earth runner sandals. Or Earth. I think it's earthrunners.com they hand make them in Seattle and they. They literally help you dump electrons from Your body that build up in your body when you're flying. There you go.

A little shout out to the earth runners.

Earth runners. Yo, yo. So Naked Truth, we. We put out a call for questions from you guys. And so just so you know, this is the. The insider podcast that only gets released to our premium members who are part of the the brand new Ben Greenfield.

Fitness Primo of Primos phone app.

And we ask questions on Facebook. We don't ask questions. You ask questions. We ask you to ask questions.

We ask you ask questions. And this is starting to sound like Dr. Seuss.

And then we. We answer them. And no topic is off limits, like, honestly, because this thing's, like, protected and part of premium access. We'll talk about anything honestly. And, you know, as we dig deeper into this bottle of sake, we might open up a little more recording on a bed after all. So let me. Let's roll over to the Facebook page and see what y' all had to say.

Yep.

Okay. Should we just start right off the bat with Josh's question? Josh Green's question?

Sure.

He says, how old is Ben and how does he effectively time manage with the family?

Those are two, like, totally opposite questions. But that's fine. That's cool.

I'm 31. Jess is 31, too.

I'm 32. December 30th. So if any of you are not December, June 30th. So if any of you want to send me a gift, I totally appreciate it.

Gift. She. You know what she want she's asked for since we got married was a pearl pink convertible slug bug.

Yep. Pearl pink, white interior, vintage, everything.

Yeah.

I don't want any of this.

That's going to happen. That's going to happen.

It is going to happen. I'm totally confident anyways, some.

For your 70th birthday, you'll get it.

And you won't even be able to drive.

You'll just be like, you'll have a diaper and a catheter and 70, you have this pearl pink slug bug wrapped.

In a red bow in the driver in a catheter.

70.

That's horrible, honey.

So effectively, time manage with the family. That's a good question. Like, okay, so with my time management, the way that I do it that I found works, it's evolving, too. And it is evolving. Like this last round of blood work that I got where I found out that my cortisol levels were high.

Yes.

I think I've been spending even more time with family. Like, I work from home, but I've Been kind of going out of my way to just stop and smell the roses more.

Which everyone should do. Yeah, that's my opinion.

Everyone should stop and smell something. But what I do is I put every day's tasks into a bucket and I use Evernote, the Evernote app, to organize that bucket. So there's basically on Evernote, I have. And I also have it laminated on the desk. Like, here's the tasks that happen on Monday. Here's. Here's the tasks that happen on Tuesday. Here's Wednesday. Here's Thursday. Here's Friday. So like, Wednesday is podcasting day. Tuesdays and Thursdays are consults. Monday is like a random day. That's to like, answer emails, work on new projects, stuff like that. Friday is a writing day. Saturday is a writing day. Sunday is a writing day. So like, if you don't have a bucket for every day, what happens is stuff. You have like this to do list, right. You have this really long to do list. And you, you work on the to do list till you're exhausted at the end of the day, and then you start back into the to do list the next day. Sometimes versus Unless you're jealous.

I don't complete everything on my table.

Unless Jetsa. Who doesn't? You. You're getting better with to do lists.

But no, I'm the old fashioned kind of to do list. I break out my pencil and my paper and I draw pretty curlies. I'm a doodle.

Pretty curlies.

So I do a lot of curly little hearts and little people and stuff. Yeah, that's my to do list.

So yeah, every day has a bucket. You finish the tasks that you have set for that day and then you're done and that's it. And then at that point, you know, so like a typical day for me, I get up in the morning, I do like a little bit of meditation, some yoga. I do my geeked out heart rate variability stuff. I read the Bible and. Because we're spiritual.

That's right.

More spiritual people.

Yes.

Yeah. Which I think is just a stupid way to describe people. Spiritual.

Everyone's spiritual. Yes, on some kind of level.

And then I, after that I work and then the kids get up at some point while I'm working. And usually when the kids get up, you know, unless I'm knee deep in some article or something like that, because.

Their kids go to bed at 10.

There'S a little bit of snuggle time that takes place, lots of snuggles, and then there's some breakfast prep time. Best time of the day churning out smoothies, and Jess is making frittatas. And the house smells good. And, yeah, I like that time in the morning. And then I work from, like, typically 10 to noon. Like, that's hardcore work time for me. And prior to that point, I try, if I can, to, like, take the kids outside fitness exploring. Listen to the recent podcast I did with Daryl Edwards if you want to learn more about, like, what we do and stuff. It's fun.

Fun.

Yeah. Jessa comes sometimes. We.

We. I. I totally show them up every.

Jump up on fire hydrants and jump off and do tricks and climb trees.

I think you're surprised sometimes.

Yeah.

And Jessa does, like, that.

I can, like, we'll even carry each other. Like, river will carry Taran, and I'll carry Jessa, and we carry rocks and throw sticks.

And I think I'm a bit of a monkey. It's just, like, I'm a good climber.

Yeah, she's an ape.

She's a good at stuff. Like that girl.

And then. What was I saying? Oh, yeah, what we do. And then lunch, I usually eat a late lunch. Like, I don't eat lunch till, like, 11 30. And these days, like, I used to, like, watch stuff during lunch, just, like, watch Hulu. But I found that when I do.

That, I check our kids don't eat.

Yeah, I usually have lunch at the same time as the kids. We're sitting there, and I'm like, watching whatever. Modern Family. But then, like, I'll remember something I have to do and I'll write an email or something.

Yeah.

And then that's stressed. You're not supposed to work and eat at the same time. So a lot of times, like, now, the weather's nice. I listen to podcasts and eat on.

The patio, and we got a nice little set up.

Totally ignore my children and just listen to podcasts and stuff. My face. And yeah, I listen to podcasting. Podcasts. That's what I'm into right now, the podcasting. They're like. They're like podcasts about how to podcast. Like, there's one called the Podcast Answer man, and there's another one called, like, the Social media Podcast.

That is not what I would listen.

To, but I get tired of, like, the Health and fitness and Paleo podcast.

I wouldn't probably listen to that same.

Stuff over and over and over again, like, donate lentils or whatever. And then, gosh, it's good sake. Then afternoon, I usually take a nap. 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, 1 hour. 1 hour, sometimes 2. Sometimes 2. I sleep a lot and then I work. When I get up from my nap for, like, not very long, I just, like, make sure nothing's, like, blowing up on the Internet front or whatever. And then I go work out. Typically, like, at 4. I usually work out from, like, 4 to 5. 4 to 5:30 around in there. And then I'll work a little bit before dinner. We usually have dinner 7. 7:30. 8.

That's too late. Yeah, no, I'd say more like 7.

Yeah, 7. And then hang out with our kids.

Don't go to bed, honestly, till like, 9.

Yeah.

Or 9:30.

Yeah.

Because they just sit in their bed and talk till 10 anyway.

So.

Yeah, that's a problem. That's the predicament with twins is they just talk.

They talk. They go to bed later than us sometimes. And then. Yeah, we've been reading a lot with the kids. Like, I read in books and stuff. And then after the kids go to bed, I work from about 8 or 8:30 until around 9:30. And I've been trying to give myself, like, a hard stop at 9:30. So.

Justin, which I think you should.

To hang out.

Yeah.

Yeah. But it's so weird because, like, when you're. When you do what I do and work on the Internet, like, everybody and their dog emails you at, like, 9pm.

And so mean you have to answer.

I literally, like, between nine and 10, I'll get, like, 50 emails. And the hard part for me is, like, knowing when I go to bed that I gotta get up in the morning and, like, respond.

I have the same problem with the dishes.

Jessa has.

No, no. There's a giant pile of dishes in my sink, and I have to wake up and clean them all. But you know what? I can still stop and still go to bed.

I'm doing better at that, you know?

Okay.

It's just.

It's just life.

So. Yeah, Josh, that's how I effectively time manage with the family. Anything you want to add into that, Jessa?

No, you guys don't really want to know how I try manage. I'm a fly by the seat of my pants sort of person, so.

So Rick says. This is a weird question. No offense, Rick, but this is kind of a weird question. I would love to hear more about how plants can change your environment and have healthy air in your house and how you do that.

They're detoxers. We have several in our house.

Tell me about the plants we have in our house.

Well, they detoxify the air. I'm not exactly sure how I know they do, though. I don't know.

Well, plants. Plants.

I know there are certain. Certain plants that will absorb certain photos.

They photosynthesize, right? They. They take in.

But there are certain plants that will, like, take care of certain toxins in the air. So having several different varieties.

Okay, so let's not get all airy fairy.

Okay, but I don't know all the details. I really don't.

He's BSing us.

No, but I do know that there is truth to it.

Okay, so like, a toxin, like, whatever. Like, let's say like. Like the paint on your airborne. Okay, I was gonna say like airborne pollutant or something like that. So like, plants will. Will like, basically bioremediate or like, essentially take in air that has the paint molecules or whatever structured in the air, and essentially they'll take that in and it will be part of the plant.

Yes.

So you wouldn't want to eat the plant?

Well, no. Most of these plants are toxic anyways to eat.

Do we have lots of paint toxins in our house?

Well, no, I was just saying that as a. We do live in a newer development, a new development. So, yeah, I'm sure there's a lot of toxins in our house.

Those bastards.

But not in our neighborhood.

Toxins in our house. We're building a new hippie house.

It's not. I don't even know why you keep saying that, because it's not.

Okay, so hippie house is like a tick. Building a house is expensive. I'm not gonna lie. I got a bill today. So we're over in Japan. I got a bill today for $11,000 from. From an architect, and he said, I need to pay a subcontractor tomorrow. Can you get a check to me? And I'm like, we're in freaking Japan. Like, what do you do? How do you do that? That's the.

Why are money like the mafia?

I don't.

I don't know. I honestly don't know.

Anyways, though, building a house is expensive, so we're gonna be.

Our new house will not be as toxic as our house. Toxic as our house is right now.

We've been saving money for ever since we got married to have a house.

I know.

Ever since we. Some. Like, some months, we'll put away, like a hundred dollars. Some months, like, we'll have a good month and we'll put away more than that. But, like, for 10 years, we've been saving up for a house. 10 years?

Yep. So if you're In Spokane, you can come ski with us.

We'll be able to have, like, dinner parties, and I want to have, like, camps. Like, I want to have, like, Ben Greenfield fitness listeners up, because we have 10 acres.

Yeah.

And we will be able to put.

Up, like, Then you could live like real hippies, because that's how a real hippie would live.

No, but I'll be able to build, like, obstacle courses for people. They come live with us, learn how to cook, take them out on workouts.

Yeah, sure.

Like, people could come chop wood for us for a fireplace, and I could pretend that that's the workout when they're.

Really just fitness exploring people. Don't you explore this fitness.

Explore this piece of wood? I shouldn't have said that. That was rude. That was sexist. I shouldn't use the word. That wasn't very spiritual of me. Yeah, I was gonna say Mr. No anyways, though. So. Yeah, as far as plants go, I guess, like, like, does the. Do. Do you choose certain plants?

There are certain plants that will remove certain pollutants. I wish I could tell you more about the plants, but I really don't know a ton about it.

Yeah. And I, like, I don't want to just. I know that Jess is right, but I, you know, if you step back and look at a bigger picture, you know, plants also just, like, oxygenate your environment, and they're good to have around. Like, green stuff makes you feel good, too, especially if you have plants in your house in the winter.

Yeah.

So I wish I could tell you more.

I'm very sorry. I'm gonna look into it, now that you mention it.

And then Rick, who needs to work on his grammar, also says, moreover, how to make toothpaste shampoo. You know, all your basic supplies for your house.

Toothpaste is a real easy one.

How do you make toothpaste?

Well, the base is obviously baking soda. You can flavor it to, like, a mint or actually, oregano oil is a real one because it's antibacterial. And then I think a lot of times, a lot of recipes use a glycerin as part of it and then just a little bit of water. But honestly, I would just use some baking soda infused with oregano oil, which basically you just get baking soda and do, like, 20 drops of oregano oil, shake it up, let it sit for a couple of days, and then so dip your brush in and brush with it. That's what I would do.

I did so much oil of oregano today. I took so much, because that water that we swam in was nasty. I took like, like a quarter bottle of oil oregano before we swam. And then after I took, I took echinacea, goldenseal. Like honestly, I probably swallowed like a million parasites in that water. It was nasty, it was brinish, it was gross. Like if you travel to do triathlons and you don't know the water that you're gonna swim in or whatever, like travel with echinacea, travel with goldenseal and travel with oil of oregano because all of those will clean out your digestive system. Also if you get post race farts or you want to like leech.

How do we get from toothpaste to this? I'm so confused.

Oregano, it's not that big of a jump. Charcoal, activated charcoal. So I travel with that stuff and you know, knock on wood. Like keeps you from just like, you know, going toe up after you do one of these things and winding up with whatever.

Yeah.

Some worm crawling out your eyeballs or getting sick.

Do you think oregano oil would really stop like a parasite?

Oregano oil is a little bit anti parasitic. Goldenseal is better for that. I was gonna say goldenseal is better. Echinacea is more just bumping up your.

Immune system, which is always good oil.

Oregano is more of an antibacterial. But goldenseal will have some decent effect. Now if you really get knocked, you want to use mastic gum. And I've also got that capriclean stuff that I travel with. Yeah, I mean I get like. That's the thing is I swallow so much water because when I'm swimming hard.

That'S literally a make or break for me. If I'm gonna do a race is water conditions every year. Bengal said triathlon, Thailand to do a triathlon. And he asked me every time if I want to do it and I say no because you have to swim through this nasty. I mean, yeah, nasty lagoon that. I would never say that because then.

You'Ll scare people from coming to our Thailand triathlon.

Well, you've done it and you've been fine, but I'm. I just have a problem. I can't do that.

Thailand triathlon eventually.

It is a really great race.

That's so cool. Like if you're listening into this and you, even if you're not a triathlete, you should go. It's just, it's fun.

I'm just hypersensitive. I am, I know I am. I won't even do the medical lake one anymore because the Water is just disgusting. That's right in our area. I know. And they float the top of the water. It's disgusting.

So, yeah, oil, oregano, echinacea, goldenseal, and actually on Amazon it's gaia herbs. Get the echinacea goldenseal tincture. It's the two of them mixed and it actually even tastes kind of good. It's got a little tingly since sensation on your tongue. Put it sublingually, hold it for 10, 15 seconds. You can do oil of oregano at the same time. Hold that, swallow it all down with a glass of water.

Okay, now for shampoo. Shampoo, yes, shampoo. I would use them. I purchased a good organic one, but I'm like, honestly, it's not right in front of me and I can't, I can't pull it off the top of my head.

I remember.

But Dr. Bronner's is very good. He's. That soap is always a good product.

Dr. Bronner's. Have you ever read the bottle? It's Dr. Bronner's soap. Like we have the hemp soap.

I think it's lavender.

I wash my hair with that. That's all I use. Yeah, it's really, really like clean essential oils, like toxin free, paraben free. But if you read the bottle, it's bizarre. Like it's like, like covered with text and it's like blessings of God and the ancient spirits be upon you. Ascendance for all time. Blah. Like they, they believe that if you write all this positive energy on the outside of the bottle that it gets infused into the soap or whatever.

Yeah.

Kind of like praying over water to change the structure of water.

Yeah, I've heard of that too. And I'm not gonna knock anybody, but I, I don't, I don't quite understand.

It, but it's, it's.

I sat down in my bathtub when I was soaking one time and read the label. So it doesn't go completely, it doesn't go completely unseen. So good job, Doctor.

I was taking a bath one day and I was, I was like looking at the bottle and I thought it was just the ingredients and then I.

Start looking, oh, no, what if those were the ingredients?

It would be like, it was like free entertainment. It was just like, it was like the entire, like, that's kind of cruel Sanskrit, like Bible, like written on it. On a bottle of shampoo.

Dr. Braun, it's not really shampoo. It's like, oh, it's just a basic.

Yeah. Just soap.

But, but it can leave like an oil kind of an oily residue, if you see. So you have to rinse it real well. And then if you want to do like a conditioner, I like to do a coke. I like to do like a coconut oil conditioner occasionally, not all the time, because it's kind of a bit of a production, because you have to, especially for me, because I have long hair.

A production to make your own conditioner?

No, you don't make it. You just have to basically put it in your hair. And I have to put like, a shower cap on my head. And let's let sit overnight. But you can let it sit for, like, 20 minutes. 20 minutes is sufficient. But I let mine sit overnight. And then. And then you really have to get, like, really wash it out, because it'll stay in your hair for a long time if you're not really good about washing it out. So, yeah, those are some good options for shampoo and conditioners, but there are some good. I'm not gonna lie. There are some decent organic ones out there. It's just if you want to take the extra step to make it, that's all.

Question from Kevin. What's the most effective way to test ketones?

That's a question.

Go ahead and turn this one over to Jessa. So the ones that I have sitting over there on the table, that's a metron breath ketone measurement. So ketones are the fatty acids that circulate in your bloodstream. And if you have high levels of blood ketones, you are more metabolically efficient, and you're giving your neurons in your brain and your cells a very, very efficient form of fuel. And that's like, one of the things that I'm trying to do is keep my body in more of a state of ketosis. We'll get into how that's gotten blown to bits here in Japan, but basically, it's expensive to test. So those ones that I have over there, breath ketone monitor. So it's a big tube, not big, but like the size of a pen. And there's a vial of liquid inside the pen and a vial of powder inside the pen. Pen, super easy. You break the powder, you blow into one end of the tube for 30 seconds hard, and then you break the liquid and you shake it up and it settles to the bottom. And if it's tan, you're not in ketosis, and if it's purple, you're in ketosis. And that's it.

Pretty sure I'm never in ketosis.

Yeah, well, sometimes if you like, if you're fasted and you haven't eaten for a while and then you have like a high fat meal like that will shove you into it. But the other way to do it is they make blood ketone monitors. There's one called precision Extra that's really good. Measuring your ketones is expensive no matter what. It's about four or five times more expensive than measuring your blood glucose. And it's just because it's a spendier measurement. So there's not a cost effective way to do it. If you're going to measure ketones, my recommendation is figure out when you're in ketosis by measuring and then just replicate whatever got you into ketosis and quit measuring. So what I've found is that when I do like bulletproof coffee or that ketogenic kale shake that I uploaded to YouTube, I'm in ketosis. When I eat like a high fat salad for lunch, I'm in ketosis. If I do protein powder, even if it's got like coconut milk and almond butter and whatever, that knocks me out of ketosis. Carbs knock me out of ketosis if they're not in conjunction with an exercise session. Or fructose sometimes doesn't do it because fructose doesn't get converted into like carbohydrates in the bloodstream. It can get just converted into triglycerides in the liver or be used to make liver glycogen. Ultimately though, my whole plan coming over here for Ironman Japan was like, hell yeah, I'm going to prove that you can stay in ketosis when you're traveling. And here's the problem. So Dave Asprey sent me a bunch of medium chain triglyceride oil and bulletproof coffee, and I ordered a bunch of butter and like, I had coconut oil and all this stuff ready. And it like came the day after we left, so I didn't have any of the stuff with me that I needed. And we're in the land of carbs and rice. So like last night, for example, dinner. For dinner I was good. I had avocado and some sardines and like a little bit of white rice. But like breakfast this morning I just had like a big plate of white rice.

These people eat rice. Breakfast, lunch.

I've pretty much been living on rice. So I haven't been in ketosis for the past three days. I didn't race in ketosis even though I used you can superstarch, which is really cool because you can use about half as many Calories as you normally would per hour. So, you know, like, this morning, I raised. I did the Half Ironman in 4 hours and 11 minutes, and I had maybe 250 calories an hour maybe. And normally, if I was using, like, gels and sports drinks and stuff like that, I'd use 400, 450 calories an hour. So you can use fewer calories. You can tap into your body's own storage fat as a fuel a lot more efficiently. But, you know, ultimately, like, it is really, really hard to travel and stay in ketosis, maybe in Japan if you don't have, like, butter and MCT oil and all this stuff with you. And frankly, that stuff's just harder to find. You know, they don't have freaking whole foods over here. I can't. I can't, like, wander in and buy that stuff. Like, you walk into a store, it's like, energy drinks and rice like that.

Energy drinks, rice, and a lot of fermented foods.

We have been eating a crapload of fermented foods, like pickles.

It's actually pretty cool. I'm pretty excited about it. I like stuff like that.

So, yeah, it's very. You know, we were having dinner with. With Keith and his wife at a Japanese restaurant in the airport, and we just, like, eating everything. Snails, fried shrimp with, like, tartar sauce on it, fried fish, steamed fish, flat fish, rice, pickled radishes. Just, like, all this stuff.

Lots of soup and.

Yeah, lots of soups. And like, Jess and I eat. I think we were talking about this. We're like. We think. A lot of people think that we just, like, eat freaking, like, you know, like. Like monks or, like. But we eat everything.

I don't go to a new place. Like, if I'm in Japan, I'm gonna try Japanese cuisine.

We eat everything.

I'm not. I mean, why? What?

We try everything. We experiment. Like, I made pad Thai the other day with kelp noodles and a Vitamix and a. And, like, honestly, we are some of the most probably nutritionally liberal people you're ever gonna meet. But the caveat to that is that we do it all with real food. Like, we don't eat a lot of packaged food, but we eat anything. Like, we really do.

And I was having this discussion with my dad earlier. He's like, I think I would try anything. And I mean, like, I'd try anything. I think. I'm pretty sure if. If I was in a country where they ate freaking caterpillars, I would try caterpillars.

Yeah. I mean, we're sitting here podcasting, and we, like, almost polished off a whole bottle of sake so far. And then we'll probably, you know, we'll. We'll go up to.

I just feel like the post race.

Party, and we'll be eating, like, bean cakes and.

Yeah, but if you're in a different country, you got. You got to try that stuff. I mean, what. What's the point? I mean.

Yeah, no, I mean, I know you're.

Coming here to race, but at the same time, you're also coming here to be in a different culture in a different country. I mean, why would you travel this far?

Yeah. Yeah.

So exactly. And we did the same thing in Spain, and I think you paid for it.

Yeah. That is the one thing I was like.

I'm not gonna say it's.

But if it's a Frank. If it's a Franken food, I don't eat it. Like bread, for example. You know, I consider bread to be. Unless it's like a nice, like, sprouted loaf of amaranth bread or something like that, like. Or Jess's sourdough. Like, I don't eat bread because I consider it to be a genetically modified wheat germ, gliadin.

You know, I make really good sourdough bread, Franken food.

So I don't eat bread, and I find that I really don't perform well or anything when I eat it. But, you know, that's the hard part for me. This whole ketosis thing is it's like it's gotten blown to bits while I'm here in Japan, and it's just like, it's hard to do in travel. It really is. So there you go. I kind of.

I think if you were traveling. I think if you were traveling in the States. States, it would be much easier just. Well, just because it's a familiar ground to you. But, like, when you come to somewhere like Japan where you don't know what anything is or how to shop in Japan, then it's very, very challenging.

This whole, like, we've spent the past three days. The way that this race is. We eat every meal in an airport.

Well, this is a very bizarre place.

You can't just, like, walk into an airport and buy, like, avocados and coconut oil.

This is a weird race where that actually, like, the whole base of it is. Is in an airport. I've never even heard of anything.

It's based out of the center airport.

So it's very strange.

Yeah, it's kind of funky in that respect. So let's Go ahead. We kind of tackled a lot of people's questions that we didn't get a whole cropload of questions from people. But here's another question. What's the biggest fitness mistake you've ever made? Fitness mistake?

Me?

Yeah.

Fitness mistake.

Yeah.

A gym membership. So I don't believe in gyms.

I'm with you. I think the biggest.

I hate weightlifting. I hate everything like weightlifting. I don't like weightlifting. Oh, no. I like the end result of weightlifting. I think that you can really improve your run in cycling in the weight room. But I hate weightlifting. I hate going into a weight room. I hate doing Roman deadlifts in front of a bunch of dudes. That's just awkward.

Yeah.

So I honestly, I've taken up a lot of outdoor, like trail running, mountain biking, gardening, which people don't even think about. But gardening is hard ass. That's hard work.

Yeah.

I'm shoveling out our gravel patio right now, and I can guarantee you I got a better core workout than most people. Yeah. I was like. And actually, the coolest thing about all of it is you get something cool at the end. We have a nice patio for the summer, the end of it. So I like stuff that has. It's purpose driven. Yeah, I enjoy that. And I like my trail running because I'm like, it's exciting, it's fun. I get to be with my dog. I get to train my dog. Our dog's still very young, so he's learning how to trail run and he's doing awesome and it's fun.

Rhodesian Ridgeback?

Yeah. It's fun to be with him. And it's a great way to just, you know, run his energy out. And so. And you know, that means my furniture doesn't get chewed.

I don't like running with dogs.

Why did you buy a Ridgeback?

I find them distracting. I bought a Ridgeback for you to run with.

You should run with him. He's a good dog.

Yeah, no, I, I have run with him before. I've taken him to the track.

He's actually a very good runner.

So.

So, yeah, gym membership. That's my biggest mistake.

Mine is related. Like, I, I got into. For a while, I got into weightlifting on machines because I was like, oh, it's the end of the workday. I just want to go and I want to do like the machine circuit at the, at the gym and all that happens when you do that. Unless you're doing like Doug McGuff super slow protocol. You know what that is?

I haven't.

It's like 30 seconds up, 30 seconds down. Like, you focus on deep nasal breathing, muscle activation. Like, you got to be freaking focused. You can't just like turn off your mind and do it.

It's got to be control.

And like, unless you're doing something like that, like, weightlifting machines are a great way to f up your body by creating a bunch of non functional muscles. And like this, these are the, you know, these are the meatheads you see walking around with big muscles and they, you know, they throw baseball and throw at their shoulder. And like, for a while I got into that. Cause I was like, well, you know what? It's the end of the workday, I'm stressed out. I'm just gonna ride my bike to the gym and just like do like a hardcore weight machine circuit for, for 45 minutes or whatever. And I mean, sure, it's better than not doing anything at all, but I would find that I would just like get injuries. Low back injuries, shoulder injuries, chest injuries. Because it's mindless force production. And I think that if you're in the gym, you should be thinking, I'm really getting less and less mean, like more and more disenchanted with just like lifting and grunting and lifting stuff and turning off your mind. I think when you're exercising, I just.

Don'T even think it's like normal. Like, I really don't think that what's.

The same when you're running. Natural for humans running. Like when you're biking, whatever. As soon as your brain turns off, biomechanics go to crap. Yeah. And I, I really truly believe that you need to have your brain turned on when you're exercising. And if you're doing weight training machines or chronic long slow cardio or bench pressing or any of this stuff, you can't.

Well, goodness, there wasn't, there's never, there was never a gym before the 50s.

Yeah. What are you talking about?

Like, not like, but that was for like Olympic athletes. Not like just your everyday.

Yeah, yeah.

Granted, like, it was nice to like, I was like. So I just, I find gyms kind of bizarre, to be honest.

Yeah. Yeah. How come? This comfort is like the texture of a sleeping bag.

It's easy to wipe stuff off.

Yeah, yeah. This bed is so tiny. Okay, so let's go ahead and. There was a couple other topics on here that I had written down that we had gotten some questions about. Uh. Oh, oh, oh, okay. Hopefully you've had enough sake to talk about this now. Best tips for keeping Things sparked in the bedroom. Best tips for keeping Things sparked in the bedroom. Sparked.

I'd say physical contact throughout the day.

That's so weird. I was gonna, like. If you don't touch your spouse all day long, your significant other. All day long.

Day long. Some people don't know. I mean, we're together all the time.

No, but I mean, like, if you haven't touched them for the whole day, if you haven't hugged them in the morning, kiss them in the morning. Like, there are days where you and I don't connect that way, and it's like. It's so much harder to connect.

Yeah.

At night or whatever, after the kids go to bed. If you haven't connected the whole day.

Well, you need to feel forced at that point. If you haven't showed any effort, you know, in the morning or.

Yeah.

In. After. After work. To me, it's just like, this is what we're supposed to do now, so now let's do it. That's just so weird. To me, it just seems forced.

It's a bigger deal for girls.

Yeah. Girl.

Girls.

What I've heard like, to be doted on.

Yeah, no, that's what I've heard for girls is that you have to like.

For girls, we're not just, like.

Well, foreplay starts, like, 10 hours before you have sex.

Yeah, for sure. Because, I mean, for a girl, you have to emotionally get into it, and that's huge. You know, if you feel like your spouse just wants or you're not your spouse or your significant other, whoever, you just, you know, feel like they want to have sex. Just to have sex. It just feels forced. A girl wants to, like, have sex because they're emotionally along with the ride. That's my opinion of it. You don't just.

No, I think it's a good point, though.

You, like, you have to.

You. You touch, you hug, you connect during the day, and that's, you know, that translates into stuff happening later on in the day. I think the other thing. And maybe.

Well, I just think girls don't want it just to be functional. They want it to be emotional as well.

Yeah.

And I don't know how it is with boys. I'd have to ask Ben on that one. But I just don't. Girls, I. I don't like.

It is functional. It is easier for guys to just go at it just, like, from cold turkey. But I've found for me, that the older I get and the more I get connected to Jessa, and we've been married for 10 years, the more I actually do need that connection throughout the day to really feel turned on at night. Like, it's harder for me as it's like, as our relationship grows, it's like I want sex to be more meaningful because we have connected during the day, you know, so, yeah, I think that's one thing. I think another thing is, like, we get exhausted at the end of the day.

Yeah, we were pretty hard.

We work our asses off and then you finish the day and you're just like, Boom, what's on Hulu.com or whatever. And it's just like, that's so easy to do. And I. I have to admit that our, like, in my opinion, our. Our best sex. Excuse me, as I burp up socky. Is usually not at night. Honestly, like, it's, you know, unless we're like, on vacation or something like that. Like, it's sometime between like 10:00am and 6:00pm like, and even though we don't, we don't, you know, get it on a lot in the middle of the day just because stuff is going on, like, semi challenging. Yeah.

To be honest.

But so, like, that's another big, big thing is. Is keeping things sparked by not waiting until the evening necessarily to get it on. Not waiting until you're exhausted.

Well, and there's also something about making plans. Planning it. Thing. I'm not just saying, you know, just knowing that you're both are thinking about it or.

Yeah, just like a slap on the ass and stuff like that.

Or just, just like having like a plan and being like, hey, kids are going to be. Let's hang out.

Yeah. Yeah.

So just being, you know, planning it a little bit, that I always find to be sort of helpful because if not, I'll just go and, you know, answer my emails and, you know, clean up the kitchen and, you know, take a shower and go to bed. That's what I'll do.

Also, my. My sailor outfit.

That's hot.

That's. That is pretty hot. My little. My little boy sailor outfit that I dressed up in. She digs that.

I've never seen that.

All right, let's see what other questions that we have. Okay, let's go ahead and dig into this. That one isn't that good. People want to know how we homeschool our kids, but, you know, do you want to talk about that? How we homeschool our kids because we're switching to a new curriculum.

Yeah. And honestly, I feel like this year has been more of a.

Here talk for a second. I need to go get some more.

Well, I feel like this year has been more. Because our kids are just turned five. I mean, they're new five. So I feel like this year has been more getting a discipline for what we need to be doing next year. And that's just our mornings next year are gonna be pretty much schooling. That's how I'm gonna spend my. Our morning or my morning in Ben's morning. So, Yeah, I was like. And when we travel, obviously our kids are not being schooled right now because they're with their grandmas.

And. Yeah.

Which means I have makeup work to do when we get home. But in the future, I feel like we're gonna be traveling more with our kids anyways. And that's one of the reasons why we chose to do. Do homeschooling is because we travel a fair amount. Like, we're going to Thailand for three weeks in November. And, yeah, I'll bring their. And I'll bring their school stuff with. I can bring it with us. And actually, I mean, it's a good way, especially on the airplane. Yeah, I think it'll be good for them to have something to do.

We have been using this curriculum called Sunlight, where you just, like. They send you a crapload of books to your house and a curriculum. But it's been, like, really hard to keep track of everything and just, like, track all these different books that you're going through and all these different programs. So this year, we're switching to a curriculum called Five in a Row, where it's one story that you work on for five days in a row, and all of your math, your reading, your spelling, your. What's the word? Like art, crafts.

It all revolves around.

Everything is revolving around one story. They're working on the whole week, which.

I think it really solidifies things for kids.

Yeah. And also for us about the story just, like, all over the place, too, with the kids swimming and tennis and, you know, everything else that they're doing. We basically just really want that ease of having everything based around, like, one big story throughout the week, and then we move on to the next week. And when you combine that with all the other stuff we do, like rock climbing and fitness exploring and all this other stuff, I think what it comes down to is it's just easy. So that one's called. I think it's fiveinarroad Calm, something like that. But that's. That's another really good one. And I've been exploring that curriculum and kind of researching it and stuff. And so we're I'm excited we're starting into that. So I think those are some of the.

I think five in a row. It makes you have to. It makes you realize that all those things can be applicable to one subject. You know what I mean? Because a lot of times people like to separate all that stuff, but really, all. I mean, all can, like I say, be applicable to one subject.

Yeah. Yeah. So Jess is probably a little. Little exhausted from being my Sherpa today.

During the last two days. Yeah, the last couple of days, there's.

Just like, yeah, yeah. Shuttle all over the place during this race. We've got the Kona roll down to go to. I don't know if I got my Iron man slot or not. Today. I raced pretty hard, but honestly, it was a. It was just such a cluster on the bike. The bike was four loops, one lane, and the drafting was nuts. And I do not do. I'm not good at drafting. Like, I like to time trial off the front solo. Like, that's my style.

I know at one point I saw Ben pulling, like, 20 people. I was like, you. You know, you can take a break. Just fall back, and the guy behind you will.

Yeah. Yeah. And eventually, there was a bunch of crashes in our.

There's no way there couldn't have been, like, crashes in this race.

People got separated. I had no clue where I was. So, honestly, I think I may have missed a Kona slot by a couple of minutes. We'll find out. I'm gonna go up to roll down, and I'll bring my freaking 700 bucks with me to pay for Iron man if I need to, but.

Well, the big 700, the big.

The big daddy for world championships, $200 more than it was Iron Man Canada. It goes up by, like, a hundred bucks a year.

That's crazy.

Stupid. It's stupid.

I know it costs a lot of money to put on the race, but $100 a year is a big, big jump.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, that about. That about gets through our questions, and so we actually got to get dressed and head up to the awards ceremony and everything. But, you know, if you enjoyed this and you've got more questions, you know, leave them over on the Facebook page. Spread the love. Tell people you listen to the. To the Naked Truth episode as part of the premium subscription. And I'm also, as part of this app, gonna get, like, some. Some extra interviews in for premium. We'll always add stuff to premium, so, you know, for $9.99 a year, you. You can't go wrong or maybe you can. We'll see. This. This episode did not have a ton of listener fueled questions. You guys gotta ask us more questions. Yeah, I honestly, like, I love to answer questions. And we're just like making up stuff.

It's like I don't even know what any of these questions are until I come on. And I like it that way because then I'm super honest with all of.

You because usually she just lies.

I lie about everything. It's not premeditated, I guess is a better way of saying it.

Yeah. All right, cool. So thanks for listening in and enjoy your week. Remember to smile. Remember to be grateful for stuff. That's something we do with our kids every night. We ask them what they're grateful for. Good way to end the day.

And they always come up with some really bizarre things.

Something bizarre.

Yeah.

So. So, yeah, that's it. And we've still got about 2 ounces of sake left, so we'll. We'll throw this back. Call it good. Cheers and thanks for listening in later.