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and instinctual,

and something that

we're kind of detached from.

Push! Push!

Push! Come on, mate!

[Darryl]

Misconceptions about exercise

is that it has to be punishing.

It has to be grueling.

It has to be something

that you have to do

as part of...

Almost treat it as a hobby

or something that you do

when you have some free time.

Exercise should be,

or activity most importantly,

should be about integration

with your day-to-day life.

It's like we...

As adults, we're like...

We try and schedule in our play,

and you can't do that.

You have to kind of wing it

a little bit.

It's not that

we don't have time.

'Cause that's a crock.

We just don't know how to do it.

It's like,

if I told most adults,

"All right, here's a field.

There's a tree. There's this,

there's that. Go play."

They'd just stand there

like lumps.

They wouldn't know what to do.

They wouldn't go climb the tree,

or roll around, or anything.

And it's kind of sad

that we just forget

how to do that.

[Irena]

I think you need

a certain balance

of not moving too much

and having enough rest.

We know

we're chronically under-slept

and stressed.

[Farley] So, if we get someone

who is doing the sprint work,

and they're eating right,

but then they're staying up

till two in the morning

watching TV,

it's completely

counter-productive.

A lack of sleep is a great way

for you to continue

to have issues

with managing weight.

Part of that is because

your cortisol production

tends to be out of whack.

Also, the hunger hormones,

the ghrelin, the leptin,

can also be kind of confused

based on a lack of sleep.

And that can all stem

from the amount

of light exposure you get,

the time

for your melatonin production.

So if you're using

a lot of electronic devices

at night,

your body is

not prepared for sleep.

So you have less deep sleep

and less REM sleep,

and then the cycle

kind of continues.

So sleep is extremely important,

and the hormones

that are kind of involved

in managing sleep

and managing

and regulating appetite

are all inter-linked.

So, as well as getting

your sun exposure, vitamin D,

it also lets the body know

when it should be alert,

and alive, and well,

and also when the body

should be kind of slowing down

and preparing itself

for deep sleep.

So, anything that you do

outside of that

or kind of out of sync

with that process,

may mean you're likely

to increase weight,

especially around the middle.

By applying a Paleo lifestyle...

And, again, we're talking

what food works best

for that individual,

getting your sleep down,

your stress, all those things.

If you apply

all of those aspects,

I think a lot of people

would feel a lot better,

be on a lot less medications,

have a lot less

in health care costs

and everything else,

and just a better quality

of life in general.

[Darryl] Now, I realize

that it's not about

what you inherited

in terms of a gene.

It's about what you decide to do

in terms of gene expression,

in terms of lifestyle

that affects

how your genes respond

to your environment.

[Darryl]

I'm gonna tell you

about my first client.

Some of you have met

my first client.

He worked in banking.

This person used to be diabetic.

What's interesting

is after

a very short-term intervention,

so about six... to be fair,

probably about nine months,

six to nine months

of intervention,

which included diet,

which included

other lifestyle changes,

including activity.

We have the after picture.

Blood pressure became optimal.

The blood glucose normalized.

Hardly any of the LDL.

Triglycerides were...

dropped to the floor.

The body fat was below 10%.

Visceral fat was

basically optimal again.

And they weren't suffering

from all those problems

in terms of weight problems.

Diagnosis at that point was,

"Actually, this is pretty good.

"Maybe this

should be continued."

Of course, some of you know

that that client was me.

[Darryl] After conducting

the Paleo diet as almost like

a one-person experiment,

it was all looking far better

than anything else that I did.

And probably

the most interesting aspect

of that is

I didn't have to resort

to any medication,

which was the recommendation

at the time by my doctor.

Within three weeks,

I felt amazing.

I no longer had IBS.

I no longer had

chronic fatigue syndrome.

I no longer had pain

every time I ate.

I no longer had

what I thought was

early-onset rheumatoid

arthritis,

which everybody in my family

had been diagnosed with.

It was gone. All of it was gone.

So, within about six weeks,

I lost six years' worth

of fat, really,

that I had accumulated

through my relatively unhealthy

lifestyle in medical school.

But the thing

that was really noticeable

was that I quite quickly,

within maybe two weeks or so,

had more energy

than I'd experienced

in really the whole

of my adult life.

I just felt fundamentally

a lot better.

I either had a gut,

or I could see stomach muscles,

one of the two.

I prefer to see stomach muscles.

I'll take that over a gut.

As a side bonus,

within a week or so

of starting the diet,

my rash over my chest

and under my arms disappeared

and never came back.

[Patricia] In combination

with changing my diet,

changing my exercise program,

I was able to bring

my body fat percent down 10%,

increase my muscle mass

very dramatically.

I used to have colds

all the time.

Colds that would often lead

to severe bronchitis.

After a while,

I discovered just...

I realized that they were gone.

I very rarely get ill.

When I do get ill,

I recover from it a lot quicker.

My immune system is so strong

that I recover much quicker,

and I heal much quicker.

So I think,

overall, though, yeah,

I'd say 100% health all the way.

Actually, I was in a debate

the other day

in... Ireland,

and there was this nutritionist.

She turned to me

when I was speaking,

and she was like,

"I would like to see

your cholesterol values."

Or, "I would like to see

your blood work." Yeah.

[laughs] And actually,

I answered her.

I said, "My blood values are,

are perfect.

"They're much better

than when I was a vegetarian

for 10 years."

My doctor always tells me

that I'm in excellent health.

And this is very different

than before

as being a vegetarian.

So over the years,

what I've seen is

many individuals try

this dietary approach

and have fundamental changes

in not just their weight,

but their wellness,

their energy, their wellbeing.

If you look at their blood work,

that generally improves as well.

When we started our practice,

and I started

actually implementing it

and saw dramatic changes

in people's lives, then that...

And not just one,

but everybody

that we dealt with.

Then I realized that

that was a very powerful tool.

More powerful than anything

that I'd ever done previously

as a physician.

Just teaching people how to eat.

Simple. Yeah.

So, look, there is no such thing

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