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This is Ready Radio, preparing you to be ready for anything, now. Here’s your survival guide for Ready Radio, John Rush.

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And Happy New Year, everybody.

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2026.

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Who would have thought 20 years ago we’d be here and what would be going on, what life was like. It’s interesting, but we are definitely changing at a rapid pace. John is out today, so is Bill Anderson here with you. And if you want to call in, the number is 303-477-5600. New Year’s comes with lots of new things. You know, a lot of people are like, oh, thank goodness from the last year, hopefully the new year will be better. Optimism. A lot of times people start the New Year’s resolution. So it’s day two. How are you doing with that? Is that working out for you? I find personally they don’t work out for me. You know, I’m just a mindset that I don’t need a January 1st date to change something. I just change. In fact, I started a new diet December 1st. and it’s just like i’m just gonna do it i like starting on months you know the beginning of the months that just keeps it you know a little bit more easier for me to track instead of going oh yeah i think i started sometime mid november and a lot of people my wife was like are you crazy christmas is coming up well i went through christmas i went through all that stuff still eating uh keto and not not eating the traditional stuff which you know hey that’s just the choice i made But anyway, you know, New Year’s resolutions health wise, spending wise, maybe as far as the prepping goes, buying more gear, focusing on a different area. You know, there’s been a lot of talk about renewable energy and energy independence. And I’m just going to tell you, I’m a master electrician. We have an electrical and HVAC company. That’s what I do for part of one of my jobs is I help run that. Also, I’m a pastor, a head pastor of a church out here in Elizabeth and teach self-defense, teach CCW staff, get to help out with John on this show. And I just got a lot going on. We have a little homestead. We have probably about 30 or so plus chickens. I have, I think, 17 meat rabbits that I have in my breeding stock. We have a very large garden, lots of things going on. And so, you know, what do I look at as far as energy independence? It’s pretty tough, actually. It’s depending on what your load consumption is on your house. And I have an app that comes with my in-phase equipment. You know, I have in-phase solar panels. I have an in-phase 5k battery. I have a all that stuff, and I still am really dependent upon the grid, according to the app. I pull in a lot more from the grid than I produce and put in. That was one of the reasons why I put the battery in, because when you’re getting maximum production out of your panels, it’s in the middle of the day when you’re drawing the least from the grid. So I had 2.4 megawatts or something last year go back to the grid, and I thought, well, why can’t I store that and then use that for my own you know instead of sending it to the energy utility which i have uh core and core is you know a sub of excel so they’re not held by the government regulations as far as how much they have to give you back on the solar so they they wholesale the wholesale price so we get so much so much little back in comparison it’s almost not worth it so i figure out hey i better try to you know, save this energy and use it for my own benefit. So my battery is set up for, you know, self-consumption, which means that when the panels aren’t kicking the demand, the battery will. And then when I’m overproducing on my panels, so not, you know, kicking it to the grid, I’m topping off that bad grade. I’m thinking about going another 5 or another 10k up, which would give me a total of 15. There’s a balance there though, because you got to make sure you have the proper amount of panels with the load consumption and the excess to be able to top those batteries off in the given time. Otherwise, you know, more battery does not mean that you’re going to be better off when you need to, you know, pull from that battery unless you’re using the grid to charge your battery. And then does that make sense? Well, it does if you’re cheaper kilowatt during the day, if you’re on, you know, different metering rates for times, which a lot of utilities are going that way. So anyway, I got that wrapped up. One of the things that I did between Christmas I’m still working on now is we expanded our laundry room two feet into our garage. We had a bunch of storage bins in the garage, shelving units in the garage that were coming into the garage two feet anyway. So we knocked all those down and moved the wall out two feet so that in my laundry room, which is about 17 feet long. I’m going to have 17 feet on one side of pure countertop, upper and lower cabinets, moving the washer and dryer to the end, which will extend another six feet of the existing countertop. And that’s kind of my butler pantry, which I’ll do all my sprouting. I’ll do my dehydrating. I’ll do all that stuff in there. But anyway, I want to talk about The most important prep, again, in my opinion, the most important thing you can do, a lot of people say it’s energy, it’s food supply, it’s, you know, stocking up gold, silver, Bitcoin, whatever it may be. It’s guns and band-aids and bullets, you know, all these things, beans, band-aids and bullets is the common thing. But what is the most important thing that you would think of you know, in the case of whether the grid goes down or whether there’s a new health epidemic or whether there’s an EMP and everything shuts down, what do you think the most important thing is? And I’ll tell you this, I think the number one, the number one prep that you can have is your health. That is absolutely the most important thing because if you’re not able to get up and get moving, And if a cold or something takes you down, how valuable are you? How able are you to even work your preps? You know, if I’m unhealthy and I’m out of shape and I need to go shovel, you know, a three foot snow bank in front of my door to get my family out or somebody falls and slips on the ice and I’ve got to go pick them up and carry them to the car. Am I able to do that? That’s a wonderful question. I mean, a lot of people take this for granted. You know, when I was doing my AHA certification, it was kind of funny. It was sad, but it was funny that every single one of my instructors was extremely heavy, way overweight. I mean, to the point where we’re talking they’re probably in the 300s, obese, right? And all I could think about during this whole class, with this person telling me how to save somebody’s life is I’m going to need this because you’re about to have a heart attack because you are so out of shape. And it really taints the credibility of the instructor. You know, John, who I’ve had on the show here in the past, my, my Krav Maga coach, fourth degree Krav Maga, Black Belt tells us all the time as instructors, you got to look the part. you know, if you’re going in there and you’re way overweight and huffing and puffing and barely moving, no one’s going to really respect what you say. There’s a subconscious voice in there going, yeah, I don’t believe this guy because he’s not living it. And I tell the people in my church all the time, I said, the number one thing you can do is stop telling the story. Meaning so many people are worried about sharing the gospel and And telling everybody about Jesus and all this, and I’m like, stop telling the story and start living it. Because your life, which in the Bible, by the way, testimony, witness, is not necessarily the words that come out of your mouth, but it’s the life that you live. That’s what the word witness is. And that’s why I’m getting off on a tangent here. But when you say, hey, if you just believe in your heart and confess with your mouth, and a lot of people say, oh, that means you have to raise your hand or you have to do an altar call. No, that’s not, because when Jesus made that statement, when they made that statement, there were no altar calls. There were no raising of hands. There were no signing of cards. You didn’t have to go to a crusade. That’s all man-made, and it’s very dangerous, by the way, because when you go to a big evangelistic thing, or you give a gospel presentation and you turn around and say, hey, there was a hundred people, that’s giving credit to you instead of just letting God do his work, right? This is why a lot of people struggle with religion, by the way, because they don’t live the story that they’re trying to tell. So back on topic, are you living the story that you’re trying to tell as a health instructor, as a um, prepper, you know, trying to tell somebody how to live. You know, we’ve had so many friends throughout the year who have been on, you know, juicing or raw, raw meals, or they’re all about, Hey, you can only buy organic and, and you got to eat this way and you got to stop all this. And you’re looking at them going, you’re like at least a hundred pounds overweight and you’re telling me how to be healthy. I’m sorry. I have a problem with that. But I’m no health professional, okay? And, you know, that’s a whole other topic, too, by the way. We can get off on that. What is a health professional? Just because I have an institution that gives me a piece of paper that says I’ve done so many classes and passed so many tests that makes me a health professional, which doctor in the original term meant teacher. Today, a doctor is a pill pusher, right? All they are is a drug dealer. Nobody wants to teach you how to heal your body. The doctor’s goal should be to keep you out of his office. Today, it’s like, how many prescriptions, how many things can I get you on and keep you as a returning customer? That’s why I appreciate those chiropractors. It’s like, hey, I’m not here to put you on a maintenance program. I’m here to get you adjusted and hopefully I’ll never see you again. Those are the people I listen to. And by the way, as far as health goes, who do I listen to? I look at people in their 70s and their 80s and their 60s who are living the life, who are living it. You know, it’s hard for me to listen to a 20-year-old, just to be honest with you, about health because they got a different body. They don’t have the body of a 53-year-old. They have no idea what it is. You know, I remember when I was 20. Yeah, I could eat whatever I want. I just looked at something and the muscle popped on or whatever. But that’s not the case anymore. And so I’m looking at these older people going, hey, when I reach your age, I want to be like you. And so I listen to those people who are older than me. I also listen to those people who, you know, take health and fitness in their own hands. And, you know, upon the New Year’s resolution, maybe this is a good one for you. Maybe it’s time for you to take health into your own hands. Be your own doctor. Now, I understand there’s certain things. that you need to go to a doctor for, okay? And hopefully you find a doctor who is a true teacher instead of just a pill pusher. I’ve told my doctors this before. I’m like, hey, dude, you’re just pushing pills on me. Why don’t you try to teach me how to do this outside of a prescription? I have high glucose numbers. Teach me how to eat. Doctors get very few hours of nutritional training And in my opinion, that’s where it all starts. You can’t out-train a bad diet. And that is true. Maybe when you’re 20, you can. I don’t know. But start there and start to look at my health is the most important thing. What is the best prepping tool? Your body. Health is way before any type of gear. Gears fail, right? Gear fails, batteries die, supplies run out, but your body was fearfully and wonderfully made. It’s resilient. And when stress comes, you want to be able to think clearly. You want to be able to recover fast. You want to require fewer resources. You know, one thing I’ve been doing, so I told you, I started this in December, and This is for informational purposes only, not for instructional purposes. Everybody has to look at their own body. Everybody’s unique. Everybody has different requirements. This is not one shoe fits all. But I went on to the keto diet. That is what works for me. That’s where I feel my best. But there’s a lie and there’s a trap within that diet too that you have to be careful of. Because you go to the store and you got, oh, all these keto bars and candies and desserts and, you know, stay away from all that. I’m going to give you something simple here in a moment, but there’s dangers with keto too. And if you’re having problems with, if you’re a diabetic and stuff, you got to really watch it. So I would, again, this is informational. This is what I did. I started the whole thing off with a 36 hour fast. That’s, you know, not eating anything for 36 hours. Yeah, it’s not that hard. You’re not going to die. You’re not going to starve to death. People are like, I’m starving to death. I’m like, you’re 100 pounds overweight. You probably could go without a meal for three years and be okay, you know. But it’s a mental thing. It’s a mental thing. So I started off with that. And then I was just eating just basically meat, fat. lots of pork belly, pork rinds. I would eat, you know, celery with cream cheese, all that fun stuff. And it sounds great, but after about day four or five, after week four or five, it gets kind of old. Then I started fasting and I would go, I would go for 23 hours And only eat within one hour. And that really turned into just one meal because I’d eat that one meal and it wasn’t even that big. And I was stuffed, completely stuffed. And what I’m trying to do is, see, I don’t care about my weight on a scale. I care about my visceral fat. And I think visceral fat is really the key to a lot of disease. Visceral fat is really what it’s about, like getting that fat percentage down because there’s so much that lives in the fat. There’s so many toxins. There’s so many poisons. There’s disease. You’ve got to get that stuff out of there. That’s really it. But I’ve created now a body that thinks clearly under stress. I’m recovering faster. I’m not going to lie to you. It was a rough four weeks, rough headaches, all that stuff. Just rough, miserable, okay? Not very fun to be around. But then I started to recover faster. Then I started to require fewer resources, like I said. It wasn’t as big of a meal that I needed to become full. All that stuff is taking care of my body. And in an emergency, I might not be able to eat a lot like I’m used to. So I’d rather go through that stress when things are abundant, then go through that stuff when things are not abundant. And I’m also stressed because of the situation that’s going on. Here’s the deal. Poor health is a liability, not just an inconvenience. It’s a liability. It’s also, you know, biblical stewardship to take care of it. You need to be able to strengthen your body. You need to create endurance. You need to create discipline and clarity. Think about this. How many of you guys can do, you know, 40 push-ups? How many of you can do 40 sit-ups? How many of you guys can do 10 or so pull-ups? Can you hang on the bar for a minute? I mean, these are essential skills that people forget. And because of our lifestyles today, there’s a lot of sitting behind the desk. And I know. As I’m talking to you about this, you’re probably already in your mind going through some strongholds that have grips on you. They’re fortified positions in your mind that say, oh, but that’s not us. That’s not me. My age, my injury, my disability, those are strongholds and you need to get rid of them because they’re holding you back from being the best person version of you. So maybe it’s not a number. I don’t care. We don’t need to get into a number. That’s another why. Chase numbers, right? You just got to get better no matter where you are. If you can only do one push-up, cool. Do one. But let’s get to two. Then let’s get to three. I don’t care if the guy next to you is doing 100. You can’t compare yourself to him because everybody’s different. Everybody’s different. But let’s do something. Get out and walk. All right, so one of the things that we can talk about changing with our health that are absolutely free, we’re going to talk about this. We’ll probably grab this after the break, but what we’re going to do is talk about things that you can do that don’t cost any money. Health is free, guys. It really does not cost. You don’t have to have a membership. You don’t have to buy special food. I’m going to give you guys some free things that you can start working on today. And, hey, listen, even if you just take one, You’re one step ahead of yourself. One step better. Then you take the next step. Then you take the next step. Hey, I’d love to hear from you. Let me hear about your New Year’s resolution. 303-477-5600. We’ll be back after the break.

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All right, and welcome back. Today we are talking about New Year’s resolutions, and most importantly, we’re talking about one’s health and how important that is. Above any of the preps that you could be doing, health is the most important thing. I also wanted to let you guys know that I did start a new school. So if you’re not familiar with what school is, it’s S-K-O-O-L, and it’s an online program. kind of community. Let me just call it school where we can teach different things and you can find that. I’ll get the link up soon on my website, prep2protectco.com. It’s going to have all my sermons on there from the church, but then there’s going to be a section over there in how to live this stuff out. And I’m going to be talking about rabbits and chickens and self-defense and generators and have classes on all of that stuff. So if you want to check that out, go to prep2protectco.com. Co prep to protect CEO. I don’t even know my own website.com. All right. Anyway, back to it. Now I told you, I was going to give you some free resources, things that you can do. Cause a lot of times people think again, this is another stronghold. And I just did a teaching from the church on strongholds. So you can go to the website again and see the link to the church. If you want to see what this is spiritually, but another stronghold is, Hey, it’s too expensive to be healthy. It’s too expensive to eat the food. It’s too expensive to join a gym. I don’t have time. And a lot of that stuff is just an excuse. So, you know, how much does it cost you to drop down on your floor, wherever you are, no matter where you are? Just enough floor space to lay down and do some push-ups. That doesn’t cost anything. Do some sit-ups, right? Pull-ups might be a little bit more difficult, but if you have a door, you can go and buy one of those little frames that go in the door. You probably pick one up at Goodwill. A little pull-up bar within the frame and do one right there. Go find a tree branch somewhere. Anyway, if you lack the want to, then you’re going to find the excuse for this. All right, so what’s some free things? The first one is you need to superpower your sleep. Superpower your sleep. Go to bed earlier. in a dark room, quiet room, consistently wake up at the same time. Sleep is so important. So important. If you have to have a mask on because your spouse or whatever wants to watch TV or listen to something, again, it’s an excuse, you know, get some, get a, get a cheap sleep mask, you know, go buy a bunch, a box of, You know, those little foam earplugs, if you have to, you can do it. But sleeping is so important. When my kids were growing up, my wife would make them stay up to wee hours in the morning to get their homework done. And I told them, I said, hey, after a certain point, they’re not learning. Nobody’s learning anymore. I would rather them go to bed and get a good night’s sleep to be ready for the next day than turn in that homework. That was just my opinion. because I understood that the learning process was not happening that late into the night. And it was also hindering the learning process for the next day because they went to school tired. So I was like, yeah, if you choose not to do your homework, you can take the zero, but you’re going to bed on time. You’re not going to stay up late to get that homework done as punishment. That’s, you know, two wrongs don’t make a right, two rights to make an airplane, but two wrongs don’t make a right. Anyway, Get that sleep, so important. Now, sunlight, you know, it’s best if you can get up, break at dawn, and get that early morning sun in your eyes. I am not a fan. Again, I’m not a doctor, so please do not take this as medical advice. We’ve got to throw that out there. But I am not a fan of sunglasses nor of sunscreens. I think that they are not good. I think the body needs to absorb sun. The sun needs to get the vitamin D. Now, obviously, if you’re driving and the sun’s right in your eyes and throw some sunglasses on to help you drive. It’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about these people that live in sunglasses. It’s breaking down the eyeball and it needs the sunlight to come in. It’s so important. So important. This helps glucose control. It helps your hormones. It’s going to help with that sleep quality we just talked about. It’s especially important in the winter because in the winter we have less sun. The sun goes through a different path in the sky. It’s not as intense, but it does mess with your mood. Think of those people in Seattle where they struggle with depression. I know a lot of people in Seattle have told me they have sun tanning beds everywhere. in their apartments because there’s no sun and it messes with their mood. And unless they have, you know, those tanning beds and if they sit in them, they’re jacked up. I’ve had people tell me as bad as they are, it’s better than no sun at all. So get out and get in the sun. You know, if you want to protect it, you know, protect it with some clothing or something like that. But I don’t know. Again, I’m just not a doctor. I’m just saying I think the sun has a lot, a lot of benefits. All right, walking. This is labeled as the forgotten medicine. We’ve forgotten how to walk. Holy cow, go to the store, and everybody wants to park as close as they can to the door, you know, because they don’t want to walk. Why? I don’t know, because it wears them out. Listen, park as far away as you can. Not only is that good for me – Tactical standpoint of needing to get out of the parking lot with my car if I have to, by the way, if you could back in better, pull through better, right? But now I’ve got some steps that I got to get in between the front door of the store and my car. Walk, right? Get out, take a walk, especially after you eat. If you can go for a 10-minute walk, even if you have to get on a treadmill and do it, it’s better than nothing. And by the way, if you do it at the break of dawn, guess what else you’re getting? You’re now doing what we call biostacking, where, hey, you’re getting the sun and you’re walking. And you throw a little prayer time in there. Now you’re getting some spiritual edification. You’re stacking all kinds of things. Walking also improves the insulin sensitivity. It helps us stay mobile. It really is one of the best fat-burning exercises out there. We don’t have to do a lot of long-term, one-hour sessions in the gym, which, again, I don’t necessarily agree with, but that’s me. And I’ve been doing this a long time, and I teach self-defense. I’m 53, and I can hang with the best of them, believe you me. So I don’t do this stuff. This is what I do, right? This is the stuff I’m telling you. This is my life. This is what I do. It also helps build that baseline endurance so you can walk. One thing I do will caveat on this is, you know, if you can, obviously not in public, walk as much as you can barefoot. Touch the ground, right? You weren’t born with shoes on and Again, I get myself in trouble here, but that’s okay. John can pick up the pieces later. You know, I’m not a fan of shoes. If I do, I live in, in what we call no rise shoes. They don’t have, you know, souls, arch supports, I guess, high souls. You could tell if you get, if you study it a little bit, you’ll talk about the rise, the soul. No, I, I’m flat on the ground. There’s a, an acupuncture in Castle Rock named Dr. Greg Shim, S-H-I-M-M, who wrote a book talking about, you know, the swayback. And he talks about the primal walk. And the primal walk is if you look at kids, look at how they walk. They don’t land on their heel. They don’t strike the heel of the ground. They actually land on the ball of their foot. And I’ve been walking like that for years. And it fires every muscle. You can actually get an abdominal cramp. Inspiring, you know, I can’t think of the word, but contraction. There it is. Dominal contraction with every step. And so with every step, I’m getting an ab workout. And I’ve been walking like that for years. But it stops the impact. And I think he has his book on Amazon, too, if you’re looking for that primal walk. But he’s in Castle Rock, the only acupuncture that I’ve ever gone to that’s actually worked. He used to teach at the Denver Chinese School of Medicine down there in Denver. But super great guy, really good. And walking is so important. And do as much as you can barefoot. Get rid of the soles. Get the zero-rise shoes. And you know what? I mean, again, talking about the cheap, I mean, you can buy these shoes on Amazon for $20. And they’re pretty durable. They’ve lasted quite a while. All right, breathing. Breathing. Again, this is super expensive. It’s going to cost you a ton of money. No, it’s not going to cost you anything. You breathe anyway. It’s a matter of life or death. Learning to breathe through your nose slowly. You can get into box breathing. You can look at that. But basically, just bringing that breath down, making sure I can relax my shoulders and stuff and get rid of the stress. The stress causes inflammation. And again, my opinion, inflammation is one of the biggest causes of disease in the body. It’s inflammation and visceral fat. And the things I’m telling you will help you control all of those. So learn to breathe better. Stop mouth breathing and nose breathe if you want. Tape your mouth shut at night, mouth taping. No, you won’t die. Babies don’t even develop the ability to breathe through their mouth until they’re, I don’t know what it is, six or seven months old. They don’t fully be, they’re not even able to breathe out of their mouth. And that’s because, you know, hey, when they’re nursing, they got to breathe through their nose. So babies don’t, if you watch kids walk, they walk on the balls of their feet. They don’t stomp on their heels and roll their foot like everybody teaches us to. All right, another free one. This is a fun one, and I will tell you, even after years of doing this, it is a battle every single time. I did it this morning, and I prolonged it probably a good 20, 30 minutes before I finally said, buck up, let’s get after it. And that is cold exposure. And the cheapest way is in your shower. Just wash with cold water only. Yeah, this is probably the toughest one, and no, you don’t get used to it. People that tell you you get used to it, they’re lying to you. I’ve been doing it a long time. I built a cold plunge. I have an IVC towed to my house, and I have it hooked up to a chiller. It’s set at 46 degrees, and at least three times a week, I go sit in that thing for 30 seconds to a minute. If I can make three minutes, it’s a good day. Today, I only made a minute. It’s cold. It sucks. It’s horrible. It’s a battle, but it does so much for you. You wake up, you don’t need that cup of coffee. It just gets you going. It builds resilience. It helps your immune system. You know, the super flu that everybody’s dealing with right now, it went through my whole family. Guess who didn’t get it? I didn’t get it. My wife didn’t get it. She doesn’t do the cold exposure. And I will say this cold exposure, if you’re a female, you need to be careful with it. Okay. So there is a difference between male and females limits. with cold exposure. So with the internet, you guys can research stuff. Just be careful because everybody has a voice. Everybody has an opinion. You got to be careful who you listen to. You can also go out if we ever get snow. I don’t know if we will this year. It’s 61 degrees on January 2nd. If we get snow, go outside and walk around barefoot in the snow. Go roll around in the snow. Yeah, I know your mind’s going, I’m never going to do that, and it’s going to do that every time you want to do it. It is a battle for sure. All right, next one, fasting. Yeah, this is another mental stronghold. You got to eat. You’re going to die. No, you’re not. You’re going to be fine. You’re going to be fine. So there’s different ways you can fast, intermittent fasting. You can do, you know, 18-hour fasting window and then the remainder – You can eat during that time. You can do whatever you want. Build up to it. Try to get in a 36. Maybe go to a 72 at least once a month. And what happens in fasting is, one, it tells your mind that you do have control over your body, and it also starts flushing stuff out. It also starts eating on the old dead bad cells and regenerating new ones and that’s what happens it will put you into keto which dumps the liver of all the glucose which is good that’s where a lot of the problems are is we have so much sugar you know the sugar we consume people even a hundred years ago wouldn’t even imagine i mean the sugar we consume in one day is probably their total consumption for a year it’s crazy need to make sure that uh we eat less and eat smaller, smaller portions too. And if you incorporate these fasting windows while you’re sleeping, Hey, listen, that sleeping window, that eight hours of sleep, that’s, that’s easy, right? Cause you’re not thinking about food when you’re sleeping. And when you start to get hungry, it lasts about 20 minutes or so. And then it goes away. And that might be an opportunity to go for that walk when you’re struggling with the, uh, The hunger issues. Go jump in that cold shower. Yeah, that’ll get your mind off of that food. So you start to layer these things, guys. These are things you can do relatively cheap, if not free. All of them, start layering them. What I did was I took the month of December. I said, okay, I’m going to do this. I’m going to incorporate the fasting, the keto, and fermented foods, which I’ll talk about here in a second. And that’s all I did. I studied it. I got it down all month of December. Month of January, my health is going to be focused on releasing fascia and mobility. So, you know, I’ve lost some mobility. You know, can you touch your toes without bending your knees? Can you get down on the ground, get back up? A lot of people can’t. Can you hold a low squat? Not a parallel squat where your thighs are parallel to the ground, but the resting position like you see the people sitting in third world countries. Like you see babies and kids sitting, right? They just squat down all the way down. and that’s how they that’s natural we can’t do that anymore you know i mean i’m all happy when i can hold it for five minutes before my knees and calves and everything starts screaming so month of january is going to be focused on that and i continue doing the the the health thing but what i’m doing is i’m stacking skills but a lot of times we take too big of a bite on our goals And then we get so frustrated that we end up just quitting everything. Small steps. So with what I just talked about, maybe the first tier is just, hey, I’m going to get better sleep. I’m going to focus on my breathing and I’m going to get some walks. Maybe that’s what I do for the first week. Second week, I still continue sleeping, breathing, walking. Second week, now I’m going to start to incorporate some fasting and some sunlight, maybe those cold showers. Then I go to the next tier and third week and now i add a few more things um yeah that’s how you build upon it okay so the new year’s challenge set set it up for yourself start walking daily go to bed 30 minutes earlier And yeah, we can talk about, you know, the EMS in your room and the effects of those. I’ve done so much studying on this. Basically I’ll give you the long and short of it. If you keep your devices about three feet away from you, you’re okay. You’re probably not going to have impact on it, but what it does, it, it, It puts what we call electrical noise onto your body because we live in an AC world, which means the current switches positive, negative, and it does that one cycle, one sine wave 60 times a second. That’s what 60 hertz is. And you’re going from positive and negative. So your body is being impacted with that wave on the surface level. So you’re going from positive, negative, positive, negative. It’s a very small voltage that’s being induced onto you. And what that does is that creates electrical noise in the body. And now your nerves are being annoyed, if you will, by this electrical noise. And so they can never calm down. They can never switch off. They can never fully focus on what they’re supposed to do because of the background noise. If you just simply move all those devices, and there’s three types of EMFs that we’re talking about. We’re talking about radio frequencies through like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, antennas. You know, this is where all that ham radio stuff, if you guys understand that, you already know all this stuff. It’s the wavelength. okay, of the radio frequency. And then you’ve got what’s called the electromagnetic field, okay? This is caused by big loads, power lines, transformers, motors, anything with a load, okay, has an electromagnetic field, that pretty much passes through you, but again, it causes a little bit of noise. And then you just have the LMF, which is the electrical AC current. So an outlet next to you, even if nothing’s plugged into it, you’re getting that frequency of that shifting just because there’s power on. And so anything within three feet of you, any electrical appliance, any electrical device, any radio frequency is impacting you and putting this noise on you. Now, if you go into grounding, what we talk about with grounding, as soon as you touch the earth, all of that stuff is dissipated in a nanosecond. In fact, it’s 1 60th of a second that this stuff is dissipated. You shut the noise off. However, the ripple effect happens. And your body is still having to deal with that noise, shift, the environment change. And that takes time. That is not instantaneous. And that’s why, you know, if you do the grounding, if you sleep on a grounding mat, which is supposed to emulate you sleeping on the earth, like people used to do, they slept on the dirt. then it allows you more time in that neutral state, right? Because it’s not allowing the noise, it’s shutting the noise off. The longer I can shut the noise off, the longer my neurology and my body responds to that. And so that’s where the important thing is. All right, we’re going to look at some of the things that the Japanese do for free, but also I’m going to give you some more steps here. When we come back from the break, 303-477-5600. If you’d like to chime in, this is 560-KLZ.

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And we’re back. All right. We’ve been talking about things to do for the new year. And the number one prep you can have is your health. So far, we’ve talked about some free things that you can do that don’t cost you anything. Making sure you get good quality sleep. Making sure that we get sun exposure. Making sure we walk. Start walking. Talked about walking barefoot. Getting rid of those dry shoes. Talked about breathing. Stress control. cold exposure, my favorite, eating less often, incorporating fasting, and then how we layer these things. So before we get into some of the things that the Japanese do, because it’s interesting when you look at Japanese culture and their health, I also want to talk about some simple things that I can give you guys to make it really easy for you. Number one, if you can do anything, stop eating processed food. That is the number one thing you can do. You know, I was just driving the other day where we live by Parker, and there was another center. We had wired a center just a few blocks away, a center for, you know, children that have behavioral issues, autism. Not that autism is a behavioral issue, but I’m just saying it was that kind of a center. And then they took the old big five there off of Parker Road and C470 and turned it into an autism center. And it’s like, man, what is the deal? Why are so many kids being born autistic these days? I mean, this is stuff that when I grew up, I don’t even know if I knew a kid that had it, you know, and I grew up here in Denver. And I mean, I just don’t know. I can’t recall any child that I personally knew that was autistic. They’re all over the place. So what’s changed? And a lot of people believe it’s the processed food. It’s the hormones in the food. It’s the plastics that we’re partaking of. It’s a lot of the things that we’ve gotten away with with our health. And there is an aftermath. It’s having an effect on the body. So many people… are on prescriptions. You know, I’m 53. I know that’s fairly young, but I’m not on a prescription. I go to the doctor once a year for a checkup and that’s it. I mean, I’m rarely sick, you know, rarely sick. And if I am sick, it’s, you know, everybody else has taken them out for three, four days a week and I might not feel good for an afternoon and then I’m over it. And it’s like, you know, what’s the difference? Do I have any special genes or anything like that? No, I just take care of my body. And one of the quickest things that you can do to turn your health around is stop consuming processed foods. Start eating foods that God made, right? We eat chicken. We eat rabbit. We eat steak. We eat things that we grow. We don’t eat things that are in a box. We don’t eat precooked things. We cook it ourselves. That is one thing that’s huge. I did have a problem. I was drinking Coke Zeros for a long time. I was drinking energy drinks. And guess what? Cut it all out. I just went to coffee, tea, and water. And that’s the best thing you can do. We bought a soda stream because I like fizzy water. So I bought a soda stream. And I squeezed a lemon in there. And there you go. Good to go. So put a little apple cider vinegar in there. All that stuff. Now, along with that, start to incorporate fermented foods. This is one thing that I really missed out on. This is the connection I didn’t put together. But why fermented food? And when I talk about fermented foods, I’m talking things like sauerkraut, kimchi, you know, pickles. You can do yogurt. You can do kefir. You can do all these kind of things, these fermented foods because the fermented foods help break down the food that you’re eating. It’s kind of pre-charging the stomach, if you will, with the microbiome because that’s what fermented foods are. They’re living. They’re fermented. and they’re starting to break it down. This is something that the Japanese do, that they have fermented something with every single thing they eat. Also, they chew. I had a problem where, hey, chew a couple times and then swallow that thing down, right? And it’s like the more you chew, the more you masticate that food, and you’re pre-digesting it. So they turn this into like a religion, right? If you don’t chew enough, it’s dishonoring to the host. It’s dishonoring to the cook. But you will masticate that so that you digest it easier. And then your stomach breaks it down. And the more it breaks it down, the more your body can pull the nutrients from it. So there’s another thing that you can throw on that free list is just chew. Chew food more. before you eat it. And on the fermented things, listen guys, this is easy. You can even ferment your own. I make my own sauerkraut. It’s pretty easy. Take some cabbage, chop it up, throw it in a mason jar. First of all, you put salt on it. You let it sit for a while. The salt will cause the cabbage to, quote, sweat. And then you pour all that in there, put a weight on the mason jar. Put a venting cap on your jar, which you can get all on Amazon for so cheap. Set it on your countertop for a week, and you got sauerkraut. You got fermented food. And if you have a garden, you can do this with your zucchini. You can do it with anything. All right, again, the Internet’s great. All right, so we’re getting close here on time, but I want to look at some of the habits of the Japanese because they – consistently rank among the longest living people. They also have the lowest obesity rates. They have the lowest chronic disease burden and they stay functional into older age than most of the world. So it’s not built on their hospitals. It’s not built on their doctors. It’s built on their daily habits. So the first thing that they do is, They walk everywhere. They don’t call it exercise. They call it a part of life. They would rather walk than drive a car. Obviously, you can sit there and go, well, yeah, but they’re so populated. It’s like living in New York. Most people don’t have cars. It’s like, well, no, even their rural towns and communities walk because they know the value of it. They walk to work. They walk to do their shopping. They walk to their train stations. They walk to everywhere. They don’t have a gym-obsessed culture. There’s not a gym on every corner that you can go to all hours of the day, 24-7, whatever. We have gyms everywhere. The world is their gym. That’s how you guys need to look at it. Daily movement keeps the joints going. It keeps the heart going. It keeps the metabolism going. You don’t need the equipment for this. They eat smaller portions. And they don’t really eat a lot of snacks. So they snack very minimally. And it’s done with intention when they do eat. It’s focused, right? They focus on that chewing like I talked about. And this also gives them a less dependency on a constant food supply, which again, that should ring a proper bell with you. Push that button because you know what? There may be a time where we don’t have the constant food supply. Could you imagine, you know, being a person from 200 years ago and being taken to a grocery store? You know, I’ve heard people coming. In fact, I know a couple that came from Russia and they walked into a grocery store and they’re like, what in the world is this? Because their stores look very different, especially at the time when they lived in Russia, which is in the 80s. They didn’t have three shelves of bread to choose from. They had one to choose from, and there was like 10 of them on the shelf. And if you didn’t get one of the 10, you didn’t got no bread. So crazy. But we have to have this. They also have a strong social rhythm, which also produces a low chronic stress. Community Matters. Family matters. The elders aren’t sidelined. They’re honored. Okay. They also sit and squat and they live on the floor. Important. Can you get up off the ground? If you can’t get up off the ground without help, you’re in trouble. You need to fix that. So what do we do in America? We think we have to spend more money. We think we need to take more pills. We think we need to buy more gear. We think the worst. But Nope, I just gave you the solution. Doesn’t cost any money. You don’t need any more magic pills. You don’t need any more gear. And guess what? If you invest in these habits, you’re going to invest in interventions of the declining sad American diet. Less dependency on the government, less dependency on these pills. more personal responsibility. You become daily disciplined. Now, my friends, you are living the story instead of telling the story. All right, and we’ll be back next week. John will be with us. In the meantime, Happy New Year, and I’d love to hear about what you have changed next week. In the meantime, keep your eyes open, keep your ears open, and be ready.

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