442: Why You Have Digestive/ Hormonal Issues- The Spiritual Causes with Nate Ortiz

Namaste, it's Sahara Rose. And welcome back to the Highest Self podcast, a place where we discuss what makes you your soul's highest development. If it's your first time listening, welcome. I'm so grateful to have you here. I'm a best selling author. I've been hosting this podcast for over five years now. And really I'm here to make spirituality first fun, grounded and relatable so it can serve the needs of today's young people, especially us queens out there who are wanting something a little bit more feminine and joyful. So with this spiritual journey for so many of us, it begins with the healing journey. And I will say that the healing journey never completes. I began my spiritual journey with my digestive and hormonal issues in my early 20s. My body went into perimenopause when I was 21 years old, so I stopped getting my period for two years. I had horrible digestive issues, IBS. Like any food I ate, I would be in so much pain, so bloated, gas, constipation, like all of the things. And that's what led me to my healing journey, which eventually led me to Ayurveda, the world's oldest health system and the sister science of yoga based on the mind body connection. So I became obsessed with Ayurveda, learned everything I could about it, studied in India for two years, and later on wrote three books on Ayurveda. Eat Right for your Mind Body Type, Idiot's Guide to Ayurveda. Eat, Feel Fresh with Forwards by Deepak Chopra. And went on to realize that what was missing really deeper within, was the fact that I was not in alignment with my Dharma, my soul's purpose. And that's really my story of how my spiritual journey began. So throughout my life, I have had periods of time that my digestion has been more of like the forefront of what's going on, what's holding me back, and then times that you know, I'm good and it's not really bothering me now. More recently, I will say, starting the end of April, and I was sharing this on Instagram, and I know a lot of you have been feeling this too. All of a sudden it's like I had a new digestive system. Food was just getting stuck in my stomach. It wasn't breaking down. I was again feeling those same symptoms of bloating, gas, constipation. But this time I started to actually feel nauseous after I would eat, which was new for me and made me really anxious about eating because every time I would eat, I would be worried about feeling nauseous, and that would make me not to eat, especially during the workday. So because of this, I had to go back into my healing journey. And the same things that worked for me before were not quite working for me right now, just because our bodies shift so much. And of course, I have so much more going on in my life, running a business and stress and all of these things that definitely play a huge role. But I always know now when I have digestive issues, it is a spiritual wake up call for me to dive deeper. So I started to follow different TikToks and Instagrams and really dive into digestive health. And that is how I found Nate Ortiz. So I came across one of his TikToks, and it was about the connection between your digestion, your physical body, and then your trauma. And that, to me, was just so multifaceted. And that's the realm that I see the world in, that the mind and the body and the spirit are not disconnected, but rather are reflections of each other. And I love Nate's approach because one, he's. He's from New York. You're. And hear his accent on this. Like, he's so real. He's like the thug, body worker, medical mystic, medium, like. And I love that because I also have that side to me as well. So I just loved him as a person. But the wisdom that he was bringing through, I was like, wow, it was so fascinating. He was drawing the connection between people who have digestive issues a hard time building their glutes turned out feet, anterior hip, pelvis in your hips, anxiety. I'm like, dude, again, you are reading my autobiography. Like, this is me. So I had to have him on the podcast because I know so many people are dealing with the same types of issues. So since this conversation now a few months ago, I have been working with Nate, and it has been incredible. So I was able to see that my hips were twisted, and my hips being twisted were causing asymmetries in my body. And those asymmetries in my body were leading to holding patterns that were not allowing basically my energy to flow. And then also I had very low stomach acid. So I started to take HCL before my foods and having digestive bitters. And I'm happy to say that I no longer feel nauseous after I eat. I feel totally fine now. I have gotten so much better with my workouts, like my squats and my deadlifts, because my body's more symmetrical and I've Just learned so much about myself. So I'm so excited to share his wisdom with you today because he really is someone who isn't afraid of going there. And he shares a lot about how often it's traumas from our childhood that are creating these digestive and hormonal imbalances. So we speak a lot about various forms of these. And his own story, which is one of the most inspiring stories I've ever heard in my life. And on this podcast from growing up in periods of his life, being homeless, and I'll let him tell you the rest. But really coming from an underprivileged background and being able to take what he learned from that experience of growing up really needing to be worried about his safety and worried about his survival and being able to heal himself from his own traumas and find balance within himself and then share that with other people, he is truly an example of someone who's living their dharma, their soul's purpose. And just the wisdom that he shares today, I know, is going to help help so many of us do that deeper healing work that allows us to, you know, he says, you're never gonna have that butt if you don't heal that gut. So it's gonna allow us to heal our guts, get those butts, but also do the deeper inner healing work that, you know, no diet or no personal trainer is really going to solve. It comes from within. So without further ado, let's welcome Nate Ortiz to the Highest Self Podcast. And before we get started, I'd love to share with you this special offer. Now, before we dive into this episode, I know just because you're listening to this podcast that you have a very important message to share. And you are someone with so much joy and inspiration and passion inside of your heart, and you carry the codes to be the solution for a world's problem. It just takes you understanding your dharma, your soul's purpose, the big reason why you are here. So if you've been asking yourself, well, I really love spirituality, but how do I actually make this my career? How do I change the world? How do I make money doing what I love? I was once asking all of these same questions. And that's why I wrote my book, Discover your Dharma, A Vedic Guide to Finding youg Purpose. So you can get this book on Amazon bookstores all around the world. It's also published in many different languages. If you head over to iamsaharrose.com Dharma D H A R M A, you'll be able to find the book in many retailers and submit your receipts to receive exclusive bonuses, including my guided meditation, my tapping practice, and my Dharma embodiment practice. So if you're wanting to really make this the year of taking your message, your dharma, your purpose out into the world, then be sure to read my book, discover your dharma. I am so excited to see what happens for you on the other side. Again, head over to iamsaharrose.com dharma you can find that link in the show notes. Welcome Nate, to the Highest Self podcast. It's so great to have you here.

Thank you for having me. I'm super excited to be here.

And the first question I'd love to ask you is, what makes you your highest self?

Being completely honest, extremely honest. I always look for ways that how can I be honest with myself? Because honesty is the only way I can get better. If I lie to myself and I'm not honest, I create shadows and then shadows subconsciously give me a life that I don't want. So I think being honest makes me my highest self.

Beautifully said. And you have an incredible story of growing up in a tumultuous background and now you're a medical intuitive, basically. And I'm so excited to dive into this. So can you share a little bit about your story and your background and how these powers turned on for you?

Oh man, absolutely. When I was a kid, I grew up in a very, very traumatizing childhood. When I was born into this world, my mom was a drug addict and I actually was born with heroin in my system. So I wasn't allowed to leave the hospital for a couple of months until I got the rehab of getting the heroin out of my body. So as soon as I came into this world, I came into pain and then I grew up. I grew up with a lot of self identity issues. A lot of people don't know that my father's black, African American, my mother's white, and I never felt like I was a part of something. So if I go to my black side of my family, I what a lot of people don't understand is that there is a lot of bullying if you're light skinned, if you're going to like the black community as being a light skinned kid, I used to get a lot of fights because I was light skinned and you know, going to my white side of my family, to be honest, we were all mixed. Puerto Rican, Dominican, Italian. So growing up, for me, I had to figure out who I was at a young age and my mind didn't allow me to do that. I Had this sense of, like, intuition in my belly. If we did something bad, like, for an example, trying to skip class, I just. I wasn't built for it. My gut was. I just get this guilty feeling of, like, no, Nate, this not what you're supposed to do. But growing up, I was. My mom's and my dad, they both had addictions. And my dad was kind of a criminal in a way, where we were hiding from the cops my whole life. And my mom had a really bad childhood herself, and she didn't get the help that she really needed. I like to look at my mom as a young soul. She's a sweetheart, but she's been through a lot, and she got hooked on some things that mess with her mental health a lot. So when I grew up, I had a mom that was bipolar, a multiple personality disorder, and also either going through withdrawal or on drugs. So I used to open up my room as a kid and just knowing what to listen out for. I can predict what mom I had that day. And then that taught me body language. Around, like, 10 years old also. Growing up in the streets of Jersey City, New Jersey, there was a lot of crime. I was jumping from neighborhood to neighborhood. I would jump, like I said, to the black neighborhood one moment, then the Spanish neighborhood, then the white neighborhood, and there was a lot of gangs. So at a young age, I had to really learn intuition of understanding. This guy gonna rob me? Is he gonna kill me? Are they gonna jump me? And as soon as I get a. An intuition that this is not the right block to walk down, I would take the long way, which would probably be an hour. But I knew I can avoid conflict. And then at 11 years old, that's when my life really changed. That's when I Learned about manifesting. 11 years old, my sister was murdered. I mean, accused of murder of my. Of my niece. My niece had epilepsy. My sister was charged with murder, and her boyfriend was charged with murder. My mom was only clean for three months. She was a great grandmother. She had a reason to be clean. And my mom disappeared for a month. My brother went to jail. My sister went to jail. Her boyfriend went to jail. The state of New Jersey took my nephews away. And at 11 years old, I had my little brother and I. And I'm like, I have to figure out what I'm gonna do in my life. I can't go down this road. So I went to school, and they're like, nate, you need to go to therapy. You need to see a counselor. I'm like, Man, I'm not seeing no counselor because where I'm from, you're too cool to see a counselor. And then his name was Mr. Fernandez. He's like, no, Nate, you need to see a counselor. And I said, no. So I remember one day I went home and nobody knew that our mom wasn't around. We kept it as a secret. So since nobody knew, we couldn't tell you. We were hungry. We couldn't tell you we didn't have money to eat. We couldn't tell you. We didn't have clothes. And like I said, my dad was trying his best to provide for us selling drugs. But at the same time, my dad is hiding from the cops. So when we spoke to our dad, it was on a payphone, and we'll have code on the phone. So my dad will meet him at Burger King on Wednesday at 4pm and we wanted to hang out with dad, but we couldn't because dad had to go and we couldn't be seen with dad. You know, got to the point sometimes my brother and I would have like undetective cops following us from school back to the house to see if our mom is home. It was very, very crazy. So at a young age, I went home at 11 years old and I said, how do I change this paradigm? My family had all addiction runs through my family. That's when I found out manifesting. I wrote down a dream and I said, how can I get out of Jersey City? And I sat there for like three hours and I figured out that we had the number one basketball school in the country, and it was St. Anthony's and a coach named Bob Hurley who was inducted to the hall of Fame. I'm like, if I could play for this guy, I can get out of all of this. And if I play for this guy, when I get older, I can get any job or anybody's going to believe me because I play for one of the most respected coaches ever. So I went to school the next day. Mr. Fernandez is like, Nate, for like the 17th time, he's like, nate, you got to come see me. And I'm like, you're right, I do have to come see you. And he's like, oh. I said, I'll make you a deal. Open up the gym every morning at six in the morning and catch my rebounds, and I'll tell you everything you want to know. And he looked at me shocked, and he said, I'll make you a deal. The day that you miss, you have to come after school. And when you come after school, we're not playing basketball anymore. You're going to talk to me after school. So then I saw. I was like, oh, man, do I want to make that deal, man. Because if I miss one day, I'm not trying to stay after school. Then I'm like, you know what? Let's go. You got a deal. I never missed a day of school. Sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade. I went to school with the flu. I went to school with blizzards. You know how you grow up. There's a blizzard and you don't know if school is going to get canceled until like, 7, 8 o'. Clock. I was still in that gym shooting the ball. We'll find out while I was in that gym if I was going to go to school or not. But Mr. Fernandez used to come and tape up St. Anthony players getting scholarships because everybody that played for Hurley, you're going to college. And he used to put it up, and he used to tell me to go up there, read it, and act like that was my name, and close my eyes and imagine, and then, let's go. We're going to go work on your game. And we did that for three years. I ended up getting a full scholarship to play for St. Anthony's three years later when I got to see Anthony's, that's when we went completely homeless. That's when they really found out we didn't. My mom wasn't home, so we lived in front of the Holland Tunnel, right in front of New York City. And I used to pretend. I used to have to manipulate my brain not to be embarrassed because it's extremely embarrassing. You lived there for three years. I used to manipulate my brain and I used to say, this hotel is my. This is my mansion. And I got people hanging out in my mansion. It's cool, right? And that's what I did. And it really helped me. But when days got really low, I used to leave that hotel and walk right up the block to my school. And anytime I felt low, I felt scared. 11 o'. Clock, to this day, still trauma to me, because that's when we had to pay that hotel. And I'll be in school shaking, sweat, and texting my dad. Did you make it? Did you make the payment? Are we okay? You know, and there's. Sometimes we didn't make the payment. Sometimes we did make the payment. But no matter how bad things got, I used to look over and I had New York City as my skyline my whole life. And I'm like, man, life is so bad for me right now. One day they're gonna write a book on me. I'm gonna make it out of this situation. But I'm right here next to New York City. It could have been worse. Even though I lost my whole family, even though my mom, you know, is going through a lot, my dad's going through a lot, I'm like, man, I'm right here next to New York City. I end up being homeless, playing. And then out of nowhere, we got an apartment my junior year in high school. And then that year, they started a football program. They're like, nate, why don't you just give it a try? I'm like, all right, fine. I'll give it a try. I became the first Division 1 football player in school history. Then I went on to play for. I chose a small school because I wanted somebody to teach me more about football. I didn't know what I was doing. I'd go to huddle. They're like, just run straight. I'm like, okay. So I played for Delaware State University, and that's when I was like, when I go to school, all my teammates took easy classes and things, and I went for the hard one. I'm getting my bachelor of science. I'm going for movement science. I want to know everything about the body because I have digestive issues, rheumatoid arthritis. I have learning disabilities. I couldn't read until I was about 20 years old when I was born. Since I was born on drugs, they told my dad that I was going to be mentally challenged growing up, that I would never be a normal kid. So when I went to school, I took it serious. Now, I wasn't the best student my freshman year because I had a lot of ego. When I went down to school, there was a bunch of fake tough guys, and I used to have to try to prove myself to these tough guys. But then I've learned, like, oh, man, this isn't it. This is how you get caught up and stuck in the streets. So I ended up going to Delaware State University. Thought I was going to the NFL. Career ended with a spinal injury, went through depression, and then I had three months to graduate, had nowhere to live. And my girlfriend's father was like, man, I believe in you. You're going to be something in life. You can come to Washington Heights, New York City, and live here with us. So now I graduate college. I'm back in another urban area, and every day I woke up and I just studied the body. I studied a lot of Paul Chek. He's one of the Biggest reasons why I am where I am today. And he had a lot of free information. I had no money, and my girlfriend's father used to leave us 20 bucks every morning on the counter. And we used to stretch that $20. So I used to go to Starbucks, sit down. You can get a coffee, water and the bathroom cold for like 249, right? And wi fi. And I used to just sit there and pretend that was my office. I'm like, all right, I got to figure out what to do today. I had no job. I had no guarantee of success. But I had my imagination. The same thing I did as a kid to get me through a scholarship and things like that. And then I made videos. They got like four views, five views on YouTube. And I was like, when I made a decision, I think a lot of people would get over their fear. When you make a decision that you're going to do what you want to do until you die, fear escapes the room. It doesn't bother you. I told fear. I told any, you know, you're going to get people to doubt you. I'm like, man, listen, I'm going to do this. I'm going to try until I die. He's either, I'm going to get this dream. I'm going to die trying. And fear doesn't want to bother you when you're at that point. So anytime I saw four views, I used to put six zeros. I'm like, oh, it's four million. Okay, cool. I got four million people watching me. Because what's the difference between me making a video and having 4 million people watching? And 4. It's my attitude. It's the attitude. So my attitude was always sharp. Out of nowhere, Goldman Sachs vice president finds one of my videos. He gives me a job that takes. He needed someone for eight years of experience, made me the CEO of his small private gym in Westchester. So now I'm in Westchester. I'm working with moms all day, you know, with training. Then I start working with their kids. Then I start working with their husbands. I had to learn how to build a business. His business partner left. The head coach left. And then everybody's looking at me. I was 24 years old and I'm like, okay, time to manifest again. I'm going to make this happen. And that's what my highest self, as you say, being honest with myself. Where am I weak at? I'm weak at writing emails. Okay, I'm going to invest money into Grammarly.com. i'm weak at reading okay, I'm going to invest money into learning programs. And I built a business in Westchester, New York, Became very successful. And then boom, out of nowhere, still making videos. I'm like, four years in, I'm still at. Now I'm at 17 views and I'm like, all right, that's not a lot for a lot of people, but that's a lot for me. That's progression. And then at the same time of doing this, I was supporting my girlfriend's acting career. So I was making the money. I made her quit her job so she could focus on a dream. I would work all day, come home and do scripts all night with her, all night for five years straight. And then one day she booked Saved by the Bell reboot and becomes the star of Saved by the Bell and does the Zach. She took over Zack Morris Power in the new Saved by the Bell. So then we came to la. I came to la, I learned how imbalanced I was. I was always go, go, go, go. And I saw people taking a walk at 12pm I'm like, yo, why are you taking a walk at 12pm? And then I learned that I was way too Yang, L.A. taught me I was way too Yang. And then I end up, I told myself, I'm like, man, I wish I could just take New York and bring it here. I just didn't know how. But I asked the universe. I'm like, hey, can you help me out with that? Can you help me make a business here? Anyway, when I was in the business helping that gym build, I was building my own business on the side. I was learning how to build a business. Covid hits three months later, I end up coming to LA and thought I was gonna be here for two weeks. I end up moving here with my girlfriend. Now she's on billboards, driving around la. I'm like, this is crazy. Then I had a self identity thing going on. I'm like, who am I? How am I gonna show myself I'm good enough? How am I gonna make money out here? And then when I got over stressing and I learned most of it was pushed by fear, then out of nowhere, I got one actor and then I worked with another actor. And then HBO called me to work with their actors and then I started working with a bunch of actors. And then I got Cordae, who's the Grammy nominated hip hop artist, and we need to get him ready with Naomi Osaka to get ready for a GQ magazine shoot. And I'm pulling up to their house, wait in my Honda Go in their house, working them out. And I told Cordae one day, I said, look, if you listen to everything I'm going to tell you to do with your mind, your body, your digestion, your skin, everything, you're going to look like a whole new person. And I said, if you don't, I'll pay you. We made that deal. Cordae lost 35 pounds with me. No longer need to see skin care people. I fixed his ankle, I rehabbed his ankle. No more digestive issues. Naomi Osaka jumped in a lot of workouts. She ended up winning Australian Open. And then I was still making videos. And then one day someone said, try TikTok. And I took my videos, I chopped it up, put it on TikTok, and out of nowhere just blew up. From last June of 2020 to today, 230,000 followers, over 30 plus million views. It went insane. So, yeah, I know that I want. That was a fast version of my story, but I'm sorry if I went a little long, but I just, I feel like I don't want to cheat.

You, you know, there's so much there and wow, I was with you every single step in that journey. And just your, like, old soul ability to see the higher picture no matter where you were at in life. And this thing that you said, I once said that to myself of, this is just the shitty part of my memoir. You know, one day this will be part of my book and I will look back on this and it's really hard for people to have that awareness when they're in the experience. It feels like this is it, this is who I am, this is my identity. So I love that from such a young age you were continually able to take these really challenging and painful experiences and be able to see the higher vision and transmute them. And the way that following your intuition has guided you now and your TikTok is how I found you and how you're here and just the ripple effect continues. So thank you so much for trusting your intuition and for being an example for so many people who also have families with addictions and trauma and to show people what's possible on the other side.

Yeah, thank you. And I say all that to say I wouldn't. I had to learn about my body. I had to learn about my trauma. I had to see how things from every everything from digestive system, core muscles, lower back, consciousness, how each level of the body holds its own information. And when I went to school, we isolated the body. And then when I went to the checks, when I Went. I became a check. I went. That's when I went to go study on the Paul check. I'm a level three, one, two and three Czech practitioner. And Angie checked. Paul checked. You know, they mentored me and learning that and connecting the science with both. I'm like, oh, this is beautiful, you know, And I mean, that's what I'm able to do. I got. When I was a kid, I've learned the power of the. How the body's connected to the mind. When I remember, my stepfather came home from prison and he was a different guy. And I'm like, he's no longer angry. He wasn't drinking. And he'll get up every morning at 7 in the morning, go to the park and work out. So one day I'm like, hey, can I come with you? He's like, of course. So we went. And him and other guys from jail would be doing pull ups, push ups. And with 15, 20 minutes in the workout, they start expressing their feelings. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What is this? And I was like, I was around 12, 13 years old. I'm like, I need to learn. Because since I was a kid, I always wanted to know why and I'll do push ups with them. And I started working out and I walked away from that workout and I felt different. So then all my friends that were in gangs, I'm like, I got to go show them this. And we knew this one friend that his dad used to beat him all the time. And he'll never, like, one day, you know, it'll happen right in front of us. But we would never talk about it. And that suppression can cause depression. If you suppress emotions, energy, emotion, it can depress. So I remember one day we was doing push ups, and he gets up from like the third sets of push ups and he goes, nate, man, I'm tired of my dad smacking me. And I was like, whoa. So my whole goal was I got everybody that was in a gang to join sports so we can start moving their body. And I started having probably 15 to 20 kids at 6 in the morning in the gym working out with me. Remember I told you I never missed a day of school. They started coming with me and they got families now they're no longer alive, thank God. The ones that couldn't get off are in jail, are dead, you know, so, yeah, at a young age. And that's when I got obsessed with this connecting body language, organs, muscle, nervous system. And then why people do the programming of a person. I can Connect all of them.

Wow. So powerful. Yes. The way that when we open up the body, we open up the mind and how interconnected they are. And I think especially for men, often they need to be doing something with their hands or something physical for them to open up emotionally. I remember hearing about this study that for young girls in therapy, the therapist could look and face the girl and the girl could speak, whereas for boys, they would have to sit next to each other and both be doing something like a puzzle. Because of evolution, there's something in a male psyche that if someone's just staring at you across from you like a man in the eye, that could mean he would want to fight you. So it's something about being next to each other and both working on something together versus against each other.

I got to look into that. Wow.

Yes. So we got so much to dive into. So I want to talk about digestive issues, because I think that that's really where it all begins. In Ayurveda, they say it's not you are what you eat, but you are what you digest. And so many of us, myself included, have actually even gotten into spirituality because of our digestive issues. And also, I think it's like a blessing and a curse. Because for me, if I eat a little bit off or even if I don't eat off, just randomly, like my digestion, talk to me. So what are the emotional and spiritual imbalances behind this?

All right, I'm about to hit you with something that's deep. You ready?

Okay, let me have it.

I never met a person who is not that is brought to earth to change, you know, make tomorrow a better day. A soul that came here to make that's on a job, that's on a mission, that is. Isn't sensitive to man made things. What I mean is people that come here with the strongest souls have the sensitive. Have a very sensitive avatar, a very sensitive wiring system. Because pain is the number one way we learn. Pain is the strongest teacher. It teaches us, don't do that again. That's not good. And what happens is when I get a client that tells me they have digestive issues, the first thing I know is, okay, what's the person's dream? As soon as a person is not connected to a dream, then when they get off, they're getting signs from the soul in the body that they're going the wrong way. So that's the first thing I look for. Number two, digestion is very deep. So the first thing we look at is it starts in the Mouth. Right. People would argue it starts what you put in your mouth. Yes, but we have saliva. Okay, so let's just say for an example, someone's dehydrated, okay. And they're not drinking enough water. When they eat things like starches. We have amylase. It's a digestive enzyme that's in the saliva that mixes with the saliva that helps you digest starch. So we have to first see if they're dehydrated or not. Number two, we have to. A lot of people be. In my opinion, and you can read the book the Importance of stomach Acid. You can listen to an audiobook. A lot of people walk around with low stomach acid, but they're getting diagnosed as if they have too much. And what happens is the esophagus valve does not close. If there's not stomach acid to break down food, food can start coming back up. And then you could be diagnosed as if you have too much. And when someone doesn't have enough stomach acid, they have issues breaking down protein. They also have issues keeping pathogens out the body. Stomach acid is. It helps us eliminate any bacteria and pathogen that we take in with the food. Okay, so then we look. So the next thing I look for is if there's anything with the digestive tract, like specifically the stomach, and then I have to see if the client. If they do have that, then we have to go down this way. Because if someone doesn't have enough stomach acid, then the signal from the liver and gallbladder, it doesn't release enough bile, which then balances out the acidity from the stomach acid. And then they don't release enough enzymes. So it can cause a chain reaction of food going to the small intestine undigested, which then you have bacteria that comes up and that eats the food for you. And we call that sibo. That's one of the things. For sibo, there's many things, but if you really look at research, that's one of the four main things of sibo is not enough stomach acid. Or if a person has liver issues and they're not producing enough bile, that can cause issues. Or if a person is eating too much dead food, overcooked food and processed food comes in dead. And if you read the book enzyme nutrition by Dr. Edward Howe, he predicts, and his assumption is that most of our degenerational diseases are from not having enough enzymes in our diet. And anytime we don't eat food that has its natural enzyme, the more dead or more cooked the food is or processed it is. We have to sacrifice our metabolic enzymes to then come down to that, transfer into the pancreas, that then converted into pancreatic enzymes to help us break down food. Okay. So there's many different things. And then we can get to the gut itself. Dysbiosis is very seen today. People having more bad bugs than good fungal infections, which can be considered a dysbiosis in a way. Fungal infections are very high. Remember, fungi eat anything you can't digest in a simulate. Okay. And then, so these are the things that I see. So the first thing I'll do with a client when I get them, see where the problem is. And then I can try to predict. So that's the organ. Then I can automatically know what organ connects. I mean, what muscle connects around that. Your transverse abdominis, which protects your lower back and your spine. Your transverse abdominis is that belt. You know how people put that belt on when they go to the gym? We have a natural belt like that called the tva. The transverse abdominis. When the body has an organ that's inflamed, it signals to the muscle nearest to it on that nerve channel that is inflamed, which then the muscle picks up as if it's in pain and inhibits. Inhibitation of that muscle turns off. And then now the body has to compensate into something called an anterior pelvic tilt. The body first. The first position would be the hips fall forward, QR muscles get tight. And then now when a person walks or runs, they're usually going to be utilizing more of the gluteus medius rather than the maximus. And they're going to create a tight lower back in pain and hip pain. And then if they keep that up for a long period of time, the body will shift to protect the spine to go into something called the sway back. Feet would turn out, butt cheeks get really tight. And you can kind of take a pencil or pen and put it right between the butt cheeks and the pen doesn't move. So then, so we went from an organ communication to the nerve and then a muscle. And then the fourth layer, I call the four layers of strength. The fourth layer is going to be the consciousness, in my opinion. I have no scientific research, but I want to dig deep on this. Each nerve connects to a muscle, an organ. They connect. The best example, to think your heart connects to your left chest. And what's the emotion of the heart? I love you or I have a grudge against you. Right, the heart. So you have the muscle, the nerve the organ. I think, since they all use the same neurotic loop is what I call it, I think they communicate to the limbic system because it creates very consistent issues. For people with digestive issues, they could be very insecure workaholics. They can sometimes be controlling, angry. They care what other people think. Sensitive to criticism is another one. Substance. They like substance. They're usually emotional eaters. They can be an emotional eater. So. And then this usually problems. I look for problems from their life, a trauma from 14 to 21 years old. So we dive in, all of them. But the first thing that we do with a person like that is. And I work with a lot of women. 85% of my clients are women. I have to tell women, like, hey, when we work together, the first week of homework, you got to track your bowel movements for seven days. Some of them are like, oh, my God, I'm not telling you my bowels, Nate. And I'm like, you got to. Because it's a report card of what's going on. So then we see what kind of bowels we're getting. Constipation is usually not enough fiber, not enough water, and then in some cases, not enough bile from the liver. Diarrhea is a way for the body to eliminate something that it doesn't want. And then alternating between hard and soft stools is a huge sign of dysbiosis and a fungal infection. So where we start off is we put them on, like, something like a caveman diet. A lot of people don't like it when I say that nuts and seeds are very hard and grains are very hard to digest. Those are the first three things I take out of a client's diet with dairy. And then we see what kind of water they're drinking. We take out tap water. We put good water in there. We put organic food. And I like to use soluble fruits, meaning soluble fruits are the fruits that the bacteria, the microbiome, like to eat. And then we start seeing what we do from there. And then each week, we adjust. After I attack the digestive system, then I immediately have to go to the muscular system and rehab the muscular system. I went to school for strength, condition, movement science, nutrition, physical therapy. So then I give them. We do a program to fix their hips. And then when you get those two, now you have the communication between the core muscles and the digestive system. There's no inflammation there. So the coordination between the nerve is good. The muscle is good. The organ's good. I got one more consciousness or the limbic system or the emotion. Now, this person, I have to get them to step into their power. Personal power, self will. The first session of what a client. When I usually work after doing all our paperwork, we do something called a dream map. It's a lot of work. If I make you take out things, I have you do workout programs. I have you take you through this process. You need something you love enough to want to change for. And if you don't have something you love enough to change for, then you have no core values. If you have no core values, then you eat things you know you shouldn't be eating, which then bring you pain to remind you you're going the wrong way.

Thank you so much for sharing that process and how it's so interconnected. And like, it brought me back to when I first started my health journey and I couldn't even eat food without being in so much pain. And I wasn't living my dharma. I wasn't living my purpose. And as I have stepped more into my power, those digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, and all of those things have swayed away. And now I see my gut as almost like a compass to tell me when I'm in or out of balance. And even sometimes I'll be in conversations with people and I'll feel nauseous. And I'm like, oh, wow, there's something energetically that I'm picking up on. Because then the moment I leave that conversation, I'm no longer nauseous. And before I was like, oh, my digestion must suck. Like, what's going on? And now I'm like, oh, no, it's signaling me something.

Good for you. That's powerful. Good for you. You know, that's next level. And you got to be able. Some people got to be able to trust. The more you ignore your intuition, the more you create a battle between the mind and the heart. So the easier you are to be programmed. You know what I'm saying? So I try to teach my clients that all the time. It's like, you got two languages. It's good to know, you know, vocabulary and the language of programming. But that intuition is everything. It guides you.

So for people who are experiencing bloating, I know that's such a common thing amongst many women. And you said, you mentioned two things, stomach acid and cooked foods. I hear a lot of different things around this. Should people take stomach acid, digestive enzymes, and that type of thing? And should they only take that if they're eating meat? What's your take on this.

Yeah. And that's what's challenging about the fitness industry and the nutrition industries, because you got people that argue and can't see both sides. Right. Okay. Do you take stomach acid? We got to see if there's signs of low stomach acid. Signs of low stomach acid is low vitamin B12, iron, white spots on your nails because of zinc deficiency. Seeing food in your stool is a huge one. That's another one that can be signaling to digest. I mean, low stomach acid. So we don't play guessing. We don't guess. We go, we test, we see what works and what doesn't work. And if a client does have low stomach acid, a lot of times people will go vegan for a couple years or vegetarian for a couple years and then try to throw meat in the body. It's a big no no, because you're not going to have enough stomach acid. Because with signal stomach acid, the most is protein. So the first thing I would do with that client is immediately if they do have low stomach acid, we would do something like take 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar, put in water and then drink it and then eat the meat and tell me if you feel better. And another trick we can do is you could take a lemon, cut in half, squeeze it in water, half of the lemon, squeeze in water, drink it before the meal or during the meal if you did the apple cider already. And then after the meat, after you're drink it after. And if you feel like there's no bloating there, no more. That just told us that we may need to take hydrochloric acid for a couple of weeks to get the stomach acid going to. And it stimulates stomach acid. And then a sign that someone can do for if they're doing that. A trick that we learned is that you take one before a meal. And as you eat, if you don't feel a warmness in your belly. And if this only goes if you have low stomach acid, okay, you don't want to do this. If you have high and then the next meal you go to and you continue to increase until you feel warmness in your stomach. And I can't tell you how many times the average person that has low stomach acid, we're looking at 12 to 19 hydrochloric acid pills before they feel that warmness. And then of course, over time, it comes down. Right. I have a client from Sacramento who, she was at 19 and now we're at 11 with her. But she's a whole different human being because, remember, if you're not breaking down protein correctly, if you look up protein deficiency or you look up the studies I didn't mention, I'm going to get my master's to become a mental clinician therapist in trauma with the emphasis on trauma right now. So I got to get more into studies. It's been. When I graduated in 2017, I didn't have to do so many studies like demanded on me. I did it on my own time. But if you look up depressed people, there's a high correlation between depression and vitamin D. We know that. But there's a huge correlation between depression and protein deficiency. Now, remember, you said it in the beginning, it's not what you eat, it's about what you digest. Well, if you're eating meat, you can't digest it. It can create a lot of issues as far as being deficient in vitamin B12, iron, zinc, et cetera. And then as far as the digestive enzymes go, in my humble opinion, I would recommend people reading that book or looking up Dr. Edward Howe look up that information or read his book. I will forever take a digestive enzyme. What Dr. Edward House shows over and over and over and over in his book is that people don't die from old age. People die from a lack of enzymes. People, because enzymes are life force. So unless you're on a completely raw diet, which I'm not saying is a bad thing, but you're only helping yourself throw an enzyme in there, if read that information, you'll be blown away. You'll just be blown away. So when a client comes to me, I never tell them what to do or what to believe because that's manipulation. I tell my client, hey, let's try this or listen out to this. I'm going to send you these references. I never tell them what to do without references. And I say, hey, try it. And if it works for you, then that's a belief. Now if you're getting results from it. So those are the two things I would say as far as bloating with those two things on what to do. Sometimes I'm hard to listen to because I don't have one belief system. And I'm not dogmatic. On one diet, everybody's built differently.

Same. I believe in that as well. And I remember a few years ago, I actually tried the HCL and seeing how many I could take, and I remember I took eight and I still couldn't feel anything. And I was like, there's no way I should take more than this. And I just kind of Stopped the experiment. But as you're speaking, I'm like, I probably still do have low stomach acid because I was a raw vegan for so many years and, you know, vegan, and. And I do have such a sensitive stomach. So apple cider vinegar, I feel, is a really great, just like, natural way to get that going again. I. I crave lemon. Want to eat lemons, which is a sign for my body of. I want that acidity.

That's a huge sign. Yeah. And if a person is not digesting, remember, fungi would digest and assimilate anything. You can't digest and assimilate. And fungi or bacteria would digest it. Right. So when they eat, they create bloating. They can create inflammation in the digestive tract, which then can create. Remember if you got bloating. I'm not so much concerned about bloating when you. Because of the looks. I'm concerned about what it does to the muscular system. Nobody really talks about that a lot. I mean, outside of Paul. Check. Nobody really speaks about that a lot or is aware of the importance of not being bloated because of your muscular system. You'll go see. I got people who see chiropractors three times a week because they readjust. And I'm like, hey, look, I'm not against that. I think that's a beautiful thing. But can I ask you a question? Like. Yeah. I'm like, how long have you been doing this for? Oh, yeah, two years. I'm like, okay. Have you ever thought about what's causing you to get the pain back instead of trying to get a quick adjustment? So what happens is, if you're bloated, you're going to have a lot of compensation everywhere, from your hips to your ankles to your shoulders, like a neck. It has to happen. The body compensates since that TVA is not working. And I don't advise you lifting heavy. I don't advise you running, because the more you put that into the nervous system, the more of an imbalance you create and the harder it is to get out of it. It.

Wow. I mean, I really resonate with the ankle pronation and feet turned outward and the lower back. And I was also a dancer growing up, too, so I, like, trained myself to walk kind of with my feet turned out, but I think it's also related to that. So if someone is bloated, is that maybe preventing them from gaining muscle in their stomach?

Well, absolutely, because if the muscle is bloated rib, you're going to compensate with the upper abdominals that attach to the rib cage. That then will pull you into something called the internal rotation. But you'll never really get into the transverse abdominis or lower abdominis. So the definition of your stomach won't be present with bloating. And yes, you won't be able to fire through that muscle due to the neurons, the nerves, being inflamed from the communication of the organs. So that's why a lot of people wake up one day, they do no ab workout or nothing like that. They wake up with no bloating. They're like, oh, look at my stomach. And then they eat, and then they have bloating immediately. So it does take away the definition and the ability to train the muscles of the internal obliques, lower abdominals, transverse abdominis. And you will compensate if you keep doing, like, crunches and things which you shouldn't be doing, especially if you're bloated. You will compensate by the upper abdominals pulling down the rib cage. So you now your body is going to be an internal rotation. When your shoulders go in, your neck comes forward. And now you get a bunch of neck pain going in the back. And then now you're going to be messing with the zone four is what we call it the heart chakra. Zone four, speaking up from your chest, doing something you love in life, your beliefs about relationships, et cetera. So now I got to go with that. That. So we got a lot of digging to do. So that's why we need to know what your dream is. We got a lot of work to do. And as soon as a person knows their dream, they end deep down inside. Remember, being honest with yourself is being at your highest self. You know, people really know the truth. You know, when they really sit there and think about it, nine times out of 10, I'm talking to a client. They're like, I know corn makes me bloated. I'll take it out. I'm like, how long did you know that? I knew this since I was a kid. But why didn't they change? Because if they don't have a reason to change, they won't. Why would we change if we don't have a reason to? That's why we figure out a dream. And this is where I have to do a lot of life coaching, because we'll go to a dream and then figure out what they want and then figure out why they're not actually taking the steps towards that dream because of belief systems. Mom, dad, trauma, being molested as a kid. And that's when I Have to go down that beautiful.

And I had the same epiphany when I was on my own healing journey of, why am I even doing this? Do I get a gold star at the end for having perfect digestion? And I realized that what I was really searching for was my soul's purpose, the big reason why I'm here. And I started to write a book. And writing that book and giving my energy to something that's greater than me healed me beyond any form of, you know. And I still totally believe in vitamins and nutrition and all of that. But having that deeper sense of purpose rose me above any of these pains and obstacles. So, yes, it's like in that collective feeling of connecting to something so much greater. So. And I. And I love that you. You stuck with your gifts and sharing your gifts, and that's what allowed you to be seen and recogn. So another question that a lot of listeners had were around hormonal imbalances. What are some of the emotional and spiritual reasons why especially so many women today have different hormonal imbalances? Are being diagnosed with pcos, Fibromyalgia, endometriosis. Where is this all coming from?

Okay, so I'm going to break the science down to be simple so I don't overwhelm the audience. When the body is in fight or flight, okay? We turn on the sympathetic nervous system, which is opposite of the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is a fight fight. I mean, fight, flight, or freeze. Okay? A lot of us are learning about the freeze moment, which means if something stressful happens, we run as fast as we can. If there's a tiger that comes into the room, our adrenaline goes so high, we can run through a door, not feel anything, and run as fast as we can. Well, what happens is a lot of women, at least my clients and my girlfriend, have high levels of stress. Okay? High levels of stress come in different ways. It's just not mental stress, okay? They can be stress that comes from digestion. Okay? Not digesting and stimulating food causes stress on the system. It can be dehydration. It can be overstimulating the body with caffeine. It can be not sleeping enough. Imagine. And then I'm saying these things. There's people listening like, well, that's all me. Okay? So if you have more than one or two things that you can relate to as far as what's bringing stress? Emf. Right? Bring stress. What happens is the more stress you bring in the body, your stress doesn't say, okay, this is mental stress. I'm gonna put this here. Okay, this is digestive stress. I'll put this here. No, it goes into one bucket, and then the nervous system becomes overwhelmed, and it gets the body going. Fight or flight. Now, in fight or flight, the body does not want to reproduce. The body doesn't want to reproduce because the body is built to see when the sympathetic system is firing or it's turned on, especially when it's overwhelmed. I mean, just overwhelmed with responsibilities and turned on. The body senses that the environment isn't safe. So what happens is we go through something called progesterone steel with. Women go through progesterone steel. Men do, too, but we're talking about women in this situation. Now, your B5 and your cholesterol that feeds pronenolone is stolen from feeding your hormones of testosterone, estrogen, and dhea. It is stolen. Progesterone steals it to feed cortisol. Now, cortisol being spiked, goes through the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland, the adrenals, which then. And then goes through adrenals again and then releases adrenaline, glucocorticoids. Okay? When the body has to produce its own blood sugar. Now, a client will have blood sugar issues as they go, and then too much of this signal starts to block the thyroid from working properly, and then people will develop thyroid issues. Okay? So when it comes up to infertility, I have a client. I just did an episode. She's on my podcast. Her name is Christine. She was. She didn't have her period since she was 14 years old. She's been trying to have a kid with her boyfriend for, like, the last couple years. They can't. She can't get pregnant. She can't have a period. She just had her first period. She had two periods back to back with me. What did I do? First thing I went in, when I had. When I first saw. When I got Christine on the phone, she was fired up. She couldn't. She couldn't breathe. And as soon as, like, she took, like, time to listen to me. Smoking a vape. Smoking a vape. And what I figured out, anytime someone's smoking, smoking connects to the lungs and diaphragm, and it also connects to the same chakra or zone as the heart. Heart. So something's wrong with that person. Something's going on with the heart. They're not doing something they love, they're not forgiven, et cetera. So she couldn't. So what we did is we immediately. I saw how stressed she was. So we immediately, she was drinking a bunch of tap water, eating Doritos and chips and things like that. We fixed her nutrition. We figured out what she wanted in life mentally, to give her something to look forward to. If you have nothing to look forward to as a human being, life can be very hard if you're just paying bills. And if you think you came here just to pay bills, let me tell you something, that whatever made us is smarter than us and could have just made robots to come down here, do that job. You're born with emotions, intuition, ideas for a reason. So if you don't think you're here for a reason, sit down with yourself and rethink. I'm telling you, that's not the case. So then after fixing her lifestyle factors and doing a bunch of other work, she got her period back. But, you know, she was told by her doctor she may never have it again and all these things. And I'm not anything against the doctor, but this is what they told her. So. So when it comes down to infertility, we got to see how stressed the client is. Now, PCOS is heavily connected to insulin resistance. I have a client right now in Australia that has PCOS. And I said, what's your A1C number? She goes, well, I just learned this. In Australia, they don't tell you your numbers. The doctor will call you and tell you what's going on, but they don't give you your own paperwork, a copy of your paperwork. So I'm like, what are your numbers? She's like, I don't know. I said, I can bet money that your blood sugar, your fasting glucose is high, and I can bet Money that your A1C is high, you're insulin resistant. We got to fix your nutrition. What I like to do with clients is I don't like to eliminate a whole food group. But if people are insulin resistant, they're going to be sensitive to lean meat, because that spikes insulin and starches. Those are the first two things that I. I play around with. And what we do is we increase. We give them berries, we give them organic meats, green leafy vegetables, and we figure out a whole bunch of other vegetables and we make it work for them where they're. Now, if I put a client on that, and their bowels are not good, their skin is not good, their energy is not good, their weight's not going down, then it's not working right. So then I have to go to another thing and try something else. So immediately when you adjust these Things then The client loses 20, 30 pounds, blood sugar goes down, and then PCOS markers aren't the same. Now you can stress out the reproductive system. When women are bloated and the colon is pushing down on the ovaries, you could do a lot of damage to the ovaries by your literally. Because remember, why do women get bloated when it's that time of the month? Why do you think you get bloated when it's that time of the month?

Just the size of your, your womb really expands.

It becomes inflamed and the nerves that connect to the lower abdominals in the pelvic floor connect to the ovaries as well. And what the body says is the ovaries right now need my attention more than the muscle does. So it takes the blood flow, oxygen, and the nutrition that usually feeds both and pulls it a little more towards the organ. So then the lower abdominis is not firing as well and you get that little pouch and get bloated. And then from there. So I'm saying that imagine when you don't have that time of the month and you're inflamed from eating food and now you're bloated, what happens to the colon? It pushes down on the ovaries and cause a lot of your organs are not being held in the right position, which causes a lot of issues and a lot of pain. I had a client who had this pain that she said is like someone had a knife and had a knife in her pubic bone. That's how she described it. It. So she flew in to la, stood with me. I did tests on the first day I looked at her, stood up, her stomach was going over her pelvis or her transverse abdominis was way too out of shape. So we had to redo the diet, train the transverse abdominis, retrain the glutes, communication with the glutes and hamstrings, and then she no longer had that pain. So. So with the ovaries of pcos, we got to look at I my opinion, we go and I look for insulin resistance and then I support them with a bunch of research with it. I say do your own research. Let's try. Let's see what that does.

Yeah. Well, thank you so much for sharing. And I remember I did not get my period for two years in my early 20s after getting off of birth control, being a raw vegan at the same time, living in Boston, where it's really cold and definitely is not native to coconuts and Pineapples, doing three hours of Ashtanga yoga a day, and being disconnected from my purpose, disconnected from my feminine stress. Like all of the things that my body like, physically was like, it is not safe for you to create a child. So it had to shut that off. And again, it was part of my path to bring me back into my feminine and receiving and. And all of that. But it's so interesting the way that the body will, like, turn off systems if it feels like it can get in the way of your safety.

100%. It's a beautiful thing. I'm just. I love it. I love the body, I love learning about it, and I love helping people realize. I came up with this term in my. With my work as hero syndrome. I just made it up one day. Hero syndrome was when somebody is out of alignment with their core values and putting we and all in front of I. Putting your family, your friends, your work in front of taking care of yourself. These people, usually, they're the hero to everybody. And they can get extremely numb to regular stress signals. Their body's just numb to it. It's nothing to them. The only time they really pay attention is when it's a crisis. And the reason why I'm speaking about that is because I love when I could get those clients to realize the small signals again. But the only way I can do that is to have them realize that. That most of the stress and digestive issues are coming from not having time for themselves because they're putting everybody in front of themselves.

Absolutely. And I want to ask you about intermittent fasting. What are your thoughts on this? Who is it right for? Who is it not?

That's a good question. All right. In 2012, I did intermittent fasting. I lost probably 60 pounds off of it. I did it when it was not popular, when it wasn't a good thing. When I woke up in the morning. My only job. This is my off season from playing football. This is the spring semester, so we didn't have practice say anything. The only thing I had to do is get up and go to four classes a day, and then I'll do some a light workout and watch YouTube videos all day. And it worked great. I lost a lot of muscle. I'm just giving you my own experience. I couldn't lift as heavy. And then I tried it again after 2017 to lose weight. I lost the weight. I lost a lot of muscle again. I lost too much muscle. And then here's my opinion on it. If you're not a stressed person, intermittent Fasting is a beautiful thing, right? If you're not stressed, if you don't have a lot of responsibilities. I mean, there's research, and I have experience with it and have clients who have experience with it who got great results. But when I started to, I never believed in stress until I was like 25, 26. I thought stress was all like, if your mindset is too weak, very Yang energy, right? It's like, dude, no, that's not true. But. But the body taught me better. Gave me a panic attack, and I thought I was going to die. It was the scariest day of my life. I thought I was having a heart attack. I was losing consciousness. So when your body's under a lot of stress, when you go intermittent fast, you're pushing a button a little more to release your own and get into keto can be challenging for some people. But if you're intermittent fasting and you're not in the keto diet and you're jumping in between using body fat for energy one moment and then using calories from food in other moments moment, it could be challenging. It depends on the person. So we depend on the person based on the amount of stress that person has. A person that's really stressed is going to have glutocorticoid and blood sugar issues, and that's going to create energy spikes and then drops that can burn out the adrenals, and then that can cause issues with what, the thyroid. So in school, in my integrative health practitioner school, we learned that, that intermittent fasting can be very tricky for people because especially drinking coffee when you're doing it, because it can just stem up those adrenals more to release your own blood sugar and cause problems. So here's what I say. I always tell my clients, if they come to me and say, hey, I want to try intermittent fast, I say, okay, try it. Let's go. Let's do it. And then you tell me you become your own research. Because a lot of research shows one thing and it shows another. Right. And you. You know, as someone that I go back and forth, but doesn't mean one study only is applied to one person. Right? Some people can. Are different. So we try it and then we get feedback from it, and then we see what works and what doesn't work. And then if it works, we keep going. If it doesn't work, we don't. And here's another thing really quick I want to bring up. I advise people if they're going too fast before they do it for, like, at least two weeks. Clean up your diet as much as you can, specifically with a lot of vegetables, like green leafy vegetables, organic green leafy vegetables. Because when you fast, your body will use body fat for energy, and body fat actually stores toxins. So if you've been eating junk food all this time and then one day you're like, ah, I'm going to fast. You're going to get something they call like the keto flu, or you're going to get a bad reaction. As far as like getting headaches, you may break out because you're going to overwhelm the liver with the toxins that you pull out from the fat cell. And a lot of people don't understand that. The liver goes through two stages of detoxification, stage one and stage two. And in order for the liver properly go through stage two, we need the appropriate nutrition on board. So if you're fasting, you're not eating correctly. That can be a huge setup for you.

Thank you so much for sharing all of that. And yeah, we hear so many mixed reviews. I've heard some people say that women should not intermittent fast because of the nature of the female hormone cycle. But for myself, just my whole life, I've never been into eating breakfast. Like something about just eating first thing in the morning, I just can't do it.

Well, that's very common. I don't eat breakfast either. Only if I know I got back to back clients. I do it. But that's why it's important to become your own researcher. Research is cool. This is why I tell my clients, don't let that mind and heart battle happen in your life. If someone goes, hey, this is no good for you. But you're like, but my body feels good on this, then that means that what, we're going to manipulate ourselves to be programmed to do things that. That and disagree with our body. And that's how you start miscommunicating that intuition with yourself. So there's a book called Metabolic Typing that you can look into, or there's another book, how to Eat, Move and Be Healthy. I'm gonna name Paul Check like a thousand times. And if you haven't interviewed Paul Check, I'm telling you that he'll be a great fit for your podcast. He's one of the most, he's probably the best, one of the best human beings I've ever met in my life. And he's just a great human being, but he changed my life. He helped me change my life. Thousands of people's lives But Paul and William Wilcock, they explain in their books that each of us have a different metabolism. Some of us are fast oxidators, some of us are slow oxidators. People who are slow oxidators usually think about food all day, usually crave salt on their food, and usually do better with a breakfast in the morning, even if they don't feel like it. And protein types to someone, and they're considered a protein type type because they need more protein and fat in their diet. Because if they oxidize food into energy fast, that means if we take a carbohydrate like a potato and put it in their body, Potatoes digest fast, so we overwhelm their system and they rave too much. So you can get things like ADD behavior. Sweating, peeing a lot, stool that smells fatty. I know that sounds weird. It's also connected to the pancreas not developing enough digestive enzymes. But these are the things I see every day. So that person, when they drink coffee, we gotta make sure that they have some, like, some fat in their coffee to slow down the digestion of that coffee. And we gotta make sure they don't overdo it with coffee because coffee assimilates in the body pretty fast, and we don't want that to. They're a fast oxidator. You're gonna be something that we consider a slow oxidator. A slow oxidator. Someone who doesn't really need to eat breakfast. They can take an apple and be good until like 12pm and then when lunch comes, then they're ready for lunch. Usually these people never were obese or had weight issues growing up. Usually these people don't need a lot of meat in their diet. They don't need to overwhelm, like a big pound of steak on their plate kind of thing, you know, they usually tend to have more vegetables. So a protein type is someone needs more protein and fat than vegetables. A carbohydrates type is someone who needs to have more vegetables compared to protein. I studied a book where a dentist went around the world and studied cultures that were not touched by man. And every culture that he came across, every village has some form of protein, some form of vegetables, and they were all organic. Now, some cultures below the equator had more carbohydrate because fruits and things are growing more basically below the equator versus Europe somewhere. So after eating like this for a long time, just like the reason why your eyes the way they are, and I'm tall because of my genetics, there's an argument with Wynne Wilcock and other authors that say, hey, look, your. Your digestive system and your oxidation system ticks, not your oxidation system. The way you break down food also is a genetic thing as well. So that's why I wanted to say that some people I, you know, a lot of people I know don't. Don't need breakfast in the morning. You don't need to feel guilty for not having breakfast.

Yes, I totally believe in ancestral eating. And I think it can sometimes get confusing because I've had different times in my life that I'm like, yeah, intuitively, I want to just drink coconut water in the morning. And then there's other times that I'm like, intuitively, I want to have coffee, and intuitively, this. But I'm like, was it intuitive or was it just what I wanted? And I convinced myself it was intuitive, you know, because it's like, then you make a change and you're like, yeah, this is totally what I want. That. It's like sometimes when you're doing something that's new, even if it's. It's good for you, it doesn't feel like what you want. And then you get used to it, and then you want it.

Exactly. Dr. Western A. Price. That's the first time I've ever forgot about him while I was in the flow. Dr. Weston A. Price was the doctor. He was a dentist that went around and studied different parts of the world and how they ate. But, yeah, when you get up in the morning, but this is what I'm saying. One day I wake up, my body wants to be more meat, especially on days after breaking down muscle tissue, you. And then some days, my body's craving a little more plant, you know, some vegetables and some strawberries. That's my go to. I love my berries. So as long as you got that, That's a beautiful thing. You know, what your body wants. That's the most powerful thing. But we can get caught up on the Internet and find some things and be manipulated. And like I said, that's one of the hardest things about, you know, me making content, is that I don't have a side that I pick, so I'll get both sides. Attack me. When I went on the Internet, I have a video that's like, I think, like 1.2 million views on TikTok. And I'm like, look, if you got digestive issues, try this for a week. Take out nuts, grains, seeds, dairy. Oh, my God. If you go to that video on my TikTok, you see a whole bunch of dietitians and people trying to destroy me. Now, a lot of people don't want to listen, not say, don't want to listen to me, but they second think about listening to me, because they don't. There's nobody that really looks like me that talks like me, Right? Tattoos, I rock my Go chain proudly. I have an accent, like, I'm from the Bronx. I look Spanish and I'm not. And people are like, oh, who is this guy? He don't really know what he's talking about. They call me a Google list or something like that. Like, I learned my information from Google. Little do they know. It's like, I'm pretty educated, but yet you can get caught up in belief systems. And if a person doesn't want to change their diet after their body's disagreeing, there's usually a huge culture slash religion, slash belief system that's holding my client back. And those are the most challenging clients to work with.

Mm. So good. And. And that's the thing with nutrition. Everyone's going to have their own opinion. And if there was one diet for the whole world, we would have figured it out by now. Every single place around the world has a different type of eating, which changes according to the season, which changes according to historical time periods. Before the agricultural revolution, post agricultural revolution. So how can we just say that there's one form of eating when it's never been the same? So that's the beauty. Beauty of it. It's like we get to choose and we get to. I think at the end of the day, it's your belief systems around it as well. If you believe that something you're eating is toxic, it's going to be toxic. If you believe something's going to be healthy, it has a higher likelihood to be healthy. I mean, even just blessing your food is going to increase the nutritional value of it.

Yes, absolutely. And I'll give a little tip, too. If you're listening to somebody who had abs their whole life and doesn't know what it's like to be in your position, and it's telling you that you can eat a particular way and every time you eat that way, it's not working for you, this person's probably not that relatable to listen to. You know what I'm saying? So Jay Z said, everybody could tell you how to do it, but they never did it. You know, and that line was like everything to me growing up. Because, you know, I'm pretty sure you got the same thing when you start in your career. People telling you oh, you can't do this. He's not supposed to be like that. I'm like, yeah, sure, sure, me. Everybody could tell you how to do it, but they never did it. It's one of the strongest lines that. Well, strongest lines. I believe Jay Z said he has a lot of them, but, yeah, it all depends. And I say this, we could be fair. In my humble opinion, if there's some type of fermented vegetable, some type of fiber meat, we're going in a good direction. We all got the same enemy. It's the processed food. It's the. So I was like, oh, you, You. You want to eat that way? How's it. You know, one thing we learn is, like, when a client is, you know, oh, this diet works great for me. You know, I had this one client that came here, and it was. She had a very bad fungal infection. It was all over her skin, every joint in her body. You know, the signs of fungal infections, Pimples that don't clear, joint cracking and popping, inability to control your. Your joints. If you have a deep fungal infection, like your hips, for an example, you always have hip issues. The stiffness, dandruff. Stick your tongue out, see if there's white coating in the back of the tongue. Craving sugar before bed is a huge one. So as she came in, she's like. I'm like, yeah, you know, maybe we need to take out, like, eating that much of this particular food. She. No, that works for me. I'm like, yeah? She's like, yes. Okay. I said, okay. So next week she comes. Still the same problem. Still the same problem still. And I said, hey, look, can I ask you a question? Is it really working for you? Like, let's look at the facts behind it. A lot of us, us argue with ourselves or have issues, control on our mind. Because I call it facts versus fiction or facts versus non facts. I take a client, I say, take a piece of paper for me real quick. Or I got the whiteboard on my gym, the smart board where I write on. And we draw a line right down the middle. And this goes for anything. Belief systems fear. On the left side, I want you to write down if. What's the facts about a situation and what's the non facts. And once you figure out, a lot of people stress over a lot of things that are actually not facts. You know what I'm saying? So. And then we got to see where that belief system, like I said in the beginning, came from. And usually, I told you, I work with a lot of Women. If I work with a woman that is molested at a young age, I talk to my clients like I come with nothing but love, you know, because, number one, I tell them. The first thing I tell them is like, look, I'm a man. I don't know exactly all the things that you're feeling. That would be very ignorant for me to say, but I have empathy and compassion, and my goal is to mentor you as best as I can for you to be the best version of yourself. Okay? So when you get a client that's been molested at a young age, I can see that just by how they stand. I could tell you what's wrong with somebody just by seeing you stand or how you look at me, how you turn your shoulder, how you use your hands. And, you know, sometimes my girlfriend will have different hairstylists come to the house. Like, she has to do, like a. She said, babe, do it to her. I'm like, babe, you can't do that, bro. That's not nice. She's like, no, babe, babe, do it, do it. Look, look, he's going to show you what's wrong with you. And then now it's like a thing in, like, la. Like, all the hairstylists and makeup artists, they're like, where's your boyfriend? Where's your boyfriend? Come on, read me. I'm like, yo, you can't just do that. But what you look for is. It's not really hard. Number one, eye contact. I learned the body language from living on the streets and learned how to survive. But then you connect that to if a person shifted to the left. Watch this trick. It's 80% accurate. If a person shifted to the left and a person has more pain on the left side of the body throughout their life, I want to know what happened to mom growing up, and I want to know what's going on with mom now. If it's on the right side. I want to know what happened to dad growing up and what's going on with dad now. So if a person comes to me and had issues with dad, I don't talk a lot. Nothing. Authority. I can't look as an authority because it could be a trick trigger. If I work with a client and they were molested at a young age, I don't come nowhere near a client. Like, how do I do this stretch with my hips? I don't touch a client. I don't get nowhere near them. I show them exactly how it's done because I'm very respectful. And, you know, the Fitness industry. I have a certification in that as well. So, you know, that can be, you know, there's guys that may not, or people may not move that way. I want to make sure that there's nothing, Nobody's uncomfortable in my facility. So. So what I'll do is if a person was molested at a young age, you gotta. You talk to the inner child. And usually this is the experience that I see. I call them a Zone 2 client. Women that molested at a young age. Hip issues, lower back issues, usually attracted to red, red lipstick, red pillows.

Sacral chakra.

Yes, it is. Yes, it is. They're very connected to that, as you know. They could be manipulated or they can be manipulators. They can be. Be people who manipulate you. Usually they put on a shell. I call it a shell. They put on this. Look, three things. They're either funny, they're either sarcastic, or they could be both. Or if you see them at like a grocery store, they put this face on they call the resting mean face. We can say the resting B face. That you don't want to even get near them. You think they're tough? They're really tough, man. These people are the most loving people in the world. As soon as you get deep, it's like. Like, you know, chocolate. As soon as you crack the chocolate, the caramel comes out. They're like the sweetest people in the world, but usually they have to protect themselves. Usually that can create issues with Zone 5, right? The mask itself, the throat chakra of pretending to be someone they're not. So usually when you get them to start, you get their trust. You talk to the inner child. They usually are in relationships with men who are. Who can be manipulated. Bad experience with men or bad experience with fathers. So when I come in their life, I'm trying. They never have had the clients that I'm talking about. They never had someone was a male who is doing pretty cool things in their life, actually believing them. And I'm like, yo, I'm about to show you everything I do. I'm no different than you. Here. Here's what we're going to do. And those are usually the most successful entrepreneurs. And those clients, those clients that I work with, in my experience, and I worked with probably 40 of them in the last 365 days. Because when I take on a client, it's a lot of work. It's. I only can take on a great amount of them as much as I can. It takes me for the paperwork alone. It takes me like Five hours because I can't go in and guess, you know, you got to go in. You need to know everything on how to, you know, help a client. But yeah, so I say all that to say, you know, with different clients, you have to change up your style. There's no way, there's not a one way belief system with that either, you know.

Yes. Thank you so much for sharing that. And the way that trauma creates, creates these protection mechanisms in our bodies and our nervous systems to keep us safe and how when we don't heal from that, it can prevent us from really being seen and experiencing love. But if we can heal from that, we can even take that experience and use it to serve our greatest gifts. So thank you so much for sharing that. And you also made a video about why people often remember trauma later in life. Can you share a little bit about that?

That. Absolutely. So like I said, I got into the, I got into all this because this is me. Four autoimmune diseases. I have vili. I go, if you can see through the camera, my hair started to turn white at 16. My skin started to turn white. I got white spots on my feet, my hips, rheumatoid arthritis. I couldn't walk some days. So trauma shows up later is because as we get, as we go through the trauma and when. So I'll give you an example. When we go through the trauma of being molested. Men are molested too. Okay. It goes both ways. But let's just say a person's molested. There's three reasons I find out with my experience that a client never told their, never told anybody. Number one, it's somebody usually close to the family. Number two, they're scared nobody's going to believe them. And number three, when they do tell their parents, the parents say don't say anything because it's an embarrassment. So that suppression emotion means energy emotion. That's why it's called emotion. Energy, emotion. If this is suppression of that emotion, now what connects that emotion? What's connected to that? The nervous system of the hips. The nerves that connect the hips to the ovaries, to your lower back, your sacrum. Right. So it's all connected. So the more you suppress that feeling of expression, you depress it in to that particular. We call it, we don't really call it, but let's just say a memory card of that part of your body. So as we go on with life, you got to figure out who's your friends in school. You got to figure out what sport you're Going to play, you're going to figure out if that boy likes you. You got to figure out things about yourself as you continue to go. So through 1 to 21 years old, we're going through the ability to learn on how to survive, where to go, right? From 1 to 8, the consciousness of safety, security. You learn about who's your tribe, how to be safe, life, who's your family, how do you eat, how to walk as a human being. From 8 to 14 you go through the sexuality. You learn about, oh, what's this? Okay, it's that time of the month or men is like, oh, what's this? You learn about yourself from 14 to 21. You go through the solar plex, you go through personal power, self will. Who am I? What am I going to do in this world? This is when you learn how to say no to things you don't want to do. But a lot of people you go to high school, you got to learn who you're hanging out with with the first person you're going to date, the sport you're going to go to and then you have to focus on what college you're going to go to in this, in this time period. And then you got to focus on what career you're going to pick after and what career you start. So it's a lot in 14 to 21 that goes down and then from 21 to 28, usually people experience the first real heartbreak because that's the consciousness of the heart. And there you go, there you go, right? So as we go through life, we're trying our best to get to the next thing and then you get that job and then you're making money and then you're sitting down one day and then you got all these self destructive behavior things going on and then you have all these bad habits and then you find a skillful coach or therapist and they make you aware of the trauma that you have is creating these things. The reason why it's showing up now is because you never really had time to really think about it. Not everybody's privileged to sit with a counselor. And when I was with my counselor from sixth to eighth grade, I was playing ball. I zoned out. I forgot I was even talking. I was expressing everything because I was expressing energy, moving the body. First thing I do with a client that's experiencing like low energy depression, let's go express, let's go walk. I can't tell you how many clients I got down. 30, the first 30 pounds just by fixing nutrition and doing three to four walks. I call it a high energy walk. And what that means is when you go on your walk, nobody with negative energy is allowed to go on that walk with you. You're not allowed to walk in a negative neighborhood. I don't care if you got to get in your car, drive 15 minutes, go to the neighborhood you want to live in. Look how they. I study people. What do they wear, how do they talk? When I was in Westchester, all these people, they had a lot of money. Westchester is very successful people. I studied everything. They wore Lululemon, they wore these shoes called cloud shoes. They all use an AMEX card. They all had a luxury car, okay? So I studied everything. So guess what? I started investing money in Lululemon, right? I was going to work with Lululemon on the cloud shoes, all of that. Because I want to feel that success. How do I feel that success? Well, before it actually comes, physically, you can use your imagination. And as you use your imagination, you rise the vibration of your body and the universe gives you exactly where your vibe is at. The people, the money, the circumstances, the opportunities. So what I say is we go on that positive walk, positive music, positive podcast, nobody negatives a lot of walk with you. And you do it in a positive environment and you visualize the person you're going to become as you do it. And you do that every day as you lose the weight, if they're on a weight loss program, or as you try to build the second business, or as you get through this heartbeat break. Right? So we forget about our emotions when it comes down to the point of we're trying to survive, but as soon as we on the way. I was addicted to sugar my whole life. Like bad. Like if I, if I were hanging out with you and we're watching movies, I would probably eat your whole cabinet of cereal, Oreos, all of it. And didn't think it was a problem. And you know, I was addicted, but it was a self destructive behavior that I had had. So I had to figure out why. And when I really figured out why, I also figured out there was times, I remember when my father, my brother and I, when we got that room paid for to stay in a hotel, it would be some scary things that went in our life and we never talked about how scary it was. We'll go back to the room and we'll act like it never happened. And we got really, really good at doing that, man. Look, when I got deep into this and I start, I, I'm obsessed on being honest with myself. If I'm honest about something, my girlfriend would be in the middle of studying a script. I'm like, I gotta tell you something. She's like, oh, babe. I'm like, no, no, no. I gotta say it now. I noticed this about myself. And I'll go on for, like, two hours. Sometimes she'll fall asleep. I'm sorry, babe. I'm listening. Please go on. You know, and because I'm always honest with myself, I went. At 24, I got over my sugar addiction because I realized that my father and I never talked about some things that we went through growing up. Up. And I went and I started to tell him how important it was, and he was like, yeah. And my dad started to see a therapist, you know, so it was. And then I got my brother start talking, and. And then it brought me to a level of, like, a closure with that. But I no longer had those cravings for sugar anymore. It's just connected. It's a beautiful thing. So we start realizing our trauma when we actually are not racist towards life or we become aware of our subconscious behavior growing up and do 21, it's like, it's cool. Let's go. Let's go get drunk. Let's go. Turn up. So it's you kind of numbing yourself over there. But we don't know any better. We're young, right? So that's why we go through the child archetype, then to the warrior archetype, then to the king and queen, and then to the wise men, wise woman. And today we're having a huge issue, you, with the deficit of people who are actually wise men, wise woman. Because now we have people competing for power, for manipulation. And to get to that wise man, wise women, you have to be a practitioner. You have to be a practitioner, and you have to have empathy for the child archetype. There's a lot of people right now in your family and our families that act like children still, they're still in the child archetype. Child archetype is people who don't take personal responsibilities for themselves. Who, you know, oh, my God. What happened? I failed my test. I'm so sorry to hear that. It was because of you. Whoa. Because of me? What I got to do with that? I didn't do anything. Well, you know how you sleep at night? I couldn't sleep last night. I'm like, oh, man. And then you have the warrior archetypes. Someone going out there fighting for a career, fighting for a way to find a way to survive. But the warrior Gets beaten up and gets worn out. And then a warrior is getting just, just tired. And that's. Usually we can find ourselves working for somebody for a long period of time and still having to put the same performance on from being 21. And then we're like 35, still doing the same work. Now, one cup of coffee. Don't do it. We need three. You see what I'm saying? So it's time for that warrior to get into the king or queen archetype. King of queen archetype is oni, you know, oni ownership. Right. But the dysfunctions that come with a king of queens, sometimes we try to get our hands into too many, too many things, investments. You try to do too much where now you're losing the ability to keep everything balanced and flowing correctly. And then that's when you need to understand, you need to simplify. And when you simplify, then you make it to the king or queen. I mean, sorry, the wise men, wise woman. And then when you come across a king, queen, warrior child, you have empathy, compassion. And usually you can find those really, really in old souls or you can find those in your grandparents. But like I said, in today's world, it's kind of hard to find those due to the fact of power sometimes, you know, people's moms still compete to try to look hotter than them and don't judge a person. Some souls are here. In my opinion, this is how my imagination works. Since I was like four, I looked at my mom as a young soul. My mom's a young soul. She's still getting used to earth. She's still trying to figure out. So I chose to come through her, and I chose to come here to show her how to do it the right way. And not only her, but my brothers. And after I went to college and did what I got to do, both of my little brothers went to college, got a degree, Both of them got great careers. I changed the paradigm. And when you change a habit, a paradigm, just know that you're fighting against seven years of a paradigm of generations. Carl Jung says, our job on Earth is to overcome the things our parents could not or did not overcome. So addiction, addiction, being poor, addiction, being poor, stressing about money, I had to overcome that. And when I overcame it, then you save the next seven generations. And believe it or not, your DNA, your ancestors, are rooting for you. Because if you don't overcome it, the DNA continues to just, you know, deteriorate. It's not going to be here, you know, much longer. So that's where, you know, you get those. You know, I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure you got the signs of spiritual animals and things like that. You'll get signs of something greater happening for you, you know.

Yes. Full body resonance with that. And definitely diving into soul ages was so helpful for me. And I believe that, that almost always children are older souls than their parents. Right. Because as we're emerging into the new paradigm, we are having these ancient souls coming back with all of this knowledge to bring forth. Like you definitely were in Atlantis, 100%. I don't know if you know this, but you're. Because you came with these codes all about merging spirituality and science. Right. And you know, we're coming forth and I think we chose even the microcosm of the macrocosm that we're here to solve. So you got front row seats into. What does addiction look like? I got front row seats into female suppression from the Middle East. Like people get front row seats into these different experiences because that's the only way you're going to have compassion for it. Right? I'm not going to know what it's like from the outside, but if I know what it's like for my mom and my dad and my siblings and this whole dynamic and love people even while this is going on, then I'm going to be able to truly see what is at the root of these issues and then be able to be that embodiment which then shows those people, someone like me from where I'm from, from my own blood was able to heal this. That means it's possible for me and at the same time not doing it, because that's amazing that your dad is going to therapy. And my question for you is, what if some people's families don't want to change? They're not willing to go to therapy.

And do the work that's. And you never judge people. I tell my clients, digest people. And they're like, what do you mean? I'm like, okay, figure out why they're the way they are. And then if you become. Look, when you rise your consciousness, you don't got time to bring your consciousness down and argue with people on lower levels of consciousness. It's just, I don't got to. I literally can't afford it. I have a lot of people that depend on me and they need me to be doing. I need me to be where I'm, you know, at a high level at all times. But here's what I do. If I have a family member or family that doesn't want to do that and does not want to change. I teach. This is what I do. And I teach my clients to do this. Say if you got to go home for a family event, okay, And I go back to Jersey, what I do is I put these family members on a stopwatch. I always got a stopwatch on. I always rock a G shock. Rocking this G shock is like rocking a rollie for me, okay? When I was a kid, I went to high school, my friends used to have these G shocks. I got like 10 of them over here. My friends used to have these G shocks on, on. And I used to tell my dad, I never even had the gut to ask my dad to buy me one because this G shock is about $120. That's the same price of our hotel room. And I used to say to myself, man, when I get up and I grow up and I make my dreams come true, I'm rocking with G shocks. But I just want to shout out G shock for that. So there's a story behind everything with me, right? So what I tell clients is, hey, when you go, put a time stamp. So, hey, hey, you go, you go with your family at six, you leave at eight, eight o'. Clock. You give them two hours. So if they want to come to you and bring all this drama and talk bad and gossip, okay, this is what you want to do with your two hours, okay, fine. But I'm telling you right now, when 8 o' clock comes around, I'm out. And then what you do is, I'm telling you right now, it works like magic. You got to really be about it, though. You really got to leave, right? Like when I go to Jersey and I go to a cousin's house or something like that, or my sister's house or whoever, you know, not my sister or my cousin, you know, they're great people. I'm talking about anybody who brings me, like, bad energy or just doesn't want to change. I'm like, okay, this two hours. And then they know I'm leaving because I did this since I was in college when I came up from Delaware. What happens is people start to respect your time a lot more. And then they want. They don't want anything to get in between that, okay? So they're like, ah, fine, he's gonna leave in two hours. Let me not talk about that. Right? That's number one. Number two, you gotta be the silent teacher. So before you tell anybody how to do anything, a lot of people are usually Triggered because they're, they're projecting a shadow. So before you get triggered, figure out why you're being triggered. If you have anxiety and mom has anxiety and you're going to mommy, you tell mom, mom, you, you need therapy. And then you say, and then she goes, well, you need therapy. And you guys argue about that. You're not getting anywhere. Work on yourself. And what's going to happen is you work on your shadow, your insecurity. And when you go, you no longer be triggered. And you digest mom and say, mom's still having issues. And then mom, it'll be like, when you guys in the kitchen cooking, she'll come up to you, look around and go, hey, what'd you do for your anxiety? And then she's going to want to learn, learn little by little. So those are the two things that I do with my family is I immediately. Now, I always have empathy, compassion for my family. Like my mom, for an example. My mom has, you know, she, she has multiple personality disorder. And she also has a disorder where she lives another life. So my mom will come up to me, remember, I'm half black, half white, My mom's white. My mom will come up to me like, hey, come here. I'm like, what? She would like, look, everything's going to be okay. I got a lot of money. I could take care of you. And you know, and you know I can't say, mom, go to therapy, right? I play around. Like I have to go along with them. Like, hey, mom, look. Okay, I got you. I don't need it right now, though. Thank you. You know, so if you have a family member who has mental issues, you have to have empathy for some of them too, you know, so there's different ways to go about it.

Totally. And I think it's how much we let them get into our energetic field. Sometimes we go back to when we're children where whatever our parents did was the authority. Like they had the right to choose. So if dad was mad, like the household was going to be mad or whatever was going to happen and I would notice and I would be back with my family. I would go back to that wounded child that was like, no, I don't want to be here. And just had so much resistance because I was taking everything they said and letting it just go straight into my heart and straight to me. And now, unfortunately, often I have to stay with them because it's considered rude to not. So I'm like, I wish I could do that two hour thing, but I just have to Be like, don't take it personally, like, that's okay. And I'm not responsible for fixing them either.

That's a perfect example. I'm happy you brought that up. I have empathy for you because that is something you will not be able to overcome with a mindset. And here's the reason why I said that. If you read the book, the body keeps a score. Okay? When they did their research, anytime a person is around a trigger of a trauma, immediately, your brain, your left brain, your broker brain, your broker's brain turns off, right brain turns on. And your hormones, your adrenaline, your blood pressure, your heart rate increases as if you're experiencing a trauma, as if you're that little girl again. So for me, I'm sorry, my dad thinks it's very rude when I come home and I don't stay in the house. And until one day I sat him down and explained the science on why I couldn't stay day, you know, and that's why I love my dad. My dad, I won't be the man I am today without my dad. My dad fought his life to make sure that my brothers and I survived. And he all his dream was to see us get an education, take care of ourselves. And my dad, he did everything he can. When I was a kid, my dad used to make me read out loud. I would never read out loud my whole life until recently. Like, you know, sometimes I do a TikTok live and I'm showing them things and I read it out loud or I read it out loud for clients and stuff. But when I was a kid, I couldn't read, okay? And I had issues with speaking. And my dad would sit me down and he would coach me on how to talk and how to present at like 4 years old. And as I got older, I'm like, yo, my dad's a wizard, man. He knew I was going to do what I'm doing today. And I joke about it with him all the time. But my dad never raised me on a religion. He either. When I was raised, my family came from being Christians or, you know, my great grandfather was a very notoriously known priest. He owned multiple churches in New Jersey. When I grew up, I tell my dad, I'm like, yo, dad. I was like 7 years old. I went up to my dad, they put me in to be in a choir. And I was in a. I was in a black community. And I told. I got bullied a lot. I didn't share that until recently, but I got bullied a lot. Not every, not all my black cousins bullied me. But I did get bullied a lot. So I remember going to church one day. I'm like, dad, do I have to be Christian? And he's like, no, you don't have to be Christian. And at a young age, my dad and I will have conversations about the world and we will sit down and we'll watch the History channel with each other. And we studied all religions, all cultures, the science behind all of them. And when I grew up, I didn't grow up with one belief system of a religion. Now I was telling, a client told me the other day something about like, I don't want to go off topic, but it was pretty funny because I read this on one of your comments and I'm like, oh, maybe she can relate. I'm new to this new age religion or something like that. I don't know, somebody that I know of, you know, told me that they're going to pray for me because I'm a new age religion guy. I'm like, look, I don't know what you're talking about about. The things I speak about are from my heart and from experience. But a lot of things that I have are actually not new at all. They've been around longer than most religions have been. But when I grew up, I didn't really believe in, you know, belief system. But when I go to my dad's house and he smokes those cigarettes, or if I go around my dad's house and I'm sleeping and my dad lives in a very bad neighborhood in Jersey, right? People get killed every day. So I'm like, dad, I just made it out the hood. I am not trying to put my life at stake. I want to come here, visit you. But me, the longer I stay here, the higher chances I am of not making it out of this neighborhood here. So those things trigger me because I am extremely. I have ptsd. Very bad. That's something I try to work on as much as I can. One of the PTSD's I have is I really can't have headphones on in the house. The only reason why I have it on right now is because I got my assistant here, I got my girlfriends in the living room. When I was a kid, we had the cops break down our doors so much that I'm always ready for someone to break into my house at all times. So when I was a kid, one day I had my headphones on and I was listening to music and I was falling asleep listening to music. And then my bedroom we had a door that led you right to the main door. And I just remember falling asleep. And then I couldn't hear anything because I had the headphones in. And then I saw these lights. So then I opened my eyes. The whole house was dark. Opened my eyes, these lights were hitting me. And then I had a gun to my head. I had like four guns on my head. And they're like, get on your knees. I get on my knees. I put my hands up. I'm like, I'm going to die. That's it. It's over for me. I'm dead. But I didn't know it was the SWAT team busting in my house. I thought it was just out people robbing me because it happened in my neighborhood. So. So these traumas, when I go around my dad, the smell of a cigarette brings those memories up too. So I'm really tensed. So when I go to my dad's house, I'm like, dad, look, I open up a book if I have to. But my dad, you don't need to do that with him. But I'm like, dad, I can't do this because of this, this, this and this. I want to be here with you, but I can't. It's just. And he understands. So he, you know, my brother. My brother understands as well. So I say I have empathy for you because. Because if you read the book, the science shows they put you under study. I'm having measurements of your brain, your hormones, your heart rate, et cetera. Your body won't move at all, but your body's responding as if it's experiencing a trauma for the first time. So what do you think? If the body's not reacting when we know the body should be reacting, that's when people start creating freeze when a person is getting yelled at or a person is getting coached. When a coach used to yell at me, I used to freeze. I didn't know why. I used to stutter after. Why? Because the left brain is not working properly. And the left brain helps you break down and be analytical and explaining how you feel. That's why you can't explain on how you feel. So when I was a kid, therapy, cool. It wasn't really my thing. I only could do it when I was moving my body body. Because as I move, my body expression helped me gather the words that I want to say. So when I go home, I love my dad. Until I get him. I'm gonna buy him a house one day where I can go over every day, you know? But as of right now and the neighborhood he lives in. It's just, I told you, my dad lives on one side of Jersey City and my mom lived on the other side. Now if we lived in Jersey City Heights, it's different. Like that's. I mean, I can walk around, do whatever I want there. I'm like a hero. There's Greenville, on the other hand, is a little different. I mean, I'm known there as well, but it's a little different. It's a little different.

Well, thank you for also sharing the positive memories because I think sometimes too, we, especially when we're doing this trauma healing work, we only focus on the negative memories that we have of our childhood and our parents. And as you were sharing the story about your dad having you read out loud and watching the History channel and even not growing up with religion, the exact same thing with my dad as well. So I was like, oh, wow. Like, he's saying this as a mirror for, you know, sometimes for us to also remember the positives and have compassion too, because it must be hard. As a parent, you're also doing the best that you can and you're trying to do these things to help the child. And then there are these things out of your control from your own childhood and traumas that you haven't dealt with. So, you know, there weren't podcasts like this when they were growing up and I tried to remember that. So, so much beautiful wisdom here that you shared today. Thank you so much for your honesty, for your storytelling and for all of your scientific and spiritual and where can listeners connect with you? Further book a session with you and learn more.

So if everything will be on Be Great with Nate, my goal is to help you become great with me. Every day I'm trying to find a way to be great and I want you to join this journey with me. So everything. My podcast is Be Great with Nate. My YouTube is be great with Nate. My TikTok Be Great with Nate. The only thing that's not Be great with with the twith is my Instagram. Some 7 year old got my name and we're trying to get it from him right now. So it's Be great Wit Wit Nate. And then, yeah, be greatwithnate.com you should find all the information there as far as booking a session and yeah. In the podcast and things like that.

Beautiful. Well, thank you so much for sharing your wisdom here today.

Thank you for allowing me to do my thing. I appreciate that. I really do.

Wow. That was one of the most profound conversations I have had on this podcast. Just the level of wisdom, the story, the example of someone really overcoming the greatest pains and turning it into their purpose is so beyond inspiring. And of course the fact that I have applied so many of his teachings and tools into my life and been able to see a benefit. So I know you can too. So be sure to follow him on his YouTube on his Instagram. Be great with Nate. He is amazing and I'll definitely have him back on the podcast. So leave a review for the podcast and include any questions that you have. And I will take those questions and have them back on so we can do another deep dive around any form of hormonal health, digestive mind, body, spirit related questions and have them back on the podcast to dive into it. So thank you so much for tuning in. And again, feel free to leave a beautiful review. It really helps the podcast be heard by new people. Share your question questions in there and as a gift I will send you the first half of my unreleased book Eat Right for your mind body type. So all you got to do is leave a review for the book, email it over to me@saharaatfieldfresh.com again that's Sahara S A H A R A@eatfeelfresh.com and I will send you the first half of my unreleased book for writing review the podcast and if you missed that email you can find it all in the show Notes. Thank you so much for tuning in and I'll see you on the next one. Namaste.

Ram.