This is Everyday Wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.

And now, here is your host, Nurse Practitioners Cynthia Thurla. your

real life. And now here is your host, nurse practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

Hey, good morning. We are so excited to have Jerry Texera here with us this morning.

Jerry first developed a love for biology and science

as a nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare

defense specialist in the Marine Corps.

This love for science transferred into a desire to understand the mechanisms behind the positive effects of diet and exercise.

He's a minimalist, fitness, and health specialist who teaches people how to build strength and improve body composition

without having to step foot in a gym. We are going to dive into lots of topics. He has a background as a marine and is a body weight aficionado. He has an incredible

amount of content on YouTube and so we're gonna just dive right in but Jerry I'd love for you to kind of give us a background about how you got so passionate about body weight

training and nutrition and all the things that are so important to you that we share in common.

All right, so I think I got a good way to sum this up.

I was in the Marine Corps, like you mentioned, for four years.

I didn't have to try to, I was young, number one, which is easier to stay, you know, lean when you're young.

I think that youth covers a multitude of sins when it comes to diet and all that stuff.

And so even when I got out of the Marines, I was much less physically active immediately following at 21

till around 25 years old.

I still worked out, but it wasn't like super structured, I wasn't a trainer, I didn't do a lot of research. I just went to probably like the average person go to the gym three days a week or whatever and

ate a lot of fast food and it was fine. I didn't really pay a whole lot of attention to my health. My wife ended up getting

pregnant with our first child and over that year that she was pregnant I gained a ton of weight.

And I ended up sympathy weight yeah and so you know but what by the time my daughter was a year old or

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