Live Ask Me Anything #3 - Topics Covered:

- Macronutrient Ratio for Fat Loss (02:02)

- How Justin Feels about Snacks (07:24)

- Supplements for Fat Loss (10:54)

- Shakeology Review (22:12)

- Meat Quality: Organic vs. Grass-Fed vs. Pasture-Raised. Farm Raised vs. Wild Caught Fish (27:16)

- How to Eat Healthy at Restaurants (34:22)

- Apps for Tracking Carbs (35:20)

- Mindset: How to Stay Motivated! (36:57)

- How to Grocery Shop on a Budget (42:59)

- Live Q&A (42:55)

• How to grocery shop on a budget (42:55)

• Supplements to buy (44:00)

• Cookware (44:06)

• Supplements for Immune System Support (44:39)

Listen to the Podcast:

Show Notes and Resources:

- Epic Bars - Paleo Valley Grass-Fed Beef Sticks - Wild Planet Sardines - Healthy Cell Pro Multi-Vitamin - Pure Encapsulations UltraNutrient Multi-Vitamin - Pure Encapsulations O.N.E. Mult-Vitamin (most affordable!) - Thorne Vitamin D + K2 - Nordic Naturals Pro Omega 2,000 (Omega 3s) - Pure Encapsulations L-Carnitine - Pure Encapsulations Magnesium (Glycinate) - The Perfect Paleo Powder - Fat Loss - Justin's Approved Foods List! - Butcher Box: Grass-Fed Beef Delivered to your Door - EatWild.com Find High Quality Meat and Produce Near You - My Fitness Pal Fitness and Nutrition Tracker - Carb Manager App - Carbohydrate Tracking - StrongLifts 5x5 - Strength Training for Beginners - GMB: Gold Medal Bodies - Bodyweight Training for Beginners - Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink - Way of the Warrior Kid by Jocko Willink - Mindset by Carol Dweck - Vegetable Steamer Basket - Cast Iron Skillet - Host Defense: MyCommunity - Immune System Support

 

FULL VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

 



Hello? Hello? Hello, everybody. I am very sorry. I was late to my own Facebook live. We're in a new location here in Nashville. We've never done any filming in this location before. It was a little bit tricky getting set up. We had some technical issues, but here I am. Thank you for coming. Facebook Live, "Ask me anything." 

 

We're going to go ahead and do all the basic stuff. I'm going to share this with my timeline, and you can do the same thing. You can click the share button and send it directly to your timeline, which would be awesome. I'd appreciate it. Click the like button, the love button, all that fun, fancy stuff. I'm going to share this on my page right now. There we go. 

 

Welcome back! This is Facebook Live. "Ask me anything" with me, Justin Nault, and this is number three. This is episode number three. So these have been gaining traction, which is really cool. You guys are asking me awesome questions throughout the week. Sending me excellent live questions during the feed, which is even more fun. I liked the live Q and A the best. So again, my name is Justine Nault. I'm the founder of the Clovis culture, and I invented all the formulas for The Perfect Paleo Powder. This is one of them. I'm wearing my blue fat loss formula, Perfect paleo powder shirt because we're going to talk about fat loss today.

It seems to be a very popular subject for everyone ever. We're going to talk about that. Basically, what we'll do is we'll do two or three main topics that I set up for the week based on the questions that I get from followers on social media. From there, I'll dive into some kind of rapid-fire Q and A stuff. I'll take questions right here. I have some other questions that I've received that don't really require long lengthy answers. I try to take questions from people throughout the week that require some expansion—just a bit more of an explanation than people are used to. We did an extensive crash course on dairy. We did one on pre-workouts last week. This week we're going to start with fat loss. So, let's jump right into fat loss. 

The question I got is, 

 

Question: What is the perfect macronutrient ratio for fat loss?

Answer: To be clear, there is no perfect macronutrient ratio for fat loss. There is a foundational macronutrient ratio that I tend to start with. Um, and that is 60, 30, 10. That's 60% fat, 30% protein and 10% carbohydrates. A basic lesson on this, you don't know what macronutrients are. They're your main essential macronutrients, and that is fat, protein and carbohydrates. Two of those are actually necessary. They're required for human survival. That's fat and protein. Carbohydrates are not actually required for human survival. A macronutrient ratio is you're taking the ratio of macronutrients that make up your total caloric intake. So if I say 60 fat, 60% of your daily calories are coming from fat. 30% of your daily calories are coming from protein. 10% carbohydrates are making up 10% of your total daily caloric intake. 

If we do simple math on this, let's say you were eating a thousand calories, which is ridiculously low. No one should ever do that. If you're eating a thousand calories, 10% of your daily diet being carbohydrates means you're taking in 100 calories of carbohydrates. The way you figure this out with nutrition facts is calories per gram. One gram of carbohydrate equals four calories. One gram of protein equals four calories, and one gram of fat equals nine calories. 

 

This is why for the past 50 years, people have told you that fat makes you fat because weight gain weight loss has been based on the archaic idea of calories in, calories out. Burn more calories, and you eat, you lose weight, not true. Not all calories are created equal. You have to eat the correct calories. A hundred calories from pop tarts are not the same as a hundred calories from grass-fed beef. It's totally different. 

I had someone tell me that on Facebook once. I like quoting it. They literally said to me that "Pop-Tarts are no different than beef." It's good it was on Facebook. I might've read naked, showed that dude, but anyway, 63:10 is my ideal ratio. We're not going to get any crazy math. It's just, I'm terrible at math. You don't want me to get into math, but I can do enough to get you through macronutrient ratios. 

 

I'm going to tell a story real quick about the ideal macronutrient ratio. When people come to me for fat loss, I give them a straightforward protocol. This is a list of foods you could eat. If the food that you're about to eat is not on this list. You don't need it. You can only eat from a minimal list of foods that I give you.

Well, I think it's a big list of food. Some people say it's small, but I think it's big. Only eat these foods. If your goal is fat loss, stay under 50 grams net carbohydrates. I want to touch on this cause I had somebody comment on Facebook that thought I had said that 50 grams to 100 grams are ideal for fat loss. Not necessarily! I did say that if you're under 100 grams of net carbohydrates, you can still lose fat. It might not be a rapid fat loss. Most people come to me looking for rapid fat loss. They want fast results, right? So that's what I try to do. That 50 grand net carbohydrate is kind of the sweet spot for that. I'll say only eat this list of approved foods, standard 50 grams of carbs.

 

For that reason, people track their carbs and nothing else. Which can work and works for a lot of people, but sometimes it doesn't. So, my friend, she's watching, I won't say anything, but it's not a big deal. 

 

A friend of mine just had a baby not too long ago and wants to lose baby pounds, right? Obviously, of course. But now, keep in mind having just had a baby, you're not doing intense workouts. There's no reason for it. You shouldn't be doing intense workouts. You're healing up. You're letting your body get back to homeostasis. You want to get back to normal after this traumatic event that has happened. She was staying under 50 grams of carbohydrates and then asking me, "Hey, I'm not losing fat. I've been doing this for a while now. And I'm just not losing fat. Where am I going wrong?" I said, "okay, for the sake of experimentation, let's have you track everything." 

 

So she came back, and I believe she was under 50 grams of net carbs. Yes, but her macronutrient ratio was like 60% or 70% protein, which is just way too high. It's way too high for a sedentary person. She has to be because she just had a baby. She's not out doing CrossFit. If you're a CrossFitter, maybe you can keep your protein up 30%, 40%, 50%, something like that. But if you're sedentary and you're just taking it way too much protein, like 60, 70% of your body's going to convert that into glucose, and you're not going to burn fat. This is why it's really important to track in the beginning. But the foundational macronutrient ratio for fat loss, 60% of your daily calories come from fat. 30% of your daily calories come from protein. 10% of your daily calories come from carbohydrates. And that gets tweaked quite often, like really strict keto. People will go as high as 80, 90% calories from fat. They'll cut their protein down to 15%, 10% take carbohydrates. The 5%, 3%, 2%. They go really, really low. Some people just thrive on keto. I don't thrive on strict keto. I'm somewhere around 40, 50 grams of net carbohydrates a day.

Sometimes 30 just depends on the day, really, but I don't try to just stay in ketosis. Ideally, 60, 30, 10, and the other part of this macronutrient for fat loss question is snacks. I always start this conversation with the same sentence, "Stop with the snacks." I'm not going to tell you what I consider to be snacks because I think snacks should not exist. Food exists. There's food that exists, but when you go to me like, "Hey, this clif bar has a healthy snack." No, the only reason you need a snack is because your blood sugar is spiking and dropping. 

Your insulin is spiking and dropping because you're carbohydrate dependent. If we get you to a point where you're fat-adapted with a diet of 60, 30, 10. It might take four weeks, six weeks, eight weeks for some people if you were eating 600 grams of carbs a day. Once we get you fat-adapted, you don't need to snack anymore. So now that I've taught you about macronutrient ratios. If you look at a plate, if your macronutrient ratio, fat, carbohydrates, protein, and macronutrient ratio in that meal are correct, you should not be hungry. Three to four hours or even five hours later, you shouldn't be hungry. I'm almost never hungry. I eat when it's time to eat because I train heavy. So I trained heavily. I have to eat. So sometimes I have to kind of force myself to eat because you just don't get hungry. 

When you get fat-adapted, you don't get that same what they call hangry. I need to eat right now, or I'm going to kill somebody. You know, that crazy feeling. That's the only reason snacking exists. Once Americans became carbohydrate-dependent, they needed to snack. When you get diabetic, that's like, "Oh, I'm going to pass out." They sit down, and someone feeds them a glass of orange juice or a Snickers bar. Why on earth would you do that? It's insanity. It's insanity. You need to take care of the carbohydrate dependency first. So that's my disclaimer about snacking.

You really shouldn't be snacking. You shouldn't be hungry enough to snack when you're like, "Oh, I got to work at 9:00 AM. Now it's 10:30, and I'm about to die. I need to eat a Snickers bar, or there's only this bagel that I need. It is 100% carbohydrates." Don't do that to yourself. The spikes and crashes are going to just make your day horrible. You shouldn't need a nap at 3:00 PM. You shouldn't be that tired. You're only that tired because you have a carbohydrate dependency, right? Let's stop at snacks that said, let me give you some snack options, right? If you're at work or something where you can take something with you, an avocado is a great plan. There are certain types of nuts, my favorites being macadamia nuts, pecans, walnuts, all good options. Don't do peanuts. Don't do raw almonds. Pecans, macadamia, nuts, and avocado is a good one. The epic bar makes some really, really great bars. Epic bars have some solid stuff. Beef jerky like omerta beef jerky. It's not grass-fed or whatever. Some options just aren't going to be ideal. 

Snacking is never ideal. You shouldn't really need to snack, as I said. But beef jerky, um, avocados, nuts, healthy fats, canned sardines people think that's crazy, but I love canned sardines are awesome. I'll send you a link to a great brand. Your snacks are real food. They're real food. This is a problem that we have with food. There's snack food. There's grownup food. There's little kid food. It's nuts. It's just all food. There shouldn't be a children's menu. There shouldn't be an adult menu. It's food; just eat food. And you're going to be fine. Eat food. Keep in mind. Grains are not food and not designed for human beings. So don't eat a clif bar. Don't eat a kind bar. Don't even oatmeal bar, don't eat any of that junk. Eat food, real food, right? That's my take on snacking's macronutrients for fat loss, 60, 30, 10. 

 

This brings us to supplements. Some people think of supplements as snacks, right? Meal replacement or a quick protein shake on-the-go or a protein bar or something like that. As I said, clip bar, stuff like that is like 40 grams of carbohydrates with 25 grams of sugar. It's straight-up poison. Don't eat that stuff. Stop snacking. 

Question: What supplements should you take? 

Answer: This is a tricky question because I get into a situation where I got to tell you I'm not a doctor. As the powerful Tim Ferris loves to say, "I'm not a doctor. I don't play one on the internet. I'm not giving you medical advice."  What supplement should you take? Blanket statement. There are some supplements that all human beings could benefit from. 

(Well, they will benefit from it, I'm not supposed to tell you that.)

They will benefit from certain supplements. Okay? Yeah. I'd got to be careful here, right? 

 

First and foremost, let's start with multivitamins because these are the most popular supplements by far, and they're the biggest problem. 

Multivitamins are the number one issue with the sewage system, at least in the United States. Literally, people are excreting so many undigested multivitamins. It is clogging the sewage systems. It's a huge problem. Billions and billions and billions of pills are in the sewer that people paid money for. Putting their mouth, swallowed, pooped out and wasted in the sewer system. Wasted money down the drain. You don't walk into Walmart and say, "I want this $3 multivitamin." Why would you do that? 

Why? It's insane. That's like drinking a $5 bottle of wine. Don't do that, either. It's chemicals; it's straight-up chemicals. There are almost no grapes in it, right? That's the thing; you gotta be careful with the quality of supplements. Only take supplements recommended to you by somebody that you really trust and you've done some research on. So if you really trust me, let's dive into some recommendations. There was one multivitamin that I take daily. It covers all my bases, and it is called Healthy Cell Pro. Healthy Cell Pro is an amazing supplement. It was recommended to me by my medical doctor, who was a brilliant man. One of the smartest dudes I've ever met in the nutrition world. 

 

Healthy Cell Pro, I gotta warn you, though. I pay 60 bucks a month as a member of his functional medicine practice. The retail on healthy cell pro is $89.99. Pricey product, right? You take it every day, two pills in the morning, two pills at night. It has everything you can think of. All your micronutrients have oxidants, probiotics, prebiotics. So again, micronutrients, we talked about macronutrients. Those are measured in grams, fat, protein, carbohydrates. 10 grams of carbs, 10 grams of protein, whatever, all your micronutrients, all your vitamins and minerals are measured in units like micrograms or milligrams IU. They're just small micronutrients, small nutrients, macronutrients, large nutrients required in large doses for human survival. Healthy cell pro knocks out all your micronutrients right there—fantastic, absolutely amazing product. 

The other thing that I would recommend that I wanted to talk about is I think everyone, especially in today's society, will benefit from vitamin D. 

Now, I always suggest that you mix vitamin D and K2. And luckily, one of my most trusted brands, which is Thorne Research. They make a liquid vitamin D and K2 blend—that's amazing. It's about a thousand IU for two drops, I think. It's, it's relatively inexpensive, and you get like 600 servings in one bottle. It's really crazy. Fantastic. Think about your life, right? We should get vitamin D from the sun. You should be; I mean, literally laying naked in the sun is the single best thing you can do for massive vitamin D uptake in your body. But most of us, or most people, go from house to car to work to car to Netflix, right? That's what we will do. Let's be honest. They don't get hardly any vitamin D at all. If you're not getting full-blown sun exposure with no sunblock for 15 minutes a day, you're not getting enough vitamin D. Pretty much every human in today's society can benefit from vitamin D. 

 

Another one is Omega 3s. We are very low in Omega 3s. Almost everyone is deficient in them. I recommend a really good Omega 3. I use a company called Nordic Naturals. Nordic naturals are fantastic. It is one of the best products I've ever used. They have one called pro mega 2000. Again, it's expensive. I think it's like 72 bucks a month or something like that. It's it's pricey. I suggest at least two to four grams a day. So one Omega three capsule might be 750 milligrams, a thousand milligrams, whatever. I want you to take two to four grams; that's 2,000 to 4,000 milligrams a day.

You really want to load up Omega 3s. They're healthy fatty acids. They're great for cognitive function and great for anti-inflammation. They're great for staving off neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's dementia. They're fantastic products. Omega 3s are super, super important. 

 

Now let's get into particular supplements. I had somebody ask me about supplements for burning fat—quick crash course on this. If you have excess glucose in your system, you can't burn fat. Glucose is faster for the body to burn, so it will choose it over fat. It's easier to burn carbohydrates, but it's dirty burning fuel. It's like using normal unleaded gas versus super unleaded, right? It's a cheaper fuel source. The reaction that it causes is releasing chemicals in your body that are more harmful than when you're burning fat for fuel. 

 

Fat as a cleaner-burning fuel, but as long as you have glucose, AKA carbohydrates. All carbohydrates become glucose at some point. As long as you have excess glucose in your system, you can't burn fat for fuel. So no supplement's going to burn fat for you. It's literally impossible if your diet is not correct. You'd have to get the nutrition, right? That said, there's something called the Krebs cycle. The Krebs cycle is the bird's-eye 30,000 view of how your body creates energy. The ultimate goal is to take foodstuff and turn them into energy, right? So the Krebs cycle is a description of how the body burns carbohydrates, how the body burns fat, how the body burns anything that it can burn to turn into fuel. And it walks you through that system. Fat first has to be converted into Acetyl CoA. So fat and the Krebs cycle turns into Acetyl CoA; from there, it's converted into ketones, enters the citric acid cycle and is burned as fuel. All right? 

 

There's a couple of steps involved in burning fat. Now that number one process of turning fat into Acetyl CoA requires two things: L-carnitine and magnesium. If you are deficient in L-carnitine or magnesium, you're going to have a tough time burning fat. Let's say you get the nutrition, correct. You're doing a 60, 30, 10 macronutrient ratio. Like we talked about, you're staying under 50 grams of net carbs. You did everything Justin told you to do, and you're burning fat. Like I dropped 8 pounds, I dropped 10 pounds. I dropped 16 pounds, right? And you have just that last little bit; maybe you've got five pounds left or something. You're like, "I just want to see my abs. I want to see my abs." Go ahead and take, take a capsule or two of L-carnitine and magnesium with every meal. It will help you burn fat. If You have the right nutrition, it will help you burn fat more efficiently. L-carnitine and magnesium—those are great ones. 

 

The other thing I will recommend is this really awesome product called The Perfect Paleo Powder. There's four of them, and there's four of them for a reason. If you go looking through the back panel, you'll see that it's essentially a multivitamin, a probiotic and antioxidant all in one formula mixed with beef, collagen, protein. It's almost everything you need for an entire day. A picture of green superfood, combined with a protein powder blend. It's the reason why I made them. I got tired of searching for high-quality supplements, so I just freaking made one, and then I made four. Now there's four of them. So check out The Perfect Paleo Powder. I'll put links to it in the show notes and everything. You guys can take a look and see what works best for you. 

 

I wore this because this is the fat loss formula blue. All of our products are color-coded. So supplements for burning fat choose the fat loss formula. Fat loss formula was designed to replace breakfast, digest, and rest was also designed to replace breakfast, but the ingredients are somewhat different because they're achieving different things. Digest and rest is to help you heal your gut. Fat loss is to help you burn fat. I have you replace breakfast with them. Why? People ask me why I did that? Because when people wake up in the morning, the first thing they do is eat a healthy breakfast. 

 

Now a healthy breakfast, according to American standards, food pyramid are bagels, whole wheat toast, oatmeal, oatmeal with fruit in it, yoghurt with fruit in it, AKA sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar. We wake up, load our systems with sugar. Now, when you're sleeping, you're fasting. You're fasting while you sleep. You're not eating. You're not drinking. You're asleep, right? So you wake up after eight hours, you got a good little fast, and you probably have some ketone bodies forming in your blood. You're probably in fat-burning mode. The second you introduce carbohydrates to your system, you stop fat-burning mode. Specially simple, high-glycemic carbohydrates like sugar like fruit. I've been doing these AMS for three weeks now, and the amount of hate I get for telling you to stop eating fruit. I don't care. You are all wrong. If you think fruit is a health food, you're wrong. You're wrong. 

 

Call my cell phone when you come to Nashville, and we'll talk about it. I will prove to you exactly why fruit is not a health food. It should never have been tagged as a health food, and you should stop eating it, right? Especially in the morning, you're going to knock yourself right out of fat-burning mode. You can't burn fat for the rest of the day. You just load your body with excess glucose. 

 

Now The Perfect Paleo Powder, the carbohydrates and perfect paleo powder are called complex carbohydrates. It's also loaded with dietary fiber—prebiotic dietary fiber which feeds your healthy gut bacteria. So the fat loss formula and the digest and rest formula. If you replaced breakfast with that, I like to blend it with black coffee. It's delicious with black coffee, right? If you have just black coffee, blended paleo powder, or just drink it with water that replaces your breakfast, not going to kick you out of fat-burning mode. 

It's 120 calories. You're essentially still in a fasted state. You're in what's called a semi fasted state where you're getting 80 to 90% of the benefits of a full fasted state, but you don't feel starving. You're not dealing with headaches and stuff like that when you're starving. That's why I designed fat loss to help you lose fat by keeping you in fat-burning mode as long as possible. Replace breakfast with the fat loss formula of the perfect paleo powder, and then just eat when you're hungry again. And like I said, the macronutrients are correct in these meals and these formulas that I designed. So you're not hungry for hours, two hours, three hours, some people four hours, then you just eat lunchtime and make healthy choices at lunch. Now it's essentially like you fasted 16 hours instead of eight hours, right? When it comes to supplements, The Perfect Paleo Powder, think of it as a multivitamin. Pure Encapsulations is another multivitamin I'll put a link to because I think it's a little cheaper than Healthy Cell Pro. Thorne, vitamin D and K2, and Nordic Naturals for Omega 3. 

 

If you want to do a little boost to fat burning, go a couple pounds left to go, and you have your nutrition right. Remember your nutrition has to be right. Think about L-carnitine and magnesium. Quick tip about magnesium. There's a lot of different kinds, glycinate or citrate. There are a bunch of different magnesium. Get magnesium glycinate. Why? Because magnesium citrate will make you sh** in your pants, and you don't want to do that, so get magnesium glycinate. I'll put links to all this stuff in the show notes, so don't worry about it. 

 

The other thing in supplements that I'm going to touch on really quick. I get a lot of questions about Shakeology. Like a lot of questions about Shakeology. I just explained to you kind of how my powder works. I will give you a quick breakdown of why I can't recommend Shakeology even though I love Beachbody programs. 

 

I did P90X like one, two, three, 14, whatever they did. I did insanity six times. They have great programs for fitness, but they need to stay in their lane. They have the nutrition all wrong. Their diet plans are ridiculous. Don't follow them. It's like half a bagel and Oscar Meyer, deli meat with a slice of cheese. Get outta here with that sh**. It's ridiculous, right? C'mon Shaun T, do better. 

 

So Shakeology makes these shakes, and the problem with them is their plant-based proteins. 

 

Number one - they have whey protein, which is dairy-based, which 66% of adults cannot digest dairy. It's one of the most common food sensitivities on planet earth. I had a mom call me looking for help. She was freaking out because her son was underweight, and the doctor put him on a whey protein. Which one? I don't know. He said, "Go to Walmart and get the cheapest whey protein you can find and start shoving it into your kid's face." So now this kid is just feeling like death all the time. He's crying to his mom and doesn't want to drink his whey protein. Well, they got him tested, and he has a whey protein allergy. I can't handle this sometimes, right? But anyway, that's just one example of a kid who had a sensitivity. Dairy sensitivity is a very, very common thing. 66% of adults can't digest dairy. Try to stay away from whey, and Shakology does this thing where they blend whey protein, quinoa protein. I think chia seeds, flax seeds, and peas, too. Pea protein sounds awesome. I'd rather eat cricket protein personally. I don't know. 

But anyway, It's just not a high-quality protein. It's the cheapest protein you can get. Plant-based proteins are incredibly cheap to manufacture. That's why they do it. It's a ridiculously high-profit margin. These things contain lectins and phytates. They are damaging to the lining of your gut. I did a whole thing on lectins. They have lectin-containing foods that they're breaking down and using for protein. 

 

They might argue about the processing experience that it goes through, like the processing they do to the protein that might reduce lectins or phytates. I don't really know, but I know that their gut is damaging as whole foods. So why would you want them as an extract? Right? If something's been damaged my gut as a whole food, I'm not gonna extract it down to a concentrated form and drink it with water. That's silly! 

The other thing to remember is anytime you look at any nutrition fact. I had a girl ask me this week about condiments. Can I do ketchup? Nope, probably not. Why? Read the ingredients. The number two ingredient in most ketchup is high fructose corn syrup, maltodextrin, super low scorn syrup, all this stuff. It's not tomatoes. You gotta read the ingredient. You have to get in the habit, not just nutrition facts but also the ingredients underneath the nutrition facts. You have to read those. When something says nutrition facts, and then other ingredients, that's the most important stuff. 

 

I'm completely transparent with all of my powders. According to FDA regulations, if you look at The Perfect Paleo Powder, it says other ingredients, number one, beef collagen protein, right? Beef collagen protein is the number one ingredient. You have to list them from most to least. So the number one ingredient being beef collagen protein; I think the very last ingredient is Monk Fruit. The least amount of that blend is Monk Fruit. There's not a lot in there, a very minimal amount, right? You have to list from most ingredients to least amount in your other ingredients list. That's the most essential part of any food label that you read. 

The issue with Shakeology is they did something called five proprietary blends. As someone who manufactures products, I'm going to tell you what proprietary blend means. Proprietary blend means legally. I want to protect my formula. This is what they're saying, that they think the public wants to hear behind the scenes. They're saying legally, I'm going to list 40 ingredients in my proprietary blend. As long as it's a proprietary blend, it's my intellectual property. 

I don't have to tell you how much of each ingredient is in there. I could list 40 ingredients like Shakeology does. Their proprietary blend is 32 grams of about 40 different ingredients, right? And you have no idea how much each one is in there. Literally, they could be like chicory root, 31 grams. And then one gram split between all these other 40 ingredients. You have no way of knowing that it's a proprietary blend. They're protecting their intellectual property by ripping you off. They're loading it with the highest number of cheap, high-profit margin ingredients they can put in there. They do a proprietary blend to mix up all the ingredients and not listed like how I did—an ethical, moral business owner. This stuff drives me nuts, right? Proprietary blend anytime you see it in the supplement, run because they're not being transparent. 

There's a reason they're not being transparent. You should be proud of your formula. I'm proud of my formula. Look at my other ingredients. Look at the nutrition facts. Look at everything you can find. It's the best product in the market. 

 

Supplements, Shakeology, we talked about macros. We're about 40 minutes in, except I was late. We'll probably go a little bit over this time. The other thing I want to talk about is protein and meat quality standards, right? I actually had a question from a farmer. She's a friend of mine, and she has a farm. She raises chickens and some other animals. She said, "Can you please explain to people the difference between organic, free-range, pasture-raised, farmed-fish, wild-caught fish, all these things.

Let's do a quick crash course. All right, let's start with cattle. 

Organic - pretty good 

Grass-fed - awesome

Grain-fed -it's not going to kill you. It's not gonna, it's not evil. It's not poison, but you don't want to be loading up on it. 

 

The real question comes. Grain-fed, that's your last choice. If you're at a restaurant or something, 99.9% of the time, it's going to be grain-fed, you just kind of deal with it. Grain-fed's down here, and the next in line, in terms of quality, you have organic, and the cream of the crop is 100% grass-fed. Let me dive into that a little bit. Organic meat doesn't tell you anything about the diet of the animal. The only thing that they're telling you is the cattle were raised on organic land. So the grass on this organic farm or whatever was not treated with certain pesticides, the animals cannot be treated with antibiotics unless they're sick. That's kind of tricky because who's sitting there regulating whether or not this animal is sick, right? 

 

Organic is really just telling you, the land that they're raised on is farmed and or in an organic manner. They're not using pesticides. They shouldn't be using hormones. I'm sure there are ethical farmers. And I'm sure there are unethical farmers. There's a lot of ways around that, but they shouldn't be using hormones or antibiotics. Antibiotics are only used if they're sick, but again, who's really regulating this stuff. 

The other thing you have to remember is there is a requirement for what they call grazing in their diet. So 30% to be labeled as organic meat, 30% of the animal's diet has to come from grazing. That means only 30% of its total diet is coming from grazing. The other 70% can be whatever the farmer decides. It can be grain-fed or organic. If it's organic and not grass-fed, they're feeding it grains. A hundred percent they're feeding it grains. Now, what happens when you feed an animal with grains? It gets sick. What happens when the animal gets sick? You can still inject it with antibiotics, even according to organic regulations. This does get tricky. If 70% of their diet is grains, the animals are going to get sick. At some point, they're probably going to get stuck with antibiotics. I don't think they can use hormones at all under any circumstances. I may have said that wrong initially, but antibiotics they can use when the animals are sick. If 70% of their diet is grains, the possibility is getting sick—pretty freaking good. I don't want to take those odds. 

Also, the fact that they have to have 30% of their diet coming from grazing, like outside eating grass, does not apply to the last hundred and 20 days of their life. Okay? You have 120 days of the animal's life where you can just fatten it up with grains and do whatever you want. You can shove grains in its face. You can watch it get sick. You can inject it with antibiotics, feed it more grains, watch it, get sick again. About the last 120 days of Wild West, these farmers can do whatever they want. Now that said, organic again is better than grain-fed. Grain-fed is usually coming from the feedlot. If you're going to just Google feedlot images or feedlot videos, or factory farm videos, holy crap, you're going to go nuts. You're gonna go nuts. All right. 

 

Probably don't want to go grain-fed. Organic? There are some issues there. The only thing that you can really trust is 100% grass-fed. Oh, another issue about organic. There are meats that you will find in your grocery store. If you're a food label detective, like I am, you will find organic meats labeled USDA Organic, US. USDA organic that were not produced in the United States. What? I can't understand it, right? It's crazy. You gotta be careful with the organic label. 

 

Now, a hundred percent grass-fed is what you're always looking for in beef. A hundred percent grass-fed means grass-fed and grass-finished. Because there are grass-fed cows that are grain-finished, and that goes into that 120 days of life, they can feed the animal grain. The animal can get sick. They fix it, blah, blah, blah. So grass-fed, grass- fittest, anything that's a hundred percent grass-fed. That's what you want to go with, in a perfect world. Now free-range versus pasture-raised, remember that free-range you never want to buy. Cage-free? You never want to buy because it's a loophole.

 

You could have what's a feedlot farm chicken stacked on top of each other, all over the place in this tiny little shed. And that shed can have a tiny little door. If you open that door for five minutes a day, you can be labeled free-range. That's insane to think about. These are loopholes. They're like tax loopholes. There are all these different little loopholes and everything, right? If you're not an unethical person, you can find loopholes in anything. That's what some of these farmers do. 

 

You always want pasture-raised. Pasture-raised means that the animal can access pasture to eat bugs and worms, any grass or whatever it wants to eat; 100% of the year. It always has access to pasture. The other thing about these free-range ones is even if they open that door, the animal walks outside. A lot of them are on cement and dirt. There is no pasture, so they might walk outside and get some sunlight, but you can't call the animal as pasture-raised. 

Don't get free-range. Don't get cage-free; only get pasture-raised poultry. Now to help you guys with this. There's a website called eatwild.com. I'll put this in the show notes. You can look at eatwild.com, and you can look up where to find these things in your area so you can make sure that you're making good choices. 

 

The other question I had was about wild-caught versus farmed. Never buy farmed fish ever. Farmed fish can really be toxic. It's pretty awful. Some countries actually ban farm fish like farm tilapia is banned in tons of countries. Farm salmon is banned in a lot of other countries. You will see on the back, there are nutrition facts; there are other ingredients. It has to say it's wild-caught; it has to display it on the label. You got to search sometimes; it's pretty tiny. I don't know why they don't put it in giant letters. Some companies put it in huge letters, but sometimes you've got to hunt and make sure this stuff's wild-caught. Always get wild-caught. 

 

Wild-caught versus farm is pretty tricky because it's like the animals. Like the cattle that we talked about, you're feeding them something that's not their natural diet. These fish get really sick. The problem with the fish is they get ill and excrete into the water that they're swimming in, and they get the other animals sick. Now you're talking about diseases, and they have inflammation all throughout their body. They have these inflammatory chemicals in their meat that you're eating that cause an inflammatory reaction in your body. It's nuts! A wild-caught fish also has like 10 times the omega-3 value; as I told you, you should supplement with Omega 3s. They're fantastic. Get them from wild-caught fish, right? It's like 10 times the amount of factory farm. And the factory farm fish have a ton of Omega 6s, which are inflammatory. 

 

Factory farm fish has literally been linked to heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer's. Literally, they've done clinical studies where they take farm fish and link it to those three issues. It's that inflammatory; it damages the body in a way you can't even wrap your head around. Okay. So that was the other one. 

 

We talked about grass-fed versus grain-fed versus organic. That also leads me to restaurants. People ask me about how to eat in a restaurant, right? If you go to a restaurant and they have wild-caught anything or grass-fed anything, it's going to be on the menu. It's going to be more expensive; they're going to brag about it. If you find them on the menu, just go with that, grab that and on the sides are steamed veggies. I always ask that upfront. I asked the waiter if they have anything wild-caught, anything grass-fed; that's what I order in a restaurant. If not, I'm going to order a burger, medium-rare. I'm going to ask for a fried egg on top of it. I'm going to ask for avocado on top of it. I'm going to ask for bacon on top of it, and I'm going to ask for no bun. I'm going to ask for a side of steamed broccoli, right? Steamed veggies, burger add extras to it like a fried egg, avocado, bacon. There you go. Is it the best option in the world? No, but you're not eating at home. You still have to be a human sometimes and go to restaurants, but you can make good decisions in restaurants. It's absolutely possible. So go ahead and do that. 

Let's see, we got about 12 minutes left. As I said, we can go a little bit. I'm going to hit a couple of quick questions that I had real quick. 

 

Question: Apps for tracking? 

Answer: If you're tracking your macronutrients, the 60% fat, 30% protein, 10% carbohydrates. My fitness pal. It's, by far, the most popular tracker out there. It's pretty good. I think you can set targets for your macronutrient ratios, which is helpful. I'm biased towards My Fitness Pal because they carry the most nutrient-dense line of nutritional powders worldwide. That's right. My fitness pal contains all formulas of The Perfect Paleo Powder, so I love them. Thank you, My fitness pal. You're awesome. 

 

You can download My Fitness Pal. You can track carbohydrates, fat protein. I think they do dietary fiber too, which helps you calculate net carbs. There's another one called Carb Manager. I haven't used carb manager myself, but it's centred entirely around carbohydrate tracking, which is awesome. Check checkout carb manager; there are a lot of people who have been telling me about it over the years. That is a great app. So carb manager, check that one out for tracking workouts. 

 

I had a question about beginner workouts.

Stronglifts 5x5. It's the single best workout I've found for beginners ever, and the app tracks everything. For iPhone app, Android app, search Stronglifts 5x5. I'll send you a link. Old-school barbell training it's good for everyone, including women. My other favorite is GMB, gold metal bodies. This is a type of gymnastics training, body, weight training, and gymnastic movements for mobility. Insane. It's it's fantastic. I went into it as a powerlifter. Like, what's the sissy bodyweight stuff. It totally kicked my as*. It's amazing. 

 

The other thing I get asked about a lot is motivation. This is going to get into a bit of a mindset. I've studied a lot of mindsets. I've gone deep on this stuff, consciousness mindset, all that last few years. Hyper-speed learning just tried a ton of stuff that has to do with cognitive enhancement, and mindset is the biggest part of that. 

 

When you asked me a question, like how do I get motivated? Or how do I stay motivated? How does Justin stay motivated to do the things that he does? Or how do I get motivated the way that you are motivated? That's the question. I get a lot because I do a lot of things. So how do you stay so motivated? 

 

Answer: I don't! I don't rely on motivation ever. I don't rely on motivation. Motivation will fail you every time. You have to fix your brain, right? There's motivation, and there's discipline. You don't need motivation. You need discipline. 

This is a hard pill to swallow sometimes because a lot of people really don't have discipline. If you hit your snooze button three, four times a day, you don't have discipline. You need to work on that. You need to hold yourself accountable and work on that. Discipline is a decision that you make, right? Ditch motivation and decide what person do you want to be, and set reasonable goals. So if it's January 1st and you decide you want to work out. Don't say I'm going to work out two hours a day, six days a week. When you haven't worked out for the last year, you're going to get so sore. You can't move, and you're going to quit. Day three, you're done, right? 

 

So just say, I'm going to go to the gym, and I'm going to do bodyweight squats for 10 minutes. I'm going to breaks in between as I need them, and I'm going to do that three times a week. That's 30 minutes total in three different sessions, right? Start there. That's a discipline that you can stick to. You can make the decision. I am a person who is going to go to the gym three days a week, right? You make that decision, and you do it. Who's going to hold you accountable? Nobody, nobody, except for you. You have to make that decision. I talked about this in earlier Ask Me Anything. I take an ice-cold shower. I wake up every day, and I take an ice-cold shower. It sucks every time! You never get used to it, never, but I know the health benefits, and I know the person I want to be. And I make that decision, and I do it. 

There is no debate about this. I fly out tomorrow to play a gig at Duke University. I'm going to be in a hotel. I'm going to do a cold shower in the hotel. I'm going to be in West Point, Iowa, on Saturday. I'm going to take a cold shower in the hotel, both mornings that I'm there. This is the decision that I make, and it's non-negotiable. You have to make nutrition and fitness non-negotiable for you. As I said, when you're at a party with family members, whatever, and they're making fun of you for the way you eat. No, no, no, you don't need motivation. You don't need willpower. You have discipline. You made the decision, right? 

 

A couple of books I want to recommend. If you really want to get into this mindset thing. One is called Mindset by Carol Dweck. It's a fantastic book. It focuses a lot on kids, and you'll learn that we were really brainwashed as kids. The public school system does a terrible job of training mindset. Oh, you're good at math; you're bad at English. The gymnasium exercise is your strong point, but your science and social studies are your weak points. Weak, strong, weak, strong. You can get good at anything in the world that you want to. That's an insane way to raise children, right? So read the book Mindset. I'll talk a lot about that. And then we talk about discipline. A lot of the discipline things that I've learned come from a guy called Jocko Willink. He's an ex-Navy Seal. This dude writes amazing books. He just released a really easy read. He calls it a field manual called Discipline Equals Freedom. Again, I'm going to put links to all these in the show notes. 

So Discipline Equals Freedom is a fantastic one. Then he has a beautiful book called Way Of The Warrior Kid. And this is about a kid who gets bullied at school. He can't do a pull-up. He thinks he's stupid because he doesn't know his multiplication tables, and no one's ever taught them correctly and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. His uncle Jake, a Navy Seal, comes and stays with them for the summer and teaches them all these amazing things. If you read this book  Way Of The Warrior Kid and you don't just get crazy motivated. If you're looking for motivation, that's going to give it to you. It's going to talk to you a lot about discipline, but it will get you hyped. You're reading this book about this adorable kid who just changes his whole life by changing his mindset, right? 

It's a children's book that every grownup in the world should read. I'm telling you, you should read this book. It's fantastic. So Mindset, Discipline Equals Freedom, Way Of The Warrior Kid. Where does my personal motivation come from? It doesn't come from motivation. It comes from discipline. It is simply a choice that I make every day, day in, day out, no days off. It is a decision, right? Okay. 

We touched on a lot. That was a heavy AMA. You guys are frying my brain out there. Those of you in the room, we can hit on some quick Q and A's. If you want to, if there's any questions you have about what I talked about and something about organic meat or something about my products, The Perfect Paleo Powder. Any of the supplements that I named, or also the beginning, which was the 60, 30, 10. Just go ahead and leave me comments. You can do that right now. I'll read them as they come in while we're wrapping up. 

 

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We've got some cool things coming up with the AMAs going forward. We're going to make them a little easier to share for all of you guys, and it's going to be really cool. I think we're going to do some real good and spread a lot of excellent information. Thank you guys very much for watching. This is Ask Me Anything Number Three. We touched on a whole lot of stuff. Leave me comments. Let me know if you have questions. 

 

We got one coming in right now. 

Question:

If you're on a strict budget, what few adjustments are the best to make to get the most bang for your buck, food quality, supplements, cookware?

 

Answer:

The single best thing that you could do is restrict your grocery list, right? That's the quickest way to save money. As I said, I am on an approved foods list, and I'll send this to you, but people think that they need this long list of groceries, right? No, that's the last thing you want. I can get in and out of the grocery store in five minutes. You just get a few staples and eat the same foods over and over and over, which is incredibly healthy. If you're getting high-quality stuff, then that's going to save you a ton of money. Don't stroll through the aisles and look for this, or junior wants this, or husband wants this, or whatever, and start grabbing snacks and stuff. That's really where the expense comes from. It's not that expensive to eat healthily. 

Like I said, if you're on a budget, try to get at least organic meat. Organic meat or grass-fed beef, if you can. Grass-fed would be super expensive. The eatwild.com website will help you because it'll help you find a local farm and get some of these things locally. New York, you can totally do that. I would check that out. Supplements probably Pure Encapsulations it's a multivitamin. I would just get everyone in your family on that multivitamin; that's a solid product. Go with a multivitamin. In terms of cookware. I use one thing for cooking. For sautéing, that is a cast-iron skillet. I think it's called iron lodge or something like that, but just a big 12-inch or 16-inch cast-iron skillet, and then just the pot for steam and veggies. 

That's literally all I have, that's it. You don't need crazy amounts of cookware. A little steam basket might help. They're like five bucks on Amazon, right. I have a steam basket. I have one pot. I have one cast-iron skillet. That's it. The only thing I use every day besides that is my French press. 

 

Let's look through here.

 

Question: Any additional supplement suggestions for immune systems? 

 

Answer: Yes. Okay. I remember that. So the teacher worried about the immune system. The number one thing I'll recommend to you is called Host Defense, My Community. Host Defense is a series of mushrooms. It is a boatload of extracted mushrooms, and I use it every day. It's two capsules a day. You can get it on Amazon; I'll send you a link. Host Defense, My Community, that's the best one I've found for immune support. I heard about this, people raving about it on a podcast. 

I started taking it. It's fantastic. Twice a day. It's super affordable. I think it's like 30 bucks a month or something like that. It will help you big time being a school teacher. Absolutely! Immune support is super important. 

 

You might wanna think about a multivitamin, too. As I said, Healthy Cell Pro is the peak multivitamin you can get, but it's 90 bucks a month, right? Maybe try the Pure Encapsulations Multivitamin. But specifically for immune support, you want to grab the Host Defense, My Community. I've never seen a product like this. It's just fantastic. So that's what you want to go with. 

 

I'll hang here for a minute. See if we have any other additional questions that pop in. Don't leave me hanging, guys. Somebody got to ask me something, right? 

 

Yeah, I know we touched on a lot.

 

All right, so we'll probably wrap it up for today. I hope that this was informative. If it was, as I said, share it with your family, tag them, click the like button. Thank you guys so much for doing this and for being a part of this. For allowing me to do this, it means a lot to me. Keep the questions coming all week long. Keep the questions coming. 

 

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