Episode #140 Featuring Lexi Noel! Prioritizing REAL FOOD!

Summary

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The Dylan Gemelli Podcast – Episode #140 Featuring Lexi Noel: Prioritizing Real Food!

Release Date: July 4, 2026
Host: Dylan Gemelli
Guest: Lexi Noel, Wellness Creator, Advocate for Real Food Living

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Episode Overview

In this compelling episode, Dylan Gemelli sits down with Lexi Noel, a 20-year-old wellness creator and mental health advocate from Alabama. Together, they candidly discuss the journey from eating disorders to real food healing, the pitfalls of ultra-processed foods, body image struggles, spiritual growth, and the importance of dietary education—especially for younger generations. Both Dylan and Lexi share personal stories, practical tips, and offer inspiration for anyone struggling with health, happiness, or finding purpose.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Lexi Noel's Story: Overcoming Anorexia with Real Food and Faith

• Early Body Image Struggles:

  • Lexi shares her story of growing up with a happy, trauma-free childhood but began struggling with body image and anorexia around age 13.
  • "I remember sitting in youth group...thinking, man, I have no story. My life has been great...Then like two months later, I kind of immediately went down the path of just, you know, Satan getting into your head and just saying, you're not worthy." (03:23)

• How the Disorder Manifested:

  • Lexi began by skipping meals and progressively restricted more.
  • "It started off just like...skipping breakfast, then skipping lunch, and having a super small dinner...and it started to send me down the path." (04:21)

• Dietitian Experience:

  • Lexi recounts how a registered dietitian encouraged her to eat ultra-processed foods (e.g., Chick-fil-A), which felt traumatic and unhelpful.
  • "She brought my whole family...to her office and eat Chick-fil-A in front of her...that was just like a really traumatizing experience." (06:13)

• Choosing Real Food for Recovery:

  • Rejecting the processed food recovery plan, Lexi opted to nourish herself with whole foods—aligning her diet with faith and biblical principles.
  • "I would read my Bible and write down every food I talked about, and it never mentioned Pop Tarts or Oreos...So I would eat the whole real foods." (09:11)

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2. What Is 'Real Food'?

• Lexi defines "real food" as:
  • “Whole, single-ingredient, unprocessed foods: meat, fruit, eggs, vegetables—those all have one ingredient.” (12:40)
• Both warn against foods with multiple additives, hydrogenated oils, and seed oils.
  • “If your peanut butter has 75 different ingredients...it’s not peanut butter. It’s filled with who knows what.” (12:48)
• Lexi’s Grocery Filter:
  • “If you don’t buy anything with refined sugars, artificial sweeteners, dyes, or seed oils, that’ll remove 90% of the grocery store for you.” (13:17)

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3. Ultra-Processed Food Culture & Food Labeling

• Processed foods dominate central grocery aisles; healthy foods are typically found on the store perimeter. (14:00)
• Both reflect on learning about nutrition and reading food labels—emphasizing self-education and skepticism toward mainstream recommendations.

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4. Rediscovering Nutrition: Dietary Fears and Healing

• Lexi describes her fears of fats, red meat, dairy, and how research (e.g., Weston A. Price’s work) and self-experimentation with foods like beef liver and raw milk restored her health.

  • “I started eating beef liver...every single day after I was diagnosed with anemia...my iron levels leveled out and I didn’t crave it as much. My body just knew what it needed.” (11:07-12:25)

• Dylan echoes regret over past dietary dogmas (e.g., fat avoidance):

  • “I tell my wife...how pissed I am I didn’t eat grass fed butter and cooking it for years...you see, as long as you’re eating the right kinds, you see the leanness, the skin, the clarity, the focus.” (15:16)

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5. The Mental and Emotional Toll of Eating Disorders

• Discussing the constant hunger, mental fog, irritability, and family strain during eating disorders.
  • “My brain was just not functioning at all…Me and my mom would fight like there was no tomorrow.” (16:04–16:27)
• Recovery meant not only weight gain but true mental healing, made possible through nutrient adequacy and real food.

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6. Diet Trends: Tools, Not Rules

• Dylan and Lexi agree diets (carnivore, keto, etc.) are tools, not lifestyles. Emphasize flexibility and variety.
  • “They are tools...you have to implement strategically and move on. You can’t stay metabolically flexible.” (18:15)
  • Lexi aims for no strict restriction if it’s a whole, real food: she includes sourdough, eggs, red meat, seafood, fruits, and vegetables. (18:48)

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7. Food Demonization and Rediscovered Staples

• Some foods wrongly demonized (e.g., fruit as “too high in sugar”). Lexi advocates for moderated enjoyment.

  • “Fruit is an amazing source of carbs...have some fruit with some steak and avocado and that’s a perfect meal.” (20:10)

• Foods previously considered healthy (deli meats, low-fat/high-protein packaged snacks) are now scrutinized.

• Lexi’s favorite “desert island” food: "Eggs...max I've had a day is 12. And yes, I've tried to beat it." (22:29)

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8. Faith, Purpose, and Social Pushback

• Lexi’s faith played a crucial role in recovery and now guides her advocacy.
  • "God gave you one body, and you should take care of it. He says, our body is a temple..." (23:51)
• Candid dialogue on the backlash received for both dietary and religious posts, but Lexi remains steadfast:
  • "I want everyone to see Jesus through me...I ask him to give me the words to speak.” (25:30)
• Both share that real happiness came from gratitude, faith, and serving others rather than material pursuits. (26:47)

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9. Lexi’s 'Buy or Bye' Grocery Store Series

• Lexi’s platform features educational grocery store walk-throughs—labeling products as “Buy” or “Bye.”
  • She explains ingredient red flags (artificial sweeteners, dyes, refined sugars, seed oils) and answers follower questions. (29:05)

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10. Daily Habits, Supplements & Lifestyle

• Current Diet Structure:
  • Pre-workout: cottage cheese, fruit, honey
  • Post-workout: eggs, meat, fruit
  • Lunch: snack plates (olives, feta, avocado)
  • Dinner: red meat, veggies roasted in olive/avocado oil, sweet potatoes
  • Homemade desserts (e.g., grass-fed gelatin marshmallows) (31:01)
• Supplements:
  • Lexi’s “Three Cs”: Creatine, Colostrum, Collagen. Also magnesium (essential for sleep) and vitamin D (ideally from sunlight).
• Non-Negotiable Habits:
  • Morning sunlight, daily walking, breath work (Dylan is a big advocate). (33:17, 33:29, 33:37)
• Gut Health:
  • “Over 90% of serotonin is made in your gut…if you eat bad food, you’re going to feel bad mentally and physically.” (35:05-36:15)

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11. Food Guide Pyramid & Policy Trends

• Lexi and Dylan critique the old Food Guide Pyramid and praise the shift toward prioritizing real, whole foods (currently reflected in new guidelines).

  • “It used to be…ultra processed grains, rice cereal, Cheerios—but now…it’s completely flipped…red meat, eggs, butter, vegetables, fruit…” (37:47)

• Both express skepticism of government-aligned dietary initiatives and stress the importance of independent, faith-driven action. (40:33–41:12)

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12. Advice for Young People and Self-Healing

• Lexi’s advice:

  • “You have the power to heal yourself. Don’t listen to anyone blindly…With Jesus and real food, they change your life.” (43:33)

• Dylan emphasizes self-education and the value of questioning even well-intended advice.

  • “Question me…if you’re not asking questions and just doing things blindly, then I just, I worry about you.” (43:51)

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13. Unpacking Nutrition Myths & Exposing Hidden Risks

• Calorie obsession and packaged food marketing traps discussed; real foods are more satiating and nourishing even if higher-calorie. (45:22)
• Warning against artificial dyes (linked to gut damage, ADHD, hyperactivity) found in everyday products—even supplements. (47:15)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Real Food and Recovery:
  • "God intended us to eat the food that he created. Real whole foods." – Lexi (09:11)
• On Label Reading:
  • "If your peanut butter has 75 different ingredients...it's not peanut butter." – Dylan (12:48)
• On Faith and Advocacy:
  • "I want everyone to see Jesus through me...in every action that I do." – Lexi (25:30)
• On Societal Pushback:
  • "Since when are you a disruptor for doing something good?...Have we gotten that screwed up?" – Dylan (23:15)
• On Young People and Self-Healing:
  • "Yesterday. Everyone...you have the power to heal yourself...do an N equals one experiment." – Lexi (43:33)
• On Not Forcing Belief:
  • "You can’t force somebody to be a Christian because they’re going to run the other way. You can’t force somebody to eat healthy. They're going to want to do the exact opposite. But you can only lead by example." – Lexi (41:59)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Lexi’s Anorexia Story and Dietitian Experience: 03:23 – 06:40
• What Is Real Food? Label Reading: 12:25 – 13:17
• Faith as a Foundation for Healing: 23:51 – 26:47
• 'Buy or Bye' Grocery Education: 29:05 – 30:10
• Current Diet, Supplements, and Habits: 31:01 – 33:37
• Gut Health and Mental Connection: 35:05 – 36:15
• Food Guide Pyramid Critique: 37:28 – 38:28
• Advice to Young Listeners & Final Messages: 43:33–44:32

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Conclusion

Dylan’s Closing Remark:
"Prioritize Whole Foods, please. I think that's the strongest message from this podcast." (49:35)

This uplifting, practical episode is a must-listen for anyone wanting to break free from diet confusion, embrace real food, and live with faith-fueled intention. Lexi’s story and practical wisdom—alongside Dylan’s seasoned perspective—deliver a blend of science, inspiration, and actionable tools for lasting well-being.

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• Dylan Gemelli

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Transcript

[Dylan Gemelli]

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All right everybody, welcome back to the Dylan Gelli podcast. So I have a treat today. My guest flew in from Alabama to see me and she does some absolutely amazing work that I am really excited to get into because I love, love, love to talk about food, I love to talk about nutrition, all of the problems going on. And she has been involved into so many different key aspects of food and helping people. And so we're going to have a lot of fun today and we're going to talk about some problems that her and I both share, that we've went through together, how we deal with them, overcome and try to provide some inspiration to people along the way through the teachings that we're going to provide. So she is a 20 year old wellness creator and she's a speaker and she's an advocate for real food living. She was diagnosed with anorexia at 13 years old and she was told that recovery meant relying on ultra processed food. So we're gonna have a field day with that, I can tell you right now. But she chose a different path, which I absolutely love, and it was rooted in whole nourishing foods. But the. The part I love about this most is the deepening faith and reliance in Jesus. So we're going to talk a great deal about that today as well, because that is my favorite topic of discussion. So my friends, welcome. Lexi Noel.

[Lexi Noel]

Hi. Thank you so much for having me.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Thank you for coming and seeing me, Lexi. I have never made it a secret about the eating disorder battle started when I was 11. And it can make or break you, as you know now. I started at a young age. You start dealing with it at a young age. When did that really, really become an issue for you with, like, body image? Because it's not just food, it's body image.

[Lexi Noel]

You know, I think back to the time when I was 13 and before then when I was 12. And I always try to think what exactly caused it, but I had an amazing childhood growing up. I mean, my family is amazing at growing up. I had no trauma. It was perfect. And then I do remember sitting in youth group and they were doing a series like every Wednesday night of young adults who are about my age now telling their story about how they grew in their faith and how they went through battles that tested their relationship with God. And I remember sitting there being like, man, I have, like, no story. My life has been great. My life has been so good. And then like two months later, I kind of immediately went down the path of just, you know, Satan getting into your head and just saying, you know, you're not worthy.

[Dylan Gemelli]

You.

[Lexi Noel]

You look awful in the mirror when you look at yourself. And then quickly, I started losing a lot of weight, and that's kind of when my eating disorder started.

[Dylan Gemelli]

When you say you started to lose a lot of weight, were you starving yourself or were you terrified of food? Like, what was going on?

[Lexi Noel]

I did just stop eating. Eating. It started off of just like, you know, skipping breakfast and then skipping lunch and having a super small dinner. And it, you know, started to send me down the path.

[Dylan Gemelli]

The unhealthy fasting?

[Lexi Noel]

Absolutely, yeah.

[Dylan Gemelli]

What kind of things go on in your mind, like inside your mind when you're going through that? Are you. Are you seeing something in the mirror? Are you feeling a certain way? Did somebody say something to you that triggered something?

[Lexi Noel]

When I was going through it, I don't remember ever looking in the mirror and seeing that I was overweight or. But I definitely didn't see myself as super thin and unhealthy, which I was. But I didn't see it at the time, apparently I thought that I could just keep losing and losing weight, which I did. But I don't remember anybody telling me anything specific. Just, you know, Satan in my head

[Dylan Gemelli]

telling me, yeah, see, for me, it was like I was overweight. And then it was the fear of going back to that. But you don't have that going on. Right. It was more like, I'll sit there sometimes I don't do it anymore. But I'd say, oh, I wish I was a kid again. So I didn't have anything to worry about. And in reality, it's just a different kind of stress.

[Lexi Noel]

Absolutely.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Because you're just finding yourself. So 13 years old. How long did this persist?

[Lexi Noel]

So my parents caught up, caught on fairly quickly, I'm sure I would say it started in. I started losing weight in about March, and then they caught on. My mom caught on in April, which I did lose a lot of weight during that time period. And then I kept losing until about July, August. And then we did go see a registered dietitian about, I want to say August. And that's kind of when she told me how to eat the ultra processed junk food. And then I decided I wasn't going to do that. I was going to eat real food.

[Dylan Gemelli]

What year was this that this was happening where you were talking to the dietitian?

[Lexi Noel]

This was 2019.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Okay, so what kind of foods were they recommending you to eat?

[Lexi Noel]

So they were. I remember one time she brought my whole family, or my mom, my dad, and my brother, and we all had to go to her office and eat chick fil a in front of her. So. And then she was like, asking my brother questions about, like, what do you think is going on in your sister's mind as she's going through this? And that was just like a really traumatizing experience. I don't understand the goal and that. I don't think it helped. It was just very.

[Dylan Gemelli]

So the answer to somebody that's struggling is go make them eat something that's going to make them gain unwanted weight, apparently. Well, don't mind me asking, where's this lady located?

[Lexi Noel]

She's in Alabama, my hometown.

[Dylan Gemelli]

All right, we'll leave that alone for a private conversation.

[Lexi Noel]

All right.

[Dylan Gemelli]

So how long did you see the dietitian?

[Lexi Noel]

My memory is blurred, dude. Like, when you're not eating food, it's like kind of a blur. But for my best memory, I want to say about two minutes a month too much, maybe more.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Okay, so, like, for me, and I want you to relate this, I started to like really read food labels, you know, 11, 12 years old, really not understanding what I'm reading, but figuring it out myself. And honestly, I did figure it out myself. There's no Internet to go look up at my time when I'm looking at this or anybody to really talk to about it. You know, now it's different. You can go look up whatever you want. But I started to study and at the time we were told that fat would make you fat and it would kill you. So I was looking for the lowest fat foods, not understanding the sugar part or I only understood percentages and started to do the math for you. Did you start to think, man, this doesn't seem right or what? Like what they were recommending? What triggered you to start looking into your own way?

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, similarly so when I was going through my eating disorder, you know, trying to be healthy, like the whole goal when I started was to be healthy, but obviously I did it in a complete opposite way. I was looking at calories, trying to eat the lowest amount of calories, and that was my only goal, was just below calorie. And then I did when I was recommended to eat ultra processed junk food in order to heal. That's kind of when I went down the rabbit hole of eating, nourishing my body with real, whole, nutrient rich foods.

[Dylan Gemelli]

So you, how long in total do you think you were kind of battling this before you just said, okay, enough is enough, I'm taking control.

[Lexi Noel]

I thankfully didn't have to go through it. As long as, you know, a lot of people struggle. I would say about maybe eight months.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Okay, wow.

[Lexi Noel]

So. But it was like a whole year. Just kind of like the journey. And, you know, I still struggled up until high school, I'd say, just trying to, you know, find what was actually true with the real whole foods.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Let's talk about what your diet kind of turned into as and walk me through the process of. Did you like kind of try things and ease yourself into it or did you go full blown in? Like, what was your process of trying to figure out what worked best for you?

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, so when I had either, you know, the choice of going to inpatient care or eating this ultra processed junk food, I chose the route of actually eating, starting to eat. But I was like, I'm not gonna eat this ultra processed junk food that you're stressing. I'm going to eat real whole foods. And so that's kind of when I went down the journey and I realized that, you know, God intended us to eat the food that he created. Real whole foods. And I would read my bible and write down every food that I talked about and it never mentioned Pop tarts or Oreos or anything like the rich dietitian was recommending. So I would eat the whole real foods. But I was still restricting a lot up until high school because I was still reading that red meat's bad for you, eggs are bad for you, dairy. So I wouldn't have, I would have like the plant based cheese and only chicken and turkey, no red meat. And then I started to run in. I started to run and I kind of used that as like free therapy. And it was, it helped a lot. I would just run for miles and miles and miles and I loved it. I enjoyed it so much. And then after a few years of running, I woke up one morning and I was running about 7 miles at a 7 minute pace every single day for a couple years. And that was my routine. I would wake up before school at like 5am and do my morning run every, the same route every day. And then one morning I woke up and I couldn't run two miles at a ten minute pace. And it was the most bizarre feeling. Like my legs felt like bricks and it was just crazy to me. And then the next morning I didn't wake up to run and my mom was like, oh, well, you, you don't, you always wake up to run. So we're gonna go to the doctor. So we went to the hospital and I got my iron levels checked and I had severe anemia. Like my hemoglobin was on the floor, I had nothing. And then they offered me a iron supplement and it had red 40 in it. And I had already done my research on like, you know, I was doing the no refined sugar, no artificial dyes, artificial sweeteners. So I knew that that wasn't good. So I was like, okay, well I'm not gonna take the supplement with Red40. So then that led me on my journey to research even more. Like, oh, maybe I should start questioning my diet even more and what I'm restricting and not eating or eating. And so I came across Weston A. Price's research and I learned about beef liver and raw milk and how nutrient rich beef liver is and how it's like one of the super, it's a superfood basically. And you know, I was not eating red meat. I was like, oh, maybe I should be. So then I started eating beef liver like every single day. I was eating about 8 ounces every single day after I was diagnosed with anemia. And it was I was craving it. It tasted so good to me. I would look forward to it every single day. And then my iron levels, they level out and the iron, the beef liver stopped tasting as good to me. Like I wasn't craving it and I was like, oh my gosh, this is so cool how my body just knew what it needed. And then I. My iron levels leveled out and I didn't crave it as much. So I did continue to eat, you know, red meat and like steak and ground beef and of course the raw milk and everything. I added dairy back, real sources of dairy, and that's kind of how it evolved.

[Dylan Gemelli]

So you've said real foods several times over. Can you just tell people what that actually means? Because I don't like you and I know what that means. But I think some people you say that and they think any food is a real food. So just describe what is real and what isn't.

[Lexi Noel]

Real foods as in whole, single ingredient, unprocessed foods, meat, fruit, eggs, vegetables, those all have one ingredient.

[Dylan Gemelli]

If your peanut butter has 75 different ingredients, or even four or five, it's not peanut butter. It's not. It's filled with, who knows what it can say? Salt, that's fine. But if you start seeing all these fillers and all these things, talk about the dangers of consuming that stuff daily over and over and over, things like hydrogenated oils and seed oils and all of these refined sugars and all this trash that they put in everything, what does that do to a person?

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, absolutely. I would say if you don't buy anything with refined sugars, artificial sweeteners, artificial dyes, or seed oils, that'll remove 90% of the grocery store for you, and then you're left with real food. So I mean, eating the seed oils, they're high in omega 6 fatty acids, which will throw our omega 6 omega 3 fatty acid ratio out of balance, creating inflammation and oxidative stress into our body, which we don't want, it'll accelerate aging. And also we've over complicated real food and over convenience, ultra processed food so much where if people, if we say like don't buy anything in a box and colorful packaging, people don't know what to buy, they don't know what to eat. But we just need to get back to the basics of real food.

[Dylan Gemelli]

So it's like with the grocery store, you need to get out this way and stay out of the middle parts because it just gets worse and worse and worse as you come into the middle. I normally walk well, I normally don't go to a regular grocery store too often, but when I do, because I do at times it's a. But it's a perimeter right all the way around. Seafood counter, meat counter, I generally don't hit those. I like the whole foods, meat counters and sprouts just. I don't want to get into their seafood. I don't like it. But anyway, the point is, is that everything seems to get crunched in the middle and it gets worse. All of the cakes and the cookies and the chips and all the bs. When did you make it like a thing for you to really start studying food in general and really start to learn about it?

[Lexi Noel]

I would say about 15. Yeah, that's. I mean it's been a process. When I was 13, I was researching, but I was researching the wrong things.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Was it shocking to you to come to some of the conclusions that you found and came to when you researched meats and you know, grass fed butter and the, the joys of life?

[Lexi Noel]

Yes, absolutely. I mean I was scared of real dairy and red meat for a while. You know, I would say I didn't like red meat, but it was actually just kind of the fear that was ingrained in my head.

[Dylan Gemelli]

I don't live in regret, so to speak, but I do get, I tell my wife, you know, how pissed I am I didn't eat grass fed butter and cooking it for years and eat all these things that I eat now. You know, like I was telling you when I was a kid and in the he's especially. And I look back now at some of the things you were terrified of eating anything with fat in it. And I mean terrified I would pick up something and if it had more than 2 or 3 grams of fat, I just put it back down and just write it off. Now I don't want anything that doesn't have less than five or six. Very rarely. You know, it's so weird and it's strange, but you see, as long as you're eating the right kinds, you just see like the leanness and the skin and everything just comes together and the clarity, the focus.

[Lexi Noel]

Yes, yeah, absolutely. I mean our brains are made of fat. When I was going through my eating disorder, I didn't eat any fat and my brain was just like not functioning at all.

[Dylan Gemelli]

It was fried.

[Lexi Noel]

Right.

[Dylan Gemelli]

How hard was it for you to stay focused?

[Lexi Noel]

Very hard. You know, my thoughts were just constantly on food and.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Yeah, and did you feel like easily irritable?

[Lexi Noel]

Oh, for sure. I mean the relationship that I put like, I think back and it's just like the relationship strain I put on my family. And me and my mom would fight like there was no tomorrow, and, you know, go through that. And I think, oh, my gosh, our relationship, like, it's never going to be the same because growing up, it was great. And then we were going through that and we just fight every single day, and it was not good.

[Dylan Gemelli]

It's like your body and your nervous system and your brain are trying to tell you something. I mean, I was pissed about being pissed.

[Lexi Noel]

Right?

[Dylan Gemelli]

You know, like, seriously. And when you. And when you. All you think about is food, I don't think people realize, like, me and my wife would go do all these fun things and all these amazing things that I talk about, but in. In my inside, I was struggling because I was just thinking about, I'm so hungry all the time and I can't eat anything. I bring a protein bar, and that does good for, like, two seconds.

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So, okay, let's talk about some of the ways what you prioritize when you eat, because I'm very curious as to what your diet structure looks like now. You know, one of the things, and I even put something out on it today, is that one size fits none. I. I can't stand the people that are just, you gotta do keto every day, you gotta do carnivore every day. You should be eating more carbs every day. And it's like, man, these are tools. These are not lifestyles. You have to implement you strategically and move on. And you can't stay metabolically flexible. Right. What's your take on all these different diets. How do you utilize them? Or do you utilize them? And what do you prioritize?

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, like, like you said, they're tools. I did carnivore for a month because I was working on healing. But. And then, you know, keto is a tool. But I think the whole goal is to be able to fit all whole, real foods into your diet. Like you should have a variety of real food. And that's what I do today. I don't. If it's a whole real food, I don't restrict it. And I, you know, I eat all the healthy fats now that help my brain function. And you know, they really do put you in a better mood. And healthy sources of carb, like real sourdough is so good. I make homemade sourdough. I eat lots of that. Eggs are my favorite food in the world. So love lots of eggs. Of course, red meat, I eat that on a weekly basis. And I do love seafood and just fruits and vegetables. So I do eat a wide variety of real whole foods.

[Dylan Gemelli]

You know that. And there's people that I really respect highly and they'll come out and start trashing certain foods and I'm just like, brother, like, I get it. Like here, here's an example. The spinach, right? Yeah, yeah. Yes, absolutely. If you eat pounds of spinach a day, you will get an oxalate problem. But then what about these slew of benefits if you just cook it and eat a good amount? What are some of the foods that you think that get demonized or polarized that don't that shouldn't be? Are there any on your list?

[Lexi Noel]

I think there's a lot. I mean, fruit being too high in sugar. I think fruit is an amazing source of carbs. I mean, pre workout a banana with some honey like that, that's like a perfect little boost of energy when you need it. Not saying like eat pounds of fruit, but have some fruit with some steak and avocado and that's like a perfect meal.

[Dylan Gemelli]

There's some that I would agree, like you can over consume really easy. Like grapes are lovely, but you got to be very careful. Like it's too much, right? Berries and the ones with the high antioxidants, grapefruits, like satiating fiber, those are good for weight loss for sure. Pears, like there are so many good options. And I see these people just bashing them and I'm like, man, we've lost the plot. Yeah, you lost me a long time ago, man. I have fruit every single day. I just don't have pounds of it, like you said.

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, for sure. Me too.

[Dylan Gemelli]

It's just insane. Anything else that you find, like, oatmeal's a polarizing one, you know, And I'm not a fan anymore. I think I overate it and I. I feel better without it. But are there any others that stick out to you at all that you've.

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah. When I was running, I would eat oatmeal every single day. So I think I did burn myself a little bit too, on oatmeal. But every now and then, I think it's a good source of carbs. Get some, like, organic ones without, you know, all the glyphosate. And then I think it's a good source of carbs.

[Dylan Gemelli]

You know, you got to be careful because you bash the oatmeal. And the oatmeal mafia is out to get everybody because, man, there's a, like, a clan of oatmeal lovers that just want to kill you if you talk bad about it. Are there any foods that you got your eyes open to that we were told were good for you that are certainly not anything on your list or anything that you recommend to kind of steer clear of?

[Lexi Noel]

So, like I said, no, real foods are off limits, but I think just the ultra processed. The items that are in boxes that say high protein, low fat, zero sugar, they. The front of the boxes are literally billboards trying to sell you a product. You've got to flip it over and read the ingredients to literally everything if it's in a box.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Deli meats are one of those ones.

[Lexi Noel]

Right.

[Dylan Gemelli]

We always thought were so good for you.

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah.

[Dylan Gemelli]

It's like, man, I learned a lot there.

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah.

[Dylan Gemelli]

I always say if I got stranded on an island and I can only have one food, I was given one. I'd pay. I'd take eggs. Because you could consistently enjoy it every single day.

[Lexi Noel]

Absolutely.

[Dylan Gemelli]

How many do you have a day?

[Lexi Noel]

I mean, I was. I was talking to my mom earlier. I was like, I have made it. The max I've had a day is 12. And yes, I've tried to beat it. I'm working on getting to 14 at least, but usually anywhere from at least 2. Bare minimum. 2.

[Dylan Gemelli]

So one of the favorite things that I do is, like, the egg, and I like them over easy on avocados, of course. Like, it's the. It's the literally the best eggs and avocado. I avocado. So for me, all my top five foods now are things I just started eating aside from eggs that I just Started eating for the first time, like, in the past two years.

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah.

[Dylan Gemelli]

And I would only eat egg whites, by the way. Miserable.

[Lexi Noel]

I know. The yolk's the best part.

[Dylan Gemelli]

I know, I know. I just wanted to be miserable.

[Lexi Noel]

Right.

[Dylan Gemelli]

So. Okay. I want to talk to you about something else. And I know this from doing it so long. And I know this because I. Of course, anybody that comes on here, I look into and I see good, bad, and different on what they're going through. I know you get attacked by people for having a loud voice. Since when are you a disruptor for doing something good? Have we gotten that screwed up that you're considered a disruptor for doing something positive? What's it like for you when people try to attack you or say things to you? And what are some of the reasons they do it?

[Lexi Noel]

I mean, it's an everyday occurrence. I know you understand. And I just get a lot of comments about how what we're doing or what I'm doing is just unnecessary. Like, we're all going to die anyway, so there's no point of taking care of your body. Which I respond. I'm like, you only get one body. God gave you one body, and you should take care of it. He says, our body is a temple, and we should treat it that way. You can't order a new one off Amazon, so. So we should treat it with utmost respect.

[Dylan Gemelli]

That really bugs me that people say that and they don't realize that you were given a gift from God. And to devalue that gift and to throw it back in his face is literally, to me, one of the worst, if not one of the gravest sins, aside from not worshiping him and not loving people. When did faith become the biggest part of your life?

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah. So, thankfully, I've always grown up in church. Like my family, my parents have taken me to church every Sunday since I've grown up. And then definitely when I was going through my eating disorder, it definitely strengthened my relationship with God, because like I said, when I was sitting in youth church, I was like, I have no story that has tested my faith until I went through that. And it really just. It just tested it and made it stronger. And I do believe that God always puts us through things to bring us out stronger.

[Dylan Gemelli]

You know, I'm very, very, very bold in what I say and do, and I always will be. And I only get bolder by the day. Part of me wonders when I say I'm bold or somebody says that, are you really being bold by speaking the truth? But I'll take it because I understand why people say that because so many people are scared to. Do you feel compelled, Holy Spirit driven when you talk about your faith?

[Lexi Noel]

I think so for sure. I mean every single day I'll write down something I'm grateful for and a prayer request for that day. And I want to, I want everyone to see Jesus through me. Like in every action that I do, I want people to see it when I. Every single post that I post on the Internet, I want people to see to him through me and I ask him to know, give me the words to speak.

[Dylan Gemelli]

It's beautiful. I always pray for because like, you know, I spend so much time in conversation and then praying for others. But when I get to myself, I'm not praying for like a bunch of stuff or fame or anything. I'm praying for virtues that are going to help me to be a better person for my family, my loved ones and everybody. Right. And I think that for me, if I had to rank things of importance to be happy and healthy and to start, I think it starts with gratitude. What do you feel about the importance of having gratitude in everything that you do?

[Lexi Noel]

I think it's so crucial. I mean be grateful for everything. I have an amazing life and people have. Some days are hard, you know, things are tough and life gets hard. But we should find gratitude in everything in every situation. Like I said, I write down. I think I'm on a two year streak of writing down something I'm grateful for every single day. And it really just starts your day off on the right foot too.

[Dylan Gemelli]

You know. I tell this a lot. I'll tell you while you're sitting here with me. I spent so many years chasing money and stuff and recognition and lost all self awareness. All I cared about was what other people thought and I would wonder why I was so miserable. And I had all kinds of money and beautiful home, beautiful wife, beautiful cars, beautiful everything I ever wanted. Kept buying more stuff and just kept feeling worse and worse and worse and worse. Empty, empty, empty. And then I realized what it was finally. And when I made everything, God first made it about everybody else. I was the richest man alive and still am because of that. What do you say to people that feel sad, lonely, whatever. What's the answer?

[Lexi Noel]

Prayer. Faith in Jesus and trusting him that he has a reason for everything and like a purpose for you.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Everybody's got a purpose and I think if people actually took the time to find it, everybody's purpose is different, right? When do you feel like you've found yours or do you think you have yet?

[Lexi Noel]

I think it's an ongoing journey. I think he put me through my eating disorder to give me a story to tell and point people towards him. So. But I think it's. My journey's not over yet. It's still going. It's just starting.

[Dylan Gemelli]

What do you think about, like, the state of what we see right now in terms of overall health and where do you see it going?

[Lexi Noel]

I think we are. I think for the most part, people are taking steps in the right direction. At least I hope you know, I do get the same comments every day that kind of make me question, like, are we going the right direction? Because a lot of people still think that, you know, taking care of their health just doesn't matter. Eating real food doesn't matter. But I think it does. And then those hate comments that I do get, I'm like, try real food and Jesus, because I think that real food and Jesus can change your life. They have changed my life. It's definitely not going to stop me in the beginning. It definitely got to me just kind of, you know, because I don't know. It does. Satan gets in your head. But right now I feel very confident nothing can stop me in. I have a goal to help people and to. Yeah. That I won't stop.

[Dylan Gemelli]

So you do some. Some stuff at the grocery stores and Costco and stuff. Talk about it because it's very fun to watch. What? What is it?

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, so I guess I'm known for buy or buy. So bui or bye. So I'll walk you through the grocery store and help you navigate. Is this healthy? So it's a by or is it unhealthy by E. And if it has like, you know, the artificial sweeteners, refined sugar, seed oils or artificial dyes, it would be the D. So do you

[Dylan Gemelli]

kind of break down why it's a goodbye when you have to do that or why it's a buy to buy it? You kind of give people insight as to your feeling as to why.

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Do you get a lot of questions or requests from people on stuff to do?

[Lexi Noel]

I do. I do.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Because how do you pick what to do?

[Lexi Noel]

I mean, I'll walk in the grocery store and be like, oh, this is. That's a good one. That's a good one. Then a lot of people will ask it, can you do this product? Can you do that product? So they give me a lot of info and too.

[Dylan Gemelli]

How many do you do a week of that?

[Lexi Noel]

I would say I try to film, go to the grocery store. Once a week and batch film. Yeah, bunch of videos. So I would probably, if I go to the grocery store once a week, I'll try to film about four of eight videos, let's say.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Do they ever give you a hard time in there when you're in there? Does any. Has anybody ever tried to stop you or question you about filming?

[Lexi Noel]

I've only gotten asked to stop filming once at a Trader Joe's. Really? Yeah, they have a lot of workers there, so it's kind of scary territory.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Dr. Pompa was here and I said, man, you got balls of steel, brother. Like some of the stuff he does, I mean, he was standing in front of the like the rotisserie chickens just talking crazy right in front of the guys and telling people they're eating plastic and stuff. I love those. I mean it's important though to get in the store and show people.

[Lexi Noel]

People don't know.

[Dylan Gemelli]

No, no, no, no, they don't at all. What are, what are some of your other foods that you like that maybe are obscure or different or what? What's some of your, like walk us through a typ. You do the same things every day. Do you mix it up? Like, do you have. How do you stay metabolically flexible?

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, so I'd say like when I'm at home it's pretty similar, you know, I'd have like pre workout, maybe cottage cheese with fruit and honey for a pre workout. Post workout would be eggs, a type of meat and more fruit. And then I would say for lunch I like to do snack plates with like olives or feta, avocado. And then dinner, I usually have a different type of meat, red meat, whichever I'm in the mood for. And then I do like roasted vegetables with olive oil or avocado oil or sweet potatoes. I love sweet potatoes. One of my favorite foods as well. And then for dessert, I usually make like a homemade recipe that week and I'll have that. I've been doing marshmallows. I've been meal prepping marshmallows like every week with a grass fed beef gelatin. And they're like a great source of collagen. So that's kind of typical.

[Dylan Gemelli]

I mix whey protein and like beef protein isolate, but the majority of it's beef protein isolate. Do you have a preference when it comes to like protein powders and stuff that you take?

[Lexi Noel]

I do use beef protein a lot

[Dylan Gemelli]

and I like it. I do too. I. There's value in whey, but I, I tend to stick to more animal proteins and Fats. I was wondering your thoughts on the animal proteins versus other types of proteins.

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, definitely. Animal forward. That's my go to.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Yeah, me too, for sure. So do you have any kind of like staple supplements that you take and that you would recommend to others?

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, so the I take like the three Cs is what I call them. Creatine, colostrum and creatine. Colostrum and collagen are like my go to's. So that's like.

[Dylan Gemelli]

What about like vitamins or minerals that you like? I always give my top five staples like you, you need to get these every single day and prioritize them. Magnesium being one, you know, stuff like that. So what are some of yours that you want people to make sure that they're, they're taken care?

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, Magnesium. I literally do not get to sleep without having my magnesium before bed. I always have it whether I'm traveling or not. I think vitamin D is also crucial. Of course, getting sunlight like first thing non negotiable for me is getting sunlight. So that's the best source of vitamin D. But then it's really hard to get it enough from sun. So I do think that vitamin D you should supplement and it's basically a hormone. So it's very crucial.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Definitely. But you mentioned the sunlight. I am the biggest advocate on sunlight. Every morning, 15 minutes at least, right? 15, 20 minutes. What about walking? What do you think about that?

[Lexi Noel]

Oh yes, I walk. I think walking is another non negotiable. Walking and the sunlight are my two like non negotiables every single day.

[Dylan Gemelli]

I think breath work needs to start fitting into more people because we all kind of have the same belief sets like a lot of people in our like realm or industry, whatever you want to call it. And we always talk about good stuff. I mean, you know, I always bring up prayer first and then walking sunlight. But I don't hear enough people talking about breath work. Some people. But I think that needs to be fitting into the equation a lot more because I think that's playing a significant role in really everything health related. Do you do any type of breath work or work on it?

[Lexi Noel]

So I definitely should more because I do pray every day. But breath work is something I probably should.

[Dylan Gemelli]

You should. I just went through this like drastic and I mean hardcore nervous System Reset with Dr. Sean Drake Friday and he shut down his whole office for me, God bless him. And one of the things was like the most intense breath work. And I'm telling you, just opened up a whole new world for me. I Wasn't prioritizing it at all. And I'm a, I'm a hour and a half a day cardio person minimum. And you think, you know, I'm in such great shape and my breathing was horrible. So I think that would open up. It doesn't just open up like health wise, but mental. It puts you in a way better, better place. I don't think people understand how much your mind plays a role into the overall well being. I argue it actually is the control of it. I'm coming to understand that. How do you feel about like the neurological side of, of health?

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, I, I mean I'm super passionate about the gut brain connection. I'm, I mean over 90 of serotonin, your feel good hormone is made in your gut. So I'm love the gut brain connection. But I do think it's super fascinating

[Dylan Gemelli]

what do you do? Because I think there's a much bigger understanding now than ever, the past, I don't know, two, three years about the, the gut health and how important it is. What do you do for yourself or tell others to do with that in terms of how we take care of it and how we kind of even discover if there's a problem there.

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah. So eating real food, it's crucial. Eating real food, it makes you a better person mentally and physically. And that's like a firm reason why I believe that so many eating disorder patients, they go into the inpatient care, they are force fed the ultra processed junk food seed oils with an Ensure that is basically seed oils and high fructose corn syrup. They gain the late, gain the weight and they are kicked out and they relapse because they never heal their mindset, which is crucial when you're going through a mental disorder. And so I think you really have to heal your mindset and you have to do that eating real food. Like I said, Over 90% of serotonin is made in your gut. If you eat bad food, you're going to feel bad mentally and physically.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Well, there's a strong connection with your immune system and your gut too. And when you start to eat those kind of foods, it degrades your immune system and then you're so susceptible to illness which then correlates into more gut problems which then leads to disease and then leads a wretched life. Right. So it's a constant struggle. Do you go to school or do you have any plans to go to school or anything? Because I see you as like this brilliant dietitian or someone that's going to study and Be certified multi ways over. What. What is your plan?

[Lexi Noel]

Well, thank you. Right out of high school I got my Primal Unimark system. I do it as Primal health coaching certification. So I'm a certified health coach. I don't coach one on one. Just kind of got it as the background. And since then I've just been doing, you know, social media. But I would love to learn more about nutrition and maybe like integrative health and stuff like that.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Yeah, Integrative health practitioner. Something I'm going through right now.

[Lexi Noel]

Really?

[Dylan Gemelli]

Yeah. That's with Dr. Cabral. Oh yeah, Stephen Cabral. But there's a lot of ways you could get certified or be like a, even an actual like registered dietitian. I, I don't know if the. I have problems with curriculums all over the place and that's, you know, part of the problem is you don't even know if what you're getting taught is right.

[Lexi Noel]

Exactly.

[Dylan Gemelli]

What do you think about the Food Guide pyramid now?

[Lexi Noel]

I am full support. I mean I've been preaching the eat real food for forever. So what I saw got flipped and then they changed it to ealfood.gov I was like, oh my goodness. Yes. This is what we've been wanting talk

[Dylan Gemelli]

about it top to bottom now explain it to people that don't know. When you say it got flipped, what was it like before and what's it look like now priority wise?

[Lexi Noel]

So it used to be at the top. It was ultra processed grains and rice cereal, Cheerios. Basically we're like heart healthy, you know, they're at the top, eggs and healthy fats are at the bottom. But now it's completely flipped. We've got red meat at the top, eggs are at the top, butter, vegetables, fruit, and then we've got the refined carbs at the bottom. But. Or it's not even refined, it's you know, sourdough, which is a real food carb. So it's great.

[Dylan Gemelli]

I just get so confused at the people that get so angry about it and start flipping a. It's like they're just doing it to do it because they don't like who did the changes because I bet if it was their own people that they did the changing, they'd love it.

[Lexi Noel]

Right?

[Dylan Gemelli]

It just doesn't make sense to me and I hate that I, I can't stand groups in general. It's like, have your own belief set, man. Don't rely on others that flip flop at the drop of a dime for whatever they get paid. I can't stand that I mean, there's certain belief sets that you may align with, but the people change like this. It's about how much money they get. It's just so, you know, I. I know that we have the ability now to talk more, be more open about things, which I do love, but do you think that we're on the right path? Because, for instance, one of the ones that really bothers me, I don't care what kind of explanations given, is the whole glyphosate thing and then trying to protect them. And I know there's ongoing things on that, but what did you ever feel about that? What's your opinion and thought?

[Lexi Noel]

Well, I recently went to the People versus Poison rally to ban glyphosate. And we talked about it, and, you know, it passed. We're getting it out, which I think is great. I mean, in other countries it's banned. So why do we. Why. Why is it different here?

[Dylan Gemelli]

The whole thing that I saw and understood was that they were protected from even being sued.

[Lexi Noel]

I hope they.

[Dylan Gemelli]

They were trying to put something through that gave them immunity from being sued. And that's when I got so pissed because I was like, what do you. What? I don't know enough about the whole Maha in general. I. I like the initial messaging, but I don't know that it's stuck to what it was supposed to be.

[Lexi Noel]

Right.

[Dylan Gemelli]

I was invited to get involved multiple times and declined because I don't. I just. No, but you've been to a couple things, haven't you? What did it seem like when you were there to you?

[Lexi Noel]

So I went to the New Food Guideline implementation rally, which is really exciting. That was back in January, so I was in full support of that. And I've gone to the one with Mike Tyson, to the HHS event for that. And then the recently, the People versus Poison rallies. So they're all excited. They all excite me because I feel like we're going in the right direction with those. But, you know, money is involved.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Yeah. So the Mike Tyson's the last one I got invited to, and I just.

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Was gonna go and said no.

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Not a good feeling about it. I don't know why, but I just. I think that the. The. The fight's best won by all of us doing it together.

[Lexi Noel]

I think so, too.

[Dylan Gemelli]

You know, I think trying to take it there, it's gonna convolute it. I feel like our voices are being used as a. As a tool, but not in a good way. And I don't. I don't I don't like it.

[Lexi Noel]

Right.

[Dylan Gemelli]

And it's easy to manipulate and make us think that what we're doing is going to be used for. Right. And I just. I don't know, man. Your voice is powerful.

Mine is.

And people's are. And I don't want it tied to anything but God. You know, I tell everybody I work for God, dude. I don't. I don't work for nobody else.

[Lexi Noel]

It's true.

[Dylan Gemelli]

It is the truth. Do you feel like people give you a hard time about your faith?

[Lexi Noel]

For sure. I definitely get comments very frequently about how I'm just using religion to push my dietary values on people, which I'm not. I'm like, I'm. I'm separating them. Yes. I say, like, oh, God didn't mention Pop Tarts and Oreos in the Bible, but I do that. He told us to treat our body as a temple. Our body is a temple. So I'm not. I'm not trying to force. I'm not trying to force my religion. I'm not trying to force my dietary values on people. They're different. And just like, you can't. Like, you can't force somebody to be a Christian because they're going to run the other way. You can't force somebody to eat healthy. They're going to want to do the exact opposite. But you can only lead by example.

[Dylan Gemelli]

That's it. I always tell everybody, I'm going to give you the tools. I'm going to tell you the facts. And I'm. I'm not your dad. Do whatever the hell you want.

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah.

[Dylan Gemelli]

You know, I want to save everybody, but I'm not going to, like, stress or whatever. If you're going to fight me back on it, I just lay it out. And it's like, you do you, my friend, don't say I didn't tell you.

[Lexi Noel]

Right. I know people. People would be like, just let me eat what I want. I'm like, I'm not stopping you. Yeah. I'm not at your house. You can eat whatever you want.

[Dylan Gemelli]

I was going to say, we don't have video cameras in there, man. Like, people get so mad and it's like, this is education and health. You take what you want, extrapolate it, and if you don't like it, spit it out the other end.

[Lexi Noel]

Right.

[Dylan Gemelli]

I don't know. No, I'm not losing sleep. I think people do that. And sometimes what I want you to remember is that sometimes people just. The best way they win is by getting a rise out of you. And when you just don't give them the time of day and don't respond and just let it sit, it hurts them and it just kills them and they, they go away. Don't ever let anybody stop you from what you're doing, what your beliefs are, or get in the way of any relationship you have with God at any time. And don't question it. Just okay, okay. That's your opinion. Stick to that and stick to yourself and be true and you'll be just fine with everything you're doing. I will tell you, I can tell you with certainty if you keep God first, he'll take care of you no matter what. For sure. That's it. So what. What would you say your biggest messaging is to people like your age and under? When do you think they should really start? Like really taking this serious?

[Lexi Noel]

Yesterday, Like, I think everyone. You have the power to heal yourself. Don't let anyone tell you you can't. And don't listen to anyone blindly. Take everyone's information, apply it to yourself. Do an N equals one experiment. But you have the power to heal yourself. And with Jesus and Jesus and real food, they change your life.

[Dylan Gemelli]

I love that you said that. I tell people, even question some of the things I say. At least ask questions. It tells you you care. I don't know everything and your thoughts, my thoughts, et cetera. You should. If you're not asking questions and you're just doing things blindly, then I just, I worry about you and it's nothing against anybody. Like I said, question me. I mean, you should always look at everything because something that you say or I say doesn't always apply to everybody before we get to the end. Do you have any thoughts or opinions on peptides at all? Like have you have experience or thoughts or do you. Do you feel. Because for me, I discovered them in 2012 and it's always the way that it's become now. It gives me hope for different kinds of therapies and medicines. What are your. Do you have any feeling on them at all?

[Lexi Noel]

So I've listened to you speak about them on your, on some of your podcasts and I've recently been seeing a lot of other people talk about them now. I feel like 2026 has been a huge topic, but personally I haven't done enough research to confidently talk about them.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Good. That's a good answer. Some people try to talk when they don't know anything and I, I love that you said that. That shows such maturity and trust. I value that they are something that is Giving you an alternative and a better way to take care of yourself where you're not so reliant on. I hate to say this conventional medicine because to me conventional medicine is actually non conventional. What do you about, is there anything you worry about for people that they're just maybe worrying about too much that they shouldn't or misunderstanding?

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, I think, I mean calories are huge because they're gonna pick up the a hundred calorie protein bar versus the 300 calorie avocado and or steak and think that the protein bar is better because it's less calories. But in reality, the whole real foods, they're gonna satiate you more, they're gonna keep you fuller, longer, they're gonna be more nourishing. So yeah, that's a huge problem that I think we need to reverse.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Oh, and that's the thing too. And I battled this with bodybuilders. Well, they become reliant on supplements or reliant on substitutes. And I always told everybody, get your stuff from food first and then utilize your tools to fill in the gaps if you have a busy day or if you're trying to gain weight for a show or whatever else. But I just see that that is a big problem. And the other problem I see is people that don't understand the need and necessity for different nutrients. There's fats, there's carbs and proteins for a reason, because we need them. Yeah, right. Do you have like anything that you follow? So for instance, for me I do switch it especially on like the heaviest, heaviest cardio days. I'll have a few more carbs. But do you? I still kind of, I still kind of lean at a 40, 40, 20 meaning 40, 40% of my food is fats, 40s protein and 20s carbs most days. Days I'll have heavier carb days, some days and lower fats. Do you have a preference that you personally do for yourself?

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, so I do prioritize protein. I think that I try to aim for you know, like 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. And it comes easily because I like protein rich foods like eggs and red meat. But. And then carbs, they just happen to fall pretty high because of my fruit intake. And then healthy fats. Of course, I just enjoy healthy fat foods like egg yolks and avocados. So I don't look specifically at the grams per se.

[Dylan Gemelli]

One question I had you brought up earlier is you mentioned the dyes. Can you tell everybody why those are dangerous? Because I completely forgot to ask you that when you mentioned it and something that they were trying to make you take before.

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah. So, I mean, artificial dyes, they can destroy your gut health. They're linked to ADHD and hyperactivity, so they can definitely worsen symptoms.

[Dylan Gemelli]

How many things are those actually in, do you think that we would be unaware of?

[Lexi Noel]

Oh, my goodness, a lot. I was making a video on this a few weeks ago. It's in. It's in thing. It's in yogurt, it's in seasonings, it's in protein bars. It's in things you would not expect.

[Dylan Gemelli]

It's so easy to just pick stuff up and not realize it. Vitamins, too. I just did a video on this, and I was talking about the gel caps and some of these. You look at the caps, and it's like, it'll say other ingredients, and it's like, what is all this stuff? It's all in the capsule.

[Lexi Noel]

It's scary.

[Dylan Gemelli]

So you're swallowing those every single day. We have to start teaching people to read more.

[Lexi Noel]

Absolutely.

[Dylan Gemelli]

I think under education is a lot of it. And then, of course, you're set up for failure with the cost of things. Unfortunately, it does cost way more to eat healthy. And so people do say, well, I can't buy all of this. And that. And my retort is, I get it. So you have to do your best. Where are you spending money on something that's not doing you any favors? It's taken away from your health. And if you are, stop it and prioritize your food. Well, I know that the time flew, but thank you for all that you're doing. Your efforts, it's making a difference, and you have to continue to do that because we need people like you, especially younger people that can. That can pick up younger generations. You know, I keep it real, but a lot of people my age, they kind of start lecturing and it turns off younger people. You're never gonna get that shit from me. But we need people like you. So you're a beacon of light, and you're appreciated for vulnerability, sharing your story, and. And really trying to help people. So it's greatly appreciated from somebody like me.

[Lexi Noel]

Thank you very much. I appreciate that.

[Dylan Gemelli]

So tell everybody where to follow you and if you have a website or anything aside from social media.

[Lexi Noel]

Yeah, I'm basically on all social media platforms at Lexi Noeldi.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Okay, perfect. All right. You keep doing you, please. It's been a pleasure to talk with you and have you here and thank you again for all of your effort.

[Lexi Noel]

Thank you so much. Right back at you.

[Dylan Gemelli]

Awesome. All right, everybody, that wraps up another one. Prioritize Whole Foods, please. I think that's the strongest message from this podcast, so stay tuned for plenty more to come. Dylan Gemelli signing off. Sam.