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Look, I just want to tell you this is one of the things that we specialize in, helping you increase your productivity.
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And we say 10x your productivity.
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Right here is the reason we say 10x.
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Not only because we see it, not only because Daniel says this, but he specifically says 10x.
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Does it not say 10x or 10 times right here?
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10 times.
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10x words.
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So if you are looking to 10x your productivity, to 10x your mental clarity, to 10x your appearance, it says your physical appearance.
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If you want to look better, if you want to feel better, if you want to Welcome to the Power on Plants podcast, home of the purpose-driven men and women who refuse to let their body become the bottleneck to their God-given calling.
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If you're building a business, raising up the next generation, and carrying vision, but behind the scenes your energy is fading, inflammation is rising, your laughs aren't great, and you're wondering how much longer can I keep pushing like this?
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So I have this friend named Chad.
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We've been friends now for the better part of a year.
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Great guy, loves the Lord.
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He's an entrepreneur, he owns his own business, but like many of you, he has some health issues that he feels like are holding him back.
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Now we've talked a number of times about health and whole food plant base.
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Given with what Anita and I do, it's not a shock that this topic does seem to come up.
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And he has expressed some interest through the last year, but he never quite took the dive until recently.
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He and his wife through his church are doing a Daniel fast, and he tells me about 10 days into it, he said, You know, Jared, you're right.
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My wife and I, we feel like our energy is picking up, we're feeling better, aches and pains are going away.
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They're starting to notice the difference.
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But when he said the Daniel Fast, something stirred inside of me.
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And I told him, hey buddy, that's not a Daniel fast.
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That is a Daniel feast.
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Your business vision is clear and your strategies are solid, but your body will not consistently back you up.
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Welcome to Power on Plants.
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I'm Anita Roussel, a nurse and certified integrative nutrition health coach.
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And I'm Jared Roussel, a physician assistant specialized in lifestyle medicine.
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And we show you how to fuel your body so the chronic inflammation fades, your energy fully shows up, and you can finally execute on what you're called to create without any miserable dieting or restriction or eating foods you don't enjoy in the name of health.
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We use the five-step system that consistently gets results called the accelerator blueprint.
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So if you're thinking, I just wish someone would show me the exact steps to get my body on the right track that's enjoyable so it will last.
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You can learn more about accelerator today at poweronplants.com forward slash accelerator.
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Now today we're talking about the Daniel fast.
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We love this topic because here's the thing it's not a fast.
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Fasting means you abstain from food.
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But when you do the Daniel fast, you're eating multiple times a day, loading your plate with whole plant foods.
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When you think about it, you're returning to the premium fuel your body was designed to run on.
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So what should we really call it?
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Jared and I have agreed.
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We should actually call it the Daniel Feast.
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So it's time to put Jared in the hot seat.
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Why do you think people call it a Daniel fast?
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I think they call it the Daniel Fast because that's what it's been called forever.
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But why did somebody first choose that, do you think?
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Well, because in the beginning they were not eating any of the king's rich foods, the meats and the wines.
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So because they weren't eating what all their contemporaries were eating, people consider it a fast.
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But that's not what they called it in scripture.
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Did Daniel call it a fast?
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Did he say, I'm gonna go on a fast?
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No, he never referred to it as a fast.
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When you look back in chapter one of the book of Daniel, Daniel, Hananiah, Meshael, and Azariah, also better known as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they were taken into Babylonian captivity.
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So the king of Babylon took all the young men from Israel and wanted to put them into his service.
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So he first started by saying, All of these young men, they will eat my rich foods and my wine.
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But Daniel and his three friends did not want to subject themselves to that.
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So they told the overseer, hey, listen, we know what the king said, but just give us vegetables and water.
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But the overseer, he was frightened that if he didn't follow the king's orders, he might get his head chopped off.
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But then Daniel said, Listen, just test us for 10 days, see how we do, and if we're not better than all the other young men, then we'll go back to the regular food.
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So the overseer agreed.
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And then for 10 days, they ate vegetables and water.
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And guess what?
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10 days later, they not only were better in appearance, but they were more robust in their flesh.
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They actually looked healthier.
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And how long?
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10 days.
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Not 10 weeks, not 10 months, but just in a week and a half.
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A great point.
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You know, I've never thought about the timing of that.
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That's amazing because we see people get results very, very quickly eating this way.
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I mean, in as little as three to four days, 10 days, like if you're going strong for 10 days all in, you're gonna start seeing some really big changes, feeling some incredible changes by that point.
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And this is what my friend Chad noticed too.
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He even said, I'm about 10 or 11 days into this and I'm already noticing that I feel better, aches and pain and energy is better.
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Isn't that amazing?
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I mean, we have scripture evidence of this.
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And maybe you're tempted to think, yeah, Jared doesn't really get what the Bible's saying there because he doesn't really understand the Hebrew.
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And the reason Daniel would do this is because he didn't want to defile himself.
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It says that in Daniel 1.8, right?
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He did not want to defile himself by eating the portion of delicacies of the kings.
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Well, the truth is that many times the king's meat and the things they were eating were sacrificed to idols.
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So that may be one of the big reasons Daniel wanted to eat this way.
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But then we look at what he said in Daniel 1.13.
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He said, and then after we've eaten this way, come back and examine us and look at our appearance.
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Look at our appearance.
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So what did Daniel know?
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He knew that eating these foods, whole plant foods, was going to positively affect his appearance.
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Now, where do you think Daniel might have gotten that idea?
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Perhaps Genesis 129 and the verses that come soon after Genesis 129 that talk about how these are the foods that our bodies were created to optimally run on.
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Yes, and to see the defilement inside of him, the overseers would not have seen that.
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I mean, that just would be ludicrous.
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So he brought it back to physically, how do I look?
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Am I not stronger, more vibrant than the other young men that are eating the king's foods?
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Right.
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It was not an original Daniel idea.
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And yes, I would say in this case, it had to do with both.
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You can't really leave one or the other out.
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But we know that he knew ahead of time this was going to affect his physical appearance, his strength, his stamina, his robustness, right?
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That's what the one version says, his robustness.
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So he knew that it was going to affect him positively because he knew scripture, because he followed the one true God.
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And another argument is this was a one-time blessing because he was obedient in the food laws, quote unquote, and God blessed him.
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And we do see that, and I'll mention that in just a moment.
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But short term, within that 10 days, he was physically stronger.
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He looked, as Anita said, more robust.
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So I don't think that it was just simply a blessing of God.
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I think it was a combination of that.
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We just know this is the most life-giving way to eat, and it was the original plan.
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All Daniel did was go back to the original plan, and we see evidence of that.
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So we've got scriptural evidence of what this way of eating can do.
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It goes on to say right afterwards that those four men became skilled in literature and wisdom.
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Daniel had understanding of visions and dreams.
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The king inquired of these four men in every matter of wisdom and understanding.
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It even says they were ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters of Babylon.
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So was this simply a blessing?
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Well, certainly it could be.
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I mean, the Lord gives wisdom.
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Yes, God bless any time we do what he says and we follow his guidance, he is going to bless it.
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But we cannot deny the fact that he knew ahead of time that his body was going to appear differently.
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And we also see in a current times, even with the food and the food system the way it is, some people say, Oh, well, the food's not going to be as good as it used to be because all the things that people have done to the soil and this and that, and they get all freaked out about that.
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Well, you can't worry about that.
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These still are the best foods.
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We can still look into them and see they are filled with the nutrients that our bodies absolutely require.
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And so getting back to your point where you're talking about mental clarity, the ability to think things through and come up with better plans.
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This is the thing that people are struggling with so much today, especially busy leaders, brain fog.
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Like I just can't think or I feel anxious.
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It can affect our moods.
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The foods you eat affects your mood and your ability to think and be creative and all those things we need our body to do and back us up in on a regular basis as purpose-driven leaders.
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And when you look back in Genesis, before Adam fell, we were still eating physical food.
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Our body still needed physical nourishment.
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And it was a blessing.
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It gave us what we physically needed.
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So we can't really separate the two.
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Now I went and did just a little bit of a dive looking at the word vegetable in this passage.
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And it comes from the Hebrew word zeroim, which refers broadly to seed-bearing plants because they use the word and they translate it as vegetable, but it means seed-bearing plants, including vegetables, legumes, grains, and other plant-based foods.
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You are making me hungry.
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But we see that it's exactly what Genesis 129 was referring to.
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All the green plants, the seed-bearing plants.
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It wasn't just veggies.
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Some people have said it was grains or no, it was pulses, meaning beans and legumes.
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No, it was really referring to all seed-bearing plants.
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That's so, so good.
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And why is that?
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These are the foods that have life within them.
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Think about it.
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Why would God specify seed-bearing plants or the seeds?
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Why is that important?
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We know that seeds, as a general rule, are very healthy for us.
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But what is it specifically about a seed or a seed-bearing plant?
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What do we know that a seed does?
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We have to march these things out and think them through and ask better questions.
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Dig a little deeper.
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Yeah, what does the seed do?
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It holds within it life.
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It is a life-giving food.
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So these are the foods that if you take them and replant them, what is going to happen?
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The life is in it.
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Those seeds, they die to being a seed, but then they grow the plant.
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The life grows from there.
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And then it bears more fruit and more seed.
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And then it just continues.
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When you look at animals, when they die, there's no further reproduction, there's no further spreading or propagation.
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What you're saying is there's you're saying there's no life in the life in them.
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Right.
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Our body acts accordingly when we put those things in it.
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I just want you to wrap your mind around that for a minute.
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I know I'm pausing and talking a little slower, but sometimes we need a chance to process what we're listening to.
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And I really think that's one of those things that can help you understand why your body is having such a hard time when you're quote, clean eating, right?
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Jared and I were clean eating, eating organic, free-range, cage-free.
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No hormone added.
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Exhausting, doing all those things that we thought would make us healthy when we hit our biggest health wall.
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Our bodies just said, look, we cannot keep up at this pace.
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You're not giving me the nutrients that I require to fully back you up.
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And so could it possibly be that it all boils down to the fact that there is no life in those foods that you're regularly putting on your plate?
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Our son Andrew, he's 17 at the time of recording, and he loves taking seeds and soaking them in water and sticking them on a windowsill.
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Anytime we get different beans, he's done this with garbanzos and penta, I mean all kinds of beans.
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You name it.
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And what happens?
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It's been done.
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Within a week or two, there's life that emerges from this seemingly inanimate object.
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Yes.
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Those seeds may be hibernating, but that's exactly what they're doing.
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They're hibernating.
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It doesn't seem like there's life in it, but when you give it the right conditions, the life starts to emerge.
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Now do that with a piece of steak.
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Right, exactly.
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Picture that.
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What's going to happen?
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It's going to start what?
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Rot stinking.
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It's going to rot.
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It'll rot and it starts stinking.
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It's not good.
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There is nothing about that that makes me hungry right now.
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You're totally not making me hungry right now.
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It's kind of grossing me out a little bit.
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And it's so funny what happens when you stop eating these foods.
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They don't even smell the same to you anymore.
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They lose their attraction and their hold over you.
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And you start getting life into you, these foods then bring your body to life.
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So maybe it's a good thing to ask, why do I feel so sluggish?
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Maybe this is the answer, right?
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So could what we're talking about today possibly be the answer to the question why does my body constantly feel so tired and so sluggish?
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And that is an excellent question.
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I remember years ago thinking that that was a sign of I had just had a great meal.
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Oh, that I needed to go and rest and digest, that my belly was full of quote unquote good food, and that I needed to digest this and just relax.
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And I felt that way.
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I felt tired and sluggish, and I just needed to go have a break, have a rest.
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I always fell asleep after meals.
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Always.
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Like I don't remember the last time you fell asleep after a meal, but you always fell asleep after meals.
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And that was why.
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And now that we eat this way, I realize my food energizes me.
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I never feel that way.
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And this is why, because these are life-giving foods.
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They don't pull resources from your body, they actually add life to your body.
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And I'm going to throw this in there because y'all know how I am about getting more raw foods.
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It is so important for you.
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And it's not just salads.
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There are so many ways you can eat raw food.
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And it doesn't have to be cold.
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If you're just now getting started, don't even worry about it.
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Just you're going to eat some raw.
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Just mix it in when you can.
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I'm just saying this so that you can start putting more raw in as you're able.
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Right now, just eat more plants, okay?
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But if you want to take it next level, keep the life in the plants by keeping them raw whenever possible.
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Even dehydrating them under 115 degrees or heating raw meals in a dehydrator.
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Once you get it to 115 degrees, it is going to be about the temperature that after your server in a restaurant would bring your meal to the table and set it in front of you.
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It's 115 is about the point where you would start touching it, that it wouldn't be so hot, it would burn your tongue.
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So you can heat your food up to that and still be eating raw because you could still take that food and put it into the ground or that seed that was heated that hot and put it into the ground and it would still grow more food.
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It still has the life-giving nutrients in it.
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And that's an important distinction because you're keeping the enzymatic activity.
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You're not denaturing any of the proteins.
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If you were to take an apple seed and bake it to, I don't know, 200 degrees, you will not be able to put that seed in the ground and have it produce a tree.
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But if you keep it at 115 and below, it will.