#58 - EAT FIT: I BREAK MY FAST WITH COLLAGEN PROTEIN DAILY.
18 Jun 2020 · 18 min
In this solo episode of the Jorge Cruise Show (June 18, 2020), fitness strategist Jorge Cruise introduces collagen protein as a daily post‑fast supplement. He frames his message around his long‑standing philosophy that reducing waist circumference is the key to high‑performance living, then explains why typical animal proteins lack collagen and why bone‑broth‑derived collagen is a unique macronutrient. Cruise describes his personal routine—fasting 20 hours, breaking the fast with a collagen‑infused shake or soup—and outlines practical ways to consume collagen (powders, liquid, bars, soups) and what to look for in quality sources (grass‑fed, bone‑broth, reputable brands). He cites health benefits such as joint repair, improved skin and hair elasticity, increased energy, better memory, and deeper sleep, positioning collagen as a “targeted protein” that supports longevity and performance. Throughout the episode he repeats an affirmation (“I break my fast with collagen protein daily”) and intersperses promotional calls to action: a free Belly Fat Cure course for completing a survey, discounts for Navitas Organics, Primal Kitchen, and a future Jorge Cruise‑branded collagen product. He also references mentors Mark Sisson and Louise Hay, and encourages listeners to share the episode, subscribe, and join his free weekly email report.
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Happy Thursday, June 18th. I hope you are doing really well. Send you lots of good energy your way. And if you're listening to my voice right now, I am Jorge Cruise and welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show. This is the show for high performance living for people who don't have time. It's been kind of my life's focus for the last 25 years. I've been helping people who are busy, mainly in Hollywood, but also tons of people online and millions of people through my books. And if you want to work better, reduce pain, improve your memory, and even sleep better, Uh, my suggestion has been for 20+ years to lower your waist circumference. Your waist circumference determines how good you feel, how young you feel. It's what gives you the ability to have vital energy. You know, it's what gives you confidence. It's what lowers your ability to be less, uh, prone to heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes. All this comes down from lowering belly fat. So that's what this show is all about. And on today's show, we're going to be talking about a resource, a tool, kind of something new that I've been using now for the last 5 years called collagen protein. Collagen is something that you don't find in regular protein, whether you love chicken, fish, or you're a vegetarian. This comes from bone broth, and we're going to be talking about how that can restore your body and how I break my fast with it every day. So we'll be talking about that in just a minute. Uh, the show is brought to you by my website, jorgecruise.com. We are doing our annual 2020 survey, and I want to invite you right now to head on over to my website because as my thank you to you, you will get a free Belly Fat Cure course in the beginning of July for free. It's over $100 value by simply taking a few minutes to fill out my survey. Just go to jorgecruise jorgecruise.com. The link's at the top of the page. You'll see it there. Click on it. I'll get all your info, and I really will use this information to better kind of create content for you that I hope will not just inspire you to lower your belly fat, but we'll do it in a way that will motivate you to stick to it long term. You know, my whole philosophy is more fitness and less time, and the way I get that insight is from you. So thank you for doing that. We're also brought to you by Navitas Organics. I love Navitas Organics because I use their chia seeds, their organic chia seeds, daily with celebrities, with online clients, with myself, my family, to kind of cheat the fast. If you take 3 tablespoons of chia seeds, add 3 tablespoons of avocado oil and 8 ounces of almond milk, unsweetened, stir it, you'll have like a super smoothie. You can add a little monk fruit or stevia for sweetness, uh, if you like that sweet flavor. But it will fill you up, 30 grams of fiber, without breaking your fast. And because I use it so much, I really had to find the best out there because a lot of chia seeds have pesticides, have all these chemicals, and you want the best stuff if you're going to be using it on a regular— I mean, if it was once a month, maybe, but this is a daily thing for me and my clients. So if it's something you want to try, this flat belly meal head on over to navitasorganics.com/cruise, because they're going to give you 30% off your entire order of any organic superfoods. These guys are the leaders in this. They have everything from wheatgrass to maca to chia. And again, I'll give you the website again. It's navitas with an S, organics with an S, dot com forward slash cruise, my last name, C-R-U-I-S-E. The promo code is cruise and you get 30% off. And if you need the link, you can go to JorgeCruise.com. There's a link there. Just scroll to the bottom of the page. You'll see today's episode. We're also brought to you by Primal Kitchen. Primal Kitchen is where I get my avocado oil and mayo and salad dressing. They do everything avocado over there, and now they're doing even more things that I love. But it was started by a man named Mark Sisson, who I think is a genius. He is my nutrition mentor. A dear friend for 17 years, and he's really the man who walks his talk in his— I want to say mid-60s, but he's not, he's 67, so he's getting in his late 60s— is a rock star of health and fitness. If you Google search him or look him up on, on Instagram or just watch the interview we did not that long ago, he's going to be on the show tomorrow. This man has a body of a 37-year-old, and his products are incredible. They're going to keep you young and vital, and avocado oil is what I use every single day. They're giving us— Mark's company is giving us a free chipotle lemon mayo that's made with avocado oil, because most mayo is made with soybean oil, which is inflammatory. Totally free on checkout. So you get a free chipotle lemon mayo. Just go to primalkitchen.com/jorgecruise. It's that simple. So today we're going to be talking about something that I do every day. I break my fast, I have a meal Uh, but I always have either a protein shake or some supplement of collagen. So the affirmation says, I break my fast with collagen protein daily. Let's get the show started right now. It's a fact, 91% of us have a dangerous amount of belly fat, and it isn't just unsightly. When you have too much belly fat, you're more likely to suffer from aches and pains, low energy, memory loss, and poor sleep, which prevents you from performing your best at work, spending true quality time with your loved ones, and simply enjoying life. The good news is that you can cure belly fat and immediately start to work better, reduce pain, improve memory, and sleep better using simple shortcuts I've gathered. Hi, my name is Jorge Cruise, and I'm known as the 8-Minute Life Strategist to the world's busiest celebrities. I've been a fitness, nutrition, and high-performance living strategist for over 25 years, and you may have seen my work with Oprah Winfrey, Khloé Kardashian, President Clinton, Tyra Banks, Dr. Oz, Tony Robbins, or even Steve Harvey. My passion to find the best science-backed fitness shortcuts has allowed me to write over 30 books and become a multiple New York Times bestselling author with over 9 million books books in print. And I know I can help you too. Welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show. It is Thursday. Uh, welcome to the show. I'm excited to be talking about collagen protein today, guys. And if you've not used collagen protein, there's different ways to, to talk about this. To say that there's one term would not be fair because a lot of times people know this, no collagen as bone broth protein, and basically it comes from bones, the inside of the bones, the bone marrow. And what collagen does, if you can utilize the protein that's inside of there, it's also on connective tissues. If you eat, like, for example, I love— I eat at least once or twice a week a roasted chicken. And I used to always think my grandmother, uh, Maria from Colombia, was a little odd and old school where she would eat the chicken but Literally, she would eat the bone clean, including all the connective tissue on the joints, on the wings, on the thighs, on, you know, all those chicken parts. But those are rich in collagen as well. So you may be thinking, oh my gosh, I just like the white meat. I barely like dark meat. Well, that's neither. Collagen comes from these connective tissues or from the marrow itself. It's also in beef. In fish. Harder to get out of a fish, they're so tiny. But nowadays you can get fish collagen, you can also get beef collagen, you can also get chicken collagen. And there are other collagens out there, they're working on them. And for me, it's just been a vital tool that I started to be aware of about 5 years ago when I was in my mid-40s. And for me, it was really about making sure that as I stayed active, that I had a way to repair joint tissue because I didn't want to become one of those people at 50 to be unable to walk or have knee problems, back problems, joint problems. And what was amazing, one of my mentors, of course, Mark Sisson, you guys know of him, was using collagen. And another mentor of mine, Louise Hay, who was the publisher of many of my books— she's passed, she made it to her 90s— but she would always be brewing these bones in a crock pot and, and letting them sit for 10 hours to get their broth and make these super soups. And I was thinking, oh my gosh, what is this? It sounded like, uh, some very odd, uh, way to eat protein. I was like, I think I'm good, I'll just have a chicken breast, right? Something like that. But then as you do the research, you find out that a chicken breast, beef, the finest cuts, fish, salmon— none of these proteins have collagen in them. Because it's in the bones, it's in the connective tissues. So you got to make an effort to get this, and not everyone's going to have a roasted chicken every day. And so what I want you to do, and what the affirmation today is all about, is taking in some sort of collagen protein daily when you break your fast. Now, you can't use collagen while you are fasting because it will break your fast. Anything that exceeds 2 to 3 grams of carbs or protein breaks your fast. So you want to save that for when you when you break your fast. For me, I have it usually in a shake after my main meal, whether I'm having burgers, chicken, whatever my main meal is, a salad, then I'll have as a smoothie, I'll take some collagen protein. And I'm working on a Jorge Cruise branded version of collagen because I use it so much. I'm a big fan of chocolate and vanilla. So more on that soon, guys. But regardless, you know, the brands that are out there, are good. You know, I'm trying to find the best and make the best for myself and my, and my celebrity clients and online clients. And I can tell you powdered form is great because then you just add some ice cubes, a little unsweetened almond milk, and you have like a smoothie, but it's like a milkshake. It's super delicious. So with that said, I want you to utilize this with this affirmation. Let me say it 3 times and then we'll say it together. 3 times. And think of this as a way to really give your body a way to renew itself, to increase its performance, to really improve longevity in your life, and to avoid any kind of aches and pains that come from joint pain, you know. And it's also going to give you great skin and hair. So here it is: I break my fast with collagen protein daily. I break my fast with collagen protein daily. I break my fast with collagen protein daily. Does that mean every single day? Yeah, it's an important macronutrient. I think it's a very different type of protein. I know we always think of protein, carbs, and fats, but collagen is its own type of protein. You know, it's not included in almost any food you get out there when you go to any restaurant, so you got to make that effort. So let's say this together. Take a deep breath in, look yourself in the mirror, and say the following: I break my fast with collagen protein daily. I break my fast with collagen protein daily. I break my fast with collagen protein daily. Now collagen protein, if you think of that word, comes in all sorts of ways and shapes. You know, you can do a shake, but some of my clients don't like shakes. They rather have a soup. One of my favorite brands is Kettle and, uh, Kettle and Fire soups. They're out there. If you go to Whole Foods, they have all sorts of collagen, fresh collagen. I mean, you can, you can get very pricey collagen. You can get collagen that hopefully is grass-fed. You want to try to get animal protein that is always grass-fed, and when they're grass-fed, the collagen will be of a higher caliber. There are less expensive versions of collagen, but it comes in powder form. It can come in liquid form. It can come in a form that you make in a soup, you know, and it also comes in bars, you know, like they now make collagen bars, like chocolate bars. I'm working on one too, guys, so I'm excited to share all this with you, probably in July. But without mentioning brands, you just need to embrace this idea that bone broth, that collagen protein, is something you gotta supplement. Think of it as the ultimate supplementation. And if you were to supplement this over a vitamin, I would say that's good. Because you need this if you are over a certain age and you want to keep your skin, your hair, your joints, your athletic performance, whether it's on a walk or doing an 8-minute workout with me, you want to do it so you don't have pain and so that your joints are renewed and everything, your skin, like I said, your hair, everything, all these connective tissues. And you need to take in this type of targeted protein to get this effect. And I can tell you, it can be delicious. Now, traditional bone broth was a lot of work and it wasn't always delicious. Taste delicious, but nowadays it's 2020 and it tastes delicious. You can add what you need to it. The biggest question that people ask is, can I add it to my Flat Belly Meal and have it in the morning? And you really can't because most good collagen proteins are at least 15 grams of protein, and you never want to exceed 2 to 3 grams of carbs or protein because then you will break your fast for longer than a few minutes, and you don't want to do that. So save this for your meal window. For me, I fast about 20 hours, so in my 4-hour window, I'll usually do it very easily. I'll take a powder, like a chocolate one, and blend it with 8 ounces of almond milk and about 5 ice cubes, and I put it in my Blendtec blender, and in less than 60 seconds, I have this delicious chocolate smoothie shake that is how, it's my dessert. I'll do that, and I still have my chicken, my fish, my steak, my vegetables, whatever I'm eating, my healthy fats, my avocado oil, all that, but that's my meal. And then, you know, if I'm even having a roasted chicken, I still do the collagen shake because, you know, it's a lot of connective tissue you'd have to eat, and it's, it's harder if you're, you know, if you've got really good teeth, you can get in there, but it takes time to chew, um, you know, if you're having a chicken leg, to chew all the, the connective tissue off the bone. It's a lot of work. So this is a convenient form, and thank goodness it's 2020 because nowadays you can get this very So that's my challenge to you today, guys. Get that collagen protein into your daily routine. Do it as a way to break your fast, get it in your eating window. And please share today's show with at least 3 or 4 loved ones, especially people that right now maybe they feel that their joints really do hurt, whether it's back pain, knee pain, joint pain of any sort, or their skin is, is not tight. It's lost its, its elasticity. Collagen protein will help restore that and it'll make your hair look beautiful. You'll feel like a teenager again. It really is that good, and, and it tastes that good. So when something's this simple and it's a win-win, you got to try it. And so I hope this show encourages you to do it. Thank you for sharing it. Please subscribe to the podcast, head on over to jorgecruise.com, and before the month runs out, fill out my survey please, and you'll get a Belly Factor course. I mentioned that at the start of the show, but please, I'd love to have you there. Please tell your family and friends about our show, uh, and thank you for sharing it with your loved ones. All right guys, have a beautiful day. Peace and purpose and onward. Here we go. Let's have a great day, great Thursday. Talk to you tomorrow. I want to invite you to join my Jorge Cruise Report. Comes out on Fridays, my favorite day of the week, uh, and it's a good time to take this with you. 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