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Is Your Diet Making You Dumber? | Nate Belmar DSH #843
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Nate Belmar
Right? Like, if you're eating hyper palatable foods 30 minutes in, you want another round, right? You eat a healthy bone broth or wonton soup or a ramen bowl. You're satiated for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours. So people don't realize, like what you eat also influences certain metabolic regulations of whether or not the body wants more food or it's good and it can fast and it can be fine.
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Co-host
All right, guys, got Nate Belmar here today. We're gonna learn some health hacks today.
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Nate Belmar
Health, wealth, longevity, and just overall human optimization.
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Co-host
Love it, man.
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Nate Belmar
And anime.
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Co-host
Oh, I love anime. We'll start with anime.
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Nate Belmar
Let's start with anime.
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Co-host
What's your. What's your favorite anime? Best of All Time.
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Nate Belmar
So I don't have one. Like I don't have a favorite. I feel like old school anime is a lot better than what's currently going on now. I feel like now they're just using the medium as propaganda. But old school anime, Samurai Champloo, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z. Like all the old Akira, like all these old school animes that convey a message with a heroic arc. I'm an aficionado of that now. What got me into anime? Naruto. Like that got me into anime. I was like officially into anime. I used to watch other things, like Captain Tsubasa, you know, the soccer one, Doraemon, which is like the Japanese blue cat always helping Novita because he's basically like the noob that needs help. But I would watch that. But what got me into anime, like the ecosystem, the genre, the style, the medium of storytelling was Naruto.
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Co-host
Yeah, Naruto got me into.
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Nate Belmar
When do you start. When do you start watching Naruto?
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Co-host
Probably high school. And then I got into Bleach. Then I watched Samurai Shampoo, which is in my top three. Yeah, that's a classic. I wish they made more of that one. Yeah, I never got into One Piece though.
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Nate Belmar
Well, One Piece, it's a long anime, so it's too long. It's where I tell people it's kind of like if you haven't watched it since you started, like, don't watch It. Or go to those websites where you can cut all the fillers out, all the OVAs, all the fillers. You just watch straight canon.
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Co-host
I used to skip fillers.
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Nate Belmar
It's so annoying. They're like, okay, we need a. We need some time for the next story. Let's start spamming.
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Co-host
I know. Yeah, I didn't know Panama got compromised though, with, with programming.
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Nate Belmar
Well, I mean, all it is is programming is symbols, stories. And they use the medium, which is a very viable medium because you're able to express emotion in a potentiated way that you cannot with human. Because you have the human intrinsic factor, which is faulty. Right. That's why people go to auditions, because they practice, practice, practice. They put people under pressure who can perform well. So you have human error. Now we can create something, draw it, animate it. The factor of being able to potentiate emotion without it looking cheesy is a lot more plausible. Epic fights, epic scenes, epic confrontations. So I feel like once the medium blew up, people looked at it and they're like, well, there's a lot of traction in terms of s curve of adoption of this current medium of information. So I feel like now they realize perhaps it's a more viable option to give information than a cartoon. Cuz cartoons are dumb.
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Co-host
Yeah. I never got as emotional with cartoons and anime.
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Nate Belmar
Why do you think that is?
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Co-host
Good question.
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Nate Belmar
No, think about it. Like, think about it, give me a few ideas. Like, what's the difference between cartoons and anime?
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Co-host
I think the fights for me are what got me emotional.
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Nate Belmar
Okay.
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Co-host
But with the anime, I guess there's more character arc and character buildup. Right.
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Nate Belmar
Think, think, think deeper. Like, think it, think of it like the archetypes, like the character archetypes. Okay, so let's put this. Every healthy home, every healthy environment, needs a father figure, needs a mother figure. There has to be that duality for there to be certain homeostasis. Now you look at cartoons, look at the father figures. What do they portray at a conscious and subconscious level? Dumb, irresponsible, can't pay their bills. Goofy, Simpsons, American, the list goes on. One dumb character after the other. So a child that watches this at the age of 4, 5, 6, at a subconscious level, can relate a lot of the attributes of the cartoon to their dad. And then there's conflict. Now if you watch anime, you look at the hero type going through battles, and then you look at your dad like, damn, bro, he's probably going through hell. Like it shifts your perspective because it's not about propaganda, it's more about like story type archetype, the hero type. And I feel like one is just pure dumb entertainment and dopamine. The other one. There's actually like intrinsic value in storytelling and something that's been lost in society is communication. Right. We become a scientific society that has gotten rid of certain storytelling habits from the past. In the past, you would have the storytellers, the sage class that would grab stories or key concepts that were pivotal for society, whether it's information that they wanted to distill for the common crowd, and they would do it through stories. Anime is stories.
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Co-host
Absolutely.
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Nate Belmar
What do you do with it? It's up to the person.
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Co-host
I love that. Yeah, anime is important. I know. You incorporate it in your business too.
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Nate Belmar
Well, it's. It's not even business. It's like a lifestyle, bro. Like the way I dress, the way I think. And I'm not saying like, anime is the end all be all. Like, I have a lot of beef with it and I've say. I say all the time in anime shreds, but there's a lot of good stuff in it that you can't find anywhere else, in my opinion.
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Co-host
I'll vouch.
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Nate Belmar
Yeah.
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Co-host
Greatest anime fight of all time. Who you got?
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Nate Belmar
Okay, I'll give you like, top. Top three fights. I was like, dang.
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Co-host
Okay.
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Nate Belmar
These were epic. And Naruto. So the first fight, this was what kind of like got me into, like, dude, I need to level up. Was Rock Le Gara.
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Co-host
Oh, classic. Yeah, I still rewatch.
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Nate Belmar
Yeah, I rewatch it and when they make the remake, I'll rewatch it. It's like that first scene where he's like, oh, guy Sensei, can I take my ankle? He's like, okay, do it. He just like drops it. You're like, okay, shit's about to go down. And shit went down. Those things. Like, imagine a human being try to do that. Like, just looks cheesy. Like what? You know? Nah, it just doesn't work. So the medium's there. The medium's cool. So say Garo Rock Lee. Naruto Sasuke. When Naruto tries to stop Sasuke with going to Orochimaru. And I would probably say that Jiraiya Pain Battle, bro, that literally got me broken. Yeah, so that one got me. But in terms of like, epic, epic fights, I think Naruto overall just has probably some of the best fight scenes.
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Co-host
Naruto pains my favorite fight of all time.
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Nate Belmar
Great.
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Co-host
I've watched that one by three times.
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Nate Belmar
I've watched that a lot as.
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Co-host
Yeah, that's a really emotional one.
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Nate Belmar
And think about. They both come from the same stem. Like, they both stem, like the origin, the storytelling from the same teacher. Their paths were completely different.
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Co-host
Right.
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Nate Belmar
So they're. They're in. That shows the virtue of information in complete harmonious relationship to free will because they both chose complete different paths regardless of the same information that was distilled to them.
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Co-host
Right? Yeah. There's a deep message there. Hidden.
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Nate Belmar
That's what I'm saying. All you have to do is like, try to pick up the. The hidden pieces of information within the story.
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Co-host
Right.
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Nate Belmar
And it's very hard to do that. Stemming back to what I was saying, we become a society that's very scientific. So we're all about numbers and we're all about getting stuff done. Right. We're not about, like, back in the day, people would tell stories. Like, you would pass down storytelling from father to son, and son grows up to be a father to tell hit. It was just an archetype that we've lost. Now we're just fed information, fed information, fed information. And then we've become scared to speak out in public. Like, what's the purpose of learning something if you're not going to try to. Is it just for yourself? Is it just for speaking self entertainment? Right. And I feel like that's a lot of cartoons. And I. I'll just sit down and watch spongebob. Like, okay, I've lost some IQ points here. Like, I'm being like, yeah, like, yeah, maybe smoke a joint, watch Rick and Morty. But like, okay, how many times are you gonna do that before your dopamine levels are so fried that that's all you depend on?
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Co-host
Yeah. I don't want my kids ever watching, like, cartoons.
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Nate Belmar
I would tell them, like, don't watch that. Like that. I'll tell them, watch that. But if you watch that, you'll become dumb. And when I see them, like, yeah, you look a little bit dumber today. Like, I'll tell them. Like, but. But you have to give people free will. I feel like with your kids, like, if you tell them, don't do it. Like, like, oh, don't watch porn. Or like, no, like, you have to, like, tell them why and give them your opinion and be open about it. People are open about it. Right. People condemn other people, put themselves on a pedestal and live a fake life. Right. Everybody's wearing masks. That being said, going back to anime, top three characters in Naruto Jiraiya. Ooh. First Hokage.
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Co-host
First Hokage. And itachi Was that the wooden one?
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Nate Belmar
Yeah, he's Hashirama.
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Co-host
Wow. I've never heard that in a top three list.
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Nate Belmar
Hashirama for sure.
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Co-host
Why do you like him so much?
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Nate Belmar
He's like, probably one of. He's probably the most powerful ninja, if you really think about it. Like, he could take on Madara, which all the Kages together couldn't, but he's still a free spirit. Like, he didn't really care, dude. Like, he wasn't flexing his power and used it for his own good. Like, he was just trying to create something, which was Konoha, which was the Leaf Village. Right. And they tried to include Madara in the operation. But then you see how stuff goes down because he chose his path, which is if. If I had to tell somebody. Like, if you look at Hollywood, if you look at movies, there's one common theme, and this is something I learned about 10, 12 years ago in storytelling. Most of the stories are correlated with vengeance.
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Co-host
Yeah.
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Nate Belmar
Some sort of retribution.
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Co-host
Right. All the superhero movies, everything.
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Nate Belmar
Like, I can. I can off at the top of my list, I can tell you vengeance, but. And it manifests itself in different ways. Some of it, we could look at it and condemn it. Be like, oh, he deserves to go to jail. Some. Some of it we'd look at it. We're like, well, the bastard you killed deserved it. So based on our emotion or biases, we can villainize somebody or put them on a pedestal, and it can become a hero. But there's that theme of vengeance, right? Like, something. So it's kind of like, I get. And you see that a lot. And sometimes in anime, you don't see that, bro. It's kind of like, you see that Naruto all the time, bro. Like, homie gets whacked and he doesn't care. There's. There's a meme I think is like, I know you, that you know me, that I know you. And I was like, yeah, he gets it. So it's that whole, like, forgiveness aspect that has been lost also in society. And the reason it's been lost is there's so much propaganda. There's so much hate. There's so much information. People are so optimized in terms of their health, inflammation, that they're more reactive. Right. They don't think pragmatically. You don't sit down and be like, okay, it's all reaction, emotion, emotion, emotion. Because there's a lot of inflammation. So I feel like it's like all the programming, like, what music are you listening to you're listening to terrible rap music, heavy metal, then you're watching dumb cartoons, you're eating terrible food, you're doing tap water. Like things go compounding. They're like, yeah, bro, I'm like drawing, but I don't know why. Bro, your baseline is so low that no wonder everything seems like bad.
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Co-host
Right? They're getting hit from so many angles.
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Nate Belmar
And they don't know it. That's the worst part.
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Co-host
Yeah. Because people just assume the food. But there's so many other.
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Nate Belmar
Well, people assume, oh, that person is on a diet or that person eats healthy. He's like, no, that person eats like a normal human would a thousand years ago. Right.
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Co-host
That's considered healthy now.
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Nate Belmar
That's considered healthy. It's like, no, you're eating inorganic matter that is changing your biology and you don't even realize it.
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Co-host
Right. Processed food process 80 of the American diet now.
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Nate Belmar
I mean. Yeah. And not only here, worldwide.
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Co-host
Oh yeah. It's other countries now.
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Nate Belmar
I mean, I wouldn't say all the countries, but I travel a lot. And you'll see a lot of the packaging is different, the ingredients are different, the prices are different. But the, the medium of it not being organic matter that's good for you is still there. High seat, like inflammation in terms of seed oils. Chicken, like yeah, maybe the chicken is not from that inorganic form that pumps it with GMOs, but, but the way you still treat it is ineffective and not good. So I'm always looking like for grass fed organic. And the truth is if you can learn how to feast and fast and not doing like tons of meals a day, you realize that you don't need that much food in order to like build a good physique and have a good lifestyle. That's just more or less how I approach it. And there's like a million reasons why, but one of them is satiety. Right? Like if you're eating hyper palatable foods 30 minutes in, you won another round. Right. You eat a healthy bone broth or wonton soup or a ramen bowl. You're satiated for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours. So people don't realize like what you eat also influences certain metabolic regulations of whether or not the body wants more food or it's good and it can fast and it can be fine. And that's all metabolic flexibility. And that's a whole different topic. But we went like from like anime all the way to like. Yeah, but that's fine.
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Co-host
Yeah, I know you're coming off a Fast often. Are you fasting right now?
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Nate Belmar
So it's all like cycles. So I, I'm like in Anime Shreds, I do two things. It's the way vitality for people want to shred in the way of the builder for people want to put on muscle. But the same process is the same. Like, there's certain pillars that have to be addressed, like metabolic flexibility, like you tapping into fat just as well as you can tap into carbohydrates, right? Regardless of the path it being feasting and fasting and more fasting than feasting because you're trying to shred and create more movement. But honestly, I don't track, bro. Like, I'll go two day fast, three day fast, sometimes eight hours, sometimes 16 hours. I don't really track. I do try to push myself though. Like, and I'll. And I'll. And I'll do. I. I have certain protocols, like to get rid of hunger regulation and it's, it's. But I'm not like setting heavy PRs or anything. Like in May, when I launched Anime Shreds, yeah, I stopped working out. Like, I didn't really. I didn't do sit ups, I didn't do push ups. I didn't do anything. That didn't mean I didn't live a dynamic lifestyle. That didn't mean I didn't go through heavy periods of like fasting or stretching or walking. I just had a hypothesis that you could still maintain good muscle composition if you're metabolically flexible, if you can fast, right? And if you can. And if you can tap into that fat that's there. So what I had done was I bulked up to like almost 2:20. I had some fat on me and I'm like, okay. But I was already a little fright because I was putting myself under a lot of heavy pressure, a lot of weight. It was a cold environment. I was up in the mountains. I'm like, okay, I need a shred now. I could take the approach of like doing cardio, all this and that, but I'm like, no, I. I need to get a lot of work done. There's a lot of things I need to do. So, dude, it was like waking up, digestive tea potions, like going on walks, focusing on my breathing, getting sunlight. Like a lot of things that helped me going through the fast. But what people don't realize is you could do fast within a fast, right? Like a genjutsu within. Again, jutsu is kind of like you do a fast of, of autophagy. So you do 15 calories or less, and you push that as long as you can. And then once you feel like you can't go any more, that's fine. Do a fast for from food so you can drink structured water. Do, like, fruits or juices or teas. Right. Just do liquid state or even smoothies or like a bone broth. But you're still giving your body a break from actual matter and solid food.
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Co-host
Right.
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Nate Belmar
That's just been my whole take on it, and I feel like it's completely shifted my paradigm in terms of, like, approaching fitness because I'm, like, looking lean. I'm good. But I realized I started losing muscle composition. Like, a month and a half in. I probably looked some of the best I've ever looked.
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Co-host
Wow.
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Nate Belmar
Because I'd lost a fat and the muscle is still there. Right. And when you become metabolically flexible, you become a lot better at sparing, like, protein, muscle, everything. The issues you need to become metabolically flexible first. The issue also is I put on a lot of weight, so I had a lot of wiggle room to, like, reduce. Why was I fine with this? Because I know recomp is always easier. Like, if I start reintroducing carbohydrates now, which I've done high levels of creatine because I cut a lot of supplements, everything on purpose. I want to do, like a detox. When you reintroduce it, your body absorbed it. Just like that, bro. Just like that. So now I started, like, alkalizing the body. I was telling I was in Orlando and doing all the protocols. And now what I'm doing is I'm going to do a lot of body weight, probably full body workout, body weight and bands. Get warmed up, alkalinized. Two weeks in, I'll probably start breaking. So I'll do top body and then a symbiotic relationship. Stretch the bottom part and then switch it around. And then after a week, I'll probably start doing the normal splits like chest and triceps, back and biceps, legs, shoulders and abs. You know what I'm saying?
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Co-host
Yeah.
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Nate Belmar
So it's. And it's like understanding that the gym is just one facet of fitness. Or, like, people don't get, like, you looking jacked. You're having a six pack. Doesn't mean you're healthy.
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Co-host
You could sell visceral fat.
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Nate Belmar
Visceral fat. You could have inflammation, you could have scoliosis, you could have pinched nerves. You could have a million things that you don't know of. You could have. Yeah, you could have Tons of nanoplastics in your testicles. Or you could have potential heart attack risk because there's not enough circulation. Or you do tons of chronic running, tons of carbohydrates, tons of inflammation. You're putting a lot of stress on the valves. And that's why you have all these guys that were marathon runners 50, 60, 70 years ago on the carb centric diet that they're all preaching about that people are spending thousands of dollars listening to. They're all dying at a young age because they put so much stress on the body with such high levels of inflammation that what? Atrophil, which basically, basically caused the purpose of the heart with the valves is for it to be soft, right? Because you're pumping the blood and it's constantly moving. If you're hardening it, what happens if you get a cut or a scar? The tissue that comes back might look like the skin, but if you keep getting cut and cut and cut, it's going to harden and harden. It's that issue is putting that much strain on the valve that the valve becomes hardened. So the older you become, if the valve is hardened, it's a lot harder for the heart to do its proper function, which is to circulate the blood. People don't realize this. The heart can't do all that by itself. Like, you need to aid it with movement, with press. Like, there's a lot of things that you can do to instigate blood flow that's going to aid in the heart. It's like people are working their heart overtime, right? And if they go from a sedentary lifestyle to chronic cardio thinking, that's going to help. And then they become hungry and go back to eating carbohydrates. Like, the whole paradigm is, like, dumb.
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Co-host
Yeah. Because they tell thought people to run.
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Nate Belmar
I see people, bro, on the street. Just like you see in their face, bro. They're like, they're hurting, dude. It's not even, like, pain. It's like pain from inflammation, you see? I'm like, dude. And then they're rubbing, they're running on wrong shoes, and their foot's not even like their brain, dude. It's just a disaster. And I see it. And if they'll ask me, like, if I'm like, shirtless or walking, they'll be like, bro, what are you doing? I'll be like, bro, honestly, you should fast do some teas and go for a walk and, like, stretch.
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Co-host
And that's way easier than.
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Nate Belmar
It's way easier taxing. And you can pull it off a fasted state.
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Co-host
Right.
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Nate Belmar
Like, if you run a lot or you swim a lot, you'll probably get hungry. With running, I feel like right after I get thirsty, but an hour after I. I'll be hungry. But I can mitigate that if I'm just like, walking, stretching, maybe doing like zone two training with bands or body weight or even like stretching.
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Co-host
Yeah. So it is possible to get shredded without lifting, though.
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Nate Belmar
Yeah, you can get shredded. You can get shredding with feasting and fasting cycles. Metabolic flexibility and understanding how to tell your brain to tap into fat, not carbohydrates. The issue is most people had the keto flu, which is not really the keto flu. It's just you go from a terrible lifestyle and the pendulum swing hit so hard and your homeostasis became disrupted and your body's. Not. Your body, your brain's freaking out because it went through all the sugar and all these years, what do you do? You give it sugar and now you're not giving it sugar. So the brain, of course, is going to freak out. So you have to just go reducing the amount of sugar with percentages and see how your body feels like. I don't do ketones. Stick, peeing, nothing of that. It's all like, there's certain signals naturally that if you look at and you pay attention, your body will tell you, okay, you're metabolically flexible or, hey, you can tap into fat.
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Co-host
Yeah.
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Nate Belmar
Because you're not doing cardio and you're just shredding.
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Co-host
Makes a lot of sense to me because there's other people that say you should eat five to six meals a day.
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Nate Belmar
Bought it now under certain. Under certain parameters. For the regular individual that has a 9 to 5 family, all that. Imagine him trying to eat tons of meals. First of all, most of the meals are microwaved because of the convenience. So we address that. Okay, so let's not microwave it. How are you doing that? Not a lot of people are doing tons of meals without microwaving. That's. That's the first problem. I can name you five more, but that's the first one. So let's address the first one.
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Co-host
What's the problem with microwaves?
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Nate Belmar
Microwaves. It basically bastardizes all the nutrients in the food. So you're just eating matters. So if you want to fill your stomach, you might as well just drink water.
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Co-host
So it cooks out all the vitamins and minerals.
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Nate Belmar
I believe so.
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Co-host
Wow.
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Nate Belmar
Especially over long periods of time. And what people don't realize is food by itself automatically has Already been bastardized. Like we're not absorbing as much nutrients as we used to. Right. The soil, they don't practice like back in the day what they would practice in terms of seasons of harvesting the soil. Right. And using the soil and then giving it sabbatical people give the soil sabbatical people just bastardize and commercialize it. That's the biggest problem. Then the second problem is you're getting that bastardized meal and then putting it into a microwave and you're bastardizing even more. And then you're putting into your stomach a protein. Protein. Yeah. But how much of it is actually bioavailable? How much protein you're actually getting there? Wow.
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Co-host
So you got to cook it on a grill or not really.
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Nate Belmar
I'll tell you what I do idea is understanding spices, understanding blends, understanding that what you have to focus on is saving time. Right. So what kind of meals do I do? Air fryer, of course. Ceramic. You're not going to do Teflon. So it's very Basic is spend five to 10 minutes spicing your meal however you want, whether it's wings, meat, burger, whatever. You put it a first on the, on the air fryer. But I wouldn't suggest doing air fryer for people are trying to get shredded. And I have, I have a thesis behind it or hypothesis behind it, but we can address that later. I would suggest more of approach where you're actually using like the oven. Right. So what I would do is instead of grabbing my ground beef, this is what I see a lot of people cooking cast iron, they're charring it and making it crazy. And I feel like it's not that good on the body in terms of oxidative stress because of the incineration that's occurring on the meat. And then you have the opposite spectrum, which is people eat the raw. Raw meat.
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Co-host
Right.
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Nate Belmar
Which I don't eat raw food. And I have many reasons as to why I don't eat it. Do I agree with some parts? Yes. Do I disagree with other parts? Yes. But that's a whole different podcast. What I like to do with my meat is I cook it in coconut water, I'll cook it in bone broth. I'll cook it in, in either water or fat soluble in a basically glass tray. And I'll put the meat and I'll put like bone broth. I'll even like if I'm trying to bulk, I'll put a whole piece of like stick of butter and I'll put all my spices. I can do So I think something you want to address is how can you facilitate digestion. And one great thing is ginger. So something I would do is always fresh grated ginger on top of all my meat. And I would let that cook in their stew in there. Prep time, 5 minutes. By the time it got down there, it would be ready 30 minutes, an hour. What I was doing, I was working out. I was working, I was getting shit done. The alarm went off. Okay, food's ready. I'm not in there cooking, you know, I'm saying, like, you got to optimize. So baking your food, crock pot. Like all these things are super useful. Like, I can tell you I can make an amazing, like, pack a punched. In terms of boosting testosterone, in terms of you tapping into fat, in terms of caloric surplus, in terms of benefits that you can extrapolate from food. If you're in a fasted state, it being more bioavailable because it's in the liquid form. You're in a fasted state and you're drinking it warm. And that's like doing bone broth, like doing your own bone broth. And it doesn't take a long time. This is. Most people either buy bone broth, which can be expensive. So what I would do is kind of like be like, okay, if I'm going to be cooking like wings, or I'm going to be doing a whole rotisserie chicken or two, like, save the bones and use that the next day. And you're like, okay, I'm going to go on a fast. And then so you're kind of like sequencing based off of the resources you have, right? And based off of the goal that you have, which is if it's fasting, I would do sparkling water, coffee, shredder, gourd, like, keep it very light. I'm like, okay, I'm starting to get hungry. Perfect. Instead of breaking my fast right away, because your stomach's also a little bit smaller, if you eat a ribeye, you're going to feel it, give it bone broth, heat, warm cayenne, stimulate the body, go for a walk, chew on something, pretend that you're eating. So you stimulate the body like mastic gum or whatever, right? Then you come back and then food's ready because you ate that. But that thing took me five minutes to make and I left it over two days, all the ingredients, and that's what I'm drinking. First thing sounds amazing. And you know what I do is you tap in protein, right, from the bone broth and then Fat. So when I break my fast, I'm introducing fat, not carbohydrates, as the resource for my body to use. And if I do that over long periods of time, guess what happens? The body starts using fat. Right. As its resource. So that's why when people like, oh, bro, I go on fast and I feel great in it. Yeah, it's because you using fat, if not, you're going crazy. Like, give me sugar.
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Co-host
Wow, that is brilliant. I love that. I was on your Twitter. So you bring a shower filter where everywhere you travel?
- [25:39]
Nate Belmar
Yes, sir.
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Co-host
You put it in the hotel shower?
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Nate Belmar
In the hotel showers? Yes.
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Co-host
Why?
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Nate Belmar
So 101, if you want good skin, healthy skin, you have to realize it's an organ. You have to realize that there's micro tears occurring all the time. If you realize that when there are leisures, when there are cuts, right? They're micro abrasions that if the wrong or if the not the ideal things that you want your body, like toxins, metals come in there over long periods of time. You absorb it. Things, particles in the air, things in the water. So people are like, bro, what cream can I use? What exfoliation, what mask? I'm like, what? No, 101 is put a filter on, get rid of all the debris, get rid of all the metal. All I have to do, I don't have to be a rocking size scientists, a conspiracy theory, like nothing. All I have to do is have half a brain cell, look at the pipes and be like, okay, that's where the water's going through. That's what I'm getting. That's it. Like, that's at least for me. I don't have to go into numbers. I don't have to go into the how many metals are in this or that? And it's like, no, just use common sense. The issue is people prefer spending $1,000 on a Gucci bag or something like that than spending 50 bucks on a good water filter. Like, I'll take it with me all the time. And when I go in airports, I don't scan.
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Co-host
I don't go, oh, you don't go through the, the body scan.
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Nate Belmar
I don't pry myself. It's like, yes, I shall enter into the microwave, blast me. Well, I'm like, no, I opt out and they'll pat you down.
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Co-host
I need to start doing that.
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Nate Belmar
Yeah. So what people need to understand is you're an electrical being, right? Like, we're not, we're not just body. That's what people don't understand. When you Start realizing there's. It's. We're like. I'm not saying multi dimensions, like we're living in altered states, but there's a lot more that meets the eye in terms of the human potential. Electricity is one of them. So you realize you're in an airport. That's why I'm wearing EMF hat right now.
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Co-host
Oh, that's an emf.
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Nate Belmar
This is emf. I'm not wearing just a hat just to look cool. This is silver threading inside. It's fully emf. I'm just not wearing a tinfoil hat. This is my tinfoil hat. Would I wear a tinfoil hat if I was in those kind of situations? 100%.
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Co-host
Damn it.
- [27:41]
Nate Belmar
Probably more look like a samurai hat or something to fit the theme, but.
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Co-host
And those are blue light blockers, too.
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Nate Belmar
These are blue light blockers. Yeah. You can actually try them on later. They're actually very convenient. And I have different hues for different times of the day.
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Co-host
Wow.
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Nate Belmar
And sometimes I'll realize, like, especially here in Florida, I'll go out in the sun, and if I don't have my blockers on, like, just the brightness of the sun hitting the white pavement hitting my eyes, like, I feel it. So I'll put those on, get into the day, ease in, and then I'll take them off. I'll feel good. I'll get a few hours of blue light, like it's fine. And then as the day progresses, I start putting different. And I have tons of pairs, bro. With. Yeah.
- [28:15]
Co-host
Damn. So you're really worried about the EMF and the light damage.
- [28:18]
Nate Belmar
Yeah, 100%. Like, people don't realize how bad it is.
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Co-host
It's that bad.
- [28:21]
Nate Belmar
It's that bad. Like, it's that bad. And I'm saying from personal experience, and when you go on long, long fasts, you're not eating food, everything's amplified. Like, I. I don't sleep on a normal bed. I sleep on a Japanese futon with a PMF mat on top of it.
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Co-host
Wow.
- [28:35]
Nate Belmar
And I put a silver. A silver. What do you call it? Sheet or cotton sheet on top. And that's what I sleep on. And I feel phenomenal.
- [28:45]
Co-host
Damn.
- [28:46]
Nate Belmar
Because I'm charging all night. Right. And I'm not gonna say everything that I do, but that's one of the things I do. And that the whole purpose and idea behind it is understanding that most people. Right. So I'm going to do this for the camera so they understand context. Humans throughout society look different based on how society operates and based on the Jobs and the roles that take at play. Most of the roles that take at play now are sedentary. It's a lot of pushing motion, right? It's a lot of moving forward, It's a lot of hunching, It's a lot of curving, right? That's affecting the spine. That's affecting the scapula, right? And then you have all the gym bros that want big chest, so adding more pushing movement, right? No retraction. So then you have all this. This imbalance, right? That's automatic based on how society's already. Like how society already operates. Like, it's simple things, like you being in the car, driving, right? Like, if you have a wallet, a big wallet in your butt over long periods of time, that's gonna cause a hip imbalance.
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Co-host
Wow.
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Nate Belmar
If you don't learn how to sit properly, you always sit on one side like this. That's going to cause an imbalance. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not in a week, but over a year, two years, it will. So it's just like learning how to adopt certain stances that are good for the body. Like, and it's just doing over time, and it goes compounding simple stuff.
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Co-host
Power stances, right?
- [30:10]
Nate Belmar
Power. It doesn't even have to be power stance. It's like human stance. Like. Like, how are you. Like, power stance is more, like, dominating, right? Like. Or like, I need to feel more powerful because I feel insecure right now. So people, like, do this. Whatever. There's definitely, like, poses that you can tap into. In terms of anchors at work, it's just like adopting a normal stance of, like, rolling your shoulders back and just like, almost do the counteraction of what everybody's doing. So rotate and just pull back. And then when you go to the gym, don't do tons of pushing exercises. Like, just simple things like grab a band, you. You anchor it against a pole or whatever. You can high anchor it, medium anchor it, or low anchor it.
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Co-host
Yeah.
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Nate Belmar
You do the opposite of what everybody's doing. So if everybody's pushing, you're pulling, and it's just slow. And you're not doing heavy weight because you're not counteracting heavy weight, because that's not. What you're doing is micro things every day. So you have to do micro workouts to counter it, right? If you do eight reps with heavy weight, that's you building muscle, not counteracting the problem. So grab a band, pull it back, stay right here and do a few pulses, hold it, retract, boom. And just do that over time. And then when you're in the car driving, you can roll your shoulders back and grab the handle like this and just try to maintain that position. And just. And then when you catch yourself, just go back and it goes. Compounding over time. Right. And what you're doing is mitigating the posing force that's causing you to not be in a state of homeostasis.
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Co-host
Yeah.
- [31:35]
Nate Belmar
Which is all that pushing motion. So it's just a lot of things. That's what I'm saying. It goes beyond having a good chest or a six pack.
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Co-host
Like, dude, that's interesting. So do you think beds are bad for posture for most people?
- [31:45]
Nate Belmar
Yeah. Especially soft beds. I feel like harder beds. And it's how you sleep as well. I sleep on my back and usually with something under my.
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Co-host
Oh, the leg pillow.
- [31:52]
Nate Belmar
A leg pillow. Because you want the elevation. I notice a difference sometimes when the last thing you want to do is go into a hotel room and get in bed. The way you have it with those tight sheets and everything.
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Co-host
I hate those tight sheets.
- [32:03]
Nate Belmar
This is what they do with your feet, bro. Like they wreck your feet and people sleep in them. Be like, I'm so cozy. And this is their feet over time. Over time. And they don't realize it's all loose, bro. Like all loose.
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Co-host
That's the first thing I do when I walk in a room. I. Yeah. Lift the sheets up. Those tight sheets.
- [32:16]
Nate Belmar
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Literally.
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Co-host
I don't know how people think that's comfortable.
- [32:19]
Nate Belmar
Honestly, people just program, bro. They go in there first time, they try it, and they don't even think about, like, people just don't think.
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Co-host
When did you realize you were programmed? Was it in your 20s, teenagers? 20s? Yeah. Same here. About 20, 24, 25?
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Nate Belmar
Yeah, around the same.
- [32:36]
Co-host
Yeah. I grew up super Democrat, which is cringe. Like grew up in Jersey watching the news every day. So programmed.
- [32:42]
Nate Belmar
Dude, at least you're watching anime.
- [32:44]
Co-host
I know anime might have to counteract.
- [32:46]
Nate Belmar
A little bit the. The bodying.
- [32:48]
Co-host
For real. It was bad though. Was it like a big wake up moment for you?
- [32:51]
Nate Belmar
For sure. It was a very aha moment. And it all in all stemmed from like the food, like what we're eating. Because I realized I'm like, bro, if I can. If what people don't understand is like, what's your baseline? Like how low or high? How high is your baseline in terms of your health? Because if it's really low and you're in your 20s and 30s, you can pull it off when you hit 40, 50 you're gonna get wrecked, right? Look at your dad, look at your mom, look at your grandparents. If you do the same things they're doing in terms of genetics and then epigenetics, because of the lifestyle you're doing, you have a pretty decent blueprint what your life is going to look like. So you have to go like, full dojo. I'm going to, like, counteract that, bro. Like, work out, work out. So when you stop and you plateau, your baseline is so much higher that you're not worried. And then if you want to coast for a while, you can coast for a while. And then you keep going to the next level in the next level. Because I'm telling you, bro, like, the last thing you want to be 40, 60, 70, 80, knowing that you're in your 20s and you had the information, like, oh, I could have. And I'm not talking about getting massive inject, I'm talking about flexibility, reducing inflammation optimization, like reducing stress, like being able to squat down, a pistol squat, being 70, squat down and pick up your child scratching your back. Like normal stuff, dude. Not like setting a new world record with a bench press. It's cool to have a good chest. It's cool to have a six pack or eight pack or a four pack, whatever. But it's like, people don't understand that having an elite physique is not going to make you happy. Right? Like, it's cool, like, you'll break necks and everything in the street, but, like, a good physique is not meant to, to use as a tool for your own benefit. Regardless of how that looks, we already know like, the stereotype, which is smash. Like, oh, yeah, I want to go get chicks. Do you want to do it? Because you realize, like, your baseline, the way you operate is just so much better.
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Co-host
Yeah.
- [34:32]
Nate Belmar
Like, everything feels good. Like, and I'm not saying it can't get better. It can get better. But I can tell you my baseline right now is so much better than years ago. Like, wow, I couldn't read a book and I feel like I was dumb or ADD or whatever it is, all the tap water, all this stuff. And I was just like, bro, I'm reading pages and I can't remember anything. Am I dumb or whatever. Like, drinking like tons of all the bad energy drinks.
- [34:52]
Co-host
Like, that used to be me too. Tap water, monster energy, all that.
- [34:55]
Nate Belmar
And like every day I do 2, 3, 4, like, be like, bro, I'm like, I'm like burning out moldy coffee.
- [35:00]
Co-host
Like, everything, dude, I would forget the sentence. I Read it was that bad? Yeah.
- [35:05]
Nate Belmar
And you think you're dumb. Like, and that's the problem. So, guys, if you're at home, you feel like you're dumb. You're not dumb. You just need to change the energy input for long periods of time through discipline. And your baseline will be a lot higher.
- [35:16]
Co-host
Yep. Food pyramid is scam, right?
- [35:18]
Nate Belmar
Well, food pyramid was a construct. By whom? And what was the intention?
- [35:22]
Co-host
I don't know, actually.
- [35:23]
Nate Belmar
Oh, okay. So the food pyramid is basically a beautiful triangle called propaganda that is not optimal for human optimization. Going back to what we were talking about before becoming metabolically flexible and tapping both into fat, just as one to protein, just as one's carbohydrates. You can't do that in a carb centric pyramid. Very simple.
- [35:45]
Co-host
Yeah, because carbs is the biggest one, right?
- [35:46]
Nate Belmar
Well, it's not only carbs. It's the quality in the quantity over long periods of time.
- [35:51]
Co-host
Right.
- [35:51]
Nate Belmar
With carbs, carbs, I don't think they're bad. If they're good, healthy carbs. And if you know how to cycle them and when you take them, like, you eating the right carbohydrate before or after work is completely different than you smashing your face 30 minutes before you go to sleep.
- [36:04]
Co-host
Right. With a pizza. Yeah.
- [36:05]
Nate Belmar
Right. You could be a. Carbs are good, but not the right time.
- [36:08]
Co-host
Plus, the grains here are fortified.
- [36:10]
Nate Belmar
Fortified? Like, I don't even want to get started with that.
- [36:13]
Co-host
Like.
- [36:15]
Nate Belmar
Fortified for destruction. No, it's just not optimal. Like, what we need. You know what we need? Mana, the issue is those are things from the past. Those are things from the old. So the idea now is like, what are the best wed ways to hedge yourself against everything that's occurring? And fasting. Autophagy is one of the most powerful ways. But if you're a typical gym bro, that has to be every three, three hours, four hours. Good luck trying to fast if everything. If the world goes ham. I know I can fast X amount of days based on the fat percentage or my body composition. Yeah, I'm not saying, like, I'm shredding for that, but I'm saying is, like, if I need to go through periods of fasting, I can go to periods of fasting. And I'm fine. I'm not going crazy. I'm actually feeling exuberated. Because what people don't realize, when you become metabolically flexible, right? It's almost like back in the day, your. Your hunters and gatherers, they go through periods of fasting. Their body starts being like, okay, we need food. Better eyesight, better hearing, better concentration, better cognition, more speed, right? And it's a lot easier to amplify those resources if you're metabolically flexible and you got fat. Because what people don't realize is, like, people ask me, big bang evolution. I'm like, bro, if you study the human body just where fat is stored, right? Like, imagine if fat was stored around your neck. Like, all the fat starts here or over your shoulder. No, it's like we're bipedal creatures. We walk, right, and the fat is stored around our stomach like a fanny pack. It's literally energy. It's literally potentiated energy that one can tap into if you know how to use it. So almost look at it as that. And I'm not saying fat is good. What I'm preaching is don't listen to the common crowd. Being shredded in a holistic manner is healthy because people like, oh, bro, you look great. You look shredded, but you're probably unhealthy. You probably feel terrible. It's like, no, bro, I feel amazing. So do not put your pragmatic and dogmatic views based on a carb centric diet in your paradigm can't be broken because you can't tap the fat. Like, don't put me in that box, brother, because I will shattered it every day. And every day.
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Co-host
Yeah, there's a limit. I mean, you see the bodybuilders, they're dying pretty young, but.
- [38:07]
Nate Belmar
But they're also on carbs, bro. And when. And when they cut carbs, you see them, bro, they feel like they're fainting on stage. They feel like they're dying, bro. I can tell you I'm not. I'm not bashing their workout style because their workout style is for hypertrophy and building a big muscle. I feel it's phenomenal. But their prep and how they. I think they could be way optimized. Yeah, like, way optimized. And I'm not saying, like, take out anything they're doing. I'm just saying adding on things that would make like you not fainting on stage. Like, that's. That's not healthy. When you're not metabolically flexible, you can't tap into fat. You don't feel good in a fastest state, and you're pushing yourself. You're eating ice cubes because you want to drop water weight. No, you could be drinking a liter of water and still look shredded. But it's like, how do you drink the liter water? That's a whole different topic.
- [38:47]
Co-host
Oh, how do you drink it. I've never heard that.
- [38:49]
Nate Belmar
How do you drink water?
- [38:50]
Co-host
Like there's a technique, you're saying?
- [38:52]
Nate Belmar
Not technique. It's just like common sense. Like common sense for the people that understand it for what it is. It's like not eating food and drinking water at the same time. Like stuffing your face. Right. Because your body, when you're drinking water. This is what I do. I don't. I don't. And this. If you want to get shredded. First of all, warm water, room temperature water, not cold water.
- [39:14]
Co-host
Really?
- [39:15]
Nate Belmar
Yes, 100%. If you want to clean bulk or you want to put on size, you don't care about your current composition. Do cold water. For me, doing the shredding where like the digestive tea in hot water was a game changer because you're toning the body from within.
- [39:27]
Co-host
Wow.
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Nate Belmar
And then room temperature water, and it almost became like its own unique flavor. Right. Because of the room temperature, had cold water. I'm like, this is kind of gross. Now I'm drinking cold water because I got used to it. But I'm still going back to the hot and cold. It's 30 minutes, 40 minutes before your meal. Drink something. It can be also even a digestive potion with like chlorophyll, apple cider vinegar, maybe a shot of lemon, maybe a little cayenne. You could do it in water.
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Co-host
Yeah.
- [39:55]
Nate Belmar
Go for a walk, come back. Truth is, I feel like most people don't take time to actually think, bro. I think it literally boils down to that. Like, most people see what's on Tik Tok. Most people see what's going viral. And everybody hops on a trend without realizing, like, what's the purpose of the trend? Or like, like, everybody's doing bench press a certain way. Like, is this the most optimal way? Like, do it. But it's just always ask yourself, is this the most optimal way? And I tell people, like, stink. Who are you listening to? Like, I even I. I tell people, like, I feel like the best teachers are the ones that tell their students to be wary of their influence.
- [40:39]
Co-host
Wow, that's deep.
- [40:40]
Nate Belmar
And you know what's the opposite?
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Co-host
Follow my lead.
- [40:43]
Nate Belmar
A cult leader.
- [40:44]
Co-host
Yeah. Do everything I say.
- [40:47]
Nate Belmar
Do everything I say. And I put you into certain trance states with certain psychedelic or subjects or whatever. It's all manipulation. So I think that's what I tell people. Everything, even in what I say. Take it with a grain of salt, like you can. There's things that may be wrong, there's things that may be right. But take it with a grain of salt, right?
- [41:01]
Co-host
Because there's new information coming out, new studies. Health is constantly.
- [41:04]
Nate Belmar
A couple years ago, cigarettes was great. Everybody was smoking. Now everybody has cancer for that. But it's other reasons that's a different story. And then sugar, they're pushing sugar, energy, whatever, whatever, whatever. And now it's like metabolic syndrome, right?
- [41:16]
Co-host
They said kale was a superfood a couple years ago.
- [41:18]
Nate Belmar
That's what I'm saying, bro. And everybody jumps on the bandwagon. Everybody gets emotionally with their bias because they come attached to this new dogmatic view and they start hating each other. Vegans start cursing the meat eaters. Meat eaters start saying how, like, lame and pathetic the vegan diet is. And I'm in there in the middle.
- [41:35]
Co-host
Just like, yeah, that debate's been so.
- [41:37]
Nate Belmar
Overplayed, I don't even care, bro. You're being fine. Just like I did the vegan diet and I had. I. So this is what I can say for the vegan diet. Most vegans are unhealthy. Why? Because first of all, their vegan diet is not a good vegan diet. Their vegan diet, perhaps, that are not organic or it's tons of carbohydrates, right? And. But also, there's certain essential nutrients like retinol, vitamin A that you get from eggs. All right? Where can you find that in. In the green spectrum? I'm not talking about like, beta carotene, right? And then your absorption, how much bioavailable is pure retinol, vitamin A, Right? Straight up. Like, if you're, like, if you're a vegan. I tell vegans, eat eggs, any honey. Like, do that. Like, if I was a vegan, I would do those two things. Vegetarians, pescatarians, you're a little bit more lenient. But I feel like meat, bro.
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Co-host
I love meat.
- [42:22]
Nate Belmar
Yeah.
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Co-host
Can't give it up. Only vegan I know killing it right now is Brian Johnson.
- [42:26]
Nate Belmar
But he's a vegan with a lot of money and a lot of resources that can complement his lifestyle. Not everybody has the same budget, bro.
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Co-host
He's spending a million plus a year.
- [42:35]
Nate Belmar
And he's spending a lot on pills, bro. Like, not everybody has that budget, bro. Like, that's the truth. So if you look up to him, you have to be like, okay, how much of it is actually useful for me? I'm not bashing the guy. I think he's great. I love what he's doing with, like, bringing awareness with the gamification aspects of people can see I'm not about numbers. Like, I don't even check. Like, I had to check my weight just to.
- [42:55]
Co-host
Like, you don't measure your blood at all, really?
- [42:58]
Nate Belmar
No. Now I will soon, because I have a theory, a game that I want to, like, record with a thesis. Even, like, testosterone. I don't check my testosterone levels. Now, I would be down to do, like, a terrible. Not terrible, but, like a less dojo. Like, diet in supplementation protocols to reduce it, like the baseline, get the test done, not look at the numbers and be like, okay, give me a month and a half and, like, up the numbers and then do the test and look at both numbers. I'd be down for something like that. But not, like, checking and freaking out. Like, my aura ring. Like, oh, did I sleep well? No. Like, bro, since I've been fasting, I only sleep three, four hours. Sometimes I'll sleep five hours, six hours, and I feel phenomenal.
- [43:36]
Co-host
You serious?
- [43:37]
Nate Belmar
I'm being dead serious now, guys. I'm not saying it's healthy. Like, I'm not saying I feel like sleep is paramount, pivotal. What I'm trying to convey is your body operates in different manners. And when I was, like, clean bulking, I was putting a lot of weight. I had to sleep 10, 11, 12 hours. Tons of carbohydrate, tons of hypertrophy. I was up in the cold and mountains, like, hibernating. So my lifestyle was also. My goal was different. Right. But I was sleeping a lot more, and I didn't feel like, oh, it's a waste of time or whatever. I was like, no, bro, I really need to sleep because I need to rest and charge up. And now, like, because I'm not killing myself at the gym either. You know what I'm saying? So now if I was training more, eating more carbs, adding more protein, yeah, I would need seven, eight hours, but a lot of work to get done, a lot of movement, and I felt good. Like, honestly, I feel pretty. Yeah, yeah.
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Co-host
I'd be curious. Your tea is probably pretty good, though.
- [44:22]
Nate Belmar
I think so.
- [44:22]
Co-host
For all the stuff you're doing.
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Nate Belmar
Yeah. I mean, in. In. In optimized way, it can probably be better. But what I'm trying to convey is, like, don't pursue numbers, right? Like, I feel like. And go back to scientific mind, bro, I'm not saying it's good. Like, I think, like, there's certain key parameters, like, especially if you're unhealthy, that you want to check. Right? Vitamin D. Vitamin D level, magnesium. Like, so every. There's essential things. What I'm saying is, I feel really good right now. Maybe there's a few things I might be off I could check. But I know I know myself, and I know once I get into it, I'm gonna already start, like, geeking out, and I'm gonna start, like. And I'm like, I just don't want to go down that. Because I don't do Oura ring. I don't do any of that. How do I feel? Because imagine, bro, like, the. I feel like placebo effect could be a thing.
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Co-host
Could be. I don't like the trackers just because the EMF too.
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Nate Belmar
Okay, fair. I mean, that's already a great point by itself.
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Co-host
It's already in your house, everywhere. The WI Fi. Like, why are you adding another?
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Nate Belmar
You're just adding another one.
- [45:09]
Co-host
I just found out my. I'm getting fried in my Tesla, especially when I'm charging it. And I just found out yesterday that when you use your lab, your MacBook while you're charging it.
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Nate Belmar
Yeah.
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Co-host
Some guy put an EMF meter up to it. It was 700.
- [45:20]
Nate Belmar
Yeah, it. It was amplified.
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Co-host
Crazy.
- [45:21]
Nate Belmar
Well, it's connected to the. The. The source. No, it. But think about it, bro. It's just. It's simple things that are super, like, also anything. Generator, right? So let's say all the stacks of the negative things that we mentioned before, you're going with that. You're like, okay, I'm gonna change my life. I'm gonna get my shit together. You clean up your diet, do everything, and you still feel like crap. There could be mold in the house. You could be sleeping your bed right next to a plug or a generator, or on the other side of the wall, there could be a fridge and that. So all those things play a huge role. And you're like, dang, bro, this keto diet's not working. It has nothing to do with a keto diet. They just. People don't sit down, be like, okay, what's my environment? Where am I living in, like, nothing, bro. Like, people just, like, go in there. All the perfume. Like, bro, I go into rooms. I'm like, I'm throw up. I'm going to throw up.
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Co-host
I used to use deodorant and cologne. It's so cringe looking back at that.
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Nate Belmar
I mean, it's what you've been propagated, right? It's what.
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Co-host
Girls. Yeah.
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Nate Belmar
To get girls to smell good so you don't have to smell yourself. But no. Do chlorophyll. Do a detox. Cleanse your body. What I do is I'll do coconut oil. Just a little bit.
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Co-host
For your deodorant?
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Nate Belmar
For deodorant I'll do a little bit coconut oil. I'll do one drop of aloe. Because aloe is. I'm not sure in terms of potentiation of like going deep into skin. It's correlation in terms of which one's stronger, castor oil or aloe oil. But it's lighter, it's not a base oil. So it's almost like one of the. It's almost like tea tree or a peppermint oil where you only use a little bit. The reason when you is going to seep into skin. So I do coconut oil, aloe oil and then one drop of tea tree oil. First of all, it smells great. It's an antiseptic, it cleans. So if I put that and then I'm in a fasted state, I'm drinking chlorophyll, I'm cleaning, cleansing myself. I'm on a fruit diet. I'm reducing my meat a little bit. I'm not doing tons of protein powder scoops. Right. Because those guys fart in a room, bro. You can smell it like a mile away.
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Co-host
Those powders are.
- [47:13]
Nate Belmar
They're literally dying. Like, and I'm not saying protein powder is bad. Like I think grass fed, like it's fine. I'm just seeing the regular stuff that you're getting in the market with all the fillers.
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Co-host
Like yeah, I used to be on those powders.
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Nate Belmar
And bro, same same. You go to Walmart and just get the cheapest ones.
- [47:28]
Co-host
Like 20 bucks. Yeah. Oh man.
- [47:30]
Nate Belmar
Yeah.
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Co-host
And they taught you that was how you got ripped.
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Nate Belmar
Yeah. You know, guys get jack, get this protein.
- [47:35]
Co-host
Yeah. Eat 1 gram of protein for every body weight.
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Nate Belmar
And I could tell you like if I start doing that crappy, crappy protein powder and take out the shower filter right. To stuff like that, I'll start getting acne.
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Co-host
I'll start like just terrible acne as a kid. And they taught you to buy the creams for it. Like that would do anything.
- [47:51]
Nate Belmar
It's all outer solutions. And it's not. It's outer and inner solutions that have to combine together to create a certain state.
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Co-host
Right.
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Nate Belmar
So it's cleansing the body from within without. Because what people don't realize also is like you can have a great diet, but if you live in a tropical environment, if you have tons of dead skin, you need to exfoliate that. Like you need to get rid of that. It doesn't matter how clean your body is. Like, you still have dead cells on you. So exfoliation is great. You can do, like, in the shower, get some sort of organic soap, maybe a little baking soda. Exfoliate your face with your hands. Yeah. Take that out. Maybe a little witch hazel with no alcohol. Slap your face a little bit. The reason you want to slap. I don't slap my face all the time. Maybe like once a week, but ideally.
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Co-host
Just one big slop.
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Nate Belmar
No.
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Co-host
Or just continuous.
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Nate Belmar
Continuous slaps.
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Co-host
Interesting.
- [48:35]
Nate Belmar
So what you do is you put on the witch hazel and you slap your face.
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Co-host
Yeah.
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Nate Belmar
The reason is you're causing micro, like, tears. And what you're doing is almost like the skin's opening up and it's absorbing all the witch hazel. Right. So then your face is skin. Your face is clean, base level. And then that's when you add the oils. You can do your coconut oil. You can choose whatever oil you want based on your goal. But the idea is clean baseline. So what people do is, like, they don't exfoliate their face. Then they go and put some thing with alcohol. It dries their face even more. And then they put lotion with 50 ingredients.
- [49:08]
Co-host
And some of them are carcinogens.
- [49:09]
Nate Belmar
Yeah, dude.
- [49:10]
Co-host
Crazy. Body wash. Yeah. Shampoo conditioner.
- [49:13]
Nate Belmar
Yeah. I mean, most of the conventional stuff is all garbage, bro.
- [49:15]
Co-host
It's nuts, dude. And people were using that every day for years.
- [49:17]
Nate Belmar
Yeah.
- [49:18]
Co-host
Body's resilient, but at a certain point, it's going to catch up.
- [49:20]
Nate Belmar
At a certain point, your bad habits catch up with you. What you. What you. What you sow is what you reap. It's just a matter of time.
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Co-host
Absolutely. So your top five on school.
- [49:31]
Nate Belmar
Yeah.
- [49:32]
Co-host
That's crazy.
- [49:33]
Nate Belmar
I mean, it is kind of crazy. I honestly, I didn't really hear about school. Like, I'd heard about school when Hormozi announced that he was in school. But I really, like, pay a lot of attention to anything. And that was talking with a friend of mine. I'm like, dude, I really want to watch the dojo now. Anime shreds. But I don't. Here, give me a second because I didn't drink. My throat is, like, so dry. Oh, recharged. Okay.
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Co-host
Top five on school. You're on the leaderboard.
- [50:08]
Nate Belmar
So the leaderboard. Top on school. Yes. So talking about school. I love school. And I'll. I'll give you a plethora of reasons and vernaculars to look at it as to why I feel like it's a more optimized version for digital tribes, ecosystems, whatever. First of all, the Layout, the structure, the team, first thing. Second thing is look at social media as a whole. It's an interesting dilemma because it's not what it used to be a couple years ago. And it always goes shifting and morphing based on a lot of factors that I'm not going to get into. Instagram is great, but now, like, recently I've been doing Instagram and I'll log in and they're soft porn, bro. Yeah, like, and I'm not even following the counts. I don't even know who the bodied girl is. Like, I have no idea. And it's like, if I'm gonna watch, I'm gonna go on the Internet on a private browser. I'm not gonna search on Instagram. So, like. And I don't. I have an issue with it. Like, I have an intrinsic problem with it. This is like, I'm at an age where I can look at it and be like, oh, whatever. But if you're a young kid, if you're eight or nine, yeah, like, you're opening up Pandora's box right there in a negative manner. That's one thing school doesn't have that second thing is all built, like, the whole layout, everything is intrinsically designed for communities. So I joined school in May. I checked out the whole ecosystem for two weeks. I'm like, okay, this is cool, let's launch. So I just told everybody, hey, guys, I'm opening the dojo there. And it's been really good. And honestly, like, it's been really cool to meet people in real life that have linked with one another over calls or whatever. It's like, bro, game changer.
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Co-host
Yeah.
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Nate Belmar
Because what happens is social media, it's not even social media, almost has to be looked at the vernacular as hypercon, like hyper connection, but no human interaction. It's all feed, it's all stimulus, all scrolling. What's next? What's next? What's next? There's no human interacting. Like, try chatting in under a post on Instagram. Like, good luck. That's not going to happen.
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Co-host
No point.
- [52:03]
Nate Belmar
No. And then on Discord, like, it's not feasible. So I feel like they did a really good job in layout for communities. Now the problem is that's just raw potential. You have to come in there, be like, how do you serve the community? How do you build a community? What's your goals? Like, people ask me, like, who, who's your avatar? I'm like, the avatar was my young self. Like, if, if, if I was a young kid that didn't know Anything about family, what would I do? That's where I started. Like the doge that all came from there. Like it all stemmed from there.
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Co-host
Smart.
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Nate Belmar
Like I would like somebody that watches anime. Like, why not? And the whole anime shreds thing was like anime shreds whole ecosystems to be disruptive in terms of like, I'm not saying go against the grain, none of that thing, but like question everything and realize that you can achieve a holistic shredded physique, almost like aesthetic of an anime character in a holistic manner. Like you don't need steroids, you can do peptides here and there. That can be beneficial, but you don't need steroids. And there's a lot of things that people are preaching. There's a lot of things I'm seeing. I'm like, okay, bro, like if somebody doesn't talk about this, like it's just going to keep going. Like the whole trend, like all that. I think it's dumb.
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Co-host
Yeah.
- [53:05]
Nate Belmar
Now if it was beneficial and good for you, I'd be the number one advocate or I'd be a top advocate about it. But I don't think it's beneficial or conducive in any way. And it's only growing more and more in popularity and it's only going more and more up in the market and there's only more and more people interested in the gold rush, AKA make the steroids. And they're even worse because this is not also serious the quality of. And then Jeff, bro, people have lost nipples on steroids. So yeah, what the fuck? Yeah. I haven't heard that, like they fall off. But what happened? They had to like. Yeah, they had to get rid of it. Oh my gosh, you know, stem from steroids. So that's what I'm trying to convey. It's like just looking at everything from a different lens. But the whole like anime shreds and body hero came from like that anime archetype, right? Yeah. So if it came very organic, it took a long time. But the truth is like, I see a high correlation between the meta of fitness and self development realm in anime, that heroic arc. And it's kind of like meshing those two and telling people like you can become a better version of yourself in a holistic manner and there's a good community that can surround you. Yeah. So it's all about curating. Like if there's negative people in there, they're out. I don't care about 22 bucks. Like you're 20. And again, do nothing but the People in the relationships that are forced there because not like, oh, hey, bro, how are you doing? It's like, oh, no, hey, bro, you're also in Miami. Okay. Like, let's link up and people, like, link up and everything is super cool.
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Co-host
That's awesome. Yeah. You built a community.
- [54:24]
Nate Belmar
Well, what I did is. Yes. Like, I mean, yeah, the community was built there, but like, the whole idea, like, the whole anime, all that, I've been pushing that for years. Like, and I pitch anime shreds once. And I've had anime shreds for years. Like, three years.
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Co-host
Oh, even before school, you had it.
- [54:38]
Nate Belmar
Oh, I've had it for three years. The ip, I've had it for three years. So people think anime shreds is school. So anime shreds is one facet is school. Like, the actual anime. What anime shreds is. Hasn't been revealed yet. Oh, okay. School is just a proxy for community and ecosystems that we want to forge. So something I've been working on for a long time. But I feel like it's really cool to have. Especially like now. It's not as weird, right? Like, anime is not as weird. Back when I was young, it was super taboo. Like, you're a freak if you watch.
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Co-host
I was ashamed to even tell in.
- [55:10]
Nate Belmar
The States, in Argentina, bro, if you watch, you're a weed. Like, you're weird, bro. And I was into that. Like, I was doing the whole, like, running with. With yeah, 100, bro. I was like nerding out, trying to see if I could do jutsus and stuff. But it was almost like, dude, this is what I watch. Like, this is my thing. And dude. And I learned a lot of things from those character and character archetypes and the stories and the messages trying to convey that I couldn't get from real life people. Because the truth is you can create the story and the archetype and aspire to be something when humans are flawed. Like, you see preachers all the time. Oh, great. Preacher could preach. And 50 years later, they had sex with some. With their assistant. And everybody then vilifies them. It was just a mistake. Like, that's fine. But in this, it's kind of like, bro, he just fought Madara. He just so I like that, bro. And I'm all about that. I'm a nerd. I've always been a nerd. And I'm. I've never shied away from it. And yeah, I guess some people are also nerdy that want to kind of like. And I also have people in Anime stress that don't watch anime at all. Like, they're not in it. Like, they're like, right now watch an anime episode. But they're all about, like, working out in the sun with bands, oils, like, post. They're all about that. So join. So it's cool.
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Co-host
Got both.
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Nate Belmar
Yeah, you got both.
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Co-host
Nerds are running the world now, though.
- [56:19]
Nate Belmar
I mean, nerds are smart people. Like, ideally, you want smart, smarter people, like, making those kind of decisions. And I feel like smarter people realize, like, I have to do something with my life because not. Things get pretty hard.
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Co-host
Yeah.
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Nate Belmar
Especially as I get older.
- [56:32]
Co-host
Nate, where could people join your program and find out more about you, man?
- [56:35]
Nate Belmar
All right, guys, so school.comskool anime shreds is there at the top if you look like an anime shred character. Shredded, peeled. But not pursuing it in a manner for materialistic endeavors or potentially getting laid. But you actually want to change your life and you want to take it to the next level in a holistic manner. I'll be waiting inside the dojo.
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Co-host
There we go. We'll link it below. Thanks for coming on, man.
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Nate Belmar
Yeah, absolutely. What's. What's your favorite character in Naruto? Finish this. Yeah. Like, top three characters.
- [57:06]
Co-host
All right. Top three in Naruto. Hate to be basic, but Naruto's up there. I'mma go Jiraiya.
- [57:12]
Nate Belmar
Yeah.
- [57:12]
Co-host
And I'mma go Gaara. But pre Shapudin.
- [57:14]
Nate Belmar
G. Pre Shapudin.
- [57:15]
Co-host
Yeah. I didn't like how. How they did him in Shaput.
- [57:17]
Nate Belmar
Just like Rock Lee. They nerf. Rock.
- [57:19]
Co-host
Oh, they nerf.
- [57:19]
Nate Belmar
And then in Boruto, like, dude, I.
- [57:21]
Co-host
Can'T even watch Boruto.
- [57:22]
Nate Belmar
I. I just. I just pretend I just watched the Naruto show with Rock Lee, and I never watched Shippuden. I'm like, yeah, Rock Lee. Yeah. He's epic.
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Co-host
He's goated and original. All right, guys.
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Nate Belmar
Good stuff.
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Co-host
Yeah.
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