Episode 102: The Healing Power of Organ Meats with Chef James Berry

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I have James Barry today with me and we are actually remote, which is great. We're in Florida, but we were able to get together and I appreciate having the brother on to talk about his company Pluck. And I've been a fan of the work and started watching your show because you've been talking to farmers and we're very interested in nutrition in our practice. So I'm so happy to be able to get you on the show.

Yeah, yeah, it's mutual. I really respect what you're doing and appreciate being on here.

So I grew up and this is not comical, but I think a lot of Americans probably, if they listen to this, they'll understand what we're talking about. I honestly thought my mom was not a very good cook. When I would eat dinner, I didn't want to eat dinner. Like the food, I just didn't like it. And now in retrospect, like, if you get back to like going to the grocery store with your mom, which I did on like Saturday or Sunday mornings. We were. My father was retired military, so we'd go to the base.

Where were you living at?

Las Vegas.

Okay, interesting.

So the commissary is what I grew up going to because that was the place where we got our food. And now I was socialized that way. I didn't go to like a Kroger or a Safeway or in. In Texas, it's Heb. Or there was no Whole Foods or any of that. I mean, so we would go get this food and go home.

And were you frozen vegetables? Like what?

A lot of canned vegetables? Yeah. And then a lot of meat.

Yeah.

And the only thing I really desired eating was canned corn. Not cream corn, just sweet.

They put. They put stuff in it.

But I salted it. I salted everything really heavily.

Okay.

And I just thought, man, my mom is Just a bad cook. This food is terrible. And then fast forward now. You know, obviously, I'm 55 now, and.

We live around the same. I'm 51. So we're in the same generation.

And now we live in Austin, Texas, and we go. Honestly, it's just in the past, like, couple years, you know, my wife has always been good about trying to get organic things. But, like, now, every Saturday, it's like our date to go to the farmer's market. And we buy almost all of our poultry. Definitely all of our fish comes from Wolka, Alaska, this vendor. And then we have different farms we get meat from in Texas. But it's such a difference, is what I mean. And the quality of the food.

Do you feel like the quality. Like, are you doing much to that food? Like, because some people are very bland. Like, they don't like sauces, they don't like seasonings. They grew up with very kind of standard American diet. Is that kind of what you're saying? Or was that the quality of the food your mom was using because it was canned or frozen or whatever?

It was the quality of the meat. Okay, for one. Because, you know, those would have been at the basis, the cheapest meat you could get.

And you guys run a budget.

Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. It was like, you know, my mom was, like, navigating, you know that when you were growing up, and it was the 70s. And I still remember, like, the gas crisis when I was growing up.

I remember that, too.

It was a huge deal.

We couldn't go to Disney World because of the gas. We had come to Florida, and the day that we could go to Disney World just happened to be the day where that area wasn't allowed to go get gas. And so we miss Disney World. I know. It's so rare. Like, people later generations don't understand that if you missed a TV show, there was no recording, you know, back.

No TiVo.

Yeah. So, like, if you don't know what.

TiVo is anymore either.

But there is. It's interesting. You're sort of preaching to the choir a little bit, because I knew that dinner was ready because the smoke detector went off.

Like.

Like, to this day, my mom's like, how did you become a chef? Yeah. So I don't think I grew up eating very good food either. But I think what was interesting is my dad owned a grocery store.

Okay.

And I was younger. My older brother kind of pointed out later on, he's like, you know why we had so much meat? Right. I said, no. And he Said, well, because dad had taken a chance at his little corner grocery store, and he had an actual meat section, like, where they were butchering meat and everything. It was like, almost like artisanal. Before that existed, but no one appreciated it, I think, the way we would now. And it didn't do very well. So we were always getting meat because he needed to get rid of it.

It wouldn't sell. Oh. But nowadays, my brother said. At least nowadays.

Oh, my. I remember he had. He had this saw, and he would be like, you know, cutting. Cutting every. The. The chicken carcasses, and I would just watch it. And I never. I never valued it.

Yeah.

Like, I think we forget, like, if you don't know what, you don't know. Right. And even in our infancy, even in our standard American diet, we were more connected to our food than people are now. Because back in the day, there was no plastic wrap around your food. It wasn't already pieced up. Like, you had to. You either bought the whole chicken or you went to the butcher and they cut it right there for you. Yeah. Or it was frozen aisle.

Yeah. I remember a lot of that changing while I was growing up.

Yeah.

And things becoming processed. More and more processed. Processed. And microwaves. Oh, my God.

Microwaves came out. Absolutely.

All the stuff. Frozen burritos. What are you eating today? Whatever was in the frozen section, you come home and nuke it. And like, we were talking yesterday in our group session. I have a son living in Spain, and obviously he has access to really high quality. Know very.

And very seasonal. Like, very local. Yes. Spain is really good.

He would go to these tournaments, and every year for a couple of years, they were outside of San Sebastian, and I was just like, everything was great.

Yeah.

Like, all the food was fish, right?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. I would just go to the little down to the beach, to whatever place and just have whatever they were, whatever the special was. That's what I would have. Octopus or whatever. You know, fish of the day. It was always great.

Something that people don't think about is the freshness and that availability of that local food.

Food. Yeah.

Whether it's produce or fish or animal, that actually makes a difference. Like, more and more they're reporting.

If you.

Once, let's say broccoli is pulled right, it loses nutritional value quickly. So let's say you buy it at the grocery store. Depending on how fresh it is at the grocery store, it could already be devoid of nutrition at that point.

Right.

Then you get it home, you don't eat it for three days. It's truly gone. Like, there's nothing there. It's just fiber at that point.

That's in a stark contrast in our country, where a lot of things are obviously preserved. But in China, I remember one of the major things during the pandemic was the access to fresh fruit and vegetables, because they want them all fresh all the time, where our society has definitely gone awry. And when I talked about the farmers markets and access to those fruit, It's a really complicated equation in. I mean, I'm in Texas. You can get all the meat you want. I mean.

Yeah.

But to go. To. Go to the farmer's market and find some fruit. Good luck with that.

Yeah. Well, that's how it feels on the east coast as well. I remember. I mean, growing up in California. I grew up in California, and California is so spoiled, man. So spoiled. You get produce, fruits, vegetables that. I mean, year round, you know, there is some seasonality, but it's not like other parts of the world. And then I went to culinary school in New York, and I would go to the markets and I'm like, there's really like, where's your berries? Where's your this, where's your that? And if they had them, you look, where did it come from? It was California. So it was like, okay, this is. There's something wrong here. Like, at that time, I got really into following the seasons. And I think to a degree, even what I'm trying to impart to my kids now is that we really should be conscious of, like, what is actually in season where you live. There is. Now, I'm not an expert of this, but there is even a thought of if you're in, let's say, winter. Let's say I'm in Massachusetts. So if. If I'm in winter in Massachusetts and I eat a banana that's from Ecuador, the light of that energy and light for that vegetable or fruit is different than the seasonality I'm in. And there's this guy, his name's Rowdy, who studies these kind of things, and he was talking about it. I never thought about it that way. But when we eat out of season, not only are we potentially getting false sense of nutrition, because if we're getting a banana from Ecuador, they're pulling it before it's actually ripened, first of all. And if it's not allowed. Yeah. To get it to us. If it's not allowed to ripen, that means it's not going to be as nutritious because it gets its nutrition from ripening. On the vine or the tree or wherever it's coming from. So then they're sending it to you. It's out of your season. So there is an aspect just like when winter comes, how we want to kind of cave. Right. There's a natural rhythm, kind of an ancestral rhythm in our bodies. And when we eat out of season, the question that I have is like, well, am I serving or not serving that ancestral kind of rhythm? And I don't have an answer to that necessarily. But I do notice that I'm trying to educate my family towards not eating berries unless it's summer, for example.

Yeah.

Eating more winter squashes during the winter.

Berries in a bag. Y' all should not be eating those things anyway. They're terrible.

Yeah, yeah. A lot of it's hydroponic as well, and a lot of it's questionable of how clean it is. I mean, it's.

Yeah, that was my point.

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The folks who listen to my show, you know, I tell you to put things through the environmental working group and pay attention to the dirty dozen, because the number of patients I see that have high, high levels of glyphosates, which is an herbicide used on those crops. Is it? I mean, routinely I see people with elevated levels of that in their system. And that's one of the reasons because.

Are you tested for glyphosate?

Yeah.

Oh, that's brilliant.

Yeah. We look at all the environmental toxins and, you know, from the basic ones that people probably who listen to the show heard me talk about our phthalates. So don't drink out of plastic. We're using. This is a stainless bottle I'm drinking out of. And they're huge endocrine disruptors. So for your kids. My kids, males, females, those are things that are. Can affect their hormones. Things like. You grew up in California, I grew up in Nevada. We had really bad groundwater, so I had high levels of arsenic in my system growing up. So you can get heavy metals, you can get you Know cadmium from batteries or you can get mercury from your fillings or e farmed fish. So don't eat farm fish. Try to get wild caught fish. Always. Those are kind of the. Some of the top things. And then because my clients are predominantly female, parabens are in all sorts of female products. Cosmetics, lotions, potions. Those create tons of hormone problems. So in addition to paying very close attention to what you put in your mouth, pay very close attention to what you put on your skin. So anything going in the body, anything going in the. Your performance machine, which is your, your body is incredibly important.

Do you ever find out of all the people you're testing, anyone that doesn't have glyphosate? I feel like it. It's permitted. Really? You have?

Yeah.

Oh, that's impressive.

Yeah. I mean some people from a detox capability genetically in their livers, they can handle more load. But if you have somebody grew up in the central valley of California who as a kid ran under the crop duster.

Yeah.

There's no chance that, no chance they don't have a superior load that their body can't manage.

I always use glyphosate as an example. So you mentioned pluck. So that's an organ based season. That's the product that I'm trying to support people in eating organs as easily, as deliciously as possible. When. And the inevitable question we get all the time is, is it enough? Like, am I really getting enough in the season? And the way I explain it is I'm always like, well it's microdosing frequently, which is cumulative effect. And in America we tend to think, you know, in. Particularly in Texas, go big or go home. Right, so in Texas.

Yes.

Yeah. So I'm always. My point is like actually a lot of times when we're taking a lot of supplements, we're peeing them out because we don't actually absorb it all. So when you do micro dosing, you actually it's more likely that you will absorb it, particularly when it's from a natural resource. But I use glyphosate as the example of it can work for the positive, but it also works for the negative. Because when glyphosate came out in the late 50s, they were sold to America's like, it's just micro amounts, it won't affect your health. And of course now it's everywhere. It's in breast milk, it's in our water, it's in our air, it's in our soil. We can't get rid of It. So I'm blown away that you're finding people that it's not causing havoc in their system, but I have to imagine it's probably in most people.

Well, I have a very skewed population that I see people with chronic inflammation of which, you know, they have a breast implant. So many of them have problems with absorption of nutrients. So the way I work around that is I do not overburden someone's system with more tablets or capsules. From a supplement standpoint, we try to keep things as simple as liquid liposomal formulations or a few different powders more easily absorbed because they all are experiencing loads of probably gut inflammation from the things we're discussing. So not necessarily like you said, just you don't know what you don't know. So if you're. You're making these choices. So for everybody listening, you know, some simple things I ask people to do are cut out some basic things, gluten and dairy. If you don't know what those things are, you have to look them up.

Either on elimination diet.

Yeah. On your Google machine or your chat GPT. And what do you do?

Dairy, soy and wheat. Are those your top three?

So, yeah, all gluten. I have them eliminate dairy, because dairy in this country is terrible. And then in terms of then looking at triggers, we actually do a blood test and look at about 250 foods for an IgE response. Because rather than put everybody on elimination diet, which can be very difficult for some, especially with children, families, it's structurally hard to do that. Give them some real information so they can go like, okay, this is on my phone. I can't really have that. So that they're not just wiping everything out of the cupboard, so to speak, or the pantry, but they're making choices. You know, this is about making slightly, you know, more educated, intentional, you know, decisions about what you're putting into your system. And it will change, you know, drinking filtered water, having, you know, better quality air. I'm in Austin. The quality of the air is amazingly poor. Tons of cedar, tons of oak, tons of mycotoxins. We have a really high mold level all the time there. Really? Yeah.

You wouldn't think that in such a.

Dry area, but Central Texas is not as dry as you would think. We're not far from, I mean, we're about 90 minutes really from Houston. So from the Houstons, the Gulf perspective, you know, they have the worst brunt on the coastline there with their natural disaster problems and flooding. But we similarly, we get like their outer bands and we get a lot of the humidity. It doesn't ever really get super cold like in Massachusetts. And that prevents the trees from getting whacked and all the cycle, if you know you will, of the pollen being taken out of the air. So it's just constantly, they're constantly. The trees are dumping pollen all the time.

So slight change of subject. But I'm curious about your answer this. So when I started plucking, that was about. We're in our fourth year, but I came up with the idea of putting, you know, the organ meats in the seasoning. So, you know, we use the freeze dried powdered organ meats we put in the season organic seasonings. And that was about five and a half years ago and we were definitely like ahead of the curve. But now I'm talking to ranchers and they're like, oh no, we're selling out of organ meats now. Finally, like. So there seems to be more of an awareness of like, hey, I'm not getting the nutrients I need from my regular diet. And then I'm also hearing about more and more people removing their breast implants. And I have to think that there's a connection of awareness of like, you know, these things that what we've done and like what got us here may not get us there kind of concept. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Do you think they're connected? Like the awareness around our health.

Yeah.

Eating food wise. And then we're also thinking about what's going on in our body and removing the synthetic or the.

Yeah, yeah. I mean I routinely now, you know, we grew up in the 70s and 80s and it was quite, it was far more acceptable to do things. And breast implants during the 70s, 80s and 90s was much more common.

Yeah.

And then do you think it was.

Because there was more of a focus on outward appearance or shock and value or. Yeah.

I've interviewed people that I've taken care of and the explanations are interesting. So if you had somebody in Europe, what did we export to Europe to give them a view of our society? Something called Baywatch.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And so I had people forget how people tell me specifically they got breast implants because of the appearance of Pamela Anderson on Baywatch, which I'd kind of forgot about. And I was like, whoa. And then you'll have, I think during the 70s, 80s, the 90s, you know, this peer group situation, so moms who had gotten implants were now raising daughters and it became socially acceptable because they saw it in the peer group and Other moms had those. And I've had patients tell me that specifically, like, oh, all these other moms had.

Yeah. You're modeling what's acceptable, right?

Yeah.

That's interesting. I never thought of.

So that was a, you know, like an imprinting thing. Like the ducks follow the mom.

Right.

And I was like, okay. And then others had a lot of trauma around not developing breasts early in life and being bullied or ridiculed because of that.

Or the. The opposite, which is you develop early and then you're ashamed because you're. You're so big breasted.

Because I know people then they don't. They get a reduction. Yeah, yeah. They go the opposite direction and they're like, I need a reduction. So that's juvenile breast hypertrophy, which is the opposite problem. Of course. They're trying to hide all that versus look like they have.

Yeah. It's fascinating though, don't you think?

Yeah. The socialization of. And marketing to women about products that we mentioned about cosmetics. Terrible and just awful. Because parabens affects phytoestrogen, they affect estrogen receptors and create problems hormonally for females that just the different stories people have told me about and why it led them to get a breast augmentation. And this is a good transition because I have people come to me and they say, oh, Dr. Whitfield, you know, I'm using products like Plug. I want to be as natural now as possible. But I have these breast implants and I've had them for interesting 10, 20, 30 years sometimes.

Do they cancel each other out?

Yeah. So then it's this tremendous amount of, you know, if it's guilt or just unrest that they have about having a synthetic or a prosthetic device in them providing a unnatural appearance change.

Hypocritical almost. Right?

Yeah. Right. So I get told. I'm sure, as you do. You know, people say I lead this extremely clean life or holistic lifestyle. I'm like, okay. But obviously that's not really the case.

But I guess I kind of look at. I think there's contradiction constantly. I think I even sometimes caution people from being too hyper aware of all the dangers of the air and the water and the food systems. Because what we're seeing. So yes, people are maybe getting a little bit more aware of being more natural, eating better. Right. But we're also with that is also rising anxiety.

Right.

And overwhelm.

Yeah.

And so it's almost like you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't. Or okay, we might be solving one thing, but then something else is actually going extreme. And so I find that just like, I see sleep as the most important thing because for me, I could say like, oh, eating well, exercising, stress levels, sleep. Those would be the four pillars. But the reality is that if I don't get good sleep, all the other three suffer.

Where it's like, if James has listened to my show. Because it's the number one thing.

It's the number one thing. Right. Well, the same though, you could say about if you're in the category of food and health stress. Like, if you're stressed out, but you're eating the most amazing food, you may not be digesting it or absorbing it properly. Right.

Because that's too much autonomic stimulation.

Exactly. So you have to like, there is a level of like. And then also, I mean, there's times where we think we're doing it all perfectly. Like, I'm buying the organic produce locally at the farmer's market. I'm cooking it properly. It's fermented or it's steamed or it's raw, whatever. It's like I'm trying to do everything possible. And then you learn the person that was selling it to you actually was next to a farm that was spraying glyphosate and it got into their, you know, like, there's pieces we cannot control. Their life is Jurassic Park.

I'm glad you said that because magically, as you know, everything about five years ago ago became organic overnight. It's not right. Just like you said, the overspraying of crops, like, if this parcel is organic and this one is not, do you think that's even possible? To not cross contam, like, that's of course a nonsensical thing, but it's duping everybody at the stores.

And they're also not as diligently checking as people think. Like, when you get certifications, you're paying for that certification. So when I was starting my business, I was looking at this kitchen to work out of, just to start making pluck. And it was a gluten free kitchen because it's a. Ours is a gluten free product. And the guy flat out told me, I'm like, so you have a gluten free certification? He said, yeah. I said, so tell me about that. And he's like, oh, yeah, well, when the guy comes to inspect us once a year, he doesn't actually even go in our facility. He just comes to the front desk, I sign the paper, he leaves. I'M like, that's interesting. So it's really a sham. He's like, yeah, can be. And I'm like, oh, that's interesting. So they're just taking your money because they do charge an arm and a leg for these certifications.

Of course they do.

But they're not, not all of them, but many of them aren't actually doing the due diligence annually or quarterly or whatever. So there is an illusion going on. There's an illusion that the government's got our back, food wise. There's an illusion that everything we're eating that's we're told fits the categories is healthy.

Right.

It's just not true. So that's why I'm like, let's take a step back and maybe what the focus should be is what is the state I'm in while I'm eating anything? Because there is. Okay, placebo effect is a real thing. Right. So if placebo effect is real, then that means technically I could eat something that's non organic. And as long as I'm in a state of like this food is going to, to nourish me and I'm focusing on that relaxed state and that energetic belief that all I'm going to get from this food is goodness and nourishment and not toxins and this or that or fear, then it possibly will give me what I believe it's going to give me. Because that's.

Yeah, we put a lot of emphasis in our programming on, you know, mindset.

Which is over really what I'm talking about.

Yeah, right. And if, if someone's in a heightened or overstimulated state, we call it, you know, the sympathetic nervous system is overstimulated, which I see, you know, pretty routinely. I see a lot of people are anxious, a lot of people have problems with their emotions. And the gut brain axis is, is a real, you know, issue. So if you have problems in the digestion of your, your food to get the nutrients you need to then make all of the things work in the body, putting more emphasis on not just preparation of the food and everything. Preparation of having the food. I think, yeah, like you're in the state what you're talking about. So trying to get into more of a parasympathetic state is what we promote because that's the recovery or the healing or the rest and digest phase that you want to be in. So when I have patients eat, brought up sleep, which is, it's my number one thing when someone's not either listened to or Adopted practices in our sharp method. It all kind of goes back to this. So if someone after surgery has kind of fallen off because surgery is a big spike in inflammation and cortisol production and stress, it's a huge challenge. But we try to get people in parasympathetics, to your point, right away, after surgery. So we do all these things where they come to my office after surgery the following day and get in the hyperbaric chamber. So we try to improve oxygenation. We have these wonderful lymphatic devices from New Zealand that help get you into more of a parasympathetic state. So they warm the trunk and then they do the lymphatic massage on your arms and your legs and your torso, not the chest where we've done the surgery. And we have, you know, nanov to increase protein folding and red light therapy. So we have all these things that are just really geared to get you into. What you're describing is a, like you want to be in a calmer state, a more parasympathetic state. And I constantly have people like asking me which wearables and everything. And everybody's sort of like the Oura ring apple watches. And I've basically, you know, demoed all these devices. I will tell you the thing that measures your heart rate variability, which is really your strongest indicator of recovery. So when you wake up in the morning and look at one of your 19 wearables you may have, it's going to give you an average of what your heart rate variability is. There is a. I think it's 80 bucks, a Polar H10 or an H7 for that matter. Heart rate monitor, It's a chest strap. So they're the most accurate because you can put them right over your heart and.

But are they the most invasive, though?

No, that's non invasive.

Well, I just mean compared to a ring, you know what I mean?

Or a watch. I wear it for two minutes.

Oh, you do? Oh, oh. All day.

Okay, got it. So I just put it on in the morning and I practice something called resonance breathing. So basically it's belly breathing and it's meant to help improve your hrv, which is, you know, for people listening. Heart rate variability, VO2 max. These things are not easy to just change and you have to be consistent with them. And much of what James has said about getting yourself in the proper state, if you can get control of your breathing, not breath work, but control of your breathing, like breathing in through nose to count of four and out three miles for a count of six those things for a few minutes and up to 20 minutes twice a day, which I don't need any DMs telling me that you don't have time to do that because I'm aware. The point is those are times where, like James is alluding to, you can get control of that system and make it or calm down the tone in the system.

One way that I recommend, because when we're going to eat, one way I recommend people start practicing is just simply, you don't have to be religious, but just simply, you're about to eat, take a second, take a breath, say a prayer, gratitude, and just be in the chair. Because a lot of times we're like, I gotta eat. We're just, we're. We're not present, we're not being mindful as we do this. And it's that simple moment.

Yeah, yeah.

Works. It really does.

James never saw me train as a surgical resident where I had to eat standing up in line. So there are many years of my life where that was three minutes. I would get criticized, you know, by my, my wife. God, would you just slow down? I'm like, what do you mean? Yeah, because it's not. After so many years, like, of not having any time to do anything now. I, I at times now. And if you come to Austin, we'll go have a ribeye at Daidui, which is one of my favorite places. We'll go to the. Well, something and then you can relax and just. I don't really get in a rush there. I just. It's easy to hang out and take my time, but, oh, yeah, I'm guilty of eating too fast.

I think most people are. And, and there's really simple things. Like I said, take a moment, prayer, gratitude, just a breath before you eat. And then the other one is simply put your fork or your spoon down in between bites. I know it seems so simple, but it works. It works. Take a bite, put it down and chew. Finish chewing before you grab the next. Like, you cannot grab that utensil until you've swallowed that bite. And it will get you to just eat more slower.

So I think that's probably the biggest take home, and I'm going to end the show on that with James. But, like, summarize those again of just how we can take better advantage of taking time to eat. Let's repeat those practices because those are huge takeaways.

Yeah. I would encapsulate if I were to create a food pyramid, this will encapsulate, I would say, the top of the pyramid is eat foods that have flavors found in nature. So not natural flavors, but not injected flavors, but flavors that are found in nature. Real food. Middle of the pyramid is eat nutrient dense foods. So these are not fortified foods. These are not ultra processed foods because those are stripped. Eating real foods that have nutrients. Very bottom of the pyramid is what we're talking about, mindful eating. Just eat mindfully. And you can't eat mindfully if you're rushing or if you don't know what's in the food. So those three things together, they will change people's lives. I mean, and it's both simple in explanation, but it is challenging to do, like you said, because sometimes your lifestyle, you're so acclimated to a certain lifestyle that you don't realize that you are doing these things that you're rushing or that you're not really digesting your food. Like, one thing I would take note of, and this might sound gross to some people, but hopefully not, is take a look at your poop. Like when you go to the bathroom, look at it, are there pieces of food in it? Like, that's a sign that you're not potentially, you're either eating food that doesn't digest well or you are not digesting that food well. And. Or is it huge? Like, that's also a sign that you're really. That you're either eating too much of something or that you're not absorbing all the food. So it's really fascinating. And there's in getting. Just if we, in this episode, if we just focus on, get into that mindful state, that's the one thing that you do, you might start to see differences in what comes out of your body.

I think that's a good take, Ken, because I spend a great deal of time touching a lot of aspects of, as we've discussed, everybody's, you know, the quality of consumption. And he's trying to tell you, like, take a break.

Yeah. Focus on the quality of what's going on in you as you eat it. And then also it then extends. So start at the table. We're talking about, take a breath, say a prayer, whatever. Great gratitude. Before you eat, put your fork or spoon down in between bites. But then it extends to the next level, which is only bring food into your kitchen that serves the desired outcome you want. So if you want to be healthy, don't be bringing those chips and the ice creams and all the cookies in. Make it hard. Not saying don't eat that stuff. I'm saying make it hard to get those because those don't contain.

Right.

The desired outcome you want.

Yeah. Always, always value.

Be mindful of what you then bring into your kitchen. And then be mindful of how you prepare your food. And then you can extend it out. But just start at your table.

Right.

And even at the table, we can even say be mindful of the company you keep, because if you're eating with someone that stresses you out, that's not going to help you. So you know what I mean? But start small because the whole goal is to create lasting change, lifestyle change. And when we try to do everything all at once, it's not sustainable. Just take one thing at a time. And I would offer, if you're not doing it, just take that breath. Take that breath. The prayer, the gratitude before you eat. It is a life changer.

I like those as take home. Now, I started watching James's podcast and I've used his product, Pluck, but I'm going to have him talk to you a little bit about his show and then where to follow him. And then we'll be back for our next episode.

Thank you. Well, thanks for amplifying the message, but. So it's called Everyday. Ancestral is the podcast. And what we're doing is we're focusing on the best of the past. And the best doesn't have to necessarily be Paleolithic. It could be just like, hey, when I was a kid, when we were kids, not watching, you know, a screen 24 hours a day, this helped me, you know, I mean, like carrying the best from the past because we're losing some of these. We're losing storytelling, for example. We're losing these things that really nurturing and they are truly best practices. But going back to how we started this, you only know what you know. And so these newer generations, if they don't know these things from the past, then they're not going to have that contrast. They're not going to know to do them. So that's what the podcast is about. And we're talking to ranchers, the newest one that just came out. I'm talking to this cheese maker and she's talking about, you know, modern dairy versus pasteurized dairy versus raw. And it's really cool stuff. I. I really enjoy just talking to people and learning about who and what they are and why they do what they do. And pluck is so I'm a chef of 20 years and pluck is my way. I'm a father as well. Pluck is my way of getting Mother Nature's multivitamin in my kids and myself because I want to thrive to watch them grow old. And so as a father, I think that we all work hard enough as parents and I don't want to make our lives harder in the kitchen. And I've talked to some there's three main hurdles with organs. People think they're gross, they don't know how to cook them, and they don't know how to source them. So I solve that. Pluck is as easy as salting your food. It's a seasoning that has liver, heart, kidney, spleen, pancreas in it. It's got Redmond real salt and then it's got organic spices, herb. It makes your food taste better and then it increases the nutritional value.

Where can they get pluck at?

Go to my website, eatpluck.com, you can go to Amazon as well and then you can follow us on socialsatpluck. And then I'm personally at Chef Jamesbury.

Awesome man. Thanks for coming on the show.

Thank you so much.

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