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Episode #44 - Unraveling the Mysteries of Brain Fog: A Conversation with Udo Erasmus

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Episode #44 - Unraveling the Mysteries of Brain Fog: A Conversation with Udo Erasmus 

Ever felt lost in the fog of your own mind, unable to find the clarity to make a decision or recall a memory? That's a sensation I know all too well, and it's called brain fog. Join me as I chat with health guru, Udo Erasmus, who sheds light on how our diet and lifestyle can contribute to, or clear, this frustrating phenomenon. We delve into the impact of toxins, nutrient deficiencies, and even emotional turmoil on our mental clarity. Not just that, Udo also reveals how a fierce determination can lead us out of the haze and towards our truest purpose.

Nutrition, Udo argues, is a game changer. He enlightens us on the powerful role that omega oils play in our overall health. We're not just talking about omega 3 and 6, but the importance of their delicate balance in our body. No pesticides, no harm - just pure nutritional benefits. And let's not forget the often underestimated powerhouses of health - probiotics and digestive enzymes. Udo’s abundant wisdom extends beyond mere food intake, offering us a holistic approach to well-being. 

But it's not just about what we eat; it's also about our environment. Udo champions the healing potential of elemental forces like fresh food, water, and air. A stroke survivor himself, Udo shares his own transformative journey of recovery, underlining the significance of these natural resources in his healing process. We conclude our exploration with a heartwarming discussion on the power of unconditional love and the essence of purpose in life. Don’t miss out on this insightful episode packed with Udo’s profound wisdom on nutrition, health, and purpose.

Erasmus recommends specific supplements to support brain health and relieve brain fog. These include:

·         Omega-3 Fatty Acids - Essential for maintaining healthy brain function, omega-3s reduce inflammation and support neuronal communication.

·         B Vitamins - Vital for energy production and neurotransmitter synthesis, B vitamins are crucial for optimal brain health. 

·         Magnesium - a mineral that plays an essential role in many bodily functions. It's involved in over 600 enzymatic reactions, including energy production, muscle and nerve function, and bone health. 

By following Erasmus's protocol, individuals experiencing brain fog can expect to see improvements in mental clarity and overall brain health. For more information on Udo Erasmus's brain fog protocol, visit https://www.udoschoice.com/

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Speaker 1:

Is this thing on? Welcome to Rebooted the Podcast. I'm your host, elita Hernandez. Come join me weekly to hear about my journey from recovery to healing after having a stroke and other life challenges. So let's get talking. Hi everybody, elita Hernandez Rebooted the Podcast. We are here again with another interesting guest that I have today, on Udo. I said it again wrong.

Speaker 2:

It's okay, let me do it, udo Erasmus.

Speaker 1:

Erasmus. There you go.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's a strange name.

Speaker 1:

Is there a culture? That's why the name, or is it yeah?

Speaker 2:

I was born in Europe. My parents came from Latvia and Estonia, and my. German Swedish background, born in Poland, and yeah, it's a very European name. There's only very few Udos around, so anytime you punch in Udo on Google, I show up on the first page without any effort.

Speaker 1:

On my part. Oh, isn't that good? Look at that. You get the ranking right away. Yeah, that's right, so that was a good thing to name you that then.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, in that regard. Yes, that must have bothered you when you were the other one is it's not even a four letter word.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

So when I sign my name, I'm done really fast yeah, so it saves me time too, right, that's good.

Speaker 1:

So let's talk about. We're talking about brain fog, overcoming brain fog.

Speaker 2:

Brain fog yeah.

Speaker 1:

Brain fog, and you have a book as well, correct?

Speaker 2:

I have several books and I work with all kinds of things. I'm all based on health and human nature.

Speaker 1:

Oh, wonderful. Well, that's my field. Well, that's all I talk about is just getting people to understand that there's alternatives in medicine and nutrition and that your body heals. And I saw my other podcast with. My story is that I had a stroke six years ago and I changed my lifestyle completely from head to toe because I had no choice. It was either for a die so I chose the right way and be around for my kids, and now I'm just trying to interview people like you and other experts out there so I can learn more on how to heal my body and feel better. Yeah, I actually have been having some brain fog. I don't know what is going on. Since I had COVID, I had it twice. I find that I've been sicker a little bit more often. It's very little now, but I get this brain fog all of a sudden.

Speaker 1:

I'm fine, and then I wake up in the morning like what is going?

Speaker 2:

on. Yeah, yeah, and I don't think they've figured out why that goes with long COVID. I don't think they've figured out exactly what's going on. But there's lots of different ways to get brain fog. They're both physical, like, for instance, toxicity, just generally toxicity Unnatural molecules in your body, they get into your brain and then they interfere with brain function.

Speaker 2:

If you deficient in essential nutrients that are required for brain function, that'll give you brain fog too. If you have a hangover from drugs or alcohol, that'll give you brain fog, right, right? If you're confused about who you are and what you're here for, that gives you brain fog. And if you haven't learned to focus, because you're kind of just erecting to everything, well, that'll get you brain fog too. So there's lots of reasons for brain fog and it's like tired and low energy and can't think straight, and confused and don't know what's happening, and feel stressed for no reason and maybe a little anxiety goes with all of that because you feel like you're not really on top of your game, right? So yeah, and it's pretty common, and if you're listened to one political party say one thing and the other one, just as me, and they say the other thing, you get confused brain fog, so let's blame it on the politicians.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that'll work right now.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, or the neighbors. But eventually we have to say, you know, in the midst of all of this, whatever is all going on, that's all crazy. You know, in the midst of that, there's a place where I can be and there are things that I can do that put me in a place where I feel competent, where I feel aware and awake and energized and able to deal with what I need to deal with. And that's where our homework, that's where our homework comes from, you know, or has to come from, right, we decide. It's almost like like sometimes I drift, you know, I get brain fog too, right, I drift and I'm just like I don't know, you know, and then I get to a point where I just get really ticked off. Then I have this moment of I call it, I know I can't remember what I call it.

Speaker 2:

But it's a fierce determination and it's like damn it, you know, and there's just like a burst, right you know, when you have that burst, all of a sudden there's clarity, right, yeah. And then there's and it's called so I call it fierce determination and it gets when I get sick and tired of being sick and tired, when I get sick of drifting and something, or when I get sick of not being present, right, and then you have this burst. And that's what emotions are sometimes good for. If you really get fed up, then in that determination you find your power, and in the power you find your clarity, and then the clarity you get to do what you need to do Right. So that's a mental part of it.

Speaker 1:

Right, right, and I lie because I get like this yeah, so I'm a very creative person, I do these shows and I write and do different things, and there's sometimes I'll sit here and I have to do a video editor or something and I just can't yeah, I can't just sit on that, so I have to get up, go do something, walk around the block or whatever. Yeah, it's something like get some more oxygen to my brain or whatever.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, do a little exercise, take a cold shower. Yeah, that works right.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think to just like just jolt you a little bit, jolt you into the present.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

So, talking about brain fog, yeah, well, there's a lot of things here. You talk about nutrition and supplements and things like that which we can get into. Yeah, I'm just curious how, if you know of any studies about, like the Alzheimer's, you know, with the brain fog, like association with you know what I mean. I know it's a whole another spectrum. Yeah, no, no.

Speaker 2:

I think we are a broad answer to that. We are creatures of nature. Nature made us. We come out of the natural system. Everything, all the building blocks for body construction and function, come from nature. So we're part of nature. We're supposed to live in line with nature and we have a nature like a natural nature, the nature of a human being, right. And when we live in line with nature and our nature, we're going to be present. We're going to be present in the space our body occupies and we're going to feel alive because there's energy in that space. And we're going to be aware of our surroundings. And when something happens and changes, which happens all the time well then we just deal with it as a matter of course, because we're awake, we're there, we're present, right.

Speaker 2:

Every step we take out of line with nature and our nature, we lose something that has to do with health, that has to do with brain function, that has to do with focus, that has to do with awareness. And so the broad answer is every step you need to take from where you are to getting back in line with nature is going to give you something in health, because health was invented by nature, right For living, adapted to nature. So what does that mean? Well, if you fry your foods, well, that's not nature's mandate, that's something human beings invented. Frying is the dumbest thing we ever invented to do and certainly can lead to brain fog and certainly can lead to other brain problems. So give up the frying pan, go back to cooking and water and then from water get into eating raw foods, because every creature in nature eats as food fresh, whole, raw and organic. Yeah, for humans, probably mostly plant-based. The research is pretty clear you want the longest life and the best health. You do it on a whole food, plant-based diet. So that's the broad thing. So Alzheimer is a brain degenerative disease. Some people now call it diabetes 3. You know we have type 1, type 2 diabetes. Now they call it type 3 diabetes.

Speaker 2:

And probably you would do better on a diet that is low in sugar and low in refined starches, for sure, and you might even do better on a diet that is more in line with ketogenic. But if you're not going on a diet that's ketogenic, where you use mostly fats for your fuel, you actually need to make sure that you get omega 3 and omega 6, essential fatty acids, which are essential because you can't make them, but you have to have them to live and be healthy. They have to come from outside, but they're the most sensitive of our nutrients and they're easily damaged by light, oxygen and heat. So you need to get those the omega 3 and omega 6, without damage and without pesticides and without plastic like they often have in oils. So you have to get oils made with health in mind. You never use them for frying. You mix them in food. They enhance the absorption of oil-soluble nutrients, which is another bonus for health, right, and you end up doing better.

Speaker 2:

Now, most ketogenic diets don't pay attention to that, but the only thing you need from fats that you for sure have to have is omega 3 and omega 6. And 99% of the population does not get enough omega 3 for optimum health, and pretty much most of the population gets enough omega 6, but they're damaged by the processing and by food preparation, and so you want them both made with health in mind. They need to be in the right ratio, because they compete in the body. Wow, that's probably the one area that is the most neglected, where you will get the most health benefits. More health problems come from damaged oils than any other part of nutrition and more benefits to health will come, walking those back into line with nature, with omega 3s made with health in mind and omega 6s in the right ratio, packaged in glass, put in a box, refrigerated because they're sensitive to light, oxygen and heat, and then used with care in your foods. And that's the industry I invented. Actually, I got poisoned by pesticides. There's another way to get brain fog.

Speaker 1:

Yes. Well, we talked about the blusa blusa fate or whatever it is called. Glyphosate yeah, glyphosate, that's very bad for you.

Speaker 2:

And they're still debated about that. They're all bad for you because pesticides are made for only one reason to kill living things.

Speaker 1:

But we're living things.

Speaker 2:

Exactly, and we're not that different from the grass and from the bugs in our biochemistry. It's the same biochemistry out of nature that makes them and that makes us so. If it's toxic to an insect, there's a really good chance it'll be toxic for you as well.

Speaker 1:

Wow, and then we've been exposed to that for so many years now. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Oh sure, yeah, Everywhere, everywhere they're exposed to that yeah, because we have freedom without responsibility.

Speaker 1:

And that's the truth.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

That's terrible. So how can you get? So? I'm curious how am I going to get omega three and omega six properly?

Speaker 2:

Like. Well, the easiest way is you. You'll find it in a brown glass bottle, in a box, in the fridge, in the supplement section in the health food stores. Okay, and there's only one that's made like that. I made it.

Speaker 2:

Oh, okay, that's how I that's how I know I started that whole industry of making oils with health in mind after I got poisoned. Wow, and what we did? And we, we balance. It's a blend of oils. We'll rebalance omega three and six. Because you don't know. You know, if you don't have special knowledge, special education, then you don't know how much do you need? How much is in a sunflower oil and what is in a safflower oil? What is in a soybean oil and what is in flax oil? Right, you don't know? No, you don't no.

Speaker 1:

I don't.

Speaker 2:

And then, and then I did some of it by experience. I actually, when I got the ratio wrong, I got deficiency symptoms of the other one right. And so then I play, I played with it and worked with it, and I try to do it with seeds and nuts, and that's not enough for me because I couldn't get my skin from being from drying out even in summer when I need less oil. And so we've, we've, we built it both on the feedback we got because I've been doing this now for over 40 years and and being to 40 countries. And I like the feedback because the people who use it and report what they, what happens to them, not only do they make me feel good because I get to help so many people, but I also get information that I can use to make it even better Exactly, and I like, and I like doing that.

Speaker 2:

And it feels really good here to be doing something that makes people's lives better, exactly. The second thing is digestion is the second most neglected area. So that's the second area I worked with and so I talked with about probiotics everybody's heard about them by now. They, we, we got there pretty early like 1997. And probiotics improve what goes on in your digestive tract so that you don't get poisonous molecules made by unfriendly bacteria getting absorbed into your body and they'll affect you, your brain fog as well. And then digestive enzymes. Again, you look at nature, every creature eats raw. So when you eat raw food and you chew it properly, the enzymes in the raw food will do on average 60% of the digestion of the food for you. What after you swallow it and before it gets into the acid bath bath in your stomach? 60%. Now, when we cook the food we, we destroy those enzymes. And now our digestive system has to do more than twice as much work. Oh, I didn't know that and it wasn't, and it wasn't intended to do that. It was intended for raw food. So when that catches up with you, then your immune system has to get involved. And now your immune system isn't free to do the jobs, it's other jobs, which is like clean up junk in the body, right, take down an inflammatory proteins. If there's any viruses that get in your body, take them down by digest, simply by digesting them, and you know so. So if you cook your food, then you should replace the enzymes you destroyed when the food was cooked and you should replace the probiotics that got killed when you cook the food. Wow. And if you take antibiotics, you should take probiotics before, during and after, so you never leave an, you never leave a window open for reinfection when the antibiotic wears off. Most people don't know that and most people don't do that. No, right. So fiber is very helpful as well, for for your digestive tract, and bitters that they help with liver function.

Speaker 2:

Bitters don't give you brain fog, bitters actually give you clarity. Sugar gives you brain fog. Sugar is terrible, yeah. So my question is always well, you know, people say, well, yeah, but I like sweet. Well, why does everything have to be sweet? Maybe you could just decide to like bitter, because you know that bitter is better, right, better for you, right, so, yeah. And then greens, greens and vegetables. You know it's hard to get brain fog from eating raw vegetables. In fact, it may be impossible.

Speaker 1:

Wow, but when you cook them, the composition changes.

Speaker 2:

Well, when you cook them in water, you lose the enzymes and probiotics that come with them. You get a little bit of damage. You lose some of the minerals into the cooking water, unless you drink that water, which some people do. So you do lose something. So if raw is better, as long as it's not contaminated by microbes.

Speaker 1:

Right, well, that's it. Now you have to wash it and you don't know. That's the only problem, because even if you go to the store, you can't believe the organic a lot of times, most of the time.

Speaker 2:

But it's very your chances of it being organic if it says organic are better than if it doesn't say organic.

Speaker 1:

Well, that's true, right.

Speaker 2:

So from that perspective, it's a step in the right direction. But you don't know, and sometimes people have different standards for what they call organic. So the best thing to do is, if you own a home, tear up your lawn.

Speaker 1:

forget about the stupid lawn and grow your own vegetables. Yes, exactly.

Speaker 2:

I'll have a little herb garden. That's all I have right now, yeah, and it's super good for the kids when you teach them how to grow things and they have to wait and the patient, they learn patience because everything becomes ripe in season and then sometimes they say, oh, is there a radish there on there yet? So they pull it up and there's no radish there yet and they say, no, no, no, you can't do that.

Speaker 2:

You have to wait until the radish lets you know that it's there and you'll see the top of it on top of the soil and then you can pick it.

Speaker 1:

Well, I love all types of fruits and vegetables. And one thing, though, so I was thinking about when you said back in nature. So I find myself that if I walk outside, I like to walk. I don't like to go to the gym because I don't like to be indoors, I like to be outside.

Speaker 1:

So I think you'll walk through the neighborhood, through the residential neighborhood, and I look at all the trees and I've been loaded off Florida, so it's mango season right now. So I have made everything you can think of with mango mango salad with cucumbers, fresh salad, raw salad I'll be right over.

Speaker 2:

I love mangoes.

Speaker 1:

My mother walks every day. My mother's 85 and she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. But I'm not, I don't know. I know she has some memory issues, but she's 85 years old and she's still. Physically she's awesome. I cook every day, I make food home fresh foods, buy everything, and she walks around the cul-de-sac every day so she'll go to the neighbor's house, bring a couple of mangoes. Every day she's coming. I got more mangoes. I mean we must have had 200 mangoes in the house already.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, nice.

Speaker 1:

There's five of us, so we all we're always eating the mango, and then we have a moringa tree.

Speaker 2:

Can you get her to walk by my house and drop off a couple?

Speaker 1:

I live in.

Speaker 2:

I live in Vancouver.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, you'll go far.

Speaker 2:

It's a long walk, it's a long walk Out in nature and oxygen. Getting oxygen, you know, and I mean people sent kids into nature, adults too, to improve health problems and to improve something like brain fog. Oxygen is really good for brain fog, right, it increases your energy level, it's fresh and it's alkaline, and you know so. So I mean there's yeah, and it always comes back to live in line with nature, live in line with nature and live in line with your nature.

Speaker 1:

People think I'm crazy when I go to hug a tree. They're like what are you doing? I said there's vibrations, there's energy.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, I'm kissing my sister.

Speaker 1:

People are like you're weird. I'm like I don't care. It makes me feel good. Yeah Well, you know why I talk to the plants I talk to herbs. I talk to all of them.

Speaker 2:

But if you think about it, cutting a tree down is weird. Picking flowers is weird because you're killing something and you don't need to, when you don't need to. Right Saying hi to the flowers and hello to the trees and and having a conversation with them, that's normal. But we've gone so far away from normal that people think it's weird. That's how weird those people are. That's how weird we have become.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, See, I had the opportunity as a child. I was born in New York City, but my family lives in. My grandparents lived in Puerto Rico, on the island.

Speaker 1:

So, so my grandmother lived in the countryside so every summer I spent three months out of the year there and we all, and so I would go to the backyard. We had a big lot and we had everything growing the guava, the mangoes, the all the fauna, all the different roots that they grow, the yucca, I mean all this stuff. So I remember. And we had fresh chickens so I would go pick up the eggs in the morning and feed the chickens, and sometimes I go how come there's a chicken missing? And then she told me didn't want chicken so I wouldn't eat.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and you know that's that which which reminds me of something more. You know it's pretty hard to have brain fog on the farm, because you got to milk the cows and you got to get the eggs and you got to pull the weeds, and you know there's always something you need to do that engages your body and that engages your senses, and because the farm and the success and your food depends on you doing what you need to do every day, you don't have time for brain fog.

Speaker 1:

No, you don't. And that's why there's a lot of people in the island that live a long time. There's a lot of people over a hundred years old there.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

They live a very simple life in the country. All their, all their food, basically everything's outside and the soil in the island is red. It's like brick. You just put a seed and it grows. Things grow and things differently right, things that when you like. When I go to Europe, I'm like, oh my God, this is real food. A red pepper tastes like a red pepper, you know as flavor. It's not water here. You taste it like tastes like water because there's like no flavor in everything. So but it's.

Speaker 2:

That's fresh. Fresh is the operative word here Fresh water fresh air fresh food.

Speaker 1:

Exactly and that's one of the things I want to say that when I had my stroke six years ago, my acupuncturist the first thing he said to me you need to do a detox and you need to do. He had me doing fresh juices, carrot celery, doing at her home in my machine. For 21 days I stopped eating meat. So for the first like year and a half after I had the stroke, I didn't eat any meat. I just ate all I did. I cooked vegetables too, but I did a lot of raw cooking, a lot of juice, a lot of juicing to clear every all the toxins out of my body.

Speaker 2:

Yep.

Speaker 1:

And that's why I tell people to you know, to listen to this podcast and and hear all this amazing stuff, because people don't understand you.

Speaker 2:

your body heals If you give it the right thing you know, like to give them, to give them like a sense of that. Your body is a major construction site. It's always turning over and every year, about 98% of the atoms in your body are removed and replaced, and it's done with such finesse that you don't even notice. But the but. But the fact that the body's always turning over is the reason why it can heal. So when you're there's something wrong with your body whether it's brain fog or or physical stuff you know pains and inflammation or whatever then what you need to do is you need to raise your standard for the intake of fresh air, fresh water and fresh food, and when you do that, you will rebuild 98% of your body to a higher standard in one year. That's why he, that's what healing is. That's why healing is possible, because you're always turning over. That's why we have to eat, because your body keeps needing new material for the turnover, right, yep, so the, so the idea of.

Speaker 2:

And when you say, okay, you got a detox. Well, how do you do that? You know organic stuff, no pesticides, right. And then you. And then you make it easy on your digestion. You do that by keeping the enzymes in it, because it's raw, right. And then the fresh organic juices. That's a pretty high standard for food and you do that for a year and a half and 99% of your body will have been rebuilt to that standard. But if you're doing it on hamburgers and fried meat and fried eggs and fried everything and burned oils and white sugar and white flour and damaged oils, well yeah, then you're building a. You know you could do that for a year and build your body to a lower standard 98% of it in a year.

Speaker 1:

That's why everybody's so unhealthy Because everywhere you go, fast food is fried. I cannot go outside. I ate something the other day that was fried and then for like three days I had stomach problems. I'm like what's wrong with my stomach and I couldn't oh, I know You're lucky because you notice. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Sometimes people don't notice, maybe because they're not paying attention, but then they keep doing it and they don't notice that, that it's hurting them, and then they get used to it and then, oh you know, it comes with age, or they give, they have some excuse where the only thing they should be doing is changing the way they eat more in line with nature, more in line with threshold, raw organic.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's unfortunate because people want things fast. And my acupuncturist told me.

Speaker 2:

He said he goes fast food.

Speaker 1:

He said the original fast food is raw food. He said, yeah, food is fast food.

Speaker 2:

You make a bunch of salad. You grab a tomato, you got a cucumber.

Speaker 1:

There you go, you got your salad, it's raw food.

Speaker 2:

It's no dishes.

Speaker 1:

Exactly, right, exactly.

Speaker 2:

And if you do fast food, you know if you want everything fast, well, the box at the end will be faster too. Right? That's the truth, yeah, yeah, you might as well understand that, and you know I'm polite enough to say it.

Speaker 1:

No, but it's true. I told people I had to decide if I was gonna live or die because I was in a very bad state when I had my stroke. I was overweight. I've already lost 70 pounds. I've changed all my numbers because I'm diabetic. So I've changed all my numbers. I'm down, you know really good A1C, everything like that.

Speaker 1:

And I'm off of insulin. I'm not on insulin anymore and my body's healed because I had lost 50% of my left side. So I had to do therapy and get myself back, but I was determined because I have two children.

Speaker 2:

I was like I don't see my sons. Yeah, and now you're an inspiration for other people, because you've proved that it's possible, because that's a good comeback. You know that's a comeback from a huge issue, right? And how many?

Speaker 1:

70 pounds 70 pounds and six and a half years now Six and a half years since the stroke and January will be seven years and I've regained my left side. I can dance again. I can run, I jog, I can do a mile run now. So, I went from barely walking to doing a mile run. So I tell people and I'm 58 years old, so I'm not a sprint chicken anymore.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, so I'm 81. I got poisoned by pesticides when I was 38. That's when I started paying attention.

Speaker 1:

Wow, you look like a man.

Speaker 2:

When I was 38, I had a little bit of arthritis in my knees. I got no pain in my joints at all at 81. And when I got poisoned, yeah, I woke up. It's like I only get one body and I was really careless. I mean, I was really careless, I was stupid careless. Some people call that men's testosterone poison. You're poisoned by their own testosterone to do really stupid things until they get the first disaster, until they create the first disaster for themselves, and then they start getting wiser.

Speaker 1:

Wow, that's amazing, and the thing is that we need people like you and others that know the truth of the healing of the body, because, unfortunately, our regular Western medicine here is not the medicine is just. It's all about medications and things like that.

Speaker 2:

Well, yeah, it's not health care. What doctors practice is disease management. They don't even have a definition of health to go from. They say health is the absence of disease. But that's actually backwards, because disease comes from the absence of health, and health has principles and components. If you know what those are, then you bring them all in and you build your health program.

Speaker 2:

And that's like the essential nutrients that are 42. There's 18 minerals, 13 vitamins, nine amino acids from proteins and two essential fatty acids from fats. No essential nutrients from carbohydrates. So carbohydrates are the least important food. You know they're good for fuel, but oils are better fuel, actually give you more stable energy. They don't get insulin swings. You don't become overweight on them because they inhibit fat production genes in your body. The right fats do that, and so yeah, and so you have to build the program. But in order to do that, you have to know what that needs to look like. And what I'm doing is I'm actually turning health into a teachable field based on the principles and components. And the reason why is because that, geez, we've been here for 200,000 years and we don't know who we are. We don't know what human nature is. What's wrong with that picture. You know we know more about gossip about our neighbors. Then we know about who we are, what we need and how to put it together.

Speaker 2:

And I thought okay, well, I want to do. Total health and human nature are the two things I'm gonna work on till the time I check out.

Speaker 1:

Well, you look amazing at 81. I didn't even think that. I thought you were only a few years older than me, so I am a few years older than you. Just a few. Yeah, it's all about your heart and your mentality. And of course you have your vitality because you've been taking care of your health and it makes such a difference. Yeah, you're really healthy.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and I also do something worth doing. I have purpose. You know purpose is also good for brain fog. You know, if you don't have any purpose, what should you do Then? You got to bored with even being alive, right?

Speaker 1:

That's like oh gosh, I see people like that all the time, right, yeah, yeah yeah, bored being alive, and then you do stupid things and you check out early.

Speaker 2:

But if you have a purpose to live for, then you're gonna do what you need to do to be around to pursue that purpose. So, having purpose makes you, smartens you up. Right, because it's part of the purpose is I got to look after myself, otherwise I can't do what I want to do. And what I do is glorious and beautiful, right, and I feel good about it. And when you feel good, that's also good for brain fog.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I do right. Yeah, it's really amazing because I mean, unfortunately, I went through a very scary period of time being sick, but I've taken it and turned it into something very positive.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and now you can look at it as a gift.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

Because it got your attention.

Speaker 1:

Oh, it did, it really did.

Speaker 2:

Slapped you around the head, told you gotta be different.

Speaker 1:

Let me tell you I was blessed in the sense that I woke up. I was the reason I woke up during the stroke. I was having a stroke in the middle of the night and in a dream the dream woke me up because I was in the hospital room in the dream and the doctor walked in and said Mr Nanda, you just had a stroke, just like that, and I woke up. And I woke up and I went, I just kind of like I feel weird that I have a stroke, like I have a heart attack, like I didn't know what was going on.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1:

And so all I remember was waking up and I couldn't move my left side, like somebody was holding me down. I just stuck on that side. I'm like what? And so I thought I slept on my arm. So I'm like oh, I'm not so slept, I can go on like this. My arm would go down and I'm like what?

Speaker 1:

So I couldn't process Because of what was going on and I don't know how I landed up getting to the edge of the bed, because I had to go up to go to the bathroom and I just fell flat on the floor. I couldn't walk and my roommate at the time was like Alita, what's wrong? And I looked at her and she looked at me and said, oh, let me call 911. I go why? She said no, no, no, I need to call. She didn't tell me my mouth was, you know, one side. My left side was twisted.

Speaker 2:

It's paralyzed, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I didn't know and I was talking funny. I go, how come I'm talking funny? I felt like I was like Daffy Duck. I was like what's up, what's up, what's going on. I couldn't get the words out. I'm still like being me, like my personality, fighting whatever this is, you know.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's funny now. I guess it wasn't funny then, but it's pretty funny now the way you talk about it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I mean I make light of it now because you know I can't yeah yeah. At that time it was scary, it was really scary, oh, yeah, yeah. But I'm thankful and, like I tell everybody, everybody needs to have hope and faith and learn your body, people, your body signals you when there's something wrong.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Before I had the stroke I went to the doctor three or four times because I was having severe pains in my head and I was having some weird like, almost like abdominal, like almost like contractions that's how they felt like pregnancy contractions, because it wasn't abdominal, it was just a weird and I could say something's off with me and my sugar, my diabetes. My number wouldn't go down past 400.

Speaker 2:

Oh, wow.

Speaker 1:

It stayed at 400. With two insolence it wouldn't go down.

Speaker 2:

Wow.

Speaker 1:

I kept telling the doctor something is not right with my body. It's not responding to medicine. I have severe headaches for a week now and they're like, oh, we can't find anything. And I was at the hospital the day before I had the stroke and they sent me home, yeah yeah, I know Richard Burton.

Speaker 2:

the actor got a clean bill of health from his doctor one week before he died of a massive heart attack.

Speaker 1:

I know I mean they're humans.

Speaker 2:

So rather than going to the doctor me personally I would rather figure out how to live in line with nature and then be responsible for that, because ultimately, your doctor is not responsible. You know whether you live or die. You know, even if you die from the treatment, he still gets paid Exactly. And so, in one sense, because he gets paid, no matter what the outcome is, there's not a huge incentive to keep you healthy. Now, it doesn't mean they don't want to help you. You know, doctors are human beings too, but what is really clear is that as much as possible, your health needs to be your responsibility. What can you do to improve your odds? Ultimately, your body is going to check out. We already know that, right, right. But what can you do to enjoy your life so much that you'll be willing to do whatever it takes to prolong your time on earth as long as you can and as healthy and as able as you can?

Speaker 2:

That's fine, that's fine, but then you have to have something in your heart that you're living for. What are you living for, you know? Maybe just to enjoy everything. Just enjoy it. Look at the trees outside, look at the clouds in the sky, look at you know, this is we live in a miracle. We are a miracle, living in a miracle? Yeah Right, because we're just dust, water and air and a little bit of sunlight. That's it. That's what we are. But sunlight can't have the human experience and water can't have the human experience and dust can't have the human experience. But you put them all together and here I am, those four things together, and I get to have the human experience. And what an experience it is Laughing and crying and dancing, and singing, and eating, and tasting and smelling and, you know, enjoying the sensory delights of the planet. You know.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we have to love ourselves. That's the problem. A lot of times we don't take care of ourselves as we're just. We consume whatever we see, which we're trusting that, but even though we know it's not good to eat, you know.

Speaker 2:

But you know what else? The truth is that you know, if I say to you, hey, alina, whose body is that? You probably say, well, that's my body, right? Most people would say that, right, right, right. So you just told me that you're not the body. If that's your body, then you're not the. You're not the body, you're the owner. So who are you as owner of the body? Well, actually you have to say life is the owner of the body.

Speaker 2:

How well do you know yourself as life? Well, not very well, because I'm always looking away from it, I never look into it, because I never sit still long enough to to bring my focus into the space my body occupies, where that energy is. But when you do that, you discover that life is actually the nature of life, is empowering, unconditional love. That's right. When you feel that you feel empowered and loved and cared for, and when you feel like that, it's like, oh my God. If, first of all, it feels so good that you want to, you want to be there all the time, right. And then the second thing is okay, well, it's not about me anymore, I'm taken care of. And if I don't know the feel taken care of, I know where to go to feel it. And when I feel it, I look around and say, okay, not about me, I'm cared for. Where can I help? What needs to be done? How can I make the biggest splash for good in the time I have?

Speaker 2:

This completely changes the orientation. If you don't feel cared for, then it's always what can I do, what can I, what can I take, what can I get That'll get me taken care of, and nothing on the outside takes care of you the way life takes care of you on the inside. So you have to get in touch with life and feel that care, and then you have a life that's based on the foundation of love. And guess what? Little kids know that that's the most important thing. All the great masters said that's the most important thing. And if you actually know the difference between living from there and not living from there, you'll say love is the greatest thing too. And you have it in you, we have it all. We all have it in us. Every human being, no matter what their story is, what their trip is and what their history is, every human being is made. Their individual essence is empowering, unconditional love, wow.

Speaker 1:

That's a big one, and there's no break.

Speaker 2:

Oh, by the way, there's no brain fog in unconditional love.

Speaker 1:

That's right. That's right. I have a group of sisterhood and we speak about that that. It's a space where women come together with unconditional love, no judgment, no prejudice. We just come together in love just to support each other. Yep, and it makes such a difference. It really does.

Speaker 2:

And 8 billion people in about 200 nations could do exactly the same thing.

Speaker 1:

Exactly. If we could all do that, it would be a better place.

Speaker 2:

And it's about time we started.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes, because the planet needs us everything and living in needs us because we're killing everything in it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, we're destroying it because we're trying to get taken care of from outside when we already we were already taken care of from the inside Right, and that maybe we could take that care out into the world, to each other and to nature and to the planet.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and take care of each other. A lot of people out there need help, yeah, that's why a smile, a hello or anything just to greeting somebody on a daily basis, it can make a whole a person's day. It really is a difference, just just confidence.

Speaker 2:

That's why I tell people, just be kind, be kind today, but we got to do the homework to be able to do it.

Speaker 1:

Yes, so where do we get all your products? You said you have the omega three and six. You had some other stuff.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and enzymes, probiotics. You can look me up on udowschoice UDOSchoicecom. Okay, and there's descriptions of the products. You get most of them in the natural foods trade. You can buy it. You can buy them on Amazon as well.

Speaker 1:

Oh, okay.

Speaker 2:

And I'm easy to find. I'm on Facebook and I'm on Instagram and I'm on LinkedIn and I have a YouTube channel. Udorasmuscom is the. That's my other website where I do the. That's a. That's a work in progress, but I you know if you I've do podcasts quite a few. If you go to Google and do podcasts slash UDORasmus or udorasmus slash podcast, you could listen to other podcasts I've done on different topics.

Speaker 1:

Perfect, perfect, I love it. I'll have to get you back on again, because we can keep talking forever. There's so much we can talk about.

Speaker 2:

Well, yeah, let's talk about the big picture. Let's talk about human nature. There's some proof. Yeah, I'd be happy to do it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, there's so much. I just I just came out. Have you seen the movie Sound of freedom?

Speaker 2:

Not yet. It was sold out. So it's sold out right now, oh that's I'm happy.

Speaker 1:

I'm happy that it's sold out, that people are going to see I just saw it last night. It was such amazing and I had the opportunity. I'm trying to get him now, but I interviewed the director of the of the movie at another, from another movie and I, when I was watching the movie yesterday, I said Alejandro Montevilde, and I oh same, oh, yeah, so yeah, so I I text them.

Speaker 1:

I have a cell number on waiting to see if he responds to me. I would love to talk to him about the movie, but that was awesome. That's one thing about that movie is just like well, we're talking about unconditional love. And we really need that, because there's some ugliness going on out there.

Speaker 2:

The crazy thing is, we have it.

Speaker 2:

Oh, of course we have it, but everybody has it, but we're not operating from it because we're not. You know, we're supposed to look into it and instead we look away from it. And when you look into it, you find it. It's always there. It never leaves you, no matter how you feel you know, brain fog or schizophrenia or whatever your problem is it never leaves you If you bring your focus in where that energy is solar energy, solar energy, gadgets, life is solar energy, a fraction of solar energy. If you bring your awareness in and and and bring your focus into it, you know that you, you are 100%, 24, 7, 365, lifelong, unconditionally loved. Right, and say, okay, Not about me.

Speaker 2:

And then you live into the world with unconditional love when you feel it, and then you change the way you live into the world and how you act into the world, and that's how you rebuild the world. That's how you fix it. You can't fix it if your state of being doesn't change first.

Speaker 1:

Exactly.

Speaker 2:

Because everything we're wrecking comes out of our state of being, because we can't but express it. So, anyway, we'll do that on the next one.

Speaker 1:

That's awesome. That's awesome. I love it and I want to be on that course. For the training that you say you can have a training course, I want to do that oh yeah, we're working on it. I would love to do that.

Speaker 1:

I've been trying to see where what I'm going to do next you know to yeah encing my knowledge and everything like that, and I'm going to look into getting your Omega 3 and 6 and probiotics, because I know I've tried different types of probiotics but I know you have to have the right one. Some of them don't have enough. Some of them are missing things and it's really hard as a person that you know. When you read, you know you have so much propaganda on the internet and if you Google probiotics, then all day long you're getting probiotics from everybody and you don't know which one is good.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so I'll give you the one I use. It's called Super Bifidoplus. It's made by a company called Flora and in the evening I brush my teeth with them and I sleep with you. Know, I swallow them, I don't rinse my mouth, leave them in my mouth and I wake up with exponentially less severe bad breath in the morning Because they fight the rot bacteria, because you don't swallow when you sleep, so they just eat and multiply. Well, they fight them, steal their food and outpopulate them.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I need to do that Because I wake up sometimes like I'm all like dry mouth. I don't know if I open my mouth.

Speaker 2:

We call it a doodoo salesman with a mouth full of samples. Yeah, I don't know I wake up in the morning like oh, what happened? Yeah, yeah, yeah, or I'd like this. Excuse me, honey, I want to talk to you, but I got to brush my teeth first.

Speaker 1:

Exactly, exactly.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Oh my God, but this has been an awesome conversation. I've learned so much from you. I love it. Yeah, and keep doing what you're doing, and I'll put all your information here on this podcast so everybody can see it, and we'll touch again.

Speaker 2:

Cool. All right, thank you, great what you're doing Great what you're doing because you know, if it wasn't for you, I'd be talking to myself in the mirror in my bathroom. So the amplifier that you provide to get information out to people, it's huge, huge, important.

Speaker 1:

Thank you very much. It makes me feel good that I'm doing something. Thank you Doing my purpose in life Beautiful, have an awesome day. Have an awesome day. Thank you. Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye.

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