1267: When Eating Junk Food & Being Lazy is Healthy
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin discuss why sometimes eating less than ideal food and not being productive actually serves your overall health.
- Mind Pump gets controversial. (4:01)
- What being “healthy” actually means. (8:05)
- Breaking down the 4 known categories of health and how they are all interconnected. (12:00)
- How moderation is the key and even a good thing can be abused. (15:27)
- The importance of when to optimize and adapt to ‘home base’. (18:45)
- The value of fasting to use as a tool. (19:53)
- Does alcohol have any value? (24:08)
- When eating junk food can be considered healthy. (25:34)
- Why people in the “blue zones” live longer than the rest of the world. (31:38)
- “Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.” (33:52)
- Do I have control over this or does it have control over me? (39:55)
- Strategies to mitigate the negative effects of junk food. (41:30)
- Strategies to mitigate the negative effects of alcohol. (46:02)
- Strategies to mitigate the negative effects of “not being productive.” (47:58)
- The order of operation matters. (48:38)
- Your health encompasses a lot more than you think. (51:01)
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- The health benefits of strong relationships
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- Moderation, Abstinence, and The Pleasures Around Us
- Why People in "Blue Zones" Live Longer Than the Rest of the World
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | In this episode of Mind Pump, we go in a different direction from what we normally talk about and promote. |
| 0:22.0 | In fact, this may come across as a counter message, but trust me, we make our case very well. |
| 0:29.0 | We think that this episode needs to come out, especially right now, during these weird and uncertain times. |
| 0:36.0 | We talk about when eating junk food and being lazy and things into those categories are actually healthy. |
| 0:42.0 | When they are things that you're doing because they are better for you at that moment. |
| 0:47.0 | But there's a fine line there, and we break it down. |
| 0:50.0 | First, we talk about what healthy actually means, how it's a sphere that encompasses many different things, |
| 0:56.0 | not just the physical, but the mental, the spiritual relationship health, and how all of those things overlap and communicate to each other. |
| 1:04.0 | If one thing is off, it tends to make the others off as well. |
| 1:08.0 | We talk about how to mitigate some of the negative effects of some of those things that I just talked about. |
| 1:14.0 | We talked about the longest living people in the world, and the things that they do that make them really healthy that you wouldn't normally think about. |
| 1:24.0 | The mitigations that we talked about, by the way, are great. |
| 1:27.0 | We give you a lot of great tips on how to, if you're going to eat junk food, and if it's healthy for you at that moment, like things to do, |
| 1:33.0 | and if you're going to drink alcohol, things you could do to kind of mitigate the physical negative effects. |
| 1:38.0 | If let's say you want to enjoy a glass of wine with your spouse, by the way, one of the things that we mention in there is Z-biotics. |
| 1:44.0 | This is a genetically modified probiotic that you take right before you drink alcohol, and the bacteria actually create an enzyme that breaks down the body. |
| 1:53.0 | Some of the negative byproducts of alcohol, we tested it ourselves when we drank, and we felt way better the next day. |
| 2:02.0 | This is something you could do if you're enjoying a little bit more wine or whatever than you normally do. |
| 2:07.0 | Take Z-biotics with it. It'll help with the negative effects. |
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