About Diabetes and the 10 Day Drink Ketones Challenge

Hey everyone, I'm just popping on here to answer a few questions, and I'm hoping that the way that I have the camera set up I can actually see the questions. So anyway, I have a new customer that got the new 10-Day Challenge Pack and had some questions about it, and so I just thought I would get on here to address some of those and see if you guys had any questions about the 10-day challenge as well. And I think I just figured out possibly where I'm gonna see the comments. Anyway, so the 10-day challenge is really just meant to be a way, number one, that if you're new to ketones, you can try a variety of our flavors. You get, you know, the new pack is so much better than the old pack because you get to try, I think it's like 5 flavors in in the package so you get to experience each flavor so that if you like them and they're useful to you, then you know what your favorite flavors are going forward and then you can order whichever one you like. That's one way you can use it, as a way to try a variety of the products. The second thing is, it really, so here's the thing, I always like to ask people, what are your goals? Because right, not all of our goals are different, not all of our goals are weight loss. And so depending on what your goals are might depend on how you approach both the 10-Day Challenge and whether you want to go low-carb on a more permanent basis or even keto. And so depending on what your goals are, if it's just optimizing brain function, that might be one type of protocol. If it's weight loss, that might be another protocol. And if it's diabetes, that could be another protocol. So the specific question in this instance, um, that I'm— so I'm going to talk about this the most, unless I get any other questions. Is so this person was coming to me because they've known me for a while, they've seen me talk about the product, they've seen my, you know, results and why I use it and thought that it might be useful to them because this person just found out that she has diabetes and, um, you know, obviously she wants to get that under control as soon as possible. Some other underlying health issues that she's had for a while, so she wanted to make sure that, you you know, she's doing the right thing to get her health back on track, right? And you know how I always say, use the tools, right? So you can do keto and be very successful with keto without any supplements. But here's the thing. So especially when you're first getting started on keto, you can use ketones to help with electrolyte balance. You can use it to help your body transition into ketosis and have an easier time going low carb. So it's kind of nice if you're really just starting to get your diet back on track and make some significant changes, that's the perfect time to start using ketones and allow them to help you along, right? So the other thing about diabetes specifically is there's been a lot of research lately, a lot of different, um, double-blind protocols comparing various diets to going low-carb. And by the way, before there was such a thing as insulin was developed, exogenous, So you know about endogenous and exogenous at this point, because if you didn't know about it before, you would have learned it from having exogenous ketones, right? So exogenous means an external source of something, and endogenous means that your body makes it itself. So for example, in the case of diabetes, there's two types. You've probably already heard all this before as well, but first type is type 1 diabetes. That is typically diagnosed in childhood, and it's your body's pancreas is— oh, hey Hannah! Now I can see the comments. I wasn't sure because my camera's set up kind of weird, but anyway, um, so if you had type 1 diabetes, that means that your pancreas can't produce insulin, right? And so before there was exogenous external insulin, they would actually use limiting carbohydrates to treat that. That was the only way you could do it. That was the only option. Um, and it's actually the best option for your body anyway. So then though, when big pharma took over, like often happens, um, now that insulin exists, they kind of ditched using diet as a way to control diabetes, even though it's so much better for you, right, to have a proper human diet and not have a lot of processed carbohydrates and things that are really bad for you. So, and then type 2 diabetes basically comes about from metabolic dysfunction, which is a product of many things, but often it can be genetics, it can be inactivity, it can be sugar and carb abuse over the years, kind of trains your body to be like— it's like, it's like the boy that called wolf, right? So he kept saying wolf, wolf, wolf, he kept lying about it. Eventually nobody came anymore, right? So it's a similar case with insulin resistance. You have so much insulin pumping in your body all the time, your body becomes desensitized to it, and so then it doesn't work as well, and the whole system gets mucked up, and then you have more sugar floating around in your blood all the time, and that's diabetes. And it can be very dangerous because You know, I think people hear diabetes and they don't maybe get as scared as they should, quite honestly, because— and it's not doom and gloom, though. Let me just back this up and say there's such an easy and amazing way to reverse it and really cure— I mean, they're not saying this, but I really think it's cure it, especially if you go long-term low carb. Your body has such an amazing ability to heal itself, right? So I think— and this is just my opinion, I'm not a medical professional, always have to preface that, even though I study the crap out of all of this, is that, um, I think it's kind of a cure, quite honestly. And I think it's really important for us to get the word out about that and let people know that you can be in control of your metabolic health. You can reverse diabetes, if not cure it. Let's, let's like preface that again. But, uh, all you have to do is start limiting your carbohydrates, just like they did in the old days before there was insulin. And you can get that much more under control. The other way that you can do it is also through fasting. And if you Google Dr. Jason Fung, he is absolutely amazing. He has a whole clinic where he has now successfully treated thousands and thousands of patients with diabetes and had amazing success. So even without necessarily totally changing their diet to low carb, they started a very serious protocol of, um, hey Jesse, and I watch the Kissy Natalie too. Um, so being on a very strict protocol of daily fasting, so intermittent fasting, a certain number of hours every single day where you're not consuming anything, and then also more extended fasting, particularly for resistant cases of diabetes, right? So all this is to say, this is kind of off of the 10-day challenge topic, but this is because my particular customer was, uh, Fung, F-U-N-G. His website just changed. It's actually a much better website now because the other name was so long, but I believe it's called thefastingmethod.com is his website. But if you just Google Dr. Jason Fung, he has so many videos, so much amazing resources on his website, especially specific to diabetes. So he's like a fantastic resource. But getting back to the 10-day challenge, so what the 10-day challenge has to do with all this diabetes and changing your diet and all of that. Thanks, Hannah. There's the name right there. So what this has to do with changing your diet is, you know, for a lot of people, making a serious diet change is challenging and we kind of make it out to be like, oh, it's so easy. But there's a lot of factors. There's like lifestyle mindset. There's— is the rest of your family on board? Is your spouse on board? Do you have kids in the house? There are just so many challenges. To really making a permanent diet change, that what the 10-Day Challenge does, it gives you number 1, an introduction into being in ketosis all the time. So you know how that feels, you know what your brain feels like. Um, it also helps reduce your appetite, right? So if you are making those dietary changes, you don't like get the munchies and all of a sudden go off the rails with a bag of potato chips because your appetite is number 1, evening out because reduction in carbs actually starts to reduce those sugar spikes, which cause a lot of hunger signals in your body. So the more even you can get your blood sugar— and so when you're diabetic, it's almost, it's almost a worse situation, right? Because you're already having this blood sugar issue, and then on top of that, you're having— you're getting your hunger stimulated all the time by that extra sugar in your blood. So then it makes you want to eat more. So it's like, it's really a catch-22 situation, difficult thing. And so by adding the exogenous ketones, your body gets that signal of satiety a little bit more. It reduces your hunger. And so for the 10 days that you're doing the challenge, drinking 2 a day, you're experiencing ketosis, you're helping your body recognize that, and then it's also reducing your hunger, right? So it makes it easier to stay on track with a lower carb diet, and it just introduces you to the whole lifestyle right now. If you follow that up, so you do 10 days where you're eating clean doing lower carb, Natalie has a great meal plan. I think it's here in the group in the downloads or something, but if it's not, let me know and I can— I'll find out where that resource is for you guys. But, um, so if you're, if you're not, uh, used to doing low carb, if you don't know what to eat, if you want to make it more simple, you just use this meal plan for 10 days, drink the ketones twice a day, and then you're just going to see how you feel, right? You're going to notice your energy, your sleep, all of these other things external to weight. Now, if weight loss is a goal, of course that's going to be— it's probably going to happen as well, especially when you go lower carb. Because what happens when you first go to low carb is your body starts to deplete your glycogen stores, right? And so with every, uh, with every 1 gram of glucose that's stored in your muscle, it carries along with it 3 to 4 grams of water that's being stored. So as you start to reduce those glycogen stores, you automatically lose weight on the scale because you're flushing out all that water. You're getting rid of the bloat. You're going to start to feel better almost immediately, even though it's just water weight at this point in early stages. You're going to feel better and you're going to see that scale move, and that gives you more incentive to stick with it, right? This is actually something that my podcast guest today was talking about. She— when she works with her clients, it's like, that's one of the beautiful things about low carb is because you kind of get that immediate gratification thing, and it gives you incentive to stay with it. So then if you back up the 10-Day Challenge with this, the 60-Hour Reboot, you kind of get this complete almost 2-week plan of a new way of eating, a new way of experiencing ketosis in your body, and, you know, getting on your path to a healthier, happier lifestyle. So that is really the beauty of the 10-Day Challenge to me, is it's a short amount of time, short enough that it's not intimidating, where you're just going to eat clean for 10 days. Um, obviously some people do it and they don't change their eating and that's fine too, because you're still going to notice differences and benefits from doing it, but you'll get the best results from pairing a clean diet for 10 days with the 10-Day Challenge. Um, so is there any other questions while I'm on here? I think that pretty much covers everything about the 10-Day Challenge. Um, if you're working with diabetes, definitely going lower carb is amazing. Other ways to get started besides the 10-day meal plan. So if you're just getting started with this and it's intimidating, you don't think you can kind of go cold turkey, which I don't actually recommend people going totally cold turkey. I like kind of a longer progression because I think it's more sustainable. So what I would do initially— yes, half a pack first. So just in case you have any sensitivities to either ketones or any of the, the sweeteners in it are all keto-friendly, good keto sweeteners. There's stevia and erythritol, which most people tolerate fine. There is also in the caffeinated version, there is about a cup and a half or so worth of caffeine. So if you're sensitive to caffeine, you're going to want to do that half pack first, right? And so, yes, so what I'm telling you why right now. So the half pack, just in case you have any sensitivities, there's also, like I said, that cup and a half or so of caffeine. So if you happen to be sensitive to caffeine and you already know that, start with the half, or you can always do just decaf all day long if you prefer. Um, the other thing with starting with half pack is if— so, so many people drink coffee, right? I don't know what the percentage of people that drink coffee is, but so many people drink coffee. And so if you drink your coffee in the morning, and maybe you have it with Keto Kreme, maybe you don't, but if you drink coffee in the morning and you follow it up immediately With a whole pack of ketones, you're getting like the— you're getting like 3 cups of coffee right away in the morning, right? And for a lot of people, that is really upsetting to your stomach. So it could give you like acid reflux, it might give you some little issues on the other end, but that is really because of an influx of a huge amount of fluid and a big amount of caffeine, right? So that's why we say start with half, just so that you can like work it into your routine, see how it's going to work with the caffeine that you already consume, Maybe a lot of people say they don't even need coffee anymore. They just drink the ketones. They have so much energy, they don't even need coffee. They feel really alert and good without it. So that's kind of the way to— why you do that is just to make sure it agrees with you, make sure you're not putting it too close to other caffeine. So I think that mainly answers that question. Um, I did have one other thought about the 10-day and I just lost it. But if anybody thinks of anything else, just pop it down below in the comments, um, how you move on after that, right? So ideally what I want everybody to do— it's unbiased— I would love for everybody to follow a low-carb diet most of the time just because it is actually so healthy for you. It's all of the things that we've been fed over the years about our diet and which actually good for us is so, so wrong. There's just no other way to put it. And the sad thing is that most doctors don't First of all, they don't get any nutrition training in medical school, or very little. And then because of the way our medical system is, and because doctors have like 8 minutes with patients, they have super long day, they just don't have the continuing education, particularly on, um, you know, nutrition that they should. And what they tend to do is they'll just start prescribing medication because that's what they do, right? And because some, you know, they're kind of in bed with Big Pharma in a way. They're incentivized through trips and other things to prescribe drugs, and it's all they have time to do. If you come in and you have diabetes with your doctor, are they going to spend an hour with you explaining how changing your diet can have this profound effect and control it without medication? Are they just going to write you a script and send you on your way? I can tell you what the answer is, right? And you know the answer. They're going to write that script and just on to the next because that's what they have to do the way our healthcare system is designed. If you're, you know, going to somebody that's the traditional standard of care that accepts insurance, there are several doctors now that, you know, kind of out-of-network thing where you can go and they'll actually spend time with you and, and try to help you in different ways other than medication. But that's, that's pretty rare, and not a lot of people can afford that. It's kind of like this concierge medicine thing, um, where they're the ones that have the, the time and the ability to do that because they have people that, that pay them well for their time where they can let go of insurance. Um, so the problem is we can go to a traditional doctor, most of them are not going to give you any of this information, and they might even disagree with it because all they've heard about keto is it's going to give you a heart attack. And they think all we do is eat bacon and butter all day, which I'm going to tell you, I love bacon and butter, and I do have that, but it's not like that's all everybody is eating, right? If you're doing it in a very clean keto kind of way, um, and that is definitely what I recommend. Um, so if you want to learn more about why the traditional paradigm is wrong and why you probably don't need to— you probably don't need to worry about cholesterol, like at all, um, and how our food system got this way and how this got to be the thing with this food pyramid or MyPlate or whatever it is now, um, and why that's all wrong. It has a lot to do with lobbyists in the food industry, and this was all revealed in multiple books now at this point. But one of my favorites is by Nina Teicholz, and it's called The Big Fat Surprise. If you go to my Amazon, um, shop, which is amazon.com/shop/healnourishgrow, It lists all of the recommended reading that I do around this topic and also just other, you know, random useful products or whatever that I use. But the books are amazing. So if you read The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz, Cholesterol Clarity, that'll give you some clue why you probably shouldn't have to worry about cholesterol at all. I don't have on there, it's actually a documentary, Statin Nation is very interesting because it gives more information around why doctors prescribe statins, what are the bad side effects about them, why you might not want to do that, go down that road, even though every doctor you go to will literally tell you that you need to go on a statin. Um, so yeah, so it's a whole— there's a new book too by Gary Taubes, love him, called The Case for Keto. Um, he's been researching this area for many, many years now. I can't remember if I added his new book. That book just came out, so it might be on the list. Um, but yeah, it's a lot. And if you ever have any questions about this, you know, again, not a medical professional, but I've basically at this point made this my life's work. I've been involved in health and wellness for over 25 years in various capacities. My background's in psychology. I have training in clinical neuropsychology, which is why I'm so interested in the effects of ketones on the brain. And, um, and then yoga instructor for 10 years, so, and ran multiple like wellness programs and just coaching and helping people along their path and learning all the time along the way. And for me personally, like, I was a vegetarian for 7 years. I could have gotten sucked into that paradigm and gotten, you know, so dogmatic and never let that go. But luckily for me, having like a scientific background and just being the kind of person I am, for me, whenever I'm faced with new information, I can't ignore that, right? And so, and that's, that's why I went vegetarian in the first place, because I had done a bunch of reading around this stuff, and there was a lot of propaganda around it at the time. But I read a very good— it It was an epidemiological study, which has a lot of issues, but it convinced me for a time that being vegetarian was the healthiest way of eating. Even after the first way of eating was like, I grew up in the '70s and early '80s and the whole thing then was low fat. So I was low fat for years. I mean, I don't think I had a pat of butter for like 5 or 6 years, probably the whole time when I was running and everything, which would've been the best time. I fought anxiety and depression most of my whole adult life. I really think that is because low fat— your brain needs fat. And so all these people telling us that like natural sources of fat, which is what we evolved with, which is how our brain runs well, like why would that be bad for you? If you really think about it from an evolutionary perspective, it makes no sense. Um, so kind of going off on a bit of a tangent now, but it's just like what I love. So my point to this was, if I had a point, is that I've basically made now keto— my studying keto, the science of it, the benefits of it— my basically has been the last 5 years of my life, my focus and my passion. So, you know, I can't always explain it to you perfectly exactly in exact scientific terms, although I do have a lot of it down pretty well. Um, but I can tell you my personal experience, anecdotal evidence from people that I've worked with, Um, you know, and the thing is, it's like there's no danger to trying it. Like, okay, say we believed for whatever reason that long-term saturated fat could have heart effects. Say we believe that, even though that's wrong. Just believe me, and you can read those books and you can find out by people who can explain it way better. But let's say we believe that. Even if that's true, what would be the harm in trying this way of eating for 2 to 3 months, 2 to 3 months of, you know, eating some extra saturated fat is not going to suddenly cause your heart to stop. That's like not a thing. Okay, again, not a medical professional, but talk to your doctor about that. Like, you know, a short amount of time doing anything is probably— I mean, there's probably some things we can all think of, but for a short amount of time doing anything is not going to have a long-term detrimental effect on your health. So all I can say is try it. If for whatever reason it's not for you, you know, I can't force you, I can't whatever. But, um, you know, there could be some carb cravings along the way, there could be some other things that come up that make you want to give it up. But I would say, I would argue that the long-term brain benefits, that the control of blood sugar, which is related to so many things now— P.S. if you haven't heard this before, they're actually calling Alzheimer's disease, type 3 diabetes. Another study that I learned from going to a Prüvit event, this doctor, I can't remember her name, but I've linked her in some of my other articles, but she is a Harvard researcher that does research on ketones, and she discovered that, or did a study around this. And so basically, and I talk about the aging brain a lot, right? Because my brain is getting up there now, but She discovered that your brain can always use ketones, and this has an amazing implication for people with neurodegenerative disease or just naturally aging brains, because what happens as you age over time, your brain starts to lose the ability to efficiently lose— lose— use glucose. So why is that a problem? Well, your brain is the most energy-hungry part of your body, right? It needs a certain amount of your energy every single day. It will use glucose, but once it has the inability to use that anymore, just from aging and damage, then what? Then your brain is going to starve. That's, that's scary, right? That causes like neuronal death. So do you remember neurons and synapses from your high school, um, biology class or whatever? But those neurons can die and that's what causes brain dysfunction as we age and in Alzheimer's or other dementia kind of things. So, but that's where the beauty of this thing with ketones, like even if your brain loses the ability to use glucose, which it does slowly over time, they can always use ketones. So I don't know. I mean, for me, I don't need really any other argument because I'm like, well, if I can keep my brain functioning well into my 50s, 60s, 70s, it's just going to make for a huge improvement in your quality of life. So that's the other thing. And this is the final thing that I will leave to leave you with is that I, whenever I try to help people with this, it's a lot around mindset because getting your mind in the right place is one of the key components to keeping this lifestyle sustainable and being able to do it long term. And for me, I've found that if you can find your why for doing this, for changing your diet, for implementing ketones, for wanting to live healthier lifestyle, So for me, it's like, I want to keep my brain well functioning. I want to be able to pick up my grandkids that hopefully are a ways off still, but I want to be healthy and functional so that I can live, not just live, but like enjoy and live an optimized life. That's what I am about. And that's my why. And my other big why that you've heard me talk about before, I have so much cancer in my family. And one of the things about eating in this way and having ketones in your body and doing fasting, practicing fasting on a regular basis, is for autophagy. And autophagy is basically like your cellular cleanup mechanism. Your body goes around and cleans up all of these kinds of cells that could later mutate and turn into cancer. That's the most, you know, basic description of it. Or, you know, mutated cells that do other negative things in your body. And so for me, that's my why. Every time I think, well, I wish I could just eat whatever I want or whatever— and honestly, after this long, I really don't anymore. I don't feel deprived. I eat delicious food all the time. You guys see my meals, you see me cook. I, I eat well, I eat enough, I eat constantly. And yet, you know, this is the easiest I've ever found it to maintain my weight my entire life. I've always been focused on that. That's really why it's never gotten out of control, because in some, you know, there have been years or sometimes I weigh about 30 pounds more than I do now during times of stress, during times of surgery, whatever. But it was during times where I really didn't restrict at all, or I just kind of let go, and then I would creep up. And that's one of the reasons that I, you know, kind of just never allowed myself that luxury or that fun of just eating whatever I wanted, because I couldn't. Because whenever I would do that, I would pretty quickly gain at least some weight. And, um, I was always just focused on that. It's the way I grew up. My dad was always in shape, very thin and all that. Um, so yeah, so it's like now that I've gone to this way of eating my weight has been very stable for 5 years. I'm not gonna say it doesn't go up and up and down some, but it's, it's way easier. So I think find your why. Try to like hear experiences from other people that have done this long term, because it is possible to do it long term. I'm not saying you can never have another piece of bread or pasta or anything like that for your life, but depending on what your goals are. So particularly for people that I'm working with that have like serious health problems, like let's take diabetes, pretty important to get that under control as quickly as possible. So for those people, I'm going to tell you, I want you to be strict for longer, right? I want you to be strict at the very minimum for 2 months and just like see how we can get the numbers to come down, get your A1C back to a normal level. And then depending on your personality, this is— this comes in though, some people are like moderators and some people are abstainers. Some people if they decide they're going to have a piece of pizza one night, they can't eat just one. It sends them totally off the rails. They get all kinds of cravings. Yeah, find your why. I love it. I mean, I need to— I actually, I should put that on a t-shirt. Find your why. Because finding your why— so a lot of the things I work on, because it's my background, a lot of the things I work on, this stuff is from the psychological side, right? So, um, to me, finding your why can help you in so many areas of your life. It's just like If you even put a little note on your refrigerator, what's my why, and put it right there so that you, when you go to the refrigerator and you're about to crack and you're about to say, I'm going to have that leftover pizza that my kids left in there, then you see that and it reminds you, like rebalances you, re-centers you. Like, this is an important thing. This is about my health. This is about like, I don't have any serious health problems now. Like I said, my family full of cancer, full of all kinds of bad disease, full of obesity. I mean, that's my why. I want to stay healthy. I want to stay functional. I want to be able to do it. I want to be able to go ride my snowboard for 5 days in a row in 3 feet of powder like I just did. I mean, if I wasn't in good shape and healthy, that's not possible. So if I let my why go and I, you know, gain a bunch of weight or get diabetes or get cancer or something, I'm never going to be able to do that again. And so that's like, I know it's getting a little heavy right now, but Like, that's why I just keep reminding myself. And so since I have found my why, since I have strongly identified that, it makes every decision that I make around my health, about what I put in my body, that much easier. So, um, thanks, Hannah, I appreciate that. I feel like I'm going off on a bit of a tangent now, but it's just, it's something that I've been talking about lately, and it's something I've been thinking about a lot lately because I had another thing come up in my family recently, like the same thing. And I don't want to say too much, but it is like, it's another cancer thing. It's like, okay, I've got to stay passionate about this. I've got to keep sharing this with people because I want everybody to feel as good as I do and have as much energy as I do. And you know, there's a way to get there, and it's— I'm not gonna say it's all gonna be like roses and butterflies and unicorns, but it's like if you identify your why, it definitely makes it easier. So I think I'll shut up now because I'm just getting all crazy, but it's been that kind of day. I've had a lot of introspection. I've had a great conversation with a really interesting lady. Yes, I totally agree, and thank you for that, Hannah. Yeah, it's not fun when you have people all around you having serious illness, and actually, you know, my dad passed away this last summer, which some of you already know that, but, um, you know, it just really makes things hit home that much more because it never— somehow, even though he battled cancer for years, like, I never seemed like he was going to be gone to me. I don't know why that's so silly, but, um, of course I knew that that would probably happen eventually. But, um, it just solidified for me why I need to try to help other people find better health, why I need to help other people find tools that can help them make this easier. Because it's not all rainbows and unicorns. It's— it can be challenging. It's like all around you, you have food pushers, you have people that think that keto is not healthy, even though they don't understand. It's like they're eating all the donuts and the pasta and the crap, and they're thinking they're fine. Nobody's telling them about how they eat is bad. Here I am eating all whole foods, all natural foods, and that's bad? That's wrong? Tell me how I'm wrong on that. I don't think you can argue that. So, um, you will be faced with situations where you're going to make these changes. And the, the other thing, or it this happens too. This is another part of the psychology of it, is the psychology of it. When other people see you change and they see you doing things to make yourself better and learn more, and you know, all these things— this is how I finally got past like being shy on social media, because you know, if you think about this in your real life, you start to make changes, people start to see, you know, you're, you're looking thinner, you're happier, your skin is glowing, you're feeling good, you you have so much energy, they're jealous and they want to bring you down there with them, which is really sad. But, and some people don't even realize they're doing it. Um, so when you start to make those changes, that's the other challenge, is that people around you will see that, and hopefully some of those people will be inspired and want to change with you and support you and love you and just be so happy for you. And then there's going to be those people that are around you that just think, who are you? To do this? Why are you— you're never going to eat a cookie again? Oh, come on, just have a piece of this cake. It's fine. You're fine. It's like, no, I'm not fine. I have diabetes or whatever it is that you're dealing with, right? So I think if you identify your why and if also you get unshy about saying to people, well, no, actually I have diabetes and this is going to save my life. I mean, there might come a time where you have that conversation with somebody. So anyway, I did say I'm going to shut up now. I really will. But if you have any follow-up questions, I try to just like kind of talk along here so that eventually hopefully I get to a point of, uh, where you— what questions you had actually got answered if you didn't feel like writing them in the box. But, uh, you know, the 10-Day Challenge, I just think it's a wonderful tool. It's such a great kickoff to a new lifestyle. Ketones in general, I still take them every day even though I've eaten like this forever. I didn't even find them until a year and a half ago and already been keto, low carb at that point for like 3 and a half years. So I just wish if I would have found them sooner, I could have just been that much further along in my process. And, um, you know, again, I think particularly when you're transitioning in the beginning, the 10-Day Challenge and then the Reboot, if you can tolerate fasting, um, I've had a lot of people do it that weren't even keto yet and they got through it fine. So, uh, it's just, it's, they're both such wonderful tools. And then plus the community that I have become a part of by being, uh, into ketones is just amazing. There's so many people and people that popped in on this live video today that have become really good friends that I am inspired by every day that help me remember my why because I hear them talking about it and they're passionate too. So just a whole system that really feeds into being a better person, right? That's part of our company mission is just, you know, be a little better every day. That's all it is. So start slow, build up, do what you have to do, but start reducing carbs. Start thinking about these things. If you need help identifying your why, over my website I have an article that's called "What is Ultimate Wellness?" and it just kind of goes through identifying that stuff for yourself, and then it even has some worksheets that help identify your core values. And like I said, when you find that core value, it helps you find your why, which helps you make better decisions every day. So, okay, now I'll really shut up. Thanks for watching, and send me any follow-up questions. Always here for you. And, um, thanks for listening.