399: The #1 Food Switch to Boost Energy Now

Jarrod 0:00

We didn't know. That's the thing. Now we know that there is hope. When you're in the midst of it and you feel like there's no hope, it's just this overwhelming feeling of despair. And there were many times Anita said, "If I thought the doctors would find anything, I would have you take me to the ER because I feel like I'm dying."

Anita 0:19

Well, I'd already been

Jarrod 0:19

how bad it

Anita 0:20

Oh, it was awful and I'd already been to so many appointments and I had had scans and tests and lab work and people more natural trying to figure out what to do and there just weren't the answers I had diagnosis given, which are gone now, like interstitial cystitis and fibrocystic breast disease that, "Oh, that's just normal. I want you to think about all that you've accomplished in this life. What if you could 10X that because your body is finally backing you 100%? That's what we help Christian entrepreneurs do. Welcome to Power on Plants, the podcast where we harness the incredible power of Whole Plant Foods and God's word to optimize your energy and your productivity so you can maximize your revenue, reach, and impact. I'm Anita Russell, a nurse and certified integrative nutrition health coach.

Jarrod 2:14

And I'm Jared Russell, a physician assistant certified in lifestyle medicine.

Anita 2:18

As the plant-based productivity experts, executive performance coaches to purpose-driven Christian entrepreneurs, We show you the exciting way to fuel your body that it was perfectly designed to thrive in. So inflammation naturally fades away and your energy soars and you can finally have the body that fully backs you living your God-given dreams without any exhausting methods like stacking a list of meds to manage symptoms or keeping up with numbers and small portions Or willpowering through your meals you don't even like in another attempt to get healthy. We know there's so much confusing information out there about how to heal your body that it can wear you out. If you're thinking, "I just wish someone would walk me through the exact system to finally feeling good in the way that's enjoyable so it lasts," that's exactly what we do inside the accelerator experience. Join the wait list today to find out when applications for the next cohort are available at poweronplants.com/accelerator. And today we're talking about something that's really fun. I shared a question yesterday. I said, "Jared, What's the number one thing our clients can do to optimize their energy and productivity to 10x their business impact?" And this is so fun because this is what we are experts in. There are so many things that you can do naturally. They're not hard, they don't take a long time, it's not drudgery, you won't hate it. It's actually enjoyable. could I ask him, "If we could just give one thing today on the podcast that would really start moving the needle for you. What would that one thing be? And what'd you say?

Jarrod 3:56

I said, "Get rid of seed oils."

Anita 3:58

That's our story. Get rid of seed oils. So what happened in the beginning with us? We were 75 pounds overweight. I was exhausted. I had no energy. Jared was literally like, "What would you do every day when you came home from work?" I was exhausted.

Jarrod 4:12

It was pretty much if there was any hope of dinner, I would need to take the kids so that she could use what remaining little bit of energy she had left to prepare something. And it was not uncommon for her to pull a stool up to the stove.

Anita 4:24

I had you pulling the stool up. Do you

Jarrod 4:27

There, there were probably those days too. Thankfully it's been A long time. But I do have visual memories of coming in. Of course the kids, "Daddy's home." And then like, "Hey, if you want dinner, you take the kids." And

Anita 4:40

It was awf- it was awful days. I can laugh now and It was not funny at the time, but the reason I can laugh is because there's so much joy from what we've escaped. When you're on the other side of something and you realize I could have broken freeze so much earlier if someone had, would have just told me,

Jarrod 4:55

We didn't know. That's the thing. Now we know that there is hope. When you're in the midst of it and you feel like there's no hope, it's just this overwhelming feeling of despair. And there were many times Anita said, "If I thought the doctors would find anything, I would have you take me to the ER because I feel like I'm dying."

Anita 5:14

Well, I'd already been

Jarrod 5:15

how bad it

Anita 5:16

Oh, it was awful and I'd already been to so many appointments and I had had scans and tests and lab work and people more natural trying to figure out what to do and there just weren't the answers I had diagnosis given, which are gone now, like interstitial cystitis and fibrocystic breast disease that, "Oh, that's just normal. It's nothing to worry about. Well, when you have your body walling off something and it leaves a nodule, it's not normal, There's something going

Jarrod 5:42

Just because there's a prevalence of something that doesn't equate normal, wrap your mind around that because if everybody is doing the same habit which leads to the same outcome, does that mean that's really normal? No, that's just a little side nugget of information. but, think about that "Well, my daddy had high cholesterol, my granddaddy had high cholesterol." That doesn't mean it's normal.

Anita 6:06

No, and you know what else they had? They had the same eating habits, very similar eating habits.

Jarrod 6:11

Yes.

Anita 6:11

Yeah, and so even when you're eating clean, you're still eating a lot of the same foods and you're eating organic free range. We were going to the farm, buying our eggs, our meat, no, that's when we hit rock bottom and it was because of the nature of the foods that we were eating. Yes, you're going to do better if you get off the processed mess Absolutely. But there are a lot of us especially entrepreneurs and high level thinkers who are already busting out of the highly processed foods and we don't understand why we still feel bad, why we're not doing well, while we're having to force our body to get up in the morning and falling into bed at night and doing it all over again day after day after day, that's no way to live. You weren't meant to watch your children and grandchildren from the sidelines. You're meant to run and play with them to travel the world to create memories together. You weren't meant to just show up for 100,000, 200,000 clients. You were meant to be able to show up for millions if that's what God's called you to do. Why limit yourself, The enemy wants to limit you. Go back and listen to the last podcast. If you have not heard it, as soon as this is over, go back and listen. I won't go into all that right now, but what Jared said is the seed oils. And it's oils in general though. I mean, he would say seed oils first, but all oils we know are inflammatory.

Jarrod 7:25

I was thinking something that would be very easily doable for somebody hearing this message for the first time, because I talk with patients all the time. I'm still actively seeing a full patient load week by week and I introduce this concept to them and it's different than what they've heard. I can see the resistance on their face or hear it sometimes in their voice of "I gotta give up this. Like, "Well, you don't have to do any of that, but if you want optimal results, then this is the way to get it. But if they could remove the seed oils, that right there would be a huge jump and that's really where we got our first movement toward a positive direction. So Anita was just in this downward spiral trying to find answers. I don't know how many thousands of dollars we spent on supplements and nothing was ever quite working. And then one day got a journal from my PA association, the American Academy of PAs and it mentioned,

Anita 8:18

Before you say that, just the whole cabinet full of supplements, do you know what that's like? I'm just thinking about you listening right now. What does your supplement cabinet look like? And we think, we can bottle up the answer, but we were trying so many supplements. Sometimes you get relief because sometimes you're really low in something, but you have to understand something that we've realized and we go into this inside Accelerator, you will not believe how many nutrients are in whole plant foods that they have discovered and they don't know how they work yet, but yet they have people worrying about just a couple and cranking out supplements for those few.

Jarrod 8:56

and they extract them out of foods, but then what about all those other hundreds and thousands of nutrients that are in there with that one specific one? Created But of those- I

Anita 9:06

right? Created to work in synergy. So you start ripping it out and you don't get the same effect and sometimes you get harmful effects when they're ripped out. That's the other thing.

Jarrod 9:15

to get too much of even things like vitamins.

Anita 9:18

There are doctors that are standing up against multivitamins now, a large portion of them. And so don't take a multivitamin just because you're trying to cover all your bases. You really need to understand what's happening because a lot of these things are manmade or they're just ripped out of what God put them in and we're learning and finding out more and more through the research that they don't work the same way and that they can actually be detrimental to your health. So we'll move on from that because we could do a whole thing or probably a whole week or month on supplements,

Jarrod 9:47

So I got the PA journal in and it was talking about omega-3s and omega-6s and the different oils that we have. So I thought, oh, interesting. So I started reading through it and then realized with that article the balance of the omega-3s and sixes, which you were going to get these omega fats naturally in plants and you're going to get them in the right ratio. I don't know that people were eating canola seeds, back in the past making oil from it.

Anita 10:15

I can tell you that it doesn't hang on trees by the bottle. God didn't create it to hang on trees by the bottle but we're pouring it on by the bottle. And even the healthier oils, again, Jared, I'm going away from the seeds. I know your whole thing is like the, the, um, seed oils and, We talk about those because we know they're the worst offenders, but we do know that other oils are inflammatory as well. And so I just wanna be talking about all oils, but the Southern girl in me understands that you're sitting there listening right now going, "How am I supposed to cook, eat, or live without oils?" And maybe you're thinking, "I could never give up all oils." It is the easiest, simplest thing when you know how you will not miss it. But let me tell you what else you give up when you give up oil, 120 calories per tablespoon. Now, I don't know about you, but when I eat a salad back in the day, a healthy big salad, I wasn't just putting a tablespoon of oil on my salad. And then the oil in all the other foods, the packaged foods that are in the grocery store, you don't even realize how much oil you're eating. Start looking at the back of your herb bottles. You'll probably be shocked unless you already know this. Oil is being used so many places and maybe you think, "Oh, I've been off seed oils for a long time." It's probably in something else that you're eating

Jarrod 11:27

And you may not even realize

Anita 11:28

may not even

Jarrod 11:28

dried fruits, they get coated in oil. Why? Because it helps to maintain the moisture inside the fruit by creating an oily barrier.

Anita 11:36

sto- you're stirring me up right now.

Jarrod 11:38

in the beginning, we stopped the seed oils and we traded to walnut oil to olive oil and avocado oil, because those had a better omega-3, omega-6 ratio and after a couple of weeks, Anita started getting some improvement. Now, in hindsight, we would have cut out all oils like we do now and I think we would have seen bigger improvements much faster. But if somebody's coming to me and say, "Jared, I'm hurting, I'm tired, what is just one thing that I can do right now is to get rid of the corn oil, the canola oil, all the different seed oils."

Anita 12:16

Somehow we think vegetable oil and we think it's gonna be better because it's vegetable but it's pressed out and it's something that we were never meant to eat in that way. We just weren't. so it's just, it's one of those things that is being used in everything, a super high calorie. It is known to be inflammatory and it was behind the pain I had in my finger joints, in my wrist, in my elbows, in my shoulders. Jared had it. We thought we were just getting older. We just kind of accepted. It's like,

Jarrod 12:45

My pain was more of an annoyance though. And I say this as an encouragement because if you're like I was and you feel like, "Well, I'm not that bad off. Yeah, my shoulder bothers me a little bit and I kind of toss and turn at night because I'm a litle bit achy." Mine went away. It went away,

Anita 13:02

gone. And then we had things like the sluggish blood flow. Our vessels were starting to clog. Now I say starting to clog, it had probably been happening since we were young children. This has been found in super young children. I'm talking preschool.

Jarrod 13:17

What we know is that blockages Well, do- I, I'll go back. Dr. Gregor says anyone that's 10 years or older, they don't recommend going plant-based to prevent disease. As young as 10, they recommend it to reverse the disease that's already started. Let that sink in, but then the next thing is they find these cholesterol plaques in children as young as four. So even at the age of 10, it's been going on for several years before they get to that point, but initially it doesn't block the blood flow that happens later. So when we're young, we're invincible, we eat this way, we think, "I don't have any problems."

Anita 13:54

This is a healthy way to eat. Yeah, and we're told it's healthy. It's clean. It's organic. It's free range. It's You know, I was sitting there looking at the stuff going, "There are no nitrates and nitrites in this. Look at this. And I would look for which ones don't have the RBST hormones added. When I would buy cheese, never thinking about all the hormones and things that were in it and the inflammatory oils that were added to a bunch of these things. Vegan cheese. Oh, I'm doing so much better. There are a lot of oils and vegan cheeses so that you can make it without oil. It's not hard. You just don't know how. It's different. That's all. It is simple, but it's different for you. And so it can feel hard and you don't know what to do, but when you have the system in place and you have someone who's walked through it to show you, who knows that client after client has reversed the top diseases of our time and these are the quote chronic diseases. I'm doing air quotes because you're labeled something and you're told you're gonna have it for life. I've been told I was gonna have a lot of things I'd have for life that are gone, including the noise I had in my neck and my mom had to have carotid artery surgery, I was headed there because when I laid on my side, I could literally hear the blood flow in my neck. That's not normal. That's not normal. You should not be hearing that, It's gone.

Jarrod 15:10

this is not unique to Anita. I heard a doctor the other day talking about how I think he's in his mid to late 50s, he had that same issue, he went plant-based and they did ultrasound on his carotid arteries and those blockages are gone. He's on YouTube. He talks about it.

Anita 15:26

It's been documented many times. Ornish did a study. It's very clear to see it on there. Apparently this doctor now has it out. I would love to see his. I wonder if he's published his study or, his ultrasound. But I mean, I

Jarrod 15:38

he shows it on

Anita 15:39

we see it happen all the time. People's blood pressure reverses. Why does it reverse because those things are opening back up because the inflammation is going down. And it can happen so much more quickly than you think. I mean, the modern medical answer is to give another blood pressure medicine "Oh, now it's controlled you're healthy. "No, you're not. The symptoms are still going on behind the surface and these oils are stirring things up for you causing more inflammation in your joints and in your vessels and blood flow affects everything, So it's not just the oils that are causing your blood to get thick, but the oils can be behind a lot of the pain and inflammation that you're having in the low energy. I was drained. I was completely drained. I have more energy today than I had when I was 40. That is crazy. Like You may have heard me say before I used to be living for the time counting the moment so I could get in bed. Now I have to set an alarm to remind myself to go to bed. It's a whole different problem. Great problem to have. If you want your energy restored and you're saying," What is the one thing I can do today? "I think that was a great recommendation. That's one of the

Jarrod 16:42

I think very quickly you'll get results. You probably won't get complete resolution, but you'll get that, Wow, I feel better." And for us, that gave us the hope that we needed and then we saw now we're finally moving someone in the right direction

Anita 16:57

well, the thing is if you could do one thing like that with one food or one food category and that one thing can have that big of effect on your health, what would now be possible for you if you were getting another thing and another thing and another thing and now you're stacking victories instead of stacking diagnosis.

Jarrod 17:19

stacking strategies. so you get these different strategies that you add and now you're seeing massive results.

Anita 17:26

And we know the strategies and we help people stack the strategies. And again, if you can find the strategies that are not hard, not time consuming and actually enjoyable on top of that,

Jarrod 17:40

And by enjoyable, we mean taste amazing.

Anita 17:43

amazing. I love that. And by enjoyable, we mean taste amazing. What are you not going to be able to accomplish? What is your body not going to be able to have improvement from when your blood vessels open back up? The inflammation goes down. Your gut wall is rebuilding and you no longer have leaky gut.

Jarrod 18:07

And you're actually putting many of those thousands and hundreds of thousands of phytonutrients into your body. They only get there when you consume them and they're found in plants. So your blood's flowing, you actually have those phytonutrients in your body, but now they're able to flow to where they need to go to achieve that optimal result. What would that do? What would that make possible for you today?

Anita 18:31

And I love what you're saying about the phytonutrients because they are only found in plants. It actually means plant nutrients and there are millions of them, a lot of them that we know about. There's so many different ways I could go right now. Like, so many things I wanna talk about, so many things we wanna tell you and share with you, but not to bombard you and waterhose you with information. We are all about giving you the things that start getting you results here because we don't have time to lay out the whole framework and work with you and get your questions answered and help you find what's going to work for you. That's what we do inside Accelerator. So if you're thinking," You know what? I'm a busy entrepreneur. I don't have time. I'm sick of dealing with all this stuff. I just want the way to make this work and I'm ready to do what it takes because this is gonna work with my busy schedule and I'm actually gonna enjoy it. I'm over dieting. I'm over all the old ways of doing things. Then you wanna go right now and get your name on the wait list so that you can receive an application when they become available for our accelerator experience. That's the eight week experience with me and Jared where we are coaching you, where we're available to you daily, where we have live coaching calls with the group, where you can really start dialing in and getting the results. You get the real taste and see experience. You know, this isn't for everyone, but it is going to be perfect for some of you and we see time and again when people plug into the system, step one, two, three, four, five, boom, results, because you get that taste and see and you understand, "Oh, it isn't difficult. Oh, this is actually easier than the way I prepped food before. Oh, this actually tastes good or even better than my old favorites. This is crazy. This doesn't even make sense." I can get my life back. You're kidding me. what is that worth to you? Because if you understand, and I know you do because particularly purpose-driven entrepreneurs understand that you have a calling on your life and dreams that you wanna see fulfilled and you're sick of the enemy stealing from you. It doesn't have to be. Accelerator is where we band together against the enemy and we put those things into place where we literally say, "No more. I'm done with that. I'm stepping into the full vision of what God's given me to accomplish in this world." it's like the Bible says, "My yoke is easy, my burden is light." Look that up if you've never studied the yoke of an oxen, you need to understand that. When you're walking life with him and you have his methods and his ways of doing things, it's not difficult. What you've been told is difficult or the methods you've been shown in the past that you know are difficult that are never gonna keep you where they might've been able to get you. They're never gonna keep you there. Jared says this all the time, what gets you there needs to keep you there, So if you can find that way that you love and you can because it's here, your life will change in amazing ways and you'll be able to accomplish all your God-given dreams, those things that you are placed here to accomplish in this world. We love being a part of your journey. We are thrilled to be able to help you with this. Take this on step today, start getting the seed oils and if you're ready, take the next step all the oils out. We show you exactly how to do that. It is not hard and it tastes amazing. Ride inside Accelerator at powerandplants.com/accelerator. And if you're thinking, "You know what? I'm gona apply for Accelerator, but I've gotta start having these results now. I need to know what to start cooking now." Go to Power and Plants.comforwardslashCookbook where we give you our tried and true recipes to start getting that taste and sea experience and understand how this is going to make you feel so much better and you can actually enjoy it. Know that you are loved, you're prayed for, and we will see you soon.