Episode 35 - BJJ Brown Belt Rome Za
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Rome, a Jiu-Jitsu brown belt, entrepreneur, and owner of Hero Academy, a jiu-jitsu school in Tamarindo, Costa Rica.
Rome discusses immigrating to the US from Chechnya and always being a sick kid growing up. He started a journey of seeking out holistic and alternative methods of improving his health through supplements, diet, and lifestyle changes.
He shares information on his supplement company, learning from the world-renowned movement coach, Ido Portal, and going on excursions with "The Iceman" Wim Hof.
We also discuss his non-profit jiu-jitsu gym called "Hero Academy" where he provides jiu-jitsu for at-risk and underprivileged kids in Costa Rica.
Podcast notes:
Coffee enemas help stimulate liver to produce Glutathione which is a strong antioxidant.
Oregano Oil to treat staph infections
Tea tree oil to treat ring worm
Dr. Ian Stern and how he has helped Rome avoid neck and shoulder surgeries.
How movement and posture helps physiologically improve and change your health. Also, movement assists with retention of information.
Why you should avoid "Night shade' vegetables.
The supplements that Rome recommends and what makes the supplements he takes unique, different, and better than the rest.
Drianstern.com and use the promo code "chewjitsu" to get 10% off of your purchase of the supplements Rome uses.
The non-profit organization he runs is a jiu-jitsu gym in Tamarindo, Costa Rica called Hero Academy, www,bjjincostarica.com.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | what's up guys so today on the podcast we have a friend of mine i met him down in cost |
| 0:06.1 | rica when i was doing the pure evita retreat his name is rome and rome's a he's an interesting |
| 0:10.9 | guy him and i we uh we sat talking one morning and we just went off way into the weeds i remember |
| 0:17.0 | that we were sitting around in the big group of people and we started talking about all kinds of random stuff. It was all over the place. And it was a lot of fun though. And I remember like everybody had already left the room and we were still talking. And so I definitely wanted to have him on the podcast. I didn't know that at the time he was involved with so much. He has a nonprofit down there. I knew that he had a gym, the BGJ Heroes Gym that we trained at down there, but I didn't realize the time that he ran it as a nonprofit. So he runs an nonprofit down there. It's really cool. He'll talk about it in the podcast. And we also get into, you know, a lot of in this podcast, it's all over the place because we get both of us, him and I are both like, we're all over the place. And we talked about a lot of in this podcast, it's all over the place because we get both of us, him and I are both like, |
| 0:54.9 | we're all over the place. And we talked about a lot of holistic approaches to, you know, living and |
| 1:00.7 | lifestyle and how he recovered from injuries using a mixture of soft tissue work and supplementation |
| 1:07.9 | along with like turmeric and things like that. And again, it's really interesting. |
| 1:12.7 | So just make sure that you kind of buckle in and stay with us for this one. |
| 1:17.3 | But it's a really cool podcast, a lot of cool nuggets. |
| 1:19.6 | So hope you guys enjoy it. |
| 1:20.8 | And let's get started. |
| 1:24.2 | Good, bro. |
| 1:25.4 | All good. |
| 1:26.1 | Just hanging with the family, you know, enjoying life. |
| 1:31.9 | Where are you at right now? |
| 1:33.9 | San Diego, the Wales vagina. |
| 1:36.2 | The Wales vagina. |
| 1:37.0 | Why is it the whales vagina? |
| 1:37.9 | San Diego. |
| 1:39.4 | Anchorman. |
| 1:40.3 | I think an anchor man, they called it the whales vagina. |
| 1:43.1 | That's what it means. |
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